If they know they are 9000, that would suggest they have already identified them.
It's not like the New York City Subway, where a combination of age and bad record keeping in the early years, combined with the fact that it's 3 or 4 different systems that merged into one system has led to most of the engineers not knowing what's down there at all.
You ask how many unused cables are in the NY Subway, and you'll get a shrug. Nobody knows. Hell, my favorite is when they break through a wall and find track and a train that nobody knew about for 60 years.
9000 unused cables? Pfft. That's not that impressive.
HP printers used to also have a built-in web-server. You could access printer functions from the page. I used to use Alta-Vista (which shows you how far back this goes) to search for the welcome text of the page -- and found hundreds of exposed printers.
I'd open the webpage and instruct the printer to print 1000 copies of a page that says "you've been hacked!" in 50-point typeface. It was an amusing prank, but now that printers have storage, yep, it's a bigger problem that HP, all these years later, has never addressed.
When you steal from a lot of sources that's labeled "creativity".
George Lucas couldn't get the rights to Flash Gordon, so he steals from Akira Kurosawa, some WWII movies, and a few few other bits and pieces and we get Star Wars.
Hanna Barbera wanted to do a "Jack Armstrong" series, but they couldn't get the rights. So, they fiddled with the formula a bit, changed a few names, and we got Jonny Quest, the killer animated series that influenced a generation and then some.
Frankly, if old Gary stole some ideas from here and there, that's very much BAU for how stuff goes from underground to commercial success.
Space Cruiser Yamato (AKA Star Blazers in the USA), not only predicted Pluto's moon, but also a 10th planet -- I think it was called Brumus in 2nd Season (Comet Empire).
Can't remember too much because it was more than 20 years since I saw the show, but so far, their space science is more true than any other TV show I can think of.
They poisoned the water and for months, covered up the problem. But no one will be fined, no one will go to jail, and probably, no one will ever fix the issue. Meanwhile your taxes will then go to supporting kids with crippling brain damage as a result. So the governor could pocket a few bucks.
The point is: what VW did is no different from what anybody else is doing -- we're all screwing each other for a few bucks. Why is one bad while the other is not bad?
In keeping with his current theme, Candidate Trump claimed that if the supply line is the problem to Apple making their products here, he will allow *American* seven-year-olds to mine for Cobalt in the United States, making America Great Again and competitive in the world.
And which of these has the least regulation? And which has the higher chance of injuring or killing someone? Amazing that they want license plates and insurance for "model aircraft", but apparently you can buy a gun and just start shooting it, no safety classes, no training, not even a seatbelt required.
So, the article is written from the viewpoint of a complete tech noob. Then, these "data recovery experts" went about the entire process completely wrong.
It's not that difficult to dig up a CP/M machine capable of reading multiple formats -- hell, there's DOS programs that do that as well.
Basically these guys only had a hammer, so every problem looked like a nail.
Sorry. they were just dumb. Frankly, if they'd even done 10 minutes of research on the internet, they could have found a dozen methods to save themselves a ton of work. Instead, they re-invented the wheel to read a few floppy disks.
-- Why not just search everyone walking down the street? After all, it's completely voluntary to walk down the street. No one is forcing you are they? -- ---- They have this already -- it's called "Stop and Frisk" -- very common in New York City, *if* you're not the right color.
Yes, we *are* living in a Police State. At least, some of us are.
That will already be the case since it's almost literally impossible for the autonomous car to 'break the rules", as it's a piece of software and can't go beyond its programming.
And we already have situations like the one you describe. In many states, the driver in the rear is *always* at fault, except in rare cases. And scammers take advantage of that, often by cutting people off and then slamming on the brakes, causing the accident, but the driver at the rear gets the blame.
There will be the drivers who love to drive and will *never* give up their manual car versus having an autonomous car. It will be like the gun-nuts "You can have my 1967 Camaro when you pry it from my cold dead hands"....
Then the airlines will complain when people start using autonomous cars for long trips, and they sleep through they whole thing, wake up at their destination, as opposed to going through long lines and TSA hassles at the airport.
And the second there's a single accident that kills someone, the Anti-AI nutjobs will be protesting in D.C. "Them there robots is out to KILL us!"
And the complaints from Taxi/Uber drivers "Dey Tuk Our Jebs!" And don't even get me started on Truck Drivers, who seem to make of 50% of the working population of the USA..
We are clearly moving in the direction of having self-driving cars, but it's going to be a very, very painful and long transition. We may not even see it happen completely in our lifetimes.
So, lemme get this straight. We'll *allow* these websites to exist and be available on the internet, but you go to jail for *looking* at them?
Seriously, what kind of horseshit is this?
This is a kneejerk reaction to the killings in California. And it's a kneejerk right into your own nose. You can't do the logical thing, like banning easy access to guns, because that would be too hard and expensive to go up against the NRA, so you do the easy, slimey thing and propose this crap instead.
And when the next mass killing is done by a white, Christian, republican conservative who has been radicalized by Fox News, what's the plan there? Can we outlaw Fox News? Or put people in jail for watching it?
Seriously. This country has gone insane. I think it's time to leave and go someplace that actually is a government for the people.
If Uber was like eBay, you'd have to negotiate the price with the driver *and pay him* before he evens show up. And then he just doesn't show up at all. So you call Uber and they promise to start an investigation, but do nothing. In the end, 6 months later, you get your money back, but you're still stranded on the street corner.
And for the Uber drivers, they'd experience getting a call to pick up someone. The driver and client are in Seattle. However, when the client, who has already negotiated a price with the driver actually gets into the car, he insists on being driven to Romania. And he'll give you negative feedback if you don't immediately do this.
Shutting down schools because officials receive Nigerian Prince scam. *And* they give the scammer their bank account details, because after all, 20 Million is on it's way!
Can't you wait until they get the calls telling them their windows machine has a virus, and ONLY the tech support dude with the indian accent can fix it?
Simply call it "body sharing" or "body gigs" so you can skirt prostitution laws. Make an app where you rent out your sexual favors. After all, if Uber can ignore Taxi laws, escorts should be able to do the same.
But what they need is an app -- hmmm. Maybe these guys can make that app for me, and I'll start a business worth 40 billion like Uber.
I have yet to see a single "image with text on it" facebook meme that didn't have spelling and/or grammatical errors. One thing that tells me for sure is that the generation that grew up with cell phones in their hands doesn't freaking know how to spell.
Can't wait for the first accidental shooting right on the air. It's *going* to happen. More people are accidentally wounded by their own guns than *any* other form of gun violence. It's sad to say, but the vast majority of gun owners don't know squat about how to handle a gun.
So, using your brand of "logic" Bush and Cheney killed 3000+ Americans on 9/11, plus another 5000+ Americans in a false flag war, plus a million Iraqis.
And you're upset about 14 people in some shitstain town in California? Please.
That's funny, because I feel the exact same way about Christianity.
Name a time Christians *didn't* come into contact with a new culture and start killing people like crazy. Perhaps you've never heard of Native Americans?
Oh, you probably haven't because, with few exceptions, those good christians wiped them off the planet.
When a billion people die of congestive lung failure all around the same period. Of course, given our current state of continuous war, combined with a ever growing lack of resources, we should lose a billion even sooner after we have fished the oceans dry. You can't feed 8 Billion with a drought and empty oceans at the same time.
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If they know they are 9000, that would suggest they have already identified them.
It's not like the New York City Subway, where a combination of age and bad record keeping in the early years, combined with the fact that it's 3 or 4 different systems that merged into one system has led to most of the engineers not knowing what's down there at all.
You ask how many unused cables are in the NY Subway, and you'll get a shrug. Nobody knows. Hell, my favorite is when they break through a wall and find track and a train that nobody knew about for 60 years.
9000 unused cables? Pfft. That's not that impressive.
In an updated review, the film's rating was changed to "Mostly Harmless"
HP printers used to also have a built-in web-server. You could access printer functions from the page. I used to use Alta-Vista (which shows you how far back this goes) to search for the welcome text of the page -- and found hundreds of exposed printers.
I'd open the webpage and instruct the printer to print 1000 copies of a page that says "you've been hacked!" in 50-point typeface. It was an amusing prank, but now that printers have storage, yep, it's a bigger problem that HP, all these years later, has never addressed.
Large commercial banks are doing the exact same thing. As are, I'm sure, many, many other corporations.
When you steal from a lot of sources that's labeled "creativity".
George Lucas couldn't get the rights to Flash Gordon, so he steals from Akira Kurosawa, some WWII movies, and a few few other bits and pieces and we get Star Wars.
Hanna Barbera wanted to do a "Jack Armstrong" series, but they couldn't get the rights. So, they fiddled with the formula a bit, changed a few names, and we got Jonny Quest, the killer animated series that influenced a generation and then some.
Frankly, if old Gary stole some ideas from here and there, that's very much BAU for how stuff goes from underground to commercial success.
Space Cruiser Yamato (AKA Star Blazers in the USA), not only predicted Pluto's moon, but also a 10th planet -- I think it was called Brumus in 2nd Season (Comet Empire).
Can't remember too much because it was more than 20 years since I saw the show, but so far, their space science is more true than any other TV show I can think of.
They poisoned the water and for months, covered up the problem. But no one will be fined, no one will go to jail, and probably, no one will ever fix the issue. Meanwhile your taxes will then go to supporting kids with crippling brain damage as a result. So the governor could pocket a few bucks.
The point is: what VW did is no different from what anybody else is doing -- we're all screwing each other for a few bucks. Why is one bad while the other is not bad?
In keeping with his current theme, Candidate Trump claimed that if the supply line is the problem to Apple making their products here, he will allow *American* seven-year-olds to mine for Cobalt in the United States, making America Great Again and competitive in the world.
And which of these has the least regulation? And which has the higher chance of injuring or killing someone? Amazing that they want license plates and insurance for "model aircraft", but apparently you can buy a gun and just start shooting it, no safety classes, no training, not even a seatbelt required.
Thanks to the FAA, I guess you *can* take the sky from me.
So, the article is written from the viewpoint of a complete tech noob. Then, these "data recovery experts" went about the entire process completely wrong.
It's not that difficult to dig up a CP/M machine capable of reading multiple formats -- hell, there's DOS programs that do that as well.
Basically these guys only had a hammer, so every problem looked like a nail.
Sorry. they were just dumb. Frankly, if they'd even done 10 minutes of research on the internet, they could have found a dozen methods to save themselves a ton of work. Instead, they re-invented the wheel to read a few floppy disks.
-- Why not just search everyone walking down the street? After all, it's completely voluntary to walk down the street. No one is forcing you are they? --
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They have this already -- it's called "Stop and Frisk" -- very common in New York City, *if* you're not the right color.
Yes, we *are* living in a Police State.
At least, some of us are.
I don't want hyper-nervous people like you sharing a plane with me. You're more a danger to yourself and those around you than actual terrorists.
That will already be the case since it's almost literally impossible for the autonomous car to 'break the rules", as it's a piece of software and can't go beyond its programming.
And we already have situations like the one you describe. In many states, the driver in the rear is *always* at fault, except in rare cases. And scammers take advantage of that, often by cutting people off and then slamming on the brakes, causing the accident, but the driver at the rear gets the blame.
There will be the drivers who love to drive and will *never* give up their manual car versus having an autonomous car. It will be like the gun-nuts "You can have my 1967 Camaro when you pry it from my cold dead hands"....
Then the airlines will complain when people start using autonomous cars for long trips, and they sleep through they whole thing, wake up at their destination, as opposed to going through long lines and TSA hassles at the airport.
And the second there's a single accident that kills someone, the Anti-AI nutjobs will be protesting in D.C. "Them there robots is out to KILL us!"
And the complaints from Taxi/Uber drivers "Dey Tuk Our Jebs!" And don't even get me started on Truck Drivers, who seem to make of 50% of the working population of the USA..
We are clearly moving in the direction of having self-driving cars, but it's going to be a very, very painful and long transition. We may not even see it happen completely in our lifetimes.
So, lemme get this straight. We'll *allow* these websites to exist and be available on the internet, but you go to jail for *looking* at them?
Seriously, what kind of horseshit is this?
This is a kneejerk reaction to the killings in California. And it's a kneejerk right into your own nose. You can't do the logical thing, like banning easy access to guns, because that would be too hard and expensive to go up against the NRA, so you do the easy, slimey thing and propose this crap instead.
And when the next mass killing is done by a white, Christian, republican conservative who has been radicalized by Fox News, what's the plan there? Can we outlaw Fox News? Or put people in jail for watching it?
Seriously. This country has gone insane. I think it's time to leave and go someplace that actually is a government for the people.
If Uber was like eBay, you'd have to negotiate the price with the driver *and pay him* before he evens show up. And then he just doesn't show up at all. So you call Uber and they promise to start an investigation, but do nothing. In the end, 6 months later, you get your money back, but you're still stranded on the street corner.
And for the Uber drivers, they'd experience getting a call to pick up someone. The driver and client are in Seattle. However, when the client, who has already negotiated a price with the driver actually gets into the car, he insists on being driven to Romania. And he'll give you negative feedback if you don't immediately do this.
And that's why Uber is not run like eBay.
Shutting down schools because officials receive Nigerian Prince scam. *And* they give the scammer their bank account details, because after all, 20 Million is on it's way!
Can't you wait until they get the calls telling them their windows machine has a virus, and ONLY the tech support dude with the indian accent can fix it?
Wasn't this the entire plot to that HBO series "Silicon Valley", where a group of geeks form a company to re-encode petabytes of porn?
I never really got to see the whole series, but it came on after Game of Thrones, so I saw the occasional episode.....
Simply call it "body sharing" or "body gigs" so you can skirt prostitution laws. Make an app where you rent out your sexual favors. After all, if Uber can ignore Taxi laws, escorts should be able to do the same.
But what they need is an app -- hmmm. Maybe these guys can make that app for me, and I'll start a business worth 40 billion like Uber.
I have yet to see a single "image with text on it" facebook meme that didn't have spelling and/or grammatical errors. One thing that tells me for sure is that the generation that grew up with cell phones in their hands doesn't freaking know how to spell.
Can't wait for the first accidental shooting right on the air.
It's *going* to happen. More people are accidentally wounded by their own guns than *any* other form of gun violence. It's sad to say, but the vast majority of gun owners don't know squat about how to handle a gun.
So, using your brand of "logic" Bush and Cheney killed 3000+ Americans on 9/11, plus another 5000+ Americans in a false flag war, plus a million Iraqis.
And you're upset about 14 people in some shitstain town in California? Please.
That's funny, because I feel the exact same way about Christianity.
Name a time Christians *didn't* come into contact with a new culture and start killing people like crazy. Perhaps you've never heard of Native Americans?
Oh, you probably haven't because, with few exceptions, those good christians wiped them off the planet.
When a billion people die of congestive lung failure all around the same period. Of course, given our current state of continuous war, combined with a ever growing lack of resources, we should lose a billion even sooner after we have fished the oceans dry. You can't feed 8 Billion with a drought and empty oceans at the same time.