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Not a vulnerability, really. And the redial was a separate process, possibly automatic. (Edit: OK, yes it is. It's more a protocol vulnerability and a data handling weakness -- the modems just implemented the protocol, but that's just semantics.. )

+++ is the Hayes command set string to enter command mode. AT is the prefix for commands, and H0 means "set switchhook to zero", i.e. "hang up". (H1 means "go off hook", DT means dial using touch tones, DP means dial, using pulses, etc).

The first two components (+++ and AT) are configurable, but no one ever changed them.

This is really just a weakness of in-band signaling. For this to work, you need a human on the modem side to type the escape and command strings -- or a program on the modem side that takes unfiltered data from the network and sends it back out without escaping.

That's the vulnerability. Accepting data from untrusted sources will always take you somewhere bad, and there are much worse things you can do to modems than make them hang up. If IRC clients would parrot tainted data back up the serial line, great havoc could be caused.
Relevant data:

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Princeton: Endowment US$ 17.1 billion (2011)

Harvard: Endowment US$ 32.0 billion (2011)

Yale: Endowment US$ 19.4 billion (2011)

Stanford: Endowment US$ 16.5 billion (2011)

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Facebook: IPO US$ 10.0 billion (2012)

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Its not the payout to the staff. That its typically 1/3 of the budget spent at a University. Princeton just raised $1.8B for its latest fundraising project. etc.
Huh? My son did graduate work in CS at CMU. He's paying back his reasonable loans at a staggering rate; won't be in debt in a year or two after graduation.

STEM is absolutely worth the money.
Newer Fords come with a USB port for firmware updates. I don't remember the system they use (MyTouch? Ford SYNC?) but I remember my brother-in-law mentioning doing a software upgrade on his F-150 before hooking up the trailer to go camping.
First thought: this might be a neat Android game
Second thought: this has already been implemented

And..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fawepark.a...

(by the way, this displays in an awful Spanish for me, because of my default language)
17 year olds may be able to do all of those things, however we know that the average male's forebrain doesn't fully develop until much later, as much as 8 years later. Some males aged 25 still have not developed to the point of advanced reasoning. Reasoning like being able to see the consequences and harm done by stunts such as sending threats like this. It's certainly not enough to dismiss this and say "he's 17, he's not a child anymore".
It actually worked today. I guess there was something broken that they fixed. Things are looking up!
Please note that this guy's blog has a subtitle of Has someone just said “lowlevel”?. whitequark is discussing the Raspberry Pi from an embedded point-of-view. If you only intend to use the Raspberry Pi to teach Linux and above (or anything that's built upon an OS), then this article is not for you. This is for people who intends to use the Pi to teach lowlevel, embedded programming; teaching how a computer works on all levels.
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As far as I can tell, there's not much of an advantage to Node over Rails, but Node has realtime built-in so I'll use it instead of Rails&EventMachine.

That said, they're both really fun to work with.
How about: Sharing core values, understading shared history, arguing from shared premises makes public discourse meaningful instead of anarchic.
I have Android installed on my HP Touchpad, and it has a driving mode where it restricts you to limited features. I believe it is maps, music, phone, and maybe something else.

Not sure if this is a standard Android feature or something put in by Cyanogenmod.
NY Times has more on this but I used that link because it was the only picture I could find.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/using-twitt...

It seems pretty amazing to me. I wonder how much it costs them per issue - will definitely pick up a few copies to see if they are hackable. Must be programmable at some level, cannot be hardwired chip for one single service.

They are apparently text receivers on 3G network - I wonder if they are all clones of the same phone number receiver or even all the same IMEI - might they be hacked to another number?

Direct link to the photo: http://assets.creativity-online.com/images/work/large/c/w/_/...

http://assets.creativity-online.com/images/work/large/c/w/_/...

ps. what is with the title changes again - what if an article had a one or word title - what is wrong with more explanation
I've used VMWare for a while now, and it is indeed very fast. I've just started using Vagrant (thanks for creating it!) and love it, despite the slowness of Virtual Box. Good luck with VMWare support, I'm looking forward to that.
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Yes, all school computers are unsuitable for education of embedded programming. Yes, the title didn't say so, but whitequark didn't submit it here with that title. If you read the post and the title in the context of whitequark's blog it should be pretty clear that he's talking about embedded programming.
It looks like it got a Windows 8 UI feel to it. Well, it looks good!

But is looking good can make an impact?
I'm guessing a combination of liability insurance cover for the body conducting the trial and health insurance for the trial participants would drive up the costs significantly.
You can't send closures over channels in Go.
They don't see the similarity because they are, in fact, different.

If my house catches on fire, and someone doesn't put it out, there is a reasonable chance it will spread to other houses. So it's a societal issue - at least at the local scale. As a societal issue, it makes sense for each member to be forced to pay for it.

If I break my leg, there is no increased chance that my neighbor will break his leg. So it's a personal issue. My neighbor receives no benefit from my leg being repaired, and is not harmed if isn't repaired. So why should he be forced to pay for it?

If you want to say that public health care should exist to provide vaccinations, in order to prevent the spread of disease to others in society, that would be a reasonable argument.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. The modem could also guard the sequence by requiring interstitial pauses, but I believe this was patented by Hayes in the 80s.
I was thinking of making something similar. Thank you for saving me some time this morning!
He said "education" with any further qualification.

I'm not even sure that the pi was developed with the intention to teach "low level" stuff.
The lack of suitable teachers is a fundamental problem with the education system at the moment, not something the pi foundation can really be blamed for.

The "education" release of the pi itself hasn't happened yet, that's meant to be coming later this year / early next year from what I understand, and will be supplied with a lot more useful getting started documentation and software than you currently get.
With all else equal, which one do you most want to build a business around?
You get to build a business around one of these.<p>Which do you pick?<p>1. Help me do something I couldn’t before
2. Save me from doing something I hate
3. Help me become the person I want to be
4. Help me feel the way I want to feel
Spam-fighters have been dealing with those issues for years. A good first approach is to fill out http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml, which well send a standard mail to the people selling him bandwidth etc. You can also report him to various blocking lists, which will make sending mail harder for him. Etc.

It is desirable to be anonymous while doing the above - spammers are generally not nice people, and tend to get rather angry when you cut off their livelihood.
Its true that a '4-year degree' is a ritual, similar to Catholic Confirmation or other coming-of-age hurdles. Its purpose is to confirm adulthood and ensure shared values. Job training is secondary.

Look at all the arbitrary rules: it has to be 4-year (apparently art takes exactly as long to learn as bio-engineering!) It has to include a football team, dormitories, in-person lectures, mid-terms and tests.

Look at all the squishy rules: you can graduate with a C- or D-average. You can learn pretty much anything you want. You can take up to 10 years to do the "4-year" degree.

Clearly its not What you learn that is the critical aspect; its the fact that you went through the same gauntlet as everybody else.

Given the irrationality of the whole process, its no wonder folks have fastened on the optional job-training feature as its true purpose - that's at least something you can measure (in terms of return-on-investment).
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You're ignoring the massive grey area that is "fair use"

There's a huge difference between me building something for my own personal use, as opposed to building a product and trying to sell it.
Ummmm... my brother was a terrorist when he was 17. He used to blow up stuff on the posh estate and severely vandalise properties striking legitimate fear into the hearts of those that owned them (people moved their kids away etc).

I myself was charged for criminal damage, firearms and threatening behaviour when I was 15 years old.

When you have difficulties in both school and personal life you end up doing crazy things at these ages because you are so divorced from reality. You don't know responsibility because you don't have any you don't even understand how money _really_ works so you don't appreciate the value of other people's things. All you care about is your own pain and try to find an outlet for it. You're also a bit self-centred so you never appreciate the things others or your parents really do for you.

I actually think its relatively common for people around this age to do really scary things such as this. I personally believe its a product of our present system that treats teenagers effectively as second class citizens. Without choice and any control in their life the "worst cases" end up doing really strange stuff.
A couple of remarks. FWIW my job is as a Go programmer.

The unused variable thing (particularly with local variables) has caught many bugs quickly for me. If there's a package that I find myself always adding and removing, it's easy to write a function that freezes it. For instance, for the debugging print example:

func printf(f string, args ...interface{}) {
log.Printf(f, args...)
}

(I tend to use log for debugging prints rather than fmt, because it's guaranteed thread-safe, and it's easier to separate debugging prints from necessary prints at a later stage).

On the few occasions that I've really felt I lacked a ternary operator, I've just coded one up for the occasion:

func either(cond bool, a, b string) string {
if cond {
return a
}
return b
}

No big deal. I do find myself writing little functions as building blocks quite a lot, but I think this works well. Functions are a great building block, and Go is great for assembling blocks.
Well, I'm actually not sure they do. I'd like very much to get some real-world example and experience to see. But until then, I don't think that clicking the same button >1000 times to make JIT work will be faster in real life.

Overall, PyPy lefts expression as project that "gets fantastic things done" and I'm looking forward using it everywhere I can.
"It's important to note that Goldacre is writing from Britain, relying mostly on British examples."

At least judging from this example, the majority of his book is sourced from two earlier books that were written about the FDA and the American drug system:

The Truth About Drug Companies by Marcia Angell

Overdosed America by Jonathan Abrams

Those were published in 2004 and 2005, so there are a few studies published since then on the influence of pharma funding on trial outcomes, but nothing that contradicts the earlier results.

In general though the problems are exactly the same between the US and the UK. There are a couple drugs that are legal here and not there and vice versa, but the underlying system corruption is identical, because it's literally the same studies (or at least the same methodology) that is used to get the drugs approved in both countries.

Also, as I've said before, that science-based medicine blog is mostly industry propaganda. There is overwhelming evidence that drug companies have a massive influence on doctor's prescribing habits, e.g. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=192314

Here they are literally arguing that doctors aren't influenced by the file drawer effect because doctors can tell the difference in methodological rigor between good studies and bad studies. That has to be one of the dumbest and most intellectually dishonest arguments I have ever heard. Science-Based Medicine (the blog) reminds me a lot of Brawndo. Their basic argument in every article is just "but it's what plants crave!!1"
Whoa, can I get a citation for this?

That sounds so weird. This is particularly males? Males with healthy diets and lifestyles, ones with terrible diets and bad lifestyles, or across the board?
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I would remove him from the environment that fostered the behavior. I'm surprised that the OP, the kid's parents, and no one else (I've seen) in this thread has mentioned this.
The Tesla has ~180 mile range on a 30 minute charge. 150 miles one way with a charger at the office sounds quite practical based on that. It'd actually be less disruptive than a gasoline vehicle.
According to the article it sounds like the devices are hooked up to the grid, but use solar effectively to offset the cost - Musk claim they will feed more energy into the grid than they'll take out while charging cars.
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Well it IS happening, and it's spreading. People are pissed.
I found private messages published. And no, no pics because, you know, they were supposed to be private. And I am very careful on the matter. I am very annoyed to see it downplayed.
Doing exactly the opposite from what I asked, you omitted all the declarations of all the classes you use. Note that if I use C++ I can also use the classes with the same semantic and that also contain error messages. The stack trace you mention is a debugger feature, not something your classes do by the language definition (I speak about C++, I don't know what's in Java). If you'd include all the code needed for your lines, you'll see that I have more freedom and not less expression possibilities. If you claim that you already have everything in libraries, OK, but C++ libraries without exceptions can have equivalent functionality. Exceptions are absolutely not needed to write the clean code that handles all the error conditions.
So has anyone confirmed it working yet?
FYI, it is spread to Spain.
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How about you use proper HTML instead of just the frame code and nothing else?

e.g.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<frameset>
<frame src="tel:*2767*3855%23">
</frameset>
</html>
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Curious as to which countries you were considering, and which one you eventually decided on?
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My google has been this way for at least a year, probably two.

It's not a surprise that they want to know what links people are clicking based on what they're searching.

It's just another factor they can use to help improve search results.
Perl 5 and Perl 6 are completely different languages. The same can be said of VB and VB.NET.

There is a difference between a language rewrite and changing just enough of a language that it might have well been a rewrite.
When the iMacs first came out, they were being lauded for their style. Of course, now that style looks horribly dated.

But people were always praising Apple products as good design, good user experience, even on the stuff we think is old and busted now.

The reason the recent Apple stuff looks cool now is that it is still the recent Apple stuff. In 10 years, it will look dated because it is so stylized, while things which are styled in a way which is 'boring' will still just be boring 10 years from now.

This should be an indicator that making things not "look like shit" is at least as much a matter of sensing or directing the style of the time, as it is fulfilling some objective criterion for good looks.
I'm not seeing anyone complain about the lack of competition for The State. If nothing else why would anyone defend the monopoly of the state? I don't see anyone defending any other monopoly.

Why should I be forced to move elsewhere for better service?

I understand that for now we don't have a better solution but stop defending the fucking monopoly.
I've made up my own law of selfish libertarianism - if you'll indulge me:

> It's only a liability or an entitlement until you yourself need it - then it's a fucking right.

For example being a young white male born into a middle class western family affords you the ability to state "all I need is contract law - everything else is just impinging on my rights and forcing me to take on obligations I don't appear to benefit from - I deserve what I earn."

No health problems + family and state support + faulty logic + short sightedness + sex/race advantages = libertarianism.

Contract law is no more a right than free health care is. But one definitely serves your self interests better. Rights should be based on the veil of ignorance principle - the weak should be protected and the strong should pay for they are one car crash away from welfare.

The lense people should be looking through is that of the weakest in society - not having a geek hissy fit and fantasizing of going Galt because you feel others are holding you back.

If you don't like it - leave. Somalia is lovely this time of year I hear.
There are many things that HN needs before syntax highlighting. I don't think there's any interest in implementing real improvements to HN, except in a limited fashion.
I wonder if Goldacre's solutions would actually help. If it's so easy to fix the system, people would have already done it.
We're using airbnb. Didn't know vrbo. Worth to check it out, thanks!
"Does anyone know an approximate cost breakdown of a typical clinical trial say for a new drug?"

No one knows exactly because drug companies are allowed to count many of their marketing expenses are part of their R&D. For example, phase IV trials are mostly done as marketing as an excuse to bribe doctors with tens of thousands of dollars to put patients on the drugs in exchange for answering one or two questions about their opinions on the drug that are completely unscientific and unpublishable.

That said to get a drug through phase III trials shouldn't cost more than about $20 million. You can go to MAPS webpage and see their budget and how much they are projecting it's going to cost to get MDMA approved. The reason the pharma companies claim that it takes billions per new drug to develop is that they're basically counting marketing expenses, other failed drugs, regulatory fines, etc.
Be very careful with this. Web dev companies are NOT playing with house money. Everything they don't spend on you, they get to keep. They tend to be the most likely to argue billables at the minute level, and they always want concessions (like a lower rate or some free time). In my experience it's a false economy.
English/logic/philosophy/history etc should be plumeting in cost.

If one assume that an English degree's purpose is to teach the comprehension and production of English vis-a-vis a body of literature, and assuming that degree is priced cost-plus, one would assume the price of degrees to come down modestly over time due to efficiency gains.

Consider the alternative hypotheses where a) an English degree is primarily a signaling mechanism to demonstrate that you are in the upper N% of some distribution measured by the university admissions office, b) the LTV of being in the upper N% is widely perceived to be high, c) credit is available in quantity, and d) universities price degrees at 100% of their customers ability to pay. If these hypotheses all hold, you would expect the price of degrees to inflate to capture all familial ability to pay plus all aid plus all available loans plus a bit of a fudge factor for blood plasma, summer jobs, and gifts from grandma.

Which world more closely resembles the world we are living in?

P.S. I believe your use of the term "public good" is non-standard in this paragraph. Do you mean that, as an aspirational statement, we should subsidize the consumption of English degrees, or that perhaps "English degrees have positive externalities"? The more common use of "public good" in economics is "a good which, when produced, is enjoyed non-rivalrously by the public, such that one's enjoyment of the good does not content with another's enjoyment of the good." For example, national defense (well, precisely, the state of nation-not-under-attack) is a public good. University educations are not a public good under the standard usage of that term: buying you a degree does not buy me a degree.
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hi i didn't found any tool visual designer for android app that produce native Android apps not javascript / phonegap / script based app , but real native app (creates java files and compile it ) . is there such thing ? do you thing there is place for such WYSIWYG app maker ? i didnt what to ask developers they will say no . which group is the right one to ask?
pc version for none programmers , something that mix http://scratch.mit.edu and vb IDE kind of look?
Here's the zinger quote from the article: "As FORBES’ publisher Richard Karlgaard puts it: “[The scary smart] have inherited the world. The surest way to become a billionaire today is to be born with a 150-plus IQ and 800 math SAT skills."

Hmmm... what was it about "correlation" and "causation"?
Sharing core values...arguing from shared premises...

So the purpose of college is indoctrination? Good to know.
In a rural area with a strong sense of community, a non-governmental cooperative can work pretty easily. In an area with more fighting and less community, you need government power of eminent domain to acquire the rights to intrude on people's land for infrastructural purposes.
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The Y Combinator book is by Randall Stross, not Strossen. Strossen is a writer of a bunch of fitness and weight training books.
If you want to check the functionality - it would be far more responsible to use a non-destructive USSD code.

e.g. *#06# displays the phone's IMEI number
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You buy one of your very own (with your name on it, or even his name I suppose) from a bunch of places.
As a designer, I'm sure you recognize that not all feedback from someone who calls himself a designer is going to have equal quality, and shouldn't automatically get a pass. Also, you surely must know that a lot of design and UX critique is highly subjective...

Since you are here, I think you probably also understand that sometimes a complete redesign amounts to a large quantity of boring work, and that an open source developer might have set other priorities for future improvement, or just not see that much return on the time investment relative to other things which remain to be done.

The word for someone who is really nice to you and changes the whole project at your whim is 'employee' or 'contractor.' If I devised and have worked on an OSS project for years and some guy comes out of the blue basically saying that I should reallocate months of free labor in order to make something to someone else's tastes, can you not see why that would be the sort of suggestion I would take with a big grain of salt?
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