The problem is that the OS trusts random USB sticks. The problem is that the OS will automatically run a program that can install malware from a USB stick. The problem is that it isn't safe to plug a USB stick into a computer.
To which the proper response is:
The problem is the operating system you've chosen Mr. Schneier.
>Seriously, though (and I didn't rtfa), wouldn't one want to ruggedize the board itself and not go with an off-the-shelf plug computer?
Go ahead and read the article, we will wait.......
The article talks about a number of different things, wall-wart style from the plug computer that an insider can park in a broom closet, to the innocuous looking useful device (gas leak detector, smoke alarm) that you hope to dupe some local into picking up and plugging in.
The story also talked about AA battery powered devices which would just be tossed into the shrubbery or air dropped. Realistically these would never have enough battery power to last long enough to crack even basic wifi encryption, let alone transfer any meaningful amount of data. Probably intended to last just long enough for dumping a worm or virus onto the local wifi.
So do Nvidia, Hewlett-Packard , et al have any chance of recovering any money they paid to Rambus, or are they simply out the entire amount, or has no actual money traded hands yet?
While that's true, it has no bearing on THIS particular sub-thread where the claim was made the OUR Sun was losing an Earth's Mass every year, when such could not be the case.
I don't deny the facts of the post, just the odd placement of the reply. I wonder if the post was misplaced?
Mass of the sun is 330,000 times the mass of earth.
So if it were losing an Earth-Mass yearly it would have had to be 7 times as massive as today at the beginning of the Pleistocene, and would only have a life expectancy of about 330,001 years left.
The Sun appears to have been active for 4.6 billion years and has enough fuel to go on for another Five billion years or so..
So I think you may have lost a few digits (in the exponents) when making your calculations.
It'll teach their customers a lesson - to switch to another carrier.
The idea that AT&T could ask customers to pay even more while at the same time offering such a crappy data network is patently absurd.
Actually I have had no problems with AT&T data network or voice network in the 5 or 6 states I travel often. Even coverage is reasonably good except in the western hinterlands. Granted I don't live in San Francisco or NYC.
Benching against friends and family on other carriers using similar devices almost always shows AT&T faster.
The price is the principal objection, slow rollout of LTE is the other.
Actually, I would take this posting seriously had Yahoo not been mentioned.
But as soon as that word slipped out, you automatically know this is going no where. They barely make enough to keep the lights on, and their chance of pulling something like this together is slim to none.
Google probably is not the right place either. You need someone big enough but not aligned with any of the platform providers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Apple iOS forbid these types of code execution development platforms? They used to, but maybe that has been relaxed.
One wonders if accessing information about Coal or Natural gas production would be easier than information about Nuclear waste storage. It might be she stepped into a Homeland Security issue, and managed to get herself on a watch list. All these documents were supposedly transferred in 2010. That would put it squarely in the Obama administration's Open Government time frame, but it was also during the height of the irrational security theater phase of locking up information about everything from Atomic weapons to Water supplies.
Google would have been more fruitful, as the article states.
Yup ridiculously far fetched. Only an utter fool would believe you could sneak in, and convince people who can each get fifty thousand dollar interest free loans from a benevolent dictator to instead stand in the street day after day getting their head shot off by government snipers.
The USA is the only country, IIRC, that taxes its citizens in such a way.
Wrong. Canada, UK, Germany and most of the EU tax foreign income. There are exemptions for tax paid in foreign countries. In the US there is an $87,000 exemption off the top, and an exemption for taxes paid to foreign government. http://www.groco.com/readingroom/intl_foreign_income.aspx
While the military has the ability to schlep ballots, it is the USPS job to do so, not the military.
Most government jobs still pay you, but other than that its hit or miss.
Some unions lobby for this as a benefit, but not alway successfully. Self employed people are just TSOL, and most small businesses simply can't afford to carry an employee beyond a week or two for jury duty. Some times you can get off for hardship if you are essential for a business.
Seriously, why wouldn't Police be allowed to pull over autonomous vehicles?
Of course you have to give police the ability to stop these vehicles, if for no other reason than to avoid accidents or congestion. Not to mention the possibility of sending bombs or something.
But its not always that easy. When was the last time you saw a policeman pull over an Elevator? Or an Escalator. Or the unmanned shuttle trains such as at SeaTac Airport or Morgantown WV Personal Rapid Transit.
Admittedly captured vehicles on their own tracks are not exactly the same as autonomous vehicles mixed with other traffic.
An autonomous vehicle is not that easy to stop other than get in its way and hope the programmer has designed in a safe stop. Alternatively you would need a police radio device to force a stop. (Which would be the first thing a terrorist would disable, and the first thing the hackers would p0wn).
But liability hardly seems a new issue. Its obviously going to be the person in remote control, the owner, or the manufacturer, probably in that pecking order. I suspect this is an area of settled law based on the elevator / escalator / automomous trains.
There is starting to be a history accumulated with Remote Controlled Freight Trains. These trains already exhibit 25% more accidents than trains with engineers aboard according to one law firm. In some cities, unmanned trains are allowed to cross roads and bridges. So even while confined to their own tracks they do interact with human operated vehicles.
Making autonomous vehicles that only have to deal with other autonomous vehicles would be much easier than making them deal with humans. That fact alone pretty much argues for separated systems, or separate segments of the roadway, portions under mandatory computer control, and other portions under human control.
Those states that have been sued for requiring a photo ID typically charge for that ID or documents that are required to get said ID (birth certificates.) If you are being charged for something so you can vote then it is a poll tax. Poll taxes are not racist per say, but they are meant to keep the impoverished, poor, those on a fixed income and those who have difficulty in getting out from voting.
Sorry, but you are simply wrong about that.
Photo ID has been consistently fought to the death by the Democrat party EVEN when there was no fees, EVEN when outreach programs and exceptions were made for elderly or infirm.
The democrats will simply not allow photo ID because their organized vans that shuffle voters from polling place to polling place would be ineffective. In those jurisdictions that vote by mail this practice has effectively been shut down. Its about the only good thing that vote by mail has accomplished.
The burden of proof should be on those who claim the system is legitimate and free from corruption. They are the ones asking the populous to trust that the system is fair.
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10% compounded for each offense grows frighteningly fast given the pace of these take down orders, which in come cases exceed thousands per day.
Must we continually remind you that Rambus technology was never Rambus technology, but rather stolen technology?
Also Borrowed from the same source:
The problem is that the OS trusts random USB sticks. The problem is that the OS will automatically run a program that can install malware from a USB stick. The problem is that it isn't safe to plug a USB stick into a computer.
To which the proper response is:
The problem is the operating system you've chosen Mr. Schneier.
>Seriously, though (and I didn't rtfa), wouldn't one want to ruggedize the board itself and not go with an off-the-shelf plug computer?
Go ahead and read the article, we will wait.......
The article talks about a number of different things, wall-wart style from the plug computer that an insider can park in a broom closet, to the innocuous looking useful device (gas leak detector, smoke alarm) that you hope to dupe some local into picking up and plugging in.
The story also talked about AA battery powered devices which would just be tossed into the shrubbery or air dropped. Realistically these would never have enough battery power to last long enough to crack even basic wifi encryption, let alone transfer any meaningful amount of data. Probably intended to last just long enough for dumping a worm or virus onto the local wifi.
So do Nvidia, Hewlett-Packard , et al have any chance of recovering any money they paid to Rambus, or are they simply out the entire amount, or has no actual money traded hands yet?
While that's true, it has no bearing on THIS particular sub-thread where the claim was made the OUR Sun was losing an Earth's Mass every year, when such could not be the case.
I don't deny the facts of the post, just the odd placement of the reply. I wonder if the post was misplaced?
Give them a taste of their own medicine.
Massive escalating fines for take down orders that prove to be false is the only solution here.
$100,000 for first offense, payable 90% to the victim, 10% to the hosting site, escalating 10% (compounding) for each instance.
The risk of even one false take down order should be enough to get their attention.
How is that germane to the GPs post?
Tech chops for web perhaps, (although I've seen nothing revolutionary from them for a long time).
Tech chops for multiple mobile platforms, not so much. Late to the game with lame apps, and little ability to follow thru with any of them.
http://www.androidcentral.com/yahoo-lays-some-their-mobile-apps-rest
Mass of the sun is 330,000 times the mass of earth.
So if it were losing an Earth-Mass yearly it would have had to be 7 times as massive as today at the beginning of the Pleistocene, and would only have a life expectancy of about 330,001 years left.
The Sun appears to have been active for 4.6 billion years and has enough fuel to go on for another Five billion years or so..
So I think you may have lost a few digits (in the exponents) when making your calculations.
It'll teach their customers a lesson - to switch to another carrier.
The idea that AT&T could ask customers to pay even more while at the same time offering such a crappy data network is patently absurd.
Actually I have had no problems with AT&T data network or voice network in the 5 or 6 states I travel often.
Even coverage is reasonably good except in the western hinterlands. Granted I don't live in San Francisco or NYC.
Benching against friends and family on other carriers using similar devices almost always shows AT&T faster.
The price is the principal objection, slow rollout of LTE is the other.
Yahoo is far from technical enough.
Do you buy games or license them? (just asking, since I don't use xbox).
It does make a difference.
Almost no physical item is good analogy to a digital product. Stretching car analogies just don't work.
Actually, I would take this posting seriously had Yahoo not been mentioned.
But as soon as that word slipped out, you automatically know this is going no where. They barely make enough to keep the lights on, and their chance of pulling something like this together is slim to none.
Google probably is not the right place either. You need someone big enough but not aligned with any of the platform providers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Apple iOS forbid these types of code execution development platforms? They used to, but maybe that has been relaxed.
One wonders if accessing information about Coal or Natural gas production would be easier than information about Nuclear waste storage.
It might be she stepped into a Homeland Security issue, and managed to get herself on a watch list. All these documents were supposedly transferred in 2010. That would put it squarely in the Obama administration's Open Government time frame, but it was also during the height of the irrational security theater phase of locking up information about everything from Atomic weapons to Water supplies.
Google would have been more fruitful, as the article states.
Yup ridiculously far fetched. Only an utter fool would believe you could sneak in, and convince people who can each get fifty thousand dollar interest free loans from a benevolent dictator to instead stand in the street day after day getting their head shot off by government snipers.
If you live in Texas, you'll still get paid. State law trumps any HR policies your company might have.
Travis County disagrees with you.
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/district_clerk/jury/E2.asp
The Texas Workforce Commission disagrees with you
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/jury_duty.html #3
So...
The USA is the only country, IIRC, that taxes its citizens in such a way.
Wrong.
Canada, UK, Germany and most of the EU tax foreign income. There are exemptions for tax paid in foreign countries.
In the US there is an $87,000 exemption off the top, and an exemption for taxes paid to foreign government.
http://www.groco.com/readingroom/intl_foreign_income.aspx
While the military has the ability to schlep ballots, it is the USPS job to do so, not the military.
Wrong again.
The US postal system does not deliver to Military ships at sea or combat zones or US Bases overseas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_mail
Most government jobs still pay you, but other than that its hit or miss.
Some unions lobby for this as a benefit, but not alway successfully. Self employed people are just TSOL, and most small businesses simply can't afford to carry an employee beyond a week or two for jury duty. Some times you can get off for hardship if you are essential for a business.
Let him help technology people find political office
Yes, techno nerds would make great leaders. *COUGH*. Clearly you have never dealt with any BOFH or PHBs in your life.
And of course, such a thing could never be hacked.....
And what would be the point of pulling it over?
Child stuck in car.
Passenger needs medical assistance.
Bomb needs defusing.
Bridge out ahead, sensors not adequate.
Man, I wish I lived in the perfect world you do. It must be nice where nothing goes wrong, and nobody has any ill intent.
Seriously, why wouldn't Police be allowed to pull over autonomous vehicles?
Of course you have to give police the ability to stop these vehicles, if for no other reason than to avoid accidents or congestion. Not to mention the possibility of sending bombs or something.
But its not always that easy. When was the last time you saw a policeman pull over an Elevator? Or an Escalator. Or the unmanned shuttle trains such as at SeaTac Airport or Morgantown WV Personal Rapid Transit.
Admittedly captured vehicles on their own tracks are not exactly the same as autonomous vehicles mixed with other traffic.
An autonomous vehicle is not that easy to stop other than get in its way and hope the programmer has designed in a safe stop. Alternatively you would need a police radio device to force a stop. (Which would be the first thing a terrorist would disable, and the first thing the hackers would p0wn).
But liability hardly seems a new issue. Its obviously going to be the person in remote control, the owner, or the manufacturer, probably in that pecking order. I suspect this is an area of settled law based on the elevator / escalator / automomous trains.
There is starting to be a history accumulated with Remote Controlled Freight Trains. These trains already exhibit 25% more accidents than trains with engineers aboard according to one law firm. In some cities, unmanned trains are allowed to cross roads and bridges. So even while confined to their own tracks they do interact with human operated vehicles.
Making autonomous vehicles that only have to deal with other autonomous vehicles would be much easier than making them deal with humans. That fact alone pretty much argues for separated systems, or separate segments of the roadway, portions under mandatory computer control, and other portions under human control.
Those states that have been sued for requiring a photo ID typically charge for that ID or documents that are required to get said ID (birth certificates.) If you are being charged for something so you can vote then it is a poll tax. Poll taxes are not racist per say, but they are meant to keep the impoverished, poor, those on a fixed income and those who have difficulty in getting out from voting.
Sorry, but you are simply wrong about that.
Photo ID has been consistently fought to the death by the Democrat party EVEN when there was no fees, EVEN when outreach programs and exceptions were made for elderly or infirm.
The democrats will simply not allow photo ID because their organized vans that shuffle voters from polling place to polling place would be ineffective. In those jurisdictions that vote by mail this practice has effectively been shut down. Its about the only good thing that vote by mail has accomplished.
The burden of proof should be on those who claim the system is legitimate and free from corruption. They are the ones asking the populous to trust that the system is fair.
THIS!.