The article also says "Target does not have access to nor does it store the encryption key within our system." The problem is that 3DES is a symmetric encryption algorithm; both parties need to share the same key to encrypt or decrypt anything. So at some point, they needed to have a key for the transaction.
The way the system works, the 3DES key is embedded in the pin pad which is sealed against tampering. It is also held by the processor (who owns the pad). In this way, the merchant never knows the key, and so only holds the encrypted PINs.
What I'm waiting for is the moment when some criminally minded individual realizes that "targeting" vendors isn't the way to go, and instead starts APT attacks against the processors -- suddenly, you can pick and choose what data you take, and have access to all the processing information required to make, modify, and revoke transactions. Next stop... compromising the credit companies themselves.
Peter Pan is a different story... From the copyright page on the official website:
Copyright in the USA is governed by the Universal Copyright Convention, by which a publication enters the public domain 25 years after the author’s death – in Barrie’s case, 1962. However, it was agreed in 1971 that the Berne Convention should take priority over the UCC in countries signatory to both conventions, and therefore Barrie’s extended copyright [was] guaranteed until 2007 in the USA as well. In the UK, the situation is a little more complex with regard to the Peter Pan Gift in that the House [of] Lords passed a special resolution in 1988 via the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act, effectively granting the Great Ormond Street Hospital a perpetual extension to its right to royalties in the UK “in respect of the public performance, commercial publication or any other use of Peter Pan.”
Yes, in the UK they can do that. At least it's for a good cause (Pan royalties fund the hospital).
OK, that's fine, but how is PIN code useful? Can't you just order on the web with your credit card without any PIN code? Can't you just pay for speedways in at least France and Italy without PIN? To be honest I am wondering why there is even a PIN code on those cards given there are so many ways to use them without entering the PIN code.
The trip a card purchase takes from your physical card to the merchant bank is actually pretty convoluted -- the simplified explanation is that a card purchase with PIN has a lot fewer safeguards and security checks than an online purchase with card, address and CV only. For card purchases where only the number is used, the vendor assumes a HUGE amount of liability. It often makes sense for fast food vendors and such, where the transaction values are small and they get a significant uptick in sales for shorter transaction times, but for purchasing big ticket items, you either do chip+pin or track 1 data plus second factor (usually stored by the vendor).
So the even shorter answer is: PIN codes mean relative anonymity. Without the PIN, you need to provide other PII at some point in the transaction.
While I see android multiboot as a dubious value proposition, I see steamos as doubly so. If you have windows, then windows provides a strict superset of the gaming selection of SteamOS. There's no exclusive content for SteamOS right now. There is some android exclusive content, but not much of consequence
This isn't multiboot; it's sidestream booting -- both running at once.
Personally, I'd love to have a machine that booted my "browser OS" and my "developer OS" and my "gaming OS" all side-by-side. This means that stuff can't as easily migrate from one to the other.
Since many people now play most of their games and do their communicating via Facebook, which runs in a browser, I can see having a "FacebookOS" where none of the data really touches the computer, just the GUI to FB's servers. While there's a huge privacy issue here, there's also a lot of gains in terms of security -- fewer zombie computers, for starters.
I find it disconcerting that the others in the room are often completely unaware of the fact that they have no attention span.
Like a "they don't know what they don't know" kind of thing.
Oh, surely this topic will bring out the people who say, "I was baby-sat by a TV, and I'm fine!" But it's not so, and such a person cannot see themselves from the perspective of the person with the "analog" childhood.
At a recent dinner party, several people (adults!) were ooh-ing and aah-ing over a YouTube channel where a guy made a water balloon launcher from PVC pipe, and made hydrogen by electrolysis. Who the hell is impressed by that? It's child's play... if you were a child who played outside, I guess. You just have to inwardly shake your head and walk away sometimes.
Then again, people who grow up in the city might get in a significant amount of trouble for creating projectile weapons with PVC.
I still have fond memories for all the fun things you can do with punctured bicycle tires... but I guess if you never puncture one, you wouldn't have a stack of valves and rubber sitting around.
Otherwise if you spend $10 million developing something, and anyone can steal it in an hour - no-one is going to spend $10 million to develop something again.
If you spent $10 million to develop something that can be stolen within an hour by anyone - would that not mean that you are breathtakingly inept and incompetent?
For example, suppose someone (let's call it duncecorp) invested $10 million in developing the progress bar. Why should that idea be protected? To encourage stupidity and ineptitude?
The idea shouldn't be protected -- however, the design and implementation maybe should be. But a progress bar is a bad example.
Let's say someone spent $10million trying many form factors and ink viscosities for the perfect fountain pen -- they tested it in the hands of left and right-handed people of various ages, ethnicities, and skill level at using a fountain pen. All the parts of the pen are rather obvious, but the specific form, shape and integrated design is non-obvious. After a number of years and $10million, they finally come to market with a pen that gives a smooth line no matter who uses it, and does not induce cramping. This would be an amazing pen, even if it's in a niche market (there are other ways to write with ink, let alone other ways to imprint ink on paper or communicate with others).
Now let's say some company like Sheaffer buys one of these pens, looks at it, and decides it's way better than their current line of pens -- so they re-tool production to produce these new pens and distribute them through their established channels. They look exactly the same as the original pens, are sold at a slightly lower price point (they don't have to recoup the investment), and work the same way.
THIS is what this kind of patent is designed to prevent -- and it should apply just as well to phones and tablets as to pens; it doesn't matter whether it's a computer or not; it's a device designed to accomplish something in a certain manner. However, pure software patents are a different kettle of fish altogether.
So... is that protection of the original inventor encouraging stupidity and ineptitude? Or is it protecting inventors from being scooped by companies that already have production in place and just need the R&D results to tune their current product?
We can send things outside the solar system, for any reasonable definition of "outside the solar system." I'm sure we can get one to fall into a moon part of the way out.
Do we have a rocket that can go that far these days?
The stuff sent out of the solar system was sent in the 70's -- a lot has changed at JPL/NASA since then.
Even the stuff last sent to Titan was sent before the dot com bubble burst, wasn't it? It just took a while to get there.
Of course, if this thing is in the planning stages, it'll be 2020 before it is "ready to roll" at which point who knows if we'll have a rocket capable of sending something to Titan again....
The thing is because nothing happened, we can never tell if it worked and stopped a terrorist attack or didn't. We can only say nothing happened on X day.
In general this is true -- but in this case, it shouldn't be. This is a passive system that "works" when it connects dots and flags suspects. The fact that it has not done so for any potential or real terrorist threat shows that we can tell it didn't work -- considering there WERE plenty of potential and real terrorist threats that it DIDN'T flag up.
Of course, the system isn't designed to flag threats in the first place -- it's designed as a forensics tool, to clean up after a threat has been realized. Anything else it does is just a "bonus". Thus, if 9/11 happened again, it wouldn't prevent it -- it would just be a very quick method of rounding up many of the (still alive) people who were involved and getting insight into how big the thing was in the first place.
cold fjord: you realize that with a few word substitutions, you're talking about capitalist states, right?
This isn't an ideological issue -- it's a human issue. Look at the last century: Germany (not communist) doing an ethnic cleansing... Italy (fascist) joining in... Rwanda (definitely capitalist, to their detriment) involved in ethnic cleansing, the Congo, Somalia, Croatia, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Chechnya, and more.
And then we move on to the ones that were due to American interference in the past century: Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Laos, various conflicts in the mid-east, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada (US invading gentler communism), Panama, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba (pre-communism), Honduras, Puerto Rico, Egypt (Suez crisis), Lebanon, Indonesia (over 1,000,000 killed due to US-assisted millitary coup), Chile, Angola, Sudan, Colombia.
As you can see, people are violent, and incite violence in others. More powerful governments tend to want to export their culture to the rest of the world, and use force when that export is rejected. While political communism is obviously a failed method of governance, none of the others have fared much better, when you take into account the physical and mental health and prosperity of the average citizen.
...requiring users to log in via Google+ and Facebook respectively in order to establish a real-world identity....
... since it's still pretty easy to create a fake facebook account, trolls abound.
Exactly this. How does requiring Google+, for example, create a lack of anonymity? While it does tie all of those comments to a single point, Google doesn't require a valid name -- they tried that with Orkut, but with Google+, they just ignored that and focused on the data mining side (with the idea that the meatspace identity doesn't really matter all that much; what matters is the demographics of the account holder).
So while those accounts DO create an identity of sorts, they don't establish any link to the real-world unless some active mining is done.
Actually no. The US left as part of a peace agreement which the North Vietnamese violated by invading and conquering South Vietnam with tanks and infantry divisions. Just another case of communist aggression and lying.
Indeed... because communist aggression and lying looks so different from capitalist aggression and lying....
Really; your argument doesn't hold together. It's just another case of aggression and lying -- governing style doesn't even have to come into it.
I love the idea of jailbreaking. Love it. I fully support your right to install whatever you want on the hardware you bought.
But.
So there's no confusion, "jailbreaking" is exactly identical to "finding and exploiting a security vulnerability". By definition, someone is using an unpatched problem to root your device and replace the system software with their own version. The fact that you can jailbreak your iPhone means that another party is able to compromise mine.
Again, I support everyone installing whatever they want on their devices. I'm not thrilled that this can be done on an iPhone by hacking deep into the system through a chunk of broken code somewhere.
Hmm... I just realized something. If Apple provided a means to gain root on iOS devices, it's likely they would never have discovered any of these security holes. Interesting paradigm. Security through preventing customers from doing what they want.
I'd prefer to be the one in charge of what leaks off my phone, TYVM. However, since a firewall is difficult to support for Apple, so they didn't ship it. There's a great one on Cydia however.
While I can no longer make any sense of your debate, the truth is that Apple has prevented an iOS malware outbreak by not handing the users the keys to the car -- they'll just take you where you want to go, as long as it's on one of their streets. On the flip-side, they control who gets your information and how -- and unless you've got a packet sniffer on your network connection, you don't even know what's leaking from your iOS device.
So, there's a tradeoff. Millions of people make it, in both directions. Me? I'd prefer it if Apple had a "break this seal and you're on your own" toggle where they will provide a way -- in hardware -- to gain root on iOS devices. This should allow people to do what they want with their devices, while also allowing people to reset to vanilla images and live the walled garden life. Both ways appear to have advantages, and both ways have downsides.
So they 'fixed' something that wasn't even the problem he's sure because the car logs said so...
Sounds like some bullshit and some backpedaling.
His ego is going to kill tesla...
Could be, but having been on the receiving end of complaints for software-driven hardware, an equally likely scenario is this:
They got a complaint about their car catching fire, and afraid of the PR nightmare this could cause, the top engineers were put on the case to find the problem as quickly as possible and fix it. Meanwhile, someone else was put on gathering all the additional information to feed to engineers/press/etc.
In their digging, the engineers discovered that the charging circuit wasn't really all that robust, and that this COULD cause a charging issue, even if it didn't in this case. With the work and testing already done, they rolled out a firmware update to test if this could be the scenario that caused the fire. The logs then confirmed that this issue wasn't the case, but they had a fully tested firmware update that mitigated other potential charging issues, so they released it instead of just keeping it to themselves.
This kind of thing happens all the time. Although I have also experienced situations where the releasing never happened, as the initial complaint was private and the company never wanted to admit publicly that there was an issue -- in this case, the "fix" was rolled into the next update that was actually supposed to do something else -- it came under "various minor feature improvements" IIRC.
Adespoton is spot on. No gravitational force can be detected
If no gravitational force can be detected, then how can they 'feel' the effects of gravity? This is completely contradictory.
They "feel" the effects of gravity by the massive object(s) they're interacting with being in a frictionless environment and not behaving how their brains tell them they should. Gravitational micro effects might not be much here on earth, where we have a buffer of matter, but when the only objects are the ones you're directly interacting with, there's nothing to interfere with the very small gravitational forces involved.
Gravity is certainly there, keeping the ISS in orbit (as opposed to it shooting off into space in a straight trajectory), but as the astronauts are constantly 'falling' they don't feel the effect of it. This is why there's no up or down, why their bones atrophy and why they feel nauseous when they first arrive.
Yes they do; they just don't feel the SAME effects. But they're still gravitationally attracted to the module and vice versa.
Unless you're specifically talking about the fact that they don't feel the same gravitational effects they feel when on earth, in which case you're completely correct. It's much more subtle.
This kind of service doesn't help at all with future planning of finances, as would what you'd expect with a mobile phone plan. Sure, these services help with the immediate case, but if I have a recurring payment of $20, say, every month, what good is that to me if XBT have just tanked yet again and I have less than half in my wallet than I had planned for?
The stability is the biggest (one of the only?) problems left with bitcoin to solve before it could see wider use, and this right now is just a novelty way to pay the odd bill or two for a slim margin of customers, from a company that has made its name with similar novel marketing tactics.
Indeed... now people in Belgium can pretend they're living in Venezuela, where people pay in bolivars indexed against the item's value in USD.
....while in orbit, where they don't feel the effects of gravity?
They feel the effects of gravity, just not as much gravitational pull from the Earth. Oh, and they still feel the effects of mass -- equal and opposite reaction and all that. Basically means that they were unable to rely on gravitational pull or friction to move the module. Sounds tricky, and not something I'd want to try (in space, 780 pounds will 'fall' whichever direction it is moving, even if you're in the way).
If you were wondering how it could be 780 pounds, I presume that was measured at sea level at STP, and doesn't refer to how much it cost to build.
As everyone knows, all projects involve several trips to Home Depot for the odd tool or bolt that was overlooked in the initial planning stage.
That's what made this newsworthy. Of course, they said "few" problems. I'm wondering if one of those problems was ending up with extra bolts at the end that don't match up to any of the empty spots....
Ahh, but you see my friend, my countryman... this is our time to shine. This is the very reason that America was ever great. This is the time to revolt in the proper way. It's not our country that's gone down the tubes, but our government. When The People break the law, the governing body has to step in to set them right. When the government breaks the law, The People have to step up to set them right. If not, then The People need to get used to getting fucked regularly by the power that develops in their stead.
Unfortunately, I don't think you'll ever hear people saying "The Americans are revolting!" in that context, until a significant number of people have nothing left to lose....
Just remember: a "down the tubes" USA is still way better off than most of the world's population; most people don't want to risk that comfort to be as free as the Iraqis are. There were SOME lessons learned from the French Revolution, even if sometimes it was the wrong lessons.
Exactly. I try to make it a one-way gate: I have no problem using the stuff I learn on my own time at work, but I don't take the stuff I do at work home. This has the added benefit that since I have this personal policy, I'll never get into the situation where something I do in my spare time infringes on something produced for work -- if there's ever a conflict, I can show that work was gaining the expertise that I had already used elsewhere, not the other way around.
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The article also says "Target does not have access to nor does it store the encryption key within our system." The problem is that 3DES is a symmetric encryption algorithm; both parties need to share the same key to encrypt or decrypt anything. So at some point, they needed to have a key for the transaction.
The way the system works, the 3DES key is embedded in the pin pad which is sealed against tampering. It is also held by the processor (who owns the pad). In this way, the merchant never knows the key, and so only holds the encrypted PINs.
What I'm waiting for is the moment when some criminally minded individual realizes that "targeting" vendors isn't the way to go, and instead starts APT attacks against the processors -- suddenly, you can pick and choose what data you take, and have access to all the processing information required to make, modify, and revoke transactions. Next stop... compromising the credit companies themselves.
Peter Pan is a different story...
From the copyright page on the official website:
Copyright in the USA is governed by the Universal Copyright Convention, by which a publication enters the public domain 25 years after the author’s death – in Barrie’s case, 1962. However, it was agreed in 1971 that the Berne Convention should take priority over the UCC in countries signatory to both conventions, and therefore Barrie’s extended copyright [was] guaranteed until 2007 in the USA as well. In the UK, the situation is a little more complex with regard to the Peter Pan Gift in that the House [of] Lords passed a special resolution in 1988 via the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act, effectively granting the Great Ormond Street Hospital a perpetual extension to its right to royalties in the UK “in respect of the public performance, commercial publication or any other use of Peter Pan.”
Yes, in the UK they can do that. At least it's for a good cause (Pan royalties fund the hospital).
OK, that's fine, but how is PIN code useful? Can't you just order on the web with your credit card without any PIN code? Can't you just pay for speedways in at least France and Italy without PIN?
To be honest I am wondering why there is even a PIN code on those cards given there are so many ways to use them without entering the PIN code.
The trip a card purchase takes from your physical card to the merchant bank is actually pretty convoluted -- the simplified explanation is that a card purchase with PIN has a lot fewer safeguards and security checks than an online purchase with card, address and CV only. For card purchases where only the number is used, the vendor assumes a HUGE amount of liability. It often makes sense for fast food vendors and such, where the transaction values are small and they get a significant uptick in sales for shorter transaction times, but for purchasing big ticket items, you either do chip+pin or track 1 data plus second factor (usually stored by the vendor).
So the even shorter answer is: PIN codes mean relative anonymity. Without the PIN, you need to provide other PII at some point in the transaction.
While I see android multiboot as a dubious value proposition, I see steamos as doubly so. If you have windows, then windows provides a strict superset of the gaming selection of SteamOS. There's no exclusive content for SteamOS right now. There is some android exclusive content, but not much of consequence
This isn't multiboot; it's sidestream booting -- both running at once.
Personally, I'd love to have a machine that booted my "browser OS" and my "developer OS" and my "gaming OS" all side-by-side. This means that stuff can't as easily migrate from one to the other.
Since many people now play most of their games and do their communicating via Facebook, which runs in a browser, I can see having a "FacebookOS" where none of the data really touches the computer, just the GUI to FB's servers. While there's a huge privacy issue here, there's also a lot of gains in terms of security -- fewer zombie computers, for starters.
I find it disconcerting that the others in the room are often completely unaware of the fact that they have no attention span.
Like a "they don't know what they don't know" kind of thing.
Oh, surely this topic will bring out the people who say, "I was baby-sat by a TV, and I'm fine!" But it's not so, and such a person cannot see themselves from the perspective of the person with the "analog" childhood.
At a recent dinner party, several people (adults!) were ooh-ing and aah-ing over a YouTube channel where a guy made a water balloon launcher from PVC pipe, and made hydrogen by electrolysis. Who the hell is impressed by that? It's child's play... if you were a child who played outside, I guess. You just have to inwardly shake your head and walk away sometimes.
Then again, people who grow up in the city might get in a significant amount of trouble for creating projectile weapons with PVC.
I still have fond memories for all the fun things you can do with punctured bicycle tires... but I guess if you never puncture one, you wouldn't have a stack of valves and rubber sitting around.
There was no TV or video games in my house when I was growing up. I'm pretty sure I'm not mentally under-developed as a result.
Oh, that unawareness is most certainly an effect of the affliction...
I keed, I keed.
Oh, but that unawareness is most definitely there...
It is somewhat disconcerting at times to be the only one in a room with an attention span.
I find it disconcerting that the others in the room are often completely unaware of the fact that they have no attention span.
If you spent $10 million to develop something that can be stolen within an hour by anyone - would that not mean that you are breathtakingly inept and incompetent?
For example, suppose someone (let's call it duncecorp) invested $10 million in developing the progress bar. Why should that idea be protected? To encourage stupidity and ineptitude?
The idea shouldn't be protected -- however, the design and implementation maybe should be. But a progress bar is a bad example.
Let's say someone spent $10million trying many form factors and ink viscosities for the perfect fountain pen -- they tested it in the hands of left and right-handed people of various ages, ethnicities, and skill level at using a fountain pen. All the parts of the pen are rather obvious, but the specific form, shape and integrated design is non-obvious. After a number of years and $10million, they finally come to market with a pen that gives a smooth line no matter who uses it, and does not induce cramping. This would be an amazing pen, even if it's in a niche market (there are other ways to write with ink, let alone other ways to imprint ink on paper or communicate with others).
Now let's say some company like Sheaffer buys one of these pens, looks at it, and decides it's way better than their current line of pens -- so they re-tool production to produce these new pens and distribute them through their established channels. They look exactly the same as the original pens, are sold at a slightly lower price point (they don't have to recoup the investment), and work the same way.
THIS is what this kind of patent is designed to prevent -- and it should apply just as well to phones and tablets as to pens; it doesn't matter whether it's a computer or not; it's a device designed to accomplish something in a certain manner. However, pure software patents are a different kettle of fish altogether.
So... is that protection of the original inventor encouraging stupidity and ineptitude? Or is it protecting inventors from being scooped by companies that already have production in place and just need the R&D results to tune their current product?
We can send things outside the solar system, for any reasonable definition of "outside the solar system." I'm sure we can get one to fall into a moon part of the way out.
The stuff sent out of the solar system was sent in the 70's -- a lot has changed at JPL/NASA since then.
Even the stuff last sent to Titan was sent before the dot com bubble burst, wasn't it? It just took a while to get there.
Of course, if this thing is in the planning stages, it'll be 2020 before it is "ready to roll" at which point who knows if we'll have a rocket capable of sending something to Titan again....
The thing is because nothing happened, we can never tell if it worked and stopped a terrorist attack or didn't. We can only say nothing happened on X day.
In general this is true -- but in this case, it shouldn't be. This is a passive system that "works" when it connects dots and flags suspects. The fact that it has not done so for any potential or real terrorist threat shows that we can tell it didn't work -- considering there WERE plenty of potential and real terrorist threats that it DIDN'T flag up.
Of course, the system isn't designed to flag threats in the first place -- it's designed as a forensics tool, to clean up after a threat has been realized. Anything else it does is just a "bonus". Thus, if 9/11 happened again, it wouldn't prevent it -- it would just be a very quick method of rounding up many of the (still alive) people who were involved and getting insight into how big the thing was in the first place.
What makes you think the real mission of the NSA is to track terrorists?
Was that aimed at the GP, the NSA, or the judge that said the data collection was legal because it helped track terrorists?
cold fjord: you realize that with a few word substitutions, you're talking about capitalist states, right?
This isn't an ideological issue -- it's a human issue. Look at the last century: Germany (not communist) doing an ethnic cleansing... Italy (fascist) joining in... Rwanda (definitely capitalist, to their detriment) involved in ethnic cleansing, the Congo, Somalia, Croatia, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Chechnya, and more.
And then we move on to the ones that were due to American interference in the past century: Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Laos, various conflicts in the mid-east, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada (US invading gentler communism), Panama, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba (pre-communism), Honduras, Puerto Rico, Egypt (Suez crisis), Lebanon, Indonesia (over 1,000,000 killed due to US-assisted millitary coup), Chile, Angola, Sudan, Colombia.
Good reference for American interventions (both defense and pro-active intervention): http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
As you can see, people are violent, and incite violence in others. More powerful governments tend to want to export their culture to the rest of the world, and use force when that export is rejected. While political communism is obviously a failed method of governance, none of the others have fared much better, when you take into account the physical and mental health and prosperity of the average citizen.
...requiring users to log in via Google+ and Facebook respectively in order to establish a real-world identity....
Exactly this. How does requiring Google+, for example, create a lack of anonymity? While it does tie all of those comments to a single point, Google doesn't require a valid name -- they tried that with Orkut, but with Google+, they just ignored that and focused on the data mining side (with the idea that the meatspace identity doesn't really matter all that much; what matters is the demographics of the account holder).
So while those accounts DO create an identity of sorts, they don't establish any link to the real-world unless some active mining is done.
Americans surrendered in Vietnam
Actually no. The US left as part of a peace agreement which the North Vietnamese violated by invading and conquering South Vietnam with tanks and infantry divisions. Just another case of communist aggression and lying.
Indeed... because communist aggression and lying looks so different from capitalist aggression and lying....
Really; your argument doesn't hold together. It's just another case of aggression and lying -- governing style doesn't even have to come into it.
I love the idea of jailbreaking. Love it. I fully support your right to install whatever you want on the hardware you bought.
But.
So there's no confusion, "jailbreaking" is exactly identical to "finding and exploiting a security vulnerability". By definition, someone is using an unpatched problem to root your device and replace the system software with their own version. The fact that you can jailbreak your iPhone means that another party is able to compromise mine.
Again, I support everyone installing whatever they want on their devices. I'm not thrilled that this can be done on an iPhone by hacking deep into the system through a chunk of broken code somewhere.
Hmm... I just realized something. If Apple provided a means to gain root on iOS devices, it's likely they would never have discovered any of these security holes. Interesting paradigm. Security through preventing customers from doing what they want.
Feature X := Firewall
I'd prefer to be the one in charge of what leaks off my phone, TYVM. However, since a firewall is difficult to support for Apple, so they didn't ship it. There's a great one on Cydia however.
While I can no longer make any sense of your debate, the truth is that Apple has prevented an iOS malware outbreak by not handing the users the keys to the car -- they'll just take you where you want to go, as long as it's on one of their streets. On the flip-side, they control who gets your information and how -- and unless you've got a packet sniffer on your network connection, you don't even know what's leaking from your iOS device.
So, there's a tradeoff. Millions of people make it, in both directions. Me? I'd prefer it if Apple had a "break this seal and you're on your own" toggle where they will provide a way -- in hardware -- to gain root on iOS devices. This should allow people to do what they want with their devices, while also allowing people to reset to vanilla images and live the walled garden life. Both ways appear to have advantages, and both ways have downsides.
So they 'fixed' something that wasn't even the problem he's sure because the car logs said so...
Sounds like some bullshit and some backpedaling.
His ego is going to kill tesla...
Could be, but having been on the receiving end of complaints for software-driven hardware, an equally likely scenario is this:
They got a complaint about their car catching fire, and afraid of the PR nightmare this could cause, the top engineers were put on the case to find the problem as quickly as possible and fix it. Meanwhile, someone else was put on gathering all the additional information to feed to engineers/press/etc.
In their digging, the engineers discovered that the charging circuit wasn't really all that robust, and that this COULD cause a charging issue, even if it didn't in this case. With the work and testing already done, they rolled out a firmware update to test if this could be the scenario that caused the fire. The logs then confirmed that this issue wasn't the case, but they had a fully tested firmware update that mitigated other potential charging issues, so they released it instead of just keeping it to themselves.
This kind of thing happens all the time. Although I have also experienced situations where the releasing never happened, as the initial complaint was private and the company never wanted to admit publicly that there was an issue -- in this case, the "fix" was rolled into the next update that was actually supposed to do something else -- it came under "various minor feature improvements" IIRC.
Adespoton is spot on. No gravitational force can be detected
If no gravitational force can be detected, then how can they 'feel' the effects of gravity? This is completely contradictory.
They "feel" the effects of gravity by the massive object(s) they're interacting with being in a frictionless environment and not behaving how their brains tell them they should. Gravitational micro effects might not be much here on earth, where we have a buffer of matter, but when the only objects are the ones you're directly interacting with, there's nothing to interfere with the very small gravitational forces involved.
They feel the effects of gravity
No they don't.
Gravity is certainly there, keeping the ISS in orbit (as opposed to it shooting off into space in a straight trajectory), but as the astronauts are constantly 'falling' they don't feel the effect of it. This is why there's no up or down, why their bones atrophy and why they feel nauseous when they first arrive.
Yes they do; they just don't feel the SAME effects. But they're still gravitationally attracted to the module and vice versa.
Unless you're specifically talking about the fact that they don't feel the same gravitational effects they feel when on earth, in which case you're completely correct. It's much more subtle.
This kind of service doesn't help at all with future planning of finances, as would what you'd expect with a mobile phone plan. Sure, these services help with the immediate case, but if I have a recurring payment of $20, say, every month, what good is that to me if XBT have just tanked yet again and I have less than half in my wallet than I had planned for?
The stability is the biggest (one of the only?) problems left with bitcoin to solve before it could see wider use, and this right now is just a novelty way to pay the odd bill or two for a slim margin of customers, from a company that has made its name with similar novel marketing tactics.
Indeed... now people in Belgium can pretend they're living in Venezuela, where people pay in bolivars indexed against the item's value in USD.
....while in orbit, where they don't feel the effects of gravity?
They feel the effects of gravity, just not as much gravitational pull from the Earth. Oh, and they still feel the effects of mass -- equal and opposite reaction and all that. Basically means that they were unable to rely on gravitational pull or friction to move the module. Sounds tricky, and not something I'd want to try (in space, 780 pounds will 'fall' whichever direction it is moving, even if you're in the way).
If you were wondering how it could be 780 pounds, I presume that was measured at sea level at STP, and doesn't refer to how much it cost to build.
As everyone knows, all projects involve several trips to Home Depot for the odd tool or bolt that was overlooked in the initial planning stage.
That's what made this newsworthy.
Of course, they said "few" problems. I'm wondering if one of those problems was ending up with extra bolts at the end that don't match up to any of the empty spots....
Ahh, but you see my friend, my countryman... this is our time to shine. This is the very reason that America was ever great. This is the time to revolt in the proper way. It's not our country that's gone down the tubes, but our government. When The People break the law, the governing body has to step in to set them right. When the government breaks the law, The People have to step up to set them right. If not, then The People need to get used to getting fucked regularly by the power that develops in their stead.
Unfortunately, I don't think you'll ever hear people saying "The Americans are revolting!" in that context, until a significant number of people have nothing left to lose....
Just remember: a "down the tubes" USA is still way better off than most of the world's population; most people don't want to risk that comfort to be as free as the Iraqis are. There were SOME lessons learned from the French Revolution, even if sometimes it was the wrong lessons.
I'm going back to using Cub Scouts with semaphore flags for messages, myself. If you can't trust a Cub Scout, who can you trust?
Wait... you trust a cipher transmitted by the BSA??? It has been argued again and again on Slashdot that the BSA operate outside the law.
I think I'm starting a business which will sell data on the 1% to anyone who wants it. It's time to even the odds.
Crowdfund it....
Exactly.
I try to make it a one-way gate: I have no problem using the stuff I learn on my own time at work, but I don't take the stuff I do at work home. This has the added benefit that since I have this personal policy, I'll never get into the situation where something I do in my spare time infringes on something produced for work -- if there's ever a conflict, I can show that work was gaining the expertise that I had already used elsewhere, not the other way around.