Someone needs a lesson in credit card merchant agreements.
Wait till the charities they give to start getting their transaction fees raised or processing frozen for astoundingly high chargeback and fraudulent transaction rates. I'm sure they'll really enjoy that.
Just make sure you weren't a seller of watered wine in this life.
IIRC some monk cataloging the Buddhist hells wrote that one of the worst hells is reserved for them. Granted, it's not eternal, but it's still pretty yucky.
Hi, I need a cyber crisis pronto. More than just the usual ICMP bombing or BGP storm. Something really noticeable with physical damage.
But, I don't want to get into releasing toxic industrial chemicals or the like. That has a bad rep after Bhopal. If you could do a SCADA subversion on a high water dam and release a massive flood that'd be perfect.
"No problem, sir. We have standard rates for major seminatural disasters. That'll be 100 million in gold to our Cayman Islands bank account for a standard target. If the country has nukes or an umbrella treaty with a nuclear power, that'll be 300 million and must be disguised as an IMF loan."
Yeah, they spliced a gene for interleukin 4 into mousepox virus. That suppressed the immune response to it. It killed even vaccinated mice.
There was a lot of speculation at the time that you could do the same by splicing it into smallpox. That info is out there, so repeating it hardly is a further danger.
I'm sure that someone followed up the work, if for no other reason than to see if it was a one off thing or if it could be done more generally. (Pretty important to know if your vaccine strategy can be made useless. And if so, how hard it would be to do.)
Exactly. The important info was that the strain can be made to be transmissible by air in mammals.
That was an open question, and some felt that it was unlikely. Now, it's known that it can be done.
If you know that it can be done, there are only a limited number of ways it could have been done. Now, you just have to figure out which. They even outline the basic idea in several places.
It looks like it was a pretty standard method of passing the virus repeatedly through ferrets to select for those variants best adapted.
There may be a few nuances, but now that it's been done just about any lab that works on that strain with ferrets for test animals can probably repeat the work even without further info.
"Nuclear energy astro-turfing is UTTERLY DISGUSTING."
Huh?!?
What are you smoking? Or are you really just that ignorant?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is one of the best known ANTI-nuclear publications.
From their own "about" page:
"The Bulletin publishes information from leading scientists and security experts who explore the potential for terrible damage to societies from human-made technologies. We focus as well on ways to prevent catastrophe from the malign or accidental use of nuclear, carbon-based, and biology-based technologies."
It's all the people like him that can see the difference that are at fault? Geez. He didn't even disagree that they were brave.
And, presumably, the solution is people like you who think this is the same as what happened during the 60s civil rights movement, or like those shot in Tiananmen?
Ok...
I've been both pepper sprayed at point blank and tear gassed far more heavily than any open air use of it. It sucks. It hurts. Badly. It's hard to breath and burns like hell. If you've got existing breathing problems it can be quite dangerous.
It doesn't compare to getting shot.
Trying to compare it to getting shot just weakens the reaction of the public to it.
Show it for what it is, and you'll do better rather than trying to enhance it.
The people seeing it are not complete fools, no matter how many times you've told yourselves they are brainless dupes. They can judge it for themselves.
Line 3 and 4, are misdirection and deceit by calling something murder as though it was premeditated (and implying it was unlawful killing, when in fact it's not).
Line 5 through 7, implying ill gotten gain from suffering that is actually nonexistant. Again, that's an appeal to guilt.
Line 8, reduction of an entire complex entity, a life, to being solely for one tiny thing. A bit like saying, the US spends hundreds of billions on defense just to protect a blade of grass in YOUR back yard. Both use the same fallacy.
The last line links all this ridiculousness to something that sometimes sounds a little like this, but is in actuality pretty unrelated.
I see most of these used slightly less blatantly every day, online, in daily life, and in politics. Sadly, those using them are usually quite earnest.
Finally, there's an old saying from usenet that no ironic humor can be so blatant that someone won't take it seriously. That gets proven repeatedly here on slashdot.;)
Yep. Welcome to my workday. It's spent trying to turn $800 repairs into $80 ones. (Add the appropriate zeros for the other cases in decreasing numbers. I suspect it follows some fractional power law probability.;)
I'd like to do more with tubopumps, but the start up cost for what you need to fix them is very expensive. And just try to find someone to train you how to do it.
The manufacturers have a love hate relationship with techs like me. On the one hand, they like to sell me parts. That's easy low overhead money.
On the other, they'd much rather sell a new unit or a very expensive support contract. Ever see what the travel fees and such are for on site maintenance? Gruesome.
These "intelligent controllers" for hot plates and such? Usually, they're only limitedly more effective than an electromechanical one, but the adjustments are in software so it greatly limits how much repair can be done on them. Whoops. That's another $1200 board for your refrigerated centrifuge. So sorry.
I'm one of the few who will try board level repairs any more. And that's really reverse engineering as they either won't tell you tech info, or if they contracted for the board, don't know it themselves.
It's a mind blowing situation when you first encounter it.
Mark Tilden tells a similar story about a prototype floor cleaning robot.
It took some effort to find out why it worked when he watched it, but when he came home after being away, it was always sitting still in the middle of the room without having cleaned most of the room.
The culprit: His cat would repeatedly trigger its collision avoidance sensor to make it turn away. It was a fun cat toy.
It's hard to design against active maliciousness.:)
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Someone needs a lesson in credit card merchant agreements.
Wait till the charities they give to start getting their transaction fees raised or processing frozen for astoundingly high chargeback and fraudulent transaction rates. I'm sure they'll really enjoy that.
Big win.
Just make sure you weren't a seller of watered wine in this life.
IIRC some monk cataloging the Buddhist hells wrote that one of the worst hells is reserved for them. Granted, it's not eternal, but it's still pretty yucky.
"Hello. Cyber Crisis Hotline."
Hi, I need a cyber crisis pronto. More than just the usual ICMP bombing or BGP storm. Something really noticeable with physical damage.
But, I don't want to get into releasing toxic industrial chemicals or the like. That has a bad rep after Bhopal. If you could do a SCADA subversion on a high water dam and release a massive flood that'd be perfect.
"No problem, sir. We have standard rates for major seminatural disasters. That'll be 100 million in gold to our Cayman Islands bank account for a standard target. If the country has nukes or an umbrella treaty with a nuclear power, that'll be 300 million and must be disguised as an IMF loan."
"who the hell has rainy days women... even more, at least 35 of them?"
Hope springs eternal in the hearts of fools and slashdotters.
The Tao of the well placed cluster bomb?
Zen and the art of carpet bombing?
"Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
How does it imply he's deceased?
Exampe: It's fine to say "I would be proud." about a hypothetical event. Let me assure you I'm no zombie.
He must be putting his hopes on that super flu that was discussed here on slashdot earlier.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/29/0015216/
Why would that be a hindrance to all of us hawks who have never claimed to follow christian values? ;)
"Identify the source and stone the attacker to death"
Bob Dylan would be proud.
So, you're saying that if the right target is the wrong one, fire at the left target?
Or LBJ.
If it's lawyer farts like a duck, it probably quacks and stinks as well.
Hopefully there's a special place in hell reserved for these jerks.
It was a bit more than the roads. Many of those "barbarians" that conquered Rome were themselves former Roman soldiers.
Alaric was just one of many of them.
Yeah, they spliced a gene for interleukin 4 into mousepox virus. That suppressed the immune response to it. It killed even vaccinated mice.
There was a lot of speculation at the time that you could do the same by splicing it into smallpox. That info is out there, so repeating it hardly is a further danger.
I'm sure that someone followed up the work, if for no other reason than to see if it was a one off thing or if it could be done more generally. (Pretty important to know if your vaccine strategy can be made useless. And if so, how hard it would be to do.)
Exactly. The important info was that the strain can be made to be transmissible by air in mammals.
That was an open question, and some felt that it was unlikely. Now, it's known that it can be done.
If you know that it can be done, there are only a limited number of ways it could have been done. Now, you just have to figure out which. They even outline the basic idea in several places.
It looks like it was a pretty standard method of passing the virus repeatedly through ferrets to select for those variants best adapted.
There may be a few nuances, but now that it's been done just about any lab that works on that strain with ferrets for test animals can probably repeat the work even without further info.
"Nuclear energy astro-turfing is UTTERLY DISGUSTING."
Huh?!?
What are you smoking? Or are you really just that ignorant?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is one of the best known ANTI-nuclear publications.
From their own "about" page:
"The Bulletin publishes information from leading scientists and security experts who explore the potential for terrible damage to societies from human-made technologies.
We focus as well on ways to prevent catastrophe from the malign or accidental use of nuclear, carbon-based, and biology-based technologies."
You have a serious lack of clue, AC.
"We're all doomed and the fucking jack boot thugs thank you for doing your part citizen-unit."
Yup. Yup. Let's insult everyone who has dared to not be quite as strident as you.
That'll really help get people to agree with you.
"Hey, mister! If I call you stupid and a brainless tool, will that make you agree with me more closely than you already did? Yep. I thought so."
I must congratulate you on your excellent powers of persuasion. I'm so totally sold.
" This is why shit is bad and getting worse."
So...
It's all the people like him that can see the difference that are at fault? Geez. He didn't even disagree that they were brave.
And, presumably, the solution is people like you who think this is the same as what happened during the 60s civil rights movement, or like those shot in Tiananmen?
Ok...
I've been both pepper sprayed at point blank and tear gassed far more heavily than any open air use of it. It sucks. It hurts. Badly. It's hard to breath and burns like hell. If you've got existing breathing problems it can be quite dangerous.
It doesn't compare to getting shot.
Trying to compare it to getting shot just weakens the reaction of the public to it.
Show it for what it is, and you'll do better rather than trying to enhance it.
The people seeing it are not complete fools, no matter how many times you've told yourselves they are brainless dupes. They can judge it for themselves.
Did PETA approach Nintendo for a donation and get turned down?
That makes more sense than about any other scenario I can think of.
"We'll make you sorry! We'll muddy the reputation of your decades old video game!"
In other news, PETA is wanting to ban chess as it encourages capturing horses.
"Ask any mermaid you happen to see. What's the best tuna? Kittens of the Sea!"
Well, yeah. Line one is mostly straw man.
Line two is an emotional appeal to guilt.
Line 3 and 4, are misdirection and deceit by calling something murder as though it was premeditated (and implying it was unlawful killing, when in fact it's not).
Line 5 through 7, implying ill gotten gain from suffering that is actually nonexistant. Again, that's an appeal to guilt.
Line 8, reduction of an entire complex entity, a life, to being solely for one tiny thing. A bit like saying, the US spends hundreds of billions on defense just to protect a blade of grass in YOUR back yard. Both use the same fallacy.
The last line links all this ridiculousness to something that sometimes sounds a little like this, but is in actuality pretty unrelated.
I see most of these used slightly less blatantly every day, online, in daily life, and in politics. Sadly, those using them are usually quite earnest.
Finally, there's an old saying from usenet that no ironic humor can be so blatant that someone won't take it seriously. That gets proven repeatedly here on slashdot. ;)
Yep. Welcome to my workday. It's spent trying to turn $800 repairs into $80 ones. (Add the appropriate zeros for the other cases in decreasing numbers. I suspect it follows some fractional power law probability. ;)
I'd like to do more with tubopumps, but the start up cost for what you need to fix them is very expensive. And just try to find someone to train you how to do it.
The manufacturers have a love hate relationship with techs like me. On the one hand, they like to sell me parts. That's easy low overhead money.
On the other, they'd much rather sell a new unit or a very expensive support contract. Ever see what the travel fees and such are for on site maintenance? Gruesome.
These "intelligent controllers" for hot plates and such? Usually, they're only limitedly more effective than an electromechanical one, but the adjustments are in software so it greatly limits how much repair can be done on them. Whoops. That's another $1200 board for your refrigerated centrifuge. So sorry.
I'm one of the few who will try board level repairs any more. And that's really reverse engineering as they either won't tell you tech info, or if they contracted for the board, don't know it themselves.
It's a mind blowing situation when you first encounter it.
Believe me, AC. If Im going to troll, it's going to be a whole lot more subtle than that. ;)
Mark Tilden tells a similar story about a prototype floor cleaning robot.
It took some effort to find out why it worked when he watched it, but when he came home after being away, it was always sitting still in the middle of the room without having cleaned most of the room.
The culprit: His cat would repeatedly trigger its collision avoidance sensor to make it turn away. It was a fun cat toy.
It's hard to design against active maliciousness. :)