Er, why store ALL of it where hackers can get to it at all?
I see the day when companies store sensitive customer-provided info in a "near-line" data warehouse which has a small, carefully-controlled, carefully monitored data-pipe to their other systems.
When one of their main systems needs data for a specific customer, it asks for it and in most cases, it will get it, use it, then purge it.
But if too much data is being "pulled" from the "near-line" data store in too short a time, or if data is being pulled with unusual patterns, then alarms will go off and people trained in security will get involved.
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I also see the day where data from "inactive" customers - those who aren't likely to order anytime soon - have their data in offline storage which requires manual action to retrieve - basically, the modern-day version of a locked file cabinet.
Some of your points are well-taken, but I think you are mistaken in a few cases.
* Safe deposit box scales by size. A box that is twice as big can store twice as many pieces of currency.
* the reasons large cash transactions are under scrutiny is that *typically* money-launderers and drug dealers prefer them. Why do they prefer them? Because if they used banks or some other form of easy-to-trace means of conducting business, the odds of them getting caught would go way up. If I buy something as expensive as a brand new mid-priced car with a check or domestic bank wire, there's no extra paperwork. If I buy it with cash, I'll have to fill out a bunch of paperwork explaining why I got the cash, and if the person I'm buying from has any real suspicion that I'm lying, he risks jail time if he doesn't report me. Even if his suspicions are unfounded, odds are that the police will hold the cash until they decide there isn't enough evidence of a crime to get a conviction, and that's assuming the police are honest (if they are corrupt, well, as you said, corrupt cops can get you even with electronic money). With a bank transfer, there's no special reporting requirement (on the other hand, if I made cash deposits to the bank, either as one large deposit or as a series of not-quite-big-enough-to-report deposits, the bank would be required to have me fill out paperwork and, if they thought I was lying, call the police).
Bottom line:
Whether a particular user or a particular transaction is best served by using cash, traceable electronic money, hard(er)-to-trace electronic money (money orders or Western Union), hard-to-trace/decentrailized public-ledger systems like BitCoin is supposed to be, or a centrally-controlled, presumably-easy-to-trace electronic-ledger system like the one proposed, is going to vary from person to person and transaction to transaction.
For the sake of simplicity I'm leaving out systems like direct barter or systems where a physical good, such as gold, an unopened pack of cigarettes (WWII), diamonds, or even a person's unwritten promise of future payment ("my word is my bond") is used as a medium of exchange. For some people and for some transactions, these and a myriad of other options may be the best option.
For people who typically deposit large sums of money in bank accounts (as opposed to investing in money markets, bonds, or stocks), even a very small "negative interest rate" is less costly than having the money in suitcases, in a private vault, or in a bank's safe-deposit box.
Keeping and using large amounts of paper currency has costs:
You have to pay storage costs, which can range from zero (in your wallet or mattress, or in a safe you already own) to a modest one-time cost (a fireproof safe in your house) to a recurring expense (renting a bank safe-deposit box).
You have to insure it against theft and destruction (or accept the risk of not insuring it, which may be fine if it's in a safe-deposit box or the maximum loss is small).
You have to accept the risk of it suddenly becoming temporarily inaccessible (if it's in a safe in your house and you are at work, and there's an emergency in your neighborhood and they aren't letting anyone in including residents, then it's "temporarily inaccessible").
For large transactions, you have to accept the inconvenience of filling out extra paperwork that your nation-state may require.
If you possess or carry large amounts, you also run the risk of government harassment and even seizure under the pretense that you "must be up to no good, any reason you give to the contrary is just a cover."
It's NOT a replacement for a decentralized "people's currency" which the pre-cartel BitCoin was* and which most other cybercurrencies are.
But it IS a convenient, possibly-stable** form of money which has clear advantages over paper money or traditional electronic transactions in some applications.
Again, if you want the anonymity and confidentiality that a suitcase full of 50-Euro notes gives you, this isn't for you.
* with rumors of a cartel in place, one should assume that the current BitCoin ecosystem is "controlled" by a "single entity" and treat it as such.
** backing by an existing currency or precious metal guarantees stability with what backs it, but even without that, if it's backed by a nation or a nation's official bank, that will create some stability all by itself.
(he says he does not now what such a change would cause).
If he gets caught, and he and the victim are both in the United States, it might "cause" him to be arrested, tried, and convicted. I'm not sure what for, but there's probably some law he's breaking.
When it comes to stuff like this, only hack your own hardware or get permission from the "victim" first. ESPECIALLY if you do not know what the effects will be.
as Defense Action Carton and thought "dumb name for a movie/game/wargame-scenario title - error parsing summary - restart reading summary only this time do it slower."
Anyone else misread these 3 words?
It didn't help that, thanks to my device settings, those 3 words were the first 3 words on their line.
Because: * Saying "Borg" sounds nerdy. * Saying "Borg" sounds funny. " Because thinking "data" and "assimilated" together sounds funny. * Because thinking "assimilated" gives immature nerds the giggles * Because what's one more backup system in your collection, er, I mean, assimilation * Because... Star Trek * Other [fill in the blank] * Because CowboyNeal wants his soul backed up and assimilated
Rather than shooting for "0 coal" or "0 hydrocarbons" by a fixed date, I'd rather see politicians, the energy industry, and industries that use large amounts of energy (the transportation industry comes to mind) work together shoot for "50% reductions," "75% reductions," and "95% reductions" of today's values by certain target dates.
Instead of spending relatively large amounts of money going from "95% reduction" to "zero use," spend that money on other things, like creating air-scrubbers to "undo" the effects of past pollution faster than Mother Nature is doing, or creating cheaper technology so that 3rd-world and emerging-market countries can afford to reduce their use of hydrocarbon-based fuels as well.
Remember, the South had just lost the Civil War and after the "Radical Republicans" took control of Congress in early 1867, the South was under a mix of actual and de facto federal control. Just about everyone who voluntarily supported the Confederacy - which included practically all former Confederate officials and commissioned military officers - lost their right to vote during this time (this right was later restored).
Excluding free slaves, those who were against secession in the first place, and the "Damn Yankees" who flooded into the South during Reconstruction, almost all adults in the South hated the "Radical Republicans" and as such, they were almost exclusively Democrats (or they would be, if they were eligible to vote).
So, saying the "first Klan" (former Confederate States of America, 1865-1871) was "exclusively Democratic" isn't saying much. It's like saying "there were practically no racists in the South who supported the Radical Republican tear-the-South-apart give-voting-rights-to-former-slaves political agenda. In a word: "Duh."
Air-traffic authorities should provide for this sort of thing by allowing trained (licensed?) hobbyists to file a flight plan ahead of time, to give the authorities time to say "no, the airspace is busy at the time you requested" or "yes, go ahead, we've put you in the system and will alert other airspace users of your presence. Please use transponder code ABCXYZ."
Hey, it's April Fools Day +/- 1, that is, + a month and minus a day, so here's some troll-food for laughs, bold is where I fixed it for you
Here's a list of inconvenient facts[citation needed] that liberals and Slashdotters love to deny:
There is no evidence that humans evolved from any animal, ape or otherwise. The evidence of humans evolving from other Homo species and other primates is similar in strength to other this-animal-evolved-from-that-one evidence, where the animals are similarly related and both diverged as far back as modern man diverged from other Homo species and from other primates. The fact that you only call out humans and not all animal evolution is very telling of your likely bias. God created humans as they are today. I assume you mean as they were 4+ thousand years ago, because if he created me as I am today, why do I have memories of being a child? Oh, I get it, God created me as I am today, with those memories of events that never happened already existing. Thanks for the edumacation [NOT].
Geologic evidence shows the Earth is between 6,000 and 10,000 years old. While there may be some evidence to support this claim, the evidence to support a claim of a 4+ billion-year-old earth, or at least a many-millions-of-years-old earth, is much more consistent and compelling This lines up perfectly with the Bible. I will grant you that the best scholarship puts the age of the Bible at less than 10,000 years old
Humans lived on the Earth alongside the dinosaurs. Their fossilized remains are frequently found at the same level in the ground. Strata alone does not prove co-existence. It is evidence that cannot be merely brushed aside, and scientists have an obligation to try to offer theories as to why two things would be in the same strata that are just as testable as the theory that they co-existed.
The Earth is nearly flat. Much of the supposed evidence for a round Earth is actually the result of optical illusions caused by the atmosphere.Given the pictures we have from space, I don't even know how to respond, other than to say "Bless your heart".
The sun and the oceans regulate global temperature. Human activity has a negligible effect on the Earth's temperature. You are technically correct, in the sense that +/- several degrees C allegedly caused by human behavior is noise given that without the sun, we would be several hundred degrees C colder and without the ocean, the temperature profile of the planet would be vastly different. However, that difference of a few degrees C has non-negligible effects on both human and non-human life.
Historical cycles in Earth's temperature shows that the Earth is far more likely to experience another ice age in the next century than global warming.[citation needed]
You can thank me later for telling it like it is. I would, if you were. I did, and you can.
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For the record: I am a Bible-believing Christian who knows Jesus died for my sins (and yours too - but if you don't believe me I'm not going to bother you about it unless you want me to) and goes to church several times a week (not that going to church makes you a Christian any more than being in a car makes you a driver). I also accept that either the universe is about 13B years old and the planet is about 4.5B years old -OR- that God, in his infinite wisdom, made it look that way for a good reason. Setting up the world to look that way so Christians could argue with each other doesn't seem like the kind of "goodness" that the God I worship values. So, the world may very well be 4 thous
The term "radio transmission" is sometimes loosely used to mean "radio frequency transmission" which can mean over a coax or other wire carrying the signal rather than as photons through the air (or free space or water or what-not).
The Hack-a-day link specifically mentioned non-over-the-air applications using TV ("RF") frequencies.
Slashdot Mirror
The standard rule applies. When a "Should x..." question is asked, the answer is no.
Should we keep the standard rule as stated?
Yes, oh wait, no, wait, I mean, dammit, now I'm trapped in a logical contradiction...
Er, why store ALL of it where hackers can get to it at all?
I see the day when companies store sensitive customer-provided info in a "near-line" data warehouse which has a small, carefully-controlled, carefully monitored data-pipe to their other systems.
When one of their main systems needs data for a specific customer, it asks for it and in most cases, it will get it, use it, then purge it.
But if too much data is being "pulled" from the "near-line" data store in too short a time, or if data is being pulled with unusual patterns, then alarms will go off and people trained in security will get involved.
---
I also see the day where data from "inactive" customers - those who aren't likely to order anytime soon - have their data in offline storage which requires manual action to retrieve - basically, the modern-day version of a locked file cabinet.
... will shut this company down for good, even if it does survive the technical damage.
... across the St. Lawrence River with a Trebuchet made of balsa wood bought from the nearest hobby store count?
Oh wait, I forgot, we are making nice with Canada now. Make that the Rio Grande.
Some of your points are well-taken, but I think you are mistaken in a few cases.
* Safe deposit box scales by size. A box that is twice as big can store twice as many pieces of currency.
* the reasons large cash transactions are under scrutiny is that *typically* money-launderers and drug dealers prefer them. Why do they prefer them? Because if they used banks or some other form of easy-to-trace means of conducting business, the odds of them getting caught would go way up. If I buy something as expensive as a brand new mid-priced car with a check or domestic bank wire, there's no extra paperwork. If I buy it with cash, I'll have to fill out a bunch of paperwork explaining why I got the cash, and if the person I'm buying from has any real suspicion that I'm lying, he risks jail time if he doesn't report me. Even if his suspicions are unfounded, odds are that the police will hold the cash until they decide there isn't enough evidence of a crime to get a conviction, and that's assuming the police are honest (if they are corrupt, well, as you said, corrupt cops can get you even with electronic money). With a bank transfer, there's no special reporting requirement (on the other hand, if I made cash deposits to the bank, either as one large deposit or as a series of not-quite-big-enough-to-report deposits, the bank would be required to have me fill out paperwork and, if they thought I was lying, call the police).
Bottom line:
Whether a particular user or a particular transaction is best served by using cash, traceable electronic money, hard(er)-to-trace electronic money (money orders or Western Union), hard-to-trace/decentrailized public-ledger systems like BitCoin is supposed to be, or a centrally-controlled, presumably-easy-to-trace electronic-ledger system like the one proposed, is going to vary from person to person and transaction to transaction.
For the sake of simplicity I'm leaving out systems like direct barter or systems where a physical good, such as gold, an unopened pack of cigarettes (WWII), diamonds, or even a person's unwritten promise of future payment ("my word is my bond") is used as a medium of exchange. For some people and for some transactions, these and a myriad of other options may be the best option.
For people who typically deposit large sums of money in bank accounts (as opposed to investing in money markets, bonds, or stocks), even a very small "negative interest rate" is less costly than having the money in suitcases, in a private vault, or in a bank's safe-deposit box.
Keeping and using large amounts of paper currency has costs:
You have to pay storage costs, which can range from zero (in your wallet or mattress, or in a safe you already own) to a modest one-time cost (a fireproof safe in your house) to a recurring expense (renting a bank safe-deposit box).
You have to insure it against theft and destruction (or accept the risk of not insuring it, which may be fine if it's in a safe-deposit box or the maximum loss is small).
You have to accept the risk of it suddenly becoming temporarily inaccessible (if it's in a safe in your house and you are at work, and there's an emergency in your neighborhood and they aren't letting anyone in including residents, then it's "temporarily inaccessible").
For large transactions, you have to accept the inconvenience of filling out extra paperwork that your nation-state may require.
If you possess or carry large amounts, you also run the risk of government harassment and even seizure under the pretense that you "must be up to no good, any reason you give to the contrary is just a cover."
It's NOT a replacement for a decentralized "people's currency" which the pre-cartel BitCoin was* and which most other cybercurrencies are.
But it IS a convenient, possibly-stable** form of money which has clear advantages over paper money or traditional electronic transactions in some applications.
Again, if you want the anonymity and confidentiality that a suitcase full of 50-Euro notes gives you, this isn't for you.
* with rumors of a cartel in place, one should assume that the current BitCoin ecosystem is "controlled" by a "single entity" and treat it as such.
** backing by an existing currency or precious metal guarantees stability with what backs it, but even without that, if it's backed by a nation or a nation's official bank, that will create some stability all by itself.
(he says he does not now what such a change would cause).
If he gets caught, and he and the victim are both in the United States, it might "cause" him to be arrested, tried, and convicted. I'm not sure what for, but there's probably some law he's breaking.
When it comes to stuff like this, only hack your own hardware or get permission from the "victim" first. ESPECIALLY if you do not know what the effects will be.
I skimmed and read Defense Ashton Carton [sic]
as Defense Action Carton and thought "dumb name for a movie/game/wargame-scenario title - error parsing summary - restart reading summary only this time do it slower."
Anyone else misread these 3 words?
It didn't help that, thanks to my device settings, those 3 words were the first 3 words on their line.
Why the fuck do I care about BorgBackup?
Because: ... Star Trek
* Saying "Borg" sounds nerdy.
* Saying "Borg" sounds funny.
" Because thinking "data" and "assimilated" together sounds funny.
* Because thinking "assimilated" gives immature nerds the giggles
* Because what's one more backup system in your collection, er, I mean, assimilation
* Because
* Other [fill in the blank]
* Because CowboyNeal wants his soul backed up and assimilated
Rather than shooting for "0 coal" or "0 hydrocarbons" by a fixed date, I'd rather see politicians, the energy industry, and industries that use large amounts of energy (the transportation industry comes to mind) work together shoot for "50% reductions," "75% reductions," and "95% reductions" of today's values by certain target dates.
Instead of spending relatively large amounts of money going from "95% reduction" to "zero use," spend that money on other things, like creating air-scrubbers to "undo" the effects of past pollution faster than Mother Nature is doing, or creating cheaper technology so that 3rd-world and emerging-market countries can afford to reduce their use of hydrocarbon-based fuels as well.
I'm just wondering whether those "bottom 100" are still at the bottom.
On another topic, how many people use their /. ID number as their PIN? Go ahead, raise your hands, don't be shy.
Remember, the South had just lost the Civil War and after the "Radical Republicans" took control of Congress in early 1867, the South was under a mix of actual and de facto federal control. Just about everyone who voluntarily supported the Confederacy - which included practically all former Confederate officials and commissioned military officers - lost their right to vote during this time (this right was later restored).
Excluding free slaves, those who were against secession in the first place, and the "Damn Yankees" who flooded into the South during Reconstruction, almost all adults in the South hated the "Radical Republicans" and as such, they were almost exclusively Democrats (or they would be, if they were eligible to vote).
So, saying the "first Klan" (former Confederate States of America, 1865-1871) was "exclusively Democratic" isn't saying much. It's like saying "there were practically no racists in the South who supported the Radical Republican tear-the-South-apart give-voting-rights-to-former-slaves political agenda. In a word: "Duh."
Link to Ars Technica version of original story, which was updated to say that it is a non-issue: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Link to Ars Technica story on the fact that the first story was false: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
I don't have a link handy, but I saw something in the news yesterday or today saying there was no good reason to think this is true.
I would expect at least 2^11 hackers participating.
Air-traffic authorities should provide for this sort of thing by allowing trained (licensed?) hobbyists to file a flight plan ahead of time, to give the authorities time to say "no, the airspace is busy at the time you requested" or "yes, go ahead, we've put you in the system and will alert other airspace users of your presence. Please use transponder code ABCXYZ."
Two other options jump to mind immediately:
* Public protests
* Legal challenges (maybe)
Publicly shaming the MTA into doing the right thing is always an option.
Depending on state and federal laws, the legal challenges may or may not be an option.
Hey, it's April Fools Day +/- 1, that is, + a month and minus a day, so here's some troll-food for laughs, bold is where I fixed it for you
Here's a list of inconvenient facts[citation needed] that liberals and Slashdotters love to deny:
There is no evidence that humans evolved from any animal, ape or otherwise. The evidence of humans evolving from other Homo species and other primates is similar in strength to other this-animal-evolved-from-that-one evidence, where the animals are similarly related and both diverged as far back as modern man diverged from other Homo species and from other primates. The fact that you only call out humans and not all animal evolution is very telling of your likely bias. God created humans as they are today. I assume you mean as they were 4+ thousand years ago, because if he created me as I am today, why do I have memories of being a child? Oh, I get it, God created me as I am today, with those memories of events that never happened already existing. Thanks for the edumacation [NOT].
Geologic evidence shows the Earth is between 6,000 and 10,000 years old. While there may be some evidence to support this claim, the evidence to support a claim of a 4+ billion-year-old earth, or at least a many-millions-of-years-old earth, is much more consistent and compelling This lines up perfectly with the Bible. I will grant you that the best scholarship puts the age of the Bible at less than 10,000 years old
Humans lived on the Earth alongside the dinosaurs. Their fossilized remains are frequently found at the same level in the ground. Strata alone does not prove co-existence. It is evidence that cannot be merely brushed aside, and scientists have an obligation to try to offer theories as to why two things would be in the same strata that are just as testable as the theory that they co-existed.
The Earth is nearly flat. Much of the supposed evidence for a round Earth is actually the result of optical illusions caused by the atmosphere.Given the pictures we have from space, I don't even know how to respond, other than to say "Bless your heart".
The sun and the oceans regulate global temperature. Human activity has a negligible effect on the Earth's temperature. You are technically correct, in the sense that +/- several degrees C allegedly caused by human behavior is noise given that without the sun, we would be several hundred degrees C colder and without the ocean, the temperature profile of the planet would be vastly different. However, that difference of a few degrees C has non-negligible effects on both human and non-human life.
Historical cycles in Earth's temperature shows that the Earth is far more likely to experience another ice age in the next century than global warming.[citation needed]
You can thank me later for telling it like it is. I would, if you were. I did, and you can.
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For the record: I am a Bible-believing Christian who knows Jesus died for my sins (and yours too - but if you don't believe me I'm not going to bother you about it unless you want me to) and goes to church several times a week (not that going to church makes you a Christian any more than being in a car makes you a driver). I also accept that either the universe is about 13B years old and the planet is about 4.5B years old -OR- that God, in his infinite wisdom, made it look that way for a good reason. Setting up the world to look that way so Christians could argue with each other doesn't seem like the kind of "goodness" that the God I worship values. So, the world may very well be 4 thous
See https://ballotpedia.org/Top-tw... .
unmanned shark-spotting aircraft
Cool use of tech. But don't tell the sharks about
Hacking a Professional Drone.
try unlocking mass shooter Syed Rizwan Farook
Good luck unlocking a dead man.
Did anyone else read that as "P0wN2"?
Play is similar to any other internet site in that it could face legal challenges over violating copyright.
There, fixed that for you.
Original:
Play is identical to any other P2P download site in that it could face legal challenges over violating copyright.
The term "radio transmission" is sometimes loosely used to mean "radio frequency transmission" which can mean over a coax or other wire carrying the signal rather than as photons through the air (or free space or water or what-not).
The Hack-a-day link specifically mentioned non-over-the-air applications using TV ("RF") frequencies.