Homeowners naturally would like to keep tabs on who does what in their home-for-let. Apparently, it's fine so long as they follow some rules. The homeowner did not, maybe didn't know the rules or misunderstood the requirement. So the handling was probably okay. A rules violation.
Further, I don't see that camera being "sneaky". That's a real CC camera, they are all over the place in buildings and public places. Doesn't look like anything except exactly what it is.
However we hear reports out of Korea where they have hidden cameras in lavatories looking like soap dispensers, and there is apparently a cottage industry of providers of hidden camera streams and up-skirt videos. That is obviously shady, no two ways about it. The current case, not so much.
That was my thought as well. Apparently Airbnb owners are allowed to put in surveillance cameras providing they make full disclosure to the guests. That seems to be their fault here.
The O-Rings was political. The original design of the SRBs was to have one contiguous pipe and ship it to FL via Gulf of Mexico. But nooo, jobs needed elsewhere. So it was cut into segments to fit on rail cars.
+1 to this. This is an early example of the SLS "Senate Launch System" where the pork had to be spread over as many states as possible to get those senators to approve the allocations.
Insurance isn't worth the cost, if you can afford to cover the loss yourself. If it wasn't a negative expected value, there'd be no profit in providing it. It makes sense only when in the case the insurance is needed you couldn't afford the cost. So homeowners insurance tends to be good, insurance on your phone tends to be bad.
I won't argue the finer points but I note that when a mult-billionaire's house burns down they've usually been insured, so there must be value in it somewhere.
The top 25 programs tested scored a hundred per cent detection rate and there were more below that in the high nineties, so the negative judgement is bit harsh. Moreover the ones that passed are all the usual suspects like Kaspersky, Avira, Avast etc which anyone with any knowledge would be more likely to buy, rather than some weird unknown brand.
The moral is to stick with the established brands that you know.
So let's ignore any legal implications for a moment. Would you hire someone who would so readily spill the trade secrets of their current/former employer? I sure wouldn't. Because if they'll do it to them they'll do it to you. That is a question that says more about the character of the interviewee than it does the hiring company. Assuming legal niceties are observed, this would be a question to determine NOT to hire someone if they answer anything other than saying they either do not know or cannot divulge.
if I recall Uber had no qualms about hiring a Waymo engineer on the basis of the proprietary information that he had, so some US companies certainly will do it.
Once again, the finger is being pointed at China, despite the hack being untraceable and the perpetrator(s) unknown. My own suspicion is that it's another US hack, as they have by far the worst track record for this, with literally thousands of their hacks and bugs detected each year. And that's just in Australia, who is supposed to be an ally.
The US doesn't have to hack us, we're part of the Five Eyes group and we tell them everything they want to know.
There is always someone in any crowd who will defend the status quo either because they lack the imagination to see a better way or they are frightened to take a chance on change.
. . . and because they have their noses in the trough and are benefiting politically, financially or both, and they could not care less that the current system is grossly inefficient or unfair.
Well, it could have been worse. The money could all have been stolen. At least this way they know where it is. In a sense, it is still perfectly secure, too...
And it's perfectly safe because the only copy is stored on a laptop.
6) Containment building overheats due to loss of cooling
The containment building blew up due to released hydrogen gas and the lack of basic safety provisions present in most western reactors, such as catalytic recombiners and spark igniters which get rid of the explosive gas while concentrations are still small and not large enough to blow up the whole building.
They don't need your DNA, just someone close to you in the family tree, and they'll basically have your DNA as well.
What you mean is they don't need the perpetrator of the crime to have been tested by Family Tree DNA, they just need your sample collected at the crime scene to match for distant relatives.
Articles about the discovery of the Golden State killer suggested that third to fifth cousins would be about the sweet spot for getting a match. Any further back and there are too many possible suspects and any earlier then you may not get a match at all.
Once you've found a distant relative then the information is given to a genealogist who works forward to narrow the field down to one or two suspects. After that they follow the suspects around and pick up discarded drink cans, straws, condoms etc. to get test for a definitive match.
Btw, when insurance starts asking questions like "have you ever been tested" it is a huge red flag that they have over stepped any legitimate risk assessment and are just taking the piss. Next time tell 'em to get fucked - you end up travelling without insurance, so what, you'll be more of a human being for it.
The original poster's name Ozpeter implies an Australian but the incident was 30 years ago. These days I suspect it may be unlawful to ask the question due to discrimination laws, but your suggestion that someone should travel without copious medical travel insurance, including full medical repatriation if needed, is just insane.
You're likely to find yourself in a bed in some Asian or American shithole hospital with a half-million dollar medical bill and no way to get home. I'm not sure about the US but some Asian countries won't let you leave until the bill is paid in full.
Since various Yuppie types have advocated taking microdosed LSD to increase their creativity at work, I wonder what affect this has on their ability to drive?
Why is it no resources are ever expended on finding these people and instead spent on an ever expanding effort to block them?
"You steal shit, and we will come for you" should be the motto of law enforcement. Not, "Steal shit and I'll buy newer locks".
The perpetrators of APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) are the employees of major enemy governments such as Russia, China, and North Korea and they are resident in their home countries. So you go get 'em, boy.
The author laments the lack of Christmas songs in Christmas movies.
The producers probably don't want to pay the exorbitant fees necessary to license those songs from the copyright holders, that's if they can get permission to use them at all..
They do have a satellite in orbit around the moon to relay the signals. And they are not mapping the moon but exploring the surface.
I don't know that it's actually in orbit. The comms satellite is beyond the Moon in the L2 point of gravitational balance with the Moon and the Earth. Because the Moon is smaller than the Earth, apparently there's enough room to 'peek around the side" and relay signals to Earth.
Given that the diameter of a silicon atom is around 0.2nm, that means they are now building transistors out of something like 30-35 atoms across. How far down can this go before it all disappears in some kind of quantum uncertainty blob?
New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors.
A novel field emission transistor that uses air gaps could breathe life into Moore’s Law
The ACT device eliminates the need for semiconductors. Instead, it uses two in-plane symmetric metal electrodes (source and drain) separated by an air gap of less than 35 nanometers, and a bottom metal gate to tune the field emission. The nanoscale air gap is less than the mean-free path of electrons in air, hence electrons can travel through air under room temperature without scattering.
“Unlike conventional transistors that have to sit in silicon bulk, our device is a bottom-to-top fabrication approach starting with a substrate. This enables us to build fully 3D transistor networks, if we can define optimum air gaps,” says Shruti Nirantar, lead author of a paper on the new transistor published this month in Nano Letters. “This means we can stop pursuing miniaturization, and instead focus on compact 3D architecture, allowing more transistors per unit volume.”
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Homeowners naturally would like to keep tabs on who does what in their home-for-let. Apparently, it's fine so long as they follow some rules. The homeowner did not, maybe didn't know the rules or misunderstood the requirement. So the handling was probably okay. A rules violation.
Further, I don't see that camera being "sneaky". That's a real CC camera, they are all over the place in buildings and public places. Doesn't look like anything except exactly what it is.
However we hear reports out of Korea where they have hidden cameras in lavatories looking like soap dispensers, and there is apparently a cottage industry of providers of hidden camera streams and up-skirt videos. That is obviously shady, no two ways about it. The current case, not so much.
That was my thought as well. Apparently Airbnb owners are allowed to put in surveillance cameras providing they make full disclosure to the guests. That seems to be their fault here.
I was hoping they would name which government, as well.
RTFA, it was Italy.
The O-Rings was political. The original design of the SRBs was to have one contiguous pipe and ship it to FL via Gulf of Mexico. But nooo, jobs needed elsewhere. So it was cut into segments to fit on rail cars.
+1 to this. This is an early example of the SLS "Senate Launch System" where the pork had to be spread over as many states as possible to get those senators to approve the allocations.
10 PRINT"Salve Munde"
20 GOTO 10
Insurance isn't worth the cost, if you can afford to cover the loss yourself. If it wasn't a negative expected value, there'd be no profit in providing it. It makes sense only when in the case the insurance is needed you couldn't afford the cost. So homeowners insurance tends to be good, insurance on your phone tends to be bad.
I won't argue the finer points but I note that when a mult-billionaire's house burns down they've usually been insured, so there must be value in it somewhere.
So basically people reusing the same login and password across different web sites.
tl;dr Use a password manager.
The top 25 programs tested scored a hundred per cent detection rate and there were more below that in the high nineties, so the negative judgement is bit harsh. Moreover the ones that passed are all the usual suspects like Kaspersky, Avira, Avast etc which anyone with any knowledge would be more likely to buy, rather than some weird unknown brand.
The moral is to stick with the established brands that you know.
My job at the dick sucking factory is likewise safe.
Oh yeah? Fleshlite: https://au.askmen.com/dating/p... (NSFW)
So let's ignore any legal implications for a moment. Would you hire someone who would so readily spill the trade secrets of their current/former employer? I sure wouldn't. Because if they'll do it to them they'll do it to you. That is a question that says more about the character of the interviewee than it does the hiring company. Assuming legal niceties are observed, this would be a question to determine NOT to hire someone if they answer anything other than saying they either do not know or cannot divulge.
if I recall Uber had no qualms about hiring a Waymo engineer on the basis of the proprietary information that he had, so some US companies certainly will do it.
Once again, the finger is being pointed at China, despite the hack being untraceable and the perpetrator(s) unknown. My own suspicion is that it's another US hack, as they have by far the worst track record for this, with literally thousands of their hacks and bugs detected each year. And that's just in Australia, who is supposed to be an ally.
The US doesn't have to hack us, we're part of the Five Eyes group and we tell them everything they want to know.
My vote: didn't even happen.
It's election year and that government is clutching at straws. Prime minister no one wanted.
No, all parties were attacked and there was a bipartisan response. No political gain that I can see.
There is always someone in any crowd who will defend the status quo either because they lack the imagination to see a better way or they are frightened to take a chance on change.
. . . and because they have their noses in the trough and are benefiting politically, financially or both, and they could not care less that the current system is grossly inefficient or unfair.
No, it's the void the alien space craft from the X-Files movie left.
You might enjoy the novel Ice Station by Matt Reilly.
Having read one of O'Reilly's books, no, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't.
Well, it could have been worse. The money could all have been stolen. At least this way they know where it is. In a sense, it is still perfectly secure, too...
And it's perfectly safe because the only copy is stored on a laptop.
6) Containment building overheats due to loss of cooling
The containment building blew up due to released hydrogen gas and the lack of basic safety provisions present in most western reactors, such as catalytic recombiners and spark igniters which get rid of the explosive gas while concentrations are still small and not large enough to blow up the whole building.
They don't need your DNA, just someone close to you in the family tree, and they'll basically have your DNA as well.
What you mean is they don't need the perpetrator of the crime to have been tested by Family Tree DNA, they just need your sample collected at the crime scene to match for distant relatives.
Articles about the discovery of the Golden State killer suggested that third to fifth cousins would be about the sweet spot for getting a match. Any further back and there are too many possible suspects and any earlier then you may not get a match at all.
Once you've found a distant relative then the information is given to a genealogist who works forward to narrow the field down to one or two suspects. After that they follow the suspects around and pick up discarded drink cans, straws, condoms etc. to get test for a definitive match.
Is there a way to know if I'm affected by the breach? I'm assuming I am, as I use Yahoo Mail.
Just assume you have been breached and change your password to something completely new.
Btw, when insurance starts asking questions like "have you ever been tested" it is a huge red flag that they have over stepped any legitimate risk assessment and are just taking the piss. Next time tell 'em to get fucked - you end up travelling without insurance, so what, you'll be more of a human being for it.
The original poster's name Ozpeter implies an Australian but the incident was 30 years ago. These days I suspect it may be unlawful to ask the question due to discrimination laws, but your suggestion that someone should travel without copious medical travel insurance, including full medical repatriation if needed, is just insane.
You're likely to find yourself in a bed in some Asian or American shithole hospital with a half-million dollar medical bill and no way to get home. I'm not sure about the US but some Asian countries won't let you leave until the bill is paid in full.
Since various Yuppie types have advocated taking microdosed LSD to increase their creativity at work, I wonder what affect this has on their ability to drive?
Undo errant mod.
My HOSTS files are pretty large. Helps me avoid all sorts of trash and malware.
Mac
So why are you still on Slashdot?
...All Hackers, Virus creators. etc.
Why is it no resources are ever expended on finding these people and instead spent on an ever expanding effort to block them?
"You steal shit, and we will come for you" should be the motto of law enforcement. Not, "Steal shit and I'll buy newer locks".
The perpetrators of APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) are the employees of major enemy governments such as Russia, China, and North Korea and they are resident in their home countries. So you go get 'em, boy.
The author laments the lack of Christmas songs in Christmas movies.
The producers probably don't want to pay the exorbitant fees necessary to license those songs from the copyright holders, that's if they can get permission to use them at all..
They do have a satellite in orbit around the moon to relay the signals. And they are not mapping the moon but exploring the surface.
I don't know that it's actually in orbit. The comms satellite is beyond the Moon in the L2 point of gravitational balance with the Moon and the Earth. Because the Moon is smaller than the Earth, apparently there's enough room to 'peek around the side" and relay signals to Earth.
Given that the diameter of a silicon atom is around 0.2nm, that means they are now building transistors out of something like 30-35 atoms across. How far down can this go before it all disappears in some kind of quantum uncertainty blob?
New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors. A novel field emission transistor that uses air gaps could breathe life into Moore’s Law
The ACT device eliminates the need for semiconductors. Instead, it uses two in-plane symmetric metal electrodes (source and drain) separated by an air gap of less than 35 nanometers, and a bottom metal gate to tune the field emission. The nanoscale air gap is less than the mean-free path of electrons in air, hence electrons can travel through air under room temperature without scattering.
“Unlike conventional transistors that have to sit in silicon bulk, our device is a bottom-to-top fabrication approach starting with a substrate. This enables us to build fully 3D transistor networks, if we can define optimum air gaps,” says Shruti Nirantar, lead author of a paper on the new transistor published this month in Nano Letters. “This means we can stop pursuing miniaturization, and instead focus on compact 3D architecture, allowing more transistors per unit volume.”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/new-metalair-transistor-replaces-semiconductors?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumFullText+%28IEEE+Spectrum+Full+Text%29