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I'm afraid I've put together enough PCs in my time to know better than to expect to be entertained by watching others do just that.
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Yes, December 15th, 1999.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Citation from BBC news ...
"In principle, if someone was able to... hack all the autonomous Teslas, they could say - I mean just as a prank - they could say 'send them all to Rhode Island' - across the United States.
"And that would be the end of Tesla, and there would be a lot of angry people in Rhode Island."
This is really scary ... but is it possible ?
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Tachyonx wrote: but is it possible ?
Yes. Everything can be hacked.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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A bag of flour can be hacked?
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Sure, why not? Do yours come in secure packages? 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yes a bag of flour can be hacked - by spreading it evenly through the air as an aerosol and igniting it, it makes a very effective explosive!
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sounds like double hijacking - real hijacking by technological hijacking
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Tachyonx wrote: This is really scary ... but is it possible ?
Only if they are all pretty much there all ready: the Tesla range is less than 300 miles according to t'interwebs.
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By a strange coincidence, I was just sent this: Tesla[^] 
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Personally I would rather this being a possibility for Audis.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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XKCD did it first.
(ok, not much of a "hack", but the idea holds...)
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The keyword here is 'in principle'.
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That's two words 
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I thought about that as I typed it, but the sentence 'the operative two words are...' doesn't really work. 
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You wouldn’t download a car
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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As far as my expresso machine isn't hackable, I don't mind.
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CPallini wrote: As far as my expresso machine isn't hackable, I don't mind.
That depends. May be you'd want it to be hackable, just for convenience. See f***ing-coffee.sh[^] on this page.
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With all this talk about Docker and how containers are the future, etc. I can't help but think, Macs have been doing this for decades now (in a rudimentary way) with their apps. Everything is always bundled into one file. I mean everything. To "uninstall" an app, you simply delete its file. Boom. Done.
The longer you are in the industry, the more you see things come back around that's already been around in one shape or another (looking at you XML). And instead of getting surprised and excited it's more like "well, that figures." And I can't help but think this is what getting old feels like. Like you've seen it all before. It's the same old tune, but in a different song.
Does anyone else know of good examples of rehashed ideas we just assume are novel in tech when they aren't?
Note: I do not hate PCs. And, I'm only going to reply to smart replies, not the kiddie Mac bashing replies that's based on zero education and extreme prejudice.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 6-Oct-17 15:55pm.
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The Cloud: centralised computing rebooted.
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Yeah, I can't believe that one didn't come to mind. To us old farts the Cloud really means "someone else just does it for you... with VMs and a web interface."
Jeremy Falcon
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Yep - the cloud is just mainframes redux.
Software Zen: delete this;
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