The rootkit uses a trick to hijack the standard C library (libc) functions without actually installing any kernel objects.
This is literally the only interesting part about this announcement and there is jack-all details about how it's doing this. How does this accomplish what it does on Ring 3? I'd imagine that it uses an inline function hook, but I'd like to know for sure.
Pokemon Go has been cracking down on the bot accounts lately. Are we just seeing how much of this traffic was generated by these automated accounts vs. actual people?
So the same guy who is complaining that there aren't enough STEM graduates overall is confused about why he can't find any minorities among the already limited pool to hire from? Does somebody need to give this jack-hole a lesson in basic math and what the term minority means?
Or it suggests that a CEO's pay is merit based and that it requires more work to achieve smaller gains in saturated markets or with over sized companies. The metric used in the article is the problem here, it inevitably leads to a false conclusion.
The problem with American companies isn't the compensation rate of the CEO's, that's a non-sequitur. It's that certain CEO's are allowed to cannibalize companies and still get compensated for it.
Who said the US was paying for any of it? I read that this is part of an international effort, meaning each contributing country puts in a piece of the project. It's Taiwan's lander through and through. It makes perfect sense, putting things in space is expensive and if I were Taiwan, I wouldn't want to pay for the whole project either. But this late in the game you get just as much credit for contributing to a larger project as you would from doing an entire smaller thing all by your lonesome; see India as an example. Were you confused because the cost of the project was in USD? I for one couldn't even tell you what the currency for Taiwan is much less guess at the current exchange rate, that's why it was displayed that way.
So if you have children at 40 (disregarding the complications and risks) it's likely that they won't inherit genes that are likely to kill them in their 30s. Thus the population in western "1st world" countries is aging, having children later and this may also be a contributing factor to the phenomenon.
The obvious problem in this is that this same trend is also causing the increase in autism in those same countries. Conditions in the autism spectrum won't negatively impact the life span of an individual, but most of those afflicted struggle to become contributing members of society. Now realistically speaking, the chances aren't exactly astronomical that if you are 35+ and you have a child that they will have this condition. But you are rolling the dice at that point and it would be disastrous for everyone in a given generation to wait until they are almost middle aged to have children.
You don't say, you claim that after you paid Apple their 200% markup on the rest of the hardware you purchased for them they were willing to replace the $40 battery for you at no cost? This is a perfect example of the delusions that the Apple brand (because calling them a tech company is just ridiculous) sells to their lemmings and calls customer service.
What a load of libtard horse shit. The "problem" with that isn't their race, and if you're accusing a computer program of being racist then you really need to spend some meaningful time away from the TV and internet. The "problem" there is that burglary is a more brazen and violent offense and would therefore be weighted higher than merely shoplifting. This would have landed her in a higher security grade prison which I believe still correlates with a higher degree recidivism. This algorithm should rate previous crimes higher IMO, but if the designers believed more strongly than I do in the reformation power of prison then I can understand why they would have made this initial decision. If you have to blame someone, because I know that's what you people live for, then blame the judge for not dropping burglary from the black women's docket.
It is meaningful in this context because the context is that the study discovered a correlation between countries where a tendency to do well in standardised IQ tests correlated with less piracy.
In other contexts I would probably agree with you.
Obamacare hasn't helped anyone. The "millions of poor people" who supposedly benefited from it qualified for medicaid to begin with. The only thing this disastrous plan has done is drive up the cost for those of us who actually have to pay for it out of pocket and force people who decided that they can't afford it to pay out the nose anyway. Do you remember when Obama was running for President and we were all shouting how he didn't have the experience he would need to properly pass a bill through congress? This is exactly what we were talking about. Anyone with a modicum of foresight would have expanded the program that was already in place to help these people instead of managing to screw things up worse then they were.
Some guy that had his weenie cut off is not much danger to our wimminfolk, considering s/he probably didn't cut it off in order to become a lesbian.
Dear God you're an idiot. Gender identity has jack shit to do with sexual preference; and yes, as a result a significant number of men who become women still prefer women. See Kate Jenner's most recent documented exploits for an example. None of this has anything to do with the heart of this issue which is whether a person should be assumed guilty without a trial, evidence of them planning a crime or any pattern established by previous behavior. Their reasons for denying entry into these facilities are all based on an assumption of guilt. But it is an inconvenient fact that in this country that you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, that is what these jack-ass rednecks are ignoring and that is the problem that needs to be addressed until we lose all of our damn rights to these wanna be white knights.
There's undoubtedly a lot of code out there that has:
#define MAX_PATH 260
wchar buffer[MAX_PATH];
Undoubtably because that's defined as such in the Windows.h header file for both VS and the GCC off-shoots. Microsoft has known for years that this was a problem, but they also acknowledged the pain that a change like this would cause for thousands of developers and even more so for the poor bastards like me who have to support end of life software where we can't simply make a change and then recompile the source code to fix this problem. I kind of wanted them to leave this one alone, but I guess they are dead-set on resolving all of the little nagging criticisms they hear from your *nix-tards about how the dominant product in the PC market is "inferior". Congratulations internet, you've made a huge step in progress for the world and have simultaneously accomplished nothing but causing pain and grief.
No, you didn't "buy" the software, you purchased a license that authorized you to use the software; and license provisioning has ALWAYS been different from the sale of physical property. Ignoring inconvenient facts doesn't change them or make them go away. You are not allowed to sell your software license to someone else just like you are not allowed to sell your drivers license or hunting license to another party. The only difference between the two is that one license is issued by a private entity and the others are done by the local government. What, did you think it was a coincidence that the two ideas used the exact same terms?
That "long run" that you are referring to, is hundreds or thousands of years. You're better off burying leaves, fibers like cotton or algae; since cellulose is cellulose and wood takes too long to grow to a comparatively significant mass. Burying the carbon deep underground sounds like a grand idea. But wait, autists like you don't think about things like soil depletion because that would involve considerations that are a whole step ahead of what is immediately in front of you. You need to capture the carbon while returning the other elements back into the biosphere, that means composting. Let me guess, you're the kind of mouth breather that thinks fertilizers are a solution to the soil depletion problem, aren't you?
Data caps inevitably lead to "zero rating" certain services that said vendor provides. This means that some things do not count against your monthly data usage effectively penalizing you for using anything outside of their approved network which is exactly the kind of shit that the net neutrality laws were put in place to prevent.
The plants eventually die and decay. When they do, that carbon is released back into the atmosphere.
You do realize that carbon is not a gas, right? And that it happily bonds with A LOT of things other than oxygen? Also, dead plants don't break down into a gaseous state, any one with a compost pile can show you that. Some is given back into the atmosphere as CO2 and methane when the plants die, but not all of it. We can sequester a notable amount of CO2 as soil through decaying plant matter in a relatively short period of time (as in months given the right conditions).
Are we just saying F*** you to MDM and companies who allocate company owned cell phones to their employees? This is not a problem that needs to be solved.
You might hope that this is true, but it's not. A lot of anti-vaccine subscribers are intelligent people in jobs where on a daily bases they see other intelligent people make absolutely stupid, elementary mistakes and then they see those screw-ups get a pat on the back for it. These are people second guessing what you take for granted, which quite shamefully is something that was lost somewhere with you older generations. Things like formaldehyde and mercury were convenient tools at the time and I'll admit that they work well enough; but at the end of the day we are using them preservatives, they aren't even an active ingredients. Neither component is exactly known to be hypoallergenic either, some people have negative reactions to them. Maybe now that the medical crisis for these preventative measures has subsided we can look at some other substitutions instead of continuing with your generations habit of stagnation and xenophobia.
Are you really that out of touch with what is going on in your neighborhood? Here is what my neck of the woods is doing: http://www.bpdny.org/Home/Serv... . I can promise you that your local PD isn't that far behind. Baby boomers are stupid and paranoid and "Generation X" is full of sycophantic cattle who can't even remember how to think for themselves. Case in point, you actually thought that these cameras would not only be visible and obvious, but that they would be required to follow any kind of government disclosure. I'd laugh if the whole thing didn't make me so angry to begin with.
Don't blame Windows for incompetent banks you hacky sack kicking hipster. All they had to do is run a relatively current version of Windows and turn on AppLocker and this crap wouldn't even be possible without the kind of breech that would leave much more lucrative targets exposed. Meanwhile nobody has a week and a half to download then cross-their-fingers-and-compile all of the crap you would need to make an alternative Linux based ATM scheme secure. Most of these devices still use dial-up modems AND a wide range of hardware hence the choice to go with Windows.
The fact that these machines are less secure then most self-checkout lanes (which also use Windows) should be focus of this article. This is screaming that the banks don't actually give a damn about protecting our money because their butt-buddies in Washington will just reimburse them with no questions asked. Isn't it great when there is zero perceivable difference between centralized and decentralized banking? It's like we have the best of no worlds!
Or they could sell to a market where energy density is an important factor; like say LEO satellite manufacturers, solar powered vehicles, those portable road signs used by construction crews etc. For the life of me I will never be able to guess why the author thought that this was useful to static buildings. This is miniaturization which benefits mobile appliances.
When I was a kid I was diagnosed with ADHD. This wasn't some huge thing, it seemed like every other kid in my generation had it. For me, the medication works so it's minor inconvenience at best. But I've noticed that in the past few years as I've switched from cable TV to Netflix and Amazon Prime that my ability to concentrate has improved an astounding amount. It's almost like my brain isn't being conditioned to rip my attention away from what it is I'm focusing on and violently change contexts every 30 seconds anymore...
Ugh, another goon who gets all of their news from the internet. Gasoline is a futures market; by the time it hits the retailers storage tank what they paid for it is so far removed from the current market price that is almost no correlation with crude oil. Yet if you looked at the prices side by side historically they appear to be tied together even though it takes a refinery two to three weeks to break a barrel of crude into useful products. That is because you are not being charged based on what it cost the gas station to get what they have. You are being charged based on what it would cost the station to replace that amount if they had to purchase it again that same day. Think about it, how often do you see the price of gasoline change at a station? Like eight to ten times a week? How often do you think that delivery truck stops by to fill the tanks, maybe once a week give or take based on location? Don't get me wrong, gas isn't some power house profit center. I am all too aware that it cannot compete with the kind of markup you get with coffee, energy drinks or junk food. But the crap about them only making one cent on each gallon was basically propaganda so that red necks would stop torching gas stations.
Why are we talking about gasoline and oil company profits anyway? Although the demand will always be there, gas is not, was not and has never been the most profitable part of a barrel of oil in terms of profit per unit of input. It's almost regarded as a waste product, and you see this periodically when refineries need to make room for other products and so they flood the market; name one other commodity that behaves like that. Oil companies will make literally any other product they can rather than waste it on producing gas.
There are also no instances of Jaku targeting North Korean victims.
North Korea is thought to be 20 years behind every other country listed in terms of engineering and they use a proprietary OS. What would the antagonist hope to dig out of NK that they can't get elsewhere with no additional coding work?
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The rootkit uses a trick to hijack the standard C library (libc) functions without actually installing any kernel objects.
This is literally the only interesting part about this announcement and there is jack-all details about how it's doing this. How does this accomplish what it does on Ring 3? I'd imagine that it uses an inline function hook, but I'd like to know for sure.
Pokemon Go has been cracking down on the bot accounts lately. Are we just seeing how much of this traffic was generated by these automated accounts vs. actual people?
So the same guy who is complaining that there aren't enough STEM graduates overall is confused about why he can't find any minorities among the already limited pool to hire from? Does somebody need to give this jack-hole a lesson in basic math and what the term minority means?
If only there were a form of renewable energy that could be utilized by a giant island... hmmm.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
Or it suggests that a CEO's pay is merit based and that it requires more work to achieve smaller gains in saturated markets or with over sized companies. The metric used in the article is the problem here, it inevitably leads to a false conclusion.
The problem with American companies isn't the compensation rate of the CEO's, that's a non-sequitur. It's that certain CEO's are allowed to cannibalize companies and still get compensated for it.
Who said the US was paying for any of it? I read that this is part of an international effort, meaning each contributing country puts in a piece of the project. It's Taiwan's lander through and through. It makes perfect sense, putting things in space is expensive and if I were Taiwan, I wouldn't want to pay for the whole project either. But this late in the game you get just as much credit for contributing to a larger project as you would from doing an entire smaller thing all by your lonesome; see India as an example. Were you confused because the cost of the project was in USD? I for one couldn't even tell you what the currency for Taiwan is much less guess at the current exchange rate, that's why it was displayed that way.
So if you have children at 40 (disregarding the complications and risks) it's likely that they won't inherit genes that are likely to kill them in their 30s. Thus the population in western "1st world" countries is aging, having children later and this may also be a contributing factor to the phenomenon.
The obvious problem in this is that this same trend is also causing the increase in autism in those same countries. Conditions in the autism spectrum won't negatively impact the life span of an individual, but most of those afflicted struggle to become contributing members of society. Now realistically speaking, the chances aren't exactly astronomical that if you are 35+ and you have a child that they will have this condition. But you are rolling the dice at that point and it would be disastrous for everyone in a given generation to wait until they are almost middle aged to have children.
You don't say, you claim that after you paid Apple their 200% markup on the rest of the hardware you purchased for them they were willing to replace the $40 battery for you at no cost? This is a perfect example of the delusions that the Apple brand (because calling them a tech company is just ridiculous) sells to their lemmings and calls customer service.
What a load of libtard horse shit. The "problem" with that isn't their race, and if you're accusing a computer program of being racist then you really need to spend some meaningful time away from the TV and internet. The "problem" there is that burglary is a more brazen and violent offense and would therefore be weighted higher than merely shoplifting. This would have landed her in a higher security grade prison which I believe still correlates with a higher degree recidivism. This algorithm should rate previous crimes higher IMO, but if the designers believed more strongly than I do in the reformation power of prison then I can understand why they would have made this initial decision. If you have to blame someone, because I know that's what you people live for, then blame the judge for not dropping burglary from the black women's docket.
It is meaningful in this context because the context is that the study discovered a correlation between countries where a tendency to do well in standardised IQ tests correlated with less piracy.
In other contexts I would probably agree with you.
You seem like the kind of person who would have fun with this: http://www.tylervigen.com/spur...
Obamacare hasn't helped anyone. The "millions of poor people" who supposedly benefited from it qualified for medicaid to begin with. The only thing this disastrous plan has done is drive up the cost for those of us who actually have to pay for it out of pocket and force people who decided that they can't afford it to pay out the nose anyway. Do you remember when Obama was running for President and we were all shouting how he didn't have the experience he would need to properly pass a bill through congress? This is exactly what we were talking about. Anyone with a modicum of foresight would have expanded the program that was already in place to help these people instead of managing to screw things up worse then they were.
Some guy that had his weenie cut off is not much danger to our wimminfolk, considering s/he probably didn't cut it off in order to become a lesbian.
Dear God you're an idiot. Gender identity has jack shit to do with sexual preference; and yes, as a result a significant number of men who become women still prefer women. See Kate Jenner's most recent documented exploits for an example. None of this has anything to do with the heart of this issue which is whether a person should be assumed guilty without a trial, evidence of them planning a crime or any pattern established by previous behavior. Their reasons for denying entry into these facilities are all based on an assumption of guilt. But it is an inconvenient fact that in this country that you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, that is what these jack-ass rednecks are ignoring and that is the problem that needs to be addressed until we lose all of our damn rights to these wanna be white knights.
There's undoubtedly a lot of code out there that has:
#define MAX_PATH 260 wchar buffer[MAX_PATH];
Undoubtably because that's defined as such in the Windows.h header file for both VS and the GCC off-shoots. Microsoft has known for years that this was a problem, but they also acknowledged the pain that a change like this would cause for thousands of developers and even more so for the poor bastards like me who have to support end of life software where we can't simply make a change and then recompile the source code to fix this problem. I kind of wanted them to leave this one alone, but I guess they are dead-set on resolving all of the little nagging criticisms they hear from your *nix-tards about how the dominant product in the PC market is "inferior". Congratulations internet, you've made a huge step in progress for the world and have simultaneously accomplished nothing but causing pain and grief.
No, you didn't "buy" the software, you purchased a license that authorized you to use the software; and license provisioning has ALWAYS been different from the sale of physical property. Ignoring inconvenient facts doesn't change them or make them go away. You are not allowed to sell your software license to someone else just like you are not allowed to sell your drivers license or hunting license to another party. The only difference between the two is that one license is issued by a private entity and the others are done by the local government. What, did you think it was a coincidence that the two ideas used the exact same terms?
That "long run" that you are referring to, is hundreds or thousands of years. You're better off burying leaves, fibers like cotton or algae; since cellulose is cellulose and wood takes too long to grow to a comparatively significant mass. Burying the carbon deep underground sounds like a grand idea. But wait, autists like you don't think about things like soil depletion because that would involve considerations that are a whole step ahead of what is immediately in front of you. You need to capture the carbon while returning the other elements back into the biosphere, that means composting. Let me guess, you're the kind of mouth breather that thinks fertilizers are a solution to the soil depletion problem, aren't you?
Data caps inevitably lead to "zero rating" certain services that said vendor provides. This means that some things do not count against your monthly data usage effectively penalizing you for using anything outside of their approved network which is exactly the kind of shit that the net neutrality laws were put in place to prevent.
The plants eventually die and decay. When they do, that carbon is released back into the atmosphere.
You do realize that carbon is not a gas, right? And that it happily bonds with A LOT of things other than oxygen? Also, dead plants don't break down into a gaseous state, any one with a compost pile can show you that. Some is given back into the atmosphere as CO2 and methane when the plants die, but not all of it. We can sequester a notable amount of CO2 as soil through decaying plant matter in a relatively short period of time (as in months given the right conditions).
Are we just saying F*** you to MDM and companies who allocate company owned cell phones to their employees? This is not a problem that needs to be solved.
You might hope that this is true, but it's not. A lot of anti-vaccine subscribers are intelligent people in jobs where on a daily bases they see other intelligent people make absolutely stupid, elementary mistakes and then they see those screw-ups get a pat on the back for it. These are people second guessing what you take for granted, which quite shamefully is something that was lost somewhere with you older generations. Things like formaldehyde and mercury were convenient tools at the time and I'll admit that they work well enough; but at the end of the day we are using them preservatives, they aren't even an active ingredients. Neither component is exactly known to be hypoallergenic either, some people have negative reactions to them. Maybe now that the medical crisis for these preventative measures has subsided we can look at some other substitutions instead of continuing with your generations habit of stagnation and xenophobia.
Are you really that out of touch with what is going on in your neighborhood? Here is what my neck of the woods is doing: http://www.bpdny.org/Home/Serv... . I can promise you that your local PD isn't that far behind. Baby boomers are stupid and paranoid and "Generation X" is full of sycophantic cattle who can't even remember how to think for themselves. Case in point, you actually thought that these cameras would not only be visible and obvious, but that they would be required to follow any kind of government disclosure. I'd laugh if the whole thing didn't make me so angry to begin with.
Don't blame Windows for incompetent banks you hacky sack kicking hipster. All they had to do is run a relatively current version of Windows and turn on AppLocker and this crap wouldn't even be possible without the kind of breech that would leave much more lucrative targets exposed. Meanwhile nobody has a week and a half to download then cross-their-fingers-and-compile all of the crap you would need to make an alternative Linux based ATM scheme secure. Most of these devices still use dial-up modems AND a wide range of hardware hence the choice to go with Windows.
The fact that these machines are less secure then most self-checkout lanes (which also use Windows) should be focus of this article. This is screaming that the banks don't actually give a damn about protecting our money because their butt-buddies in Washington will just reimburse them with no questions asked. Isn't it great when there is zero perceivable difference between centralized and decentralized banking? It's like we have the best of no worlds!
Or they could sell to a market where energy density is an important factor; like say LEO satellite manufacturers, solar powered vehicles, those portable road signs used by construction crews etc. For the life of me I will never be able to guess why the author thought that this was useful to static buildings. This is miniaturization which benefits mobile appliances.
When I was a kid I was diagnosed with ADHD. This wasn't some huge thing, it seemed like every other kid in my generation had it. For me, the medication works so it's minor inconvenience at best. But I've noticed that in the past few years as I've switched from cable TV to Netflix and Amazon Prime that my ability to concentrate has improved an astounding amount. It's almost like my brain isn't being conditioned to rip my attention away from what it is I'm focusing on and violently change contexts every 30 seconds anymore...
Ugh, another goon who gets all of their news from the internet. Gasoline is a futures market; by the time it hits the retailers storage tank what they paid for it is so far removed from the current market price that is almost no correlation with crude oil. Yet if you looked at the prices side by side historically they appear to be tied together even though it takes a refinery two to three weeks to break a barrel of crude into useful products. That is because you are not being charged based on what it cost the gas station to get what they have. You are being charged based on what it would cost the station to replace that amount if they had to purchase it again that same day. Think about it, how often do you see the price of gasoline change at a station? Like eight to ten times a week? How often do you think that delivery truck stops by to fill the tanks, maybe once a week give or take based on location? Don't get me wrong, gas isn't some power house profit center. I am all too aware that it cannot compete with the kind of markup you get with coffee, energy drinks or junk food. But the crap about them only making one cent on each gallon was basically propaganda so that red necks would stop torching gas stations.
Why are we talking about gasoline and oil company profits anyway? Although the demand will always be there, gas is not, was not and has never been the most profitable part of a barrel of oil in terms of profit per unit of input. It's almost regarded as a waste product, and you see this periodically when refineries need to make room for other products and so they flood the market; name one other commodity that behaves like that. Oil companies will make literally any other product they can rather than waste it on producing gas.
There are also no instances of Jaku targeting North Korean victims.
North Korea is thought to be 20 years behind every other country listed in terms of engineering and they use a proprietary OS. What would the antagonist hope to dig out of NK that they can't get elsewhere with no additional coding work?