"They know that the federal government could bring their whole world crashing down in a heartbeat, without anything like constitutional rights."
Guess what. The feds know that those hackers could probably wipe out their entire government without breaking a sweat, and there's nothing like federal constitutional rights to speak of for them to worry about.
Wall Street? Adios in roughly 15 seconds. These automated trading systems are too easy to game. One script could screw the whole lot.
Defense? Not our problem the Feds decided to be stupid and give their critical systems outside access, and not airgapping it as should be mandated for any 'secure' network or system. Anyone remember the story about security researchers getting control over a nuclear reactor over the internet? It was posted here on Slashdot.
Ditto prison systems. I've been in the system. You idiots are running fucking Windows 98 for your door control software and you're exposed to the goddamned internet. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
Agriculture/Horticulture? Shit half of our crops are almost dependent upon automated systems, which are again exposed to the internet for convenience of the operator. Even my own systems are like that by design. Yes, it's a shitty thing to do but when the customer demands it, 'The Customer is Always Right.'
And that's half of the problem in itself, ill-informed customers that think they know better. Much like the government, no foresight, only hindsight.
In all reality, the government doesn't stand a chance. Why do you think they've deployed the NG on the East Coast with chemical gear in response to the Trayvon Martin case? It's nothing but a show of force, a bluff. If the East Coast minority population were to go ballistic, this country would fall in about two days.
Security theatre, indeed.
Please, anyone with half a brain has more advantage than the fed could ever have.
So build your own. It's not that hard. Even my crippled ass can lay some concrete and asphalt.
"bridges"
Well, guess what? If you passed basic geometry and maybe took a little wood/metal shop class, building one shouldn't be an issue at all. But you like solitude so why would you build one, since that just invites people?
'Military Protection'
Son, if you don't have your own arsenal and at least a few home-rigged explosives, you're not worth your user name or worth being called American.
We don't want people like yourself at this convention anyways. DEF CON has always been Anti-Fed one way or another. That you fail to realize that is your own short-sightedness.
Now pardon me while I nail your blog with my new 97% accurate OCR-based captcha breaker, since you've still failed to stop it two years in a row.
Bear in mind these new scanners are using UV or blue LEDs with a phosphor on them to produce a 'full spectrum' of light. These LED bases are well known to produce blue/Near-UV radiation that triggers or aggravates macular degeneration.
So enjoy your children going blind before they ever graduate. The levels will go up in tune with the increased implementation of these scanners.
Signed, Your local LED product manufacturer
P.S. What're you going to do? Not a goddamned thing, you cowards. We already own you and your government.
Then I guess we can easily kill every agent involved in this game of treason, since they would count as enemies to the state in this point and frame of reference.
So, here's how it goes, boys and girls.
I pay you $250,000 for every dead FBI and NSA agent plus pay your defense bills since I have the cash to do so.
"To be frank, they don't matter. They have plenty of available volume to run any number of cells in series to reach their desired voltage."
No they don't there's this thing called 'space' which severely limits the available energy storage volume.
"Lead-acid batteries nominally operate at 2V, but the typical battery has six cells to reach that typical 12V. Nickel and Lithium based batteries run 1.2V and 3.7V, respectively, but you see them arrayed in packs operating at several hundred volts for electric cars."
Like any 9V or 6V battery commonly available today. You speak as if this were some new discovery.
" The individual cell voltage only really matters for small, portable electronics, where you don't have room for multiple cells."
And this is exactly what I meant, including lower-powered LED arrays.
But you can't be bothered to check up on someone's posting history in order to have a factual conversation, can you?
"You've never going to operate any complex piece of electronics straight off the battery."
Says your ill-educated self. Try looking at RVs and portable housing. Oh, shit, those happen to run straight off a battery bank, along with the 12V sockets ALL OVER THE PLACE.
Try again when you've actually dealt with power systems besides the one attached to your circuit breaker in your house, child.
"You can only squeeze so much features on older hardware with slower CPUs and more importantly smaller memory considering the bloat these n00b programmers use to make things functional"
"Perhaps the more relevant question here would be to ask how many of those engineers who claim it's "really easy" to model these rides have taken a turn on their own creations..."
Exactly this. Due to my somewhat light weight/height ratio, I tend to spend more than half of my time down a water slide without any contact on any of the surfaces.
Several parks I've visited, I've come out with a bruised ass afterwards due to crappy physics calculations. It's as if the slide designers are all fat and are using themselves as the reference point for design.
Mine were useless in just a couple of months. See, here in California, we have this thing called the desert, which comes with high triple-digit temperatures.
Is there some weird reason you think I'm only insinuating poor quality of the wood products?
Plain and simple, many of even the outdoor products are garbage. My IKEA outdoor patio chairs warped in about two months. Those are plastic (were plastic, They got tossed out and replaced with galvanized metal folding chairs.)
Slashdot Mirror
"They know that the federal government could bring their whole world crashing down in a heartbeat, without anything like constitutional rights."
Guess what. The feds know that those hackers could probably wipe out their entire government without breaking a sweat, and there's nothing like federal constitutional rights to speak of for them to worry about.
Wall Street? Adios in roughly 15 seconds. These automated trading systems are too easy to game. One script could screw the whole lot.
Defense? Not our problem the Feds decided to be stupid and give their critical systems outside access, and not airgapping it as should be mandated for any 'secure' network or system. Anyone remember the story about security researchers getting control over a nuclear reactor over the internet? It was posted here on Slashdot.
Ditto prison systems. I've been in the system. You idiots are running fucking Windows 98 for your door control software and you're exposed to the goddamned internet. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
Agriculture/Horticulture? Shit half of our crops are almost dependent upon automated systems, which are again exposed to the internet for convenience of the operator. Even my own systems are like that by design. Yes, it's a shitty thing to do but when the customer demands it, 'The Customer is Always Right.'
And that's half of the problem in itself, ill-informed customers that think they know better. Much like the government, no foresight, only hindsight.
In all reality, the government doesn't stand a chance. Why do you think they've deployed the NG on the East Coast with chemical gear in response to the Trayvon Martin case? It's nothing but a show of force, a bluff. If the East Coast minority population were to go ballistic, this country would fall in about two days.
Security theatre, indeed.
Please, anyone with half a brain has more advantage than the fed could ever have.
If they even think about announcing their affiliation, you can guarantee they'll be 6 feet under, or worse.
Half of those attendees are borderline as-is. Recent revelations will have been the tipping point for them.
"But I like Roads"
So build your own. It's not that hard. Even my crippled ass can lay some concrete and asphalt.
"bridges"
Well, guess what? If you passed basic geometry and maybe took a little wood/metal shop class, building one shouldn't be an issue at all. But you like solitude so why would you build one, since that just invites people?
'Military Protection'
Son, if you don't have your own arsenal and at least a few home-rigged explosives, you're not worth your user name or worth being called American.
Assuming were talking about America here, this is a no-brainer conclusion any GED-holding fool can come to.
America loves to hate education.
We don't want people like yourself at this convention anyways. DEF CON has always been Anti-Fed one way or another. That you fail to realize that is your own short-sightedness.
Now pardon me while I nail your blog with my new 97% accurate OCR-based captcha breaker, since you've still failed to stop it two years in a row.
Bear in mind these new scanners are using UV or blue LEDs with a phosphor on them to produce a 'full spectrum' of light. These LED bases are well known to produce blue/Near-UV radiation that triggers or aggravates macular degeneration.
So enjoy your children going blind before they ever graduate. The levels will go up in tune with the increased implementation of these scanners.
Signed,
Your local LED product manufacturer
P.S. What're you going to do? Not a goddamned thing, you cowards. We already own you and your government.
That isn't ignorance.
It's raw economics.
The fact that the fool doesn't understand doesn't make his point any less true than it already is.
I RTFA and the chemical background is lacking.
Whereas my chemical BG is overwhelming for their shit high-school educated selves.
Try again when you have the capability to wipe out the USA's AG Economy, eh?
Then I guess we can easily kill every agent involved in this game of treason, since they would count as enemies to the state in this point and frame of reference.
So, here's how it goes, boys and girls.
I pay you $250,000 for every dead FBI and NSA agent plus pay your defense bills since I have the cash to do so.
After all, it's just a 'game' yes?
So this planet might have a breathable atmosphere. But odds are it's more methane-based.
Still, pretty nice we can observe a planet's color.
"To be frank, they don't matter. They have plenty of available volume to run any number of cells in series to reach their desired voltage."
No they don't there's this thing called 'space' which severely limits the available energy storage volume.
"Lead-acid batteries nominally operate at 2V, but the typical battery has six cells to reach that typical 12V. Nickel and Lithium based batteries run 1.2V and 3.7V, respectively, but you see them arrayed in packs operating at several hundred volts for electric cars."
Like any 9V or 6V battery commonly available today. You speak as if this were some new discovery.
" The individual cell voltage only really matters for small, portable electronics, where you don't have room for multiple cells."
And this is exactly what I meant, including lower-powered LED arrays.
But you can't be bothered to check up on someone's posting history in order to have a factual conversation, can you?
Nope, we've got most everything including data centers running off of 12V. Try again.
Go look at MenuetOS and we'll start talking.
Also, get some ASM programming experience.
"You've never going to operate any complex piece of electronics straight off the battery."
Says your ill-educated self. Try looking at RVs and portable housing. Oh, shit, those happen to run straight off a battery bank, along with the 12V sockets ALL OVER THE PLACE.
Try again when you've actually dealt with power systems besides the one attached to your circuit breaker in your house, child.
Pedantry
Pedantry
"Who cares what voltage it operates at?"
For those of us that work with devices that utilize voltage drops, like LEDs? INFINITELY FUCKING VALUABLE.
Seems like you don't pay much attention to science, let alone electronics engineering.
"You can only squeeze so much features on older hardware with slower CPUs and more importantly smaller memory considering the bloat these n00b programmers use to make things functional"
FTFY.
Man can make it, man can break it, it's that simple.
"Perhaps the more relevant question here would be to ask how many of those engineers who claim it's "really easy" to model these rides have taken a turn on their own creations..."
Exactly this. Due to my somewhat light weight/height ratio, I tend to spend more than half of my time down a water slide without any contact on any of the surfaces.
Several parks I've visited, I've come out with a bruised ass afterwards due to crappy physics calculations. It's as if the slide designers are all fat and are using themselves as the reference point for design.
I could have it done now. Just 'matte' the glass surface with nano-pillars of silicon dioxide. We have the tech now.
Now whether or not it stands up to the pressures that 'Gorilla Glass' can supposedly withstand is another issue entirely.
Much like Nickel-Zinc batteries, this is a great alternative for environmentally-unfriendly power storage.
Now I have to wonder, could this be easily recycled and refreshed to a new state?
If so, despite the lower power density, I'd buy electronics using this battery without any hesitation.
What is the output voltage of such a cell and how much power drain can it withstand without going stupid?
If it can withstand high drains and provides at LEAST 1.4V per cell, I'd be happy.
Shit that article not only gave me wood but made it swell 420% over normal capacity!
I have a SkyVue TV. It's been outdoors for two years. No problem.
Mine were useless in just a couple of months. See, here in California, we have this thing called the desert, which comes with high triple-digit temperatures.
Is there some weird reason you think I'm only insinuating poor quality of the wood products?
Plain and simple, many of even the outdoor products are garbage. My IKEA outdoor patio chairs warped in about two months. Those are plastic (were plastic, They got tossed out and replaced with galvanized metal folding chairs.)
I guess you haven't seen the Big 4 tour that was going on a couple years ago.