And if it actually does what Boeing claims, you aren't going to find any articles telling you how it works; that, in and of itself is part of its security.
In the real world, people take advantage of security through obscurity. That doesn't mean they rely on it, but theres nothing wrong with throwing something in front of the attacker to slow them down even if its only temporary as long as thats not your only attempt at security.
Temp gets too low? Dump the encryption key. Temp gets too high? Dump the encryption key.
Any one of the 20+ springs in the case that are monitored for contact with the case going offline? Dump the encryption key.
Too many G forces? Dump the encryption key.
Everything you're going to do to it, its going to have enough of a warning to be able to destroy itself, OR what you're doing to it is going to destroy it first.
But it can damn sure run as soon as it notices rapidly dropping temps.
Dropping it in something really cold doesn't make it instantly cold, it'll take some time (even if that time isn't very long) and thats long enough to nuke itself if need be.
Its not like they're going to trigger self destruct based on a case screw or two being removed.
Unless its a joke, they would have multiple safe guards in place to destroy the device if need be. Rapidly failing temp that is well below human standards? Kill! Any one of multiple case pressure springs goes offline? Kill! For every way you can find to open it, I can add a way to stop you, and I'm not doing this for a living every day.
The question is, can they figure out a combination that you can't figure out how to work around.
And for reference to all the armchair spooks on slashdot... if you were so good that they actually worried about YOU getting into this device, you wouldn't be talking about it on slashdot or we'd already know your name. (/me looks for Bruce, just in case) As I have to say here so often... you aren't half as clever as you think you are.
Don't have too. They are growing for commercially, that makes their drone for commercial use just like their tractor.
They've dealt with far more clever people with far bigger wallets and contrary to the ignorant 'I'm smarter than the government' morons like yourself think, you arrant going to out smart them with a clever twist of words.
It's as if you've never been part of society at all, are you 12?
Yep, misspelled the word, repeatedly. Does make me look the dumbass.
The regulations however are written in very clear text and have been around longer than I've been alive and likely you too.
It has been repeatedly clarified by the FAA every time some jackass like you tries to twist it's very clear meaning, so, smarty pants, go fuck your self in your own ignorance. Even slash dot has covered people being stopped for commercial use.
Heh, you should look at what ArduPilot is capable of.
Anyone can own a fully autonomous vehicle, be it land, sea or air. ArduPilot/ArduCopter/ArduRover will fly/sail/drive pretty much anything, fully autonomous, with waypoints automatically or using remote control telemetry. It can live track a target (using GPS data from a ground station) or carry out a mission like a 'bomb drop' all on its own.
I drop water balloons from mine on my dogs for fun and games, they love it, I've only done a couple fully autonomous missions, but it most certainly will fly its course and do what its told and do it exactly where it was supposed to. I've been unable to get it to drop a water balloon down my chimney, but it hits within about 6 feet EVERY TIME.
That is MORE than accurate enough to do damage.
Fun however, is first person view obstacle course races with a couple friends. All the thrill of flying an airplane through places you shouldn't, and some serious risk when you consider that you could lose $1,000 worth of autopilot and camera gear. The quads themselves are cheap, mine is custom built now, if you exclude the autopilot itself, camera gear and radios, the quad is actually cheaper than any of my other RC aircraft.
Its also the one with the shortest range and lowest payload.
These autopilots now days may not rival military tech, but they are so close that it makes me want them to bring back GPS dithering almost. This thing could EASILY be made into a lot of death.
Of course, so can a truck full of fertilizer if you know what you're doing. Except this thing will fly itself to the target while you drive the other direction. Thats the scary part.
They don't ship product on time, they claim to have shipped things they don't, and they pretty much lie at every turn when you deal with their customer support. Their website claims items in stock that aren't, and claims items out of stock that get shipped.
I made repeated calls and met with repeated lies.
This pattern is repeated time and time again by others than myself on their forums.
When you want to actually get your product you have to post a rant online on their forms, twitter and other social media sites... then all of the sudden, mysteriously your package will be shipped with stuff they said they wouldn't have for a week... of course this is already 2 weeks after they claimed to have shipped it over night... given you a tracking number that still claims FedEx hasn't been picked up.
I eventually got my package about 3 weeks after placing an over nighted order for things the website (AND customer support by phone) claimed they had in stock. Even FedEx seemed a little irate that I'd been giving a tracking number for an overnight package that was entered in their system for pickup and hadn't been picked up in 2 weeks when I spoke to them.
Chris Anderson is a blowhard loud mouth that has almost nothing at all to do with 3d robotics other than his name, and thats a good thing, cause its a shitty company that appropriated GPL'd code for its own profit, which would be fine, if it weren't such a shitty company.
He's just riding on other peoples work like he does everywhere. He has basically no actual involvement with the company other than claiming CEO and using his name to drum up investment funding for his coffers. Half the time it doesn't even appear that he knows what his company actually does, and I doubt for an instant that he's ever held the controls of one of his drones.
Fuck 3d robotics and Chris Anderson, its a horrible company to do business with and deserves to die a painful death. Stay far far away.
ArduPilot rocks. 3d Robotics sucks ass in every conceivable way.
wouldn't you perhaps think twice about a career choice where you might be the only male out of 10 people in your group
The only men afraid to work with women are those who have major inadequacies their afraid of exposing.
That means you, just for reference.
You're that guy who made fun of the dude who went to home economics class with all the girls. Let me give you a hint, he saw tits way before you did, I mean other than his moms and his dads magazines. Seriously, you have issues if this bothers you.
Seriously, theres enough info in any default apache or IIS log to find the majority of the bullshit codes generated/stolen. Find anything that looks fake and kill it, anyone entering a killed code, have them call in to activate/get a new code, all these people who steal codes over the Internet generally aren't ballsy enough to make the phone call repeatedly, make sure the call comes from a good solid landline, no VoIP crap, sorry if it effects all 8 of you legitimate users of radioshack and netflix.
This is (just) a shitty long day for some sys admin somewhere who has to make up for some shitty developers mistake. This is pretty much the status quo is it not? Most if not all of the bad codes will be found out... if they want to, it may be well worth it for them to have the accounts active anyway for the books or just for possible retention values.
This is a great example of the no press is bad press mantra. Both RadioShack and Netflix will see increased customer counts for people trying to scam it, slam dunk marketing.
MOST women don't like to code, stop fucking trying to turn them into programming machines. Some do, good for them, let them be great programmers, but for fucks sake stop trying to force women to do shit most of them have no interest in doing. Its not going to get you a girlfriend, you'll still be an asshole.
You allow people all the freedom they want as long as they can not force it on someone else.
You let a business owner do whatever they want because that business owner can not force you to use their business, you can go to someone else.
A suicide bomber on their own property with no one else to be harmed should be perfectly legal, assuming they notify the authorities in advance so we don't have to waste a bunch of time figuring out what happened and picking body parts out of trees a half mile away.
A suicide bomber at Walmart is not acceptable, since its going to hurt a whole bunch of people who wanted no part of that ordeal.
Its not what you do, its what you do unto others that matters.
If you had a clue about working in the retail world, you'd thank them.
30% off the top is standard... with NOTHING in return, oh, and unless you're a big player, they in some super store... not only do they take 30% off the top, they ALSO charge you for shelf space.
Or think of it another way and pull your head out of your ass. Apple doesn't take 30% of your profit, they sell your product on their store for a 30% markup over your price. So you set your price to what you want to make, but your customers are going to pay an extra 30%... just like every other store on the planet.
You're using your own personal definition of virus unlike the rest of the world.
A worm generally causes no damage and just likes to spread. Virii generally cause damage and spread.
For the most part however, they are the same thing and its really a matter of malicious intent that makes the difference.
For instance, the sendmail worm (which you probably aren't old enough to even know about) had the effect of a virus simply because it was so prolific and spread so quickly thanks to the backdoor built into sendmail. It broke many mail systems, because it spread onto itself as well as new hosts, and it was wicked fast about it (for the time) so it overloaded mail servers to a non-functional state.
Still a worm though, because that overload was a bug, not a feature.
Had the overload been intentional, it would have been a virus.
PLENTY of Viruses over the years moved from machine to machine without any human interaction at all. Its like you've been in your own little world the last 20 years.
Only if your one of those morons who likes to pretend credits don't exist in StarTrek... Because they do, and your allotment depends on you contributing to society.
Fuck fake geeks talking about StarTrek like it presented some utopian perfect future. You probably also ignore that there is constant fighting both in and outside the federation as well as all the "evolved" species, almost all of which saw civil war in one StarTrek series or another. Even the Vulcans had corruption and war on their own world. Multiple times.
Ummm... people move to the outskirts of a city so their kids don't have to fear getting mugged or shot in crossfire between inner city gangs.
You're confusing Law & Order the TV show with the real world.
The difference between the middle of fucking BFE Alaska (contradicting terms I know!) versus the dense downtown NYC is less than double. Considering its pretty low to start with, double is still not worth mentioning.
You just live in fear for some reason, but not in reality. Probably just too much TV and not enough actually living in the real world.
Other on than on TV, have you ever SEEN this happen yourself?
I fucking hate cities for all sorts of reasons, efficiency being key (shipping shit across the country to feed a bunch of morons stacked on top of each other like lab rats in a cage is not smart), but to pretend that cities are actually like episodes of law and order EVERY DAY is just fucking retarded.
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And if it actually does what Boeing claims, you aren't going to find any articles telling you how it works; that, in and of itself is part of its security.
In the real world, people take advantage of security through obscurity. That doesn't mean they rely on it, but theres nothing wrong with throwing something in front of the attacker to slow them down even if its only temporary as long as thats not your only attempt at security.
Nothing is secure given enough time.
Battery gets too low? Dump the encryption key.
Temp gets too low? Dump the encryption key. Temp gets too high? Dump the encryption key.
Any one of the 20+ springs in the case that are monitored for contact with the case going offline? Dump the encryption key.
Too many G forces? Dump the encryption key.
Everything you're going to do to it, its going to have enough of a warning to be able to destroy itself, OR what you're doing to it is going to destroy it first.
But it can damn sure run as soon as it notices rapidly dropping temps.
Dropping it in something really cold doesn't make it instantly cold, it'll take some time (even if that time isn't very long) and thats long enough to nuke itself if need be.
Its not like they're going to trigger self destruct based on a case screw or two being removed.
Unless its a joke, they would have multiple safe guards in place to destroy the device if need be. Rapidly failing temp that is well below human standards? Kill! Any one of multiple case pressure springs goes offline? Kill! For every way you can find to open it, I can add a way to stop you, and I'm not doing this for a living every day.
The question is, can they figure out a combination that you can't figure out how to work around.
And for reference to all the armchair spooks on slashdot ... if you were so good that they actually worried about YOU getting into this device, you wouldn't be talking about it on slashdot or we'd already know your name. (/me looks for Bruce, just in case) As I have to say here so often ... you aren't half as clever as you think you are.
Don't have too. They are growing for commercially, that makes their drone for commercial use just like their tractor.
They've dealt with far more clever people with far bigger wallets and contrary to the ignorant 'I'm smarter than the government' morons like yourself think, you arrant going to out smart them with a clever twist of words.
It's as if you've never been part of society at all, are you 12?
Yep, misspelled the word, repeatedly. Does make me look the dumbass.
The regulations however are written in very clear text and have been around longer than I've been alive and likely you too.
It has been repeatedly clarified by the FAA every time some jackass like you tries to twist it's very clear meaning, so, smarty pants, go fuck your self in your own ignorance. Even slash dot has covered people being stopped for commercial use.
Farmers most certainly would require FAA approval for using their own drones.
You can not use an ariel vehicle (ANY ariel vehicle) for commercial purposes in the US with a waiver or certificate of air worthiness.
Doing work for your farm would most certainly be commercial, even if you don't sell the product itself. Research alone can be commercial.
Heh, you should look at what ArduPilot is capable of.
Anyone can own a fully autonomous vehicle, be it land, sea or air. ArduPilot/ArduCopter/ArduRover will fly/sail/drive pretty much anything, fully autonomous, with waypoints automatically or using remote control telemetry. It can live track a target (using GPS data from a ground station) or carry out a mission like a 'bomb drop' all on its own.
I drop water balloons from mine on my dogs for fun and games, they love it, I've only done a couple fully autonomous missions, but it most certainly will fly its course and do what its told and do it exactly where it was supposed to. I've been unable to get it to drop a water balloon down my chimney, but it hits within about 6 feet EVERY TIME.
That is MORE than accurate enough to do damage.
Fun however, is first person view obstacle course races with a couple friends. All the thrill of flying an airplane through places you shouldn't, and some serious risk when you consider that you could lose $1,000 worth of autopilot and camera gear. The quads themselves are cheap, mine is custom built now, if you exclude the autopilot itself, camera gear and radios, the quad is actually cheaper than any of my other RC aircraft.
Its also the one with the shortest range and lowest payload.
These autopilots now days may not rival military tech, but they are so close that it makes me want them to bring back GPS dithering almost. This thing could EASILY be made into a lot of death.
Of course, so can a truck full of fertilizer if you know what you're doing. Except this thing will fly itself to the target while you drive the other direction. Thats the scary part.
His factory is a joke.
They don't ship product on time, they claim to have shipped things they don't, and they pretty much lie at every turn when you deal with their customer support. Their website claims items in stock that aren't, and claims items out of stock that get shipped.
I made repeated calls and met with repeated lies.
This pattern is repeated time and time again by others than myself on their forums.
When you want to actually get your product you have to post a rant online on their forms, twitter and other social media sites ... then all of the sudden, mysteriously your package will be shipped with stuff they said they wouldn't have for a week ... of course this is already 2 weeks after they claimed to have shipped it over night ... given you a tracking number that still claims FedEx hasn't been picked up.
I eventually got my package about 3 weeks after placing an over nighted order for things the website (AND customer support by phone) claimed they had in stock. Even FedEx seemed a little irate that I'd been giving a tracking number for an overnight package that was entered in their system for pickup and hadn't been picked up in 2 weeks when I spoke to them.
Chris Anderson is a blowhard loud mouth that has almost nothing at all to do with 3d robotics other than his name, and thats a good thing, cause its a shitty company that appropriated GPL'd code for its own profit, which would be fine, if it weren't such a shitty company.
He's just riding on other peoples work like he does everywhere. He has basically no actual involvement with the company other than claiming CEO and using his name to drum up investment funding for his coffers. Half the time it doesn't even appear that he knows what his company actually does, and I doubt for an instant that he's ever held the controls of one of his drones.
Fuck 3d robotics and Chris Anderson, its a horrible company to do business with and deserves to die a painful death. Stay far far away.
ArduPilot rocks. 3d Robotics sucks ass in every conceivable way.
wouldn't you perhaps think twice about a career choice where you might be the only male out of 10 people in your group
The only men afraid to work with women are those who have major inadequacies their afraid of exposing.
That means you, just for reference.
You're that guy who made fun of the dude who went to home economics class with all the girls. Let me give you a hint, he saw tits way before you did, I mean other than his moms and his dads magazines. Seriously, you have issues if this bothers you.
In the real world, just because you say something like 'you can't discriminate against me for that' doesn't make it magically true.
The real world simply doesn't give a flying fuck what laws man makes.
Maybe the FSF and movement could come up with their own idea for a change instead of being a shitty knock off of a commercial application.
FSF chasing everyone else ideas them about on the same level as Zynga.
the problem.
Seriously, theres enough info in any default apache or IIS log to find the majority of the bullshit codes generated/stolen. Find anything that looks fake and kill it, anyone entering a killed code, have them call in to activate/get a new code, all these people who steal codes over the Internet generally aren't ballsy enough to make the phone call repeatedly, make sure the call comes from a good solid landline, no VoIP crap, sorry if it effects all 8 of you legitimate users of radioshack and netflix.
This is (just) a shitty long day for some sys admin somewhere who has to make up for some shitty developers mistake. This is pretty much the status quo is it not? Most if not all of the bad codes will be found out ... if they want to, it may be well worth it for them to have the accounts active anyway for the books or just for possible retention values.
This is a great example of the no press is bad press mantra. Both RadioShack and Netflix will see increased customer counts for people trying to scam it, slam dunk marketing.
MOST women don't like to code, stop fucking trying to turn them into programming machines. Some do, good for them, let them be great programmers, but for fucks sake stop trying to force women to do shit most of them have no interest in doing. Its not going to get you a girlfriend, you'll still be an asshole.
You allow people all the freedom they want as long as they can not force it on someone else.
You let a business owner do whatever they want because that business owner can not force you to use their business, you can go to someone else.
A suicide bomber on their own property with no one else to be harmed should be perfectly legal, assuming they notify the authorities in advance so we don't have to waste a bunch of time figuring out what happened and picking body parts out of trees a half mile away.
A suicide bomber at Walmart is not acceptable, since its going to hurt a whole bunch of people who wanted no part of that ordeal.
Its not what you do, its what you do unto others that matters.
If you had a clue about working in the retail world, you'd thank them.
30% off the top is standard ... with NOTHING in return, oh, and unless you're a big player, they in some super store ... not only do they take 30% off the top, they ALSO charge you for shelf space.
Or think of it another way and pull your head out of your ass. Apple doesn't take 30% of your profit, they sell your product on their store for a 30% markup over your price. So you set your price to what you want to make, but your customers are going to pay an extra 30% ... just like every other store on the planet.
Get a clue
Your college admins were using DOS and not some UNIX? Sounds fishy
I should have added:
When everything became networked, viruses no longer required human interaction and sneaker net to be prolific.
You're using your own personal definition of virus unlike the rest of the world.
A worm generally causes no damage and just likes to spread. Virii generally cause damage and spread.
For the most part however, they are the same thing and its really a matter of malicious intent that makes the difference.
For instance, the sendmail worm (which you probably aren't old enough to even know about) had the effect of a virus simply because it was so prolific and spread so quickly thanks to the backdoor built into sendmail. It broke many mail systems, because it spread onto itself as well as new hosts, and it was wicked fast about it (for the time) so it overloaded mail servers to a non-functional state.
Still a worm though, because that overload was a bug, not a feature.
Had the overload been intentional, it would have been a virus.
PLENTY of Viruses over the years moved from machine to machine without any human interaction at all. Its like you've been in your own little world the last 20 years.
They are, that's why you should stop shoving them up your as and just buy a sex toy ffs.
Only if your one of those morons who likes to pretend credits don't exist in StarTrek ... Because they do, and your allotment depends on you contributing to society.
Fuck fake geeks talking about StarTrek like it presented some utopian perfect future. You probably also ignore that there is constant fighting both in and outside the federation as well as all the "evolved" species, almost all of which saw civil war in one StarTrek series or another. Even the Vulcans had corruption and war on their own world. Multiple times.
Even your fantasy paradise is no such place.
That would waste a lot of energy destroying resources which could be used to grow new food.
Ummm... people move to the outskirts of a city so their kids don't have to fear getting mugged or shot in crossfire between inner city gangs.
You're confusing Law & Order the TV show with the real world.
The difference between the middle of fucking BFE Alaska (contradicting terms I know!) versus the dense downtown NYC is less than double. Considering its pretty low to start with, double is still not worth mentioning.
You just live in fear for some reason, but not in reality. Probably just too much TV and not enough actually living in the real world.
Part of the backlog is apparently caused by 15-20% of the workers failing to return because
So in 5 years, when everyone has returned home (20% a year) ... who's working for Foxconn now? Newborn babies?
Your numbers are bunk at best.
And which Foxconn plant is located in America for that to apply to?
Other on than on TV, have you ever SEEN this happen yourself?
I fucking hate cities for all sorts of reasons, efficiency being key (shipping shit across the country to feed a bunch of morons stacked on top of each other like lab rats in a cage is not smart), but to pretend that cities are actually like episodes of law and order EVERY DAY is just fucking retarded.