Take a look at Duplicati. It's a backup software (been in 'beta' for years, but it works) that can use all sorts of backends, gDrive included. Encryption support (privacy issues no more), versioning support, multiple backup sets, scheduling, etc.
Then when it was time for exams, we wrote the formulas we were supposed to memorise into programs on the calculator.
Same. Gave me my most valuable lesson in programming. I made a helper program on my calculator and distributed it to a few friends who distributed it to their friends, and so on. The program had a few options (depending on what was being asked, how the question was worded, etc.), prompted the user for the 'givens', and printed the result neatly in the center of the screen. Being young and naive, I simply wrote the result to the screen with an offset, then wrote a few blank spaces over the ten-thousandths and hundred-thousandths spot to make the result appear centered.
The exam question asked for the answer to be rounded to the thousandths place, and guess what? The thousandths place had to be rounded up, which of course no-one knew because the display simply truncated the result without rounding.
Whole class got that question wrong except me (spent so long making the program that muscle memory meant it was quicker for me to do the math manually).
Lesson learned: if you want people to stop bugging you for stuff, give them wrong information. No-one asked to use my programs in that class ever again!
The old software's vulnerability were few and you needed physical access to exploit
The researcher/blogger needed physical access to discover the exploits, but the CSRF attacks can be embedded onto any webpage, he even provides the code in his blog post.
Side note: I'd suggest watching the nomx videos about "How it Works". Quality.
He reset the root account password so he could log in via ssh and poke around the filesystem. All the exploits he found were exploitable over the web interface (which is how the 'typical user' would interact with the device, using the default username/password of "admin@example.com" and "password") without the need to 'root' the system.
autonomously position themselves to create a full 180-degree viewing area
Judging by the pictures, where the hell are they getting the 180-degree viewing area from? Are we expected to use the thing with our faces 1mm away from the screen?
Max cell tower range at the low end is 22 miles (depends on the technology)
Cruising speed (probably faster than they were going, but hey, worst case) is ~550mph
Putting it together, we get 2.4 minutes for a phone to be connected to a tower.
Don't know how long a handover takes, but I'll bet its less than 30 seconds. Probably closer to 3-5 seconds, considering that's generally how long it takes the network to stand up a connection for you to make the call in the first place.
The problem isn't with promoting content or unmetered content
Not yet anyway. But once they make enough deals with content providers ("Give us money and your shows will be unmetered for your viewers") all of a sudden the internet providers will proudly boast "90% of our customers only use X GB of data, so that's where we're placing our bandwidth cap", where X is $((Current_cap/10)).
And then that will effectively stop customers from visiting any content provider that isn't zero-rated, since that eats their data cap. This either forces the remaining content providers to pony up or risk a loss of business, and the cycle continues.
These are probably the same type of people who thought that "Cruise Control" meant that the car was able of controlling their "cruise"
Exactly, which is all the more reason to call it something other than an "autopilot".
And yet the car makers haven't changed the name of cruise control, despite some initial confusion. After a few years, "Cruise Control" became synonymous with "Maintains your speed". Is it inconceivable that in a few years the term "Autopilot" will be universally known to mean "A suite of driver assist technologies"?
While it was a hyperbole, the point I was trying to make is that the PIC has to be ready to take the control from autopilot in case "holding a set course" is no longer a good option.
I agree that conditions change more rapidly driving than flying, however a feature set is a feature set, and shouldn't need to have a different name just because it is operating in a different environment. What needs to be changed is the minds of people who think that the feature set is completely autonomous and capable of high-level decision-making. These are probably the same type of people who thought that "Cruise Control" meant that the car was able of controlling their "cruise" (which is a common term for "drive" eg "I'm gonna go cruise around for a bit"), and promptly took their hands off the wheel after engaging cruise control when it was first released.
Pilot 1: "Hey, that mountain is getting quite large in the window, should we do something about it?"
Pilot 2: "Nah we're on autopilot! It keeps a set course without us touching anything!"
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That's what I call courage
I thought the tests were supposed to be conducted by Who?
When creating a new volume, [the Disk Utility GUI] apparently puts the password into the password hints field.
A hint needs to be plaintext to read it later, the error was the utility saving the *password*, not the *hint*, in the hint field.
How I wish I had mod points. I absolutely lost it at "standardised format". Too bad the sarcasm was lost on others...
Take a look at Duplicati.
It's a backup software (been in 'beta' for years, but it works) that can use all sorts of backends, gDrive included. Encryption support (privacy issues no more), versioning support, multiple backup sets, scheduling, etc.
Then when it was time for exams, we wrote the formulas we were supposed to memorise into programs on the calculator.
Same. Gave me my most valuable lesson in programming. I made a helper program on my calculator and distributed it to a few friends who distributed it to their friends, and so on. The program had a few options (depending on what was being asked, how the question was worded, etc.), prompted the user for the 'givens', and printed the result neatly in the center of the screen. Being young and naive, I simply wrote the result to the screen with an offset, then wrote a few blank spaces over the ten-thousandths and hundred-thousandths spot to make the result appear centered.
The exam question asked for the answer to be rounded to the thousandths place, and guess what? The thousandths place had to be rounded up, which of course no-one knew because the display simply truncated the result without rounding.
Whole class got that question wrong except me (spent so long making the program that muscle memory meant it was quicker for me to do the math manually).
Lesson learned: if you want people to stop bugging you for stuff, give them wrong information. No-one asked to use my programs in that class ever again!
The old software's vulnerability were few and you needed physical access to exploit
The researcher/blogger needed physical access to discover the exploits, but the CSRF attacks can be embedded onto any webpage, he even provides the code in his blog post.
Side note: I'd suggest watching the nomx videos about "How it Works". Quality.
Blog post is a long read but good.
He reset the root account password so he could log in via ssh and poke around the filesystem. All the exploits he found were exploitable over the web interface (which is how the 'typical user' would interact with the device, using the default username/password of "admin@example.com" and "password") without the need to 'root' the system.
But wait, I thought they towed it outside the environment?
disruption that no one's noticed
Is it really a disruption then?
Yes.
There's a few torrents floating around the datahoarder subreddit
This guy is sending the entire archive to archive.org
This guy has the whole archive and is seeding it a part at a time
2.5" headphone jack
So that's why those old phones were so bulky!
Except that the entire thing is unibody and if a cable goes bad between "servers", it's cheaper to replace the entire rack.
autonomously position themselves to create a full 180-degree viewing area
Judging by the pictures, where the hell are they getting the 180-degree viewing area from? Are we expected to use the thing with our faces 1mm away from the screen?
Max cell tower range at the low end is 22 miles (depends on the technology)
Cruising speed (probably faster than they were going, but hey, worst case) is ~550mph
Putting it together, we get 2.4 minutes for a phone to be connected to a tower.
Don't know how long a handover takes, but I'll bet its less than 30 seconds. Probably closer to 3-5 seconds, considering that's generally how long it takes the network to stand up a connection for you to make the call in the first place.
while at cruising altitude.
Funny, I didn't know the twin towers were THAT tall.
Sooooo, Google Voice? Except GV is carrier independent, and free, so I guess that's what sets it apart.
The problem isn't with promoting content or unmetered content
Not yet anyway. But once they make enough deals with content providers ("Give us money and your shows will be unmetered for your viewers") all of a sudden the internet providers will proudly boast "90% of our customers only use X GB of data, so that's where we're placing our bandwidth cap", where X is $((Current_cap/10)).
And then that will effectively stop customers from visiting any content provider that isn't zero-rated, since that eats their data cap. This either forces the remaining content providers to pony up or risk a loss of business, and the cycle continues.
These are probably the same type of people who thought that "Cruise Control" meant that the car was able of controlling their "cruise"
Exactly, which is all the more reason to call it something other than an "autopilot".
And yet the car makers haven't changed the name of cruise control, despite some initial confusion.
After a few years, "Cruise Control" became synonymous with "Maintains your speed". Is it inconceivable that in a few years the term "Autopilot" will be universally known to mean "A suite of driver assist technologies"?
While it was a hyperbole, the point I was trying to make is that the PIC has to be ready to take the control from autopilot in case "holding a set course" is no longer a good option.
I agree that conditions change more rapidly driving than flying, however a feature set is a feature set, and shouldn't need to have a different name just because it is operating in a different environment. What needs to be changed is the minds of people who think that the feature set is completely autonomous and capable of high-level decision-making. These are probably the same type of people who thought that "Cruise Control" meant that the car was able of controlling their "cruise" (which is a common term for "drive" eg "I'm gonna go cruise around for a bit"), and promptly took their hands off the wheel after engaging cruise control when it was first released.
Pilot 1: "Hey, that mountain is getting quite large in the window, should we do something about it?"
Pilot 2: "Nah we're on autopilot! It keeps a set course without us touching anything!"
Yeah but then everyone would start abbreviating it "MS Filezilla" and noone would use it, because it looks like Microsoft touched it.
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Source.
If that video isn't parody I don't know what is.
http://imgur.com/U5HHhRG
the breach only impacts people who still use Yahoo.
Right, the senators were impacted and that's why they care.