The data centers I've been in the SAN array and tape library are is a totally different area, level, or building than the computing farm. This is because of security and accessibility to the librarians and vendors of long term storage. You use fibre or some other technology to connect the two areas.
With enough tapes and disk it means a tech or librarian is always walking around handling media and I'd rather them not touch my server cabinet inadvertently. Being 1 company we don't cage intra-department unless its mission critical.
The drives that contain the code to start the system or fast local space could very easily be insulated in some other part of the cabinet. The proposed system is geared to big systems which don't required 1 CPU 1 Disk to start individual cpus. The blade is configured a channel to bootstrap from a disk or disk image somewhere else in the complex. Anyhow with 8-32GB MicroSD you can put that chip into an external USB port and configure a boot from that.
The equilibrium of the system is the most important. Large swings of temps and humidity kill rotating media and robotic tape libraries. These occur when service doors are opened for substantial periods of time for a "hot swap component" removal or extended repairs which involve a cool down to the mechanical parts.
My most pressing admin question is how does the telemetry come in from the complex to warn me of a heat/pump/flow failure? Is this easy to use, Is it secured (IE no one can snmp/telnet to a dumb pump and shut it off) and accountable with a robust logging system I can integrate into my business.
Prepaid credit cards have limitations and you have to shop smart. 1) Most require some sort of activation fee that could be quite high.
2) Many are rejected when re-occuring, "overdraft," or secured payments are "possible." I've been rejected when traveling and trying to use such a thing for pay as you go cell phone. The company defended saying "but what if you want more minutes?" My response was you cut me off anyhow with 0 credits by your policy and a stalemate occured. Pre-Paids likely to be rejected when used for renting vacation vehicles like boats, scooters or bicycles. Somehow the system knows these card's aren't fully secured - the reality is you want X hours fun, the company wants X $'s of collateral.
3) Many online merchants do not process these cards correctly. I tried to buy a media CD package from a tech company, and found out that they at the time would charge me but wouldn't ship it to me because its not a full on credit card and wasn't able to be processed by their shipping dept. It was something about mismatch of verification of address. Trying to get a rollback of the charge was impossible by the bank or the company.
5) Any remaining small balance is near impossible to use or get back. Merchants weasel out saying because they are like gift cards they don't have to accept them for a purchase below a minimum. So if it has 3.75 left on the card the merchant can reject it for cause of a minimum $5 purchase (often restaurants). FInding a place and the right item that you can do cash+prepaid card is the only way to zero out the card.
6) There is typically a use it or lose it clause or monthly service that erodes your pre-paid's value if you don't use the balance. This is the lie that it costs many dollars a month for the company to track your prepaid card balance for you (I disagree).
7) Beware the clauses on lost/stolen pre-paid cards. They are often considered same as gift cards or cash and thus have no recourse than be a total loss unless you can prove by police report armed robbery or loss uncontrollable by you such as being car jacked.
The article noted that this is a vulnerability to cracked smartphones with ssh installed for which the user will likely not even know opens up such a vulnerability to their cell.
I think that this is more serious for wi-fi and bluetooth enabled devices as the data charge is circumvented making it even harder to detect?
I'd hate to start streaming my smartphone's logs back to my IDS, but brute force is not a new reality but the environment is very precarious as the smartphone does a lot now but may not "do" enough to protect its own resources from attack.
This is a brief summary of a deeper argument unable to be dealt with in/.
Catholic Theology not the result of 1500 years, it is rooted in man's pilgrimage to the eternal and is the synthesis of all quests ever undertaken for truth. This truth is fully and forever revealed in the person of Jesus Christ who is the Man-God.
Now: from what I understand extra-terrestrial life is quite a broad category and would have to be narrowed.
Intellect and Will are that which would be key in determining life which could receive the Gospel all else would be under the dominion of rational beings to care for and steward.
For those who want to review: Thomas Aquinas "contra gentiles" and John Paul II "person and act". Also read Teresa Benedict of the Cross (Edith Stein) "Interior castle' and the Venerable Bede (his works on friendship) are great starts in understanding the basis of the main argument below.
They boil down to:
Potential of Intellect and Will are necessary for the Gospel's reception as without which there is not possible a communion of body, soul & mind (for we the non-angelic life) to the Christian Triune God: Father Son and Spirt. Without Intellect there is not a possible relation, without will there is not freedom to accept agape and to return agape.
Extra-terrestrial plant and non rational animal life would be simply created goods which are at the service of a rational beings quest to be fully matriculated into the communion of the Triune God given his/her creation and teleos toward eternal life. The "1st Contact" of Spiritual being -pure intellect/will- to us is beyond what can be discussed here.
Humans being a created being but having not an end because our soul being spiritual is indestructible to anything/person created by the Author of Life. Upon mortal death our eternal existence either prepared in mortal life to be in communion with the Godhead and is welcomed in heaven (love accepts love) or shall be cast out (hell) due to sin (the cutting of relationship to God by fully realizing an act (even a single one) which is against love (God is Love) with full knowledge and will that the act was so (I knew, intended and chose to do a human act against love itself -a full mortal sin).
I urge you to seek out Thomas Aquinas, JP II the Great, as they really are the great doctors of thought that even allow this question to be explored properly, systematically, and neutrally in our time without the knee-jerk comments of/.
The conferences argument is sadly summarized: "Extra-terrestrials with intellect and will; wherever and whenever the Gospel is proclaimed have the freedom to convert and be baptized, live a full Christian life while Humans wherever they may end up can keep insisting to be atheist under the same circumstances."
I think DOJ did look at the Enron Developers to determine if products/services actually existed and worked. If this is a trend perhaps the Galleon programmers could also be examined. Any Ponzi and other Stock schemes revolve around what did they know and when did they know it, programmers and Admins are not magically excepted from being examined as they may be material to the scam being pulled off.
Scam brokerage applications apparently are built upon business rules which I hope a programmer is willing to question if they are totally without reason and would walk out if they realized the shell game. I self reference to this with a comment I made about IBM's Moffet and the growing scandal of lack of ethics in the IT Business.
If convicted these guys are going to give a whole bunch of IT professionals a sullied reputation simply by association.
Where will this end? Will IT professionals soon be the butt of jokes like ambulance chasing lawyers? Oh your a brokerage programmer? Hmm What's 100 brokerage programmers at the bottom of the ocean?
I just looked at wikipedia under slum That which matched for me for lack of better words were:
They are commonly seen as "breeding grounds" for social problems such as crime, drug addiction, alcoholism, high rates of mental illness, and suicide. In many poor countries they exhibit high rates of disease due to unsanitary conditions, malnutrition, and lack of basic health care...
Many slum dwellers employ themselves in the informal economy. This can include street vending, drug dealing, domestic work, and prostitution...
I drew a parallel of corruption or chaotic governance to the named ISP's by Krebs and as such seemed to have met the analogy well enough.
I rejected Ghetto for wiki's alignment to ethnicity or the word Barrio which upscales in a certain language and Hooverville which implied an economic basis.
I possibly could say Mos Eisley or Tatooine both are a more focused but lesser known reference and wouldn't work with the reference to Monopoly addresses which are cheap vs expensive based on arbitrary or cultural value.
Spam kings may not work out of Kibeira directly but they could somehow make.NG totally worthless if spammers/malware moved in and everybody else started to filter them out based on this. This is actually a real threat in my mind to developing nations and would injure innocent persons by the acts of such persons willing to sacrifice them for a fast buck.
Realistically, many people in business do look at your TLD and determine on that alone if they are going to continue to do business with you.
My point in asking was how get opinions to recover and redeem such a place which is exactly I think your alluding to. I don't condemn or demean any people who in real life are in such places not by choice or don't have a way out.
Law is best if it is technology wordiness agnostic. If it is tied to a specific vendor or method as soon as its law that vendor goes casters up or method is cracked. Then the law has to be changed by due process.
It would be best to point the Law to a having a working "policy" document such as something in the NIST 800 series. Each company or government agency could then determine and publish the exact level of security they want but no less than a minimum. Not everything should be.mil hard encryption but definitely not always clear text.
I cant find if either bills deal with the situation of a loss of a trusted key or a crack to the cypher algorithm itself. This is worse than data breach as its a total defeat of the system - which could affect more than 1 company or agency. I don't know if there is such a thing as Fort Knox for key escrow.
I think that this is a ruse to coverup something else. DARPA, "We need to fly 10 balloons for over a month to calibrate/check out our secret targeting/tracking system but everyone will notice 10 big balloons hanging out at visible places and know we are calibrating/checking our tracking system -- what do we do?"
Answer: Make up a stupid contest to find them and then also skim out data from it.
OR
See if anyone detects the cloaked UAV flying between each balloon
I think this is just Google's Glomar Explorer. I'm sure they are not interested at all to be mining all those data packets for intel. This is a complete altruistic - do no evil - venture to improve transatlantic relations
I was more offended at the suicide on Sins of the Father. I wasn't expecting that. That was scripted as was the mop up at the Presidents execution. This seems to be more in level play which is more heightened for effect. I'd not want to think that the mission goals in the video must be satisfied with civilian body count. To be perverse would be to watch all the _wounded_ and frightened dragging and scrambling away than to put them on the ground like at 3:37ish.
I don't know french but perhaps your the one providing cover to the AI killbots from the security...
Ok. The CIA has processed your reflection as seen about 1:30 they have also confirmed your ID by matching it to the interpol DB. We know your connected to the french.
The boys are dropping out of black helos on repel ropes in 3.... 2....1....
Isn't this the plot of "The International?" The arms dealer sold the Chinese missiles but also then sold the counter measure at the same time to the opposite side?
I suspect that a kill switch doesn't necessarily have to be in a critical component of any system. If its in a secondary or tertiary system in a critical path trigging that could disrupt or disable the primary use.
In the IT industry if I want to take down a website why bother with attacking the primary machine if the low level infrastructure is vulnerable; such as chillers, aircon, EPS which often have some sort of control & monitoring I could tap into if I found the right access point.
If anything an attacker could cause a 3 mile island type scenario of disrupting telemetry to force a reaction of the primary system by an operator with an attack upon a low level system.
Sending the right radiation signal to the kill switch of the aircon unit on a radar station in the middle of the Med could naturally overheat the signal processing equipment thereby disabling it.
Now with RF-ID chips possibly disguised into a complex circuit you just can't have to look at the code you have to examine every part and chip die. Not only that I wonder if the.mil spooks have already figured out which chips and circuits by their design can be overloaded with targeted radiation to shut them down. Really they are not "designed" kill switches but have found to be weak points in the shielding and are vulnerable to external attack causing the primary system to fail as a side affect.
This is Tom Clancy & James Bond stuff.
Would be cooler if Israel sent jets to the edge of the boarder and when Syrian launched they would send Syrian missiles back into Syria by faking out Syria's own guidance and radar then just fly back home untouched -- The press release would read "oops we just got lost and your stuff got blown up by your own guys -- too bad."
Ok so we can test out if there was an inflow to the Human line but what about us to them? Also genetic tests tell us nothing about specific human choices.
Civilization is based upon nations grafted upon clans which are rooted in the patrimony/matrimony lines of female and male beings that had male and females that also lived to reproduce. These are variables no scientist can account for in a broad hypothesis. I don't buy it was random sexual success leading to how now we are rational and by choice reproduce. Modern humanity as a species, we consciously/deliberately no longer follow the basic rules of Darwin's theory. If we willingly can break out from the theory it can't be a law.
Human procreation includes Intellect / Will as a component over the long run. Its not just raw instinct. If protomankind whoever are making beads they were first making choices on spouses. Given this component of choice it ought to be asked.
Did humans make neanderthals go up a genetic dead end. Perhaps we passed onto their offspring the "thing" which caused them to stop reproducing or desire to reproduce or to not adapt quickly to changing climate/food challenges; depressed ability to develop/control emotions, dulled their Intellect and Will, etc... _It may not be fully genetic._ Did humans survive at their expense? I mean did we get the "thing" needed for us to reproduce faster/more often successfully; ovulation out of tune to the seasons, an intellectual gift/survivable leg up such as a clan/family environment from them? _Again It may not be fully genetic._
If we sent them up a dead end it is very telling to us about our own sexuality, the need for discernment of our spouses in a family history context and not an individualistic way.
Ultimately we have to deal with mutations of gender which affect the entire species wide system of human reproduction - to put it P.C. way. It also remains to be seen if science's sterile critique will flinch when one person has to tell another person, they have not the natural right to have children or worse not even an inalienable right to be alive or to be a parent. How much of humanity is culled by abortion and population control efforts every year? It is quite possible we have already altered if not eliminated our species future. In Ray Bradbury's "sound of thunder" it was a butterfly. Why Isn't a rational human being so much more? In H.G. Wells time machine the Morloks hunt and eat the Eloi. That is another outcome as well.
1) Did humans make neanderthals go up a genetic dead end. Perhaps we passed onto their offspring the "thing" which caused them to stop reproducing or desire to reproduce or to not adapt quickly to changing climate/food challenges; depressed ability to develop/control emotions, dulled their Intellect and Will, etc...
2) Did humans survive at their expense? I mean did we get the thing needed for us to reproduce faster/more often successfully; ovulate out of tune to the seasons, an intellectual gift/survivable leg up such as a clan/family environment from them?
The real danger is when the Bad and Crazy guys learn to try frequently or successfully turn the technology/system back onto itself is the quickest way to create anarchy -- we are all screwed when this happens.
When human panic from memories of past threats: DC Sniper, Columbine Copy-Kats, Shoe Bomber sets into motion the technology/system back onto itself it creates a really screwed up feedback loop. All these crimes were done with "available" means. But the thought of the means paralyzes industries and nations to this day. Technology can not treat the motive and only diminishes the opportunity aspects of crime - the 1st is a social and human dimension, the second is open ended.
The criminal is at advantage when they "control" means and opportunity. The defender even if they are great against defeating means can never be sure they have narrowed opportunity enough.
I don't think that its balls to interfere with idiots misbehaving. It is the _lack of fear_ in the idiots (which is why they are who they are) that all the others can/will do something. When a drunk passenger strikes a cabin attendant is actually allowed to sue the airline or attendant for being restrained or booted off the plane something in society is really wrong.
1) Travel can happen without risk. 2) Travel can happen to be 100% safe.
These are the lies of the tourism/transportation industry
If you don't buy into this stay home or be prepared to make adult decisions about serious and rapidly changing situations.
The real solution is for the defender to defuse the motivation.
For all the generations of war worldwide there is a lot of motivated people out there and no security screen will stop all of them.
It would be better to completely re-think the design of the aircraft for the 22nd Century than to keep striping 99.999% of the persons traveling.
Thus far the current design paradigm for air travel is hopelessly stuck in 1950's style. Even the Titanic had more compartmentalization than a modern aircraft which has nearly 100% shared air, food, water and physical space among crew and passengers. Airlines can not even get the boarding and passenger dis-embarkment to work in under 10 minutes for a small plane through typically a single gate door.
Indeed the cost to weight tradeoff has always been done at the cost of consumers.
How much would it take for 5th element type transport where everyone is in their own tube for the duration of the flight where they are unable to do anything to anyone else not traveling with them! Going to the bathroom in private is already less of a privacy expectation than not being shaken down at security. If I was in my own pod I wouldn't even have to leave me seat -- literally - to go to the bathroom. Groups would get a common stall. Each pod would be sanitized after each trip like the food carts today-- which is actually a huge operation and intense process. You'd get board the plane by 1st getting into them like a Disney Ride and the ground crews would push you into the plane and take out out like a can from a case of coke a cola. Plane transfers would be no longer dependent on politeness but if I got a quick transfer my pod is moved to the top of the queue and shuttled to the next plane. Window seats are just turning on the OLED screen in the pod and using the joystick to look any direction I want. No more on your Right is Mt. Rushmore -- sucks to be you sitting on the Left.
If it was found out that somebody was a threat you just eject them like R2D2 and C3P0 in epIV. They safely land somewhere else with their own checked and carry on luggage.
The greatest frequent human suffering is if somebody goes into labor or a heart attack or seizure but for most rational people the only real course is to land to take care of this - despite the movies. "Water landings" would just be to eject the pods at low / speed altitude which have a beacon and flotation built in. High speed crash/really bad turbulance - the tube has a self contained restraint system kinda in demolition man's car wreck but reusable many times in a flight.
The savings of properly built cubes/tubes versus Crew Security+ 2 decks + cargo containers + difficult to clean & maintain banked seating arrangements + Pilot Cabin security + multiple door inspection/security+ +baggage handler cost and fiascos+ lost time in boarding/deplaning would I think balance out.
IBM may be able to as a legal maneuver remove all the Bios and promos made by this executive. However IBM's data retention and phone system logging is going to be hotly tested. Not much is done in IBM without some tracking system. Most the company phones have logs, all the emails are archived/retention for a few years. I think even the old Sametimes messages were also logged once long ago. It sounds like the US Justice Dept will have wiretaps as the big evidence.
Unfortunately IBM's polices on email retention may put at jeopardy the cache. I think it was 3-5 years worth. IBM learned not to keep a lot of communications after problems with anti-trust lawsuits. Law enforcement may face a mess if they need to go back into the mainframe system because only a few persons know that system outside IBM and internally that generation was being wiped out.
I will laugh out loud if IBM drags its feet in producing all the documents when this hits the courts as this is what it sells to customers at a high premium. IBM's legal legions are 2nd to none for litigation and maneuvering and the do not fear the US gov.
According to ABCnews Raj Rajaratnam is suspected to have given "$3.5 million to the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), whose assets were frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department in Nov. 2007 because of its alleged ties to the Tamil Tigers."
I suspect that the others simply got caught by following the money and listening to the wire-taps supposedly a first time for a hedge fund case according to ABCnews.
It seems the anti-terrorism fraud and money laundering investigations are working to snare more than just directly involved terrorists but also their support system of financial cash inflow. Those who are just greedy also get snared.
Interesting reading is also the IBMemployee.com a watchdog website which has been tracking IBM's attitudes and effects on the industry and real peoples lives in the USA, Canada, U.K., India, etc.
Mr. Moffet has been linked to the internal streamlining of IBM's services groups as well. He and other IBM managers have made decisions which really took a chunk of concentrated internal talent and put them on the street where such talent and knowledge are dissipated because they are no longer working in a unity. IBM is sacrificing R&D and Man Decades of experience for short term fiscal number juggling.
It would be normal to retro-actively suspect as tainted all leadership,strategic and tactical decisions in light of those arrested. It would also be normal to suspect those they hired, trained and supervised as being tainted, yes-men, or pawns or co-conspirators.
It is the dual use of the invention of the spreadsheet that has led us here. This are very powerful tool for science and industry and finance. However the spreadsheet ought to be programmed with sound & valid premises to do its function for mankind. Here the err was to game the system by manipulation of the markets so the spreadsheets instead of the expected neutral reporting or predicting work was pre-programmed to pay off.
Aristotle reasoned this out very long ago and came up with the syllogism. No matter what a person does if one of the premises is unsound or false the conclusion is false. Yes there are many avenues to arrive at such a situation. I encourage financiers to study them. The greedy financiers, really could care less about logic, because money being a human invention is flawed both logically and rationality. In the end money itself does not secure one's life but only is an aid to facilitating and developing that which does: society, family, health.
Scientists and engineers who have abundance of math/logic training don't get off easy either. How many courses in business ethics are part of the scientific curriculum at University or Trade School. You can do everything mathematically and scientifically correct but for the wrong political reason or purpose.
Amarillo by propagation speed, I buzz at San Antone Everything that Ive got is just what I turn on. When that Renewable Energy is high in that Texas sky Ill be pumping it to county fair. Amarillo by propagation speed, amarillo Ill be there.
Took my amps in Houston, broke my conductivity in Santa Fe Lost my Giga watts from resistance somewhere along the way Well Ill be sell'n for peak when they pull that gate, And Im hoping that regulator aint blind.
Amarillo by propagation speed, amarillos on my mind.
Amarillo by propagation speed, I buzz at San Antone. Everything that Ive got is just what I turn on. I cost a dime, but what I got is mine. I aint rich, but lord Im reasonably priced.
Amarillo by propagation speed, amarillo Ill be there. Amarillo by propagation speed, amarillo Ill be there.
The links of the article which I read point to fiscal gain in some form.
The theft from banks indeed may involve customer data or physical equipment such as staplers -- but more likely are laptops which get "stolen from a mid level managers rental car. Even then data and equipment has to be fenced into cash or laundered somehow.
From what I read the really involved fraud starts with noticing the cash not being properly guarded/accounted for between two events: such as deposit by the customer and the actual putting the money into the system such as at the counting machine, etc
This then leads to an employee taking advantage when that employee notices opportunity for mucking with invoicing, money transfers, accounts, "ownerless" land titles & mortgages, abandoned safety deposit boxes and the like.
But the point I was trying to say is what % is stealing out of desperate need but ashamed to ask for help and what is criminal?
If it is a high percentage of criminal then that is a real societal problem. It can and has happened to be systemic and from the top as in the Madoff ponzi.
I once overheard Bankers speaking and they do blacklist persons if they hurt the institution enough.
Though no charges were filed often the reference is veiled: "let go due to irregularities in performing the job" which is a whopping hint to the next employer they were doing low level fraud or in the more sinister case it was a recommendation for a let go employee -- to a competitor.
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The data centers I've been in the SAN array and tape library are is a totally different area, level, or building than the computing farm. This is because of security and accessibility to the librarians and vendors of long term storage. You use fibre or some other technology to connect the two areas.
With enough tapes and disk it means a tech or librarian is always walking around handling media and I'd rather them not touch my server cabinet inadvertently. Being 1 company we don't cage intra-department unless its mission critical.
The drives that contain the code to start the system or fast local space could very easily be insulated in some other part of the cabinet. The proposed system is geared to big systems which don't required 1 CPU 1 Disk to start individual cpus. The blade is configured a channel to bootstrap from a disk or disk image somewhere else in the complex. Anyhow with 8-32GB MicroSD you can put that chip into an external USB port and configure a boot from that.
The equilibrium of the system is the most important. Large swings of temps and humidity kill rotating media and robotic tape libraries. These occur when service doors are opened for substantial periods of time for a "hot swap component" removal or extended repairs which involve a cool down to the mechanical parts.
My most pressing admin question is how does the telemetry come in from the complex to warn me of a heat/pump/flow failure? Is this easy to use, Is it secured (IE no one can snmp/telnet to a dumb pump and shut it off) and accountable with a robust logging system I can integrate into my business.
Prepaid credit cards have limitations and you have to shop smart.
1) Most require some sort of activation fee that could be quite high.
2) Many are rejected when re-occuring, "overdraft," or secured payments are "possible."
I've been rejected when traveling and trying to use such a thing for pay as you go cell phone. The company defended saying "but what if you want more minutes?" My response was you cut me off anyhow with 0 credits by your policy and a stalemate occured.
Pre-Paids likely to be rejected when used for renting vacation vehicles like boats, scooters or bicycles. Somehow the system knows these card's aren't fully secured - the reality is you want X hours fun, the company wants X $'s of collateral.
3) Many online merchants do not process these cards correctly. I tried to buy a media CD package from a tech company, and found out that they at the time would charge me but wouldn't ship it to me because its not a full on credit card and wasn't able to be processed by their shipping dept. It was something about mismatch of verification of address. Trying to get a rollback of the charge was impossible by the bank or the company.
5) Any remaining small balance is near impossible to use or get back. Merchants weasel out saying because they are like gift cards they don't have to accept them for a purchase below a minimum. So if it has 3.75 left on the card the merchant can reject it for cause of a minimum $5 purchase (often restaurants). FInding a place and the right item that you can do cash+prepaid card is the only way to zero out the card.
6) There is typically a use it or lose it clause or monthly service that erodes your pre-paid's value if you don't use the balance. This is the lie that it costs many dollars a month for the company to track your prepaid card balance for you (I disagree).
7) Beware the clauses on lost/stolen pre-paid cards. They are often considered same as gift cards or cash and thus have no recourse than be a total loss unless you can prove by police report armed robbery or loss uncontrollable by you such as being car jacked.
Printing money is Mafia
Minting coins _and_ printing money is Maciavellian.
Just how much Gold and Silver is inside the gravity well of earth?
I think the economists/bankers/politcos are hiding something that makes a big crashing noise in the Dark.
The article noted that this is a vulnerability to cracked smartphones with ssh installed for which the user will likely not even know opens up such a vulnerability to their cell.
I think that this is more serious for wi-fi and bluetooth enabled devices as the data charge is circumvented making it even harder to detect?
I'd hate to start streaming my smartphone's logs back to my IDS, but brute force is not a new reality but the environment is very precarious as the smartphone does a lot now but may not "do" enough to protect its own resources from attack.
This is a brief summary of a deeper argument unable to be dealt with in /.
Catholic Theology not the result of 1500 years, it is rooted in man's pilgrimage to the eternal and is the synthesis of all quests ever undertaken for truth. This truth is fully and forever revealed in the person of Jesus Christ who is the Man-God.
Now: from what I understand extra-terrestrial life is quite a broad category and would have to be narrowed.
Intellect and Will are that which would be key in determining life which could receive the Gospel all else would be under the dominion of rational beings to care for and steward.
For those who want to review: Thomas Aquinas "contra gentiles" and John Paul II "person and act". Also read Teresa Benedict of the Cross (Edith Stein) "Interior castle' and the Venerable Bede (his works on friendship) are great starts in understanding the basis of the main argument below.
They boil down to:
Potential of Intellect and Will are necessary for the Gospel's reception as without which there is not possible a communion of body, soul & mind (for we the non-angelic life) to the Christian Triune God: Father Son and Spirt. Without Intellect there is not a possible relation, without will there is not freedom to accept agape and to return agape.
Extra-terrestrial plant and non rational animal life would be simply created goods which are at the service of a rational beings quest to be fully matriculated into the communion of the Triune God given his/her creation and teleos toward eternal life. The "1st Contact" of Spiritual being -pure intellect/will- to us is beyond what can be discussed here.
Humans being a created being but having not an end because our soul being spiritual is indestructible to anything/person created by the Author of Life. Upon mortal death our eternal existence either prepared in mortal life to be in communion with the Godhead and is welcomed in heaven (love accepts love) or shall be cast out (hell) due to sin (the cutting of relationship to God by fully realizing an act (even a single one) which is against love (God is Love) with full knowledge and will that the act was so (I knew, intended and chose to do a human act against love itself -a full mortal sin).
I urge you to seek out Thomas Aquinas, JP II the Great, as they really are the great doctors of thought that even allow this question to be explored properly, systematically, and neutrally in our time without the knee-jerk comments of /.
The conferences argument is sadly summarized: "Extra-terrestrials with intellect and will; wherever and whenever the Gospel is proclaimed have the freedom to convert and be baptized, live a full Christian life while Humans wherever they may end up can keep insisting to be atheist under the same circumstances."
I think DOJ did look at the Enron Developers to determine if products/services actually existed and worked. If this is a trend perhaps the Galleon programmers could also be examined. Any Ponzi and other Stock schemes revolve around what did they know and when did they know it, programmers and Admins are not magically excepted from being examined as they may be material to the scam being pulled off.
Scam brokerage applications apparently are built upon business rules which I hope a programmer is willing to question if they are totally without reason and would walk out if they realized the shell game. I self reference to this with a comment I made about IBM's Moffet and the growing scandal of lack of ethics in the IT Business.
If convicted these guys are going to give a whole bunch of IT professionals a sullied reputation simply by association.
Where will this end? Will IT professionals soon be the butt of jokes like ambulance chasing lawyers?
Oh your a brokerage programmer? Hmm What's 100 brokerage programmers at the bottom of the ocean?
OK Im mistaken Kibera is in Nairobi,Kenya not Nigeria.
I just looked at wikipedia under slum
That which matched for me for lack of better words were:
I drew a parallel of corruption or chaotic governance to the named ISP's by Krebs and as such seemed to have met the analogy well enough.
I rejected Ghetto for wiki's alignment to ethnicity or the word Barrio which upscales in a certain language and Hooverville which implied an economic basis.
I possibly could say Mos Eisley or Tatooine both are a more focused but lesser known reference and wouldn't work with the reference to Monopoly addresses which are cheap vs expensive based on arbitrary or cultural value.
Spam kings may not work out of Kibeira directly but they could somehow make .NG totally worthless if spammers/malware moved in and everybody else started to filter them out based on this. This is actually a real threat in my mind to developing nations and would injure innocent persons by the acts of such persons willing to sacrifice them for a fast buck.
Realistically, many people in business do look at your TLD and determine on that alone if they are going to continue to do business with you.
My point in asking was how get opinions to recover and redeem such a place which is exactly I think your alluding to. I don't condemn or demean any people who in real life are in such places not by choice or don't have a way out.
Law is best if it is technology wordiness agnostic. If it is tied to a specific vendor or method as soon as its law that vendor goes casters up or method is cracked. Then the law has to be changed by due process.
It would be best to point the Law to a having a working "policy" document such as something in the NIST 800 series. Each company or government agency could then determine and publish the exact level of security they want but no less than a minimum. Not everything should be .mil hard encryption but definitely not always clear text.
I cant find if either bills deal with the situation of a loss of a trusted key or a crack to the cypher algorithm itself. This is worse than data breach as its a total defeat of the system - which could affect more than 1 company or agency. I don't know if there is such a thing as Fort Knox for key escrow.
I think that this is a ruse to coverup something else. DARPA, "We need to fly 10 balloons for over a month to calibrate/check out our secret targeting/tracking system but everyone will notice 10 big balloons hanging out at visible places and know we are calibrating/checking our tracking system -- what do we do?"
Answer: Make up a stupid contest to find them and then also skim out data from it.
OR
See if anyone detects the cloaked UAV flying between each balloon
I think this is just Google's Glomar Explorer. I'm sure they are not interested at all to be mining all those data packets for intel. This is a complete altruistic - do no evil - venture to improve transatlantic relations
I was more offended at the suicide on Sins of the Father. I wasn't expecting that. That was scripted as was the mop up at the Presidents execution.
This seems to be more in level play which is more heightened for effect. I'd not want to think that the mission goals in the video must be satisfied with civilian body count. To be perverse would be to watch all the _wounded_ and frightened dragging and scrambling away than to put them on the ground like at 3:37ish.
I don't know french but perhaps your the one providing cover to the AI killbots from the security...
But really this messed up.
Ok. The CIA has processed your reflection as seen about 1:30 they have also confirmed your ID by matching it to the interpol DB. We know your connected to the french.
The boys are dropping out of black helos on repel ropes in 3 .... 2 ....1 ....
Isn't this the plot of "The International?" The arms dealer sold the Chinese missiles but also then sold the counter measure at the same time to the opposite side?
I suspect that a kill switch doesn't necessarily have to be in a critical component of any system. If its in a secondary or tertiary system in a critical path trigging that could disrupt or disable the primary use.
In the IT industry if I want to take down a website why bother with attacking the primary machine if the low level infrastructure is vulnerable; such as chillers, aircon, EPS which often have some sort of control & monitoring I could tap into if I found the right access point.
If anything an attacker could cause a 3 mile island type scenario of disrupting telemetry to force a reaction of the primary system by an operator with an attack upon a low level system.
Sending the right radiation signal to the kill switch of the aircon unit on a radar station in the middle of the Med could naturally overheat the signal processing equipment thereby disabling it.
Now with RF-ID chips possibly disguised into a complex circuit you just can't have to look at the code you have to examine every part and chip die. .mil spooks have already figured out which chips and circuits by their design can be overloaded with targeted radiation to shut them down. Really they are not "designed" kill switches but have found to be weak points in the shielding and are vulnerable to external attack causing the primary system to fail as a side affect.
Not only that I wonder if the
This is Tom Clancy & James Bond stuff.
Would be cooler if Israel sent jets to the edge of the boarder and when Syrian launched they would send Syrian missiles back into Syria by faking out Syria's own guidance and radar then just fly back home untouched -- The press release would read "oops we just got lost and your stuff got blown up by your own guys -- too bad."
Ok so we can test out if there was an inflow to the Human line but what about us to them? Also genetic tests tell us nothing about specific human choices.
Civilization is based upon nations grafted upon clans which are rooted in the patrimony/matrimony lines of female and male beings that had male and females that also lived to reproduce. These are variables no scientist can account for in a broad hypothesis. I don't buy it was random sexual success leading to how now we are rational and by choice reproduce. Modern humanity as a species, we consciously/deliberately no longer follow the basic rules of Darwin's theory. If we willingly can break out from the theory it can't be a law.
Human procreation includes Intellect / Will as a component over the long run. Its not just raw instinct. If protomankind whoever are making beads they were first making choices on spouses. Given this component of choice it ought to be asked.
Did humans make neanderthals go up a genetic dead end.
Perhaps we passed onto their offspring the "thing" which caused them to stop reproducing or desire to reproduce or to not adapt quickly to changing climate/food challenges; depressed ability to develop/control emotions, dulled their Intellect and Will, etc... _It may not be fully genetic._
Did humans survive at their expense? I mean did we get the "thing" needed for us to reproduce faster/more often successfully; ovulation out of tune to the seasons, an intellectual gift/survivable leg up such as a clan/family environment from them? _Again It may not be fully genetic._
If we sent them up a dead end it is very telling to us about our own sexuality, the need for discernment of our spouses in a family history context and not an individualistic way.
Ultimately we have to deal with mutations of gender which affect the entire species wide system of human reproduction - to put it P.C. way. It also remains to be seen if science's sterile critique will flinch when one person has to tell another person, they have not the natural right to have children or worse not even an inalienable right to be alive or to be a parent. How much of humanity is culled by abortion and population control efforts every year? It is quite possible we have already altered if not eliminated our species future. In Ray Bradbury's "sound of thunder" it was a butterfly. Why Isn't a rational human being so much more? In H.G. Wells time machine the Morloks hunt and eat the Eloi. That is another outcome as well.
If compatible I ask
1) Did humans make neanderthals go up a genetic dead end.
Perhaps we passed onto their offspring the "thing" which caused them to stop reproducing or desire to reproduce or to not adapt quickly to changing climate/food challenges; depressed ability to develop/control emotions, dulled their Intellect and Will, etc...
2) Did humans survive at their expense? I mean did we get the thing needed for us to reproduce faster/more often successfully; ovulate out of tune to the seasons, an intellectual gift/survivable leg up such as a clan/family environment from them?
The real danger is when the Bad and Crazy guys learn to try frequently or successfully turn the technology/system back onto itself is the quickest way to create anarchy -- we are all screwed when this happens.
When human panic from memories of past threats: DC Sniper, Columbine Copy-Kats, Shoe Bomber sets into motion the technology/system back onto itself it creates a really screwed up feedback loop. All these crimes were done with "available" means. But the thought of the means paralyzes industries and nations to this day. Technology can not treat the motive and only diminishes the opportunity aspects of crime - the 1st is a social and human dimension, the second is open ended.
The criminal is at advantage when they "control" means and opportunity. The defender even if they are great against defeating means can never be sure they have narrowed opportunity enough.
I don't think that its balls to interfere with idiots misbehaving. It is the _lack of fear_ in the idiots (which is why they are who they are) that all the others can/will do something. When a drunk passenger strikes a cabin attendant is actually allowed to sue the airline or attendant for being restrained or booted off the plane something in society is really wrong.
1) Travel can happen without risk.
2) Travel can happen to be 100% safe.
These are the lies of the tourism/transportation industry
If you don't buy into this stay home or be prepared to make adult decisions about serious and rapidly changing situations.
The real solution is for the defender to defuse the motivation.
For all the generations of war worldwide there is a lot of motivated people out there and no security screen will stop all of them.
It would be better to completely re-think the design of the aircraft for the 22nd Century than to keep striping 99.999% of the persons traveling.
Thus far the current design paradigm for air travel is hopelessly stuck in 1950's style.
Even the Titanic had more compartmentalization than a modern aircraft which has nearly 100% shared air, food, water and physical space among crew and passengers. Airlines can not even get the boarding and passenger dis-embarkment to work in under 10 minutes for a small plane through typically a single gate door.
Indeed the cost to weight tradeoff has always been done at the cost of consumers.
How much would it take for 5th element type transport where everyone is in their own tube for the duration of the flight where they are unable to do anything to anyone else not traveling with them! Going to the bathroom in private is already less of a privacy expectation than not being shaken down at security. If I was in my own pod I wouldn't even have to leave me seat -- literally - to go to the bathroom. Groups would get a common stall. Each pod would be sanitized after each trip like the food carts today-- which is actually a huge operation and intense process. You'd get board the plane by 1st getting into them like a Disney Ride and the ground crews would push you into the plane and take out out like a can from a case of coke a cola. Plane transfers would be no longer dependent on politeness but if I got a quick transfer my pod is moved to the top of the queue and shuttled to the next plane.
Window seats are just turning on the OLED screen in the pod and using the joystick to look any direction I want. No more on your Right is Mt. Rushmore -- sucks to be you sitting on the Left.
If it was found out that somebody was a threat you just eject them like R2D2 and C3P0 in epIV. They safely land somewhere else with their own checked and carry on luggage.
The greatest frequent human suffering is if somebody goes into labor or a heart attack or seizure but for most rational people the only real course is to land to take care of this - despite the movies. "Water landings" would just be to eject the pods at low / speed altitude which have a beacon and flotation built in. High speed crash/really bad turbulance - the tube has a self contained restraint system kinda in demolition man's car wreck but reusable many times in a flight.
The savings of properly built cubes/tubes versus Crew Security+ 2 decks + cargo containers + difficult to clean & maintain banked seating arrangements + Pilot Cabin security + multiple door inspection/security+ +baggage handler cost and fiascos+ lost time in boarding/deplaning would I think balance out.
IBM may be able to as a legal maneuver remove all the Bios and promos made by this executive. However IBM's data retention and phone system logging is going to be hotly tested. Not much is done in IBM without some tracking system. Most the company phones have logs, all the emails are archived/retention for a few years. I think even the old Sametimes messages were also logged once long ago. It sounds like the US Justice Dept will have wiretaps as the big evidence.
Unfortunately IBM's polices on email retention may put at jeopardy the cache. I think it was 3-5 years worth. IBM learned not to keep a lot of communications after problems with anti-trust lawsuits. Law enforcement may face a mess if they need to go back into the mainframe system because only a few persons know that system outside IBM and internally that generation was being wiped out.
I will laugh out loud if IBM drags its feet in producing all the documents when this hits the courts as this is what it sells to customers at a high premium. IBM's legal legions are 2nd to none for litigation and maneuvering and the do not fear the US gov.
Anyhow it is trival as I think this guy got caught with his hand in the cookie jar when the US gov was fishing for bigger fish such as hedgefund managers who are suspected of funding terrorists.
According to ABCnews Raj Rajaratnam is suspected to have given "$3.5 million to the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), whose assets were frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department in Nov. 2007 because of its alleged ties to the Tamil Tigers."
I suspect that the others simply got caught by following the money and listening to the wire-taps supposedly a first time for a hedge fund case according to ABCnews.
It seems the anti-terrorism fraud and money laundering investigations are working to snare more than just directly involved terrorists but also their support system of financial cash inflow.
Those who are just greedy also get snared.
Interesting reading is also the IBMemployee.com a watchdog website which has been tracking IBM's attitudes and effects on the industry and real peoples lives in the USA, Canada, U.K., India, etc.
Mr. Moffet has been linked to the internal streamlining of IBM's services groups as well. He and other IBM managers have made decisions which really took a chunk of concentrated internal talent and put them on the street where such talent and knowledge are dissipated because they are no longer working in a unity. IBM is sacrificing R&D and Man Decades of experience for short term fiscal number juggling.
It would be normal to retro-actively suspect as tainted all leadership,strategic and tactical decisions in light of those arrested. It would also be normal to suspect those they hired, trained and supervised as being tainted, yes-men, or pawns or co-conspirators.
It is the dual use of the invention of the spreadsheet that has led us here. This are very powerful tool for science and industry and finance. However the spreadsheet ought to be programmed with sound & valid premises to do its function for mankind. Here the err was to game the system by manipulation of the markets so the spreadsheets instead of the expected neutral reporting or predicting work was pre-programmed to pay off.
Aristotle reasoned this out very long ago and came up with the syllogism. No matter what a person does if one of the premises is unsound or false the conclusion is false. Yes there are many avenues to arrive at such a situation. I encourage financiers to study them. The greedy financiers, really could care less about logic, because money being a human invention is flawed both logically and rationality. In the end money itself does not secure one's life but only is an aid to facilitating and developing that which does: society, family, health.
Scientists and engineers who have abundance of math/logic training don't get off easy either. How many courses in business ethics are part of the scientific curriculum at University or Trade School. You can do everything mathematically and scientifically correct but for the wrong political reason or purpose.
Amarillo by propagation speed, I buzz at San Antone
Everything that Ive got is just what I turn on.
When that Renewable Energy is high in that Texas sky
Ill be pumping it to county fair.
Amarillo by propagation speed, amarillo Ill be there.
Took my amps in Houston, broke my conductivity in Santa Fe
Lost my Giga watts from resistance somewhere along the way
Well Ill be sell'n for peak when they pull that gate,
And Im hoping that regulator aint blind.
Amarillo by propagation speed, amarillos on my mind.
Amarillo by propagation speed, I buzz at San Antone.
Everything that Ive got is just what I turn on.
I cost a dime, but what I got is mine.
I aint rich, but lord Im reasonably priced.
Amarillo by propagation speed, amarillo Ill be there.
Amarillo by propagation speed, amarillo Ill be there.
The links of the article which I read point to fiscal gain in some form.
The theft from banks indeed may involve customer data or physical equipment such as staplers -- but more likely are laptops which get "stolen from a mid level managers rental car. Even then data and equipment has to be fenced into cash or laundered somehow.
From what I read the really involved fraud starts with noticing the cash not being properly guarded/accounted for between two events: such as deposit by the customer and the actual putting the money into the system such as at the counting machine, etc
This then leads to an employee taking advantage when that employee notices opportunity for mucking with invoicing, money transfers, accounts, "ownerless" land titles & mortgages, abandoned safety deposit boxes and the like.
But the point I was trying to say is what % is stealing out of desperate need but ashamed to ask for help and what is criminal?
If it is a high percentage of criminal then that is a real societal problem. It can and has happened to be systemic and from the top as in the Madoff ponzi.
I once overheard Bankers speaking and they do blacklist persons if they hurt the institution enough.
Though no charges were filed often the reference is veiled: "let go due to irregularities in performing the job" which is a whopping hint to the next employer they were doing low level fraud or in the more sinister case it was a recommendation for a let go employee -- to a competitor.