It's also because AI as a concept keeps moving its goalposts as we reach some of them.
If you'd ask a guy from the 80s whether a device qualifies as AI that allows you speak the name of a destination, then leads you there on the optimal way using voice output, he'd say "of course yes". Nowadays we'd just say "durr no that's just Google Maps".
Israel has to launch to the west instead of the east which makes everything a lot harder. They'd probably need a Saturn V size rocket to just _land_ something on the moon.
Even NTLMv2 is now over 20 years old. It's unsalted, easily parallelizable and you can't adjust the number of hash operations performed. It just can't deal with the modern world. And Microsoft has had tools available for like 5 years now that make it possible to see whether you can disable NTLM, see https://johan.grotherus.com/20... for one writeup. If you have a decently sized environment, this probably won't be easy, but you should start sooner rather than later. As soon as you are able to pull the plug on it, a lot of the easy "pass the hash" attacks become impossible, and those are more dangerous than someone getting to your ntds.dit file in todays age of gratuitous hard disk encryption anyway.
And most people aren't able to create secure passphrases. You need to use completely independant words to actually get a good passphrase, and if someone doesn't understand the information entropy theory behind it, they'll automatically gravitate towards related words. And a passphrase like "housegardengreengrass" has an absolutely abominable complexity of like 20000 * 100 * 100 * 100 or 2^32.
Takes like an hour if youâve never done it before but are relatively competent. Technicians that do it all day long can manage 20 minutes. And many Android phones arenât significantly easier fyi.
It's already like this for abandonware. The DMCA requires that you own the copyright of something you send a takedown for. So if nobody that owns the copyright for whatever you're sharing cares, nobody will send your ISP a nastygram.
And if someone does care enough to send a letter, then it's not abandoned, is it.
The issue isn't the temperature being higher, it's that the temperature is _changing_ to a higher point.
This way, areas that used to have an ok-ish average temperature for a certain activity will no longer have that. Every other property of that area - infrastructure, soil, population, etc - however will lag behind that change. Adjusting to that change will be what's going to be astronomically expensive.
Imagine moving all the good 200 year old farming topsoil from California to Oregon. Retraining farmers from one crop to another while buying them all new tools. Tearing down all the coastline infrastructure in Florida and rebuilding it several miles further inland - while you aren't even sure where the final "save" coastline is going to be at. Building new tornado-safe houses in areas that didn't have a need for them before.
Actual victims of nuclear power do exist, but their numbers are several orders of magnitude lower than the victims of fossil fuel. What he said about "More people died today from fossil fuels than have ever died from nuclear energy" is absolutely true, there is no way anyone can fudge the math to make that not reality.
Encryption bugs are rarely in the "math" part of code, and more often in the surrounding stuff that handles content.
I'n guessing there is some sort of issue here where a cracker can expose data by sending a malformed email. So it's more like disabling a door lock that somebody could use to give you an electric shock...
I remembered the size wrongly, I thought it was about 20MB but apparently it's about 800MB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 3 billion genes at 2 bits per gene.
It's a lot of data, but it's not like you're in a hurry, you can take an entire year to transmit that. And a science fictiony super-high-gain antenna that takes up the area of half a moon and uses up terawatts of solar power is still a whole lot easier to build than an interstellar spaceship.
The 1995 movie Species (as bad as it was) had an interesting take on this.
In it, aliens broadcast a DNA recipe in the hope that a receiving civilization will cook that up in the flesh out of curiosity. The result then of course turns into a bloodthirsty monster ready to take over the planet. This seems like a clever solution to the difficulty of moving over interstellar distances. Why bother creating an entire fleet of Independence Day style spaceships to carry your civilization to new planets if a few megabytes of biological data could do the same.
You can split H2O and CO2 using electrolysis powered by a nuclear reactor. That'd save a whole lot of weight compared to having to drag the oxygen with you.
And even if the asteroid is 100%, those are still free reaction mass.
Some of their biggest cities are within a few meters of sea level, and a lot of their farming land is only a few degrees away from desertification. They will get hit just as hard by it as Florida and California respectively.
If it's an emergency, you put on the warning blinkers, and start braking in a straight line. It's the responsibility of the guy behind you to keep enough distance to allow for this, even in the left lane.
Can you really guarantee that you'll be able to do that if another admin with equal rights to yours maliciously wipes data?
Because sure you have snapshots but a couple lines of Powershell/BASH and all of them are gone in 5 minutes. And you might have tape or cloud backups but another few commands and the tapes get zeroed overnight while cloud storage can be deprovisioned in seconds.
You're right that nuclear power can only exist due to generous subsidies, but the same is really true for fossil fuels too. If anybody had to pay the correct price for coal power, including the capture costs for the CO2 or the compensation to future generations for climate change damages, that form of energy wouldn't be competitive either. And quite possibly even more expensive than honest nuclear power pricing.
And importantly, that doesn't only count for electric power gained from fossil sources, but also other fossil fuels such as gasoline or oil/gas heating. So it's not enough to move your country to a place where you generate 100% of your electric power from renewable sources. If we want to get climate change under control, the other forms of energy usage will also have to be replaced in the near future.
This is why I personally would've liked to stay with nuclear power for another generation, even with the danger of meltdowns and spent fuel storage. Trying to replace enough fossil fuel usage through non-polluting sources of power fast enough to be able to dodge the incoming climate disaster, while restricting ourselves from the most available source, seems like too much of a risk to take.
Just something to think about: The Fukushima and Chernobyl exclusion zones have a size of about 3000 km2 and are actually pretty nice nature reserves. Meanwhile, about 120,000 km2 of land are being lost to desertification every year http://www.un.org/en/events/de...
I'm assuming the "Contact Us" feature goes over Tor, so you can already forget any CSI-style phonetapping or IP tracing.
The FBI could probably try to infect the perps with some 0-day malware to uncover their real identities but I'm guessing the elect not to try it because the chances of them actually falling for a cheap trick like that is miniscule compared to them grabbing the malware, reverse engineering it, then using it to infect more people.
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It's also because AI as a concept keeps moving its goalposts as we reach some of them.
If you'd ask a guy from the 80s whether a device qualifies as AI that allows you speak the name of a destination, then leads you there on the optimal way using voice output, he'd say "of course yes". Nowadays we'd just say "durr no that's just Google Maps".
Israel has to launch to the west instead of the east which makes everything a lot harder. They'd probably need a Saturn V size rocket to just _land_ something on the moon.
The invention of Cipher Block Chaining solved that issue btw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Even NTLMv2 is now over 20 years old. It's unsalted, easily parallelizable and you can't adjust the number of hash operations performed. It just can't deal with the modern world. And Microsoft has had tools available for like 5 years now that make it possible to see whether you can disable NTLM, see https://johan.grotherus.com/20... for one writeup. If you have a decently sized environment, this probably won't be easy, but you should start sooner rather than later. As soon as you are able to pull the plug on it, a lot of the easy "pass the hash" attacks become impossible, and those are more dangerous than someone getting to your ntds.dit file in todays age of gratuitous hard disk encryption anyway.
And most people aren't able to create secure passphrases. You need to use completely independant words to actually get a good passphrase, and if someone doesn't understand the information entropy theory behind it, they'll automatically gravitate towards related words. And a passphrase like "housegardengreengrass" has an absolutely abominable complexity of like 20000 * 100 * 100 * 100 or 2^32.
Takes like an hour if youâve never done it before but are relatively competent. Technicians that do it all day long can manage 20 minutes. And many Android phones arenât significantly easier fyi.
It's already like this for abandonware. The DMCA requires that you own the copyright of something you send a takedown for. So if nobody that owns the copyright for whatever you're sharing cares, nobody will send your ISP a nastygram.
And if someone does care enough to send a letter, then it's not abandoned, is it.
The issue isn't the temperature being higher, it's that the temperature is _changing_ to a higher point.
This way, areas that used to have an ok-ish average temperature for a certain activity will no longer have that. Every other property of that area - infrastructure, soil, population, etc - however will lag behind that change. Adjusting to that change will be what's going to be astronomically expensive.
Imagine moving all the good 200 year old farming topsoil from California to Oregon. Retraining farmers from one crop to another while buying them all new tools. Tearing down all the coastline infrastructure in Florida and rebuilding it several miles further inland - while you aren't even sure where the final "save" coastline is going to be at. Building new tornado-safe houses in areas that didn't have a need for them before.
Great products don't need advertising, people will buy them anyway.
What needs advertising is the mediocre and bad stuff.
That belief _is_ reality.
Actual victims of nuclear power do exist, but their numbers are several orders of magnitude lower than the victims of fossil fuel. What he said about "More people died today from fossil fuels than have ever died from nuclear energy" is absolutely true, there is no way anyone can fudge the math to make that not reality.
Encryption bugs are rarely in the "math" part of code, and more often in the surrounding stuff that handles content.
I'n guessing there is some sort of issue here where a cracker can expose data by sending a malformed email. So it's more like disabling a door lock that somebody could use to give you an electric shock...
I remembered the size wrongly, I thought it was about 20MB but apparently it's about 800MB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
3 billion genes at 2 bits per gene.
It's a lot of data, but it's not like you're in a hurry, you can take an entire year to transmit that. And a science fictiony super-high-gain antenna that takes up the area of half a moon and uses up terawatts of solar power is still a whole lot easier to build than an interstellar spaceship.
The 1995 movie Species (as bad as it was) had an interesting take on this.
In it, aliens broadcast a DNA recipe in the hope that a receiving civilization will cook that up in the flesh out of curiosity. The result then of course turns into a bloodthirsty monster ready to take over the planet. This seems like a clever solution to the difficulty of moving over interstellar distances. Why bother creating an entire fleet of Independence Day style spaceships to carry your civilization to new planets if a few megabytes of biological data could do the same.
You can split H2O and CO2 using electrolysis powered by a nuclear reactor. That'd save a whole lot of weight compared to having to drag the oxygen with you.
And even if the asteroid is 100%, those are still free reaction mass.
You could land an engine on the asteroid, then use the asteroid for fuel, allowing you to cheat the rocket equation.
That's really only an effect if you travel at 0.5c or faster. As it is we'd struggle only reaching something like 0.001c.
Some of their biggest cities are within a few meters of sea level, and a lot of their farming land is only a few degrees away from desertification.
They will get hit just as hard by it as Florida and California respectively.
It can coat itself in water which then evaporates and carries off heat.
If it's an emergency, you put on the warning blinkers, and start braking in a straight line. It's the responsibility of the guy behind you to keep enough distance to allow for this, even in the left lane.
One of the first uses of the new system will apparently be a recalculation of this: http://www.cscs.ch/publication... with more accurate steppings.
The homepage of that website then also mentions some aerodynamics stuff.
Can you really guarantee that you'll be able to do that if another admin with equal rights to yours maliciously wipes data?
Because sure you have snapshots but a couple lines of Powershell/BASH and all of them are gone in 5 minutes. And you might have tape or cloud backups but another few commands and the tapes get zeroed overnight while cloud storage can be deprovisioned in seconds.
You're right that nuclear power can only exist due to generous subsidies, but the same is really true for fossil fuels too. If anybody had to pay the correct price for coal power, including the capture costs for the CO2 or the compensation to future generations for climate change damages, that form of energy wouldn't be competitive either. And quite possibly even more expensive than honest nuclear power pricing.
And importantly, that doesn't only count for electric power gained from fossil sources, but also other fossil fuels such as gasoline or oil/gas heating. So it's not enough to move your country to a place where you generate 100% of your electric power from renewable sources. If we want to get climate change under control, the other forms of energy usage will also have to be replaced in the near future.
This is why I personally would've liked to stay with nuclear power for another generation, even with the danger of meltdowns and spent fuel storage. Trying to replace enough fossil fuel usage through non-polluting sources of power fast enough to be able to dodge the incoming climate disaster, while restricting ourselves from the most available source, seems like too much of a risk to take.
Just something to think about: The Fukushima and Chernobyl exclusion zones have a size of about 3000 km2 and are actually pretty nice nature reserves. Meanwhile, about 120,000 km2 of land are being lost to desertification every year http://www.un.org/en/events/de...
I'm assuming the "Contact Us" feature goes over Tor, so you can already forget any CSI-style phonetapping or IP tracing.
The FBI could probably try to infect the perps with some 0-day malware to uncover their real identities but I'm guessing the elect not to try it because the chances of them actually falling for a cheap trick like that is miniscule compared to them grabbing the malware, reverse engineering it, then using it to infect more people.
Maybe? You should definitely still patch MS17-010 though.
Try asking an open source developer for a patch for an application released in 2002 and see how far you get...
It's the "Conexant HD Audio Driver", downloadable from the HP driver website for your model.