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Post by gruez » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 4:02 AM UTC

manwe150 wrote: post #94

gruez wrote: post #84

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I appreciate the correction, but the risk still seems minimal. 1. The attack is very situational. There are hundreds of usb flash drive controllers out there (see: https://www.usbdev.ru/files/ ). The chance that your flash drive a) can be re-programmed b) the malware author bothered making a payload for c) copier is infected are all very small. 2. The attack is very visible, since the user would notice the computer r…

That assume it presents as a HID, and not another device profile with more direct attack surface in the hardware or kernel. Windows isolates the USB drivers to thwart such attacks, but perhaps it could manage to attack memory directly through the PCI bus before the kernel’s involvement? I am not sure of the details, but agree that seems like a rather large amount of hacker effort, when they can currently attack over…

Post by ip26 » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 4:09 AM UTC

PostOnce wrote: post #92

gruez wrote: post #79

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>Glass-contained milk delivery seems great ...until you realize that having a dedicated truck driving around delivering milk is probably going to cause as much oil usage (if not more) than picking up a plastic jug of milk on your weekly shopping trip.

Other side of the coin: 1 truck delivers milk (and bread?) to an entire neighborhood, instead of 50 people driving 50 cars to get 50 bottles of milk.

Post by gruez » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 4:09 AM UTC

PostOnce wrote: post #102

gruez wrote: post #95

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Right but what's the ratio of people making dedicated trips for milk vs people who buy it with their other groceries? I'd think most people plan ahead to avoid dedicated trips, but that's just based off my experience.

It's hard to keep milk and bread fresh as long as other things, so you don't buy as much in advance, and therefore run out sooner. I can buy several weeks of stuff in advance, but not several weeks of milk and bread, or it'll expire, especially bread without many preservatives in certain climates. Nevermind the fact that a lot of people live in an on-demand, last-minute world. A lot of people do a lot of things last-…

Post by conductr » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 4:14 AM UTC

Danieru wrote: post #73

Semi-Off-Topic but related to Opex vs Capex: One of the weird aspects of Japanese tax law is the Capital Assets tax. Every year your local city taxes any capital goods at 1.5%. What is a capital good? Anything which takes multiple years to deduct. A couple examples: Cars, Machines, Factories. A couple odd examples: desks, chairs, TV, elevators. In the past other first world countries had such capital goods taxes but…

Post by AussieWog93 » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 4:16 AM UTC

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #38

dsr_ wrote: post #16

Printers. Yeah. Herewith, my standard advice. Buy a Brother monochrome laser with duplex, an ethernet port, and BRScript/3 (their PostScript clone). Even if you're sure you will never need one or more of those features, get them all. Wifi and Bluetooth and NFC are strictly optional, and probably not worthwhile. If you need color printing, send it to a printing company. There might even be a local one. It will be done…

People knock inkjets but I've loved my Brother inkjet. Finding cheap ink is not a problem; Amazon has knockoffs for cheap. And in spite of what others do I gladly print color at home for random purposes. Sometimes for a family gift, other times for kid projects or hobby stuff. Printing color on photo paper produces great results. I also enjoy using WiFi. It makes printing with a laptop less of hassle and gives you fl…