"Safety is a big concern for Tesla so they've manufactured the Model 3 with a 5 star safety rating in every category."
They haven't manufactured it at all yet. And they hope to get a 5 star rating. They don't award the starts themselves, so they'll have to do their best and wait and see what happens like anyone else.
But the foolish design thing here was having the machine know the outcome of the ticket before it prints (or even at all). A printable instant ticket should just consist of a random number which can be checked elsewhere to see if it won. Much like a lotto ticket.
The machine doesn't know which ones are winners so it can't decide to print only winners.
There will still be a "refund errant ticket" attack as long as there is a refund system for errantly printed tickets. But honestly, I don't see why you need a system of that sort in a system where you don't get to pick your numbers anyway.
AT&T will be shutting down 2G (EDGE) at the end of the year. And they (claim they) will not grandfather any device until December that didn't specifically ask to be grandfathered before the end of June.
This is affecting multiple companies. Nissan handled it rather poorly, forcing their customers to pay for a modem upgrade in their cars.
Tech support is not paid to define or even know corporate policy. Asking customer service reps about this is like asking the cashier in the drive through at McDonald's what the next version McD's app will be like.
Go buy the solenoids with the required lifetime specs. What do you figure, 10,000 operating hours per year, 100000 rotations per hour, a valve opening every other rotation?
That's 10M actuations per year. An engine is good for about 10 years, 100M actuations. 16V per engine (or so), so you need on average 1 failure or less per 16V per 100M actuations.
Now go price that out and I think you'll find the reason why we don't do it this way to be obvious.
Or just ask anyone who has had a fuel injector replaced and remember that an engine usually as 4x as many valves as fuel injectors.
You can regulate the power at the breaker box, but IR drops in the wires will mean it's unregulated again by the time it gets to the outlet.
All you save by doing this is having a lot of rectifiers (and smoothing caps). You can replace them with one big rectifier and smoothing cap. It might be a win in the end. But it's hard to say
The computer would put up a number, the tape librarian would find the tape with that number and mount it.
That was drudge work, and those jobs are just plain gone. Most storage is on-line now, and what isn't is near-line where the tapes are located and mounted by robots.
I'm not saying women didn't do technical computer work then. But many of these jobs are non-technical. And the statement these women aren't eye candy is undercut by the fact that they are (almost) all dressed up and in some cases showing off their wall hangings.
One says the cars were modified outside the factory before to increase power. The other implies they have always been this way and now are being modified to be lower emissions.
So which is it?
I hope there is further investigation but this seems like more than coincidence.
Right now people have taken to including a picture of text in their tweet when announcing big stuff. This is a disaster. It doesn't wrap well for different screen sizes and it makes things hard those assistive devices for poor sight, as they are better at reading text to them than communicating pictures.
Something must be done. Maybe this is the right fix.
After we fix that we can go on to eliminating vertical videos.
Consumer fraud protection in the US means you're not liable if they copy down your details. And the companies seemingly would rather do it this way, it saves money in the end, even though any fraud that happens raises their clearing fees. Remember, there is nothing stopping US restaurants from bringing a portable transactor to your table. Those things read swipe cards and PIN cards just fine. So if they aren't doing it by choice, there could be a good reason.
It does reduce waiter back-and-forths, but is that really the limiting issue? The waiter bringing the reader and waiting while you use it increases waiter time spent which costs money.
If you want to go fast, ask your waiter to do the job fast. Otherwise, the restaurant can save money by having a pile of those little trays/folders and waiters picking up and running 3 at a time.
Stolen card fraud is something we all pay for. But requiring PINs would require making all CC readers face the customer. That costs money. The CC companies also surely worry people won't remember their PINs and will thus not use their CCs. And then there's that chip and PIN is even slower than chip and sign which is already slower than swipe and sign.
There are a lot of different factors in a lot of different directions. This is the decision they came up with, it hardly seems terrible.
Frankly, given that clearing fees are being jacked so companies can take a bigger cut just to give "cash back" I don't know we'll notice the fraud rate difference between chip and PIN and chip and sign.
US chip cards are set to "prefer signature". Many of them don't have PINs at all.
It's less secure, but likely it doesn't matter. Part of chip and PIN was designed to blame the customer for all in-person fraudulent charges on the idea that if your PIN was entered, you must have been there (and not just your card). This does not pass muster with US consumer protection laws, so there isn't a lot of reason to go to chip and PIN in the US.
Not that chip and PIN wouldn't work, I think the retailers just saw it as too much hassle to make all merchants put in card readers which face the customer instead of the employees.
Chip and sign cards cannot be cloned. That's what adds the most protection anyway. Especially since much stolen credit card info from around the world has been used in the US since you could make a cloned stripe card from account info for chip and PIN cards and then use it in the US.
The parameters can be set by the bootloader and a digitally signed. There is no need to make 3 different chips for 3 different units. Just put the parameters in a payload with the target serial number then digitally sign it.
Then in secure code (either in ROM or loaded from flash by a ROM and checked before running) you load those parameters into the radio before proceeding.
This would add no cost (or trivial at best). All you need is an unchangeable unique ID. Everything else can be in the existing flash storage. It would add some complexity.
Why would a manufacturer do this? Because the FCC would mandate it.
You do not need a separate firmware for the radio, you design the radio so that these values become read-only after set. Then the entire driver can be modifiable (open source) it just can't modify that data.
This can be done relatively simply and for no additional cost. So no, the FCC wouldn't be banning open source, simply changing how the systems which use open source must work. And in a way that is really easy to roll out.
It simply requires the hardware to be designed such that if you install open source, you cannot modify the radio to use frequency bands and powers that it is not supposed to use.
And this is easy to do. Just put in settings to limit power and lock out bands and make those settings irreversible until a full system reset. Then make the bootloader set those settings before running the installed OS.
Then the OS can be open source.
It would be absolutely fantastic if people would be rational about tech news. Tech people/netizens are starting to sound like my grandfather now. Every change is something to be feared. OBAMA IS GOING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS! The people running the FCC are people, just like you. They aren't demons or out to get you. Try to work with other people you haven't met instead of exhibiting xenophobia.
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But move the storage in front to the sides so I can have a drawer. That thing is WAY too thick to not have a drawer at least.
Also, if you could build a pop-up display and keyboard into it so I can go full-on Encom/Tron it would be even better.
People get tired of USB being affordable and pine for a more Firewire-type system?
Why are we hoping for authenticated cables?
"Safety is a big concern for Tesla so they've manufactured the Model 3 with a 5 star safety rating in every category."
They haven't manufactured it at all yet. And they hope to get a 5 star rating. They don't award the starts themselves, so they'll have to do their best and wait and see what happens like anyone else.
Printable instant tickets can work.
But the foolish design thing here was having the machine know the outcome of the ticket before it prints (or even at all). A printable instant ticket should just consist of a random number which can be checked elsewhere to see if it won. Much like a lotto ticket.
The machine doesn't know which ones are winners so it can't decide to print only winners.
There will still be a "refund errant ticket" attack as long as there is a refund system for errantly printed tickets. But honestly, I don't see why you need a system of that sort in a system where you don't get to pick your numbers anyway.
AT&T will be shutting down 2G (EDGE) at the end of the year. And they (claim they) will not grandfather any device until December that didn't specifically ask to be grandfathered before the end of June.
This is affecting multiple companies. Nissan handled it rather poorly, forcing their customers to pay for a modem upgrade in their cars.
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/0...
Anyone can be Anonymous. It's not possible to have a false flag.
If it seems like goobers did this, then probably goobers did this. And some past Anonymous operations have also been seemingly done by goobers.
On iOS your employer can put a certificate on your device that allows them to get into the device they loan you.
Too bad they didn't do it, HR could have gotten the FBI in.
Tech support is not paid to define or even know corporate policy. Asking customer service reps about this is like asking the cashier in the drive through at McDonald's what the next version McD's app will be like.
This means nothing at all.
Go buy the solenoids with the required lifetime specs. What do you figure, 10,000 operating hours per year, 100000 rotations per hour, a valve opening every other rotation?
That's 10M actuations per year. An engine is good for about 10 years, 100M actuations. 16V per engine (or so), so you need on average 1 failure or less per 16V per 100M actuations.
Now go price that out and I think you'll find the reason why we don't do it this way to be obvious.
Or just ask anyone who has had a fuel injector replaced and remember that an engine usually as 4x as many valves as fuel injectors.
You can regulate the power at the breaker box, but IR drops in the wires will mean it's unregulated again by the time it gets to the outlet.
All you save by doing this is having a lot of rectifiers (and smoothing caps). You can replace them with one big rectifier and smoothing cap. It might be a win in the end. But it's hard to say
Tape library work really was clerical work.
The computer would put up a number, the tape librarian would find the tape with that number and mount it.
That was drudge work, and those jobs are just plain gone. Most storage is on-line now, and what isn't is near-line where the tapes are located and mounted by robots.
I'm not saying women didn't do technical computer work then. But many of these jobs are non-technical. And the statement these women aren't eye candy is undercut by the fact that they are (almost) all dressed up and in some cases showing off their wall hangings.
One says the cars were modified outside the factory before to increase power. The other implies they have always been this way and now are being modified to be lower emissions.
So which is it?
I hope there is further investigation but this seems like more than coincidence.
Right now people have taken to including a picture of text in their tweet when announcing big stuff. This is a disaster. It doesn't wrap well for different screen sizes and it makes things hard those assistive devices for poor sight, as they are better at reading text to them than communicating pictures.
Something must be done. Maybe this is the right fix.
After we fix that we can go on to eliminating vertical videos.
You trust them as much as you trust your electric meter to not put the wrong usage billing on your account.
This is making a mountain out of the molehill.
Relax. Accidents happen and that's why companies have mitigation paths for them.
And how does it reveal your location?
Does this mean some kind of peer-to-peer WiFi or Bluetooth? I don't understand.
If it's cellular, then the phone is either reachable or it isn't, that doesn't change based upon how near you are to the other phone.
Are they saying they just used a built-in location service to find it?
Consumer fraud protection in the US means you're not liable if they copy down your details. And the companies seemingly would rather do it this way, it saves money in the end, even though any fraud that happens raises their clearing fees. Remember, there is nothing stopping US restaurants from bringing a portable transactor to your table. Those things read swipe cards and PIN cards just fine. So if they aren't doing it by choice, there could be a good reason.
It does reduce waiter back-and-forths, but is that really the limiting issue? The waiter bringing the reader and waiting while you use it increases waiter time spent which costs money.
If you want to go fast, ask your waiter to do the job fast. Otherwise, the restaurant can save money by having a pile of those little trays/folders and waiters picking up and running 3 at a time.
Stolen card fraud is something we all pay for. But requiring PINs would require making all CC readers face the customer. That costs money. The CC companies also surely worry people won't remember their PINs and will thus not use their CCs. And then there's that chip and PIN is even slower than chip and sign which is already slower than swipe and sign.
There are a lot of different factors in a lot of different directions. This is the decision they came up with, it hardly seems terrible.
Frankly, given that clearing fees are being jacked so companies can take a bigger cut just to give "cash back" I don't know we'll notice the fraud rate difference between chip and PIN and chip and sign.
In the US, table service restaurants virtually NEVER have customer-facing credit card readers.
Bars don't either.
In both you give them your card.
Really the places that do reliably have them facing customers are retail checkouts and anything with a self-serve kiosk.
US chip cards are set to "prefer signature". Many of them don't have PINs at all.
It's less secure, but likely it doesn't matter. Part of chip and PIN was designed to blame the customer for all in-person fraudulent charges on the idea that if your PIN was entered, you must have been there (and not just your card). This does not pass muster with US consumer protection laws, so there isn't a lot of reason to go to chip and PIN in the US.
Not that chip and PIN wouldn't work, I think the retailers just saw it as too much hassle to make all merchants put in card readers which face the customer instead of the employees.
Chip and sign cards cannot be cloned. That's what adds the most protection anyway. Especially since much stolen credit card info from around the world has been used in the US since you could make a cloned stripe card from account info for chip and PIN cards and then use it in the US.
It's been around for a while. It has the block power of zinc oxide without being white.
http://ec.europa.eu/health/sci...
This article is not clear about which nanoparticles they are using, but we already have effective sunblocks using nanoparticles.
If you do work for hire, you do not control whether you can publish information you discovering doing that work.
And what kind of security consultant airs his customers' dirty laundry? Not one that wants future customers.
If he had found this on his own, it'd be his call. But if he did it for FireEye, it's FireEye's call.
You're wrong.
The parameters can be set by the bootloader and a digitally signed. There is no need to make 3 different chips for 3 different units. Just put the parameters in a payload with the target serial number then digitally sign it.
Then in secure code (either in ROM or loaded from flash by a ROM and checked before running) you load those parameters into the radio before proceeding.
This would add no cost (or trivial at best). All you need is an unchangeable unique ID. Everything else can be in the existing flash storage. It would add some complexity.
Why would a manufacturer do this? Because the FCC would mandate it.
You do not need a separate firmware for the radio, you design the radio so that these values become read-only after set. Then the entire driver can be modifiable (open source) it just can't modify that data.
This can be done relatively simply and for no additional cost. So no, the FCC wouldn't be banning open source, simply changing how the systems which use open source must work. And in a way that is really easy to roll out.
It simply requires the hardware to be designed such that if you install open source, you cannot modify the radio to use frequency bands and powers that it is not supposed to use.
And this is easy to do. Just put in settings to limit power and lock out bands and make those settings irreversible until a full system reset. Then make the bootloader set those settings before running the installed OS.
Then the OS can be open source.
It would be absolutely fantastic if people would be rational about tech news. Tech people/netizens are starting to sound like my grandfather now. Every change is something to be feared. OBAMA IS GOING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS! The people running the FCC are people, just like you. They aren't demons or out to get you. Try to work with other people you haven't met instead of exhibiting xenophobia.
They're not even skipping copper wires for land service and going straight to fiber.
They aren't going to skip ahead on cell service.
If you want to control something, don't sell it. If you sell it, it's no longer yours.
There's no reason to feel pity for this guy because he whored out his work.