DHS didn't step in as some grand plan. They were asked to intervene by Cylance, a security research company, when Philips wouldn't respond about the detected security holes.
Seriously, how many people could a terrorist kill if they took control of Philips systems?
Just because there is a theoretical security flaw that might be exploitable under some totally contrived test scenario is NOT a valid reason to involve an agency like DHS.
If the FDA didn't take it seriously, why should we hand the task to a bunch of airport friskers and coastguards men? (Apologies to Coasties everywhere). And why do a couple of self appointed "securities researches" get to sic DHS on anybody?
Once we have the drudgery handed off to machines we willffind more work to do. Maybe we will start on mars or maybe just started a wholesale reinvented earth, with better cities that impact the planet less.
History hasn't shown fewer projects with mechanized industry. If anything its the opposite. Less drudgery just to survive means more time for worthwhile work.
There is value in raising the living standard in other parts of the world, and one way to do this is to find employment for these populations, or a sizable portion of the population, enough to stimulate the rest of their economy.
The problem with shipping all these jobs overseas is you end up shipping a great deal of your money supply and wealth overseas with it. These robots are aimed at stemming that transfer (the money) without much thought as to employment EITHER at home OR abroad.
Five? I have grand kids who at five were far more advanced than Brooke. They were walking, talking, going to the toilet on their own and could carry on a meaningful conversation.
This kid is stalled out at less than two years of mental age. My god the diapers!! She can't come close to getting her own breakfast, let alone buy a beer.
You also have to consider, (trying not to sound too Luddite in the process), that replacing a human in a paying job with a robot is scarcely better than off-shoring the job.
see, it means admitting they were wrong, all along. you ever see a politician do that? I have not. not ever. not even once.
State after state is falling all over themselves to legalize gay marriage. Politicians who voted "hell no" just a couple years ago are now jumping on the bandwagon as fast as they can. If you haven't seen this even once you haven't been paying attention.
As soon as even a third of the states legalize pot the rest will jump on board. It will happen.
I think it was a way for the people to say "you don't seem to take this seriously, so why should we?" Name just one petition that caused any change, or even that the government appointed a study group to get facts. This is no better than your congressman's automated canned replies
Its EXACTLY like your congressman's canned replies, and it could never have been anything other than that. Welcome to reality. Look, this was a off the cuff campaign promise by a guy who is not used to being held to his promises.
Its naivety of the first order to have believed this was EVER anything other than a "get me elected" ploy. Why did anyone expect this to ever work? Why did everyone jump on the band wagon and insist this was different, because it was from the Prophet Obama?
Anyone who thinks 25,000 signatures or 100,000 matters in a country with 315 million where there already exists a system of elections and a representative form of government, or that clicking a mouse and a few keystrokes actually accounts for civic involvement is delusional. Would you REALLY want to live in a country where 25,000 couch potato digital hippies could whip-saw the government into doing something real, spending any time or tax payer dollars on total crap suggestions? Come on.
The reason is that lithium fires happen fairly easily, and the fire extinguishing systems aboard aircraft are not all that effective against such fires.
Several FAA bulletins have reported that "The current fire suppression agent, Halon 1301, found in class C cargo compartments is inefficient in controlling a lithium metal cell fire." Yet halon is just about all they have on board other than water.
Tests were conducted using 4, 8, 16, and 32 CR2 batteries, the 10.75 fire pan, and 220 ml of 1-propanol. In each case, the results were identical. Discharging the halon prior to battery ignition resulted in the extinguishment of the 1-propanol fire and no battery involvement. However, discharging the halon after only one battery was ignited had no effect on stopping the propagation of the battery fire to adjacent batteries. The halon extinguished the 1-propanol fire immediately but had no effect on the lithium fire with the exception of turning the normally white sparks bright red. The color change of the lithium sparks indicated that a reaction was occurring between the lithium and the Halon 1301. This reaction had no effect on the fire progression, neither hindering nor promoting the spread of the battery fire. The vented electrolyte fires, normally pale red in color, turned bright red when exposed to Halon 1301.
*GASP* Heaven forbid they have to use humour to answer a humorous petition once or twice a year. Why, this is an outrage, and they should be allowed NO smiles!
If they get a blatantly obviously funny petition, answer it in a funny manner. What's so fucking hard about that?
Because funny answers engender more funny petitions, and pretty soon we have an entire Department of Jokes and Witty Riposte, complete with a Cabinet level secretary and quarter million minions.
We all know guys in power are a bunch of chuckle heads already. Not sense giving them projects with which to prove it.
They did respond to the marijuana one. They just didn't give the answer the people who signed it wanted.
I'm kind of baffled why people were shocked they got a response that said they weren't interested in legalizing marijuana, when that was ALWAYS his point of view.
Asking the President to legalize marijuana is the wrong way to go. Just get it on your State ballots and problem solved. When enough states legalize it, those representatives and senators will force the feds to legalize it, or withhold all enforcement funds until DEA removes it from the banned list.
Perhaps if people stopped submitting nonsense petitions there wouldn't be a need to adjust the threshold for an official response.
Exactly.
Death Stars? Really? Thanks a lot all you idiots that jumped on that bandwagon! Nice Job.
You've proven to the elected officials that constituents should be ignored. Happy now?
Equal bitchslaps are deserved by this administration for agreeing that any obviously ridiculous request gets consideration if it shows up in the in-box with enough idiots signing on.
The US has a republican form of government, a Representative Democracy, because the founding fathers foresaw this level of idiocy.
My real question is how they're going to make it strong enough to unstick itself.
Easily done with burn-wires dropping weights, or compressed air cylinders de-flooding chambers or inflating sacks. All of this technology already exists in the commercial market place. The navy already has deep sea (slow speed) com systems to submarines.
The intent is to store surveillance assets (drones, balloons or sonobuoys) that can be called into action from 4000 feet down after long term storage on the bottom. .
Since this Slashdot the title should really be storage containers as the obvious assumption is a storage unit stores data!
RAID: Reconnaissance Assets Invisibly Drowned?
This is old news, the story was posted on slashdot last week. Same story, same request, same misinterpretation of what is actually sought.
The request is for pre-positioned military assets (non lethal) for surveillance and intelligence which remain inert on the sea floor until needed, and then become buoyant, rise to the surface and release aerial surveillance equipment, (short life drones or balloons), or merely float and gather signal intelligence. These could be used for search and rescue as well as intelligence gathering in trouble spots.
This avoids having to find some way to fly a plane or a manned drone to some remote location in a hurry. Since its not a munition, its not considered an aggressive act to seed the ocean floor (4000 feet down, in international waters) with something that you can later instruct to become active.
It is thought that being down 4000 feet would be enough protection to make them unlikely to be messed with. (Wishful thinking if you ask me, once you abandon anything on the ocean bottom without support of international treaty, its pretty much fair game for salvage or state sponsored retrieval via ROVs.).
Second Li-Poly battery total meltdown in as many weeks.
Boeing had to get the FAA to waive its rules regarding Lithium batteries on planes in order to get this plane certified in the first place, and build containment boxes for the batteries into the design.
For the most part the risk of Lithium batteries lies in the requirement for rigid control of recharging, being careful not to over charge and also of draining the battery completely, the annoying habit of catching fire when the rules are not followed, or when the battery is short-circuited make large Li batteries (8-gram equivalent lithium content or more) banned in luggage, and shipments.
I suspect that the FAA will rescind this waiver, and force the replacement of the battery packs with something less prone to burn..
Exactly. They might as well tax gangsta rap "music".
Blaming video games is quick and easy, and taxing them is also quick and easy. The real problem is that since the Carter administration, this country has been turning nut cases loose in massive numbers. Look at the homeless population of any large city and you will find enough whack jobs to fill an asylum.
But it goes farther than that. The very definition of insane has been made obsolete in the rush to accept diversity of every possible kind. Therefore there is no longer any method for anyone to even determine if anyone needs attention or watching or a full bore intervention. Any assertion that some one might be worth watching is chocked up to bigotry. And its not just civilians that are doubted. Professionals are equally at sea in this environment.
So lets blame video games. They seem kind of creepy, and we don't like the looks of the kid looking at them in the stores.
Am I wrong in assuming that probably every corporation's website has a copyright notice in small print at the bottom of all of the pages, complete with an "all rights reserved" notice? Meanwhile social, user content-based sites are governed typically by a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy page (which can, of course change without notice)? So what's the confusion?
I'm not sure this is germane.
One does not actually tweet a picture, you tweet a link to a picture, and anyone seeing that tweet hits that link (often a cached copy on a third party image service), bypassing any pages or notices. So anyone mining a picture out of a tweet would more likely pull up an image stored on some service which usually contain no copyright information.
More interesting it the single payment for each infringement. The judge has a set himself squarely against big media here.
The position given is a triangulation starting point, with an error margin of hundreds of feet in all directions
Nobody uses triangulation from towers anymore, certainly not end-users. And Sprint won't tell you where your phone is. Even if you are the rightful owner of record. Liability reasons. They might tell the police, but not the owner.
Phones these days all have GPS receivers in them that get their position from GSP satellites. Owners have to use self installed applications to retrieve the phone location remotely.
But if the user turns off the GPS, (and in Vegas you could see why they might), then the best the applications can do is report the last tower(s) the phone saw.
The only time the address of the cell tower would come into play is if the owner or the thief shut off the GPS.
End users can't get the location of their cell phone without installing some software ahead of time, Such as Lookout or Find My IPhone.
Further, If the owner turns their GPS off, or the thief turns it off, those apps would only be able to report a rough triangulation of the last known position IF ANYTHING at all.
Neither Sprint nor Clark County can be responsible here, the company making the App is at fault if it is reporting a location that was based ONLY on the last tower it saw, without making this clear to the owner checking the web for their phone's location.
Bahnhof joins a growing number of providers seeking to provide faster and cheaper deployment of IT capacity through the use of factory-build modules that can be installed quickly and expanded as needed based on the customer’s needs.
So these are likely to be short term deployments of data centers for special events (olympics, Military operations, Disasters, etc) or short term expansion centers for companies waiting for their new headquarters to be built. They roll in on trucks set up operate without looking too ugly, then roll out again some time later.
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DHS didn't step in as some grand plan. They were asked to intervene by Cylance, a security research company, when Philips wouldn't respond about the detected security holes.
Seriously, how many people could a terrorist kill if they took control of Philips systems?
Just because there is a theoretical security flaw that might be exploitable under some totally contrived test scenario is NOT a valid reason to involve an agency like DHS.
If the FDA didn't take it seriously, why should we hand the task to a bunch of airport friskers and coastguards men? (Apologies to Coasties everywhere).
And why do a couple of self appointed "securities researches" get to sic DHS on anybody?
Can't see any good ending from handing a weapon of that proportion to this particular bunch of idiots.
I doubt your scenario.
Once we have the drudgery handed off to machines we willffind more work to do. Maybe we will start on mars or maybe just started a wholesale reinvented earth, with better cities that impact the planet less.
History hasn't shown fewer projects with mechanized industry. If anything its the opposite. Less drudgery just to survive means more time for worthwhile work.
That's exactly where I was heading.
There is value in raising the living standard in other parts of the world, and one way to do this is to find employment
for these populations, or a sizable portion of the population, enough to stimulate the rest of their economy.
The problem with shipping all these jobs overseas is you end up shipping a great deal of your money supply and wealth overseas with it.
These robots are aimed at stemming that transfer (the money) without much thought as to employment EITHER at home OR abroad.
Five?
I have grand kids who at five were far more advanced than Brooke.
They were walking, talking, going to the toilet on their own and could carry on a meaningful conversation.
This kid is stalled out at less than two years of mental age. My god the diapers!!
She can't come close to getting her own breakfast, let alone buy a beer.
Two have, the rest will follow. Somebody always has to be first.
Exactly.
You also have to consider, (trying not to sound too Luddite in the process), that replacing a human in a paying job with a robot is scarcely better than off-shoring the job.
see, it means admitting they were wrong, all along.
you ever see a politician do that? I have not. not ever. not even once.
State after state is falling all over themselves to legalize gay marriage.
Politicians who voted "hell no" just a couple years ago are now jumping on the bandwagon as fast as they can.
If you haven't seen this even once you haven't been paying attention.
As soon as even a third of the states legalize pot the rest will jump on board. It will happen.
I think it was a way for the people to say "you don't seem to take this seriously, so why should we?"
Name just one petition that caused any change, or even that the government appointed a study group to get facts.
This is no better than your congressman's automated canned replies
Its EXACTLY like your congressman's canned replies, and it could never have been anything other than that.
Welcome to reality.
Look, this was a off the cuff campaign promise by a guy who is not used to being held to his promises.
Its naivety of the first order to have believed this was EVER anything other than a "get me elected" ploy. Why did anyone expect this to ever work? Why did everyone jump on the band wagon and insist this was different, because it was from the Prophet Obama?
Anyone who thinks 25,000 signatures or 100,000 matters in a country with 315 million where there already exists a system of elections
and a representative form of government, or that clicking a mouse and a few keystrokes actually accounts for civic involvement is
delusional. Would you REALLY want to live in a country where 25,000 couch potato digital hippies could whip-saw the government into doing
something real, spending any time or tax payer dollars on total crap suggestions? Come on.
No, that's not why.
The reason is that lithium fires happen fairly easily, and the fire extinguishing systems aboard aircraft are not all that effective against such fires.
Several FAA bulletins have reported that "The current fire suppression agent, Halon 1301, found in class C cargo compartments is inefficient in controlling a lithium metal cell fire." Yet halon is just about all they have on board other than water.
See Slide 7: http://www.777cheatsheets.com/resources/Lithium_Battery.pdf
See Page 9: http://www.fire.tc.faa.gov/pdf/04-26.pdf
Tests were conducted using 4, 8, 16, and 32 CR2 batteries, the 10.75 fire pan, and 220 ml of
1-propanol. In each case, the results were identical. Discharging the halon prior to battery
ignition resulted in the extinguishment of the 1-propanol fire and no battery involvement.
However, discharging the halon after only one battery was ignited had no effect on stopping the
propagation of the battery fire to adjacent batteries. The halon extinguished the 1-propanol fire
immediately but had no effect on the lithium fire with the exception of turning the normally
white sparks bright red.
The color change of the lithium sparks indicated that a reaction was occurring between the
lithium and the Halon 1301. This reaction had no effect on the fire progression, neither
hindering nor promoting the spread of the battery fire. The vented electrolyte fires, normally
pale red in color, turned bright red when exposed to Halon 1301.
*GASP* Heaven forbid they have to use humour to answer a humorous petition once or twice a year. Why, this is an outrage, and they should be allowed NO smiles!
If they get a blatantly obviously funny petition, answer it in a funny manner. What's so fucking hard about that?
Because funny answers engender more funny petitions, and pretty soon we have an entire Department of Jokes and Witty Riposte, complete with a Cabinet level secretary and quarter million minions.
We all know guys in power are a bunch of chuckle heads already. Not sense giving them projects with which to prove it.
Maybe they should consider building the stinkin death star so that people can shut up about it.
I mean here I thought we were a democracy.
You thought wrong. We are a Republic.
They did respond to the marijuana one. They just didn't give the answer the people who signed it wanted.
I'm kind of baffled why people were shocked they got a response that said they weren't interested in legalizing marijuana, when that was ALWAYS his point of view.
Asking the President to legalize marijuana is the wrong way to go. Just get it on your State ballots and problem solved.
When enough states legalize it, those representatives and senators will force the feds to legalize it, or withhold all enforcement
funds until DEA removes it from the banned list.
Perhaps if people stopped submitting nonsense petitions there wouldn't be a need to adjust the threshold for an official response.
Exactly.
Death Stars? Really?
Thanks a lot all you idiots that jumped on that bandwagon! Nice Job.
You've proven to the elected officials that constituents should be ignored. Happy now?
Equal bitchslaps are deserved by this administration for agreeing that any obviously ridiculous request gets consideration if it shows up in the in-box with enough idiots signing on.
The US has a republican form of government, a Representative Democracy, because the founding fathers foresaw this level of idiocy.
My real question is how they're going to make it strong enough to unstick itself.
Easily done with burn-wires dropping weights, or compressed air cylinders de-flooding chambers or inflating sacks. All of this technology already exists in the commercial market place. The navy already has deep sea (slow speed) com systems to submarines.
The intent is to store surveillance assets (drones, balloons or sonobuoys) that can be called into action from 4000 feet down after long term storage on the bottom. .
Since this Slashdot the title should really be storage containers as the obvious assumption is a storage unit stores data!
RAID: Reconnaissance Assets Invisibly Drowned?
This is old news, the story was posted on slashdot last week. Same story, same request, same misinterpretation of what is actually sought.
The request is for pre-positioned military assets (non lethal) for surveillance and intelligence which remain inert on the sea floor until needed, and then become buoyant, rise to the surface and release aerial surveillance equipment, (short life drones or balloons), or merely float and gather signal intelligence.
These could be used for search and rescue as well as intelligence gathering in trouble spots.
This avoids having to find some way to fly a plane or a manned drone to some remote location in a hurry. Since its not a munition, its not considered an aggressive act to seed the ocean floor (4000 feet down, in international waters) with something that you can later instruct to become active.
It is thought that being down 4000 feet would be enough protection to make them unlikely to be messed with. (Wishful thinking if you ask me, once you abandon anything on the ocean bottom without support of international treaty, its pretty much fair game for salvage or state sponsored retrieval via ROVs.).
Second Li-Poly battery total meltdown in as many weeks.
Boeing had to get the FAA to waive its rules regarding Lithium batteries on planes in order to get this plane certified in the first place, and build containment boxes for the batteries into the design.
For the most part the risk of Lithium batteries lies in the requirement for rigid control of recharging, being careful not to over charge and also of draining the battery completely, the annoying habit of catching fire when the rules are not followed, or when the battery is short-circuited make large Li batteries (8-gram equivalent lithium content or more) banned in luggage, and shipments.
I suspect that the FAA will rescind this waiver, and force the replacement of the battery packs with something less prone to burn..
The behavior of the police in minority communities is the driving force behind the "stop snitching" movement.
Really? That's not what I hear.
The driving force behind "stop snitching" is the gang bangers that show up at your door if you snitch.
Exactly. They might as well tax gangsta rap "music".
Blaming video games is quick and easy, and taxing them is also quick and easy.
The real problem is that since the Carter administration, this country has been turning nut cases loose in massive numbers. Look at the homeless population of any large city and you will find enough whack jobs to fill an asylum.
But it goes farther than that. The very definition of insane has been made obsolete in the rush to accept diversity of every possible kind. Therefore there is no longer any method for anyone to even determine if anyone needs attention or watching or a full bore intervention. Any assertion that some one might be worth watching is chocked up to bigotry. And its not just civilians that are doubted. Professionals are equally at sea in this environment.
So lets blame video games. They seem kind of creepy, and we don't like the looks of the kid looking at them in the stores.
Am I wrong in assuming that probably every corporation's website has a copyright notice in small print at the bottom of all of the pages, complete with an "all rights reserved" notice? Meanwhile social, user content-based sites are governed typically by a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy page (which can, of course change without notice)? So what's the confusion?
I'm not sure this is germane.
One does not actually tweet a picture, you tweet a link to a picture, and anyone seeing that tweet hits that link (often a cached copy on a third party image service), bypassing any pages or notices. So anyone mining a picture out of a tweet would more likely pull up an image stored on some service which usually contain no copyright information.
More interesting it the single payment for each infringement. The judge has a set himself squarely against big media here.
The position given is a triangulation starting point, with an error margin of hundreds of feet in all directions
Nobody uses triangulation from towers anymore, certainly not end-users.
And Sprint won't tell you where your phone is. Even if you are the rightful owner of record. Liability reasons. They might tell the police, but not the owner.
Phones these days all have GPS receivers in them that get their position from GSP satellites.
Owners have to use self installed applications to retrieve the phone location remotely.
But if the user turns off the GPS, (and in Vegas you could see why they might), then the best the applications can do is
report the last tower(s) the phone saw.
Wait, cell towers have nothing to do with GPS, other than supplying almanac data. This Almanac data helps the phone locate the satellites faster.
The only time the address of the cell tower would come into play is if the owner or the thief shut off the GPS.
End users can't get the location of their cell phone without installing some software ahead of time, Such as Lookout or Find My IPhone.
Further, If the owner turns their GPS off, or the thief turns it off, those apps would only be able to report a rough triangulation of the last known position IF ANYTHING at all.
Neither Sprint nor Clark County can be responsible here, the company making the App is at fault if it is reporting a location that was based ONLY on the last tower it saw, without making this clear to the owner checking the web for their phone's location.
Because we all know that everybody has access to exactly one phone in this world.
According to TFA there is now a sign on his house to that effect.
If I was stealing cell phones, I'd put that sign up too.
Well in the linked story they say:
Bahnhof joins a growing number of providers seeking to provide faster and cheaper deployment of IT capacity through the use of factory-build modules that can be installed quickly and expanded as needed based on the customer’s needs.
So these are likely to be short term deployments of data centers for special events (olympics, Military operations, Disasters, etc) or short term expansion centers for companies waiting for their new headquarters to be built. They roll in on trucks set up operate without looking too ugly, then roll out again some time later.