wifi let's them have nice video but not much range.
And that's a good thing.
You want computer driven cars, fine, but make sure your ass is in them taking the risk. At least that way half baked lashups like this won't be running around the street. Given enough bandwidth, and range this thing could be dangerous. Put a LTE cell phone in there and turn on wifi tethering, and you have a cheap bomb delivery platform, big enough to carry enough for major damage.
There simply isn't enough processing power in an Ipad to adequately control this thing.
Maybe DROPOUTJEEP is a good thing after all. It can perhaps be used to send this kind of thing into the closest ditch.
A stack of wrappers is what unix/Linux strives for, its nothing new. At the bottom will be a binary blob, at least for any modern chipset. Unfortunately that's not likely to change any time soon.
How can I store passphrases associated with encrypted wireless networks? The first time KNetworkManager is used, it will try to set up the KDE Wallet (encrypted password storage) to save wireless network passphrases and other passwords. If you choose not to use KWallet, KNetworkManager will store passwords in its configuration files, only readable by the logged in user.
These configuration files are only readable by root on my opensuse box (specifically NOT by the logged in user). NetworkManager uses a privileged back end to read these files. (That's another issue, obsessed over up-thread).
So realistically, the story is pretty much a bunch of FUD. (In fact, if you read the article they pretty much discredit any of their recommended solutions by pointing out how easy it is to get around them).
True, if someone gets your laptop and puts in linux boot/recovery CD, they can get at your wifi passwords. But they already have your MACHINE IN HAND, so that war is already lost.
When you consider how easy it is to crack a wifi password the specter of any one stealing your laptop to get them seems a bit over the top.
Ok, sure, they should be stored encrypted, but if you wanted that option you could have and / should have chosen to store them in your wallet. And in this day and age, you could have and should have used an encrypted hard disk. Either way, there is going to be another password you will need to remember somewhere.
At this point I am now convinced you don't have a fuckin clue how security exploits work. Enjoy your ignorance. It's all you've got.
Apparent I have a better Idea of it than you do. You seem to think walking by a USB socket with a thumb drive and it roots what ever operating system happens to be installed on said computer.
That is bullshit of the highest order. You've been watching too much TV.
Lol, who can take you seriously after such a statement? People are putting entire PC's on usb stick form factors. Dell's got their "thumb PC" google has their chromecast, and there are plenty no-name chinese units too.
These are not USB devices. They don't work in USB sockets. They plug into your television.
Even if you find something that only requires power from the USB socket, it can't hack the host. The processing has to be done on the host side, and the only way that happens automatically is if you can get the host to run software installed on the USB drive , (or boot from it).
Even the PS3 jailbreak required the PS3 to hack itself, due to poor programming. The processing wasn't done on the usb stick.
What does that mean for drones, that are programmed to fly to a particular destination? All the Navigation is done by GSP. 30 feet one way or the other doesn't matter. We are not talking about landing or take off, but Navigation.
Also, nobody is talking about auto-land. These drones would be remotely flown for landing and take off, and landing "zero-zero" does not mean zero access to instruments.
Exactly. The Supreme Court already ruled you can be forced to contract with a private company for many different things. That cat is out of the bag. Expect more of this in the future.
As for certifications, like virtually all of them, this one (CMMI) is totally useless in assuring quality.
What number of corporations would be the "right" number for controlling 90% of american media? How do you know these 6 corporations aren't already controlled by the government? Have you seen more than one of these 6 corporations take a serious anti government stance on anything?
There is at least one exploit out there that relies on fragility in the USB firmware - the code that auto-negotiates with a USB device when it gets plugged in, sets up the bus, etc. The exploit works by sending unexpected data (buffer overflow, out-of-range values, etc).
Sounds apocryphal. But it sounds like a way to hack a usb device, rather than the computer that hosts it. After all, USB sticks don't have much in the way computing power. Buffer overruns from an input device are trivial to prevent. And even windows does that these days.
Every transaction is video recorded, so why would there be any mystery about how they got at the USB port? It seem most likely that servicing agents (people who refill the cash machines) have, or had someone on their staff that slipped these sticks in place as part of routine refills, and left them there, probably for days before putting them to use.
Someone who worked for cash machine manufacturers would be the most likely authors of this software, and masterminds. I'd be looking for anyone who quit recently.
You don't need cameras to navigate. Hint: GPS There should be no discussion as to whether surveillance is what drone users desire here. Image/Video surveillance is the reason for drones in either government or industry.
Other than Amazon's grandiose schemes, there is just about no reason to put drones in the air except for surveillance. (Be if if people, or forests, or live stock, or pipelines, etc).
Removing surveillance from a Drone's inventory pretty much makes them useless, both to business or government. If you don't believe this, call their bluff by proposing drones not be allowed to carry any form of camera.
Virtually everything else humans have done has also gone beyond deadline.
So if you extend the budget to the equivalent of the Iraqi war effort combined with the Afghanistan war effort, and extend the time line another 50 years, then yes, anything is possible.
But by that time, and with that budget. return missions would also be possible, which removes the requirement for soliciting whack-jobs for a one way mission.
Before that, Mars One will have established a habitable, sustainable outpost via multiple missions scheduled between 2018 and 2022."
Ah, no, I don't think so. There isn't enough money for the research, let alone construction of such a sustainable outpost in that time frame. Getting it landed on Mars, assembled and tested is out of the question in that time frame.
We don't even know what "sustainable" means in the context of a planet where the atmosphere is 96% CO2 and atmospheric pressure is.0059 that of earth.
Just the energy needs alone would exhaust our already threatened supply of nuclear fuel. Sixteen kilograms, the amount of useable plutonium-238 currently accessible by NASA. But s 10-pound chunk of plutonium can only produce about 2,268 watts of power in a MMRTG, and such a "sustainable" habitat would require far more than 2KW. Anyone speculating turning over that much plutonium to a reality show funded organization is just bat shit crazy.
Perhaps while NSA was powning Huawei routers they discovered they were already compromised.
Seems far more likely that in doing so, the NSA penetration was in turn detected and prevented by Huawei, or they haven't been able to penetrate to the extent they have with Cisco routers, and therefore they need to keep these out of critical infrastructure.
Text to ASL is starting to be available but probably only useful for people too young to read. (Showing them the text would be quicker if they could read). However it might serve as a teaching aid for other to learn ASL.
The deaf seldom speak clearly enough for any speech recognition to work. Siri and Android speech recognition is haphazard enough when any random accent is involved, and becomes useless when a speech impediment issue exists.
Knowing Why is often not that important. Why something was done in a particular way (or done at all) may have (usually has) more to do with who wrote the code, their particular proclivities, or prior experience, (or, just as often, the lack thereof).
Programmer's razor: Never attribute to genius what is adequately explained by befuddled hacking about until something works. The more programmers that have touched the code, the more likely this is to be true.
My own rule of thumb is when encountering non-transparent code, including overly clever, or opaque code, (my own or others): if I spend more than 5 minutes trying to figure out what it is doing, I add comments to the code, explaining it in detail. This will save me 5 minutes in the future.
If I can't document it with comments in the code, I don't understand it myself. If documenting it with comments in the code proves embarrassing, I try to re-write it then and there. A "fix" to the comments in the code is as important as a fix to the code itself.
don't have any problem with Snowden revealing mass surveillance on American citizens to American citizens, but spying on foreign governments is what the NSA is supposed to do. Yes, even our allies, and yes, even for economic reasons (most spying is economic in nature, and every ally spies on every ally).
Spying on your allies is a way to make them no longer your allies. Its as likely to drive them into other camps as it is to keep them your allies. Brazil is increasingly becoming disaffected with the US. How many more Venezuela's do we need in South America? Spying on Germany and Brazil heads of state is pointless excess.
Your assertion that most spying is economic in nature is disingenuous. Economic spying is useless for government. Most industrial spying may be economic in nature, but it is not performed by government agents. but rather by private interests. (Unless of course you accept the Chinese government's model of state sponsored industrial espionage as a legitimate model for the US to follow).
Who should receive the putative fruits of economic spying by the government? Private companies? Which ones? In exchange for what? Paid to who? How has that been working out for us?
Wire, of any kind, watches, clocks, cell phones, and various things found under your kitchen sink all become bomb making supplies when the police want to hold you for any reason what so ever. Your kids backpack, your pressure cooker, your stash of nails and screws, gas for the lawn mower, the tank for the gas grill, all can get you held for 72 hours.
Mere possession of these materials can get you charged. You are already guilty.
Yes, we can retitle from "Not All Bugs Are Random" to "White-Box Testing Is A Real Thing"
It would make more sense, because there was never an assertion that bugs were random. Furthermore limit testing is not a new concept.
We are so busy giving new names to old concepts, and barfing up new programming languages that we end up re-inventing and re-naming long known concepts with shiny new trendy names that we fail to notice this was well known decades ago.
If it was truly your network and you owned it, you could control what gets carried on it.
It IS our network. Read my SIG.
That we allow publicly traded heavily regulated corporations to our networks, using our airwaves, draping cable over our landscape, is simply a matter of organizational convievnce. We have entire government organizatios dedicated to making sure they use these things correctly.
We built and paid for this industry. We gave them tax breaks and access to lands they could never afford to buy. They are caretakers. They don't even own majority share of their own companies, because they sold so much stock that all they have now is tenuous control, which we allow them to keep,as long as they do what we want.
And I remember when long distance was prohibitively expensive on mobile plans, then suddenly became reasonable, then essentially free.
I also see international mobile to mobile calling slowly proceeding down the path to being free. With everything hopping onto the internet backbone in the LTE world, there is precious little that you need from a carrier except that last two miles from your handset to the tower.
None of this is germane to the issue at hand.
There is no earthly reason to hand telco business over to the same Big Media companies that have played so fairly with their own customers over the last decade. These people have been suing everyone left and right, charging exorbitant viewing rights, and demanding ridiculous court fines for anyone sharing at a movie, while at the same time distributing their wares in digital form across the web.
Nothing good can come of giving this bunch of schemers access to telephone records, control over what goes onto our devices or what gets carried on out networks. I'm perfectly fine with the DOJ stepping in and preventing such.
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wifi let's them have nice video but not much range.
And that's a good thing.
You want computer driven cars, fine, but make sure your ass is in them taking the risk. At least that way half baked lashups like this won't be running around the street. Given enough bandwidth, and range this thing could be dangerous. Put a LTE cell phone in there and turn on wifi tethering, and you have a cheap bomb delivery platform, big enough to carry enough for major damage.
There simply isn't enough processing power in an Ipad to adequately control this thing.
Maybe DROPOUTJEEP is a good thing after all. It can perhaps be used to send this kind of thing into the closest ditch.
A stack of wrappers is what unix/Linux strives for, its nothing new. At the bottom will be a binary blob, at least for any modern chipset. Unfortunately that's not likely to change any time soon.
Simple. Stop using Gnome shit.
How can I store passphrases associated with encrypted wireless networks?
The first time KNetworkManager is used, it will try to set up the KDE Wallet (encrypted password storage) to save wireless network passphrases and other passwords. If you choose not to use KWallet, KNetworkManager will store passwords in its configuration files, only readable by the logged in user.
http://old-en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager#Wireless_LAN
These configuration files are only readable by root on my opensuse box (specifically NOT by the logged in user). NetworkManager uses a privileged back end to read these files. (That's another issue, obsessed over up-thread).
So realistically, the story is pretty much a bunch of FUD. (In fact, if you read the article they pretty much discredit any of their recommended solutions by pointing out how easy it is to get around them).
True, if someone gets your laptop and puts in linux boot/recovery CD, they can get at your wifi passwords. But they already have your MACHINE IN HAND, so that war is already lost.
When you consider how easy it is to crack a wifi password the specter of any one stealing your laptop to get them seems a bit over the top.
Ok, sure, they should be stored encrypted, but if you wanted that option you could have and / should have chosen to store them in your wallet.
And in this day and age, you could have and should have used an encrypted hard disk. Either way, there is going to be another password you will need to remember somewhere.
At this point I am now convinced you don't have a fuckin clue how security exploits work. Enjoy your ignorance. It's all you've got.
Apparent I have a better Idea of it than you do. You seem to think walking by a USB socket with a thumb drive and it roots what ever operating system happens to be installed on said computer.
That is bullshit of the highest order. You've been watching too much TV.
Lol, who can take you seriously after such a statement? People are putting entire PC's on usb stick form factors. Dell's got their "thumb PC" google has their chromecast, and there are plenty no-name chinese units too.
These are not USB devices. They don't work in USB sockets. They plug into your television.
Even if you find something that only requires power from the USB socket, it can't hack the host.
The processing has to be done on the host side, and the only way that happens automatically is
if you can get the host to run software installed on the USB drive , (or boot from it).
Even the PS3 jailbreak required the PS3 to hack itself, due to poor programming. The processing wasn't
done on the usb stick.
You can choose not to have a driver's license.
You get fined for not having health insurance.
What does that mean for drones, that are programmed to fly to a particular destination?
All the Navigation is done by GSP. 30 feet one way or the other doesn't matter.
We are not talking about landing or take off, but Navigation.
Also, nobody is talking about auto-land. These drones would be remotely flown for landing and take off, and landing "zero-zero" does not mean zero access to instruments.
Exactly. The Supreme Court already ruled you can be forced to contract with a private company for many different things. That cat is out of the bag.
Expect more of this in the future.
As for certifications, like virtually all of them, this one (CMMI) is totally useless in assuring quality.
What number of corporations would be the "right" number for controlling 90% of american media?
How do you know these 6 corporations aren't already controlled by the government?
Have you seen more than one of these 6 corporations take a serious anti government stance on anything?
There is at least one exploit out there that relies on fragility in the USB firmware - the code that auto-negotiates with a USB device when it gets plugged in, sets up the bus, etc. The exploit works by sending unexpected data (buffer overflow, out-of-range values, etc).
Sounds apocryphal.
But it sounds like a way to hack a usb device, rather than the computer that hosts it.
After all, USB sticks don't have much in the way computing power.
Buffer overruns from an input device are trivial to prevent. And even windows does that these days.
No autorun, no exploit.
Every transaction is video recorded, so why would there be any mystery about how they got at the USB port?
It seem most likely that servicing agents (people who refill the cash machines) have, or had someone on their staff that slipped these sticks in place as part of routine refills, and left them there, probably for days before putting them to use.
Someone who worked for cash machine manufacturers would be the most likely authors of this software, and masterminds. I'd
be looking for anyone who quit recently.
Cattle ranches and pipelines.
You don't need cameras to navigate. Hint: GPS
There should be no discussion as to whether surveillance is what drone users desire here. Image/Video surveillance is the reason for drones in either government or industry.
Other than Amazon's grandiose schemes, there is just about no reason to put drones in the air except for surveillance. (Be if if people, or forests, or live stock, or pipelines, etc).
Removing surveillance from a Drone's inventory pretty much makes them useless, both to business or government. If you don't believe this, call their bluff by proposing drones not be allowed to carry any form of camera.
Virtually everything else humans have done has also gone beyond deadline.
So if you extend the budget to the equivalent of the Iraqi war effort combined with the Afghanistan war effort, and extend the time line another 50 years, then yes, anything is possible.
But by that time, and with that budget. return missions would also be possible, which removes the requirement for soliciting whack-jobs for a one way mission.
Before that, Mars One will have established a habitable, sustainable outpost via multiple missions scheduled between 2018 and 2022."
Ah, no, I don't think so.
There isn't enough money for the research, let alone construction of such a sustainable outpost in that time frame. Getting it landed on Mars, assembled and tested is out of the question in that time frame.
We don't even know what "sustainable" means in the context of a planet where the atmosphere is 96% CO2 and atmospheric pressure is .0059 that of earth.
Just the energy needs alone would exhaust our already threatened supply of nuclear fuel. Sixteen kilograms, the amount of useable plutonium-238 currently accessible by NASA. But s 10-pound chunk of plutonium can only produce about 2,268 watts of power in a MMRTG, and such a "sustainable" habitat would require far more than 2KW. Anyone speculating turning over that much plutonium to a reality show funded organization is just bat shit crazy.
What it has become lately, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security and our idiot congresscritters, are lackies for the FBI.
Wrong on two counts.
NSA is not part of DHS.
The FBI is the foot soldier and sock puppet of the NSA, not the other way around.
Given all the US lobbying against Huawei gear being used in critical infrastructure, it seems odd that the NSA is claiming they have managed to penetrate these routers.
Perhaps while NSA was powning Huawei routers they discovered they were already compromised.
Seems far more likely that in doing so, the NSA penetration was in turn detected and prevented by Huawei, or they haven't been able to penetrate to the extent they have with Cisco routers, and therefore they need to keep these out of critical infrastructure.
ASL is my son's first language, and there are plenty of people in his life who refuse to learn to speak with him.
If its a hard sell, there's probably a reason for that.
Technical solutions are the focus of this article.
ASL to text is drastically harder problem, but it appears to be under development.
Text to ASL is starting to be available but probably only useful for people too young to read. (Showing them the text would be quicker if they could read). However it might serve as a teaching aid for other to learn ASL.
The deaf seldom speak clearly enough for any speech recognition to work. Siri and Android speech recognition is haphazard enough when any random accent is involved, and becomes useless when a speech impediment issue exists.
Before you can tell why, you have to know why...
Knowing Why is often not that important. Why something was done in a particular way (or done at all) may have (usually has) more to do with who wrote the code, their particular proclivities, or prior experience, (or, just as often, the lack thereof).
Programmer's razor: Never attribute to genius what is adequately explained by befuddled hacking about until something works. The more programmers that have touched the code, the more likely this is to be true.
My own rule of thumb is when encountering non-transparent code, including overly clever, or opaque code, (my own or others): if I spend more than 5 minutes trying to figure out what it is doing, I add comments to the code, explaining it in detail. This will save me 5 minutes in the future.
If I can't document it with comments in the code, I don't understand it myself.
If documenting it with comments in the code proves embarrassing, I try to re-write it then and there.
A "fix" to the comments in the code is as important as a fix to the code itself.
don't have any problem with Snowden revealing mass surveillance on American citizens to American citizens, but spying on foreign governments is what the NSA is supposed to do. Yes, even our allies, and yes, even for economic reasons (most spying is economic in nature, and every ally spies on every ally).
Spying on your allies is a way to make them no longer your allies. Its as likely to drive them into other camps as it is to keep them your allies. Brazil is increasingly becoming disaffected with the US. How many more Venezuela's do we need in South America?
Spying on Germany and Brazil heads of state is pointless excess.
Your assertion that most spying is economic in nature is disingenuous.
Economic spying is useless for government. Most industrial spying may be economic in nature, but it is not performed by government agents. but rather by private interests. (Unless of course you accept the Chinese government's model of state sponsored industrial espionage as a legitimate model for the US to follow).
Who should receive the putative fruits of economic spying by the government? Private companies? Which ones? In exchange for what? Paid to who? How has that been working out for us?
Wire, of any kind, watches, clocks, cell phones, and various things found under your kitchen sink all become bomb making supplies when the police want to hold you for any reason what so ever. Your kids backpack, your pressure cooker, your stash of nails and screws, gas for the lawn mower, the tank for the gas grill, all can get you held for 72 hours.
Mere possession of these materials can get you charged. You are already guilty.
Yes, we can retitle from "Not All Bugs Are Random" to "White-Box Testing Is A Real Thing"
It would make more sense, because there was never an assertion that bugs were random.
Furthermore limit testing is not a new concept.
We are so busy giving new names to old concepts, and barfing up new programming languages that we end up re-inventing and re-naming long known concepts with shiny new trendy names that we fail to notice this was well known decades ago.
contradicting itself in one setence!
And, true to form, Muphery strikes again.
If it was truly your network and you owned it, you could control what gets carried on it.
It IS our network. Read my SIG.
That we allow publicly traded heavily regulated corporations to our networks, using our airwaves, draping cable over our landscape, is simply a matter of organizational convievnce. We have entire government organizatios dedicated to making sure they use these things correctly.
We built and paid for this industry. We gave them tax breaks and access to lands they could never afford to buy. They are caretakers. They don't even own majority share of their own companies, because they sold so much stock that all they have now is tenuous control, which we allow them to keep,as long as they do what we want.
And I remember when long distance was prohibitively expensive on mobile plans, then suddenly became reasonable, then essentially free.
I also see international mobile to mobile calling slowly proceeding down the path to being free. With everything hopping onto the internet backbone in the LTE world, there is precious little that you need from a carrier except that last two miles from your handset to the tower.
None of this is germane to the issue at hand.
There is no earthly reason to hand telco business over to the same Big Media companies that have played so fairly with their own customers over the last decade. These people have been suing everyone left and right, charging exorbitant viewing rights, and demanding ridiculous court fines for anyone sharing at a movie, while at the same time distributing their wares in digital form across the web.
Nothing good can come of giving this bunch of schemers access to telephone records, control over what goes onto our devices or what gets carried on out networks. I'm perfectly fine with the DOJ stepping in and preventing such.