There's absolutely no reason for a currency validity checker to use a URL. There's no reason for it to use anything other than a defined standard created by the central banking authority that prints legitimate bills.
Any data in a QR code that is invalid should only be marked as invalid and the bill sorted aside for later, manual investigation. No "action" with the data itself is required. It shouldn't matter if the data is a URL or an IP address or "echo y|format C:/q". There should be nothing processed but an ack that the data doesn't correspond to correct ranges.
When a human checks the contents of the flagged bill, the human decides what to do, and more importantly doesn't use a computer on the network with the processing machine. It doesn't then matter if that human is stupid, they don't infect the whole bank if they're so stupid that they load a URL.
Essentially no one thinks about security, or more accurately, while one team is thinking about security, another team is thinking about something that totally and completely bypasses that security.
And as for Ford, there was an article in Wired several years ago about the possible failure of immobilizer systems in various Ford/Lincoln vehicles.
In my opinion, if there's a legitimate way to make the vehicle move, there's a way to make the vehicle move. If you don't want the vehicle to move then you need to remove something from it that makes it move, preferably something that a thief wouldn't normally bring with them, like a coil wire on a vehicle with a distributor, or a fuel pump relay or ASD relay, or something like that. Come to think of it, one could probably relocate such a relay to the passenger compartment to allow one to use the relay itself like a key, removing it to immobilize the vehicle.
Either way though, relying on an electronic means from an automaker is foolish.
"A 50-card M:tG combo for four players is demonstrated that is used to construct a simple Turing machine, performing arbitrary computations just by following the rules of Magic and card text thereafter."
It's my experience that people with interest in modern weapons for careers also have interest in antiquated weapons.
Spend any time with these groups and one will see how truly idiotic the notion of taking control of them would be. Even those they choose as leaders can't get 'em to stop playing grabass with the wenches.
Fandom in those that attended literary and media conventions, which often included sub-genres and outside influences.
Think of all of the wacky types of people that you see at Comic Con. Odds are good that with varied interests by each individual in the group, just about all major sub-genres were represented. Except Furries. I hope. I dearly hope...
Back in the nineties there was a group that called themselves "Viper Team". They were firearms enthusiasts, and among the things they did were to make a video on how to blow up buildings. They had no explosives, they and no intent, but they used public and government buildings in their video as to what parts of the buildings were structural and how those areas support the building.
There was, of course, an infiltration investigation. The infiltrator apparently tried to incite the members into criminal acts, specifically, robbing a bank. By the end of the investigation, only one person spent time in prison, and that was because he had modified an AR-15 to full-auto. But, people who were friends with this man and others in the group probably had their phones tapped and all of the various groups around these people were nervous.
Oh, by the way, did I mention that the convicted man and the others were also heavily involved in Fandom, so basically all Fandom around here was somewhat investigated? That's basically why I know about it, because there are still a lot of bitter people in local Fandom because of this.
The media referred to the group as, "The Viper Militia". Having been acquainted with some of these people that's a bit of a stretch. Even using "Team" in their name was a stretch, they were about as organized as a clowder of cats, as most Fandom is.
...as Mr. Moggridge understood both the value of good physical design and came to understand the value of good user interface design as well as the need for the product to work properly under the hood.
In a recent documentary he described how much time and effort went into the case form factor, the keyboard positioning, the screen, even a foreign object ejection system to kick pens and other devices out of the hinge if they fell in, and how once he finally got a finished product and started playing with it, how the software experience totally trumped the physical experience. Granted, had the physical experience been negative then it's probably safe to say that this would have been noticed, but it seems that in this case, the poor software interface negated most of what he achieved with the hardware.
My wife's laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad X301, which for me is just about the pinnacle of laptop design. It has a good size screen, the keyboard feels right, it packs in an optical drive and connectors, and its battery doesn't protrude, but it only weighs 2.9lb. The case has that ruggedized feel that formerly-IBM Thinkpads had, and it's traveled overseas with us as a very welcome tool. She'll often take it instead of a work-issued Toshiba when she travels for work if she doesn't have to do anything sensitive it's that good.
It doesn't seem like companies want to give us that kind of product anymore. There is no true successor to the X301, and it feels like the last vestiges of IBM's design are essentially gone now.
We need several things. The end of the massive summer off. Take the quarters and put a couple of weeks between them. Second, the end of grade levels beyond sixth, or maybe beyond eighth, as important metrics. If proper feedback testing on their abilities and instruction was performed for the years leading up to this, the student gets placed in classes in each discipline relevant to the student's abilities. Allow parents to have one free "appeal" in the form of a test to re-place the student, but after that initial result, all further appeals cost the parent to prevent helicopter parents from abusing the system. For students that place at mediocre levels, offer practical electives so that when they get out of high school they have something that they can do for their income where they won't need a lot of further training. If anything, start with an intro to trades type of class where students get exposure to trades, and use that to place them.
Some may call this unfair, as it no longer gives each and every child equal opportunity. I would say that parents choose the path their child takes from the very beginning, and the school should accommodate that decision while still allowing those who choose to excel despite home choices to do so. If little Johnny wasn't encouraged to do well in school then little Johnny doesn't get to be placed into the classes where his sheer presence gets to drag others down to his level if he is inclined to do that. He doesn't get college prep classes as he's probably not going to college. On the other hand, if he does well in school, for whatever reason, he'll be placed to where it's expected that his education will continue past secondary school.
Lastly, for hellions, boarding school. Uniforms, curfew, mandatory attendance, the works. Put a fence around the place if necessary. We do not serve them by letting them get away with outright bad behavior. Boarding school is expensive, but as a whole, is it cheaper to let them disrupt normal school and keep them there?
...the ISP provides the only outbound connections as solutions to the problem, or only blocks those methods by which that particular detected malware spreads. Additionally the system must assume clean and only cut off for a limited time and automatically assume clean again. Without those protections the system would be ripe for abuse including using the claim of malware to restrict groups.
In short, I don't think that it'll work. If it would, we wouldn't have a malware problem in the first place.
Can someone explain how software developers aren't at least partially legally responsible for their faulty software allowing maliciousness to spread through them in the first place?
If the digital equivalent of ripping a poster off of the wall also took down their office computers, then there's no reason to expect that their production network isn't also integrated poorly.
I always subscribe to the public/DMZ/private method of network design. The three only meet through the routers, and from the private side, the DMZ is just as untrusted as the public side. In this company's case, apparently either the office computers are able to more directly reach the DMZ segment than they should be, or else they're just one segment.
Bullion can be transformed into art in the form of jewelry, and while that value is in the eye of the beholder, it's still a lot more tangible than some bits on a magnetic storage device.
On top of that, the Euro, which one could argue is backed by a society but not by a government, is itself having problems even when there is a centralized agency in the form of a central bank attempting to regulate it.
Spanish "Pieces of Eight" were a defacto world currency, but they had a tangible value.
...as to how many actually use Bitcoin, and how not being either a government-supported fiat currency and also not being specie with some inherent material value it can have value not intensely tied to being a trend.
After all, we've seen a lot of other essentially worthless things become very valuable, and then crash, and we've even seen valuable things like real estate also crash. In the end, bullion and real estate have tangible value. A string of characters does not, and without the backing of a government I don't see how it'll work.
Yeah, my disappear plan is to [censored] to [censored] and catch the [censored] [censored] to [censored], [censored]. Then call [censored] and find out if [censored] and if so, go [censored] a [censored] and head for [censored]. Hole up for [censored] [censored] and wait for [censored] to [censored] and then check [censored] to see if [censored].
Oh I know, my wife is an engineer and has several long term projects. I don't really know anything about them, and her not talking about them probably adds to her angst, but that's what the engineer's salary is supposed to help offset.
I cited Perkin-Elmer because they repeatedly ignored fail test results from two tools when one tool gave a pass, and that one tool was later identified as being assembled incorrectly so its optics were wrong. They seemingly never questioned that tool's results or had it checked for calibration or other accuracy despite having two other tools that told them that there was a problem. That's a rank-amateur mistake, and please pardon me if I would think that would disqualify them from future NASA endeavors, especially when either millions upon millions of dollars in difficult or impossible to service equipment is involved, and in some circumstances could threaten lives if it doesn't work...
Is that an American Football field, an international Football (ie, Soccer) field, an Arena Football field, Rugby, Canadian Football, or some other variety?
Before you answer, remember, international units conversion problems have caused previous space missions to fail...
Regardless of Apple's making it work, we're talking about trademark looks and conceptual functionality. As a designer, if this man did come up with what a tablet should look like and should do, and then if someone else took his work and made it work, that would mean that the someone else has a derivative work.
Hell, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, they had these tablet computers that they walked around with and used for data access and retrieval. They were even called PADD. They had rounded corners. Yes, they were not real. But, as we've seen, a lot of people want to make real things that work like the fake things they see in science fiction. There's no shame in that, but their works are all derivative works at best. They didn't come up with the idea. They just made it work.
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I guess investigators are safe from tubgirl and goatse and lemonparty then...
There's absolutely no reason for a currency validity checker to use a URL. There's no reason for it to use anything other than a defined standard created by the central banking authority that prints legitimate bills.
/q". There should be nothing processed but an ack that the data doesn't correspond to correct ranges.
Any data in a QR code that is invalid should only be marked as invalid and the bill sorted aside for later, manual investigation. No "action" with the data itself is required. It shouldn't matter if the data is a URL or an IP address or "echo y|format C:
When a human checks the contents of the flagged bill, the human decides what to do, and more importantly doesn't use a computer on the network with the processing machine. It doesn't then matter if that human is stupid, they don't infect the whole bank if they're so stupid that they load a URL.
I'm not surprised.
Essentially no one thinks about security, or more accurately, while one team is thinking about security, another team is thinking about something that totally and completely bypasses that security.
And as for Ford, there was an article in Wired several years ago about the possible failure of immobilizer systems in various Ford/Lincoln vehicles.
In my opinion, if there's a legitimate way to make the vehicle move, there's a way to make the vehicle move. If you don't want the vehicle to move then you need to remove something from it that makes it move, preferably something that a thief wouldn't normally bring with them, like a coil wire on a vehicle with a distributor, or a fuel pump relay or ASD relay, or something like that. Come to think of it, one could probably relocate such a relay to the passenger compartment to allow one to use the relay itself like a key, removing it to immobilize the vehicle.
Either way though, relying on an electronic means from an automaker is foolish.
"Most people would call this the ass end of space, but I like the small town feeling you get around here. I mean, we know everybody. Everybody. "
I'm partial to "Troops" myself...
I still don't think that it'll beat the "Sex Trek" series...
Interpret "beat" however you will...
NERDS!
It's my experience that people with interest in modern weapons for careers also have interest in antiquated weapons.
Spend any time with these groups and one will see how truly idiotic the notion of taking control of them would be. Even those they choose as leaders can't get 'em to stop playing grabass with the wenches.
Fandom in those that attended literary and media conventions, which often included sub-genres and outside influences.
Think of all of the wacky types of people that you see at Comic Con. Odds are good that with varied interests by each individual in the group, just about all major sub-genres were represented. Except Furries. I hope. I dearly hope...
Back in the nineties there was a group that called themselves "Viper Team". They were firearms enthusiasts, and among the things they did were to make a video on how to blow up buildings. They had no explosives, they and no intent, but they used public and government buildings in their video as to what parts of the buildings were structural and how those areas support the building.
There was, of course, an infiltration investigation. The infiltrator apparently tried to incite the members into criminal acts, specifically, robbing a bank. By the end of the investigation, only one person spent time in prison, and that was because he had modified an AR-15 to full-auto. But, people who were friends with this man and others in the group probably had their phones tapped and all of the various groups around these people were nervous.
Oh, by the way, did I mention that the convicted man and the others were also heavily involved in Fandom, so basically all Fandom around here was somewhat investigated? That's basically why I know about it, because there are still a lot of bitter people in local Fandom because of this.
The media referred to the group as, "The Viper Militia". Having been acquainted with some of these people that's a bit of a stretch. Even using "Team" in their name was a stretch, they were about as organized as a clowder of cats, as most Fandom is.
So, in my opinion, it's all a big friggin' joke.
...as Mr. Moggridge understood both the value of good physical design and came to understand the value of good user interface design as well as the need for the product to work properly under the hood.
In a recent documentary he described how much time and effort went into the case form factor, the keyboard positioning, the screen, even a foreign object ejection system to kick pens and other devices out of the hinge if they fell in, and how once he finally got a finished product and started playing with it, how the software experience totally trumped the physical experience. Granted, had the physical experience been negative then it's probably safe to say that this would have been noticed, but it seems that in this case, the poor software interface negated most of what he achieved with the hardware.
My wife's laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad X301, which for me is just about the pinnacle of laptop design. It has a good size screen, the keyboard feels right, it packs in an optical drive and connectors, and its battery doesn't protrude, but it only weighs 2.9lb. The case has that ruggedized feel that formerly-IBM Thinkpads had, and it's traveled overseas with us as a very welcome tool. She'll often take it instead of a work-issued Toshiba when she travels for work if she doesn't have to do anything sensitive it's that good.
It doesn't seem like companies want to give us that kind of product anymore. There is no true successor to the X301, and it feels like the last vestiges of IBM's design are essentially gone now.
Wrong.
We need several things. The end of the massive summer off. Take the quarters and put a couple of weeks between them. Second, the end of grade levels beyond sixth, or maybe beyond eighth, as important metrics. If proper feedback testing on their abilities and instruction was performed for the years leading up to this, the student gets placed in classes in each discipline relevant to the student's abilities. Allow parents to have one free "appeal" in the form of a test to re-place the student, but after that initial result, all further appeals cost the parent to prevent helicopter parents from abusing the system. For students that place at mediocre levels, offer practical electives so that when they get out of high school they have something that they can do for their income where they won't need a lot of further training. If anything, start with an intro to trades type of class where students get exposure to trades, and use that to place them.
Some may call this unfair, as it no longer gives each and every child equal opportunity. I would say that parents choose the path their child takes from the very beginning, and the school should accommodate that decision while still allowing those who choose to excel despite home choices to do so. If little Johnny wasn't encouraged to do well in school then little Johnny doesn't get to be placed into the classes where his sheer presence gets to drag others down to his level if he is inclined to do that. He doesn't get college prep classes as he's probably not going to college. On the other hand, if he does well in school, for whatever reason, he'll be placed to where it's expected that his education will continue past secondary school.
Lastly, for hellions, boarding school. Uniforms, curfew, mandatory attendance, the works. Put a fence around the place if necessary. We do not serve them by letting them get away with outright bad behavior. Boarding school is expensive, but as a whole, is it cheaper to let them disrupt normal school and keep them there?
...the ISP provides the only outbound connections as solutions to the problem, or only blocks those methods by which that particular detected malware spreads. Additionally the system must assume clean and only cut off for a limited time and automatically assume clean again. Without those protections the system would be ripe for abuse including using the claim of malware to restrict groups.
In short, I don't think that it'll work. If it would, we wouldn't have a malware problem in the first place.
Can someone explain how software developers aren't at least partially legally responsible for their faulty software allowing maliciousness to spread through them in the first place?
If the digital equivalent of ripping a poster off of the wall also took down their office computers, then there's no reason to expect that their production network isn't also integrated poorly.
I always subscribe to the public/DMZ/private method of network design. The three only meet through the routers, and from the private side, the DMZ is just as untrusted as the public side. In this company's case, apparently either the office computers are able to more directly reach the DMZ segment than they should be, or else they're just one segment.
Uh, jewelry?
Bullion can be transformed into art in the form of jewelry, and while that value is in the eye of the beholder, it's still a lot more tangible than some bits on a magnetic storage device.
On top of that, the Euro, which one could argue is backed by a society but not by a government, is itself having problems even when there is a centralized agency in the form of a central bank attempting to regulate it.
Spanish "Pieces of Eight" were a defacto world currency, but they had a tangible value.
Actually "redacted" would have been better had it come to mind.
I attempted to Alt-218 the thing, but Slashdot just ignores that. In my haste to fix it, "censored" came to me.
...as to how many actually use Bitcoin, and how not being either a government-supported fiat currency and also not being specie with some inherent material value it can have value not intensely tied to being a trend.
After all, we've seen a lot of other essentially worthless things become very valuable, and then crash, and we've even seen valuable things like real estate also crash. In the end, bullion and real estate have tangible value. A string of characters does not, and without the backing of a government I don't see how it'll work.
Yeah, my disappear plan is to [censored] to [censored] and catch the [censored] [censored] to [censored], [censored]. Then call [censored] and find out if [censored] and if so, go [censored] a [censored] and head for [censored]. Hole up for [censored] [censored] and wait for [censored] to [censored] and then check [censored] to see if [censored].
Oh I know, my wife is an engineer and has several long term projects. I don't really know anything about them, and her not talking about them probably adds to her angst, but that's what the engineer's salary is supposed to help offset.
I cited Perkin-Elmer because they repeatedly ignored fail test results from two tools when one tool gave a pass, and that one tool was later identified as being assembled incorrectly so its optics were wrong. They seemingly never questioned that tool's results or had it checked for calibration or other accuracy despite having two other tools that told them that there was a problem. That's a rank-amateur mistake, and please pardon me if I would think that would disqualify them from future NASA endeavors, especially when either millions upon millions of dollars in difficult or impossible to service equipment is involved, and in some circumstances could threaten lives if it doesn't work...
Is that an American Football field, an international Football (ie, Soccer) field, an Arena Football field, Rugby, Canadian Football, or some other variety?
Before you answer, remember, international units conversion problems have caused previous space missions to fail...
...Perkin-Elmer didn't provide any consulting services, especially in the verification process...
Apple is plenty-rewarded with their profits.
Regardless of Apple's making it work, we're talking about trademark looks and conceptual functionality. As a designer, if this man did come up with what a tablet should look like and should do, and then if someone else took his work and made it work, that would mean that the someone else has a derivative work.
Hell, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, they had these tablet computers that they walked around with and used for data access and retrieval. They were even called PADD. They had rounded corners. Yes, they were not real. But, as we've seen, a lot of people want to make real things that work like the fake things they see in science fiction. There's no shame in that, but their works are all derivative works at best. They didn't come up with the idea. They just made it work.
Xerox Alto anyone?