Bribes and kick backs are at threat...

Which is why all the insider trading sites have hired members of the Trump family to be very high level employees. Not quite C-suite, but basically employment for doing nothing. You know, like how China has CCP members at companies to say in the government's good graces.

The vast majority of those "brands" are fly-by-night Asian products from effectively un-suable companies. Meta is a juicy American big tech outfit with deep pockets.

Most are just rebrands of the same glasses as well - one factory makes something and it's sold under 100 different brands.

But additionally, most of those glasses only record to internal storage, it's not used to train AI models or identify people. So they are a lot less creepy than Meta's.

Meta's glasses are designed to be used to recognize people and Meta is known to gather stuff like this to build a profile of you. You might be caught on multiple glasses which can then be used to reconstruct your movements, similar to how Flock cameras can be used to track people.

Those Chinese glasses well, they could be used to upload to a Chinese AI server, but it's not something likely to be done because those fly-by-night companies can't operate a server to save their lives. It's why those connected cameras and other things almost always operate using local storage because any apps will die in short order.

What the Meta Perv Glasses do is far beyond what the Chinese ones do. Meta has admitted to what they want.

You've hinted at the bigger problem. The US air control system is obsolete. Every time an upgrade has been funded, it has failed. And a sizable chunk (15%+) of the money became campaign contributions to members of Congress.

Over in "communist" Canada, their ATC is an run by an NGO, which is funded by the airlines and private pilots.

Maybe the USA should do the same.

What do you mean? The greatest change in aviation history is happening right now - ADS-B. Granted, it's around 30 years old by now (it was trialed in Alaska in the late 90s early 2000s). But you know who the greatest detractors of it is? Airlines. And to a lesser extent, the military, because it would mean they would be forced to equip ADS-B.

ATC doesn't really need modernization - it actually modernizes just fine - it's just a radar with secondary surveillance (transponder) plotted on a screen. The technology gets better so you're not just looking at spots but full realized plans, projections and history, along with potential conflicts.

And there was a proposal to do a NavCanada like thing in the US - it was called privatization of ATC. It was soundly rejected because airlines hated paying for it, and GA would take on a huge burden of paying for it despite not using it as much. (Right now it's paid for in fuel taxes, so those who fly the most pay the most, which is airlines). Then there is also the reverse worry - airlines forcing GA to the fringes because they pay for like 95% of ATC services who may demand GA "get out" and thus be locked out of ATC airspace. (A lot of flights in GA are done without ATC oversight).

GA activity is much smaller in Canada and most of it happens outside of ATC controlled airspace. That doesn't mean there is no ADS-B - Canada is adopting space-based ADS-B because the flight density is too low to equip land-based receivers everywhere. This is also a problem because it's incompatible with US ADS-B - US aircraft have to equip with diversity antennas (one pointing up, one pointing down). Space-based ADS-B also uses 1090MHz exclusively, so the 890 UTS is not available. (1090MHz is the frequency used by transponders so your transponder needs to be ADS-B compatible).

The US abandoned space-based ADS-B because there is so much air traffic that it wasn't feasible - it would overload the satellites.

Anyhow, the main reason to focus on gamers is because ATC is a mind and memory game. You have to keep track of planes and where they're going and where they're coming from and make sure they go to the next sector safely. It's a mental game and the whole point is the radar serves to provide feedback to update your mental model. Certain game genres really encourage that sort of mental thinking.

It's mentally taxing enough that ATC only does it in 2 hour shifts out of the entire day - any longer and your mind can wander and that's when bad things happen.

And he was a psychopath, as he watched is neighbors, friends, community members, babies, etc. drown rather than helping them up on his boat or trying to convince them to build their own boat.

Nevermind how we are still around today because I don't recall two *humans* being on board, just Noah himself. The obvious reason for two of every animal, but Noah? (Plus, it turns out things like homosexuality exist in animals as well...)

Nevermind that if we did that, we can ignore everything between Adam & Eve to Noah.

(To be fair, though, multiple civilizations have reported things similar to a great flood happening, but since those records actually exist it means people from those civilizations did survive.)

But do you need those data items for every single client all at once? Why not (weak example to make point) one login for customers A through M and another for N through Z? If someone breaks security for a system, they should not ever be staring at a database of *everything*. Maybe divide customers by region? Or class of freight? It is insane to me that any user's login carries the ability to see all the data downloaded in this attack.

They're a logistics company. They take in products that are to be shipped to people. Likely they come in as the orders happen. So it's likely just a simple FIFO queue - someone from Steam buys a Steam Controller and their details get entered into the shipping database in FIFO order. As people work to package and ship product, that order will come up and whoever's the lucky person takes a steam controller, puts it in a box and slaps a label on it, then enters in the tracking information and tosses it on the shipping pile.

It's likely not ordered by anything - other than maybe the order the orders came in as. If someone else orders a widget after the guy orders a steam controller, the next person then gets to pick the widget, pack it into a box and then move on.

The database in question only contains orders up to 100 days old, so it's likely just the active database containing the orders that need to be sent out and orders that were sent out. Anyone fulfilling orders will need access to it so they can see what product needs to be packed and where to send it off to.

It's not a database of "every single client". It's a database of orders that have been shipped out and less than 100 days old and orders yet to shipped out because either they are being held for supply, or they just haven't gotten around to handling the order yet.

The 100 day history is so if there is a problem, it can be traced - if a product doesn't arrive, they can look at the order and figure out tracking. Or if there's a problem and it needs to be returned, it can be traced to the original shipment for RMA.

As far as it looks, other databases weren't compromised, which can include inventory information - what stock is on hand and where it is in the warehouse, or their customer information (as in who buys their services). The only thing compromised was the active order table which likely has lots of access out of necessity as people fulfilling orders need to read the database to get the orders, and backend systems like Valve need the ability to read, add and delete order entries to see what order status is, the ability to add an order, and the ability to cancel a shipment that hasn't gone out yet.

It looks like a perfectly reasonable way to segregate the business. They aren't storing your name, address, phone and email, it's just information that's needed to fulfill the order and any post-shipping issues that might arise. And it looks like that database was compromised

Except this time around they're being called "perv goggles" or "perv glasses". I suggest we keep reinforcing that term so that's what the public calls them.

Flatpak, Snap and containers in general need lots of drive space. Good thing storage is cheap these days OH WAIT

The programs I use these days generally don't consume all that much space - even if it got really bloated I'm sure most people can get by with under 200GB of installed programs (excluding things like games).

Most of my disk space is data files - videos, music, etc.

Modern games being so big the extra container overhead is basically nothing compared to 120GB for the game assets itself.

If you have 1T of storage space (something that's been around for a decade and a half now), that's usually way more than plenty for even the biggest Linux distro. (Granted, 1T SSDs have only really been cheap the past half decade or so prior to last year).

I don't think the use of flatpak is going to significantly increase the amount of disk space used. It's all my regular work files that take hundreds of gigs of storage space that really consume disk space.

I would be greatly surprised if you couldn't comfortably install this distro on a 256GB SSD (if you can even find them as most people just threw them out).

No, the solution to Flock is not "no license plates" and "no public photography" as that's stupid.

The solution is to break Flock up. The problem with Flock is that adding one camera adds value to the Flock network. A town adds a Flock camera, and the network gets more valuable as anyone can search data from that camera.

So if your neighborhood HOA puts up a Flock camera (and they were the primary customers a decade ago), now police from across the nation has access to that camera as well.

That would be fine, except that police are misusing it. They're arresting people for having the same license plate as someone they're interested in (same letters and numbers, different state). A woman gets handcuffed in front of her kids while police figure out her minivan is not a motorcycle. Cities in California reporting that anywhere from 60+% of the alerts they receive on stolen vehicles are bogus - wrong vehicle, bad license plate read, etc.

Then you also have police misusing their access to stalk romantic interests. Showing even they can't be trusted to not misuse it.

Or government agencies corrupted with goons to seek out certain groups of people. (And while true that Flock has no contracts with ICE - ICE routinely uses friends in LEOs to provide access for them).

In other words, Flock may have had the best of intentions in the beginning. The problem is they are now the front line for what a misbehaving government can misuse to the point well, people are angry.

Though to be fair, I wouldn't vandalize the camera - destroying them is generally illegal. I suggest instead just putting plastic garbage bags over them which at least will cripple them but not destroy them. Many cities who decide to cancel their contracts do this as Flock owns and operates the cameras and it's up to them to remove it.

It's not hard to hash just the important bits - the image data and tables needed would be hashed, as well as certain portions of the metadata (e.g., GPS coordinates, creator, camera serial number and date/time). The hash is signed and stored with the file.

When you verify it,, you just have to parse the right parts out and hash them.

It's a common technique for files that can be legitimately manipulated in certain ways without changing the contents. You can even choose to re-sign a file without altering the original hash, and append the new hash to the file to create a chain of custody. Then you can verify the image using either hash.

I found it curious that they apparently did not even consider the obvious alternative - which as you say is hemp. There is a lot known about turning hemp into paper - even toilet paper - and they seem to be ignoring or oblivious to it. The problem with hemp is the same as the problem with hesperaloe will be - supply. Hemp paper is expensive because the supply of hemp stalks is limited, so it does not scale up to the capacity of wood pulp to create economy of scale price efficiencies.

Likely because the process to turn hemp into paper isn't patentable - it's been done so long and well known.

From the summary, they have a new patented method to turn hesperaloe into cellulose fibres.

That's the reason.

The paper makers can use hemp, but so can anyone else. With this method, only Kimberly-Clark can use the process.

The question even becomes "what is life".

It's believed life started because two molecules got closer together and then bonded. Those two molecules being proto-DNA then developed the capability to reproduce itself. But we're far from cellular life as we would consider it - just a primordial soup of stuff and two proto-DNA molecules coming together and then being to reproduce a copy of itself.

Yep, pay attention to what Andreessen, Thiel, Elmo, Ellison (he and his sprog), Kurzwei, etc. and their fellow travelers are saying. They want the world to put a data center in every backyard and some (most?) insist we are not using enough energy. Their idea is that we're destined for the "stars" and that they are sooooo (*^(&*% intelligent that they deserve to have their brain patterns (what the hell are those, precisely?) transplanted to silicon so they can survive the coming ecological disaster they are intent on creating. They cannot get their heads around that you cannot get to the stars from here. And even were they to send their bot selves there, the bots would suffer hardware breakdown long before they crashed into a destination star.

The movie "Elysium" seems appropriate here. The rich go and live on a space station with green lawns and huge gardens, while everyone else suffers on Earth. Minus the happy ending where their health care robots come down to earth to provide medical care.

Clever.

> Totally different from hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis, right?

I think the difference is, people generally can't start hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis.

Well, maybe floods.

...when your brand new phone refuses to be activated on their network, even though you bought it from them> No activation = no connection = app is useless. Can't call them either because, you know, at that point the phone doesn't work.
And yes, it has happened to me.

For T-Mobile, that works great. You have a customer who's paying you and you don't have to provide service for.

Of course, I guess the other assumption is you have access to another phone or something - either your spouse or your kid, or a work phone. Or maybe a landline.