We didn't really do anything with it, we just saw a file with an interesting name, opened it and looked at it and went "huh, how about that, what a stupid way to secure sensitive data" and then went on our merry way.
A while back while WiFi was still new and shiny; and before people had figured the whole "put a password on it"-thing, a friend and I were out wardriving, we came across an open network that turned out to belong to a local Micky D's. Connected to the network and saw a single computer running on it, a little poking at it revealed it to be running some flavor of windows XP and some more poking revealed it to have a blank admin password. So when we connected to the standard "C" (or whatever the standard network share is called, I forget) network share and found a huge excel document in the root of said drive, downloaded it and found it to contain all the information - addresses, phone numbers, SSNs and e-mail addresses - of the employees of said Micky D's.
I highly doubt that the video was the only data gathered in this particular experiment. It's just that it's hard to make a "snappy" video out of pages and pages of numerical data gathered from whatever else they were using to gather data from the experiment.
I believe, China won't try to start a war. 1. they are not fundamentalists 2. they already built their economy to work with the western economies.
They cannot afford a war and they know it. Only "small" fundamentalist states not integrated into the world would try to start something. North Korea, Iran and possibly Pakistan if taken over by the Taliban.
They can't afford it right now, and that is the main thing. Eventually (soon possibly) China will have reached the maximum potential it can reach with it's current natural resources, as will Europe, the US and Russian (and likely India).
When that happens the current equilibrium will be broken and "stuff" will start happening. Admittedly it might not be a world war or even a small war, but history has shown that when the balance of power amongst nations changes, war is the usual outcome.
As I see it, the threat of nuclear warfare does not originate with Pakistan or North Korea or some other rogue state; it makes little sense for a small state to initiate a nuclear war because they have first strike capability ONLY, and moreover they do not have an arsenal big or developed enough to do any significant damage to the superpowers. If Pakistan or DPRK decided to start a nuclear war (for ideological reasons, since there would exist no strategic reasons for them to do so) they would cause widespread chaos in their target, and then they would be wiped from the map by whoever they had nuked.
The only states for whom it would make any kind of strategic sense to start a nuclear war would be China and possibly India, of the current superpowers those two are the only ones who are not sufficiently "Westenized" and who have the manpower (and possibly infrastructure) to survive beyond the initial exchange of blows.
More proof, as if yet more was needed that NASA is just a public front. It showcases ingenius uses of old tech that people are told is the cutting edge. The real cutting edge is classified and reserved for military use and eventually trickles down to public use once it is made obsolete. So yeah, the military contrary to what many believe is NOT stupid, in fact they're damned good at what they do. If they seem to ignore safeguarding NASA it's because the things they want to safeguard are not part of NASA.
Honestly though, much of the stuff they use at NASA is still "cutting edge", not because we couldn't build something better if we really wanted to, but rather because we haven' t needed to yet.
Take for example their Vertical Gun Range it's from the Apollo era, but it is still one of the most developed and advanced light gas guns in existence. Why? Because we haven't needed a bigger and more advanced one so far, and because the thing still generates the data you need to do impact physics. This is the case with much of our "old" technology; if you will allow me a small digression. I was watching one of those conspiracy theory shows (for the same reasons people watch bad movies, everything they say is hilariously wrong), and because they were apparently running out of ideas they decided to beat the dead horse that is Area 51. At some point they showed pictures of the SR-71 and said something like "We built this in 1964, do They expect us to believe we haven't built something much more advanced?". Well yeah "They" expect you to believe that because we actually haven't built anything that does what the SR-71 does (go really, really fast with an air-breathing engine) any better than the already SR-71 does it. And incidentally beyond the OMGsocool!-factor the SR-71 was and still is outperformed by the U-2.
Anyhow pardon my digression. My point still stands, none of what NASA has on display are some watered down version of stuff the military already has more advanced versions of, the old stuff they're displaying as "cutting edge" actually is just that, mainly because no-one cared to make never versions of it.
Isn't this about hardware, not operating systems (other than the OS being able to support the hardware)?
No, it is about two operating systems on the same hardware, one of which (GNU/Linux) outperforming the other (Windows).
And isn't the hardware simply about how much money you have to throw at it?
No, it is also about the architectural choices.
Architectural choices are irrelevant if you don't have the funding to realize them.
If you can't afford the hardware to your fancy supercomputer, you can make the best possible choices in the word, but you're still not getting a supercomputer.
Right, but you don't have the right to charge money to install chips into someone else's device. There's all sorts of legal precedent for that from cars to guns to any number of other items you're prohibited from doing. That's why he went to jail.
Modifying cars and guns are covered by special regulations since any modifications done to those particular things could result in damage to property or persons. That is to say a gun could blow up and a car could crash if you install unsupported upgrades to them. Worst that might happen if you mod your console is that the manufacturer will decide to roll out an upgrade that bricks modded hardware, you are still not endangering yourself of those around you (well you might be if you're one of those angry console kids that I keep seeing on YouTube)
As I understand it this mod to the Xbox360 consists of a chip soldered onto the motherboard (that is the correct term for a console right?) and simply prevents a signal from whatever is doing the copy-protection from getting to the OS (well either that or it just sends the same "all ok"-signal every time).
It does not sound like they are altering the software at all, which would mean that they are not in violation of the software license. It's like Windows, you can't mess around with the proprietary code in it, but if you wanted to install a hardware mod that made it so that windows thought a sound card was a graphics card (I don't know why you would do this, but I couldn't think of anything better) you can do whatever you want, since the hardware in your PC is not covered under the Windows EULA.
Well to be fair Chrome isn't just going from 6 to 7, it does have all sorts of dots and stuff in it's version number.
Like the version I'm running (the one I recently upgraded to after reading this news post) for example is: 7.0.517.41 that's a whole segment more than your example of major.minor.bugfix example!
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We didn't really do anything with it, we just saw a file with an interesting name, opened it and looked at it and went "huh, how about that, what a stupid way to secure sensitive data" and then went on our merry way.
Well the share wasn't hidden, it showed up on the "browse network" screen and there was no password, just the username "Administrator"
Wire fraud? But we did it via a wireLESS network :(
A while back while WiFi was still new and shiny; and before people had figured the whole "put a password on it"-thing, a friend and I were out wardriving, we came across an open network that turned out to belong to a local Micky D's. Connected to the network and saw a single computer running on it, a little poking at it revealed it to be running some flavor of windows XP and some more poking revealed it to have a blank admin password.
So when we connected to the standard "C" (or whatever the standard network share is called, I forget) network share and found a huge excel document in the root of said drive, downloaded it and found it to contain all the information - addresses, phone numbers, SSNs and e-mail addresses - of the employees of said Micky D's.
Cool story, huh?
They might have been smart, but apparently also lazy.
See it's in cases like this I just point to my sig.
It pretty much explains my position on these kinds of things.
Wouldn't !admin mean subfactorial[admin]?
I'd rather pasteurize PayPal....
What does ABBA have to do with this?
Everything.
I highly doubt that the video was the only data gathered in this particular experiment. It's just that it's hard to make a "snappy" video out of pages and pages of numerical data gathered from whatever else they were using to gather data from the experiment.
Wow, you spent some time thinking that through didn't you?
(I did too, you did better :/ )
I suppose if you really wanted to, you could jab the thing into someone's eye. I mean, it'd not be particularly "sonic" but I'm sure it'd hurt.
Baby steps indeed. As a society we've gotten as far as TARD. Now we just need to get the rest of the way toward TARDIS.
What? We already built a Time And Relative Dimension? And now we just need to put it in space.
Nah he should be working with various pointy and sharp objects instead!
He could also give the kid some lawn darts and a rock.
Those things have been around forever too!
So who OTHER than the US government could be responsible for the attack?
A whole bunch of people around the internet.
My bet is on some bored nerd somewhere.
Maybe you could write a speech-to-text program and get the source code for the linux kernel that way.
Not sure why you would do it, but you could.
I believe, China won't try to start a war.
1. they are not fundamentalists
2. they already built their economy to work with the western economies.
They cannot afford a war and they know it. Only "small" fundamentalist states not integrated into the world would try to start something. North Korea, Iran and possibly Pakistan if taken over by the Taliban.
They can't afford it right now, and that is the main thing. Eventually (soon possibly) China will have reached the maximum potential it can reach with it's current natural resources, as will Europe, the US and Russian (and likely India).
When that happens the current equilibrium will be broken and "stuff" will start happening.
Admittedly it might not be a world war or even a small war, but history has shown that when the balance of power amongst nations changes, war is the usual outcome.
As I see it, the threat of nuclear warfare does not originate with Pakistan or North Korea or some other rogue state; it makes little sense for a small state to initiate a nuclear war because they have first strike capability ONLY, and moreover they do not have an arsenal big or developed enough to do any significant damage to the superpowers. If Pakistan or DPRK decided to start a nuclear war (for ideological reasons, since there would exist no strategic reasons for them to do so) they would cause widespread chaos in their target, and then they would be wiped from the map by whoever they had nuked.
The only states for whom it would make any kind of strategic sense to start a nuclear war would be China and possibly India, of the current superpowers those two are the only ones who are not sufficiently "Westenized" and who have the manpower (and possibly infrastructure) to survive beyond the initial exchange of blows.
More proof, as if yet more was needed that NASA is just a public front. It showcases ingenius uses of old tech that people are told is the cutting edge. The real cutting edge is classified and reserved for military use and eventually trickles down to public use once it is made obsolete. So yeah, the military contrary to what many believe is NOT stupid, in fact they're damned good at what they do. If they seem to ignore safeguarding NASA it's because the things they want to safeguard are not part of NASA.
Honestly though, much of the stuff they use at NASA is still "cutting edge", not because we couldn't build something better if we really wanted to, but rather because we haven' t needed to yet.
Take for example their Vertical Gun Range it's from the Apollo era, but it is still one of the most developed and advanced light gas guns in existence. Why? Because we haven't needed a bigger and more advanced one so far, and because the thing still generates the data you need to do impact physics.
This is the case with much of our "old" technology; if you will allow me a small digression. I was watching one of those conspiracy theory shows (for the same reasons people watch bad movies, everything they say is hilariously wrong), and because they were apparently running out of ideas they decided to beat the dead horse that is Area 51.
At some point they showed pictures of the SR-71 and said something like "We built this in 1964, do They expect us to believe we haven't built something much more advanced?". Well yeah "They" expect you to believe that because we actually haven't built anything that does what the SR-71 does (go really, really fast with an air-breathing engine) any better than the already SR-71 does it. And incidentally beyond the OMGsocool!-factor the SR-71 was and still is outperformed by the U-2.
Anyhow pardon my digression.
My point still stands, none of what NASA has on display are some watered down version of stuff the military already has more advanced versions of, the old stuff they're displaying as "cutting edge" actually is just that, mainly because no-one cared to make never versions of it.
Isn't this about hardware, not operating systems (other than the OS being able to support the hardware)?
No, it is about two operating systems on the same hardware, one of which (GNU/Linux) outperforming the other (Windows).
And isn't the hardware simply about how much money you have to throw at it?
No, it is also about the architectural choices.
Architectural choices are irrelevant if you don't have the funding to realize them.
If you can't afford the hardware to your fancy supercomputer, you can make the best possible choices in the word, but you're still not getting a supercomputer.
Right, but you don't have the right to charge money to install chips into someone else's device. There's all sorts of legal precedent for that from cars to guns to any number of other items you're prohibited from doing. That's why he went to jail.
Modifying cars and guns are covered by special regulations since any modifications done to those particular things could result in damage to property or persons.
That is to say a gun could blow up and a car could crash if you install unsupported upgrades to them. Worst that might happen if you mod your console is that the manufacturer will decide to roll out an upgrade that bricks modded hardware, you are still not endangering yourself of those around you (well you might be if you're one of those angry console kids that I keep seeing on YouTube)
As I understand it this mod to the Xbox360 consists of a chip soldered onto the motherboard (that is the correct term for a console right?) and simply prevents a signal from whatever is doing the copy-protection from getting to the OS (well either that or it just sends the same "all ok"-signal every time).
It does not sound like they are altering the software at all, which would mean that they are not in violation of the software license.
It's like Windows, you can't mess around with the proprietary code in it, but if you wanted to install a hardware mod that made it so that windows thought a sound card was a graphics card (I don't know why you would do this, but I couldn't think of anything better) you can do whatever you want, since the hardware in your PC is not covered under the Windows EULA.
Denmark is on the Arctic rim?
I mean I know Greenland is technically part of Denmark, but far as I know it's cold as hell here but we're not in the Arctic.
Well to be fair Chrome isn't just going from 6 to 7, it does have all sorts of dots and stuff in it's version number.
Like the version I'm running (the one I recently upgraded to after reading this news post) for example is: 7.0.517.41 that's a whole segment more than your example of major.minor.bugfix example!