Cyberwarfare isn't conventional warfare. It's not like you can run out of electrons. Russia has a group of hackers, and writing malware is a part of their job. When you think about how much it costs to keep the rebels armed and maintain an ununiformed Russia force in rebel areas of Ukraine, a cyberattack is so much bloody cheaper.
As to your explanation for your bizarre conspiracy theory, that really doesn't answer the question at all. You've come up with a very convoluted conspiracy whose only defense seems to be "I don't trust the three letter agencies." Well, I don't trust them either, but I trust conspiracy theories that fail Occam's Razor.
Russia has everything to gain by destabilizing Ukraine, whether that be militarily, or via fucking up their computers. Welcome to the face of modern warfare.
"my bizarre conspiracy theory"
Just look at whos weapons are being used in these attacks
"NotPetya ransomware also uses two NSA exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers in April 2017. These are ETERNALBLUE (also used by WannaCry) and ETERNALROMANCE.""
Who has most to gain from russia being blamed for something petty with no gains in it for them whatsoever? I mean, what is the motive? All that is gonna cause is systems being hardened and exploitable resource being exhausted.
Besides, if it was the russians they'd have setup a decryption system that won't get disconnected in 5 minutes after it becoming public to milk all possible cash out of it.
"The driver used the vehicle's self-driving system for 37.5 minutes of the 41 minutes of his trip" "Driver Killed In a Tesla Crash Using Autopilot Ignored At Least 7 Safety Warnings"
If your autopilot misses a truck, how can you say for sure the driver didn't die 30 minutes before the crash?
if people do not have the money to buy products, the companies will not survive. When virtually nobody is working and nobody has money the corporate world will cease to exist. What happens then?
I don't think corporations actually care about the money itself very much. It is the absolute control of resources they're after.
What happens after everyone is unemployed? The corporate overlords give the autonomous flying solar powered drone armies order to fire on starving, rioting civilians and remotely shut down all the public transport which renders everyone immobile since nonelectric motor vehicles have been banned. Megalopolises will be depopulated in short order.
Money will become worthless so all the crazy wealthy and powerful people will become just ordinary people as their wealth will be worthless.
Money being worthless isn't really a problem if its because of overabundance of actual resources at hand.
So japan wants to do same legally everyone else is doing illegally. Atleast they're being kind of honest when they pass an actual law.
I wish my country also would publicize what the actual rules are.
In Finland, you can be suspect to a crime based on "evidence" inside your apartment and not observable unless already performing a house search. ie. search was ordered prior to establishing any cause.
You can bring the victim of the original crime, doctor, whose clinic was burglarized to appeals court to prove police perjury in lower court. Cops said narcotic drugs could've been stolen, doc says cops knew an hour before the search started drug vault was still locked and untouched.
Cops also give statement under oath that they performed visual observation giving them cause to suspect me personally between points a-b, which in reality were lacking line of sight due to concrete wall without windows. I brought pictures proving this to court.
Court simply withdraws mention of possibly stolen drugs in new verdict, cops escape punishment, the person arrested on false pretext gets shafted with court bills.
If the government just fucking upfront said they're going to do the fuckever they wan't all this unnecessary bullshit could've been avoided.
In Finland, having dog hair on the bottom of your shoe can result in your house being raided at 3 am by 5 cops and the interrogation about non-existing imaginary stolen drugs lasts 7 hours. Supreme court simply refuses to admit the case without statement and whole process dies.
You are wrong. Roaming charges are dropped already,.
This is false. All big 3 finnish operators have been exempted. Roaming charges will continue to be charged as usual, for atleast next 2 years.
I don't see why extra taxes or destruction of alcohol would be illegal, being an EU member doesn't mean one can't have stronger laws in some areas.
Because that was against the law and practiced policy was changed this year without changing the law after they realized they've been running foul of the actual law for decades now.
"EU Mobile Roaming Charges Scrapped"
Sorry but the title is a filthy lie. EU included possibility for operators to be excluded from dropping prices so they're all going for it.
Finlands been in the EU since 1995 and our customs agency are just now in 2017 starting to realize they've been illegally destroying millions worth of alcohol and charging tens of millions illegal extra taxes on import cars over decades.
EU has no spine, muscles, teet or brain. They should be doing something about the tens of millions of unemployed european youth instead of making laws which won't take effect for decades.
Every intoxicant has risks, some choose the one with lower risks. Cannabis is safer than alchohol in nearly every possible measure of safety.
No kidding.
"researchers showed that marijuana use tripled the risk of psychosis."
Alcohol has tenfold chances of developing psychosis and is only of the two that causes psychosis when STOPPING regular use.
Personally I am afraid that once the rich get their solar charging flying death robots and wholly robotized economy theyre gonna off all the serfs who just became irredeemably worthless as anything but fertilizer due to human labour in general becoming obsolete.
Why bother keeping sheep around if they can't grow wool anymore?
Ordinary stars in the galaxy have velocities on the order of 100 km/s, while hypervelocity stars (especially those near the center of the galaxy, which is where most are thought to be produced), have velocities on the order of 1000 km/s.
It is believed that about 1000 HVSs exist in our galaxy. Considering that there are around 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, this is a minuscule fraction (~0.000001%).
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a second report on Russia-24 also aired on July 12th, directly saying fidget spinners were an "object for zombifying" and a form of "hypnosis."
So do you smoke or snort them?
the EU [..] will be around for a long, long time to come
Not with these youth unemployment numbers.
Cyberwarfare isn't conventional warfare. It's not like you can run out of electrons. Russia has a group of hackers, and writing malware is a part of their job. When you think about how much it costs to keep the rebels armed and maintain an ununiformed Russia force in rebel areas of Ukraine, a cyberattack is so much bloody cheaper.
As to your explanation for your bizarre conspiracy theory, that really doesn't answer the question at all. You've come up with a very convoluted conspiracy whose only defense seems to be "I don't trust the three letter agencies." Well, I don't trust them either, but I trust conspiracy theories that fail Occam's Razor.
Russia has everything to gain by destabilizing Ukraine, whether that be militarily, or via fucking up their computers. Welcome to the face of modern warfare.
"my bizarre conspiracy theory"
Just look at whos weapons are being used in these attacks
"NotPetya ransomware also uses two NSA exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers in April 2017. These are ETERNALBLUE (also used by WannaCry) and ETERNALROMANCE.""
You are aware, I trust, that Ukraine and Russia are effectively at war, right?
So why expend your limited resource on forcing a couple of ukrainian grocery shops to re-image their cash register computers?
Why this need for convoluted conspiracy theories when the most parsimonious explanation is that Russia waged a cyberattack on Ukraine?
Because I know from first hand experience government lies all the fucking time.
So the Russians did it?
Who has most to gain from russia being blamed for something petty with no gains in it for them whatsoever? I mean, what is the motive? All that is gonna cause is systems being hardened and exploitable resource being exhausted.
Besides, if it was the russians they'd have setup a decryption system that won't get disconnected in 5 minutes after it becoming public to milk all possible cash out of it.
but vigilantes don't get to decide how that's done at the expense of other people's rights.
Right, we have the government for that.
Only in the land of the free you get fined 15 million for spreading illegal scientific information.
"The driver used the vehicle's self-driving system for 37.5 minutes of the 41 minutes of his trip"
"Driver Killed In a Tesla Crash Using Autopilot Ignored At Least 7 Safety Warnings"
If your autopilot misses a truck, how can you say for sure the driver didn't die 30 minutes before the crash?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why on earth would you buy _anything_ at all from accidenture? I mean microsoft royally sucks but atleast their products work to a degree, usually.
With accidenture you might as well be shoveling money to a furnace.
if people do not have the money to buy products, the companies will not survive. When virtually nobody is working and nobody has money the corporate world will cease to exist. What happens then?
I don't think corporations actually care about the money itself very much. It is the absolute control of resources they're after.
What happens after everyone is unemployed? The corporate overlords give the autonomous flying solar powered drone armies order to fire on starving, rioting civilians and remotely shut down all the public transport which renders everyone immobile since nonelectric motor vehicles have been banned. Megalopolises will be depopulated in short order.
Money will become worthless so all the crazy wealthy and powerful people will become just ordinary people as their wealth will be worthless.
Money being worthless isn't really a problem if its because of overabundance of actual resources at hand.
So japan wants to do same legally everyone else is doing illegally. Atleast they're being kind of honest when they pass an actual law.
I wish my country also would publicize what the actual rules are.
In Finland, you can be suspect to a crime based on "evidence" inside your apartment and not observable unless already performing a house search. ie. search was ordered prior to establishing any cause.
You can bring the victim of the original crime, doctor, whose clinic was burglarized to appeals court to prove police perjury in lower court. Cops said narcotic drugs could've been stolen, doc says cops knew an hour before the search started drug vault was still locked and untouched.
Cops also give statement under oath that they performed visual observation giving them cause to suspect me personally between points a-b, which in reality were lacking line of sight due to concrete wall without windows. I brought pictures proving this to court.
Court simply withdraws mention of possibly stolen drugs in new verdict, cops escape punishment, the person arrested on false pretext gets shafted with court bills.
If the government just fucking upfront said they're going to do the fuckever they wan't all this unnecessary bullshit could've been avoided.
In Finland, having dog hair on the bottom of your shoe can result in your house being raided at 3 am by 5 cops and the interrogation about non-existing imaginary stolen drugs lasts 7 hours. Supreme court simply refuses to admit the case without statement and whole process dies.
You are wrong. Roaming charges are dropped already,.
This is false. All big 3 finnish operators have been exempted. Roaming charges will continue to be charged as usual, for atleast next 2 years.
I don't see why extra taxes or destruction of alcohol would be illegal, being an EU member doesn't mean one can't have stronger laws in some areas.
Because that was against the law and practiced policy was changed this year without changing the law after they realized they've been running foul of the actual law for decades now.
"EU Mobile Roaming Charges Scrapped" Sorry but the title is a filthy lie. EU included possibility for operators to be excluded from dropping prices so they're all going for it. Finlands been in the EU since 1995 and our customs agency are just now in 2017 starting to realize they've been illegally destroying millions worth of alcohol and charging tens of millions illegal extra taxes on import cars over decades. EU has no spine, muscles, teet or brain. They should be doing something about the tens of millions of unemployed european youth instead of making laws which won't take effect for decades.
Every intoxicant has risks, some choose the one with lower risks. Cannabis is safer than alchohol in nearly every possible measure of safety.
No kidding. "researchers showed that marijuana use tripled the risk of psychosis." Alcohol has tenfold chances of developing psychosis and is only of the two that causes psychosis when STOPPING regular use.
In soviet russia, the robot serfs welcome their new human overlords.
I've already made contact
Impossible. Aliens are not implemented in this simulation, they only exist in the parent universe.
Posting to undo mod.
There may be a bit of social friction during the transition, of course. But the A.I. will help us through that.
Yeah, the AI will process all the friction causing poor people into fertilizer paste.
Personally I am afraid that once the rich get their solar charging flying death robots and wholly robotized economy theyre gonna off all the serfs who just became irredeemably worthless as anything but fertilizer due to human labour in general becoming obsolete.
Why bother keeping sheep around if they can't grow wool anymore?
They should advertize that in a pinch you can also use it to fend off an angry xenomorph queen.
Which kind of idiots raise their children on Klingon as their main language?
Klingons.
Broken what law? Dutch law, I guess, so the Dutch would have to find and arrest them.
It's not a violation of American law to rob a store in Paris.
I believe the Netherlands have an extradition treaty with both UK and US.
What's been done here is a crime in all 3 nations.. Besides, doesnt US consider hacking an act of war?
Really? Breaking into computer systems is not a crime under British and American law?
I guess I should have noticed something was off when my result suggested it was moving at over 60% the speed of light...
Good thing I am not allowed to pilot a starship.
If its related, then given the speed of the object we dodged a bullet in more ways than one..
Since it was here 70 000 years ago and now is 20 light years away that means the star is traveling at 186 454 kilometers per second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Ordinary stars in the galaxy have velocities on the order of 100 km/s, while hypervelocity stars (especially those near the center of the galaxy, which is where most are thought to be produced), have velocities on the order of 1000 km/s.
It is believed that about 1000 HVSs exist in our galaxy. Considering that there are around 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, this is a minuscule fraction (~0.000001%).