It was more complicated. You got the idea, but not the Google angle.
There wasn't only one public facing website, there were hundreds of them, probably one for each potential source. But once the Iranians discovered one of them, they used Google to find similar websites, and then started to monitor them, as the sites shared some technicalties, being built by the same organization, probably with the same tools and maybe they even shared some elements.
The problem is that fraud is a crime. If you want to argue fraud, you are no longer in civil law, you are in criminal law. Thus, they have the advantage of being innocent until proven guilty. So it's not their task to prove they acted in good faith. You would have to prove that they acted fraudulently, which is a much higher hurdle. You would have to come up with a smoking gun like an e-mail, where one tells the other that he knows the patents are worth less than they claim or something similar.
They could still claim they thought that the patents were worth more, until they lost some court cases proving them wrong. Then any fraud claim is dubious at least, because apparently, they acted in good faith.
Now my counter argument. I happen to live in the Alps. They were always famous vacation resorts, and here, skiing and bobsleigh were invented. We have thus hundreds of printed pictures of well known regions like St. Moritz or Bad Ischgl dating back 250 years and photographs dating back 150 years and more, and we have the touristic and sport infrastructure built during the decades.
Thus we can tell from the pictures, from the buildings and the natural features like moraines, how far snow and ice have been in the 1700ies, the 1800ies, the 1900ies and today. And they all tell a consistent picture: Temperatures in the Alps have risen about 2.5 degrees Celsius since the 1700ies, and the end of the glaciers have retreated 750 height meters. Oetzi, the Similaun Man, an ice mummy more than 5000 years old, was only found recently, because the glacier on the Timmelsjoch, which covered the corpse, has tawed to a point where the mummy came back to the surface.
At least for the Alps, the climate development is definitely consistent with what the computer models tell us. Actually, it's more the reverse. The computer models are gauged with what we see in temperature sensitive regions like the mountaintops, where the extension of the glaciers is directly dependent on the recent average temperatures.
(And of course, daily temperature measurements started in the Early modern period, and thus, we have continuous climate protocols dating back until the first half of the 18th century. And of course, some of those early temperature stations were too close to buildings or inside towns, giving too high readouts for the local temperature. Later the stations were moved to more appropriate places, giving slightly lower readouts. And sometimes, the towns have grown around climate stations, making it necessary to move the stations.)
The problem is that the "Like" button wasn't technically an "I appove" button, but a "keep me informed about the tweet" button. Thus people who wanted to stay informed, had to "like" something they might not approve of, e.g. a hurrican made landfall and a tweet about damages and evacuations was something you definitely wanted to know, but that doesn't mean you approve to the hurrican making landfall or the way evacuations were executed.
Emotions are part of the inner rewarding system of the body. There are positive emotions you want to repeat, and there are negative emotions you want to avoid. They are coupled to complex situations you are in, you have been in, or you could get into. Emotions are a shortcut to a decision where the rational approach might take too long and be erroneous because it has to factor in too many details, or where good information is not easily to come by. Any system that has to make decisions in real time has to resort to that type of shortcuts, even a machine based on a collection of algorithms, because there are situations where any decision is better than none, and the time frame for a decision is short.
You can call those shortcuts "emotions". If you implement them into algorithms, you have emotional algorithms.
Actually, Wolf is a pretty common family name in Germany. And of course, Wolf in German means wolf, the animal. Thus I doubt any parallel to Markus Wolf, and I guess Mr. Kumar (the founder) was trying to play to the connotation of the wolf as a hunting animal with a superior nose to find its prey and the nature of hunting as a pack.
... which is by itself bigottery: Doing as if a) everyone who thinks that people could get along if not everyone would live out his particular idiosyncrasies all the time is an SJW. b) that all SJWs are the same c) that they are all righteous and evil against everyone else and d) you thus have that god-given right to call them out and feel superiour to them because you have a different set of ideals.
Sorry, snowflake. Sometimes it's not the SJWs. Sometimes it's just you being a stubborn asshole.
I can relate to the Finns. Smalltalk is something I had to learn too. The idea to exchange phrases to gauge the mood and the sympathy between people was new to me. I still tend to actually answer to "How do you do?" instead of just replying.
And the reason software is turning into services is because it creates perpetual revenue streams.
Actually, you got it backwards. Patches and updates have been included in the price of software from the very beginning. What we had until recently was the requirement to pay our subscription fee for the software all upfront. But from a fiscal point of view, Software was always a subscription, as long as you got your patches and updates. You just never got the bill split up into the initial payment for the software and the subsequent payment for the software assurance subscription, as you had to pay for it all at once.
So it is as it ever was, because there never was a time in known history when no migration happened.
The U.S. is the prime example for a nation made up of people who themselves or their ancestors have flown from religiously intolerant, civil war ridden, feudal countries, seeking to escape enslavement and hunger crisis.
But suddenly, they deny the same priviledges they enjoyed to other people. I'm for the deportation of all U.S. immigrants and their locally born offspring back to the cesshole countries they and their ancestors came from.
Any database. You want as many tables and indices as possible in RAM to speed up your queries. And you also want the rollback buffer in RAM too. And you want queries distributed to the threads to have as many queries in parallel as possible, which means that you need several rollback buffers.
As a follow-up: The second argument is often, that Germany buys the missing electrical energy from Poland's coal plants, which is also wrong. (It's a nice chart, you can also see the daily trends in energy production.)
I don't know where this "wisdom" comes from. Germany has not commissioned a new coal plant since 1998, and the only ones going in operation since then are replacements for older plants or were planned before 1998.
I know the "but Germany" argument comes up here and there, but it is simply wrong.
To the contrary: even though Germany had a moratorium on nuclear energy after Fukushima-Daiishi in 2011, the share of coal (including lignin) generated electricity had just a small uptick until 2013 and is even faster declining since (from 62% in 1990 to 52% today).
Tesla was at $236 on 10th October 2014 and is at $250 today. That looks like an increase to me since 2014. Ford was at $14 then and is at $9.20 today. This does not look so much like an increase to me.
Yes, TSLA currently trades at its lowest level since April 2018. But tell you what, GM does also, and Ford trades even lower than that. So whatever the Shorteners are trading, they would gained the same by shortening GM, and they would actually be better off, had they shortened Ford.
Caller ID was for informational and convenience purposes anyway. It is not necessary for the inner workings of the PSTN. Thus there is not much more security built in than in the sender address on a letter envelope.
911 service calls, where the exact location of the caller is important, don't leave the provider network, and they get the native trunk number (and thus via the provider database the address of the calling site) directly without any caller ID magic. It is thus important for a phone switch with several PSTN trunks and locations to route the 911 calls to the right trunk depending on the location of the calling station.
Third party number spoofing is the effect, not the cause.
You can spoof any number by sending a user provided caller ID. The only reason the other party doesn't see the caller ID you provided is because the provider strips it from your signalling. If you are behind the phone switch of your company, the provider has no way to determine if the extension your phone switch signals to PSTN is correct. Depending on your trunk configuration, the provider thus either accepts the signalling, or strips it and replaces it with the trunk dial-in number (e.g. the number of the company's attendant switch board), so no callback will get through to the extensions.
If you are a company with several number blocks (e.g. several locations with their own trunks), and the company wants to show a central dial-in number for callbacks, the provider has a problem. It doesn't necessarily know all the locations of your company, because some might be with a different provider. Or the company has for redundancy reasons bought connectivity with different providers, with separate trunk numbers, but wants always their main number of the first trunk as the caller ID.
In this case, the company gets a "CLIP no screening" contract, where it is the sole responsibility of the company to signal the right caller ID, and the provider takes it without further checks, as it has incomplete information anyway and wouldn't be able to determine if the caller ID provided is valid or not. Only if there are complaints about wrong caller IDs coming from the trunk, the provider will cancel the "CLIP no screening" and no longer trust the information, strip it and replace it with the trunk number (or cancel the contract alltogether).
But if the calls with the spoofed number are crossing several providers, it will take a long time until the rogue trunk is determined that is using the wrong caller ID, because at the exchange points, the providers have to take the information of the call at face value, not really able to check if they are valid or not.
We use another one to clean our teeth: Fluorspar (also known as Fluorite or Calcium fluoride. And yes, one is written with a T, the other one with a D).
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There wasn't only one public facing website, there were hundreds of them, probably one for each potential source. But once the Iranians discovered one of them, they used Google to find similar websites, and then started to monitor them, as the sites shared some technicalties, being built by the same organization, probably with the same tools and maybe they even shared some elements.
It took years. Enron filed for insolvency in 2001, and only in December 2005, the first manager was convicted for fraud, the last one in 2009.
The problem is that fraud is a crime. If you want to argue fraud, you are no longer in civil law, you are in criminal law. Thus, they have the advantage of being innocent until proven guilty. So it's not their task to prove they acted in good faith. You would have to prove that they acted fraudulently, which is a much higher hurdle. You would have to come up with a smoking gun like an e-mail, where one tells the other that he knows the patents are worth less than they claim or something similar.
They could still claim they thought that the patents were worth more, until they lost some court cases proving them wrong. Then any fraud claim is dubious at least, because apparently, they acted in good faith.
No.
Now my counter argument. I happen to live in the Alps. They were always famous vacation resorts, and here, skiing and bobsleigh were invented. We have thus hundreds of printed pictures of well known regions like St. Moritz or Bad Ischgl dating back 250 years and photographs dating back 150 years and more, and we have the touristic and sport infrastructure built during the decades.
Thus we can tell from the pictures, from the buildings and the natural features like moraines, how far snow and ice have been in the 1700ies, the 1800ies, the 1900ies and today. And they all tell a consistent picture: Temperatures in the Alps have risen about 2.5 degrees Celsius since the 1700ies, and the end of the glaciers have retreated 750 height meters. Oetzi, the Similaun Man, an ice mummy more than 5000 years old, was only found recently, because the glacier on the Timmelsjoch, which covered the corpse, has tawed to a point where the mummy came back to the surface.
At least for the Alps, the climate development is definitely consistent with what the computer models tell us. Actually, it's more the reverse. The computer models are gauged with what we see in temperature sensitive regions like the mountaintops, where the extension of the glaciers is directly dependent on the recent average temperatures.
(And of course, daily temperature measurements started in the Early modern period, and thus, we have continuous climate protocols dating back until the first half of the 18th century. And of course, some of those early temperature stations were too close to buildings or inside towns, giving too high readouts for the local temperature. Later the stations were moved to more appropriate places, giving slightly lower readouts. And sometimes, the towns have grown around climate stations, making it necessary to move the stations.)
The problem is that the "Like" button wasn't technically an "I appove" button, but a "keep me informed about the tweet" button. Thus people who wanted to stay informed, had to "like" something they might not approve of, e.g. a hurrican made landfall and a tweet about damages and evacuations was something you definitely wanted to know, but that doesn't mean you approve to the hurrican making landfall or the way evacuations were executed.
You can call those shortcuts "emotions". If you implement them into algorithms, you have emotional algorithms.
Actually, Wolf is a pretty common family name in Germany. And of course, Wolf in German means wolf, the animal. Thus I doubt any parallel to Markus Wolf, and I guess Mr. Kumar (the founder) was trying to play to the connotation of the wolf as a hunting animal with a superior nose to find its prey and the nature of hunting as a pack.
Thanks for giving a sensationalist version of the information in this article.
Sorry, snowflake. Sometimes it's not the SJWs. Sometimes it's just you being a stubborn asshole.
I can relate to the Finns. Smalltalk is something I had to learn too. The idea to exchange phrases to gauge the mood and the sympathy between people was new to me. I still tend to actually answer to "How do you do?" instead of just replying.
And the reason software is turning into services is because it creates perpetual revenue streams.
Actually, you got it backwards. Patches and updates have been included in the price of software from the very beginning. What we had until recently was the requirement to pay our subscription fee for the software all upfront. But from a fiscal point of view, Software was always a subscription, as long as you got your patches and updates. You just never got the bill split up into the initial payment for the software and the subsequent payment for the software assurance subscription, as you had to pay for it all at once.
The U.S. is the prime example for a nation made up of people who themselves or their ancestors have flown from religiously intolerant, civil war ridden, feudal countries, seeking to escape enslavement and hunger crisis.
But suddenly, they deny the same priviledges they enjoyed to other people. I'm for the deportation of all U.S. immigrants and their locally born offspring back to the cesshole countries they and their ancestors came from.
Any database. You want as many tables and indices as possible in RAM to speed up your queries. And you also want the rollback buffer in RAM too. And you want queries distributed to the threads to have as many queries in parallel as possible, which means that you need several rollback buffers.
You know, vaccination actually works and has eradicated smallpox. We just have the means to revive it again.
As a follow-up: The second argument is often, that Germany buys the missing electrical energy from Poland's coal plants, which is also wrong. (It's a nice chart, you can also see the daily trends in energy production.)
I know the "but Germany" argument comes up here and there, but it is simply wrong.
To the contrary: even though Germany had a moratorium on nuclear energy after Fukushima-Daiishi in 2011, the share of coal (including lignin) generated electricity had just a small uptick until 2013 and is even faster declining since (from 62% in 1990 to 52% today).
Then why pick Tesla to mock and to short, if Ford would be a much more rewarding target?
Tesla was at $236 on 10th October 2014 and is at $250 today. That looks like an increase to me since 2014. Ford was at $14 then and is at $9.20 today. This does not look so much like an increase to me.
Yes, TSLA currently trades at its lowest level since April 2018. But tell you what, GM does also, and Ford trades even lower than that. So whatever the Shorteners are trading, they would gained the same by shortening GM, and they would actually be better off, had they shortened Ford.
911 service calls, where the exact location of the caller is important, don't leave the provider network, and they get the native trunk number (and thus via the provider database the address of the calling site) directly without any caller ID magic. It is thus important for a phone switch with several PSTN trunks and locations to route the 911 calls to the right trunk depending on the location of the calling station.
You can spoof any number by sending a user provided caller ID. The only reason the other party doesn't see the caller ID you provided is because the provider strips it from your signalling. If you are behind the phone switch of your company, the provider has no way to determine if the extension your phone switch signals to PSTN is correct. Depending on your trunk configuration, the provider thus either accepts the signalling, or strips it and replaces it with the trunk dial-in number (e.g. the number of the company's attendant switch board), so no callback will get through to the extensions.
If you are a company with several number blocks (e.g. several locations with their own trunks), and the company wants to show a central dial-in number for callbacks, the provider has a problem. It doesn't necessarily know all the locations of your company, because some might be with a different provider. Or the company has for redundancy reasons bought connectivity with different providers, with separate trunk numbers, but wants always their main number of the first trunk as the caller ID.
In this case, the company gets a "CLIP no screening" contract, where it is the sole responsibility of the company to signal the right caller ID, and the provider takes it without further checks, as it has incomplete information anyway and wouldn't be able to determine if the caller ID provided is valid or not. Only if there are complaints about wrong caller IDs coming from the trunk, the provider will cancel the "CLIP no screening" and no longer trust the information, strip it and replace it with the trunk number (or cancel the contract alltogether).
But if the calls with the spoofed number are crossing several providers, it will take a long time until the rogue trunk is determined that is using the wrong caller ID, because at the exchange points, the providers have to take the information of the call at face value, not really able to check if they are valid or not.
We use another one to clean our teeth: Fluorspar (also known as Fluorite or Calcium fluoride. And yes, one is written with a T, the other one with a D).
If you look at the materials something is created from, you could also say that organic food is made from dirt, mud and manure.