To my view, much of IoT is a solution looking for a problem, and is compounded by ignorance on all levels. Corporations that are seeking it thinking it's the future don't understand Information Technology or Information Security. Developers have proven time and again that they're terrible at policing their own code for exploitation (and tech companies already have a hard enough time with this, non-IT firms won't have a chance) and consumers don't have any idea how it works by and large either.
Most of the "IoT" market that's actually relevant is already addressed through SCADA and other building management or energy management systems, and these systems usually don't require connections outside of the building or outside of the organization in order to work, and there's a better chance that the organization using them has staff responsible to maintain them, and that staff usually understands the ramifications of not maintaining them. Most of the new buzzword bingo stuff is fluff and will probably cause a lot of long-term problems when appliance manufacturers don't want to spend the money to patch security vulnerabilities in software for durable goods.
I took AP Calc in high school but I'm not usually all that good at standardized tests, my results on the AP exam were poor enough that I took it in college again the following year. Even what theoretically was the same curriculum was challenging, they're definitely not exactly the same. I can see how a kid that assumes that he or she did learn everything would be in trouble if they skipped the first-semester class.
Unfortunately for your position on it, schools like Harvard seem to enjoy the exact opposite of an academic boycott; researchers aspire to associate with these schools.
I don't think it's even a matter of legacy enrollment.
The elite school I'm acquainted with is MIT as my wife has her degree from there and spent several years interviewing students that had applied as part of their evaluation process. They do not consider money or othewise having an ability to pay when students apply, but on the other hand most students do come from households with means. This happens because students from households with means do better in school than students from households without means.
A specific case I remember was a student that had applied but wasn't going to go higher in high school mathematics than Trigonometry. This student wasn't going to get any Calculus instruction in high school at all. In order to get to Calculus in the school system as a senior, one had to do well enough in mathematics in the fifth grade in order to end up in the Honors Math in the sixth grade, to then take Pre-Algebra as a seventh grader and the first-year Algebra class as an eighth grader, so one could take second-year Algebra, Geometry, and Trig/Pre-calculus in one's freshman, sophomore, and junior years, to have time left one one's academic schedule for Calculus as a senior. Otherwise one has to take one of these mathematics classes, typically Geometry as it ties-in the least with the rest, as a summer-school make-up class in order to get ahead.
So, decisions/involvement/circumstances for the parents and household when the student is ten years old ultimately impact if that student, eight years later, will have the prerequisites to compete at an elite college. Poor parents, single parents, parents that end up with stressors that prevent them from committing the time and attention to their child's upbringing will, on average, harm that child's educational performance and will lead to reduced opportunities simply because the student does not have the academic basis in order to attend these schools.
The organization that he worked for should have required that documentation of these processes be made and provided to non-IT management staff to be retained as part of the disaster recovery plan. The organization should have taken the hit-by-a-bus attitude with regard to staffing, as in, being able to survive if any given staff member or their equipment were lost.
No organization should be entirely dependent on the employment of one person, as that organization suffers if that one person is not there. This particular organization failed to structure itself this way, and as a consequence paid a price for it, and that price should not be further borne by the now-former employee.
...aren't semiconductors what basically underpin nearly all of Toshiba's products, and aren't their semiconductors routinely sold to other companies for their products as well?
I used to use that exploit when I was losing in LAN parties with my friends. Or one or more of them would, depending on who was losing. Or winnuke. Or any other of a number of exploits...
Hey, I knew people that, for reasons I never understood, got behind the.net reimplementation mono and really pushed to get everything working and to push for original development for it. Which of course made it easy to switch to a Windows platform when the new boss didn't understand Linux and demanded the change.
Well, it is kind of funny to hear that they managed to break Break. Like, a fundamental aspect of computing that predates Microsoft itself and they screwed it up...
Hell, I've driven a car whose brake master cylinder was leaking and I had to go 30 miles with only one or two good pumps of the pedal left.
I also had a broken Windows 95 beta that required me to manually kill msgsrv32.exe as I logged-in otherwise the whole box would be inoperable in a few seconds.
Neither experience was especially pleasurable or calming.
Coworkers still go on about using Putty for managing devices via SSH. I detest having to open application dialogue boxes just to type in IP addresses. If I'm chasing-down problems through multiple devices I don't want to have to break rhythm because of it.
Lately I've been playing with MobaXterm when I need to use Windows boxes. Seems pretty decent. Wish I had use of minicom so I'd have xmodem when I need to deal with devices at the console though.
At this point he's probably no longer with us, and he's assuredly a pensioner at this point even if he is still alive. If he really was in his mid-forties in 1971 as some have thought then he'd be ninety now.
Yep. There are lots of ways of using data from the phones. Establish patterns of movement, and then be able to spot when movement patterns change. Spot when phones are turned of en-masse. Identify family members in order to kidnap or otherwise coerce the military person into changing behavior for one's benefit. Possibly even get lucky, if the military member uses the phone to access sensitive servers through some kind of VPN, steal their credentials.
It's also a question of people at the edge of the actual work being intelligent enough to handle the work needed to create the automation in the first place.
Every day in my job I see places where software problems make work much harder than it should be. We have a network monitoring product that can collect inventory/asset information as part of its regular function, but provides no means by which to search against or run reports against that information. Their DB is so huge that building your own external applets to query is a pain in the ass too. As a consequence people are stuck running around looking for assets come inventory-time and we're stuck helping when they start generating exception lists because they missed something.
It's extremely aggravating and it's something that should be fixable by the vendor, but they don't seem to have any interest in doing so.
The people that own the machinery are not going to want to share though.
the best thing that can be done is to start tailoring school curriculum with these disruptive technologies in-mind, so that there are less people that would seek to go into doomed industries in the first place. Unfortunately that costs money and people don't want to be taxed to make that kind of budgeting available.
I had a phone back in the day that didn't have a headphone jack and one had to use a dongle to get one. It was very annoying, especially since the USB connector is on the bottom.
I was using my Galaxy SII until it finally physically died. Like, would attempt to boot and would err that it could find components that are soldered on like the SIM card slot and WIFI.
I replaced it with a Kyocera Duraforce XD. It's not the absolute latest-greatest but it's a ruggedized phone that has replacable battery, microsd slot, headphone jack. Screen is big. There is a smaller version of this phone from Kyocera.
This sounds about right when I think back to the titles that my parents had. Stuff from the sixties was mostly on LP. Stuff from the seventies was a mix of LP and 8-track. Stuff from the very late seventies and eighties was on cassette.
Cassette was popular because it was small and because the physical media was reasonably durable compared to 8-track and its propensity to come apart at the glued seam. You could store at least half-again as many cassettes in the car for road trips. The audio quality wasn't the greatest but being able to have a dozen tapes in the glove compartment or center console to cycle through made up for it. It was also the first format that was easily portable, we had several knockoff-walkmans when I was a kid because it was an easy and cheap way to keep us entertained.
There is no reason to resurrect the cassette other than nostalgia. Having had to deal with tape decks in cars that ate tapes I have no problem stating that CD was much better, and solid state media is even better still for those stereos that accept flash media or USB media.
I assume that you're intentionally begging the question to demonstrate the absurdity of the situation, but to answer the question anyway, flat-out, 3d printing does not offer the materials properties or speed and low-cost needed to mass-produce. It's simply inefficient to use 3d printing for volume, and the kinds of things that can be made are limited in scope. It's cheaper and the results are better to produce 100,000 plastic parts using a metal mold and injection process than it is to 3d print them.
Given that the plot for Mel Brooks' The Producers essentially revolves around this sort of thing and that Brooks and company didn't originally invent the idea themselves, I'm not exactly surprised that it's difficult to set up schemes with small-time investment. Even if everyone is above-board there are too many risks, and it would be prime grounds for dishonest people to defraud those who are least financially able to fight back against it.
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To my view, much of IoT is a solution looking for a problem, and is compounded by ignorance on all levels. Corporations that are seeking it thinking it's the future don't understand Information Technology or Information Security. Developers have proven time and again that they're terrible at policing their own code for exploitation (and tech companies already have a hard enough time with this, non-IT firms won't have a chance) and consumers don't have any idea how it works by and large either.
Most of the "IoT" market that's actually relevant is already addressed through SCADA and other building management or energy management systems, and these systems usually don't require connections outside of the building or outside of the organization in order to work, and there's a better chance that the organization using them has staff responsible to maintain them, and that staff usually understands the ramifications of not maintaining them. Most of the new buzzword bingo stuff is fluff and will probably cause a lot of long-term problems when appliance manufacturers don't want to spend the money to patch security vulnerabilities in software for durable goods.
I took AP Calc in high school but I'm not usually all that good at standardized tests, my results on the AP exam were poor enough that I took it in college again the following year. Even what theoretically was the same curriculum was challenging, they're definitely not exactly the same. I can see how a kid that assumes that he or she did learn everything would be in trouble if they skipped the first-semester class.
Unfortunately for your position on it, schools like Harvard seem to enjoy the exact opposite of an academic boycott; researchers aspire to associate with these schools.
I don't think it's even a matter of legacy enrollment.
The elite school I'm acquainted with is MIT as my wife has her degree from there and spent several years interviewing students that had applied as part of their evaluation process. They do not consider money or othewise having an ability to pay when students apply, but on the other hand most students do come from households with means. This happens because students from households with means do better in school than students from households without means.
A specific case I remember was a student that had applied but wasn't going to go higher in high school mathematics than Trigonometry. This student wasn't going to get any Calculus instruction in high school at all. In order to get to Calculus in the school system as a senior, one had to do well enough in mathematics in the fifth grade in order to end up in the Honors Math in the sixth grade, to then take Pre-Algebra as a seventh grader and the first-year Algebra class as an eighth grader, so one could take second-year Algebra, Geometry, and Trig/Pre-calculus in one's freshman, sophomore, and junior years, to have time left one one's academic schedule for Calculus as a senior. Otherwise one has to take one of these mathematics classes, typically Geometry as it ties-in the least with the rest, as a summer-school make-up class in order to get ahead.
So, decisions/involvement/circumstances for the parents and household when the student is ten years old ultimately impact if that student, eight years later, will have the prerequisites to compete at an elite college. Poor parents, single parents, parents that end up with stressors that prevent them from committing the time and attention to their child's upbringing will, on average, harm that child's educational performance and will lead to reduced opportunities simply because the student does not have the academic basis in order to attend these schools.
The organization that he worked for should have required that documentation of these processes be made and provided to non-IT management staff to be retained as part of the disaster recovery plan. The organization should have taken the hit-by-a-bus attitude with regard to staffing, as in, being able to survive if any given staff member or their equipment were lost.
No organization should be entirely dependent on the employment of one person, as that organization suffers if that one person is not there. This particular organization failed to structure itself this way, and as a consequence paid a price for it, and that price should not be further borne by the now-former employee.
...aren't semiconductors what basically underpin nearly all of Toshiba's products, and aren't their semiconductors routinely sold to other companies for their products as well?
I used to use that exploit when I was losing in LAN parties with my friends. Or one or more of them would, depending on who was losing. Or winnuke. Or any other of a number of exploits...
Sure, that works great when you don't have more than two thousand devices to hop in and out of.
I have approximately 2200 devices that I might be called to SSH into. I'm not creating entries in PuTTY for each of them.
*woosh*
The point isn't the addressing method, it's having to navigate through dialogue boxes in order to enter it.
Hey, I knew people that, for reasons I never understood, got behind the .net reimplementation mono and really pushed to get everything working and to push for original development for it. Which of course made it easy to switch to a Windows platform when the new boss didn't understand Linux and demanded the change.
Well, it is kind of funny to hear that they managed to break Break. Like, a fundamental aspect of computing that predates Microsoft itself and they screwed it up...
Hell, I've driven a car whose brake master cylinder was leaking and I had to go 30 miles with only one or two good pumps of the pedal left.
I also had a broken Windows 95 beta that required me to manually kill msgsrv32.exe as I logged-in otherwise the whole box would be inoperable in a few seconds.
Neither experience was especially pleasurable or calming.
They literally broke break.
Coworkers still go on about using Putty for managing devices via SSH. I detest having to open application dialogue boxes just to type in IP addresses. If I'm chasing-down problems through multiple devices I don't want to have to break rhythm because of it.
Lately I've been playing with MobaXterm when I need to use Windows boxes. Seems pretty decent. Wish I had use of minicom so I'd have xmodem when I need to deal with devices at the console though.
At this point he's probably no longer with us, and he's assuredly a pensioner at this point even if he is still alive. If he really was in his mid-forties in 1971 as some have thought then he'd be ninety now.
Yep. There are lots of ways of using data from the phones. Establish patterns of movement, and then be able to spot when movement patterns change. Spot when phones are turned of en-masse. Identify family members in order to kidnap or otherwise coerce the military person into changing behavior for one's benefit. Possibly even get lucky, if the military member uses the phone to access sensitive servers through some kind of VPN, steal their credentials.
It's also a question of people at the edge of the actual work being intelligent enough to handle the work needed to create the automation in the first place.
Every day in my job I see places where software problems make work much harder than it should be. We have a network monitoring product that can collect inventory/asset information as part of its regular function, but provides no means by which to search against or run reports against that information. Their DB is so huge that building your own external applets to query is a pain in the ass too. As a consequence people are stuck running around looking for assets come inventory-time and we're stuck helping when they start generating exception lists because they missed something.
It's extremely aggravating and it's something that should be fixable by the vendor, but they don't seem to have any interest in doing so.
The people that own the machinery are not going to want to share though.
the best thing that can be done is to start tailoring school curriculum with these disruptive technologies in-mind, so that there are less people that would seek to go into doomed industries in the first place. Unfortunately that costs money and people don't want to be taxed to make that kind of budgeting available.
I had a phone back in the day that didn't have a headphone jack and one had to use a dongle to get one. It was very annoying, especially since the USB connector is on the bottom.
I was using my Galaxy SII until it finally physically died. Like, would attempt to boot and would err that it could find components that are soldered on like the SIM card slot and WIFI.
I replaced it with a Kyocera Duraforce XD. It's not the absolute latest-greatest but it's a ruggedized phone that has replacable battery, microsd slot, headphone jack. Screen is big. There is a smaller version of this phone from Kyocera.
This sounds about right when I think back to the titles that my parents had. Stuff from the sixties was mostly on LP. Stuff from the seventies was a mix of LP and 8-track. Stuff from the very late seventies and eighties was on cassette.
Cassette was popular because it was small and because the physical media was reasonably durable compared to 8-track and its propensity to come apart at the glued seam. You could store at least half-again as many cassettes in the car for road trips. The audio quality wasn't the greatest but being able to have a dozen tapes in the glove compartment or center console to cycle through made up for it. It was also the first format that was easily portable, we had several knockoff-walkmans when I was a kid because it was an easy and cheap way to keep us entertained.
There is no reason to resurrect the cassette other than nostalgia. Having had to deal with tape decks in cars that ate tapes I have no problem stating that CD was much better, and solid state media is even better still for those stereos that accept flash media or USB media.
*grin*
I assume that you're intentionally begging the question to demonstrate the absurdity of the situation, but to answer the question anyway, flat-out, 3d printing does not offer the materials properties or speed and low-cost needed to mass-produce. It's simply inefficient to use 3d printing for volume, and the kinds of things that can be made are limited in scope. It's cheaper and the results are better to produce 100,000 plastic parts using a metal mold and injection process than it is to 3d print them.
Given that the plot for Mel Brooks' The Producers essentially revolves around this sort of thing and that Brooks and company didn't originally invent the idea themselves, I'm not exactly surprised that it's difficult to set up schemes with small-time investment. Even if everyone is above-board there are too many risks, and it would be prime grounds for dishonest people to defraud those who are least financially able to fight back against it.
So, what makes HTC think I'm going to buy the Bluetooth headset from them?