> I fully expect car manufacturers like Tesla and GM will soon be blatant > about it and just make their (note it was never really your) car completely > inoperable if the "always connected" feature is in any way tampered with.
Let's say you figure out where the antenna is, and sheild it. What are they gonna do? You lose connectivity with the mothership everytime you go through a tunnel or into an underground garage. Heck, even deep mountain valleys have similar connectivity losses. And what about people who drive in isolated areas, far from the nearest cell tower?
> If you're saying they continued to roll out new flawed chips they had time to fix before release, > that's a level of conspiracy theory that's hard to buy into without some concrete evidence.
Would not be the first such event. Ever heard of the Ford Pinto (and Mercury Bobcat)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Ford chose to continue to ship cars with defective fuel tanks, rather than spend $11 per car to fix the problem https://users.wfu.edu/palmitar...
> Although Ford had access to a new design which would decrease the > possibility of the Ford Pinto from exploding, the company chose not to > implement the design, which would have cost $11 per car, even though it had > done an analysis showing that the new design would result in 180 less deaths.
> All the government has to do is legislate as to consider gullibility > as a mental health issue and have the person go to mandatory > philosophy classes to learn the basics of logic and reasoning.
Da Tavarisch. In old USSR, we did not jail dissidents for opposing wonderful communism. We confined them to mental treatment centers, because you have to be mentally ill, if not downright crazy, to oppose wonderful communism.
The SPECTRE bug affects every cpu that uses speculative execution. That means just about everything from the 1995 Pentium-Pro onwards. The only exception is the first generation Intel Atoms (32-bit-only Bonnelle series) which did not have speculative execution.
> Until you grasp what makes a specific vehicle successful you > can't make a competing product, and trust me, the legacy car > makes don't grasp anything about why Tesla has been successful.
Successful... BWAAAHAAAHAAA
* 2014 loss $294 million * 2015 loss $889 million * 2016 loss $675 million * 2017 loss $1.790 *BILLION* (estimated) Data from http://www.4-traders.com/TESLA...
The last time GM and Chrysler were that "successful", they went bankrupt! Tesla forecasts a profit in 2019. But that assumes
1) They can ramp up production as forecast, which they haven't done too well so far
2) They'll still be around in 2019. The federal subsidies are ending as they approach 200,000 units sold.
> Makes sense to tax fossil fuel cars and subsidize EVs.
Not when you need to 1) run a fossil-fueled electric generator 2) put up with line losses getting the electricity to charging sites (or home garages) 3) put up with the inevitable conversion losses during battery-charging (2nd law of thermodynamics)
> In nearby Mountain City, Tennessee, a couple is dead because they > unfriended the wrong person. A woman's father murdered the couple, > leaving their infant alive in the mother's arms, because they unfriended his > daughter on Facebook. You can read about that story here on The Tennessean.
> Police in Des Moines, Iowa, have arrested 30-year-old Jennifer Christine > Harris (pictured left) for allegedly setting her neighbor's house on > fire, according to the Des Moines Register. The suspected motive? > Retribution for being "de-friended" on the popular social networking site.
I agree with Mark Zuckerberg on one thing. Facebook users are indeed dumb fucks.
* marry a young woman ("trophy wife") * divorce after a dozen years * marry another trophy wife * divorce after a dozen years * marry another trophy wife
He uses up the prime years of three women's lives. The women get dumped in their late 30's. Their reproductive years are over. And they may not want to re-marry, because they lose monthly alimony payments. As far as younger average males are concerned, there are that many fewer marriagable women around.
>> Basilisk, Pale Moon and Waterfox is preserving XUL in the browser
> Only in the short term. They're all dependent on Firefox's upstream development > so in the long term they'll become like Firefox is now or they'll stagnate and die.
I can't mod down and post in the same story, so I chose to to reply Why do you think Pale Moon depends on Firefox? Pale Moon says they are not now and never will be Firefox again. They did not follow with the Australis GUI or Hello or Webextensions. By merely *NOT* following Firefox, Pale Moon is pulling away from Firefox... which is quite sad.
> And it saves me having to carry change, get the right note, update all my > coins every 10 years when they change the designs (in my country in the > last 10 years they've changed the 10-pound, 5-pound notes and the 1 pound coin > at least and that 10 years might even encompass the 2 pound coin, I forget).
Huh? Here in Canada, during my lifetime, there have been multiple redesigns of paper and coin currency, and the $1 and $2 paper bills have been replaced by coins. The government simply stopped issuing the old paper/coins. The old currency remained valid until they eventually wore out. We did not have an India-style de-monetization fiasco https://www.bloomberg.com/view... The only problem was waiting for vending machines to be updated to accept new coins/bills.
Cash is legal tender for all debts public and private. What the establishment could do is ask for payment up front, like many fast-food restaurants do. They can't refuse to accept cash for a debt. But they can refuse to serve you if you don't pay up front electronically. Since no food has been prepared or served, there is no debt to pay, and no dispute.
Payment up front avoids unpleasant surprises, regardless of whether you want to pay via cash at a card-only outfit, or via credit-card at a cash-only outfit. Another wrinkle; I've seen a few places that take cash or debit-card only; no crdit cards.
> Your ISP probably assigned a/64 to your home - so you can always keep rotating > IPv6 addresses on your computer(s) if you feel the need to confuse your enemies.
That does *NOT* necessarily help anonymization. A static/64 (or/56) is still a CIDR. You can dick around with the MAC ID ("privacy extensions") and jump around in your CIDR all you want. But once someone identifies a static/64 or/56 with you, you're marked permanently. The big privacy battle with IPV6 will be for dynamic/64 or/56 allocation versus static allocation.
...this is Slashdot, after all. You buy a new Chevy, with OnStar included.. That's the "feature" that allows cops (or a competent hacker) to shut down your car at will https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Let's say that just after the warranty expires, GM sends commands to your car's engine to make it run more sluggishly, and start burning more oil. So you go and buy a new car again.
> PaleMoon fork had a promise, but half of the sites > I visit refuse to work in it (same with SeaMonkey suite),
I often find in those cases that tweaking the user agent to match a "supported browser" like Firefox 57 makes it work for Pale Moon. In Pale Moon, you can do that directly in "about.config" by creating or modifying a key of type "string". E.g.
general.useragent.override.yahoo.com of type "string" set to
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
This reminds me of "the old days", when some sites blocked Firefox, and isisted on IE. I got an extension that changed the user agent to a current IE, and the webpage functioned just fine in Firefox.
I also wonder how reliable all the browser-usage sites are. I wouldn't be surprised if actual Firefox usage is lower than reported, and forks like Waterfox and Pale Moon are higher, but people have to lie about their browser to be allowed in by the website.
> I've been waiting for years to see the ability to add bookmarks > within a web page added as a feature to browsers.
And so have police, to be able to run javascript code that adds child porn bookmarks to peoples' systems. Makes it a lot easier for them to meet their monthly quotas of "being tough on crime" convictions.
> That's not possible though because the ~15 minute ascent phase of the > flight requires more power than cruise. So this forces cruise to operate at a > lower than optimum efficiency. In theory an electric motor boost could obviate > this need, and allow jet engines to cruise more efficiently. I'm not sure there's > much to be gained here though because modern twin-engine airliners are > required by regulation to operate (both cruise and ascent) with one engine > out. So cruise efficiency is already pretty far down the curve.
It would obviously be hairy, not to mention stressfull on the wings, to consistently run a twin-engine jet with one engine turned off. But things would be different with a triple-engined plane like the DC10 or L1011. Would it be possible to use 3 engines for takeoffs and landings, and turn the middle engine off during cruising, or at least idle it to reduce fuel consumption? Then the remaining 2 engines would operate at closer to full thrust during cruise.
On a 4-engine jet, you might look at turning off or idling one engine on each wing, i.e. cruising on 2 engines. Then the remaining 2 engines would operate at closer to full thrust during cruise.
> but leverages its speed from optimized compiler settings, specially > built libraries capable of AVX instructions on supported systems, > a specially tuned kernel configuration, and other optimizations/patches.
I see your "Clear Linux" and raise you Gentoo with
and also appropriate CPU_FLAGS_X86 for the CPU, as well as the same kernel tuning used for Clear Linux. I dare Phoronix to try that. It should be a much closer horse race.
First day on the job for *ANY* governement official should include a briefing telling them that no matter how low-level or high-level they are, there *WILL* be third parties (governments/corporations/whatever) aiming to collect juicy stuff from any and all email accounts they and their families have. This includes personal and work accounts.
And there should be training on how to recognize and avoid such compromises. Security 101, folks.
> Are you seriously comparing a US electoral reform debate to Robert Mugabe? > Maybe I'm just getting old, but trolls seem to be getting stupider on Slashdot.
Actually, Mt. "young" "one", he's probably referring to an event before your time; i.e. Stalin's artificial famine that killed off 7 million people in the 1930's http://www.historyplace.com/wo... but the lib-left idolizes "Uncle Joe", so you never hear this inconvenient truth.
Slashdot Mirror
> I fully expect car manufacturers like Tesla and GM will soon be blatant
> about it and just make their (note it was never really your) car completely
> inoperable if the "always connected" feature is in any way tampered with.
Let's say you figure out where the antenna is, and sheild it. What are they gonna do? You lose connectivity with the mothership everytime you go through a tunnel or into an underground garage. Heck, even deep mountain valleys have similar connectivity losses. And what about people who drive in isolated areas, far from the nearest cell tower?
> If you're saying they continued to roll out new flawed chips they had time to fix before release,
> that's a level of conspiracy theory that's hard to buy into without some concrete evidence.
Would not be the first such event. Ever heard of the Ford Pinto (and Mercury Bobcat)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Ford chose to continue to ship cars with defective fuel tanks, rather than spend $11 per car to fix the problem https://users.wfu.edu/palmitar...
> Although Ford had access to a new design which would decrease the
> possibility of the Ford Pinto from exploding, the company chose not to
> implement the design, which would have cost $11 per car, even though it had
> done an analysis showing that the new design would result in 180 less deaths.
> All the government has to do is legislate as to consider gullibility
> as a mental health issue and have the person go to mandatory
> philosophy classes to learn the basics of logic and reasoning.
Da Tavarisch. In old USSR, we did not jail dissidents for opposing wonderful communism. We confined them to mental treatment centers, because you have to be mentally ill, if not downright crazy, to oppose wonderful communism.
The SPECTRE bug affects every cpu that uses speculative execution. That means just about everything from the 1995 Pentium-Pro onwards. The only exception is the first generation Intel Atoms (32-bit-only Bonnelle series) which did not have speculative execution.
> Until you grasp what makes a specific vehicle successful you
> can't make a competing product, and trust me, the legacy car
> makes don't grasp anything about why Tesla has been successful.
Successful... BWAAAHAAAHAAA
* 2014 loss $294 million
* 2015 loss $889 million
* 2016 loss $675 million
* 2017 loss $1.790 *BILLION* (estimated)
Data from http://www.4-traders.com/TESLA...
The last time GM and Chrysler were that "successful", they went bankrupt! Tesla forecasts a profit in 2019. But that assumes
1) They can ramp up production as forecast, which they haven't done too well so far
2) They'll still be around in 2019. The federal subsidies are ending as they approach 200,000 units sold.
> Makes sense to tax fossil fuel cars and subsidize EVs.
Not when you need to
1) run a fossil-fueled electric generator
2) put up with line losses getting the electricity to charging sites (or home garages)
3) put up with the inevitable conversion losses during battery-charging (2nd law of thermodynamics)
...government website visits your Windows 10 computer.
> But just like reading no lower than 2 on Slashdot, I can
> unfollow friends on Facebook and no one gets booboo feelings.
Are you *SURE* they won't get upset? https://modenook.com/facebook-...
> In nearby Mountain City, Tennessee, a couple is dead because they
> unfriended the wrong person. A woman's father murdered the couple,
> leaving their infant alive in the mother's arms, because they unfriended his
> daughter on Facebook. You can read about that story here on The Tennessean.
https://www.aol.com/2011/11/03...
> Police in Des Moines, Iowa, have arrested 30-year-old Jennifer Christine
> Harris (pictured left) for allegedly setting her neighbor's house on
> fire, according to the Des Moines Register. The suspected motive?
> Retribution for being "de-friended" on the popular social networking site.
I agree with Mark Zuckerberg on one thing. Facebook users are indeed dumb fucks.
An appropriate acronym, don't you think?
In the western world, a rich man can
* marry a young woman ("trophy wife")
* divorce after a dozen years
* marry another trophy wife
* divorce after a dozen years
* marry another trophy wife
He uses up the prime years of three women's lives. The women get dumped in their late 30's. Their reproductive years are over. And they may not want to re-marry, because they lose monthly alimony payments. As far as younger average males are concerned, there are that many fewer marriagable women around.
Have you heard about the woman working in a tourist shop on "The Sunshine Coast" of British Columbia, Canada?
She sells sea shells on the Sechelt Peninsula.
>> Basilisk, Pale Moon and Waterfox is preserving XUL in the browser
> Only in the short term. They're all dependent on Firefox's upstream development
> so in the long term they'll become like Firefox is now or they'll stagnate and die.
I can't mod down and post in the same story, so I chose to to reply Why do you think Pale Moon depends on Firefox? Pale Moon says they are not now and never will be Firefox again. They did not follow with the Australis GUI or Hello or Webextensions. By merely *NOT* following Firefox, Pale Moon is pulling away from Firefox... which is quite sad.
> And it saves me having to carry change, get the right note, update all my
> coins every 10 years when they change the designs (in my country in the
> last 10 years they've changed the 10-pound, 5-pound notes and the 1 pound coin
> at least and that 10 years might even encompass the 2 pound coin, I forget).
Huh? Here in Canada, during my lifetime, there have been multiple redesigns of paper and coin currency, and the $1 and $2 paper bills have been replaced by coins. The government simply stopped issuing the old paper/coins. The old currency remained valid until they eventually wore out. We did not have an India-style de-monetization fiasco https://www.bloomberg.com/view... The only problem was waiting for vending machines to be updated to accept new coins/bills.
Cash is legal tender for all debts public and private. What the establishment could do is ask for payment up front, like many fast-food restaurants do. They can't refuse to accept cash for a debt. But they can refuse to serve you if you don't pay up front electronically. Since no food has been prepared or served, there is no debt to pay, and no dispute.
Payment up front avoids unpleasant surprises, regardless of whether you want to pay via cash at a card-only outfit, or via credit-card at a cash-only outfit. Another wrinkle; I've seen a few places that take cash or debit-card only; no crdit cards.
> Your ISP probably assigned a /64 to your home - so you can always keep rotating
> IPv6 addresses on your computer(s) if you feel the need to confuse your enemies.
That does *NOT* necessarily help anonymization. A static /64 (or /56) is still a CIDR. You can dick around with the MAC ID ("privacy extensions") and jump around in your CIDR all you want. But once someone identifies a static /64 or /56 with you, you're marked permanently. The big privacy battle with IPV6 will be for dynamic /64 or /56 allocation versus static allocation.
...this is Slashdot, after all. You buy a new Chevy, with OnStar included.. That's the "feature" that allows cops (or a competent hacker) to shut down your car at will https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Let's say that just after the warranty expires, GM sends commands to your car's engine to make it run more sluggishly, and start burning more oil. So you go and buy a new car again.
> PaleMoon fork had a promise, but half of the sites
> I visit refuse to work in it (same with SeaMonkey suite),
I often find in those cases that tweaking the user agent to match a "supported browser" like Firefox 57 makes it work for Pale Moon. In Pale Moon, you can do that directly in "about.config" by creating or modifying a key of type "string". E.g.
general.useragent.override.yahoo.com of type "string" set to
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
This reminds me of "the old days", when some sites blocked Firefox, and isisted on IE. I got an extension that changed the user agent to a current IE, and the webpage functioned just fine in Firefox.
I also wonder how reliable all the browser-usage sites are. I wouldn't be surprised if actual Firefox usage is lower than reported, and forks like Waterfox and Pale Moon are higher, but people have to lie about their browser to be allowed in by the website.
> I've been waiting for years to see the ability to add bookmarks
> within a web page added as a feature to browsers.
And so have police, to be able to run javascript code that adds child porn bookmarks to peoples' systems. Makes it a lot easier for them to meet their monthly quotas of "being tough on crime" convictions.
> Firefox has a setting for it, media.autoplay.enabled = false
I use Pale Moon, a Firefox fork. It has 2 settings that have to be disabled
media.autoplay.enabled = false
media.autoplay.allowscripted = false
Does Firefox have the second one? The one downside is that I sometimes have to hit
play; stop; play
on Youtube or other HTML5 websites to get a video playing that I want to play.
> That's ridiculous. If swabs were sold for this purpose, contamination testing should be part of regular manufacturing QA.
But, but, but... "teh profits". Firing your QA staff boosts profits. Ask Microsoft.
> That's not possible though because the ~15 minute ascent phase of the
> flight requires more power than cruise. So this forces cruise to operate at a
> lower than optimum efficiency. In theory an electric motor boost could obviate
> this need, and allow jet engines to cruise more efficiently. I'm not sure there's
> much to be gained here though because modern twin-engine airliners are
> required by regulation to operate (both cruise and ascent) with one engine
> out. So cruise efficiency is already pretty far down the curve.
It would obviously be hairy, not to mention stressfull on the wings, to consistently run a twin-engine jet with one engine turned off. But things would be different with a triple-engined plane like the DC10 or L1011. Would it be possible to use 3 engines for takeoffs and landings, and turn the middle engine off during cruising, or at least idle it to reduce fuel consumption? Then the remaining 2 engines would operate at closer to full thrust during cruise.
On a 4-engine jet, you might look at turning off or idling one engine on each wing, i.e. cruising on 2 engines. Then the remaining 2 engines would operate at closer to full thrust during cruise.
> but leverages its speed from optimized compiler settings, specially
> built libraries capable of AVX instructions on supported systems,
> a specially tuned kernel configuration, and other optimizations/patches.
I see your "Clear Linux" and raise you Gentoo with
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fopenmp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}
and also appropriate CPU_FLAGS_X86 for the CPU, as well as the same kernel tuning used for Clear Linux. I dare Phoronix to try that. It should be a much closer horse race.
First day on the job for *ANY* governement official should include a briefing telling them that no matter how low-level or high-level they are, there *WILL* be third parties (governments/corporations/whatever) aiming to collect juicy stuff from any and all email accounts they and their families have. This includes personal and work accounts.
And there should be training on how to recognize and avoid such compromises. Security 101, folks.
> Are you seriously comparing a US electoral reform debate to Robert Mugabe?
> Maybe I'm just getting old, but trolls seem to be getting stupider on Slashdot.
Actually, Mt. "young" "one", he's probably referring to an event before your time; i.e. Stalin's artificial famine that killed off 7 million people in the 1930's http://www.historyplace.com/wo... but the lib-left idolizes "Uncle Joe", so you never hear this inconvenient truth.
> Or maybe a simple test. You know, some basic facts and civic
> knowledge that any knowledgeable voter should demonstrate.
Been tried already. The SJWs won't like it http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...