I have a cottage outside of Marmora, who has a lovely pumped-storage kit in the form of a large mine (see the picture at http://www.marmoraandlake.ca/w...) that's well above the Crow river. A good modern pump/turbine could do a sparkling job of storing wind-/solar-power until night.
The specific case was affected by the company being able to make a claim about "stolen games", by which they meant copyright breaches, and that gave them an excuse to claim copying, invoke the DMCA and argue the anti-circumvention clause.
Unless they're surprisingly secure in the fist place, and have a trusted path for emergency re-imaging, they're going to be amazingly attractive to anyone wanting to experiment with rooting industrial-IOT hardware.
Where I have my cottage, we have a former iron mine on top of a hill above the river, about 3/4 full of water. Add a nice modern turbine/pump asembly and you have a storage mechanism for solar and wind power. It's an old trick, but the old moter-gerarators they use in Brazil weren't as efficient as modern stuff.
https://vimeo.com/63846372
I'm waiting for the Canadian anti-spam/anti-malware law to authorize class actions, sometime later this year. Irt will be interesting to see if US-style class actions will cause companies like MS to not install things without the users' permission.
The OS doesn't matter. What's missing is the infrastructure to support patch development, testing, and delivery. Once the initial vendor goes out of business (or discontinues that product), there's no mechanism to continue development, no way to test the patch, and no way to get the new software into the devices.
Some OSs, specifically including the WRT families, include the infrastructure. Others do not and never will, as their vendors are aiming at exceedingly low-cost "use and discard" devices... or, concersely, excessively expensive "planned obsolesence" devices like cars and cell-phones
If the vendors are constrained to use a current Linux or BSD variant, then the customer can update whenever fixes are available. That probably makes lightbulbs too expensive, but for toasters on up, it's possible (;-))
One of my customers who has Chineese-made products found that they should build things in the 'States if any of the following was true
- you could build an automated production line for it.
- the device contained a computer-based controller, or
- the device was big or heavy.
That had them building, in that particular case, in Marshalltown, Iowa.
In a previous life (several, in fact), we followed the "write once" rule. If you needed a queue, you looked to see if there was one, made sure it did what you wanted, and used it. If it didn't, you filed a bug and a patch, then you used it. Reuse tended to cause code review, at least enough to make sure it wasn't going to fail in the new use, and additional testing. As a result, the quality slowly increased with each additional use.
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Yup, that's indeed why. "Let's poison the aqifer!"
Thats a different mine: this one is utterly prohibited for use as a dump: our dump is miles away in different terrain.
Then your IOT devices would have authorized_keys with names like repairman@factory.cn and spy@gov.cn
https://www.6sqft.com/horn-and...
You don't need a lot, and there's *lots* of hills near Lake Constance. Some positively pointy (;-))
I have a cottage outside of Marmora, who has a lovely pumped-storage kit in the form of a large mine (see the picture at
http://www.marmoraandlake.ca/w...) that's well above the Crow river. A good modern pump/turbine could do a sparkling job of storing wind-/solar-power until night.
The specific case was affected by the company being able to make a claim about "stolen games", by which they meant copyright breaches, and that gave them an excuse to claim copying, invoke the DMCA and argue the anti-circumvention clause.
Cases in the US have narrowed the law to eliminate schemes such as DMCAing print cartriges, and we just ameded the "Combines Investigation Act" to cover similar cases: see Exclusive Dealing and Tied Selling under the Amended Combines Investigation Act
This case tries to narrow the defenses against and widen the power of the DMCA, and needs an appeal and a good set of amicus briefs.
s/fist/first/ (;-))
Unless they're surprisingly secure in the fist place, and have a trusted path for emergency re-imaging, they're going to be amazingly attractive to anyone wanting to experiment with rooting industrial-IOT hardware.
... and was eventually proven false.
Where I have my cottage, we have a former iron mine on top of a hill above the river, about 3/4 full of water. Add a nice modern turbine/pump asembly and you have a storage mechanism for solar and wind power. It's an old trick, but the old moter-gerarators they use in Brazil weren't as efficient as modern stuff. https://vimeo.com/63846372
https://www.troyhunt.com/thoug...
I'm waiting for the Canadian anti-spam/anti-malware law to authorize class actions, sometime later this year. Irt will be interesting to see if US-style class actions will cause companies like MS to not install things without the users' permission.
I'm waiting for the class action to start in Canada... any day now (;-))
I was engaging in irony (:-))
Find the tiny print, recognize the text and add a bright magenta banner that says "Advertisement".
In Soviet Canuckistan, we have these folks called police who lay criminal charges for things like fraud...
If you work hard, you will do better than your parents.
The OS doesn't matter. What's missing is the infrastructure to support patch development, testing, and delivery. Once the initial vendor goes out of business (or discontinues that product), there's no mechanism to continue development, no way to test the patch, and no way to get the new software into the devices.
Some OSs, specifically including the WRT families, include the infrastructure. Others do not and never will, as their vendors are aiming at exceedingly low-cost "use and discard" devices... or, concersely, excessively expensive "planned obsolesence" devices like cars and cell-phones
Yes: we agree lightbulbs won't make it.
If the vendors are constrained to use a current Linux or BSD variant, then the customer can update whenever fixes are available. That probably makes lightbulbs too expensive, but for toasters on up, it's possible (;-))
One of my customers who has Chineese-made products found that they should build things in the 'States if any of the following was true
- you could build an automated production line for it.
- the device contained a computer-based controller, or
- the device was big or heavy.
That had them building, in that particular case, in Marshalltown, Iowa.
The sped test says and shows as a png
At least in Tranna
In a previous life (several, in fact), we followed the "write once" rule. If you needed a queue, you looked to see if there was one, made sure it did what you wanted, and used it. If it didn't, you filed a bug and a patch, then you used it. Reuse tended to cause code review, at least enough to make sure it wasn't going to fail in the new use, and additional testing. As a result, the quality slowly increased with each additional use.