This is not news. This is the way the system was designed.
It was designed to be shitty and insecure so fraud could continue. It was sold as being highly secure in order to get them into widespread use and to get the laws set up to remove all liability from the banks as long as the system says the card is good.
The banks profit off of fraud.
This is all intentional, and it has been going on in criminal circles with these cards before day one. The only difference now is that some group has publicly revealed the sordid details.
Before you morons get all in a tussle, remember that Google BOUGHT most of everything it owns.
The following were outright bought:
Google Groups Blogger iGoogle Google Maps Google Earth AdSense/AdWords Baidu Google Sketchup Google Spreadsheet Picasa Youtube Google Talk Panoramio Feed Burner
The following were developed around large chunks of bought code, IP, marketshare, etc.
Google Analytics Android Google Latitude Google Documents Google Sites Google Chrome Google Wave
Microsoft has indicated that they will continue to deliver critical security updates through their Automatic Updates service as well as via the Microsoft Download Center, so that all systems, including those that fail to pass validation, will still continue to receive critical security updates.
"To ease the transition, we’re investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future."
Translation:
"Any slashdotter bitching about us dropping UNIX FAST in 10 years is a fucking idiot - we will support it for 10 fucking years, it will still work after that, and if you're one of the 8 people who use it we'll help you switch to something else."
The chips work like coin sorters, only they are much, much smaller. Liquids flow until they hit a wall where big particles get stuck and small particles pass through a super-thin slot at the bottom. Each chip’s slot is set a little smaller than the size of the particle to be detected. After the particles get trapped against the wall, they form a line visible with a special camera.
Obviously viruses are not like coins. Obviously their orientation as they hit the walls and slots matters.
The trick is that this thing is designed to take a single small sample, run it through, and then see where the distribution lies.
Instead of giving a bunch of samples (or several large samples) to check for a bunch of virii in a bunch of tests, this serves as a single test to identify, or at least narrow down, the virus.
They can in fact police and regulate their own network to any extent they wish without being forced to police all of it. Thankfully, judges aren't as dense as slashdotters who cry "but if you can regulate it this way, surely you have to be held responsible for every single bit!". That's not how it works.
Blocking traffic to 4chan's IPs is trivial. Policing for copyrighted content is many orders of magnitude more complex. Judges realize this, and as such because Verizon does the former does not mean they have to do the latter.
Verizon will capitulate and unblock 4chan, though, simply because it doesn't want bad press about saying they censor stuff.
The commercial writes itself:
Luke Wilson standing between two boxes downloading himself. This time, the downloaded version of him is loading from the top down. As we get past the neck, we see that he's shirtless.
The AT&T version continues to download as the "real life" Luke Wilson panics comically, looking for things to cover his naked downloadable selves with.
"Because Verizon censors their network and decides what you can access, I don't need to worry about the guy over there." He points to slowly-loading Verizon box with a naked Luke Wilson, crotch covered in large black censor bands.
"But with AT&T, I get uncensored access to the world wide web - I get to decide what I want to access."
Luke Wilson frantically covers AT&T's downloaded Luke Wilson's crotch. AT&T's download Luke Wilson smiles wryly, real life Luke Wilson looks up with a grimace.
Voice over: "AT&T - the world's fastest, uncensored 3G network."
-cut to phone promo with voice over, showing new phones-
-cut back- Real Life Luke Wilson is still frantic. AT&T's downloaded Luke Wilson takes one step forward out of the box as Real Life Luke Wilson stops him - "Whoa there, big fella....Can we get some pants over here?".
Actually terraforming a planet with plant life isn't necessarily a slow process at all. If we agree on the idea of human made global warming we have made substantial changes to a planet's ecosystem in a short amount of time.
We don't. Global warming is such bullshit. Plants fucking thrive in CO2-rich environments (global warming zealots don't want you to know this), but man's contribution to overall atmospheric CO2 concentrations is infinitesimal.
We simply don't have the ability to change shit on the scale that would be required. Teraforming Mars couldn't be done by seeding the surface. You would first have to establish a viable atmosphere and supply of liquid water. Then you could seed the planet. Without further cleanup, if any life does take hold, it would be adapted to Martian life - the day/night cycle, the climate, the weather, etc. You couldn't just throw down grass, get Mars grass, and then throw down cows expecting to get Mars cows.
We could bioseed Mars - hell, maybe we could do it now and see results in our lifetime. But we sure as fuck can't make it a hospitable place for humans in a mere hundred years.
Any teraforming effort must start with the atmosphere and water supply, and a whole lot of luck. Throwing organisms from Earth at a planet won't result in an Earth-like ecosystem. Throwing microorganisms on a planet and hoping evolution takes a similar path over millions of years is like hoping you win the Martian lottery when you bought a ticket for Ohio's lottery.
The "gratuitous comma" tag is incredibly appropriate. It's important to remember that if we hope to keep the next generation of students adept in the English language we might want to set a good example.
Since I referenced poor grammar, there's a 99% chance I committed a spelling or grammatical error in this post.
There - I fixed that for you. Now I will rage at the fact that "grammatical" is correct when "grammatic" should have been used.
One line note explaining how everything you read was pure speculation on the part of the writer, and that there are no real conclusions to be drawn from the study/events/whatever that the writer tricked you into thinking the article was about.
Because it's the truth and I'm not sugar coating it or being "academic" about it by saying "the truth is slightly off of the established paradigm, but let's all continue to love the established paradigm as a useful tool and those who established it as good scientists".
There is almost zero correlation. There are just as many studies showing a negative correlation as there are showing a positive one. This is taking ALL studies. Any correlation is MUCH more likely due to the fact that health conscious people are told it's healthier, and therefore choose to do it. Being health-conscious people, their children are less likely to have issues with hygiene, STDs, etc. The converse (less health-conscious people, etc.) is just as true. There is almost zero correlation, correlation does imply causation, but there are much stronger sources of correlation in this case. Indeed, the foreskin itself is a natural barrier that protects against damage and disease. It keeps the glands on the corona protected (and alive). The glands secret fluids that clean the head of the penis. A circumcised penis has dead glands and a calloused head. This is to say NOTHING off the risks with the actual procedure itself.
It is mutilation. It is a permanent, unnecessary procedure. The only person making the decision should be the one who's attached to the penis. I'd object to any similar practice.
I'd pay good money for them to install a patch cable.
I've tried a few times to run a cable downstairs (in the wall, from upstairs, where the router is), but I can't get past the fire block.
If I want to run a cable I'll have to cut into the drywall to do it. Since I'm in an apartment, I'll just deal with shitty wireless and run a long cable when I really need it.
By being able to read source code, but not have an electron microscope, you force the bad guys to use more expensive and laborious obscurity.
I'm for raising the bar on them---maybe they're not omnipotent.
Hint: The "bad guys" already design and manufacturer the hardware itself.
Security doesn't revolve around who is good or bad, it revolves around who is known to be good - everyone else should be considered bad by default.
There is in fact NOTHING you can do about it. They own the hardware. No software scheme will get around that. The simple fact is that everything is decrypted at some point, they have no reason to attack your software implementation other than sheer convenience.
This goes against the whole principle of security. It doesn't need to be perfect, just harder to get around than the contents are worth.
Wrong. Secure means secure.
Hard means hard. Inconvenient means inconvenient.
Hard, inconvenient, etc. do not mean secure.
Yes, it is impossible, as it is impossible to be secure in anything, ever. It is folly to waste time entrenching yourself behind giant walls of security that will be broken in time. All walls fall eventually. The correct approach is to have a contingency plan for WHEN the walls fall.
I'm not saying give up - I'm saying don't worry about shit that's beyond your control. The government can get your shit if they want to, no matter what you do. They are not above torturing you, killing your loved ones, etc.
To bring up FOSS as a solution to a HARDWARE problem is a pathetic joke. To use paranoia FUD is always a joke, because paranoia never stops. How do I know that your FOSS isn't evil? I physically could not go through all of the source code for a modern Linux distribution and its compiler, and verify all hardware it runs on. No one person can. Peer review is a fucking joke as-is, if you want to talk about peer review in an attempt to assuage paranoia, then you're a moron - a paranoid person will simply think "conspirator review".
My response is the FOSS crew needs to sit down and shut up - this problem isn't one they can solve or even claim to solve.
My tactic is to not depend on electronics to keep my shit secret.
Using peer-reviewed crypto? Is it a peer-reviewed CPU? Peer-reviewed memory? Motherboard? Company? Datacenter? Peer-reviewed peers?
It doesn't matter how strong your crypto is - it all gets decrypted somewhere.
Using peer-reviewed anything doesn't help anything, ever. If you shouldn't trust person X (whether or not you do), then you shouldn't trust person X's peers (whether or not you do).
Peer-review is a cancer forced upon us by academia. It's self-serving bullshit that ensures the entrenched get to pat each other on the back and destroy anyone who disagrees with their ideals.
Independent, objective review is infinitely superior.
Slashdot Mirror
We are legion.
Let's just check this box to post as AC and...
I'm all for removing cruft, but NTBackup is the ONLY way to properly backup a system in many cases (such as being a primary domain controller).
This is not news.
This is the way the system was designed.
It was designed to be shitty and insecure so fraud could continue.
It was sold as being highly secure in order to get them into widespread use and to get the laws set up to remove all liability from the banks as long as the system says the card is good.
The banks profit off of fraud.
This is all intentional, and it has been going on in criminal circles with these cards before day one. The only difference now is that some group has publicly revealed the sordid details.
Before you morons get all in a tussle, remember that Google BOUGHT most of everything it owns.
The following were outright bought:
Google Groups
Blogger
iGoogle
Google Maps
Google Earth
AdSense/AdWords
Baidu
Google Sketchup
Google Spreadsheet
Picasa
Youtube
Google Talk
Panoramio
Feed Burner
The following were developed around large chunks of bought code, IP, marketshare, etc.
Google Analytics
Android
Google Latitude
Google Documents
Google Sites
Google Chrome
Google Wave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
W R O N G
Microsoft has indicated that they will continue to deliver critical security updates through their Automatic Updates service as well as via the Microsoft Download Center, so that all systems, including those that fail to pass validation, will still continue to receive critical security updates.
"To ease the transition, we’re investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future."
Translation:
"Any slashdotter bitching about us dropping UNIX FAST in 10 years is a fucking idiot - we will support it for 10 fucking years, it will still work after that, and if you're one of the 8 people who use it we'll help you switch to something else."
The chips work like coin sorters, only they are much, much smaller. Liquids flow until they hit a wall where big particles get stuck and small particles pass through a super-thin slot at the bottom. Each chip’s slot is set a little smaller than the size of the particle to be detected. After the particles get trapped against the wall, they form a line visible with a special camera.
Obviously viruses are not like coins.
Obviously their orientation as they hit the walls and slots matters.
The trick is that this thing is designed to take a single small sample, run it through, and then see where the distribution lies.
Instead of giving a bunch of samples (or several large samples) to check for a bunch of virii in a bunch of tests, this serves as a single test to identify, or at least narrow down, the virus.
W R O N G
ISPs are not common carriers.
They can in fact police and regulate their own network to any extent they wish without being forced to police all of it. Thankfully, judges aren't as dense as slashdotters who cry "but if you can regulate it this way, surely you have to be held responsible for every single bit!". That's not how it works.
Blocking traffic to 4chan's IPs is trivial.
Policing for copyrighted content is many orders of magnitude more complex. Judges realize this, and as such because Verizon does the former does not mean they have to do the latter.
Verizon will capitulate and unblock 4chan, though, simply because it doesn't want bad press about saying they censor stuff.
The commercial writes itself:
Luke Wilson standing between two boxes downloading himself. This time, the downloaded version of him is loading from the top down. As we get past the neck, we see that he's shirtless.
The AT&T version continues to download as the "real life" Luke Wilson panics comically, looking for things to cover his naked downloadable selves with.
"Because Verizon censors their network and decides what you can access, I don't need to worry about the guy over there." He points to slowly-loading Verizon box with a naked Luke Wilson, crotch covered in large black censor bands.
"But with AT&T, I get uncensored access to the world wide web - I get to decide what I want to access."
Luke Wilson frantically covers AT&T's downloaded Luke Wilson's crotch. AT&T's download Luke Wilson smiles wryly, real life Luke Wilson looks up with a grimace.
Voice over: "AT&T - the world's fastest, uncensored 3G network."
-cut to phone promo with voice over, showing new phones-
-cut back- ...Can we get some pants over here?".
Real Life Luke Wilson is still frantic. AT&T's downloaded Luke Wilson takes one step forward out of the box as Real Life Luke Wilson stops him - "Whoa there, big fella.
-cut to AT&T logo & closing cards-
And we're ALL moving through the universe at alarming speed.
Alarming, immeasurable speed.
We will never know our true velocities, only our velocities relative to other objects.
Actually terraforming a planet with plant life isn't necessarily a slow process at all. If we agree on the idea of human made global warming we have made substantial changes to a planet's ecosystem in a short amount of time.
We don't.
Global warming is such bullshit.
Plants fucking thrive in CO2-rich environments (global warming zealots don't want you to know this), but man's contribution to overall atmospheric CO2 concentrations is infinitesimal.
We simply don't have the ability to change shit on the scale that would be required. Teraforming Mars couldn't be done by seeding the surface. You would first have to establish a viable atmosphere and supply of liquid water. Then you could seed the planet. Without further cleanup, if any life does take hold, it would be adapted to Martian life - the day/night cycle, the climate, the weather, etc. You couldn't just throw down grass, get Mars grass, and then throw down cows expecting to get Mars cows.
We could bioseed Mars - hell, maybe we could do it now and see results in our lifetime. But we sure as fuck can't make it a hospitable place for humans in a mere hundred years.
Any teraforming effort must start with the atmosphere and water supply, and a whole lot of luck. Throwing organisms from Earth at a planet won't result in an Earth-like ecosystem.
Throwing microorganisms on a planet and hoping evolution takes a similar path over millions of years is like hoping you win the Martian lottery when you bought a ticket for Ohio's lottery.
The "gratuitous comma" tag is incredibly appropriate. It's important to remember that if we hope to keep the next generation of students adept in the English language we might want to set a good example.
Since I referenced poor grammar, there's a 99% chance I committed a spelling or grammatical error in this post.
There - I fixed that for you.
Now I will rage at the fact that "grammatical" is correct when "grammatic" should have been used.
I picked it up at about $90k miles because the previous owner got tired of being nickled-and-dimed by regular repairs.
For "$90k miles", I'm pretty sure the previous owner got tired of being nickled-and-miled.
Welcome to modern journalism.
OMG HEADLINE!
Titillating content.
One line note explaining how everything you read was pure speculation on the part of the writer, and that there are no real conclusions to be drawn from the study/events/whatever that the writer tricked you into thinking the article was about.
Judging by the moderation on your comment, all of fucking slashdot just got whooshed.
Because it's the truth and I'm not sugar coating it or being "academic" about it by saying "the truth is slightly off of the established paradigm, but let's all continue to love the established paradigm as a useful tool and those who established it as good scientists".
They only register my touches about 7/8 of the time.
They only register an average slashdotters touches about 0/10000 of the time.
Your average slashdotter is invariably left to interface with himself.
By that logic a mouse is non-essential.
I wish.
I get PISSED off whenever there's something I can't do by keyboard alone.
All you hipsters using mice in Left 4 Dead 2 and such just don't get it.
90% of computer users would never consider installing a new hard drive, particularly now that USB2 is widely available.
iPad says hi.
(Then says "buy my $30 adapter, faggot!".)
They sell the foreskin for use in cosmetics.
There is almost zero correlation. There are just as many studies showing a negative correlation as there are showing a positive one. This is taking ALL studies. Any correlation is MUCH more likely due to the fact that health conscious people are told it's healthier, and therefore choose to do it. Being health-conscious people, their children are less likely to have issues with hygiene, STDs, etc. The converse (less health-conscious people, etc.) is just as true. There is almost zero correlation, correlation does imply causation, but there are much stronger sources of correlation in this case.
Indeed, the foreskin itself is a natural barrier that protects against damage and disease. It keeps the glands on the corona protected (and alive). The glands secret fluids that clean the head of the penis. A circumcised penis has dead glands and a calloused head. This is to say NOTHING off the risks with the actual procedure itself.
It is mutilation. It is a permanent, unnecessary procedure. The only person making the decision should be the one who's attached to the penis. I'd object to any similar practice.
Uh, what?
Why break the key? Just grab it when person A hands it off to person B. Just beat person B in the kidneys until he tells you the key.
I'd pay good money for them to install a patch cable.
I've tried a few times to run a cable downstairs (in the wall, from upstairs, where the router is), but I can't get past the fire block.
If I want to run a cable I'll have to cut into the drywall to do it. Since I'm in an apartment, I'll just deal with shitty wireless and run a long cable when I really need it.
Wow you're a fucking moron.
I am completely against all government spying programs, and I do know for a fact that they monitor ALL electronic communications.
All I am saying is that there is NOTHING FOSS can do to help you.
The bad guys have you by the balls at the hardware level. Software can't fix that, so STFU about FOSS being the saving grace here, it's just not true.
What is YOUR fucking post about, exactly?
Did you just need to vent about "HURR DURR FAUX NEWZ"? Did your liberal shitdump timer trigger?
By being able to read source code, but not have an electron microscope, you force the bad guys to use more expensive and laborious obscurity.
I'm for raising the bar on them---maybe they're not omnipotent.
Hint: The "bad guys" already design and manufacturer the hardware itself.
Security doesn't revolve around who is good or bad, it revolves around who is known to be good - everyone else should be considered bad by default.
There is in fact NOTHING you can do about it. They own the hardware. No software scheme will get around that. The simple fact is that everything is decrypted at some point, they have no reason to attack your software implementation other than sheer convenience.
This goes against the whole principle of security. It doesn't need to be perfect, just harder to get around than the contents are worth.
Wrong.
Secure means secure.
Hard means hard.
Inconvenient means inconvenient.
Hard, inconvenient, etc. do not mean secure.
Yes, it is impossible, as it is impossible to be secure in anything, ever. It is folly to waste time entrenching yourself behind giant walls of security that will be broken in time. All walls fall eventually. The correct approach is to have a contingency plan for WHEN the walls fall.
I'm not saying give up - I'm saying don't worry about shit that's beyond your control. The government can get your shit if they want to, no matter what you do. They are not above torturing you, killing your loved ones, etc.
To bring up FOSS as a solution to a HARDWARE problem is a pathetic joke. To use paranoia FUD is always a joke, because paranoia never stops. How do I know that your FOSS isn't evil?
I physically could not go through all of the source code for a modern Linux distribution and its compiler, and verify all hardware it runs on. No one person can. Peer review is a fucking joke as-is, if you want to talk about peer review in an attempt to assuage paranoia, then you're a moron - a paranoid person will simply think "conspirator review".
My response is the FOSS crew needs to sit down and shut up - this problem isn't one they can solve or even claim to solve.
My tactic is to not depend on electronics to keep my shit secret.
Using peer-reviewed crypto? Is it a peer-reviewed CPU? Peer-reviewed memory? Motherboard? Company? Datacenter? Peer-reviewed peers?
It doesn't matter how strong your crypto is - it all gets decrypted somewhere.
Using peer-reviewed anything doesn't help anything, ever. If you shouldn't trust person X (whether or not you do), then you shouldn't trust person X's peers (whether or not you do).
Peer-review is a cancer forced upon us by academia. It's self-serving bullshit that ensures the entrenched get to pat each other on the back and destroy anyone who disagrees with their ideals.
Independent, objective review is infinitely superior.