"Musk has also been working on resolving his frustration with traffic issues through above-ground means with his Hyperloop venture, which proposes a plan for mass-transit pods moving through above-ground tubes."
Like I've said before, this Hyperloop horsecrap is NEVER going to happen. It's classic "pie in the sky" and will never be built due to a variety of issues, not the least of which are the insurmountable engineering problems. Then add stuff like right-of-way issues, safety concerns, fragility, security, production and on-going costs, and you'll see that the Hyperloop "plan" is 100% nonsense. It will never be built.
It's like Boeing's "Sonic Cruiser" project, remember that? Of course you don't remember it, because it was never built. It was also a "pie in the sky" project- an enormously expensive new plane with virtually no user base. It would have required huge expenditures to build and a tremendous investment to operate, all to serve an extremely tiny, theoretical group of potential customers who would be willing to pay a friggin' fortune to get from point A to point B a full 30 minutes faster than existing aircraft services already provide. And it was a complete bust.
I know the Hyperloop fanbois and the Elon Musk-worshipers will shit all over this and mod me down to oblivion, but that won't change the fact that the Hyperloop will never be built. It's just not gonna happen.
That and how MS forced updates on people involving trickery.
Bingo. The flat-out trickery and subterfuge that was used to force the upgrade on people was the most damning indictment of why people shouldn't upgrade.
If they have to trick you into doing it, chances are it's not in your best interest.
On my desktop box I use Win 7 and FF, and they work just fine for me; I see no compelling reason to upgrade or change.
I use Linux Mint and FF on my laptop and also see no reason to change anything there.
Not all of us want to spend our lives upgrading stuff or chasing the release or gadget or whatever. Some of us just want to find something that works and use it.
Get a shipping container (or two). They're all steel, very durable, and they're a *bitch* to break into if you have good locks installed. They're also watertight by design.
They're usually ~$2500 to $3500 depending on the condition, not bad for what you get.
Insulate it well, add carpeting, then finish off the interior so it's a pleasant work space. Add a good steel-core door, lighting, ventilation, a heating and air conditioning unit, and you're done.
And, incidentally, how is prevention not a goal, when getting one guy just frees up the whole bot-net to be grabbed by the next one?
No problem, we'll house the "next one" in the cell next door to the first one. (Or the next empty cemetery plot.) And so on. Just because we can't prevent it doesn't mean there shouldn't be penalties, right? That's what 99% of the laws on the books are all about- punishing offenders, not preventing them from committing crimes.
I already said that some people aren't deterred by the threat of death or imprisonment, but that's going to be their problem when they get caught, not mine. Locking them up (or lopping off their heads) will certainly keep them from continuing their criminal behavior.
"You go to the bathroom one minute late, they have you disciplined. The supervisor will have you sign a discipline paper I don't drink any water so I won't have to go."
It's a testament to these worker's self-control that the supervisors don't mysteriously disappear never to be seen again, get knifed in the plant with no witnesses to the crime, or end up falling into the processing vats "by accident". A few such incidents would probably make a world of difference in the working conditions.
I am, of course, in no way advocating for such things, just making an observation.
Block it at the borders. Customs still has authority over what gets into the country via legal channels. It is not like these IoT devices were smuggled in.
And who will do all of the testing required to make sure that all of these devices are safe or not exploitable? Where will the manpower come from to find and test the millions of devices that come into the country?
I agree that companies should be held responsible for insecure hardware, but it's a moving target that's going to be nearly impossible to hit again and again and again.
The tiny problem with that is that penalties have zero preventative effect.
Actually, this isn't wholly true. It's a popular misconception that that penalties don't change behavior. Penalties do have some effect, although there will always be those who will take the risk. For example, would you sell or smuggle drugs if there was no penalty? How about committing fraud, or theft, or murder? A lot of people would do those things if there was no penalty, but many of those people look at the downside of getting caught and opt not to do it.
And frankly, prevention isn't necessarily the end goal. Twenty years in prison would have the effect of preventing these people from continuing to commit this kind of crime. It's kinda hard to build and run a botnet from solitary confinement. (A quick, painless execution also tends to hamper that sort of thing, to be frank.)
Its not terrorism by any definition, terrorism is using violence or threats of violence to achieve a political goal.
Then maybe it's time to update the definition. It sure sounds and smells like terrorism to me. Crippling an entire country's economy and infrastructure seems like a violent act, even if it's done through a keyboard.
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Yes it does, your a crazy extremist
First of all, it's "you're", and second, what's your point? It's okay to fuck over an entire country and potentially cause thousands of deaths, but I'm the extremist when I say we should lock the perpetrators up for 20 years?
If there are things that are dangerous, you see to it that they are not dangerous any more. You force companies to deal with safety.
I'm sure the thousands of fly-by-night Chinese manufacturers making this stuff will jump to attention and immediately follow our demands to make their shit safe.
This kind of thing should be punishable by death. No, I'm not kidding. Death, or 20 years with no chance of parole.
When one or two dickheads with a botnet can knock an entire country offline, there should be severe repercussions. That's terrorism by any definition.
And worse yet, these things will only get more powerful...how long until the US is seriously plagued by one or more of them fucking up the economy, crippling emergency services and police response, interfering with hospitals, and hampering commerce in general?
Most of you reading this would lose your jobs if the net was crippled for a month or two by one of these fucking botnets, and what happens when 5 or 10 of 50 players, some funded at the state level, all get involved?
Now the death penalty or 20 years hard time doesn't sound so outrageous, does it?
Incidentally, if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m.
I don't know what you're filling up, but for my car it takes about 4 or 5 minutes tops. No way it has ever taken me 15 minutes to fill up my gas tank. You can fill up a motor-home's tank in less time than that.
Tesla: "Hi, we're Tesla, and we'd like to introduce you to our new fee. Well, it's not really a "fee", that's such a harsh word, ha ha. We're just going to charge you by the minute for not immediately moving your car. We like to think of it as a 'getting to know you and your wallet' kinda thing. And of course if you don't pay us, we'll turn off your car. Gosh, we hope that doesn't happen while you're zooming down the highway!"
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Yeah, I noticed, lol. I'm finding it may be more trouble than it's worth at this point....we'll see.
"Musk has also been working on resolving his frustration with traffic issues through above-ground means with his Hyperloop venture, which proposes a plan for mass-transit pods moving through above-ground tubes."
Like I've said before, this Hyperloop horsecrap is NEVER going to happen. It's classic "pie in the sky" and will never be built due to a variety of issues, not the least of which are the insurmountable engineering problems. Then add stuff like right-of-way issues, safety concerns, fragility, security, production and on-going costs, and you'll see that the Hyperloop "plan" is 100% nonsense. It will never be built.
It's like Boeing's "Sonic Cruiser" project, remember that? Of course you don't remember it, because it was never built. It was also a "pie in the sky" project- an enormously expensive new plane with virtually no user base. It would have required huge expenditures to build and a tremendous investment to operate, all to serve an extremely tiny, theoretical group of potential customers who would be willing to pay a friggin' fortune to get from point A to point B a full 30 minutes faster than existing aircraft services already provide. And it was a complete bust.
I know the Hyperloop fanbois and the Elon Musk-worshipers will shit all over this and mod me down to oblivion, but that won't change the fact that the Hyperloop will never be built. It's just not gonna happen.
Using one of the Amazon Locker dropoff locations is pretty secure if there's one near you.
Thanks for the mention of uMatrix, I wasn't aware of it before but I'm installing it right now. Very useful add-on.
That and how MS forced updates on people involving trickery.
Bingo. The flat-out trickery and subterfuge that was used to force the upgrade on people was the most damning indictment of why people shouldn't upgrade.
If they have to trick you into doing it, chances are it's not in your best interest.
On my desktop box I use Win 7 and FF, and they work just fine for me; I see no compelling reason to upgrade or change.
I use Linux Mint and FF on my laptop and also see no reason to change anything there.
Not all of us want to spend our lives upgrading stuff or chasing the release or gadget or whatever. Some of us just want to find something that works and use it.
Get a shipping container (or two). They're all steel, very durable, and they're a *bitch* to break into if you have good locks installed. They're also watertight by design.
They're usually ~$2500 to $3500 depending on the condition, not bad for what you get.
Insulate it well, add carpeting, then finish off the interior so it's a pleasant work space. Add a good steel-core door, lighting, ventilation, a heating and air conditioning unit, and you're done.
Why cant you just use other words ?
Fine, use other words if that makes you happy.
So you do not mind the problem persisting as long as you can brutalize or kill a few people?
Are you saying we shouldn't punish people for committing crimes? That seems stupid and naive.
P.S.=> It's NOT easy being "world-class"... apk
Maybe that's why you've never managed to achieve such a status, except in terms of "being a spammer".
And, incidentally, how is prevention not a goal, when getting one guy just frees up the whole bot-net to be grabbed by the next one?
No problem, we'll house the "next one" in the cell next door to the first one. (Or the next empty cemetery plot.) And so on. Just because we can't prevent it doesn't mean there shouldn't be penalties, right? That's what 99% of the laws on the books are all about- punishing offenders, not preventing them from committing crimes.
I already said that some people aren't deterred by the threat of death or imprisonment, but that's going to be their problem when they get caught, not mine. Locking them up (or lopping off their heads) will certainly keep them from continuing their criminal behavior.
"You go to the bathroom one minute late, they have you disciplined. The supervisor will have you sign a discipline paper I don't drink any water so I won't have to go."
It's a testament to these worker's self-control that the supervisors don't mysteriously disappear never to be seen again, get knifed in the plant with no witnesses to the crime, or end up falling into the processing vats "by accident". A few such incidents would probably make a world of difference in the working conditions.
I am, of course, in no way advocating for such things, just making an observation.
If a bunch of teenagers can crush an economy, then the foundation of that economy is faulty.
If a bunch of teenagers can burn your house down, is the house faulty?
Everything is "faulty" in one way or another, but that doesn't give anyone a free pass to destroy it.
LinkedIn: Don't blame us, Microsoft is in charge now.
Microsoft: Don't blame us, we just own the company.
Block it at the borders. Customs still has authority over what gets into the country via legal channels. It is not like these IoT devices were smuggled in.
And who will do all of the testing required to make sure that all of these devices are safe or not exploitable? Where will the manpower come from to find and test the millions of devices that come into the country?
I agree that companies should be held responsible for insecure hardware, but it's a moving target that's going to be nearly impossible to hit again and again and again.
The tiny problem with that is that penalties have zero preventative effect.
Actually, this isn't wholly true. It's a popular misconception that that penalties don't change behavior. Penalties do have some effect, although there will always be those who will take the risk. For example, would you sell or smuggle drugs if there was no penalty? How about committing fraud, or theft, or murder? A lot of people would do those things if there was no penalty, but many of those people look at the downside of getting caught and opt not to do it.
And frankly, prevention isn't necessarily the end goal. Twenty years in prison would have the effect of preventing these people from continuing to commit this kind of crime. It's kinda hard to build and run a botnet from solitary confinement. (A quick, painless execution also tends to hamper that sort of thing, to be frank.)
Let's see: with their market cap at about 620 BILLION dollars, 2 million is: a pinch of shit.
True. 2 million out of 620 billion doesn't even amount a rounding error. Even 100 million would barely be noticeable.
The nerve of those workers wanting to eat meals!
What will they demand next, bathroom breaks? Clean air? Properly grounded equipment?
Please, Mein Fuhrer Trump, put an end to this anti-capitialist craziness!
Difficult to identify, catch, jurisdiction problems in foreign countries...
So was Bin Laden and we buried that motherfucker at sea.
Its not terrorism by any definition, terrorism is using violence or threats of violence to achieve a political goal.
Then maybe it's time to update the definition. It sure sounds and smells like terrorism to me. Crippling an entire country's economy and infrastructure seems like a violent act, even if it's done through a keyboard.
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Yes it does, your a crazy extremist
First of all, it's "you're", and second, what's your point? It's okay to fuck over an entire country and potentially cause thousands of deaths, but I'm the extremist when I say we should lock the perpetrators up for 20 years?
If there are things that are dangerous, you see to it that they are not dangerous any more. You force companies to deal with safety.
I'm sure the thousands of fly-by-night Chinese manufacturers making this stuff will jump to attention and immediately follow our demands to make their shit safe.
There is sadly widespread belief SQLi is caused by failure to perform data validation/sanitization. This belief is both incorrect and dangerous.
Whatever you say, Mr Expert.
This kind of thing should be punishable by death. No, I'm not kidding. Death, or 20 years with no chance of parole.
When one or two dickheads with a botnet can knock an entire country offline, there should be severe repercussions. That's terrorism by any definition.
And worse yet, these things will only get more powerful...how long until the US is seriously plagued by one or more of them fucking up the economy, crippling emergency services and police response, interfering with hospitals, and hampering commerce in general?
Most of you reading this would lose your jobs if the net was crippled for a month or two by one of these fucking botnets, and what happens when 5 or 10 of 50 players, some funded at the state level, all get involved?
Now the death penalty or 20 years hard time doesn't sound so outrageous, does it?
Incidentally, if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m.
I don't know what you're filling up, but for my car it takes about 4 or 5 minutes tops. No way it has ever taken me 15 minutes to fill up my gas tank. You can fill up a motor-home's tank in less time than that.
Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners...
Oh this sounds so friendly....
Tesla: "Hi, we're Tesla, and we'd like to introduce you to our new fee. Well, it's not really a "fee", that's such a harsh word, ha ha. We're just going to charge you by the minute for not immediately moving your car. We like to think of it as a 'getting to know you and your wallet' kinda thing. And of course if you don't pay us, we'll turn off your car. Gosh, we hope that doesn't happen while you're zooming down the highway!"