Not having a return mission is hardly a "reasonable risk". Oh, I bet there will still be plenty of volunteers lining up for one-way mission, perhaps even some people who are actually qualified for such a mission. They may have choosen to die on Mars but their deaths are still going to be sucky, and public... Not exactly the thing to warm the public and budget holders to manned space exploration.
It is a noun in this context as well (scroll down a little: "noun: the act of making an attack while parrying one (as in boxing); also : a blow thus given in boxing")
IoT is still in its infancy. Forget dodgy equipment from random Chinese companies, even so called reputable vendors still do not get security right. I do a lot of home automation stuff, but I prefer Z-wave / Zigbee devices over all this WiFi crap that the likes of Google and Apple seem to prefer. Often those devices are easier to set up and troubleshoot as well... in terms of reliability, WiFi sucks.
Where I do use IP devices (cameras, Philips Hue, etc), they go on a separate subnet that can talk to the home automation hub only. And I never use devices that require outside access.
As was pointed out in aother article recently, modern botnet software is designed to fly under the radar and generate reasonable amounts of traffic instead of crapflooding the connection for all it's worth. Given the size of a typical botnet and the bandwidth of residential internet these days, you can still bring down sites easily without each individual bot breaking a sweat.
Checking traffic volume won't cut it anymore, you need to look for unusual traffic patterns. But a good start is to enable the firewall in your router (many of them have decent ones these days), and allow your IoT devices access only to the server they need to connect to.
Especially if that password
- Is a default password that is the same for every device sold (these days a lot of equipment ships with unique random passwords)
- Isn't changed by the user during setup
- Can't be changed by the user. (What the hell, OpenElec?)
That's why you tell your manager about your holiday plans. or do you just up and leave when you feel like it without letting anyone know? You sound like a great employee.
As for the policy, it actually makes a lot of sense. We're talking about disabling an account and key card, not termination. If you're in intensive care, are you really so desperate to log in to work remotely? Before letting them know you're OK after an unexplained radio silence of 3 days?
Are things a lot better post-ITIL? In my experience ITIL has made things a lot more predicable... most often predictably awful. Not that I blame ITIL for that; that's like blaming your hammer for the shoddy birdhouse you built. It's more like a crutch: people think "if we all do what it says in this book, we'll do better". In terms of business outcomes I have not found that to be true very often.
I join you in your moral outrage, but... does the law (US law or otherwise) even have a provision for such negligence? Also, what is it we want to see punished? Lax security? That sounds fine until you realise every guy with a message board will be on the hook as well: not everyone is a security expert (or even a half decent webadmin), and certainly not everyone can afford to hire one.
What I certainly would like to see punished is the very very late disclosure of the breach. Starting this year, companies in the Netherlands are obliged to disclose data breaches. Fines for non compliance go up to €500k for simple cases; for more serious cases the fine is capped at 10% of net yearly turnover. It's a start... the law applies only if sensitive information was leaked such as names, dates of birth, addresses, medical info, etc. It doesn't cover username / password. Also, the company discloses the breach to the authorities, not their customers; the authorities may force the company to inform their customers as well though.
I don't mind the fridge knowing when I am out of eggs, and I don't mind it letting me know. But I very much do mind if the fridge lets Apple, Google or Samsung know. I have a fairly extensive Home Automation setup, but it is strictly an intranet of things, and I'd like to keep it that way.
If the hydrogen chain (generation, storage, burning) is very cheap, it may be a better option than battery storage which still is hideously expensive. Especially when converting surplus power, which in terms of €€€ is worth bugger all.
Sounds like Atkins, which has worked quite well for me. But it appears that almost anyd diet helps people lose weight for a while, regardless of what foods it actually allows. Perhaps it's due to these diets forcing people to pay much more attention to what's in their food and how many calories it has. "Wow, this much fat and sugar in this microwave dinner? I'll grab something else".
Speaking of drinks: my doctor told me I had better cut down on my alcohol intake, so I did. No other change in diet, but I started to lose weight, slowly but steadily. Alcohol in any form is pretty fattening, and even an all-whisky diet will give you a "beer gut". I started to drink low ABV beers (Brewdog makes one called "Nanny state", it's actually tasty as opposed to most others); it hasn't affected my weight. Beers in themselves won't make you fat contrary to popular belief; it's mostly the alcohol that does it (obviously beer won't fit in a low-carb regimen).
I see no illustration with that article. How does this policy favour Uber over other ride-sharing companies, car rental companies, or privately owned autonomous vehicles?
Happens all the time when a team member makes a mistake. And I say "team" because often it's not the organisation as a whole that gets involved in covering up mistakes, it's not policy; it's just individual teams with people in other departments playing ball. They close ranks, have each others backs, and go out of their way to ensure they will not have to admit they made a mistake. Sometimes they go to extreme lengths: police plant evidence in a case they bollocksed up, people at city hall drive a businessman to financial ruin because they issued him with a zoning permit when they shouldn't have. And don't get me started on what passes for child protective services over here. There have been several cases where they made a mistake, and instead of admitting it they doubled down on smearing the parents, with several "professionals" colluding in this deception, including MDs. It's not even confirmation bias, they have knowingly kept children away from their parents in order to not have to own up to an earlier mistake in the case.
A lot of all that can be worked out as we go along. Rules for motor cars were not all hammered out before the first one was allowed on the roads.
Legal issues: this is mostly about liability. Has to be worked out but this does not have to take absurdly long.
Road rules: no need to rewrite those, autopilots are built to work within the existing rules. At first there may be some additional rules (and traffic signs) about where you may and may not engage the autopilot. Again, very little keeping us from allowing autonomous vehicles on the road today.
Insurance: this is potentially harder: autonomous cars will likely require special insurance, and at first the risk of this insurance will be very hard to gauge. But insurers have deep pockets and may be willing to take on that risk in order to be the first with "autopilot insurance". If that insurance turns out to be too expensive for consumers, auto manufacturers or even governments may decide to sponsor this type of insurance or assume part of the risk in order to speed adoption. A temporary arrangement, as insurance premiums for autonomous vehicles are likely to drop below levels of insurance for regular cars.
With that said, you are right about one thing: there is no way in hell privately owned cars will disappear from major cities anywhere near 2025. There are still loads of technical problems to overcome, and a lot of them are solved in an iterative fashion, by building on real life experience with the previous release. Nothing that gets solved overnight. And even if we see car hire services for fully autonomous cars (and I mean real cars, not golf carts limited to 25 MPH) emerge by 2020, which I doubt, there'll still be many people who are not going to give up the convenience (and status) of having their own car. The first thing we may see disappearing by 2025, if technical development milestones are achieved as predicted here, is ownership of second cars for occasional use.
NASA never had a reusable first stage, and they certainly never have been able to offer launches at the price SpaceX is asking. And in the near future, NASA will likely hitch rides to the ISS on SpaceX vehicles. And before the Model S came along, electrical vehicles were considered to be impractical and/or ugly affairs. The Model S made EV's objects of desire, and managed to convert even some petrolheads who did not want to believe that EV's could ever hope to offer an exciting drive. None of this happened because of sweeping, fundamental inventions, but of incremental improvements and making the right combinations of technology in the right places. That's what a visionary does, by the way: they are not inventors, but rather make use of what's already there, and invest in taking the last steps to make possible the almost-possible.
As for the exploding rocket... the fact that it blew up before it started (or was even fueled) could be good news for Musk; it means the accident didn't happen because of a fundamental issue with the design, it could be a problem with the supporting equipment or the fueling procedure.
The fact that she's a nice young woman probably helped... a little. But it's probably mostly down to being a charismatic and likable (as an entrepreneur) person with a great story. There are plenty of people of all genders who are able to sell anything to anyone. If a stranger in an expensive sports car pulls up in your driveway and tells you about the investment opportunity of a lifetime, would you give him $10.000 to invest? No one in their right mind would, right? And yet it still happens all the time.
What I wonder after reading this sorry story is: was Holmes aware that she was selling snake oil all along, or did she start out with the genuinely belief that her company could make the technology work? I'm willing to believe the latter: they did try, but the longer their breakthrough failed to materialize, the more they had to shift their efforts towards keeping up appearances, or "controlling the narrative" as it's called.
And that should be the deciding factor. Teach kids in a language that is not only clean and easy to learn, but also one that they can take home and mess around with if they're interested.
I'm starting to think HP printers just count pages like that. I replaced the color cartridges not too long ago, but already it's nagging me about ordering a new yellow cartridge. I've printed a *lot* of stuff lately... but none of it was color, perhaps a few pages had colored logos on them. Someone suggested to set the printer driver to B&W to "save ink", I laughed that off but the guy may have been right after all; the cartridge carousel doesn't rotate if I set the printer to B&W only, and perhaps that means the pages aren't counted as a "color print" either.
My old DEC printer (a cast iron 50kg beast) wouldn't lie about the toner being low, and the cartridge could be refilled by popping off a simple plastic lid installed for the purpose. A toner canister was around $100 and good for 4 refills.
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An analogy is... just a thought... with another thought's hat on.
Not having a return mission is hardly a "reasonable risk". Oh, I bet there will still be plenty of volunteers lining up for one-way mission, perhaps even some people who are actually qualified for such a mission. They may have choosen to die on Mars but their deaths are still going to be sucky, and public... Not exactly the thing to warm the public and budget holders to manned space exploration.
It is a noun in this context as well (scroll down a little: "noun: the act of making an attack while parrying one (as in boxing); also : a blow thus given in boxing")
IoT is still in its infancy. Forget dodgy equipment from random Chinese companies, even so called reputable vendors still do not get security right. I do a lot of home automation stuff, but I prefer Z-wave / Zigbee devices over all this WiFi crap that the likes of Google and Apple seem to prefer. Often those devices are easier to set up and troubleshoot as well... in terms of reliability, WiFi sucks.
Where I do use IP devices (cameras, Philips Hue, etc), they go on a separate subnet that can talk to the home automation hub only. And I never use devices that require outside access.
As was pointed out in aother article recently, modern botnet software is designed to fly under the radar and generate reasonable amounts of traffic instead of crapflooding the connection for all it's worth. Given the size of a typical botnet and the bandwidth of residential internet these days, you can still bring down sites easily without each individual bot breaking a sweat.
Checking traffic volume won't cut it anymore, you need to look for unusual traffic patterns. But a good start is to enable the firewall in your router (many of them have decent ones these days), and allow your IoT devices access only to the server they need to connect to.
Especially if that password
- Is a default password that is the same for every device sold (these days a lot of equipment ships with unique random passwords)
- Isn't changed by the user during setup
- Can't be changed by the user. (What the hell, OpenElec?)
There already was a good reason. You need some stuff like documents and photos around on the drive for ransomware to glom onto.
It gets leaked out? You're (partly) responsible.
Yes, but that in no way, shape or form gets the hacker a free pass. An open door does not grant you leave to come inside and make off with the TV
That's why you tell your manager about your holiday plans. or do you just up and leave when you feel like it without letting anyone know? You sound like a great employee.
As for the policy, it actually makes a lot of sense. We're talking about disabling an account and key card, not termination. If you're in intensive care, are you really so desperate to log in to work remotely? Before letting them know you're OK after an unexplained radio silence of 3 days?
pre-ITIL cowboy days
Are things a lot better post-ITIL? In my experience ITIL has made things a lot more predicable... most often predictably awful. Not that I blame ITIL for that; that's like blaming your hammer for the shoddy birdhouse you built. It's more like a crutch: people think "if we all do what it says in this book, we'll do better". In terms of business outcomes I have not found that to be true very often.
I join you in your moral outrage, but... does the law (US law or otherwise) even have a provision for such negligence? Also, what is it we want to see punished? Lax security? That sounds fine until you realise every guy with a message board will be on the hook as well: not everyone is a security expert (or even a half decent webadmin), and certainly not everyone can afford to hire one.
What I certainly would like to see punished is the very very late disclosure of the breach. Starting this year, companies in the Netherlands are obliged to disclose data breaches. Fines for non compliance go up to €500k for simple cases; for more serious cases the fine is capped at 10% of net yearly turnover. It's a start... the law applies only if sensitive information was leaked such as names, dates of birth, addresses, medical info, etc. It doesn't cover username / password. Also, the company discloses the breach to the authorities, not their customers; the authorities may force the company to inform their customers as well though.
I don't mind the fridge knowing when I am out of eggs, and I don't mind it letting me know. But I very much do mind if the fridge lets Apple, Google or Samsung know. I have a fairly extensive Home Automation setup, but it is strictly an intranet of things, and I'd like to keep it that way.
If the hydrogen chain (generation, storage, burning) is very cheap, it may be a better option than battery storage which still is hideously expensive. Especially when converting surplus power, which in terms of €€€ is worth bugger all.
Your face / hand is button enough.
So where is Charlie in all this? And the cat? There's a cat in that box too, right?
And rounded corners and edges. No more paper cuts.
The phoenix was a phoenix from the ashes of the bennu
Sounds like Atkins, which has worked quite well for me. But it appears that almost anyd diet helps people lose weight for a while, regardless of what foods it actually allows. Perhaps it's due to these diets forcing people to pay much more attention to what's in their food and how many calories it has. "Wow, this much fat and sugar in this microwave dinner? I'll grab something else".
Speaking of drinks: my doctor told me I had better cut down on my alcohol intake, so I did. No other change in diet, but I started to lose weight, slowly but steadily. Alcohol in any form is pretty fattening, and even an all-whisky diet will give you a "beer gut". I started to drink low ABV beers (Brewdog makes one called "Nanny state", it's actually tasty as opposed to most others); it hasn't affected my weight. Beers in themselves won't make you fat contrary to popular belief; it's mostly the alcohol that does it (obviously beer won't fit in a low-carb regimen).
I see no illustration with that article. How does this policy favour Uber over other ride-sharing companies, car rental companies, or privately owned autonomous vehicles?
Happens all the time when a team member makes a mistake. And I say "team" because often it's not the organisation as a whole that gets involved in covering up mistakes, it's not policy; it's just individual teams with people in other departments playing ball. They close ranks, have each others backs, and go out of their way to ensure they will not have to admit they made a mistake. Sometimes they go to extreme lengths: police plant evidence in a case they bollocksed up, people at city hall drive a businessman to financial ruin because they issued him with a zoning permit when they shouldn't have. And don't get me started on what passes for child protective services over here. There have been several cases where they made a mistake, and instead of admitting it they doubled down on smearing the parents, with several "professionals" colluding in this deception, including MDs. It's not even confirmation bias, they have knowingly kept children away from their parents in order to not have to own up to an earlier mistake in the case.
A lot of all that can be worked out as we go along. Rules for motor cars were not all hammered out before the first one was allowed on the roads.
Legal issues: this is mostly about liability. Has to be worked out but this does not have to take absurdly long.
Road rules: no need to rewrite those, autopilots are built to work within the existing rules. At first there may be some additional rules (and traffic signs) about where you may and may not engage the autopilot. Again, very little keeping us from allowing autonomous vehicles on the road today.
Insurance: this is potentially harder: autonomous cars will likely require special insurance, and at first the risk of this insurance will be very hard to gauge. But insurers have deep pockets and may be willing to take on that risk in order to be the first with "autopilot insurance". If that insurance turns out to be too expensive for consumers, auto manufacturers or even governments may decide to sponsor this type of insurance or assume part of the risk in order to speed adoption. A temporary arrangement, as insurance premiums for autonomous vehicles are likely to drop below levels of insurance for regular cars.
With that said, you are right about one thing: there is no way in hell privately owned cars will disappear from major cities anywhere near 2025. There are still loads of technical problems to overcome, and a lot of them are solved in an iterative fashion, by building on real life experience with the previous release. Nothing that gets solved overnight. And even if we see car hire services for fully autonomous cars (and I mean real cars, not golf carts limited to 25 MPH) emerge by 2020, which I doubt, there'll still be many people who are not going to give up the convenience (and status) of having their own car. The first thing we may see disappearing by 2025, if technical development milestones are achieved as predicted here, is ownership of second cars for occasional use.
NASA never had a reusable first stage, and they certainly never have been able to offer launches at the price SpaceX is asking. And in the near future, NASA will likely hitch rides to the ISS on SpaceX vehicles. And before the Model S came along, electrical vehicles were considered to be impractical and/or ugly affairs. The Model S made EV's objects of desire, and managed to convert even some petrolheads who did not want to believe that EV's could ever hope to offer an exciting drive. None of this happened because of sweeping, fundamental inventions, but of incremental improvements and making the right combinations of technology in the right places. That's what a visionary does, by the way: they are not inventors, but rather make use of what's already there, and invest in taking the last steps to make possible the almost-possible.
As for the exploding rocket... the fact that it blew up before it started (or was even fueled) could be good news for Musk; it means the accident didn't happen because of a fundamental issue with the design, it could be a problem with the supporting equipment or the fueling procedure.
The fact that she's a nice young woman probably helped... a little. But it's probably mostly down to being a charismatic and likable (as an entrepreneur) person with a great story. There are plenty of people of all genders who are able to sell anything to anyone. If a stranger in an expensive sports car pulls up in your driveway and tells you about the investment opportunity of a lifetime, would you give him $10.000 to invest? No one in their right mind would, right? And yet it still happens all the time.
What I wonder after reading this sorry story is: was Holmes aware that she was selling snake oil all along, or did she start out with the genuinely belief that her company could make the technology work? I'm willing to believe the latter: they did try, but the longer their breakthrough failed to materialize, the more they had to shift their efforts towards keeping up appearances, or "controlling the narrative" as it's called.
And that should be the deciding factor. Teach kids in a language that is not only clean and easy to learn, but also one that they can take home and mess around with if they're interested.
I'm starting to think HP printers just count pages like that. I replaced the color cartridges not too long ago, but already it's nagging me about ordering a new yellow cartridge. I've printed a *lot* of stuff lately... but none of it was color, perhaps a few pages had colored logos on them. Someone suggested to set the printer driver to B&W to "save ink", I laughed that off but the guy may have been right after all; the cartridge carousel doesn't rotate if I set the printer to B&W only, and perhaps that means the pages aren't counted as a "color print" either.
My old DEC printer (a cast iron 50kg beast) wouldn't lie about the toner being low, and the cartridge could be refilled by popping off a simple plastic lid installed for the purpose. A toner canister was around $100 and good for 4 refills.