>Will the police say, "We see no reason to pursue this; those crackheads were providing you with a free service, exposing flaws in your security measures! Lesson learned"
That's exactly what they would say if you left your door open in a known crackhead area I suspect.
If there is such a thing as cyber weapons, and a cyber attack can be an act of war, does a government cyber attack on civilians constitute a war crime legally?
I knew their days were numbered. The old Daleks were scary in their relentless trundling unstoppableness. They had a physicalness which was scary because it was so mechanical and alien. Once they started flying you could tell it was all CGI and hence not scary. Daleks were designed to trundle, not fly.
So if I want to protect against malware on a mac I need to update its OS every day, potentially? See the thing is, the last time I updated its OS it went down (didn't come back after reboot) which took me two days to diagnose, fix, and restore my stuff from backup. Since then I decided I don't want to update my OS any more. Will I still be protected by Apple if I don't choose to install their latest risky OS version, but just keep the one I have and will they automatically supply me the fixes to the malware search tool? Seems like it might be easier just to install an anti-malware package and be done with it.
The Open University in the UK does distance learning courses. Their new course starting this year is T100 - Your Digital Life. http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/tu100.htm
I was involved in setting up the predecessor course a few years ago (You, Your Computer and the Internet).
The basic idea is to take people with little experience of using computers through to being confident with word processing, spreadsheets, navigating the web and building some of it for themselves.
everything is wrong. Pretty much all information is just a model of reality, and I can see that an area or volume based approach might have some advantages.
There are a few arguments I can think of against the area approach though. If you painted an area on the map, how would you decide what level of granularity to go down to? Unless you painted the map down the atomic scale it might be 'wrong'. Also the earth is not flat (or round) of course. Plus some people would paint an area and some would choose a single point through laziness/lack of time, but it would be difficult to automatically know which was correct in any individual case. Whole debates and many hours of edits would be dedicated to drawing and redrawing the boundaries around things. Then there is the question about whether things in reality have boundaries. What is the boundary of London for instance? Wars are often started by where the boundaries of an area lie, perhaps best avoided.
Over here ICQ was more the thing, and even with many Americans I knew at the time. Before that it was Compuserve but we all got off that as soon as we found there was much more to see on Usenet.
The reactor itself may be well-protected but is all the plumbing that works the cooling system equally so? I'm sure there are plenty of bits of nuclear plant that would indirectly cause radiation leaks due to overheating if you hit them with a plane. IANANE but we've been told before that nuclear power is safe and I never believed it then either.
I would endorse this. Last time I did an 'upgrade' of my OSX it made my machine unusable for a couple of days while I tried everything I could to get it to boot.
They used to have a third line called OSX servers but they just recently stopped doing them. No arguments, no consultation, no remedies for organisations who invested in their server solutions. Once the consumer line makes enough more money than the professional line why bother with the professional line any more? Maybe we are seeing the withdrawal of Apple from computing as such, and the beginning of the end for OSX.
The internet has a lot more potential to distribute unbiased news than 'the media', and it's not just Wikileaks, the very proliferation of news sources makes it much more likely that accurate news information will be free. We all still have to do what only we can which is to call bullshit when we see it.
The ISPs win because they now have an additional revenue stream - they are supposed to pay 25% of the costs of pursuing transgressors, but I imagine it's the ISPs who get to define that cost, and someone else has to give them the other 75%.
Filesharers win because it will still be impossible to identify a transgressor from an IP address so they can safely ignore the letters without worrying that a court can actually do anything to them.
Parents lose because they get hassled by letters about their children's behaviour.
I'm sure Mumsnet will be on the case once the letters really start rolling in, and the provisions in the act will get neutered as part of a red tape clearing exercise.
People recruiting for a job almost always think that the unknown person is better than the known, because they don't know the faults of the unknown person. You will always do better by moving due to human nature and bias.
I searched this document and the word maximise/maximize does not appear anywhere, or any information about how to change between full screen/partial screen in one application, and there doesn't seem to be any description of how to switch between applications. There seems to be some large and very basic holes somewhere.
Agreed - start with Christopher Eccleston and work forward, then go back to the beginning and go forward again. I've seen most of them over the years, but the reappearance with Eccleston was a real update to current TV production values, and will help you appreciate the creakiness of the older ones.
Also remember, the doctor is a time traveller, and the series follow his (their?) timeline, but you are also a time traveller so in your timeline Eccleston might have predated the earler doctors.
unless you are the Navy in which case you can wipe out vital civilian services without a second thought, which is what the original article is actually about, not a $30 box from the evil empire.
says that the Navy did this by accident and wiped out vital systems in a whole metropolitan region. Who would have thought that armed groups with very little regulatory control would be such a risk to the civilian population?
The $30 device from China story just seems to be some spin to make it sound as though hackers and criminals who buy this sort of thing, and the Chinese government, who don't regulate properly, are the real dangers. In fact it is our own armed forces.
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>Will the police say, "We see no reason to pursue this; those crackheads were providing you with a free service, exposing flaws in your security measures! Lesson learned" That's exactly what they would say if you left your door open in a known crackhead area I suspect.
If there is such a thing as cyber weapons, and a cyber attack can be an act of war, does a government cyber attack on civilians constitute a war crime legally?
The landmine analogy is laughable. Hacks never did nor probably ever will blow anyones legs off.
I knew their days were numbered. The old Daleks were scary in their relentless trundling unstoppableness. They had a physicalness which was scary because it was so mechanical and alien. Once they started flying you could tell it was all CGI and hence not scary. Daleks were designed to trundle, not fly.
So if I want to protect against malware on a mac I need to update its OS every day, potentially? See the thing is, the last time I updated its OS it went down (didn't come back after reboot) which took me two days to diagnose, fix, and restore my stuff from backup. Since then I decided I don't want to update my OS any more. Will I still be protected by Apple if I don't choose to install their latest risky OS version, but just keep the one I have and will they automatically supply me the fixes to the malware search tool? Seems like it might be easier just to install an anti-malware package and be done with it.
The Open University in the UK does distance learning courses. Their new course starting this year is T100 - Your Digital Life. http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/tu100.htm I was involved in setting up the predecessor course a few years ago (You, Your Computer and the Internet). The basic idea is to take people with little experience of using computers through to being confident with word processing, spreadsheets, navigating the web and building some of it for themselves.
is to give hackers a 'bad name' by attacking something worthwhile rather than some sleazy corp. Noone really knows who did this, let alone why.
TCA of Macs is lower because IT doesn't support Macs
everything is wrong. Pretty much all information is just a model of reality, and I can see that an area or volume based approach might have some advantages. There are a few arguments I can think of against the area approach though. If you painted an area on the map, how would you decide what level of granularity to go down to? Unless you painted the map down the atomic scale it might be 'wrong'. Also the earth is not flat (or round) of course. Plus some people would paint an area and some would choose a single point through laziness/lack of time, but it would be difficult to automatically know which was correct in any individual case. Whole debates and many hours of edits would be dedicated to drawing and redrawing the boundaries around things. Then there is the question about whether things in reality have boundaries. What is the boundary of London for instance? Wars are often started by where the boundaries of an area lie, perhaps best avoided.
Over here ICQ was more the thing, and even with many Americans I knew at the time. Before that it was Compuserve but we all got off that as soon as we found there was much more to see on Usenet.
did anyone really buy that argument anyway? srsly guys
The reactor itself may be well-protected but is all the plumbing that works the cooling system equally so? I'm sure there are plenty of bits of nuclear plant that would indirectly cause radiation leaks due to overheating if you hit them with a plane. IANANE but we've been told before that nuclear power is safe and I never believed it then either.
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I would endorse this. Last time I did an 'upgrade' of my OSX it made my machine unusable for a couple of days while I tried everything I could to get it to boot.
They used to have a third line called OSX servers but they just recently stopped doing them. No arguments, no consultation, no remedies for organisations who invested in their server solutions. Once the consumer line makes enough more money than the professional line why bother with the professional line any more? Maybe we are seeing the withdrawal of Apple from computing as such, and the beginning of the end for OSX.
The internet has a lot more potential to distribute unbiased news than 'the media', and it's not just Wikileaks, the very proliferation of news sources makes it much more likely that accurate news information will be free. We all still have to do what only we can which is to call bullshit when we see it.
The ISPs win because they now have an additional revenue stream - they are supposed to pay 25% of the costs of pursuing transgressors, but I imagine it's the ISPs who get to define that cost, and someone else has to give them the other 75%. Filesharers win because it will still be impossible to identify a transgressor from an IP address so they can safely ignore the letters without worrying that a court can actually do anything to them. Parents lose because they get hassled by letters about their children's behaviour. I'm sure Mumsnet will be on the case once the letters really start rolling in, and the provisions in the act will get neutered as part of a red tape clearing exercise.
People recruiting for a job almost always think that the unknown person is better than the known, because they don't know the faults of the unknown person. You will always do better by moving due to human nature and bias.
I searched this document and the word maximise/maximize does not appear anywhere, or any information about how to change between full screen/partial screen in one application, and there doesn't seem to be any description of how to switch between applications. There seems to be some large and very basic holes somewhere.
Agreed - start with Christopher Eccleston and work forward, then go back to the beginning and go forward again. I've seen most of them over the years, but the reappearance with Eccleston was a real update to current TV production values, and will help you appreciate the creakiness of the older ones. Also remember, the doctor is a time traveller, and the series follow his (their?) timeline, but you are also a time traveller so in your timeline Eccleston might have predated the earler doctors.
it says that it was causing one particular software application to shut down, not the airport itself.
unless you are the Navy in which case you can wipe out vital civilian services without a second thought, which is what the original article is actually about, not a $30 box from the evil empire.
says that the Navy did this by accident and wiped out vital systems in a whole metropolitan region. Who would have thought that armed groups with very little regulatory control would be such a risk to the civilian population? The $30 device from China story just seems to be some spin to make it sound as though hackers and criminals who buy this sort of thing, and the Chinese government, who don't regulate properly, are the real dangers. In fact it is our own armed forces.
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