As someone who bought the Motorola i1 with Android 1.5 on the promise of updates it never received, I'd have to disagree.
I tend to agree with melios here, Moto did the same thing with the Photon 4G, right around the time Google acquired them (so that they could play the lost in the shuffle game). Locked it down hard on the way out too.
Sadly, while they make excellent hardware, software after the sale has been hit or miss.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 after they did that, and as much as I want Moto quality hardware, I'll not be buying from them again.
From the report itself, which is at the bottom of the article:
"Faced with this homgenous botnet.. initial assumption was that the routers were compromised by a shared firmware vulnerability.... further inspection revealed that all units are remotely accessible via HTTP and SSH on their default ports. On top of that, nearly all are configured with vendor provided default login credentials."
This has nothing to do with default vs 3rd party firmware, and everything with failure to configure whatever firmware you use. Bottom line - security is never "plug and go" you need to understand what you are implementing in order to do it properly.
Going back to the source, the actual quote has always been "reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent." That doesn't have to mean cutting staff.
If Snowden's accounts are correct, many people have Sys Admin level access even though that is not their role in the organization. It is entirely possible that, like every sane organization, the NSA is working to fix their systems so that people outside of IT don't need Sys Admin level access to do their jobs. This process is sometimes known as implementing proper security.
Taking away Sys Admin rights from people who don't need it is "reducing our system administrators." Headcount does not need to change at all for them to accomplish this goal.
Please, please don't do this. You take SPF, designed as a defensive shield for you, turn it into an offensive weapon and unleash it on an innocent victim every time you send out a "friendly" message like this. Please turn this off now and then Google "joe job" to learn how you are making the problem worse, rather than addressing it in any meaningful way.
Ignore SPF if you like, but don't use it as an method to select targets to attack with "friendly fire."
You are missing a couple of points. Most importantly, the rocket equation doesn't apply here, at least not the way I read this. It looks like the statement being made is that it is possible to have a engine with NO exhaust mass. In that case, the problem is bounded by Newton's third because NOTHING CHANGES outside the system. There is no net force because we eject no mass. The real question here is, "Is Newton's third really universally correct or have we found a loophole?"
Actually, I took a class a couple of years back at the Univerity of Wisconsin. The course was taught by Schmitt and several other members of the Engineering faculty. It covered ideas like this and other not-so-far-out ideas for using resources from space. This isn't just some crazy, spur of the moment what if. This plan is remarkably well thought out. If you talk to Schmitt he will openly admit that this cannot be done today. BUT, if we as a society (or even just a few big companies) choose to make this a goal, it is reasonable to expect lunar 3He to become a useful energy source in the next 20 years.
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As someone who bought the Motorola i1 with Android 1.5 on the promise of updates it never received, I'd have to disagree.
I tend to agree with melios here, Moto did the same thing with the Photon 4G, right around the time Google acquired them (so that they could play the lost in the shuffle game). Locked it down hard on the way out too. Sadly, while they make excellent hardware, software after the sale has been hit or miss. I bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 after they did that, and as much as I want Moto quality hardware, I'll not be buying from them again.
From the report itself, which is at the bottom of the article: "Faced with this homgenous botnet .. initial assumption was that the routers were compromised by a shared firmware vulnerability.... further inspection revealed that all units are remotely accessible via HTTP and SSH on their default ports. On top of that, nearly all are configured with vendor provided default login credentials."
This has nothing to do with default vs 3rd party firmware, and everything with failure to configure whatever firmware you use. Bottom line - security is never "plug and go" you need to understand what you are implementing in order to do it properly.
Um... from the report, included in the article: "predominantly ARM-based Ubiquiti devices" Was that so hard?
If Snowden's accounts are correct, many people have Sys Admin level access even though that is not their role in the organization. It is entirely possible that, like every sane organization, the NSA is working to fix their systems so that people outside of IT don't need Sys Admin level access to do their jobs. This process is sometimes known as implementing proper security.
Taking away Sys Admin rights from people who don't need it is "reducing our system administrators." Headcount does not need to change at all for them to accomplish this goal.
Please, please don't do this. You take SPF, designed as a defensive shield for you, turn it into an offensive weapon and unleash it on an innocent victim every time you send out a "friendly" message like this. Please turn this off now and then Google "joe job" to learn how you are making the problem worse, rather than addressing it in any meaningful way.
Ignore SPF if you like, but don't use it as an method to select targets to attack with "friendly fire."
You are missing a couple of points. Most importantly, the rocket equation doesn't apply here, at least not the way I read this. It looks like the statement being made is that it is possible to have a engine with NO exhaust mass. In that case, the problem is bounded by Newton's third because NOTHING CHANGES outside the system. There is no net force because we eject no mass. The real question here is, "Is Newton's third really universally correct or have we found a loophole?"
It's only a factor of eight, I know. Call me picky. That's the difference between a bit and a byte.
Actually, I took a class a couple of years back at the Univerity of Wisconsin. The course was taught by Schmitt and several other members of the Engineering faculty. It covered ideas like this and other not-so-far-out ideas for using resources from space. This isn't just some crazy, spur of the moment what if. This plan is remarkably well thought out. If you talk to Schmitt he will openly admit that this cannot be done today. BUT, if we as a society (or even just a few big companies) choose to make this a goal, it is reasonable to expect lunar 3He to become a useful energy source in the next 20 years.