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Comment Re:Standard cop tactic in the USA (Score 1) 420

In Chicago, the internal affairs division of the police is staffed mostly by ex-cops.

It s possible that those ex-cops are the ones that are pissed off at the bad cops for making them look bad.The more people you report it to the higher chance something will happen. It is very easy to do nothing and then gripe about the incident happening. If you report it and nothing happens at least you tried.

There is one sure way of guaranteeing that internal affairs will never investigate an incident; Don't report it.

Comment Re:Standard cop tactic in the USA (Score 5, Informative) 420

Did you report it to any of the following; local police board, state police board, prosecutor in the case? The prosecutor would be your best bet as they usually get pissed off when their witnesses are messed with. The prosecutor could charge the officers with witness tampering. Did you politely ask for the case number so you could refer to the incident later?

Comment Re:Direct connect (Score 1) 199

So bypass the hard parts by soldering into the circuits and then say the device is insecure. We have no idea how many layers they bypassed. This is like entering the bank, shutting off the alarm with the code, opening the vault door with the combination, drilling a few safety deposit boxes and then saying safety deposit boxes in banks are insecure.

If you need physical access to the dongle it is not a true exploit of the dongle.

Comment Hype (Score 3, Informative) 41

The motors made their way to the mice's stomachs, embedded in their stomach linings, and released their tiny payloads: nano-size flakes of gold.

No, the motors were swallowed by the mouse where they interacted with the acid in the stomach and began to move. Some of them eventually encountered the stomach lining where they embedded themselves. There was no payload release.

The research represented a major step toward putting microbots to work in human medicine, where they could one day ferry drugs efficiently into specific organs or even specific cells.

These are motors with a payload not microbots.
Here are a few issues;
They only work in an acid environment.
This method could not be uses in blood supply as it produces gas which could cause an embolism.
They have no way of discerning where they are. To deliver a drug to a specific point that is necessary.
This may be a step to delivering drugs to the stomach or intestines but not really applicable to the rest of the body.

Comment Re:Wow! Cool! (Score 1) 92

How is it an ad if they aren't selling anything yet?

The difference between sales and marketing advertising is that sales advertising is designed to sell an existing product while marketing advertising is designed to get the product in the mind of people who might eventually purchase it. In marketing the product need on yet exist. This is a marketing ad. It is the same as all the ads for movies that are yet to be released.

Comment Direct connect (Score 2) 199

From the article.

By hooking up his laptop directly to the device he says he would have been able to unlock doors, start the car and gather engine information, but he chose not to “weaponise” his exploits

SO only direct connect has been proven.

The researcher noted that for a remote attack to take place, the concomitant u-blox modem, which handles the connection between Progressive’s servers and the dongle, would have to be compromised too. Such systems have been exploited in the past, as noted in a paper here from Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, from the University of Luxembourg.

Remote access has only been shown by similar systems.

Call me when you can actually show a remote exploit through the dongle.

Comment Liability. (Score 1) 151

The second you disable another drone in flight you become liable for any damage it does coming down. If someone gets injured or something gets damaged the owner of the attack drone in on the hook. It could also be considered destruction of private property if what the drone was doing was legal.

Comment Re:Rail line (Score 1) 206

You brought up winter first, then changed the goalposts again, anything to distract from the facts.

The only thing I added to the conversation was "winding through mountains" which also adds to the cost of rail transport. Since the subject of the discussion is the cost of rail transport I do no see that as changing the goal posts. You are the one that can not seem to handle additional information. What supported facts have you brought to the discussion? As far as I can see, none.

You lie like we can't just look up and see your bald faced lies. Your parents must be so proud.

You can call me a liar all you want. It does not detract from the fact that I have independent information that supports my position while you have opinions based on living next to a rail line. Would living next to CERN make one be qualified to make unsupported claims about particle physics. Even your one claim about not clearing snow is proven to be false. The rest of your claims being "no it isn't".

Again, you have no references to back up your uninformed opinions while I have cited several articles that support mine. How do you dismiss the article about how running CP rail in unseasonably low temperatures costing an extra $61 million? Until you can cite something to support your claims I will not be responding.

Comment Re:Rail line (Score 1) 206

You brought up winter first, then changed the goalposts again,

Wow, you can't even follow a conversation. The first mention of summer was by you.

he "cost" of winding through mountains is the same summer or winter.

And it's based in more facts than you have,

How about this?

Unseasonably frigid weather in 2013-2014 -- with temperatures falling to as low as minus 37 degrees Celsius (minus 35 Fahrenheit) in central Canada -- forced both railroads to run slower and shorter trains and spend more on fuel and other items

Winter-related costs such as snow removal trimmed Calgary- based Canadian Pacific’s first-quarter profit by 30 cents to 35 cents a share, equivalent to as much as $61 million.

Those conditions are a normal winter in Alaska. Rail in winter is expensive.

You have a wrong opinion, and selection bias.

You have no selection bias because you have shown nothing to back up you opinions. Show something that supports your opinion and I may believe you.

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