Quote: "The attack works for distances of one to four meters..."
If you can get so close to the machine, then there are better ways of getting data off it.
Maybe, but in a lot of cases there aren't. Every air-gapped computer I've ever used at work has been in a secure physical environment where electronic devices capable of recording or storing anything or connecting to any kind of network are strictly prohibited. The security folks even nixed a digital clock because it had WiFi for time sync. And the computers themselves had no working external mass storage capability, network ports, or optical drives. Computer cases have anti-tamper seals on them, and access to the room requires a badge swipe that timestamps your entry. You can lose your job for having a phone in your pocket, and if you were actually caught trying to take information out of the room in anything other than your brain, you would likely be prosecuted.
Frankly, I have trouble imagining how the malware could end up on one of these computers in the first place.
How is "killed 49 people at a gay nightclub" any more informative than "killed 49 people at a nightclub".
You really need to have that explained? "killed 49 people at a gay nightclub" is more informative than "killed 49 people at a nightclub" because it contains more information.
The requirements I cited were from an FAA-approved training center. If you have a Part 61 certificate, you've had a BFR within the last 24 months anyway, right? You have to do that to maintain your pilot's license anyway. it's not a _requirement_ for the small UAS certificate; it allows you to bypass the "initial aeronautical knowledge test" otherwise required for the small UAS certificate. As far as being more than what's required under a COA, that isn't exactly surprising. From Part 107:
To qualify for a remote pilot certificate, a person must:
o Demonstrate aeronautical knowledge by either:
-- Passing an initial aeronautical knowledge test at
an FAA-approved knowledge testing center; or -- Hold a part 61 pilot certificate other than student
pilot, complete a flight review within the previous
24 months, and complete a small UAS online
training course provided by the FAA.
o Be vetted by the Transportation Security
Administration.
o Be at least 16 years old
If you look at the requirements for a "remote pilot certificate"
I did look. 16 hours of web-based in-home ground school, 10 hours of in-home UAV/Drone PC-based simulator, and 16 hours of hands-on flight training at a training facility. That doesn't sound to onerous to me. And you don't need any certification at all if all you're doing is flying in your back yard, as long as it's not for commercial purposes.
when can i get a waiver for driving on the ground, and they let these people fly drones commercially, what happens when the Coca Cola bottling company uses drones to deliver cases of coke to the local stores and they drop them on top of people? there needs to be accountability and liability for commercial drones flying over populated areas
From the FAA press release: "The new regulations also address height and speed restrictions and other operational limits, such as prohibiting flights over unprotected people on the ground who aren’t directly participating in the UAS operation." Also, see SceentCone's comment regarding the laws of physics.
Amazon's drone delivery dreams aside, the vast majority of commercial drone usage is going to be infrastructure (power grid, railway bridges, etc.) or agriculture (crop monitoring). Plus (maybe) inspection of hard-to-reach areas of homes such as roofs and rain gutters.
The actual rules seem to say that you DO need a license to fly a drone commercially. TFS and TFA do not agree on this one.
TFS says you don't need an airplane pilot license. Under the old rules, a commercial UAS operator had to have an airplane pilot license. Under the new rules, the requirement is for an operator to "be at least 16 years old and have a remote pilot certificate with a small UAS rating, or be directly supervised by someone with such a certificate."
It's fascinating to me that this mischaracterization of the meaning of "steal" has hung around for as long as it has.
IS it a mischaractarization, really? I mean, look we're talking about something that in the physical world has a very specific meaning, AND a very specific set of psychological and physical effects that fail to be present when something is digitally copied.
Psychological and physical effects have nothing at all to do with the definition of "steal". Now, if he were being sued for emotional distress, you might be on to something. It's really not that complicated. If you're in possession of something that doesn't belong to you as a result taking that something without the owner's permission, you have stolen it. And please note that the definition of "take" doesn't have anything to do with depriving the original owner of possession.
No product was stolen. The guy may have violated several laws, but he did not remove any objects from their owner's possession - the essential condition for an act to be defined as theft. It wasn't theft anymore than it was arson, loitering or fishing without a permit.
It's fascinating to me that this mischaracterization of the meaning of "steal" has hung around for as long as it has. I suspect that most of the people who believe this have never bothered themselves to consult a dictionary.
Very few people who think just like me would consider copying a form of theft.
Fixed that for you. None of the common dictionary definitions for "steal" mention depriving the original owner of anything. The one that seems most appropriate in this context is, "to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment."
The fact that someone is familiar with the accepted meaning of words does not mean they've been brainwashed by the media industry. That you subscribe to a non-standard definition suggests that you've been engaging in a practice commonly referred to as "drinking your own bathwater."
Yeah, I came here to say something similar, then I saw your post. Is there something (aside from the legal issues) that make marijuana a unique product?
The definition is case sensitive. "Solar System" is our Sun and the stuff in orbit about it; "solar system" is any star and the stuff in orbit about it.
40% smaller in volume translates to 16% smaller in each dimension. Whoo hoo!! that's so exciting.
TFA is sadly lacking in details; however, the 'S' in the model name stands for 'Slim', implying that the reduction is in one dimension, presumably height. Personally, I think they should have left the measurements alone and put in a higher-capacity battery. Oh wait, that comment is for smart phones. Never mind.
MS must just have cash to burn. This is one of the stupidest acquisitions I have ever heard of. Best I can tell, LinkedIn, serves most people as nothing more than a centrally-maintained contact list so they can find somewhat current contact info for former coworkers. Where is the revenue stream in that?
Has LinkedIn *ever* turned a profit?
Microsoft is rapidly devolving into the most clueless tech firm out there...
Linkedin makes a lot of money through job listings. It's very expensive to list a job opening.
But no, Linkedin is not currently profitable. On the other hand, they have a lot of cash ($3.16B). and revenue is up 35% for the current quarter.
Those roads do not belong to property owners, residents, or communities (unless hey are private and gated). They belong to the tax-paying public, the owners are those users driving down the road!
So, if you're in my state and you're commuting from Town A to Town C, you should stay the hell off the residential streets in Town B. Residential roads are built and maintained by the town in which they are located. Non-resident commuters passing through the town don't pay anything for the construction or maintenance of these roads.
Remember how bad McCarthism was, but McCarthy only targeted State Department employees.
McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee persecuted many people not employed in any capacity by the Federal government. Do the words, "Hollywood blacklist" ring a bell?
I have no problem with closing corporate tax loopholes, reducing corporate subsidies, and increasing corporate taxes in general; however, it's naive to think that those measures would not increase the prices for consumer goods and services provided by corporations whose taxes suddenly take a massive hike. So not an explicit increase in taxes for the general public, but the same effect.
Except that it's not that simple (biology never is). Yes, multiple codons may code for a single amino acid, but they may yield different expression levels or transcription rates. In the genetic manipulation world, "codon optimization" is already a thing.
Same here. My wife and I have the lowest tier Verizon data plan (1GB shared) and haven't exceeded the allotment a single time in four years. But then, neither of us is fond of spending a lot of time hunched over a tiny screen watching video.
Go into Google Maps, click the menu bar, and then open up "Your timeline". It has a calendar display, and you can click on any date in the past year and a half (on mine, at least), and it pretty much tells you where you went, and how long you were there. It's spooky. I mean, we all knew the technology was here, but it's another thing to realize that they've actually done it. Even when you aren't navigating, even if you've disabled hi-res location services. Plus, they have a nice UI for telling you they did all this, implying that nothing's wrong with this picture.
Gee. When I open up "Your timeline", I get an option to turn on Location History, with "Turn On" and "Learn More" buttons. There's also a "SKIP" link, that when clicked, displays a map of an nowhere close to my location, along with the legend, "No visited places".
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if you were actually caught trying to take information out of the room in anything other than your brain, you would likely be prosecuted.
Unless you're Hillary.
Probably true, but highly speculative; as far as I can tell, she never bothered to use a secure computer or network in the first place.
Quote: "The attack works for distances of one to four meters..."
If you can get so close to the machine, then there are better ways of getting data off it.
Maybe, but in a lot of cases there aren't. Every air-gapped computer I've ever used at work has been in a secure physical environment where electronic devices capable of recording or storing anything or connecting to any kind of network are strictly prohibited. The security folks even nixed a digital clock because it had WiFi for time sync. And the computers themselves had no working external mass storage capability, network ports, or optical drives. Computer cases have anti-tamper seals on them, and access to the room requires a badge swipe that timestamps your entry. You can lose your job for having a phone in your pocket, and if you were actually caught trying to take information out of the room in anything other than your brain, you would likely be prosecuted.
Frankly, I have trouble imagining how the malware could end up on one of these computers in the first place.
How is "killed 49 people at a gay nightclub" any more informative than "killed 49 people at a nightclub".
You really need to have that explained? "killed 49 people at a gay nightclub" is more informative than "killed 49 people at a nightclub" because it contains more information.
Posting to undo a bad mod
The requirements I cited were from an FAA-approved training center. If you have a Part 61 certificate, you've had a BFR within the last 24 months anyway, right? You have to do that to maintain your pilot's license anyway. it's not a _requirement_ for the small UAS certificate; it allows you to bypass the "initial aeronautical knowledge test" otherwise required for the small UAS certificate. As far as being more than what's required under a COA, that isn't exactly surprising. From Part 107:
To qualify for a remote pilot certificate, a person must:
o Demonstrate aeronautical knowledge by either:
-- Passing an initial aeronautical knowledge test at an FAA-approved knowledge testing center; or
-- Hold a part 61 pilot certificate other than student pilot, complete a flight review within the previous 24 months, and complete a small UAS online training course provided by the FAA.
o Be vetted by the Transportation Security Administration.
o Be at least 16 years old
If you look at the requirements for a "remote pilot certificate"
I did look. 16 hours of web-based in-home ground school, 10 hours of in-home UAV/Drone PC-based simulator, and 16 hours of hands-on flight training at a training facility. That doesn't sound to onerous to me. And you don't need any certification at all if all you're doing is flying in your back yard, as long as it's not for commercial purposes.
when can i get a waiver for driving on the ground, and they let these people fly drones commercially, what happens when the Coca Cola bottling company uses drones to deliver cases of coke to the local stores and they drop them on top of people? there needs to be accountability and liability for commercial drones flying over populated areas
From the FAA press release: "The new regulations also address height and speed restrictions and other operational limits, such as prohibiting flights over unprotected people on the ground who aren’t directly participating in the UAS operation." Also, see SceentCone's comment regarding the laws of physics.
Amazon's drone delivery dreams aside, the vast majority of commercial drone usage is going to be infrastructure (power grid, railway bridges, etc.) or agriculture (crop monitoring). Plus (maybe) inspection of hard-to-reach areas of homes such as roofs and rain gutters.
The actual rules seem to say that you DO need a license to fly a drone commercially. TFS and TFA do not agree on this one.
TFS says you don't need an airplane pilot license. Under the old rules, a commercial UAS operator had to have an airplane pilot license. Under the new rules, the requirement is for an operator to "be at least 16 years old and have a remote pilot certificate with a small UAS rating, or be directly supervised by someone with such a certificate."
It's fascinating to me that this mischaracterization of the meaning of "steal" has hung around for as long as it has.
IS it a mischaractarization, really? I mean, look we're talking about something that in the physical world has a very specific meaning, AND a very specific set of psychological and physical effects that fail to be present when something is digitally copied .
Psychological and physical effects have nothing at all to do with the definition of "steal". Now, if he were being sued for emotional distress, you might be on to something. It's really not that complicated. If you're in possession of something that doesn't belong to you as a result taking that something without the owner's permission, you have stolen it. And please note that the definition of "take" doesn't have anything to do with depriving the original owner of possession.
No product was stolen. The guy may have violated several laws, but he did not remove any objects from their owner's possession - the essential condition for an act to be defined as theft. It wasn't theft anymore than it was arson, loitering or fishing without a permit.
It's fascinating to me that this mischaracterization of the meaning of "steal" has hung around for as long as it has. I suspect that most of the people who believe this have never bothered themselves to consult a dictionary.
Very few people who think just like me would consider copying a form of theft.
Fixed that for you. None of the common dictionary definitions for "steal" mention depriving the original owner of anything. The one that seems most appropriate in this context is, "to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment."
The fact that someone is familiar with the accepted meaning of words does not mean they've been brainwashed by the media industry. That you subscribe to a non-standard definition suggests that you've been engaging in a practice commonly referred to as "drinking your own bathwater."
Yeah, I came here to say something similar, then I saw your post. Is there something (aside from the legal issues) that make marijuana a unique product?
The definition is case sensitive. "Solar System" is our Sun and the stuff in orbit about it; "solar system" is any star and the stuff in orbit about it.
CAN'T care less
Someone needs to brush up on accepted usage.
40% smaller in volume translates to 16% smaller in each dimension. Whoo hoo!! that's so exciting.
TFA is sadly lacking in details; however, the 'S' in the model name stands for 'Slim', implying that the reduction is in one dimension, presumably height. Personally, I think they should have left the measurements alone and put in a higher-capacity battery. Oh wait, that comment is for smart phones. Never mind.
MS must just have cash to burn. This is one of the stupidest acquisitions I have ever heard of. Best I can tell, LinkedIn, serves most people as nothing more than a centrally-maintained contact list so they can find somewhat current contact info for former coworkers. Where is the revenue stream in that?
Has LinkedIn *ever* turned a profit?
Microsoft is rapidly devolving into the most clueless tech firm out there...
Linkedin makes a lot of money through job listings. It's very expensive to list a job opening.
But no, Linkedin is not currently profitable. On the other hand, they have a lot of cash ($3.16B). and revenue is up 35% for the current quarter.
Those roads do not belong to property owners, residents, or communities (unless hey are private and gated). They belong to the tax-paying public, the owners are those users driving down the road!
So, if you're in my state and you're commuting from Town A to Town C, you should stay the hell off the residential streets in Town B. Residential roads are built and maintained by the town in which they are located. Non-resident commuters passing through the town don't pay anything for the construction or maintenance of these roads.
Remember how bad McCarthism was, but McCarthy only targeted State Department employees.
McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee persecuted many people not employed in any capacity by the Federal government. Do the words, "Hollywood blacklist" ring a bell?
I sense a LOCKDOWN coming.
I have no problem with closing corporate tax loopholes, reducing corporate subsidies, and increasing corporate taxes in general; however, it's naive to think that those measures would not increase the prices for consumer goods and services provided by corporations whose taxes suddenly take a massive hike. So not an explicit increase in taxes for the general public, but the same effect.
Except that it's not that simple (biology never is). Yes, multiple codons may code for a single amino acid, but they may yield different expression levels or transcription rates. In the genetic manipulation world, "codon optimization" is already a thing.
Or, to put it another way, "Wow, biology is impossible."
Here in Portland Oregon, you could drive for years without ever hearing someone honk their horn.
There in Portland, Oregon, people drive so slowly that it's faster to walk.
Same here. My wife and I have the lowest tier Verizon data plan (1GB shared) and haven't exceeded the allotment a single time in four years. But then, neither of us is fond of spending a lot of time hunched over a tiny screen watching video.
It's a no-brainer choice here.
I agree completely. No brains to choose from at all.
Go into Google Maps, click the menu bar, and then open up "Your timeline". It has a calendar display, and you can click on any date in the past year and a half (on mine, at least), and it pretty much tells you where you went, and how long you were there. It's spooky. I mean, we all knew the technology was here, but it's another thing to realize that they've actually done it. Even when you aren't navigating, even if you've disabled hi-res location services. Plus, they have a nice UI for telling you they did all this, implying that nothing's wrong with this picture.
Gee. When I open up "Your timeline", I get an option to turn on Location History, with "Turn On" and "Learn More" buttons. There's also a "SKIP" link, that when clicked, displays a map of an nowhere close to my location, along with the legend, "No visited places".
Not even tempted to turn on this feature.