The girl was one that tried to download copyrighted material. She did not know what she was doing was illegal. She tired to google it, and came across pirate bay. Read the TorrentFreak article. It is more informative.
I just told you I have seen men stalk and masturbate to children walking by with my own eyes! I was prohibited to report it as it would open the school to liability as a lawyer could then argue the schools responsibility for safety now includes the entire walk home and we would be liable for every infraction afterwards etc. My job was to report their ass as soon as any body part touched school property. Pedis are always trying to volunteer or get involved with the school.
Has no one in your school heard of anonymous phone calls? These are things that could make or break DA's, police chief's, hell even politician's careers. Hell, the FBI would be glad to come down and investigate based on your anonymous tip. You seriously expect us you believe this is widespread and nothing is being done? Can I have whatever you are smoking?
It is a public school. School has only the rights the public allows it to. If the people are opposed to RFID tracking of their kids, the school has just lost their right to track them.
A close friend of mine designs pysch evaluation tests for a living. He used to be in the navy, before his PHD, and now contracts for the navy. May be my sources are biased, but I hear every recruit takes the test. And if the test shows sign of questioning authority, you may not be recruited. And yes, I have heard of the "duty to disobey unlawful orders" component, from what I hear it is very often impossible to determine why the order was issued. Most people find it easy to follow the order, and regret it later. It is just what I hear from my friend though.
I would say that it is impossible for the robot to make that judgement. (The commander often knows more than the troops he leads, and he orders something for a reason). Besides, why would any military want to include these three rules in their robot. The military tries to train every soldier to just obey any command without thinking. They use pysch tests to filter recruits that can take orders and execute them without questions or judging them. An ideal soldier according to the military, is one that performs any order as soon as it is issued. With a robot, it is a dream come true. The robot will be build to execute any order from it's master immediately.
It is easier to ban something that doesnt exists. Governments can be persuaded to sign these, with a promise that every country is signing these. Now try the same for nuclear weapons (which exists), and you would have trouble, even, to bring it up for discussion.
Assuming humans still control these autonomous robots, autonomous robots would solve these problems either. Would you expect these autonomous robots to refuse an order given by their human commander? Would you expect these robots to be programmed to be capable of refusing a command?
A robot controlled remotely by a human (even if only for the kill) would accomplish the same. The human is way detached, that it would be easy to control his emotions.
Nope, but we dont need fully autonomous killer robots either. Would you rather have a robot determine if a target is worth killing, rather than a human?
A 3-4% increase in atmospheric carbon can have drastic effects on temperature, so that argument is stupid.
True. But if humans only contribute 3-4% to the 3-4% increase in atmospheric carbons, what effect would human reduction in carbon consumption have on temperature. I am betting on nothing.
I have heard of Google. Is Meraki a Google subsidiary? Shouldnt the summary include this information.
Seriously, the summary is supposed to summarize the story. Give you a gist of what is happening. What Meraki does is important part of it. Expecting people to Google every word in the summary or to RTFA, is unreasonable.
I assumed they were referring to the restricted runtime environment. Your code runs on dalvik, uses the Android Window management system, network access is again limited by what the Android environment allows, and so on.
Yeah the quick view uses Google Docs Viewer. And yeah the information has to be encoded in the URL. One way as you said is to use parameters. Another way is to encoded it in the folder path or pdf file name itself. Another way is to encode it in the subdomain names, and wait for the request to hit your dns server.
The malware is not using Google Accounts at all. It is using Google Docs, literally, as a web proxy server. It is using the Google Docs Viewer (the one that can help view online PDFs and Docs in read only mode, without downloading it to your local system), to pass information to the C&C server. The only way Google can prevent this is, by using a captcha for suspicious requests.
The entire Islamic world? This is a war about territory. Muslims of Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, eastern Europe, the west (which together constitute well over 50% of the Islamic population), dont give a shit about Israel.
...But to have one of our own betray the community like this is beyond our comprehension."
I find this quote rather amusing. Didn't this project start in part because of the carriers denying smartphone owners updated versions of the Android OS to help drive sales of new handsets instead?
So? Are you implying CM was started because of greed (greed of the carriers)?
And now one of their people is trying to extort $10,000 out of them.
Is greed beyond the comprehension of CM?
It is more than greed, it is back-stabbing. It is very difficult to comprehend back-stabbing without having experienced it. I would forgive them for not expecting it.
He is forgetting that, it is a.COM domain, which is controlled by a US company. I am sure cynogenmod folks can get a US court to order the domain registrar to hand over the domain to cynogenmod.
The post was hardly an apology. If he has any honor, he would have apologized for the saga. I bet he is hoping that the cynogenmod team would let this go, and not take any legal action after this.
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It is. I would love to see a 9 year convicted by the jury for copyright infringement.
PS: I realize, this is not in the US, but still.
The girl was one that tried to download copyrighted material. She did not know what she was doing was illegal. She tired to google it, and came across pirate bay. Read the TorrentFreak article. It is more informative.
I just told you I have seen men stalk and masturbate to children walking by with my own eyes! I was prohibited to report it as it would open the school to liability as a lawyer could then argue the schools responsibility for safety now includes the entire walk home and we would be liable for every infraction afterwards etc. My job was to report their ass as soon as any body part touched school property. Pedis are always trying to volunteer or get involved with the school.
Has no one in your school heard of anonymous phone calls? These are things that could make or break DA's, police chief's, hell even politician's careers. Hell, the FBI would be glad to come down and investigate based on your anonymous tip. You seriously expect us you believe this is widespread and nothing is being done? Can I have whatever you are smoking?
Public school not public place. Public school as in funded by taxes. Or were you just trolling?
It is a public school. School has only the rights the public allows it to. If the people are opposed to RFID tracking of their kids, the school has just lost their right to track them.
Then, dont complain, if your enemy takes the same stance, and tries to use all their might to get back their lands.
A close friend of mine designs pysch evaluation tests for a living. He used to be in the navy, before his PHD, and now contracts for the navy. May be my sources are biased, but I hear every recruit takes the test. And if the test shows sign of questioning authority, you may not be recruited. And yes, I have heard of the "duty to disobey unlawful orders" component, from what I hear it is very often impossible to determine why the order was issued. Most people find it easy to follow the order, and regret it later. It is just what I hear from my friend though.
I would say that it is impossible for the robot to make that judgement. (The commander often knows more than the troops he leads, and he orders something for a reason). Besides, why would any military want to include these three rules in their robot. The military tries to train every soldier to just obey any command without thinking. They use pysch tests to filter recruits that can take orders and execute them without questions or judging them. An ideal soldier according to the military, is one that performs any order as soon as it is issued. With a robot, it is a dream come true. The robot will be build to execute any order from it's master immediately.
Sounds good, except the master gets to decide who the non-combatant is.
It is easier to ban something that doesnt exists. Governments can be persuaded to sign these, with a promise that every country is signing these. Now try the same for nuclear weapons (which exists), and you would have trouble, even, to bring it up for discussion.
Assuming humans still control these autonomous robots, autonomous robots would solve these problems either. Would you expect these autonomous robots to refuse an order given by their human commander? Would you expect these robots to be programmed to be capable of refusing a command?
A robot controlled remotely by a human (even if only for the kill) would accomplish the same. The human is way detached, that it would be easy to control his emotions.
Nope, but we dont need fully autonomous killer robots either. Would you rather have a robot determine if a target is worth killing, rather than a human?
A 3-4% increase in atmospheric carbon can have drastic effects on temperature, so that argument is stupid.
True. But if humans only contribute 3-4% to the 3-4% increase in atmospheric carbons, what effect would human reduction in carbon consumption have on temperature. I am betting on nothing.
I have heard of Google. Is Meraki a Google subsidiary? Shouldnt the summary include this information.
Seriously, the summary is supposed to summarize the story. Give you a gist of what is happening. What Meraki does is important part of it. Expecting people to Google every word in the summary or to RTFA, is unreasonable.
I assumed they were referring to the restricted runtime environment. Your code runs on dalvik, uses the Android Window management system, network access is again limited by what the Android environment allows, and so on.
Yeah the quick view uses Google Docs Viewer. And yeah the information has to be encoded in the URL. One way as you said is to use parameters. Another way is to encoded it in the folder path or pdf file name itself. Another way is to encode it in the subdomain names, and wait for the request to hit your dns server.
The malware is not using Google Accounts at all. It is using Google Docs, literally, as a web proxy server. It is using the Google Docs Viewer (the one that can help view online PDFs and Docs in read only mode, without downloading it to your local system), to pass information to the C&C server. The only way Google can prevent this is, by using a captcha for suspicious requests.
Touche.
The entire Islamic world? This is a war about territory. Muslims of Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, eastern Europe, the west (which together constitute well over 50% of the Islamic population), dont give a shit about Israel.
Accepting credit cards is difficult. Accepting Paypal (or Amazon payments) is very easy.
Overall throughput is increased by 700%. How it affects your depends on your usage pattern and your bandwidth requirements.
...But to have one of our own betray the community like this is beyond our comprehension."
I find this quote rather amusing.
Didn't this project start in part because of the carriers denying smartphone owners updated versions of the Android OS to help drive sales of new handsets instead?
So? Are you implying CM was started because of greed (greed of the carriers)?
And now one of their people is trying to extort $10,000 out of them.
Is greed beyond the comprehension of CM?
It is more than greed, it is back-stabbing. It is very difficult to comprehend back-stabbing without having experienced it. I would forgive them for not expecting it.
They did record audio (in some cities atleast) - http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865564397/UHP-comes-under-fire-over-internal-memo-questioning-troopers-arrest-practices.html?pg=all
He is forgetting that, it is a .COM domain, which is controlled by a US company. I am sure cynogenmod folks can get a US court to order the domain registrar to hand over the domain to cynogenmod.
The post was hardly an apology. If he has any honor, he would have apologized for the saga. I bet he is hoping that the cynogenmod team would let this go, and not take any legal action after this.