Technically it's a tax for the Johnstown flood, but the money isn't used for that anymore. It's an 18% tax on alcohol that goes into the general fund. Although I suppose they could just change the name, what difference would it make?
Did you RTFA? They're waiting for Siemens to fix the issues first, a common practice in security research. Siemens and DHS didn't force them to pull the talk and didn't even get lawyers involved. So please stop with your accusations. You clearly lack an understanding of the situation at hand.
Did you RTFA? That's exactly why they decided not to give the talk, because Siemens hasn't fixed the problems.
As NSS Ceo Rick Moy points out:
"The vendor had proposed a fix that turned out not to work, and we felt it would be potentially very negative to the public if information was put out without mitigation being available."... In the past, technology companies have threatened legal action against researchers, but Moy said that in this case the lawyers were not involved. "It's a temporary hold on the information; it's not that it's being buried," he said. "We just don't want to release it without mitigation being out there for the owners and operators of the SCADA equipment."
I imagine the type of system that needs to verify how a user enters the password contains enough sensitive information that mobile access would be restricted if not abolished completely. Any system where the users demand and have a valid need for mobile access (banking, email, etc) has no business implementing this type of authentication.
Did everyone use IRC? I mean almost everyone everyone. In its heyday virtually everyone between the ages of 10 and 25 was using AIM. Can the same be said for IRC? I'm not trying to incite anger, I just don't know because I wasn't around for it. Was IRC accessible and used by everyone and their grandparents?
You mean this interview? Yeah, it has some interesting points. Such as:
If Terry Childs didn't think his boss's boss wasn't an authorized user, why did he CC him in emails containing user IDs and passwords for the same network?
If his job is to maintain the network, and he's told he is being reassigned, why would he hand over the network with no way for the city to maintain it?
It seems that Terry Childs made some mistakes, thought he was being fired, and dug himself into a hole.\
IDG News: Going back, what was the one step he could have done to avoid prison?
Chilton: If he would have simply said, "I will create you an account and you can go in and you can remove my access if you want." If he had created access for someone else, I think that would have resolved it. If he had not decided to leave and go to Nevada a few days later and withdraw US$10,000 in cash, [Childs did this the day before his arrest, while under police surveillance] I think the police may have let it continue on as an employment issue and not a criminal matter.
IDGNS: Do you think Terry Childs deserves another chance?
Chilton: Yes I do. He has a lot of knowledge and he has the ability to learn this stuff on his own. I think with what's happened, he's probably not going to get himself hired by an AT&T or a Bank of America, but he could probably do stuff on his own. Because he definitely has the knowledge.
IDGNS: Do you think he's a trustworthy person?
Chilton: I think for the most part, yes. If he's given clearly defined rules, he could be. I think he's also very stubborn and a little egotistical.
I'm referring to controlling the lights from my phone inside my home using my own network. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound?
Woo yeah, controlling a lightbulb from a phone - thats like so totally l337 and k00l!!
Or you could just get off your fat arse and flick the switch, And no , you couldn't do that if you weren't in the house - but then you wouldn't need the lights on in that case dumbass.
Woo yeah, watching a movie/reading a book/playing a game from a phone - thats like so totally 1337 and k00l!!
Or you could just get off your fat arse and walk to the videostore/library/sports field.
The newsworthiness is that instead of only 250 million nantennas on one small square like in that INL page, these guys replicated a design onto an "8 inch round silicon wafer" with 10 billion antenna elements. And they did it with high detail and little loss between the "master print" and the copy.
Alas, the authors mention this indirectly. Emphasis mine:
More extensive research needs to be performed on energy conversion methods to derive overall system electricity generation efficiency.... This research is at an intermediate stage and may take years to bring to fruition and into the market. The advances made by our research team have shown that some of the early barriers of this alternative PV concept have been crossed and this concept has the potential to be a disruptive and enabling technology.
At least they made actual progress in this paper with real models. That's more than can be said for the hundreds of theoretical models.
Because they already paid the inventor for the patents. They purchased the cake, realized later that it's actually a shit sandwich, and now they need to make some money.
In one story we have commenters berating the US government for unveiling a "cybersecurity plan," and here we have them praising another government for ordering a private corporation from continuing operations.
This single giant interneuron tracks in real time the activity of several tens of thousands of neurons in an olfactory centre and feeds inhibition back onto all of them, so as to maintain their collective output within an appropriately sparse regime.
Lets just hope the live trials go well. It showed promise from the simulation and on live cells. Hopefully it isn't disruptive to other systems in your body.
How about consumer protection advocacy groups? The EFF? I don't know any off the top of my head. This is complete assumption. He's ignoring the fact that the statement points out that the users maintain full copyright ownership of their pictures. I think that stands for itself. Also note he said "...entities took the image from Twitpic and used it without the user's permission." He said "user's permission" for a reason.
You're taking "We've partnered with [completely unknown] organizations" to mean "selling your content for cash?" You're going to have to explain the steps to get from A to B. This is total assumption and isn't newsworthy at all. Where's the evidence?
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I'm not really seeing how it's like LightPeak at all, given that they've ditched the optical connection altogether.
Technically it's a tax for the Johnstown flood, but the money isn't used for that anymore. It's an 18% tax on alcohol that goes into the general fund. Although I suppose they could just change the name, what difference would it make?
Did you RTFA? They're waiting for Siemens to fix the issues first, a common practice in security research. Siemens and DHS didn't force them to pull the talk and didn't even get lawyers involved. So please stop with your accusations. You clearly lack an understanding of the situation at hand.
"The vendor had proposed a fix that turned out not to work, and we felt it would be potentially very negative to the public if information was put out without mitigation being available." ... In the past, technology companies have threatened legal action against researchers, but Moy said that in this case the lawyers were not involved. "It's a temporary hold on the information; it's not that it's being buried," he said. "We just don't want to release it without mitigation being out there for the owners and operators of the SCADA equipment."
If they don't, their competitors will.
I imagine the type of system that needs to verify how a user enters the password contains enough sensitive information that mobile access would be restricted if not abolished completely. Any system where the users demand and have a valid need for mobile access (banking, email, etc) has no business implementing this type of authentication.
The same can probably said for politics.
There's no reason that a system using this type of authentication should also grant access via mobile device in the first place.
Colorado is pretty safe...except for bears.
Did everyone use IRC? I mean almost everyone everyone. In its heyday virtually everyone between the ages of 10 and 25 was using AIM. Can the same be said for IRC? I'm not trying to incite anger, I just don't know because I wasn't around for it. Was IRC accessible and used by everyone and their grandparents?
It seems that Terry Childs made some mistakes, thought he was being fired, and dug himself into a hole.\
IDG News: Going back, what was the one step he could have done to avoid prison? Chilton: If he would have simply said, "I will create you an account and you can go in and you can remove my access if you want." If he had created access for someone else, I think that would have resolved it. If he had not decided to leave and go to Nevada a few days later and withdraw US$10,000 in cash, [Childs did this the day before his arrest, while under police surveillance] I think the police may have let it continue on as an employment issue and not a criminal matter. IDGNS: Do you think Terry Childs deserves another chance? Chilton: Yes I do. He has a lot of knowledge and he has the ability to learn this stuff on his own. I think with what's happened, he's probably not going to get himself hired by an AT&T or a Bank of America, but he could probably do stuff on his own. Because he definitely has the knowledge. IDGNS: Do you think he's a trustworthy person? Chilton: I think for the most part, yes. If he's given clearly defined rules, he could be. I think he's also very stubborn and a little egotistical.
Woo yeah, controlling a lightbulb from a phone - thats like so totally l337 and k00l!!
Or you could just get off your fat arse and flick the switch, And no , you couldn't do that if you weren't in the house - but then you wouldn't need the lights on in that case dumbass.
Woo yeah, watching a movie/reading a book/playing a game from a phone - thats like so totally 1337 and k00l!!
Or you could just get off your fat arse and walk to the videostore/library/sports field.
The newsworthiness is that instead of only 250 million nantennas on one small square like in that INL page, these guys replicated a design onto an "8 inch round silicon wafer" with 10 billion antenna elements. And they did it with high detail and little loss between the "master print" and the copy.
More extensive research needs to be performed on energy conversion methods to derive overall system electricity generation efficiency. ... This research is at an intermediate stage and may take years to bring to fruition and into the market. The advances made by our research team have shown that some of the early barriers of this alternative PV concept have been crossed and this concept has the potential to be a disruptive and enabling technology.
At least they made actual progress in this paper with real models. That's more than can be said for the hundreds of theoretical models.
I don't know about that. Mine has a "Notify me when an open network is available" option.
Here is the original GCHQ release mentioned in TFA.
So don't expose your home lighting network to the outside world. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice to control my home's lighting from my phone.
Do you even know how federal legislation works? Why would the people who proposed this decide against it?
Because they already paid the inventor for the patents. They purchased the cake, realized later that it's actually a shit sandwich, and now they need to make some money.
This seems to be to be differing views on the same subject.
In one story we have commenters berating the US government for unveiling a "cybersecurity plan," and here we have them praising another government for ordering a private corporation from continuing operations.
What gives?
This single giant interneuron tracks in real time the activity of several tens of thousands of neurons in an olfactory centre and feeds inhibition back onto all of them, so as to maintain their collective output within an appropriately sparse regime.
Lets just hope the live trials go well. It showed promise from the simulation and on live cells. Hopefully it isn't disruptive to other systems in your body.
How about consumer protection advocacy groups? The EFF? I don't know any off the top of my head. This is complete assumption. He's ignoring the fact that the statement points out that the users maintain full copyright ownership of their pictures. I think that stands for itself. Also note he said "...entities took the image from Twitpic and used it without the user's permission." He said "user's permission" for a reason.
You're taking "We've partnered with [completely unknown] organizations" to mean "selling your content for cash?" You're going to have to explain the steps to get from A to B. This is total assumption and isn't newsworthy at all. Where's the evidence?