First, you can't deliver on your "no trolls". Even if you somehow manage to precisely define trolling, the only way to deal with troll is by moderation.
Second, paid models inevitably fail. People don't see the value in subscription services, when inferior yet free products are available.
In North America expectations are to have 100K without having to do anything more than oil changes, and 250K+ with some gaskets replaced is common. Now, these are mostly highway miles driven at a steady speed.
$15000 is within realm of new "crate engine", needing that at only 125,000 miles would be considered a serious quality defect with a traditional auto. If memory serves me right, most recent example was BMW nikasil engine block issue.
You are asking me to justify Christianity on a basis of Children Crusades. Yes, radical fringe actions can be unjustifiable. This does not mean that entire concept behind it without a merit.
Trolling is a form of satire, it is acting out to its illogical conclusion something that troll finds objectionable. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster acts on their "beliefs", and that why they are much more than simple satire, and that why they are also a lot more effective than any pure satirist would be. The people that disagree with CotFSM still have to deal with their actions, while they could simply ignore mere satire.
I disagree with you on a number of points. Specifically, the main point you missed is about good faith versus bad faith arguments. Coherently and convincingly presenting an argument that one might internally disagree with is a hallmark of a dangerous troll. Both contrarians and trolls enjoy debate, but the contrarians's nefarious goal is to confuse the helpless victim with convoluted and flawed techniques, like propositional logic, and source-citing. Unlike trolls, who are mostly good-natured comedians at heart, contrarian's influence corrupts young children's minds by putting devil-worshiping ideas in their heads. Why won't you think of the children?!
I had to endure 4 years of theoretical and very occasionally practical training that has nothing to do with my job, and only tangentially related to my field. I believe the same is true for most IT-related professionals. Despite course load irrelevance, I would not be able to do what I do without such education.
Getting education is not about mastering subjects, they are frequently irrelevant to what you end up doing. It is about developing ability to independently study abstract problem outside your knowledge domain and providing you with just enough bare-minimum knowledge that it is possible to self-educate yourself. It is also about ability to cooperate with others to reach a common goal, but that is unfortunately less emphasized aspect. Last but not least, it is about introducing notions that you could fail at something and that you can't be good at everything no matter how hard you try, something our trophies and gold stars grade system miserably fails at.
Trolling is necessary evil and the last line of defense against monolithic group thinking. Humans are hard-wired to seek consensus and to avoid conflict, both are beneficial traits, but when combined can and do lead to worst kinds of groupthink. Our ideas and understanding, be it social sciences, morals and religion, or even hard sciences are only as good as out ability to question it.
For example, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a trolling organization, but almost everyone here would agree that what they do can be categorized as "greater good".
Malware detection is largely ineffective, as a result prevention is only effective when done by disabling functionality. If you think "I can run AV and be safe" you are hopelessly outdated in your thinking. You could secure any OS by air gap, but if you want to actually use it in a networked environment, you better update.
Now, OS is generally not exploited head-on, but it makes it easier to leverage other vulnerabilities that would be largely mitigated on something newer.
You are probably safe if you disable Java/Flash/Acrobat on your XP box, but I still wouldn't do anything mission-critical on it.
Exactly. Even as intuitive "interface" as bathroom signs require explanation at least one time, and even as widespread as bathroom signs, they still do not have uniform notation.
How is that different in private sector? Article implies that this problem is only widespread in the government sector, when in my experiences this is global problem rooted in 'human condition'.
I am in exactly same situation, and don't find that I need anything more than G. Netflix streaming works just fine, and I have wired connection for my main workstation.
This is actually false, frame is less robust design as far as car crashes go. The only reason it might do better in a crash is because frame of a truck would sit higher than bumper of a passenger car, and truck would have more mass. Take two comparable cars, one with a frame and another with unibody and crash them into eachother - people in the frame-design car design would likely horribly die while unibody would walk away with minor bruises. Crumple zones, force dissipation into entire unibody, and rigid cage are just THAT GOOD at protecting passengers.
I have a better idea, why not get a customized plate with your SSN? At least doing so has no potential of killing you in a high-speed crash.
Your OBD II port has direct access to CANBUS, as such plugging anything with wireless connectivity puts a huge "remotely mess with my car" sign on it. Throw in Bluetooth and possibly unpatched Android into the mix and you are inviting every script kiddie out there to turn your car into a video game.
Dear humanity, welcome to the Information Age. Why do we call it Information age? Because we developed technologies that allow us to retain significant portion of all information and knowledge produced, from mundane to crucial. As such, your right to forget should not, cannot trump our right to remember.
Pre-negotiated shared key is very hard to do right, due to the need to perform secure key injection AND trust unverified third parties (e.g. independent mechanics). You also have to worry about have non-static configuration (e.g. what happens when your independent mechanic changes a sensor, how do you authenticate it?).
About the only implementation I can think of is to have car run its own Trust Authority, with owner and not manufacturer (yeah, right) controlling it. This way adding new sensor will be a question of typing in the owner's password. Unfortunately, most people will leave everything default and not care about security implications, leaving such security measures largely ineffective. So we are back to "air gap it" solution.
I don't think it is possible, most of 'mission-critical' systems have to be real-time where response measured in milliseconds. There isn't enough time to preform any kind of authenticity or non-repudiation checks. What possible is properly isolating internal CANbus.
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First, you can't deliver on your "no trolls". Even if you somehow manage to precisely define trolling, the only way to deal with troll is by moderation.
Second, paid models inevitably fail. People don't see the value in subscription services, when inferior yet free products are available.
In North America expectations are to have 100K without having to do anything more than oil changes, and 250K+ with some gaskets replaced is common. Now, these are mostly highway miles driven at a steady speed.
$15000 is within realm of new "crate engine", needing that at only 125,000 miles would be considered a serious quality defect with a traditional auto. If memory serves me right, most recent example was BMW nikasil engine block issue.
So there is a problem and they are avoiding recall?
You are asking me to justify Christianity on a basis of Children Crusades. Yes, radical fringe actions can be unjustifiable. This does not mean that entire concept behind it without a merit.
Trolling is a form of satire, it is acting out to its illogical conclusion something that troll finds objectionable. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster acts on their "beliefs", and that why they are much more than simple satire, and that why they are also a lot more effective than any pure satirist would be. The people that disagree with CotFSM still have to deal with their actions, while they could simply ignore mere satire.
I disagree with you on a number of points. Specifically, the main point you missed is about good faith versus bad faith arguments. Coherently and convincingly presenting an argument that one might internally disagree with is a hallmark of a dangerous troll. Both contrarians and trolls enjoy debate, but the contrarians's nefarious goal is to confuse the helpless victim with convoluted and flawed techniques, like propositional logic, and source-citing. Unlike trolls, who are mostly good-natured comedians at heart, contrarian's influence corrupts young children's minds by putting devil-worshiping ideas in their heads. Why won't you think of the children?!
I had to endure 4 years of theoretical and very occasionally practical training that has nothing to do with my job, and only tangentially related to my field. I believe the same is true for most IT-related professionals. Despite course load irrelevance, I would not be able to do what I do without such education.
Getting education is not about mastering subjects, they are frequently irrelevant to what you end up doing. It is about developing ability to independently study abstract problem outside your knowledge domain and providing you with just enough bare-minimum knowledge that it is possible to self-educate yourself. It is also about ability to cooperate with others to reach a common goal, but that is unfortunately less emphasized aspect. Last but not least, it is about introducing notions that you could fail at something and that you can't be good at everything no matter how hard you try, something our trophies and gold stars grade system miserably fails at.
Trolling is necessary evil and the last line of defense against monolithic group thinking. Humans are hard-wired to seek consensus and to avoid conflict, both are beneficial traits, but when combined can and do lead to worst kinds of groupthink. Our ideas and understanding, be it social sciences, morals and religion, or even hard sciences are only as good as out ability to question it.
For example, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a trolling organization, but almost everyone here would agree that what they do can be categorized as "greater good".
Malware detection is largely ineffective, as a result prevention is only effective when done by disabling functionality. If you think "I can run AV and be safe" you are hopelessly outdated in your thinking. You could secure any OS by air gap, but if you want to actually use it in a networked environment, you better update.
Now, OS is generally not exploited head-on, but it makes it easier to leverage other vulnerabilities that would be largely mitigated on something newer.
You are probably safe if you disable Java/Flash/Acrobat on your XP box, but I still wouldn't do anything mission-critical on it.
This is because you don't properly encapsulate interfaces and don't adequately document mounting and unmounting process.
Exactly. Even as intuitive "interface" as bathroom signs require explanation at least one time, and even as widespread as bathroom signs, they still do not have uniform notation.
No problem, Chinese People's Army will patch it for you.
When every feature is undocumented, how do you expect to attract new users or introduce new features?
Plus, there is no such thing as intuitive GUI, the best you could possibly do is to have shallow learning curve.
This is not a good time to joke around, we need to get back to serious discussion.
How is that different in private sector? Article implies that this problem is only widespread in the government sector, when in my experiences this is global problem rooted in 'human condition'.
If it lasts for 7+ years like WRT54GL, cost of ownership wouldn't be that high, just upfront costs.
Is latest Tomato has any outstanding exploits or vulnerabilities against it? If so, it is not "no longer maintained" it is "complete".
I am in exactly same situation, and don't find that I need anything more than G. Netflix streaming works just fine, and I have wired connection for my main workstation.
Aside from absolutists positions like Stallman's, why is it important to have OS hardware? Why AMD64, Intel x86, or ARM is not good enough?
This is actually false, frame is less robust design as far as car crashes go. The only reason it might do better in a crash is because frame of a truck would sit higher than bumper of a passenger car, and truck would have more mass. Take two comparable cars, one with a frame and another with unibody and crash them into eachother - people in the frame-design car design would likely horribly die while unibody would walk away with minor bruises. Crumple zones, force dissipation into entire unibody, and rigid cage are just THAT GOOD at protecting passengers.
I have a better idea, why not get a customized plate with your SSN? At least doing so has no potential of killing you in a high-speed crash.
Your OBD II port has direct access to CANBUS, as such plugging anything with wireless connectivity puts a huge "remotely mess with my car" sign on it. Throw in Bluetooth and possibly unpatched Android into the mix and you are inviting every script kiddie out there to turn your car into a video game.
Dear humanity, welcome to the Information Age. Why do we call it Information age? Because we developed technologies that allow us to retain significant portion of all information and knowledge produced, from mundane to crucial. As such, your right to forget should not, cannot trump our right to remember.
Not a problem, they just keep crashing runaway Piruses into your pickup truck. Sure, it may take more than one.
Pre-negotiated shared key is very hard to do right, due to the need to perform secure key injection AND trust unverified third parties (e.g. independent mechanics). You also have to worry about have non-static configuration (e.g. what happens when your independent mechanic changes a sensor, how do you authenticate it?).
About the only implementation I can think of is to have car run its own Trust Authority, with owner and not manufacturer (yeah, right) controlling it. This way adding new sensor will be a question of typing in the owner's password. Unfortunately, most people will leave everything default and not care about security implications, leaving such security measures largely ineffective. So we are back to "air gap it" solution.
I don't think it is possible, most of 'mission-critical' systems have to be real-time where response measured in milliseconds. There isn't enough time to preform any kind of authenticity or non-repudiation checks. What possible is properly isolating internal CANbus.