But I agreed with you. I may not have posted it, but I definitely have been suspicious of this whole situation since they first got picked up by Arizona, desperate to look tech-friendly after the whole solar panel legal fiasco. Even the way they rushed to get it testing on public streets seemed loaded with ulterior motives.
This can't be right. They are saying that Uber's self-driving car rig is neither designed to stop for nor alert the driver about pedestrians obstructing the path of the vehicle. It's just designed to... log them?!
What part about this is considered "self-driving" then, exactly?
Yes, unfortunately the surest sign that Kapersky refused to act on behalf of the Russian government (and ours, apparently) is that this is even being considered in the first place.
No, I actually know who he is. I recognize him instantly just by his typing style and phrasing choices, and I can tell you authoritatively that he can't configure Debian without a whole team of high paid engineers, and even then he can barely be restrained from shitting it up every time he tries to make an unsupervised change.
What you're hearing is wishful thinking from people who have just started to notice we have really fast computers now. Computers that are fast enough that they can meaningfully crunch ridiculous amounts of data like that within a short enough time frame to be useful. Then of course a bunch of advertisers figured out how to do evil with it. But it's not magic, it's just basically statistics on steroids, mixed with some evolutionary learning algorithms.
Because there's no such thing as A.I., like you're thinking of it. Not in real life, anyway. There's some theoretical stuff that could work one day, but what companies like Amazon and Google are marketing as "A.I." right now aren't fundamentally more intelligent than a 1980's era chess machine. All that has changed since then is how big of a state tree computers can hold at once, and how fast they can traverse it.
There are isolated times and places where kicking enough dirt into the air can conceivably seed rain clouds. Sometimes humans aren't so great at tracing cause to effect, either.
Well, you're right that in this type of situation there's no such thing as "benign incompetence" and so these are effectively the same result. People who themselves are incompetent may not realize this but may still be redeemable over a long enough time frame. By leaving this part open to interpretation, it still gives those people a seat at the table to continue the conversation.
The truth is, nothing is secure unless you can educate yourself a little bit. However, if time to do so is not a problem, the most secure device to remote hacking is probably something running OpenBSD on some single-core CPU ancient enough to be immune to stuff like the recently discovered spectre/meltdown vulnerabilities.
These passwords were either left there purposefully or accidentally. If they were left there purposefully it may have been done either with or without Cisco's knowledge.
There is no combination of available possibilities that can be justified by acceptable behavior from a network security hardware vendor of this stature. Either they are effectively completely incompetent or they're effectively completely malicious.
I thought we'd already settled that the largest statistically significant link to throat cancer turned out to be more about the temperature of the drinks than what was in them?
Lol ok, no. My work is very valuable. A lot more valuable than your buddy's formula allows for apparently. Let me teach you Siberian scrubs something important.
You start with roughly 65%. That is the money your employer gives you. That is your salary. The other roughly 35% is taken by the government: that is the tax. Then through various forms of paperwork and logistical trickery, you can earn some or all of that 35% back. The employers aren't where the taxes come from. In fact, the government taxes them, too.
Now, from that remaining 65%, most but not all statesdo charge sales tax on purchases, but at most that's only 10% of each individual purchase. You're in the end left with much more than 20% unless you're doing something very wrong. Telling yourselves that the employer taxes you personally at a rate of 80% is absurd on paradigm-shift type of fundamental level even if you don't count the absurdity of the figure "80%" itself.
Everyone has been lying to you all along, the whole time. The entire world is a pack of lies in fact. Nothing is true or real or valid and everything you know is wrong. I hope that helps to clear things up.
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But I agreed with you. I may not have posted it, but I definitely have been suspicious of this whole situation since they first got picked up by Arizona, desperate to look tech-friendly after the whole solar panel legal fiasco. Even the way they rushed to get it testing on public streets seemed loaded with ulterior motives.
This can't be right. They are saying that Uber's self-driving car rig is neither designed to stop for nor alert the driver about pedestrians obstructing the path of the vehicle. It's just designed to... log them?!
What part about this is considered "self-driving" then, exactly?
Just you wait until this time next year when everyone is shocked and outraged at these pics being leaked.
Yes, unfortunately the surest sign that Kapersky refused to act on behalf of the Russian government (and ours, apparently) is that this is even being considered in the first place.
No, I actually know who he is. I recognize him instantly just by his typing style and phrasing choices, and I can tell you authoritatively that he can't configure Debian without a whole team of high paid engineers, and even then he can barely be restrained from shitting it up every time he tries to make an unsupervised change.
Computers maybe.
I can guarantee this guy is too stupid to configure Debian.
Wow, who knew this internet thing was so complicated, am I right guys?
Probably not, but it probably would at least have given their customers some sort of legal recourse, of which right now they have none.
He runs an anonymous international spamming proxy, obviously.
What you're hearing is wishful thinking from people who have just started to notice we have really fast computers now. Computers that are fast enough that they can meaningfully crunch ridiculous amounts of data like that within a short enough time frame to be useful. Then of course a bunch of advertisers figured out how to do evil with it. But it's not magic, it's just basically statistics on steroids, mixed with some evolutionary learning algorithms.
Because there's no such thing as A.I., like you're thinking of it. Not in real life, anyway. There's some theoretical stuff that could work one day, but what companies like Amazon and Google are marketing as "A.I." right now aren't fundamentally more intelligent than a 1980's era chess machine. All that has changed since then is how big of a state tree computers can hold at once, and how fast they can traverse it.
There are isolated times and places where kicking enough dirt into the air can conceivably seed rain clouds. Sometimes humans aren't so great at tracing cause to effect, either.
Well, you're right that in this type of situation there's no such thing as "benign incompetence" and so these are effectively the same result. People who themselves are incompetent may not realize this but may still be redeemable over a long enough time frame. By leaving this part open to interpretation, it still gives those people a seat at the table to continue the conversation.
The truth is, nothing is secure unless you can educate yourself a little bit. However, if time to do so is not a problem, the most secure device to remote hacking is probably something running OpenBSD on some single-core CPU ancient enough to be immune to stuff like the recently discovered spectre/meltdown vulnerabilities.
These passwords were either left there purposefully or accidentally. If they were left there purposefully it may have been done either with or without Cisco's knowledge.
There is no combination of available possibilities that can be justified by acceptable behavior from a network security hardware vendor of this stature. Either they are effectively completely incompetent or they're effectively completely malicious.
I gotta be honest with you: you're stupid.
I can't help but think that people who fall for this are going to learn two lessons, and one of them is socially destructive.
I thought we'd already settled that the largest statistically significant link to throat cancer turned out to be more about the temperature of the drinks than what was in them?
You realize you're posting to a conversation thread about Microsoft's failure to deliver a working driver for OEM hardware, right?
Two wrongs don't make a right. And before you ask, no, neither do 584 million.
Lol ok, no. My work is very valuable. A lot more valuable than your buddy's formula allows for apparently. Let me teach you Siberian scrubs something important.
You start with roughly 65%. That is the money your employer gives you. That is your salary. The other roughly 35% is taken by the government: that is the tax. Then through various forms of paperwork and logistical trickery, you can earn some or all of that 35% back. The employers aren't where the taxes come from. In fact, the government taxes them, too.
Now, from that remaining 65%, most but not all states do charge sales tax on purchases, but at most that's only 10% of each individual purchase. You're in the end left with much more than 20% unless you're doing something very wrong. Telling yourselves that the employer taxes you personally at a rate of 80% is absurd on paradigm-shift type of fundamental level even if you don't count the absurdity of the figure "80%" itself.
And you will need to wait (if the company isn't out of business) for them to make a patch to the driver to make it work again.
But conveniently, this is often around the same time the Linux community manages to slap together a working driver for it.
Everyone has been lying to you all along, the whole time. The entire world is a pack of lies in fact. Nothing is true or real or valid and everything you know is wrong. I hope that helps to clear things up.
Is that actually how they tell you guys that it works?