It was a case of the airlines/FCC not knowing whether the cell phones or video games would interfere
Bullshit. Pilots were using tablets with their navigation software for years before the passengers were allowed to.
Either they knew it would be fine and didn't want to mess with it, or they were negligent in allowing pilots to use those tablets. Has to be one or the other.
Because 99.99% of Verizon Wireless phones that would receive an inbound SSH connection...
Ummm...how? Try to wrap your mind around doing a port scan of a/64 and then try to wrap your mind around the 2620:0:1600::/41 that Verizon Data Services owns. That was just the first one I could find on ARIN, I'm sure they have more than one large allocation like that.
So, please, let China and Russia start portscanning IPv6 on port 22 and see how far they get. Another security feature of IPv6 to me!
If the municipality gets it wrong about population projections etc, it might end up with a radically under or over capacity system and the issues that causes might take a decade to fix.
Two things: 1. My city has yet to fuck up getting clean water to my house, even with rapid growth in some areas and decline in others. It is clean and cheap. I think they can get bits to my house just as well.
2. IF you're right, and the city doesn't innovate, the whole town will be ripe for the free market to return and offer a new, better service at a cheaper price.
Why shouldn't it be an option? Why shouldn't anyone who can do the job get to compete for it? Why should the fact that you happened to be born here give you an advantage over someone who wasn't?
The issue is that they didn't have to become citizens first.
We're not saying you have to be born here, but you have to be a citizen here to work here.
Allowing H-1B's to skip the immigration line that fruit pickers have to go through is discrimination.
Of course the best way is with metered usage (pay per GB you use in a month). But for some reason everyone seems to be totally against that even though that's the method that makes the most sense.
It doesn't make the most sense. It is not a consumable resource that had a one to one cost, like water.
What makes the most sense is classes of service: Dedicated bandwidth that matches what you are paying. A simple example: ISP has 1,000 gb connection and 1,000,000 subscribers. So, every subscriber would have a 1mb dedicated class of service, and would pay for their share of that.
Now, obviously, there will be times where they can download a 1gb, or whatever the size of their pipe is. However, during prime time, they would reduce down to 1mb, but no less.
If they wanted more, then they could pay 5x as much for 5mb dedicated CoS, and they wouldn't slow as much during the prime time.
Here's a novel idea: Don't plug this shit in if you don't want to use it.
For those without photographic memory, or those that don't mind putting on a jacket to save some money, let us have these devices to save money and help the planet, and let's work on making them safer.
And the thermostats need to be online because....?
Because some power companies currently and more will soon give you a price break for cutting usage during a surge in demand. Sometimes this can be predicted, sometimes it can't. Hence the need for real-time comms.
Wtf? Perishable food needs to be kept cool regardless of the price of the electricity unless you want to risk food poisoning to save a few pennies.
For a refrigerator, you're likely right. Think about a freezer, though. Maybe you're set to -10C most of the time. However, you're going to be gone all day and your usage patterns don't show you opening the freezer in the morning, maybe it is better to cool everything to -25C overnight, and then NOT run the compressor until you get above -10C again. During the evening, though, DON'T chill it to -25C, because you're just going to open the door again and let out all the cold.
There is absolutely NO reason for ANY kitchen appliances to be online or have any kind of network presense whatsoever unless you such a bone idle sack of fat that you can't even be bothered to open a fridge door to check whats inside but would sooner do it via an app.
Opening the door is what creates energy usage. Having an app to keep inventory can drastically reduce usage as you stand there like a bone idle sack of fat and stare at your inventory, letting all the cool air out that your device will use electricity to replace.
This is why it pains me when I see two NTP servers setup. You NEVER know which one is right. Having just 1 is better than that.
To me, the minimum is 4: This gives you n+1, since you need at least 3 clocks to know if the time is right, and NTP will actually play ball with this logic: It will first look to see if 1 of the 3 are way off and exclude it, then it will sync time from the clock that is the lowest stratum and most stable.
And you expect to have that recording 24/7? Don't know how much effort the company wants to put into when they don't really expect this kind of incident.
No, almost all security DVRs will drop frames with no motion. Good ones will OCR the plates and tie it to a single frame of the car, and save that for a long time with very little space consumed.
As for putting in effort, why even put up the camera if you're not going to record stuff like this?
But we need to address the bigger problem with getting the bits to our door before we worry about how fast the bits actually move around inside our houses.
1. I've been using the Xbox One streaming to my laptop, which will now work in 1080p, but getting it to work on my 802.11n has been problematic. Plugging into my 1g wired connection solves it.
2. While, in theory, 802.11n should allow HD streaming between devices on my WLAN, the issue is that I'm in a moderate density area (1/4 acre lots. Not an apartment, but not in the woods), and I can see around 10-20 SSIDs nearby. The more everyone switches to 802.11ac, the less time each access point will be using a channel, and the less likely it will be that we'll be bumping into each other. Add beamforming, and the channels are getting even clearer.
Keeping people alive you know are faulty is kinda senseless unless you have ways to fix the problems.
That is an extremely short-signed view.
I thought ST:TNG did a good job of explaining this in both "The Enemy" and "The Masterpiece Society": The technology used to help a blind baby see was adaptable to other solutions where otherwise "unfaulty" people would benefit.
A review of key historical figures will reveal many with physical issues from birth.
The ability of a person to contribute to society, directly or indirectly, is impossible to predict.
Obviously, they were designed by someone who has unlimited garage headroom
They don't look to be over 7' to the top when open, based of seeing a man standing next to them when open. Most garage doors are at least 7 foot tall, and 8 foot & taller are becoming far more common.
and doesn't regularly find a foot of snow on top of his car...
Put the snow broom in the trunk, like most people. Open the trunk, clear off the snow so you're not an asshole to everyone behind you on the road, then get in.
I just can't take seriously the idea that one would have to be a software engineer to design the test well.
No, the test was designed well for automobiles that have existed for 100 years. The goal of the tests was to reduce the number of variables, such as pollution from other cars going down the road in front of the one you're testing, or the nearby coal plant.
Putting them in the same room under the same conditions makes a very good baseline...until SOFTWARE allowed the cars to cheat the tests.
I'm sure the people designing these test are great hardware people. I also think they just didn't realize that software had advanced to the level to do this.
If you make the test trivially detectable, then your test depends entirely on trust
I don't think they thought it was trivially detectable. The people designing these test are not software engineers, and they're also government workers. Having an imagination for ways to defeat the test using software just isn't in their DNA.
Let's see if they change that after this. If they start doing actual road tests and hiring software people, we'll see that they've been incompetent, not overly trusting. There is a difference.
and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.
I recently changed my tune on football due to this.
Went to a BigTen women's volleyball game and admission was CHEAP. I looked around at the size of the venue and the number of people there, and quickly did the math that there was no way admission was paying for this team, coaches, travel, etc. The men's football and basketball teams, though, could pay for it with their scraps, and I'm pretty sure that is what is going on.
We've had it just fine on the shared publicly owned roads for decades now, without having this type of intrusive, electronic surveillance and got along perfectly good.
I don't know what you call "perfectly good", but over 30,000 people killed a year in cars doesn't meet my definition of perfectly good.
Well, you just get kids used to surveillance and they then accept it for normal and "good".
I don't support surveillance, which I think of as the ability to be monitored in real-time. I support reporting, where you plug into a box that can't be accessed without physical, interior access to the car.
Screw it, I'm gonna buy and old 60's-70's muscle car, with no computer and no tracking..and hell if old enough, no fucking emissions bullshit.
We're coming for those, too. I expect that at some point, things like Interstate highways will be restricted for automatic driving only.
You don't like it, build your own roads. The public roads are for public use, and we can & have constantly redefined how they can be used.
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I checked out their website and saw them asking for donations.
That's enough to know they're full of crap.
You can't claim self reliance while asking for donations.
If they got something so basic wrong, what else are they lying about?
It was a case of the airlines/FCC not knowing whether the cell phones or video games would interfere
Bullshit. Pilots were using tablets with their navigation software for years before the passengers were allowed to.
Either they knew it would be fine and didn't want to mess with it, or they were negligent in allowing pilots to use those tablets. Has to be one or the other.
In dense urban areas its borderline unusable.
802.11ac, being 5 GHz only, really helps in dense setups since it is so quickly absorbed by walls.
Because 99.99% of Verizon Wireless phones that would receive an inbound SSH connection...
Ummm...how? Try to wrap your mind around doing a port scan of a /64 and then try to wrap your mind around the 2620:0:1600::/41 that Verizon Data Services owns. That was just the first one I could find on ARIN, I'm sure they have more than one large allocation like that.
So, please, let China and Russia start portscanning IPv6 on port 22 and see how far they get. Another security feature of IPv6 to me!
If the municipality gets it wrong about population projections etc, it might end up with a radically under or over capacity system and the issues that causes might take a decade to fix.
Two things:
1. My city has yet to fuck up getting clean water to my house, even with rapid growth in some areas and decline in others. It is clean and cheap. I think they can get bits to my house just as well.
2. IF you're right, and the city doesn't innovate, the whole town will be ripe for the free market to return and offer a new, better service at a cheaper price.
Why shouldn't it be an option? Why shouldn't anyone who can do the job get to compete for it? Why should the fact that you happened to be born here give you an advantage over someone who wasn't?
The issue is that they didn't have to become citizens first.
We're not saying you have to be born here, but you have to be a citizen here to work here.
Allowing H-1B's to skip the immigration line that fruit pickers have to go through is discrimination.
That had nothing to do with security.
It was simply that Blackberry was using BBM and people were sending data-based text messages to each other.
Everyone else was using classic flip-phones and trying to call each other, and the cell networks were overloaded.
Getting a few bytes of text that would auto-retry in the background was reliable. Getting an open voice slot on a cell tower was not.
I came here to say Eternal September as well. Thank you.
For those of us that remember the Internet before 1993, this is history repeating itself.
the entire industry of fooling, tricking, or persuading people into buying things that they don't need
Also known as "Marketing". There is a reason marketers are loathed almost as much as lawyers.
What is wrong with the American market that they need things like this!?
If you think Americans buy what we need, you've not been paying attention to our obesity problem.
Of course the best way is with metered usage (pay per GB you use in a month). But for some reason everyone seems to be totally against that even though that's the method that makes the most sense.
It doesn't make the most sense. It is not a consumable resource that had a one to one cost, like water.
What makes the most sense is classes of service: Dedicated bandwidth that matches what you are paying. A simple example: ISP has 1,000 gb connection and 1,000,000 subscribers. So, every subscriber would have a 1mb dedicated class of service, and would pay for their share of that.
Now, obviously, there will be times where they can download a 1gb, or whatever the size of their pipe is. However, during prime time, they would reduce down to 1mb, but no less.
If they wanted more, then they could pay 5x as much for 5mb dedicated CoS, and they wouldn't slow as much during the prime time.
Here's a novel idea: Don't plug this shit in if you don't want to use it.
For those without photographic memory, or those that don't mind putting on a jacket to save some money, let us have these devices to save money and help the planet, and let's work on making them safer.
And the thermostats need to be online because....?
Because some power companies currently and more will soon give you a price break for cutting usage during a surge in demand. Sometimes this can be predicted, sometimes it can't. Hence the need for real-time comms.
Wtf? Perishable food needs to be kept cool regardless of the price of the electricity unless you want to risk food poisoning to save a few pennies.
For a refrigerator, you're likely right. Think about a freezer, though. Maybe you're set to -10C most of the time. However, you're going to be gone all day and your usage patterns don't show you opening the freezer in the morning, maybe it is better to cool everything to -25C overnight, and then NOT run the compressor until you get above -10C again. During the evening, though, DON'T chill it to -25C, because you're just going to open the door again and let out all the cold.
There is absolutely NO reason for ANY kitchen appliances to be online or have any kind of network presense whatsoever unless you such a bone idle sack of fat that you can't even be bothered to open a fridge door to check whats inside but would sooner do it via an app.
Opening the door is what creates energy usage. Having an app to keep inventory can drastically reduce usage as you stand there like a bone idle sack of fat and stare at your inventory, letting all the cool air out that your device will use electricity to replace.
So anyone who bought an iphone 4 in mid-late 2013 had support for their phone dropped within a few months of buying it.
Yet, they paid a fraction of what one cost new. This is why.
This is why it pains me when I see two NTP servers setup. You NEVER know which one is right. Having just 1 is better than that.
To me, the minimum is 4: This gives you n+1, since you need at least 3 clocks to know if the time is right, and NTP will actually play ball with this logic: It will first look to see if 1 of the 3 are way off and exclude it, then it will sync time from the clock that is the lowest stratum and most stable.
And you expect to have that recording 24/7? Don't know how much effort the company wants to put into when they don't really expect this kind of incident.
No, almost all security DVRs will drop frames with no motion.
Good ones will OCR the plates and tie it to a single frame of the car, and save that for a long time with very little space consumed.
As for putting in effort, why even put up the camera if you're not going to record stuff like this?
But we need to address the bigger problem with getting the bits to our door before we worry about how fast the bits actually move around inside our houses.
1. I've been using the Xbox One streaming to my laptop, which will now work in 1080p, but getting it to work on my 802.11n has been problematic. Plugging into my 1g wired connection solves it.
2. While, in theory, 802.11n should allow HD streaming between devices on my WLAN, the issue is that I'm in a moderate density area (1/4 acre lots. Not an apartment, but not in the woods), and I can see around 10-20 SSIDs nearby. The more everyone switches to 802.11ac, the less time each access point will be using a channel, and the less likely it will be that we'll be bumping into each other. Add beamforming, and the channels are getting even clearer.
Keeping people alive you know are faulty is kinda senseless unless you have ways to fix the problems.
That is an extremely short-signed view.
I thought ST:TNG did a good job of explaining this in both "The Enemy" and "The Masterpiece Society": The technology used to help a blind baby see was adaptable to other solutions where otherwise "unfaulty" people would benefit.
A review of key historical figures will reveal many with physical issues from birth.
The ability of a person to contribute to society, directly or indirectly, is impossible to predict.
Obviously, they were designed by someone who has unlimited garage headroom
They don't look to be over 7' to the top when open, based of seeing a man standing next to them when open.
Most garage doors are at least 7 foot tall, and 8 foot & taller are becoming far more common.
and doesn't regularly find a foot of snow on top of his car...
Put the snow broom in the trunk, like most people. Open the trunk, clear off the snow so you're not an asshole to everyone behind you on the road, then get in.
who tells my DNS server what IPv6 address was autoconfigured for a particular machine
Your client should be telling the DNS server directly. DDNS.
I just can't take seriously the idea that one would have to be a software engineer to design the test well.
No, the test was designed well for automobiles that have existed for 100 years.
The goal of the tests was to reduce the number of variables, such as pollution from other cars going down the road in front of the one you're testing, or the nearby coal plant.
Putting them in the same room under the same conditions makes a very good baseline...until SOFTWARE allowed the cars to cheat the tests.
I'm sure the people designing these test are great hardware people. I also think they just didn't realize that software had advanced to the level to do this.
If you make the test trivially detectable, then your test depends entirely on trust
I don't think they thought it was trivially detectable.
The people designing these test are not software engineers, and they're also government workers. Having an imagination for ways to defeat the test using software just isn't in their DNA.
Let's see if they change that after this. If they start doing actual road tests and hiring software people, we'll see that they've been incompetent, not overly trusting. There is a difference.
and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.
I recently changed my tune on football due to this.
Went to a BigTen women's volleyball game and admission was CHEAP.
I looked around at the size of the venue and the number of people there, and quickly did the math that there was no way admission was paying for this team, coaches, travel, etc.
The men's football and basketball teams, though, could pay for it with their scraps, and I'm pretty sure that is what is going on.
We've had it just fine on the shared publicly owned roads for decades now, without having this type of intrusive, electronic surveillance and got along perfectly good.
I don't know what you call "perfectly good", but over 30,000 people killed a year in cars doesn't meet my definition of perfectly good.
Well, you just get kids used to surveillance and they then accept it for normal and "good".
I don't support surveillance, which I think of as the ability to be monitored in real-time. I support reporting, where you plug into a box that can't be accessed without physical, interior access to the car.
Screw it, I'm gonna buy and old 60's-70's muscle car, with no computer and no tracking..and hell if old enough, no fucking emissions bullshit.
We're coming for those, too. I expect that at some point, things like Interstate highways will be restricted for automatic driving only.
You don't like it, build your own roads. The public roads are for public use, and we can & have constantly redefined how they can be used.
But I should be able to choose if I "want" a flight..err...driving recorder black box type machine installed in my car.
Not if you're going to use your car on a shared, publicly-owned road. I think black box recording should be mandatory on the public roads.
Now, if you're talking about a car only used on roads you own, have at it.