Governments and corporations keep leapfrogging each other as the biggest threat to the Internet. How are we supposed to know which threat to focus on dammit!
RSA said that two variants of infected emails with an attachment called "2011 Recruitment plan.xls" were sent to a group of RSA employees over two days. Apparently, one of the targeted employees retrieved the email from a spam folder and opened it. The intruders used the exploit to install the widely known and freely available Poison Ivy "remote administration tool". The tool allowed the attackers to spy on the user's server access credentials, log into the server and escalate their access privileges (via further vulnerabilities). This gradually allowed them to work their way into the systems that interested them.
There, they harvested data and copied it to other servers on the internal network, where they combined, compressed and encrypted the information before transferring it to an external FTP server.
OH NOES SUCH UBER-L33T TACTICS! IT MUST BE TEH CHINESE CYBER-MARINES!
It's funny to see the difference in response to a "priceless" Apple prototype being lost in a bar and some poor guy in the ghetto getting his cheapo Blackberry stolen as part of a mugging, considering that much more value is at stake to the victim and a more heinous crime was committed in the latter case.
Ah John Stewart! Yeah his show's funny as hell, I catch it a few times per year. I haven't caught him lying so far.
The saddest and most informative thing I saw on his show was a montage of all the US presidents going back to Jimmy Carter calling for energy reform - obviously without success:-(
Sycodon thinks verifiable facts are invalidated if presented by a comedy site and assumes I watch the Daily Show (I'm not even sure which talk show that is - Conan O'Brian's or that really funny guy with the grayish hair? - can't remember his name now).
Link to any of these in a non-humorous post and you immediately lose points in the mind of the reader. Same goes for Greenpeace or any other nutty leftist sources you can find. That shit doesn't fly around here. If the link contains valid information then link to the same info from a reputable source. If it contains a bunch of soapboxing, slant or bullshit with no facts to back it up then save it.
I don't even think asteroid mining could be big business unless the asteroids happen to pass very close by at a convenient (and perhaps dangerous) low speed or some massive Star Trek-level breakthrough in space transportation is made. Otherwise whatever you get there won't be worth the cost of retrieving it.
He's right in this case. Without some radical breakthrough, as long as we are pushing spacecraft from A to B, we are not leaving this solar system, no way, no how, never. So we better hope some kind of teleportation will be possible some day.
I had no idea they'd shit-canned the Europa mission, that was potentially world-changing stuff.
Same here. Europa and Enceladus probably both have life (and possibly complex life), in terms of finding life in our solar system they're the "low-hanging fruit" so we should be putting all effort into exploring those first, rather than Mars which is mostly a dead dirtball with a few traces of surface ice which might harbor some traces of bacteria if we're really lucky.
Generally yes it's a good thing, but I'm not so sure about this particular case...
They shouldn't copy the Emperor's fashion if he's wearing no clothes. It's that kind of thinking that made other car designers want to copy Chris Bangle.
The driver is part of VirtualBox (you'll get a notification that it needs to be recompiled on launching VirtualBox after every kernel upgrade) and it affects installations where Linux is the host. That said I've had it in for years and haven't had any problems.
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DNS by it's nature requires some hierarchy. Either that or you end up with a system that's forced to use nonsense names like .onion sites and namecoin.
That said a DNS system could be controlled by a democratic online community, that's probably the best compromise.
At this point if I was going to do anything illegal I'd proxy it through China. Nobody would ever suspect it could be anyone else.
Governments and corporations keep leapfrogging each other as the biggest threat to the Internet. How are we supposed to know which threat to focus on dammit!
Check this out:
we're very confident that with the skill, sophistication and resources involved it could only have been a nation state.'
Now look at this:
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/RSA-break-in-it-was-the-Flash-Player-s-fault-1221057.html
RSA said that two variants of infected emails with an attachment called "2011 Recruitment plan.xls" were sent to a group of RSA employees over two days. Apparently, one of the targeted employees retrieved the email from a spam folder and opened it. The intruders used the exploit to install the widely known and freely available Poison Ivy "remote administration tool". The tool allowed the attackers to spy on the user's server access credentials, log into the server and escalate their access privileges (via further vulnerabilities). This gradually allowed them to work their way into the systems that interested them.
There, they harvested data and copied it to other servers on the internal network, where they combined, compressed and encrypted the information before transferring it to an external FTP server.
OH NOES SUCH UBER-L33T TACTICS! IT MUST BE TEH CHINESE CYBER-MARINES!
Even if you tack on the 40 hours of work that's damn good pay.
It's funny to see the difference in response to a "priceless" Apple prototype being lost in a bar and some poor guy in the ghetto getting his cheapo Blackberry stolen as part of a mugging, considering that much more value is at stake to the victim and a more heinous crime was committed in the latter case.
I did a writeup on this and submitted it:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1042991/blood-iphone
And I thought it was bad when we find out about virus infections when our firewall blocks the spambot...
You got whooshed!
I found this in a Mexican bar.
So not only can you patent any bullshit by adding "on the Internet" or "on a computer," but also "on a handheld computer."
Quick, everybody patent "$common_everyday_task on an implanted computer!"
Ah John Stewart! Yeah his show's funny as hell, I catch it a few times per year. I haven't caught him lying so far.
The saddest and most informative thing I saw on his show was a montage of all the US presidents going back to Jimmy Carter calling for energy reform - obviously without success :-(
Sycodon thinks verifiable facts are invalidated if presented by a comedy site and assumes I watch the Daily Show (I'm not even sure which talk show that is - Conan O'Brian's or that really funny guy with the grayish hair? - can't remember his name now).
This is the state of Internet discussion.
Abandon all hope.
Cato, Von Mises, Wattsup, Conservapedia.
Link to any of these in a non-humorous post and you immediately lose points in the mind of the reader. Same goes for Greenpeace or any other nutty leftist sources you can find. That shit doesn't fly around here. If the link contains valid information then link to the same info from a reputable source. If it contains a bunch of soapboxing, slant or bullshit with no facts to back it up then save it.
I don't even think asteroid mining could be big business unless the asteroids happen to pass very close by at a convenient (and perhaps dangerous) low speed or some massive Star Trek-level breakthrough in space transportation is made. Otherwise whatever you get there won't be worth the cost of retrieving it.
He's right in this case. Without some radical breakthrough, as long as we are pushing spacecraft from A to B, we are not leaving this solar system, no way, no how, never. So we better hope some kind of teleportation will be possible some day.
Oh, also I think you should see this:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19461_6-b.s.-myths-you-probably-believe-about-americas-enemies.html
I have an enemy-repelling rock you could replace at least half of your military with. I'll give it to you for free.
I had no idea they'd shit-canned the Europa mission, that was potentially world-changing stuff.
Same here. Europa and Enceladus probably both have life (and possibly complex life), in terms of finding life in our solar system they're the "low-hanging fruit" so we should be putting all effort into exploring those first, rather than Mars which is mostly a dead dirtball with a few traces of surface ice which might harbor some traces of bacteria if we're really lucky.
Generally yes it's a good thing, but I'm not so sure about this particular case...
They shouldn't copy the Emperor's fashion if he's wearing no clothes. It's that kind of thinking that made other car designers want to copy Chris Bangle.
The driver is part of VirtualBox (you'll get a notification that it needs to be recompiled on launching VirtualBox after every kernel upgrade) and it affects installations where Linux is the host. That said I've had it in for years and haven't had any problems.
We should call it...the plus-wing fighter!
Crysis on Flash on Safari on Wine on Linux on Javascript on Internet Explorer on Vista
Now we've got a proper benchmark!
Don't forget Siemens, and Mitsubishi built Japanese fighters...
Will it run Crysis...on Flash?