It won't take a lot of people doing it - just one or two - to clobber a nascent technology. Security is going to be a big issue for autonomous vehicles. Not so much concerning 'terrorist' activities, but much more mundane things: theft, delivering drugs or other interesting packages and a host of other felonies and misdemeanors.
Of course the FBI is going to order stuff they think is useful. And they're going to cover it in the usual law and order gloss. Not that I think stingrays are the best way to spend money, but one does assume that organized crime is also going to look at the chaos triggered by the hurricane in order to do more of whatever it is that they usually do. Therefore the FBI needs to be prepared.
And the will likely use cell phones. Hence the stingrays.
If you look closer, you will undoubtedly find that every Federal agency used Katrina as an excuse to order all sorts of useful toys.
You can get the bits for a backup camera for about $50 on Amazon or ebay. Wireless transmitters make it so you don't even have to snake cable. You can even customize it so you get multiple cameras!
If you're electronically declined, I'm sure that there are car stereo installers who do this. It's so trivial it's not funny.
This sort of thing feeds into the TSA mentality - search everyone everywhere every time. And then it will feed into the NRA mantra of everyone being armed everywhere every time.
When the truth of the matter is we just need more trained people. Everyone to boot camp!
The U.K. didn't get through to them. Oracle has lured them deeper into the cave. This will end up costing them way more than they had hoped.
Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor! For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it... and lived! BONES of full fifty men lie *strewn* about its lair! So! Brave knights! If you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth...
And yet, we manage to keep the signal over the noise despite that.
We do? I come here to practice looking for intelligent patterns in the signal so I can better do my day job of listening for intelligent life at the Arecibo dish.
This is absolutely the best way we have for growing our next generation of politicians and advertising professionals.
Are you kidding? If Google, er, Alphabet could grow thousands of advertising managers in a vat instead of waiting 20+ years, we'd be farking swamped with adverts everywhere.
Not to mention the number of tiny brained politicians vying for TV time.
If you read the ARS article on this, you would see that:
"In responses to FCC investigators, Smart City later revealed it "automatically transmitted deauthentication frames to prevent Wi-Fi users whose devices produced a received signal strength above a present power level at Smart City access points from establishing or maintaining a Wi-Fi network independent of Smart City's network," according to a consent decree filed in the case."
Last I checked, the popular activity is "halt and cook", where the malicious party overrides the normal print procedure so that the paper stops in the toner-bake stage and continues to cook there. Maybe a nearby employee will notice the smell before it sets off a smoke alarm, but even if the firmware is replaced, the mechanical components and heating element in the printer are usually done for.
Did you know that the majority of Slashdot readers are the kind of isolated individuals with a high technical competence the kind of which are recruited by IS?
And he was pretty much spot on. The Boeing 777, the various Aibuses (Airbusi?), the LHC all owe quite a bit to the management structures developed for Apollo. Our ability to organize tens of thousand of human beings doing very complex things (not just picking up rocks in one place and dropping them in another) really took a big jump during Apollo.
And then jumped a couple of steps back when Gantt charts became popular, but that's another story.
And electrical panels on FTL starships don't explode in sparks every time somebody rams into the hull. And cars don't blow up in huge fireballs every time they roll over in slow motion. And Micheal Bay's special effects budget is bigger than NASA's entire operation.
You make it sound as if some journals employ experts on the topic of the journal. I don't believe that is true. The peer reviewers are volunteers who also publish in the field.
"Volunteers who publish in the field" would be a reasonable definition of an expert, especially in the narrow and esoteric fields where many scientific articles live.
Stethoscopes don't need to be 'tested' much. You hear stuff or not. They're not FDA approved.
We've have cheap stethoscopes that work pretty well for ages. The big deal with the Littman Cardiology scopes is that they are built like tanks and you can get replacement bits for them. MRIs use plastic stethoscopes in the MRI suite because metal ones have this annoying tendency to get rocketed into the 1 Tesla magnet at inopportune times. They cost a couple of bucks.
I'm glad they've solved their problem with a 3D printer. They could have just as well solved it with knowing a good Chinese supplier.
And pulse oximeters / EKGs - good luck with that. First off you can buy a good pulse ox for about $15, retail. I'll bet you can get them for half price in bulk. And you can buy a used, serviceable EKG for $50-100 - the big costs being the thermal paper they use.
Geez, next big thing will be a 3D printed gizmo connected to the Internet....
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It won't take a lot of people doing it - just one or two - to clobber a nascent technology. Security is going to be a big issue for autonomous vehicles. Not so much concerning 'terrorist' activities, but much more mundane things: theft, delivering drugs or other interesting packages and a host of other felonies and misdemeanors.
Perhaps not, however it does remind me of my first six months in the college dorm.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Of course the FBI is going to order stuff they think is useful. And they're going to cover it in the usual law and order gloss. Not that I think stingrays are the best way to spend money, but one does assume that organized crime is also going to look at the chaos triggered by the hurricane in order to do more of whatever it is that they usually do. Therefore the FBI needs to be prepared.
And the will likely use cell phones. Hence the stingrays.
If you look closer, you will undoubtedly find that every Federal agency used Katrina as an excuse to order all sorts of useful toys.
You can get the bits for a backup camera for about $50 on Amazon or ebay. Wireless transmitters make it so you don't even have to snake cable. You can even customize it so you get multiple cameras!
If you're electronically declined, I'm sure that there are car stereo installers who do this. It's so trivial it's not funny.
Daddy!
Junior has two radio modules and I only have one!
No fair! No fair!
But then you have to think about what the codes mean. You don't have a 'certified mechanic' to interpret things for you.
The horror.
Just what older cars need: An add-on exploitable wireless security hole that you pay fifteen bucks a month for. Thanks, Verizon!
Look, you can't have a Panopticon if you can't monitor everybody.
Why do you hate America?
The Universe is a non-profit organization.
The second law of thermodynamics:
1) You have to play the game.
2) You can't win.
3) You can't even break even
Hell, somebody is getting ahead here, it sure ain't me.
Happy?
This sort of thing feeds into the TSA mentality - search everyone everywhere every time. And then it will feed into the NRA mantra of everyone being armed everywhere every time.
When the truth of the matter is we just need more trained people. Everyone to boot camp!
The U.K. didn't get through to them. Oracle has lured them deeper into the cave. This will end up costing them way more than they had hoped.
Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor! For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it... and lived! BONES of full fifty men lie *strewn* about its lair! So! Brave knights! If you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth...
And yet, we manage to keep the signal over the noise despite that.
We do? I come here to practice looking for intelligent patterns in the signal so I can better do my day job of listening for intelligent life at the Arecibo dish.
Keeps me on my toes.
This is absolutely the best way we have for growing our next generation of politicians and advertising professionals.
Are you kidding? If Google, er, Alphabet could grow thousands of advertising managers in a vat instead of waiting 20+ years, we'd be farking swamped with adverts everywhere.
Not to mention the number of tiny brained politicians vying for TV time.
Do. Not. Want.
If you read the ARS article on this, you would see that:
"In responses to FCC investigators, Smart City later revealed it "automatically transmitted deauthentication frames to prevent Wi-Fi users whose devices produced a received signal strength above a present power level at Smart City access points from establishing or maintaining a Wi-Fi network independent of Smart City's network," according to a consent decree filed in the case."
Last I checked, the popular activity is "halt and cook", where the malicious party overrides the normal print procedure so that the paper stops in the toner-bake stage and continues to cook there. Maybe a nearby employee will notice the smell before it sets off a smoke alarm, but even if the firmware is replaced, the mechanical components and heating element in the printer are usually done for.
lp0 on fire!
There exists an explicit right to keep and bare arms..
I should rather hope so. Although muscle shirts aren't my thing at all, whatever floats your boat.
Five horses then.
Four Horses. Of the Apocalypse.
Nobody is going to fuck with you.
Did you know that the majority of Slashdot readers are the kind of isolated individuals with a high technical competence the kind of which are recruited by IS?
High technical competence? This place?
How the mighty have fallen....
What is even more maddening is that the governments of Western democracies are, in fact, The People.
Look honey, an optimist! How adorable.
And he was pretty much spot on. The Boeing 777, the various Aibuses (Airbusi?), the LHC all owe quite a bit to the management structures developed for Apollo. Our ability to organize tens of thousand of human beings doing very complex things (not just picking up rocks in one place and dropping them in another) really took a big jump during Apollo.
And then jumped a couple of steps back when Gantt charts became popular, but that's another story.
And electrical panels on FTL starships don't explode in sparks every time somebody rams into the hull. And cars don't blow up in huge fireballs every time they roll over in slow motion. And Micheal Bay's special effects budget is bigger than NASA's entire operation.
Geez guy, have some empathy. It's the movies.
People are really high on the food chain. Similar to swordfish and sharks, humans tend to accumulate high concentrations of heavy metals.
No wonder people are so dense most of the time.
You make it sound as if some journals employ experts on the topic of the journal. I don't believe that is true. The peer reviewers are volunteers who also publish in the field.
"Volunteers who publish in the field" would be a reasonable definition of an expert, especially in the narrow and esoteric fields where many scientific articles live.
Stethoscopes don't need to be 'tested' much. You hear stuff or not. They're not FDA approved.
We've have cheap stethoscopes that work pretty well for ages. The big deal with the Littman Cardiology scopes is that they are built like tanks and you can get replacement bits for them. MRIs use plastic stethoscopes in the MRI suite because metal ones have this annoying tendency to get rocketed into the 1 Tesla magnet at inopportune times. They cost a couple of bucks.
I'm glad they've solved their problem with a 3D printer. They could have just as well solved it with knowing a good Chinese supplier.
And pulse oximeters / EKGs - good luck with that. First off you can buy a good pulse ox for about $15, retail. I'll bet you can get them for half price in bulk. And you can buy a used, serviceable EKG for $50-100 - the big costs being the thermal paper they use.
Geez, next big thing will be a 3D printed gizmo connected to the Internet....
When you wear a tux, you look like a dork. Cufflinks or no.