Yeah, it's April 1st, we get it - post a joke and move on. An all day event is pointless and a little annoying. I'm going to browse elsewhere, see you guys tomorrow.
And, in the US technology industry, it's one of the biggest threats to our ability to compete effectively in a global economy. When a giant company like Cisco is looking at ways to avoid shipping hardware directly from the US to keep its international customers, you know something's wrong.
Agreed on the fact that the NSA is causing significant damage to the US tech sector in general, but I didn't really buy this story. Cisco's headquarters are in the US, but their manufacturing facilities aren't. I know they have plants in the Czech Rep, China, India, Russia (soon), recently closed some in Mexico, etc. If they are so worried about the NSA intercepting their shipments, why not just ship them from the factory / distributor in that country? Why bring them anywhere near the US Mail system?
We are worse than the US I believe, we combine the worst aspects of laissez-faire capitalism with the high taxes of a socialist state, but with the benefits of neither.
The difference is that Canada is largely harmless to the outside world. Sure your government screws over their own people regularly, but the US screws over / spies on the entire world.
I'd look at marine computers, generally anything built for a boat is designed to survive your scenario (con: they are almost always more expensive). Here is an option:
Sealed to IP67/NEMA 6 specifications
The new Stealth WPC-525F is a rugged PC that is completely water-tight, surviving liquids, chemicals, dust and dirt intrusion and meeting IP67/NEMA 6 environmental specifications. Designed without cooling fans the rugged aluminum chassis acts as a heat sink to dissipate internal heat and provide noise free operation. The durable small form PC operates from a wide range of DC input power (6 - 36VDC) making it a perfect fit for mobile and transportation based applications.
Stealth products are ideal for demanding applications within the Industrial, Commercial, Scientific Research, Military, Public Safety, Utility, Marine, Transportation, mining and Telecommunications markets
If it were me, I'd probably just plug a 2.5" external HDD into a raspberry pi and huck it into a sealed 5 gallon bucket. But then again, I wouldn't be putting my computer in the crawlspace to begin with, so good luck.
I don't see the point of this device. If you use a Stingray to catch a criminal, then can't the criminal simply request how the device works and once that is denied, the evidence used to catch the criminal is simply thrown out. The whole point is gather evidence but if that evidence is unusable, then the whole point of the device is gone.
It let's them find you. Always find you. Every-time I see an article about stingrays, it presumes that the issue lies in the fact that innocent people in a several block radius are inadvertabtly monitored along with the target. This is no accident - it's a key feature of Stingrays. The device can import your call history and build a profile of you. It then monitors which numbers all phones in the area call / text and looks for matches between between your old call logs and all cellular activity in the area. Burner phones or borrowing someones phone becomes useless assuming you don't change all your friends and families too. Once they have your location, they can do what they want from there.
He said should. I have to agree with his sentiment. When people go into prison, they spend years learning from the worst of society. When they get out, no one will hire them for a serious job with their record. So when you put people in prison who are not dangerous, you are consciously deciding to transform them into a dangerous person. This is about as counter productive of a justice system as you can get.
Exactly. It is also a significant expense to incarcerate someone, generally estimated to be $20,000 - $40,000 per year per inmate. Take into account the lack of employment options with a prison record you mentioned (aka, lack of tax revenue from the former prisoners income), and the taxpayer pays twice when we send someone to prison.
When we incarcerate someone, we are taking away their freedom in the interest of the general public. This should be reserved for people who pose a genuine threat to the public. Using it as out go-to form of punishment for any offense is akin to shooting ourselves in the foot.
Uh, what? In theory, a car would go any distance at constant speed ignoring air resistance and friction except the curving of the earth as it's not really a straight line. But in the real world, you will have friction against the ground and that will generate a lot of heat. Part of that heat can be converted into more engine power. Unlike regenerative breaking you're not adding a resistance to the wheel, you just siphon off what's already happening. Sure if you could reduce friction that'd be nicer, but physics get in the way and you'd rather have some grip to be able to change direction. So it's energy you need to spend, but you don't have to let all of it go to waste.
True, but the temperature different between the exhaust gasses and the ambient air is an order of magnitude higher than it is between the tire(s) and the road. It seems to me that would be a much better place to start. Unless, of coarse, this was mostly a marketing gimmick by a tire company.
Personally, I fear the thought of a $1,000 flat tire more than I desire the small improvement in efficiency.
I have to assume that any actual engineers at Ford understand Carnot efficiency, and that this is simply an effort on the part of marketing to generate social-media buzz. It's depressing, but not surprising, to see that they're succeeding.
Apparently the Ford marketing people you refer to let all the social-media glory slip through their fingers and go to Goodyear tire, the company the article is about. Ha! The fools!
Self-driving cars should be the legal equivalent to sitting in the back of a taxi. Even from an insurance/liability standpoint, owning one means you're responsible/liable for fuel & maintenance - and that's about it. It should be down to the manufacturer to ensure safe, autonomous operation. (Otherwise, things such as self-valet and timed pick-ups won't happen)
Let's be realistic. Self-driving cars are coming, but it is going to be a gradual transition. We've already seen the beginning of it with adaptive cruise control and self-parking. These features will continue to be refined while new ones are added, but we almost certainly face years (decades?) of gradual transition where our cars are some weird hodgepodge of self driving and user operated. The laws governing this won't be nearly as straightforward as you suggest.
If you say it is "X", FedEx has to treat it like "X". It you say it is not X, you (the liar) will bear the liability. So FedEx doesn't care. If you say it is "X" when it is "not X", why would FedEx risk it?
It is "X". It is also "Y" and "Z" along with "L", "M", "N", "O", and "P". CNC Mills can be used to make damn near anything. I am officially notifying FEDEX that any CNC Mill can be used for gunsmithing. Also, Lab equipment / chemicals can be used for making drugs and bombs. Plane parts can be used to assemble planes a terrorist could use to crash into a building, and car parts can be used to facilitate both murder and drug smuggling. Camera and video equipment can be used by pedophiles, as can computers and networking gear (do I really need to keep going?). I expect them to step up and stop shipping these things at once.
NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data
He already believes he has the (legal) right to snoop on your data, encrypted or otherwise. What he wants is the (legally mandated) ability to decrypt your data.
Welcome to the USSA. Just like the old USSR, with better technology.
We beat the Soviets at almost everything. There was only one thing they were better than the USA at - actually BEING Soviets. It's about time we put this last issue to bed and declared ourselves victorious in the cold war!
It would be nice to know who will pay the damages or that NSA and GHCQ can just destroy businesses as they please.
if they are going to destroy businesses, they could at least start with Comcast / Time warner. IMO, that would add credibility to their premise of "national defense".
Agreed. My phone defaults to unfiltered / not modded comments on slashdot and occasionally I scroll through and read some before realizing my folly. Try it sometime, it's similar to reading the comments on a random youtube video.
if this is true, then the NSA has blatantly broken law, STOLEN property...
I'm confused by the general reaction here. The NSA hacked a foreign company and stole encryption keys that would allow them to monitor communication networks. They are a government intelligence institution, this is exactly the type of thing they were formed to do. I understand the general dislike of their actions, if fact I share it, but what is the point of screaming about them being criminals because they hacked foreign computer networks to gain an advantage in intelligence gathering? Did anyone really think they weren't doing this? Isn't this exactly their job?
I also find the general reaction of the NSA to this whole leak confusing. It seems obvious to me that if you hire thousands of American Citizens and then redefine words like "collection" to allow you to secretly spy on the families and friends of those people you employ, some of them will be angry about that. Any time I see the news there is another story about the NSA losing another super cool spy toy it must have taken them years to develop. How much are they willing to bleed to continue the collection of random peoples phone records? Records that have produced near zero actionable intelligence. If I were in their position I would tell congress that this stupid program isn't nearly worth what it has cost us, and that common sense indicates this will happen over and over if we keep trying to violate the rights of our support base, the same base who happens to be our entire hiring pool.
I suspect you are exactly right. What AT&T is doing here is adopting googles policies / business practices and raising them by an order of magnitude. They are pushing it to the point where they are almost certain to get yelled at by the FCC, at which point they will point at Google and cry "but they get to do it, why can't we?".
They hope to make this whole "fast internet" thing unprofitable for Google so they will go away and let them rape the american public in peace. What AT&T understand is that Google isn't in the broadband business for (direct) profit. Google makes their money selling ads. They want you on a fast internet connection so you can run more searches and watch more youtube videos. The bandwidth limiting "caps" and other nonsense the incumbents have been up to lately have forced Google's hand. Much like their current Net Neutrality situation, these idiots did it to themselves.
It's sad to see a large company throw these temper tantrums. Pathetic might me a better word.
Do you all finally see now?! THIS is why we need to force more women into the tech industry by any means necessary. So that companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google can FINALLY make a profit
About a third of the Chicago population is German.
Another third of the Chicago population is Irish.
The final third of the Chicago population is Polish.
The tests indicate that our great nation would probably be more effective if Chicago and its descendents didn't exist at all. Genetically they will forever be poor and stupid, attached to the glass teat clamoring for more concussions while wallowing about in their fetid sties. Drunk and unable to form simple sentences, our once prosperous country will be held back from truly succeeding.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 2,695,598 people and 1,194,337 households residing within the city limits of Chicago
Irish: (201,836)
German: (200,392)
Polish: (179,868)
Italian: (96,599)
English: (60,307)
So, according to census data:
7.48% of the Chicago population is of Irish descent.
7.43 % is of German ancestry
6.67% can trace their roots to Poland
However, the same wikipedia page notes:
The racial makeup of the city in 2010 was 32% black, 45% white (31% non Hispanic white + 14% white Hispanics), 5% Asian, and 3% from two or more races . The ethnic makeup of the population is 28% Hispanic (of any race) and 72% belong to non Hispanic background(of any race).[3] In 2000, 21.7% of the population was foreign born; of this, 56.3% came from Latin America, 23.1% from Europe, 18.0% from Asia and 2.6% from other parts of the world.[4] The 2007 community survey for the U.S. Census showed little variation.[5] Chicago has the fifth highest foreign-born population in the United States.
So, if we were to follow your plan, we would be eliminating more blacks that whites. Nice try James Watson, but posting under that pseudonym isn't going to fool us... we aren't falling for your tricks this time.
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Yeah, it's April 1st, we get it - post a joke and move on. An all day event is pointless and a little annoying. I'm going to browse elsewhere, see you guys tomorrow.
And, in the US technology industry, it's one of the biggest threats to our ability to compete effectively in a global economy. When a giant company like Cisco is looking at ways to avoid shipping hardware directly from the US to keep its international customers, you know something's wrong.
Agreed on the fact that the NSA is causing significant damage to the US tech sector in general, but I didn't really buy this story. Cisco's headquarters are in the US, but their manufacturing facilities aren't. I know they have plants in the Czech Rep, China, India, Russia (soon), recently closed some in Mexico, etc. If they are so worried about the NSA intercepting their shipments, why not just ship them from the factory / distributor in that country? Why bring them anywhere near the US Mail system?
We are worse than the US I believe, we combine the worst aspects of laissez-faire capitalism with the high taxes of a socialist state, but with the benefits of neither.
The difference is that Canada is largely harmless to the outside world. Sure your government screws over their own people regularly, but the US screws over / spies on the entire world.
http://www.stealth.com/Waterpr...
Product description for those too lazy to click:
Sealed to IP67/NEMA 6 specifications The new Stealth WPC-525F is a rugged PC that is completely water-tight, surviving liquids, chemicals, dust and dirt intrusion and meeting IP67/NEMA 6 environmental specifications. Designed without cooling fans the rugged aluminum chassis acts as a heat sink to dissipate internal heat and provide noise free operation. The durable small form PC operates from a wide range of DC input power (6 - 36VDC) making it a perfect fit for mobile and transportation based applications. Stealth products are ideal for demanding applications within the Industrial, Commercial, Scientific Research, Military, Public Safety, Utility, Marine, Transportation, mining and Telecommunications markets
If it were me, I'd probably just plug a 2.5" external HDD into a raspberry pi and huck it into a sealed 5 gallon bucket. But then again, I wouldn't be putting my computer in the crawlspace to begin with, so good luck.
I don't see the point of this device. If you use a Stingray to catch a criminal, then can't the criminal simply request how the device works and once that is denied, the evidence used to catch the criminal is simply thrown out. The whole point is gather evidence but if that evidence is unusable, then the whole point of the device is gone.
It let's them find you. Always find you. Every-time I see an article about stingrays, it presumes that the issue lies in the fact that innocent people in a several block radius are inadvertabtly monitored along with the target. This is no accident - it's a key feature of Stingrays. The device can import your call history and build a profile of you. It then monitors which numbers all phones in the area call / text and looks for matches between between your old call logs and all cellular activity in the area. Burner phones or borrowing someones phone becomes useless assuming you don't change all your friends and families too. Once they have your location, they can do what they want from there.
This is the power of metadata
If companies can be sued for selling an insecure product, I need to dump my Microsoft stock ASAP.
Prison is also supposed to be for punishment.
He said should. I have to agree with his sentiment. When people go into prison, they spend years learning from the worst of society. When they get out, no one will hire them for a serious job with their record. So when you put people in prison who are not dangerous, you are consciously deciding to transform them into a dangerous person. This is about as counter productive of a justice system as you can get.
Exactly. It is also a significant expense to incarcerate someone, generally estimated to be $20,000 - $40,000 per year per inmate. Take into account the lack of employment options with a prison record you mentioned (aka, lack of tax revenue from the former prisoners income), and the taxpayer pays twice when we send someone to prison.
When we incarcerate someone, we are taking away their freedom in the interest of the general public. This should be reserved for people who pose a genuine threat to the public. Using it as out go-to form of punishment for any offense is akin to shooting ourselves in the foot.
Uh, what? In theory, a car would go any distance at constant speed ignoring air resistance and friction except the curving of the earth as it's not really a straight line. But in the real world, you will have friction against the ground and that will generate a lot of heat. Part of that heat can be converted into more engine power. Unlike regenerative breaking you're not adding a resistance to the wheel, you just siphon off what's already happening. Sure if you could reduce friction that'd be nicer, but physics get in the way and you'd rather have some grip to be able to change direction. So it's energy you need to spend, but you don't have to let all of it go to waste.
True, but the temperature different between the exhaust gasses and the ambient air is an order of magnitude higher than it is between the tire(s) and the road. It seems to me that would be a much better place to start. Unless, of coarse, this was mostly a marketing gimmick by a tire company.
Personally, I fear the thought of a $1,000 flat tire more than I desire the small improvement in efficiency.
I have to assume that any actual engineers at Ford understand Carnot efficiency, and that this is simply an effort on the part of marketing to generate social-media buzz. It's depressing, but not surprising, to see that they're succeeding.
Apparently the Ford marketing people you refer to let all the social-media glory slip through their fingers and go to Goodyear tire, the company the article is about. Ha! The fools!
The problem with arguments from personal incredulity is that the dumbest person in the room always wins.
The word for that is "Politics"
and want safe streets for themselves and their women
Surely you see the irony to referring to women as possessions while ranting about the plight of women.
It's also a country where most people will rather buy a slightly more expensive phone than replace their outhouse with a running water toilet.
Then why all the rape? Someone teach these people about Tinder!
Self-driving cars should be the legal equivalent to sitting in the back of a taxi. Even from an insurance/liability standpoint, owning one means you're responsible/liable for fuel & maintenance - and that's about it. It should be down to the manufacturer to ensure safe, autonomous operation. (Otherwise, things such as self-valet and timed pick-ups won't happen)
Let's be realistic. Self-driving cars are coming, but it is going to be a gradual transition. We've already seen the beginning of it with adaptive cruise control and self-parking. These features will continue to be refined while new ones are added, but we almost certainly face years (decades?) of gradual transition where our cars are some weird hodgepodge of self driving and user operated. The laws governing this won't be nearly as straightforward as you suggest.
It's like telling police officers you smoke weed.
in Colorado. It that still a problem if it's legal?
If you say it is "X", FedEx has to treat it like "X". It you say it is not X, you (the liar) will bear the liability. So FedEx doesn't care. If you say it is "X" when it is "not X", why would FedEx risk it?
It is "X". It is also "Y" and "Z" along with "L", "M", "N", "O", and "P". CNC Mills can be used to make damn near anything. I am officially notifying FEDEX that any CNC Mill can be used for gunsmithing. Also, Lab equipment / chemicals can be used for making drugs and bombs. Plane parts can be used to assemble planes a terrorist could use to crash into a building, and car parts can be used to facilitate both murder and drug smuggling. Camera and video equipment can be used by pedophiles, as can computers and networking gear (do I really need to keep going?). I expect them to step up and stop shipping these things at once.
NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data
He already believes he has the (legal) right to snoop on your data, encrypted or otherwise. What he wants is the (legally mandated) ability to decrypt your data.
Welcome to the USSA. Just like the old USSR, with better technology.
We beat the Soviets at almost everything. There was only one thing they were better than the USA at - actually BEING Soviets. It's about time we put this last issue to bed and declared ourselves victorious in the cold war!
It would be nice to know who will pay the damages or that NSA and GHCQ can just destroy businesses as they please.
if they are going to destroy businesses, they could at least start with Comcast / Time warner. IMO, that would add credibility to their premise of "national defense".
Agreed. My phone defaults to unfiltered / not modded comments on slashdot and occasionally I scroll through and read some before realizing my folly. Try it sometime, it's similar to reading the comments on a random youtube video.
if this is true, then the NSA has blatantly broken law, STOLEN property ...
I'm confused by the general reaction here. The NSA hacked a foreign company and stole encryption keys that would allow them to monitor communication networks. They are a government intelligence institution, this is exactly the type of thing they were formed to do. I understand the general dislike of their actions, if fact I share it, but what is the point of screaming about them being criminals because they hacked foreign computer networks to gain an advantage in intelligence gathering? Did anyone really think they weren't doing this? Isn't this exactly their job?
I also find the general reaction of the NSA to this whole leak confusing. It seems obvious to me that if you hire thousands of American Citizens and then redefine words like "collection" to allow you to secretly spy on the families and friends of those people you employ, some of them will be angry about that. Any time I see the news there is another story about the NSA losing another super cool spy toy it must have taken them years to develop. How much are they willing to bleed to continue the collection of random peoples phone records? Records that have produced near zero actionable intelligence. If I were in their position I would tell congress that this stupid program isn't nearly worth what it has cost us, and that common sense indicates this will happen over and over if we keep trying to violate the rights of our support base, the same base who happens to be our entire hiring pool.
I suspect you are exactly right. What AT&T is doing here is adopting googles policies / business practices and raising them by an order of magnitude. They are pushing it to the point where they are almost certain to get yelled at by the FCC, at which point they will point at Google and cry "but they get to do it, why can't we?".
They hope to make this whole "fast internet" thing unprofitable for Google so they will go away and let them rape the american public in peace. What AT&T understand is that Google isn't in the broadband business for (direct) profit. Google makes their money selling ads. They want you on a fast internet connection so you can run more searches and watch more youtube videos. The bandwidth limiting "caps" and other nonsense the incumbents have been up to lately have forced Google's hand. Much like their current Net Neutrality situation, these idiots did it to themselves.
It's sad to see a large company throw these temper tantrums. Pathetic might me a better word.
Do you all finally see now?! THIS is why we need to force more women into the tech industry by any means necessary. So that companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google can FINALLY make a profit
About a third of the Chicago population is German.
Another third of the Chicago population is Irish.
The final third of the Chicago population is Polish.
The tests indicate that our great nation would probably be more effective if Chicago and its descendents didn't exist at all. Genetically they will forever be poor and stupid, attached to the glass teat clamoring for more concussions while wallowing about in their fetid sties. Drunk and unable to form simple sentences, our once prosperous country will be held back from truly succeeding.
Ball's in your court, James.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Chicago
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 2,695,598 people and 1,194,337 households residing within the city limits of Chicago
Irish: (201,836)
German: (200,392)
Polish: (179,868)
Italian: (96,599)
English: (60,307)
So, according to census data:
7.48% of the Chicago population is of Irish descent.
7.43 % is of German ancestry
6.67% can trace their roots to Poland
However, the same wikipedia page notes:
The racial makeup of the city in 2010 was 32% black, 45% white (31% non Hispanic white + 14% white Hispanics), 5% Asian, and 3% from two or more races . The ethnic makeup of the population is 28% Hispanic (of any race) and 72% belong to non Hispanic background(of any race).[3] In 2000, 21.7% of the population was foreign born; of this, 56.3% came from Latin America, 23.1% from Europe, 18.0% from Asia and 2.6% from other parts of the world.[4] The 2007 community survey for the U.S. Census showed little variation.[5] Chicago has the fifth highest foreign-born population in the United States.
So, if we were to follow your plan, we would be eliminating more blacks that whites. Nice try James Watson, but posting under that pseudonym isn't going to fool us... we aren't falling for your tricks this time.
Isn't it possibly someone at sony accidentally inserted one of their CD's?
Step 1) Hire an intern, preferably from a local community college.
Step 2) Assign him the task of attempting to crack the encryption on phones as required by court order.
Step 3) Tell legal for forward these court orders to him, and wish both him and the law enforcement agencies the best of luck in getting the data.