maxden

A heavier Boston Dynamics Spot.. dog walking a dog.

In one of the articles it said one hotel wasn't letting guests leave without paying more money, as the hotel believed they weren't going to get paid. So in some extreme cases it's not just about getting flights back to the UK.

Maybe a little bit similar is the case of Paddy Moriarty missing from a small (10 ppl) Australian town.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/a-dog-act-homicide-on...

I agree, it is normalizing surveillance such that the kids grow up expecting there to be camera everywhere and accepting it.

Looking at the FDR for Ethiopia [1], it looks like the AOA sensors disagreed 2 seconds before they left the runway. The sensor disagreement happens after 05:38.43, they started climbing at 05:38:45 and were at 1000ft at 05:39:06 ish if I am reading the PDF image correctly.

[1]http://www.ecaa.gov.et/documents/20435/0/Preliminary+Report+...

Re:2. The article says the alert will only come once the aircraft is above 400ft. Originally Boeing told pilots it would activate on the ground.

Do you mean knock out by kinetic weapons? So would some sort of EMP get them all instead, get past any shielding?

Thanks, reading the paper now. I liked how, when describing possible alien visitation to earth he wrote: "sophisticated interaction with the human and animal lifeforms present on the planet."

just tried and its working now

This seems different than the extra chip attack according to the article. "subsequent physical inspection revealed an implant built into the server’s Ethernet connector"

I think an effective way of doing it would be to make numbers very close to an expected result but they have a simple mathematical relationship to each other, so they get widely published and aren't picked up straight away and hidden, and then show that they are all divisible by 46 or something.

So reading that ghacks article, it goes live to all EN-US users on the 25th Sept (my browser already has it), but we can't switch it off yet via: about:config?filter=extensions.fxmonitor.enabled

Pretty poor to roll it out without the option of disabling it, especially as I also ticked no tracking.

This is the report the article is based on https://guardianapp.com/ios-app-location-report-sep2018.html

This is really nicely done. Can you give a brief explanation of how you made it?

One thing I was looking for, and might have missed, but is there a planetary/trajectory view where we can see the craft go through space in time with the events?

Thanks for submitting this.

I find the technology developed during WW2 to be quite advanced for the time, as I guess most secret/military technology is. When the Allies discovered the Germans attacking based on beams, they would either attempt to bend them or send in an attack following the beam back to transmitter.

With the use of 'Gee', until there were transmitters within France, the Germans would jam the signal such that shortly after crossing the French coast, the signal was obscured in what they described as 'grass' along the bottom of the signal trace. Navigators would also take star shots outside of Gee range.

Quite a few of the transmitter sites, chosen for their geography, are still in use for similar purposes today.

The development of H2S the ground mapping radar and also utilizing any radar return before it hit the ground gave them 'fishpond' which would display a return for an aircraft that was below them. That could either be another bomber in the stream or a night fighter coming in for an attack.

Basically he says that files that were open but not explicitly saved by the user, were temporarily saved locally in ~/Library/Saved Application State/ but since updating to Yosemite, these are now all saved/uploaded to iCloud. So all his temporary notes he open in TextEdit have been uploaded.

There is a sms exchange here [0] where he does in fact say he does require electricity, and if they cut it off, he will press charges for blackmail and damages.

Unfortunately it seems it will only be resolved with a lengthy eviction process.

It is also interesting that there problems within the first few days.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-host-cant-get-squatter...

Yep.. linkbait title.

They had this though: "Heating and cooling providers can now monitor and adjust office temperatures remotely, and vending machine suppliers can see when their clients are out of Diet Cokes and Cheetos. Those vendors often don’t have the same security standards as their clients, but for business reasons they are allowed behind the firewall that protects a network."

I didn't think vending machines used the client network, but used the mobile phone network, thus only requiring electricity to install.

Ironically, that's what the thief does when she goes to toilet.

and the headline has changed again...

it was "18 months ago Oculus did one of history's smartest rounds $2.4M for a 0.0% stake (wsj.com)

edit: To clarify, it was from reading this, which I originally read as 1 month, until I read the tweet. "Heh, from Carmack's twitter 1m ago: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/448629403740692481"

ah.. 1 minute? I thought there was 1 month old tweet that mentioned FB (and obviously overlooked)

How much of this is a symptom of VC funding?

They stand to make lots of money getting in early and selling to Facebook.

Bit of a poisoned chalice from our perspective, but is this something the VC would have been working towards since day 1?

Good point on seeing what Carmack will do.

Although they announced Carmack joining Oculus in August last year. Any idea how long the negotiations for this acquisition would likely take?

I too am disappointed the tech has gone into Facebook, I wonder what those game developers that currently support it are thinking, and how much integration there will be with Facebook login etc.

I think it's blank now because PG switched off pending status.

I saw it before and could see comments in the queue, although my score was/is too low to do anything about them.

I can see how any system can be abused, but why not treat the user as positive contributor initially, and then if they accrue negative/downvotes; similar to what happens now.

It seems the new pending way involves more effort from the 1k karma people to actively click posts to make them visible. Could this also stop them coming here as if they don't do any work, the site could stagnate?

I remember when the first passenger list came out, one was obscured (passenger 84). I thought it may have been because they were unable to contact the family before releasing the name.

Looking into it again, this page [0] seems to suggest it is a Uyghur name?

[0] http://therealsingapore.com/content/who-passenger-84-mh370-a...

An unusual use of the 24x7; 6 hours for 4 days?

For sure, there would have been attempted radio contact etc that would have been heard by other flights. But I still believe if a sensitive area or large population area were threatened that they and many other countries would choose to bring the airliner down.

I would also be surprised if China did shoot the airliner down, that they would try and keep "a border incursion secret during this time", as it would surely come out.

In this case, I don't think China was involved in the loss of the airliner, but I thought others might find the history of the area interesting. I didn't know about the Russian SAR issue in the Korean airliner disaster.

I expect it would have been intercepted and destroyed if it threatened a military area or high population centre.

In 1954 the Chinese shot down a Cathay Pacific flight killing some of those on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathay_Pacific_VR-HEU

If this was the case it wouldn't explain their apparent helping in the current search phase though.

The video from the page is this: https://player.vimeo.com/video/88122560

and says its from Skybox’s SkySat-1.