What gets to me more is the choice of how to pronounce the value...
No self-respecting scientist would ever say "one point twenty one". That's "one point two one." Or is 1.201 "one point two hundred and one" and thus more?
I believe they did block foreign IPs earlier in the day anyway, but my (limited) understanding is that doing so doesn't really help with DDoS - you still have the traffic banging on your door and need to reject it.
I'd like to know who was actually in charge of load balancing/capacity - ABS or IBM?
In Australia, writing your name on the ballot paper will, with near 100% certainty, make it an informal vote regardless of any other marks in the boxes.
Not this year. I'm guessing they regret this decision.
Suicide Linux; where any typo (as in resulting in command not found) instigates a full 'sudo rm -rf/'. Available as a debian package. https://qntm.org/suicide
The issue isn't someone cutting the lock - it's bypassing it without your knowledge even after the fact.
When the TSA has the keys, they have access and you acknowledge that (you used a lock you know they can open). When a third party also has the keys, do you acknowledge their access too?
(This argument assumes of course you're not using zippered luggage that can be bypassed and restored with a ballpoint pen).
Now apply the same argument to your iphone. If the guvmint have their own copy that they might install on your device without you knowing, is that okay? What about a rogue party?
I'm still going to guess the $5 wrench (https://xkcd.com/538/) gets used more than whatever is required to fool TouchID in the time it takes me to register that my phone/card is missing and report it as such. I don't *think* I have a network of spies tracking my every move and lifting my prints off of water glasses in order to obtain my hundreds of dollars, but perhaps that's just because they don't *want* me to think that, right?
If I'm suddenly in a position where losing a finger during a mugging is a genuine concern, I'll look into better protecting my hundreds of dollars.
Are there actual documented cases of small-time crooks in a civilized country using fingerprint harvesting off secondary sources to get into a smartphone? Maybe I just live in a country where tinfoil hats aren't so necessary.
Sure, all they need is my fingerprint to access the phone, know which bank I'm with, know that that I'm registered for cardless cash at said bank, my fingerprint again to access the app, and possibly my fingerprint again to request the funds.
But sure, a card and 4 digits is totally more secure.
A version of this is already widely in use in Australia. Log into bank via smartphone, request amount of cash, receive code. Go to that bank's ATM, request cardless cash, enter code, ???, cash! I no longer carry a wallet, just my smartphone with 3-card slimline case containing my ID/drivers licence, public transport RFID card, and credit card. I'm able to slip a $20 in there too for the few remaining places who either don't take credit or charge a fee to do so.
If you were expecting your post-transition rsync to be faster then I presume you were doing something like either --ignore-existing or --update, in which case the files wouldn't have been overwritten, right?
My iPhone unlocks without a passcode when my Pebble is connected (Jailbroken, Sesame tweak).
It's not secure, I'm sure someone could somehow spoof the connection, but that requires much more planning (being within range of the Pebble, obtaining physical access to the phone, etc...) than a $5 wrench might require. It works though, and is much more convenient for me, which took priority.
How concerned are you about taking the responsibility of authenticating "I am me" away from the individuals? If you can trust them with that information, then the RFID bracelets that a lot of barstaff use seems like it would be perfect. Swipe your arm past the scanner whenever you need to say "this is me" -- works great unless you are worried about people swapping them.
I believe (with some certainty) that the original (Sascha's) is currently residing at the Centre of Expertise in Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP) in Adelaide, South Australia, courtesy of an experimental physicist there. It didn't quite survive transport, so it has since been re-constructed on site.
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
No, seriously. ^This post is so full of win that I can't even believe it. I signed up just to say "thank you". (how *does* one send a private message here?)
As someone who is scientifically skeptical (in general, be it climate science or the latest new "discovery" that "overturns physics"), I cannot agree with you more. I find it mind-boggling that people resort to the "that guy's a climate scientist, let's believe him" (not his data, *him*) argument in the exact way they wouldn't do so for "that guy's a priest, let's believe him".
In a field more related to my work - particle physics - if you look at the results of an analysis before deciding where to make cuts (selections), your team considers the data to be biased and throws the whole lot out. Too bad, do it again. There are blind model predictions of data results that are only compared to experiment once the predictions are complete. I just don't see that sort of commitment to integrity in climate 'science' - all the 'fudge factors' and 'corrections for this and that' are all made a posteriori, and whether that's done to suit an agenda or not, it's not 'science'.
I'm all for doing our best to leave the planet the way we found it (emit less of everything) but I'm not a fan of public policy being driven by unsubstantiated claims.
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I have a jailbroken 6s and I rsync daily (cron job) to backup.
What gets to me more is the choice of how to pronounce the value...
No self-respecting scientist would ever say "one point twenty one". That's "one point two one." Or is 1.201 "one point two hundred and one" and thus more?
http://67.media.tumblr.com/7bc...
Well, sure, if they've 100% absolutely verified that position, then I guess there's nothing further to discuss.
Except, I guess... http://www.news.com.au/technol...
I believe they did block foreign IPs earlier in the day anyway, but my (limited) understanding is that doing so doesn't really help with DDoS - you still have the traffic banging on your door and need to reject it.
I'd like to know who was actually in charge of load balancing/capacity - ABS or IBM?
In Australia, writing your name on the ballot paper will, with near 100% certainty, make it an informal vote regardless of any other marks in the boxes.
Not this year. I'm guessing they regret this decision.
https://twitter.com/ahcayley/s...
Suicide Linux; where any typo (as in resulting in command not found) instigates a full 'sudo rm -rf /'. Available as a debian package. https://qntm.org/suicide
Relevant Pictures for Sad Children:
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I'd link to the original, but I'm pretty sure it was deleted in John's mentally unstable rage-quit.
The issue isn't someone cutting the lock - it's bypassing it without your knowledge even after the fact.
When the TSA has the keys, they have access and you acknowledge that (you used a lock you know they can open). When a third party also has the keys, do you acknowledge their access too?
(This argument assumes of course you're not using zippered luggage that can be bypassed and restored with a ballpoint pen).
Now apply the same argument to your iphone. If the guvmint have their own copy that they might install on your device without you knowing, is that okay? What about a rogue party?
I'm still going to guess the $5 wrench (https://xkcd.com/538/) gets used more than whatever is required to fool TouchID in the time it takes me to register that my phone/card is missing and report it as such. I don't *think* I have a network of spies tracking my every move and lifting my prints off of water glasses in order to obtain my hundreds of dollars, but perhaps that's just because they don't *want* me to think that, right?
How do you paranoids ever leave the house?
If I'm suddenly in a position where losing a finger during a mugging is a genuine concern, I'll look into better protecting my hundreds of dollars.
Are there actual documented cases of small-time crooks in a civilized country using fingerprint harvesting off secondary sources to get into a smartphone? Maybe I just live in a country where tinfoil hats aren't so necessary.
Sure, all they need is my fingerprint to access the phone, know which bank I'm with, know that that I'm registered for cardless cash at said bank, my fingerprint again to access the app, and possibly my fingerprint again to request the funds.
But sure, a card and 4 digits is totally more secure.
A version of this is already widely in use in Australia. Log into bank via smartphone, request amount of cash, receive code. Go to that bank's ATM, request cardless cash, enter code, ???, cash! I no longer carry a wallet, just my smartphone with 3-card slimline case containing my ID/drivers licence, public transport RFID card, and credit card. I'm able to slip a $20 in there too for the few remaining places who either don't take credit or charge a fee to do so.
for file in /* ; do scp local remote ; done
Yeah, that one's going to bite you hard.
The sad part is that you even remember this event 20 years later. I bet the guy who booted up the old machine to do what he wanted doesn't.
You rsync without --update (-u)?
If you were expecting your post-transition rsync to be faster then I presume you were doing something like either --ignore-existing or --update, in which case the files wouldn't have been overwritten, right?
What happened?
My iPhone unlocks without a passcode when my Pebble is connected (Jailbroken, Sesame tweak).
It's not secure, I'm sure someone could somehow spoof the connection, but that requires much more planning (being within range of the Pebble, obtaining physical access to the phone, etc...) than a $5 wrench might require. It works though, and is much more convenient for me, which took priority.
How concerned are you about taking the responsibility of authenticating "I am me" away from the individuals? If you can trust them with that information, then the RFID bracelets that a lot of barstaff use seems like it would be perfect. Swipe your arm past the scanner whenever you need to say "this is me" -- works great unless you are worried about people swapping them.
I believe (with some certainty) that the original (Sascha's) is currently residing at the Centre of Expertise in Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP) in Adelaide, South Australia, courtesy of an experimental physicist there. It didn't quite survive transport, so it has since been re-constructed on site.
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
No, seriously. ^This post is so full of win that I can't even believe it. I signed up just to say "thank you". (how *does* one send a private message here?)
As someone who is scientifically skeptical (in general, be it climate science or the latest new "discovery" that "overturns physics"), I cannot agree with you more. I find it mind-boggling that people resort to the "that guy's a climate scientist, let's believe him" (not his data, *him*) argument in the exact way they wouldn't do so for "that guy's a priest, let's believe him".
In a field more related to my work - particle physics - if you look at the results of an analysis before deciding where to make cuts (selections), your team considers the data to be biased and throws the whole lot out. Too bad, do it again. There are blind model predictions of data results that are only compared to experiment once the predictions are complete. I just don't see that sort of commitment to integrity in climate 'science' - all the 'fudge factors' and 'corrections for this and that' are all made a posteriori, and whether that's done to suit an agenda or not, it's not 'science'.
I'm all for doing our best to leave the planet the way we found it (emit less of everything) but I'm not a fan of public policy being driven by unsubstantiated claims.
Again, "I thank you".