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  1. Re:what happens if a failed hack bricks the firmwa on Hacking a Tesla Model S Could Net $10,000 Prize · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you can figure it out, champ.

  2. Re:Void warranty on Hacking a Tesla Model S Could Net $10,000 Prize · · Score: 1

    Brake fluid, yeah. Coolant for the battery, yeah. Steering is electric so you lose there. The transmission has no gear change, so no synchro wear due to shifting. It does have gear oil - NOT "transmission fluid" (that's for automatics).

    The gear oil is scheduled for change at 12 years / 250,000 km. Brake fluid and coolant once a year - that sounds incredibly conservative, but you have to understand this car could last you an AWFUL long time, so it doesn't make sense to push such paltry expenses.

  3. Re:Something missing from the summary on Hacking a Tesla Model S Could Net $10,000 Prize · · Score: 1

    In 2013 the Tesla S scored a Vehicle Safety Score (VSS) better than any other vehicle tested including every major make and model approved for sale in the US. It exceeded not only all other sedans, but all SUVs and minivans. In side pole intrusion, it was the only one scoring "good", night-and-day far better than the the Volvo S60.

    If Roger Rodas had been driving a Tesla instead of a Porsche, maybe he and Paul Walker would still be alive. For one thing the car would not have burst into a raging inferno while Paul was stunned by the collision.

  4. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 0

    So what would you do with tyrant judges like this one? Let them do anything they want? Would you prosecute the judge if he murdered someone? Locked someone up for life for contempt because he doesn't like the cut of his jib or got up on the wrong side of the bed?

  5. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 4, Insightful

    [boot up in single user mode so syslog and ntpd are not running]
    # date 0417212012
    # su - victim
    $
    [pigs copy incriminating files at will using cp without -p]
    [could change the date numerous times for different files]

    Yeah, that's REAL hard. They just planted files with an mtime, ctime, and atime of 2012.

    How can timestamps be "out of sync with the rest of the system"? Every file in the system has different timestamps as it is.

  6. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 1, Funny

    Reactionary? What are you, a shill for tyranny?

  7. Re:The Future's So Bright on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for this generation to saturate the industry. Fewer bugs, better features, from less nonsense to code programs with. They might even be better as people, with clearer heads. Python might even help you think more clearly.

    You want to know what is really funny? What you said works perfectly if taken absolutely on the level.

  8. Re:another language shoved down your throat on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Javascript is actually a step up from Python. This does not say anything good about Python.

    Clown. And that is all the response you deserve.

  9. Re:another language shoved down your throat on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 0

    now I guess python will be forced fed to people who don't want it

    BULLSHIT. Yes, Java has always been a rube goldberg language force fed becausr TPTB always thought it was the coming thing. Python on the other hand is an absolutely perfect first language, elegantly and beautifully designed, simple at core, yet compact, expressive and powerful.

  10. Summary should say ... on Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Few companies can claim to have done as much fighting - or feeding - cybercrime.

    There, fixed that for you.

  11. Dual axis helicopters have been around since the dawn of aviation.

    Er, coaxial is not dual axis. But that's beside the point; both coaxial and dual axis have been around for a long time.

  12. Re:redundant aircraft on Radical Dual Tilting Blade Helicopter Design Targets Speeds of Over 270mph · · Score: 1

    ALL rotorcraft are collections of huge numbers of on-the-edge parts vibrating like hell, kept in loose formation by legions of maintenance workers lavishing a shocking amount of constant work on them.

  13. Re:redundant aircraft on Radical Dual Tilting Blade Helicopter Design Targets Speeds of Over 270mph · · Score: 2

    Well, it is SUPPOSED to cost half as much as an Osprey, but we know how that goes (cough, F-22, F-35). There will be a long development period first; plenty of time for things to go wrong. Or we could - wait for it - 1443 Ospreys right now with no development wait and risk for $100 billion ($69.3 million flyaway cost per Osprey as of FY 2012).

    No way in hell will this thing have more range than an Osprey, and "agility" is unquantified feel-good. And the Osprey's real speed is faster than even the claimed speed of this thing. And it would be one less model to lavish your precious maintenance labor on.

    I don't know which scheme would end up preferable if ALL factors were considered, but I do know they DO need to weigh ALL factors. So far all I see in the program is a bunch of gee-whiz gung ho attitude.

  14. Secret Service job description on US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking · · Score: 1

    The US Secret Service is chartered with two utterly unrelated duties:
    1) Investigation of financial crimes such as counterfeiting and fraud.
    2) Protection of the US protected class of untouchable leaders, as well as visiting foreign dignitaries.

    I don't see violation of the rights of third party nationals in foreign lands anywhere in their charter. Surely there are normal cooperative channels to bring the case to the attention of the law enforcement agencies of the foreign lands and also the third party governments.

    Violation of the sovereignty of the US by attacking it or its citizens does not seem to be a part of this case.

  15. Re:Hm... on US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking · · Score: 1

    I believe that is what they do. I don't say "we" any more. It ain't no part of me.

    They don't even feel they have to use the magic T(errorist) or C(hild porn) words any more.

  16. Re:i would rather pay more for.... on New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory · · Score: 1

    I was actually impressed with that board; no hint of pricing from the manufacturer so I took the time to look up somebody selling it.

    ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? $963.75? And for all its super high power CPU and ample IO the RAM maxes out with 8GB in a SINGLE SO-DIMM slot! Then, let's see, you still have to make your own enclosure.

    I fail to see how there could be a single user who would not be infinitely better served at far lower cost by an Intel NUC or similar.

  17. Re: The rocket to nowhere on NASA Approves Production of Most Powerful Rocket Ever · · Score: 1

    Maybe we do this to get going fast and we immediately set about improving it

    Is 2032 your definition of "get going fast"? That's the year this hare-brained scheme is supposed to reach the level everyone is interested in; 130 tonnes to LEO. The Falcon Heavy is due to fly NEXT YEAR, and has 53 tonnes capability compared to 70 for this thing in 2021.

  18. Re:Please, Please, PLEASE ... on NASA Approves Production of Most Powerful Rocket Ever · · Score: 1

    Don't design it with o-rings this time

    What do you think "five segment SRB" means? The segments of the solid rocket booster are bolted together, and each joint sealed against the raging fire inside by several o-rings plus heat resistant putty. All because it's "too hard" to transport them from the factory to the launch pad in one piece.

    In the 1960s, Goodyear already had a proposal for a very large nonrigid airship to carry outsize rocket assemblies. It was never funded.

  19. Actionable malfeasance on NASA Approves Production of Most Powerful Rocket Ever · · Score: 1

    The entire Manhattan Project, start to finish, including not just the basic science and hugely diverse intricate engineering, but all the civil engineering of building vast infrastructures, and employing 130,000 people, cost only $26 billion in 2014 dollars, and took less than four years.

    This is just bolting together a bunch of decades-old parts, but will dwarf that expenditure. It is the swan song of what was once a daring and imposing nation, and clearly will never be completed. All the Congressmen who vote for this budgetary pork, and the President who signs off on it, should be tried for corruption. Those at the heart of championing and designing this abortion should be tried for conspiracy to bankrupt the nation.

  20. Github overtaken by thuggish government on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Github FAILS the requirement for reliability due to being subject to DMCA horseshit. Will somebody please start the next github in a jurisdiction untouchable by DMCA and other thuggish regulations.

  21. Go to hell Qualcomm on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 1

    And stay there.

  22. Re:Why do we permit "property tax" at all? on California Property Tax Exemptions For Solar Energy Systems Extended To 2025 · · Score: 1

    In a system with no property tax, there would be no disincentive to hoard property.

    So? I apologize in advance; there is no way to say this politely; you can take your loaded term "hoard" as well as your consensus and your bowing and scraping to government, and stuff them. You started the name-calling when you characterized real property ownership as "hoarding".

    If you get off on seeing people's wealth seized by force and redistributed, fine; viewpoints and opinions are the most basic rights everyone has. But if you give support and comfort to those doing the seizing, expect a little blowback.

    Now, if you want to get to basics and discuss the pros and cons of allowing private ownership of what is called "real property" (basically land) in the first place, that is fair game.

  23. Re:Correction...That you know of... on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Er, if you find a file whose contents seem REALLY random, you can be pretty goddam certain that it's encrypted. Even binary files practically always contain valid strings in the header - database files, exes, mpegs, jpgs, etc, etc.

  24. Re:ITER in comparison to NASA on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 1

    You've got your tinfoil hat on backward if you think ITER will save anything. Cold Fusion is a fallacy and will never replace oil.

    You are confused/uninformed. ITER is plain old conventional tokamak style hot fusion. This has nothing whatever to do with cold fusion.

  25. Re:Disappointing - Potential payoff is enormous... on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 1

    Funny that you want to sideline the politicking when the Democrats are the fuckups.

    You are arguing with an anonymous COWARD who won't even put his own identity on the line.