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by speedplane 10y ago
Don't be too nostalgic. How much of the "I have a dream" speech can you directly recall beyond the first 140 characters? How much of our politics has been sound bites, misinformation, and trumped up ideology for the past few
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by speedplane 10y ago
Wikileaks does not operate much differently from any other media organization: they take anonymous tips, they publish them, they work with others to sensationalize their findings, they have internal biases, and they likely are beholden to w
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by speedplane 10y ago
In virtually every feature of every piece of software (or device, or product), some aspects will be over engineered, and some will be under-engineered. I think however, the point of the article was that often engineering "narcissism&qu
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by speedplane 10y ago
The major difference between physical products, and network products, is that the damage caused by most physical products is limited to their immediate vicinity. Network products have no such limits. IOT devices in Calcutta can harm network
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by speedplane 10y ago
Okay, so some regulator comes up with a security test, the device passes the test, and then later on some security researcher discovers a flaw in either the test or in the device in a way that was not expected. What now? The manufacturer ma
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by speedplane 10y ago
In a perfect world, we would all operate our little empire, where we control every piece of infrastructure, and would not be reliant on any other provider. Alas, maintaining that infrastructure has costs... enormous costs, and to get a prod
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by speedplane 10y ago
Yes, but of course the lost productivity of the eastern continental U.S. for just a few minutes likely dwarfs the wasted electricity by many orders of magnitude.
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by speedplane 10y ago
I disagree. It should be the responsibility of the ISPs to monitor their network and shut down the harmful devices. Going after the hardware manufacturers is pointless, many of them are far too small to do anything about the problems they&#
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by speedplane 10y ago
To get around the DNS attacks, one of the cloud providers I use posted their IP address to Twitter. Of course, when Twitter is down too, it doesn't help much.
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by speedplane 10y ago
So the biggest news here seems to be the upgrades to Autopilot. ( https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-... ). They describe a fantastic amount of new technology, including using radar to make a poi