The reason for connecting vital infrastructure systems to the Internet is very simple. Many of those systems are distributed. So you have a choice: build your own network or use existing one (Internet). In most cases building your own network is a no go for many obvious reasons. Like, for example, money, uptime, etc.
Assuming that NSA did that, can this even be legal? I mean, to sabotage an entire line of products of an American company by an American government agency?
It's like if FDA went and injected all MacDonald's happy meals with cadmium.
One thing is to pay them, as they did with RSA, and another is to actually break their code.
Or maybe Juniper was paid, but subscription has lapsed?
It's an impasse of sorts in Snowden case: in order to serve justice, US needs to modify Espionage Act to allow "public interest defense". But if it is allowed then Snowden's lawyers will pull all the dirt about NSA dealing and the case will escalate to Supreme Court (Snowden has standing after all) were all this shit might be declared unconstitutional. And US government cannot afford that risk, thus no justice for you, Snowden.
Don't know about Tesla as a company, but Tesla's _investors_ surely wont be so happy about serious competition. Maybe Tesla will be able to retreat to its gigafactory and make profit from selling batteries, but maybe not...
What if that armada is causing the whole blinking effect? Like it's on the straight path from their star to ours, we and they are jittering a bit. Boom! An explanation!:)
I know, it might be unpopular, but consider this explanation: what if that mode was designed to be turned on when car detects running in a badly ventilated area like indoors or in a tunnel and such? Just to avoid becoming a health hazard. And nobody realized that such mode would interfere with EPA tests. And VW own testers were simply replicating EPA testing rig to insure that ther testing is the same, while having no clue how engine works. While it is still probable, that someone in VW realized that there is a problem, they kept their mouth shut for various reasons. But generally this explanation does not require any wide conspiracy or anything.
My guess is that both sides will start to do it Russian style - outsource the "data acquisition" step to 3rd parties. In Russian case those are outright criminal organizations, mixing business with pleasure, so to speak.
The caveat is that the car cannot distinguish running indoors vs EPA check. Thus it might be a (very good) safety feature: if computer detects that the car is running indoors or in any other situation where ventilation might be a problem (e.g. your father's garage, bad tunnel traffic, cart in a warehouse) engine is switched into cleanest running mode possible to avoid sending hapless mechanics, who screwed up their ventilation setup, to a hospital.
And that's it. This theory does not require neither malice nor stupidity. It also has an explanatory power - it explains why there were no whistleblowers.
If I were doing it I would have placed "// FIXME DEBUG" on that line of code.
Like it was an internal testing mode which wasn't switched off, by accident of course.
Those places (in US) which do not have 4G right now, will not get 5G pretty much by definition. If I understand correctly, 5G is exclusively for areas with very high population density. Basically, thanks to physics, your cells are of the size of a city block. So if you do not have enough customers at that scale - you do not get 5G.
Considering that NSA definitely had the source code and configuration (otherwise they would not use Cisco stuff themselves) they knew about this shit. And leaving such a huge hole in nation's security while it's NSA's main responsibility is unacceptable. And after that recent data breach fiasco, one has to wonder, why the fuck we keep paying their salaries?!
Smart ones should not push it. In fact this decision might be a boon for republican party. By stopping using gay marriage as a talking point they are stopping alienation of large chunk of young voters.
For what it's worth: I've got good old T41. It's running 1.6MHz Pentium M on 2Gb RAM. I've installed SSD and Lubuntu 14.04 (with forcepae). Works great! Funny thing - I've already got rid of much more up to date notebooks, but this one is such a pleasure to use, it's still sits on the side of my desk, powered 24/7 for quick lookups, experiments and what not.
Couple of things: first, disk never gets near full because of root reservation. Second - there is implicit trim when you overwrite a block with new data (think about it). So my point still stands. Additionally it is confirmed experimentally - at some point I used a trashy usb stick as the only drive on a 24/7 microserver (with a lot of writes) for over a year with no problems. And you are wrong about reserved blocks - they are not only for bad blocks. Read some reports on Intel enterprise drives.
That's why i've added overprovisioning to my message (you've read it right?). And, by the way, all drives have reserved blocks to counteract things like scenario you've described. And I actually do use BTRFS on a very write active drive - works like a charm.
Use BTRFS or any other COW file system (with modest overprovisioning) - and you won't need trim. That's due to absence of random writes (in case you're wondering)
By the way, that report was not picked up by most news agencies. BBC had it on their front page but since removed it. It seems that they smell a rat too.
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The reason for connecting vital infrastructure systems to the Internet is very simple. Many of those systems are distributed. So you have a choice: build your own network or use existing one (Internet). In most cases building your own network is a no go for many obvious reasons. Like, for example, money, uptime, etc.
You are wrong.
Courts are siding with shooters who were on their private property in cases of privacy violation. Case dismissed
Assuming that NSA did that, can this even be legal? I mean, to sabotage an entire line of products of an American company by an American government agency? It's like if FDA went and injected all MacDonald's happy meals with cadmium.
One thing is to pay them, as they did with RSA, and another is to actually break their code. Or maybe Juniper was paid, but subscription has lapsed?
SSDs are already at 16TB. Samsung showed one. And it does not matter how much it costs - you can't get an HD of such capacity for any price.
It's an impasse of sorts in Snowden case: in order to serve justice, US needs to modify Espionage Act to allow "public interest defense". But if it is allowed then Snowden's lawyers will pull all the dirt about NSA dealing and the case will escalate to Supreme Court (Snowden has standing after all) were all this shit might be declared unconstitutional. And US government cannot afford that risk, thus no justice for you, Snowden.
There are SSDs which are higher density than HDs. Samsung showed 16gig device few weeks ago: PM1663a
So WD realized that hard drive business is kaput.
No wonder we're still waiting for a 8TB consumer drive from them. They are curbing research spending...
Don't know about Tesla as a company, but Tesla's _investors_ surely wont be so happy about serious competition. Maybe Tesla will be able to retreat to its gigafactory and make profit from selling batteries, but maybe not...
What if that armada is causing the whole blinking effect? Like it's on the straight path from their star to ours, we and they are jittering a bit. Boom! An explanation! :)
I know, it might be unpopular, but consider this explanation: what if that mode was designed to be turned on when car detects running in a badly ventilated area like indoors or in a tunnel and such? Just to avoid becoming a health hazard. And nobody realized that such mode would interfere with EPA tests. And VW own testers were simply replicating EPA testing rig to insure that ther testing is the same, while having no clue how engine works. While it is still probable, that someone in VW realized that there is a problem, they kept their mouth shut for various reasons. But generally this explanation does not require any wide conspiracy or anything.
My guess is that both sides will start to do it Russian style - outsource the "data acquisition" step to 3rd parties. In Russian case those are outright criminal organizations, mixing business with pleasure, so to speak.
I almost peed myself laughing... Were they able to keep their faces straight when they were "agreeing"?
The caveat is that the car cannot distinguish running indoors vs EPA check. Thus it might be a (very good) safety feature: if computer detects that the car is running indoors or in any other situation where ventilation might be a problem (e.g. your father's garage, bad tunnel traffic, cart in a warehouse) engine is switched into cleanest running mode possible to avoid sending hapless mechanics, who screwed up their ventilation setup, to a hospital.
And that's it. This theory does not require neither malice nor stupidity. It also has an explanatory power - it explains why there were no whistleblowers.
If I were doing it I would have placed "// FIXME DEBUG" on that line of code. Like it was an internal testing mode which wasn't switched off, by accident of course.
Lost opportunity for sure, given that in the US wistleblowers get percentage of the settlement.
We're talking some serious millions here...
Those places (in US) which do not have 4G right now, will not get 5G pretty much by definition. If I understand correctly, 5G is exclusively for areas with very high population density. Basically, thanks to physics, your cells are of the size of a city block. So if you do not have enough customers at that scale - you do not get 5G.
On VP9 hardware support: many "smart" TVs have it. Google uses YouTube as a battering ram.
Considering that NSA definitely had the source code and configuration (otherwise they would not use Cisco stuff themselves) they knew about this shit. And leaving such a huge hole in nation's security while it's NSA's main responsibility is unacceptable. And after that recent data breach fiasco, one has to wonder, why the fuck we keep paying their salaries?!
Smart ones should not push it. In fact this decision might be a boon for republican party. By stopping using gay marriage as a talking point they are stopping alienation of large chunk of young voters.
For what it's worth: I've got good old T41. It's running 1.6MHz Pentium M on 2Gb RAM. I've installed SSD and Lubuntu 14.04 (with forcepae). Works great! Funny thing - I've already got rid of much more up to date notebooks, but this one is such a pleasure to use, it's still sits on the side of my desk, powered 24/7 for quick lookups, experiments and what not.
Couple of things: first, disk never gets near full because of root reservation. Second - there is implicit trim when you overwrite a block with new data (think about it). So my point still stands. Additionally it is confirmed experimentally - at some point I used a trashy usb stick as the only drive on a 24/7 microserver (with a lot of writes) for over a year with no problems. And you are wrong about reserved blocks - they are not only for bad blocks. Read some reports on Intel enterprise drives.
That's why i've added overprovisioning to my message (you've read it right?). And, by the way, all drives have reserved blocks to counteract things like scenario you've described. And I actually do use BTRFS on a very write active drive - works like a charm.
Use BTRFS or any other COW file system (with modest overprovisioning) - and you won't need trim. That's due to absence of random writes (in case you're wondering)
By the way, that report was not picked up by most news agencies. BBC had it on their front page but since removed it. It seems that they smell a rat too.
Or maybe they plan to do some poaching and want to know who's the major talent.