It would be good to see all the big phone players get together to produce a secure open radio platform that could be masked out by whatever fab wants to run the job for a given integration.
I mean, this is commodity today - phone vendors haven't competed on reception quality in over a decade. They gain more by making the radio a commodity together than they do by playing Qualcomm's bitches.
RIM's ecosystem was so bad that a book was even written on how to fix it - The Innovator's Solution. The book told RIM how to fix their stuff. They didn't, but Steve Jobs read the book.
Proof of Work is the only known solution to trustless security. And even Bitcoin uses orders of magnitude fewer resources than any fiat currency system requires. cf. Wars for Petrodollar stability; Bitcoin never killed a half million children.
The best thing to happen to the future of fintech is all these speculators running for the doors. Back to where things were in 2015 would be just dandy, so serious developers can get back to making real, workable solutions. For some reason crypto caught fire before most people working on it thought things were ready for primetime - that was quite unfortunate because it got regulations interested in a nascent technology. It's like the USPS got hold of SMTP in 1986 and decided to take it over.:/ Quite a setback.
It's bad firmware. Some of the drives can supposedly be resuscitated by the factory or people who have reversed the private ATA commands.
I mean, at a minimum unless it's a PHY failure (and there's no reason to suspect those) the firmware could at least report missing storage (I've actually seen a 0MB drive failure once or twice) but their usual failure mode is to halt and catch fire, as the author notes as their usual behavior.
With the recent reports about the inexcusable security problems on Samsung and Crucial drives this is starting to feel like the old BIOS problems with Taiwanese mobo companies outsourcing to the lowest bidder and shipping bug-laden BIOS with reckless abandon. It's OK, all the world's servers only depend on this technology.
To be fair, I have batch of 20GB Intel SLC SSD's that have never done this, but those are notable exceptions. At this point only low-end laptops like Chromebooks don't get at least a mirror drive here.
I dislike government oversight, but I dislike anarchy more.
What you're missing is that people only believe the Bloomberg reporter because they believe he fears retributive justice by the government (slander, libel, etc. laws) that could carry prison time.
Absent that most people would assume everybody is full of bullshit without convincing evidence because private law solutions focus on restitutive mechanisms, not penal. If this turns out to be a short play then the profits would still be worth direct provable damage restitution, so people would necessarily ratchet up their BS meter.l to avoid being scammed They would demand verifiable evidence the same way any scientist or engineer would ("put up or shut up"). At least the wise ones.
If instead this is just another hit piece against a vendor who wouldn't capitulate to the Snowden-disclosed programs then your problems with verification are compounded. The prison incentive can't be considered because the State protects those who cooperate. The journalists have been documented to be willing accomplices.
The culture still gives both entities a level of trust that would be commensurate with a corruption-free regime, but short of rule by angels that's never going to happen. When a culture makes assumptions based on incorrect premises it weakens itself, to its own detriment. Other cultures are likely to exploit those weaknesses. Our culture will adapt to these new realities or face evolutionary pressure.
They usually pre-program "speed dials" on these things to help ensure that most records don't get sent to the wrong place.
Twenty-ish years ago I got an HP Digital Sender - paper in one side, email out the other - and integrated it with the employee directory of the hospital I was working for. Everybody loved the speed and reliability, plus the clarity was way better than FAX, but nobody wanted to type in a whole name on the chicklet keyboard when they were used to one-button dialing. Even 10 numbers was shorter than most names. Oh, and also there were no busy signals.
If these devices had come with some hardware buttons and/or an SDK, healthcare might have been off FAX years ago.
Also, they cost 10x what a plain-paper FAX machine did and offered very little difference besides a NIC instead of a modem. I supposed since they didn't print anything there wasn't much to make on toner or paper. At that time people receiving the documents would often, though not always, print them out to their local laser printer to go into the existing workflow.
Patents make everything better! Imagine trying to be a startup competitor to Qualcomm - ha, the USPTO will maintain their market dominance for them, no matter how bad the security is on their baseband radios. Which is interesting, because high-clearance individuals also use those phones. Even Intel is having trouble inventing around what Qualcomm got to first.
The peanut gallery will tell you to just root your android phone and load Lineage OS, or similar. For 99% of the buying public that is useless advice.
You can "just" buy an Essential PH-1 for $249 on Amazon whenever a sale is going on. It's almost pure Android and the security updates come out within an hour of Google's. LTE band 13 and easily rooted and updated w/ root.
The downside is that the camera is worthless (even with the latest Google Camera app), but for the missing $950 you can buy an amazing point-and-shoot to carry if you have a second pocket. Maybe get a $300 one and pocket the savings. I get that this is a non-ideal solution for going clubbing but for the typical nerd it works competently.
Things like "Certificate renewal" and "DNS renewal" should have reminders (or errors, or whatever) in your monitoring tool,
Some of my clients have every piece of infrastructure monitored that can possibly go wrong, and some that probably can't.
Meanwhile, our local ILEC will happily tell you that they don't need to monitor anything because customers will call and let them know what's out.
The difference? The ILEC is not subject to competitive pressures; they benefit from a monopoly grant from the State and are happy to bank the [minuscule] spending decrease to the detriment of their customers. The State also appears to be happy with that balance, and those customers vote to support that State. This is why dystopian novels get written.
Fix Firefox so that it does useful things again and tons of people would be glad to switch back.
A few people do distros of Firefox (Debian, Tails, etc.). There's no reason a group could not do a distro of Firefox that is laden with "the features that everybody wants".
Why not have every employee in the database and flag people who don't belong? They don't even have to scan guests if the system detects an unknown and that unknown is detected with an employee who has checked in a guest properly the odds of a breach are tremendously lowered. How can this be a new idea in an ultra-high security zone?
That better approach seems so obvious that this announcement seems like an excuse for weakened security. We'll see if a future incident is blamed on precisely this low level of observation. I guess we'll have that incident before next summer or not at all.
Have you ever talked with somebody who manages a large pension fund? You might be surprised how they see valuations.
Shareholders care about stock price, not value. Very few are looking at PE's when deciding what to buy. That is all about market demand, not intrinsic value, if such a thing could even be determined.
All valuations of future earnings are subjective guesses, and almost nobody believes companies are only worth the liquidation value of their hard assets. Market prices represent consensus guesses about future value, in relation to all other investment options, weighted against the available amount of money that "needs" to be invested. Rapidly inflating fiat puts additional pressure to add more money to the available investment pool, pushing up valuations and commissions.
That's primarily how monetary value is stolen from the lower classes.
You think that's bad? Radiologists are already significantly better with AI and give it a few more iterations and you'll only need a few of the best radiologists to handle the edge cases, then it's all machine learning on outliers.
Sorry about that fellowship you did - back to primary care with you - don't forget to swap out that BMW for a Prius.
We know that humans protect their downside more than they favor their upside, irrationally. Maybe it's good to listen to friends in such cases, for a more rational balance of risk and reward. Another reason to have friends who want the best for you.
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Encrypted hard drives prevent those idiots' lost computers from causing massive data breaches.
Lenovo needs to ask itself why it's not trivially easy to deploy their laptops with drive encryption enabled by default.
It would be good to see all the big phone players get together to produce a secure open radio platform that could be masked out by whatever fab wants to run the job for a given integration.
I mean, this is commodity today - phone vendors haven't competed on reception quality in over a decade. They gain more by making the radio a commodity together than they do by playing Qualcomm's bitches.
RIM's ecosystem was so bad that a book was even written on how to fix it - The Innovator's Solution. The book told RIM how to fix their stuff. They didn't, but Steve Jobs read the book.
Proof of Work is the only known solution to trustless security. And even Bitcoin uses orders of magnitude fewer resources than any fiat currency system requires. cf. Wars for Petrodollar stability; Bitcoin never killed a half million children.
The best thing to happen to the future of fintech is all these speculators running for the doors. Back to where things were in 2015 would be just dandy, so serious developers can get back to making real, workable solutions. For some reason crypto caught fire before most people working on it thought things were ready for primetime - that was quite unfortunate because it got regulations interested in a nascent technology. It's like the USPS got hold of SMTP in 1986 and decided to take it over. :/ Quite a setback.
I took a look the other day. The TODO list is where ZFS was twelve years ago. They'll be close to feature-comparable real soon now. Yeah, uh huh.
I do think as many people as possible should fund his Patreon but some realism is necessary.
Did 12 get us native ZFS encryption on BSD?
I would like to know, not having a Flat vs. Phillips flamewar. GELI crashes too often.
It's bad firmware. Some of the drives can supposedly be resuscitated by the factory or people who have reversed the private ATA commands.
I mean, at a minimum unless it's a PHY failure (and there's no reason to suspect those) the firmware could at least report missing storage (I've actually seen a 0MB drive failure once or twice) but their usual failure mode is to halt and catch fire, as the author notes as their usual behavior.
With the recent reports about the inexcusable security problems on Samsung and Crucial drives this is starting to feel like the old BIOS problems with Taiwanese mobo companies outsourcing to the lowest bidder and shipping bug-laden BIOS with reckless abandon. It's OK, all the world's servers only depend on this technology.
To be fair, I have batch of 20GB Intel SLC SSD's that have never done this, but those are notable exceptions. At this point only low-end laptops like Chromebooks don't get at least a mirror drive here.
I dislike government oversight, but I dislike anarchy more.
What you're missing is that people only believe the Bloomberg reporter because they believe he fears retributive justice by the government (slander, libel, etc. laws) that could carry prison time.
Absent that most people would assume everybody is full of bullshit without convincing evidence because private law solutions focus on restitutive mechanisms, not penal. If this turns out to be a short play then the profits would still be worth direct provable damage restitution, so people would necessarily ratchet up their BS meter.l to avoid being scammed They would demand verifiable evidence the same way any scientist or engineer would ("put up or shut up"). At least the wise ones.
If instead this is just another hit piece against a vendor who wouldn't capitulate to the Snowden-disclosed programs then your problems with verification are compounded. The prison incentive can't be considered because the State protects those who cooperate. The journalists have been documented to be willing accomplices.
The culture still gives both entities a level of trust that would be commensurate with a corruption-free regime, but short of rule by angels that's never going to happen. When a culture makes assumptions based on incorrect premises it weakens itself, to its own detriment. Other cultures are likely to exploit those weaknesses. Our culture will adapt to these new realities or face evolutionary pressure.
Run it, use its maps. Carriers lie, radios don't.
https://opensignal.com/
They usually pre-program "speed dials" on these things to help ensure that most records don't get sent to the wrong place.
Twenty-ish years ago I got an HP Digital Sender - paper in one side, email out the other - and integrated it with the employee directory of the hospital I was working for. Everybody loved the speed and reliability, plus the clarity was way better than FAX, but nobody wanted to type in a whole name on the chicklet keyboard when they were used to one-button dialing. Even 10 numbers was shorter than most names. Oh, and also there were no busy signals.
If these devices had come with some hardware buttons and/or an SDK, healthcare might have been off FAX years ago.
Also, they cost 10x what a plain-paper FAX machine did and offered very little difference besides a NIC instead of a modem. I supposed since they didn't print anything there wasn't much to make on toner or paper. At that time people receiving the documents would often, though not always, print them out to their local laser printer to go into the existing workflow.
Patents make everything better! Imagine trying to be a startup competitor to Qualcomm - ha, the USPTO will maintain their market dominance for them, no matter how bad the security is on their baseband radios. Which is interesting, because high-clearance individuals also use those phones. Even Intel is having trouble inventing around what Qualcomm got to first.
The peanut gallery will tell you to just root your android phone and load Lineage OS, or similar. For 99% of the buying public that is useless advice.
You can "just" buy an Essential PH-1 for $249 on Amazon whenever a sale is going on. It's almost pure Android and the security updates come out within an hour of Google's. LTE band 13 and easily rooted and updated w/ root.
The downside is that the camera is worthless (even with the latest Google Camera app), but for the missing $950 you can buy an amazing point-and-shoot to carry if you have a second pocket. Maybe get a $300 one and pocket the savings. I get that this is a non-ideal solution for going clubbing but for the typical nerd it works competently.
Things like "Certificate renewal" and "DNS renewal" should have reminders (or errors, or whatever) in your monitoring tool,
Some of my clients have every piece of infrastructure monitored that can possibly go wrong, and some that probably can't.
Meanwhile, our local ILEC will happily tell you that they don't need to monitor anything because customers will call and let them know what's out.
The difference? The ILEC is not subject to competitive pressures; they benefit from a monopoly grant from the State and are happy to bank the [minuscule] spending decrease to the detriment of their customers. The State also appears to be happy with that balance, and those customers vote to support that State. This is why dystopian novels get written.
Fix Firefox so that it does useful things again and tons of people would be glad to switch back.
A few people do distros of Firefox (Debian, Tails, etc.). There's no reason a group could not do a distro of Firefox that is laden with "the features that everybody wants".
If there's really a market.
and no recommendations here. Lame.
It was one of about eighty Google chat apps they were peddling, each obsoleting the others with circular dependencies.
Why should I invest any time or money developing based on Facebook's whim today when they can just reinstate the same policy again in six months?
Kick the ball, Charlie Brown!
Protections? Have you heard of Edward Snowden?
Why not have every employee in the database and flag people who don't belong? They don't even have to scan guests if the system detects an unknown and that unknown is detected with an employee who has checked in a guest properly the odds of a breach are tremendously lowered. How can this be a new idea in an ultra-high security zone?
That better approach seems so obvious that this announcement seems like an excuse for weakened security. We'll see if a future incident is blamed on precisely this low level of observation. I guess we'll have that incident before next summer or not at all.
Only an investment banker would think like that.
Have you ever talked with somebody who manages a large pension fund? You might be surprised how they see valuations.
Shareholders care about stock price, not value. Very few are looking at PE's when deciding what to buy. That is all about market demand, not intrinsic value, if such a thing could even be determined.
All valuations of future earnings are subjective guesses, and almost nobody believes companies are only worth the liquidation value of their hard assets. Market prices represent consensus guesses about future value, in relation to all other investment options, weighted against the available amount of money that "needs" to be invested. Rapidly inflating fiat puts additional pressure to add more money to the available investment pool, pushing up valuations and commissions.
That's primarily how monetary value is stolen from the lower classes.
You think that's bad? Radiologists are already significantly better with AI and give it a few more iterations and you'll only need a few of the best radiologists to handle the edge cases, then it's all machine learning on outliers.
Sorry about that fellowship you did - back to primary care with you - don't forget to swap out that BMW for a Prius.
Hi, Julian. You were warned, man. Now smuggle yourself out like you should have done five years ago, before you're too weak to do it.
We know that humans protect their downside more than they favor their upside, irrationally. Maybe it's good to listen to friends in such cases, for a more rational balance of risk and reward. Another reason to have friends who want the best for you.
I've seen 2-3 monarchs most years- mostly a curiosity. This year there were a few dozen around - order of magnitude checks out. Northern New England.