Comment Scope creep (Score 1) 168
Scope creep has always been capable of consuming even the most generous of budgets.
Scope creep has always been capable of consuming even the most generous of budgets.
From my perspective, securing the boot loader is the first step. Then you need a binary checker (which has been around for a while), and a trusted vendor distributing the updates and binary checksums. With those two pieces in place, you can at least have some modicum of insurance that your binaries haven't been compromised since they were released by the vendor.
I wouldn't worry about custom executables, though -- how is a hacker supposed to even know they exist unless they've got inside info on your company and the programs they write?
Yeah, but it could give a whole new meaning to the ever popular fart apps for phones...
Are you that fucking stupid to think that after a crash at a major airport, local emergency services can't get your wife an insulin shot?
You are to stupid to live, do yourself and everyone else a favor and kill yourself.
Life for most of us is already complex enough. We know we are in a tiny sinking life raft with an insane incompetent captain on a hostile ocean filled with sharks. If someone then starts to show just how leaky the boat is by poking at its holes... well, they can expect a punch in the face.
Those that are upset by all the revelations are the people who thought the captain was competent and sane, the ocean was our natural home, the raft an ocean lines and the sharks to be dolphins.
In reality of course, the spying while much worse then what the dreamers thought is probably in reality far less effective. If it worked, they would be capturing more terrorists and criminals. Most of us in the real world DREAM of an effective secret shadow government ruled by aliens, it would mean that for once somebody intelligent was in charge. Or at least something with a plan. It doesn't matter that the plan is to harvest your organs, at least it is a goddamn plan.
Take the attitude in the US towards veterans. The average American KNOWS the average US veteran is a war criminal. Plenty of examples even very clear once like the Mai Lai masacre. Point out however that just because someone is a vet, they are therefor NOT automatically worthy of worship and they will spout all sorts of nonsense, even going so far as liberals stating that orders are orders.
The same people who cry foul (justly so) over Japan worhshipping its war criminals, can't see the tree in their own eye.
Because it rocks the boat. And people HATE that.
Ideally people want today to be followed by tomorrow and for it to be not to much worse.
If you read about daily life in the death camps of the holocaust, the normalcy of it all is the most shocking. Life went on, even if all around you it didn't. The same is true of children raised in the most appalling conditions. Humans adapt, to ANYTHING. It allows us to survive. Both Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett have written about this, we all need to be slightly drunk all the time because if we ever saw the world sober, we would lose our minds.
Think about this, while you are reading me prattling on, children are being hurt and killed, are dying of hunger RIGHT now and all your are doing is wishing you had mod points to mod me up/down. YOU (and I, because I am prattling on while I could be saving someone) can't deal with the real world all the time.
And snowden tried to force us to do so, to see the man behind the curtain and we hate him for it. Well not hate, just wish he would go away so we can pretend the world ain't that bad after all.
Want proof? Red nose day. A british charity event were they gather money through comedy. It is VERY succesful. Because it offsets the horrors for which the money is needed with plenty of entertainment and happy endings to make us forget how horrid it all is. Charity organizers know this, you show a BIT of misery, the photogenic part because if you just show thousands of dead children, nobody would donate anything because nobody would watch. Show however a story of how a child went from carrying water all day to sitting in a happy classroom and you can't accept the donations fast enough.
Snowden showed us the Auswitz that is our privacy and we can't cope. It is to much, to far. He didn't just rock the boat, he nuked it out of existence. And have us nothing in return. He didn't give us any tools to stop Prism. EVERYONE is in favor. The only ones speaking out against it so far are SOME tea party members and socialist semi-dictators. In Europe NOBODY has spoken out against it.
We can now either face the full machinations of the system OR wish Snowden went away.
I am betting on the latter. Because I am a old middle class man who frankly has every bit of fight beaten out of him. I used to be an activist for a local union, then had people who fought me every way demand that they get all the benefits they didn't fight for... let someone else fight this fight. I am done and frankly I can see why some people walk freely to their execution. At least when the end comes, you no longer have to worry if you made the right choice. The choice has been made, all you got to do is follow it. It makes things so much easier.
And if you despise me for it. What are YOU doing about it? See? I am rocking your boat and you hate me for it.
OK, but let's say the city said "our city is dying, everything is falling apart, but damnit at least we're gonna have good emergency services!" If that's their priority, and then this happens, it's a pretty big deal.
Got a link for that? I've been considering a second smaller machine for metal-working.
Screw drive machines aren't easily expanded to 1.2m x 1.2m --- it only cost ~$60 to extend my Y-axis to 1m, and double up the MakerSlide on the X-axis --- much more solid, but admittedly, still a bit fiddly, but for the price, it meets my needs thus far.
Yeah, 'cause no thesis contributes anything to human knowledge --- here's a better guide:
The ShapeOko is a well-documented, opensource and affordable hobby-levek CNC router:
A Delta-based printer: http://reprap.org/wiki/Simpson
I'd really like to see the best of both worlds (the Simpson build instructions are quite nice, while Morgan's is a wall of text...)
I tried to put together a B.O.M. @ kitbom.com: http://kitbom.com/WillAdams/reprap-morgan and it currently prices out @ $274.26, not including the 3D printed parts and some things we've not found good sources for.
Also, free software for 3D CAD/CAM still needs a lot of work --- I've listed everything I could find here:
http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/CAD
http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/CAM
and people still over-whelmingly choose commercial software:
3D CAD 9/15 --- http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1783
3D CAM 19/37 --- http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1785
(by way of comparison the commercial stuff is listed here: http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Commercial_Software )
Please tell me I missed a fabulous opensource solution, or some much less expensive parts....
This is editing? WTF is up with our so-called editors? This summary is so far from proper English it's not even funny.
I've read better instructions that came with Chinese products that are notorious for their bad translations.
Fuck off, asshole. The thorn character existed long before your birth.
Except for all the novels where the nature of entire planets was ret-conned, forcing authors of incompleat trilogies to just stop writing.
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