'More complex' can be the answer, but simplification also sometimes works.
Tearing out unneeded layers can improve security.
A piece of 'scorekeeping' equipment I work on for a sporting activity transmits to large displays for spectators and a judge's stand reciever . Originally I wondered why there wasn't more security in place, it just uses vanilla zigbee radio channels. Then I noticed that the communication protocol is simplex... and only the instrument that makes the actual measurement has transmit capability once the handshake has established a channel.
There is something to be said for woeking at a really small company, or on a small team secured ay somewhere. Therw is far, far less anonymnity, but things are then looser and more free.
The place I am working has a 'news' bulletin that consists of a 'txt' file in a shared network folder. Everybody is expected to open and read and update it every day or so with notepad. The less computer adept have a shortcut to the file on their taskbar. It works because their are only 8 of us in the company. It's secure because only people on the network have access and the trust bond is in place because everybody knows each other.
There is anonymnity (so to speak, the last person to write the file is probably in the filesystem properties that a few of us know how to look at) but nobody cares, anonymnity is not needed. Race conditions could and do probably occur, so I personally always save changes I make immediately and would never add to anything but a freshly opened copy. Probably other people sometimes 'clobber' updates by changing and saving a stale copy, It's just a newsletter so there isn't really anything critical in it. It would certainly NOT scale to a larger group.
The current state of things is like having fuses designed into equipment, but then finding that somebody has shoved a 30 amp fuse into the holder. I find that from time to time now on equipment I am repairing. Sometimes it causes dramatic equipment failure.
I know that when I first started hacking around with Linux in the mid 1990s that I had an easy time experimenting with networking compared to somebody just trying things out today.
Samba was out and all the security in it, and in Microsoft products that used SMB, were loose and easy to use. NFS was a breeze to use, so you could boot up a machine with an NFS install floppy diskette and put a whole freenix (I like NetBSD) on a system quickly.
A lot of that has changed now. It's even a hassle now just to get two 'doze computers to talk to each other's shares these days. This is bad when it's a closed network and finding the server drive or accessing the printer is no longer just a matter of clicking the 'Network Neighborhood' icon on the desktop. Security is, obviously, necessary. But my way of thinking is that the security should be incorporated at gateways. Home networks should be protected by hardened gateways and firewall appliances. People should have traffic monitoring equipment built into their local networks. Gateways to the 'whole internet' are usually done through NAT these days, so security should be lax within local networks and tight at points where they connect to the world.
Security only matters when there is an intruder about. I live in an area where if I forget my tablet out on the back porch it will always be there the next morning. The most risky intruders are coyotes out in the field.
I own what may be one of the best long term Tesla investments: the first year of issue Tesla Roadster Hot Wheels car. It will hold it's value over real Tesla iron because all I need to do is keep it clean and dry. Sadly, it's not intact in the blister pack so not an ideal collectors item. But we shall see.
Tesla is spending tons of money on infrastructure and engineering. That is very different from R&D investment. Their 'edge' is their 'balls out' determination to get EVs on the market in a big way. At this point it's engineering and infrastructure roll-out, not invention.
Admittedly, there is a lot of engineering to 'flesh out' in the Model 3, because a car whose instrument panel is an oversized iPad probably won't cut it in the long term. But that is not really IP that gives Tesla an edge, just the lack of, and need for a real instrument cluster. The 'auto pilot' stuff is possibly the Potemkin Village being used to distract from the paucity of innovation at Tesla. It's all a solved problem and when the market exists the existing carmakers will fulfill it.
It also means you are a native in those waters, of course.
For better or for worse, they have the $$ and don't care if slashbots blow raspberries at them. They don't even know or care that we are here having this discussion.
Tesla does NOT have the battery operation im-house. He simply has a 'deal' going with Panasonic. If his money goes dry Panasonic will make deals with whomever has the actual cash in hand..
This is very different from the way Amazon ran at a loss for a long time. Amazon was building retail sales network in a totally new market. Tesla is just selling cars to the small number of millineals in the 1%.
true believers who bought Tesla stock because they think it's the future of auto-making.
I predict that the starry-eyed idealists own a tiny fraction of the Tesla stock. They will eventually be able to frame their collectable Tesla stock certificate and hang it on the wall next to their steel engraved etching of Wardenclyffe and the portrait of Nicolas Tesla himself.
Elon Musk is trying to save humanity. His endgame goal is to use all the money generated by his various companies and invest it in getting us the hell off this planet before we destroy ourselves. Considering politics these days, I hope he hurries up.
I am sorry for being so cynical, but that isn't how it works. If that was really what Musk was doing it would be a con game of the first order and he would need to go to prison. The investors are entitled to answers, and considerable say in how the money they invested in Musk's venture is being managed. This isn't a Bernie Madoff 'trust me' enterprise.
True. The amount of manpower required for people to stare at the light bulbs and quickly change them far offsets the benefit of electric lights. Thankfully we never went down that path. Gas lighting is completely sufficient. If the light fixture installed by the gas line pipefitters in the ceiling of (most) rooms does not provide sufficient light, use a candle!
Right. And disallowing ANY home-built computers protects us all because it reduces power consumption and thus our carbon footprint. Restrict PC design to the experts at Dell, HP, Lenovo and Acer, who will build integrated-graphics wonders that can play sensible games like Breakout (only the versions without ecxessive animations, mind you).
We all need to work together to achive the Common Good I value greatly.
But it is the state's fault. Meaning 'state' as in government. If the state allowed market mechanisms to define housing density, prices would shift towards much more affordable housing.
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By the time 2040 rolls around, two or three sets of batteries from your car will be leaking chemicals in a landfill.
'More complex' can be the answer, but simplification also sometimes works.
Tearing out unneeded layers can improve security.
A piece of 'scorekeeping' equipment I work on for a sporting activity transmits to large displays for spectators and a judge's stand reciever . Originally I wondered why there wasn't more security in place, it just uses vanilla zigbee radio channels. Then I noticed that the communication protocol is simplex... and only the instrument that makes the actual measurement has transmit capability once the handshake has established a channel.
Utopia means never bothering to ask about those really old skeletons over there. Obviously reality self-corrected itself.
The places where shrill and paranoid 'high tech security' are mandatory tend to burn themselves up.
Over time, secure and well adjusted people will come along and build anew on the scortched patches of land.
Some would say that containment and provision of weapons and combustibles to the 'problem spots' is a sufficient means of correction.
There is something to be said for woeking at a really small company, or on a small team secured ay somewhere. Therw is far, far less anonymnity, but things are then looser and more free.
The place I am working has a 'news' bulletin that consists of a 'txt' file in a shared network folder. Everybody is expected to open and read and update it every day or so with notepad. The less computer adept have a shortcut to the file on their taskbar. It works because their are only 8 of us in the company. It's secure because only people on the network have access and the trust bond is in place because everybody knows each other.
There is anonymnity (so to speak, the last person to write the file is probably in the filesystem properties that a few of us know how to look at) but nobody cares, anonymnity is not needed. Race conditions could and do probably occur, so I personally always save changes I make immediately and would never add to anything but a freshly opened copy. Probably other people sometimes 'clobber' updates by changing and saving a stale copy, It's just a newsletter so there isn't really anything critical in it. It would certainly NOT scale to a larger group.
The current state of things is like having fuses designed into equipment, but then finding that somebody has shoved a 30 amp fuse into the holder. I find that from time to time now on equipment I am repairing. Sometimes it causes dramatic equipment failure.
I know that when I first started hacking around with Linux in the mid 1990s that I had an easy time experimenting with networking compared to somebody just trying things out today.
Samba was out and all the security in it, and in Microsoft products that used SMB, were loose and easy to use. NFS was a breeze to use, so you could boot up a machine with an NFS install floppy diskette and put a whole freenix (I like NetBSD) on a system quickly.
A lot of that has changed now. It's even a hassle now just to get two 'doze computers to talk to each other's shares these days. This is bad when it's a closed network and finding the server drive or accessing the printer is no longer just a matter of clicking the 'Network Neighborhood' icon on the desktop.
Security is, obviously, necessary. But my way of thinking is that the security should be incorporated at gateways. Home networks should be protected by hardened gateways and firewall appliances. People should have traffic monitoring equipment built into their local networks. Gateways to the 'whole internet' are usually done through NAT these days, so security should be lax within local networks and tight at points where they connect to the world.
Security only matters when there is an intruder about. I live in an area where if I forget my tablet out on the back porch it will always be there the next morning. The most risky intruders are coyotes out in the field.
I own what may be one of the best long term Tesla investments: the first year of issue Tesla Roadster Hot Wheels car. It will hold it's value over real Tesla iron because all I need to do is keep it clean and dry. Sadly, it's not intact in the blister pack so not an ideal collectors item. But we shall see.
Tesla is spending tons of money on infrastructure and engineering. That is very different from R&D investment. Their 'edge' is their 'balls out' determination to get EVs on the market in a big way. At this point it's engineering and infrastructure roll-out, not invention.
Admittedly, there is a lot of engineering to 'flesh out' in the Model 3, because a car whose instrument panel is an oversized iPad probably won't cut it in the long term. But that is not really IP that gives Tesla an edge, just the lack of, and need for a real instrument cluster. The 'auto pilot' stuff is possibly the Potemkin Village being used to distract from the paucity of innovation at Tesla. It's all a solved problem and when the market exists the existing carmakers will fulfill it.
The questions that are hard to answer are the important ones. Not the bullet points on the glossy brochure.
Does Tucker have any descendants who Musk could hand the reins to? Edsel Ford is dead.
That isn't going to get Musk the billions he needs to piss away today that he will pay us for on Tuesday.
It also means you are a native in those waters, of course.
For better or for worse, they have the $$ and don't care if slashbots blow raspberries at them. They don't even know or care that we are here having this discussion.
Tesla does NOT have the battery operation im-house. He simply has a 'deal' going with Panasonic. If his money goes dry Panasonic will make deals with whomever has the actual cash in hand..
This is very different from the way Amazon ran at a loss for a long time. Amazon was building retail sales network in a totally new market. Tesla is just selling cars to the small number of millineals in the 1%.
You'r running a closed-source Apple gadget. How disappointing.
true believers who bought Tesla stock because they think it's the future of auto-making.
I predict that the starry-eyed idealists own a tiny fraction of the Tesla stock. They will eventually be able to frame their collectable Tesla stock certificate and hang it on the wall next to their steel engraved etching of Wardenclyffe and the portrait of Nicolas Tesla himself.
Elon Musk is trying to save humanity. His endgame goal is to use all the money generated by his various companies and invest it in getting us the hell off this planet before we destroy ourselves. Considering politics these days, I hope he hurries up.
I am sorry for being so cynical, but that isn't how it works. If that was really what Musk was doing it would be a con game of the first order and he would need to go to prison. The investors are entitled to answers, and considerable say in how the money they invested in Musk's venture is being managed. This isn't a Bernie Madoff 'trust me' enterprise.
So we can agree that the dialogue between Musk and the "YouTuber" was rich and informative, almost like a well-scripted presentation.
'CA would be in even better shape'
Are you here all week? No, I'm not going to order the overpriced cod fillets.
WTF?
My family is perfectly comfortable in this $50,000 house on an $70,000 piece of land. Don't cop a fucking attitude, btw. It's really nice out here.
Do the law makers from SF know that?
True. The amount of manpower required for people to stare at the light bulbs and quickly change them far offsets the benefit of electric lights. Thankfully we never went down that path. Gas lighting is completely sufficient. If the light fixture installed by the gas line pipefitters in the ceiling of (most) rooms does not provide sufficient light, use a candle!
It says right in the second amendment that we can lob huge boulders at City Hall and at police cars.
Right. And disallowing ANY home-built computers protects us all because it reduces power consumption and thus our carbon footprint. Restrict PC design to the experts at Dell, HP, Lenovo and Acer, who will build integrated-graphics wonders that can play sensible games like Breakout (only the versions without ecxessive animations, mind you).
We all need to work together to achive the Common Good I value greatly.
But it is the state's fault. Meaning 'state' as in government. If the state allowed market mechanisms to define housing density, prices would shift towards much more affordable housing.