I work for a large multinational in the human capital management space and we let a select number our customers do penetration testing. Our customers range from Fortune 500 to government agencies in the US and EU. It is not an unheard of practice, and I would argue it is quite common for these requests to come up, especially during contract negotiations.
My little firm can't afford stuff like that. So we outsource our testing to China and Russia - they charge a lot less.
Seems like they're always falling over each other to try and accommodate us.
You don't even need to go that far to spoof this sort of surveillance.
1. Collect DNA from hundreds or thousands of humans, animals, plants from your local sewage plant or equivalent. 2. Clear off the icky parts, do a bulk DNA purification that can be done with kitchen chemistry. Much easier than making meth. 3. Freeze dry the stuff 4. Package in convenient creme, aerosol or get (bonus points for 'sporty scent') 5. Sell in local stores as 'natural health aid' - bypasses difficult FDA or DEA regulatory requirements* 6. Sprinkle on before attempted crime or just twice a day along with your tin foil change (you DO change your tin foil regularly, yes?)
7. Profit! **
* in USA only, Depending on status of lawmaking and regulatory agencies, YMMV. Not valid in the Eurozone. ** Patent Pending as soon as we figure out how to do this on a computer.
Really. For all the issues with GoPro's firmware (and they are legion), this really doesn't rise above the background. If you are using a WiFi enabled GoPro for anything resembling a secure system, you are doing something very wrong.
And, these days, there are more USB charging ports than expresso stands. You can charge your cell phone from your car, your laptop, any handy wall outlet, the sun and likely from the extra calories in your Big Mac in a few years. The use case for easily replaceable batteries is pretty weak.
SD expansion is only an issue if you don't get enough memory in the first place. Sure, there are edge cases and folks around here are edgier than most - but for the vast majority of cell phone users, these simply aren't very important issues.
There is limited evidence of combustion. You can have an explosion from rapidly expanding gases without any sort of ignition. Some reindeer herders supposedly saw 'flashes' but it is certainly unclear if these were due to a methane ignition, the aurora borealis or just too much fermented lichen.
Why aren't you feeding the poor instead of posting on Slashdot? Isn't that the most important thing? You could have given some well deserved, undernourished child one of your twinkies. Oh wait, the child lives in some stinking desert without a functioning water well in five miles.
Or maybe we could use some of the earth sensing satellites (created by those self same hair-brains) to map out artesian flows and show people on the ground where an inexpensive well could be dug. Or we could give the kid a vaccine (developed by that same complex and expensive infrastructure created by those hair-brains) to keep him healthy so he can go to school and break out of the cycle of fear, anger and misuse that characterizes his world.
Or perhaps not - the world is a complex and often ugly place. Quite a bit more complex than your apparent world view, I won't comment on whether or not your view is particularly unattractive but I'm damned sure glad I don't feel that way.
Sure it is. That's how you concentrate things. Probably wasn't the first thing life did - replication has to happen first, but it was an early (and energetically favorable) change.
The limitations of the existing manufacturing technologies really aren't in the realm of designing new parts or putting them together. It's keeping them together after the thing has been spinning for a couple thousand hours. Computerized CNC is a well advanced, constantly improving technology that works pretty well. You just don't slap a new turbine spindle in an engine and blast down the runway - you have to test it for hundreds of hours before you even put it under the wing.
So 3D 'printing' (which isn't really what this technique is) won't get you out of design and test any faster. It probably won't even help you create a one off part for an older engine - if you have drawings detailed enough to print it, you have drawings detailed enough to mill it.
Next thing you know, we're going to be printing jet engines on the Internet.....
If this guy had the technology to repair severed spinal cords, he'd already be a Nobel candidate. It is one of the Holy Grails of neurology / neurosurgery. Think of all the paraplegics and quadriplegics you could rescue using those techniques.
Millions of rats have died trying to get us that information.
Slashdot Mirror
How can a country that hosts so many of the world's call centers still have no idea how the internet works?
Well, if their understanding of Microsoft Windows support is any guide ...
I work for a large multinational in the human capital management space and we let a select number our customers do penetration testing. Our customers range from Fortune 500 to government agencies in the US and EU. It is not an unheard of practice, and I would argue it is quite common for these requests to come up, especially during contract negotiations.
My little firm can't afford stuff like that. So we outsource our testing to China and Russia - they charge a lot less.
Seems like they're always falling over each other to try and accommodate us.
Yes, but now that '50 Shades of Grey' is out, can you imagine what the producers would have wanted to do with a title like that?
I think too many journeys through the Time Portal (aka Scotch Whiskey) really fries the old brain cells.
And once he really tried to think through cats and women he just lost it. Therein lies madness.
Enlightened self interested wins every time.
Between Curiosity and Rosetta we seem to be in an age of Space Selfies.
And they say that robots don't take after their creators....
This is a sterling indictment on the state of either autocorrect, non-physical keyboards or the dangers of using bath salts.
My head asplode.
You don't even need to go that far to spoof this sort of surveillance.
1. Collect DNA from hundreds or thousands of humans, animals, plants from your local sewage plant or equivalent.
2. Clear off the icky parts, do a bulk DNA purification that can be done with kitchen chemistry. Much easier than making meth.
3. Freeze dry the stuff
4. Package in convenient creme, aerosol or get (bonus points for 'sporty scent')
5. Sell in local stores as 'natural health aid' - bypasses difficult FDA or DEA regulatory requirements*
6. Sprinkle on before attempted crime or just twice a day along with your tin foil change (you DO change your tin foil regularly, yes?)
7. Profit! **
* in USA only, Depending on status of lawmaking and regulatory agencies, YMMV. Not valid in the Eurozone.
** Patent Pending as soon as we figure out how to do this on a computer.
Really. For all the issues with GoPro's firmware (and they are legion), this really doesn't rise above the background. If you are using a WiFi enabled GoPro for anything resembling a secure system, you are doing something very wrong.
It's a good thing you're not a script writer. You're no fun at all.
"Beam me up, Scotty'
We have a ways to go yet.
Murphy was an optimist.
And, these days, there are more USB charging ports than expresso stands. You can charge your cell phone from your car, your laptop, any handy wall outlet, the sun and likely from the extra calories in your Big Mac in a few years. The use case for easily replaceable batteries is pretty weak.
SD expansion is only an issue if you don't get enough memory in the first place. Sure, there are edge cases and folks around here are edgier than most - but for the vast majority of cell phone users, these simply aren't very important issues.
Now, decent keyboards - that's another story...
Your conspiracy theory only makes sense if you know absolutely nothing at all about what's actually going on.
That's the very best kind of conspiracy theory.
As is true in real estate, the quality of life depends largely on your neighborhood.
Don't over think this one.
What good is a Doomsday device if nobody knows about?
There is limited evidence of combustion. You can have an explosion from rapidly expanding gases without any sort of ignition. Some reindeer herders supposedly saw 'flashes' but it is certainly unclear if these were due to a methane ignition, the aurora borealis or just too much fermented lichen.
But it's pretty amusing to the rest of us.
So, it's a Hamster Habitrail with magnets?
Why aren't you feeding the poor instead of posting on Slashdot? Isn't that the most important thing? You could have given some well deserved, undernourished child one of your twinkies. Oh wait, the child lives in some stinking desert without a functioning water well in five miles.
Or maybe we could use some of the earth sensing satellites (created by those self same hair-brains) to map out artesian flows and show people on the ground where an inexpensive well could be dug. Or we could give the kid a vaccine (developed by that same complex and expensive infrastructure created by those hair-brains) to keep him healthy so he can go to school and break out of the cycle of fear, anger and misuse that characterizes his world.
Or perhaps not - the world is a complex and often ugly place. Quite a bit more complex than your apparent world view, I won't comment on whether or not your view is particularly unattractive but I'm damned sure glad I don't feel that way.
Sure it is. That's how you concentrate things. Probably wasn't the first thing life did - replication has to happen first, but it was an early (and energetically favorable) change.
How'd we get into Google fiber?
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but whips and chains excite me.
(I suppose fiber would be a pretty kinky whip, at least to AT&T, Time-Warner and the rest of those perverts.)
The limitations of the existing manufacturing technologies really aren't in the realm of designing new parts or putting them together. It's keeping them together after the thing has been spinning for a couple thousand hours. Computerized CNC is a well advanced, constantly improving technology that works pretty well. You just don't slap a new turbine spindle in an engine and blast down the runway - you have to test it for hundreds of hours before you even put it under the wing.
So 3D 'printing' (which isn't really what this technique is) won't get you out of design and test any faster. It probably won't even help you create a one off part for an older engine - if you have drawings detailed enough to print it, you have drawings detailed enough to mill it.
Next thing you know, we're going to be printing jet engines on the Internet.....
If this guy had the technology to repair severed spinal cords, he'd already be a Nobel candidate. It is one of the Holy Grails of neurology / neurosurgery. Think of all the paraplegics and quadriplegics you could rescue using those techniques.
Millions of rats have died trying to get us that information.