The only way this works is if the product is free for the user and they subject you to ads and steal your personal info even more and even then you have to compete with google's office suite.
Looking forward to learning about who they they are selling your info to.
The embrace of "use javascript to do whatever the fuck you want" has really come back to bite users. It makes people money, so it's not going anywhere until someone gets fed up with all the cat and mouse games and makes a legit system that doesn't rely on it.
(10) Data stored on USB thumb drives was not encrypted.
I'm not alarmed that it's not encrypted, I'm alarmed that they are using USB FLASH drives. If you are unaware, all of theses have MCUs and almost all of them use an 8051 CPU with re-programmable FLASH memory which makes them their own little computers that someone can hijack. It's also the attack vector used by Stuxnet to infiltrate an air-gapped network in Iran.
The other things have obvious fixes but unless they are using USB devices specifically made so that they cannot be reprogrammed (one-time programmable MCUs) then there is a serious security issue here. I honestly hope that government would manufacture their own USB FLASH drives but the fact that I haven't read about it doesn't inspire hope.
I get the feeling that there is too much "ambition" (greed) in play here to simply walk away. Instead, it seems like they put this on the back burner until people stop paying attention and then start things going again with a smaller team.
Scruples seem to be in short supply among executives and board members when it comes to getting a piece of the China pie.
BOO WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE MOTHERFUCKER THE OCEAN LEVEL IS GOING TO RISE A WHOLE 5 INCHES IN THE NEXT 500 YEARS!
I feel like you have severely underestimated the sea level rise. However, the more important thing is that areas of arable land will begin shifting locations or disappearing from parts of the planet. This will inevitably result in hunger, famine, death, conflict and mass migration. If you don't like the balance of immigration in your country now then how will you feel after a hundred million people start migrating because their country became a total wasteland because you didn't give a shit?
We're not all going to die but a lot of people and ecosystems will die. The global ecosystem will be ruined and you, one of the people responsible, refuses to take any responsibility for your part in it.
The key word is interaction, not the fact that computers operate in the background without people knowing it.
Yeah, most of the things on my list are like that because they didn't used to have (general purpose) CPUs in them.
What author talks about is about UI. Where UI is something that you control less and less with your conscience, and more and more by something that you can't control with your brain.
Sounds like a more apt name would be Invasive Computing. Seems like marketing isn't too keen on the truth though.
Computers already exist in most everything, people just don't think of MCUs as computers but they have everything needed for computing. Cars, monitors, anything that's bluetooth, old 90s cell phones, your fitbit, anything that is USB, traffic signal controllers, digital cameras and just about everything that needs electricity have computers in them. Your credit cards are even computers. You can say that's a low bar but they all computer fast enough to leave the old mainframes in the dust.
Just because your computer has "one job" doesn't make it less of a computer, it just means you are unaware that you are surrounded by computers and what you think of as a computer is a macrocomputer.
Their monopolies were granted to them by the local governments. ... Instead of Net Neutrality, why not just do it the easy way and fix the original regulation - rescind the ISPs' monopolies and allow competition.
Unless you are suggesting regulation to rescind the ability of local governments to grant monopolies in the first place (I can already hear the screams of government overreach) then you are saying we should fix the law in 89432 local governments (and then maintaining and protecting them forever) instead of fixing the law in only one government, the federal government.
One's a fool's errand and the other is possible. If you can't tell the two apart then you are the fool.
Unless some sjw decides to submit all those upvotes themselves, or game the system another way.
That's the problem with sjws. They're cunts.
I think the proper response to this is to murder them. I don't condone violence but they should be murdered until they are dead. Not like, I don't feel good dead but like hold your breath in space until your lungs explode dead. Again, no violence, just 100% murder.;)
The reason for limiting the range has been pointed out previously, it causes more damage to the battery per charge cycle which makes the the warranty more likely to be invoked due to battery death. If you are voiding your warranty then hey, do whatever you like to your car, just don't expect them to honor the warranty.
I certainly hope they engineered the car to isolate it's entertainment console from the controls (and computer control systems) because if they didn't then there is a big security issue with that alone.
They are using emulators (I'm betting it's BSD licensed emus) for their retro systems, so they are fucked when it comes to the N64 because the shitty ARM SBCs they are distributing cannot render raster enough or achieve the pixel perfect graphics they want.
As soon as a BSD licensed N64 emu comes out with perfect graphics that runs on one of these ARM systems then they'll start selling them.
What a bullshit argument. You don't have to be admin to learn Linux, just like you don't have to be a Windows admin to learn Windows. Also, if games are your thing then they make consoles dedicated for such endeavors. There are also tons of Linux games and loads more work with WINE. If you absolutely must play a game then there are VMs you can run Windows in.
The only reason to stick with Windows now is if you like the abuse.
I dunno, you have withstood a lot of abuse to stay on Windows this long, so I don't foresee you switching to Linux. You clearly like the abuse more than freedom of choice.
Computer users a cheap, really fucking cheap. There will always be a class of people who will go with rent-seeking ideas like this but it will be short lived. The majority of people will switch to something free (may be pirated MS Office or LibreOffice) because money is money. They are going to end up cutting ties with most users to profit from the few that go along with it. The few that go along is an eroding base because MS Office will soon no longer be the dominate office suite that everyone knows.
The only way this works is if the product is free for the user and they subject you to ads and steal your personal info even more and even then you have to compete with google's office suite.
This is really the end of personal computing since it will all be tied to the cloud and the Internet.
Unlikely. What you are forgetting is that every action has a consequence. I find it far more likely that this is going to really increase support for alternatives like LibreOffice.
Eventually ISPs will require your device to be one of the approved rental model systems in order to connect to the Internet at all.
You sound like my brother, a real cynic who thinks all people will accept any awful condition. For some people it's true but there are enough people fighting such blatantly evil corporate bullshit that such a thing would never succeed.
So my question for the assembled multitude is this: What would be -sufficient proof- this didn't happen?
Proving or disproving a particular incident is irrelevant, what is relevant is proving that it's not possible for it to occur.
This is a significant issue for tech in general, as we need some widely accepted way to show systems are free from hidden vulnerabilities.
Absolutely. It can be done but it's very expensive because it requires making bug-free software and then releasing it for public review. Until then your best option is to use ultraparanoid computing which assumes the host system is compromised. The alternative is cross your fingers and wait for the CVE reports to roll in.
A assuming a volcanic eruption provided enough energy to escape Earth's gravity, whatever was being ejected would be subjected to a huge amount of frictional heat. Also, it's not going to have a whole lot of velocity and it has billions of miles to travel, so this would need to happen a LONG time ago (and what the hell were they doing atop a mountain/volcano?). Since ancient arrowheads are made of rock, the frictional heat of the atmosphere would cause them to explode, much like meteorites do entering Earth's atmosphere. However, even if this arrowhead miraculously gets into space intact, it still is likely to be sucked up by our friendly neighborhood planets.
The chances of a random object shot out from earth being caught in Jupiter's gravity well is essentially zero. Space is big!
Sure, space is big but planets are moving very fast (relatively). It's like trying to stick your finger in an active industrial fan and pulling it out before a fan blade gets you. You're going to lose a digit.
I wonder if there isn't some chunk of arrowhead embedded in an asteroid smashed off the Earth in some titanic collision.
1) A collision of that magnitude (large enough to create ejecta) would likely be a mass extinction event. Humans have yet to experience one of those (from an asteroid). 2) Other planets (especially Jupiter) would likely ensnare the newly created asteroid. Getting past them once is very unlikely to start with but getting past them, being just the right size to not cause a mass extinction event but large enough to create ejecta, then have the ejecta (now asteroid) getting past those same planets and all in the span in the last 100k years (hell, I'll give you all 400k years for proto-humans) and there being no recognizable evidence? Finding a unicorn being ridden by a leprechaun seems more likely.
The chances of this happening are slim to start with but the chances of this happening while humanity existed and there being no clear evidence of it are beyond infinitesimally small. It's a neat thought experiment but that's all it is.
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The only way this works is if the product is free for the user and they subject you to ads and steal your personal info even more and even then you have to compete with google's office suite.
Looking forward to learning about who they they are selling your info to.
Which would either be:
Full page refreshes for every action:
Use some other language:
Only two options and nothing else? hmm...
The embrace of "use javascript to do whatever the fuck you want" has really come back to bite users. It makes people money, so it's not going anywhere until someone gets fed up with all the cat and mouse games and makes a legit system that doesn't rely on it.
we're not actually sure how it works.
Call it ERAM aka Emo RAM because "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME AT ALL!" ;)
(10) Data stored on USB thumb drives was not encrypted.
I'm not alarmed that it's not encrypted, I'm alarmed that they are using USB FLASH drives. If you are unaware, all of theses have MCUs and almost all of them use an 8051 CPU with re-programmable FLASH memory which makes them their own little computers that someone can hijack. It's also the attack vector used by Stuxnet to infiltrate an air-gapped network in Iran.
The other things have obvious fixes but unless they are using USB devices specifically made so that they cannot be reprogrammed (one-time programmable MCUs) then there is a serious security issue here. I honestly hope that government would manufacture their own USB FLASH drives but the fact that I haven't read about it doesn't inspire hope.
I get the feeling that there is too much "ambition" (greed) in play here to simply walk away. Instead, it seems like they put this on the back burner until people stop paying attention and then start things going again with a smaller team.
Scruples seem to be in short supply among executives and board members when it comes to getting a piece of the China pie.
BOO WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE MOTHERFUCKER THE OCEAN LEVEL IS GOING TO RISE A WHOLE 5 INCHES IN THE NEXT 500 YEARS!
I feel like you have severely underestimated the sea level rise. However, the more important thing is that areas of arable land will begin shifting locations or disappearing from parts of the planet. This will inevitably result in hunger, famine, death, conflict and mass migration. If you don't like the balance of immigration in your country now then how will you feel after a hundred million people start migrating because their country became a total wasteland because you didn't give a shit?
We're not all going to die but a lot of people and ecosystems will die. The global ecosystem will be ruined and you, one of the people responsible, refuses to take any responsibility for your part in it.
The key word is interaction, not the fact that computers operate in the background without people knowing it.
Yeah, most of the things on my list are like that because they didn't used to have (general purpose) CPUs in them.
What author talks about is about UI. Where UI is something that you control less and less with your conscience, and more and more by something that you can't control with your brain.
Sounds like a more apt name would be Invasive Computing. Seems like marketing isn't too keen on the truth though.
Computers already exist in most everything, people just don't think of MCUs as computers but they have everything needed for computing. Cars, monitors, anything that's bluetooth, old 90s cell phones, your fitbit, anything that is USB, traffic signal controllers, digital cameras and just about everything that needs electricity have computers in them. Your credit cards are even computers. You can say that's a low bar but they all computer fast enough to leave the old mainframes in the dust.
Just because your computer has "one job" doesn't make it less of a computer, it just means you are unaware that you are surrounded by computers and what you think of as a computer is a macrocomputer.
Their monopolies were granted to them by the local governments.
...
Instead of Net Neutrality, why not just do it the easy way and fix the original regulation - rescind the ISPs' monopolies and allow competition.
Unless you are suggesting regulation to rescind the ability of local governments to grant monopolies in the first place (I can already hear the screams of government overreach) then you are saying we should fix the law in 89432 local governments (and then maintaining and protecting them forever) instead of fixing the law in only one government, the federal government.
One's a fool's errand and the other is possible. If you can't tell the two apart then you are the fool.
Unless some sjw decides to submit all those upvotes themselves, or game the system another way.
That's the problem with sjws. They're cunts.
I think the proper response to this is to murder them. I don't condone violence but they should be murdered until they are dead. Not like, I don't feel good dead but like hold your breath in space until your lungs explode dead. Again, no violence, just 100% murder. ;)
The reason for limiting the range has been pointed out previously, it causes more damage to the battery per charge cycle which makes the the warranty more likely to be invoked due to battery death. If you are voiding your warranty then hey, do whatever you like to your car, just don't expect them to honor the warranty.
I certainly hope they engineered the car to isolate it's entertainment console from the controls (and computer control systems) because if they didn't then there is a big security issue with that alone.
They are using emulators (I'm betting it's BSD licensed emus) for their retro systems, so they are fucked when it comes to the N64 because the shitty ARM SBCs they are distributing cannot render raster enough or achieve the pixel perfect graphics they want.
As soon as a BSD licensed N64 emu comes out with perfect graphics that runs on one of these ARM systems then they'll start selling them.
What's the difference between someone catapulting a rock into a 737 vs. a drone?
"drones" are much lower density (mostly plastic), aren't traveling at a high velocity and are expensive.
I feel like you have overlooked some important differences between the two.
What a bullshit argument. You don't have to be admin to learn Linux, just like you don't have to be a Windows admin to learn Windows. Also, if games are your thing then they make consoles dedicated for such endeavors. There are also tons of Linux games and loads more work with WINE. If you absolutely must play a game then there are VMs you can run Windows in.
The only reason to stick with Windows now is if you like the abuse.
Trump has the solution a wall.
And he'll make China pay for it! ;)
I dunno, you have withstood a lot of abuse to stay on Windows this long, so I don't foresee you switching to Linux. You clearly like the abuse more than freedom of choice.
Computer users a cheap, really fucking cheap. There will always be a class of people who will go with rent-seeking ideas like this but it will be short lived. The majority of people will switch to something free (may be pirated MS Office or LibreOffice) because money is money. They are going to end up cutting ties with most users to profit from the few that go along with it. The few that go along is an eroding base because MS Office will soon no longer be the dominate office suite that everyone knows.
The only way this works is if the product is free for the user and they subject you to ads and steal your personal info even more and even then you have to compete with google's office suite.
This is really the end of personal computing since it will all be tied to the cloud and the Internet.
Unlikely. What you are forgetting is that every action has a consequence. I find it far more likely that this is going to really increase support for alternatives like LibreOffice.
Eventually ISPs will require your device to be one of the approved rental model systems in order to connect to the Internet at all.
You sound like my brother, a real cynic who thinks all people will accept any awful condition. For some people it's true but there are enough people fighting such blatantly evil corporate bullshit that such a thing would never succeed.
So my question for the assembled multitude is this: What would be -sufficient proof- this didn't happen?
Proving or disproving a particular incident is irrelevant, what is relevant is proving that it's not possible for it to occur.
This is a significant issue for tech in general, as we need some widely accepted way to show systems are free from hidden vulnerabilities.
Absolutely. It can be done but it's very expensive because it requires making bug-free software and then releasing it for public review. Until then your best option is to use ultraparanoid computing which assumes the host system is compromised. The alternative is cross your fingers and wait for the CVE reports to roll in.
A assuming a volcanic eruption provided enough energy to escape Earth's gravity, whatever was being ejected would be subjected to a huge amount of frictional heat. Also, it's not going to have a whole lot of velocity and it has billions of miles to travel, so this would need to happen a LONG time ago (and what the hell were they doing atop a mountain/volcano?). Since ancient arrowheads are made of rock, the frictional heat of the atmosphere would cause them to explode, much like meteorites do entering Earth's atmosphere. However, even if this arrowhead miraculously gets into space intact, it still is likely to be sucked up by our friendly neighborhood planets.
The chances of a random object shot out from earth being caught in Jupiter's gravity well is essentially zero. Space is big!
Sure, space is big but planets are moving very fast (relatively). It's like trying to stick your finger in an active industrial fan and pulling it out before a fan blade gets you. You're going to lose a digit.
Explaining the joke doesn't make it funnier. -_-
I wonder if there isn't some chunk of arrowhead embedded in an asteroid smashed off the Earth in some titanic collision.
1) A collision of that magnitude (large enough to create ejecta) would likely be a mass extinction event. Humans have yet to experience one of those (from an asteroid).
2) Other planets (especially Jupiter) would likely ensnare the newly created asteroid. Getting past them once is very unlikely to start with but getting past them, being just the right size to not cause a mass extinction event but large enough to create ejecta, then have the ejecta (now asteroid) getting past those same planets and all in the span in the last 100k years (hell, I'll give you all 400k years for proto-humans) and there being no recognizable evidence? Finding a unicorn being ridden by a leprechaun seems more likely.
The chances of this happening are slim to start with but the chances of this happening while humanity existed and there being no clear evidence of it are beyond infinitesimally small. It's a neat thought experiment but that's all it is.
Sounds like a good place to retire!
Pff! Good luck with that, gaijin.