I would assume that mom and pop places probably aren't and that those single proprietors that have multiple locations, not major corporations are the ones that just slap it on the internet. I've managed a few convenience stores while I was in college and my wife has and still does.
I guess you're behind the times. Up here even the smallest restaurant is connected - they have to be because the government is the one that issues the bill at the end of your meal, as a way of assuring they get their taxes.
Also, the major corps will definitely be in on this because they, not the gas station owner, own the gas in the tanks in the ground. Why do you think the prices can follow each other so quickly between competitors in the same neighborhood? So they're going to want to know exactly how many gallons were sold at each price so the owner can't play with the figures and claim most of it was sold at the lowest and pocket the diff.
True, but you can run the USB stick on multiple computers, keeping your work environment and files all in one place wherever you go. With 64 gig USB 3.0 flash keys going for $25, and 128 gig USB 3.0 going for $40, why not?
Sure. They had the brand name and the customers, and if they had gone with Android they could be where Samsung is now. They thought their brand name would be enough to succeed, but now it isn't. It also would have been easier for them to port their existing software, since it was already written in Java, so they could have come out of the gate with a complete ecosystem.
There are other reasons here, and a reasonable question here.
After all, it's not the superior OS that wins - look at Windows.
Also, their passport is considerably behind the times when compared with what's coming out in the next year - 8 core cpus, 4k screens and cameras... and their passport's weird screen size (1440x1440) is also a problem for many purposes, unless you like your videos letterboxed.
I would be a lot more concerned about some vulnerability in the cash registers or credit/debit card readers which would effect a far more significant percentage of stations.
There is no way that banks (or store owners, or consumers) would tolerate a 3.5% error rate.
At no time in the past did people ever perform the functions of an ATG.
That is a total lie. I put myself through college by working at a gas station. Every night I had to read the small counter on each pump that shows total gallons pumped since installation, and manually take a really long dipstick with some special paste on the end that would change color in the presence of water (to indicate that water had gotten into the tanks) and manually take a dip to get the current level in three different tanks.
This would also help to detect tanks leaking gas into the ground.
Today's tanks aren't metal, so the risk of a tank corroding is obviously just not there, and We now have other ways to directly get the level of fuel in the tanks.
So, no need for someone on site for regulatory compliance or inventory control any more:-)
Why? As I pointed out, there are 24x7 diesel refueling sites for truckers that don't have anyone working there. They don't run out of fuel because nobody's there.
This is 5,800 gas stations who have already wired the serial port to talk to the Internet over tcp/ip port 10000 using an adapter card - most with no password. So you don't need physical access to install anything - they've already done the hard work for you:-)
RTFA yourself: The 5800 cited already are connected to the Internet.
In order to monitor these systems remotely, many operators use a TCP/IP card or a third-party serial port server to map the ATG serial interface to an internet-facing TCP port. The most common configuration is to map these to TCP port 10001. Although some systems have the capability to password protect the serial interfaces, this is not commonly implemented.
Approximately 5,800 ATGs were found to be exposed to the internet without a password. Over 5,300 of these ATGs are located in the United States, which works out to about 3 percent of the approximately 150,000 [1] fueling stations in the country.
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
Because they want to get the need to have anyone working at the gas station - kind of like how truckers can fuel up using their cardpass at fuel depots where nobody works. It's all about getting rid of people. And on-site cash, since everyone will have to pay by credit or debit card.
RIM announcing support for Android apps via a "player" shortly after product launch at BlackBerry World also added additional confusion and can be counted as a third management failure. If RIM had intended to provide Android/Dalvik VM support for the PlayBook in the first place, then why not provide those tools prior to launch?
Indeed, RIM had failed to foresee the problems of an "App Gap" on the PlayBook and were scrambling to provide tools and methods for leveraging the existing and very popular Android ecosystem.
The "app gap" is still there, and won't change as long as developers see blackberry as not being a player in the field. Remember - "developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers..." has some truth behind it. If developers don't build it, people won't come.
Interesting point - Blackberry's app store contains about 130,000 apps, but 50,000 of them are quickie knock-offs from a single developer.
Linking to the same article on his site 2 days in a row, over the same topic, without actually adding anything new in the second summary, is pure clickbait. The second story added absolutely nothing over and above the first.
So the second article can accurately be classified as nothing to see here (unless this is your first visit to the site, but it still doesn't take away from the fact that he failed to include that the clock was advanced by 2 minutes.
Also, that wasn't the greatest debate in science. The Scopes Monkey Trial easily beat it.
We're still having schools trying to ban the teaching of evolution almost 100 years later, politicians are still involved in the debate up to their necks, and the religion vs. science debate that has gone on for centuries still continues, but this was ultimately a victory of science.
While there is no shortage, it's just business wanting cheaper labor, that isn't why they're taking this position, it's because they just want to halt ANY immigration. So much so that they'll do it even when it's against something they care as much about as business.
Or maybe they realize that H1B workers don't vote, but the out-of-work STEM workers they displaced do. And has been complaining to all and sundry that they lost their last job and can't get another one because of H1B workers.
their problem is that they perpetually need to replenish the underclass as it becomes depleted by people pulling themselves up into the middle or upper class.
That is not possible, because it's not a "confinement gene." They did a wholesale replacement of genes to make the bacteria dependent on an amino acid not found in nature:
One line of defense against breakouts are the tanks and vats used to house heavily modified microbes. But these can leak, with microbes hitching rides off-site on workers' clothing, for instance.
Researchers have come up with other ways of controlling the spread of modified organisms, such as introducing biological kill switches. But these still offer organisms biological escape hatches, at least in principle. The organism can randomly mutate in ways that blunt control efforts. It can mooch a replacement for the synthetic compound it needs from natural analogues in the environment. Or it can incorporate DNA from other wild organisms into its own genome, allowing it to use nutrients found in the wild.
The two teams involved with the new studies applied complementary approaches to overhauling the genetic structure of a strain of E. coli bacteria that Dr. Church’s lab had altered to enhance virus resistance.
These were not merely genetically modified organisms; they had become genomically recoded organisms, or GROs. The changes to the bacteria's genome involved one out of every 64 segments along the entire length of the organism's DNA that corresponds to a specific amino acid needed to produce protein. DNA carries the coding for 20 types of amino acids.
In modifying the bacteria's DNA to thwart escape, the two teams altered the genetic code to include information for producing amino acids not found in nature but created in the lab.
One team focused on genes that coded for proteins crucial to cell functions, modifying them in ways that produced proteins that required the presence of the synthetic amino acid in the protein itself. The other team focused on 22 genes deemed essential to a bacterial cell's functions and tied the genes' expression to the presence of synthetic amino acids.
For the bacteria to survive, these synthetic amino acids had to be present in the medium on which the bacteria fed.
You pretty much nailed my thinking. If I had wanted to go for "a clickbait" headline, I would have done something like "Jurassic Park coming to a lab near you" or "FrankenBacteria use amino acids never seen in living things." Instead, I went with "New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild" because that pretty much sums it up.
I put the Jurassic Park reference at the beginning of the text because the technique in the article reminded me of the book and the movie. Immediately following, I included "Scientists have taken this one step further as a way to keep genetically modified E. coli from surviving outside the lab" to convey that this is not exactly the same procedure - it's better.
I don't do clickbait, or if I do, it's purely unintentional.
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I would assume that mom and pop places probably aren't and that those single proprietors that have multiple locations, not major corporations are the ones that just slap it on the internet. I've managed a few convenience stores while I was in college and my wife has and still does.
I guess you're behind the times. Up here even the smallest restaurant is connected - they have to be because the government is the one that issues the bill at the end of your meal, as a way of assuring they get their taxes.
Also, the major corps will definitely be in on this because they, not the gas station owner, own the gas in the tanks in the ground. Why do you think the prices can follow each other so quickly between competitors in the same neighborhood? So they're going to want to know exactly how many gallons were sold at each price so the owner can't play with the figures and claim most of it was sold at the lowest and pocket the diff.
True, but you can run the USB stick on multiple computers, keeping your work environment and files all in one place wherever you go. With 64 gig USB 3.0 flash keys going for $25, and 128 gig USB 3.0 going for $40, why not?
They have the chat logs and emails. Evidence enough for you?
There are other reasons here, and a reasonable question here.
After all, it's not the superior OS that wins - look at Windows.
Also, their passport is considerably behind the times when compared with what's coming out in the next year - 8 core cpus, 4k screens and cameras ... and their passport's weird screen size (1440x1440) is also a problem for many purposes, unless you like your videos letterboxed.
When you have to offer iPhone users up to $600 to switch to a passport there's a huge problem, especially since blackberry says it is changing its focus to business.
You can't continue to lose $140 - $200 million a quarter and make it up in volume when revenues continue to decline.
I would be a lot more concerned about some vulnerability in the cash registers or credit/debit card readers which would effect a far more significant percentage of stations.
There is no way that banks (or store owners, or consumers) would tolerate a 3.5% error rate.
At no time in the past did people ever perform the functions of an ATG.
That is a total lie. I put myself through college by working at a gas station. Every night I had to read the small counter on each pump that shows total gallons pumped since installation, and manually take a really long dipstick with some special paste on the end that would change color in the presence of water (to indicate that water had gotten into the tanks) and manually take a dip to get the current level in three different tanks.
This would also help to detect tanks leaking gas into the ground.
Today's tanks aren't metal, so the risk of a tank corroding is obviously just not there, and We now have other ways to directly get the level of fuel in the tanks.
So, no need for someone on site for regulatory compliance or inventory control any more :-)
3% setup their ATG insecurely and not in the manufacture recommended configuration I'm not surprised.
You're assuming that the other 97% are connected to the internet - an assumption not supported by any evidence.
There will always be need for someone on site
Why? As I pointed out, there are 24x7 diesel refueling sites for truckers that don't have anyone working there. They don't run out of fuel because nobody's there.
This is 5,800 gas stations who have already wired the serial port to talk to the Internet over tcp/ip port 10000 using an adapter card - most with no password. So you don't need physical access to install anything - they've already done the hard work for you :-)
In order to monitor these systems remotely, many operators use a TCP/IP card or a third-party serial port server to map the ATG serial interface to an internet-facing TCP port. The most common configuration is to map these to TCP port 10001. Although some systems have the capability to password protect the serial interfaces, this is not commonly implemented.
Approximately 5,800 ATGs were found to be exposed to the internet without a password. Over 5,300 of these ATGs are located in the United States, which works out to about 3 percent of the approximately 150,000 [1] fueling stations in the country.
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
Because they want to get the need to have anyone working at the gas station - kind of like how truckers can fuel up using their cardpass at fuel depots where nobody works. It's all about getting rid of people. And on-site cash, since everyone will have to pay by credit or debit card.
Here's one application mentioned in : Light of Other Days, and Other Days, Other Eyes, among others.
They can't, because if they incorporate the modified DNA, they will die because they too will be dependent on an amino acid not found in nature.
RIM announcing support for Android apps via a "player" shortly after product launch at BlackBerry World also added additional confusion and can be counted as a third management failure. If RIM had intended to provide Android/Dalvik VM support for the PlayBook in the first place, then why not provide those tools prior to launch?
Indeed, RIM had failed to foresee the problems of an "App Gap" on the PlayBook and were scrambling to provide tools and methods for leveraging the existing and very popular Android ecosystem.
The "app gap" is still there, and won't change as long as developers see blackberry as not being a player in the field. Remember - "developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers ..." has some truth behind it. If developers don't build it, people won't come.
Interesting point - Blackberry's app store contains about 130,000 apps, but 50,000 of them are quickie knock-offs from a single developer.
I guess you don't believe in emergent behavior.
Linking to the same article on his site 2 days in a row, over the same topic, without actually adding anything new in the second summary, is pure clickbait. The second story added absolutely nothing over and above the first.
So the second article can accurately be classified as nothing to see here (unless this is your first visit to the site, but it still doesn't take away from the fact that he failed to include that the clock was advanced by 2 minutes.
Also, that wasn't the greatest debate in science. The Scopes Monkey Trial easily beat it.
We're still having schools trying to ban the teaching of evolution almost 100 years later, politicians are still involved in the debate up to their necks, and the religion vs. science debate that has gone on for centuries still continues, but this was ultimately a victory of science.
Well, if we had faith that it wouldn't screw up, sure. After all, we're all for uploading our consciousness come the singularity.
While there is no shortage, it's just business wanting cheaper labor, that isn't why they're taking this position, it's because they just want to halt ANY immigration. So much so that they'll do it even when it's against something they care as much about as business.
Or maybe they realize that H1B workers don't vote, but the out-of-work STEM workers they displaced do. And has been complaining to all and sundry that they lost their last job and can't get another one because of H1B workers.
their problem is that they perpetually need to replenish the underclass as it becomes depleted by people pulling themselves up into the middle or upper class.
Wall Street has eliminated *that* problem.
One line of defense against breakouts are the tanks and vats used to house heavily modified microbes. But these can leak, with microbes hitching rides off-site on workers' clothing, for instance.
Researchers have come up with other ways of controlling the spread of modified organisms, such as introducing biological kill switches. But these still offer organisms biological escape hatches, at least in principle. The organism can randomly mutate in ways that blunt control efforts. It can mooch a replacement for the synthetic compound it needs from natural analogues in the environment. Or it can incorporate DNA from other wild organisms into its own genome, allowing it to use nutrients found in the wild.
The two teams involved with the new studies applied complementary approaches to overhauling the genetic structure of a strain of E. coli bacteria that Dr. Church’s lab had altered to enhance virus resistance.
These were not merely genetically modified organisms; they had become genomically recoded organisms, or GROs. The changes to the bacteria's genome involved one out of every 64 segments along the entire length of the organism's DNA that corresponds to a specific amino acid needed to produce protein. DNA carries the coding for 20 types of amino acids.
In modifying the bacteria's DNA to thwart escape, the two teams altered the genetic code to include information for producing amino acids not found in nature but created in the lab.
One team focused on genes that coded for proteins crucial to cell functions, modifying them in ways that produced proteins that required the presence of the synthetic amino acid in the protein itself. The other team focused on 22 genes deemed essential to a bacterial cell's functions and tied the genes' expression to the presence of synthetic amino acids.
For the bacteria to survive, these synthetic amino acids had to be present in the medium on which the bacteria fed.
You pretty much nailed my thinking. If I had wanted to go for "a clickbait" headline, I would have done something like "Jurassic Park coming to a lab near you" or "FrankenBacteria use amino acids never seen in living things." Instead, I went with "New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild" because that pretty much sums it up.
I put the Jurassic Park reference at the beginning of the text because the technique in the article reminded me of the book and the movie. Immediately following, I included "Scientists have taken this one step further as a way to keep genetically modified E. coli from surviving outside the lab" to convey that this is not exactly the same procedure - it's better.
I don't do clickbait, or if I do, it's purely unintentional.
It would take a LOT more than 1 mutation. They modified over 1% of the DNA.
We use bacteria like E. coli to make stuff, not to eat. One example is human insulin.
This isn't new. When electric lawn mowers first came out, people complained about their lack of power. Adding some noise made it sound a lot stronger.