Technology is a Force Multiplier. If you're a brilliant scientist, you can use it to do even greater, more important work. If your a tyrannical dictator, you can use to to further oppress and control your citizens. If you're a blithering idiot you can stare at it as you plow your car into a group of children waiting for a buss.
I think you mean: "Too complicated for the customer service reps we promoted to IT positions with absolutely no training to use"
In my experience there's usually 1 or 2 people at a company that has a clue when it comes to the network. Their time is spent almost exclusively doing things that contribute to profitable projects. Protecting the network is an expense. If you spend your time doing things that are considered expenses rather than doing things that are considered profitable, you will soon find yourself on the wrong side of the next company "re-org" spreadsheet.
Businesses will never prepare for breaches like these until they are required to by law. Incidents in which a breach really costs the company are few and far between. Everyone up and down Sony's management chain are currently busying themselves blaming the "Hackers" and consoling themselves with statements like "It was a very sophisticated attack" and "No matter how much protection you have, they'll always find away" None of which is true of course. This sort of data simple should not have been available to anyone outside Sony's corporate headquarters and the only people with access to it there should have been developers. The fact that the hackers could get to it meant that any low level employee in the company could have walked off with it. In fact, it's more likely that an employee was involved than anyone at Anonymous, and just used the DDoS attack as a smokescreen.
Snipers do not kill significant numbers of troops. They, in fact, are used to kill those kings and generals sitting several miles from the front line. If anything, they are the most likely to make military leaders negotiate.
I'm sorry, but televisions content is just plain garbage. Each channel has, at most 2 good shows for the entire week. AMC seems to be the only channel putting out quality TV now... that should make the big name broadcasters ashamed of themselves. When I got to work people talk about Madmen, the walking dead, breaking bad... no one has any idea what's on CBS/NBC/ABC anymore because it's worthless trash. Usually if I accidentally switch to one of those networks for any period of time I'm so disgusted with whatever reality garbage they've throw on the screen I'm actually ashamed of the society I belong to.
You didn't read up on relativity like I suggested. If you were traveling at a signifigant fraction of the speed of light then you could travel to most stars in our galaxy within your lifetime due to time dilation. Time would slow for you and while it would appear to take you 5000 years (or whatever) to an outside observer, depending on your speed it would take you far far less. The closer to the speed of light you traveled, the more dramatic affect.
Provided you find a way to shovel unimaginable amounts of energy into your spacecraft to get you close enough to the speed of light you could theoretically travel anywhere in the universe... unless the universe is infinite. In practical terms it's pretty unlikely you could find the enough power to travel fast enough to make it outside our galaxy... or even very far across it. But at least it's scientifically possible... where as FTL is completely impossible.
There is one physical limitation to this whole procedure which is acceleration. The human body can only withstand about 10-20Gs before getting squished. So, unless we can find a way around that you may be limited in how fast you can get going within your lifetime. If you want to get up to 99.99999999999999~% the speed of light, 20Gs just isn't going to do it. Then you get into downloading your mind into a computer... and is that really you anymore? We have to start talking about souls and such... blah blah blah
"The GPS systems in TomTom's Live range all feature built-in 3G data cards, which feed location and route information back to a central server. According to CNET, this data, along with users' speed information, is being made available to local governments and the police."" and then: "TomTom says the data is anonymous and can never be traced back to an individual user or device."
Ok TomTom, if you're telling them my location, heading, and speed... don't you think it would be rather easy for them to figure out who I am? I can easily imagine a cop sitting on a highway with dispatch calling him "ignore the guy doing 70, there's a dude doing 85 3min behind him." And that's the simplest iteration I Can think of.
It's very easy to tap a phone. Landlines are extremely simple to tap. You could do it with a little research on the web. Tapping a cellphone is slightly more complicated but still easy. In more modern countries it's getting a little more difficult as we all move towards soft-switches but in Belarus they still have PULSE dialing on their landlines. This means their switches are definitely hardware, and definitely at least 30-40 years old. Who owned the phone company 30-40 years ago? The USSR. I guarantee all their cellphone traffic travels through the same switch(s) installed by the USSR back in the day and all the equipment the KGB had installed at the time is likely still there. You make a call, it hits the cell tower, the cell tower has trunks that lead back to the switch and now they have you. It's a trivial matter to request that all incoming calls from a particular number get recorded.
So the PSN is cracked... good and hard. Will Sony face any penalties what-so-ever for this? No. How many millions if not billions of dollars has their lax security cost their customers?
I don't think this is such a terrible idea. As long as they do not prevent you from using other email addresses for personal correspondence, it seems that having a government mailbox for your dealings with the government might actually be a good thing. I'd like to see the government actually prevent these mailboxes from sending or receiving mail from outside the government network as well. This could help prevent phishing attempts and other scams.
You've been reading too many (or not the correct) scifi books. There is no FTL. Get over it. Learn about relativity. Travel to another start system within your life time is definitely possible. Unfortunately your friends and family back on earth will be long gone by the time you get back.
All this proves is just how out of the loop and naive Steve Jobs has become. Of course they're tracking your location. It's just too damned easy to do and to valuable not to. Given time I expect phones will begin listening to our conversations and tallying word counts into non-specific information to sell to ad agencies.
You're just talking out of your ass. I work in the telco industry. AT&T IS the government. The are subsidized by the government. They pass any and all customer data to the government upon request without warrants. Any legislation that they suggest to congress is passed without question.
The fact of the matter is, everything a politician does is out of self interest. They are evil, self-serving, despicable people. In the rare instances in which their self interest aligns with the public interest we should rejoice. I wholeheartedly support this bill despite it's source.
T-Mobiles network wont do anything for AT&T, it's tiny in comparison to AT&T... Although I agree that they have no desire to improve their network. Telcos hate investing in infrastructure. What costs $50k today will be replaced by something 10x as fast and half the cost in a year... so they hold off for as long as possible (which is usually until the entire area fails in some catastrophic way and local government gets involved)
Profit in telecom comes in 2 forms: 1. The Government 2. Overselling networking equipment
The only way you're going to fix this situation is to either have the government take over telecom entirely... or end the subsidies and get the department of weights and measures involved in ensuring internet speeds. None of them will fix anything until they are all forced to at the same time.
You jest, but that's exactly what they want. The biggest threat to the environment is Mankind. If Greenpeace ever announced their real agenda, which is to rapidly decrease the human population to a more environmentally friendly level and return us to an agrarian society living hand to mouth, people would finally stop taking them seriously.
The photos were taken 0.363 seconds appart. Unless the trucks had their breaks completely locked up at the time the photos were taken there's no way they were doing the speed the cameras claimed. He has 40 tickets for his fleet of vehicles. If I were a business owner I'd get pretty suspicious if I got 40 tickets. Having a few speeders working for you is one thing... but 40 tickets? Come on.
Vista wasn't an "upgrade" to XP. It was entirely different software that you had to purchase and wasn't backwards compatible with everything in XP. With Linux, it IS an upgrade and it's free. We upgrade servers running different flavors of linux all the time with little incident, but going from XP to Win7 will be a nightmare and we all know it. It might just be easier to switch to linux desktops.
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$100 million is not really that huge compared with other recent mmos.
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Technology is a Force Multiplier.
If you're a brilliant scientist, you can use it to do even greater, more important work.
If your a tyrannical dictator, you can use to to further oppress and control your citizens.
If you're a blithering idiot you can stare at it as you plow your car into a group of children waiting for a buss.
I think you mean: "Too complicated for the customer service reps we promoted to IT positions with absolutely no training to use"
In my experience there's usually 1 or 2 people at a company that has a clue when it comes to the network. Their time is spent almost exclusively doing things that contribute to profitable projects. Protecting the network is an expense. If you spend your time doing things that are considered expenses rather than doing things that are considered profitable, you will soon find yourself on the wrong side of the next company "re-org" spreadsheet.
Businesses will never prepare for breaches like these until they are required to by law. Incidents in which a breach really costs the company are few and far between. Everyone up and down Sony's management chain are currently busying themselves blaming the "Hackers" and consoling themselves with statements like "It was a very sophisticated attack" and "No matter how much protection you have, they'll always find away" None of which is true of course. This sort of data simple should not have been available to anyone outside Sony's corporate headquarters and the only people with access to it there should have been developers. The fact that the hackers could get to it meant that any low level employee in the company could have walked off with it. In fact, it's more likely that an employee was involved than anyone at Anonymous, and just used the DDoS attack as a smokescreen.
Yes, but did it include the OS? I think this is the difference in this application.
Yes... but unfortunately for them the US took prisoners who will be tortured until they produce the key(s).
Snipers do not kill significant numbers of troops. They, in fact, are used to kill those kings and generals sitting several miles from the front line. If anything, they are the most likely to make military leaders negotiate.
I'm sorry, but televisions content is just plain garbage. Each channel has, at most 2 good shows for the entire week. AMC seems to be the only channel putting out quality TV now... that should make the big name broadcasters ashamed of themselves. When I got to work people talk about Madmen, the walking dead, breaking bad... no one has any idea what's on CBS/NBC/ABC anymore because it's worthless trash. Usually if I accidentally switch to one of those networks for any period of time I'm so disgusted with whatever reality garbage they've throw on the screen I'm actually ashamed of the society I belong to.
You didn't read up on relativity like I suggested. If you were traveling at a signifigant fraction of the speed of light then you could travel to most stars in our galaxy within your lifetime due to time dilation. Time would slow for you and while it would appear to take you 5000 years (or whatever) to an outside observer, depending on your speed it would take you far far less. The closer to the speed of light you traveled, the more dramatic affect.
Provided you find a way to shovel unimaginable amounts of energy into your spacecraft to get you close enough to the speed of light you could theoretically travel anywhere in the universe... unless the universe is infinite. In practical terms it's pretty unlikely you could find the enough power to travel fast enough to make it outside our galaxy... or even very far across it. But at least it's scientifically possible... where as FTL is completely impossible.
There is one physical limitation to this whole procedure which is acceleration. The human body can only withstand about 10-20Gs before getting squished. So, unless we can find a way around that you may be limited in how fast you can get going within your lifetime. If you want to get up to 99.99999999999999~% the speed of light, 20Gs just isn't going to do it. Then you get into downloading your mind into a computer... and is that really you anymore? We have to start talking about souls and such... blah blah blah
"The GPS systems in TomTom's Live range all feature built-in 3G data cards, which feed location and route information back to a central server. According to CNET, this data, along with users' speed information, is being made available to local governments and the police.""
and then:
"TomTom says the data is anonymous and can never be traced back to an individual user or device."
Ok TomTom, if you're telling them my location, heading, and speed... don't you think it would be rather easy for them to figure out who I am? I can easily imagine a cop sitting on a highway with dispatch calling him "ignore the guy doing 70, there's a dude doing 85 3min behind him." And that's the simplest iteration I Can think of.
It's very easy to tap a phone. Landlines are extremely simple to tap. You could do it with a little research on the web. Tapping a cellphone is slightly more complicated but still easy. In more modern countries it's getting a little more difficult as we all move towards soft-switches but in Belarus they still have PULSE dialing on their landlines. This means their switches are definitely hardware, and definitely at least 30-40 years old. Who owned the phone company 30-40 years ago? The USSR. I guarantee all their cellphone traffic travels through the same switch(s) installed by the USSR back in the day and all the equipment the KGB had installed at the time is likely still there. You make a call, it hits the cell tower, the cell tower has trunks that lead back to the switch and now they have you. It's a trivial matter to request that all incoming calls from a particular number get recorded.
So the PSN is cracked... good and hard.
Will Sony face any penalties what-so-ever for this? No.
How many millions if not billions of dollars has their lax security cost their customers?
I don't think this is such a terrible idea. As long as they do not prevent you from using other email addresses for personal correspondence, it seems that having a government mailbox for your dealings with the government might actually be a good thing. I'd like to see the government actually prevent these mailboxes from sending or receiving mail from outside the government network as well. This could help prevent phishing attempts and other scams.
You've been reading too many (or not the correct) scifi books. There is no FTL. Get over it.
Learn about relativity. Travel to another start system within your life time is definitely possible. Unfortunately your friends and family back on earth will be long gone by the time you get back.
All this proves is just how out of the loop and naive Steve Jobs has become. Of course they're tracking your location. It's just too damned easy to do and to valuable not to. Given time I expect phones will begin listening to our conversations and tallying word counts into non-specific information to sell to ad agencies.
My WII 1 is still on back order, this sucks.
A cautionary tale for the judge the authorized the warrant maybe. Of course, it's always the victims fault right? Judges are infallible.
You're just talking out of your ass. I work in the telco industry. AT&T IS the government. The are subsidized by the government. They pass any and all customer data to the government upon request without warrants. Any legislation that they suggest to congress is passed without question.
The fact of the matter is, everything a politician does is out of self interest. They are evil, self-serving, despicable people. In the rare instances in which their self interest aligns with the public interest we should rejoice. I wholeheartedly support this bill despite it's source.
T-Mobiles network wont do anything for AT&T, it's tiny in comparison to AT&T... Although I agree that they have no desire to improve their network. Telcos hate investing in infrastructure. What costs $50k today will be replaced by something 10x as fast and half the cost in a year... so they hold off for as long as possible (which is usually until the entire area fails in some catastrophic way and local government gets involved)
Profit in telecom comes in 2 forms:
1. The Government
2. Overselling networking equipment
The only way you're going to fix this situation is to either have the government take over telecom entirely... or end the subsidies and get the department of weights and measures involved in ensuring internet speeds. None of them will fix anything until they are all forced to at the same time.
You jest, but that's exactly what they want. The biggest threat to the environment is Mankind. If Greenpeace ever announced their real agenda, which is to rapidly decrease the human population to a more environmentally friendly level and return us to an agrarian society living hand to mouth, people would finally stop taking them seriously.
So Google will be tracking all of our military assets as well as our citizens? Awesome.
The photos were taken 0.363 seconds appart. Unless the trucks had their breaks completely locked up at the time the photos were taken there's no way they were doing the speed the cameras claimed. He has 40 tickets for his fleet of vehicles. If I were a business owner I'd get pretty suspicious if I got 40 tickets. Having a few speeders working for you is one thing... but 40 tickets? Come on.
Vista wasn't an "upgrade" to XP. It was entirely different software that you had to purchase and wasn't backwards compatible with everything in XP. With Linux, it IS an upgrade and it's free. We upgrade servers running different flavors of linux all the time with little incident, but going from XP to Win7 will be a nightmare and we all know it. It might just be easier to switch to linux desktops.
still not strong enough for the space elevator tether... so meh