You cannot be seriously defending WJC... As I recall he avoided being charged for perjury/Obstruction by agreeing to give up his law license for all this... Not to mention, "He DID have sex, with that woman" as the resulting evidence on the infamous blue dress proved. My quote was simply an example of how the "artful dodger" spun his way out of this and how he was allowed to do it by the press, his wife and his political party.
The FCC, should it take notice, will put a stop to an unlicensed operator. However, if you don't tick off the local hams, the chances of getting the notice of the FCC is slim.. Well, it was UNTIL you posted here. Radio pirates are generally not well received by the FCC.....
Let me warn you, when the FCC comes calling, they can fine you upwards to $5,000 per instance per day of illegal operation. This can really add up. So if this little story is really true, don't mistake the lack of action thus far with the idea the FCC doesn't care. The enforcement branch is a bit undermanned these days, but they still exist and are active.
Actually, the effort required to do this hack is quite high and the risks to the patient is quite low from this hack.
An overdoes of insulin is indeed dangerous and can cause death if left untreated for an extended time, but diagnosis is easy (a finger prick blood glucose test) and treatment is easier (Drink some juice or a sugared soda).
So with the extremely high technical requirements to perform the hack from a distance, especially without the victim knowing and the ease of diagnosis and treatment from the resulting over dose of insulin, the chances of lasting harm is astonishingly low, lower than going out with a recall, forcing all these patients to undergo the surgery to remove and replace the implanted devices.
I'm with J&J, It's just NOT worth the replacement risks.... General Anesthesia has significant risks, much more than somebody hacking your insulin pump on the subway.
Before anyone says these are fake, people have been dialing the numbers in these leaks and verifying that the contact info is legit.
The Hillary Clinton supporters can rest easy knowing that most Americans don't care about the fact that the Clinton Foundation and DNC have just been revealed to be taking TARP kickbacks from giant banks in return for political favors. They're too busy worrying about how Halloween costumes are racist and downloading their weekly groupthink programming from social media.
Hey, you gota win the battles you can and let the rest go.
There are also a number of unanswered questions regarding Republican nominee, Donald Trump's, connection to these attacks
So we're to understand that Trump is running these hacker groups? Hey, I suppose that's better than Hilary who can't even run a secure email server.
I'm also interested in these "unanswered questions"? I suspect the reason they're unanswered is because you haven't asked them. You're just implying that something is amiss about Trump without actually saying what is wrong or making any allegations.
Oh you know what this is... It's an attempt to paint those "unanswered questions" in as bad of a light as possible in order to cast Trump (or his operatives) in a bad light to sway votes.... After all, it's the seriousness of the charge, not the evidence that supports it that maters (Unless the Charge is WJ Clinton sexually assaulted some woman, then it's ignore any evidence and start making stupid statements like "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is. )
It's like going up to mild mannered "Bob" and asking him "Hey, Bob! When did you stop beating your wife? Huh? When Bob? Answer me Bob, this is a serious situation Bob, when did you stop beating her?"
Of course the questions are unanswered. Trump had nothing to do with it, unless you think because he can tweet stupid stuff at 3am means he's somehow a brilliant hacker with the DNC as his target... Why bother to answer some stupid baseless charge?
Water, Shelter, Food and protection come before communication... Got that message a LONG time ago... Yet I still have my ham ticket and radios so what do you suppose the status of the rest of that stuff is? That ain't camping gear in my garage, nor is that 12ga in the closet for hunting rabbits... I hate camping AND hunting actually...
I just have to laugh some times when I see my fellow hamateurs spout off about how much ham radio helps. When your little Baofeng 1/2 Watt portable can't hit the repeater because it has no electrical power then there won't be much you can do.
I know of at least two repeaters which have battery backup (one which I help maintain) and I'm sure there are plenty more within the range of my Baofeng with spare batteries and the large mobile antenna I can hook up to. Then there is the mobile rig in the car, that's good for as long as I have gasoline to keep the battery charged. The repeater I help to maintain has an on site contingency plan to provide power from a portable generator should the need arise from an extended power outage so it could be on the air for days. SOME of us have plans for such things...
Heck, some of us even practice these plans doing that yearly contest called "Field Day" perhaps you've heard of it?
Hey, it worked fine on the machine in my office too... Must have been a hardware problem, no way the software is to blame! (Said many programmers to me in the past.)
Getting emergency services when you cannot call 911?
Yep, Ham Radio does that.... The rest of your list, is not going to be legal third party traffic, except for the messages of a personal nature. You want to meet her where exactly?
Once you get to an L3 switch, it doesn't matter if it's a POTS line or not, it's just a phone call.. Heck, when you hop off the MSC on a cell, it's just a phone call... The only possible advantage a POTS line might have in this situation is you don't have all the HLR/VLR signaling when you are roaming outside of your home MSC, so you might actually get a dial tone and be able to make local to the exchange calls...
For the next trick, why don't you come up with a round device called wheel...
This I've never understood... Seems that it would be incredibly easy to produce a credit card with enough smarts to make it nearly impossible to forge. This is one such idea (having a rolling code displayed which only the CC company knows the sequence) is part of this. Allowing this code to be obtained electronically though the "chip readers" is the next. However, what's missing in all these schemes is some kind of biometrics or password....
Good security requires, something you have (the credit card), Something you know, and something you ARE... Short of having all three, you really don't have a lot of security. All this little "invention" does is prove you HAVE the card, which doesn't do much for you if the card is stolen.
So did Discover.... They had an app that generated a "one time" use card number for online transactions and would automatically fill out the forms online for you... My guess is that although it worked great, generating the numbers securely through a browser app was hard to accomplish and it really didn't reduce fraud.
Where I get your perspective, why mess with success? I think there is good to be had here.
Who knows that E-Bay has the most optimal solution for online auctions sites? Maybe there is something else to be learned? The only way you kick the huge guys like E-Bay off center is to innovate around them. The problem is that innovation is not always successful, often it isn't, but that's what makes this whole thing keep working.
So what if somebody thinks they can make money on Craig's list idea? Or somebody thinks they can compete with E-Bay? I say, power to them, wish you luck. Come up with something unique, do it better, cheaper, faster than the big guys and you can win a big payday. Heck, just show yourself able to compete even on a small scale and the big guys are likely to just buy you out instead of risking it....
I doubt it will be either. They will break with the first few trucks that roll over them and never generate power and before a day or two passes there will be a pothole where they used to be. Gravel would be better.
Install these on a real roadway and I guarantee they will be gravel within a day. Steal plate that thin would get messed up by the onslaught of loaded trucks, these things don't stand a chance.
They haven't a clue about what it really takes to make a durable road, much less what it's going to take to keep a solar panel working as you drive trucks over it at highway speeds... It's obvious from looking at their stuff, and I'm just a guy who got his Electrical Engineering degree and who's roommate was getting his civil engineering degree....
Then there is the whole, how much energy are you going to collect under a blanket of snow/ice/mud and how on earth could it be enough to melt it faster than the traditional sand, salt and plowing with the sun shining down on a dark colored road?
They where dead on arrival with their "manufacturing issue" that pretty much ruined half of the panels... No trucks required... Trucks will make gravel out of these things in a heartbeat..
just how much snow and ice melting does it take to turn these into a net negative rather than positive generator of energy?
I'm thinking quite a bit a $1 Million for 150 Square feet to install... We don't have a clue what it will cost to MAINTAIN these things given the onslaught of heavy trucks pounding them into the pavement year round. Electronics of any sort don't take kindly to vibration and flexing and if you don't flex as a road way, you have to withstand orders of magnitude more force without breaking... Of course, that all assumes that the actual idea here is to melt the ice and snow.... Something tells me that's not what they are after...
Personally, as an engineer I like having options... I my case, I have more options than you, so on those grounds I content my position is better. I can charge from an external battery pack just like you do, PLUS, I have the option of swapping out my battery and not needing to endure having my phone plugged in with some kind of charger dangling from it.
You like your way? So be it... Just remember, I can do that too (and at times have done exactly what you describe), but I've found the battery swapping to be more convenient for me. Where I have three batteries in rotation, one on a portable charger (in my car or back at the hotel room) one in the wallet case, and one in the phone. I get 20 hours of run time in my pocket, with a hot spare for 10 more hours waiting once I get back to my hotel room (or personal vehicle). The trick is to get all the batteries recharged over night, but that's actually easy... The deadest battery goes on the charger and the next lowest goes in the phone over night. When I wake up, my phone is fully charged as is the one in the external charger. I swap the spare with the one in the external charger and I have 20 hours in my pocket with one partially charged on the charger for when I get home. Assuming I have a place to charge the spares, I never run dry and NEVER have to plug in my phone, except when I'm sleeping anyway....
Except that the stuff wasn't classified at the time, which kind of blows apart your theory of copy/pasting stuff from classified documents, since there weren't any.
Are you paying attention? I don't think so because Clinton's story has *changed* a couple of times since she made that specific claim. The facts surfaced so she had to alter her claims from that particular story months ago. Do try to keep up.
There where messages that had classified markings on them, most notably portion markings. That tells me they where obviously classified when sent and that SOMEBODY did a cut and paste from a classified document. Which brings us to TWO legal problems... First, it is forbidden to have classified information on unclassified computers (yet somebody obviously did). Second, Cutting and pasting classified into an e-mail you send via insecure channels is a seriously stupid and negligent thing to do. But the legal problem for Clinton in the second case is NOT REPORTING it. In fact EVERYBODY who received one of those hundred or so E-mails had an obligation to report it.
If you want to give Clinton a pass on the "original" content that was retroactively classified up to Top Secret, I can see your logic, though I don't agree at all. She should have known what was classified and what wasn't, especially at that level. I think she knew, but didn't care. But even giving her a pass on that, she's got other legal issues in her mishandling of classified information and the apparent wanton disregard for protecting the national security of the USA.
Plus, none of these "stories" from Clinton address the FOIA law and State Department regulation violations caused by "doing business" on a private E-mail system when you work for the government. In the interest of full disclosure, you cannot do what she did, and she knew at the time this was a problem. Unless you believe she's really as stupid as she claims....
You can't be serious.... Having a heavy battery pack dangling from your phone while it charges for an hour or two is "far superior" to swapping out the battery in 60 seconds? It's not like this is rocket science...
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Not hotcakes like it was in my day?
Get off my lawn...
What the fuck is a toothbrush test?
Toothbrushes are needed by everybody alive and they wear out frequently so you have to buy multiple toothbrushes over time.
The toothbrush test is basically about how many of the developed item can/will you be able to sell?
You cannot be seriously defending WJC... As I recall he avoided being charged for perjury/Obstruction by agreeing to give up his law license for all this... Not to mention, "He DID have sex, with that woman" as the resulting evidence on the infamous blue dress proved. My quote was simply an example of how the "artful dodger" spun his way out of this and how he was allowed to do it by the press, his wife and his political party.
The FCC, should it take notice, will put a stop to an unlicensed operator. However, if you don't tick off the local hams, the chances of getting the notice of the FCC is slim.. Well, it was UNTIL you posted here. Radio pirates are generally not well received by the FCC.....
Let me warn you, when the FCC comes calling, they can fine you upwards to $5,000 per instance per day of illegal operation. This can really add up. So if this little story is really true, don't mistake the lack of action thus far with the idea the FCC doesn't care. The enforcement branch is a bit undermanned these days, but they still exist and are active.
Actually, the effort required to do this hack is quite high and the risks to the patient is quite low from this hack.
An overdoes of insulin is indeed dangerous and can cause death if left untreated for an extended time, but diagnosis is easy (a finger prick blood glucose test) and treatment is easier (Drink some juice or a sugared soda).
So with the extremely high technical requirements to perform the hack from a distance, especially without the victim knowing and the ease of diagnosis and treatment from the resulting over dose of insulin, the chances of lasting harm is astonishingly low, lower than going out with a recall, forcing all these patients to undergo the surgery to remove and replace the implanted devices.
I'm with J&J, It's just NOT worth the replacement risks.... General Anesthesia has significant risks, much more than somebody hacking your insulin pump on the subway.
Before anyone says these are fake, people have been dialing the numbers in these leaks and verifying that the contact info is legit.
The Hillary Clinton supporters can rest easy knowing that most Americans don't care about the fact that the Clinton Foundation and DNC have just been revealed to be taking TARP kickbacks from giant banks in return for political favors. They're too busy worrying about how Halloween costumes are racist and downloading their weekly groupthink programming from social media.
Hey, you gota win the battles you can and let the rest go.
I particularly liked:
There are also a number of unanswered questions regarding Republican nominee, Donald Trump's, connection to these attacks
So we're to understand that Trump is running these hacker groups? Hey, I suppose that's better than Hilary who can't even run a secure email server.
I'm also interested in these "unanswered questions"? I suspect the reason they're unanswered is because you haven't asked them. You're just implying that something is amiss about Trump without actually saying what is wrong or making any allegations.
Oh you know what this is... It's an attempt to paint those "unanswered questions" in as bad of a light as possible in order to cast Trump (or his operatives) in a bad light to sway votes.... After all, it's the seriousness of the charge, not the evidence that supports it that maters (Unless the Charge is WJ Clinton sexually assaulted some woman, then it's ignore any evidence and start making stupid statements like "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is. )
It's like going up to mild mannered "Bob" and asking him "Hey, Bob! When did you stop beating your wife? Huh? When Bob? Answer me Bob, this is a serious situation Bob, when did you stop beating her?"
Of course the questions are unanswered. Trump had nothing to do with it, unless you think because he can tweet stupid stuff at 3am means he's somehow a brilliant hacker with the DNC as his target... Why bother to answer some stupid baseless charge?
Burp...
Water, Shelter, Food and protection come before communication... Got that message a LONG time ago... Yet I still have my ham ticket and radios so what do you suppose the status of the rest of that stuff is? That ain't camping gear in my garage, nor is that 12ga in the closet for hunting rabbits... I hate camping AND hunting actually...
I just have to laugh some times when I see my fellow hamateurs spout off about how much ham radio helps. When your little Baofeng 1/2 Watt portable can't hit the repeater because it has no electrical power then there won't be much you can do.
I know of at least two repeaters which have battery backup (one which I help maintain) and I'm sure there are plenty more within the range of my Baofeng with spare batteries and the large mobile antenna I can hook up to. Then there is the mobile rig in the car, that's good for as long as I have gasoline to keep the battery charged. The repeater I help to maintain has an on site contingency plan to provide power from a portable generator should the need arise from an extended power outage so it could be on the air for days. SOME of us have plans for such things...
Heck, some of us even practice these plans doing that yearly contest called "Field Day" perhaps you've heard of it?
Hey, it worked fine on the machine in my office too... Must have been a hardware problem, no way the software is to blame! (Said many programmers to me in the past.)
You have your map upside down... It was going south, towards Downtown.
Isn't English grand....
Getting emergency services when you cannot call 911?
Yep, Ham Radio does that.... The rest of your list, is not going to be legal third party traffic, except for the messages of a personal nature. You want to meet her where exactly?
Once you get to an L3 switch, it doesn't matter if it's a POTS line or not, it's just a phone call.. Heck, when you hop off the MSC on a cell, it's just a phone call... The only possible advantage a POTS line might have in this situation is you don't have all the HLR/VLR signaling when you are roaming outside of your home MSC, so you might actually get a dial tone and be able to make local to the exchange calls...
An RSA token.... Yea team!
For the next trick, why don't you come up with a round device called wheel...
This I've never understood... Seems that it would be incredibly easy to produce a credit card with enough smarts to make it nearly impossible to forge. This is one such idea (having a rolling code displayed which only the CC company knows the sequence) is part of this. Allowing this code to be obtained electronically though the "chip readers" is the next. However, what's missing in all these schemes is some kind of biometrics or password....
Good security requires, something you have (the credit card), Something you know, and something you ARE... Short of having all three, you really don't have a lot of security. All this little "invention" does is prove you HAVE the card, which doesn't do much for you if the card is stolen.
So did Discover.... They had an app that generated a "one time" use card number for online transactions and would automatically fill out the forms online for you... My guess is that although it worked great, generating the numbers securely through a browser app was hard to accomplish and it really didn't reduce fraud.
No? Well carry on..
This is when Ham Radio shines... 73's to my fellow 0.2%
Where I get your perspective, why mess with success? I think there is good to be had here.
Who knows that E-Bay has the most optimal solution for online auctions sites? Maybe there is something else to be learned? The only way you kick the huge guys like E-Bay off center is to innovate around them. The problem is that innovation is not always successful, often it isn't, but that's what makes this whole thing keep working.
So what if somebody thinks they can make money on Craig's list idea? Or somebody thinks they can compete with E-Bay? I say, power to them, wish you luck. Come up with something unique, do it better, cheaper, faster than the big guys and you can win a big payday. Heck, just show yourself able to compete even on a small scale and the big guys are likely to just buy you out instead of risking it....
I doubt it will be either. They will break with the first few trucks that roll over them and never generate power and before a day or two passes there will be a pothole where they used to be. Gravel would be better.
Install these on a real roadway and I guarantee they will be gravel within a day. Steal plate that thin would get messed up by the onslaught of loaded trucks, these things don't stand a chance.
They haven't a clue about what it really takes to make a durable road, much less what it's going to take to keep a solar panel working as you drive trucks over it at highway speeds... It's obvious from looking at their stuff, and I'm just a guy who got his Electrical Engineering degree and who's roommate was getting his civil engineering degree....
Then there is the whole, how much energy are you going to collect under a blanket of snow/ice/mud and how on earth could it be enough to melt it faster than the traditional sand, salt and plowing with the sun shining down on a dark colored road?
They where dead on arrival with their "manufacturing issue" that pretty much ruined half of the panels... No trucks required... Trucks will make gravel out of these things in a heartbeat..
just how much snow and ice melting does it take to turn these into a net negative rather than positive generator of energy?
I'm thinking quite a bit a $1 Million for 150 Square feet to install... We don't have a clue what it will cost to MAINTAIN these things given the onslaught of heavy trucks pounding them into the pavement year round. Electronics of any sort don't take kindly to vibration and flexing and if you don't flex as a road way, you have to withstand orders of magnitude more force without breaking... Of course, that all assumes that the actual idea here is to melt the ice and snow.... Something tells me that's not what they are after...
150 Square Feet of roadway for a cool $1 Million and nearly half of them don't work yet? Sounds like a pretty expensive road to me.
So, what exactly is the point of this little experiment anyway?
And like I said.... To each their own..
Personally, as an engineer I like having options... I my case, I have more options than you, so on those grounds I content my position is better. I can charge from an external battery pack just like you do, PLUS, I have the option of swapping out my battery and not needing to endure having my phone plugged in with some kind of charger dangling from it.
You like your way? So be it... Just remember, I can do that too (and at times have done exactly what you describe), but I've found the battery swapping to be more convenient for me. Where I have three batteries in rotation, one on a portable charger (in my car or back at the hotel room) one in the wallet case, and one in the phone. I get 20 hours of run time in my pocket, with a hot spare for 10 more hours waiting once I get back to my hotel room (or personal vehicle). The trick is to get all the batteries recharged over night, but that's actually easy... The deadest battery goes on the charger and the next lowest goes in the phone over night. When I wake up, my phone is fully charged as is the one in the external charger. I swap the spare with the one in the external charger and I have 20 hours in my pocket with one partially charged on the charger for when I get home. Assuming I have a place to charge the spares, I never run dry and NEVER have to plug in my phone, except when I'm sleeping anyway....
Except that the stuff wasn't classified at the time, which kind of blows apart your theory of copy/pasting stuff from classified documents, since there weren't any.
Are you paying attention? I don't think so because Clinton's story has *changed* a couple of times since she made that specific claim. The facts surfaced so she had to alter her claims from that particular story months ago. Do try to keep up.
There where messages that had classified markings on them, most notably portion markings. That tells me they where obviously classified when sent and that SOMEBODY did a cut and paste from a classified document. Which brings us to TWO legal problems... First, it is forbidden to have classified information on unclassified computers (yet somebody obviously did). Second, Cutting and pasting classified into an e-mail you send via insecure channels is a seriously stupid and negligent thing to do. But the legal problem for Clinton in the second case is NOT REPORTING it. In fact EVERYBODY who received one of those hundred or so E-mails had an obligation to report it.
If you want to give Clinton a pass on the "original" content that was retroactively classified up to Top Secret, I can see your logic, though I don't agree at all. She should have known what was classified and what wasn't, especially at that level. I think she knew, but didn't care. But even giving her a pass on that, she's got other legal issues in her mishandling of classified information and the apparent wanton disregard for protecting the national security of the USA.
Plus, none of these "stories" from Clinton address the FOIA law and State Department regulation violations caused by "doing business" on a private E-mail system when you work for the government. In the interest of full disclosure, you cannot do what she did, and she knew at the time this was a problem. Unless you believe she's really as stupid as she claims....
You can't be serious.... Having a heavy battery pack dangling from your phone while it charges for an hour or two is "far superior" to swapping out the battery in 60 seconds? It's not like this is rocket science...
To each their own....