RS232 an null-modems are mentioned in TFA, but I'd like to add a detail: Most of the more hackerish students where I went (ca 1990) knew the minimal pinout for a null-modem by heart so we could improvise one with 3 wires and matches/paperclips/whatever. By the time we graduated LANs and to some degree internet mane that knowledge obsolete, but it sure did save the day a few times, typically for transferring files between different platforms with different floppy formatting.
Extortion is still extortion. Even if the thing you are threatening to do is perfectly legal sans the threat.
Also:
Being an asshole is still being an asshole. Even all was legally sound and the other guy could/should have seen your capability to screw him in the terms, securing and exercising that capability is a choice, and that choice can make you an asshole. It is perfectly legal to choose to be an asshole, but don't come whining to me or anyone else when you get called out. Those are the stakes.
If you actively piss off your customers or prospective customers enough to hurt your reputation, that is on you. It's your problem, and it's your fault.
They are leaving you alone. Noone is forcing you to use instagram. If instagram wants to be a safe place for their chosen audience, that is their choice. It's a photo sharing service, for chrissakes. Not a debating forum central to the survival of democracy. Not a bullying-deathmatch server. Not your soapbox. If you don't like it, find or make one that does what you want.
Your freedom of speech grants you the right to post what you like on _your_ site. Noone else is obliged to host your whiny rants, listen to them, respect them, or respect you.
The right question is why these devices need security in the first place. Why are they routable from the Internet?
Because they consume and produce medical information about the patient, which in turn need to be transferred to wherever the patient receives medical attention next, sometimes in a hurry.
The clearest case of this dilemma are the boring terminals used for handling patient records: Full and unhindered access is critical to proper treatment, but they also provide just about the most hefty lump of sensitive personal data you can find.
See, hospitals are full of squishy biology stuff, some of it really bad, some of it really vital, so when there is a real crisis and you need that information more urgently than ever, your hands may well be covered in any combination of gloves, bodily fluids, and medicinal gunk.
Won't help: even with a real app and real moving car, your reports would quickly be outvoted by other users, and after a few times your account would be banned or ignored for posting trash data. As mentioned ITFS.
I'd be required to drive a circuitous serpentine 7-block route just to get home within my neighborhood in an area where I would only have had to go about 2 blocks by walking.
Who exactly was requiring you to drive where you could easily walk?
However, if you are thinking about murder, and you start imagining the needle is waiting for you.... Its a little different.
Yes, I can see it all so clearly now:
"Well, I plan on getting caught, so if that would get me executed I would never do it. But if it's just three times life of being raped every day in an American hellhole prison hey, why the hell not?"
Pure speculation: If you're a notable security professional who hinders the feds for a living, you probably have your exit strategy planned well ahead, and it is no stretch of the imagination for that plan to include your friend's company abroad already waiting with the job offer you need to immigrate, and only too happy to welcome any existing clients you can bring along.
Ok, so the wristwatch was more practical than the pocket watch in its time. But once I realized I carried my time-telling phone at all times anyway, I was relieved to ditch the damn steampunk contrivance, and never looked back.
When a smartwatch can fully replace the smartphone (probably combination with ambient computing) it might stand a decent chance in the market. By then they will probably have solved the bulkyness as well. But until then, smartwatches will remain a niche product, because for most people they simply don't add enough extra value compared to the phone you will still have.
And my bet is it will take a good while still to come up with something to compete in value with decent screen space for the way most people (will) use their portable smarts. Looking forward to see what it looks like, though.
Damn, just when my points expired. Loved that machine, and can still hear that boot-up sound.
Pity the 64 beat it hands-down on graphics - the BBC was way more advanced on the OS side, and the built in BASIC was actually a decent structured language you could do real stuff in.
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RS232 an null-modems are mentioned in TFA, but I'd like to add a detail:
Most of the more hackerish students where I went (ca 1990) knew the minimal pinout for a null-modem by heart so we could improvise one with 3 wires and matches/paperclips/whatever. By the time we graduated LANs and to some degree internet mane that knowledge obsolete, but it sure did save the day a few times, typically for transferring files between different platforms with different floppy formatting.
Extortion is still extortion.
Even if the thing you are threatening to do is perfectly legal sans the threat.
Also:
Being an asshole is still being an asshole.
Even all was legally sound and the other guy could/should have seen your capability to screw him in the terms, securing and exercising that capability is a choice, and that choice can make you an asshole. It is perfectly legal to choose to be an asshole, but don't come whining to me or anyone else when you get called out. Those are the stakes.
If you actively piss off your customers or prospective customers enough to hurt your reputation, that is on you. It's your problem, and it's your fault.
Nuclear fuel!
Everyone knows reality has has built-in liberal bias that in the name of balances must be countered by en equal amount of conservative bullshit.
They are leaving you alone. Noone is forcing you to use instagram. If instagram wants to be a safe place for their chosen audience, that is their choice.
It's a photo sharing service, for chrissakes. Not a debating forum central to the survival of democracy. Not a bullying-deathmatch server. Not your soapbox.
If you don't like it, find or make one that does what you want.
Your freedom of speech grants you the right to post what you like on _your_ site.
Noone else is obliged to host your whiny rants, listen to them, respect them, or respect you.
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The right question is why these devices need security in the first place. Why are they routable from the Internet?
Because they consume and produce medical information about the patient, which in turn need to be transferred to wherever the patient receives medical attention next, sometimes in a hurry.
The clearest case of this dilemma are the boring terminals used for handling patient records: Full and unhindered access is critical to proper treatment, but they also provide just about the most hefty lump of sensitive personal data you can find.
See, hospitals are full of squishy biology stuff, some of it really bad, some of it really vital, so when there is a real crisis and you need that information more urgently than ever, your hands may well be covered in any combination of gloves, bodily fluids, and medicinal gunk.
That's what they WANT you to believe.
OK, so Google will work with Trump in stead. Don't think he wants what they have?
Won't help: even with a real app and real moving car, your reports would quickly be outvoted by other users, and after a few times your account would be banned or ignored for posting trash data. As mentioned ITFS.
I'd be required to drive a circuitous serpentine 7-block route just to get home within my neighborhood in an area where I would only have had to go about 2 blocks by walking.
Who exactly was requiring you to drive where you could easily walk?
Yeah, and the enormous sums american corps spend on lawyers is just for fun, not because they think it can affect the outcome.
Still holding out for Minesweeper The Movie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
However, if you are thinking about murder, and you start imagining the needle is waiting for you.... Its a little different.
Yes, I can see it all so clearly now:
"Well, I plan on getting caught, so if that would get me executed I would never do it. But if it's just three times life of being raped every day in an American hellhole prison hey, why the hell not?"
Think you nailed it, there.
Fucking barbarians.
Pure speculation: If you're a notable security professional who hinders the feds for a living, you probably have your exit strategy planned well ahead, and it is no stretch of the imagination for that plan to include your friend's company abroad already waiting with the job offer you need to immigrate, and only too happy to welcome any existing clients you can bring along.
complex production goals.
Granted, there are plenty of downsides to imaginary cars, but surely producing them is not the biggest hurdle.
Ok, so the wristwatch was more practical than the pocket watch in its time. But once I realized I carried my time-telling phone at all times anyway, I was relieved to ditch the damn steampunk contrivance, and never looked back.
When a smartwatch can fully replace the smartphone (probably combination with ambient computing) it might stand a decent chance in the market. By then they will probably have solved the bulkyness as well.
But until then, smartwatches will remain a niche product, because for most people they simply don't add enough extra value compared to the phone you will still have.
And my bet is it will take a good while still to come up with something to compete in value with decent screen space for the way most people (will) use their portable smarts. Looking forward to see what it looks like, though.
It is clearly orbited by a starkiller base. Or at least that's about as likely as a Dyson sphere.
The extra programs are for making you give them more money for nothing much.
You already hacked the system by getting the cheap one.
Damn, just when my points expired.
Loved that machine, and can still hear that boot-up sound.
Pity the 64 beat it hands-down on graphics - the BBC was way more advanced on the OS side, and the built in BASIC was actually a decent structured language you could do real stuff in.
Can you even read? The point of this subthread was applauding the promise of synthetic blood eliminating such risks, and how that will be a first.
Calm the fuck down.
Never heard of him. I was only joking - just found it funny how it was the very day after the meeting.
...was good for something after all. Who'd have thunk it.
But that's not an apply of nouning.