"For years police and banking-industry sleuths doubted they’d ever catch the phantoms behind Carbanak. Then, in March, the Spanish National Police arrested Ukrainian citizen Denis Katana in the Mediterranean port city of Alicante. The authorities have held him since then on suspicion of being the brains of the operation. Katana’s lawyer, Jose Esteve Villaescusa, declined to comment, and his client’s alleged confederates couldn’t be reached for comment. While Katana hasn’t been charged with a crime, Spanish detectives say financial information, emails, and other data trails show he was the architect of a conspiracy that spanned three continents. And there are signs that the Carbanak gang is far from finished."
Explanation behind ongoing heist:
"Someone had sent emails to the bank’s employees with Microsoft Word attachments, purporting to be from suppliers such as ATM manufacturers. It was a classic spear-phishing gambit. When opened, the attachments downloaded a piece of malicious code based on Carberp, a so-called Trojan that unlocked a secret backdoor to the bank’s network. The malware siphoned confidential data from bank employees and relayed the information to a server the hackers controlled. Delving deeper, the Kaspersky team found that intruders were taking control of the cameras on hundreds of PCs inside the organization, capturing screenshots and recording keystrokes. Soon, the researchers learned that other banks in Russia and Ukraine had been hacked the same way."
"The fact that the driver was watching Hulu while working suggests that she knew she was not being monitored and that her primary role was a warm body in the drivers seat as safety theater."
And I'd bet her hourly wage will confirm that.
If they'd been really serious about her being a safety driver for an autonomous car on public roads then they would have payed her a lot more.
Of course. A Gaming Disorder diagnosis would mean a person's symptoms (eg gaming obsession and compulsion) cause them significant distress, affect their ability to function in daily life and the level of intensity, and duration, of the dysfunction exceeds the minimum diagnosis criteria.
"So maybe the people are actually getting smarter and tanking the exam so they are not conscripted into duty. Or perhaps they are just getting less patriotic."
Autopilot was invented because when cruising with locked controls, boats and planes would still slowly drift of course, but the idea of cruising in a car with locked controls doesn't make sense, and adding autopilot to that even less.
Claiming that only 'stupid' people misuse 'autopilot' doesn't reduce Tesla's responsibilities.
Their marketing facilitates the idea that's it's normal to let 'autopilot' steer their car, and the fact that Tesla doesn't sound an alarm or prompt the driver to hold the steering wheel for long periods of time emphasizes Tesla major responsibility in these types of crashes.
You can let a plane or a boat follow a heading and most of the time everything is fine. Autopilot simply keeps you from drifting off course due to winds or currents.
What Tesla is selling clearly isn't autopilot in anything like that sense. They're using 'autopilot' as a 'high tech' marketing term and letting people believe the car can do things it really can't. To make matters worst, Tesla is also letting 'drivers' not pay attention to what's going on for long periods of time, reinforcing the idea that the car do more than it really can. So as far as this specific crash is concerned, it likely wouldn't have happened if not for Tesla's negligence.
"sounds like the plan is just to run them around the Apple campus."
I'm guessing it'll probably run at very low speed along a programmed path and have big red stop buttons the passengers can press in case of an emergency.
"Does not this case's very existence prove that he is using it as a private, invite only, forum."
The case made clear the president is using twitter first and foremost, as a public forum, without invitation, while also, the illegal part, sometimes blocking people.
"Twitter in this case is either a public forum or not"
It seems clear to me Trump is using twitter as a public forum, and the fact that twitter is a private company doesn't change the fact that Trump is effectively using it as a public forum.
"That said, pansperia is a load of crap: it explains nothing about the origin of life (even if life didn't originate on Earth, it had to originate somewhere, can't be turtles all the way down)"
They *think* they're ready for that argument :
"Wickramasinghe, Hoyle and Steele have all entertained the notion that there is no need for such a creation story. When asked if there must be abiogenesis at some point, somewhere in the universe, Steele replies, “Actually no. If the universe is steady state infinite there is no formal abiogenesis!"
"If the driver's attention can be ensured, Requiring torque on the steering wheel is good"
Problem is Musk has designed the car so that in many situations you don't get a warning and don't have to keep your hands on the wheel for long stretches at a time.
"Pirates? Piracy is only a real problem in a few areas we are not going to. Regular crime can generally be handled by some combination of onboard security and government forces, widely depending on the location and agreements in place."
"If it can be cooked by a robot, it didn't need a Chef in the first place"
Right, all we know the 'robot' is doing is applying heat to the food.
The main work seems to be done by humans, from adding garnishes to portioning the ingredients into little pots and sending them to the right tumbling wok, which they aren't showing or explaining to us for some reason.
"Once you place your order, we have an ingredient delivery system that collects them from the fridge," Farid said. "The ingredients are portioned into the correct sizes and then delivered to a robotic wok"
"but it would still be solved by lower IQ people getting smarts as to not get taken advantage of by higher IQ people."
Yes maybe logically, but no because raising peoples IQs from lets say 70 to 120 doesn't work (or even 70 to 90), and even if you could a lot of people with high IQs can also easily be taken advantage. And maybe not being duped also has a lot to do with emotional 'reasoning'.
On getting 'smarts', 'taking candy from baby's' won't be solved by educating the 'baby', same for a lot of seniors. And in between, I'd guess everyone no matter the kind of smarts they have can be taken advantage of by other individuals with the right a kind of smarts, and this no matter the IQs of the con-person and their victim.
So I don't think a rise in peoples ability to 'not be taken advantage of' through education is a better part of a solution than reducing the degree to which we educate individuals with the idea that taking advantage of others is ok, can be deserved by the 'victim', and can even be worthy of praise.
Agreed, and things like better education, social inclusion, and better choices available throughout development, all lead to higher intelligence of voters and may be a part of the solution. Another big part is better politicians, better representation, better electoral systems, and better regulation of party financing.
how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty and criminality. It may not be correlated with "corruption", but if we have fewer low IQ murderers and muggers, the police can focus more on high IQ embezzlers and bribers.
"Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty"
Yes, but I said how would you support the idea that there's a causal link not a correlation.
Supposing poverty is caused by marginalization and taking economic advantage of individuals with lower IQs for the benefit of individuals with higher IQs then poverty would be caused by individuals with higher IQs while still being correlated with individuals with lower IQs.
"Better understanding of brain development is one of the most important things we can do to address these problems."
I think that's an example of what he's talking about, a tendency to look for certain kinds of solutions at the detriment of other kinds when trying to help reduce things like poverty or corruption.
"The root cause of many social problems is too many stupid people"
Stupidity isn't more present at one IQ level than another, though it does play out differently at higher and lower IQs; and knowing that, how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
And biology likes producing individual variability, the complexity generated is an important component of progress and biological evolution, moreover the internal complexities and dynamics of social exchanges imply inclusion is a default mode; so maybe we could put a little more resources into looking at why we have trouble reducing things like our promotion of dysfunctional developmental pathways and adversarial cultural ideologies.
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"Given she's asian..."
He's Ukrainian:
"For years police and banking-industry sleuths doubted they’d ever catch the phantoms behind Carbanak. Then, in March, the Spanish National Police arrested Ukrainian citizen Denis Katana in the Mediterranean port city of Alicante. The authorities have held him since then on suspicion of being the brains of the operation. Katana’s lawyer, Jose Esteve Villaescusa, declined to comment, and his client’s alleged confederates couldn’t be reached for comment. While Katana hasn’t been charged with a crime, Spanish detectives say financial information, emails, and other data trails show he was the architect of a conspiracy that spanned three continents. And there are signs that the Carbanak gang is far from finished."
Explanation behind ongoing heist:
"Someone had sent emails to the bank’s employees with Microsoft Word attachments, purporting to be from suppliers such as ATM manufacturers. It was a classic spear-phishing gambit. When opened, the attachments downloaded a piece of malicious code based on Carberp, a so-called Trojan that unlocked a secret backdoor to the bank’s network. The malware siphoned confidential data from bank employees and relayed the information to a server the hackers controlled. Delving deeper, the Kaspersky team found that intruders were taking control of the cameras on hundreds of PCs inside the organization, capturing screenshots and recording keystrokes. Soon, the researchers learned that other banks in Russia and Ukraine had been hacked the same way."
-https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/the-biggest-digital-heist-in-history-isn-t-over-yet
"How much more electricity will "tab warming"
Minimal.
Firefox Tab Warming explained:
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01...
"The fact that the driver was watching Hulu while working suggests that she knew she was not being monitored and that her primary role was a warm body in the drivers seat as safety theater."
And I'd bet her hourly wage will confirm that.
If they'd been really serious about her being a safety driver for an autonomous car on public roads then they would have payed her a lot more.
"Gamer dysphoria is not a disorder."
Of course. A Gaming Disorder diagnosis would mean a person's symptoms (eg gaming obsession and compulsion) cause them significant distress, affect their ability to function in daily life and the level of intensity, and duration, of the dysfunction exceeds the minimum diagnosis criteria.
Agreed, but it could still be a major factor in Norway, whether a lower incentive to perform on the test is consciously driven or not.
"So maybe the people are actually getting smarter and tanking the exam so they are not conscripted into duty. Or perhaps they are just getting less patriotic."
More varied media exposure and cosmopolitanism.
"It's exactly autopilot in that sense."
Autopilot was invented because when cruising with locked controls, boats and planes would still slowly drift of course, but the idea of cruising in a car with locked controls doesn't make sense, and adding autopilot to that even less.
Claiming that only 'stupid' people misuse 'autopilot' doesn't reduce Tesla's responsibilities.
Their marketing facilitates the idea that's it's normal to let 'autopilot' steer their car, and the fact that Tesla doesn't sound an alarm or prompt the driver to hold the steering wheel for long periods of time emphasizes Tesla major responsibility in these types of crashes.
You can let a plane or a boat follow a heading and most of the time everything is fine. Autopilot simply keeps you from drifting off course due to winds or currents.
What Tesla is selling clearly isn't autopilot in anything like that sense. They're using 'autopilot' as a 'high tech' marketing term and letting people believe the car can do things it really can't. To make matters worst, Tesla is also letting 'drivers' not pay attention to what's going on for long periods of time, reinforcing the idea that the car do more than it really can. So as far as this specific crash is concerned, it likely wouldn't have happened if not for Tesla's negligence.
"sounds like the plan is just to run them around the Apple campus."
I'm guessing it'll probably run at very low speed along a programmed path and have big red stop buttons the passengers can press in case of an emergency.
"Does not this case's very existence prove that he is using it as a private, invite only, forum."
The case made clear the president is using twitter first and foremost, as a public forum, without invitation, while also, the illegal part, sometimes blocking people.
So we agree, just not sure why you said no.
"Twitter in this case is either a public forum or not"
It seems clear to me Trump is using twitter as a public forum, and the fact that twitter is a private company doesn't change the fact that Trump is effectively using it as a public forum.
"That said, pansperia is a load of crap: it explains nothing about the origin of life (even if life didn't originate on Earth, it had to originate somewhere, can't be turtles all the way down)"
They *think* they're ready for that argument :
"Wickramasinghe, Hoyle and Steele have all entertained the notion that there is no need for such a creation story. When asked if there must be abiogenesis at some point, somewhere in the universe, Steele replies, “Actually no. If the universe is steady state infinite there is no formal abiogenesis!"
https://cosmosmagazine.com/bio... logy/viruses-et-and-the-octopus-from-space-the-return-of-panspermia
"Notice that you can accomplish 1, 2 & 3 just by choosing not to be poor."
Maybe, but very few people choose to be poor.
"If the driver's attention can be ensured, Requiring torque on the steering wheel is good"
Problem is Musk has designed the car so that in many situations you don't get a warning and don't have to keep your hands on the wheel for long stretches at a time.
No hands on wheel no warnings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Tesla cars are designed to *not* warn the driver to keep their attention on the road at all times.
It sounds like they hope to rely on contracts with local governments for protection:
https://www.blue-frontiers.com...
"Pirates? Piracy is only a real problem in a few areas we are not going to. Regular crime can generally be handled by some combination of onboard security and government forces, widely depending on the location and agreements in place."
"If it can be cooked by a robot, it didn't need a Chef in the first place"
Right, all we know the 'robot' is doing is applying heat to the food.
The main work seems to be done by humans, from adding garnishes to portioning the ingredients into little pots and sending them to the right tumbling wok, which they aren't showing or explaining to us for some reason.
"Once you place your order, we have an ingredient delivery system that collects them from the fridge," Farid said. "The ingredients are portioned into the correct sizes and then delivered to a robotic wok"
Impressive, especially the first link.
"but it would still be solved by lower IQ people getting smarts as to not get taken advantage of by higher IQ people."
Yes maybe logically, but no because raising peoples IQs from lets say 70 to 120 doesn't work (or even 70 to 90), and even if you could a lot of people with high IQs can also easily be taken advantage. And maybe not being duped also has a lot to do with emotional 'reasoning'.
On getting 'smarts', 'taking candy from baby's' won't be solved by educating the 'baby', same for a lot of seniors. And in between, I'd guess everyone no matter the kind of smarts they have can be taken advantage of by other individuals with the right a kind of smarts, and this no matter the IQs of the con-person and their victim.
So I don't think a rise in peoples ability to 'not be taken advantage of' through education is a better part of a solution than reducing the degree to which we educate individuals with the idea that taking advantage of others is ok, can be deserved by the 'victim', and can even be worthy of praise.
"More intelligent voters may be a solution."
Agreed, and things like better education, social inclusion, and better choices available throughout development, all lead to higher intelligence of voters and may be a part of the solution. Another big part is better politicians, better representation, better electoral systems, and better regulation of party financing.
how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty and criminality. It may not be correlated with "corruption", but if we have fewer low IQ murderers and muggers, the police can focus more on high IQ embezzlers and bribers.
"Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty"
Yes, but I said how would you support the idea that there's a causal link not a correlation.
Supposing poverty is caused by marginalization and taking economic advantage of individuals with lower IQs for the benefit of individuals with higher IQs then poverty would be caused by individuals with higher IQs while still being correlated with individuals with lower IQs.
Exactly :
https://consortiumnews.com/201... /beware-of-white-helmets-bearing-news/
"Better understanding of brain development is one of the most important things we can do to address these problems."
I think that's an example of what he's talking about, a tendency to look for certain kinds of solutions at the detriment of other kinds when trying to help reduce things like poverty or corruption.
"The root cause of many social problems is too many stupid people"
Stupidity isn't more present at one IQ level than another, though it does play out differently at higher and lower IQs; and knowing that, how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
And biology likes producing individual variability, the complexity generated is an important component of progress and biological evolution, moreover the internal complexities and dynamics of social exchanges imply inclusion is a default mode; so maybe we could put a little more resources into looking at why we have trouble reducing things like our promotion of dysfunctional developmental pathways and adversarial cultural ideologies.