Nobody has said that it includes any identifying information in the request
That has been discovered yet. In the current version.
The point is that information is being sent to a third party without the machine owner's consent. The machine owner is not notified it's happening, they have no control over how much information is being sent either now or in the future, and the mere presence of a built-in process to do this means that it's a lot easier to hijack a machine to send information elsewhere as well. It's not just a security fault, it's a deliberately designed security incursion.
Your company might want to know whether you're connected. Microsoft, or any other unrelated third party, doesn't need to.
Not to mention that if you have a company-issued laptop with a company SOE, all this will have been taken care of beforehand. It's not something you're going to have a say in.
Can an overseas worker jump in their car and get to the office in an emergency? Can they offer to spend X days commuting and Y days onsite, and change that flexibly in real time to manage operational requirements? Do they have full and complete knowledge of local cultural expectations and commonalities? Can they meet up with co-workers at the bar, or in local community groups? Can they come into the office for a couple of weeks on short notice to take over while Fred's in the hospital, Carol's having a baby, or they can find a replacement for someone who quit yesterday?
Outsourcing, in a lot of cases, is like swapping a Multitool for a butter knife. It might be cheaper, and it might do many of the things it's most commonly used for, but it's a poor substitute when you suddenly need to do other things.
No. The management solutions can be a very small hardware device tacked on a console port. It allows you to remote to them and read the video stream, nothing more. They don't need rebooting.
Sunglasses where incoming photons are slowed and jiggled around inside the lens for the fraction of a millisecond it would take for a materials-based brightness sensor to darken a filter film on the eye side of the lenses. Basically just a smaller/better version of a light-reactive arcwelding helmet.
Camera? So what's the visual difference between a Tesla car out of juice and a regular car out of gas, when they're both stuck on the side of the road?
OK, from a practical point, with a regular car, you can call for a taxi to drive you to a gas station, buy a gas can and a gallon of gas, and have the taxi drive you back to your car. If you have your phone with you. Out in the middle of nowhere, a taxi might take quite a while to turn up. Same for roadside service, although they might be able to bring some gas with them and save a trip.
For an electric car, there's no reason roadside service couldn't use its own hybrid vehicle with a heavy-duty charger cable to zap you enough charge to make it to the nearest electrical outlet. Or you might have a hybrid car yourself, in which case you can lug a gas can like anyone else, while still getting near-Tesla performance and MPG-equivalents in regular use.
And if someone realised that it would cost a lot less than $20K to simply duplicate your design for their own back yard? Particularly if everyone and their dog walked around all day with automatic birdhouse design duplicators?
Of course, if you charged $99 for that same birdhouse, people might be more inclined to buy them off you so they didn't have to physically build their own copy.
But when everyone have automatic birdhouse _physical_ duplicators, requiring next to no effort on their part, you might not get too many sales at prices over 99 cents, let alone dollars. Of course, the flip side is that now you could sell to every person on the planet, not just in your local town.
So what makes more sense? Selling at a price the market finds attractive, or standing on the beach threatening to sue the tide if it comes in?
If it comes down to ethics, a lot more people are going to say overpriced profit-grabbing middle-managing last-century-fossil shady backroom-dealing fatcat business practices are unethical than are going to say sharing is unethical. Especially when it's the people with all the money and influence who are trying to prop up their dissolving profit margins by legislating them back into existence.
I'm fairly sure I understand multiple ways to jam, block, override, rechannel, grab, and otherwise interfere with or adjust cell phone signals. But by all means, post something technical.
Wow, imagine a society where the majority were high-functioning autistic.
No reality TV, no celebrities, no lying on advertisements (and probably fewer of them), no hucksterism, politicians would serve the interests of their electorate (and that's assuming there would even be a need for a completely hierarchical government instead of regional agreements), policies would be based on raw data instead of chest-thumping, religion would be little more than a curio, and there'd probably be gazillion-bit-data channels in every household.
We really need a list of companies in order of evil. Or would it be specific divisions or policies of companies? Maybe it'd be a conglomeration of several ratings from 1-5, so you could see how a company rated at Screwing Customers, Being Asshats, Bending Laws, Kicking Puppies etc.
So what would be the best way to leak them anonymously yet to everywhere at once? Hack the TV network during the Super Bowl and add a footer "newsbar" scroll of the keys onscreen? Label them as "Wii/Xbox360 keys" and then ROT13 the whole thing so it's not immediately obvious what they are? Anonymously submit the keystring as a "cryptic puzzle" to Reddit or somewhere? Spam it?
Well, awful is subjective. It's certainly not the way most Western courts have been run for a very long time. Presumably matters could be arranged so that communication with external sources was the norm, but the lack of such is currently very hardwired into the legal system. I imagine it would be quite difficult to make such a change, even in the face of near-universal personal internet links.
Hmm, now I'm imagining a "twenty minutes into the future" sci-fi thriller where a character is constantly being tracked via their internet connection, and uses a courtroom to block the signal.
Sounds workable. You could even make have staggered standards - new cars being sold for the first time would have the tightest standards, non-new cars being on-sold or resold could have the standards that new cars had five years ago, and cars which are just being driven around by their owners could have the standards from new cars ten years ago.
That way, even if your brand new car only barely qualifies under today's emission standards, you can still on-sell it for five years, and the owner who has it in five years' time can drive it around for a further five before having to replace it.
There could even be a carbon-credit equivalent for older cars. If a car doesn't meet the emission standards for being driven, owners could buy credits to allow it to stay on the streets. Otherwise, there's going to be a lot of really annoyed classic car owners and people who bought their car new back in nineteen-dickety-eight and worked on it every Sunday. Maybe some kind of grandfather clause for cars bought before the new legislation applied? Of course, people might want to forcibly retire old bangers pumping out more smoke than a Marlboro factory - maybe some kind of periodic emissions test vs their original spec?
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Apparently, it was a rubber Richard Nixon.
Nobody has said that it includes any identifying information in the request
That has been discovered yet. In the current version.
The point is that information is being sent to a third party without the machine owner's consent. The machine owner is not notified it's happening, they have no control over how much information is being sent either now or in the future, and the mere presence of a built-in process to do this means that it's a lot easier to hijack a machine to send information elsewhere as well. It's not just a security fault, it's a deliberately designed security incursion.
Who uses their own IP for Windows Update? Who even updates direct from the Microsoft servers?
Your company might want to know whether you're connected. Microsoft, or any other unrelated third party, doesn't need to.
Not to mention that if you have a company-issued laptop with a company SOE, all this will have been taken care of beforehand. It's not something you're going to have a say in.
ANOVWL?
Could it be used against telemarketers? Please?
Your point being...? :)
Can an overseas worker jump in their car and get to the office in an emergency? Can they offer to spend X days commuting and Y days onsite, and change that flexibly in real time to manage operational requirements? Do they have full and complete knowledge of local cultural expectations and commonalities? Can they meet up with co-workers at the bar, or in local community groups? Can they come into the office for a couple of weeks on short notice to take over while Fred's in the hospital, Carol's having a baby, or they can find a replacement for someone who quit yesterday?
Outsourcing, in a lot of cases, is like swapping a Multitool for a butter knife. It might be cheaper, and it might do many of the things it's most commonly used for, but it's a poor substitute when you suddenly need to do other things.
Having a whole bunch of people doing work for you that you've arranged is called "being a boss". Your call. :)
Solution: Implement better bosses.
No. The management solutions can be a very small hardware device tacked on a console port. It allows you to remote to them and read the video stream, nothing more. They don't need rebooting.
As a bonus, all cars would come with the ability to bounce. :)
Peaceful?
Next, Sarah Connor!
Sunglasses where incoming photons are slowed and jiggled around inside the lens for the fraction of a millisecond it would take for a materials-based brightness sensor to darken a filter film on the eye side of the lenses. Basically just a smaller/better version of a light-reactive arcwelding helmet.
Camera? So what's the visual difference between a Tesla car out of juice and a regular car out of gas, when they're both stuck on the side of the road?
OK, from a practical point, with a regular car, you can call for a taxi to drive you to a gas station, buy a gas can and a gallon of gas, and have the taxi drive you back to your car. If you have your phone with you. Out in the middle of nowhere, a taxi might take quite a while to turn up. Same for roadside service, although they might be able to bring some gas with them and save a trip.
For an electric car, there's no reason roadside service couldn't use its own hybrid vehicle with a heavy-duty charger cable to zap you enough charge to make it to the nearest electrical outlet. Or you might have a hybrid car yourself, in which case you can lug a gas can like anyone else, while still getting near-Tesla performance and MPG-equivalents in regular use.
And if someone realised that it would cost a lot less than $20K to simply duplicate your design for their own back yard? Particularly if everyone and their dog walked around all day with automatic birdhouse design duplicators?
Of course, if you charged $99 for that same birdhouse, people might be more inclined to buy them off you so they didn't have to physically build their own copy.
But when everyone have automatic birdhouse _physical_ duplicators, requiring next to no effort on their part, you might not get too many sales at prices over 99 cents, let alone dollars. Of course, the flip side is that now you could sell to every person on the planet, not just in your local town.
So what makes more sense? Selling at a price the market finds attractive, or standing on the beach threatening to sue the tide if it comes in?
If it comes down to ethics, a lot more people are going to say overpriced profit-grabbing middle-managing last-century-fossil shady backroom-dealing fatcat business practices are unethical than are going to say sharing is unethical. Especially when it's the people with all the money and influence who are trying to prop up their dissolving profit margins by legislating them back into existence.
I'm fairly sure I understand multiple ways to jam, block, override, rechannel, grab, and otherwise interfere with or adjust cell phone signals. But by all means, post something technical.
Wow, imagine a society where the majority were high-functioning autistic.
No reality TV, no celebrities, no lying on advertisements (and probably fewer of them), no hucksterism, politicians would serve the interests of their electorate (and that's assuming there would even be a need for a completely hierarchical government instead of regional agreements), policies would be based on raw data instead of chest-thumping, religion would be little more than a curio, and there'd probably be gazillion-bit-data channels in every household.
Sounds, uh, terrible?
Fortunately, he's not old enough to drink and derive.
We really need a list of companies in order of evil. Or would it be specific divisions or policies of companies? Maybe it'd be a conglomeration of several ratings from 1-5, so you could see how a company rated at Screwing Customers, Being Asshats, Bending Laws, Kicking Puppies etc.
So what would be the best way to leak them anonymously yet to everywhere at once? Hack the TV network during the Super Bowl and add a footer "newsbar" scroll of the keys onscreen? Label them as "Wii/Xbox360 keys" and then ROT13 the whole thing so it's not immediately obvious what they are? Anonymously submit the keystring as a "cryptic puzzle" to Reddit or somewhere? Spam it?
Well, awful is subjective. It's certainly not the way most Western courts have been run for a very long time. Presumably matters could be arranged so that communication with external sources was the norm, but the lack of such is currently very hardwired into the legal system. I imagine it would be quite difficult to make such a change, even in the face of near-universal personal internet links.
Hmm, now I'm imagining a "twenty minutes into the future" sci-fi thriller where a character is constantly being tracked via their internet connection, and uses a courtroom to block the signal.
Cost of re-outfitting all existing and future courtrooms with Faraday cages vs cost of telling people phones aren't allowed.
Sounds workable. You could even make have staggered standards - new cars being sold for the first time would have the tightest standards, non-new cars being on-sold or resold could have the standards that new cars had five years ago, and cars which are just being driven around by their owners could have the standards from new cars ten years ago.
That way, even if your brand new car only barely qualifies under today's emission standards, you can still on-sell it for five years, and the owner who has it in five years' time can drive it around for a further five before having to replace it.
There could even be a carbon-credit equivalent for older cars. If a car doesn't meet the emission standards for being driven, owners could buy credits to allow it to stay on the streets. Otherwise, there's going to be a lot of really annoyed classic car owners and people who bought their car new back in nineteen-dickety-eight and worked on it every Sunday. Maybe some kind of grandfather clause for cars bought before the new legislation applied? Of course, people might want to forcibly retire old bangers pumping out more smoke than a Marlboro factory - maybe some kind of periodic emissions test vs their original spec?