An applicant must describe the overall security measures and systems that ensure that:
1. only properly authenticated software is loaded and operating the device; and
2. the device is not easily modified to operate with RF parameters outside of the authorization.
The description of the software must address the following questions in the operational description for the device and clearly demonstrate how the device meets the security requirements. While the Commission did not adopt any specific standards, it is suggested that the manufacturers may consider applying existing industry standards for strong security and authentication.
(Usual IANAL applies)
The FCC is only interested in and authorized to prevent RF interference. Basically the FCC wants the manufacturers to put safeguards in place that prevents the device from operating out of its authorized bands and/or cause willful interference to other devices. It didn't ban all firmware modifications. The manufacturer needs to make the radio not operate out of its approved allocations and make a method to ensure that the firmware is modified by authorized individuals using standard authentication methods.
Don't forget the more vague sentences that seem to cover the bots:
Our Site and our Service also is geared to provide you with amusement and entertainment. You agree that some of the features of our Site and our Service are intended to provide entertainment.
The cost of changing all the documents and textbooks that reference that mountain.
Even history textbooks are updated and replaced at regular intervals. More facts are discovered and the textbooks wear out from use. Nothing is forcing anybody into quickly replacing textbooks. It will work itself out.
Teachers can also point out the new name of the mountain. I think they can handle it.
Unless you're the only Comcast customer in a 5 (arbitrary number) mile radius, you are already sharing your bandwidth with others. Your cable modem connects you to a shared data stream.
If you don't have your own router/firewall between your LAN and Comcast's (or anyone else's) cable modem than you are vulnerable.
Want a quick demonstration? Call Comcast with an issue with their builtin router and watch as they are able to reset the passwords on the device and verify that all of the devices on the LAN are able to connect to it.
I kept the Xfinity wireless enabled. I use my own WiFi on my own firewall/router and see the potential of using the WiFi hotspots while traveling as greater than any imagined threats on my LAN.
The demand for linux desktops from Dell isn't high enough to justify selling access via crapware.
The same can't be said for Android. Look at the uninstallable crapware that comes with phones from certain manufacturers. Don't you think the software company paid said phone manufacturer for the opportunity to not only be preinstalled on the phone but also to make it not able to be uninstalled?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Microsoft is only merging onto the limited access highway already paved by the likes of Google, Facebook, and others.
We've already became complacent with allowing "diagnostic data" being sent back to the developers. It's going to be hard to change that attitude now that most people waited until after "the frog was boiled" before realizing that maybe we should be concerned.
Some of us was already waving the caution flag but our concerns were downplayed because others argued that sharing information was a small price to pay for access to free software and services.
I'll be interested in seeing any links you can provide that proves the contrary. It's been repeatedly shown that the increase in BMI has less to do with HFCS or sugar and more to do with increased caloric consumption in general. Over reliance on fast food and poor dietary choices are the leading causes of obesity.
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Eat less sweets and you'll be okay. HFCS is no more dangerous than sugar. The obesity rate has very little to do with HFCS and more to do with increased caloric intake in general.
The thread started with a harsh statement about GPLv3 which leads me to believe that the argument isn't over the software being open sourced but which license is being used.
The other factor being that public institutions are not participants in a educational "free market".
They do not adjust their tuition to take advantage of supply. They increase the tuition to make up for the decline in state funding combined with faculty salary increases (seniority and COL raises).
Unlike private institutions, whenever a state college increases the tuition there is usually pushback from politicians and the state residents. In my particular state they have to account for the resident grant program which gives each high school graduate a small amount of money to spend towards attending a in-state institution and the state educational investment fund where residents prepaid for a four-year education.
You would have a valid point if it weren't for all the for profit "continuing education" mills that charge exorbitant tuition while promising jobs. That is were the bulk of the loan defaults are being generated.
Your supply and demand model doesn't account for cost. Public colleges are still more affordable than the private institutions (accredited non-profit ones) and return the most value for tuition spent. They still need to raise tuition to offset operational expenses which include labor and capital investments like facilities and equipment.
Areas around schools (not on the school property itself) are being turning into constitutional free zones. They have taken the "think of the children" argument to the extreme. In Massachusetts, you can't walk to a friend's house in a Storm Trooper costume because you are carrying something that looks like a gun near school grounds. In Alabama, they are creating a law to ban abortion clinics within 2000 feet of school property so that they can take advantage of all the school property located around towns to close the last remaining clinics.
1. The news report said that the man was walking down the street of he neighborhood near school grounds. If it is like my old neighborhood, there is an elementary school right in the middle of the neighborhood with homes surrounding it.
2. A plastic toy gun doesn't qualify as a dangerous weapon so the above law wouldn't even apply.
A sane person or police officer would check out the situation and simply said there is nothing to worry about.
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The FCC regs linked in the summary above:
(Usual IANAL applies)
The FCC is only interested in and authorized to prevent RF interference. Basically the FCC wants the manufacturers to put safeguards in place that prevents the device from operating out of its authorized bands and/or cause willful interference to other devices. It didn't ban all firmware modifications. The manufacturer needs to make the radio not operate out of its approved allocations and make a method to ensure that the firmware is modified by authorized individuals using standard authentication methods.
You are free to continue to panic if you desire.
Don't forget the more vague sentences that seem to cover the bots:
Even history textbooks are updated and replaced at regular intervals. More facts are discovered and the textbooks wear out from use. Nothing is forcing anybody into quickly replacing textbooks. It will work itself out.
Teachers can also point out the new name of the mountain. I think they can handle it.
While that is technically true, I'd give more precedence to the Alaskans since it is within their state.
Of course it was. That just shows how desperate Ohio is for the attention.
Yes but now they can cover more material since they no longer use scrolls.
Unless you're the only Comcast customer in a 5 (arbitrary number) mile radius, you are already sharing your bandwidth with others. Your cable modem connects you to a shared data stream.
If you don't have your own router/firewall between your LAN and Comcast's (or anyone else's) cable modem than you are vulnerable.
Want a quick demonstration? Call Comcast with an issue with their builtin router and watch as they are able to reset the passwords on the device and verify that all of the devices on the LAN are able to connect to it.
I kept the Xfinity wireless enabled. I use my own WiFi on my own firewall/router and see the potential of using the WiFi hotspots while traveling as greater than any imagined threats on my LAN.
As a fellow embedded engineer, neither do I. Mostly because the hardware engineer sits right next to me at the meetings. ;)
Really it's because we have documentation and engineering processes.
The demand for linux desktops from Dell isn't high enough to justify selling access via crapware.
The same can't be said for Android. Look at the uninstallable crapware that comes with phones from certain manufacturers. Don't you think the software company paid said phone manufacturer for the opportunity to not only be preinstalled on the phone but also to make it not able to be uninstalled?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Microsoft is only merging onto the limited access highway already paved by the likes of Google, Facebook, and others.
We've already became complacent with allowing "diagnostic data" being sent back to the developers. It's going to be hard to change that attitude now that most people waited until after "the frog was boiled" before realizing that maybe we should be concerned.
Some of us was already waving the caution flag but our concerns were downplayed because others argued that sharing information was a small price to pay for access to free software and services.
I'm sure it was said "tongue in cheek".
We used to have this joke flow diagram in our meeting area which basically said (I can't do it justice):
1. Problem with a subsystem?
Hardware engineer: Looks like a software issue.
Software engineer: Looks like a hardware issue.
2. Running out of time?
Hardware engineer: We can emulate this missing hardware function in software.
Software engineer: We didn't need that feature.
TYL that a sphygmomanometer has to be used with a stethoscope when measuring blood pressure.
You should be happy to know that the federal government banned both trans-fat and marijuana.
Based on the currently available evidence, the expert panel concluded that HFCS does not appear to contribute to overweight and obesity any differently than do other energy sources.
I'll be interested in seeing any links you can provide that proves the contrary. It's been repeatedly shown that the increase in BMI has less to do with HFCS or sugar and more to do with increased caloric consumption in general. Over reliance on fast food and poor dietary choices are the leading causes of obesity.
Eat less sweets and you'll be okay. HFCS is no more dangerous than sugar. The obesity rate has very little to do with HFCS and more to do with increased caloric intake in general.
LOL! I stand corrected.
The thread started with a harsh statement about GPLv3 which leads me to believe that the argument isn't over the software being open sourced but which license is being used.
Answering with a reductio ad absurdum isn't helping your argument.
While I agree that "GPLv3 is shit" is a bit harsh, I don't see Apple not adopting GPLv3 for its open source projects as a bad thing.
The other factor being that public institutions are not participants in a educational "free market".
They do not adjust their tuition to take advantage of supply. They increase the tuition to make up for the decline in state funding combined with faculty salary increases (seniority and COL raises).
Unlike private institutions, whenever a state college increases the tuition there is usually pushback from politicians and the state residents. In my particular state they have to account for the resident grant program which gives each high school graduate a small amount of money to spend towards attending a in-state institution and the state educational investment fund where residents prepaid for a four-year education.
You would have a valid point if it weren't for all the for profit "continuing education" mills that charge exorbitant tuition while promising jobs. That is were the bulk of the loan defaults are being generated.
Your supply and demand model doesn't account for cost. Public colleges are still more affordable than the private institutions (accredited non-profit ones) and return the most value for tuition spent. They still need to raise tuition to offset operational expenses which include labor and capital investments like facilities and equipment.
Areas around schools (not on the school property itself) are being turning into constitutional free zones. They have taken the "think of the children" argument to the extreme. In Massachusetts, you can't walk to a friend's house in a Storm Trooper costume because you are carrying something that looks like a gun near school grounds. In Alabama, they are creating a law to ban abortion clinics within 2000 feet of school property so that they can take advantage of all the school property located around towns to close the last remaining clinics.
1. The news report said that the man was walking down the street of he neighborhood near school grounds. If it is like my old neighborhood, there is an elementary school right in the middle of the neighborhood with homes surrounding it.
2. A plastic toy gun doesn't qualify as a dangerous weapon so the above law wouldn't even apply.
A sane person or police officer would check out the situation and simply said there is nothing to worry about.
I know right?
Yep. He took off his sunglasses and said "The crook doesn't have a wing or a prayer" and music from The Who started playing from his iPhone.