I sold a car some time back, and the buyer handed me an envelope with 100$ bills in it. That to me was exactly what I wanted.
There are ATM machines that dispense 100$ bills if you take out several hundred at a time. Other ATM machines hand out 50$ bills. The machines that only hand out 20$ bills are annoying in that the stack of bills gets to be rather thick.
I think the main motivation that people that Larry Summers have is to capture more fees for end users.
For random browsing of the news, it might be fine. But the other problem with free WiFi in places like airports is that kids will start streaming music and videos and it will be dog slow.
In reality, I am not sure if there is much difference between free WiFi at an airport and free WiFi at a hotel or a coffee shop. They are all effectively the same thing from an insecurity perspective.
Of those that are disappointed in not having a removable/replaceable battery. I guess the main thing for me is that I keep phones a bit longer than most people, and it isn't uncommon for the battery life to slowly degrade. Ordering a replacement always fixes it (as long as you get a good quality battery, and not some after-market piece of crap).
Not being able to replace the battery just seems like planned obsolescence. They want to force you down a path where your only good option is to just buy another phone.
The malware does encrypt files, but it does so by simply XORing each byte in all files by the fixed integer number 50. That means that the malware’s claims that the files can’t be decrypted without paying the ransom and receiving the decryption key is not true.
That's about how I look at it. Anyone can download the list of the things that the tool found and see for themselves what kinds of issues it was uncovering - the things that it is finding are certainly valid concerns.
What I find interesting about what it did find is that some of the issues are looking at the code formatting as an indication of what was intended, and it is flagging things that seem suspicious and/or inconsistent. Just using a normal compiler isn't going to catch these sorts of things since compilers generally don't care about whitespace.
Yeah, it is a lot of money. Really good developer tools usually are since you don't sell as many seats (Note that I haven't used this one, so I can't say whether it fits into the "really good" category). But finding these sorts of problems the "old-fashioned" way is generally a lot harder.
Sometimes one can find these sorts of things by turning compiler warning levels up. But not all such problems can be found this way.
It is funny that you say that the Shah was the legitimate head of state, when in fact he was placed in power by a CIA-inspired coup which deposed Mosaddeq.
Ultimately people will figure out some other ways to filter HTML5 adverts.
Flash is a security nightmare - I generally never want to install, but some products (cough, VMWare) seem to insist on it. About the only thing I ever want to do that requires flash is watch some types of videos.
You would want to have a really dry audio track - perhaps a computer voice reading some long novel - say "Moby Dick". If the computer mispronounces some words, it wouldn't be a big deal. Except that you would slip in some swearing in the middle somewhere - spoken by the same monotone computer voice in the same speaking pattern as the rest of it.
An alternative would be to have the soundtrack be 10 hours of a crying baby (undoubtedly a much shorter clip in a loop). Which for most people would be torture to listen to. But in the middle of it you could have an adult come in and swear at the baby.
A few years after this, we got some *very* early 8086 chips on an educational discount. We breadboarded the thing by attaching power, clock, and wired up the memory lines to make it look like it was just reading NOP instructions from ever address, and then watched the address lines to see the thing count up.
in the *very* early days (0.9x), and back then Linus never seemed like much of a dick, but then again, at the time he was still a student. Even met him face-to-face a couple of times. I stepped away due to the huge time commitments required by my regular job, not because of any issues I had with anyone.
The stories I hear leave me scratching my head. This isn't the Linus I knew back in the day. I guess all the fame and all of that must have gone to his head.
Yes, because of work that I have done in the past. I have seen the level of process audits that the automakers require of their suppliers, and I have seen the kind of process management software that is used to track requirements/specifications/changes and all the rest of that. That being said, I have no recollection/memory of how VW does things.
When all of this is in place, you can't change a single line of code without it being justified, specified, written, tested, and finally signed off on, and *everything* is traceable. Could one hack the database? In theory, I suppose, but doing so would elevate this to a whole new level of fraud, and if you screw it up and corrupt the database then the whole company could be dead in the water.
I call BS on that. There is no way that a rogue engineer would do such a thing on their own - they would only do it because management wanted them to.
For that matter, you can't even sneeze in the auto industry without there being a paper trail. Once the investigators start digging they will find all kinds of stuff about the requirements and specifications documents that preceded the actual software changes. You will find the actual engineers who did the work, and you will find the people who signed off on it when the work was done...
This nonsense has been posted for months. Usually it gets modded down to -1 pretty quickly so most people won't even see it, but someone out there chooses to waste their time posting this gunk.
You could tweak the thing to intentionally send the wrong information to the people controlling the malware. They might think you have one hand and bet accordingly, when in fact you have something completely different. The problem is that they would figure out that something was wrong pretty quickly.
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I am thinking of Bender from Futurama downloading robot porn.
I sold a car some time back, and the buyer handed me an envelope with 100$ bills in it. That to me was exactly what I wanted.
There are ATM machines that dispense 100$ bills if you take out several hundred at a time. Other ATM machines hand out 50$ bills. The machines that only hand out 20$ bills are annoying in that the stack of bills gets to be rather thick.
I think the main motivation that people that Larry Summers have is to capture more fees for end users.
For random browsing of the news, it might be fine. But the other problem with free WiFi in places like airports is that kids will start streaming music and videos and it will be dog slow.
In reality, I am not sure if there is much difference between free WiFi at an airport and free WiFi at a hotel or a coffee shop. They are all effectively the same thing from an insecurity perspective.
Coffee at work, and booze at home.
Of those that are disappointed in not having a removable/replaceable battery. I guess the main thing for me is that I keep phones a bit longer than most people, and it isn't uncommon for the battery life to slowly degrade. Ordering a replacement always fixes it (as long as you get a good quality battery, and not some after-market piece of crap).
Not being able to replace the battery just seems like planned obsolescence. They want to force you down a path where your only good option is to just buy another phone.
That ship has already sailed - I think they have effectively admitted that in principle it can be done.
If in principle it couldn't be done, then Apple's position would be far easier. They could just come back and say sorry - it just isn't possible.
Good grief:
The malware does encrypt files, but it does so by simply XORing each byte in all files by the fixed integer number 50. That means that the malware’s claims that the files can’t be decrypted without paying the ransom and receiving the decryption key is not true.
That's about how I look at it. Anyone can download the list of the things that the tool found and see for themselves what kinds of issues it was uncovering - the things that it is finding are certainly valid concerns.
What I find interesting about what it did find is that some of the issues are looking at the code formatting as an indication of what was intended, and it is flagging things that seem suspicious and/or inconsistent. Just using a normal compiler isn't going to catch these sorts of things since compilers generally don't care about whitespace.
Yeah, it is a lot of money. Really good developer tools usually are since you don't sell as many seats (Note that I haven't used this one, so I can't say whether it fits into the "really good" category). But finding these sorts of problems the "old-fashioned" way is generally a lot harder.
Sometimes one can find these sorts of things by turning compiler warning levels up. But not all such problems can be found this way.
It is funny that you say that the Shah was the legitimate head of state, when in fact he was placed in power by a CIA-inspired coup which deposed Mosaddeq.
Ultimately people will figure out some other ways to filter HTML5 adverts.
Flash is a security nightmare - I generally never want to install, but some products (cough, VMWare) seem to insist on it. About the only thing I ever want to do that requires flash is watch some types of videos.
And some of his songs had rhythms that are based on what he was hearing back when he was in the USAF.
Good thing the USSR never came after him for plagiarism.
You would want to have a really dry audio track - perhaps a computer voice reading some long novel - say "Moby Dick". If the computer mispronounces some words, it wouldn't be a big deal. Except that you would slip in some swearing in the middle somewhere - spoken by the same monotone computer voice in the same speaking pattern as the rest of it.
An alternative would be to have the soundtrack be 10 hours of a crying baby (undoubtedly a much shorter clip in a loop). Which for most people would be torture to listen to. But in the middle of it you could have an adult come in and swear at the baby.
So what you are telling us is that you are storing your data in the cloud?
This reminds me of an old Soviet headline about some event where the U.S. beat the USSR. The headline loudly proclaimed:
"USSR comes in second, USA is second from last"
I get that it is common, but I personally use a password vault (both on PC and phone) so I can use different random passwords for every account.
And the vault is secured with a YubiKey, so even if someone stole the database and somehow knew the password, they still wouldn't be able to get in.
Open the toilet stall door, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Same here - I remember all of those TTL things.
A few years after this, we got some *very* early 8086 chips on an educational discount. We breadboarded the thing by attaching power, clock, and wired up the memory lines to make it look like it was just reading NOP instructions from ever address, and then watched the address lines to see the thing count up.
in the *very* early days (0.9x), and back then Linus never seemed like much of a dick, but then again, at the time he was still a student. Even met him face-to-face a couple of times. I stepped away due to the huge time commitments required by my regular job, not because of any issues I had with anyone.
The stories I hear leave me scratching my head. This isn't the Linus I knew back in the day. I guess all the fame and all of that must have gone to his head.
Somewhere in there near the end is producing a "Christmas Album", and used for background music at a shopping center.
It sounds like a good idea, but I would have to sign up for faceplant in order to use it.
Yes, because of work that I have done in the past. I have seen the level of process audits that the automakers require of their suppliers, and I have seen the kind of process management software that is used to track requirements/specifications/changes and all the rest of that. That being said, I have no recollection/memory of how VW does things.
When all of this is in place, you can't change a single line of code without it being justified, specified, written, tested, and finally signed off on, and *everything* is traceable. Could one hack the database? In theory, I suppose, but doing so would elevate this to a whole new level of fraud, and if you screw it up and corrupt the database then the whole company could be dead in the water.
Google "Automotive SPICE" to learn more..
I call BS on that. There is no way that a rogue engineer would do such a thing on their own - they would only do it because management wanted them to.
For that matter, you can't even sneeze in the auto industry without there being a paper trail. Once the investigators start digging they will find all kinds of stuff about the requirements and specifications documents that preceded the actual software changes. You will find the actual engineers who did the work, and you will find the people who signed off on it when the work was done...
This nonsense has been posted for months. Usually it gets modded down to -1 pretty quickly so most people won't even see it, but someone out there chooses to waste their time posting this gunk.
You could tweak the thing to intentionally send the wrong information to the people controlling the malware. They might think you have one hand and bet accordingly, when in fact you have something completely different. The problem is that they would figure out that something was wrong pretty quickly.
The article only talks about experimental particle physics.