Actually that's not the rail gun, it's a 155 mm LRLAP cannon. The 800K is for the guided smart projectiles it's designed to use. The rail guns just fire metal slugs ballistically, like the naval cannons of old, but at a much, much higher velocity. Progress on the rail guns and the insane cost of the LRLAP is the reason the Navy is scrapping them. The Army has a system with similar capabilities to the LRLAP that "only" costs 70K per round. That system may be adoptable in the interim if the Navy decides it needs the capability. That's doubtful though, considering they Navy has essentially scrapped the entire Zumwalt class. They are probably just going to take the three they are stuck with and use them as technology demonstrators to test out some of the individual design components and systems for future use on ships.
Normally I would agree. Collecting aggregated, anonymous data, and informing the users of such, isn't always a big deal. But in this case it sounds like the data most certainly wasn't anonymous enough since the reporters were able to identify individual users from the data they acquired. That is a big deal.
So how, if you eliminate time zones, do you know when to schedule a meeting for with people in, say the UK and NYC? Today, we can look at the time zones and see when a convenient time is in both time zones. Without timezones you what, guess? Call them and ask? How do you know a good time to call? Take a entire day to sort it out via email might be a better solution. Also without timezones who says that working hours in NYC will match those in, say, Boston?
If your answer is to standardize those times in certain geographic regions based on their longitude, guess what, you just re-invented time zones.
Of course the real solution is to have everyone standardize their day against UTC and forget about day/night all together. Everyone on the planet goes to work at 0800, leaves at 1700, etc. Then you really do not need timezones.
Why, oh why, do software engineers (or maybe just coders) allow external access to mission critical processes?
Why would a software engineer have any control over this? This sounds more like an individual implementation issue where the property managers exposed the systems directly to the internet instead of securing them properly.
Hell even a simple VPN would have shielded the control units from the DDOS. Yes, they would not be remotely manageable, but they probably would have just kept on doing what they were last told to do, instead of freaking out and going into a reboot loop.
I know it's cold in Finland this time of year, but the first day of winter is still a month and a half in the future.
Yes, this is the most important part of the story. Who cares if some dipshit HVAC system failed due to a DDOS attack, disabling heat for buildings in sub-freezing temperatures. What we should really be discussing is this completely unacceptable disregard for when winter actually starts!
I'm not even sure whether this is legal. Or probably it is, because tesla lawyers have made it part of the preorder conditions.
You are not sure if it's legal to not change the preorder terms and conditions (since the model 3 was always going to have to pay for supercharger access, and existing order for other models are not affected)? I'm pretty sure that's perfectly legal thing to do actually.
What's next? Calling Scrabble tournaments "sports" events? Not all competitions are sports events. Most, if not all, sports events are competitions. See the difference?
Nature provided the energy to convert biomatter to crude oil that's in the ground million's of years ago. It doesn't take that much energy to pull it out of the ground and refine it today because the majority of the energy required to make it was expended long ago.
Do you own the network? No, it's THEIR (the carriers) networks, they are within their rights to do as they see fit, within the law, with THEIR property. It's funny how people think property rights only apply to them.
Jup, so first replace your iphone with an android phone. The time where the apple rights system was superior are gone with android 6.0 anyway and stuff like XPrivacy and AFWall are effective in controlling all your apps (even system apps, if you dare).
So replace my iOS device, with a less secure one, running an OS written by an anti-privacy advertising company (who totally isn't evil, they pinky swear), and install a bunch of apps to reign in sketchy apps that can't run on iOS to begin with? Or, you know, i could just keep my current device and not fuck with all that crap in the first place.
That's why their changing their name to Spectrum now that Charter bought them.
No, Spectrum was Charter's new "100Mbps internet for everyone!" rebranding that they went through prior to the TWC and BrightHouse buyouts. I've had "Spectrum" internet for close to 3 years now. TWC/BH only finalized a few months ago.
Charter is rebranding all their services under Spectrum, and that name will become the customer facing brand. Just go look at their (TW and Charter) homepages. They are using transitional names/logos already.
That's a long, and thought out post. Unfortunately, you failed to do your homework. AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner Inc, the company that owns Warner Brothers studios, Turner, HBO, etc. Time Warner Cable (TWC) is not part of this, they were actually purchased by Charter earlier this year. They split years ago.
If you are concerned about security on a iOS device, which is what the OP is talking about, then yes, it's a dumb fucking idea to jailbreak it. That's the exact opposite of keeping the device secure. That way we don't end up with botnets running on iOS devices, like we are seeing with rooted Android devices.
Yea it's for real, they are rolling it out region by region. In Charter regions I think they are using the Charter Spectrum brand as a transition so as to not completely confuse people, but if you go to charter.net, no it's all Spectrum, no charter. Charter.com is now Charter Spectrum (with Charter in a much smaller font). From what I hear, TWC is going straight to Spectrum, but I don't live near one of those regions so I can't confirm it first hand.
I'm sure Charter's corporate name will stick around, at least for a while, but they want Spectrum to be the public facing brand.
I honestly wish they would do something like this with wireless carriers. We could make much better use of the available spectrum if one (well regulated) entity controlled the towers and all carriers worked like MVNOs, paying fees for each of their subscribers back to that entity. All phone working off the same technology, able to use the entirety of the available spectrum at each tower. But then what would the wireless carriers compete on if not coverage? Price? Service? Nah, that's insane. Plus well regulated monopoly in the US? That's a pipe dream in itself. But one can dream I guess.
I know that all of these "Time"s have spun off, but had they formed independently they'd all be suing each other over trademark infringement. They may be all in different industries, but they're all large enough that it causes the same kind of confusion that trademark protection was supposed to prevent.
Yea I honestly don't get why Time Warner Cable kept that name when they spun out. It causes confusion and it's not like it was a well liked company (as far as cable service goes) to begin with. Ditto for TWC/TWI keeping the "Time" in their names after the Time, inc. divestiture; it's confusing as hell. Thankfully Charter is re-branding itself and TWC as "Spectrum" so that association in people's minds should go away in half a decade or so. If AT&T does manage to get Time Warner hopefully they will ditch the Time Warner umbrella by absorbing it into AT&T and just keep the subsidiary names like Warner Brothers. I don't think I could stomach an "AT&T Studios" vanity plate in front of a film though, so keep the subsidiary names please!
The government needs to block this merger as well as the AT&T/TW merger. We need to have more choices when it comes to internet providers, not fewer. Pretty soon there will be a single source for the internet and they'll give you a 'bend over, take it or leave it' choice and that's all.
AT&T is not buying Time Warner Cable (Charter already did that). Time Warner Cable (TWC) is not a part of Time Warner anymore (it was spun out years ago). AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner Inc (TWI), the media company (Warner Brothers Studios, Turner broadcasting, HBO, etc). Also should be noted that this also does not involve Time, inc., the publishing company (Time magazine, etc) which was also spun off years ago.
Now I personally believe there are still valid reasons to not allow it, but let's stop getting confused over what company is actually being bought and what they do.
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800,000.00 per round, on that new rail gun.
Actually that's not the rail gun, it's a 155 mm LRLAP cannon. The 800K is for the guided smart projectiles it's designed to use. The rail guns just fire metal slugs ballistically, like the naval cannons of old, but at a much, much higher velocity. Progress on the rail guns and the insane cost of the LRLAP is the reason the Navy is scrapping them. The Army has a system with similar capabilities to the LRLAP that "only" costs 70K per round. That system may be adoptable in the interim if the Navy decides it needs the capability. That's doubtful though, considering they Navy has essentially scrapped the entire Zumwalt class. They are probably just going to take the three they are stuck with and use them as technology demonstrators to test out some of the individual design components and systems for future use on ships.
Normally I would agree. Collecting aggregated, anonymous data, and informing the users of such, isn't always a big deal. But in this case it sounds like the data most certainly wasn't anonymous enough since the reporters were able to identify individual users from the data they acquired. That is a big deal.
So how, if you eliminate time zones, do you know when to schedule a meeting for with people in, say the UK and NYC? Today, we can look at the time zones and see when a convenient time is in both time zones. Without timezones you what, guess? Call them and ask? How do you know a good time to call? Take a entire day to sort it out via email might be a better solution. Also without timezones who says that working hours in NYC will match those in, say, Boston?
If your answer is to standardize those times in certain geographic regions based on their longitude, guess what, you just re-invented time zones.
Of course the real solution is to have everyone standardize their day against UTC and forget about day/night all together. Everyone on the planet goes to work at 0800, leaves at 1700, etc. Then you really do not need timezones.
Why, oh why, do software engineers (or maybe just coders) allow external access to mission critical processes?
Why would a software engineer have any control over this? This sounds more like an individual implementation issue where the property managers exposed the systems directly to the internet instead of securing them properly.
Hell even a simple VPN would have shielded the control units from the DDOS. Yes, they would not be remotely manageable, but they probably would have just kept on doing what they were last told to do, instead of freaking out and going into a reboot loop.
I know it's cold in Finland this time of year, but the first day of winter is still a month and a half in the future.
Yes, this is the most important part of the story. Who cares if some dipshit HVAC system failed due to a DDOS attack, disabling heat for buildings in sub-freezing temperatures. What we should really be discussing is this completely unacceptable disregard for when winter actually starts!
I'm not even sure whether this is legal. Or probably it is, because tesla lawyers have made it part of the preorder conditions.
You are not sure if it's legal to not change the preorder terms and conditions (since the model 3 was always going to have to pay for supercharger access, and existing order for other models are not affected)? I'm pretty sure that's perfectly legal thing to do actually.
The target market for this service is made 100% crystal clear by their placeholder page.
Leave your name and email here. We'll hit you up later with the deets.
A'ight bro
So the target is 40 somethings who might still use the term 'deets'?
What's next? Calling Scrabble tournaments "sports" events? Not all competitions are sports events. Most, if not all, sports events are competitions. See the difference?
Old people don't get young people. News at 11.
And when the cars can be controlled by AI (which won't be far off)?
Nature provided the energy to convert biomatter to crude oil that's in the ground million's of years ago. It doesn't take that much energy to pull it out of the ground and refine it today because the majority of the energy required to make it was expended long ago.
Do you own the network? No, it's THEIR (the carriers) networks, they are within their rights to do as they see fit, within the law, with THEIR property. It's funny how people think property rights only apply to them.
Because on my devices, I AM SUPPOSED TO BE GOD, not the OEM.
It may be your device, but it's not your network. They are not bricking the devices, they are being blacklisted from the cell networks.
ESA does an OK job launching stuff. It's the landing part they seem to have some trouble with, and that's not an issue in this case.
i see some stockholm syndrome. Keep your iphone and think you're secure. I do not see how to help you, if you don't want to accept help.
Yea I guess myself and just about every independent security researcher on the planet must have stockholm syndrome.
Jup, so first replace your iphone with an android phone. The time where the apple rights system was superior are gone with android 6.0 anyway and stuff like XPrivacy and AFWall are effective in controlling all your apps (even system apps, if you dare).
So replace my iOS device, with a less secure one, running an OS written by an anti-privacy advertising company (who totally isn't evil, they pinky swear), and install a bunch of apps to reign in sketchy apps that can't run on iOS to begin with? Or, you know, i could just keep my current device and not fuck with all that crap in the first place.
No, Spectrum was Charter's new "100Mbps internet for everyone!" rebranding that they went through prior to the TWC and BrightHouse buyouts. I've had "Spectrum" internet for close to 3 years now. TWC/BH only finalized a few months ago.
Charter is rebranding all their services under Spectrum, and that name will become the customer facing brand. Just go look at their (TW and Charter) homepages. They are using transitional names/logos already.
That's a long, and thought out post. Unfortunately, you failed to do your homework. AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner Inc, the company that owns Warner Brothers studios, Turner, HBO, etc. Time Warner Cable (TWC) is not part of this, they were actually purchased by Charter earlier this year. They split years ago.
If you are concerned about security on a iOS device, which is what the OP is talking about, then yes, it's a dumb fucking idea to jailbreak it. That's the exact opposite of keeping the device secure. That way we don't end up with botnets running on iOS devices, like we are seeing with rooted Android devices.
It's a phone, not a PC.
It's like trimming your nails with a chain saw. Can it be done? Sure, but it's probably going to cause you more problems than it's worth to try.
Yea it's for real, they are rolling it out region by region. In Charter regions I think they are using the Charter Spectrum brand as a transition so as to not completely confuse people, but if you go to charter.net, no it's all Spectrum, no charter. Charter.com is now Charter Spectrum (with Charter in a much smaller font). From what I hear, TWC is going straight to Spectrum, but I don't live near one of those regions so I can't confirm it first hand.
I'm sure Charter's corporate name will stick around, at least for a while, but they want Spectrum to be the public facing brand.
I honestly wish they would do something like this with wireless carriers. We could make much better use of the available spectrum if one (well regulated) entity controlled the towers and all carriers worked like MVNOs, paying fees for each of their subscribers back to that entity. All phone working off the same technology, able to use the entirety of the available spectrum at each tower. But then what would the wireless carriers compete on if not coverage? Price? Service? Nah, that's insane. Plus well regulated monopoly in the US? That's a pipe dream in itself. But one can dream I guess.
I know that all of these "Time"s have spun off, but had they formed independently they'd all be suing each other over trademark infringement. They may be all in different industries, but they're all large enough that it causes the same kind of confusion that trademark protection was supposed to prevent.
Yea I honestly don't get why Time Warner Cable kept that name when they spun out. It causes confusion and it's not like it was a well liked company (as far as cable service goes) to begin with. Ditto for TWC/TWI keeping the "Time" in their names after the Time, inc. divestiture; it's confusing as hell. Thankfully Charter is re-branding itself and TWC as "Spectrum" so that association in people's minds should go away in half a decade or so. If AT&T does manage to get Time Warner hopefully they will ditch the Time Warner umbrella by absorbing it into AT&T and just keep the subsidiary names like Warner Brothers. I don't think I could stomach an "AT&T Studios" vanity plate in front of a film though, so keep the subsidiary names please!
The government needs to block this merger as well as the AT&T/TW merger. We need to have more choices when it comes to internet providers, not fewer. Pretty soon there will be a single source for the internet and they'll give you a 'bend over, take it or leave it' choice and that's all.
AT&T is not buying Time Warner Cable (Charter already did that). Time Warner Cable (TWC) is not a part of Time Warner anymore (it was spun out years ago). AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner Inc (TWI), the media company (Warner Brothers Studios, Turner broadcasting, HBO, etc). Also should be noted that this also does not involve Time, inc., the publishing company (Time magazine, etc) which was also spun off years ago.
Now I personally believe there are still valid reasons to not allow it, but let's stop getting confused over what company is actually being bought and what they do.
Still missing the context I see. Why didn't the telcos require it all this time?