The article's talking about something a little different tho (the US already has number plate recognition), which seems to be that the plates themselves are able track vehicles (so not just where the number plate cameras are)
Two screens to display your car's registration? That seems a bit OTT! I always thought the licence plate expiry thing was also a massive hassle, in the UK cars have permanent plates, registration is simply stored by the DVLA (DMV equivilent) and to show you've paid your road tax you stick a small paper disk on your windscreen
It's a great money saving tip for sure, but bolting an unmodified Foxtech Falcon camera stabiliser to a set of handles isn't really a DIY camera stabilization system. From the title I was hoping for something built from an arduino and some old hard drive actuators:)
I don't get it, if the malware has the ability to "exploit vulnerabilities in Google’s mobile operating system to extend the application’s permissions on the infected device" then why does it need to ask for a bunch of obviously suspicious permissions?
Seems like whatever vulnerability they're discovered must be relatively minor or they wouldn't need to ask for any additional permissions.
Except some random/. poster questioning whether people at NASA know software management, development and unit testing well enough probably does have a point while someone questioning whether people at NASA know that asteroids rotate is probably talking out of their own asteroid.
Over-confident management resulting in lack of thoroughness and repeatedly ignoring warnings is nothing like not knowing basic things about astro-physics.
You know what you're doing in your comment? It's called assuming.
You know what the previous poster was doing in their comment? It's called "assuming these researchers, who have probably spent years/decades in space science, don't know that asteroids rotate".
What, you think someone smart enough to design a mission to intercept an asteroid with an impactor and hit that crater with a nuke wouldn't know to take the spin into account?
All this study was doing is working out whether the idea would work, not designing a complete mission profile for a specific asteroid.
Yes and no. If the download records isn't enough to convict - too bad. Encrypted data are private by every standard no matter what they can decode to. This is analogous to copy protection.
Everything else is searchable with an appropriate warrant, why should encrypted data be any different?
How did you manage that? Reading reviews the price of the CPU and GeForce alone should have been at least $350, and that's without the cost of the motherboard or ram.
And how are you going to network or add storage to that without Arduino's network/storage shields? Sure I suppose you could have hand-built an entire micro-controller based computer that ran on less power if you were really desperate (don't forget to include the power requirements of the extra components btw).
What about the wildly varying PC speeds? The Xeon score from your source seems unrealistically low, and the PIII score I found should be roughly the same as a Celeron 800 (at least for the CPU metrics)
I don't trust those figures at all; First of all I can also pull a result of 86.0 and 62.3 for the RPi (which is it?). Secondly in the same source as the Celeron result there is also a 3 ghz Xeon that only gets a score of 160.8. I can find an 866mhz PIII that scores 198, which given that's almost 4x faster than your quoted result for an 800mhz Celeron (and faster even than a 3ghz Xeon) makes the figures you're using seem suspect.
Source? The figures I've linked seem to be as like for like as possible and both Celerons listed are getting similar performance to PII and PIIIs of the same clockspeed (so are likely the Pentium based cores rather than new more modern cores).
Still basing the "quality" of the CPU on clock speed I see.
You should do some basic research before posting, it's well known that ARM11 doesn't compete well on a per-mhz basis with even older chips. Don't take my word for it tho:
Slashdot Mirror
"Police-enforced ANPR in the UK
The article's talking about something a little different tho (the US already has number plate recognition), which seems to be that the plates themselves are able track vehicles (so not just where the number plate cameras are)
Two screens to display your car's registration? That seems a bit OTT! I always thought the licence plate expiry thing was also a massive hassle, in the UK cars have permanent plates, registration is simply stored by the DVLA (DMV equivilent) and to show you've paid your road tax you stick a small paper disk on your windscreen
It seems to me this is a bit of a solution looking for a problem as there are already 2 very good ways of telling someone else your location:
1) "Meet me at starbucks on whereever street."
2) Click your GPS location in google maps etc. and select the share option.
So, the announcement 6 years ago that they were fully supporting open source drivers and documentation is finally coming to fruition?
But poor website security does affect its users as well as the site owner...
It's a great money saving tip for sure, but bolting an unmodified Foxtech Falcon camera stabiliser to a set of handles isn't really a DIY camera stabilization system. From the title I was hoping for something built from an arduino and some old hard drive actuators :)
I can't decide who's stupider, him or anyone who believes him.
Actually, no, it's definitely anyone who believes him.
It's not going to happen, but a single checkbox in the settings would do:
[ ] Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
I don't get it, if the malware has the ability to "exploit vulnerabilities in Google’s mobile operating system to extend the application’s permissions on the infected device" then why does it need to ask for a bunch of obviously suspicious permissions?
Seems like whatever vulnerability they're discovered must be relatively minor or they wouldn't need to ask for any additional permissions.
Can you show a single previous instance of Apple suing a security researcher? I certainly can't find anything.
Except some random /. poster questioning whether people at NASA know software management, development and unit testing well enough probably does have a point while someone questioning whether people at NASA know that asteroids rotate is probably talking out of their own asteroid.
Failure of management culture (which was the root cause of Mars Climate Orbiter) is not the same as "no-one else knowing that asteroids rotate".
Over-confident management resulting in lack of thoroughness and repeatedly ignoring warnings is nothing like not knowing basic things about astro-physics.
You know what you're doing in your comment? It's called assuming.
You know what the previous poster was doing in their comment? It's called "assuming these researchers, who have probably spent years/decades in space science, don't know that asteroids rotate".
Rocket scientists have managed to aim spacecraft to very specific points on spinning bodies before, I'm sure they'll manage.
What, you think someone smart enough to design a mission to intercept an asteroid with an impactor and hit that crater with a nuke wouldn't know to take the spin into account?
All this study was doing is working out whether the idea would work, not designing a complete mission profile for a specific asteroid.
Yes and no. If the download records isn't enough to convict - too bad. Encrypted data are private by every standard no matter what they can decode to. This is analogous to copy protection.
Everything else is searchable with an appropriate warrant, why should encrypted data be any different?
How did you manage that? Reading reviews the price of the CPU and GeForce alone should have been at least $350, and that's without the cost of the motherboard or ram.
And how are you going to network or add storage to that without Arduino's network/storage shields? Sure I suppose you could have hand-built an entire micro-controller based computer that ran on less power if you were really desperate (don't forget to include the power requirements of the extra components btw).
What about the wildly varying PC speeds? The Xeon score from your source seems unrealistically low, and the PIII score I found should be roughly the same as a Celeron 800 (at least for the CPU metrics)
I don't trust those figures at all; First of all I can also pull a result of 86.0 and 62.3 for the RPi (which is it?). Secondly in the same source as the Celeron result there is also a 3 ghz Xeon that only gets a score of 160.8. I can find an 866mhz PIII that scores 198, which given that's almost 4x faster than your quoted result for an 800mhz Celeron (and faster even than a 3ghz Xeon) makes the figures you're using seem suspect.
Source? The figures I've linked seem to be as like for like as possible and both Celerons listed are getting similar performance to PII and PIIIs of the same clockspeed (so are likely the Pentium based cores rather than new more modern cores).
Still basing the "quality" of the CPU on clock speed I see.
You should do some basic research before posting, it's well known that ARM11 doesn't compete well on a per-mhz basis with even older chips. Don't take my word for it tho:
Whetstone
Celeron 733mhz: 598 MWIPS, 185 MFLOP, 162 MFLOP, 116 MFLOP
ARM 11 700mhz: 270.5 MWIPS, 97.8 MFLOP, 100.8 MFLOP, 85.7 MFLOP
Dhrystone
Celeron 450mhz: 720 VAX MIPS
ARM 11 700mhz: 847 VAX MIPS
Good luck doing that in 2001 (FYI Arduino was released in 2005).
its not even a 500$ system in 2001 dumbshit
O RLY? HP Pavilion 6835; better CPU, less ram and considerably worse 3D acceleration compared to the Pi. Price was $699 without a monitor in 2001.