I'm going to guess it's because their algorithm doesn't check for thousands of 5-star reviews, all unverified and posted within a few days of each other.
Verizon and AT&T are going to call a few executives at Microsoft and threaten to take their business to Google or Amazon, these executives are then going to call the people who filed the report with the FCC and tell them to abandon it or else, and that will be the end of it.
The same thing happened with Net Neutrality and it's going to happen again now.
If a person buys an unlocked phone on day 1, they are a lot more likely to find a new carrier that they want to use and switch right away.
If you make them wait 60 days then people are more likely to forget about it or just not bother with finding and switching to a new network at that point..
They aren't concerned with making this a safe space for children at all.
They want to make it a safe space for advertisers. Want to make a video on a political topic? Nope, that's getting demonitized. Can't take a chance that someone sees and ad next to a video of something that might offend them.
Ok. So in order to make this work you'd need to have a WSUS server set up somewhere that has the malicious code and then change the client's update server setting. Since this is set by GPO it's going to be set back to the old value in a matter of minutes anyway if it's a corporate system.
Assuming the client is able to grab it then unfortunately unless the update from that server is signed by Microsoft the client server will refuse to install it.
Is there a way around this problem? Yep, it's simple!
You just need to create your own packages on the malicious server and sign them with its own code-signing certificate, and then your malware has to distribute the certificate to each and every client's code signing and root certificate stores in addition to setting another registry key that tells it to trust non-Microsoft signed code.
All of these settings which are settings normally controlled by GPOs in a corporate environment of course.
So the system was completely compromised long before you could ever set this all up. Sure, you could use this to keep your non-corporate machine botnet updated but there are far easier ways to do it and without leaving a nice trail of bread crumbs for the FBI to follow.
Combine this with the fact that they have all of the email infrastructure in place already to support message delivery for Hotmail and Exchange Online, and it does literally cost them almost nothing to deliver these messages which are a tiny drop in a huge ocean of mail they deal with.
I'm inclined to think that email cost has anything to do with it.
I don't presume to know how close you've ever been to full-on drug addiction,
but in my own admittedly small sampling,
many an addict's confinement is the only time in their adult lives they're not using. A great friend passed last year at the ripe old age of 48, but his life was probably extended a decade by frequent periods of abstinence as a guest of the County and State.
At a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the taxpayer.
So tell me: Is that a better deal than rehabilitation which would not only cost less, but allow him to stay in the work force contributing to the tax base instead of drawing from it?
I disagree with this to an extent. Comments in the code answer an important question: What was the author trying to do here.
From there I can answer two other questions: Is this a logically correct solution to the problem? Is the author's code doing what he intended it to do?
I find it much easier to analyze code if I can get inside not only the original author's head, but the heads of the two other people who came after him and spliced in updates
I really wish they had done the opposite of this. IF the filter is set to allow all then assume all searches are for explicit the it should assume you want all results. If you don't want porn (getting a lot of noise on a search, for example) then the user would include "-porn". This is how it works for all other searches, I'm not sure why they would be inconsistent like this.
Unfiltered is how I have my searches set at home because I don't want to miss results on the off chance that the search engine thinks it's pr0n and I don't mind if I see the occasional adult content.
Khan Academy teaches a topic to a classroom, then tests and generates reports on who knows the particular lesson and how well they know it. The teacher can then spend time with the few students who are having trouble with it and let the 80% of students who grokked it move on to other material. Teachers can spend their time teaching to the students who need help learning, instead of a largely bored classroom of people who got it the first time.
It also tells you how good the software is. If 80% of the people are getting it, that's good. If only 25% of the people are getting it, it's time to rework that lesson.
In other news, Rush hour traffic is at a complete standstill on I-94 in both directions due to a "Software Glitch" with a traffic monitoring hub. The internet hactivist group "Anonymous" has claimed responsibility for the glitch.
As a DBA my solution to this is first and foremost, to make sure the developer and tester are on call. If I get a call in the middle of the night because of their code, they are going to get one as well. The developer is going to check in and build the fix I create, and the tester is going to test it. Losing sleep for a few nights waiting for the build to complete and tests to finish tends to cure these kinds of issues. They also tend to be a little more dilligent about letting their DBA review their code before they check in.
What this model fails to take into account are people who do not consume the content under the current model. For example, I will not pay a monthly cable fee for one or two channels I would watch occasionally.
Secondly, it opens up opportunities for other shows that didn't make it on CC or another major network. Couldn't get another season of Babylon 5 on the air? No problem, if you can get enough direct subscribers (and on that show, I suspect you would) you can release episodes directly to them.
This could be a great opportunity to add new revenue from people who either aren't subscribing now, or are pirating the content out of frustration.
Lawyer: So How did you obtain this footage? Drone Operator: We accidentally left the camera equipment on when we took off from American soil Lawyer: How many times has this happened? Drone Operator: Several, in fact I think it happens most times when we launch Lawyer: What disciplinary action have you received for leaving them on? Drone Operator: None. I think I read something once that says we aren't supposed to, but out commander tells us to do it anyway
At this point it's pretty obvious that it wouldn't be a case of "accidental" espionage (Disclaimer: IANAL)
More likely scenario: one person with a political agenda and 5 accounts using an anonymous proxy will get the story deleted. This would happen with every story.
The pilots have to keep the plane within a pretty strict speed range to both keep the plane together and avoid a stall.
Even when the speed sensors fail and the pilots have no airspeed indicator, there is a standard procedure that allows them to keep the plane within that narrow range by setting the throttle and controls at specific settings until it unfreezes.
Frontline even aired a special where two flight instructors demonstrated this after being presented with this exact scenario in a simulator.
The problem happens because the pilots don't have a lot of time to react, and if they panic or misinterpret the situation it's all over.
A comedian (forget who) once said that the SL in a state should be proportional to how boring that state is. In Nebraska, for example, the speed limit should be roughly 200 MPH.
Yeah, but then New York would be 25MPH. If you think New Yorkers are pissed off now, just lower the speed limit to 25 and watch the fireworks.
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I'm going to guess it's because their algorithm doesn't check for thousands of 5-star reviews, all unverified and posted within a few days of each other.
Verizon and AT&T are going to call a few executives at Microsoft and threaten to take their business to Google or Amazon, these executives are then going to call the people who filed the report with the FCC and tell them to abandon it or else, and that will be the end of it.
The same thing happened with Net Neutrality and it's going to happen again now.
If a person buys an unlocked phone on day 1, they are a lot more likely to find a new carrier that they want to use and switch right away.
If you make them wait 60 days then people are more likely to forget about it or just not bother with finding and switching to a new network at that point..
They aren't concerned with making this a safe space for children at all. They want to make it a safe space for advertisers . Want to make a video on a political topic? Nope, that's getting demonitized. Can't take a chance that someone sees and ad next to a video of something that might offend them.
Change is bad, unless it's great.
Ok. So in order to make this work you'd need to have a WSUS server set up somewhere that has the malicious code and then change the client's update server setting. Since this is set by GPO it's going to be set back to the old value in a matter of minutes anyway if it's a corporate system.
Assuming the client is able to grab it then unfortunately unless the update from that server is signed by Microsoft the client server will refuse to install it. Is there a way around this problem? Yep, it's simple! You just need to create your own packages on the malicious server and sign them with its own code-signing certificate, and then your malware has to distribute the certificate to each and every client's code signing and root certificate stores in addition to setting another registry key that tells it to trust non-Microsoft signed code.
All of these settings which are settings normally controlled by GPOs in a corporate environment of course.
So the system was completely compromised long before you could ever set this all up. Sure, you could use this to keep your non-corporate machine botnet updated but there are far easier ways to do it and without leaving a nice trail of bread crumbs for the FBI to follow.
Combine this with the fact that they have all of the email infrastructure in place already to support message delivery for Hotmail and Exchange Online, and it does literally cost them almost nothing to deliver these messages which are a tiny drop in a huge ocean of mail they deal with. I'm inclined to think that email cost has anything to do with it.
How can you afford NOT to be taking this drug?
I don't presume to know how close you've ever been to full-on drug addiction,
but in my own admittedly small sampling,
many an addict's confinement is the only time in their adult lives they're not using. A great friend passed last year at the ripe old age of 48, but his life was probably extended a decade by frequent periods of abstinence as a guest of the County and State.
At a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the taxpayer. So tell me: Is that a better deal than rehabilitation which would not only cost less, but allow him to stay in the work force contributing to the tax base instead of drawing from it?
I don't get it
Call me cynical, but I have a feeling that what they are really mining for are investors with a lot of money
I disagree with this to an extent. Comments in the code answer an important question:
What was the author trying to do here.
From there I can answer two other questions:
Is this a logically correct solution to the problem?
Is the author's code doing what he intended it to do?
I find it much easier to analyze code if I can get inside not only the original author's head, but the heads of the two other people who came after him and spliced in updates
I really wish they had done the opposite of this. IF the filter is set to allow all then assume all searches are for explicit the it should assume you want all results. If you don't want porn (getting a lot of noise on a search, for example) then the user would include "-porn". This is how it works for all other searches, I'm not sure why they would be inconsistent like this.
Unfiltered is how I have my searches set at home because I don't want to miss results on the off chance that the search engine thinks it's pr0n and I don't mind if I see the occasional adult content.
Khan Academy teaches a topic to a classroom, then tests and generates reports on who knows the particular lesson and how well they know it. The teacher can then spend time with the few students who are having trouble with it and let the 80% of students who grokked it move on to other material. Teachers can spend their time teaching to the students who need help learning, instead of a largely bored classroom of people who got it the first time.
It also tells you how good the software is. If 80% of the people are getting it, that's good. If only 25% of the people are getting it, it's time to rework that lesson.
In other news, Rush hour traffic is at a complete standstill on I-94 in both directions due to a "Software Glitch" with a traffic monitoring hub. The internet hactivist group "Anonymous" has claimed responsibility for the glitch.
As a DBA my solution to this is first and foremost, to make sure the developer and tester are on call. If I get a call in the middle of the night because of their code, they are going to get one as well. The developer is going to check in and build the fix I create, and the tester is going to test it. Losing sleep for a few nights waiting for the build to complete and tests to finish tends to cure these kinds of issues. They also tend to be a little more dilligent about letting their DBA review their code before they check in.
What this model fails to take into account are people who do not consume the content under the current model. For example, I will not pay a monthly cable fee for one or two channels I would watch occasionally.
Secondly, it opens up opportunities for other shows that didn't make it on CC or another major network. Couldn't get another season of Babylon 5 on the air? No problem, if you can get enough direct subscribers (and on that show, I suspect you would) you can release episodes directly to them.
This could be a great opportunity to add new revenue from people who either aren't subscribing now, or are pirating the content out of frustration.
Yeah, this would go over really well in court:
Lawyer: So How did you obtain this footage?
Drone Operator: We accidentally left the camera equipment on when we took off from American soil
Lawyer: How many times has this happened?
Drone Operator: Several, in fact I think it happens most times when we launch
Lawyer: What disciplinary action have you received for leaving them on?
Drone Operator: None. I think I read something once that says we aren't supposed to, but out commander tells us to do it anyway
At this point it's pretty obvious that it wouldn't be a case of "accidental" espionage (Disclaimer: IANAL)
This article is dangerously close to causing me to like Twitter, instead of despising it
This is all time that could have been spent making a healthcare system that doesn't suck
More likely scenario: one person with a political agenda and 5 accounts using an anonymous proxy will get the story deleted.
This would happen with every story.
Mod someone down on slashdot? There's a gesture for that.
And the best part is that it's intuitive and universal. I use it a lot when I'm driving
The pilots have to keep the plane within a pretty strict speed range to both keep the plane together and avoid a stall. Even when the speed sensors fail and the pilots have no airspeed indicator, there is a standard procedure that allows them to keep the plane within that narrow range by setting the throttle and controls at specific settings until it unfreezes. Frontline even aired a special where two flight instructors demonstrated this after being presented with this exact scenario in a simulator. The problem happens because the pilots don't have a lot of time to react, and if they panic or misinterpret the situation it's all over.
Chaina is missing due to a Google bug. They coded it with an INT32, but they really needed an INT64 for China
A comedian (forget who) once said that the SL in a state should be proportional to how boring that state is. In Nebraska, for example, the speed limit should be roughly 200 MPH.
Yeah, but then New York would be 25MPH. If you think New Yorkers are pissed off now, just lower the speed limit to 25 and watch the fireworks.