I'll stop blocking everything when they stop tracking me, using ads that break the layout of the webpage, popups that take 10 seconds before you can close them, autoplaying audio and video, etc.
Like somebody else said in the last article about adblocking:
Users: Please don't track us Companies: Fuck off
Companies: Please don't block our ads Users: Fuck off
Exactly why I would never work anywhere near Seattle and go to any length to avoid visiting. Perhaps it was bad luck, but the last three times I averaged 5MPH on the highway for a little over an hour, this was without any lanes closed or car accidents.
I question the sanity of anyone who would willingly do that to themselves, day after day.
Just seems too effortless and easy in my opinion. No skill required, almost anybody could do it, not impressive whatsoever.
I would like to think that if I were to completely snap that I would go after somebody who has done some seriously bad shit, not a bunch of defenseless stupid school bullies and randoms. Then again, I have no idea what it's like so my speculation is worthless.
I remember those days (they were not too long ago) but it just seems so batshit crazy. I reserved keyloggers and remote access for fucking with bullies and guns for removing coyote scum looking to eat my pets.
Of all the different groups of people to direct your misguided anger at, why target defenseless school or college kids? I would have been expecting a higher value target, such as corrupt politicians.
The only reason I can think of is this is the easymode way to be remembered in the history books.
Thanks for the explanation, nobody else I have asked has been able to explain to me why there can be multiple names on a single SS#.
What have you done to try and correct this?
I went to the social security office and waited in line for ages only for them to tell me that this isn't their department (What?) and they can't help me. The only advice I have received is to file a police report and expect nothing to be done unless this starts seriously affecting my life.
Shit. I guess this might have something to do with a number of places telling me my SS# is either invalid or "has multiple names attached" (Why are multiple names attached to a single number even allowed? I would think it should return an error since there is no legitimate use for multiple names tied to a single number).
"The hacks of the VSP cruisers require initial physical tampering of the vehicle as well. The researchers inserted rogue devices in the two police vehicles to basically reprogram some of the car's electronic operations, or to wage the attacks via mobile devices, which they demonstrated."
Give physical access to a computer system and it can be compromised?
I might actually have a use for this. Some good people reverse engineered my car's ECU and developed a free software suite for live monitoring, logging and tuning. Problem being is that it uses.net framework and nobody has successfully gotten it to run on linux.
With this it looks like I could easily add a small touch screen to my center console and have it permanently installed in the car instead of hooking up a laptop every time I want to make a change to the.bin or log data in real time, and I could get rid of my head unit. No chance in hell I would give it an internet connection though.
Get ready for a wall of text. All of this happened in a small town in Washington state, for reference.
I've had similar things happen to me for dicking about with electronics and I'm as white as you can get.
I had my desk and backpack searched in grade school because "some kids" reported me to the principal talking about fireworks (It was July) and told him I was looking up bombs on the computers (Electromagnets are apparently bombs). Of course I had random PCBs from shit I took apart in my backpack and that was damning enough evidence to call my parents and suspend me for a week (For "Disrupting the learning environment, a copout term when you piss off school administration but technically didn't break any rules). Cops were threatened but weren't called.
I was also (Without my parents knowledge) placed into a "special" class, consisting mostly of the "slow" kids where we got to talk about our feelings (By pointing to an expression on a plush cube). This was run by the school counselor.
According to her it was wrong to enjoy the things I enjoyed at the time (Average kid stuff for the most part. Drawing guns, playing video games, playing with soldering irons). I learned a few years ago after talking with my parents that she literally told them that I would be the next "Columbine kid" if they didn't put me on drugs to "fix" me (They didn't).
Same thing in middle school, again was looking up AVR tutorials in the library and a number of kids would come up behind me and yell out "IS THAT A BOMB!?" and variations of that. Again, all of my stuff searched, escorted by security, etc. Suspended for a few days for "abusing school computer privileges" because "School computers are not for learning whatever you want, your activities must relate to classwork".
In highschool I finally got a break, amazing teacher who had a back room lined with soldering irons and breadboards. We even started a F.I.R.S.T. robotics team before I graduated.
So please, don't give me bullshit about this only happening because of the color of his skin. Blame the school's lack of understanding and zero tolerance policies. Blame the culture of fear in this country, don't buy into this stereotypical "LOOK! LOOK! AMERICANS ARE RACIST" crap.
If anything, I would bet the only reason this story has taken off is because he was brown and race politics are all the rage these days.
There are a lot more victims of "Zero tolerance" policies than what you see in the news, stories like this and the poptart gun kid are more common than most people think.
Most seem to think driving is evil and should be completely computer controlled.
You're right though, open source engine management has been a thing for awhile now. I've grabbed a reverse engineered system out of a junkyard to retrofit into my older car, big difference in gas mileage as well.
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I'll stop blocking everything when they stop tracking me, using ads that break the layout of the webpage, popups that take 10 seconds before you can close them, autoplaying audio and video, etc.
Like somebody else said in the last article about adblocking:
Users: Please don't track us
Companies: Fuck off
Companies: Please don't block our ads
Users: Fuck off
the traffic is some of the worst in the nation
Exactly why I would never work anywhere near Seattle and go to any length to avoid visiting. Perhaps it was bad luck, but the last three times I averaged 5MPH on the highway for a little over an hour, this was without any lanes closed or car accidents.
I question the sanity of anyone who would willingly do that to themselves, day after day.
Nah, sounds like you should build something instead of expecting an already established community to cater to your whims.
What advantages does it have over other file systems?
And I say this as someone that is mid-restoration on a seventies Mopar.
Nice, are you keeping it stock or adding fuel injection? Stock distributor or coilpacks?
I guess I made somebody butthurt, the youtube link I posted is suddenly getting modded down for trolling.
Blowout soon stalkers.
8. Why not?
Just seems too effortless and easy in my opinion. No skill required, almost anybody could do it, not impressive whatsoever.
I would like to think that if I were to completely snap that I would go after somebody who has done some seriously bad shit, not a bunch of defenseless stupid school bullies and randoms. Then again, I have no idea what it's like so my speculation is worthless.
I remember those days (they were not too long ago) but it just seems so batshit crazy. I reserved keyloggers and remote access for fucking with bullies and guns for removing coyote scum looking to eat my pets.
I came in assuming this as well, but it looks like they confessed.
"The investigation has so far been based on interviews with the suspects, during which they gave a detailed confession, Sheriff Mele said."
Of all the different groups of people to direct your misguided anger at, why target defenseless school or college kids? I would have been expecting a higher value target, such as corrupt politicians.
The only reason I can think of is this is the easymode way to be remembered in the history books.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Literally 2 seconds to find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Kafkatrapping.
Thanks for the explanation, nobody else I have asked has been able to explain to me why there can be multiple names on a single SS#.
What have you done to try and correct this?
I went to the social security office and waited in line for ages only for them to tell me that this isn't their department (What?) and they can't help me. The only advice I have received is to file a police report and expect nothing to be done unless this starts seriously affecting my life.
Shit. I guess this might have something to do with a number of places telling me my SS# is either invalid or "has multiple names attached" (Why are multiple names attached to a single number even allowed? I would think it should return an error since there is no legitimate use for multiple names tied to a single number).
>civilians would stand no chance against the US military
Because the US military has such a great track record against smaller guerrilla groups.
That's why we did so well in Vietnam and the middle east, right?
But that's also assuming they would fire on their own citizens without hesitation, the people they are supposed to be protecting.
Agreed, probably just plugged a laptop into the CAN bus and reprogrammed the ecu.
Should be titled "Car ECU reprogrammed using programming port"
Pretty much. I'm betting they just plugged into the CAN bus.
About as newsworthy as "ARDUINO HACKED BY USING ISCP PINS AND AVR PROGRAMMER"
"The hacks of the VSP cruisers require initial physical tampering of the vehicle as well. The researchers inserted rogue devices in the two police vehicles to basically reprogram some of the car's electronic operations, or to wage the attacks via mobile devices, which they demonstrated."
Give physical access to a computer system and it can be compromised?
What a shock.
Neat, it does appear to be free:
https://ms-iot.github.io/conte...
I might actually have a use for this. Some good people reverse engineered my car's ECU and developed a free software suite for live monitoring, logging and tuning. Problem being is that it uses .net framework and nobody has successfully gotten it to run on linux.
With this it looks like I could easily add a small touch screen to my center console and have it permanently installed in the car instead of hooking up a laptop every time I want to make a change to the .bin or log data in real time, and I could get rid of my head unit. No chance in hell I would give it an internet connection though.
If they have no problem trampling on people, why would they have a problem with ignoring a computer telling them to speed up or slow down?
Get ready for a wall of text. All of this happened in a small town in Washington state, for reference.
I've had similar things happen to me for dicking about with electronics and I'm as white as you can get.
I had my desk and backpack searched in grade school because "some kids" reported me to the principal talking about fireworks (It was July) and told him I was looking up bombs on the computers (Electromagnets are apparently bombs). Of course I had random PCBs from shit I took apart in my backpack and that was damning enough evidence to call my parents and suspend me for a week (For "Disrupting the learning environment, a copout term when you piss off school administration but technically didn't break any rules). Cops were threatened but weren't called.
I was also (Without my parents knowledge) placed into a "special" class, consisting mostly of the "slow" kids where we got to talk about our feelings (By pointing to an expression on a plush cube). This was run by the school counselor.
According to her it was wrong to enjoy the things I enjoyed at the time (Average kid stuff for the most part. Drawing guns, playing video games, playing with soldering irons). I learned a few years ago after talking with my parents that she literally told them that I would be the next "Columbine kid" if they didn't put me on drugs to "fix" me (They didn't).
Same thing in middle school, again was looking up AVR tutorials in the library and a number of kids would come up behind me and yell out "IS THAT A BOMB!?" and variations of that. Again, all of my stuff searched, escorted by security, etc. Suspended for a few days for "abusing school computer privileges" because "School computers are not for learning whatever you want, your activities must relate to classwork".
In highschool I finally got a break, amazing teacher who had a back room lined with soldering irons and breadboards. We even started a F.I.R.S.T. robotics team before I graduated.
So please, don't give me bullshit about this only happening because of the color of his skin. Blame the school's lack of understanding and zero tolerance policies. Blame the culture of fear in this country, don't buy into this stereotypical "LOOK! LOOK! AMERICANS ARE RACIST" crap.
If anything, I would bet the only reason this story has taken off is because he was brown and race politics are all the rage these days.
There are a lot more victims of "Zero tolerance" policies than what you see in the news, stories like this and the poptart gun kid are more common than most people think.
Most seem to think driving is evil and should be completely computer controlled.
You're right though, open source engine management has been a thing for awhile now. I've grabbed a reverse engineered system out of a junkyard to retrofit into my older car, big difference in gas mileage as well.
The first thing you can do is stop using the cringe inducing term "maker" and trying to make it into a way of life instead of something you just do.
All it has done is make a new line of trendy hipsters calling themselves "makers" who buy kits to make an LED blink for $10.99.
Not to mention "Maker Faire" is trademarked and if you want to hold one you need to apply for a license and pay royalties to Maker Media, Inc.
It's less about learning and more about an untapped cash cow.