"The FBI is concerned about about criminals running loose because the agency can't execute a wiretap", Caproni said. "That criminal may be a massive drug dealer, they may be an arms trafficker, they may be a child pornographer or a child molester."
Don't worry, the Muskegon County Prosecutor has got you covered! He's already found one of those pesky child molesters, no wiretap required.
I think illegal activity will ultimately make BitCoin. Money laundering is easy with it. Also, botnets could begin using the service to convert CPU power into money; someone is gonna abuse this.
... they would put their resources into investigating the source of the pornography. Rather, this is just a power grab by the French government to get the ability to censor the Internet.
the soldiers won't find this information in other ways? I'm sure the news is being spread verbally; What are the people in charge gonna do next? Prosecute people for simply knowing the info? No, this is simply a childish attempt to uphold a structure which Wikileaks has shown to be corrupt and misguided.
Then they wouldn't be terrorist attacks. The element of surprise is the chief weapon.
It's the same concept behind password cracking; passwords are supposed to be difficult to predict, however certain passwords (e.g. 123456) are used very frequently and so if I want to crack your account I'll try that first. Just because people try to be unpredictable doesn't mean they act in a way that cannot be predicted.
"Even with the news last week that an Australian Government study found no conclusive link between video games and violence, it's still a little surprising that the federal Labor government has announced today that they support the move for an adult R18+ rating for video games in that country."
The "even... still a little surprising" implies that the Australian Government study makes this news less surprising. However, the contradiction makes it more noteworthy; the summary should remove "even", and "it's still a little surprising that."
Grammar Nazi;)
I think Wikileaks made a grave mistake here. They are trusting all their information to foreign hosts; if these external people corrupt the data, Wikileaks will lose its credibility and people will ignore it.
Cmon/. people have been predicting a rise in state sponsored cyber attacks and cellular phone attacks for >5 years. Guess what? We haven't seen it! So why, when some random security group affirms their belief in this, does/. think this is news worthy?
The researchers took down three C&C servers (yay) but this doesn't get to the crux of the problem. We've been hijacking C&C's for decades; Malware authors are just moving to a P2P model (e.g. Stuxnet). These researchers should figure out how to stop the mass FTP compromises, or advise Google and Facebook on how to prevent their sites from being used as a platform for these attacks. Maybe then we could start solving this Malware problem...
We already saw what happened when we didn't regulate the safety of British oil tankers; And now this British executive wants us to abolish our airport safety regulations -- that's silly!
Organizations shouldn't be worried about small botnets simply because they haven't attracted the attention of law enforcement -- they should be afraid because their antivirus won't have a signature for the malware being propogated by small botnets. And what's the point of advising organizations to be worried about small botnets? Fear doesn't increase security.
I agree with you. The government pushes for full body scans because the public cannot accept that it's a risk/reward situation: they want complete security and cannot accept ambiguity.
Why do the Chinese fail with the Internet so much? First they steal code for the easily bypassable Green Dam program, then they fail with the proxifiable Great Wall of China.. Don't they realize that people are never going to abide by these rules and are going to figure out how to bypass them? And they won't ever be able to use the moral argument, because they're the one's denying access to human rights websites. I guess the old hackers were right, the Chinese will never get it!
Back when I was in the 7th grade I won a Countywide math competition because my forward-thinking teacher encouraged me to pursue math outside of class (i.e. with problem sets). The year after, I had a horrible teacher; the kind of math teacher who believes in busywork and doesn't try to spur creativity and self-initiative. My parents gave me the excuse 'someday you'll have to deal with people like this in the real world', but every night I detested my math homework, and lost an interest in the subject. After a year of hating the subject, I applied to enter the same competition and completely failed. In fact, I continued hating math through highschool. These teachers don't really damage kids that never had any skill / potential in the first place, but can destroy nascent interest.
"then must purchase additional time at the rate of $3.99 for two consecutive hours"
Unless you've got macspoof... or a dns tunnel... or an icmp tunnel... or a separate computer... or a separate starbucks...
Personally I think people are just as self centered now as always and we've just gotten better (supposedly) at measuring it.
If the researchers did the exact same test twice then we haven't gotten better at measuring empathy. I think they did do the same exam because how else would they have gotten the '40%' value?
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"The FBI is concerned about about criminals running loose because the agency can't execute a wiretap", Caproni said. "That criminal may be a massive drug dealer, they may be an arms trafficker, they may be a child pornographer or a child molester."
Don't worry, the Muskegon County Prosecutor has got you covered! He's already found one of those pesky child molesters, no wiretap required.
I think illegal activity will ultimately make BitCoin. Money laundering is easy with it. Also, botnets could begin using the service to convert CPU power into money; someone is gonna abuse this.
28% advanced for middle school math, and16% advanced for college math. So.. math somehow gets less 'advanced' from middle school to college?
... they would put their resources into investigating the source of the pornography. Rather, this is just a power grab by the French government to get the ability to censor the Internet.
the soldiers won't find this information in other ways? I'm sure the news is being spread verbally; What are the people in charge gonna do next? Prosecute people for simply knowing the info? No, this is simply a childish attempt to uphold a structure which Wikileaks has shown to be corrupt and misguided.
Then they wouldn't be terrorist attacks. The element of surprise is the chief weapon.
It's the same concept behind password cracking; passwords are supposed to be difficult to predict, however certain passwords (e.g. 123456) are used very frequently and so if I want to crack your account I'll try that first. Just because people try to be unpredictable doesn't mean they act in a way that cannot be predicted.
"Even with the news last week that an Australian Government study found no conclusive link between video games and violence, it's still a little surprising that the federal Labor government has announced today that they support the move for an adult R18+ rating for video games in that country."
The "even ... still a little surprising" implies that the Australian Government study makes this news less surprising. However, the contradiction makes it more noteworthy; the summary should remove "even", and "it's still a little surprising that."
Grammar Nazi ;)
I think Wikileaks made a grave mistake here. They are trusting all their information to foreign hosts; if these external people corrupt the data, Wikileaks will lose its credibility and people will ignore it.
Cmon /. people have been predicting a rise in state sponsored cyber attacks and cellular phone attacks for >5 years. Guess what? We haven't seen it! So why, when some random security group affirms their belief in this, does /. think this is news worthy?
The researchers took down three C&C servers (yay) but this doesn't get to the crux of the problem. We've been hijacking C&C's for decades; Malware authors are just moving to a P2P model (e.g. Stuxnet). These researchers should figure out how to stop the mass FTP compromises, or advise Google and Facebook on how to prevent their sites from being used as a platform for these attacks. Maybe then we could start solving this Malware problem...
We already saw what happened when we didn't regulate the safety of British oil tankers; And now this British executive wants us to abolish our airport safety regulations -- that's silly!
Organizations shouldn't be worried about small botnets simply because they haven't attracted the attention of law enforcement -- they should be afraid because their antivirus won't have a signature for the malware being propogated by small botnets. And what's the point of advising organizations to be worried about small botnets? Fear doesn't increase security.
Is Oracle completely blind?
Apparently not: their stock price has gone up 21% since the merger on January 27.
I agree with you. The government pushes for full body scans because the public cannot accept that it's a risk/reward situation: they want complete security and cannot accept ambiguity.
Why do the Chinese fail with the Internet so much? First they steal code for the easily bypassable Green Dam program, then they fail with the proxifiable Great Wall of China.. Don't they realize that people are never going to abide by these rules and are going to figure out how to bypass them? And they won't ever be able to use the moral argument, because they're the one's denying access to human rights websites. I guess the old hackers were right, the Chinese will never get it!
Back when I was in the 7th grade I won a Countywide math competition because my forward-thinking teacher encouraged me to pursue math outside of class (i.e. with problem sets). The year after, I had a horrible teacher; the kind of math teacher who believes in busywork and doesn't try to spur creativity and self-initiative. My parents gave me the excuse 'someday you'll have to deal with people like this in the real world', but every night I detested my math homework, and lost an interest in the subject. After a year of hating the subject, I applied to enter the same competition and completely failed. In fact, I continued hating math through highschool. These teachers don't really damage kids that never had any skill / potential in the first place, but can destroy nascent interest.
Porn's an emergency.
"then must purchase additional time at the rate of $3.99 for two consecutive hours" Unless you've got macspoof... or a dns tunnel... or an icmp tunnel... or a separate computer... or a separate starbucks...
Personally I think people are just as self centered now as always and we've just gotten better (supposedly) at measuring it.
If the researchers did the exact same test twice then we haven't gotten better at measuring empathy. I think they did do the same exam because how else would they have gotten the '40%' value?