And in fact, *IF* you were a three letter agency and you had physical access to someone's house, and wanted to spy on them, which are you more likely to do - spend hours disassembling the Echo and doing this exploit and reassembling it, or spending 10 minutes planting bugs all over the house? I would wager the latter.
I find it very hard to believe anyone who works in any kind of job role even perephrially linked to the business world has not at one point or another read through a slide deck someone shared on SlideShare. It is EXTREMELY popular. I end up reading through presentations on SlideShare all the time.
I have never understood why source code and it's accompanying materials developed under contract for the government (funded by taxpayers I might add) is not *mandated* to be open source.
The public has no idea how much IP is locked up in the coffers of FFRDCs because of this archaic policy.
I have never understood the logic of paying $800+ for a premium device that YOU KNOW will be worth less than 25% of it's original price in 3 years, and sticking that device in this crazy ugly giant case. It would be like taking your brand new car and covering it in thick foam shrink-wrap before driving it around, to "preserve it", even though it's value will drop regardless.
Myself? I abuse the hell out of my phone, and use an ultra-think case that is JUST ENOUGH to keep it from shattering on drop. Phone is loaded with nicks and scratches. Guess what? I don't give a shit because those nicks and scratches are not detracting from it's eventual resale value in any meaningful way.
The problem is not the video streaming. It is the DRM.
The DRM that Google and the W3C want to standardize on, and that Netflix must use by law, yet FOSS peeps keep railing against. These FOSS peeps can't see the forest for the trees; they would rather be stuck using Silverlight.
Tesla quite literally can not build cars fast enough to meet demand.
The Model 3 is already the most successful consumer product launch of any kind in history (forget cars), and it won't even start shipping for months. It has years worth of pre-orders in the backlog.
If you actually watch the video, you will see the machine adds fibreglass rebar already automatically. Also you will see that the exterior walls are printed hollow so you can spray foam inside them afterwards (basically the same concept as ICF except it is 3D printed).
Yes, the framing, siding, and roofing is not the only part of building a house. Obviously you still have interior work to do after the fact. However, it is a very significant portion, and this machine can do all of them in 24 hours (have a bigger house? Use 2 or 3 machines to keep it at 24 hours...). When was the last time you saw a house framed, roofed, and sided in 24 hours? You can't even assemble a factory-built home on site that fast... I know cause I have one.
If you are an Uber driver and your primary concern is unionization, you can't see the forest for the trees. You should be worried that you're going to be automated out of a job within 3-5 years.
"Uber getting involved in autonomous cars makes absolutely zero business sense"
Er... if this is truly your thinking, you'd make a very poor CEO.
Self driving technology will make companies like Uber completely obsolete unless they either get on the badnwagon, or find a partner - and there aren't many left. Tesla is already working on building their own autonomous ridesharing fleet to compete with Uber. Ford has also purchased a ridesharing company. BMW is starting their own. Lyft is partnered with GM.
This is all a giant race, and we don't know who will come out on top, but if Uber just sat around and did not invest in this area, they would most assuredly be out of business in under 10 years.
So you go have a coffee, and when it's charged your phone beeps and you walk back to move it. What's the big deal?? You make it sound like you have to walk a mile. It's across a parking lot.
Any frequent traveler like myself will tell you you're playing with fire leaving valuables like a laptop in a checked bag. Checked bags are lost ALL THE TIME, stolen from all the time, and damaged even more. If you're lucky, your travel insurance may throw you a bone for the value of the laptop but they won't be able to replace the value of what's on it. I won't even get into how disruptive it will be to your business trip or vacation to have a missing laptop.
Rule #1, avoid checking luggage at all costs. Rule #2, if you are forced to check, don't put anything in there except clothing, sundries, and other things of little value.
All I had to do was google the title of the book, "Improvised Munitions". The #1 result is a PDF of the book (which is also legal BTW since it is a product of the US government).
It is still too early to know what actually happened here.
It is actually far more likely that this is the result of some kind of very good automated phishing scam, than it is of someone penetrating the bank's core systems.
The last company people around here proposed be "busted" was Microsoft for it's bundling of IE... something which as we now know looking back has turned out to be mostly irrelevant.
A lot of people around here seem to want to "bust up" Google, but fail to provide any evidence of them actually using their position in any given market to influence their position in another unjustly. In fact, quite the opposite since they seem to go out of their way to list direct competitors prominently in their search results... Antitrust law does not allow the government to "bust up" a company just because they turn out to be wildly successful.
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Tesla is working on a semi truck right now. It is going to be announced before the end of the year.
https://electrek.co/2017/05/25...
Indeed.
And in fact, *IF* you were a three letter agency and you had physical access to someone's house, and wanted to spy on them, which are you more likely to do - spend hours disassembling the Echo and doing this exploit and reassembling it, or spending 10 minutes planting bugs all over the house? I would wager the latter.
His problem (and mine) is with the death penalty, not the federal crime.
I find it very hard to believe anyone who works in any kind of job role even perephrially linked to the business world has not at one point or another read through a slide deck someone shared on SlideShare. It is EXTREMELY popular. I end up reading through presentations on SlideShare all the time.
I have never understood why source code and it's accompanying materials developed under contract for the government (funded by taxpayers I might add) is not *mandated* to be open source.
The public has no idea how much IP is locked up in the coffers of FFRDCs because of this archaic policy.
I have never understood the logic of paying $800+ for a premium device that YOU KNOW will be worth less than 25% of it's original price in 3 years, and sticking that device in this crazy ugly giant case. It would be like taking your brand new car and covering it in thick foam shrink-wrap before driving it around, to "preserve it", even though it's value will drop regardless.
Myself? I abuse the hell out of my phone, and use an ultra-think case that is JUST ENOUGH to keep it from shattering on drop. Phone is loaded with nicks and scratches. Guess what? I don't give a shit because those nicks and scratches are not detracting from it's eventual resale value in any meaningful way.
If what you say were true, then all of the Netflix-original shows, which they maintain near total control over, would not have DRM. But they do.
I have no idea where you're getting 300L a day. A human only needs around 1l of water a day to survive.
It's a prototype and TFA says it only has 1kg of material so it would be fairly small. This thing is producing a lot of water for 1kg.
The problem is not the video streaming. It is the DRM.
The DRM that Google and the W3C want to standardize on, and that Netflix must use by law, yet FOSS peeps keep railing against. These FOSS peeps can't see the forest for the trees; they would rather be stuck using Silverlight.
Tesla quite literally can not build cars fast enough to meet demand.
The Model 3 is already the most successful consumer product launch of any kind in history (forget cars), and it won't even start shipping for months. It has years worth of pre-orders in the backlog.
Acquiring customers is far from their problems.
If you actually watch the video, you will see the machine adds fibreglass rebar already automatically. Also you will see that the exterior walls are printed hollow so you can spray foam inside them afterwards (basically the same concept as ICF except it is 3D printed).
Yes, the framing, siding, and roofing is not the only part of building a house. Obviously you still have interior work to do after the fact. However, it is a very significant portion, and this machine can do all of them in 24 hours (have a bigger house? Use 2 or 3 machines to keep it at 24 hours...). When was the last time you saw a house framed, roofed, and sided in 24 hours? You can't even assemble a factory-built home on site that fast... I know cause I have one.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's razor
... increasingly seems to be going off the deep end.
If I was involved with companies he was backing, I would be worried, quite frankly.
You know who doesn't have unions? Machines.
If you are an Uber driver and your primary concern is unionization, you can't see the forest for the trees. You should be worried that you're going to be automated out of a job within 3-5 years.
I came to post just this. I am not going to sit and watch a 30 second ad to watch some video I clicked on from Reddit.
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I just ordered 2, these sound useful.
"Uber getting involved in autonomous cars makes absolutely zero business sense"
Er... if this is truly your thinking, you'd make a very poor CEO.
Self driving technology will make companies like Uber completely obsolete unless they either get on the badnwagon, or find a partner - and there aren't many left. Tesla is already working on building their own autonomous ridesharing fleet to compete with Uber. Ford has also purchased a ridesharing company. BMW is starting their own. Lyft is partnered with GM.
This is all a giant race, and we don't know who will come out on top, but if Uber just sat around and did not invest in this area, they would most assuredly be out of business in under 10 years.
So you go have a coffee, and when it's charged your phone beeps and you walk back to move it. What's the big deal?? You make it sound like you have to walk a mile. It's across a parking lot.
Any frequent traveler like myself will tell you you're playing with fire leaving valuables like a laptop in a checked bag. Checked bags are lost ALL THE TIME, stolen from all the time, and damaged even more. If you're lucky, your travel insurance may throw you a bone for the value of the laptop but they won't be able to replace the value of what's on it. I won't even get into how disruptive it will be to your business trip or vacation to have a missing laptop.
Rule #1, avoid checking luggage at all costs. Rule #2, if you are forced to check, don't put anything in there except clothing, sundries, and other things of little value.
All I had to do was google the title of the book, "Improvised Munitions". The #1 result is a PDF of the book (which is also legal BTW since it is a product of the US government).
It is still too early to know what actually happened here.
It is actually far more likely that this is the result of some kind of very good automated phishing scam, than it is of someone penetrating the bank's core systems.
Which companies do you propose we bust?
The last company people around here proposed be "busted" was Microsoft for it's bundling of IE... something which as we now know looking back has turned out to be mostly irrelevant.
A lot of people around here seem to want to "bust up" Google, but fail to provide any evidence of them actually using their position in any given market to influence their position in another unjustly. In fact, quite the opposite since they seem to go out of their way to list direct competitors prominently in their search results... Antitrust law does not allow the government to "bust up" a company just because they turn out to be wildly successful.
The linked article itself is not even using black fonts.
They are using #333333 which is a dark grey.
... and when you are USING a MasterCard, Visa, etc via Apple Pay, you are paying DOUBLE.