Isn't the point of (successful) attack/hijacking, whatever, NOT to be detected and identified ?
Einstein stated: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Knocking out an enemy's ability to wage war by any means has always been part of the show. Poison their wells, print up tons of counterfeit currency to wreck their economy, catapult dead bubonic plague corpses over their walls, destabilize their government by exposing their leaders getting blow jobs in their offices or throwing "Golden Shower" parties in fancy foreign hotels, frame up their spies with bogus rape charges, etc., etc.
Anything on the Internet will be fair game when things get a wee bit belligerent. Instead of tossing a black bowling ball looking bomb into a bank building . . . shove a weed up Bitcoin's hairy ass.
So what we'll have here, is a war fought with bits and bytes, instead of sticks and stones.
I remember there were a few electronics kits you could buy in the 1980's that did the same trick with pencil "lead". First, you scribbled onto some paper, then you attached a lead and pressed onto the graphite square you drew to make different sounds, etc.
When I was a lad, we couldn't afford pencils or paper.
However, we were quite adept at making different sounds, with our armpits and hands.
. . . they spent the last decade closing smaller sites world-wide, and consolidating everything in giga-sites. Part of this action was changing the office space into "e-workplaces" or "flexible offices". This basically meant tearing out the cubicle dividers, leaving a big full-floor room filled with just empty desks.
Employees get a locker room type closet with a trolley suitcase like thingy to stash all their junk that workers usually leave on their desks. IBM employees are not allowed to leave any items on the desk, since it is not their desk. Every morning they play "musical chairs" and everyone tries to grab a desk in a good position. If you are a programmer and need to concentrate in silence . . . and a salesperson sits down next to you doing "LOC = Lines Of Calls" instead of "LOC = Lines Of Code" like you . . . well, that is just tough shit for you.
IBM managers know that this is a stupid idea, but the goal was to save money, and that trumps everything. So they tried to sweeten the deal a bit by letting folks work at home. Basically, IBM has outsourced its office space building services to its employees. Well, guess what . . . if you can't at least put a picture of your wife and kids on your desk . . . you don't get "attached" to your "place of work". You also don't feel very much attached to the company either . . . so guess what that does to turnover rates.
So now, IBM wants to lure its employees back to work at IBM locations. But too many don't even have an office to go back to. If IBM wants to haul them back in, all they need to do is give their employees real offices to go back to.
These IBM e-places are just as pleasant to visit as a trip to Dachau: very loud, greying chipped concrete colored paint, rickety desks and chairs that make IKEA furniture look like luxury items.
Of course, they can always threaten to fire the employees, if they don't come back. Which is probably going to happen, since even Warren Buffet threw in the towel, and declared IBM to be a basket case. They desperately need another Lou Gerstner, to turn them back around again.
The Air Force is just protecting their IP . . . they are worried that Über will hire away one of the Air Force's colonels with stolen design materials, and offer a competing Secret Space Plane Service, that can be hailed with an App!
Actually, the really secret news, is that, although the Secret Space plane took off unmanned, . . . it landed with three passengers!
The "guests" will be working on the Air Force's super secret Götterdämmerung project, which is being developed at the follow-on virtual site to Area 51. The virtual site is not in one place, but uses advanced distributed technology, based on Git, Blockchain and BitTorrent in an Internet of Things. If one node of the virtual site gets destroyed by Russian Hackers, the other nodes can recreate the work of node.
The Air Force stated that the purpose Götterdämmerung is "no what you think it is", and that they also have no idea what you think.
Whatever happened to the Princeton Perpetual Particle Plasma Power Physics Laboratory (PPPPPPL)? They've been cooking soup in their Tokamaks since the Big Bang was invented in the 60's, and in the early 80's, they were "just a few years away from commercially viable power."
Or did they get closed, due to the invention of cold fusion . . . ?
If only you were to put that much effort to provide running water, electricity and sanitation to the more than 600 million Indian citizens who lack it, the rest of the world would start taking you seriously.
India has enough running water, electricity and sanitation . . . India has just plain too many people; with 600 million+ people, there will never be enough of something to go around. Provide more running water? The Ganges will be stone dry in a few days. They will need to ignite vast forest fires to melt the glaciers in the Himalayas to keep the Ganges running. Electricity everywhere? They won't be able to keep the grid standing, and no one will be able to find or afford a light bulb in a store. Provide more sanitation? Well, you'll be stranded on the toilet bowl, when there ain't nothing on the roll . . . no toilet paper available! And toilet brushes . . . ask some older folks in the former East Germany about their catastrophic toilet brush shortage.
No, you need to attack the root of the problem . . . they have too many people and need to cut back on their production. The lucky ones of the overproduction get sent to the US, as H-1Bs. The unlucky ones get sent to oil-rich Arab states as slaves.
The equation is really dirt simple: the less mouths to feed, the less food you need.
But to convince people NOT to reproduce? That's difficult, because even without education or intelligence, reproduction is one thing that humans really excel at, even when in the most inhospitable environments.
The car was co-invented by the German Mr. Daimler and the American Mr. Chrysler.
Co-invented? Who cares about invention? Another German, Karl Benz, was the first to patent the automobile, and thus is revered by Slashdot folks for giving us the topic of IP to squawk about incessantly.
The light bulb -- that's easy, that was invented by Henry Ford
Unfortunately, Mr. Ford's light bulb never gained any traction with consumers, because electricity had not been invented yet, and thus, the light bulb remained a "dark" bulb. However, astrophysicists honored Mr. Ford's "dark" bulb by naming wacky inexplicable outer space shenanigans after his invention: "dark" matter, and "dark" energy.
Nikola Tesla invented electricity as a puerile party gag, where he would charge himself up to 10,000 volts, and invite party guests to, "Pull my finger!" Unfortunately the resulting spark ignited his flatulence and Dr. Tesla and his party guests were turned into foul-smelling toast.
All-around hard guy Elon Musk-for-Men named his flatulence-powered car after Dr. Telsa.
Samsung in Korea invented the phone.
But Samsung's phone only spoke Korean, which made it useless for the rest of the world. Apple's Steve Job had the revelation to produce American speaking phones during a nightmarish bad trip on dangerously potent psychoactive mushrooms.
The computer was invented in England by a guy we don't want to talk about.
Actually, the Germans will complain that their Konrad Zuse invented the computer during WWII, where it was used to design modern weaponry used today in armed conflicts, like the B2 Flying Wing Bomber, which the Germans called the Horton "Ho" 229. The "Ho" was never finished, because the engineers kept making jokes about the name: "Who you callin' a Ho?" Zuse's calculating critter also designed the V-1 Cruise Missile, which was a commercial failure because the Germans named it "Marschflugkörper". The Americans renamed this as the "Cruise" Missile, which sounds much better, as in Caribbean "Cruise" and Tom "Cruise". And, of course, only Zuse's machine could calculate that Niel Armstrong must have been out of his tiny little mind to climb into the souped-up V-2 rocket for a raucous romp to the moon.
Dr. Zuse had more financial success with his series of children's books, written under his pen name of Dr. Seuss, like, "The Cat in the Marschflugkörper", "Green Eggs and a Death Camp" and "Horton hears a Ho 229."
Being that the Germans invent weapons that finally see action 50 years later, it would be interesting to see what they are working on today. What is the real military value of those toxic belching turbo diesel injection cars? We will probably never know, since Germany's official position on military conflict is, "We only participate in wars that we start ourselves."
The steam engine? That's easy -- it was invented by Montgomery Scott, supported by his Irish-Jewish friend Cap'n Kirk.
I'm not a gamer, but I believe that Steam is programmed in Rust, to differentiate it from other platforms implemented in other too-young-to-be-trusted languages, like the Ingrown Toenail Fungus Framework.
The US Armed Forces are already on it! They have announced that they are going to drop their newest invention on Japan: The MOABOC - The Mother Of All Bags of Chips!
A military spokesman is quoted as saying, "It's the right-sized bag, for the right-sized job."
Out of consideration of civilians, gallons of sweep-syrupy soda will also be dropped.
. . . and some weed to give them the munchies, in case they need help getting started on the chips . . .
Nothing personal, but the only way any company/government busybodies are putting a meat tag on me is over my lifeless corpse.
I personally plan to donate my own corpse to the local University Medical School when I die. They always need dead bodies for the anatomy courses. In order to liven up a dull lab session for the students, I want to implant a bunch of micro SD chips in myself, before I die. I want to fill up the chips with some Japanese Hentai. I hope the students find it to be a hoot and a half. Kinda sorta like finding "Easter Eggs" in programs.
"Hey, Professor! Look what I found in the spleen . . . is there supposed to be a chip in there?"
Tesla produced ~80,000 cars last year, Ford produced 6.7-million. From a purely numbers perspective its pretty much inconceivable that Tesla will approach Ford for decades, obviously Ford also has a correspondingly larger number of assets and there is considerably more risk in Tesla's future than Fords.
Um, like, you mean like the same Ford that took a cozy hayride to Washington a few years back, with Chrysler and GM, to, like, ask the government for taxpayer money to pay for their mistakes, because they all were "too big to fail" . . . ? You mean, like, that Ford?
Tesla doesn't need to overtake Ford in sales . . . they just need to wait for Ford to bankrupt themselves again. And maybe . . . just maybe . . . the folks paying taxes won't be willing to pick up the tab this time around.
"because a tiny mistake in C could have real consequences for real people"
As opposed to, "because a tiny mistake in C could have virtual consequences for virtual people."
C'mon . . . this is 2017 . . . nobody does anything real anymore . . . everything is virtual these days.
Remember:
If it's there, and you can see it . . . it's real.
If it's not there, but you can see it . . . it's virtual.
If it's not there, and you can't see it . . . it's gone.
Virtual people have virtual problems on virtual TV shows.
The first question we wanted to ask was – why blue? What does the color blue have to do with the austistic spectrum? The answer is that Autism Spectrum Disorders are almost 5 times more common among boys (1 in 54) than among girls (1 in 252). So, the color blue represents the boys diagnosed with Autism.
Represents boys!?!?! That sure sounds like racism, sexism and many other naughty "ism's", as well.
On the other hand, self driving cars don't get mad at other drivers making a mistake and try to get back at them, causing all kinds of dangerous situations.
Oh, yeah? Says who . . . ? An autonomous vehicle might be programmed to drive "aggressively" to get through traffic jams faster. They'll give the feature some innocuous title like, "affirmative driving".
What you'll end up with is autonomous vehicles playing "chicken" with each other. An autonomous vehicle will not win any races by driving cautiously.
Anyway, the point is moot, because Über is not at fault in the same way that Über is not a taxi company. Über is a newfangled economy company, using a smartphone app and the Internet, so outdated terms like "fault" do not apply to it.
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RDA = Recommended Daily Allowance, like the vitamins listed on your breakfast cereal boxes.
It is easy to see if you have met your RDA for plutonium:
Turn off the lights.
If you glow in the dark, you've had too much.
Isn't the point of (successful) attack/hijacking, whatever, NOT to be detected and identified ?
Einstein stated: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Knocking out an enemy's ability to wage war by any means has always been part of the show. Poison their wells, print up tons of counterfeit currency to wreck their economy, catapult dead bubonic plague corpses over their walls, destabilize their government by exposing their leaders getting blow jobs in their offices or throwing "Golden Shower" parties in fancy foreign hotels, frame up their spies with bogus rape charges, etc., etc.
Anything on the Internet will be fair game when things get a wee bit belligerent. Instead of tossing a black bowling ball looking bomb into a bank building . . . shove a weed up Bitcoin's hairy ass.
So what we'll have here, is a war fought with bits and bytes, instead of sticks and stones.
I remember there were a few electronics kits you could buy in the 1980's that did the same trick with pencil "lead". First, you scribbled onto some paper, then you attached a lead and pressed onto the graphite square you drew to make different sounds, etc.
When I was a lad, we couldn't afford pencils or paper.
However, we were quite adept at making different sounds, with our armpits and hands.
Yet having remote workers on a different continent, in a different time zone, who don't necessarily speak the same language, is perfectly logical.
Things don't need to be logical these days . . . they just need to be cheaper. The cheapest suggestion, which saves the most operating costs, wins.
. . . they spent the last decade closing smaller sites world-wide, and consolidating everything in giga-sites. Part of this action was changing the office space into "e-workplaces" or "flexible offices". This basically meant tearing out the cubicle dividers, leaving a big full-floor room filled with just empty desks.
Employees get a locker room type closet with a trolley suitcase like thingy to stash all their junk that workers usually leave on their desks. IBM employees are not allowed to leave any items on the desk, since it is not their desk. Every morning they play "musical chairs" and everyone tries to grab a desk in a good position. If you are a programmer and need to concentrate in silence . . . and a salesperson sits down next to you doing "LOC = Lines Of Calls" instead of "LOC = Lines Of Code" like you . . . well, that is just tough shit for you.
IBM managers know that this is a stupid idea, but the goal was to save money, and that trumps everything. So they tried to sweeten the deal a bit by letting folks work at home. Basically, IBM has outsourced its office space building services to its employees. Well, guess what . . . if you can't at least put a picture of your wife and kids on your desk . . . you don't get "attached" to your "place of work". You also don't feel very much attached to the company either . . . so guess what that does to turnover rates.
So now, IBM wants to lure its employees back to work at IBM locations. But too many don't even have an office to go back to. If IBM wants to haul them back in, all they need to do is give their employees real offices to go back to.
These IBM e-places are just as pleasant to visit as a trip to Dachau: very loud, greying chipped concrete colored paint, rickety desks and chairs that make IKEA furniture look like luxury items.
Of course, they can always threaten to fire the employees, if they don't come back. Which is probably going to happen, since even Warren Buffet threw in the towel, and declared IBM to be a basket case. They desperately need another Lou Gerstner, to turn them back around again.
-- why is it so secret, then?
The Air Force is just protecting their IP . . . they are worried that Über will hire away one of the Air Force's colonels with stolen design materials, and offer a competing Secret Space Plane Service, that can be hailed with an App!
Actually, the really secret news, is that, although the Secret Space plane took off unmanned, . . . it landed with three passengers!
The "guests" will be working on the Air Force's super secret Götterdämmerung project, which is being developed at the follow-on virtual site to Area 51. The virtual site is not in one place, but uses advanced distributed technology, based on Git, Blockchain and BitTorrent in an Internet of Things. If one node of the virtual site gets destroyed by Russian Hackers, the other nodes can recreate the work of node.
The Air Force stated that the purpose Götterdämmerung is "no what you think it is", and that they also have no idea what you think.
. . . but if 10% got caught at cheating, that implies that 90% got away with cheating!
So it's still a great achievement, after all!
Disclaimer: You'll get cancer if you're a rat. Which I assume some Slashdot readers are.
The leading cause of cancer in rats, is lab scientists. If you are a rat, you'd best be staying away from them.
Cigarettes are downright healthy, compared to lab scientists.
Whatever happened to the Princeton Perpetual Particle Plasma Power Physics Laboratory (PPPPPPL)? They've been cooking soup in their Tokamaks since the Big Bang was invented in the 60's, and in the early 80's, they were "just a few years away from commercially viable power."
Or did they get closed, due to the invention of cold fusion . . . ?
If only you were to put that much effort to provide running water, electricity and sanitation to the more than 600 million Indian citizens who lack it, the rest of the world would start taking you seriously.
India has enough running water, electricity and sanitation . . . India has just plain too many people; with 600 million+ people, there will never be enough of something to go around. Provide more running water? The Ganges will be stone dry in a few days. They will need to ignite vast forest fires to melt the glaciers in the Himalayas to keep the Ganges running. Electricity everywhere? They won't be able to keep the grid standing, and no one will be able to find or afford a light bulb in a store. Provide more sanitation? Well, you'll be stranded on the toilet bowl, when there ain't nothing on the roll . . . no toilet paper available! And toilet brushes . . . ask some older folks in the former East Germany about their catastrophic toilet brush shortage.
No, you need to attack the root of the problem . . . they have too many people and need to cut back on their production. The lucky ones of the overproduction get sent to the US, as H-1Bs. The unlucky ones get sent to oil-rich Arab states as slaves.
The equation is really dirt simple: the less mouths to feed, the less food you need.
But to convince people NOT to reproduce? That's difficult, because even without education or intelligence, reproduction is one thing that humans really excel at, even when in the most inhospitable environments.
I just had this vision of Monty Python's Dead Parrot.
Gee, Wally, I just had this vision that Windows Phone burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
The car was co-invented by the German Mr. Daimler and the American Mr. Chrysler.
Co-invented? Who cares about invention? Another German, Karl Benz, was the first to patent the automobile, and thus is revered by Slashdot folks for giving us the topic of IP to squawk about incessantly.
The light bulb -- that's easy, that was invented by Henry Ford
Unfortunately, Mr. Ford's light bulb never gained any traction with consumers, because electricity had not been invented yet, and thus, the light bulb remained a "dark" bulb. However, astrophysicists honored Mr. Ford's "dark" bulb by naming wacky inexplicable outer space shenanigans after his invention: "dark" matter, and "dark" energy.
Nikola Tesla invented electricity as a puerile party gag, where he would charge himself up to 10,000 volts, and invite party guests to, "Pull my finger!" Unfortunately the resulting spark ignited his flatulence and Dr. Tesla and his party guests were turned into foul-smelling toast.
All-around hard guy Elon Musk-for-Men named his flatulence-powered car after Dr. Telsa.
Samsung in Korea invented the phone.
But Samsung's phone only spoke Korean, which made it useless for the rest of the world. Apple's Steve Job had the revelation to produce American speaking phones during a nightmarish bad trip on dangerously potent psychoactive mushrooms.
The computer was invented in England by a guy we don't want to talk about.
Actually, the Germans will complain that their Konrad Zuse invented the computer during WWII, where it was used to design modern weaponry used today in armed conflicts, like the B2 Flying Wing Bomber, which the Germans called the Horton "Ho" 229. The "Ho" was never finished, because the engineers kept making jokes about the name: "Who you callin' a Ho?" Zuse's calculating critter also designed the V-1 Cruise Missile, which was a commercial failure because the Germans named it "Marschflugkörper". The Americans renamed this as the "Cruise" Missile, which sounds much better, as in Caribbean "Cruise" and Tom "Cruise". And, of course, only Zuse's machine could calculate that Niel Armstrong must have been out of his tiny little mind to climb into the souped-up V-2 rocket for a raucous romp to the moon.
Dr. Zuse had more financial success with his series of children's books, written under his pen name of Dr. Seuss, like, "The Cat in the Marschflugkörper", "Green Eggs and a Death Camp" and "Horton hears a Ho 229."
Being that the Germans invent weapons that finally see action 50 years later, it would be interesting to see what they are working on today. What is the real military value of those toxic belching turbo diesel injection cars? We will probably never know, since Germany's official position on military conflict is, "We only participate in wars that we start ourselves."
The steam engine? That's easy -- it was invented by Montgomery Scott, supported by his Irish-Jewish friend Cap'n Kirk.
I'm not a gamer, but I believe that Steam is programmed in Rust, to differentiate it from other platforms implemented in other too-young-to-be-trusted languages, like the Ingrown Toenail Fungus Framework.
"It seems obvious: The more we learn about other people, the more we'll come to like them."
"Familiarity breeds contempt."
. . . they are certainly doing extremely well at hiding their profit.
If the customer is using words you are unfamiliar with such as traceroute or ping, just elevate the call to someone who understands the problem.
If the customer is using a language you are unfamiliar with such as English, just elevate the call to someone who understands the language.
This seems like the kind of problem that could potentially give a certain Zucker the power to decide who wins what election and so forth.
Being that we live in a time of Hollywood remakes now, it's just about time for . . . wait for it . . .
. . . "Citizen Zucker" . . . !
The US Armed Forces are already on it! They have announced that they are going to drop their newest invention on Japan: The MOABOC - The Mother Of All Bags of Chips!
A military spokesman is quoted as saying, "It's the right-sized bag, for the right-sized job."
Out of consideration of civilians, gallons of sweep-syrupy soda will also be dropped.
. . . and some weed to give them the munchies, in case they need help getting started on the chips . . .
Nothing personal, but the only way any company/government busybodies are putting a meat tag on me is over my lifeless corpse.
I personally plan to donate my own corpse to the local University Medical School when I die. They always need dead bodies for the anatomy courses. In order to liven up a dull lab session for the students, I want to implant a bunch of micro SD chips in myself, before I die. I want to fill up the chips with some Japanese Hentai. I hope the students find it to be a hoot and a half. Kinda sorta like finding "Easter Eggs" in programs.
"Hey, Professor! Look what I found in the spleen . . . is there supposed to be a chip in there?"
Tesla produced ~80,000 cars last year, Ford produced 6.7-million. From a purely numbers perspective its pretty much inconceivable that Tesla will approach Ford for decades, obviously Ford also has a correspondingly larger number of assets and there is considerably more risk in Tesla's future than Fords.
Um, like, you mean like the same Ford that took a cozy hayride to Washington a few years back, with Chrysler and GM, to, like, ask the government for taxpayer money to pay for their mistakes, because they all were "too big to fail" . . . ? You mean, like, that Ford?
Tesla doesn't need to overtake Ford in sales . . . they just need to wait for Ford to bankrupt themselves again. And maybe . . . just maybe . . . the folks paying taxes won't be willing to pick up the tab this time around.
For that they could simply use Fox News...
That would violate the Geneva Convention ban on Joke Warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
Y'all just laughed yourselves to death, after reading that!
"because a tiny mistake in C could have real consequences for real people"
As opposed to, "because a tiny mistake in C could have virtual consequences for virtual people."
C'mon . . . this is 2017 . . . nobody does anything real anymore . . . everything is virtual these days.
Remember:
If it's there, and you can see it . . . it's real.
If it's not there, but you can see it . . . it's virtual.
If it's not there, and you can't see it . . . it's gone.
Virtual people have virtual problems on virtual TV shows.
So, there!
From http://www.rosco.com/spectrum/...
The first question we wanted to ask was – why blue? What does the color blue have to do with the austistic spectrum? The answer is that Autism Spectrum Disorders are almost 5 times more common among boys (1 in 54) than among girls (1 in 252). So, the color blue represents the boys diagnosed with Autism.
Represents boys!?!?! That sure sounds like racism, sexism and many other naughty "ism's", as well.
Shame on you, Autistic folks!
"We do not sell our broadband customers' individual web browsing history."
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
"Nobody has any intention of building a wall." [Walter Ulbricht, shortly before he built The Berlin Wall]
Folks in charge sure do say the darndest things . . .
Wow! Most Windows only go up to 10, but yours goes up to eleven!
On the other hand, self driving cars don't get mad at other drivers making a mistake and try to get back at them, causing all kinds of dangerous situations.
Oh, yeah? Says who . . . ? An autonomous vehicle might be programmed to drive "aggressively" to get through traffic jams faster. They'll give the feature some innocuous title like, "affirmative driving".
What you'll end up with is autonomous vehicles playing "chicken" with each other. An autonomous vehicle will not win any races by driving cautiously.
Anyway, the point is moot, because Über is not at fault in the same way that Über is not a taxi company. Über is a newfangled economy company, using a smartphone app and the Internet, so outdated terms like "fault" do not apply to it.