Is this/. or some news outlet for old fogies who don't understand computers? Isn't it already a standard security practice to only allow a few tries at a password before requiring a few minutes wait time til anyone can try again? No matter how fast an attacking computer is, its speed won't be an advantage if it can only attempt 3 tries every 15 or 20 minutes.
I'm tired of people saying this would've been horrible. Bad ideas are turned into good stories just as easily as good ideas are turned into bad stories. Hppens all the time. It's all about the writing & ability to make something enjoyable. A good director and screenwriter can make any idea work for a large audience. Personally I would like to have seen how this would've played out. Would've taken Star Wars in a fresh new direction, even if it didn't seem like Star Wars. Couldn't have been worse than The Last Jedi.
Excellent point. I really have nothing to add to what you said besides that. I had to say something though, 'cause I went to moderate your comment up as "Insightful" but the cursor accidentally landed on the wrong thing & moderated it as "redundant". So I need to make a comment, to undo the mistake.
Not saying it definitely wasn't and can't say it definitely was, since none of us have all the information about the situation. I'm just saying that from my view, the gov't would have to be incredibly negligent with their most important secrets for this stuff to just be taken like this, and that really seems incredibly unlikely. After all, anyone who knows a little about security knows they should keep highly sensitive stuff like this heavily encrypted, offline, & with physical access very very limited. I'm sure the gov't & their contractors have good security experts working for them, considering the value of the secrets they're holding.
I have a hard time believing that in 2018, the gov't & its contractors, aren't locking down national security military secrets better than this. It's so close to unbelievable to me, that I have to wonder if this is misinformation left on a honeypot server. If the US gov't is really this loose with their classified information at this point in history....
This sort of thing is so incredibly negligent, that companies who do this, should be fined or something. If only the politicians knew something about cybersecurity, maybe we could get some laws that make sense about it.
& history's shown that isn't a good idea. unfortunately, I'm guessing the not-so-tech-savvy politicians will fall for that argument, especially since they'll get a lot of money to do so.
If I were them, I'd have just told Getty's lawyer that they need to hire a decent webmaster. Any beginner should know how to Google and then copy-n-paste...
Everyone's known since Stuxnet was identified in late 2010, that these companies were vulnerable to serious attacks. So for 7 years they've done either nothing or not enough, to secure themselves. I think they're putting the public at risk, therefore, they should be in trouble for negligence. Hopefully nobody's harmed by their negligence.
Javascript for me, then on to PHP. Tried a bit of C, C++, & ASM, but never really dove into it enough to be productive. Learned a lot from them though. Eventually I settled into Python, 'cause PHP had certain deficiencies that made it far less useful than Python to me. Now I'm exclusively a Python & Django guy.
As humans die out from their self imposed destruction via global warming, our robots will continue on, surviving through the environment we made that was unlivable for us. Someday robots will be made by robots, whose purpose will be to terraform the earth into a habitable place for humans again and they will recreate us from old DNA samples they find or have stored away. Then we'll take some of their jobs.
Maybe if they fined each person who shares a fake news story, then people would start being more thoughtful before sharing news. That would get to the heart of the problem quicker. The heart of the problem being -- many people can't be bothered to learn how to identify fake news & actually think about it before sending it off to others. If people had to open their wallets each time they did it, they'd be motivated to think first & share later.
I think the "make 'em pay" model, has a lot to do with why so many people are cord cutting. So this strategy by the TV companies, isn't really a long term solution but more like a placeholder to buy them time to find a new way to fund their companies.
Good question. I think might be immune to this, since they signed an agreement with Micro$oft like most other cellphone makers. They'll probably back Kyrocera monitarily if it comes to a court case though, 'cause they'd like to see the patents challenged and not be the ones in the middle of it.
I really hope Kyocera doesn't back down & settle out of court. I'd love to see this go forward and see if Microsoft's patents really would hold up legally. I doubt they would, but that's all theory 'til it's tested out.
I originally saw it as white & gold when I saw it on a forum Thursday night, and figured it was being posted by trolls 'cause they were asking people what color it was even when it was obviously white & gold. Friday morning I saw it on the news on TV, and they explained that some people see it as black & blue. I thought that was a bit crazy, but after a few minutes, I was suddenly able to see it as black & blue......and I can switch back & forth between the two color sets if I try hard. Awesome.
I love this. It shows the authorities how TOR can be used in their favor, instead of demonizing it and making it out to be no good for anything but criminal activities.
There's only 1.357 billion Chinese, so did all of them move, and another 2.243 billion come there from outside of China, to travel across China? The article really doesn't explain where they're getting the numbers from, & I'm having a hard time believing that HALF of all humans went to Beijing for Chinese New Year. According to the article, Baidu's app was on only 200 million cell phones to be able to do this.
I hate to admit it, but I signed up for a few courses at some MOOCs and never did even one lesson of some of those courses. I signed up thinking it would be awesome to learn the subject I signed up for, but then when it came to the time to do it, I didn't have the time to do it. That being said, I know that if I'd paid for the course, then I definitely would've done the courses or given more thought before deciding on whether I could do the course. The way it's all currently set up, you don't have to give any thought to it before signing up besides being excited, because if you change your mind later or if you can't do it later, then you don't lose anything for it.
That being the case, I think MOOC's should charge a small fee from everyone who signs up. Maybe $10-$100, depending on the course. When the student finishes, they either get all the money back or they get a percentage back. Then the student has something to lose, and will be sure to put more effort into the course and make people really think before signing up.
Rolling the stones as huge cylinders would've been cool but they used water to wet the sand, which reduced friction. There's even some hieroglyphs that show it being done. Was big news back in the spring. See:
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Is this /. or some news outlet for old fogies who don't understand computers? Isn't it already a standard security practice to only allow a few tries at a password before requiring a few minutes wait time til anyone can try again? No matter how fast an attacking computer is, its speed won't be an advantage if it can only attempt 3 tries every 15 or 20 minutes.
I'm tired of people saying this would've been horrible. Bad ideas are turned into good stories just as easily as good ideas are turned into bad stories. Hppens all the time. It's all about the writing & ability to make something enjoyable. A good director and screenwriter can make any idea work for a large audience. Personally I would like to have seen how this would've played out. Would've taken Star Wars in a fresh new direction, even if it didn't seem like Star Wars. Couldn't have been worse than The Last Jedi.
Excellent point. I really have nothing to add to what you said besides that. I had to say something though, 'cause I went to moderate your comment up as "Insightful" but the cursor accidentally landed on the wrong thing & moderated it as "redundant". So I need to make a comment, to undo the mistake.
Excellent point!
Not saying it definitely wasn't and can't say it definitely was, since none of us have all the information about the situation. I'm just saying that from my view, the gov't would have to be incredibly negligent with their most important secrets for this stuff to just be taken like this, and that really seems incredibly unlikely. After all, anyone who knows a little about security knows they should keep highly sensitive stuff like this heavily encrypted, offline, & with physical access very very limited. I'm sure the gov't & their contractors have good security experts working for them, considering the value of the secrets they're holding.
I have a hard time believing that in 2018, the gov't & its contractors, aren't locking down national security military secrets better than this. It's so close to unbelievable to me, that I have to wonder if this is misinformation left on a honeypot server. If the US gov't is really this loose with their classified information at this point in history....
This sort of thing is so incredibly negligent, that companies who do this, should be fined or something. If only the politicians knew something about cybersecurity, maybe we could get some laws that make sense about it.
& history's shown that isn't a good idea. unfortunately, I'm guessing the not-so-tech-savvy politicians will fall for that argument, especially since they'll get a lot of money to do so.
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Everyone's known since Stuxnet was identified in late 2010, that these companies were vulnerable to serious attacks. So for 7 years they've done either nothing or not enough, to secure themselves. I think they're putting the public at risk, therefore, they should be in trouble for negligence. Hopefully nobody's harmed by their negligence.
Javascript for me, then on to PHP. Tried a bit of C, C++, & ASM, but never really dove into it enough to be productive. Learned a lot from them though. Eventually I settled into Python, 'cause PHP had certain deficiencies that made it far less useful than Python to me. Now I'm exclusively a Python & Django guy.
As humans die out from their self imposed destruction via global warming, our robots will continue on, surviving through the environment we made that was unlivable for us. Someday robots will be made by robots, whose purpose will be to terraform the earth into a habitable place for humans again and they will recreate us from old DNA samples they find or have stored away. Then we'll take some of their jobs.
Maybe if they fined each person who shares a fake news story, then people would start being more thoughtful before sharing news. That would get to the heart of the problem quicker. The heart of the problem being -- many people can't be bothered to learn how to identify fake news & actually think about it before sending it off to others. If people had to open their wallets each time they did it, they'd be motivated to think first & share later.
So then, would this make HTML5 "The Reverse Flash" or "Zoom"?
I think the "make 'em pay" model, has a lot to do with why so many people are cord cutting. So this strategy by the TV companies, isn't really a long term solution but more like a placeholder to buy them time to find a new way to fund their companies.
This could be because an oligarchy can get its way, even when the majority doesn't support it's actions.
Good question. I think might be immune to this, since they signed an agreement with Micro$oft like most other cellphone makers. They'll probably back Kyrocera monitarily if it comes to a court case though, 'cause they'd like to see the patents challenged and not be the ones in the middle of it.
I really hope Kyocera doesn't back down & settle out of court. I'd love to see this go forward and see if Microsoft's patents really would hold up legally. I doubt they would, but that's all theory 'til it's tested out.
I originally saw it as white & gold when I saw it on a forum Thursday night, and figured it was being posted by trolls 'cause they were asking people what color it was even when it was obviously white & gold. Friday morning I saw it on the news on TV, and they explained that some people see it as black & blue. I thought that was a bit crazy, but after a few minutes, I was suddenly able to see it as black & blue......and I can switch back & forth between the two color sets if I try hard. Awesome.
I love this. It shows the authorities how TOR can be used in their favor, instead of demonizing it and making it out to be no good for anything but criminal activities.
There's only 1.357 billion Chinese, so did all of them move, and another 2.243 billion come there from outside of China, to travel across China? The article really doesn't explain where they're getting the numbers from, & I'm having a hard time believing that HALF of all humans went to Beijing for Chinese New Year. According to the article, Baidu's app was on only 200 million cell phones to be able to do this.
That sounds about right, 'cause I know 99 besides me.
.....but shouldn't that be a form of entrapment? I guess the gov't can make whatever rules they want 'til enough United Statesians try a revolution.
I hate to admit it, but I signed up for a few courses at some MOOCs and never did even one lesson of some of those courses. I signed up thinking it would be awesome to learn the subject I signed up for, but then when it came to the time to do it, I didn't have the time to do it. That being said, I know that if I'd paid for the course, then I definitely would've done the courses or given more thought before deciding on whether I could do the course. The way it's all currently set up, you don't have to give any thought to it before signing up besides being excited, because if you change your mind later or if you can't do it later, then you don't lose anything for it.
That being the case, I think MOOC's should charge a small fee from everyone who signs up. Maybe $10-$100, depending on the course. When the student finishes, they either get all the money back or they get a percentage back. Then the student has something to lose, and will be sure to put more effort into the course and make people really think before signing up.
Rolling the stones as huge cylinders would've been cool but they used water to wet the sand, which reduced friction. There's even some hieroglyphs that show it being done. Was big news back in the spring. See: