So... FUD much?:) You'd also get your ass handed to you by lawyers, many times over. Heck, even Apple might sue you for using their name in such an unscrupulous ploy. That's hardly educating people, but bullshitting them into doing what you want them to.
Because it's illegal, and I doubt you'd want your machine being turned off by others. It would make more sense to tell the ISPs that their customers are infected, and even tell the customer directly. Being all dickish and holier-than-thou about it isn't going to help anyone, as it just puts folks off listening.
That's a great set-up you've got:) I guess as long as retrieving the important images is acceptable, that'll work fine. One other issue, is you can't use it to tell you something's wrong - you have to find out through other ways, THEN use the stored images to figure out who did it. If the sensitivity was tuned to (admittedly rather specific), and the time was factored in (ie someone going to your mailbox at 2:30am instead of when the postman usually delivers), then it could actually alert you to something happening. Just a thought:)
Wouldn't it make more sense for folks to actively try to make their police forces better? Wouldn't most folks rather have a well-trained, professional police force they can trust, rather than constantly having to be "on duty" themselves? It just strikes me as weird that people actually want to put up with that. I'd rather have the freedom to not have to be my own police force and get on with my own life, as opposed to arming myself and being scared of every knock at the front door. I'm not criticising the US's 2nd amendment stuff, I just think it trades one sort of freedom for another, in a way that's detrimental to actually living, as opposed to feeling "free".
Man-in-the-middle attacks are ALWAYS possible, seeing as unless your phone is directly wired to your email server, there are plenty of men in the middle. Of course, the man in the middle will have to substitute his own key to give the client the encryption it expects, which should raise a flag with the software, as it won't be issued by a trusted source, and won't reflect the real company's information correctly.
The real question is - why have you only started to notice the talk of smartphone threats to companies, now that Apple is the maker in question?
There have been lots of discussions about smartphone-based threats to "enterprise" ever since smartphones first appeared. The fact you call that out now, and phrase it as if it's people attacking Apple, makes a rational person wonder just why you posted that...;)
Have you thought of using a secondary device to trigger the main camera? One of those passive IR detectors, or even a cheap webcam would do. It sounds like the clarity of the camera is being rather counter-productive judging by the amount of false-positives you're seeing. The quality of the image is only important if you can find it in a timely manner:)
And also make sure you clear out the MP3 player first. The burglar might get suspicious when the yapping dog starts to serenade him with a perfect rendition of Moon River...
Of course they could link to a site and make the browser perform a POST. That's trivial. A form and some javascript will do that no problem. They seem to not be doing that because GET forms should be non-destructive, whereas POST forms can be quite destructive.
So it'd be fine if the wheels on your car started to move independently from the steering wheel, as the driver can just use the brakes when that happens?
Back to the robots: the trigger mechanism might also be dodgy, and what if the gun is already being fired when it starts to move?
You're right - if they didn't design the reactor vessel to cool down more than the reaction can heat up in the steady state, then sure, but an integral part of the pebble bed reactor is a vessel that can indeed cool, as this idle temperature is known and not too high.
The pebbles are not impossible to reprocess, just harder. Harder does not mean it doesn't make sense.
Saying they're a waste of time and money shows you've not been keeping up with the research in the area, or indeed their current and proposed uses.
1. Yes, but it's easy to store pebbles (they're sealed in graphite, waterproof, and can just be loaded into barrels and put underground. They're also rather small (the size of a tennis ball). 2. Pebble Bed reactors can't melt down. If they get too hot, they generate less heat, resulting in an abandoned reaction stabilising long before thermal damage can occur in the containment 3. Ignorance will always be a problem:) 4. Hardly. The level of security at nuclear power plants is ridiculously off the scale. Also, with pebble bed reactors, the pebbles are practically useless for making weapons.
Pebble bed reactors seem to be the way forward. I suggest reading about them to see their benefits. It's interesting stuff.
Yes, in that they're both open-source video codecs. However Theora's technical abilities are stuck in the late 1990s, whereas Sun's offering hopefully won't be.
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So... FUD much? :) You'd also get your ass handed to you by lawyers, many times over. Heck, even Apple might sue you for using their name in such an unscrupulous ploy. That's hardly educating people, but bullshitting them into doing what you want them to.
Because it's illegal, and I doubt you'd want your machine being turned off by others. It would make more sense to tell the ISPs that their customers are infected, and even tell the customer directly. Being all dickish and holier-than-thou about it isn't going to help anyone, as it just puts folks off listening.
That's a great set-up you've got :) I guess as long as retrieving the important images is acceptable, that'll work fine. One other issue, is you can't use it to tell you something's wrong - you have to find out through other ways, THEN use the stored images to figure out who did it. If the sensitivity was tuned to (admittedly rather specific), and the time was factored in (ie someone going to your mailbox at 2:30am instead of when the postman usually delivers), then it could actually alert you to something happening. Just a thought :)
Wouldn't it make more sense for folks to actively try to make their police forces better? Wouldn't most folks rather have a well-trained, professional police force they can trust, rather than constantly having to be "on duty" themselves? It just strikes me as weird that people actually want to put up with that. I'd rather have the freedom to not have to be my own police force and get on with my own life, as opposed to arming myself and being scared of every knock at the front door. I'm not criticising the US's 2nd amendment stuff, I just think it trades one sort of freedom for another, in a way that's detrimental to actually living, as opposed to feeling "free".
Man-in-the-middle attacks are ALWAYS possible, seeing as unless your phone is directly wired to your email server, there are plenty of men in the middle. Of course, the man in the middle will have to substitute his own key to give the client the encryption it expects, which should raise a flag with the software, as it won't be issued by a trusted source, and won't reflect the real company's information correctly.
The real question is - why have you only started to notice the talk of smartphone threats to companies, now that Apple is the maker in question?
;)
There have been lots of discussions about smartphone-based threats to "enterprise" ever since smartphones first appeared. The fact you call that out now, and phrase it as if it's people attacking Apple, makes a rational person wonder just why you posted that...
"naiveté" - Mac user, much?
So, steal a bottle of vodka = death. Do you live in Saudi Arabia?
Have you thought of using a secondary device to trigger the main camera? One of those passive IR detectors, or even a cheap webcam would do. It sounds like the clarity of the camera is being rather counter-productive judging by the amount of false-positives you're seeing. The quality of the image is only important if you can find it in a timely manner :)
Sorry to ask this, but do you live in the US or Baghdad?
Or just move out of whatever early-90s gangsta cliché movie set you managed to find yourself in.
And also make sure you clear out the MP3 player first. The burglar might get suspicious when the yapping dog starts to serenade him with a perfect rendition of Moon River...
It sounds like the real problem isn't people breaking into homes, but a shitty police force not doing their jobs.
Yeah! We should listen out for the sound of aliens banging rocks together instead :)
That is a POST form, which Google have said they will not mess with.
Of course they could link to a site and make the browser perform a POST. That's trivial. A form and some javascript will do that no problem. They seem to not be doing that because GET forms should be non-destructive, whereas POST forms can be quite destructive.
The Iranians certainly think so...
So it'd be fine if the wheels on your car started to move independently from the steering wheel, as the driver can just use the brakes when that happens?
Back to the robots: the trigger mechanism might also be dodgy, and what if the gun is already being fired when it starts to move?
Idiot.
You're right - if they didn't design the reactor vessel to cool down more than the reaction can heat up in the steady state, then sure, but an integral part of the pebble bed reactor is a vessel that can indeed cool, as this idle temperature is known and not too high.
The pebbles are not impossible to reprocess, just harder. Harder does not mean it doesn't make sense.
Saying they're a waste of time and money shows you've not been keeping up with the research in the area, or indeed their current and proposed uses.
It does if you use the more recent usage of the term, which means the statement invites a further, obvious question.
Aaah pedantry. Lovely stuff.
With Pebble Bed reactors, nuclear power has a great future:
:)
1. Yes, but it's easy to store pebbles (they're sealed in graphite, waterproof, and can just be loaded into barrels and put underground. They're also rather small (the size of a tennis ball).
2. Pebble Bed reactors can't melt down. If they get too hot, they generate less heat, resulting in an abandoned reaction stabilising long before thermal damage can occur in the containment
3. Ignorance will always be a problem
4. Hardly. The level of security at nuclear power plants is ridiculously off the scale. Also, with pebble bed reactors, the pebbles are practically useless for making weapons.
Pebble bed reactors seem to be the way forward. I suggest reading about them to see their benefits. It's interesting stuff.
Yes, in that they're both open-source video codecs. However Theora's technical abilities are stuck in the late 1990s, whereas Sun's offering hopefully won't be.
That seems to be a gpl'd alternative to Flash Media Server, not FLV. FLVs use H263, VP6, and (in beta) H264 as their video codecs.
I'm sure the fact that one of them is married to a slashdot user had nothing to do with it... :)