Or just automatic bots that auto-revert anything on articles with the edit-comment "Reverted vandalism" or such... with no info on how to contact the human running said bot... Gave up correcting details on pages years ago due to this.
I tried for a while to update various details around oil rigs and sites on the articles and every single one got immediately reverted with "Reverted vandalism" as the automatic reason. Things like changing dates of installation for a living quarters module by 3 months. Article had original planned date but the project got delayed... with automatic bots reverting changes like that how would I trust that other details can get fixed?
"Notability" is a frequently used way to kill content. Somehow they're afraid of 'cluttering' or 'overloading' the wiki with 'useless' information?....
Jeep already had a widely publicized issue that let anyone access the can-bus over the net.
All cars are vulnerable to a local access attack, but some might leave the can-bus accessible to the entertainment system which increases the attack surface significantly... Especially if said system is internet connected.
I observed the admin on an oil rig keep a USB stick in the usb-slot on his KVM for secure/nosecure computer use to "ease data transfer" He was issued one that required him to unlock it to mount, but he found that tedious so he replaced it with one he bought on ebay:p Automount between secure and insecure every time he switched... he saw no issue with this.
I'm required to take 3 weeks off by our labor laws in Norway. That takes the blame away from the worker and puts it on the government as far as the company would be concerned.
I adore KLM as an airline. With 50+ flights and only had issues once I'm fairly happy with how they handle things. The one time it went to shit I missed my second leg flight to the US but got re-booked and handed a stack-o-euros with no mess.
Curse launcher has let you do simple 'add this, add that' type building of packs for a while now. It used to be a shitshow but works decently even for new users these days.
They broke the factory seal on the motherboard box in my bag. Took the board out of the antistatic bag and pulled on components and inspected the heat sinks.. Then chucked it onto a table (it bounced)...
Then they arranged plugs and dildos on the table (Hey, I was visiting a partner:p) and I had the joyful experience of explaining to the young guy doing this what a strap-on harness is for.
Oh did I not mention that this was don in full view of about 500 passengers waiting in line?:p
Not sure why "life in danger" matters all that much.
Putting someone through watching a suicide is sure as hell not ethical in any sense and could very well cause serious harm. Having quite a few friends who struggle with the aftermath of their own attempts at suicide or friend's successful suicides it is not something to take lightly.
I do not find it even remotely close to the 'tasteful side'.
I do not know about you, but one of my main grumps while in school was the dry non-interactive way everything was taught. Doing something where you use what you've learned in other classes to have something 'do' something was fun for me at least.
Middle-school in Norway has "Technology and Design" as a class. One thing they did was design a miniature house (think doll-house sized open-sided) where they built furniture and various 'innards'. As part of this design process they put in electric wiring and switches and designed lamps using LEDs. Soldering was part of this. Another task was building a simple 'water spill sensor' which is a simple sensor using a transistor to switch a LED or buzzer on wire getting wet (wires woven into a piece of paper or cloth)
Students love that shit... It sounds fairly simple stuff but it is such a big break from just sitting at a desk staring at a wall trying to absorb a lesson and not succumb to boredom.
Lego NXTs are also part of this and simple programming gives quite a lot of understanding that can be used later in life.
Except, some of us will never get permission to use R or Matlab in a work environment... And the customer surely would not want to pay for it on their server or client computers.
I hate it, with a passion... but I have frequently seen programs built in C# as stand-alone executables with a config file converted into VBA in an Excel sheet so that it can run on client machines without that scary install called ".NET framework".
Writing a program for turning a rs232 sniffer-file into human readable text is annoying but doable in Excel... Not in ANY way the right tool, but the only tool that did not incur a licensing or maintenance cost (installing any.net or such on a computer counts as a 'cost' in support.. sigh)
Uh, gigabit ethernet uses all 8 wires. A special connector that only works with slower speed would just clutter the market with yet another failed standard..
It is one of the few connectors you can feel in the dark and get the damn plug in the right way on the first try, every time.
Could it be doable to make it a 'flat' connector like HDMI? Sure.. that would lower the 'vertical' footprint, but I am not sure if that would be worth the hassle. It reminds me of the PCMCIA-connector to rj45 converters... *shudder*
If there is something I would like to never have to deal with again is having a bunch of these suckers hanging around waiting to break: http://ep.yimg.com/ay/videowar...
Sounds like they picked ModbusTCP since it is an incredibly easy standard to implement on very cheap devices (think 10 cent microcontrollers). Tons of existing devices support it too so not a bad choice from a technical perspective.. unless you care about security.
Modbus has zero security, why would it? It was built to run on serial lines and the tcp-implementation is for all intents and purposes just using a tcp-socket instead of a serial line to chuck bytes over the line.
It entirely relies on the physical security of the network. The same thing is also true for KNX/EIB-control which is used for building automation all over the world. The issue here is that what used to be secure by being obscure and inside sockets on the wall is now just being extended onto tablets with no thoughts about how people will poke around in the system.
Having 'killed' a building by mistake (typoed a path....tripped all breakers in the building:p) via KNX, I know the lack of security being very real in 'live' environments.
This is not at all new, it has just not been a focus for anyone until fairly recently. Google around for KNX hacks and you'll see plenty of evidence of the shitty systems which are considered "industry standard" for building automation. Sigh.
The issue is not that the data is on a hard-drive. The issue is that the NVRAM of the UEFI is mounted read-write under root, which lets the rm -rf / command wipe it out from NVRAM.
The issue is not that the UEFI data is on any drive, it is that the NVRAM of the UEFI is mounted as a read/write filesystem which gets clobbered by rm-ing /
Yet, for wireless routers encryption is enabled by default for most, and a sticker with the password is put on the physical device. Why not the same for a camera? Not a perfect solution, but a hell of a lot better than the current situation.
A lot of power-hungry titles tend to get great boosts in performance after a few weeks to a few months after release as the GPU-drivers get optimized for the game.
Just look at the release notes of the latest nVidia or AMD drivers and you'll see a bunch of "Game X sees ##% increased performance in single GPU configurations" etc.
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Or just automatic bots that auto-revert anything on articles with the edit-comment "Reverted vandalism" or such... with no info on how to contact the human running said bot... Gave up correcting details on pages years ago due to this.
I tried for a while to update various details around oil rigs and sites on the articles and every single one got immediately reverted with "Reverted vandalism" as the automatic reason.
Things like changing dates of installation for a living quarters module by 3 months. Article had original planned date but the project got delayed... with automatic bots reverting changes like that how would I trust that other details can get fixed?
"Notability" is a frequently used way to kill content. Somehow they're afraid of 'cluttering' or 'overloading' the wiki with 'useless' information?....
Jeep already had a widely publicized issue that let anyone access the can-bus over the net.
All cars are vulnerable to a local access attack, but some might leave the can-bus accessible to the entertainment system which increases the attack surface significantly... Especially if said system is internet connected.
The "secure" system was winxp. We were fucked all around :p
I observed the admin on an oil rig keep a USB stick in the usb-slot on his KVM for secure/nosecure computer use to "ease data transfer" :p
He was issued one that required him to unlock it to mount, but he found that tedious so he replaced it with one he bought on ebay
Automount between secure and insecure every time he switched... he saw no issue with this.
Glad that shit is illegal in Norway.
I'm required to take 3 weeks off by our labor laws in Norway.
That takes the blame away from the worker and puts it on the government as far as the company would be concerned.
Then again, the concept of a "joint vacation period" or "Fellesferien" is a thing here: http://articles.latimes.com/20...
Especially nice if you travel a lot... insert into hotel TV and boooom
I adore KLM as an airline. With 50+ flights and only had issues once I'm fairly happy with how they handle things.
The one time it went to shit I missed my second leg flight to the US but got re-booked and handed a stack-o-euros with no mess.
Curse launcher has let you do simple 'add this, add that' type building of packs for a while now.
It used to be a shitshow but works decently even for new users these days.
They broke the factory seal on the motherboard box in my bag.
Took the board out of the antistatic bag and pulled on components and inspected the heat sinks..
Then chucked it onto a table (it bounced)...
Then they arranged plugs and dildos on the table (Hey, I was visiting a partner :p) and I had the joyful experience of explaining to the young guy doing this what a strap-on harness is for.
Oh did I not mention that this was don in full view of about 500 passengers waiting in line? :p
The constant "Homg lern 2 deal nubs" crud thrown around about "all these weak people" with regard to mental health is so incredibly frustrating.
Fucking with someone's psyche should not be so easily dismissed. Destroying someone's life is no joke :(
Not sure why "life in danger" matters all that much.
Putting someone through watching a suicide is sure as hell not ethical in any sense and could very well cause serious harm.
Having quite a few friends who struggle with the aftermath of their own attempts at suicide or friend's successful suicides it is not something to take lightly.
I do not find it even remotely close to the 'tasteful side'.
I do not know about you, but one of my main grumps while in school was the dry non-interactive way everything was taught.
Doing something where you use what you've learned in other classes to have something 'do' something was fun for me at least.
Middle-school in Norway has "Technology and Design" as a class. One thing they did was design a miniature house (think doll-house sized open-sided) where they built furniture and various 'innards'. As part of this design process they put in electric wiring and switches and designed lamps using LEDs. Soldering was part of this.
Another task was building a simple 'water spill sensor' which is a simple sensor using a transistor to switch a LED or buzzer on wire getting wet (wires woven into a piece of paper or cloth)
Students love that shit... It sounds fairly simple stuff but it is such a big break from just sitting at a desk staring at a wall trying to absorb a lesson and not succumb to boredom.
Lego NXTs are also part of this and simple programming gives quite a lot of understanding that can be used later in life.
Except, some of us will never get permission to use R or Matlab in a work environment... And the customer surely would not want to pay for it on their server or client computers.
I hate it, with a passion... but I have frequently seen programs built in C# as stand-alone executables with a config file converted into VBA in an Excel sheet so that it can run on client machines without that scary install called ".NET framework".
Writing a program for turning a rs232 sniffer-file into human readable text is annoying but doable in Excel... Not in ANY way the right tool, but the only tool that did not incur a licensing or maintenance cost (installing any .net or such on a computer counts as a 'cost' in support.. sigh)
*grumps*
Uh, gigabit ethernet uses all 8 wires. A special connector that only works with slower speed would just clutter the market with yet another failed standard..
It is one of the few connectors you can feel in the dark and get the damn plug in the right way on the first try, every time.
Could it be doable to make it a 'flat' connector like HDMI? Sure.. that would lower the 'vertical' footprint, but I am not sure if that would be worth the hassle.
It reminds me of the PCMCIA-connector to rj45 converters... *shudder*
If there is something I would like to never have to deal with again is having a bunch of these suckers hanging around waiting to break:
http://ep.yimg.com/ay/videowar...
Sounds like they picked ModbusTCP since it is an incredibly easy standard to implement on very cheap devices (think 10 cent microcontrollers).
Tons of existing devices support it too so not a bad choice from a technical perspective.. unless you care about security.
Modbus has zero security, why would it? It was built to run on serial lines and the tcp-implementation is for all intents and purposes just using a tcp-socket instead of a serial line to chuck bytes over the line.
It entirely relies on the physical security of the network.
The same thing is also true for KNX/EIB-control which is used for building automation all over the world. The issue here is that what used to be secure by being obscure and inside sockets on the wall is now just being extended onto tablets with no thoughts about how people will poke around in the system.
Having 'killed' a building by mistake (typoed a path....tripped all breakers in the building :p) via KNX, I know the lack of security being very real in 'live' environments.
This is not at all new, it has just not been a focus for anyone until fairly recently.
Google around for KNX hacks and you'll see plenty of evidence of the shitty systems which are considered "industry standard" for building automation. Sigh.
Cost most likely. Or an oblivious implementer.
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.c...
Works a treat :p
The issue is not that the data is on a hard-drive. The issue is that the NVRAM of the UEFI is mounted read-write under root, which lets the rm -rf / command wipe it out from NVRAM.
The issue is not that the UEFI data is on any drive, it is that the NVRAM of the UEFI is mounted as a read/write filesystem which gets clobbered by rm-ing /
Yet, for wireless routers encryption is enabled by default for most, and a sticker with the password is put on the physical device.
Why not the same for a camera?
Not a perfect solution, but a hell of a lot better than the current situation.
A lot of power-hungry titles tend to get great boosts in performance after a few weeks to a few months after release as the GPU-drivers get optimized for the game.
Just look at the release notes of the latest nVidia or AMD drivers and you'll see a bunch of "Game X sees ##% increased performance in single GPU configurations" etc.