The point is that the software to run these medical devices is designed with model where everyone is good and no one wants to do anything nefarious. We've learned with basically every system that has ever existed that people will attempt to manipulate it if they can. That no one has done it yet just means that no one has bothered getting around to doing it yet.
Someone else in this discussion pointed out that Dick Cheney has a pacemaker and that it might have been accidentally shut off by his doctor at one point. If enemies of the United States figured out that he had this particular pacemaker then they could have looked for ways to intentionally make changes to it, either shutting it off or else attempting to change it to where it causes harm instead of helping. If it's wireless then those town halls, fundraising dinners, or any of a large number of other events where Cheney would routinely come into contact with the public would have offered an opportunity to attempt this, and it's very unlikely that medical professionals would have immediately leaped to the conclusion that the pacemaker was malfunctioning.
Carry this further. A lot of older people have pacemakers. Those who stand to inherit might want to tamper with said pacemaker in order to inherit.
The applications for this exploit already exist. I'm sure there are more than I've described. Right now this vulnerability remains unexploited (as far as we're aware) only through obscurity.
Sadly, cash isn't all that anonymous these days, as the serial numbers are all scanned on any large deposit or withdrawal.
It depends on with whom one spends it.
I can think of a half-dozen kinds of businesses off the top of my head that will buy and sell in actual cash. Places like pawn shops, auto wrecking yards, and other businesses that often cater to poorer people or deal in particular kinds of transactions. If one deals with these kinds of businesses then it's unlikely that cash will be easily traced as it'll go through a lot of hands as those business owners also spend money.
It's probably pretty accurate that US Dollars could find a market for quick, fairly anonymous exchange everywhere, and for this ability for rapid anonymous exchange, it's probably the most stable. It's also directly usable in a lot of countries right alongside that country's native fiat currency.
The Euro is probably readily exchanged but has not been quite as stable and is probably not usable as a local currency. Up until Brexit the British Pound was probably as stable if not more stable than the US dollar, was probably readily exchanged, but like the Euro, was not really used widely as a local currency outside of countries with strong British interest.
Anti-trust protection is only as good as the court decisions that challenge the perceived bad-apples.
I can see Facebook arguing that there are other social mediums out there. Hell, technically Myspace still even exists. As such they're not an actual monopoly even if they're by-far the largest player. This kind of logic is what continued to allow Microsoft to do ill, they were not the only company making an OS and software, so they were able to argue in some instances that they were not a true horizontal monopoly.
In fact, it's much more likely that your friends are actual friends if they're not based on a Facebook-enabled relationship.
I never bothered to get a Facebook account. Friendships that faded of their own accord are comfortably left faded. I make new friends with people that I actually have met. I don't worry about keeping tabs on what they're doing all of the time, that's what makes getting together with them actually fun; catching up over a beer or dinner or the like.
Actually by definition light travels at the speed of light. What's being argued is that the speed of light itself may not be as constant as we understand it to be right now.
Well hopefully this will truly manage to save it. I've been avoiding projects hosted on it because of the problems that were reported. Maybe it's time to take a look again.
I'm just not a fan of github, seems like a lot more zeal relative to actual quality over there. And Freshmeat's dead too if I remember.
Eh. Honestly my return to Slashdot was mostly predicated by the cesspool that other general-purpose forums became after this election cycle got into swing.
I get the problem that specific-focus mediums have, there's a natural cap to growth based on the size of the market served plus the possible number of competing mediums. Unfortunately people seem to think that they can convert a medium from one subject-focus to another without understanding why the medium worked to begin with and how the attempts to change will harm the medium.
Take Slashdot, they attempted to do more than tech/geek-chic. Unfortunately all this did was to drive away a large part of the regular audience that came here specifically for the tech/geek-chic, and did not bring in fresh audience. The platform shrank rather than growing, and many of those who left probably are happy in their new mediums and won't return. The cat is out of the bag and there's no putting it back in.
The UK also has basically no recourse if you, as a citizen of another country, do your business from your country. Even if you were the most flagrant example, your country would not extradite you, and it's very likely that unless you visited the UK you'd ever have a problem, and possibly not even then if their various investigative and legal authorities are not working that tightly.
In the United States it would be sales tax or transaction tax.
The problem is if the seller is in one jurisdiction and the buyer is in another, whose job is it to handle tax? Even within the United States this is a problem, someone in one state buying something from someone in another state is supposed to play sales tax to their state for the transaction. In practice, unless this transaction is sufficiently government-documented (like vehicle titles for vehicles purchased from out-of-state dealerships) then it's exceedingly rare for that tax to be paid. In the United States at least, the onus to pay the tax for out-of-state catalog transactions is on the buyer, not the seller, as the resident is supposed to pay tax for what is purchased, even if from out of state.
The UK cannot compel a business in Hong Kong to play sales tax to it. That business may not have any idea what they'd be obligated to charge. Since the UK factors tax in when prices are listed (as opposed to factoring tax on top of list price like in the United States) it's really not practical for the business to be the entity factoring tax, so really the burden to pay that tax should all on the buyer, not on the seller. After all, the buyer is local to where the law applies.
Amazon et al. are also not the buyer or the seller, they're the medium. Tax law could be amended to where the operators of the medium are compelled to apply various jurisdictional taxes simply because the buyer and seller are probably not so good at following the existing laws, but at the moment without that condition then the marketplace as a medium has no incentive to do so, indeed the lowest prices on their marketplace proves the incentive for customers to use them and to collect their fees from those transactions.
These problems predate the Internet. These problems have existed since the days of the first catalogs for interstate or international sales. They didn't fix them back then because it was too hard, and I doubt we'll see that get any better unless those mediums upon which this retail business are conducted are forced to make the transactions compliant.
When one instructs the labelmaker to generate a series of labels, the labelmaker knows where one label ends and the next begins. If the labelmaker is capable of electrically cutting the labels then there's no reason not to do so, as it prints them. In fact, Brother's P-touch series can use this capability to reduce waste; without knowing when to cut, it would have to generate a nearly inch-long bit of waste to manually cut as the position of the print head relative to the end of the cartridge would require it.
Rhino's printers print right at the cutter. It doesn't generate the waste bit that the Brother does, but it's still annoying when printing a hundred labels in a row to have to manually press the cut function ninety-nine times. The labels print slowly enough to have downtime between cuts, but quickly enough to not allow one to really do anything else while printing the series. It's annoying.
Why the fuck would any Linux developer want to do this? It's not as if Windows 10 offers any significant, or even real, architectural advantage, and it's not like Linux doesn't have plenty of its own development tools. So far as I can tell, Windows 10 has absolutely no developer advantages at all, and in fact, simply represents a pointless extra layer for any developer working on Linux.
While I agree with you, back when Microsoft's.net platform came out an acquaintance of mine got deeply involved in the Mono project. I felt this was the exact wrong approach to take given Microsoft's embrace/extend/expunge model, but he was undeterred.
As far as I am concerned, as long as the OS is essentially reportware I want to stay as far away from it as I can. Bad enough I can't avoid Windows 8.1 on a particular convertible tablet/laptop, I have no interest in running Windows 10 when it will report to Microsoft, and when Microsoft is ever-increasingly looking toward the subscription model of software instead of the lifetime-license model they'd previously used.
Can confirm. Young me, non-smoker hanging with non-smokers, had trouble with the ladies. Young me, changing scenes to where the smokers were while still not smoking, had success with the ladies.
I've reviewed a couple of products on Amazon that I didn't buy on Amazon, but only when some quirk or another really stood out that a buyer would have no way of knowing about prior to purchase. One of them was for a label maker that cuts off the labels electrically, but still requires the user to manually trigger the process through one of the buttons on the labelmaker's keypad instead of being capable of auto-cutting. This makes no sense to me, especially when it still does this when generating labels through software on the computer and printing them via USB to the labelmaker. As this is supposed to be an industrial-grade labelmaker, this quirk is obnoxious when generating hundreds of labels for structured cabling or data switches.
If any issues with a product are self-evident then I don't see a need to review the product that I didn't buy there though.
Heh. When I heard about the crash landing I literally said to a friend of mine, "I bet the subroutine that cuts the parachute loose so it doesn't land on top of the payload detected the thump of the parachute strings going-taught, determined that meant it was on the ground, and cut the parachute." Didn't something like this happen to an American probe sent to Mars around twenty years ago?
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Not according to my veteran-uncle retired-postalworker with PTSD it isn't...
Isn't this one of those false-equivalency things?
The point is that the software to run these medical devices is designed with model where everyone is good and no one wants to do anything nefarious. We've learned with basically every system that has ever existed that people will attempt to manipulate it if they can. That no one has done it yet just means that no one has bothered getting around to doing it yet.
Someone else in this discussion pointed out that Dick Cheney has a pacemaker and that it might have been accidentally shut off by his doctor at one point. If enemies of the United States figured out that he had this particular pacemaker then they could have looked for ways to intentionally make changes to it, either shutting it off or else attempting to change it to where it causes harm instead of helping. If it's wireless then those town halls, fundraising dinners, or any of a large number of other events where Cheney would routinely come into contact with the public would have offered an opportunity to attempt this, and it's very unlikely that medical professionals would have immediately leaped to the conclusion that the pacemaker was malfunctioning.
Carry this further. A lot of older people have pacemakers. Those who stand to inherit might want to tamper with said pacemaker in order to inherit.
The applications for this exploit already exist. I'm sure there are more than I've described. Right now this vulnerability remains unexploited (as far as we're aware) only through obscurity.
Sadly, cash isn't all that anonymous these days, as the serial numbers are all scanned on any large deposit or withdrawal.
It depends on with whom one spends it.
I can think of a half-dozen kinds of businesses off the top of my head that will buy and sell in actual cash. Places like pawn shops, auto wrecking yards, and other businesses that often cater to poorer people or deal in particular kinds of transactions. If one deals with these kinds of businesses then it's unlikely that cash will be easily traced as it'll go through a lot of hands as those business owners also spend money.
What does 'cis' even mean, besides Computer Information Systems?
It's probably pretty accurate that US Dollars could find a market for quick, fairly anonymous exchange everywhere, and for this ability for rapid anonymous exchange, it's probably the most stable. It's also directly usable in a lot of countries right alongside that country's native fiat currency.
The Euro is probably readily exchanged but has not been quite as stable and is probably not usable as a local currency. Up until Brexit the British Pound was probably as stable if not more stable than the US dollar, was probably readily exchanged, but like the Euro, was not really used widely as a local currency outside of countries with strong British interest.
Anti-trust protection is only as good as the court decisions that challenge the perceived bad-apples.
I can see Facebook arguing that there are other social mediums out there. Hell, technically Myspace still even exists. As such they're not an actual monopoly even if they're by-far the largest player. This kind of logic is what continued to allow Microsoft to do ill, they were not the only company making an OS and software, so they were able to argue in some instances that they were not a true horizontal monopoly.
You can have friends without Facebook.
In fact, it's much more likely that your friends are actual friends if they're not based on a Facebook-enabled relationship.
I never bothered to get a Facebook account. Friendships that faded of their own accord are comfortably left faded. I make new friends with people that I actually have met. I don't worry about keeping tabs on what they're doing all of the time, that's what makes getting together with them actually fun; catching up over a beer or dinner or the like.
Actually by definition light travels at the speed of light. What's being argued is that the speed of light itself may not be as constant as we understand it to be right now.
Well hopefully this will truly manage to save it. I've been avoiding projects hosted on it because of the problems that were reported. Maybe it's time to take a look again.
I'm just not a fan of github, seems like a lot more zeal relative to actual quality over there. And Freshmeat's dead too if I remember.
I did not know either. A reputation built over decades can be destroyed in a moment and will then take decades to rebuild again.
Eh. Honestly my return to Slashdot was mostly predicated by the cesspool that other general-purpose forums became after this election cycle got into swing.
I get the problem that specific-focus mediums have, there's a natural cap to growth based on the size of the market served plus the possible number of competing mediums. Unfortunately people seem to think that they can convert a medium from one subject-focus to another without understanding why the medium worked to begin with and how the attempts to change will harm the medium.
Take Slashdot, they attempted to do more than tech/geek-chic. Unfortunately all this did was to drive away a large part of the regular audience that came here specifically for the tech/geek-chic, and did not bring in fresh audience. The platform shrank rather than growing, and many of those who left probably are happy in their new mediums and won't return. The cat is out of the bag and there's no putting it back in.
...in 5... 4... 3...
I thought sourceforge was one of the bad guys now that they're manipulating projects irrespective of those project maintainers...
It's work's. It's already messed up and I had to disable the 3d accelerator drivers. I probably should just take it in and get it fixed.
What about the ones with the graphics processor recall?
The UK also has basically no recourse if you, as a citizen of another country, do your business from your country. Even if you were the most flagrant example, your country would not extradite you, and it's very likely that unless you visited the UK you'd ever have a problem, and possibly not even then if their various investigative and legal authorities are not working that tightly.
In the United States it would be sales tax or transaction tax.
The problem is if the seller is in one jurisdiction and the buyer is in another, whose job is it to handle tax? Even within the United States this is a problem, someone in one state buying something from someone in another state is supposed to play sales tax to their state for the transaction. In practice, unless this transaction is sufficiently government-documented (like vehicle titles for vehicles purchased from out-of-state dealerships) then it's exceedingly rare for that tax to be paid. In the United States at least, the onus to pay the tax for out-of-state catalog transactions is on the buyer, not the seller, as the resident is supposed to pay tax for what is purchased, even if from out of state.
The UK cannot compel a business in Hong Kong to play sales tax to it. That business may not have any idea what they'd be obligated to charge. Since the UK factors tax in when prices are listed (as opposed to factoring tax on top of list price like in the United States) it's really not practical for the business to be the entity factoring tax, so really the burden to pay that tax should all on the buyer, not on the seller. After all, the buyer is local to where the law applies.
Amazon et al. are also not the buyer or the seller, they're the medium. Tax law could be amended to where the operators of the medium are compelled to apply various jurisdictional taxes simply because the buyer and seller are probably not so good at following the existing laws, but at the moment without that condition then the marketplace as a medium has no incentive to do so, indeed the lowest prices on their marketplace proves the incentive for customers to use them and to collect their fees from those transactions.
These problems predate the Internet. These problems have existed since the days of the first catalogs for interstate or international sales. They didn't fix them back then because it was too hard, and I doubt we'll see that get any better unless those mediums upon which this retail business are conducted are forced to make the transactions compliant.
When one instructs the labelmaker to generate a series of labels, the labelmaker knows where one label ends and the next begins. If the labelmaker is capable of electrically cutting the labels then there's no reason not to do so, as it prints them. In fact, Brother's P-touch series can use this capability to reduce waste; without knowing when to cut, it would have to generate a nearly inch-long bit of waste to manually cut as the position of the print head relative to the end of the cartridge would require it.
Rhino's printers print right at the cutter. It doesn't generate the waste bit that the Brother does, but it's still annoying when printing a hundred labels in a row to have to manually press the cut function ninety-nine times. The labels print slowly enough to have downtime between cuts, but quickly enough to not allow one to really do anything else while printing the series. It's annoying.
Why the fuck would any Linux developer want to do this? It's not as if Windows 10 offers any significant, or even real, architectural advantage, and it's not like Linux doesn't have plenty of its own development tools. So far as I can tell, Windows 10 has absolutely no developer advantages at all, and in fact, simply represents a pointless extra layer for any developer working on Linux.
While I agree with you, back when Microsoft's .net platform came out an acquaintance of mine got deeply involved in the Mono project. I felt this was the exact wrong approach to take given Microsoft's embrace/extend/expunge model, but he was undeterred.
As far as I am concerned, as long as the OS is essentially reportware I want to stay as far away from it as I can. Bad enough I can't avoid Windows 8.1 on a particular convertible tablet/laptop, I have no interest in running Windows 10 when it will report to Microsoft, and when Microsoft is ever-increasingly looking toward the subscription model of software instead of the lifetime-license model they'd previously used.
Probably to attempt to reduce, ever so slightly, the amount of angst in this world.
Can confirm. Young me, non-smoker hanging with non-smokers, had trouble with the ladies. Young me, changing scenes to where the smokers were while still not smoking, had success with the ladies.
It's written in english. Bad english.
Fortunately, I could understand it despite the error. A truly amazing superhuman feat.
So could Korben Dallas.
I've reviewed a couple of products on Amazon that I didn't buy on Amazon, but only when some quirk or another really stood out that a buyer would have no way of knowing about prior to purchase. One of them was for a label maker that cuts off the labels electrically, but still requires the user to manually trigger the process through one of the buttons on the labelmaker's keypad instead of being capable of auto-cutting. This makes no sense to me, especially when it still does this when generating labels through software on the computer and printing them via USB to the labelmaker. As this is supposed to be an industrial-grade labelmaker, this quirk is obnoxious when generating hundreds of labels for structured cabling or data switches.
If any issues with a product are self-evident then I don't see a need to review the product that I didn't buy there though.
They said Amazon, not Ebay...
Heh. When I heard about the crash landing I literally said to a friend of mine, "I bet the subroutine that cuts the parachute loose so it doesn't land on top of the payload detected the thump of the parachute strings going-taught, determined that meant it was on the ground, and cut the parachute." Didn't something like this happen to an American probe sent to Mars around twenty years ago?