Comment Re:Dumb idea (Score 1) 98
I dunno, but I hope nobody tells UK TV Licensing about this. They'll be sending enforcement agents to people's houses to shoot at unlicensed TVs through the windows.
My prediction is that eventually there will be a legal remote switch in every vehicle that will work 100%. We'll see.
Don't be silly. The police's, diplomats', politicians' and rich peoples' vehicles will be exempt.
The switches are on the rear of the seat, so it will always require someone other than the occupier of the seat to activate the switch.
If the true intent is for the switch never to be operated while someone's sitting in the seat, surely they could add a simple weight sensor that would disable the switch if there's weight on the seat, similar to the seatbelt warning sensor on just about every car.
It should not be as simple as "switch gets stuck; pilot gets squashed forward into the yoke".
Disagree.
If you're not sharing your connection, you want to saturate your bandwidth when downloading. Making full utilization of your bandwidth is a desirable state and not "straining". Would you buy an F1 car and then only do 30mph so you don't "strain" it?
Also, ISPs rely on overselling bandwidth. If you're not using 100% of your connection, you're not encouraging them to spend money upgrading their infrastructure. If you don't, your money is going to their shareholders, not bettering your service. ISPs here in Britain have made that argument in the past, calling out people for saturating their connections 24/7 or, as you might put it, using the service they paid for. It's a bullshit argument based on ISPs greedily overselling capacity.
Finally, webpages and apps are not the same as they were in the 90s and early 2000s. Most websites send about 100x more data than they would have back then. Keeping the status quo ignores this trend. DSL is not "fast" anymore. It's only in the interests of ISPs to maintain this definition, not consumers.
I write this as someone stuck on 72Mb DSL at home due to the flat (apartment) block I live in not having any internal data cabling except POTS copper lines. It sucks, it costs way more per Mb than other offerings in the area and it's one of the main reasons I would like to move house soon.
For some reason I was immediately reminded of this quote from the film Syriana:
"Corruption charges! Corruption?!! Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption... is why we win."
Let's say you're right. What's the potential mitigation here? Just never allow admins to install drivers just in case they're vulnerable?
The sole difference in this case is that the driver in question is bundled with the OS, so the vector exists on all copies of Windows. Sure, that's not ideal, but if you find a vulnerability in a ubiquitous, signed, 3rd-party driver the result is exactly the same. Realtek audio? Intel nic? Those drivers are on hundreds of millions of machines already, so no need to install anything.
The takeaway here is: don't let your admin accounts get owned.
This is unbelievable! Two sets of scientists! Both from the University of Shanghai! Creating petabyte optical discs at exactly the same ti... oh wait.. it's a dupe.
I mean, to be fair to the mods, it must be hard to read the thousands of submissions that are actually accepted each day and then remember the general gist of them.
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