Posts by Mayday 636 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2012
I recently bought a new iPhone 15 Pro to replace my rather old iPhone XR. Main reason being is due to favourable tax refund conditions provided under Aussie legislation (outside the scope of this post). For a while, I was buying new phones every year or two because they used to offer more than the previous model, but now each model upgrade is incremental at best, and certainly not worth the ~$2k AUD to “upgrade” every year.
Apparently it's the thinnest Apple device yet. I like Apple stuff (you may or may not, thats up to you), but using an iPad flat on a table is going to be tricky with a thin chassis a big-arse camera bump in one corner. All to be negated by some $$ case making the thickness uniform so you can use the thing this way.
Edit: The polishing cloth is thinner. Fortuitously it doesn't need a notch or camera bump.
Some people who use these apps (bear in mind we are users in an IT forum) are far more likely to spill the beans because asked. Also consider the superficial nature of many (yes I said it!) users in this domain. "Oh I'll only date a guy who is at least 6ft tall and of race X".
Desperation, wanting to be accepted, nasties who "manage" the information.
Probably marketed as such. This can be (depending on your interpretation) better than the blamestorming which happens when you've got (say) Cisco switches, Netapp storage, some hypervisor and whatever else you have in your stack, all pointing the fingers at the vendor which isn't them when it stops working.
I’m a skydiver.
Height that you drop something (ie phone, human, brick etc) does not affect it by the time it hits the ground. At very great heights, think Kittinger/Red Bull Felix/Eustace terminal velocity is much higher as there is less air resistance in the stratosphere. Naturally this does not apply to us landlubbers hopping out at 14k. We can accelerate or slow down by adjusting our body position or orientation (head down is much faster than belly to earth). Now, a tumbling phone generates all sorts of turbulence and would have a much lower, and more variable terminal velocity than a person or a brick.
I don't even know how many time's I've left a place and still had my access available to me. Even remote access, to customer networks with admin level access. I've even contacted previous employers and asked them to revoke my access to avoid the possibility of any unpleasantness.
I suppose there's a few differences here:
I'm not a dickwit (open to debate)
I don't want to get caught and go to prison.
Thing is ANYONE who has ever accessed anything at greater than a user level would know that there's at least a log of a successful login happening. Do stuff like this you get what you deserve.
I'd have thought that you should not draw attention to yourself. Expired or no car rego plates would be one thing I'd remedy before running off with the loot. It's also how McVeigh got arrested after he decided to blow up Oklahoma City.
Running into the cop cars out the front of the cop shop in a van full of meth is also a good practice to avoid.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/man-jailed-after-crashing-into-police-cars-with-260kg-of-drugs-in-van-20200911-p55utc.html
I know the guy who filmed Tom Cruise for the Mission Impossible HALO jumps (cant recall which specific MI movie it was). This was all done "correctly" and Tom really did the jump itself. These kind of jumps take CONSIDERABLY more organising, training and specialised equipment compared to a boring old skydive at the local DZ.
I also know the guy who you may have seen on a Red Bull emblazoned wingsuit where they hop out of the plane, plane goes into a dive then he goes back in. This was not done in USA (unlike Tom's MI jumps), much like the other stunts you see where planes fly into cliffs etc. Therefore the FAA does not care and is subject to whatever the local jurisdiction is.
Last name drop I promise - there was a Chevy ad where they toss some car out the back of a Skyvan and these skydivers are flying around it, this was filmed in a remote part of Arizona. Most definitely FAA jurisdiction. I know this lot too but I'm unsure as to what approvals they required. One would assume they obtained them as the ad went on to US national TV.
Change to 3521 or some other four digit pin which can be brute-forced in approximately 0.000000001 seconds.
Edit:
Just found the manual.
https://www.i4automation.co.uk/unitronicspdf/VisiLogic%20-%20Getting_Started.pdf
If you change the password to something else, then on power-up the it reverts to the default of 1111!!!!!!!!! What a piece of shit.
But what I do know (from experience) is that in the event of any cockup blamestorming always follows as does searching for a scapegoat to punish.
No employer of mine would ever come out and share with the broader community/competitors a "Hey we fucked up, this is what you guys can do to make sure it wont happen to you later". They'd say bugger all and find someone to shitcan.
"Streaming platforms seem to be relegated to the bottom of the password priority list for most users"
Presumably this is because most streaming clients, such as "smart" TVs, and to a lesser extent tablets and phones, have a more cumbersome user interface than a computer (ie clunky menu operated via a remote control vs a PC keyboard) which makes John User just want to enter something that's easy to enter as opposed to change different on-screen display keyboards to increase complexity by way of caps. numbers, special characters etc. Not to mention password length.
Not making excuses, just a possible explanation. Not that Mr & Mrs Hacker would feel sorry for you and your shitbird.
These are not "helicopters" They are "powered lift aircraft"
Differences between the two are helicopters move themselves about by adjusting blade pitch on their main rotor, and stop themselves spinning (anti-torque), and manage yaw with the tail rotor. These quad things do all the above by adjusting the speed individually on their four rotors (basically speaking).
Why does this matter? Helicopters have been around for a while now and are established with numerous types being certificated, and pilots being trained and gaining experience on them. These new things, being new, not so much.
I understand it's with permission, but I'd prefer my battery be up when I charge it. Even if they dont chew to empty (what is the lower limit?) what if I have a 300km drive to do and I hop in the car and there's only a "standard commute" plus a few km in the tank? Plus I'm consuming charge cycles and wearing out my battery to benefit someone else.
Maybe I'm greedy. Then again its my car and my battery which I payed for.
“ Seems like they would be have to weight several hundreds of pounds to shoot straight while flying”
Not necessarily. I have a consumer grade drone (DJI Mavic 3) which has. “Cine” mode which enables super stable and slow flying. It’s compensates for strong, gusty winds to keep the subject in frame. Presumably a Police grade drone costing 20x as much could be more stable, more accurate and could use the compensating software to calculate windage, drop and other ballistic info required to put just about any sort of projectile you want onto a target.
Looks like we can do both now, on one platform at least. Haven’t been bothered to see if this is a general release across all hardware platforms or not. Could be hardware/ASIC dependant.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/ncs4200/configuration/guide/ce/17-1-1/b-layer-2-xe-17-1-1-ncs4200/m_lan_macsec_mka_support.html
HTH
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