South Korea is in the grip of a "spycam" epidemic with covert footage of sex, nudity, and urination posted online in what amounts to a "social death penalty" for thousands of female victims.
The footage may be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on covert devices as small as car keys. Daily camera checks are now part of life for cleaners in many public toilets.
The spy camera phenomenon has reached such epidemic proportions in tech-savvy South Korea that tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets to march for action.
Srsly?
Previously: South Koreans Protest Spy Cam Pornography
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday October 22 2018, @09:05PM (12 children)
Blame Samsung and their small-digit-nm finFET tech.
Fucking electroniics industry killed agriculture too. I still remember the time when the chips were big and the farmers were doing their best to grow big potatoes. Nowadays... who needs big potatoes when all you see around are microchips?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 22 2018, @09:25PM (11 children)
Don't know about today, but a few years back I applied to Caterpillar to program their excavators and other "big iron" equipment. At that time, they all ran on 6509 type 8 bit chips.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday October 22 2018, @09:54PM (4 children)
Didn't we just have an article about the chips needing more salt ? In that one, the potatoes became hash, or something ... I got confused because it was about sex.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 22 2018, @10:07PM (3 children)
Can't be potatoes, hash is derived from a totally different weed species.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday October 22 2018, @10:28PM (2 children)
hashed potato ftw
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Tuesday October 23 2018, @06:34PM (1 child)
You can't eat just one.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @08:03PM
totes magoots d00d, I sm0k3d 10 of em! it was k-rad.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday October 22 2018, @09:59PM (3 children)
The state of the art has changed. They're using Z80s now.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:56AM (2 children)
It was only about 10 years ago, and it's coming back to me a little more clearly, it was the 65HC11s - we used to make widgets with those in the late 1990s which is part of why my resume matched - they did pack enough oomph to keep a road grader blade level, but definitely weren't trying anything fancy with high precision dynamic differential equations.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:44PM (1 child)
Actually I have no clue what they're really using.
I wonder how much the state of the art has advanced - recently I've seen equipment with what I'm sure are high precision GPS receivers mounted to both sides of a blade or scoop, but I wonder how much is being passed to a central CPU in the machine or if the domes are doing the hard crunching and just passing along position corrections to the machinery.
I fiddled around with Z80 assembly language back in the day but nothing in serious (i.e. past personal) use.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:55PM
My first "real job" was with a shop that had just finished developing a dual core Z80 device, one crunching the numbers another driving an LCD display (like 320x120 monochrome...) they did it in full assembly, and it was a mess. Worked well enough to use, but after the Z80 developers left nobody ever figured out how to get the toolchain up again for software mods. We actually did one software mod about 5 years later by inserting two NOPs into a key place in the disassembled code.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by anubi on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:49AM
I'd love to get them onto Arduinos.
With Propeller chips for anything time critical.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:55PM
This is what you'll typically find in the ECUs today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_5000#MPC55xx [wikipedia.org]