This has been discovered and published by ETH Zürich as far back as 2011 and more on it in 2015. The car industry has basically been ignoring it and trying to sweep it under the rug. At most you will find a hint in the fine print that the keyless entry option has its downsides. It is a relay attack which can work up to 400 meters (in 2015) and e.g. here is a detailed explanation (in German though) from 2015 https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015-26-Autodiebe-tricksen-kontaktlose-Schliesssysteme-aus-3013915.html
Either you shield your keyfob at home or hope that manufacturers will offer a solution, which so far they havenâ(TM)t because a simple press of a button would not be âoeconvenientâ enough I guess. Or they check the response times to know how far the keyfob is actually from the car which even the relay couldnâ(TM)t fake because physics but that costs more money somehow, I guess???
I am very surprised to see this on/. only now because plenty of fancy cars have been boosted like this over the years. (Even my boss had her brand new sports car stolen on the day she had been given the keys, so yea there must have been an âoeorderâ for it.)
Google itself is not doing such an awesome job with updates, see e.g. the Motorola Moto E second generation which does not even get 5.1 let alone 6!
And a microSD card is a nice feature but as long as you cannot seamlessly run apps from it, it's just a sad media store and despite having a microSD slot I could not use my old Moto E anymore just because it ran out of storage and there is nothing you can do about it if you want to stay with vanilla android.
There was hardly ever a time when Flash nor Shockwave were actually really useful and if there ever was, that time is definitely LONG gone - kill the product instead and move aside for html5! You have enough other, actual cash cows, adobe.
Same story here, production-halting problem and Oracle's support was completely useless, the "consultant" that was eventually sent on-site was completely useless... we decompiled it, fixed it and got things going again. We were then even nice enough to send our analysis to the support, explained the bug and added the fix - guess what, they told us we couldn't possibly know and our fix was wrong.
Three months(!) later they finally published an official patch with pretty much the exact same code. Frakk oracle.
Seriously, facebook and it's bazillions of Valley cash were still not enough to launch the Oculus? They had to get freaking M$ into the mix as well? The oculus news just keep getting worse and worse and I can only imagine how the original crowdfunding backers must be feeling right about now.
If they get this drastic about Power Point then what about Excel? I have yet to see something that is NOT being managed, tracked and manipulated in an Excel file somewhere, no matter which industry or for what purpose... somebody is going to find ways to use or abuse an Excel sheet to do it! From simple table-making-layout to elaborate project plans to complicated user forms! It spreads like a plague.
" Phi Sigma Sigma secrets are: Phi Sigma Sigma (PSS) secretly stands for Philanthropic Social Society. However, this is never written down or recorded (until now) because it is so "sacred". The Handshake consists of a series of motions. Member A first begins with the pointer finger and the thumb surrounding Member B's pointer finger and thumb. This is the "Phi". Then Member A wraps the remaining fingers, middle, ring and pinky around the hand as a symbol of the "Sigma". Depending on who is the senior member, the pinky finger is wrapped around the older member's hand. Next is the hand knock. It goes Knock. Pause. Knock. Pause. Knock, knock, knock. The meetings are set up usually with the President, VP and other officers sitting at the front. The President wears a yellow or gold robe and the officers wear royal blue robes. The remaining members sit across from the officers in a pyramid formation with the base closest to the officers and the apex farthest from the officers. Members are seated by class order, then by alphabetical order. The table at which the President and Vice President are seated consists of candles on each side. Two gold candles and one blue at each corner of the table. Members usually recite an oath, "We, the members of Phi Sigma Sigma, promise to keep secret and sacred all of our proceedings." The way to enter the pyramid is by using the hand knock to notify the members you are wanting to enter the room. The President will respond back with her gavel by repeating the knock. The person will enter then travel to the apex of the pyramid formation. The President will say the secret and sacred words "Remove the Veil" and then the member will respond back with the Chapter's name, example, "Zeta Eta." The Gold and King Blue symbolize "Perpetuity" and "Sincerity". At initiation, blue "veils" (tulle from the local fabric store) are placed on the heads of the potential new members and are later removed to symbolize some sort of occult transformation and that they are full-fledged members. "
From the news it sounds like they could hear the co-pilot breathing normally and calmly during the whole descent - in the face of murdering 150 people and killing yourself plus the actual pilot hammering against the door trying to get in, this suggests at least diminished empathy and remorse a.k.a. psychopathic tendencies.
Leave Mac out of this discussion. The idea of using the file extension for anything is a more recent development on the Mac and one that was mainly driven by exchanging files with (mostly) the Windows world. On old Mac OS you had "type-codes", in OS X you still have "Uniform Type Identifiers". You cannot magically hide executes the same way you can on Windows.
On top of that "even" (or rather especially) in the most recent OS X version(s), by default you could not run anything unless the program was actually signed, approved and the certificate and app hadn't been revoked.
When applied correctly homeopathy is GREAT for treating not-actually-existing issues plaguing patients. Essentially you are applying a placebo to a patient who is feeling "nervous" or something else rather hypochondriac and if the placebo producer did not violate production regulations you end up giving them a bit of sugar and like that you cured the non-existing with the not-healing. Despite tongue-in-cheek I do mean this serious because there are people who DO suffer from non-existing issues, yes it is all in their head, and that's where homeopathy can help. So even homeopathy does have its uses.
The real question is whether it should be covered by a national healthcare system and I am inclined to saying absolutely not.
They should have just gone straight to eleven because, you know, it's one more than ten plus that way they could have one-upped OS X _AND_ Windows! (and it's a freaking prime on top of that!)
This looks almost as "promising" as that other "modern" payment competition to Apple Pay, you know the one with complicated QR codes, the one nobody can even remember the name of because it was so outdated, complicated and irrelevant even before it was actually launched.
With their iTunes music and video store, Apple has proven to the "man" they can handle transactions and work with the "man" in a mutually beneficial way that also offers a (back then) new service for the customers. On top of that, Apple is in the device selling business and not in the data business. I am certain these were very important factors when they got their deals for Apple Pay with banks and CC companies.
No sane bankster or CC company would ever be caught publicly doing anything customer-data together with google, that would be PR suicide. Plus google did not have any positive track record of working with "the man" and very obviously they could not convince banks and CC companies to get Google Pay off the ground. They had a technology but not the environment to widely use it and instead pushed NFC as a gimmick, nobody cared about it.
Apple is so successful because they show time and again how well they understand that it's not technology alone that makes the success but you need an environment where the technology can actually be used, you need strong partners making that possible and you cannot make a payment system fly without getting a few major finance and banking players on your side.
Remember when FF was all about making it a lean, mean browsing machine compared to the silver-bullet one-for-everything Netscape behemoth? I think FF would really benefit from making these virtues of old their new priorities again, instead of the Mozilla Foundation and Corporation trying out-do Apple in feel-good, empty world-improvement campaigns and slogans and trying to out-do Apple and Google in UI design with yet another "UI improvement". Or doing things like completely crippling developers who are using self-signed certificates. This paternalism is just ridiculous.
You cannot compare being an employer in the US to being an independent contractor with one employee in Germany. Things are very, VERY different here in terms of insurances and retirement. To give you just one example, the usual figure thrown around by workers in the US is to have at least 1 or 2 million for retirement. This is a figure absolutely no regular European employee will ever lay aside in all their working years unless they have a 1%er position.
90k Euros a year even as a contractor and after taxes and insurances translates to netting roughly 40k-50k Euros in a country where the estimated net salary is 2k a month and many, many people have to make do with significantly less than that. I would say average rent is somewhere between 500 and 800 a month not accounting for utilities.
Programmer median salary is 42k a year, senior developer median is 55k. Employees also give up almost half their pay for insurances, taxes etc.
You do the math. 90k a year is pretty great in Germany and definitely in the top 10% or 5%.
For almost two years, Koch continued to pay his programmer in the hope that he could find more funding.
So he is also a business owner making bad decisions and pays employees doing programming for him. Are FOSS projects not usually run by not financially dependent-on-each-other volunteers and on code submissions? It seems to me GPG has failed to establish something other projects have successfully done: a tightly knit community in which the whole project does not rest on the shoulders of one man alone. It seems Mr. Koch was trucking along on government funding alone and had no other source of income, this feels like another bad decision to me. This whole project feels like a very strange mixture of FOSS and running a business based on it while expecting to be paid as if it was a closed source, shareware program.
By all means, he deserves all the donations he can get but maybe it is high time to take a step back and look at how some things might have been run badly and how to improve on that.
This is clearly the wrong approach, they should simply make it illegal. Make everyone worry for the safety of their children (spontaneous combustion!) and explain that climate change is clearly a form of terrorism thus it is super-über-illegal. That should do it.
You seem to have a very utopian idea of Europe. Don't worry, Europe is generally some ten years behind contemporary developments in the States but we are quickly catching up especially in rising obesity and directly linked diseases. The massive portion sizes in the States have not always been this huge and gradually grew. There are enough restaurants over here already offering ridiculously massive portions or all-you-can-eat buffets and they make it their main selling point. Oversize clothes stores can be found everywhere as well.
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This has been discovered and published by ETH Zürich as far back as 2011 and more on it in 2015. The car industry has basically been ignoring it and trying to sweep it under the rug. At most you will find a hint in the fine print that the keyless entry option has its downsides.
It is a relay attack which can work up to 400 meters (in 2015) and e.g. here is a detailed explanation (in German though) from 2015 https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015-26-Autodiebe-tricksen-kontaktlose-Schliesssysteme-aus-3013915.html
Either you shield your keyfob at home or hope that manufacturers will offer a solution, which so far they havenâ(TM)t because a simple press of a button would not be âoeconvenientâ enough I guess. Or they check the response times to know how far the keyfob is actually from the car which even the relay couldnâ(TM)t fake because physics but that costs more money somehow, I guess??? /. only now because plenty of fancy cars have been boosted like this over the years. (Even my boss had her brand new sports car stolen on the day she had been given the keys, so yea there must have been an âoeorderâ for it.)
I am very surprised to see this on
Google itself is not doing such an awesome job with updates, see e.g. the Motorola Moto E second generation which does not even get 5.1 let alone 6!
And a microSD card is a nice feature but as long as you cannot seamlessly run apps from it, it's just a sad media store and despite having a microSD slot I could not use my old Moto E anymore just because it ran out of storage and there is nothing you can do about it if you want to stay with vanilla android.
There was hardly ever a time when Flash nor Shockwave were actually really useful and if there ever was, that time is definitely LONG gone - kill the product instead and move aside for html5! You have enough other, actual cash cows, adobe.
Same story here, production-halting problem and Oracle's support was completely useless, the "consultant" that was eventually sent on-site was completely useless... we decompiled it, fixed it and got things going again. We were then even nice enough to send our analysis to the support, explained the bug and added the fix - guess what, they told us we couldn't possibly know and our fix was wrong.
Three months(!) later they finally published an official patch with pretty much the exact same code. Frakk oracle.
Seriously, facebook and it's bazillions of Valley cash were still not enough to launch the Oculus? They had to get freaking M$ into the mix as well? The oculus news just keep getting worse and worse and I can only imagine how the original crowdfunding backers must be feeling right about now.
Apple has a much longer history of releasing open source or opening standards than most people like to give them credit for.
If they get this drastic about Power Point then what about Excel? I have yet to see something that is NOT being managed, tracked and manipulated in an Excel file somewhere, no matter which industry or for what purpose... somebody is going to find ways to use or abuse an Excel sheet to do it! From simple table-making-layout to elaborate project plans to complicated user forms! It spreads like a plague.
"
Phi Sigma Sigma secrets are:
Phi Sigma Sigma (PSS) secretly stands for Philanthropic Social Society. However, this is never written down or recorded (until now) because it is so "sacred". The Handshake consists of a series of motions. Member A first begins with the pointer finger and the thumb surrounding Member B's pointer finger and thumb. This is the "Phi". Then Member A wraps the remaining fingers, middle, ring and pinky around the hand as a symbol of the "Sigma". Depending on who is the senior member, the pinky finger is wrapped around the older member's hand. Next is the hand knock. It goes Knock. Pause. Knock. Pause. Knock, knock, knock. The meetings are set up usually with the President, VP and other officers sitting at the front. The President wears a yellow or gold robe and the officers wear royal blue robes. The remaining members sit across from the officers in a pyramid formation with the base closest to the officers and the apex farthest from the officers. Members are seated by class order, then by alphabetical order. The table at which the President and Vice President are seated consists of candles on each side. Two gold candles and one blue at each corner of the table. Members usually recite an oath, "We, the members of Phi Sigma Sigma, promise to keep secret and sacred all of our proceedings." The way to enter the pyramid is by using the hand knock to notify the members you are wanting to enter the room. The President will respond back with her gavel by repeating the knock. The person will enter then travel to the apex of the pyramid formation. The President will say the secret and sacred words "Remove the Veil" and then the member will respond back with the Chapter's name, example, "Zeta Eta." The Gold and King Blue symbolize "Perpetuity" and "Sincerity". At initiation, blue "veils" (tulle from the local fabric store) are placed on the heads of the potential new members and are later removed to symbolize some sort of occult transformation and that they are full-fledged members.
"
Because girls have a right to be just as obnoxious, retarded, inebriated and dependent on peer pressure as "bros"...
Fuck you Zeit and Fuck you Handelsblatt for having the audacity of bringing this in front of a court in the first place.
From the news it sounds like they could hear the co-pilot breathing normally and calmly during the whole descent - in the face of murdering 150 people and killing yourself plus the actual pilot hammering against the door trying to get in, this suggests at least diminished empathy and remorse a.k.a. psychopathic tendencies.
So, HL3 confirmed as a "prequel", right?
Leave Mac out of this discussion. The idea of using the file extension for anything is a more recent development on the Mac and one that was mainly driven by exchanging files with (mostly) the Windows world. On old Mac OS you had "type-codes", in OS X you still have "Uniform Type Identifiers". You cannot magically hide executes the same way you can on Windows.
On top of that "even" (or rather especially) in the most recent OS X version(s), by default you could not run anything unless the program was actually signed, approved and the certificate and app hadn't been revoked.
Time to apply at reddit and do Ellen a favor!
When applied correctly homeopathy is GREAT for treating not-actually-existing issues plaguing patients. Essentially you are applying a placebo to a patient who is feeling "nervous" or something else rather hypochondriac and if the placebo producer did not violate production regulations you end up giving them a bit of sugar and like that you cured the non-existing with the not-healing.
Despite tongue-in-cheek I do mean this serious because there are people who DO suffer from non-existing issues, yes it is all in their head, and that's where homeopathy can help. So even homeopathy does have its uses.
The real question is whether it should be covered by a national healthcare system and I am inclined to saying absolutely not.
Dude, it's the closest I've been in years so shut up and don't ruin this for most of us!!!
They should have just gone straight to eleven because, you know, it's one more than ten plus that way they could have one-upped OS X _AND_ Windows! (and it's a freaking prime on top of that!)
This looks almost as "promising" as that other "modern" payment competition to Apple Pay, you know the one with complicated QR codes, the one nobody can even remember the name of because it was so outdated, complicated and irrelevant even before it was actually launched.
With their iTunes music and video store, Apple has proven to the "man" they can handle transactions and work with the "man" in a mutually beneficial way that also offers a (back then) new service for the customers. On top of that, Apple is in the device selling business and not in the data business. I am certain these were very important factors when they got their deals for Apple Pay with banks and CC companies.
No sane bankster or CC company would ever be caught publicly doing anything customer-data together with google, that would be PR suicide. Plus google did not have any positive track record of working with "the man" and very obviously they could not convince banks and CC companies to get Google Pay off the ground. They had a technology but not the environment to widely use it and instead pushed NFC as a gimmick, nobody cared about it.
Apple is so successful because they show time and again how well they understand that it's not technology alone that makes the success but you need an environment where the technology can actually be used, you need strong partners making that possible and you cannot make a payment system fly without getting a few major finance and banking players on your side.
If you ever thought Oracle is not a behemoth exclusively after your money, then you probably never had to really deal with them...
Remember when FF was all about making it a lean, mean browsing machine compared to the silver-bullet one-for-everything Netscape behemoth? I think FF would really benefit from making these virtues of old their new priorities again, instead of the Mozilla Foundation and Corporation trying out-do Apple in feel-good, empty world-improvement campaigns and slogans and trying to out-do Apple and Google in UI design with yet another "UI improvement". Or doing things like completely crippling developers who are using self-signed certificates. This paternalism is just ridiculous.
You cannot compare being an employer in the US to being an independent contractor with one employee in Germany. Things are very, VERY different here in terms of insurances and retirement. To give you just one example, the usual figure thrown around by workers in the US is to have at least 1 or 2 million for retirement. This is a figure absolutely no regular European employee will ever lay aside in all their working years unless they have a 1%er position.
90k Euros a year even as a contractor and after taxes and insurances translates to netting roughly 40k-50k Euros in a country where the estimated net salary is 2k a month and many, many people have to make do with significantly less than that. I would say average rent is somewhere between 500 and 800 a month not accounting for utilities.
Programmer median salary is 42k a year, senior developer median is 55k. Employees also give up almost half their pay for insurances, taxes etc.
You do the math. 90k a year is pretty great in Germany and definitely in the top 10% or 5%.
Note this part of TFA:
For almost two years, Koch continued to pay his programmer in the hope that he could find more funding.
So he is also a business owner making bad decisions and pays employees doing programming for him. Are FOSS projects not usually run by not financially dependent-on-each-other volunteers and on code submissions? It seems to me GPG has failed to establish something other projects have successfully done: a tightly knit community in which the whole project does not rest on the shoulders of one man alone. It seems Mr. Koch was trucking along on government funding alone and had no other source of income, this feels like another bad decision to me. This whole project feels like a very strange mixture of FOSS and running a business based on it while expecting to be paid as if it was a closed source, shareware program.
By all means, he deserves all the donations he can get but maybe it is high time to take a step back and look at how some things might have been run badly and how to improve on that.
This is clearly the wrong approach, they should simply make it illegal. Make everyone worry for the safety of their children (spontaneous combustion!) and explain that climate change is clearly a form of terrorism thus it is super-über-illegal. That should do it.
You seem to have a very utopian idea of Europe. Don't worry, Europe is generally some ten years behind contemporary developments in the States but we are quickly catching up especially in rising obesity and directly linked diseases. The massive portion sizes in the States have not always been this huge and gradually grew. There are enough restaurants over here already offering ridiculously massive portions or all-you-can-eat buffets and they make it their main selling point. Oversize clothes stores can be found everywhere as well.