Why does an attack originating in China imply that it is a Chinese government sanctioned attack? I don't find that conclusion at all plausible.
IMHO, it is just as likely that there is a compromised computer somewhere in China which someone else from somewhere else is using to perform the attack. Especially given the millions of hacked and pirated versions of MS Windows in China.
Given how easy it is to hide behind a chain of proxies for this kind of thing (especially if you have access to even a medium sized botnet), the only reasons I'd expect the ip addresses to look like they came from China would either gross incompetence from Chinese hackers (I don't really expect that - Chinese hackers are pretty damn clever), or hackers from another country trying to make China look bad.
So, it's not exactly an organic LED... but it's still grown?
The term growth is used for the various ways of making crystals. The way silicon wafers are made from a grown silicon boule using the Czochralski process is particularly interesting. Also, you might like the way crystals are made using something like molecular beam epitaxy.
A 1km range is next to nothing for rural Australian
For Texans, 1 mile is "neighbors" . . .
. . . 100 miles is "just down the road" . . .
. . . 1000 miles is "just down the road, aways" . ..
Heh, I know people in the US like to think Texas is big, but the truth of the matter is that the area of the state of Texas is just under 700 thousand sq km, while the area of the state of Western Australia is a bit over 2.5 million sq km.
That's about 3.5 Texii*.
* I know - Texii probably isn't the correct plural for Texas, but Texases just sounded wrong.
If you're already infected by malware, that malware can sit there and wait to do stuff any time it wants. Not exactly a big surprise.
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Yes, the word "research" seems to be used rather loosely in that article.
Any input into a smartphone can be used to launch any app listening for it. This could be gps coords, barometric pressure, direction from the built in compass...
Well it is University of Alabama, perhaps we should be just grateful that they are studying something other than intelligent design.
Trollish troll, I rebuke thee with a Citationing of Statisticals:
Country / CO2 (ktonnes) / % of world emissions / source
China (ex.Macau, Hong Kong) 7,031,916 23.5% UN Estimate[6]
United States 5,461,014 18.27% UN Estimate[6]
Except that the population of China is 1.3 billion, and the population of the US is 315 million, so the statistics you supplied basically state that the US is polluting over 4 times as much per person than China is.
Good argument you have there.
Why is there so much China bashing in this thread? The GP didn't mention them at all, and as I mentioned in an earlier comment, they aren't relevant to the conversation.
Heh, you think we're fucking it up for everyone? Take a good look at what China is doing.
Dude, what's with the China bashing?
1) The pollution/carbon footprint per capita of the chinese is still way below the per capita footprint of the US or pretty much any other western country for that matter.
2) Even if they did pollute as bad as the US, it shouldn't have anything to do with the argument. A bad act is a bad act, regardless of who else is doing it. If some random person somewhere in the world shoots their wife, does that mean you would be justified in shooting your wife?
What's worse about this situation is that the data centers would actually make MORE money if they lowered their energy usage - so both the environment and the corporation would win. The problem is that these managers are just too lazy to do their job.
There is no "absolute position". Anything running on inertia can be said to be said to be moving at any velocity you choose depending on your frame of reference, including motionless. Now, planets don't run solely on inertia -- they orbit because of gravity. But gravity folds spacetime, which is still what you're travelling through. Plenty of good reason to think you'll end up at basically the same position relative to the barycenter of the most significant gravity sources of your point of departure.
Even if I was to suspend belief and buy this argument that you end up at the same position relative to the barycenter of the most significant gravity sources of your departure (I don't), you would still need to travel through space.
Consider the situation where you travel back in time one hour. The earth is rotating - so if you started on the east coast of a continent, and arrived at the same point relative to the barycenter, you would end up somewhere in the ocean. Even if you were to travel back only in increments of 24 hours to avoid this situation - the earth doesn't spin perfectly- it has processional wobble about a tilted axis - you would end up far above or below ground - not too useful. You would still need some sort of space travel.
And things get worse the farther you go back - things like meteor collisions throughout the ages will all jiggle the Earth further and further from the original radius of orbit of the sun. If you travel through time, you will need to also travel through space at some point to get to where you want to go.
For me the real problem with time travel that makes it all implausible is knowing that the world would be in a completrly different location in space. Planets, solar systems, galaxies, even the known universe is constanly moving. To successfully transport through time you'ld also need to know exactly where the planet you're on will be at the exact moment you time travel, else you will most likely arrive somewhere in space.
Agreed, it is so weird that Dr Who is the only show that ever understood this! The TARDIS can travel through time and space for this very reason.
Why do other shows get it so wrong? Dr Who has been running for 50 years! Other writers should have noticed by now.
Wow. US cities (it's infrastructure) suck really hard. Never seen a suburb in Europe hat hasn't grocery stores. I live in a rural area and the nearest supermarket is 5 min away - by foot. Granted nowadays not every tiny village has a store, but most do.
I don't live in the US - I live in Australia, and my nearest supermarket is currently 30 mins walk away. Yes our infrastructure sucks
When I lived in Europe (a village in southern Italy), there was a grocery store in the village only 5 mins away. But there was very little choice - it was more like a corner convenience store. If you wanted a proper grocery store you had to drive at least 20 mins to the nearest town.
If you live deep in surburbia walking isn't an option as the nearest grocery store may be more than a couple of km away. And if you are shopping for a family, cycling isn't an option because of the load you have to haul back.
But if you happen to be single and/or living within 20 min walk of a grocery store, have at it.
Blurb reads: "Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy."
So it is likely a true record of the exchange.
Also because the brain is removed during the autopsy, so it doesn't even make any sense.
As someone else posted, there are many reasons the brain can arrive separate to the body in an autopsy, so that part at least does make sense.
Didn't realize it was possible. Here's an exchange I was told is from an actual court transcript. I really hope it happened as recorded:
* Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
* Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
* Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
* Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
It also ought to be easy for LivingSocial to store passwords hashed with a secure hash designed for passwords, like scrypt (or the related bcrypt).
It's easy to blame users, but there has been no excuse for storing plaintext passwords for years now.
Yes! I can't believe there are websites out there that still don't hash passwords.
A few months ago I signed up to the website of a large health insurance provider, and they sent me an email confirmation of my account creation that included my website password in plaintext. Unbelievable.
Who writes this stuff? And who hires these people?
The problem is that the people who buy it will have more of say than people who don't. There's many reasons why one might not buy one other than finding the whole thing to be repulsive. Not to mention that the people using them are selling out the rest of us.
This has always been the case across all of history. The segments of society that organize will always overwhelm the individualists. The millions of Bieber fans out there can easily shout down my opinion that his music sucks on every conceivable level. It doesn't make them more right, but they have more power than me because there are more of them. This is why organized religions are so strong, even though they mostly spout nonsense.
And there are always people who feel the need to belong, and that sharing every component of their life increases that feeling of belonging. These people don't value privacy because they can't imagine a situation where they wouldn't want to share their feelings and experiences for validation. It's what we might consider an extremely extroverted personality. But, in the future, this type of personality may become the norm - because all this social technology favors that sort, and is about to become so cheap as to be ubiquitous.
So yeah, you and I are screwed. The only good news is that if/when the singularity hits, no one will actually care what the humans are doing, because the future of science/technology/arts, etc will be completely out of our hands.
It just has a bit of a creepy vibe that's hard to ignore.
Yeah - you just know it has potential to be turned to creepy uses: cute girl wearing short shorts drops her bag, bends over to pick it up, someone wearing google glasses happens to be walking by and glances over, resulting video is uploaded to upskirt fetish sites across the internet.
Or plumber shows a bit of tradesman's crack while working on something -> internet.
If these glasses start becoming ubiquitous, I have a feeling that before long people are going to start dressing a lot more conservatively.
This. Society picks up the changes it wants, and discards the ones it doesn't, and keeps on rolling.
Just because the Schmidt spent millions of dollars developing a product doesn't mean it will be a success - only time will tell that. The Segway didn't crack the market, and google glass might not.
Personally speaking, I wouldn't mind something like a ruggedized google glass for snow boarding, long distance running, or other sporting activities where you want to track things like speed, heart rate etc, but I can't see myself wearing something like that on a daily basis just to walk around town.
But maybe there is a segment of society that needs to know the location of the nearest burger joint stat, and doesn't have the attention span to remember how to get there without walking into walls unless the directions are drip fed to them every 5 seconds. There are certainly many other multi-billion dollar industries out there from which I have never bought a single product.
Oh it's the old "people might accidentally go to porn sites" excuse. Is this a particularly common occurrence? Has anyone here gone to a site and misspelled the name and ended up at a porn site?
I did once at work! Wanted to go to dictionary.com, but accidentally typed in dictoinary.com. Pop-ups with breasts were coming up everywhere. Both my boss and my boss's boss were standing behind me at the time... Turns out that kind of domain misspelling is often registered by unscrupulous operators.
But I can't say that it's a common enough occurrence that mandating massive amounts of infrastructure is indicated.
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Until China starts to face real responses?
Why does an attack originating in China imply that it is a Chinese government sanctioned attack? I don't find that conclusion at all plausible.
IMHO, it is just as likely that there is a compromised computer somewhere in China which someone else from somewhere else is using to perform the attack. Especially given the millions of hacked and pirated versions of MS Windows in China.
Given how easy it is to hide behind a chain of proxies for this kind of thing (especially if you have access to even a medium sized botnet), the only reasons I'd expect the ip addresses to look like they came from China would either gross incompetence from Chinese hackers (I don't really expect that - Chinese hackers are pretty damn clever), or hackers from another country trying to make China look bad.
So, it's not exactly an organic LED ... but it's still grown?
The term growth is used for the various ways of making crystals. The way silicon wafers are made from a grown silicon boule using the Czochralski process is particularly interesting. Also, you might like the way crystals are made using something like molecular beam epitaxy.
What could be more peaceful than 3-D printing a Colt Model P, Peacemaker?
A 1km range is next to nothing for rural Australian
For Texans, 1 mile is "neighbors" . . .
. . . 100 miles is "just down the road" . . .
. . . 1000 miles is "just down the road, aways" . . .
Heh, I know people in the US like to think Texas is big, but the truth of the matter is that the area of the state of Texas is just under 700 thousand sq km, while the area of the state of Western Australia is a bit over 2.5 million sq km.
That's about 3.5 Texii*.
* I know - Texii probably isn't the correct plural for Texas, but Texases just sounded wrong.
If you're already infected by malware, that malware can sit there and wait to do stuff any time it wants. Not exactly a big surprise.
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Yes, the word "research" seems to be used rather loosely in that article.
Any input into a smartphone can be used to launch any app listening for it. This could be gps coords, barometric pressure, direction from the built in compass...
Well it is University of Alabama, perhaps we should be just grateful that they are studying something other than intelligent design.
Trollish troll, I rebuke thee with a Citationing of Statisticals:
Country / CO2 (ktonnes) / % of world emissions / source China (ex.Macau, Hong Kong) 7,031,916 23.5% UN Estimate[6] United States 5,461,014 18.27% UN Estimate[6]
Except that the population of China is 1.3 billion, and the population of the US is 315 million, so the statistics you supplied basically state that the US is polluting over 4 times as much per person than China is.
Good argument you have there.
Why is there so much China bashing in this thread? The GP didn't mention them at all, and as I mentioned in an earlier comment, they aren't relevant to the conversation.
Heh, you think we're fucking it up for everyone? Take a good look at what China is doing.
Dude, what's with the China bashing?
1) The pollution/carbon footprint per capita of the chinese is still way below the per capita footprint of the US or pretty much any other western country for that matter.
2) Even if they did pollute as bad as the US, it shouldn't have anything to do with the argument. A bad act is a bad act, regardless of who else is doing it. If some random person somewhere in the world shoots their wife, does that mean you would be justified in shooting your wife?
What's worse about this situation is that the data centers would actually make MORE money if they lowered their energy usage - so both the environment and the corporation would win. The problem is that these managers are just too lazy to do their job.
Watch out for the guy printing a pointed stick...
Well, according to TFA, 29% of people surveyed didn't think people should be allowed to own 3D printers at all!
There are way too many luddites out there.
There is no "absolute position". Anything running on inertia can be said to be said to be moving at any velocity you choose depending on your frame of reference, including motionless. Now, planets don't run solely on inertia -- they orbit because of gravity. But gravity folds spacetime, which is still what you're travelling through. Plenty of good reason to think you'll end up at basically the same position relative to the barycenter of the most significant gravity sources of your point of departure.
Even if I was to suspend belief and buy this argument that you end up at the same position relative to the barycenter of the most significant gravity sources of your departure (I don't), you would still need to travel through space. Consider the situation where you travel back in time one hour. The earth is rotating - so if you started on the east coast of a continent, and arrived at the same point relative to the barycenter, you would end up somewhere in the ocean. Even if you were to travel back only in increments of 24 hours to avoid this situation - the earth doesn't spin perfectly- it has processional wobble about a tilted axis - you would end up far above or below ground - not too useful. You would still need some sort of space travel.
And things get worse the farther you go back - things like meteor collisions throughout the ages will all jiggle the Earth further and further from the original radius of orbit of the sun. If you travel through time, you will need to also travel through space at some point to get to where you want to go.
For me the real problem with time travel that makes it all implausible is knowing that the world would be in a completrly different location in space. Planets, solar systems, galaxies, even the known universe is constanly moving. To successfully transport through time you'ld also need to know exactly where the planet you're on will be at the exact moment you time travel, else you will most likely arrive somewhere in space.
Agreed, it is so weird that Dr Who is the only show that ever understood this! The TARDIS can travel through time and space for this very reason.
Why do other shows get it so wrong? Dr Who has been running for 50 years! Other writers should have noticed by now.
I did not say we should stop looking; but it would be nice to find Earth 2. We will need it eventually.
Find Earth 2? Pfft, I'd rather make Earth 2. Anyone want to give me some funding to get some terraforming going on?
Lasers.
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How are they getting away with this in Great Britain?
Read the ibtimes link - the good old USA is one of the 36 countries.
So, how are they getting away with this in the US?
Wow. US cities (it's infrastructure) suck really hard. Never seen a suburb in Europe hat hasn't grocery stores. I live in a rural area and the nearest supermarket is 5 min away - by foot. Granted nowadays not every tiny village has a store, but most do.
I don't live in the US - I live in Australia, and my nearest supermarket is currently 30 mins walk away. Yes our infrastructure sucks
When I lived in Europe (a village in southern Italy), there was a grocery store in the village only 5 mins away. But there was very little choice - it was more like a corner convenience store. If you wanted a proper grocery store you had to drive at least 20 mins to the nearest town.
If you live deep in surburbia walking isn't an option as the nearest grocery store may be more than a couple of km away. And if you are shopping for a family, cycling isn't an option because of the load you have to haul back.
But if you happen to be single and/or living within 20 min walk of a grocery store, have at it.
Will this grocery delivery service discriminate against "atheist" foods?
All foods are atheist. At least, I've never met or heard of any food that claimed that it believed in a god.
Feel free to provide evidence that theist foods exist - after all - extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
That's a joke, not something that actually happened.
It is apparently from a book called "Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History".
Blurb reads: "Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy."
So it is likely a true record of the exchange.
Also because the brain is removed during the autopsy, so it doesn't even make any sense.
As someone else posted, there are many reasons the brain can arrive separate to the body in an autopsy, so that part at least does make sense.
* Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
* Witness: "No."
* Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
* Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
* Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
* Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
It also ought to be easy for LivingSocial to store passwords hashed with a secure hash designed for passwords, like scrypt (or the related bcrypt).
It's easy to blame users, but there has been no excuse for storing plaintext passwords for years now.
Yes! I can't believe there are websites out there that still don't hash passwords.
A few months ago I signed up to the website of a large health insurance provider, and they sent me an email confirmation of my account creation that included my website password in plaintext. Unbelievable.
Who writes this stuff? And who hires these people?
The problem is that the people who buy it will have more of say than people who don't. There's many reasons why one might not buy one other than finding the whole thing to be repulsive. Not to mention that the people using them are selling out the rest of us.
This has always been the case across all of history. The segments of society that organize will always overwhelm the individualists. The millions of Bieber fans out there can easily shout down my opinion that his music sucks on every conceivable level. It doesn't make them more right, but they have more power than me because there are more of them. This is why organized religions are so strong, even though they mostly spout nonsense.
And there are always people who feel the need to belong, and that sharing every component of their life increases that feeling of belonging. These people don't value privacy because they can't imagine a situation where they wouldn't want to share their feelings and experiences for validation. It's what we might consider an extremely extroverted personality. But, in the future, this type of personality may become the norm - because all this social technology favors that sort, and is about to become so cheap as to be ubiquitous.
So yeah, you and I are screwed. The only good news is that if/when the singularity hits, no one will actually care what the humans are doing, because the future of science/technology/arts, etc will be completely out of our hands.
Yeah, no. People are too stupid to do that, instead seeing pseudo nudity will just become less shocking than it already isn't.
Crap. You are correct.
I'm going to go off and hang my head in shame for not being cynical enough.
It just has a bit of a creepy vibe that's hard to ignore.
Yeah - you just know it has potential to be turned to creepy uses: cute girl wearing short shorts drops her bag, bends over to pick it up, someone wearing google glasses happens to be walking by and glances over, resulting video is uploaded to upskirt fetish sites across the internet.
Or plumber shows a bit of tradesman's crack while working on something -> internet.
If these glasses start becoming ubiquitous, I have a feeling that before long people are going to start dressing a lot more conservatively.
This. Society picks up the changes it wants, and discards the ones it doesn't, and keeps on rolling.
Just because the Schmidt spent millions of dollars developing a product doesn't mean it will be a success - only time will tell that. The Segway didn't crack the market, and google glass might not.
Personally speaking, I wouldn't mind something like a ruggedized google glass for snow boarding, long distance running, or other sporting activities where you want to track things like speed, heart rate etc, but I can't see myself wearing something like that on a daily basis just to walk around town.
But maybe there is a segment of society that needs to know the location of the nearest burger joint stat, and doesn't have the attention span to remember how to get there without walking into walls unless the directions are drip fed to them every 5 seconds. There are certainly many other multi-billion dollar industries out there from which I have never bought a single product.
Oh it's the old "people might accidentally go to porn sites" excuse. Is this a particularly common occurrence? Has anyone here gone to a site and misspelled the name and ended up at a porn site?
I did once at work! Wanted to go to dictionary.com, but accidentally typed in dictoinary.com. Pop-ups with breasts were coming up everywhere. Both my boss and my boss's boss were standing behind me at the time... Turns out that kind of domain misspelling is often registered by unscrupulous operators.
But I can't say that it's a common enough occurrence that mandating massive amounts of infrastructure is indicated.
i dunno what made you think the op was being sarcastic, but your username kinda gives it away
I'm guessing the "/s" at the end of the op's post was the indication everyone else was using to recognize sarcasm...