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  1. Kiva Robotics knockoff? on Chinese Warehouse Cut Labor Costs In Half With a Fleet of Tiny Robots (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Those things look like a Kiva Robot knock off. Amazon bought Kiva a while back but those things look REALLY similar. Just compare the two of them

    Also how do they keep the package from falling off?

  2. Re:Open Tractor(tm) on Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This would be one solution but it wont work. No one is going to buy a tractor from some "open" manufacturer that they have never heard of or pay extra for the "open" tractor. There are a number of factors at work here. 1) Emissions ratings that the manufacturer must meet, 2) Vendor lock-in (and therefore fleet lock in), and 3) Pride. You see out here in the midwest folks are mighty proud of the color of their tractor. It can start an argument faster than vi vs emacs. To come into a market dominated by big players will be a challenge. Especially when there is both manufacturing AND mindshare hurdles to clear.

    The easier solution was already mentioned in the summary: support the Right to Repair bill, in any state, if your state has made one. This doesn't overnight solve the problems and John Deere would probably just pull a TiVo and lock the software and it is business as usual. And expect pushback from the vendors when it comes to these new bills but it is the first step to taking back ownership rather than "licensing" your use of a tractor.

  3. Why not a new browser on Firefox Will Run Chrome Extensions · · Score: 1

    If this is going to be such a radical shift in the way that the browser functions why not create a new project? The Phoenix/Firebird project (its name before Firefox) was born out of the need for a lightweight browser that focused on one thing. They rewrote the browser from the Mozilla suite and made it fast. The model they brought along is still close to what we have today. Now they want to overhaul and break the system radically. Just like then.

    At this point why dont they create a Firefox2 or a FirefoxNG browser with all of the new features, bring over the users automatically and essentially fork the dev? Just like with Seamonkey that kept the browser suite that was Mozilla going, we can keep the old FF1v44 version going. That way the old guys like us can backport the software improvements of FF2 and keep our old extensions. I have a feeling that many of the awesome extensions that exist solely on Firefox will die out because of the loss of functionality. Without those the browser starts to look a lot less appealing.

    At this point they might as well just rename it PrivacyFox and go the way of Opera, just use Blink but strip out all the tracking. Crankshaft JS could use a bunch more devs.

  4. Why both? on Linux 4.0 Getting No-Reboot Patching · · Score: 1

    Was there general consensus that both methods complemented each other or was it one of those "ours is best so we want it in"? Having looked at how they work each has its pluses and minuses but they couldn't have come up with one? Seems to me like they were sitting around going "yea these are so different there is no way to combine them to make one... and we dont want ours to be left out so fuck it, use em both."

  5. I'd believe it... on Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool · · Score: 1

    I have caught a number of problems documenting my code. When you describe what it is supposed to do and you realize that it really doesn't do that then you can correct as such. I would say I have found more incorrect behavior rather then show stopping bugs. However if we had shipped the product with the code the way it was we would have probably called it a bug so it is probably the same either way.

  6. Re:Why the magnetics? on Raspberry Pi Production Delayed By Factory's Assembly Flub · · Score: 1

    AH! Had not considered the magnetics to be an isolation thing. Thanks Maud'Dave. Hopefully other will see this (or your other post). If I could post and mod I would rate this up.

    I feel a bit foolish now.

  7. Why the magnetics? on Raspberry Pi Production Delayed By Factory's Assembly Flub · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can someone explain to me what advantage a magnetic 8P/8C connector has over a non magnetic one? I have no idea where this would be used. My cables have that little lock tab not a magnet. Does it not need the little tab anymore (that always breaks off)?

  8. I'm guessing.... on Desura Linux Game Client Goes Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Im guessing that they do want to support Linux as a platform but the maintenance of the thing is killing them. Linux gamers exist but for the small numbers they provide I but the upkeep of the client is killing them time wise. Open sourcing the client makes sense if this is the case, otherwise why bother?

  9. Re:And once again I don't hear about it. on Latest Humble Bundle Hits $1 Million · · Score: 1

    Really? I got at least 3 emails from them. The "New bundle going"!, the "Hey, Trauma just got added FOR FREE!!!1!", and the "DOOD! SpaceChem is now in there as well hurry up!" email. You sure you gave them the right email address? Try re-registering or a different email (mine worked via gmail).

  10. Well its a start on The Google+ API Is Released · · Score: 1

    Read only makes it easy to start with. Maybe now tweetdeck and others can get view capabilities. If I can see things on G+ I am likely to go over and post.

    The trick with Write is the authentication. Now google has to figure out how to do an authentication scheme it likes (read "they developed to take over the web") for that to happen.

  11. Re:$6 million? on TN BlueCross Encrypts All Data After 57 Disks Stolen · · Score: 1

    Assuming 100% markup profit margin over baseline (common practice really) were looking at a baseline cost of $3 mil.

    Now we need to factor in an encryption scheme that works across Windows, AIX, etc with enterprise support backing it up say $1.2 million to licence for all servers and locations (seem low but hey) and we have $1.8 million to spend.
    Now we gotta pay people some prices to do that work so lets say $.5 million (500,000) so about $100 per man hour (bout right) and we have $1.3 to spend.
    Now pay the electrical company for all that processing time (depending if they had THEM process it or they did it on their servers) at about $.5 million and we have $.8 million (800k) to explain.
    Throw in some training for a few Ks to ensure the techs know how to handle the system lets say 100,000k for that (ouch! hey that is specializations ya know) 700K to go.
    Maybe a little software rework (even if it wasnt really necessary) for another 100k and we have 600K to explain.
    Opps forgot the "maintenance contract" which is often 10% of the sale price so 600k and lookie there, 6million blown pretty quick.

    Thanks for shopping.

  12. Breaks Jailbreak on Sniffer Hijacks SSL Traffic From Unpatched IPhones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Problem is that applying this update for something that is not likely exploited in the wild will hose your Unteathered Jailbreak. Reports on twitter are that redsn0w pointed at 4.3.4 (or 4.2.9) will work for getting a tethered Jailbreak. Many jailbreakers likely wont bother.

    Wonder if someone will patch this like they did the PDF exploit and put it on Cydia.

  13. Wave extension coming to life on Real-Time Text Over Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk · · Score: 1

    I thought that when Google announced Wave they said it used XMPP for the communications. I assume this is just a formalization of what was created back then?

  14. Re:so? on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    "known USB" means that the Serial Number is known to the central IT manager and approved for use. Not just "oh look this is a legit Cisco" or "nifty a MS flash drive" as know. The flash drive is brought in and signed off for use. Then the only flashdrive based attack is one where a flash drive is lost, infected and then returned.

    Besides, bling drives are usually small anyway and suck. I would be very suspicious of a "bling" drive that was of any large size.

  15. Re:Dupe isn't even a day old!! on Australian ISPs To Start Filtering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Dupe isn't even a day old!!

    Oh I am going to be modded into oblivion for this, and likely loose some karma, but it was actually ~27 hours (4:20 am for article1 on 6-23, 7:19am for article2 on 6-24).

    However this trend is quickly becoming problematic and approaching same front page dupes and soon both in the 15 count RSS feed. Do the editors even read the site?

  16. How will this help? on Australian ISPs To Start Filtering the Internet · · Score: 1
    What I want to know is how filtering of these sites will help at all.

    SERIOUSLY! HOW?

    Here is what I am seeing. Austrailia blocks these sites and what happens:
    1. Technology is downloaded and used to get around this filtering (VPNs,alternate DNS,etc.)
    2. New sites pop up creating a game of whack-a-mole
    3. Lawsuits and public outcry killing the project
    4. Long shot but the viewing of these sites might go down

    Now you will notice that nowhere on that list does the terms "kiddie porn sites go away" or "kids stop being exploited" appear. It will continue to happen at places around the world, I honestly think response will go 1-2-3-4 in Australia, and the intended purpose will never happen. Want a better option one that is even more sinister? Honeypot em. Dont filter. Trap em. Watch the sites you Blacklist, observe the people going, trace and trap the network and strike hard.

    Block sites. Everthing ventured, nothing gained.

  17. odd I thought that existed... on Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage · · Score: 0

    Odd, I could have sworn there was something like this already...... AH! Right. "Tofu."

  18. Coulda just use UT3 as a starting point but no... on Ars Technica Review Slams Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 2

    I always thought that DNF would be easily done as a Unreal Tournament 3 mod. Massive weapon set (10 or more depending on numeric reuse), maze like levels, good look and feel engine (ur3), jiblets and bits code ready. Thought it would have been easy. Guess they wen their own way and screwed it up.

    I played the demo. The instant I had to juggle weapons I gave up on it. Duke deserves better. Try again Gearbox.

  19. Re:Moral of the story on Fired Gucci Employee Accused of Attacking Network · · Score: 1

    Um nothing? I play with them next to my HDs all the time and the backups still work fine. Of course this is my personal machine and I am not to paranoid about the backups getting hosed.

    We also took some HD magnets (scrapped from an old HD we just wiped) and tried to zap a stack of remaining HDs to be wiped with them. No luck. We could still read the data off of it when we tested to see if the magnets worked so we had to DBAN each and every one of them.

    Buckyballs next to the tape archives.... well that's a different story.

  20. Wait he used old passwords? on Fired Gucci Employee Accused of Attacking Network · · Score: 2

    Why wasn't this guys password deactivated? Did Gucci actually have common all-powerful known to all the engineers? We did that at our little IT shop because we didn't have full control of the network (we were a first response team to the main IT guys). It seems like you would give the guys some logins to use to things, use LDAP or ActiveDirectory groups to put them in the admin user level, and then when they leave/fired/downsized/outsourced/etc revoke them from the admin group(s).

    How many times do we need to read "Fired techguy used his/known admin passwords to cause hell" before someone catches on?

  21. OnLive next? on GameStop To Build Its Own Gaming Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't GameStop just buy OnLive and make a special tablet to play their service? Gamestop could promote this as a feature of the play tablet to allow play of many major titles on a portable device.

  22. Re:Ok, Next .... or not cause your stuck. on Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices · · Score: 1

    if you have satellite radio you can listen for free online

    You can listen online for free? News to me. My Sirius package doesn't have internet access last I checked. Maybe I need to try logging in.


    Oh, and just how do you get any of those services on your XBOX360 or other device that ONLY has Last.FM?

  23. Re:Realistic analysis of he daa on Chrome Is the Third Double-Digit Browser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This correlates to IE market loss, so it is reasonable to suggest that chrome users are abandoning IE.

    The simple fact could be that Chrome does not require administrator privileges to install. Users at offices where we are not given admin rights can install Chrome over IE and use it without slogging through a helpdesk ticket for something IT deems unnecessary. This may account for the growth we see as users are looking for more freedom and the bells and whistles a more modern browser with the ability to install extensions without needing better permissions.

    Perhaps we are seeing a leveling out as those who want a different browser are finally being exhausted and entering a "long tail phase".

  24. Re:Dumb question... on Database of Private SSL Keys Published · · Score: 2

    Yes. In the configuration there is a way to turn off wireless config access. Dont remember where it is (probably under the administration tab) but its an enable/disable radio choice.

  25. Ok maybe I am missing something but... on Database of Private SSL Keys Published · · Score: 1
    Ok. I'm still not seeing how this would be valuable. To compromise this wouldn't the following things need to be in place?
    1. Router is being configured via wireless.
    2. No encryption on the wireless signal (or signal encryption is known)
    3. Configuring the router via https (common).

    So if I have WPA2 on and configure my router via a wire how would knowing my routers SSL key be all that valuable?