Boston brakes only work on a few cars, mostly german, that use "brake by wire" with no physical connection between the brake pedal and master cylinder.
The mere fact that this has been announced has already started the wrong people working on it. At this point, releasing at Def-Con is the right thing to do, because not only will that patch get fixed, but others will come to similar conclusions and keep an eye out for peers who are going to exploit this. Black hats have family too.
Surely you see the double standard in your own post.???
They should release it into the wild, but then watch out for other hackers trying to exploit it? And how would anyone watch out for that?
But that's not an accurate measure. That is pure gravy for the producers. Just like any show in syndication, its already paid for. The show has already been produced and paid for by advertising revenue by the time it hits Google or Apple or Amazon.
but for quite a while it was a cheap and desirable place to live
Cheap and Desirable are like water and oil. You can mix them for a while, but over time they separate.
Still the project has merit, as long as there were some method of continued crowed sourced voting, because things change over time, but street-view images don't change that often.
Whether or not the counterfeit charger was the cause, they have reinforced their image and promoted their chargers (as well as discouraging customers from buying their chargers elsewhere).
There are two things at work here, and (much as I'm not an Apple Fanboi) I don't think either one is Apple's fault.
Its not clear that the fatal charger was Apple or non Apple, but in fact, it probably doesn't matter.
In the China incident, the deceased climbed out of bath, to answer the phone. The phone was still plugged in, and therefore still hooked to the mains. They use 220Volt mains in China. Water running down the cord to the charger could have provided a current path.
But even that would hot have been fatal, unless there was another connection, through the feet or hand, to ground. So touching a lamp, or a water faucet, or re-entering the bath with phone in hand could have provided that path.
220 packs quite a punch, and a death grip probably ensued.
At the same time, most wiring in china is not up to the code expectations we find in Europe and North America. GFCI/AFCI is largely unused in China in residential construction, and wasn't even in their electrical code until a couple years ago.
You do realize that in 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's funding was from the US Government, right? If they wanted to kill it they need to do nothing more than defund it.
Originally conceived to allow un-censored access for people behind state sponsored firewalls, it has now become just another microphone bugging the net. All good things in Washington become corrupted.
Its pretty easy to take away the anonymity of tor if you could hypothetically record all traffic to and from each computer in the network. You can then see Alice send the message to Carlos who then forwarded it to Bob. Luckily in the US no one is recording every encrypted message you send... oh shit..
One has to wonder if this story isn't simply a trial balloon for a world wide campaign against TOR. Get some Slovakian "security researcher" company (that goes out of its way to avoid telling you anything about itself on its website) to publicly worry about TOR, and induce a few press articles. Pretty soon, the government can step in and "protect us" from the evil TOR.
There was never a "tacit agreement". There was only just wishful thinking.
Wait, even with that minuscule Slashdot ID, you don't get to waltz in and rewrite history by calling it wishful thinking.
There has ALWAYS been a tacit agreement that advertising would accompany Television programming, and for decades before TV there were ads on RADIO. The day you were born there were ads on the radio.
Everybody understood that you get to free music, news, sports, and weather in exchange for a harangue about soap or oatmeal or whatever. The model worked since the 1920s everywhere in north america.
Even in Europe, where state sponsored radio and TV has been the norm, commercial radio and TV has been present, and even the state sponsored stations carried ads.
The model has worked. Its gotten progressively more abusive of the audience. When mainstream technology allows that abuse to be reined in, by stripping commercials, there will be an industry shakeup, regardless of what you think or how much damage is done to your lawn.
I hope your karma is up to this. You're gonna get pounded.
No, he's not going to get pounded, because his point is valid.
The tacit agreement is being changed. The agreement that has held since television was invented, namely that you take the advertising along with the programming, is being renegotiated.
Its not the GP's fault, he is just the messenger.
The producers of the programming will have to find a new source of revenue, because nobody works for free. You can expect them to change the terms under which the programming is provided. You will see embedded advertising, or high fees for all programming. Or some as yet unimagined method of revenue replacement.
But one thing is certain, nobody works for free. Nobody eats for free, except prison inmates. So maybe we can put those guys to work producing content?
I'd like to see the numbers as to how much an episode of your typical tv show costs. From concept through production, and delivery to your TV. If you could subscribe only to the specific programs that you wanted, and in doing so receive them free of advertising, but pay all costs via your fees, , what would your cost per hour be?
With the smear campaign being launched against Snowden, (Including forcing allies to detain the executive planes of sovereign nations) it appears this administration will stop at nothing to defend this crazy program.
I have no doubt they will employ all forms of inducement, legal or illegal, to force their party to get in line.
I hope you are right, and I've underestimated the level of anger, but based on the weasel words in form letters I got from my representatives, I doubt it. 5 will get you 10, that they all cave in.
Regardless of posturing, none of these representatives are going to vote against the NSA since they were the ones that authorized this entire mess in the first place.
Remember that the Democratic Party will not let anything touch Obama, even if it means giving George Bush a pass.
You can hid the cost of massive data gathering because its almost all automated, already in place, and all you have to do is pay the power bill for the taps already in place at Verizon and other providers. Its just money and not that much of it.
Its not ships and planes and armies carrying on bombing campaigns.
The other thing that could be clearer is that this has exactly zero chance of having any success.
Congress defunding something merely results in the administration transferring discretionary funds to the program so that nothing is changed, other than the Forest service doesn't get new ranger trucks this year, or the Coast Guard runs obsolete cutters for another year past their life expectancy (which expired 25 years ago). The money thusly transferred will be totally lost in the morass of government accounting and end up being more secret than the secret budget of the NSA.
Until Congress gets the balls to outlaw this program with criminal penalties, simply taking away funds away is a pointless gesture, like sending a kid to his room with no desert, but sneaking a double helping of cake and cookies into his later.
Well he already has an api available so that eliminates your last paragraph entirely.
And your NFC does not allow you to send data over skype or a telephone, nor does it allow you to send it to a desktop computer with no NFC chip. Audio encoded data solves all of those problems with nothing but common speakers and microphones.
To the extent it is do-able and can be encrypted it may be quite useful as would any of the other methods you cited. There is nothing new about sending data as audio. Fax machines and dial up modems do this every day. It can't be patented, no matter what the french say.
What is new here is the totally cross platform implementation, requiring nothing more than a commonly available speaker and a mic.
If you add Public/Private key encryption you could send data over any ad hoc voice capable channel. But without encryption, you got worth implementing. And with only server side encryption, you get pwed.
Except far easier to eavesdrop on. It was intended that you could add data transmission to any phone call, skype chat, or phone call or simply device to device (audio NFC).
Without heavy encryption, it provides no security.
Without some form of bi-directional exchange of public keys, you have no way to add encryption.
But unless, or until it includes same fairly strong encryption and an authentication mechanism nobody is going to trust it because man in the middle / eavesdropping on both ends of the conversation becomes child's-play.
Tool Time was written by women you idiot. That's why Tim was such a duffus. You appear so programmed to accept this you don't even recognize it when it bitchslaps you in the face.
And don't even get me started on anything (absolutely anything) from the HGTV network.... (I run screaming from the room when someone turns on that network).
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Boston brakes only work on a few cars, mostly german, that use "brake by wire" with no physical connection between the brake pedal and master cylinder.
Nothing in that story says anything about a hacked car.
The mere fact that this has been announced has already started the wrong people working on it. At this point, releasing at Def-Con is the right thing to do, because not only will that patch get fixed, but others will come to similar conclusions and keep an eye out for peers who are going to exploit this. Black hats have family too.
Surely you see the double standard in your own post.???
They should release it into the wild, but then watch out for other hackers trying to exploit it?
And how would anyone watch out for that?
But that's not an accurate measure. That is pure gravy for the producers. Just like any show in syndication, its already paid for.
The show has already been produced and paid for by advertising revenue by the time it hits Google or Apple or Amazon.
but for quite a while it was a cheap and desirable place to live
Cheap and Desirable are like water and oil. You can mix them for a while, but over time they separate.
Still the project has merit, as long as there were some method of continued crowed sourced voting, because
things change over time, but street-view images don't change that often.
There should be an app for this.
What's your point?
Have they ever stripped the commercials in exchange for this fee?
Whether or not the counterfeit charger was the cause, they have reinforced their image and promoted their chargers (as well as discouraging customers from buying their chargers elsewhere).
There are two things at work here, and (much as I'm not an Apple Fanboi) I don't think either one is Apple's fault.
Its not clear that the fatal charger was Apple or non Apple, but in fact, it probably doesn't matter.
In the China incident, the deceased climbed out of bath, to answer the phone. The phone was still plugged in, and therefore still hooked to the mains. They use 220Volt mains in China. Water running down the cord to the charger could have provided a current path.
But even that would hot have been fatal, unless there was another connection, through the feet or hand, to ground.
So touching a lamp, or a water faucet, or re-entering the bath with phone in hand could have provided that path.
220 packs quite a punch, and a death grip probably ensued.
At the same time, most wiring in china is not up to the code expectations we find in Europe and North America. GFCI/AFCI is largely unused in China in residential construction, and wasn't even in their electrical code until a couple years ago.
Not that I particularly like the cable, but some reasons are: It predates USB being a standard for charging devices.
Please tell me you didn't just write that!?!!
USB has been a standard for ALL of its possible uses since it was introduced as a STANDARD, long before the iPhone or even the iPod.
As long as you realize its fully compromised by the NSA, you are probably correct.
You do realize that in 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's funding was from the US Government, right? If they wanted to kill it they need to do nothing more than defund it.
Originally conceived to allow un-censored access for people behind state sponsored firewalls, it has now become just another microphone bugging the net. All good things in Washington become corrupted.
Just today there is a story on how companies are forced to turn SSL keys. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys/
And in spite of their posturing, your representatives rolled over once again just yesterday.
Perfect anonymity is always a goal for hackers
NSA guy hiding as AC these days? Sheesh, how far you've sunken.
Its pretty easy to take away the anonymity of tor if you could hypothetically record all traffic to and from each computer in the network. You can then see Alice send the message to Carlos who then forwarded it to Bob. Luckily in the US no one is recording every encrypted message you send... oh shit..
One has to wonder if this story isn't simply a trial balloon for a world wide campaign against TOR. Get some Slovakian "security researcher" company (that goes out of its way to avoid telling you anything about itself on its website) to publicly worry about TOR, and induce a few press articles. Pretty soon, the government can step in and "protect us" from the evil TOR.
There was never a "tacit agreement". There was only just wishful thinking.
Wait, even with that minuscule Slashdot ID, you don't get to waltz in and rewrite history by calling it wishful thinking.
There has ALWAYS been a tacit agreement that advertising would accompany Television programming, and for decades before TV there were ads on RADIO. The day you were born there were ads on the radio.
Everybody understood that you get to free music, news, sports, and weather in exchange for a harangue about soap or oatmeal or whatever. The model worked since the 1920s everywhere in north america.
Even in Europe, where state sponsored radio and TV has been the norm, commercial radio and TV has been present, and even the state sponsored stations carried ads.
The model has worked. Its gotten progressively more abusive of the audience. When mainstream technology allows that abuse to be reined in, by stripping commercials, there will be an industry shakeup, regardless of what you think or how much damage is done to your lawn.
Snow thers much?
They paid for the privilege of using the airwaves. Licensing fees are huge.
But your point becomes moot in the case of cable.
I hope your karma is up to this. You're gonna get pounded.
No, he's not going to get pounded, because his point is valid.
The tacit agreement is being changed. The agreement that has held since television was invented, namely that you take the advertising along with the programming, is being renegotiated.
Its not the GP's fault, he is just the messenger.
The producers of the programming will have to find a new source of revenue, because nobody works for free. You can expect them to change the terms under which the programming is provided. You will see embedded advertising, or high fees for all programming. Or some as yet unimagined method of revenue replacement.
But one thing is certain, nobody works for free. Nobody eats for free, except prison inmates. So maybe we can put those guys to work producing content?
I'd like to see the numbers as to how much an episode of your typical tv show costs. From concept through production, and delivery to your TV.
If you could subscribe only to the specific programs that you wanted, and in doing so receive them free of advertising, but pay all costs via your fees, , what would your cost per hour be?
With the smear campaign being launched against Snowden, (Including forcing allies to detain the executive planes of sovereign nations) it appears this administration will stop at nothing to defend this crazy program.
I have no doubt they will employ all forms of inducement, legal or illegal, to force their party to get in line.
I hope you are right, and I've underestimated the level of anger, but based on the weasel words in form letters I got from my representatives, I doubt it. 5 will get you 10, that they all cave in.
But with fluoride added to the water supply, we can reverse those gains..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/fluoride_b_2479833.html
It all traces back to this guy: http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/yiamouyiannis.html
Which is exactly why it won't pass.
Regardless of posturing, none of these representatives are going to vote against the NSA since they were the ones that authorized this entire mess in the first place.
Remember that the Democratic Party will not let anything touch Obama, even if it means giving George Bush a pass.
Its a lot different.
You can hid the cost of massive data gathering because its almost all automated, already in place, and all you have to do is
pay the power bill for the taps already in place at Verizon and other providers. Its just money and not that much of it.
Its not ships and planes and armies carrying on bombing campaigns.
The other thing that could be clearer is that this has exactly zero chance of having any success.
Congress defunding something merely results in the administration transferring discretionary funds to the program so that nothing is changed, other than the Forest service doesn't get new ranger trucks this year, or the Coast Guard runs obsolete cutters for another year past their life expectancy (which expired 25 years ago).
The money thusly transferred will be totally lost in the morass of government accounting and end up being more secret than the secret budget of the NSA.
Until Congress gets the balls to outlaw this program with criminal penalties, simply taking away funds away is a pointless gesture, like sending a kid to his room with no desert, but sneaking a double helping of cake and cookies into his later.
Well he already has an api available so that eliminates your last paragraph entirely.
And your NFC does not allow you to send data over skype or a telephone, nor does it allow you to send it to a desktop computer with no NFC chip.
Audio encoded data solves all of those problems with nothing but common speakers and microphones.
To the extent it is do-able and can be encrypted it may be quite useful as would any of the other methods you cited. There is nothing new about sending data as audio. Fax machines and dial up modems do this every day. It can't be patented, no matter what the french say.
What is new here is the totally cross platform implementation, requiring nothing more than a commonly available speaker and a mic.
If you add Public/Private key encryption you could send data over any ad hoc voice capable channel.
But without encryption, you got worth implementing. And with only server side encryption, you get pwed.
using sound to send data....sort of like a modem?
Except far easier to eavesdrop on.
It was intended that you could add data transmission to any phone call, skype chat, or phone call or simply device to device (audio NFC).
Without heavy encryption, it provides no security.
Without some form of bi-directional exchange of public keys, you have no way to add encryption.
But unless, or until it includes same fairly strong encryption and an authentication mechanism nobody is going to trust it because
man in the middle / eavesdropping on both ends of the conversation becomes child's-play.
Tool Time was written by women you idiot. That's why Tim was such a duffus. You appear so programmed to accept this you don't even recognize it when it bitchslaps you in the face.
And don't even get me started on anything (absolutely anything) from the HGTV network.... (I run screaming from the room when someone turns on that network).