So, basically, this is the equivalent of SEO for interviewing at Google. Or, in other words, a whole litany of "This would have worked yesterday, but now, DO NOT DO THIS!"
Does this mean that President Fiorina will cut off ties to Saudi Arabia once elected? Didn't think so....
No, no, no...you see, she's not criticizing Tim or Hilary for their stances. She's criticizing them for doing business with people that don't share their stances.
Fiorina, on the other hand, hates both fags and women. Hence, she's not a hypocrite herself for being FROM Silicon Valley or having done just as much business with China. So it's all good!
Well, then she is a hypocrite for having done business with countries where gay people have rights.
Ah, hell...I hadn't thought of that. Well played, sir!
Does this mean that President Fiorina will cut off ties to Saudi Arabia once elected? Didn't think so....
No, no, no...you see, she's not criticizing Tim or Hilary for their stances. She's criticizing them for doing business with people that don't share their stances.
Fiorina, on the other hand, hates both fags and women. Hence, she's not a hypocrite herself for being FROM Silicon Valley or having done just as much business with China. So it's all good!
Isn't it sort of obvious that hotel networks are a free-for-all security wise?
Use a VPN and SSL.
RTFA; that won't help.
The problem is that before you can connect out to use your VPN, you first have to get provisioned by the hotel's wifi. This involves at a minimum checking a box that says "I won't try to hack or do bad things," along with either authorizing a charge, giving the webpage your hotel frequent traveler info/name and room number, or authorizing a charge for the Internet access. Those pages are what put you at risk; the attacker hacks the router that serves up the page, adds a nice little bit of extra code to serve up malware (that he also uploads to the router itself, so no need for outside Internet to get it), and boom...everyone with a vulnerable system that connects in that hotel gets pwned.
And that's beyond the risk of the machine serving as a jump-point for deeper penetration into the hotel itself. How is your using a VPN going to protect the hotel's keycard system from being hacked? Or protect your private information that resides in the reservation system?
Seems to me cooling might be an issue in an already water poor area of the world.
Jordan has access to enough water. Just because it's in the middle east doesn't mean it's a desert. Power plants go near population centers, and population centers exist near water. Even more importantly, there's a difference between "drinking water," with all of its sanitation, distribution, and monitoring needs, and just plain "water," which can be found in any lake. Heck, lots of power plants have man-made lakes to supply that water.
But you're missing the real point. Modern nuclear plants don't need that much water. The Fukushima reactor is the oldest design there is, and its dependency on water is one of the reasons it's no longer used. Passive cooling towers (the big bong-looking cement things that we associate with nuclear plants, but which can also be used on other non-nuclear plants) massively reduce the water requirements of a nuclear plant, and are almost certainly what would be used.
Nothing wrong in pointing out that an advertising company whose sole business is spying on their users would make sure that any competition is eliminated.
It is possible to dislike both. Please do try to use your brain.
There is when it's totally off-topic and entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter that Google is involved; this is about China and spying on their own citizens. Google's business model has nothing to do with it. Disliking Google has even less to do with it...because Google is, to date, the only tech company that has ever stood up to China over things like this. In this situation Google is actually the good guys.
And, for the record, every company wants a monopoly. That's why monopolies were outlawed. I think it's you that should use your brain.
...on processing of your private information. It is in its interests to make sure everything is secure until the moment it reaches their servers.
And if you live there, China wants a monopoly on knowing your private information...plus incarcerating you and even killing you to harvest your transplantable organs should it find that it doesn't like something it learns about you. Like that you think Tibet should be free. Or if you worship the wrong god.
SigEps are racists. Wait, frats in general are racists. No shit, Sherlock. PKA on my campus was 100% Jewish. If you weren't Jewish, you weren't getting in. Some were all white. Some all black. The entirety of the greek system is racism and sexism in action. Give me a break with your feigned outrage.
Now, now, now. It's not actually true that all frats are racist. In fact, even the most racist of frats aren't even racist all the time.
When they're committing date rape, race is of no concern to them.
According to the article, they seized more than 4 times more child porn than the Library of Congress has.
But unlike past investigations into the distribution of child porn, which typically involve targeting suspects individually, police have instead seized over 1.2 petabytes of data—more than four times the amount of data in the US Library of Congress
I'm kind of surprised that all congress could only manage to accumulate 300TB of child porn.
Actually, they seized 1.2 petabytes of data, not child porn.
The situation is that this is a data center. So that means SANs and virtual hosts. SANs mean that you don't just have a 1-to-1 relationship between a hard drive (or even a hard drive array) and a computer. And virtual hosting means you don't have a 1-to-1 relationship between a server and a website. So I'd bet my paycheck that they went in with a broad net, grabbing every SAN that they thought contained child porn. In essence, they grabbed the whole data center so that they can figure out just how much of it...and which of it...is actual evidence.
This kind of tech has existed for a while; it's primarily used in surveillance gear, so that the earphones being worn by someone working in the field can't be seen. The downside of the current state-of-the-art, however, is that the wearer needs to have the induction coil under their clothing, around their neck. I'm really curious how this would work in stereo, personally, as all the solutions I've seen are only mono by requirement; there's no easy way to partition the field into two segments, to separate left from right.
Billy Rios sums things up interestingly with this sentence:
"If [a hacker] shuts off a heater, it's not so bad. But if there are moving parts, they're totally going to hurt [someone] and do damage," says Rios, founder of Laconicly.
The trick with control systems...which is what the computers controlling this car wash are...is that logical actions result in kinetic effects. And you can't reboot physics, or restore solid objects from backup.
I think it's interesting that Lenovo posts not just the "Automatic Removal Tool," but also the source code to the tool. What I want to know is this: has anyone compiled it, and managed to get their compile options/environment such that they came up with a binary that matches the downloadable tool?
While I agree with people saying the whole drone thing was just a Bezos PR stunt, out of interest, wouldn't it be better to use a single rotor helicopter rather than an octocopter for these sorts of tasks? I remember reading how a lot of the energy in a multi-rotor is wasted accelerating and braking the motors to control pitch and attitude, and this leads to substantial conversion losses and the need to oversize everything. Surely at eight rotors, the cost of adding a swash plate control would be worth it for the efficiency gains, especially in a commercial setting.
Here's an experiment that will illustrate the answer for you.
Buy a Parrot drone, and fly it. See how easy it is? It's very stable, and quite straightforward.
Now, buy a small but decent (i.e., big enough that it could carry something like a GoPro) R/C helicopter. Try and take off; don't forget to wear eye protection. Tally up how many times you have to go back to the shop for new rotors and other parts, as you crash again and again. Or, in the alternative, just watch the Mythbusters episode where they take on the myth of a helicopter crashing because its rotor blades were destabilized with a little bit of tape, so you can watch them go through this exact process.
And yes, it's technically possible to add technology to single-rotor design systems to automate the corrective actions to keep them stable. But by using an octocopter, you can do it a lot more cheaply and more easily.
I'm trying to figure out how a user could possibly *be* responsible when it comes to overclocking something in a notebook.
With a desktop, you've got a lot of variables that aren't just within the end-user's ability to assess, but actually entirely within their ability to assess and control. You've got thermal readings, understanding of fan speed, placement of cables and other things that affect airflow management, and the ability to choose just how much (and what form of) cooling is in the case to begin with. You can try things, see the impact of them on the environment inside the machine, and adjust accordingly. Hell, if you want to, you can use a laser thermometer to measure the temperatures in the case on a centimeter-by-centimeter basis to see where the hotspots are so that you can fix them.
In a laptop, you might have some temperature sensors, but you're not exactly sure where they are. You can get some idea of where the heat is building up by feeling the outside of the case, but you can't be sure how much of the actual heat is making it out at that point. You can't change the cooling...at all...to respond to anything that seems awry, and you can't really assess the temperatures that well to begin with. So what happens...you OC, and hope for the best. And, as other posters have pointed out, some of those who hope for the best won't take personal responsibility for the risk they brought upon themselves when it goes wrong, and that's when we would start seeing Slashdot articles with names like "Latest NVidia mobile chipset catching fire spontaneously!" And that's not good for consumers nor is it good for NVidia.
You're asking for a kind of button that will make it possible to rely upon a 2-year-old child as a caretaker. This is not a technology problem, and unless someone finds a way to accelerate human development of children to an alarming rate, it's not a solvable one either. And I have to say, what you're proposing seems like an inherently risky situation...to your wife and child both. Your wife runs the risk of your not being alerted, and I can't even guess what it would do to a child to have that kind of responsibility, especially if she doesn't hit the button for whatever reason, and ends up haunted by that for the rest of your life.
In India, what we take for granted as a "background check" is actually not possible. While here in the US we have a massive database called NCIC (which is really the name of the organization that runs it, but everyone calls it NCIC anyways) there's not really such a clearinghouse in India. The individual municipalities keep their own records...often on paper...about past crimes, but there's no centralized source where you can go and check. As a result, "background checks" basically don't exist, because they are exercises in futility unless you're looking to check on a specific event related to a person.
Now, to be 100% accurate, I will say that India did just recently create a centralized database, a year ago I believe. But the database is barely getting any input at all at this point. And on top of that, fake documentation is really easy to obtain in India, there's a lot of corruption...there's a larger systemic issue with just being able to take someone's unique identifying information and do a "background check" to make sure they haven't been convicted of raping a whole school or something in the past.
I've run into this before, with regard to situations where certain kinds of business processes and information handling couldn't be outsourced because of regulatory requirements for background checks, but I also found an interesting analysis that is in the context of this situation with Uber: http://qz.com/308888/the-secre...
We have to ask why everything NEEDS to be internet connected. A local connection to the sensors will allow the station to determine when they need to refill said tanks. Not much point in putting it out there on the big scary internet.:D
Reason for these to be Internet-connected? Simple...supply chain. Next time you go get a fill-up, go interact with the guy inside the gas station and then ask yourself, "Do I think this guy could operate a control system and get a reading from a serial interface on a timely fashion so that the regional product distribution centers know when they need to schedule a fuel delivery?" At most gas stations I've been to, they can't even keep those little paper towels filled in the dispensers outside. (You know, the ones you need to wipe the oil off your dipstick? Okay, that looks dirty when I type it out...but I digress.)
On the other hand, if you connect these to the Internet, then an automated system can poll them periodically, automatically, and a lot of the workflow around keeping gas stations provisioned with fuel gets simplified and automated. You also get better metrics about consumption, which in turn allows for better forecasting so the local depots can, themselves, make sure they don't run dry. (There's a much, much longer lead time for getting a product tanker to drop off fuel than there is for a gas truck to bring fuel to a gas station.)
That said, these should be configured NOT to listen to requests from outside a certain subset of network ranges. Having them listen to the open Internet is, frankly, fucking stupid.
Guess your one of those smarter than the rest of the world techs, nerds etc. A colleague confining with others on his life matters and you want to bust balls about how tech Davy you are. 15 maybe? Damn man grow up.
The irony is strong with this one.
Good sir, I would like to resurrect an old online tradition by awarding you one million internets.
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So, basically, this is the equivalent of SEO for interviewing at Google. Or, in other words, a whole litany of "This would have worked yesterday, but now, DO NOT DO THIS!"
Does this mean that President Fiorina will cut off ties to Saudi Arabia once elected? Didn't think so....
No, no, no...you see, she's not criticizing Tim or Hilary for their stances. She's criticizing them for doing business with people that don't share their stances.
Fiorina, on the other hand, hates both fags and women. Hence, she's not a hypocrite herself for being FROM Silicon Valley or having done just as much business with China. So it's all good!
Well, then she is a hypocrite for having done business with countries where gay people have rights.
Ah, hell...I hadn't thought of that. Well played, sir!
Does this mean that President Fiorina will cut off ties to Saudi Arabia once elected? Didn't think so....
No, no, no...you see, she's not criticizing Tim or Hilary for their stances. She's criticizing them for doing business with people that don't share their stances.
Fiorina, on the other hand, hates both fags and women. Hence, she's not a hypocrite herself for being FROM Silicon Valley or having done just as much business with China. So it's all good!
o gosh i hope not, because then dear ol' kansas would have no buffer from the morons that inhabit texas.
It's still better than being next to fucking Oklahoma.
Isn't it sort of obvious that hotel networks are a free-for-all security wise?
Use a VPN and SSL.
RTFA; that won't help.
The problem is that before you can connect out to use your VPN, you first have to get provisioned by the hotel's wifi. This involves at a minimum checking a box that says "I won't try to hack or do bad things," along with either authorizing a charge, giving the webpage your hotel frequent traveler info/name and room number, or authorizing a charge for the Internet access. Those pages are what put you at risk; the attacker hacks the router that serves up the page, adds a nice little bit of extra code to serve up malware (that he also uploads to the router itself, so no need for outside Internet to get it), and boom...everyone with a vulnerable system that connects in that hotel gets pwned.
And that's beyond the risk of the machine serving as a jump-point for deeper penetration into the hotel itself. How is your using a VPN going to protect the hotel's keycard system from being hacked? Or protect your private information that resides in the reservation system?
Seems to me cooling might be an issue in an already water poor area of the world.
Jordan has access to enough water. Just because it's in the middle east doesn't mean it's a desert. Power plants go near population centers, and population centers exist near water. Even more importantly, there's a difference between "drinking water," with all of its sanitation, distribution, and monitoring needs, and just plain "water," which can be found in any lake. Heck, lots of power plants have man-made lakes to supply that water.
But you're missing the real point. Modern nuclear plants don't need that much water. The Fukushima reactor is the oldest design there is, and its dependency on water is one of the reasons it's no longer used. Passive cooling towers (the big bong-looking cement things that we associate with nuclear plants, but which can also be used on other non-nuclear plants) massively reduce the water requirements of a nuclear plant, and are almost certainly what would be used.
It is only pervs who consider images of unclothed women degrading.
Not true. A lot of religious fundamentalists also consider imag...oh. Uh, yeah...that's right...good point.
Nothing wrong in pointing out that an advertising company whose sole business is spying on their users would make sure that any competition is eliminated.
It is possible to dislike both. Please do try to use your brain.
There is when it's totally off-topic and entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter that Google is involved; this is about China and spying on their own citizens. Google's business model has nothing to do with it. Disliking Google has even less to do with it...because Google is, to date, the only tech company that has ever stood up to China over things like this. In this situation Google is actually the good guys.
And, for the record, every company wants a monopoly. That's why monopolies were outlawed. I think it's you that should use your brain.
"What do you mean, you can't come out to fix my hard drive until next week? Don't you know how cold it is outside?!?!?"
...on processing of your private information. It is in its interests to make sure everything is secure until the moment it reaches their servers.
And if you live there, China wants a monopoly on knowing your private information...plus incarcerating you and even killing you to harvest your transplantable organs should it find that it doesn't like something it learns about you. Like that you think Tibet should be free. Or if you worship the wrong god.
Please do try to keep a sense of perspective?
If I slam on the brakes suddenly because I remember something I forgot at home, what will the computer make of that?
That you live in Florida?
The site was really just the same software/format as The Pirate Bay, only it didn't use any text...
SigEps are racists. Wait, frats in general are racists. No shit, Sherlock. PKA on my campus was 100% Jewish. If you weren't Jewish, you weren't getting in. Some were all white. Some all black. The entirety of the greek system is racism and sexism in action. Give me a break with your feigned outrage.
Now, now, now. It's not actually true that all frats are racist. In fact, even the most racist of frats aren't even racist all the time.
When they're committing date rape, race is of no concern to them.
1.2 pedobytes.
According to the article, they seized more than 4 times more child porn than the Library of Congress has.
But unlike past investigations into the distribution of child porn, which typically involve targeting suspects individually, police have instead seized over 1.2 petabytes of data—more than four times the amount of data in the US Library of Congress
I'm kind of surprised that all congress could only manage to accumulate 300TB of child porn.
Actually, they seized 1.2 petabytes of data, not child porn.
The situation is that this is a data center. So that means SANs and virtual hosts. SANs mean that you don't just have a 1-to-1 relationship between a hard drive (or even a hard drive array) and a computer. And virtual hosting means you don't have a 1-to-1 relationship between a server and a website. So I'd bet my paycheck that they went in with a broad net, grabbing every SAN that they thought contained child porn. In essence, they grabbed the whole data center so that they can figure out just how much of it...and which of it...is actual evidence.
Dude, did you SEE the video? It was awesome! Never has the back of someone's head looked so incredible! HypeHypeHype! WantWantWant!
This kind of tech has existed for a while; it's primarily used in surveillance gear, so that the earphones being worn by someone working in the field can't be seen. The downside of the current state-of-the-art, however, is that the wearer needs to have the induction coil under their clothing, around their neck. I'm really curious how this would work in stereo, personally, as all the solutions I've seen are only mono by requirement; there's no easy way to partition the field into two segments, to separate left from right.
Billy Rios sums things up interestingly with this sentence:
The trick with control systems...which is what the computers controlling this car wash are...is that logical actions result in kinetic effects. And you can't reboot physics, or restore solid objects from backup.
I think it's interesting that Lenovo posts not just the "Automatic Removal Tool," but also the source code to the tool. What I want to know is this: has anyone compiled it, and managed to get their compile options/environment such that they came up with a binary that matches the downloadable tool?
While I agree with people saying the whole drone thing was just a Bezos PR stunt, out of interest, wouldn't it be better to use a single rotor helicopter rather than an octocopter for these sorts of tasks? I remember reading how a lot of the energy in a multi-rotor is wasted accelerating and braking the motors to control pitch and attitude, and this leads to substantial conversion losses and the need to oversize everything. Surely at eight rotors, the cost of adding a swash plate control would be worth it for the efficiency gains, especially in a commercial setting.
Here's an experiment that will illustrate the answer for you.
Buy a Parrot drone, and fly it. See how easy it is? It's very stable, and quite straightforward.
Now, buy a small but decent (i.e., big enough that it could carry something like a GoPro) R/C helicopter. Try and take off; don't forget to wear eye protection. Tally up how many times you have to go back to the shop for new rotors and other parts, as you crash again and again. Or, in the alternative, just watch the Mythbusters episode where they take on the myth of a helicopter crashing because its rotor blades were destabilized with a little bit of tape, so you can watch them go through this exact process.
And yes, it's technically possible to add technology to single-rotor design systems to automate the corrective actions to keep them stable. But by using an octocopter, you can do it a lot more cheaply and more easily.
I'm trying to figure out how a user could possibly *be* responsible when it comes to overclocking something in a notebook.
With a desktop, you've got a lot of variables that aren't just within the end-user's ability to assess, but actually entirely within their ability to assess and control. You've got thermal readings, understanding of fan speed, placement of cables and other things that affect airflow management, and the ability to choose just how much (and what form of) cooling is in the case to begin with. You can try things, see the impact of them on the environment inside the machine, and adjust accordingly. Hell, if you want to, you can use a laser thermometer to measure the temperatures in the case on a centimeter-by-centimeter basis to see where the hotspots are so that you can fix them.
In a laptop, you might have some temperature sensors, but you're not exactly sure where they are. You can get some idea of where the heat is building up by feeling the outside of the case, but you can't be sure how much of the actual heat is making it out at that point. You can't change the cooling...at all...to respond to anything that seems awry, and you can't really assess the temperatures that well to begin with. So what happens...you OC, and hope for the best. And, as other posters have pointed out, some of those who hope for the best won't take personal responsibility for the risk they brought upon themselves when it goes wrong, and that's when we would start seeing Slashdot articles with names like "Latest NVidia mobile chipset catching fire spontaneously!" And that's not good for consumers nor is it good for NVidia.
You're asking for a kind of button that will make it possible to rely upon a 2-year-old child as a caretaker. This is not a technology problem, and unless someone finds a way to accelerate human development of children to an alarming rate, it's not a solvable one either. And I have to say, what you're proposing seems like an inherently risky situation...to your wife and child both. Your wife runs the risk of your not being alerted, and I can't even guess what it would do to a child to have that kind of responsibility, especially if she doesn't hit the button for whatever reason, and ends up haunted by that for the rest of your life.
So, a little bit of reality here...
In India, what we take for granted as a "background check" is actually not possible. While here in the US we have a massive database called NCIC (which is really the name of the organization that runs it, but everyone calls it NCIC anyways) there's not really such a clearinghouse in India. The individual municipalities keep their own records...often on paper...about past crimes, but there's no centralized source where you can go and check. As a result, "background checks" basically don't exist, because they are exercises in futility unless you're looking to check on a specific event related to a person.
Now, to be 100% accurate, I will say that India did just recently create a centralized database, a year ago I believe. But the database is barely getting any input at all at this point. And on top of that, fake documentation is really easy to obtain in India, there's a lot of corruption...there's a larger systemic issue with just being able to take someone's unique identifying information and do a "background check" to make sure they haven't been convicted of raping a whole school or something in the past.
I've run into this before, with regard to situations where certain kinds of business processes and information handling couldn't be outsourced because of regulatory requirements for background checks, but I also found an interesting analysis that is in the context of this situation with Uber: http://qz.com/308888/the-secre...
We have to ask why everything NEEDS to be internet connected. A local connection to the sensors will allow the station to determine when they need to refill said tanks. Not much point in putting it out there on the big scary internet. :D
Reason for these to be Internet-connected? Simple...supply chain. Next time you go get a fill-up, go interact with the guy inside the gas station and then ask yourself, "Do I think this guy could operate a control system and get a reading from a serial interface on a timely fashion so that the regional product distribution centers know when they need to schedule a fuel delivery?" At most gas stations I've been to, they can't even keep those little paper towels filled in the dispensers outside. (You know, the ones you need to wipe the oil off your dipstick? Okay, that looks dirty when I type it out...but I digress.)
On the other hand, if you connect these to the Internet, then an automated system can poll them periodically, automatically, and a lot of the workflow around keeping gas stations provisioned with fuel gets simplified and automated. You also get better metrics about consumption, which in turn allows for better forecasting so the local depots can, themselves, make sure they don't run dry. (There's a much, much longer lead time for getting a product tanker to drop off fuel than there is for a gas truck to bring fuel to a gas station.)
That said, these should be configured NOT to listen to requests from outside a certain subset of network ranges. Having them listen to the open Internet is, frankly, fucking stupid.
and how will that standard be published and disseminated?
2D printers sigh with relief, they are still relevant
Only until they find out how crap Chinese building standards are!
Guess your one of those smarter than the rest of the world techs, nerds etc. A colleague confining with others on his life matters and you want to bust balls about how tech Davy you are. 15 maybe? Damn man grow up.
The irony is strong with this one.
Good sir, I would like to resurrect an old online tradition by awarding you one million internets.