I gave up on consumer NAS because the permissions suck - you can't integrate with a Windows domain. So these days my 'NAS' is a USB drive shared off my server.
ON the other hand, I'm not 100% certain (because of lack of interest once I had my own solution in place), but I believe many consumer router/modems now come with a USB port to share storage or a printer. I'd suggest investing some time in hunting down a router with that feature instead of going with a consumer NAS device.
On my third hand... I'm not entirely sure if permissions would work under that scenario or if the router would ignore them. Presumably it ends up acting as a gateway and may not support anything other than "Everyone - Full Control". And I've no idea what would happen with Linux or Mac users.
Absolutely. With 100% certainty you can bet the marketing folks advised their companies that marketing these as speakers was mandatory to head off the average consumer thinking about an always-on microphone being in their home.
>It's sort of Mountain View's unofficial bike share, especially now that the city of Mountain View has formally left the bay area bike share/ford gobike system.
You should worry about all the places those people will be, because they are bringing surveillance devices with them.
Not that their cell phones weren't already potential spying devices, but at least there was some hope they'd be in a pocket or holster or something that would muffle the mic. Headphones and watches designed to be listening to the wearer all the time? MUCH better sound reception most of the time (the exception being the smart phone when the mic is held near the owner's mouth).
If there isn't already some nefarious software to subvert your phone and tap Alexa's audio, then there are multiple agencies working on it right now to be ready when these devices hit the market.
Seeing as replacing every Intel chip sold in the last decade would break the company overnight AND the problem can be patched (with an uncertain performance hit that may negligibly low in most scenarios, but could be ridiculously high in a few), I'm not in the least bit surprised by this.
They're going to have to either kick it up a notch in the next product cycle OR find and release similar vulnerabilities in the competition's product lines or they're going to lose a bit of market share over this, though.
I'd be shocked if they lost a huge portion of the market. There are a lot of PHBs out there who think Intel is the only option.
2) Wrong, but not theft (as presumably the daughter is a minor dependent and doesn't have property rights)
3) Still wrong, but still not theft (as presumably the daughter is a minor dependent and doesn't have property rights). Possibly a well-intentioned lesson in paying for your mistakes, but I personally would handle it differently.
4) Wrong, but not theft (what is purchased is irrelevant) - martial assets are shared assets. Unless there's an agreement otherwise, that money in the purse is just as much his as hers. And so is the purse.
5) See #4
6) See #4, though honestly this would sound more like, "Honey I needed cash and put the cheque in there as a reminder I raided your purse for it".
It's all pretty black and white to me... as long as you aren't foolish enough to equate 'right' with 'legal'.
1) We're not a polygamous species, we generally engage in serial monogamy with a percentage of 'cheaters'. Polygamy results when there is an extreme power distribution issue combined with a cultural view of women as property.
2) 99% of men rate 99% of women as 'unworthy of mating' yet there's a lot more than 1% of the species having sex and/or long term relationships. Just like men, women adjust their standards to their environment (and don't call it 'lowering', because the typical 'standards' are extremely superficial and most people mature out of them).
No. Men aren't all rape monsters as the worst feminist propaganda claims, but neither are all women man-haters.
Just like men, women are social primates who require social connections with the sex to which they're attracted... and with 90% of the population being heterosexual, men aren't in any danger of being replaced by a lab and a Hitachi wand any time soon.
The problem with a lot of wisdom is it is difficult to teach except through experience. It's not like I hadn't come across that saying dozens of times before I figured it out for myself.
Let me tell you, not stressing about things you can't control while letting yourself stress a bit about the stuff you can control, and prioritizing positive social interaction over negative... that's about the best first choice for improving your life.
There's tons of other stuff, but you start there. Remember you're a social primate with a finite lifespan, so relax as much as you can and enjoy your time.
That would, in theory, do what? The government could out-hash the citizens, and if the outside world provides enough hash power to 'outgun' them, how is that different from any other system? And you still need a traceable connection to spread your message... radio sources can be triangulated.
>This keeps being reported as the first swatting-related death. Given that fact, it's perfectly plausible that this kid assumed it would not lead to someone's death
It's not the first time cops have gone to the wrong house and killed people. It's NOT plausible to assume sending a group of armed people to a scene while leading them to believe there is another armed and violent person there couldn't end like this.
The person who designed the training. The person who signed off on this officer's fitness. The cop in charge of the scene. Whoever came up with their general response plan. AND the guy who pulled the trigger.
Believe it or not, I sympathize with the cop who killed the guy - you can bet he showed up wanting to be a hero, then one quick mistake and he's suddenly the bad guy. He killed an innocent person. If he's the least bit psychologically normal, that's going to be a heavy burden on him for the rest of his life.
He still can't be a cop any longer, and he still needs to be thoroughly investigated to see if this was predictable - and if so, who in the chain failed to handle the guy before this happened.
And this WAS predictable. There are policy and training failures involved in this at a minimum.
Honestly, if I was unaware the police were on my property and 'somebody' busted down my front door... I'd try to hide myself and my family, get a weapon, and do my best to kill the intruders if they come near (even if they're yelling 'POLICE!'; home invasions usually don't work out very well for the people in the house.
Now if the cops show up at my house and I see the red and blue lights through the windows, maybe hear sirens, and there's a hard knock at the door with a yell of 'POLICE!'? That door will be opened, and I won't have any weapons, the interior house lights will be on, and my hands will be visible. The wife and kids will still be instructed to hide in the basement, just in case.
Reasonably sure. The Republicans currently don't seem to care if they're caught lying - they just repeat the lie. The Mall crowd size, all the deflection with repeating debunked lies about Hillary Clinton, and 5x documented false statements per day from the POTUS, the ongoing story about the Trump team not meeting with Russia that changed several times as more proof came to light (though oddly this is also an exception of sorts, since they actually changed their story). Denying means innocence if you're a Republican.
The Democrats at least care about getting caught and choose credible claims, even if they are flinging all the mud they can find to fling.
Maybe that doesn't matter ultimately. But I bet if you're a Muslim, of Mexican descent, black, a woman, homosexual, transsexual, need health insurance, believe we ought to be doing something about climate change, or are a Democrat... you're probably more interested in seeing the Republicans hoisted with their own petard at this point and that definitely makes it a sticking point.
The current administration 'wins' because it has absolutely no cares about truth, honesty, or the good of the people it is governing. They can spew whatever propaganda they wish 24/7 without shame or morals holding them back.
The other side is trying to fight propaganda with truth. If they'd dive into the muck they might lose their souls but win the battle. And then have lost the war because that would reinforce the current state of things as the new standard.
"I didn't kill anyone because I didn't pull the trigger"
Wow. No, you just fooled a bunch of heavily armed people into thinking they were going to be confronting an armed and dangerous person who had already killed one person. No way could you have POSSIBLY predicted that situation could potentially lead to a death.
This idiot should be locked away for a very, very long time to think about what he did.
On a separate note - the cops need to be royally reamed. They know swatting is a thing, they know getting the address wrong is a thing... yet they roll up and without any confirmation of what's going on they shoot the guy who answers the door. FFS, no hostage-taking murderer with a gun is going to open up the front door to the police without a hostage in front of them anyway.
10:1 the shooter had bad trigger discipline. Odds are even better that what blame the cops can't avoid will be so thinly distributed that pretty much no punishment results despite the fact they killed one of the people they're charged with protecting.
They should have issued a statement saying the code was written to extend the life of the battery and prevent reboots due to voltage drops.
Then they could have issued a patch that made the behaviour optional, perhaps with a pop up message suggesting enabling it when the battery started failing.
Finally, the battery replacement discount is not a bad PR move.
>A rotating wheel gives you the same gravity level all the way around. That's good once you figure out how much gravity we humans need to stay healthy, but for research we want to test all different amounts.
Yes, of course. So a giant baton where the occupied module and the counterweight can move towards and away from each other on the shaft.
I'm not a big fan of attaching such a thing to the ISS due to the vibration issues. If it's not attached to anything else, that problem goes away.
There is a difference between lies and poor focus. You want lies, you can watch Fox. You want poor focus, you can watch CNN.
I may not trust CNN to cover all the news, but I generally trust them to cover it honestly. And yes, that includes cleaning house when they find they haven't covered something honestly.
Mostly, though, you need to occasionally have a look at what your enemies and allies are reporting about your issues; sometimes the domestic sources have been standing in the local shit for so long they can't smell it any longer.
> In 1970s it seemed very serious, the mention about The Metric Conversion Act of 1975, reminded me of that time. Other day I came across a 1970s paperback in my junque collection about "get ready for the metric system!" I also remember seeing an article about a group, "Stop Metric Madness" which they argued a centimeter is too short and a meter is too long.
I grew up in the 70s, and schools in my area were teaching both systems but starting to favour metric (pay attention to that extra 'u' I just threw in, it might be an important hint!).
It was difficult for a lot of adults to flip from pounds to kilograms, especially when buying produce, so for a long time (well, even now) you'd see both on labels.
Gassing up in liters and measuring mileage in L/100km actually turns out to be much easier when calculating how far you can expect your car to go on a tank... and we mostly fuel our cars in dollars anyway.
Human height and weight are still mixed, I'm more likely to tell you how tall I am in feet and inches and how much I weigh in pounds, but 40 years later I'm actually starting to think in centimeters and kilograms instead. I expect my kids won't understand the imperial system at all.
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I gave up on consumer NAS because the permissions suck - you can't integrate with a Windows domain. So these days my 'NAS' is a USB drive shared off my server.
ON the other hand, I'm not 100% certain (because of lack of interest once I had my own solution in place), but I believe many consumer router/modems now come with a USB port to share storage or a printer. I'd suggest investing some time in hunting down a router with that feature instead of going with a consumer NAS device.
On my third hand... I'm not entirely sure if permissions would work under that scenario or if the router would ignore them. Presumably it ends up acting as a gateway and may not support anything other than "Everyone - Full Control". And I've no idea what would happen with Linux or Mac users.
>now "Speakers" are microphones.
Absolutely. With 100% certainty you can bet the marketing folks advised their companies that marketing these as speakers was mandatory to head off the average consumer thinking about an always-on microphone being in their home.
>It's sort of Mountain View's unofficial bike share, especially now that the city of Mountain View has formally left the bay area bike share/ford gobike system.
No, it's become the local culture to steal bikes.
You should worry about all the places those people will be, because they are bringing surveillance devices with them.
Not that their cell phones weren't already potential spying devices, but at least there was some hope they'd be in a pocket or holster or something that would muffle the mic. Headphones and watches designed to be listening to the wearer all the time? MUCH better sound reception most of the time (the exception being the smart phone when the mic is held near the owner's mouth).
If there isn't already some nefarious software to subvert your phone and tap Alexa's audio, then there are multiple agencies working on it right now to be ready when these devices hit the market.
Seeing as replacing every Intel chip sold in the last decade would break the company overnight AND the problem can be patched (with an uncertain performance hit that may negligibly low in most scenarios, but could be ridiculously high in a few), I'm not in the least bit surprised by this.
They're going to have to either kick it up a notch in the next product cycle OR find and release similar vulnerabilities in the competition's product lines or they're going to lose a bit of market share over this, though.
I'd be shocked if they lost a huge portion of the market. There are a lot of PHBs out there who think Intel is the only option.
>I'm not sure you understand what you just did. You claimed that the money is a shared asset but it was wrong to take the shared asset to buy food.
I understand exactly what I wrote; I respect my spouse's right to property even if the law doesn't.
If I need money from her purse, I'll ASK her first.
1) Theft
2) Wrong, but not theft (as presumably the daughter is a minor dependent and doesn't have property rights)
3) Still wrong, but still not theft (as presumably the daughter is a minor dependent and doesn't have property rights). Possibly a well-intentioned lesson in paying for your mistakes, but I personally would handle it differently.
4) Wrong, but not theft (what is purchased is irrelevant) - martial assets are shared assets. Unless there's an agreement otherwise, that money in the purse is just as much his as hers. And so is the purse.
5) See #4
6) See #4, though honestly this would sound more like, "Honey I needed cash and put the cheque in there as a reminder I raided your purse for it".
It's all pretty black and white to me... as long as you aren't foolish enough to equate 'right' with 'legal'.
1) We're not a polygamous species, we generally engage in serial monogamy with a percentage of 'cheaters'. Polygamy results when there is an extreme power distribution issue combined with a cultural view of women as property.
2) 99% of men rate 99% of women as 'unworthy of mating' yet there's a lot more than 1% of the species having sex and/or long term relationships. Just like men, women adjust their standards to their environment (and don't call it 'lowering', because the typical 'standards' are extremely superficial and most people mature out of them).
No. Men aren't all rape monsters as the worst feminist propaganda claims, but neither are all women man-haters.
Just like men, women are social primates who require social connections with the sex to which they're attracted... and with 90% of the population being heterosexual, men aren't in any danger of being replaced by a lab and a Hitachi wand any time soon.
An oldie but a goodie.
The problem with a lot of wisdom is it is difficult to teach except through experience. It's not like I hadn't come across that saying dozens of times before I figured it out for myself.
Let me tell you, not stressing about things you can't control while letting yourself stress a bit about the stuff you can control, and prioritizing positive social interaction over negative... that's about the best first choice for improving your life.
There's tons of other stuff, but you start there. Remember you're a social primate with a finite lifespan, so relax as much as you can and enjoy your time.
>I just puked in my mouth... but Blockchain?
That would, in theory, do what? The government could out-hash the citizens, and if the outside world provides enough hash power to 'outgun' them, how is that different from any other system? And you still need a traceable connection to spread your message... radio sources can be triangulated.
>This keeps being reported as the first swatting-related death. Given that fact, it's perfectly plausible that this kid assumed it would not lead to someone's death
It's not the first time cops have gone to the wrong house and killed people. It's NOT plausible to assume sending a group of armed people to a scene while leading them to believe there is another armed and violent person there couldn't end like this.
CopS.
The person who designed the training. The person who signed off on this officer's fitness. The cop in charge of the scene. Whoever came up with their general response plan. AND the guy who pulled the trigger.
Believe it or not, I sympathize with the cop who killed the guy - you can bet he showed up wanting to be a hero, then one quick mistake and he's suddenly the bad guy. He killed an innocent person. If he's the least bit psychologically normal, that's going to be a heavy burden on him for the rest of his life.
He still can't be a cop any longer, and he still needs to be thoroughly investigated to see if this was predictable - and if so, who in the chain failed to handle the guy before this happened.
And this WAS predictable. There are policy and training failures involved in this at a minimum.
>. They busted in in a "dynamic entry".
Honestly, if I was unaware the police were on my property and 'somebody' busted down my front door... I'd try to hide myself and my family, get a weapon, and do my best to kill the intruders if they come near (even if they're yelling 'POLICE!'; home invasions usually don't work out very well for the people in the house.
Now if the cops show up at my house and I see the red and blue lights through the windows, maybe hear sirens, and there's a hard knock at the door with a yell of 'POLICE!'? That door will be opened, and I won't have any weapons, the interior house lights will be on, and my hands will be visible. The wife and kids will still be instructed to hide in the basement, just in case.
Reasonably sure. The Republicans currently don't seem to care if they're caught lying - they just repeat the lie. The Mall crowd size, all the deflection with repeating debunked lies about Hillary Clinton, and 5x documented false statements per day from the POTUS, the ongoing story about the Trump team not meeting with Russia that changed several times as more proof came to light (though oddly this is also an exception of sorts, since they actually changed their story). Denying means innocence if you're a Republican.
The Democrats at least care about getting caught and choose credible claims, even if they are flinging all the mud they can find to fling.
Maybe that doesn't matter ultimately. But I bet if you're a Muslim, of Mexican descent, black, a woman, homosexual, transsexual, need health insurance, believe we ought to be doing something about climate change, or are a Democrat... you're probably more interested in seeing the Republicans hoisted with their own petard at this point and that definitely makes it a sticking point.
The current administration 'wins' because it has absolutely no cares about truth, honesty, or the good of the people it is governing. They can spew whatever propaganda they wish 24/7 without shame or morals holding them back.
The other side is trying to fight propaganda with truth. If they'd dive into the muck they might lose their souls but win the battle. And then have lost the war because that would reinforce the current state of things as the new standard.
"I didn't kill anyone because I didn't pull the trigger"
Wow. No, you just fooled a bunch of heavily armed people into thinking they were going to be confronting an armed and dangerous person who had already killed one person. No way could you have POSSIBLY predicted that situation could potentially lead to a death.
This idiot should be locked away for a very, very long time to think about what he did.
On a separate note - the cops need to be royally reamed. They know swatting is a thing, they know getting the address wrong is a thing... yet they roll up and without any confirmation of what's going on they shoot the guy who answers the door. FFS, no hostage-taking murderer with a gun is going to open up the front door to the police without a hostage in front of them anyway.
10:1 the shooter had bad trigger discipline. Odds are even better that what blame the cops can't avoid will be so thinly distributed that pretty much no punishment results despite the fact they killed one of the people they're charged with protecting.
Unless the guy answered the door shouting he was going to kill the cops, or unless he was holding a firearm as he opened the door....
There's pretty much no scenario where the swatting aspect is significant compared to the cop killing the guy who answered the door.
They should have issued a statement saying the code was written to extend the life of the battery and prevent reboots due to voltage drops.
Then they could have issued a patch that made the behaviour optional, perhaps with a pop up message suggesting enabling it when the battery started failing.
Finally, the battery replacement discount is not a bad PR move.
Pathetic winners, even worse. Incapable of leading because their worldview is based in being oppressed.
That's why Trump does as well as he does blaming Hillary and Obama so long after the election.
>A rotating wheel gives you the same gravity level all the way around. That's good once you figure out how much gravity we humans need to stay healthy, but for research we want to test all different amounts.
Yes, of course. So a giant baton where the occupied module and the counterweight can move towards and away from each other on the shaft.
I'm not a big fan of attaching such a thing to the ISS due to the vibration issues. If it's not attached to anything else, that problem goes away.
Is a wheel in orbit, so we can spin it and test fractional-g on mammals.
Even a big baton with mice at one and and a counterweight on the other. Something.
There is a difference between lies and poor focus. You want lies, you can watch Fox. You want poor focus, you can watch CNN.
I may not trust CNN to cover all the news, but I generally trust them to cover it honestly. And yes, that includes cleaning house when they find they haven't covered something honestly.
Mostly, though, you need to occasionally have a look at what your enemies and allies are reporting about your issues; sometimes the domestic sources have been standing in the local shit for so long they can't smell it any longer.
> In 1970s it seemed very serious, the mention about The Metric Conversion Act of 1975, reminded me of that time. Other day I came across a 1970s paperback in my junque collection about "get ready for the metric system!" I also remember seeing an article about a group, "Stop Metric Madness" which they argued a centimeter is too short and a meter is too long.
I grew up in the 70s, and schools in my area were teaching both systems but starting to favour metric (pay attention to that extra 'u' I just threw in, it might be an important hint!).
It was difficult for a lot of adults to flip from pounds to kilograms, especially when buying produce, so for a long time (well, even now) you'd see both on labels.
Gassing up in liters and measuring mileage in L/100km actually turns out to be much easier when calculating how far you can expect your car to go on a tank... and we mostly fuel our cars in dollars anyway.
Human height and weight are still mixed, I'm more likely to tell you how tall I am in feet and inches and how much I weigh in pounds, but 40 years later I'm actually starting to think in centimeters and kilograms instead. I expect my kids won't understand the imperial system at all.