yeah yeah it's supposed to be "800 pound gorilla", I know, I know
I just love how so many people on the Internets will get so pedantically caught up in a metaphor mangled and completely ignore the reason for the metaphor.:-(
You can't prove that people were knowingly committing fraud. You also can't prove that the South Carolina state government isn't trying to commit fraud by 'claiming' there was a 'computer error' to get out of paying. If it were I judging on this matter, I'd say the company that wrote the software be liable for the cost of paying the winning tickets, since they're ultimately responsible for this and also the only party involved in it that can be proven liable in any way. Maybe next time they'll be more competent and careful -- although, again, if it were I, I'd disbar them from being elligible for any State contracts in the future.
Yeah. and The Handmaids Tale and Atlas Shrugged are meant to be cautionary tales, too; but you'll notice that certain socio-political groups are trying to use them as instruction manuals.:-(
How about Rule Zero: Don't have a smartphone in the first place.
You do know that right out of the box, never even having done so much as made a normal voice phone call on it, your smartphone was already compromised, right? Likely installed right at the factory, before it was even boxed up to ship to you, or rooted by your wireless carrier before it was handed to you. Even if none of that is true, there's so many browser-based exploits out there for smartphones that you basically can't avoid it, and that's just the normal citizen-criminals I'm talking about, not the mass surveillance machine of three-letter government agencies and their specifically-written code. Before you dismiss me as a crackpot paranoid conspiracy theorist, I suggest you reseach news stories from various sources over the last 5 years. Plenty of revelations from researchers and whistle-blowers about what can and can't be done to a smartphone to turn it into a surveillance device. And, since the wireless companies lock down the core code and OS running your phone, there's literally nothing you can do to effectively secure a smartphone the way you could secure a desktop computer; you're literally not allowed to, for most all intents and purposes. Yes, I suppose if you're a developer-level software engineer and can break into your phone at the bootloader level, completely rewrite you phone's core OS with code you've personally vetted, then you can secure it any way you want. But if you can do that then you're in a minority, a tiny fraction of a percent. But that doesn't help everyone else. For most, the line from the old movie Wargames applies: The only way to win the game is to not play.
Or, as I've said many times in the past: Computers used to be fun. Not so much anymore.
There's going to be a fork in the road, somewhere up ahead. We may never even really notice it. The right-hand path will take us to a place where there are strict controls and laws protecting people's privacy, giving them control over their data. The left-hand path will continue down the road we're currently on, where there are more and more data breaches, more and more surveillance in all aspects of our lives, and the people, becoming dumber and dumber, will trade what's left of their privacy and freedom for more 'conveniences', like the native Americans trading away Manhattan for a few baubles. Those of us who never fell for the 'smartphone' meme will be looked upon even more so as freaks, conspiracy theorists, and at worst, criminals trying to hide alleged illegal activities, when all it is we want is some core of our lives left private, not constantly under the microscope of public, corporate, and government scutiny.
There's still a small chance that people will wake up, suddenly seeing what's been going on, experience an epiphany about what it is they've given up, and they may demand it back. Assuming that is that it's not too late to do anything about it. We'll see I guess. Of course it'll be a race to the bottom, between overreaching surveillance and spying on everyone, War to End All Wars, and human-caused global climate change, to see which one finally destroys our civilization and our species. Not sure we can stop any one of them.
Am I the only one who feels like the W.H.O. is more of a political organization with an agenda than it is anything to do with actual medicine and health?
Have you been to somewhere like BevMo or Whole Foods lately? Seen how many different kinds of beer there are? You could drink a new one every day and it would probably take you a year to get through them all. Isn't there a diminishing returns point beyond which more variety really makes no difference?
Nice for once to not be the first person to say all this. Don't forget 'millennials-and-younger people learning ACTUAL social skills'.
Die, Facebook, die, die, die. And nothing of value was lost.
Are you stupid or something? China is a 300 pound gorilla that wants to overrun the planet. Russia is run by a butthurt ex-KGB agent-turned-organized-crime-uberboss that wants to bring back the Good Old Days and create Soviet Union 2p0. Between the two of them they'd love to smash the NATO alliance, see the United States and it's allied countries shattered, and then have a death-match between the two of them for who gets control of the planet. If it were possible to 'force' either one of them, let alone both, to do anything, believe you me when I say the rest of the planet has an entire wish list of things they'd dearly love to 'force' them to do. The only reason China and Russia both don't just stomp a big fat boot-print on the entirety of North Korea is they like having Kim Jong Un stirring shit up with the West and keep us off balance, having to deal with their insanity, while they're off trying to annex the North China Sea and soft-invade former Soviet block countries in Eastern Europe.
Yeah, all of what you said. I don't understand why it is they spend so much money and time developing this crap that is such a waste of power and really isn't going t be practical, and may not be safe for humans to be around in the long term.
Questions:
1. What frequency(s) is this using?
2. How much transmit power?
3. What's the efficiency of the transmitter? (almost a rhetorical question, it's likely to be low)
4. At max range what's the overall efficiency? (again, it's likely to be low)
5. Is it a broadcast, or is it directional?
Just on guts I wouldn't want to be anywhere near one of these when it's operating, especially if it's directional/focused.
It's not because any HDD you wanted to attack in the real world is going to be enclosed in something else, and behind walls of varying thickness and materials, all of which have their own resonant frequencies, and all of which attentuate sound waves. I'm treating this article as FUD and useless, they're just trying to bring attention to themselves (looking for funding maybe?).
Jamming radio frequencies is illegal. How is effectively 'jamming' someones internet-connected devices in this way, devices which have no relation whatsoever to the alleged 'illegal activities' the ISP is complaining about, really any different? At the least it sounds like extortion. Considering that all these IoT devices like thermostats must 'phone home' to the manufacturers servers to function, I'd think the manufacturer would have a problem with it legally, too.
In a broader sense, this is the question I think needs to be asked: Is it illegal for anyone to interfere with the transmission or reception of data on the Internet?
What the hell are you even talking about? CASH IS CASH. It has INHERENT value. Nobody is going to come to you and say "that cash isn't yours" and 'take it back' from you. 'Fraudulent stolen money' indeed.
Please use this comment thread to list all the reasons why 'cashless' isn't practical.
Here's one: How do you buy something from a random person on Craigslist when there's no cash? I don't want this person having anything to do with my bank accounts or even knowing my name. I wouldn't give him a check for the same reason. How do you pay this person for what you're buying from them if there is no cash?
The more and more Ajit Pai and the FCC ignores what citizens are saying, the more obvious it becomes that Ajit Pai is in the hip pocket of corporations and does not care at all about what's good for U.S. Citizens. Ajit Pai needs to be removed and NN needs to be not just reinstated but expanded. The Internet isn't some Boutique 'service' that doesn't matter anymore, it's too important and too ubiquitos to be treated as such.
Listen Mister Shill, Comcast/Xfinity virtually has a de-facto monopoly and it's probably going to get worse before it gets better. You're just not paying attention.
You don't seem to know what a ramscoop is or how it works which isn't surprising. A ramscoop uses magnetic fields to funnel interstellar hydrogen into a magnetic constriction point, where the pressure causes fusion to occur. The fusion reaction gives you thrust and therefore acceleration. It's a self-sustaining reaction, although you need to be at or above a certain velocity for the system to work -- so you also need stored hydrogen to get you up to speed. The magnetic fields themselves shield you from interstellar radiation (which just gets worse the faster you go). Theoretically you could reach 0.9999999999~ of C using a drive like this, acclerating forever. Some of the energy from the fusion reaction can be siphoned off to power other things. It's total Science Fiction/Fantasy though. But somehow getting your fuel source from interstellar space itself is an interesting idea.
Ha, if that's a 'flag' as you say then I guess I need to sweep my house for listening devices regularly, because I bailed out of all 'social media' a long time ago, and pay for everything I buy in person with cash, so I must be a terrorist or drug dealer or something, right? Because I don't put my entire life under a microscope for them.
Sounds like your brother has been indoctrinated from a young age to be a Good Little Consumer and spend, spend, spend. Gotta keep up with the Joneses, right? They bought 'X', gotta go get one too, don't want to be left behind! I of course do not know you or your brother but am I right?
Trump: "Putin is a smart man. We should do the same and take a steaming dump all over Freedom of the Press because CNN and NY Times say things I don't like"
That's about how that would translate if (when?) he's stupid enough to say something like that. Flies right in the face of one of the foundation blocks the United States was founded on. Trump reveals himself as more and more un-American and despotic every week.
Oh, I'm sure The Rich aren't too concerned about Salvation Army, after all they want The Poor to remain poor, as a warning to Middle Class of what can be done to them if we don't 'behave' and do as The Rich tell us to. Why else do you think that in the U.S., one of the richest countries in the world, we still have a homelessness problem, and that anyone is Poor to start with?
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yeah yeah it's supposed to be "800 pound gorilla", I know, I know
I just love how so many people on the Internets will get so pedantically caught up in a metaphor mangled and completely ignore the reason for the metaphor. :-(
You can't prove that people were knowingly committing fraud. You also can't prove that the South Carolina state government isn't trying to commit fraud by 'claiming' there was a 'computer error' to get out of paying. If it were I judging on this matter, I'd say the company that wrote the software be liable for the cost of paying the winning tickets, since they're ultimately responsible for this and also the only party involved in it that can be proven liable in any way. Maybe next time they'll be more competent and careful -- although, again, if it were I, I'd disbar them from being elligible for any State contracts in the future.
Yeah. and The Handmaids Tale and Atlas Shrugged are meant to be cautionary tales, too; but you'll notice that certain socio-political groups are trying to use them as instruction manuals. :-(
How about Rule Zero: Don't have a smartphone in the first place.
..and, no, I don't have a smartphone.
You do know that right out of the box, never even having done so much as made a normal voice phone call on it, your smartphone was already compromised, right? Likely installed right at the factory, before it was even boxed up to ship to you, or rooted by your wireless carrier before it was handed to you. Even if none of that is true, there's so many browser-based exploits out there for smartphones that you basically can't avoid it, and that's just the normal citizen-criminals I'm talking about, not the mass surveillance machine of three-letter government agencies and their specifically-written code. Before you dismiss me as a crackpot paranoid conspiracy theorist, I suggest you reseach news stories from various sources over the last 5 years. Plenty of revelations from researchers and whistle-blowers about what can and can't be done to a smartphone to turn it into a surveillance device. And, since the wireless companies lock down the core code and OS running your phone, there's literally nothing you can do to effectively secure a smartphone the way you could secure a desktop computer; you're literally not allowed to, for most all intents and purposes. Yes, I suppose if you're a developer-level software engineer and can break into your phone at the bootloader level, completely rewrite you phone's core OS with code you've personally vetted, then you can secure it any way you want. But if you can do that then you're in a minority, a tiny fraction of a percent. But that doesn't help everyone else. For most, the line from the old movie Wargames applies: The only way to win the game is to not play.
Or, as I've said many times in the past: Computers used to be fun. Not so much anymore.
There's going to be a fork in the road, somewhere up ahead. We may never even really notice it. The right-hand path will take us to a place where there are strict controls and laws protecting people's privacy, giving them control over their data. The left-hand path will continue down the road we're currently on, where there are more and more data breaches, more and more surveillance in all aspects of our lives, and the people, becoming dumber and dumber, will trade what's left of their privacy and freedom for more 'conveniences', like the native Americans trading away Manhattan for a few baubles. Those of us who never fell for the 'smartphone' meme will be looked upon even more so as freaks, conspiracy theorists, and at worst, criminals trying to hide alleged illegal activities, when all it is we want is some core of our lives left private, not constantly under the microscope of public, corporate, and government scutiny.
There's still a small chance that people will wake up, suddenly seeing what's been going on, experience an epiphany about what it is they've given up, and they may demand it back. Assuming that is that it's not too late to do anything about it. We'll see I guess. Of course it'll be a race to the bottom, between overreaching surveillance and spying on everyone, War to End All Wars, and human-caused global climate change, to see which one finally destroys our civilization and our species. Not sure we can stop any one of them.
Am I the only one who feels like the W.H.O. is more of a political organization with an agenda than it is anything to do with actual medicine and health?
Have you been to somewhere like BevMo or Whole Foods lately? Seen how many different kinds of beer there are? You could drink a new one every day and it would probably take you a year to get through them all. Isn't there a diminishing returns point beyond which more variety really makes no difference?
"Loners", by the way.
Nice for once to not be the first person to say all this. Don't forget 'millennials-and-younger people learning ACTUAL social skills'.
Die, Facebook, die, die, die. And nothing of value was lost.
Are you stupid or something? China is a 300 pound gorilla that wants to overrun the planet. Russia is run by a butthurt ex-KGB agent-turned-organized-crime-uberboss that wants to bring back the Good Old Days and create Soviet Union 2p0. Between the two of them they'd love to smash the NATO alliance, see the United States and it's allied countries shattered, and then have a death-match between the two of them for who gets control of the planet. If it were possible to 'force' either one of them, let alone both, to do anything, believe you me when I say the rest of the planet has an entire wish list of things they'd dearly love to 'force' them to do. The only reason China and Russia both don't just stomp a big fat boot-print on the entirety of North Korea is they like having Kim Jong Un stirring shit up with the West and keep us off balance, having to deal with their insanity, while they're off trying to annex the North China Sea and soft-invade former Soviet block countries in Eastern Europe.
Yeah, all of what you said. I don't understand why it is they spend so much money and time developing this crap that is such a waste of power and really isn't going t be practical, and may not be safe for humans to be around in the long term.
Questions:
1. What frequency(s) is this using?
2. How much transmit power?
3. What's the efficiency of the transmitter? (almost a rhetorical question, it's likely to be low)
4. At max range what's the overall efficiency? (again, it's likely to be low)
5. Is it a broadcast, or is it directional?
Just on guts I wouldn't want to be anywhere near one of these when it's operating, especially if it's directional/focused.
It's not because any HDD you wanted to attack in the real world is going to be enclosed in something else, and behind walls of varying thickness and materials, all of which have their own resonant frequencies, and all of which attentuate sound waves. I'm treating this article as FUD and useless, they're just trying to bring attention to themselves (looking for funding maybe?).
I was under the impression that if these IoT thermostats can't connect to the Internet, they just plain stop working completely.
Jamming radio frequencies is illegal. How is effectively 'jamming' someones internet-connected devices in this way, devices which have no relation whatsoever to the alleged 'illegal activities' the ISP is complaining about, really any different? At the least it sounds like extortion. Considering that all these IoT devices like thermostats must 'phone home' to the manufacturers servers to function, I'd think the manufacturer would have a problem with it legally, too.
In a broader sense, this is the question I think needs to be asked: Is it illegal for anyone to interfere with the transmission or reception of data on the Internet?
What the hell are you even talking about? CASH IS CASH. It has INHERENT value. Nobody is going to come to you and say "that cash isn't yours" and 'take it back' from you. 'Fraudulent stolen money' indeed.
Please use this comment thread to list all the reasons why 'cashless' isn't practical.
Here's one: How do you buy something from a random person on Craigslist when there's no cash? I don't want this person having anything to do with my bank accounts or even knowing my name. I wouldn't give him a check for the same reason. How do you pay this person for what you're buying from them if there is no cash?
The more and more Ajit Pai and the FCC ignores what citizens are saying, the more obvious it becomes that Ajit Pai is in the hip pocket of corporations and does not care at all about what's good for U.S. Citizens. Ajit Pai needs to be removed and NN needs to be not just reinstated but expanded. The Internet isn't some Boutique 'service' that doesn't matter anymore, it's too important and too ubiquitos to be treated as such.
Blah blah blah EXCUSES for corporate hegemony
Listen Mister Shill, Comcast/Xfinity virtually has a de-facto monopoly and it's probably going to get worse before it gets better. You're just not paying attention.
You don't seem to know what a ramscoop is or how it works which isn't surprising. A ramscoop uses magnetic fields to funnel interstellar hydrogen into a magnetic constriction point, where the pressure causes fusion to occur. The fusion reaction gives you thrust and therefore acceleration. It's a self-sustaining reaction, although you need to be at or above a certain velocity for the system to work -- so you also need stored hydrogen to get you up to speed. The magnetic fields themselves shield you from interstellar radiation (which just gets worse the faster you go). Theoretically you could reach 0.9999999999~ of C using a drive like this, acclerating forever. Some of the energy from the fusion reaction can be siphoned off to power other things. It's total Science Fiction/Fantasy though. But somehow getting your fuel source from interstellar space itself is an interesting idea.
Ha, if that's a 'flag' as you say then I guess I need to sweep my house for listening devices regularly, because I bailed out of all 'social media' a long time ago, and pay for everything I buy in person with cash, so I must be a terrorist or drug dealer or something, right? Because I don't put my entire life under a microscope for them.
Sounds like your brother has been indoctrinated from a young age to be a Good Little Consumer and spend, spend, spend. Gotta keep up with the Joneses, right? They bought 'X', gotta go get one too, don't want to be left behind! I of course do not know you or your brother but am I right?
Trump: "Putin is a smart man. We should do the same and take a steaming dump all over Freedom of the Press because CNN and NY Times say things I don't like"
That's about how that would translate if (when?) he's stupid enough to say something like that. Flies right in the face of one of the foundation blocks the United States was founded on. Trump reveals himself as more and more un-American and despotic every week.
Oh, I'm sure The Rich aren't too concerned about Salvation Army, after all they want The Poor to remain poor, as a warning to Middle Class of what can be done to them if we don't 'behave' and do as The Rich tell us to. Why else do you think that in the U.S., one of the richest countries in the world, we still have a homelessness problem, and that anyone is Poor to start with?
You and I are not alone, friend, in seeing where things are heading, and that it's not a Good Thing. Keep fighting.
Need I say more?
WHAT physical evidence? Where?