You're ignoring the fact that the app on your phone is (presumably, since it would be nuts to do it any other way) responding to Google's servers with a cryptographically signed response; even if somebody were to route the authentication request to a different end point, they would not be able to answer with an appropriately signed response. And then Google would know that it wasn't you.
The benefit of this sort of system is that it could be implemented over completely insecure networks (which is good, because SS7).
"Simply draconian". Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but from what I read the intent seems to be to ensure that hobby aircraft are being flown the way they've been flown for years. I've flown R/C and been a member of the AMA, so I have some experience here though I'm hardly an expert.
I think the "problem" now is that, thanks to amazing technologies, it's so much easier to fly R/C aircraft than it has ever been. Because of these technologies anyone can learn to fly on their own, and that ends up bypassing the flying clubs and other groups that had, as an effect of their existence, a way to ingrain the principles that allow us to "operate in accordance with a community-based set of safety guidelines and within the programming of a nationwide community-based organization". When Joe Schmoe orders a quad-copter kit off the internet and doesn't have to scale the learning curve, both actual flying and pilot safety, he ends up, on average, more dangerous than those that had the benefit of those groups.
When those groups no longer become the dominant form of 'policing' of the use of these aircraft, it's no great surprise that regulators feel the need to step in to do the job, which doesn't fill me with great confidence.
A better solution, and it may be too late already, would be to get the developers of these aircraft to work with the AMA to get these new pilots involved with the existing R/C community rather than seeing them as something different.
Have a look at TimeTrex: http://www.timetrex.com/
The type of software you're looking for is often called "Time and Attendance" tracking. Hopefully that helps your Googlefu.
How do you prove that a person was 'texting, webbing, reading, etc'?
You do realize that your phone isn't some miracle device that just magically receives web pages and texts on its own, right? There's a whole infrastructure in place for connecting that phone to the interweb, and part of that infrastructure exists to log everything that happens on the network. Yeah, if you're reading the copy of Moby Dick you downloaded last night, that won't be so easy to prove; but when you're sending and receiving texts for the six minutes leading up to your crash, that'll be an easy case for the DA to make.
For example, my local paper ran this same story today with the headline:
Students lack literate for complex tasks
Yes, that was the headline. If professional writers and editors blow something like this, what's a poor college student to do? I'd love to think this was done on purpose, some editor's attempt at humor, but mistakes like this are far too common, but usually not so ironic.
But capitalism isn't automatically selfish...
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Say what you will about Paul Allen (and given that he helped create Microsoft, there's probably not a lot of love lost for him here on slashdot), but rather than blow $20M on a narcissistic joyride, he funded Spaceship One and the first private venture to make it to space. That's cool. Damn cool.
Here's a link to a sample AGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface) script that accepts an ISBN number punched in by the caller and returns the Amazon price of the item.
Perhaps the mods were right and you were trying to be funny, but I'd hate for others to think that you were performing rocket science with your mad coding skillz.
Ford's web site - http://fordvehicles.com/escapehybrid/home/index.as p?bhcp=1 says $26,970 for front wheel drive, $28,595 for four-wheel drive. Where did you get your numbers from?
He clearly pulled the numbers for the traditional Escape. The one thing this does show (besides the grandparent poster's lack of research skill) is that hybrids are really, really expensive still. So much so that you're never going to break even on gas costs, even when you project a much higher $/G then we're currently paying. In fact, using Ford's own calculator, I'd only save about $1000/yr at $3.00/G (much higher than I'm actually paying) and 85 miles/day (much higher than most I'd bet) compared to their traditional Escape. That means, not even accounting for the net present value of the dollars, I'd have to own the vehicle for at least 7 years (probably much longer) to break even, and by that point I'd probably be looking at having to replace fairly expensive batteries.
There may be other reasons for choosing a hybrid (that same calculator suggested I'd save 331 gallons of gasoline), but until the cost of these comes down to where it actually makes sense to the pocketbook, these will be nothing but toys to brag about by the green crowd.
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You missed the AC's point -- bash-2 returned an error code ($?) of 0, or success, in spite of the obvious failure of the pipeline. In bash-3, with pipefail set, $? holds the error code of the pipelined command that failed.
This would obviously be very useful in scripts where the success or failure of a command in the pipleine would not be as determinable as watching it on screen interactively.
Dell must do something similar to this -- I had an Inspiron with a flakey display picked up at my office by Airborne Express at 11:00AM on a Thursday, and had it back the next day by 11:00AM. It had travelled from California to Atlanta, been fixed, and back on a plane the same night.
I would have been thrilled to get it back the following Monday or Tuesday - next day service blew my mind. I can only assume that Dell has a repair depot located at the airport Airborne uses.
Phone handsets or doorknobs are generally *far* worse from a sanitary perspective than just about anything else.
No kidding! I once read about the population of an entire planet that was killed off due to a particularly nasty virus contracted from a filthy telephone, embarassingly after they had sent off all of their telephone sanitizers to colonize a new world.
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You're ignoring the fact that the app on your phone is (presumably, since it would be nuts to do it any other way) responding to Google's servers with a cryptographically signed response; even if somebody were to route the authentication request to a different end point, they would not be able to answer with an appropriately signed response. And then Google would know that it wasn't you. The benefit of this sort of system is that it could be implemented over completely insecure networks (which is good, because SS7).
I think the "problem" now is that, thanks to amazing technologies, it's so much easier to fly R/C aircraft than it has ever been. Because of these technologies anyone can learn to fly on their own, and that ends up bypassing the flying clubs and other groups that had, as an effect of their existence, a way to ingrain the principles that allow us to "operate in accordance with a community-based set of safety guidelines and within the programming of a nationwide community-based organization". When Joe Schmoe orders a quad-copter kit off the internet and doesn't have to scale the learning curve, both actual flying and pilot safety, he ends up, on average, more dangerous than those that had the benefit of those groups.
When those groups no longer become the dominant form of 'policing' of the use of these aircraft, it's no great surprise that regulators feel the need to step in to do the job, which doesn't fill me with great confidence.
A better solution, and it may be too late already, would be to get the developers of these aircraft to work with the AMA to get these new pilots involved with the existing R/C community rather than seeing them as something different.
Have a look at TimeTrex: http://www.timetrex.com/ The type of software you're looking for is often called "Time and Attendance" tracking. Hopefully that helps your Googlefu.
Not only are the "more photos" two years old, they're pictures of upgraded American Cobras that were sold to Iran before the 1979 coup.
I don't really want to start a "my UID is lower than yours" thread, but I certainly don't remember a time like that...
How do you prove that a person was 'texting, webbing, reading, etc'?
You do realize that your phone isn't some miracle device that just magically receives web pages and texts on its own, right? There's a whole infrastructure in place for connecting that phone to the interweb, and part of that infrastructure exists to log everything that happens on the network. Yeah, if you're reading the copy of Moby Dick you downloaded last night, that won't be so easy to prove; but when you're sending and receiving texts for the six minutes leading up to your crash, that'll be an easy case for the DA to make.
Students lack literate for complex tasks
Yes, that was the headline. If professional writers and editors blow something like this, what's a poor college student to do? I'd love to think this was done on purpose, some editor's attempt at humor, but mistakes like this are far too common, but usually not so ironic.
Jamie Hyneman: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1367178/
Click on the bio links for more info about them.
A geek is a nerd with social skills!
2003 called - they'd like their meme back.
Say what you will about Paul Allen (and given that he helped create Microsoft, there's probably not a lot of love lost for him here on slashdot), but rather than blow $20M on a narcissistic joyride, he funded Spaceship One and the first private venture to make it to space. That's cool. Damn cool.
You joke, but I am so going to rule on DDR with this thing...
http://ruk.ca/code/amazon.pl
Perhaps the mods were right and you were trying to be funny, but I'd hate for others to think that you were performing rocket science with your mad coding skillz.
He clearly pulled the numbers for the traditional Escape. The one thing this does show (besides the grandparent poster's lack of research skill) is that hybrids are really, really expensive still. So much so that you're never going to break even on gas costs, even when you project a much higher $/G then we're currently paying. In fact, using Ford's own calculator, I'd only save about $1000/yr at $3.00/G (much higher than I'm actually paying) and 85 miles/day (much higher than most I'd bet) compared to their traditional Escape. That means, not even accounting for the net present value of the dollars, I'd have to own the vehicle for at least 7 years (probably much longer) to break even, and by that point I'd probably be looking at having to replace fairly expensive batteries.
There may be other reasons for choosing a hybrid (that same calculator suggested I'd save 331 gallons of gasoline), but until the cost of these comes down to where it actually makes sense to the pocketbook, these will be nothing but toys to brag about by the green crowd.
This would obviously be very useful in scripts where the success or failure of a command in the pipleine would not be as determinable as watching it on screen interactively.
I would have been thrilled to get it back the following Monday or Tuesday - next day service blew my mind. I can only assume that Dell has a repair depot located at the airport Airborne uses.
No, no, no, you must have that backwards... woody gives you Ethereal. I'm sure that's what you meant to type.
Right? Please?
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Most every security tool a network admin (or script kiddie) could want in a convenient iso package.
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But 6 is more than 5, see...
No kidding! I once read about the population of an entire planet that was killed off due to a particularly nasty virus contracted from a filthy telephone, embarassingly after they had sent off all of their telephone sanitizers to colonize a new world.
You can't make stuff like that up...
At first I thought this was simply a typo, but you have come up with a beatiful new turn of phrase. I love it!
The scary bit, of course, is that I almost pasted it into vi to test it...
You really shouldn't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate that.
A slashdot editor actually copping to posting a dupe? I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm heading for my bunker -- the end is near!