I wrote "IT Consultant" on the immigration form when entering Costa Rica. To my surprise, the officer started asking what kind of failure a distinct clcking noise coming from the hard drive is. I was impressed that they seemed to have upped the ante on immigration checks!
Turns out that his kid's computer was doing the clicking, and he was desperate for some information on what to do. Nice guy!
Last time we were talking about this, the consensus was that, with all it's flaws, the new iPhones are getting security quite right and that the Secure Enclave architecture should be incredibly safe against exactly these attacks.
Dos anyone know what attack vector they have used here?
Out of curiosity: why is the conversion so inefficient? I would imagine that gas powered power plants also heat up water, and run their turbines on steam?
Well, according to the RDS standard, there are different RDS channels and priorities. There's even one for 'catastrophes'.
And, while I agree that drivers should put more attention on what's happening around them, as the article states, the really good sound insulation of modern cars does reduce the effectiveness of ambulance's sirens. So IMHO, this RDS 'hack' could really help a bit.
But wouldn't this 'attack' be really trivial to detect on the credit card processor's side? There isn't a legitimate use case that would explain multiple attempts at the same time?
The Demo looks like it's behind state-of the art tech quite a bit.
Their hand-tracking was abysmal (the years-old LeapMotion seems way more precise and quick), the latency was noticeable even under the presumably perfect conditions, HoloLens does the 3D tracking better it seems, and any Android phone can do better graphics with a cheap VR viewer.
It might be impressive that this unit is all self-contained, but this really doesn't seem state-of-the-art at all!
Wouldn't they have to release the process they used to decrypt the data, too?
AFAIK, if the original data was well-encrypted, there should be no correlation between it and the plain-text data. Depending on the process used to decrypt it, you could literally come up with ANY output data you want?
A couple of years ago, I was very hopeful that open chat protocols would win - we had Google Talk, WhatsApp, etc. using XMPP (the Jabber protocol) behind the scenes. Some allowed federation (server-to-server connections, allowing inter-network messanges), some didn't. Google was opening libJingle for open source voice (and video?) chats. The demise of closed chat networks seemed imminent.
But somehow, everything went backwards, and now we have dozens of competing IM networks, all with their own incompatible apps and protocols, competing for users, yet again.
Anyone have an idea how that happened?
I used a cheap chinese Arduino clone, and had a (meArm laser-cut from acrylic. Combined it with some very cheap mini-servos from Aliexpress, and I had a very basic robot-arm. AliExpress is awesome for these electronics things - worldwide free shipping, and the prices are really ridiculously cheap sometimes.
You can then code up some basic code in the Arduino that lets you remote control the servos from a PC with the programming language of your choice (I use perl).
After that, you can e.g. add a 5$ webcam to your computer, to combine your robot arm with basic computer vision, or add some seonsors to the arm, and so on.
Just in case some slashdotter hasn't hear of it yet:
The people between the very awesome F.Lux software have been saying this for quite a while, so their great little software adjusts your monitor's color temperature after sunset, and before dawn, to be 'warmer'. Their logic being that the blue components of white light are just unnatural to stare at at night, and mess up our biorythms.
All sounds a bit esoteric, but I challenge everybody to use F.Lux for a week or so (until you're used to it), and then disable it at e.g. 2am.
Your eyes will bleed, and you wont understand how people can stare into a super bright white square (the monitor) for hours on end at night.
The PDF on their site says that this will be able to lift up to 10.000kg. This doenst seem too impressive, considering that your run-of-the-mill CH-47 Chinook helicopter can lift up to 12.000kg.
Is this kind of abuse actually effective? European (and maybe American) companies and policymakers often insist that giving workers time off and treating them decently actually increases overall productivity, so does anyone know of studies if this would be true in this case, too?
Could someone explain why all of this is an issue, when Netflix seems to be giving away their OpenConnect CDN boxes for free, so that ISPs can cache most of the Netflix traffic inside their own network?
Sorry to highjack this thread for an OT question, but: Do you know if there is a way to emulate OR DK2's tracking data? I would like to homebrew a very poor man's Oculus Rift. The screen should be no problem, and there are many IMUs available - but how would i get an Oculus-enabled game to read the IMUs data?
I can whole-heartedly recommend any cheap chromebook. They are basically completely support free, and can be reflashed in an instant.
I'm not sure how well they work with dial-up, but can't really see why they'd perform worse than any other modern browser.
I dont know how to hook them up to POTS line, though. But i guess there is some kind of solution for that.
On another note: where do they live that they don't have access to slightly higher-speed 3G internet? I've travelled through third world countries, and cell-phone-internet seems to be almost omnipresent in some form or another.
Wouldn't it be easier to just have a capsule and a counterweight on a long rope of sorts, and spin/orbit it around an axle that is on the spaceship?
Why hasn't this been done yet? It would seem to me to be almost energy-neutral, since you would only have to compensate for the friction on the axle, once you get the capsules spining?
I just wanted to say that I was pleasantly surprised that this guy seems relatively buzzword free and seems to know his stuff. Obviously he has his corporate agenda, but I would really like more higher-ups in big companies to do interviews like this.
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I wrote "IT Consultant" on the immigration form when entering Costa Rica. To my surprise, the officer started asking what kind of failure a distinct clcking noise coming from the hard drive is. I was impressed that they seemed to have upped the ante on immigration checks!
Turns out that his kid's computer was doing the clicking, and he was desperate for some information on what to do. Nice guy!
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Last time we were talking about this, the consensus was that, with all it's flaws, the new iPhones are getting security quite right and that the Secure Enclave architecture should be incredibly safe against exactly these attacks.
Dos anyone know what attack vector they have used here?
So, what would happen if I run a double-slit experiment, but measure which slit each fired electron went through?
Oh, ok! So basically a jet engine! Thanks.
Out of curiosity: why is the conversion so inefficient? I would imagine that gas powered power plants also heat up water, and run their turbines on steam?
Well, according to the RDS standard, there are different RDS channels and priorities. There's even one for 'catastrophes'.
And, while I agree that drivers should put more attention on what's happening around them, as the article states, the really good sound insulation of modern cars does reduce the effectiveness of ambulance's sirens. So IMHO, this RDS 'hack' could really help a bit.
RDS enabled radios usually have an option to pause any playback, and play the RDS stream.
Is there an ETA for the VR support? If it uses WebVR, will it also work with the HTC Vive/Oculus?
But wouldn't this 'attack' be really trivial to detect on the credit card processor's side? There isn't a legitimate use case that would explain multiple attempts at the same time?
Not really - since the distance between prime numbers gets big quite quickly, your sieve would quickly almost not have any holes at a certain point.
The Demo looks like it's behind state-of the art tech quite a bit. Their hand-tracking was abysmal (the years-old LeapMotion seems way more precise and quick), the latency was noticeable even under the presumably perfect conditions, HoloLens does the 3D tracking better it seems, and any Android phone can do better graphics with a cheap VR viewer.
It might be impressive that this unit is all self-contained, but this really doesn't seem state-of-the-art at all!
Wouldn't they have to release the process they used to decrypt the data, too?
AFAIK, if the original data was well-encrypted, there should be no correlation between it and the plain-text data. Depending on the process used to decrypt it, you could literally come up with ANY output data you want?
A couple of years ago, I was very hopeful that open chat protocols would win - we had Google Talk, WhatsApp, etc. using XMPP (the Jabber protocol) behind the scenes. Some allowed federation (server-to-server connections, allowing inter-network messanges), some didn't. Google was opening libJingle for open source voice (and video?) chats. The demise of closed chat networks seemed imminent.
But somehow, everything went backwards, and now we have dozens of competing IM networks, all with their own incompatible apps and protocols, competing for users, yet again.
Anyone have an idea how that happened?
I used a cheap chinese Arduino clone, and had a (meArm laser-cut from acrylic. Combined it with some very cheap mini-servos from Aliexpress, and I had a very basic robot-arm.
AliExpress is awesome for these electronics things - worldwide free shipping, and the prices are really ridiculously cheap sometimes.
You can then code up some basic code in the Arduino that lets you remote control the servos from a PC with the programming language of your choice (I use perl).
After that, you can e.g. add a 5$ webcam to your computer, to combine your robot arm with basic computer vision, or add some seonsors to the arm, and so on.
Just in case some slashdotter hasn't hear of it yet:
The people between the very awesome F.Lux software have been saying this for quite a while, so their great little software adjusts your monitor's color temperature after sunset, and before dawn, to be 'warmer'. Their logic being that the blue components of white light are just unnatural to stare at at night, and mess up our biorythms.
All sounds a bit esoteric, but I challenge everybody to use F.Lux for a week or so (until you're used to it), and then disable it at e.g. 2am.
Your eyes will bleed, and you wont understand how people can stare into a super bright white square (the monitor) for hours on end at night.
The PDF on their site says that this will be able to lift up to 10.000kg. This doenst seem too impressive, considering that your run-of-the-mill CH-47 Chinook helicopter can lift up to 12.000kg.
Could someone explain where Edward Snowden is getting these kind of leaks and infos from, so long after he fled the NSA?
Or was this information, and the other stuff he claimed in the last couple of months, all part of the package he took with him back then?
If he was sitting on this information, then why wait so long to release it?
Or does he have a new source 'inside'?
Is this kind of abuse actually effective? European (and maybe American) companies and policymakers often insist that giving workers time off and treating them decently actually increases overall productivity, so does anyone know of studies if this would be true in this case, too?
In Germany, EVERYBODY drinks carbonated water all the time, so this would spell doom on almost the whole population, hence i am a bit sceptical?
Could someone explain why all of this is an issue, when Netflix seems to be giving away their OpenConnect CDN boxes for free, so that ISPs can cache most of the Netflix traffic inside their own network?
Sorry to highjack this thread for an OT question, but: Do you know if there is a way to emulate OR DK2's tracking data? I would like to homebrew a very poor man's Oculus Rift. The screen should be no problem, and there are many IMUs available - but how would i get an Oculus-enabled game to read the IMUs data?
Hence, installing and runninf F.Lux on your computer is a must!
I can whole-heartedly recommend any cheap chromebook. They are basically completely support free, and can be reflashed in an instant.
I'm not sure how well they work with dial-up, but can't really see why they'd perform worse than any other modern browser.
I dont know how to hook them up to POTS line, though. But i guess there is some kind of solution for that.
On another note: where do they live that they don't have access to slightly higher-speed 3G internet? I've travelled through third world countries, and cell-phone-internet seems to be almost omnipresent in some form or another.
Wouldn't it be easier to just have a capsule and a counterweight on a long rope of sorts, and spin/orbit it around an axle that is on the spaceship?
Why hasn't this been done yet? It would seem to me to be almost energy-neutral, since you would only have to compensate for the friction on the axle, once you get the capsules spining?
I just wanted to say that I was pleasantly surprised that this guy seems relatively buzzword free and seems to know his stuff. Obviously he has his corporate agenda, but I would really like more higher-ups in big companies to do interviews like this.