I agree, I always liked that idea, but it doesn't appear to be the case. Dark energy is accelerating the expansion of the universe. Gravity isn't slowing it down eventually leading to contraction. It appears we are doomed to expand until nothing is within the light cone of anything else.
The future is very cold, dark and lonely.
We don't understand Dark Energy/Matter... so I reserve judgment there. We have no idea what will happen when electrons have been stretched to the size of galaxies. It may very well be that it triggers a phase change and reverse time. Who knows?
Someone tell this guy, the entire Linux community has spoken... we do not want this.
On install, ask if this is a mobile device... if it is, install your screwy new UI. But no-one will click that option because there's already a fantastic Linux distro for mobile called Android. If they don't chose mobile (and no-one will) then install a "normal" desktop.
And since you seem to be unaware of history, what you're doing is exactly what Microsoft attempted with Win8 and failed miserably at. No one wants this but you so please give up.
This idea is not new... they don't say it outright, but I believe they are suggesting "The big crunch" and the endless cyclical universe. Basically the Big bang was a point in a cycle. There was a universe that "Crunched" into a point like state and then exploded into our universe. But that other universe had time flowing in the other direction. If true, I suspect they're suggesting that the big bang was just one point in an endless cycle of expansion and contraction... though you should take care no to think that contraction is what you'd normally think of... Time is reversed so it would appear to us as just another big bang.
I heard about this theory as far back as the early 80s. It's a theory I always found theologically pleasing. It suggests the Hindi/Buddhists are onto something.;-)
Let's have some outrage over creators seeking to, gasp, control their creations — and be paid for their use.
More like... creators getting angry that the business model they've created is basically impossible to control, yet they expect the judicial system do it for them. Google, Apple and just about every other OS in the world has already realized trying to charge for an OS is impossible and have moved on... This is just Microsoft providing more evidence that they're a dinosaur left over from the 80s. What are they going to do next? Try and ban Color copiers because they can be used to circumvent their copyright protection of printing my serial in black in on red paper?
Most don't know the difference. We've been in a police state since the Civil war. Once the feds take power... no matter how justified they are in that... they never give it up again.
Are they going to sue my pop-up blocker now to? What about my email spam filter?
I find the content you distribute on the internet to be offensive. I have every right to reject it. In fact, I think your continued attempts to get around my firewall/filters to be an attempt to attack me and my network. In my opinion, what you're doing is illegal and you should be jailed.
What do you read that makes you so sure of this position? I'm hearing about this for the first time today, and while skepticism is due, it sounds like something business would do.
And I'm usually on the side of defending or explaining business or capitalism to the willfully ignorant.
Given factual errors already pointed out, you're going to need to defend your position with something more than incredulity and rhetoric.
The entire premise that the company that just fired you cares, at all, about "The industry" is kind of a joke. These businesses are not in cahoots nationwide to keep people quite. The non-disclosure agreements are likely cut and pasted in. If you were about to continue to pay someone for the next 3 months after you fired them... and were going to have them sign some agreement to attest to that... wouldn't you expect them to behave in the same way they would while they are still employed? Would you want someone that you're still paying to be on facebook complaining endlessly about you... justified or not?
Seriously, we're such ideologues on this issue that we're going to believe that there's some massive, industry wide conspiracy to cover this up?
Anyone making more than $50k a year or so usually gets a severance package. And that's not a benefit to the business, it's a nice thing that comes with the job. Normal people get walked out the door by a security guard and told the stuff on their desk will be mailed to them postage due. The fact that we get a severance package is great... that the company expects us not to defame them after giving us 3months+ pay that they don't have to? That should be expected. That's not going to stop you from saying "I worked for a tech company that I'll not name, and was laid off when they hired foreign workers."
Most Americans don't want temp work. The industry wants temp workers for short projects. H1B's prefer temp work because it generally pays a tad more and they have no particular ties to the area the work isin. There's no mystery here. Hiring 3rd party companies to do short projects always turns out horrible and costs a fortune. Maybe we should address the need for temp work and stop turning this into some evil plot?
The FBI contacted him pretending to be from the Egyptian government and undoubtedly offering a boatload of money. It is not known whether he accepted out of a sense of patriotism he felt for Egypt or for the boatload of money.
Right... how they consider these situations "Crimes" at all baffles me. The FBI created the crime, suggested the crime to him, offered him a huge amount of money that never existed then arrested him?
Sony made a movie called "The interview" who's plot is that Seth Rogan gets the chance to interview Kim Jung un (Dictator of North Korea) and the CIA enlists them to kill him. North Korea took offence to that and demanded that Sony stop making the movie. Sony refused. The hacker group is suspect of being part of the North Korean military.
Lets read what the editors that left had to say in their "Open letter"
"The New Republic cannot be merely a 'brand.' It has never been and cannot be a 'media company' that markets 'content, Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.” It is not, or not primarily, a business. It is a voice, even a cause. It has lasted through numerous transformations of the 'media landscape'—transformations that, far from rendering its work obsolete, have made that work ever more valuable."
and then...
"The New Republic is a kind of public trust, That is something all its previous owners and publishers understood and respected. The legacy has now been trashed, the trust violated. It is a sad irony that at this perilous moment, with a reactionary variant of conservatism in the ascendancy, liberalism’s central journal should be scuttled with flagrant and frivolous abandon. The promise of American life has been dealt a lamentable blow."
It's not a "Trust" it's a business and if they don't know that, it's about time they woke up. He bought the god damned business from one of those very previous owners they said understood their plight.
I don't know anything about Chris Hughes or his vision, but I doubt he's lamenting the loss of these people. They sound like they're exactly what needs to be removed from a floundering media outlet. It's like they're Andy Rooney going on and on about refusing to give up his typewriter.
If you took your i5 into a high intensity radiation environment like space...
Except it's not... I'd suspect the flight computer would be... you know... with the pilots. So if there's hard radiation there, the crews dead already anyway.
>> In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite
Which means $3K/year, 1600 calories a day?
Actually, the majority of the food aid sent to North Korea by aid agencies gets redirected and distributed to its military. Given that these are military positions, that's what they'll be eating. Nice eh?
Actually they do because we the people authorized them to do so. When a member of Congress authorizes a federal agency to act in that capacity they are acting on your behalf. That's what a representative government does. You might not like it but it does not mean that federal agency is engaging in an illegal behavior. Now if you want to change what they can do or raise the threshold by which that can do something, you can by working through your representative.
We CANNOT authorize the federal government to violate our rights without a constitutional amendment. That's the point of the constitution. It's a framework that the federal and state governments are bound to work within. Laws cannot be passed that violate the constitution. The constitution is very clear about when and how we lose those rights. Namely, when there's a warrant or we're convicted of a federal crime. There is, at no time, a way in which the government can legally search your property or correspondence without a warrant. Ever... under any circumstances. And we could not pass a law that allowed them to. Ever. We'd have to amend the constitution to make such a thing possible.
What the federal government is doing is without a doubt unconstitutional. The problem is, they are very aware of that fact. They see the constitution as an obstacle to their goal of "keeping us safe" As a result, they've gone to extraordinary lengths to hide their activity. They've made it very difficult to bring up their activity in court and challenge its constitutionality. As of yet, no challenge has ever been made to the federal government absent a trial. Basically, they are using the information they are garnering to disappear people into foreign governments that do not have our protections. They are not using he information to try and convict anyone so no-one can challenge its constitutionality. Efforts are being made by the ACLU and the EFF but it's a very difficult process.
If you truly understood what was going on, you'd be terrified. This is the path to Totalitarianism... despotism. The road we're on leads no-where good, and it's sad that our president, a constitutional scholar of all things, has actually expanded the activity.
"In fact, almost every decision we make during an investigation requires us to weigh the effect on privacy and civil liberties, and we take that responsibility seriously,"
That's nice, but your statement highlights the real problem here... which is that federal agencies seem to think that they get to weigh the value of our civil liberties against the value of our safety. That's not the case, these agencies do not get to make a judgment about just how much of our privacy and/or civil liberties they're allowed to violate. They're not allowed to violate them... AT ALL... without a warrant or conviction. It doesn't matter how careful they are. It doesn't matter what the consequences of respecting my civil liberties are.
I invite all who read this to familiarize themselves with the first passage of the decleration of independance, the document upon which this country was founded:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Specifically, our rights are unalienable They cannot be disregarded for some greater good. They can only be removed by God. And the government is not our God... the government is our creation, our tool. It works in our interest. And above all, above even security, or justice, our interest is our constitutional rights.
"Give me Liberty or give me death" was clear... Remaining safe and alive but wrapped in chains isn't being alive at all.
Thanks for clearing up what the real controversy was.
I have no idea where I stand on the issue. He's right, it IS trivial. But who cares? He probably should have just shrugged it off. But on the other hand, I'd say, if someone wanted to change the documentation wording, fine... but let it go in along with some other substantial re-write. And I think that was the guys point... we're not going to do a commit just for the sake of politics. What the people who wanted this done should have done was sat down, re-wrote all the text to make it better, more clear and included their gender neutral wording in that.
I went to my boss a few years back because my job title was odd... I wanted it to be a strait forward "Software Developer" or "Database administrator" (I basically do both) but my title was something silly that would make little sense to an outside observer. If I went to him and asked for a change for the sake of a change he'd have laughed at me. So instead I got some training, wrote a couple of key pieces of software, then went to him and said "Wouldn't you say what I'm really doing is software development now?" He agreed and viola, I got the change I wanted.
You get more flys with Honey. I think all these recent stories with gamergate and all that nonsense are doing more to hurt the feminist movement than anything. Yea, be aggressive... assert your rights. But if you spazz out with every single tiny infraction, people will eventually stop paying attention when you spazz out.
Clearly from the image... that first letter is an "M" and it's quite stylized... I think it's rather clear they were trying to carve Metallica, like most of us did to our desks in highschool.
So clearly wherever this was found was an ancient school.
And please, before you shun these proto-humans, keep in mind that this was half a million years ago. Long before anyone could have possibly imagine Metallica would turn into a bunch of Douchebags.
This is either bullshit, or you're doing it very, very wrong. Even assuming a dumbass flat file at 4 KB per row for 62 days, that's over a thousand rows per second.
You don't do databases do you? You have no idea what they are storing. I did some stuff earlier today that generated over 100Gig of transaction logs in just a few hours. Granted that's unusual, but it does happen, and if they're not cleaning up after things like that?
Who says it's not ATM transactions and he's logging a video of every transaction as it passes by? Who says he doesn't work for Equifax and isn't storing 50 million transactions a day?
And his point is valid. The raw footage for a single movie, with all the uncut footage? Easily could surpass 100TB uncompressed.
How long was the attack taking place? What kind of Internet connection does Sony Pictures have? To ex-filtrate 100 TB of data is going to take a while, no matter how you cut it. My guess is that number is significantly inflated.
Given the level of access these people had, they likely just issued a request to the DBAs to send a copy of the backups via UPS to Kim Jung Uns house directly.
Sorry, I got an extra 0 in there. It's 1 in 25 million. Google it, there's quite a few stories on the subject.
It's a pretty subjective number. What are the chances of anyone in the world dieing in a terrorist attack? I think that's where you got your number... But this include, for example, Israel and Iraq. What are the chances for an American? (that's my number and what the NSA is concerned with) But if you check... that's for all Americans, no matter what even if they went to Afghanistan and hung out in Kabul. If you exclude people that traveled to clearly unsecured countries, your chances of dieing in a terrorist attack approach null. If you live in Idaho, don't travel to newyork, and aren't in the military, you've absolutely nothing to worry about.
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" It suggests the Hindi/Buddhists are onto something. ;-)"
Hindu is the religion, Hindi is the language
I thought it was plural of Hindu? Huh... learn something new every day. My apologies, I haven't been to India.
I agree, I always liked that idea, but it doesn't appear to be the case. Dark energy is accelerating the expansion of the universe. Gravity isn't slowing it down eventually leading to contraction. It appears we are doomed to expand until nothing is within the light cone of anything else.
The future is very cold, dark and lonely.
We don't understand Dark Energy/Matter... so I reserve judgment there. We have no idea what will happen when electrons have been stretched to the size of galaxies. It may very well be that it triggers a phase change and reverse time. Who knows?
Someone tell this guy, the entire Linux community has spoken... we do not want this.
On install, ask if this is a mobile device... if it is, install your screwy new UI. But no-one will click that option because there's already a fantastic Linux distro for mobile called Android.
If they don't chose mobile (and no-one will) then install a "normal" desktop.
And since you seem to be unaware of history, what you're doing is exactly what Microsoft attempted with Win8 and failed miserably at. No one wants this but you so please give up.
Seriously, what don't you get... Unity was released in 2010. Here's a graph showing distro use:
http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-co...
See how your distro use tanked in 2010? And Mint Spiked? Your users have spoken... listen!
The lawsuit is in France... Things are less obvious there. :-)
This idea is not new... they don't say it outright, but I believe they are suggesting "The big crunch" and the endless cyclical universe. Basically the Big bang was a point in a cycle. There was a universe that "Crunched" into a point like state and then exploded into our universe. But that other universe had time flowing in the other direction. If true, I suspect they're suggesting that the big bang was just one point in an endless cycle of expansion and contraction... though you should take care no to think that contraction is what you'd normally think of... Time is reversed so it would appear to us as just another big bang.
I heard about this theory as far back as the early 80s. It's a theory I always found theologically pleasing. It suggests the Hindi/Buddhists are onto something. ;-)
Oh, I don't know... the whole Take down the movie that threatens our beloved leader or we release all your data! threat kind of gave it away for me...
http://variety.com/2014/film/n...
How do fucking morons get mod-points?
http://variety.com/2014/film/n...
Is there any question who did this at all?
Let's have some outrage over creators seeking to, gasp, control their creations — and be paid for their use.
More like... creators getting angry that the business model they've created is basically impossible to control, yet they expect the judicial system do it for them.
Google, Apple and just about every other OS in the world has already realized trying to charge for an OS is impossible and have moved on... This is just Microsoft providing more evidence that they're a dinosaur left over from the 80s. What are they going to do next? Try and ban Color copiers because they can be used to circumvent their copyright protection of printing my serial in black in on red paper?
And realize they now live in a police state?
Most don't know the difference.
We've been in a police state since the Civil war.
Once the feds take power... no matter how justified they are in that... they never give it up again.
Are they going to sue my pop-up blocker now to?
What about my email spam filter?
I find the content you distribute on the internet to be offensive. I have every right to reject it. In fact, I think your continued attempts to get around my firewall/filters to be an attempt to attack me and my network. In my opinion, what you're doing is illegal and you should be jailed.
What do you read that makes you so sure of this position? I'm hearing about this for the first time today, and while skepticism is due, it sounds like something business would do.
And I'm usually on the side of defending or explaining business or capitalism to the willfully ignorant.
Given factual errors already pointed out, you're going to need to defend your position with something more than incredulity and rhetoric.
The entire premise that the company that just fired you cares, at all, about "The industry" is kind of a joke. These businesses are not in cahoots nationwide to keep people quite. The non-disclosure agreements are likely cut and pasted in. If you were about to continue to pay someone for the next 3 months after you fired them... and were going to have them sign some agreement to attest to that... wouldn't you expect them to behave in the same way they would while they are still employed? Would you want someone that you're still paying to be on facebook complaining endlessly about you... justified or not?
Come one...
Seriously, we're such ideologues on this issue that we're going to believe that there's some massive, industry wide conspiracy to cover this up?
Anyone making more than $50k a year or so usually gets a severance package. And that's not a benefit to the business, it's a nice thing that comes with the job. Normal people get walked out the door by a security guard and told the stuff on their desk will be mailed to them postage due. The fact that we get a severance package is great... that the company expects us not to defame them after giving us 3months+ pay that they don't have to? That should be expected. That's not going to stop you from saying "I worked for a tech company that I'll not name, and was laid off when they hired foreign workers."
Most Americans don't want temp work. The industry wants temp workers for short projects. H1B's prefer temp work because it generally pays a tad more and they have no particular ties to the area the work isin. There's no mystery here. Hiring 3rd party companies to do short projects always turns out horrible and costs a fortune. Maybe we should address the need for temp work and stop turning this into some evil plot?
The FBI contacted him pretending to be from the Egyptian government and undoubtedly offering a boatload of money. It is not known whether he accepted out of a sense of patriotism he felt for Egypt or for the boatload of money.
Right... how they consider these situations "Crimes" at all baffles me. The FBI created the crime, suggested the crime to him, offered him a huge amount of money that never existed then arrested him?
Was there a demand? The abstract doesn't say.
Seriously, you don't know what this is about?
Sony made a movie called "The interview" who's plot is that Seth Rogan gets the chance to interview Kim Jung un (Dictator of North Korea) and the CIA enlists them to kill him.
North Korea took offence to that and demanded that Sony stop making the movie.
Sony refused.
The hacker group is suspect of being part of the North Korean military.
So now we get to see how powerful the FBI and Japanese equivalent are at actually tracking down cyber criminals.
The group pretty much already identified itself. There's no real investigation needed to figure it out.
Lets read what the editors that left had to say in their "Open letter"
"The New Republic cannot be merely a 'brand.' It has never been and cannot be a 'media company' that markets 'content, Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.” It is not, or not primarily, a business. It is a voice, even a cause. It has lasted through numerous transformations of the 'media landscape'—transformations that, far from rendering its work obsolete, have made that work ever more valuable."
and then...
"The New Republic is a kind of public trust, That is something all its previous owners and publishers understood and respected. The legacy has now been trashed, the trust violated. It is a sad irony that at this perilous moment, with a reactionary variant of conservatism in the ascendancy, liberalism’s central journal should be scuttled with flagrant and frivolous abandon. The promise of American life has been dealt a lamentable blow."
It's not a "Trust" it's a business and if they don't know that, it's about time they woke up. He bought the god damned business from one of those very previous owners they said understood their plight.
I don't know anything about Chris Hughes or his vision, but I doubt he's lamenting the loss of these people. They sound like they're exactly what needs to be removed from a floundering media outlet. It's like they're Andy Rooney going on and on about refusing to give up his typewriter.
If you took your i5 into a high intensity radiation environment like space...
Except it's not... I'd suspect the flight computer would be... you know... with the pilots. So if there's hard radiation there, the crews dead already anyway.
>> In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite
Which means $3K/year, 1600 calories a day?
Actually, the majority of the food aid sent to North Korea by aid agencies gets redirected and distributed to its military. Given that these are military positions, that's what they'll be eating. Nice eh?
Actually they do because we the people authorized them to do so. When a member of Congress authorizes a federal agency to act in that capacity they are acting on your behalf. That's what a representative government does. You might not like it but it does not mean that federal agency is engaging in an illegal behavior. Now if you want to change what they can do or raise the threshold by which that can do something, you can by working through your representative.
We CANNOT authorize the federal government to violate our rights without a constitutional amendment. That's the point of the constitution. It's a framework that the federal and state governments are bound to work within. Laws cannot be passed that violate the constitution. The constitution is very clear about when and how we lose those rights. Namely, when there's a warrant or we're convicted of a federal crime. There is, at no time, a way in which the government can legally search your property or correspondence without a warrant. Ever... under any circumstances. And we could not pass a law that allowed them to. Ever. We'd have to amend the constitution to make such a thing possible.
What the federal government is doing is without a doubt unconstitutional. The problem is, they are very aware of that fact. They see the constitution as an obstacle to their goal of "keeping us safe" As a result, they've gone to extraordinary lengths to hide their activity. They've made it very difficult to bring up their activity in court and challenge its constitutionality. As of yet, no challenge has ever been made to the federal government absent a trial. Basically, they are using the information they are garnering to disappear people into foreign governments that do not have our protections. They are not using he information to try and convict anyone so no-one can challenge its constitutionality. Efforts are being made by the ACLU and the EFF but it's a very difficult process.
If you truly understood what was going on, you'd be terrified. This is the path to Totalitarianism... despotism. The road we're on leads no-where good, and it's sad that our president, a constitutional scholar of all things, has actually expanded the activity.
"In fact, almost every decision we make during an investigation requires us to weigh the effect on privacy and civil liberties, and we take that responsibility seriously,"
That's nice, but your statement highlights the real problem here... which is that federal agencies seem to think that they get to weigh the value of our civil liberties against the value of our safety. That's not the case, these agencies do not get to make a judgment about just how much of our privacy and/or civil liberties they're allowed to violate. They're not allowed to violate them... AT ALL... without a warrant or conviction. It doesn't matter how careful they are. It doesn't matter what the consequences of respecting my civil liberties are.
I invite all who read this to familiarize themselves with the first passage of the decleration of independance, the document upon which this country was founded:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Specifically, our rights are unalienable They cannot be disregarded for some greater good. They can only be removed by God. And the government is not our God... the government is our creation, our tool. It works in our interest. And above all, above even security, or justice, our interest is our constitutional rights.
"Give me Liberty or give me death" was clear... Remaining safe and alive but wrapped in chains isn't being alive at all.
Thanks for clearing up what the real controversy was.
I have no idea where I stand on the issue. He's right, it IS trivial. But who cares? He probably should have just shrugged it off. But on the other hand, I'd say, if someone wanted to change the documentation wording, fine... but let it go in along with some other substantial re-write. And I think that was the guys point... we're not going to do a commit just for the sake of politics. What the people who wanted this done should have done was sat down, re-wrote all the text to make it better, more clear and included their gender neutral wording in that.
I went to my boss a few years back because my job title was odd... I wanted it to be a strait forward "Software Developer" or "Database administrator" (I basically do both) but my title was something silly that would make little sense to an outside observer. If I went to him and asked for a change for the sake of a change he'd have laughed at me. So instead I got some training, wrote a couple of key pieces of software, then went to him and said "Wouldn't you say what I'm really doing is software development now?" He agreed and viola, I got the change I wanted.
You get more flys with Honey. I think all these recent stories with gamergate and all that nonsense are doing more to hurt the feminist movement than anything. Yea, be aggressive... assert your rights. But if you spazz out with every single tiny infraction, people will eventually stop paying attention when you spazz out.
Clearly from the image... that first letter is an "M" and it's quite stylized...
I think it's rather clear they were trying to carve Metallica, like most of us did to our desks in highschool.
So clearly wherever this was found was an ancient school.
And please, before you shun these proto-humans, keep in mind that this was half a million years ago. Long before anyone could have possibly imagine Metallica would turn into a bunch of Douchebags.
This is either bullshit, or you're doing it very, very wrong.
Even assuming a dumbass flat file at 4 KB per row for 62 days, that's over a thousand rows per second.
You don't do databases do you? You have no idea what they are storing.
I did some stuff earlier today that generated over 100Gig of transaction logs in just a few hours.
Granted that's unusual, but it does happen, and if they're not cleaning up after things like that?
Who says it's not ATM transactions and he's logging a video of every transaction as it passes by?
Who says he doesn't work for Equifax and isn't storing 50 million transactions a day?
And his point is valid. The raw footage for a single movie, with all the uncut footage? Easily could surpass 100TB uncompressed.
How long was the attack taking place? What kind of Internet connection does Sony Pictures have? To ex-filtrate 100 TB of data is going to take a while, no matter how you cut it. My guess is that number is significantly inflated.
Given the level of access these people had, they likely just issued a request to the DBAs to send a copy of the backups via UPS to Kim Jung Uns house directly.
Sorry, I got an extra 0 in there. It's 1 in 25 million.
Google it, there's quite a few stories on the subject.
It's a pretty subjective number.
What are the chances of anyone in the world dieing in a terrorist attack? I think that's where you got your number... But this include, for example, Israel and Iraq.
What are the chances for an American? (that's my number and what the NSA is concerned with)
But if you check... that's for all Americans, no matter what even if they went to Afghanistan and hung out in Kabul.
If you exclude people that traveled to clearly unsecured countries, your chances of dieing in a terrorist attack approach null.
If you live in Idaho, don't travel to newyork, and aren't in the military, you've absolutely nothing to worry about.