That's an extraordinary claim, I await your extraordinary evidence with intrigue.
It's a stretch, but with the kind of sentence that hackers tend to face (10x longer than the average rapist is typical, I believe), it's plausible enough to be worth following. Assuming he mounted a defense instead of pleading to something lesser.
But that's really the point isn't it? They engineered their network for speedtest URLs to bypass all their security measures.
And if, as part of that engineering effort, someone at a high level was dumb enough to put into writing something to the effect of "yeah, we realize there are issues but we're authorizing anyone with a T-Mobile phone to access any URL with 'speedtest' in it for any purpose they like"... ?
I personally doubt anyone was that dumb, but at the same time this wasn't an accident or the actions of a rogue employee. There's gonna be a chain of decision making inside the carrier to make this happen, and if the kid wants/needs to fight it that's where he needs to dig, or at least threaten to dig.
If you want to argue this guy wouldn't be caught you'd need to explain why this guy's bypass of the security measures in place is somehow different to anyone elses.
The simplest argument is that it's because T-Mobile intentionally engineered their network so requests to speedtest URLs bypass all their security measures.
He's probably still breaking the law given how the laws are tilted toward the carriers, but whether T-Mobile wants all the details and history of their speed test hacking to be dug up in discovery and splashed all over the court records is doubtful.
My (limited) understanding is that material on the moon tends to more "mixed" and less layered (also, see above comment about stratification), making mining less efficient.
True, we'd be hunting for chunks rather than veins. On the other hand, digging should be easier, assuming we're cool with strip mining the Moon.
Asteroid mining seems like more bang for the buck in the long term, especially if you're going after specific materials, but I have a feeling that in order to pull it off successfully we'll need substantial infrastructure in space first.
But, not far in the future - many of us will see it, if we don't kill ourselves off first, all manual labor will be automated.
Manual labour in controlled and/or homogeneous environments will be automated, yes. Factories, warehouses, farms, transport, etc are all to some degree or another fairly good candidates for this.
Fixing stuff that's broken, though, will remain the domain of humans for a long time. We simply have too much infrastructure that would need to be heavily rebuilt to make it robot-repairable.
It won't be enough jobs for the number of people, but manual labour isn't going away in our lifetime.
The point here is that the EU is punishing _Ireland_ for giving Apple that deal, and requiring Ireland to make Apple pay back taxes.
Personally, I think it was pretty clever scheme the Irish were running.... attract businesses with what looks like an incredibly low tax rate, wait until the EU blows a gasket, and then (reluctantly, without looking like the bad guy) cash in bigtime.
They literally keep me from having to click a link in many instances by giving me the information I need within the first part of the results.
Well, that raises an interesting question... if the information in an article is so lean that a computer algorithm can boil it down into a trivial amount of text, then is the article really a creative work that's worthy of copyright protection? And would Google's algorithm be considered a transformative fair use (or fair dealing, or whatever the EU standard is)?
These sorts of laws are based on the premise that Google is taking something for free and the news sources get nothing back. That's obviously a false premise, but that doesn't seem to be getting through to the people that matter and even making an example of entire countries doesn't seem to be enough to make the problem go away.
So, play hardball; if the news sources think their content is worth something, maybe Google's aggregation and traffic services should be worth something. Possibly more.
"Well, we'd rather not have to pay, so... we'll just not index your content anymore. kthxbye"
More like "well, it turns out that it's gotten too expensive to send you traffic for free, so we're gonna have to start charging by the click. But don't worry, we'll just take it out of what we owe you for using your content..."
All I needed to restore my system init behaviour to something useful on 16.04 was:
apt-get install upstart-sysv
I'll consider revisiting systemd at some point in the future if Ubuntu is willing to migrate my init configurations properly, and I'm assuming that this approach will become untenable as systemd's tendrils creep deeper into the system, but for now it gets me back to a seemingly functional system.
They want to preserve that plausible deniability and ensure some former employee didn't say something in a company email you weren't aware of that winds up costing you $'s in a lawsuit.
I think that in many cases, it's just as much about saving money in lawsuits by not having to pay lawyers to plow through years and years of "hey, lunch at Vinnie's, you in?" e-mails.
Did they place it next to the 401, or did they place the 401 next to the weather station?
They placed it next to the 401. There's a whole network of them specifically for getting road weather information. You can see some results at http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/engli...
A number of provinces in Canada have something similar. The GP is just unaware that there's actually uses for weather stations beyond climate modelling...
My personal favorites? The one that was placed next to the 401(one of the busiest highway systems in the world), nothing like a pile of vehicle exhaust and hot asphalt to give accurate temperatures.
You mean the weather stations which are part of the Ontario road weather network, installed specifically to get weather information along Ontario roads?
<sarcasm>Yep, that was poor planning... </sarcasm>
The other, was out in Alberta which was in a valley, next to a river fed from mountain water run-off(roughly 4m away), which spent 2/3's of the day in the shade of a pine tree forest.
A provincial forestry weather station. Odds are it's in that specific spot because of either accessibility, power, or it's a known problem spot.
There's a lot of unofficial weather stations out there (easily 3-5x more than official stations), but they're usually installed for specific purposes (forestry, mining, health and safety, transport, etc). They don't have the same constraints as more official stations simply because the data they generate doesn't matter in the big picture.
The installations of official weather stations, in particular the ones which feed into climate models or get used for aviation, is a hell of a lot more rigorous.
Here in upstate NY, winters often mean that I need to get out our roof rake to pull snow off our roof.
I have a feeling that the solar roof would perform more like a metal panel roof than a shingle roof. Anything else would be stupid, really, since snow accumulation would interfere with power generation.
Generally speaking, accumulation doesn't happen much on a smooth roof. The biggest problem is large quantities of snow sliding off, to the point where metal roofs typically include snow stoppers above areas like doors and decks.
It can be pretty embarrassing politically for a government to have a plot to kill a foreign head of state hatched on their soil, so if they thought he was a possible threat it was in their interest to monitor him.
A coup is only a good thing if the guys you like win and you're in a position to take advantage of the situation.
Otherwise, involuntary changes of government are a huge source of instability.
If some ass hits and kicks his girlfriend 117 times I'm calling in the forensics team because there's going to be the girlfriends blood in the apartment and on his clothes.
Police aren't likely to bring in a forensics team on a domestic assault case unless the guy has gone out of his way to piss of authorities and they want to nail him on something, anything.
The video evidence was simply low-hanging fruit; it was in their face and easy to get, so they grabbed it.
Most of these "smart" thermometers have some sort of presence sensing. If you target devices where someone hasn't been home for 2-3 days (say, Monday-Wednesday) you might catch people on vacation. In colder climates, killing the furnace during a cold snap while the owners are away for a couple weeks might be an effective threat.
Amen. Without knowing what kinds of constraints the SAM crews were under during the exercise, it's pretty much impossible to tell whether this was a realistic exercise or not.
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It's a stretch, but with the kind of sentence that hackers tend to face (10x longer than the average rapist is typical, I believe), it's plausible enough to be worth following. Assuming he mounted a defense instead of pleading to something lesser.
And if, as part of that engineering effort, someone at a high level was dumb enough to put into writing something to the effect of "yeah, we realize there are issues but we're authorizing anyone with a T-Mobile phone to access any URL with 'speedtest' in it for any purpose they like"... ?
I personally doubt anyone was that dumb, but at the same time this wasn't an accident or the actions of a rogue employee. There's gonna be a chain of decision making inside the carrier to make this happen, and if the kid wants/needs to fight it that's where he needs to dig, or at least threaten to dig.
The simplest argument is that it's because T-Mobile intentionally engineered their network so requests to speedtest URLs bypass all their security measures.
He's probably still breaking the law given how the laws are tilted toward the carriers, but whether T-Mobile wants all the details and history of their speed test hacking to be dug up in discovery and splashed all over the court records is doubtful.
True, we'd be hunting for chunks rather than veins. On the other hand, digging should be easier, assuming we're cool with strip mining the Moon.
Asteroid mining seems like more bang for the buck in the long term, especially if you're going after specific materials, but I have a feeling that in order to pull it off successfully we'll need substantial infrastructure in space first.
What a happy coincidence... the Moon is made from exactly the part of the Earth that humans are most familiar with exploiting.
Courage. Because wireless is the way to go.
Just don't ask about that wireless charging stuff...
... about 7 billion people find themselves in agreement with the Pentagon chiefs...
Manual labour in controlled and/or homogeneous environments will be automated, yes. Factories, warehouses, farms, transport, etc are all to some degree or another fairly good candidates for this.
Fixing stuff that's broken, though, will remain the domain of humans for a long time. We simply have too much infrastructure that would need to be heavily rebuilt to make it robot-repairable.
It won't be enough jobs for the number of people, but manual labour isn't going away in our lifetime.
Personally, I think it was pretty clever scheme the Irish were running.... attract businesses with what looks like an incredibly low tax rate, wait until the EU blows a gasket, and then (reluctantly, without looking like the bad guy) cash in bigtime.
Well, that raises an interesting question... if the information in an article is so lean that a computer algorithm can boil it down into a trivial amount of text, then is the article really a creative work that's worthy of copyright protection? And would Google's algorithm be considered a transformative fair use (or fair dealing, or whatever the EU standard is)?
To break the argument.
These sorts of laws are based on the premise that Google is taking something for free and the news sources get nothing back. That's obviously a false premise, but that doesn't seem to be getting through to the people that matter and even making an example of entire countries doesn't seem to be enough to make the problem go away.
So, play hardball; if the news sources think their content is worth something, maybe Google's aggregation and traffic services should be worth something. Possibly more.
More like "well, it turns out that it's gotten too expensive to send you traffic for free, so we're gonna have to start charging by the click. But don't worry, we'll just take it out of what we owe you for using your content..."
All I needed to restore my system init behaviour to something useful on 16.04 was:
apt-get install upstart-sysv
I'll consider revisiting systemd at some point in the future if Ubuntu is willing to migrate my init configurations properly, and I'm assuming that this approach will become untenable as systemd's tendrils creep deeper into the system, but for now it gets me back to a seemingly functional system.
I think that in many cases, it's just as much about saving money in lawsuits by not having to pay lawyers to plow through years and years of "hey, lunch at Vinnie's, you in?" e-mails.
They placed it next to the 401. There's a whole network of them specifically for getting road weather information. You can see some results at http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/engli...
A number of provinces in Canada have something similar. The GP is just unaware that there's actually uses for weather stations beyond climate modelling...
You mean the weather stations which are part of the Ontario road weather network, installed specifically to get weather information along Ontario roads?
<sarcasm>Yep, that was poor planning... </sarcasm>
A provincial forestry weather station. Odds are it's in that specific spot because of either accessibility, power, or it's a known problem spot.
There's a lot of unofficial weather stations out there (easily 3-5x more than official stations), but they're usually installed for specific purposes (forestry, mining, health and safety, transport, etc). They don't have the same constraints as more official stations simply because the data they generate doesn't matter in the big picture.
The installations of official weather stations, in particular the ones which feed into climate models or get used for aviation, is a hell of a lot more rigorous.
... does it run DD-WRT (or variants)?
That's really all I ever want or expect from an off-the-shelf router. I assume that vendor-provided firmware is crap, untrustworthy, or inflexible.
I have a feeling that the solar roof would perform more like a metal panel roof than a shingle roof. Anything else would be stupid, really, since snow accumulation would interfere with power generation.
Generally speaking, accumulation doesn't happen much on a smooth roof. The biggest problem is large quantities of snow sliding off, to the point where metal roofs typically include snow stoppers above areas like doors and decks.
No, no, it's Canada. They just keep repeating questions and commands, but without "please" or "sorry".
A coup is only a good thing if the guys you like win and you're in a position to take advantage of the situation.
Otherwise, involuntary changes of government are a huge source of instability.
I don't entirely disagree, but proving it would be an uphill battle against very expensive lawyers.
Police aren't likely to bring in a forensics team on a domestic assault case unless the guy has gone out of his way to piss of authorities and they want to nail him on something, anything.
The video evidence was simply low-hanging fruit; it was in their face and easy to get, so they grabbed it.
Most of these "smart" thermometers have some sort of presence sensing. If you target devices where someone hasn't been home for 2-3 days (say, Monday-Wednesday) you might catch people on vacation. In colder climates, killing the furnace during a cold snap while the owners are away for a couple weeks might be an effective threat.
Yeah, I don't see VGA being vulnerable.
However, I wouldn't be even slightly surprised if there's some lovely vulnerabilities in HDCP implementations.
Amen. Without knowing what kinds of constraints the SAM crews were under during the exercise, it's pretty much impossible to tell whether this was a realistic exercise or not.