The 5 Coolest Hacks of '07 145
ancientribe writes "Nothing was sacred to hackers in '07 — not cars, not truckers, and not even the stock exchange. Dark Reading reviews five hacks that went after everyday things we take for granted even more than our PC's — our car navigation system, a trucker's freight, WiFi connections, iPhone, and (gulp) the electronic financial trading systems that record our stock purchases and other online transactions."
Re:Already slashdotted (Score:5, Informative)
Coral Cache:
http://www.darkreading.com.nyud.net/document.asp?doc_id=142127&WT.svl=news1_2 [nyud.net]
Re:Yippie, another slashdigg toplist! (Score:1, Informative)
http://lifehacker.com/338970/twenty-top-10s-of-2007 [lifehacker.com]
all pages on one page. coralized print version (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.darkreading.com.nyud.net/document.asp?doc_id=142127&print=true [nyud.net]
one up.
Re:Number one is FUD (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, modern diesels are as computer-driven as gasoline engines. Maybe even more so in the case of large trucks--on every 18-wheeler I've driven in the past ten years, there was no physical linkage between the accelerator pedal ("the hammer," in trucker's lingo) and the engine. Instead, there was a digital position sensor and a multi-conductor cable that fed data to the ECU. All the gauges on the instrument panel were computer-controlled as well.
Re:Financial systems? Nothing new there (Score:3, Informative)
Specialists (the people who help match buyers and sellers in floor trading) can make seven figures [ibtimes.com] and the average salary of a securities industry worker in NYC is nearly $300k [64.233.169.104].
Re:Seems a bit cheap... (Score:1, Informative)
The financial industry has grown tremendously, back in the 60's finance really wasn't considered that lucrative- if you were top MBA student, you were far more likely to pursue a management role in a fortune 500.
The cost of living in NYC has increased tremendously since then, mostly due to real estate prices. According to the census* the average rent in NYC as a whole was $78 in 1960! The average rent for a 1BR in Manhattan is now somewhere around $2000. Also mentioned in those statistics is that the median home price was $17000. So yeah, $8k working on the floor went pretty damn far. The median for manhattan is now in the $900k range. I make in the low 6 figures in NYC, and let me tell you, I really can't begin to afford a home in a reasonably commutable distance (under 90 minutes) from NYC.
*http://www.bls.gov/opub/uscs/1960-61.pdf