i don't think anything is keeping them from it, it's probably the first thing they did or are going to do. the problem is that they need to track the configuration of the trojan (which can be updated remotely) and keep shutting down accounts of the new search sites. it would be far more convenient if they had a possibility to determine click fraud by analyzing their stats, which is very difficult this way, as the fraud essentially looks the same as normal behavior. not having that option increases their work and increases the probability that there are different trojans running which they aren't aware off.
the washington post article doesn't give you any more information than the summary, you should be reading the trojan analysis which is linked in both the summary and the article.
the article specifically shows the 'augmented reality' in IE and firefox, it even goes on to specifically point out in the end, that the features include:
Working code to hijack both Firefox and IE
so my best guess is that only those two browsers are actually affected and as they are the common browsers there probably isn't much motivation to work on hijacking other browsers (same thing as with mac - windows).
i thought there have already been trojans like this (or it was just a thought experiment told to me in a slightly too threatening way), the general solution to it is - as you point out - the inclusion of a second device, like a cell phone, to confirm the transaction. makes it more of a hassle to complete a transaction but adds a rather strong way of detecting fraud, as long as people take the time to read the text message and don't just dismiss it as another 'yes really'-button. i think these trojans are a very interesting development and will probably keep many people on their toes in the future.
there is no one-fit-all answer to kidnapping, there are cases where it's a horrible idea to say anything and there are those where a public statement is the only chance for information, more time or errors on the kidnappers side. generally law enforcement will advice you on what to do, reporters are hardly the ones you should ask.
and after they tell us that, it would be helpful to know how many keystrokes they recorded, what the average hit per key is and the overall distribution. what does 700 mean if you don't have any other data to compare it to? exactly, nothing, so why even mention it? also delete has already gotten bigger on many non-laptop keyboards, so i fail to see the big innovation, getting rid of caps lock is something i very much support though.
The line between a persons emotional reaction to someone they personally know dying and the collective emotional reaction that follows the death of a celebrity is clearly not arbitary.
but the line between a persons reaction to someone in their family dying and any other person, no matter if you know, love, hate that person on any kind of level, dying is clearly arbitrary, and that is the line you drew.
so you think every life has equal value, it's acceptable to mourn over a death in your family but not over someone elses death because they don't have the same lastname as you and you're therefore not treating corpses equally. how is that anything other than a totally arbitrary line?
if you just said any mourning at all is an affront to everyone else who ever died, it would at least be consistent, but what you're saying is that there actually is more and less valuable life to a subject, family is more important. now i could list a hundred cases where family certainly is less important than other people who have actually contributed to your life in an important way, have changed you or whatever and your line would seem even more arbitrary. there's also another point to make: if you mourn for your family you will diminish the value of every life in your family before you were born (unless you have mourned every one of your ancestors), what makes your current family's life more important than your ancestors?
yes the attention to his death is way too much and he was a crazy twat, but your argument stinks and is an arbitrary line just like celebrity praise is. no matter whether you're an atheist (which i am too btw, to get that out of the way), theist, agnostic or whatever else you might be, life of different persons has different value to each and everyone of us, human life is not equal from a subjects point of view and there is nothing wrong with that.
uh am i the only one getting a sarcastic vibe from grandparent? it actually feels like pretty plain and direct sarcasm even, although it kinda misses the point of this topic.
and i agree that it can be a good idea to just start writing whatever you feel like sometimes, don't think just go for it, get fast and ugly results. if it helps you get over the whole 'it's such a huge thing in my head and i really don't feel like systematically writing this all out' everything is allowed. you can always come back and delete or change it, not writing anything on the other hand is not gonna get you anywhere (unless you have guys to code of course).
the play pump was definitely the oddest thing i've seen in this system and even after looking at thouse pictures (a great idea imho) i am still kind of puzzled. the play pump is needed to produce energy to power the system and other devices (like LEDs it seems) and the system returns food and compressed methane. now this is all very cool and i am sure that this is very useful, but how is this algae powered energy? i mean yes food is energy, but not in the sense we generally perceive energy and the system actual needs external energy from the pump to work.
i am likely to have made some fatal thinking error, so please point it out to me. i don't mean to diminish this and even as a food and methane providing device it's very cool, but i don't get the energy part.
i hope not long, blends of different races are generally some of the most beautiful people, i am very much looking forward to the widespread crossbreeding that is our future.
they need to open up the brain to insert the virus and it seems they install a 50 micrometer fiber optic cable that points to the specific cells right after that. and my best guess is that you have a cable coming out of your head which you then connect to the laser. the whole thing sounds pretty amazing with the whole algae and archaeon genes, very cool.
the idea behind metaphors is to get people unfamiliar with computers to find something they know and can build on that, but i agree, it's a joke. i have actually never seen how my computers desktop is in any way similar to my actual desktop and every change i have ever made, moved it further away from looking like a desktop.
i haven't found anything in 3d i like either, workspaces on a cube, woohoo, that's just what i need. i am sticking with my good old blackbox and i doubt anything is gonna change that soon.
until the end of the 15th century the eidgenossenschaft was fighting the habsburg, throughout the 16th and 17th century there was religous civil war all over switzerland. at the end of the 17th century france essentially conquered switzerland and started the helvetic republic. the last fights on swiss territory were in 1847 and there is only democracy since the 19th century.
Studies conducted decades ago came to the conclusion [citation needed-too lazy to look]that date scenarios that induced adrenaline and other thrills increased your odds of getting lucky on dates...scary movies, thrilling carnival rides, riding 'shotgun' in safe, sanctioned drag races, bungee jumping, etc...all produced positive results far better than the typical 'dinner, chic-flick movie, then try to enter on delivery to domicile'(can I come in for coffee, or 'one for the road') approach.
this actually has to do with false attribution. women will feel the rush of whatever you're doing and attribute it to you instead of the activity. it's a very common thing to happen, it even works with very small things like a warm coffee in their hands instead of a cold one etc.
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i don't think anything is keeping them from it, it's probably the first thing they did or are going to do. the problem is that they need to track the configuration of the trojan (which can be updated remotely) and keep shutting down accounts of the new search sites. it would be far more convenient if they had a possibility to determine click fraud by analyzing their stats, which is very difficult this way, as the fraud essentially looks the same as normal behavior. not having that option increases their work and increases the probability that there are different trojans running which they aren't aware off.
the washington post article doesn't give you any more information than the summary, you should be reading the trojan analysis which is linked in both the summary and the article.
Working code to hijack both Firefox and IE
so my best guess is that only those two browsers are actually affected and as they are the common browsers there probably isn't much motivation to work on hijacking other browsers (same thing as with mac - windows).
i thought there have already been trojans like this (or it was just a thought experiment told to me in a slightly too threatening way), the general solution to it is - as you point out - the inclusion of a second device, like a cell phone, to confirm the transaction. makes it more of a hassle to complete a transaction but adds a rather strong way of detecting fraud, as long as people take the time to read the text message and don't just dismiss it as another 'yes really'-button. i think these trojans are a very interesting development and will probably keep many people on their toes in the future.
there is no one-fit-all answer to kidnapping, there are cases where it's a horrible idea to say anything and there are those where a public statement is the only chance for information, more time or errors on the kidnappers side. generally law enforcement will advice you on what to do, reporters are hardly the ones you should ask.
and after they tell us that, it would be helpful to know how many keystrokes they recorded, what the average hit per key is and the overall distribution. what does 700 mean if you don't have any other data to compare it to? exactly, nothing, so why even mention it? also delete has already gotten bigger on many non-laptop keyboards, so i fail to see the big innovation, getting rid of caps lock is something i very much support though.
The line between a persons emotional reaction to someone they personally know dying and the collective emotional reaction that follows the death of a celebrity is clearly not arbitary.
but the line between a persons reaction to someone in their family dying and any other person, no matter if you know, love, hate that person on any kind of level, dying is clearly arbitrary, and that is the line you drew.
so you think every life has equal value, it's acceptable to mourn over a death in your family but not over someone elses death because they don't have the same lastname as you and you're therefore not treating corpses equally. how is that anything other than a totally arbitrary line?
if you just said any mourning at all is an affront to everyone else who ever died, it would at least be consistent, but what you're saying is that there actually is more and less valuable life to a subject, family is more important. now i could list a hundred cases where family certainly is less important than other people who have actually contributed to your life in an important way, have changed you or whatever and your line would seem even more arbitrary. there's also another point to make: if you mourn for your family you will diminish the value of every life in your family before you were born (unless you have mourned every one of your ancestors), what makes your current family's life more important than your ancestors?
yes the attention to his death is way too much and he was a crazy twat, but your argument stinks and is an arbitrary line just like celebrity praise is. no matter whether you're an atheist (which i am too btw, to get that out of the way), theist, agnostic or whatever else you might be, life of different persons has different value to each and everyone of us, human life is not equal from a subjects point of view and there is nothing wrong with that.
uh am i the only one getting a sarcastic vibe from grandparent? it actually feels like pretty plain and direct sarcasm even, although it kinda misses the point of this topic.
and i agree that it can be a good idea to just start writing whatever you feel like sometimes, don't think just go for it, get fast and ugly results. if it helps you get over the whole 'it's such a huge thing in my head and i really don't feel like systematically writing this all out' everything is allowed. you can always come back and delete or change it, not writing anything on the other hand is not gonna get you anywhere (unless you have guys to code of course).
Even if you didn't like his plastic surgery addiction and kiddie fondling
and that implies that he did actually fondle kids.
the play pump was definitely the oddest thing i've seen in this system and even after looking at thouse pictures (a great idea imho) i am still kind of puzzled. the play pump is needed to produce energy to power the system and other devices (like LEDs it seems) and the system returns food and compressed methane. now this is all very cool and i am sure that this is very useful, but how is this algae powered energy? i mean yes food is energy, but not in the sense we generally perceive energy and the system actual needs external energy from the pump to work.
i am likely to have made some fatal thinking error, so please point it out to me. i don't mean to diminish this and even as a food and methane providing device it's very cool, but i don't get the energy part.
i hope not long, blends of different races are generally some of the most beautiful people, i am very much looking forward to the widespread crossbreeding that is our future.
they need to open up the brain to insert the virus and it seems they install a 50 micrometer fiber optic cable that points to the specific cells right after that. and my best guess is that you have a cable coming out of your head which you then connect to the laser. the whole thing sounds pretty amazing with the whole algae and archaeon genes, very cool.
the idea behind metaphors is to get people unfamiliar with computers to find something they know and can build on that, but i agree, it's a joke. i have actually never seen how my computers desktop is in any way similar to my actual desktop and every change i have ever made, moved it further away from looking like a desktop.
i haven't found anything in 3d i like either, workspaces on a cube, woohoo, that's just what i need. i am sticking with my good old blackbox and i doubt anything is gonna change that soon.
ya, should be 18th century there.
i am sorry what? 500 years?
until the end of the 15th century the eidgenossenschaft was fighting the habsburg, throughout the 16th and 17th century there was religous civil war all over switzerland. at the end of the 17th century france essentially conquered switzerland and started the helvetic republic. the last fights on swiss territory were in 1847 and there is only democracy since the 19th century.
Studies conducted decades ago came to the conclusion [citation needed-too lazy to look]that date scenarios that induced adrenaline and other thrills increased your odds of getting lucky on dates...scary movies, thrilling carnival rides, riding 'shotgun' in safe, sanctioned drag races, bungee jumping, etc...all produced positive results far better than the typical 'dinner, chic-flick movie, then try to enter on delivery to domicile'(can I come in for coffee, or 'one for the road') approach.
this actually has to do with false attribution. women will feel the rush of whatever you're doing and attribute it to you instead of the activity. it's a very common thing to happen, it even works with very small things like a warm coffee in their hands instead of a cold one etc.