Of course, nobody was actually watching for signs of problems in the banking system.
Err, apart from those government departments whose job it is to watch for signs of problems in the banking system - the SEC, Fed and FDIC? The fact that they failed spectacularly at noticing what was happening doesn't mean it wasn't someone's job to watch...
It's possible to engineer that out. Instead of sending you a code to "authorise your login", which can then be stolen by the software, the bank sends you a code to authorise a *specific action* which has been requested (either by you or by the pwnage bot). The SMS would contain details of the requested transaction.
Not only is it possible, that's exactly how it works. I'm amazed that this isn't common practice in the US or elsewhere, now.
The next step, I guess, would be Windows malware that attempts to compromise any phones that are connected to the PC so that the bad guys can somehow interfere with the bank SMSs at the phone end of the link. That would be significantly more challenging for the bad guys, though.
This was my earlier point about how targeted the attack is; this would dissuade all but the most determined, because the phone malware would have to be compatible with your phone's OS, be able to hijack your carrier etc without you noticing something odd with the phone - and given its more limited capabilities and hardware, it's more likely that you'd notice an issue there.
No it doesnt. You have to type in the code. On.an.infected.machine. The bad guys can STILL see that.
I think you missed the point - the bank generates the code when you request to add, or transfer to, a new account, and sends that code to your phone which you've registered with them when you signed up, either for the account or for online access. You then return to the site, and activate the new payer or approve the transaction by providing the code.
This means that attackers would have to (a) get a hold of your bank account login details through the above attack vectors, and (b) get hold of your phone or divert your mobile service somehow to receive the code. Short of working out how the bank generates the code, this would put off all but the most targeted bank phishing.
My bank (a major international's Australian arm) goes to the additional step of sending me an email and a letter to say a new payee has been added. The letter is probably a last-resort as it'd be too late to prevent the initial theft, but it's reassuring that failing to notice my phone missing and my emails disrupted I'd still get notified somehow, and probably serves a useful purpose on joint accounts.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
and another that could possibly be relevant here (imagine this one as one line per page, as published):
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
I'd be fairly sure that Adobe aren't that worried about "photoshopping" becoming a generic word, much like Google won't be anxious about "googling" becoming a defacto term for search. The instant recognition such use provides for their products would be well worth being a bit less anal about it, much like Hoover and Kleenex haven't complained about their generic use.
It isn't even a matter of "voting with our wallets"; I mean, Sony didn't even give us a reason to buy the new machine. None. Zilch. Nada. Why in the *world* would we obsolete our PSP game library?
Wait, where's the assumption coming from that Sony wants you to go out and buy this new machine? They're probably not making anything, or very little, on the hardware. The updated firmware gives you access to the very same PSN Store as the Go, so you can continue to enjoy your previous UMD games as well as the new ones you can only get over the virtual store. The advantage of the PSP Go? A more compact form factor and built-in memory. Is it any wonder they're still selling the 3000 alongside the new model?
The world's moved on a little - MS Pro Duo is as fast and compact as SD and their equivalent formats. It's merely a matter of licensing fees, and I presume Sony isn't interested in licensing out or are charging a ludicrous premium. That's their commercial right to do so, though.
Hey, does no-one consider you're trading flexibility for the convenience of ordering a movie from your couch delivered (near) instantly right into your frickin lounge room.
You want flexibility, go buy a DVD from the big box store. DeCSS is old news now.
Haven't seen this suggested elsewhere, but Raymond E. Feist's Magician is a great starter's fantasy book. It's steeped in a Tolkien-esque world and a D&D universe, but is more accessible to the average reader. It's reasonably weighty for use in study materials, but keeps action moving and is fairly tame on the sex side, probably rating no more than a PG-13, so appropriate for even middle school without too many parental objections.
The material can be used to discuss reasons for war, racism, and even politics at a stretch. The latest edition has been published as two separate volumes in the US, meaning it can be split up and only the first studied if time does not permit, but the story is hardly complete in the first section and the thick of the action is in the second part. The writing isn't going to win Pulitzers (and given the first edition was in 1982, it's past time...), but as I said, it's extremely accessible.
This strikes me as a perfect way to get away with file sharing as "sneakernet 2.0." The method of sharing data between two phones can already be done on the iphone
Not quite as easily as that - I've got an iPhone, but Apple has locked down the bluetooth to the point where it refuses to talk to my old Nokia. On the other hand, sending an mp3 of a local band performing at the pub from the Nokia to my friend's Sony Ericsson, easy as pie.
one thing I see as a potential downer is the requirement to host it in a browser.. you lose things like new message notification, which is a biggie.
That's only Google's implementation - there's no requirement to host it in a browser. If you watched the original video all the way through, they demonstrate a command line interface that integrates just as well.
Don't consider it an issue, consider it an opportunity - have a person or a roster of people assigned to looking at Stack Overflow for instances where package XYZ is mentioned, and be quick and accurate to respond, providing a link to a more specific forum if necessary. It serves as a profile-raising exercise, and gives a big tick for attentiveness in the mind of the person who raised the issue, as well as any who happened to see it.
This isn't an idle in-theory suggestion; it's worked well on the Whirlpool.net.au forums for Australian ISPs - a couple of attentive customer service agents answering queries quickly within a more generalised internet forum gives that ISP credit for being customer focused, and positive experiences there have often translated into sales.
So that would roughly line up with the 1937-1947 drought, when the following happened:
As the drought extended into 1945, large rivers virtually dried up. By December 1944 the Hunter had ceased to flow along most of its course; by January the Hawkesbury was dry at North Richmond. By April 1945, most Victorian water storages were empty, the Murray had ceased to flow at Echuca, and Adelaide faced water shortages. As far north as Townsville here were water restrictions. Dust storms raged in South Australia, northern Victoria and southern NSW on many days in the summer of 1944-45
I don't know about you, but that's not something I'd like to experience with the current population of Australia. If there's some part of cutting CO2 output that would help avoid such a situation, I'll gladly sign up for it.
If you take a long view on things, the wars of the early 20th century are freak events, and while the first major international conflict is commonly called the First World War, it was a European war far more than anything truly global. It's only the primacy of Euro-centric history in the West that has resulted in it being accorded the status of "World War" (e.g. check out wiki on the Asian and Pacific Theatre of WWI, where roughly half the world's population would have lived).
WWII in the European theatre was certainly started as a consequence, direct or otherwise, of WWI, but it wasn't until the Japanese entered the war that it became a truly global scale. So one might easily suggest that the current state of affairs - relatively small, localised wars - is far more "normal" for humanity in the long run.
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Of course, nobody was actually watching for signs of problems in the banking system.
Err, apart from those government departments whose job it is to watch for signs of problems in the banking system - the SEC, Fed and FDIC? The fact that they failed spectacularly at noticing what was happening doesn't mean it wasn't someone's job to watch...
It's possible to engineer that out. Instead of sending you a code to "authorise your login", which can then be stolen by the software, the bank sends you a code to authorise a *specific action* which has been requested (either by you or by the pwnage bot). The SMS would contain details of the requested transaction.
Not only is it possible, that's exactly how it works. I'm amazed that this isn't common practice in the US or elsewhere, now.
The next step, I guess, would be Windows malware that attempts to compromise any phones that are connected to the PC so that the bad guys can somehow interfere with the bank SMSs at the phone end of the link. That would be significantly more challenging for the bad guys, though.
This was my earlier point about how targeted the attack is; this would dissuade all but the most determined, because the phone malware would have to be compatible with your phone's OS, be able to hijack your carrier etc without you noticing something odd with the phone - and given its more limited capabilities and hardware, it's more likely that you'd notice an issue there.
oblig. whoosh.
No it doesnt. You have to type in the code. On.an.infected.machine. The bad guys can STILL see that.
I think you missed the point - the bank generates the code when you request to add, or transfer to, a new account, and sends that code to your phone which you've registered with them when you signed up, either for the account or for online access. You then return to the site, and activate the new payer or approve the transaction by providing the code.
This means that attackers would have to (a) get a hold of your bank account login details through the above attack vectors, and (b) get hold of your phone or divert your mobile service somehow to receive the code. Short of working out how the bank generates the code, this would put off all but the most targeted bank phishing.
My bank (a major international's Australian arm) goes to the additional step of sending me an email and a letter to say a new payee has been added. The letter is probably a last-resort as it'd be too late to prevent the initial theft, but it's reassuring that failing to notice my phone missing and my emails disrupted I'd still get notified somehow, and probably serves a useful purpose on joint accounts.
They just don't eat cows. No need to label that!
Err, how about "Hindu"?
(and before I get the brigade marching in here claiming all manner of insults, I'm Hindu).
The relevant quote:
and another that could possibly be relevant here (imagine this one as one line per page, as published):
(source)
How about using compressed air?
I don't think you understand how many here understand mechanics way more than they understand sex.
Great, more car metaphors.
Well Timmy, when a daddy car and a mommy car love each other very much...
"There ought to be a Law"
Should be changed to:
"There ought NOT be a Law"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Adobe called, they want their trademark back.
I'd be fairly sure that Adobe aren't that worried about "photoshopping" becoming a generic word, much like Google won't be anxious about "googling" becoming a defacto term for search. The instant recognition such use provides for their products would be well worth being a bit less anal about it, much like Hoover and Kleenex haven't complained about their generic use.
Consequently, we won't be buying the new machine.
It isn't even a matter of "voting with our wallets"; I mean, Sony didn't even give us a reason to buy the new machine. None. Zilch. Nada. Why in the *world* would we obsolete our PSP game library?
Wait, where's the assumption coming from that Sony wants you to go out and buy this new machine? They're probably not making anything, or very little, on the hardware. The updated firmware gives you access to the very same PSN Store as the Go, so you can continue to enjoy your previous UMD games as well as the new ones you can only get over the virtual store. The advantage of the PSP Go? A more compact form factor and built-in memory. Is it any wonder they're still selling the 3000 alongside the new model?
The world's moved on a little - MS Pro Duo is as fast and compact as SD and their equivalent formats. It's merely a matter of licensing fees, and I presume Sony isn't interested in licensing out or are charging a ludicrous premium. That's their commercial right to do so, though.
Hey, does no-one consider you're trading flexibility for the convenience of ordering a movie from your couch delivered (near) instantly right into your frickin lounge room.
You want flexibility, go buy a DVD from the big box store. DeCSS is old news now.
Haven't seen this suggested elsewhere, but Raymond E. Feist's Magician is a great starter's fantasy book. It's steeped in a Tolkien-esque world and a D&D universe, but is more accessible to the average reader. It's reasonably weighty for use in study materials, but keeps action moving and is fairly tame on the sex side, probably rating no more than a PG-13, so appropriate for even middle school without too many parental objections.
The material can be used to discuss reasons for war, racism, and even politics at a stretch. The latest edition has been published as two separate volumes in the US, meaning it can be split up and only the first studied if time does not permit, but the story is hardly complete in the first section and the thick of the action is in the second part. The writing isn't going to win Pulitzers (and given the first edition was in 1982, it's past time...), but as I said, it's extremely accessible.
The plastic macbooks were plagued with cracking problems, speaking from personal experience too, but the new unibody ones are a solid build.
That said, it's far from addressing the OP.
This strikes me as a perfect way to get away with file sharing as "sneakernet 2.0." The method of sharing data between two phones can already be done on the iphone
Not quite as easily as that - I've got an iPhone, but Apple has locked down the bluetooth to the point where it refuses to talk to my old Nokia. On the other hand, sending an mp3 of a local band performing at the pub from the Nokia to my friend's Sony Ericsson, easy as pie.
one thing I see as a potential downer is the requirement to host it in a browser.. you lose things like new message notification, which is a biggie.
That's only Google's implementation - there's no requirement to host it in a browser. If you watched the original video all the way through, they demonstrate a command line interface that integrates just as well.
One might be tempted to point out that that's an example of socialism vs. capitalism in action.
Just sayin'.
Or say they are acting inappropriately with a student of the opposite sex.
I don't think the student's gender would be that much of a factor.
That's about to be banned too: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/08/using-iphone-satnav-apps-while-driving-is-actually-illegal/
Don't consider it an issue, consider it an opportunity - have a person or a roster of people assigned to looking at Stack Overflow for instances where package XYZ is mentioned, and be quick and accurate to respond, providing a link to a more specific forum if necessary. It serves as a profile-raising exercise, and gives a big tick for attentiveness in the mind of the person who raised the issue, as well as any who happened to see it.
This isn't an idle in-theory suggestion; it's worked well on the Whirlpool.net.au forums for Australian ISPs - a couple of attentive customer service agents answering queries quickly within a more generalised internet forum gives that ISP credit for being customer focused, and positive experiences there have often translated into sales.
I suspect that any Apple store... has them for just a few bucks.
A few bucks? At an Apple store? Good fucking luck.
So that would roughly line up with the 1937-1947 drought, when the following happened:
I don't know about you, but that's not something I'd like to experience with the current population of Australia. If there's some part of cutting CO2 output that would help avoid such a situation, I'll gladly sign up for it.
A direct link to the Galileoscope project site would be great, wouldn't you think?
If you take a long view on things, the wars of the early 20th century are freak events, and while the first major international conflict is commonly called the First World War, it was a European war far more than anything truly global. It's only the primacy of Euro-centric history in the West that has resulted in it being accorded the status of "World War" (e.g. check out wiki on the Asian and Pacific Theatre of WWI, where roughly half the world's population would have lived).
WWII in the European theatre was certainly started as a consequence, direct or otherwise, of WWI, but it wasn't until the Japanese entered the war that it became a truly global scale. So one might easily suggest that the current state of affairs - relatively small, localised wars - is far more "normal" for humanity in the long run.