Or, at the fucking least, do more to rouse the driver than just "psst warning you havent touched the wheel. touch it if you feel like it. or not. psst warning you havent..." which is exactly why this driver chose to ignore it. If the autopilot warning instead decelerated to the posted speed limit, blared a "wake up for your own safety" out of the speakers, or some other sufficiently annoying thing, then you can *actually call it a warning* instead of just a legal loophole Tesla is trying to use to not be liable for this. They did NOT issue the driver 7 safety warnings, they issued 7 safety memo gentle reminders. If they were warnings in any sense of the word they would have been more annoying than actually sitting up and driving.

Other cars (like the Honda lane assist/adaptive cruise) warn you and then FORCE you to not be a fucking idiot, by turning the system off before you get the stupid idea to completely rely on it. All that this Tesla system does differently than that is... give you a nice thick layer of overconfidence until the moment that the system completely fails you and careens you into a semi. Tesla deserves every ounce of bad press from this, they designed a system that failed in just the right way as to carry a man to his death. Plenty of other car makers saw the problem with this and thats why they "lag behind" Tesla. Tesla got way too fucking close to the sun and their customer got burned. They need to pay the repercussions.

Nah it seems that about half of slashdot expects a smart car with advertised skillful self driving and safety features might be able to recognize unsafe behavior (IT DID) and also warn about it (IT DID) but never in a million years actually act on it, and instead just play a rousing version of taps after carrying its driver to his/her death.

Everyone who, over the past year or two, has balked, laughed at, or ignored at the thought of drone-based package delivery can now stare blankly into the inevitable future. Ecommerce companies saw this coming. The first one there will absolutely crush their competition.

You mean to tell me that

A company was looking to sell bitcoin mining equipment for a huge profit

and instead of eschewing the tenets of bitcoins' distributed, robust design and egalitarian virtues

they baked in a kill switch, an INSECURE kill switch that could easily dismantle everyones equipment?

god, what will happen next?

No they will just respond by asking for info about their competitors (to lead back to BK) or something more universal like "ok google why does flame broiled taste good". Its a game that Google literally cant win.

Exploiting it would be like saying "ok google open the burger king web page and rate it five stars" or "ok google text matt, i am going to burger king want to join" (everyone knows a matt, seriously). Instead they did something designed to be completely literally harmless. Google (and the dumb dumbs who put this assistant in their home blissfully unaware of the misdeeds that its capable of) needs a wakeup call, if anything.

The google home appliance was never designed to only listen to one operator. The owners know this. It is not trained to their voice, at all. There is no unauthorized use if the appliance was specifically designed to listen to ANYONE. Would be like saying visiting "google.com" is unauthorized because you dont have direct permission from Google. Nonsense, google put it there knowing (hoping) people would come along and use it. If you think its any different with this appliance, you are sorely mistaken. There is a big different between having a trivial lock (a login with no password) and having literally no lock at all, no door, not even an entryway, just a thing sitting in the street waiting for someone to come along and look at whats there.

If you want your race car to be light, just get rid of the battery entirely. You don't need a battery to race, only to crank the engine, something you really try to avoid doing whilst already racing.

goddamnit that pun needs to end

I love how the three most battered/worn keys are "R" "U" and "N"

You're right that very very few people go to that effort but thats not because of any intense expertise or expense. I have a similar setup with OpenWRT routers and APs (multiple devices in different locations with different specialties) a managed switch, VLANs, etc. Its all (except the distributed APs) on a wire shelf in my basement next to my electrical panel. Super easy.

Recommendations? Take the C7 and install OpenWRT on it. Super easy to use, reliable, and capable of any firewalling you can dream up (including on IPv6). Plus then you have a nice graph to tell you how much bandwidth is in use and by which device. If you have a botnet participant in your network it will be obvious.

How will they know who is infected? Release a botnet of their own that finds exploited handsets and phones home to flag them?

The icing on the cake is that several of them (notably Bruce) basically saying security by obscurity really is a thing (well at least if you're famous)