The saddest thing is that as much as I would like to get me a copy, and browse through them on a rainy day while sipping tea... I have nowhere to put them, due to my apartment being filled with books already. I have books under my bed... books in the sock drawer, books in the living room, books inside boxes... I wish I had a bigger place so I could put more books... not long ago people used to have these studio-like places with entire walls filled with books... the economics of today are quite restrictive in those terms...
Books can fill a near-infinite amount of space. I have tons of space where I could stash books if I wanted to. But I've gotten pretty hard-nosed about donating books I'm not realistically going to read or re-read to my local library book sale.
It helps that I just buy a lot of newer fiction in particular in digital format because it lets me read it wherever I happen to be.
247 people. Wow, that's a tiny company. I don't see how they could possibly keep entries researched and fresh enough.
My grandfather sold World Book and Britannica door-to-door for a time since his military pay was insufficient. Sadly, I guess that job is as in as much demand as a piano tuner.
Not saying the demand for piano tuners has gotten down, but contrary to door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen it's not zero - and will not be for the foreseeable future.
My mental model for ChatGPT is that it’s an entry-level engineer that will never be promoted to a terminal level and will eventually be let go.
However, this engineer can type infinitely fast, which means it might be useful if used very carefully.
Anyway, letting such a person near financially important code would lead to similar issues, and in both cases, I’d question the judgment of the person that decided to deploy the code at all, let alone without much testing.
This is kind of how it works with Real Engineering™ and other licensed professions - it's the non-licensed people doing most of the grunt work, the PE/architect/licensed professional reviews and signs off on it. But then, by virtue of their signature, they're still on the hook for any problems.
I think some of those hardware attestation thingies use clocks and tight latency jitter bounds to make replay attacks harder. If it takes more than "2 x time light takes to move 10 ft + deterministic delay from the other side", or less than the deterministic delay, then they refuse to unlock.
Some cars even get this right these days. Most don't.
I'd like to add that the VNC relay machine only has to fool the end user once. So, the attacker wins as long as they think "the bios is a bit janky this morning, and this is more kernel panicky than usual", and type their pin/password anyway.
Of course, it's much easier to just pop the original laptop open and interpose on the keyboard. Even easier: use acoustics to snoop the keystrokes. The snooper could even be 5g/wifi/gps, assuming it's easy to steal some power from the mainboard. I guess fingerprint + camera ID make that attack harder. Still, the hypothetical device could stream HDMI at a few FPS if it was easy to splice into the display panel cable. (I haven't cracked a laptop recently, but those used to be socketed + unencrypted.)
Miniaturization is weird. The latter attack is probably easier to pull off these days than the former. If you wanted to swap my laptop, you'd need to replicate the dents and stickers. Good luck doing that!
I imagine the sound of the hull + everything else shuddering would probably dominate the perceived sound from eardrums or direct excitation of the air.
Germany pioneered a lot of modern propaganda techniques in WWII:
The first television broadcast on earth was of Hitler, and his chief propagandist, Goebbles, continues to have significant influence on modern propagandists. For instance, Biden's publicly compared the tactics Trump used in the 2020 "Big Lie" campaign to those of Goebbles. Of course, there was also the Hitler Youth, which was a pretty successful social engineering campaign.
On the computer side of things: IBM mainframes were famously an enabling technology for the holocaust and german war machine.
You have to be careful with used Leaf's. The ones close to $10K usually need a new (unavailable) battery. Initially, they shipped them without charge / active battery temperature management, so the old ones ate batteries.
This isn't true of newer Leafs. You can easily find a decent used one closer to $20K.
> Recently, Mr. Lawrence said, customers have been snapping up used Teslas for a little over $20,000, after applying a $4,000 federal tax credit.
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> Carmakers including Tesla, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the owner of Jeep, have announced plans for electric vehicles that would sell new for as little as $25,000.
Also, the money should go into an escrow account with a list of claimants. Some neutral third party should handle getting the checks to individuals.
That way, there's no financial incentive to make it hard to claim damages, and people won't need to bother filling out a form every few weeks to claim the cash.
If this passes, I’m hoping it follows the gpdr malicious compliance route.
In particular, the csam detector could false-positive on anything involving the currently ruling party’s political platform and on the face of any elected official.
https://www.worldbook.com/world-book-encyclopedia-2024.aspx
If $1200 is too steep, they have discounted 2023 and 2022 editions.
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