To exploit on a default system you need to have local access to an unprivileged user account, and from there you can get root.
It's not like that's a minor issue, though. People always go, "Well if you have physical access to the machine, anything goes..." But imagine this scenario: You hate somebody at work and they walk away from their Mac without putting it to sleep. You walk over, gain root access, AND set a password for the root account. So now, even if the machine is put to sleep or switched off, you still have access to it.
In Italy, the trains are on time most of the time. That 15:13 train might be 15:14 or so.
Or they might just totally screw up, change the wrong sign on the platform, and a dozen people find themselves on an express train traveling the opposite direction from where they need to go. It happened to me, so you have a lot more faith in Italian trains than I do.
So a person wants to enter the USA? Why? For an education? To stay for some time for some reason? To emigrate? As a refugee? To find work? Got a special talent? All that can be considered if the person is from a normal nation with a working government, passports, educational system and police records.
Right. So why the security theater? Because "AI sells"?
Did they try to change their own government for "freedom" and "democracy" and fail? Now they demand the USA has support them?
What you call "demanding," I call "asking." And God forbid they agitated in their home country for things like human rights, justice, the rule of law... all things we should stop dead at the U.S. border.
Do they demand to bring in a vast numbers of other people once they get into the USA?
How on Earth would they do that?
How much will every extra person that one person got in cost the USA to look after over the decades? Is the person going to cost the USA a lot to support? Has health issues that will cost the US tax payer?
You mean like the elderly? Fuck 'em, am I right?
Do their infectious diseases need the US tax payer to cover the full costs of expensive medication for decades?
Does the U.S. tax payer pay a single penny to cover your medical expenses? I think you must be fantasizing you live in a country with a proper national health care system. On the other hand, maybe these plague-ridden zombies you describe want to enter the U.S. so they can pay for health care that they could not receive at home?
The problem is a lot of nations just have a lot of random, average "people". No working government, no police, no engineers, no passports, few doctors. No skills, long term health issues. A way of life that demands changes to every aspect of the USA once the person gets to stay in the USA.
I know, but I can't see how AI can solve West Virginia and Kentucky. I honestly can't.
Same deal at the biggest grocery chain around here, Safeway: 99 cents per pound fresh, 69 cents per pound frozen. Organic frozen is $1.79/pound. I didn't see if they have a fresh organic option, but I assume they do.
Actually one million is more than will pass through my hands through my entire existence.
I can't tell whether your math skills are poor, you're planning for a career in fast food, or you just have a heartbreakingly low estimation of your own lifespan.
Once you're brain is full of holes, that's more or less it. There can however be preventative treatments.
Pedantic chime-in to say that "a brain full of holes" is more descriptive of spongiform encephalopathies, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Alzheimer's is more like having a brain full of gunk.
Not quite. A police box had a phone on it (on the outside) that you, as a member of the public, could use to call police. The inside was for use of the police, including (but not limited to) detaining prisoners until they could be transported elsewhere.
Forget images. Who decided that when I'm reading a news story -- and this might be a dozen paragraphs of text, now -- I'd want a video of someone reciting a paraphrased version of that same story to play automatically and cover part of the text I'm trying to read?
What does it even matter now? The readership of the flagship journalism outlets like the Washington Post and the New York Times is falling
Actually, though I can't speak for total figures, digital-only subscriptions to the outlets you mention have exploded in the Trump era, more than tripling year-on-year: http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...
The difference is that in math, you actually are trying to get the right answer. Knowing how to wax a car won't do shit if you can't do basic division. The only way to know that you're "doing math right" is to arrive at the correct answer. And if you can do that, reliably, then you don't need any "muscle memory." This ain't gym class.
That's why his kiddo got an F. Not because he can't do long division, because he can't demonstrate that he understands that method.
Why does the algorithm used to achieve a correct result matter? If there's more than one algorithm, and each will produce the correct result each and every time, both are correct.
If you told me that the "correct" way to achieve 2+2 = 4 is to "reduce" it to (1+1) + (1+1) = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4, I would laugh at you. I don't care what textbook you learned it from.
It doesn't really matter how computer crime laws are structured.
I own a big warehouse. I tell everyone it's the best warehouse around and they can all keep their valuables in it, for free. Everybody gets on board. Then, once everybody has left their stuff in the warehouse, I leave the front doors open.
Is the person who walked in and stole everything a criminal? Yes. Am I liable for my negligence? Almost certainly.
Teradici PCoIP seems like the kind of thing you're looking for, but it's not really practical for a lot of casual applications because of bandwidth requirements. You've gotta remember that most people today are surfing the web on their phones; maybe not all the time, but they're doing it at least some of the time. If your alternative to client-side processing is unusable on a shitty 3G connection, it's a non-starter.
He deserves an F... for being able to correctly complete division problems. Got it.
Not every kid can understand long division... so the kids who can, get punished by effectively getting kicked out of the school curriculum with failing grades. Got it.
I used to think home-schooling people were all libertarian nutjobs or whacked-out Christians. Now I'm not so sure.
However, that isn't the only problem here. There is also the problem of being exposed to and having to deal with the very idea of violence and physical harm.
Meh. I had 14 stitches put into my face when I was three years old. It traumatized me only in the literal sense, not the psychological sense. If anything, I learned that my parents and doctors were there to take care of me. How old do YOU figure a child needs to be to learn about "the very idea of violence and physical harm"?
You use your Facebook account solely as a method of authenticating yourself into multiple accounts all over the web? And for that reason you chose weak credentials for your Facebook account?
NFC is an interesting fad which I really think people use to look cool.
My camera can uses NFC to set up a Wi-Fi network to transfer pictures to my phone. I've used that a bunch. Mind you, my most recent phone actually has a pretty decent camera, so I have somewhat less need for it.
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To exploit on a default system you need to have local access to an unprivileged user account, and from there you can get root.
It's not like that's a minor issue, though. People always go, "Well if you have physical access to the machine, anything goes..." But imagine this scenario: You hate somebody at work and they walk away from their Mac without putting it to sleep. You walk over, gain root access, AND set a password for the root account. So now, even if the machine is put to sleep or switched off, you still have access to it.
Just for kicks, I've got a Model 500 phone and one of these.
Yeah, but did the killer apologize for killing his victims 20 seconds too early?
In Italy, the trains are on time most of the time. That 15:13 train might be 15:14 or so.
Or they might just totally screw up, change the wrong sign on the platform, and a dozen people find themselves on an express train traveling the opposite direction from where they need to go. It happened to me, so you have a lot more faith in Italian trains than I do.
So a person wants to enter the USA? Why?
For an education? To stay for some time for some reason? To emigrate? As a refugee? To find work? Got a special talent?
All that can be considered if the person is from a normal nation with a working government, passports, educational system and police records.
Right. So why the security theater? Because "AI sells"?
Did they try to change their own government for "freedom" and "democracy" and fail? Now they demand the USA has support them?
What you call "demanding," I call "asking." And God forbid they agitated in their home country for things like human rights, justice, the rule of law ... all things we should stop dead at the U.S. border.
Do they demand to bring in a vast numbers of other people once they get into the USA?
How on Earth would they do that?
How much will every extra person that one person got in cost the USA to look after over the decades?
Is the person going to cost the USA a lot to support? Has health issues that will cost the US tax payer?
You mean like the elderly? Fuck 'em, am I right?
Do their infectious diseases need the US tax payer to cover the full costs of expensive medication for decades?
Does the U.S. tax payer pay a single penny to cover your medical expenses? I think you must be fantasizing you live in a country with a proper national health care system. On the other hand, maybe these plague-ridden zombies you describe want to enter the U.S. so they can pay for health care that they could not receive at home?
The problem is a lot of nations just have a lot of random, average "people". No working government, no police, no engineers, no passports, few doctors.
No skills, long term health issues. A way of life that demands changes to every aspect of the USA once the person gets to stay in the USA.
I know, but I can't see how AI can solve West Virginia and Kentucky. I honestly can't.
Plenty of people born in the U.S. don't meet these standards. Strange that they can't be deported.
Same deal at the biggest grocery chain around here, Safeway: 99 cents per pound fresh, 69 cents per pound frozen. Organic frozen is $1.79/pound. I didn't see if they have a fresh organic option, but I assume they do.
It sounds great to wipe out a disease, but let's make sure we don't squander this money.
There's a huge difference between "not having found a universal cure for cancer" and "squandering the money."
People DO survive cancer, and many of them do so as a result of treatments that didn't exist decades ago.
Actually one million is more than will pass through my hands through my entire existence.
I can't tell whether your math skills are poor, you're planning for a career in fast food, or you just have a heartbreakingly low estimation of your own lifespan.
Once you're brain is full of holes, that's more or less it. There can however be preventative treatments.
Pedantic chime-in to say that "a brain full of holes" is more descriptive of spongiform encephalopathies, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Alzheimer's is more like having a brain full of gunk.
Not quite. A police box had a phone on it (on the outside) that you, as a member of the public, could use to call police. The inside was for use of the police, including (but not limited to) detaining prisoners until they could be transported elsewhere.
It's 2017, all phones have GPS.
Doesn't mean it's switched on.
Doesn't mean that turning it off will let you escape cell tower triangulation.
Forget images. Who decided that when I'm reading a news story -- and this might be a dozen paragraphs of text, now -- I'd want a video of someone reciting a paraphrased version of that same story to play automatically and cover part of the text I'm trying to read?
What does it even matter now? The readership of the flagship journalism outlets like the Washington Post and the New York Times is falling
Actually, though I can't speak for total figures, digital-only subscriptions to the outlets you mention have exploded in the Trump era, more than tripling year-on-year: http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...
You know who says otherwise? Trump.
The difference is that in math, you actually are trying to get the right answer. Knowing how to wax a car won't do shit if you can't do basic division. The only way to know that you're "doing math right" is to arrive at the correct answer. And if you can do that, reliably, then you don't need any "muscle memory." This ain't gym class.
That's why his kiddo got an F. Not because he can't do long division, because he can't demonstrate that he understands that method.
Why does the algorithm used to achieve a correct result matter? If there's more than one algorithm, and each will produce the correct result each and every time, both are correct.
If you told me that the "correct" way to achieve 2+2 = 4 is to "reduce" it to (1+1) + (1+1) = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4, I would laugh at you. I don't care what textbook you learned it from.
It doesn't really matter how computer crime laws are structured.
I own a big warehouse. I tell everyone it's the best warehouse around and they can all keep their valuables in it, for free. Everybody gets on board. Then, once everybody has left their stuff in the warehouse, I leave the front doors open.
Is the person who walked in and stole everything a criminal? Yes.
Am I liable for my negligence? Almost certainly.
Teradici PCoIP seems like the kind of thing you're looking for, but it's not really practical for a lot of casual applications because of bandwidth requirements. You've gotta remember that most people today are surfing the web on their phones; maybe not all the time, but they're doing it at least some of the time. If your alternative to client-side processing is unusable on a shitty 3G connection, it's a non-starter.
He deserves an F ... for being able to correctly complete division problems. Got it.
Not every kid can understand long division ... so the kids who can, get punished by effectively getting kicked out of the school curriculum with failing grades. Got it.
I used to think home-schooling people were all libertarian nutjobs or whacked-out Christians. Now I'm not so sure.
Nah, I was too busy playing D&D.
However, that isn't the only problem here. There is also the problem of being exposed to and having to deal with the very idea of violence and physical harm.
Meh. I had 14 stitches put into my face when I was three years old. It traumatized me only in the literal sense, not the psychological sense. If anything, I learned that my parents and doctors were there to take care of me. How old do YOU figure a child needs to be to learn about "the very idea of violence and physical harm"?
Let me understand this ...
You use your Facebook account solely as a method of authenticating yourself into multiple accounts all over the web? And for that reason you chose weak credentials for your Facebook account?
I don't have to deal with a messy venue, people talking, people texting, knife fights in the parking lot, ect.
You might try an experiment. I have experienced that, but it hasn't been the trend doomsayers said it would be, IMO.
Which had a government granted monopoly.
When you account for half the world's trade, you don't need a government to grant you shit.
NFC is an interesting fad which I really think people use to look cool.
My camera can uses NFC to set up a Wi-Fi network to transfer pictures to my phone. I've used that a bunch. Mind you, my most recent phone actually has a pretty decent camera, so I have somewhat less need for it.