I feel for the poor sap who flies his drone in to my yard. I have three large dogs who would love to play with such a piece of....plastic. One of which whom LOVES to ingest it. And if neither one of them provide enough substantial damage to said drone, it may suffer some stone-age style wrath (A brick. And then I will make use of the left over hardware after they come looking for something that no longer exists)
I write software. Daily. I've worked with a lot of software writers. I've worked with a lot of good ones, and even more bad ones. The concept of "more people writing drone software" scares the living hell out of me.
We have "the brightest minds" working on automotive software and seem to have problems getting that right and now we want these same people (Read: My comment is sarcastic. Automotive software is shameful. Or, rather, its design is.) writing drone software? No, thanks.
I am ALL FOR open design. I am all for people being able to write what they want. But I am not all for mass production of flying objects with crappy code. And the worst part is, I can see it now: "New, in 2016, DRONE-X runs JAVA! Calling all JAVA Devs!" and then, "New, 3rd QT of 2016: DRONE-XX3 runs Windows 10D (drone)! Calling all MS metro devs!"
Please, be smart about this and do not ruin it like everything else is being ruined, software wise. Be mindful and be smart. Leave hardware and software design to the pros, not the children out of HS who took half a semester of "Intro to JAVA" and must be a super-star!
On a side note, this is a great opportunity for senior programmers to teach the new kids (Stay off my lawn!) how to properly code and how to be mindful of security practices. But keep their code out of the sky. And off our roads. For now.
This is an interesting concept -- language itself.
At what point, does an idea, transcend language? "Art" in English is, as everyone else has stated, "Whatever you want it to be." and in Korea, as Spy Handler stated, "Painting/drawing/sculpture" - so where do they meet? Can one put a mathematical proof to "art" that would bypass language and culture, independently?
IMHO, art is in the eye of the beholder. I am a firm believer that many musics are art forms. Paintings are art. Some video games are art. Tattoos, etc. My list could go on. But in my eyes, what ever -I- perceive as "beautiful" can be art -- Even a beautiful woman may be seen as art.
Perhaps, we has a species, need to globally define art. Or artistic intent. Whichever is easier. Perhaps some mathematician can work on this.
I remember back in high-school (long, long ago,) one of my teachers was attempting to show off the school's new-fangled-lightning-fast T1 line. So he brought up whitehouse.com, not realizing that he had made a horrid mistake.
Unfortunately, that was the first exposure to porn some of my classmates had encountered. It was a sad day for them, realizing there is porn on the internet.
Ironically, I missed school for the next four days.
Iran's SCADA system was attacked and it had a huge air gap.
Basically, the -ONLY- way to keep a computer safe is to...not have a computer. If someone wants in a system bad enough, there is always an attack vector. Be it online or via the best malware carrier of all time -- humans.
I am willing to bet some joe-blow intern infected the network with someone doing some amazingly easy social engineering to him/her.
TL;DR - Internet or not; if someone wants in, they'll get in if two situations are met: 1) The computer is on, 2) People are allowed around the computer.
Then again, I see writing to the partition table / boot sector as on the same level as flashing firmware; it should only be done when absolutely needed and by someone who knows what they're doing and quite qualified. Which would put me rooting for a physical switch even more (I'd have less customers, though).
But the question still begs: Why are we allowed to write to this stuff from userland? Even with admin / root privs?
Err, I didn't mean 'kid' as in a younger person. Because, as you said, relative to the slashdot crowd, I took am a kid. 21.
I meant kid as in the mental competence of a kid (you know, those people who haven't hit teenage years yet.)
And no, i'm not calling anyone old either. I just know some of the bigger geeks of us (The ones I look up to, actually) are in their 30's or higher, so we're 'kids' in terms of age.
I'm going to sacrafice some karma for this, but I truly don't care.
First of all, who cares if Slashdot posts it a little late?
Honestly, Some of us do not visit 'digg' or any of that crap. Why? Becasue it's full of little children who have no idea what they're talking about.
So if it was posted there first, who cares? No one, except for you and the other 'anti-slashdot' kids. If you're so enthralled in the fact that 'digg' posts it first then, guess what? Go there and read digg.
I, personally, am going to stay here at slashdot. Why? Because I can actually get smarter by reading some posts. I just got more ignorant trying to decrypt the aol-leet-speek-kid posts at Digg.
Slashdot may have it's share of problems, but it also has some great minds that read it and contribute.
Thanks for pointing that out as it would seem that I am apparently blind now and not able to read. I guess that is part of being up at 5:45 in the morning.
But on the side (right side) there was a related news story thing and within one of the links it stated,
"(June 25, 2005) -- MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.... "
So, being curious, I clicked the link and oddly enough, it basically stated the same exact stuff. The difference, though? It said MIT did it.
Who are the actual people who did this? Did MIT do it first and Rice got the credits? Am I mis-reading both articles and they're completely different?
You are hereby informed that you Certificate of Graduation from First Post University is hereby declined. We regret this decision and hope that you join our campus again in the future.
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Shhh!
No one is supposed to know that it has been this way forever! It is part of the Super Secret(tm) that us Cool Club Kids (tm) have had for ages.
Don't let it out.
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I was actually thinking the same as I read the article, but I was thinking more along the lines of, "Wow, that is quite clever. Innovative, too. Wonder why I couldn't think of something like that."
It is quite true though that the talent these days seems to be going to those who like to do something malicious with their talent. It saddens me to no end, but I do believe this is a common road that those with actual talent and insight seem to be wanting to follow these days; it's a trend.
But, alas, I digress. Maybe this guy (or kid) will see the grey or perhaps even the white in his days and come on over and give us a hand.
Oh, that is definitly wrong. I have yet to encounter a rootkit on a Windows machine but the linux machines I administer, I have seen a few.
Infact, if you do a search for root kits on google, I am willing to bet that 90% of what google returns will be about linux/unix based rootkits. Why? Because they make it easier to over-take a server and we all know that most -big servers- are linux machines. Those are the ones that the little script kiddies want so they can take advantage of big pipes and try to DDoS their schools or something -- whatever the hell these 12 year olds are doing these days.
So yes, in this case, "Windows is the problem" doesn't really fly. Any OS is technically open to an attack from a rootkit. It all depends on the author of said rootkit to be persistant.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a linux lover and don't really like Windows that much (even though I use it) but the whole Linux Vs Windows argument isn't going to fly very far in this case. Infact, if I'm correct in thinking (Think I am, correct me if I'm not) the first rootkit was on AT&T unix (?) and did much of the same things todays rootkits do; replace core commands such as ls, ps, top, etc. They're just now morphing over to Windows.
As it is, I run with 3 monitors (three seperate video cards) and, even though they're side by side, they offer alot to more than just the average coder.
Center monitor for my main IDE, left monitor for my debug/compile station and the right monitor for misc. crap such as messengers and other little things (like slashdot.)
3x17" crts. Yes, it's power hungry and yes, it can keep the room bright all night long with no need for lighting.
As for anything else, I would suggest erganomic keyboards if you can type on them as well as mesh chairs. Which is what I prefer, myself -- The mesh helps your body breath when you're doing extended coding sessions and also looks cool.
As for pointing devices, well, whatever feels comfortable in your hands. Honestly, when you're coding, you aren't going to be using the mouse for much. So no need to go overboard with it.
It's also nice to have a good sound setup (if you're allowed. If not, good headphones!) so that the music can keep you company.
Perhaps, but the same logic still applies; this guy was not just stealing it, he was making himself a target to be caught.
He is obviously not very smart, either, considering he was seen for the past three months in the same locations. That usualy means he was using the same network for the same deeds each time.
Honestly, I do not blame the UK government for going down on this guy; he deserves it. Especially since he was stupid enough to get caught the way he did. Sure, war driving is one thing, but blatently sitting infront of someone's home, leeching their network is a whole different case.
Sadly, this is just like what happened to the term "hacker" back in the day - it was idiots, like this guy, that ruined it for the real "hackers" out there; the script kiddies. Now, guys like this, and the other guy that got caught doing it, will give the term "war driving" a bad name. Hell, you mention "war driving" somewhere and people are going to start believing you're a "hacker" who uses "linux" to steal credit cards from them.
All in all, people should learn to secure their wireless networks. If they are unable to, or know nothing about the processes, they should be wired like the other drones. Or they should simply hire someone to secure it for them -- It's honestly not that difficult these days, especially with a linksys router. You simply type in a few things and click a coulpe check boxes and you're done. But this does prove that the common person, joe sixpack if you will, does not care enough about computer security to do anything until someone takes advantage of them. Then they cry foul.
I'm not quite sure that thing is very accurate. It does not take into consideration other hardware, nor does it take into consideration of any mods of the like that people may do.
As it is, I run an AMD xp, 5 80mm case fans, 1 120mm exhaust fan, cd-rom, dvd drive, 2 hard drives (both 7,200 RPM) and 3 nVidia graphics cards (tripple monitor. 1x agp, 2x pci) and 1gb of DDR memory (two sticks)
You must also realize, that if you have *just enough* power from your PSU to power your system, that you're going to make that PSU work harder to produce that power. Which means, quite honestly, more heat and we all know what more heat leads to. A bigger PSU doesn't have to work as hard to supply power to all your parts.
As it is, I run an Antec 550watt True Power 2.0, and although I'm not maxing it out (yet), it does get a strain on startups.
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Those damn 8bit games. Just imagine the time he would spend if they were 32 bit ints.
6 hours? Psh.
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Haha.
Indeed!
I feel for the poor sap who flies his drone in to my yard. I have three large dogs who would love to play with such a piece of....plastic. One of which whom LOVES to ingest it. And if neither one of them provide enough substantial damage to said drone, it may suffer some stone-age style wrath (A brick. And then I will make use of the left over hardware after they come looking for something that no longer exists)
I like the concept of drones.
I write software. Daily. I've worked with a lot of software writers. I've worked with a lot of good ones, and even more bad ones. The concept of "more people writing drone software" scares the living hell out of me.
We have "the brightest minds" working on automotive software and seem to have problems getting that right and now we want these same people (Read: My comment is sarcastic. Automotive software is shameful. Or, rather, its design is.) writing drone software? No, thanks.
I am ALL FOR open design. I am all for people being able to write what they want. But I am not all for mass production of flying objects with crappy code. And the worst part is, I can see it now: "New, in 2016, DRONE-X runs JAVA! Calling all JAVA Devs!" and then, "New, 3rd QT of 2016: DRONE-XX3 runs Windows 10D (drone)! Calling all MS metro devs!"
Please, be smart about this and do not ruin it like everything else is being ruined, software wise. Be mindful and be smart. Leave hardware and software design to the pros, not the children out of HS who took half a semester of "Intro to JAVA" and must be a super-star!
On a side note, this is a great opportunity for senior programmers to teach the new kids (Stay off my lawn!) how to properly code and how to be mindful of security practices. But keep their code out of the sky. And off our roads. For now.
Is mathematics art? Absolutely.
Geek moment: Without Math, art cannot exist. ;)
This is an interesting concept -- language itself.
At what point, does an idea, transcend language? "Art" in English is, as everyone else has stated, "Whatever you want it to be." and in Korea, as Spy Handler stated, "Painting/drawing/sculpture" - so where do they meet? Can one put a mathematical proof to "art" that would bypass language and culture, independently?
IMHO, art is in the eye of the beholder. I am a firm believer that many musics are art forms. Paintings are art. Some video games are art. Tattoos, etc. My list could go on. But in my eyes, what ever -I- perceive as "beautiful" can be art -- Even a beautiful woman may be seen as art.
Perhaps, we has a species, need to globally define art. Or artistic intent. Whichever is easier. Perhaps some mathematician can work on this.
I remember back in high-school (long, long ago,) one of my teachers was attempting to show off the school's new-fangled-lightning-fast T1 line. So he brought up whitehouse.com, not realizing that he had made a horrid mistake.
Unfortunately, that was the first exposure to porn some of my classmates had encountered. It was a sad day for them, realizing there is porn on the internet.
Ironically, I missed school for the next four days.
Iran's SCADA system was attacked and it had a huge air gap.
Basically, the -ONLY- way to keep a computer safe is to...not have a computer. If someone wants in a system bad enough, there is always an attack vector. Be it online or via the best malware carrier of all time -- humans.
I am willing to bet some joe-blow intern infected the network with someone doing some amazingly easy social engineering to him/her.
TL;DR - Internet or not; if someone wants in, they'll get in if two situations are met: 1) The computer is on, 2) People are allowed around the computer.
You sir, owe me one can of mountain dew, a new corsair keyboard and 4 acer 24" monitors.
Thank you for that. I laughed. Hard.
I'm all for a physical switch.
Most of my customers would not be, however.
Then again, I see writing to the partition table / boot sector as on the same level as flashing firmware; it should only be done when absolutely needed and by someone who knows what they're doing and quite qualified. Which would put me rooting for a physical switch even more (I'd have less customers, though).
But the question still begs: Why are we allowed to write to this stuff from userland? Even with admin / root privs?
Or, you know, disable the ability to write to the boot sector / partition table without specialized permission.
One time toggle in the bios means you can write to partition table on next boot. Want to write to it again? Toggle it in bios again.
Also, why can we write to the partition table and bootsector from userland again?
You can already have Froyo on your capitvate; I'm currently running it now.
Look at the cognition or perception roms from XDA-developers.
Not true, actually.
Most slashdotting happens because of hardware issues, not upstream bandwidth.
Although, 2tb of bandwidth would be freakin' amazing for some stuff for a botnet to get ahold of..
Quick! Everyone call up the nearest script kiddie and get to work!
Err, I didn't mean 'kid' as in a younger person. Because, as you said, relative to the slashdot crowd, I took am a kid. 21.
I meant kid as in the mental competence of a kid (you know, those people who haven't hit teenage years yet.)
And no, i'm not calling anyone old either. I just know some of the bigger geeks of us (The ones I look up to, actually) are in their 30's or higher, so we're 'kids' in terms of age.
I'm going to sacrafice some karma for this, but I truly don't care.
First of all, who cares if Slashdot posts it a little late?
Honestly, Some of us do not visit 'digg' or any of that crap. Why? Becasue it's full of little children who have no idea what they're talking about.
So if it was posted there first, who cares? No one, except for you and the other 'anti-slashdot' kids. If you're so enthralled in the fact that 'digg' posts it first then, guess what? Go there and read digg.
I, personally, am going to stay here at slashdot. Why? Because I can actually get smarter by reading some posts. I just got more ignorant trying to decrypt the aol-leet-speek-kid posts at Digg.
Slashdot may have it's share of problems, but it also has some great minds that read it and contribute.
You know, that makes alot of since now.
Thanks for pointing that out as it would seem that I am apparently blind now and not able to read. I guess that is part of being up at 5:45 in the morning.
Again, thanks man.
I read the article.
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I read it well.
But on the side (right side) there was a related news story thing and within one of the links it stated,
"(June 25, 2005) -- MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.
So, being curious, I clicked the link and oddly enough, it basically stated the same exact stuff. The difference, though? It said MIT did it.
Who are the actual people who did this? Did MIT do it first and Rice got the credits? Am I mis-reading both articles and they're completely different?
TFA: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/0512
MIT Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/0506
Dear AC,
You are hereby informed that you Certificate of Graduation from First Post University is hereby declined. We regret this decision and hope that you join our campus again in the future.
Yours truly,
Bioteq.
Shhh!
No one is supposed to know that it has been this way forever! It is part of the Super Secret(tm) that us Cool Club Kids (tm) have had for ages.
Don't let it out.
I was actually thinking the same as I read the article, but I was thinking more along the lines of, "Wow, that is quite clever. Innovative, too. Wonder why I couldn't think of something like that."
It is quite true though that the talent these days seems to be going to those who like to do something malicious with their talent. It saddens me to no end, but I do believe this is a common road that those with actual talent and insight seem to be wanting to follow these days; it's a trend.
But, alas, I digress. Maybe this guy (or kid) will see the grey or perhaps even the white in his days and come on over and give us a hand.
Oh, that is definitly wrong. I have yet to encounter a rootkit on a Windows machine but the linux machines I administer, I have seen a few.
Infact, if you do a search for root kits on google, I am willing to bet that 90% of what google returns will be about linux/unix based rootkits. Why? Because they make it easier to over-take a server and we all know that most -big servers- are linux machines. Those are the ones that the little script kiddies want so they can take advantage of big pipes and try to DDoS their schools or something -- whatever the hell these 12 year olds are doing these days.
So yes, in this case, "Windows is the problem" doesn't really fly. Any OS is technically open to an attack from a rootkit. It all depends on the author of said rootkit to be persistant.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a linux lover and don't really like Windows that much (even though I use it) but the whole Linux Vs Windows argument isn't going to fly very far in this case. Infact, if I'm correct in thinking (Think I am, correct me if I'm not) the first rootkit was on AT&T unix (?) and did much of the same things todays rootkits do; replace core commands such as ls, ps, top, etc. They're just now morphing over to Windows.
Definitly congrats on the upgrade. Slashdot opens so much smother for me now.
I do believe you guys are up for a case of beer or two.
I actually have to agree with that.
As it is, I run with 3 monitors (three seperate video cards) and, even though they're side by side, they offer alot to more than just the average coder.
Center monitor for my main IDE, left monitor for my debug/compile station and the right monitor for misc. crap such as messengers and other little things (like slashdot.)
3x17" crts. Yes, it's power hungry and yes, it can keep the room bright all night long with no need for lighting.
As for anything else, I would suggest erganomic keyboards if you can type on them as well as mesh chairs. Which is what I prefer, myself -- The mesh helps your body breath when you're doing extended coding sessions and also looks cool.
As for pointing devices, well, whatever feels comfortable in your hands. Honestly, when you're coding, you aren't going to be using the mouse for much. So no need to go overboard with it.
It's also nice to have a good sound setup (if you're allowed. If not, good headphones!) so that the music can keep you company.
GOod luck.
Heh. I'm glad you caught that.
It would seem I wrote that a bit backwards. It should read something along these lines:
"The term hacker was ruined for the real "hackers" by script kiddies."
Thanks for catching that.
Perhaps, but the same logic still applies; this guy was not just stealing it, he was making himself a target to be caught.
He is obviously not very smart, either, considering he was seen for the past three months in the same locations. That usualy means he was using the same network for the same deeds each time.
Honestly, I do not blame the UK government for going down on this guy; he deserves it. Especially since he was stupid enough to get caught the way he did. Sure, war driving is one thing, but blatently sitting infront of someone's home, leeching their network is a whole different case.
Sadly, this is just like what happened to the term "hacker" back in the day - it was idiots, like this guy, that ruined it for the real "hackers" out there; the script kiddies. Now, guys like this, and the other guy that got caught doing it, will give the term "war driving" a bad name. Hell, you mention "war driving" somewhere and people are going to start believing you're a "hacker" who uses "linux" to steal credit cards from them.
All in all, people should learn to secure their wireless networks. If they are unable to, or know nothing about the processes, they should be wired like the other drones. Or they should simply hire someone to secure it for them -- It's honestly not that difficult these days, especially with a linksys router. You simply type in a few things and click a coulpe check boxes and you're done. But this does prove that the common person, joe sixpack if you will, does not care enough about computer security to do anything until someone takes advantage of them. Then they cry foul.
I'm not quite sure that thing is very accurate. It does not take into consideration other hardware, nor does it take into consideration of any mods of the like that people may do.
As it is, I run an AMD xp, 5 80mm case fans, 1 120mm exhaust fan, cd-rom, dvd drive, 2 hard drives (both 7,200 RPM) and 3 nVidia graphics cards (tripple monitor. 1x agp, 2x pci) and 1gb of DDR memory (two sticks)
You must also realize, that if you have *just enough* power from your PSU to power your system, that you're going to make that PSU work harder to produce that power. Which means, quite honestly, more heat and we all know what more heat leads to. A bigger PSU doesn't have to work as hard to supply power to all your parts.
As it is, I run an Antec 550watt True Power 2.0, and although I'm not maxing it out (yet), it does get a strain on startups.
Those damn 8bit games. Just imagine the time he would spend if they were 32 bit ints. 6 hours? Psh.