Comment Re:No shit (Score 1) 248
nah - even modern dimmers are digital too.
nah - even modern dimmers are digital too.
I see where you're going with that thought. A pulmonary doctor probably wouldn't make a good heart surgeon. But should know what the heart is and some of the basics around it. Expert? no. That it exists? probably. What about the nervous system? or cancers across the whole body? Brain?
It comes down to what we consider the basics. I self studied cryptography enough to know that I don't know enough - those who hack think differently than I do. In this day and age would I expect developers of web based products to understand that security is important? yes. Know how to do it properly? no.
If security was extra important to me - I'd hire a few experts with varying roles and have them define the standards that other developers need to follow.
When I started (20+ years ago) I didn't know what a database was, or how to attach to it. Heck - HTML didn't exist yet. Now I'll bet I could give the best of them a run for the money. Cryptography? I know it exists - and would hire an expert. Could I learn it? Absolutely.
How much you payin' and when do I start?
NoFlyZone is like those 800 "who-calls-me" web sites. Maybe they will raise issue awareness - but like who-calls-me there isn't anything they can do about it. Its just a place for people to complain.
Better yet - it looks to be structured just like the DoNotCallMe database.
I like that an advertisement for a "who-calls-me" like service made it onto
Seems that is how the off-market auto parts works. Steal the whole car (or parts - like just Xenon headlights) and chop it up. Hard to sell the chassis because of the VIN# But you could sell the airbags, radio, tires, wheels, fenders etc for big profit. They became so good that these stolen parts made it into the regular supply chain. Next time your cellphone screen cracks - will you send it back to the manufacturer or take it around the corner to the cheap(er) repair shop?
Supply & Demand meets The Innovators.
Nowadays even the airbags have chips in them.
That article was - eh - short. I'm not sure I learned anything from it, maybe I'm having a TL;TR day.
But if the requestor really wants 13k documents - let'em crowd fund it and make the case to the public.
I'd be humored to find out if the gov't would even do the work if $1.4m showed up in their bank account. Hah - pay them in cash with amounts under $10,000 to trigger the IRS monitoring of drug crimes.
Why is this news worthy of geeks? Apple - may or may not be doing something - but it is too early to tell what - and they may not actually be doing it, and if they are it may or may not be with an iDevice. But we can't tell.
Look - Apple Watch!!
The man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is running out of money to keep his project alive. Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 53, he is running out of money and patience with being underfunded.
I see these things so last minute - always realizing that the object tracking firmware on my scope will need to be updated in order to track.
If only my system was internet updatable directly to the scope. Gotta find my Serial to USB connector
My VW GTI (aka Audi A3) has a "sound box" which makes a delightful little growl when you step on the gas. Coupled with a muffler that puts out a "pummp pummp" sound - it is all cool. VW didn't hide it - it is advertised albeit small print feature. Making my little 0-60 runs and hearing the deep tone change with each tap of the paddle-shifter, it just gives a little twinge of excitement in the lower region of the anatomy.
What is driving a car? I say the experience and exhilaration. Sure some of these features are like spinning wheel-caps - but they add to the fun. Its the feeling.
The performance geeks remove this box ( Y-delete) because it affects throttle response. But for us old people who bomb through the mountain pass with the windows open and Red Barchetta playing from the stereo - I'm after the surreal.
Just as long as it doesn't sound fake
Someday somebody has got to decide whether the typewriter is the machine, or the person who operates it.