And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
I think this claim needs material demonstration that it actually happened.
HRC won the "popular" vote, so the majority of voters didn't care about WikiLeaks or what was revealed.
The fly-over states (which handed Trump the presidency) are the states he worked hard in (and HRC ignored), mostly because he knew he could get some big results for smaller investment.
These are the same states that didn't care for whatever celebrity endorsement HRC was trotting out that day. If they don;t care what Oprah, Ellen or Lena Dunham have to say, why would they care about WikiLeaks? The message there was "jobs, jobs jobs".
In other words, Bill Clinton was right: It's the Economy, stupid. Not the Russians.
The drone is good and a good variation on their action camera line. The issue that it is is that the new DJI is so much better.
Well, that and the Karma had a nasty habit of loosing power and falling out of the sky.
From an optics point of view, the newer DJI's don;t have anything like the lens distortion a GoPro has. Assuming that the Karma was a near perfect beast, the DJI competitor, the Mavic, has the latest in DJI optics and the image is great.
Plus there is the cost: the Mavic is about the same price as the Karma was - but with the Karma you still needed to buy a GoPro if you didn't already have one. The Mavic has the camera included.
But LKM are a known security risk, and can be turned off in Linux.
True... but the purchaser of (say) a CNC grinder or a motion control system or a 50 port temperature sensor or whatever other exotic industrial equipment you can dream up is NOT a Linux user. A good CNC operator will do things that makes your head spin but not have the faintest idea about network security. All they care about is plugging in the power and the network cable and uploading designs from Autocad.
At some point, anyone bent on malicious programming _wants_ to be detected -- when the payload does whatever malice intended. Before then, it wants to hide. Loadable kernel modules are a good way to hide, but not perfect. It might be detected by network activity (gotta love those lights) or power consumption (machine not sleeping). Both AFAIK still major detection mechanisms for all intrustions.
Industrial equipment is expected to run differently to a computer. The guys on the shop floor don't give a rats about clean shutdowns etc; they turn the power off. Your average shopfloor person sees the flashing lights on a PLC and doesn't understand what they see (unless it's an error condition they have been trained for).
You raise valid points... but consider where industrial equipment runs, and who runs it.
This is why major changes to the fabric of a country are usually required to pass a far higher hurdle than merely 50% of the voters. You need a convincing margin to persuade those voting for the status quo to accept that the will of the people really has changed and that this is not a statistical blip fed by lies. Nobody is at all convinced that a second referendum, even at 50/50, would yield the same result now that the horrendous lies the leave campaign made have been exposed for what they were which happened within hours of the win.
So let's not talk about what should have happened (and I do agree with your arguments in their entirety, btw). Let's talk about what did happen.
The entire things seemed to be a farce, with no real plan of how to enact an exit because the idea that BREXIT might happen seemed so far-fetched. The bar was set as "50% + 1", but with nothing to make this a binding referendum. The expectation must have been to vote to remain by a huge margin, because now you have the reality of Parliament being able to ignore the will of the people, even though they agreed to this in the first place.
If this was proposed as a script on "Yes, Prime Minister", I doubt it would have made the cut.
Because of this botched process, you now have the possibility of the UK staying in the EU after a majority of people just said they want nothing to do with the EU, or actually leaving the EU because the process was treated as a joke. If the UK stays, it just made a mockery of the referendum process; if it leaves, it made a mockery of the democratic process (the excluded voters you mentioned).
Surely the UK learned that appeasement was a bad idea in the 1930's. Trying to appease Nigel Farage appears to have backfired as well.
Either way, there is a lot to learn from all of this.
Actually it gets compiled down to Machine Code. Assembly Language is simply Machine Code rendered in a human readable format.
e.g. ld a,1 in Z80 assembler would be 3E01 in HEX
Oh, the memories. To this day I can remember on my ZX81 hand-assembling 2A0C40, which loads the display file base address into the HL register pair. Calculating all those relative jumps... ugh:(
It's not Wikileaks's role to scan email for viruses...
Yes, it is. See how easy that was to rebut?
That's not a rebuttal; that's taking an opposing position with no argument (or evidence) to back up your position.
A rebuttal might look like:
It may not be the job of WikiLeaks to scan emails for malware, but it can be argued that it should be. Their goal is to release information into the hands of people who can do something with it. Those people are mostly journalists with limited computer security knowledge, compared to, say, most of us here on Slashdot, and it is in the best interests of WikiLeaks to ensure that we can trust the information coming from them.
Although Wikileaks tries to release information as raw as possible, they do have a legitimate reason to alter it; namely the protection of sources and protection of people not directly targeted by the leak. Since they are already altering the information to protect sources, it is surely no great ethical stretch to protect recipients as well.
See? No only did I rebut his position, I acknowledged his arguments and demonstrated that they actually supported my case better than his case.
Jupiter is the largest planet? Gosh, had that not been in the sentence none of us would ever have figured that out. This is news for nerds, not news for planettists. Thank you, intrepid editors, for understanding and saving me from confusion!
You're complaining that the editors got something 100% right? I mean, they've got some even simpler stuff utterly wrong before. I mean, look at the Self-Driving Tesla Owners Share Videos of Reckless Driving story: somehow, a Volvo engineer became a Volvo driver!
Nevermind, it's not clear from the summary, but all of the articles mention this. Yes there is still licensing, no the rules are not as strenuous as a full pilot's license (no medical, etc).
FPV flight is still dead without a waiver. Interestingly, you can fly above 400' as long as you are within 400' of a structure (eg, for remote visual inspection of tall buildings).
Licensing is for commercial operations. Recreation / hobby use remains unchanged.
FPV is fine provided some means of situational awareness (eg. a spotter) is maintained. The wavier is needed if you don't intend to use a spotter.
The biggest disappointment is maintaining the Line Of Sight (LOS) requirement, although with the situational awareness requirement I do see the (gasp!) consistency in the regulations.
There is nothing pertaining about use of drones in concert
I guess you missed the bit in the regulations about not flying over people:
The new regulations also address height and speed restrictions and other operational limits, such as prohibiting flights over unprotected people on the ground who aren’t directly participating in the UAS operation.
So, not homegrown, more like "homecloned" from US chips and then enhanced.
In other words, the hard work was already done, and they just took it.
Think back to when Chips & Technologies made their own IBM PC-AT chipset (5 chips replacing the 63 the PC-AT used). It was nothing more than a clever clone... but once the clone happened it set in motion companies other than IBM to develop the standard. Think, for a moment, of the first 80386 system: the Compaq DeskPro 386. That was an original design, not cloned from IBM.
Yes, I completely agree. This is a "homecloned" system - for now. The next version is likely to have some innovations; the version following even more. Within 5 generations it will be it's own system.
I was in the Pluto-is-a-planet camp until I came across Orcus.
This is what I love about Slashdot: the vast repository of frightfully interesting but otherwise useless information that pops up from time to time in the comments. Never heard or Orcus before; now I have! Thank you!
Back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, there were nine worlds of Sol. You kids don't know how lucky you are by not confusing the solar system to Disneyland and only having to remember eight names!
Of course, science fiction has taken a hit: Planet IX sounds a whole lot less ominous than Planet X.
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And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
I think this claim needs material demonstration that it actually happened.
HRC won the "popular" vote, so the majority of voters didn't care about WikiLeaks or what was revealed.
The fly-over states (which handed Trump the presidency) are the states he worked hard in (and HRC ignored), mostly because he knew he could get some big results for smaller investment.
These are the same states that didn't care for whatever celebrity endorsement HRC was trotting out that day. If they don;t care what Oprah, Ellen or Lena Dunham have to say, why would they care about WikiLeaks? The message there was "jobs, jobs jobs".
In other words, Bill Clinton was right: It's the Economy, stupid. Not the Russians.
The drone is good and a good variation on their action camera line. The issue that it is is that the new DJI is so much better.
Well, that and the Karma had a nasty habit of loosing power and falling out of the sky.
From an optics point of view, the newer DJI's don;t have anything like the lens distortion a GoPro has. Assuming that the Karma was a near perfect beast, the DJI competitor, the Mavic, has the latest in DJI optics and the image is great.
Plus there is the cost: the Mavic is about the same price as the Karma was - but with the Karma you still needed to buy a GoPro if you didn't already have one. The Mavic has the camera included.
But LKM are a known security risk, and can be turned off in Linux.
True... but the purchaser of (say) a CNC grinder or a motion control system or a 50 port temperature sensor or whatever other exotic industrial equipment you can dream up is NOT a Linux user. A good CNC operator will do things that makes your head spin but not have the faintest idea about network security. All they care about is plugging in the power and the network cable and uploading designs from Autocad.
At some point, anyone bent on malicious programming _wants_ to be detected -- when the payload does whatever malice intended. Before then, it wants to hide. Loadable kernel modules are a good way to hide, but not perfect. It might be detected by network activity (gotta love those lights) or power consumption (machine not sleeping). Both AFAIK still major detection mechanisms for all intrustions.
Industrial equipment is expected to run differently to a computer. The guys on the shop floor don't give a rats about clean shutdowns etc; they turn the power off. Your average shopfloor person sees the flashing lights on a PLC and doesn't understand what they see (unless it's an error condition they have been trained for).
You raise valid points... but consider where industrial equipment runs, and who runs it.
This is why major changes to the fabric of a country are usually required to pass a far higher hurdle than merely 50% of the voters. You need a convincing margin to persuade those voting for the status quo to accept that the will of the people really has changed and that this is not a statistical blip fed by lies. Nobody is at all convinced that a second referendum, even at 50/50, would yield the same result now that the horrendous lies the leave campaign made have been exposed for what they were which happened within hours of the win.
So let's not talk about what should have happened (and I do agree with your arguments in their entirety, btw). Let's talk about what did happen.
The entire things seemed to be a farce, with no real plan of how to enact an exit because the idea that BREXIT might happen seemed so far-fetched. The bar was set as "50% + 1", but with nothing to make this a binding referendum. The expectation must have been to vote to remain by a huge margin, because now you have the reality of Parliament being able to ignore the will of the people, even though they agreed to this in the first place.
If this was proposed as a script on "Yes, Prime Minister", I doubt it would have made the cut.
Because of this botched process, you now have the possibility of the UK staying in the EU after a majority of people just said they want nothing to do with the EU, or actually leaving the EU because the process was treated as a joke. If the UK stays, it just made a mockery of the referendum process; if it leaves, it made a mockery of the democratic process (the excluded voters you mentioned).
Surely the UK learned that appeasement was a bad idea in the 1930's. Trying to appease Nigel Farage appears to have backfired as well.
Either way, there is a lot to learn from all of this.
- posted using my iPhone on I-97
Probably safer doing it there than the I95 through New Jersey!
I remember the good old days, when insurance companies used myspace to set insurance premiums.
Now get off my lawn!
I remember the days when my driving record set my premium!
What about The 13th Floor? That was a nice, speculative piece that explored the very concept we're talking about here.
Actually it gets compiled down to Machine Code. Assembly Language is simply Machine Code rendered in a human readable format.
e.g. ld a,1 in Z80 assembler would be 3E01 in HEX
Oh, the memories. To this day I can remember on my ZX81 hand-assembling 2A0C40, which loads the display file base address into the HL register pair. Calculating all those relative jumps... ugh :(
Don't blame the editors. They don't read read slashdot, so how would they know?
Oh, for mod points today. This is **funny**!!
What's wrong with simply preformatting the Name column as text?
You would be shocked at the number of people I encounter who have no idea that is even possible...
Yes, it is. See how easy that was to rebut?
That's not a rebuttal; that's taking an opposing position with no argument (or evidence) to back up your position.
A rebuttal might look like:
It may not be the job of WikiLeaks to scan emails for malware, but it can be argued that it should be. Their goal is to release information into the hands of people who can do something with it. Those people are mostly journalists with limited computer security knowledge, compared to, say, most of us here on Slashdot, and it is in the best interests of WikiLeaks to ensure that we can trust the information coming from them.
Although Wikileaks tries to release information as raw as possible, they do have a legitimate reason to alter it; namely the protection of sources and protection of people not directly targeted by the leak. Since they are already altering the information to protect sources, it is surely no great ethical stretch to protect recipients as well.
See? No only did I rebut his position, I acknowledged his arguments and demonstrated that they actually supported my case better than his case.
what the fuck made you think it was OK to store that.
When you clicked through the EULA, you said they could.
What. can't you read?
Sorry... I didn't stop when I was young and went blind.
Also, his "I am not a crook" line was about his tax issues, not Watergate.
A point sadly lost in history and agendas.
Katsulas did some Star Trek too b.t.w.
As did Patricia Tallman and both Na'toths were in DS9 too
As was Majel Barrett.
And Tim Choate (Zathras)
Wait, which Zathras was that? Was that Zathras or his brother Zathras?
It was the quiet one of the family, Zathras.
"The TSA's job is to feel passengers"
FTFY
I though the TSA was to drill into us that we are subject, not citizens.
I use TP-LINK network bridges. There are other people in the world besides yourself.
Well maybe you should reconsider since, apparently, the company must not be solvent enough to afford a $10 per year domain registration.
Much like Google couldn't afford $12 last year...
NASA has a budget that is 0.5% of the federal budget. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want wasteful spending, I'm sure there are other bigger-ticket items than NASA.
Jupiter is the largest planet? Gosh, had that not been in the sentence none of us would ever have figured that out. This is news for nerds, not news for planettists. Thank you, intrepid editors, for understanding and saving me from confusion!
You're complaining that the editors got something 100% right? I mean, they've got some even simpler stuff utterly wrong before. I mean, look at the Self-Driving Tesla Owners Share Videos of Reckless Driving story: somehow, a Volvo engineer became a Volvo driver!
Nevermind, it's not clear from the summary, but all of the articles mention this. Yes there is still licensing, no the rules are not as strenuous as a full pilot's license (no medical, etc).
FPV flight is still dead without a waiver. Interestingly, you can fly above 400' as long as you are within 400' of a structure (eg, for remote visual inspection of tall buildings).
Licensing is for commercial operations. Recreation / hobby use remains unchanged.
FPV is fine provided some means of situational awareness (eg. a spotter) is maintained. The wavier is needed if you don't intend to use a spotter.
The biggest disappointment is maintaining the Line Of Sight (LOS) requirement, although with the situational awareness requirement I do see the (gasp!) consistency in the regulations.
Exactly. All this is about commercial use. Hobby / recreation uss remains unchanged - although it's good to see the FAA formally acknowledge that.
There is nothing pertaining about use of drones in concert
I guess you missed the bit in the regulations about not flying over people:
The new regulations also address height and speed restrictions and other operational limits, such as prohibiting flights over unprotected people on the ground who aren’t directly participating in the UAS operation.
So, not homegrown, more like "homecloned" from US chips and then enhanced.
In other words, the hard work was already done, and they just took it.
Think back to when Chips & Technologies made their own IBM PC-AT chipset (5 chips replacing the 63 the PC-AT used). It was nothing more than a clever clone... but once the clone happened it set in motion companies other than IBM to develop the standard. Think, for a moment, of the first 80386 system: the Compaq DeskPro 386. That was an original design, not cloned from IBM.
Yes, I completely agree. This is a "homecloned" system - for now. The next version is likely to have some innovations; the version following even more. Within 5 generations it will be it's own system.
I was in the Pluto-is-a-planet camp until I came across Orcus.
This is what I love about Slashdot: the vast repository of frightfully interesting but otherwise useless information that pops up from time to time in the comments. Never heard or Orcus before; now I have! Thank you!
... How in the name of the eight worlds of Sol ...
Back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, there were nine worlds of Sol. You kids don't know how lucky you are by not confusing the solar system to Disneyland and only having to remember eight names!
Of course, science fiction has taken a hit: Planet IX sounds a whole lot less ominous than Planet X.