Comment AllSpark (Score 1) 339
Wait, I thought the AllSpark was buried under the Hoover Dam.
Wait, I thought the AllSpark was buried under the Hoover Dam.
Ugh
This has to be some sort of early April's Fools joke, right? I mean, reading that story was like one stupidly outrageous instance after another. It cannot be real. Right? I mean c'mon, this cannot be happening! Nobody is this stupid. Nobody.
Since the article is very light on details there is no way to be sure, but I assume the attack vector came in through the web browser. I honestly can't imagine this TV having open ports to be directly attacked from the outside. Why would it need these? On top of this I also would suspect the LAN to have a firewall that should also be blocking any ports left open on the TV for whatever reason.
A bushel is a bushel, a head is a head, a pound is a pound, and a gigabyte is a gigabyte.
Except when it's a gibibyte. Chances are his router uses 1024 bytes per KB, and AT&T are using 1000 bytes per KB.
No wonder it is proprietary information.
Except by my math, this only accounts for a 2.4% difference.
How I read the VERY long post:
Free, free, free (keep repeating over and over again, the "postercomments" compression filter does not allow me to produce the visual effect)
Buy my book.
Free, free, free (keep repeating over and over again, the "postercomments" compression filter does not allow me to produce the visual effect)
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.