I am curious as to the popularity of social networks, is it as most of us lead disconnected urban lives, where most of the people we run into through out the day are strangers, Facebook serves as a substitute for the kind of community we used to live in.
'that we will need to invoke 'new physics and exotic biological structures'"
How does the new physics relate to the old physics and evolution. And given the apparient intelligence in AI systems (and presumably even more signs of intelligence as they evolve) would he need to invoke the ghost in the silicon machine. Or does there need to be something magical about neurons and microtubules and therefore it would be impossible to ever design self aware thinking machines.
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Zaphod: The Mice want your Brain, they'll replace it with an artificial one with the same memories, no one would notice.
"Apple is planning to release an update specifically designed to protect users against the MacDefender malware that has been circulating for the last couple of weeks. The update for Mac OS X will automatically find and remove the malware on an infected machine and also will warn users if another infection attempt is detected"
What defence is there against the end users downloading and running MacDefender and giving up the Admin password?
"Just two short weeks after assuring us Skype was safe in their hands, Microsoft seems intent on cutting its link with Linux.. Digium.. can no longer sell their Asterisk-Skype interaction module after July 26. That means it will become impossible for this VoIP PBX to connect to Skype". link
"SCADA systems -- computer systems that control industrial processes -- are one of the ways a computer hack can directly affect the real world".
Only if you connect the SCADA systems directly to the Internet and run them on top of Windows. Instead of running them behind a secure VPN connection running on embedded hardware.
Do you work for one of the investment banks, the ones that 'invested` us all into the toilet?
"We don't need a secondary economy inflating online prices. Screw that", marnues
Yea, that's the job of the primary economy, and you're right we are getting screwed. I notice you have nothing to say about the ability to steal product online with nothing more secure than a sequence of digits, the same ones printed on the front of the card. A bit like giving away a make-your-own-money-kit with ever desktop computer. Something only beaten in the dumbest idea ever by putting the ATM card data on a magnetic strip. Making it so much easier to extract the card info using skimmers.
"This video.. discusses policy changes 13 years ago that unleashed the sub-prime mortgage-backed securities market, which accelerated prices erratically, inviting speculation and loose lending practices which were both condoned and encouraged by existing regulation and carried out by risk-blind executives and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
> Under siege by thieves who regularly got their hands on old-fashioned room keys, hotels in New York began using electronic locks on their doors in 1977.. They would leave an electronic trail, stamped with the times that a door opened, closed or was left ajar..
I know of no such system that will detecd a door "left ajar".
> Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, declared that the evidence was “not consistent with forcible encounter”
Has such evidence been released if so can we see it. I do know such systems have an offline mode where there would be no records kept. In such an offline system, each lock has to be visited in turn in order to register a master passcard. It performs some kind of checksum on the guest cards. Even if the locks were online they may not have been keeping full records.
“They would have a record of her using the key to gain access.. They should have a record of the door remaining open for X period of time, and the door lock being actuated again. The system can differentiate between the guest’s card key and the housekeeper’s master key.”
The word 'would', suggests the lawyer doesn't have any evidence, the corrected headline should read: Computer records hold key in IMF head's sexual assault, is pure speculation by the defence counsel.
Ed Bott reports an explosion in Apple malware. And what is the evidence, an anonymous AppleCare rep and msgs on a discussion forum. Ed Bott says the problem is getting worse and the problem is exactly? Someone writes a malicious app and uploads it to some anonymous server where some unsuspecting Mac user has to willfully download and install this malware. How this gets translated into an explosion in Apple malware defies logic, but FUD on...
"Yesterday I spent several hours going through discussions.apple.com and collecting requests for help from Mac users who have been affected by this issue" link
Like, don't go to unverifed sites, download and install unverified apps...
Ban the use of credit cards for online purchases and replace then with some kind of digital currency, something like is used in Second Life. You transfer funds into this account and use it for online transactions and then transfer funds back out of it into your bank account.
"With cybercrime now the second largest criminal activity in the world, measures such as the creation of an 'Internet Interpol'
We don't need an 'Internet Interpol', what we need is computers that aren't so easily hacked..
I can't for the life of me understand De Icazas motovation in expending so much energy in cloning a Linux version of dotNET, functionality that in some-ways-or-another, already exists on Linux?
"Bill Binney.. worked on NSA's ThinThread program; a way to monitor the flood of internet data from outside the US while protecting the privacy of US citizens"..
For a professional spy he does come across as naive. The US security services has been spying on the rest of the world and its own citizens for years before 9/11. All September 11th did was give them the pretext to massively expand the program. And I guess the rest of us don't really matter, we're not real countries anyway.
> sources close to the ongoing investigation say the attack was mounted from Amazon Web Service's cloud computing platform..
What evidence is there that Amazon Cloud was the source and why the need to keep the source of these allegations anonymous.
Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp. (6758)’s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter
"Osama bin Laden was a prolific writer who put together a painstaking email system that thwarted the US government's best eavesdroppers despite having no Internet access in his hideout"..
Then why does the Gov need to spy on us all in order to protect us from the terrorists ?
> The federal investigation has examined whether Google knowingly accepted ads from online pharmacies, based in Canada and elsewhere, that violated U.S. laws, according to the people familiar with the matter..
What specific laws are they violating and who is lobbying on Capitol that Google keeps geting into litigation with the US gov?
> tech evangelists are planning to meet in Crystal City in mid-June to sort out how to save and remake the nation's mail delivery service
A notebook type device providing secure, digitally signed, irrevocable, end-to-end delivery of most all that is currently being delivered on paper. It also functions as an electronic yellow pages and phone book that automatically updates itself, and you can do financial bookings using it.
An interesting piece of alternative history, in the real world the record has this to say:
"We are pursuing a strategy to keep WordPerfect on the defensive. In effect, this means acting like we are still the "trailer" and explicitly calling them out with aggressive switcher tactics" link
"In an email dated October 3, 199, however, Bill Gates ordered his top executives to retract the documentation of the browsing extensions, but only until Microsoft’s own developers of the Office suite of applications had sufficient time to work with the hidden extensions to build an insurmountable advantage over competitors such as WordPerfect" link
"I have decided that we should not publish these extensions. We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for likee of Notes, Wordperfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage" link
"When I read the section beginning at paragraph 92, for example, about Microsoft deliberately making Word incompatible with WordPerfect" link
Slashdot Mirror
.radiotimes.com LOG_ID 05/28/21
Google only goes up to 2013
.google.com PREF 05/27/13 ID= ******
See also, Radio Times recommends Internet Explorer 8
I am curious as to the popularity of social networks, is it as most of us lead disconnected urban lives, where most of the people we run into through out the day are strangers, Facebook serves as a substitute for the kind of community we used to live in.
'that we will need to invoke 'new physics and exotic biological structures'"
How does the new physics relate to the old physics and evolution. And given the apparient intelligence in AI systems (and presumably even more signs of intelligence as they evolve) would he need to invoke the ghost in the silicon machine. Or does there need to be something magical about neurons and microtubules and therefore it would be impossible to ever design self aware thinking machines.
--
Zaphod: The Mice want your Brain, they'll replace it with an artificial one with the same memories, no one would notice.
Arthur: I would ..
"Apple is planning to release an update specifically designed to protect users against the MacDefender malware that has been circulating for the last couple of weeks. The update for Mac OS X will automatically find and remove the malware on an infected machine and also will warn users if another infection attempt is detected"
What defence is there against the end users downloading and running MacDefender and giving up the Admin password?
"Just two short weeks after assuring us Skype was safe in their hands, Microsoft seems intent on cutting its link with Linux .. Digium .. can no longer sell their Asterisk-Skype interaction module after July 26. That means it will become impossible for this VoIP PBX to connect to Skype". link
No it won't as unlike North Carolina governor Bev Perdue, the fix isn't in ..link
"SCADA systems -- computer systems that control industrial processes -- are one of the ways a computer hack can directly affect the real world".
Only if you connect the SCADA systems directly to the Internet and run them on top of Windows. Instead of running them behind a secure VPN connection running on embedded hardware.
Do you work for one of the investment banks, the ones that ' invested ` us all into the toilet?
"We don't need a secondary economy inflating online prices. Screw that", marnues
Yea, that's the job of the primary economy, and you're right we are getting screwed. I notice you have nothing to say about the ability to steal product online with nothing more secure than a sequence of digits, the same ones printed on the front of the card. A bit like giving away a make-your-own-money-kit with ever desktop computer. Something only beaten in the dumbest idea ever by putting the ATM card data on a magnetic strip. Making it so much easier to extract the card info using skimmers.
Burning Down The House
"This video .. discusses policy changes 13 years ago that unleashed the sub-prime mortgage-backed securities market, which accelerated prices erratically, inviting speculation and loose lending practices which were both condoned and encouraged by existing regulation and carried out by risk-blind executives and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
> Under siege by thieves who regularly got their hands on old-fashioned room keys, hotels in New York began using electronic locks on their doors in 1977 .. They would leave an electronic trail, stamped with the times that a door opened, closed or was left ajar..
I know of no such system that will detecd a door "left ajar".
> Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, declared that the evidence was “not consistent with forcible encounter”
Has such evidence been released if so can we see it. I do know such systems have an offline mode where there would be no records kept. In such an offline system, each lock has to be visited in turn in order to register a master passcard. It performs some kind of checksum on the guest cards. Even if the locks were online they may not have been keeping full records.
“They would have a record of her using the key to gain access .. They should have a record of the door remaining open for X period of time, and the door lock being actuated again. The system can differentiate between the guest’s card key and the housekeeper’s master key.”
The word 'would', suggests the lawyer doesn't have any evidence, the corrected headline should read: Computer records hold key in IMF head's sexual assault, is pure speculation by the defence counsel.
And this deemed newsworthy enough for a posting on slashdot?
Ed Bott reports an explosion in Apple malware. And what is the evidence, an anonymous AppleCare rep and msgs on a discussion forum. Ed Bott says the problem is getting worse and the problem is exactly? Someone writes a malicious app and uploads it to some anonymous server where some unsuspecting Mac user has to willfully download and install this malware. How this gets translated into an explosion in Apple malware defies logic, but FUD on ...
"Yesterday I spent several hours going through discussions.apple.com and collecting requests for help from Mac users who have been affected by this issue" link
Like, don't go to unverifed sites, download and install unverified apps ...
Ban the use of credit cards for online purchases and replace then with some kind of digital currency, something like is used in Second Life. You transfer funds into this account and use it for online transactions and then transfer funds back out of it into your bank account.
"With cybercrime now the second largest criminal activity in the world, measures such as the creation of an 'Internet Interpol'
We don't need an 'Internet Interpol', what we need is computers that aren't so easily hacked ..
Mr. Childs clashed with the new Security Manager on the subject of authentication and control, which led to poor formal review.
Sorting out fact from fiction in the Terry Childs case
I can't for the life of me understand De Icazas motovation in expending so much energy in cloning a Linux version of dotNET, functionality that in some-ways-or-another, already exists on Linux?
"Bill Binney .. worked on NSA's ThinThread program; a way to monitor the flood of internet data from outside the US while protecting the privacy of US citizens" ..
For a professional spy he does come across as naive. The US security services has been spying on the rest of the world and its own citizens for years before 9/11. All September 11th did was give them the pretext to massively expand the program. And I guess the rest of us don't really matter, we're not real countries anyway.
The secret of Room 641A
AT&T collaborates with NSA
Echelon
> sources close to the ongoing investigation say the attack was mounted from Amazon Web Service's cloud computing platform ..
What evidence is there that Amazon Cloud was the source and why the need to keep the source of these allegations anonymous.
Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp. (6758)’s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter
I see, asome 'person'
> Why everybody is driven to the "Cloud" like lemmings is beyond me
Because the venders hope to make more money then selling the one server.
"Osama bin Laden was a prolific writer who put together a painstaking email system that thwarted the US government's best eavesdroppers despite having no Internet access in his hideout" ..
Then why does the Gov need to spy on us all in order to protect us from the terrorists ?
New US bill would require ISPs to retain user info to aid police
And why aren't the US gov going after the advertisers ?
> The federal investigation has examined whether Google knowingly accepted ads from online pharmacies, based in Canada and elsewhere, that violated U.S. laws, according to the people familiar with the matter ..
What specific laws are they violating and who is lobbying on Capitol that Google keeps geting into litigation with the US gov?
"It's a legit pwn, but if it requires Flash, it's not a Chrome pwn. Do Java bugs count as a Chrome pwn too, because we support NPAPI?" link
Says "PWS-Zbot.gen.ds trojan detected" here ...
There, that's the corrected headline ... How about they give the staff less work to do for the same money, that would help combat RSA.
> tech evangelists are planning to meet in Crystal City in mid-June to sort out how to save and remake the nation's mail delivery service
A notebook type device providing secure, digitally signed, irrevocable, end-to-end delivery of most all that is currently being delivered on paper. It also functions as an electronic yellow pages and phone book that automatically updates itself, and you can do financial bookings using it.
An interesting piece of alternative history, in the real world the record has this to say:
"We are pursuing a strategy to keep WordPerfect on the defensive. In effect, this means acting like we are still the "trailer" and explicitly calling them out with aggressive switcher tactics" link
"In an email dated October 3, 199, however, Bill Gates ordered his top executives to retract the documentation of the browsing extensions, but only until Microsoft’s own developers of the Office suite of applications had sufficient time to work with the hidden extensions to build an insurmountable advantage over competitors such as WordPerfect" link
"I have decided that we should not publish these extensions. We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for likee of Notes, Wordperfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage" link
"When I read the section beginning at paragraph 92, for example, about Microsoft deliberately making Word incompatible with WordPerfect" link