While your argument has merit, I'm going to simply stick to the strategy of buying cars that do not attach a wireless communication device to the same bus that the engine control unit sits on.
That has always been my thought. However, the manufacturers are starting want the ability to remote update your engine control software. So the On-Star or equivalent system gets a CAN connection so it can talk to the modules. But the engine controller is going to have some form of authentication required and the hackers are going to be stopped right there.
I'm not concerned about someone remotely reprogramming a vehicle - you can't even do that with a hard connection without the right tools and keys. This ability to inject malicious CAN traffic may need a little more defense though.
If they had 500,000 bitcoins then those investors have a large percent of the market. Doesn't bitcoin max out around 20M bitcoins? Sure you can buy/sell using fractional bitcoin but if a small group of people are already hoarding several percent of the currency when hardly anyone is even using it yet, that doesn't look like a good future for it.
The Y chromosome has degenerated because it is only present in males. Therefore it does not benefit from crossover. Therefore a bad mutation on it is passed down to all generations of males from that point on. This makes it a very poor place to put useful genes, and it is gradually becoming nothing more than a device to determine gender.
Has anyone identified the high water mark? Apparently the continental shelf indicates the low mark - with all that extra land mass. This whole thing is cyclic, and we should not be surprised that it was a bad idea to build huge cities along the coastline of today. OK maybe surprised, but lets not pretend we can stop it.
"Weed killer resistant" does not necessarily equate to "less nutritious".
No, it doesn't translate to "less nutritious", it translates to "covered in pesticides" which may have their own negative effects regardless of the basic nutrition of the plants.
Linked-In for example, has my email address and sends me email. However, the website sometimes tries to get me to enter my email password to "verify" my account. Just send an email with a clicky to verify, you don't need to log in. I suspect a large number of web sites that require an email address actually try to log in using the password given for the web site. Facebook asks you to give this information, Linked in asks for it under false pretenses, and others.... Can someone please do more testing along these lines?
Why are they not studying the effects of air traffic? This is also a known modifier of the weather, so why not study what happens when you ban certain routes or move major ones? While it might raise airline prices (possibly only short term) it seems less damaging than spraying shit into the air or sequestering CO2.
The jail time in an of itself is nothing. What we are doing is f'd up. It ensure more criminal activity will occur because this person will never be able to succeed in any other way now (other than as a criminal).
But he may have had political ambitions too. Nothing like a formal charge of election fraud to end a political career. Agreed that what a conviction does to a persons future is far too excessive - in fact, it should theoretically have zero effect since the jail term is allegedly the punishment.
No, I think the original wording was more accurate though not as polished as it could be - the device already works fine, a safety interlock does not *enable* any functionality - rather it selectively *disables* it.
I stand by my wording. Take a finger print identification system for example. The gun will not work by default - there is something locking the trigger. Only after you present it with the correct finger print does it unlock the trigger so you can fire. If it is enabled by default and only disabled for "the wrong people" one could just wear a glove and not have the wrong finger print detected.
I don't trust the technology to not have some kind of back door making the firearm able to be disabled, even when I'm the keyed owner and I pull the trigger.
This is entirely possible. An EMP directed at your smart gun may very well disable it. This and the other reliability issues are exactly why you don't see the police using them.
They use technology to prevent a simple mechanical device from working....
They use technology to enable a device to work under certain circumstances. This wording is more accurate and helps to make the issue more clear. It's more evident that if the technology should fail, it won't enable the device to work when needed. This could be anything from a misread fingerprint to a dead battery.
I'm surprised slashdot doesn't regularly make the analogy to DRM which upon failure (or server shutdown) prevents people from using their own media.
Paying for a wiretap means a couple things. 1) someone probably has to authorize the money or at least a larger pool of money that its taken from. The cost is trivial for something that matters but will add up with repeated wasteful use. 2) It provides a paper trail outside of the government which can be used to trace abuses. Hey, why does this one analyst keep listening in on Warren Buffets phone calls? Oh right, echo his taps to me please... And don't mention this to anyone, it's classified... Which brings us to the grand question: How do they prevent misuse? Obviously they can't - Edward Snowden was certainly able to take information for unauthorized use.
Most of the software written in the world has a bug every three to five lines of code. It isn't like you have to be a supergenius to find bugs.
Some blend of three options here:
1) He's full of shit
2) I'm delusional in thinking I write code way better than that
3) Most of the world really is barely held together by bubble gum and duck tape
What bothers me is to what extent is #3 actually the answer.
the Court GRANTS Defendants' motions to dismiss Plaintiffs' statutory claims on the basis of sovereign immunity.
So the government thinks it is a sovereign entity that can do whatever it likes? And the court takes that view? I thought the country was the sovereign entity and the government was just a part of it established by the people. When did the government or any part of it get this new status?
Provided we find cures for Alzheimer's and other brain degenerative diseases
You never know. Given recent experiments running "young" blood through a body (in mice) seems to have some regenerative effects. Given enough benefits like that, a head might be able to live a long time while maintaining a decent quality of life. So the obvious villain character that comes out of this is a head who periodically needs a new young body to be transplanted onto to survive. Fortunately the surgical skills needed to perform this are very advanced, so it shouldn't become widespread. Yet?
So you agree there's a maximum (or maxima) between the two endpoints, and the Laffer curve holds.
Nope. Once you take the 100% taxation revenue away from zero you lose the ability to argue that it's not the highest point on the curve. Honestly I think it's not the highest point on the curve, but that is no longer obvious which is what Laffer relied on to make his point that raising taxes too far will actually reduce revenue. Certainly if you change the measure to "revenue as a share of GDP" there is no doubt that higher taxes will increase the measure all the way to 100 percent.
IIRC the NSA_KEY definition exists and has been seen in accidentally released header files. You are free to offer an alternative explanation for what it is, but instead you choose to misrepresent the implementation and give a "whatever".
Here's an article about the new encryption standard and its back door - master key. The facts are as follows:
1) There exists a set of numbers that could be used as a master key to the system that has since been published as a standard.
2) NSA created the system.
3) You can't prove they don't have this skeleton key.
4) It's their job to do stuff like this.
Now re-read #1 again. Mathematically there IS a back door. The question is weather anyone knows the key.
The cameras installed in copy machines. I recall reading about this many years ago and IIRC it wasn't just soviet copy machines. But memory of the article is too faded. Spying is nothing new.
The end points of the laffer curve are supposed to be "obvious". At zero taxes there is no revenue, and at 100 % taxes there is also no revenue due to destruction of the economy. However, there is another argument (mine) that at 100 % taxes you simply have 100 % government control over the economy. This would mean a complete welfare state - every penny comes from the government and as soon as you spend it every penny goes back to them. Of course this means they control who gets money and presumably for what purpose. Yes, it's a shit system but it shows that there is NOT a drop to zero on the laffer curve. I suspect this guys curve for patent protection is ignoring a highly undesirable option at the far right end as well.
Things get kind of weird at that stage though, many websites would become much more like torrent indexes than a centrally served resource.
And there you have it. People want to place all the burden on the users machine and just be a middleman. It's not really a web app at all, but it's deployed from the web and keeps someone in the loop between users. To facilitate these silly middlemen we now have more security risk on a platform increasingly used for things like banking. Way to fucking go W3C.
Does anyone else long for the days when you could make a decent website without needing half a megabyte of javascript, a database engine and some horrendous mishmash of AJAX?
Why yes, yes they do. I'm still pissed that you can't pass a parameter to a page in a link. This would be - for example - to highlight which item in a menu has been selected and possibly change content within the page. You can do all of this fancy CSS stuff and make things dependent on parameters, but only parameters whose value is defined within the page itself which mean you now need some scripting to make useful menus. IIRC the reasons were either about purity or security, but when you have to bring another whole scripting language in to make a dynamic menu I think those concerns are moot.
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That has always been my thought. However, the manufacturers are starting want the ability to remote update your engine control software. So the On-Star or equivalent system gets a CAN connection so it can talk to the modules. But the engine controller is going to have some form of authentication required and the hackers are going to be stopped right there.
I'm not concerned about someone remotely reprogramming a vehicle - you can't even do that with a hard connection without the right tools and keys. This ability to inject malicious CAN traffic may need a little more defense though.
If they had 500,000 bitcoins then those investors have a large percent of the market. Doesn't bitcoin max out around 20M bitcoins? Sure you can buy/sell using fractional bitcoin but if a small group of people are already hoarding several percent of the currency when hardly anyone is even using it yet, that doesn't look like a good future for it.
The Y chromosome has degenerated because it is only present in males. Therefore it does not benefit from crossover. Therefore a bad mutation on it is passed down to all generations of males from that point on. This makes it a very poor place to put useful genes, and it is gradually becoming nothing more than a device to determine gender.
Has anyone identified the high water mark? Apparently the continental shelf indicates the low mark - with all that extra land mass. This whole thing is cyclic, and we should not be surprised that it was a bad idea to build huge cities along the coastline of today. OK maybe surprised, but lets not pretend we can stop it.
No, it doesn't translate to "less nutritious", it translates to "covered in pesticides" which may have their own negative effects regardless of the basic nutrition of the plants.
Linked-In for example, has my email address and sends me email. However, the website sometimes tries to get me to enter my email password to "verify" my account. Just send an email with a clicky to verify, you don't need to log in. I suspect a large number of web sites that require an email address actually try to log in using the password given for the web site. Facebook asks you to give this information, Linked in asks for it under false pretenses, and others.... Can someone please do more testing along these lines?
Why are they not studying the effects of air traffic? This is also a known modifier of the weather, so why not study what happens when you ban certain routes or move major ones? While it might raise airline prices (possibly only short term) it seems less damaging than spraying shit into the air or sequestering CO2.
But he may have had political ambitions too. Nothing like a formal charge of election fraud to end a political career. Agreed that what a conviction does to a persons future is far too excessive - in fact, it should theoretically have zero effect since the jail term is allegedly the punishment.
I stand by my wording. Take a finger print identification system for example. The gun will not work by default - there is something locking the trigger. Only after you present it with the correct finger print does it unlock the trigger so you can fire. If it is enabled by default and only disabled for "the wrong people" one could just wear a glove and not have the wrong finger print detected.
The device IS a remote kill switch. You use an EMP to disable the electronics and the gun will not work.
If these are so great, why don't the police and other law enforcement people start using them?
This is entirely possible. An EMP directed at your smart gun may very well disable it. This and the other reliability issues are exactly why you don't see the police using them.
They use technology to enable a device to work under certain circumstances. This wording is more accurate and helps to make the issue more clear. It's more evident that if the technology should fail, it won't enable the device to work when needed. This could be anything from a misread fingerprint to a dead battery.
I'm surprised slashdot doesn't regularly make the analogy to DRM which upon failure (or server shutdown) prevents people from using their own media.
Does the voice recognition happen on the phone, or in the cloud like Apple?
Paying for a wiretap means a couple things. 1) someone probably has to authorize the money or at least a larger pool of money that its taken from. The cost is trivial for something that matters but will add up with repeated wasteful use. 2) It provides a paper trail outside of the government which can be used to trace abuses. Hey, why does this one analyst keep listening in on Warren Buffets phone calls? Oh right, echo his taps to me please... And don't mention this to anyone, it's classified... Which brings us to the grand question: How do they prevent misuse? Obviously they can't - Edward Snowden was certainly able to take information for unauthorized use.
Some blend of three options here:
1) He's full of shit
2) I'm delusional in thinking I write code way better than that
3) Most of the world really is barely held together by bubble gum and duck tape
What bothers me is to what extent is #3 actually the answer.
So the government thinks it is a sovereign entity that can do whatever it likes? And the court takes that view? I thought the country was the sovereign entity and the government was just a part of it established by the people. When did the government or any part of it get this new status?
You never know. Given recent experiments running "young" blood through a body (in mice) seems to have some regenerative effects. Given enough benefits like that, a head might be able to live a long time while maintaining a decent quality of life. So the obvious villain character that comes out of this is a head who periodically needs a new young body to be transplanted onto to survive. Fortunately the surgical skills needed to perform this are very advanced, so it shouldn't become widespread. Yet?
Nope. Once you take the 100% taxation revenue away from zero you lose the ability to argue that it's not the highest point on the curve. Honestly I think it's not the highest point on the curve, but that is no longer obvious which is what Laffer relied on to make his point that raising taxes too far will actually reduce revenue. Certainly if you change the measure to "revenue as a share of GDP" there is no doubt that higher taxes will increase the measure all the way to 100 percent.
IIRC the NSA_KEY definition exists and has been seen in accidentally released header files. You are free to offer an alternative explanation for what it is, but instead you choose to misrepresent the implementation and give a "whatever".
Here's an article about the new encryption standard and its back door - master key. The facts are as follows:
1) There exists a set of numbers that could be used as a master key to the system that has since been published as a standard.
2) NSA created the system.
3) You can't prove they don't have this skeleton key.
4) It's their job to do stuff like this.
Now re-read #1 again. Mathematically there IS a back door. The question is weather anyone knows the key.
The cameras installed in copy machines. I recall reading about this many years ago and IIRC it wasn't just soviet copy machines. But memory of the article is too faded. Spying is nothing new.
The end points of the laffer curve are supposed to be "obvious". At zero taxes there is no revenue, and at 100 % taxes there is also no revenue due to destruction of the economy. However, there is another argument (mine) that at 100 % taxes you simply have 100 % government control over the economy. This would mean a complete welfare state - every penny comes from the government and as soon as you spend it every penny goes back to them. Of course this means they control who gets money and presumably for what purpose. Yes, it's a shit system but it shows that there is NOT a drop to zero on the laffer curve. I suspect this guys curve for patent protection is ignoring a highly undesirable option at the far right end as well.
No, using dynamic links to identify the user during the session is creative. And that's still probably the wrong word.
And there you have it. People want to place all the burden on the users machine and just be a middleman. It's not really a web app at all, but it's deployed from the web and keeps someone in the loop between users. To facilitate these silly middlemen we now have more security risk on a platform increasingly used for things like banking. Way to fucking go W3C.
Why yes, yes they do. I'm still pissed that you can't pass a parameter to a page in a link. This would be - for example - to highlight which item in a menu has been selected and possibly change content within the page. You can do all of this fancy CSS stuff and make things dependent on parameters, but only parameters whose value is defined within the page itself which mean you now need some scripting to make useful menus. IIRC the reasons were either about purity or security, but when you have to bring another whole scripting language in to make a dynamic menu I think those concerns are moot.