There is also the little phenomenon of people with more than one address voting in multiple precincts, people who blatantly vote at multiple polling stations, and worse.
As sibling said, a state-issued photo ID costs less than two Starbucks frappé drinks.
Oh, and you have to have one anyway to buy liquor, buy cigarettes, take out a loan of any type (including payday loans), write a check, use any state or federal government services (other than voting), get electricity and/or water turned on to your home/apartment/whatever, get married, drive a car...
I had done something similar with a 30' camping trailer years ago. It began as a rescue project - I paid $1 (literally) for the thing and dragged it home. After stripping it to the shell, I rebuilt it from the inside out - extra-thick insulation, salvaged RV appliances and cabinets, solar panels on the roof, a pair of Group 4D 12v batteries (the size used on fire trucks), a 150 gallon water tank (to replace the puny 25-gallon one), two massive (80#) propane tanks up front, a *real* queen-sized bed, extra weatherproofing and a new coat of paint, etc. Even kept a computer + LCD monitor in it, which consumed less power than a tube TV.
By the time I was done, that $1 investment cost me an additional $3.5k or so, but it was already road-worthy, and it allowed me to spend a literal month in it to bracket two hunting seasons (in Utah - first Elk, then Mule Deer) without having to replenish supplies from in-town. The windmill would have been nice, but I already had the panels, a generator and plenty of gasoline stored in the truck bed...
I barely used the generator or the propane until it began snowing, though... Speaking of which, I wonder how this little egg thingy would do at 10k' ASL in a snowstorm, with the temperatures well below freezing... seems like it would be pretty cramped and cold considering no visible heating source.
To your point, though: when I was ready to go home, I just stowed the stabilizing jacks, hooked it up to the truck, and drove off. No muss, no fuss.
I played the paranoid for a few years and didn't participate. Nobody said a word.
...did you consider that you may not have been high enough on the corporate food chain for it to matter? Once you get up into middle management and beyond, little crap like this begins to matter a lot when it comes to promotions, layoff decisions, etc.
...and yet many companies use United Healthcare, which has this neat little program where nicotine users (cigs, dip, vape, whatever) get to pay an extra $70/mo. for their health insurance, and if your spouse smokes? That'll be $140/mo that you get pay, please.
Oh, you don't partake and claim yourself exempt? You get random annual bodily-fluid testing where you get to prove that you're nicotine-free.
Did I mention that if caught smoking when you said you didn't? You get fired for-cause.
Even better question - who is gonna clean up all that space junk once the satellites die, or track it all while it's active? That's a lot of pieces that can potentially puncture a rocket, satellite, or crew capsule on it's way up, and we've got a lot of hazardous crap up there as it is.
I'm thinking it'd be pretty damned hard to remove the device in the limited time between crash and haul-away by the cops, unless you're directly following the guy on a lonely, remote, deserted road (otherwise, it's going to look real suspicious if someone sees you just walk up, reach into the vehicle, and leave without even trying to render aid to the victim...)
Damn. Things like that make me doubly glad that I pay cash for all of my vehicles. I can only imagine how much easier it is to hack a car remotely which has one of those little beasties installed...
In all seriousness, this is no different than a physical breach. If you have the means to bust into the car, you have the means to do whatever the hell you want to it while you're in there. There is honestly not much you can do to prevent it given the architecture of ODB-II (doubly so given the mass of insurance company 'monitor-me-for-a-discount' dongles out there).
This is no different than sneaking into a server room and plugging a wifi-enabled keylogger into the server's USB port, FFS (and IMHO the server room hack would be just as near-undetectable in most cases, given all those nooks and crannies in and about a server rack - not to mention the sloppiness of most cabling jobs...)
Well, Oracle (or a flack thereof) explained why they dumped the post (quoted in full in an update on TFA):
"The security of our products and services has always been critically important to Oracle. Oracle has a robust program of product security assurance and works with third party researchers and customers to jointly ensure that applications built with Oracle technology are secure. We removed the post as it does not reflect our beliefs or our relationship with our customers."
Methinks Ms. Davidson may find herself forced into 'spending more time with her family', and updating her resumé fairly soon...
I believe that by "money", GP meant "bribery". HK and most of China is notorious for requiring more than a few 'gifts' to the local constabulary and bureaucrats, all in order to insure that your business runs with as few 'incidents' as possible.
Disclosure time: I've previously used Uber a *lot* when I find myself in cities like San Francisco (way cheaper than a cab).
That said, if you go into a highly-bribery-prone totalitarian country, and try to 'disrupt' the way they generally do business (without greasing the correct palms first, that is), then don't be too surprised when your empl^H^H^H^Hcontractors start finding themselves in jail for breaking the local laws.
Speaking of which, what do you think the odds are of Uber hiring legal help for the poor saps who got locked up?
I live in a rural area... most folks out here, even the tinfoil crowd, don't walk around with a loaded shotgun everywhere ready to fire on whatever angers them. I'm very willing to wager that the drone operator had done his flights over that property numerous times before - enough to get the property owner to keep a shotgun handy just in case.
(...and while the property owner very poorly articulated his case judging by the summary, I would have zero problems with taking the thing down, then explaining quite clearly that the little $@#! had been flying that thing over my property repeatedly in spite of warnings, and doing so without permission or even notice.)
Oh they know exactly what they're doing. They just don't care. It's the taxpayers' dime after all.
Most likely reason has less to do with government waste than with Oracle's VM licensing scheme:
The department likely parked one small RAC cluster on a VM farm, and Oracle's licensing (at least used to) demand that, no matter how many vCPU you assign the VM, you must license every last socket on every last hypervisor box on the entire VM farm for *each* production VM running Oracle RDBS....and *that* is why the majority of production Oracle RAC clusters still reside on discrete physical hardware.
And yes, if Larry Ellison were to die painfully in a fire, half the tech world would cheer.
I hope everyone at that company is prepared for a long week.
Why? All they did was rip out all the networking parts of that particular Windows box. Oh, and they also removed the USB drivers, the serial ports... then they sealed it in a welded metal box, then set that box in the middle of a concrete block 1m x 1m x 1m, with only the power cable and a couple of water cooling pipes sticking out. It's completely unhackable now.
We have people in their adult years working fast food. It is a fantasy that only teens should be 'flipping burgers'.
That's why I included the second part of my statement on this, where working such jobs are (or should be) a temporary fallback or a stepping-stone until said adult can find a better position.
Neither does working at a factory in many cases, but that seemed to be deemed 'middle class worthy' in the 60s-70s where a single worker could support an entire family.
In the 1960's and 1970's (and before), most factory work was valued higher because in a pre-automation age it took skill to do those jobs. Nowadays it isn't as highly valued because in most cases robots, computers, or both can do the jobs in question.
What you're saying is 'you deserve to be destitute, you unskilled scum'.
First off, I'm saying no such thing. Second, it's not me setting the value, so stop blaming me - it's the job market at large that says it. You're cursing me for the movement of ocean waves as if my pointing them out meant that I were promoting them, and then basing your assertion on an emotional appeal.
All the more reason to support things like a basic income now (perhaps with some civil service requirement), since the mass unemployment problem is only going to get worse.
We already have a basic income of sorts, as evidenced by the various federal, stte, and local safety net programs in place. I think your argument is that it is not enough to provide (as available) basic housing, food, etc., and that instead we should provide more to each person. Question is, how much is enough, what would be provided, what conditions would it be tied to, and who ultimately ends up paying for this increase? It's one thing to say that everyone should get a certain minimum amount of money (even if able-bodied but not working), but...
I'm for treating all people with respect, and providing a safe place to live/eat/prosper.
I already mentioned the safety nets and charitable programs in place, which I agree with providing for those who need it. Where did you get the impression that I were somehow "brutalist"... or are you just setting up strawmen at this point for lack of salient counterpoints?
Also, $15 an hour shouldn't be a benefit...more like a 'living wage'.
Clue #1: a minimum wage job isn't something you should live off of. It is expressly for teenagers and for folks who use it as a stepping stone or fallback until something better comes along.
Clue #2: these jobs usually require little-to-no skill, and consequently do not bear the value of $15/hr at current inflation/valuation.
Clue #3: when you price human labor too high, automation becomes more attractive. There are already machines that can effectively replace fast-food cashiers, and are cheaper to operate and maintain than $15/hr people. There are also machines coming online that can operate the back-end of a fast food joint as well, which will also just come under the wire as being cheaper (but would come out ahead by being reliable, on-time, etc.)
Clue #4: sucks to say it, but no one owes you a living -anything, let alone a "living wage" (whatever that means). Safety nets and charity are for those unable to help themselves, and obviously for those among us in temporary desperate situations, but that's it. Meanwhile, if you are able-bodied and not mentally defective, then it is up to you to better yourself by any legal means possible.
So wait... you want the government to basically have a say in every major corporation's decision? The same government that is practically owned by the same major corporations?
Pretty sure you'd have to sterilize the thing before and after each run...
I believe many pharmaceutical factories do something similar (albeit on much larger scales) where they manufacture many different drugs at a given site. Plus, when they switch out products on a given line, I'm sure there's protocols for that too (though to be fair, that probably happens far less often than this 3D-printing thing would see).
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There is also the little phenomenon of people with more than one address voting in multiple precincts, people who blatantly vote at multiple polling stations, and worse.
As sibling said, a state-issued photo ID costs less than two Starbucks frappé drinks.
Oh, and you have to have one anyway to buy liquor, buy cigarettes, take out a loan of any type (including payday loans), write a check, use any state or federal government services (other than voting), get electricity and/or water turned on to your home/apartment/whatever, get married, drive a car...
Clue: First Sale Doctrine currently does not apply to digital copyrighted works.
You can thank MPAA, RIAA, Disney, CNN, CNBC, Fox, CBS, NBC, Sony...
Agreed.
I had done something similar with a 30' camping trailer years ago. It began as a rescue project - I paid $1 (literally) for the thing and dragged it home. After stripping it to the shell, I rebuilt it from the inside out - extra-thick insulation, salvaged RV appliances and cabinets, solar panels on the roof, a pair of Group 4D 12v batteries (the size used on fire trucks), a 150 gallon water tank (to replace the puny 25-gallon one), two massive (80#) propane tanks up front, a *real* queen-sized bed, extra weatherproofing and a new coat of paint, etc. Even kept a computer + LCD monitor in it, which consumed less power than a tube TV.
By the time I was done, that $1 investment cost me an additional $3.5k or so, but it was already road-worthy, and it allowed me to spend a literal month in it to bracket two hunting seasons (in Utah - first Elk, then Mule Deer) without having to replenish supplies from in-town. The windmill would have been nice, but I already had the panels, a generator and plenty of gasoline stored in the truck bed...
I barely used the generator or the propane until it began snowing, though... Speaking of which, I wonder how this little egg thingy would do at 10k' ASL in a snowstorm, with the temperatures well below freezing... seems like it would be pretty cramped and cold considering no visible heating source.
To your point, though: when I was ready to go home, I just stowed the stabilizing jacks, hooked it up to the truck, and drove off. No muss, no fuss.
Oatensibly, this would blacklist bots...
Then again, if someone popped onto a random IRC server in the undernet, and started chatting about every IP address for windowsupdate.com...
I am also curious as to how they handle DHCP, and if there's a timeout for the IPs listed?
Could be worse... it could be that they're weighing everyone in order to determine whether or not to fully fuel a plane up before it leaves.
I played the paranoid for a few years and didn't participate. Nobody said a word.
...did you consider that you may not have been high enough on the corporate food chain for it to matter? Once you get up into middle management and beyond, little crap like this begins to matter a lot when it comes to promotions, layoff decisions, etc.
...and yet many companies use United Healthcare, which has this neat little program where nicotine users (cigs, dip, vape, whatever) get to pay an extra $70/mo. for their health insurance, and if your spouse smokes? That'll be $140/mo that you get pay, please.
Oh, you don't partake and claim yourself exempt? You get random annual bodily-fluid testing where you get to prove that you're nicotine-free.
Did I mention that if caught smoking when you said you didn't? You get fired for-cause.
Anything for a buck - especially with that Apple iWatch thingy out as potential competition, eh?
Even better question - who is gonna clean up all that space junk once the satellites die, or track it all while it's active? That's a lot of pieces that can potentially puncture a rocket, satellite, or crew capsule on it's way up, and we've got a lot of hazardous crap up there as it is.
Wiped, hell - this rig looks like you could replace the entire hard drive, install Windows, then the BIOS (or is it EFI?) injects its crap in anyway.
Not like *that* would never be abused by the first script kiddie to notice it...
I'm thinking it'd be pretty damned hard to remove the device in the limited time between crash and haul-away by the cops, unless you're directly following the guy on a lonely, remote, deserted road (otherwise, it's going to look real suspicious if someone sees you just walk up, reach into the vehicle, and leave without even trying to render aid to the victim...)
Damn. Things like that make me doubly glad that I pay cash for all of my vehicles. I can only imagine how much easier it is to hack a car remotely which has one of those little beasties installed...
Well, yes and no.
In all seriousness, this is no different than a physical breach. If you have the means to bust into the car, you have the means to do whatever the hell you want to it while you're in there. There is honestly not much you can do to prevent it given the architecture of ODB-II (doubly so given the mass of insurance company 'monitor-me-for-a-discount' dongles out there).
This is no different than sneaking into a server room and plugging a wifi-enabled keylogger into the server's USB port, FFS (and IMHO the server room hack would be just as near-undetectable in most cases, given all those nooks and crannies in and about a server rack - not to mention the sloppiness of most cabling jobs...)
Well, Oracle (or a flack thereof) explained why they dumped the post (quoted in full in an update on TFA):
"The security of our products and services has always been critically important to Oracle. Oracle has a robust program of product security assurance and works with third party researchers and customers to jointly ensure that applications built with Oracle technology are secure. We removed the post as it does not reflect our beliefs or our relationship with our customers."
Methinks Ms. Davidson may find herself forced into 'spending more time with her family', and updating her resumé fairly soon...
I believe that by "money", GP meant "bribery". HK and most of China is notorious for requiring more than a few 'gifts' to the local constabulary and bureaucrats, all in order to insure that your business runs with as few 'incidents' as possible.
Agreed, but there's one other aspect as well...
Disclosure time: I've previously used Uber a *lot* when I find myself in cities like San Francisco (way cheaper than a cab).
That said, if you go into a highly-bribery-prone totalitarian country, and try to 'disrupt' the way they generally do business (without greasing the correct palms first, that is), then don't be too surprised when your empl^H^H^H^Hcontractors start finding themselves in jail for breaking the local laws.
Speaking of which, what do you think the odds are of Uber hiring legal help for the poor saps who got locked up?
Actually, this is a very likely scenario.
I live in a rural area... most folks out here, even the tinfoil crowd, don't walk around with a loaded shotgun everywhere ready to fire on whatever angers them. I'm very willing to wager that the drone operator had done his flights over that property numerous times before - enough to get the property owner to keep a shotgun handy just in case.
(...and while the property owner very poorly articulated his case judging by the summary, I would have zero problems with taking the thing down, then explaining quite clearly that the little $@#! had been flying that thing over my property repeatedly in spite of warnings, and doing so without permission or even notice.)
Oh they know exactly what they're doing. They just don't care. It's the taxpayers' dime after all.
Most likely reason has less to do with government waste than with Oracle's VM licensing scheme:
The department likely parked one small RAC cluster on a VM farm, and Oracle's licensing (at least used to) demand that, no matter how many vCPU you assign the VM, you must license every last socket on every last hypervisor box on the entire VM farm for *each* production VM running Oracle RDBS. ...and *that* is why the majority of production Oracle RAC clusters still reside on discrete physical hardware.
And yes, if Larry Ellison were to die painfully in a fire, half the tech world would cheer.
*whoosh*...
The only thing GP missed to make it perfectly funny was that he should have touted MongoDB instead of NoSQL... ;)
I hope everyone at that company is prepared for a long week.
Why? All they did was rip out all the networking parts of that particular Windows box. Oh, and they also removed the USB drivers, the serial ports... then they sealed it in a welded metal box, then set that box in the middle of a concrete block 1m x 1m x 1m, with only the power cable and a couple of water cooling pipes sticking out. It's completely unhackable now.
We have people in their adult years working fast food. It is a fantasy that only teens should be 'flipping burgers'.
That's why I included the second part of my statement on this, where working such jobs are (or should be) a temporary fallback or a stepping-stone until said adult can find a better position.
Neither does working at a factory in many cases, but that seemed to be deemed 'middle class worthy' in the 60s-70s where a single worker could support an entire family.
In the 1960's and 1970's (and before), most factory work was valued higher because in a pre-automation age it took skill to do those jobs. Nowadays it isn't as highly valued because in most cases robots, computers, or both can do the jobs in question.
What you're saying is 'you deserve to be destitute, you unskilled scum'.
First off, I'm saying no such thing. Second, it's not me setting the value, so stop blaming me - it's the job market at large that says it. You're cursing me for the movement of ocean waves as if my pointing them out meant that I were promoting them, and then basing your assertion on an emotional appeal.
All the more reason to support things like a basic income now (perhaps with some civil service requirement), since the mass unemployment problem is only going to get worse.
We already have a basic income of sorts, as evidenced by the various federal, stte, and local safety net programs in place. I think your argument is that it is not enough to provide (as available) basic housing, food, etc., and that instead we should provide more to each person. Question is, how much is enough, what would be provided, what conditions would it be tied to, and who ultimately ends up paying for this increase? It's one thing to say that everyone should get a certain minimum amount of money (even if able-bodied but not working), but...
I'm for treating all people with respect, and providing a safe place to live/eat/prosper.
I already mentioned the safety nets and charitable programs in place, which I agree with providing for those who need it. Where did you get the impression that I were somehow "brutalist"... or are you just setting up strawmen at this point for lack of salient counterpoints?
Also, $15 an hour shouldn't be a benefit...more like a 'living wage'.
Clue #1: a minimum wage job isn't something you should live off of. It is expressly for teenagers and for folks who use it as a stepping stone or fallback until something better comes along.
Clue #2: these jobs usually require little-to-no skill, and consequently do not bear the value of $15/hr at current inflation/valuation.
Clue #3: when you price human labor too high, automation becomes more attractive. There are already machines that can effectively replace fast-food cashiers, and are cheaper to operate and maintain than $15/hr people. There are also machines coming online that can operate the back-end of a fast food joint as well, which will also just come under the wire as being cheaper (but would come out ahead by being reliable, on-time, etc.)
Clue #4: sucks to say it, but no one owes you a living -anything, let alone a "living wage" (whatever that means). Safety nets and charity are for those unable to help themselves, and obviously for those among us in temporary desperate situations, but that's it. Meanwhile, if you are able-bodied and not mentally defective, then it is up to you to better yourself by any legal means possible.
...better hope it demands to be on wifi before transferring, else a few folks are going to get a bit of sticker-shock on the next phone bill...
So wait... you want the government to basically have a say in every major corporation's decision? The same government that is practically owned by the same major corporations?
Yay recursion?
Pretty sure you'd have to sterilize the thing before and after each run...
I believe many pharmaceutical factories do something similar (albeit on much larger scales) where they manufacture many different drugs at a given site. Plus, when they switch out products on a given line, I'm sure there's protocols for that too (though to be fair, that probably happens far less often than this 3D-printing thing would see).