but it doesn't seem to be a likely threat vector.
Do some traffic analysis on your target's porn habits at the ISP, leave a compromised disc about his favorite kink in a bag on the ground near where he parks his car, and use his "connected" player to zero-day the other equipment on his LAN, installing the APT without even needing to pretend about premesis warrants or anything.
I will preface this by saying "this is really true" because you probably would otherwise read it as a nonsense, sarcastic, or glib comment.
I heard a conversation the other day about some of the terrible new buildings at the nearby university. A very senior administrator said (paraphrased), "you need to hire a hot architect and pay him 20% of the project price to come up with some really shocking architecture, to prove to prospective students that the school is still relevant."
I think he was talking mostly about the atrocity that they added to the Medical School, which looks suspiciously like the post-accident Chernobyl reactor. The "architecture" part of the project probably added $20M over making it look like a classical higher-ed building. I believe this administrator had final sign-off on such an expense.
It is not like an educated population is some kind of public good.
It's not, if you're speaking about the economic term. A 'public good', to an economist, is something that cannot be provided by the private market (a "market failure") and therefore must fall to a government to provide. Education is one where the private market excels in comparison to the public provision, which would be a counter-example.
And how should the government do that? With the tax income that these companies managed to avoid paying? Cool story bro.
The government should take money from the poor and funnel it into the coffers of these corporations. Did you miss the part where government is for the privatization of gains and the socialization of losses?
The alternative is asking for bankruptcy.
I can just about guarantee you that several buyers of bandwidth in Phoenix had contracts with the people who owned this fiber and those contracts specified multiple redundant paths out of the city.
Odds are we're looking at backup system failure or contract fraud. Probably the former.
How so? Everyone gets the same speed....
It's almost as fair as the toilet paper supply in Venezuela, Comrade!
Ah - they'll face opposition in some southern cities where they want to expand Google Fiber, but they won't suffer the wrath of the LGBT... community.
Put the key in off the license sticker on your PC
Yeah, the one that rubbed off the bottom of your laptop in three months and you forgot to take a picture of it when it was new...
Ah, I hope Redbox helped fund this feature since they're going to be a primary beneficiary!
you forgot to order the right Compaq IDE laptop header adapter. Whichever one it is for this model...
Suddenly a Laplink cable and a VirtualBox running DOS with a detachable D: doesn't seem so awful bad. Move the image from the XP box via flash drive or network, mount it loopback and profit before lunch.
Black matter, dark matter, dyslexia is awesome...
"Alternately-bright matter" is the preferred nomenclature, Dude.
One of the issues is whether they will turn from transmit to receive fast enough. If not, you might need two, or one of those cheap stick receivers and a converter.
Is there some standard way to manage timing? Does the weekend hacker need to deal with signal/buffer latency from the DAC/ADC or somehow manage timecode synchronization?
Shouldn't they always serve the operator?
yes, probably, maybe, sometimes, usually - there can be complex extenuating circumstances.
Robot & Frank is a pretty good SciFi exploration of such issues. I think the writers imagine the likely future trade-offs well.
You have plenty of 'choice', but sitting and waiting for someone to actually do the work and make a success out of something then springing your patents on them and trying to cash in... yeah.. you are not likely to get much sympathy for your forced hand.
In a world where ideas are a dime-a-dozen, execution ability is the real currency.
So obviously those with no execution ability should use the government to force people to pay them for ideas they could not figure out how to make money on themselves.
IP.
As long as you don't demand that one provide you with sex...
But then, that's a whole other ethical bucket of fish.
Nobody thinks there's an ethical problem with me "forcing" my lawnmower to spin its blade and murder the grass, or torturing my refrigerator by chaining it to a wall and making it go "brrrr" all day.
Machines do what their owners want, end of story - there are no ethical issues unless they affect other people.
With your bare hands?!?
