In this case, it looks like they were auditing physical security amongst other things. "Looks like"?
If you'd bothered to read the fucking article instead of racing to make a first post, you'd know that was exactly what it was about.
Grow trees using power of the sun. Sun dries out broken sticks and kindling. Rub stick on piece of wood with bow. When you get a glow- blow on it and light kindling. Cook food over resulting fire. Roast marshmallows- drink beer; get guitar (or sitar) out- everyone starts to sing Eagles songs. Everyone is happy and goes to bed smelling like campfire smoke. Is there anything better?
That's what they're doing now. And causing deforestation in the process. It's also pretty labour intensive to walk for hours to the forest, cut and collect wood, carry it back to the village.
What are the short comings of HTML for this then?
Kindle and ePub are HTML + images + index files, compressed into a single file.
The real story is at Carolina Journal
And I can't see how this storm is a teacup is news for anyone, let alone "News for nerds".
Today's what-ifs are tomorrow's WTFs.
Sounds more like the fictional liquid bomb that never could have worked outside a laboratory and has caused millions of people to waste millions of hours at airports ever since.
And in this case, millions of people are downloading millions of MP3s every day and never a "WTF". Except when they get Rickrolled.
The music system in some vehicles is tied into the same CAN-bus with everything else so that it can get signals from the same steering wheel that has the cruise controls on it and which is listened to by the TCM. There's basically no security on this bus.
You've been reading too much Neuromancer. Has this ever happened? No. If it were possible, some asshole would have done it by now.
It's called a buffer overflow
Bollocks. Name a real world exploit, not something that you have to install a bunch of obsolete software to make it even possible. And then point out any time it actually happened in the wild.
For automotive entertainment systems which generally run without a security context and which may not even have meaningful memory protection, it is doubly a problem.
Again bollocks. Who cares if your MP3 player crashed? Reboot it. You're not seriously saying that the music system in a car could affect anything else? Again, cite a real example, not a what-if.
IF you exclude the risk of being infected up the wazoo.
From a bunch of MP3 files? How, pray tell, does that work?
In a discussion about Sony, who DID work out a way to infect computers using an "audio CD" that actually included a root kit, that's pretty ironic.
Google updated their search terms slightly recently; you need to put a word in quotes to explicitly match. So "bubble" should do what +bubble used to do.
Thanks! I was getting so annoyed with Google second guessing me and giving me 10,000 irrelevant hits for something that was one letter off from what I was actually looking for. I don't mind it suggesting "Did you mean
Do Wikipedia and Amazon really have that steep a learning curve?
Did you not understand that by introducing these with "say" I meant they were simply examples? Once I get to a site (via Google) I may indeed use their own search if it seems likely. Often it's not necessary, so I don't have to bother.
And as it happens I just looked up the major funding source for Sourcewatch, and lo and behold it's George Soros.
A Jewish banker. Now it's all clear.
Draw your own conclusions.
Well, it certainly confirms that you're an idiot.
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