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P.S. who remembers the legendary Phrozen Crew cracks? They were minimal byte patches that often toggled a conditional jump in an MS-DOS app/game...
P.S. I still use it from time to time - it has a nice built-in assembler for x86/x86-x64.
I used Mercurial 12 years ago before learning Git - it was a great stepping stone. I loved `hg` CLI as things made sense for the workflow.
It should be a science. It should be closer to core math. And yet it often feels closer to performance arts w.r.t. the individual's level.
VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK
In this paper we presented LightCommands , which is an attack that uses light to inject commands into voice-controllable systems from large distances. To mount the attack, an attacker transmits light modulated with an audio signal, which is converted back to the original audio signal within a microphone. We demonstrated LightCommands on many commercially available voice-controllable systems that use Siri, Portal, Google Assistant, and Alexa, obtaining successful command injections at a maximum distance of more than 100 meters while penetrating clear glass windows. Next, we highlight deficiencies in the security of voice-controllable systems, which leads to additional compromises of third-party hardware such as locks and cars. Better understanding of the physics behind the attack will benefit both new attacks and countermeasures. In particular, we can possibly use the same principle to mount other acoustic injection attacks (e.g., on motion sensors) using light. In addition, heating by laser can also be an effective way of injecting false signals to sensors.
Other income (expense), net: 139, (16), 4,993
The three numbers representing 2016, 2017 and 2018. The company is _only_ $997M down for 2018 because of that $4,993M item.Can someone explain what that is? Will it re-occur in the coming years?
Regarding the post-ipo crash - yeah, FB did that. Yet they turned a good profit soon after and then rebounded.
And then they need to start all over with Model Y. What quality expectations are there?
Yet all you (we) need to do is find a friend/colleague with a Model 3 and go to lunch/test-drive together. In fact, I would value my friend's frank opinion over a slimy car salesman's one.
P.S. by "dude" I meant that the man just drove the car to the owner's place from their Fremont factory (30 min).