Nuclear detonations create telltale signatures on seismometers, which makes it pretty much impossible to perform nuclear tests without being noticed by the international community. The article even admits this:
Others remain deeply sceptical that the tests took place at all. Most troubling is the lack of any seismic vibrations to support the radioisotope data, according to Ola Dahlman, a retired geophysicist who spent years working with the test-ban group's detection network. The Korean peninsula is wired to spot the tiniest shake from a nuclear explosion, Dahlman says. "It should have been able to see something."
A mate of mine performed this work in the late 80's and early 1990's, at a location I'll not divulge, but suffice to say the sensitivity of their monitoring equipment was completely saturated by the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Northern California. They could track every little tremor around the world, including mining explosions and pinpoint the location with great accuracy. This was part of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty adherence monitoring.
Not only did North Korea manage to produce a Nuclear Warhead- but the late Kim Jong himself put it together using only a paper clip, a mashed potato and a bucket of play-doh.
What it takes the West billions of $ and many top scientists, North Korea can accomplish with just a Kim and a few house-hold supplies. Incidentally, Kim Jong Il, invented the mashed potato. Just a little known factoid.
Sorry, but you're mixing him up with Valdimir "I'm a Rocketman" Putin, who did this on his break between test driving a new F1 car from Lada and climbing K2.
Kim Jong-Il would have willed it into being, because he's a god.
1) Nuke the North 2) Blame it on fusion experimentation 3) ??? 4) PROFIT!
Though I expect you are joking, I do expect the US and ROK have been exploring these options for years -- considering if it would work and how China would react. The North Korean leaders are clearly the most despicable exploiters of the human race the world has seen in generations, but China likes to have them as a buffer. Possibly also fearing the economy and military of a unified Korea.
More like they had an accident and covered it up with "We make bomb for advancement of North Korean workers and great glory of Dear Leader"
IIRC there was a very large explosion of a train car which they were pretty hushed up about, apparently Dear Leader, who only trusted rail travel, was on his train and not too terribly far from the accident when it happened.
If this country didn't exist, with all its screwy behavior, Sci-Fi writers would have a tough time making it all up.
Many animals have such a coating, but not all do. Some of them just have bigger eyes, bigger pupils, better night-adapted biochemistry, or some other adaptation.
And they often lack Cone cells, which provides more space for Rod cells. Nightvision is typically not in colour as the more sensitive of the two (Rods and Cones) are Rods.
Besides, anyone who would hit so close to the enemy through a traceable connection is a moron.
Not even necessary to trace their connection - with each incident they expose vulnerabilities and the means used to exploit them. It's almost a service to government and industry, helping harden their systems. Certain this is not what they intend, but it is what they are accomplishing.
That was my first thought too. Knowing what little I do of him, he'd probably be the first in line to volunteer for human experimental studies of this.
And not out of selfishness, but to benefit others with his experience.
I have attended a few of his readings, over the past 6 years and he had first explained he thought he'd suffered some kind of minor stroke, the following year he came through town with another reading and shed more light on his experience. Finally there was the "embuggerance" note posted publicly after the diagnosis of Early Onset Alzheimer's. He has tried many treatments and has been advocating Right To Die.
You can see how he has grown tremedously from his experience and is now a great champion of research and rights.
Well done him. I hope they can develop something to halt the progress of this insidious malady.
Based on the vague discussion details and how the FBI sent out an email with the conference call number and password, it sounds more likely to be a setup by the FBI to lure Anon into the call so they could glean more location data off of them.
Nah. Never expect cleverness where carelessness would as easily explain how it was achieved.
Some agent has been found and his mailbox is regularly visited for content of interest. Use some better security, send out a honeypot once in a while and see who connects, etc. This is a lesson for FBI and Scotland Yard not to take their security for granted. Could have been worse.
I'm certain anyone else who was privy to these conference calls is highly annoyed at the exposure, which will result in some changes.
Seems to me a clever FBI/Scotland Yard, could take advantage of that to find their listeners.
If nothing else I expect they'll be a bit more careful now, which could be a good thing. Anonymous likes to brag about accomplishments.. more insidious people have no desire to make it known they are tapping in.
But if you do have DRM your games will *still* be pirated. I have yet to encounter even one piece of single-player DRM for games that defeated the pirates - it only takes one cracker, and their work will be all over the p2p networks in hours. Multiplayer is a different story, yes - you can use things like requiring unique serials then that really do bother the pirates - but single player? No, DRM is useless. Might buy a couple of days.
Cracking hand-written security is easy. Have an application create algorythms and your cracker will be spending a life-time trying to weed through the code
I still have very good night vision, but as I age it's not as effective as it was when I was a teenager. I have above average visual acuity, which I think is the basis of it. Having blue eyes I can't see as being relevent or even reflecting eyes (hay, anyone ever hear of red eye?) His irises are simply able to dilate enough to let in more of the limited light available and has sensitive Rod cells.
Complaints about this will NEVER MATTER until it impacts the bottom line.
STOP BUYING UBI GAMES.
Unless and until publishers see a recognizable impact on their sales that they can attribute to repressive DRM, they won't stop.
And remember, a lot of these guys BELIEVE the bullshit line about every pirated game is a "lost sale" so the negative impact of DRM would have to be a pretty massive number.
Sadly, and I speak from experience, if you don't have some DRM your game will be pirated and you will make zilch. But it doesn't have to be repressive and a good fundamental system design, how to validate users, hand out certificates, etc. could have been done very easily. Sounds like they hired some stupid system people or contracted it out to some stupid system designers. Even Microsoft handles this sort of thing better with software install/registration, and if they can get it right, with their empires within empires company structure, there's no reason UBI shouldn't be able to.
There's just so much wrong with this... it's amazing...
They're locking users out of game they have paid for
They're unable to move a set of servers without preventing downtime for customer facing attributes
They're completely oblivious to the reasons why these are bad things
It just leaves me completely flabbergasted. I can't imagine this entire process coming to this point without someone, somewhere in the decision process saying "Who gives a shit what they think? Just do whatever's cheapest right now"
The obvious gaffe is in the design - how they validate/deliver certificates, could have been done better.
The next time I get a pile of their games with some piece of video hardware, motherboard, USB cable, guitar pick, can of condensed chicken fat or sack of kitty litter, I'll not install it.
You must have never dropped an iPhone 4/S from a foot up on something that isn't memory foam.
Try leaving it on top of the car and then driving away -- hearing a clatter -- thinking 'um where's the phone?' and going back to find it -- fully functional, just some case scratches. Done it not, once, but twice.
BTW, there's some great news on Alzheimers Research in a following news post. Hope they get this sorted before I really need it. Ok.. I have the phone, but where's the car?
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Guess that Steve was looking for the John Denver Experience.
John Denver, Steve Fossett and too many others.
The spirit to take risks is the spirit of adventure.
Nuclear detonations create telltale signatures on seismometers, which makes it pretty much impossible to perform nuclear tests without being noticed by the international community. The article even admits this:
A mate of mine performed this work in the late 80's and early 1990's, at a location I'll not divulge, but suffice to say the sensitivity of their monitoring equipment was completely saturated by the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Northern California. They could track every little tremor around the world, including mining explosions and pinpoint the location with great accuracy. This was part of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty adherence monitoring.
Not only did North Korea manage to produce a Nuclear Warhead- but the late Kim Jong himself put it together using only a paper clip, a mashed potato and a bucket of play-doh.
What it takes the West billions of $ and many top scientists, North Korea can accomplish with just a Kim and a few house-hold supplies. Incidentally, Kim Jong Il, invented the mashed potato. Just a little known factoid.
Sorry, but you're mixing him up with Valdimir "I'm a Rocketman" Putin, who did this on his break between test driving a new F1 car from Lada and climbing K2.
Kim Jong-Il would have willed it into being, because he's a god.
1) Nuke the North
2) Blame it on fusion experimentation
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
Though I expect you are joking, I do expect the US and ROK have been exploring these options for years -- considering if it would work and how China would react. The North Korean leaders are clearly the most despicable exploiters of the human race the world has seen in generations, but China likes to have them as a buffer. Possibly also fearing the economy and military of a unified Korea.
I must have prescient computer hardware .. it often converts itself to a pile of junk upon booting up.
and I work with it from there
Reminds me of Oliver Wendell Jones from Bloom County
Nah, I haven't been arrested yet.
How well I remember -- Steve Dallas ended up in the hacker tank
and he was threatened with having his credit rating slashed for sitting on Big Dave Diode's bunk.
More like they had an accident and covered it up with "We make bomb for advancement of North Korean workers and great glory of Dear Leader"
IIRC there was a very large explosion of a train car which they were pretty hushed up about, apparently Dear Leader, who only trusted rail travel, was on his train and not too terribly far from the accident when it happened.
If this country didn't exist, with all its screwy behavior, Sci-Fi writers would have a tough time making it all up.
Many animals have such a coating, but not all do. Some of them just have bigger eyes, bigger pupils, better night-adapted biochemistry, or some other adaptation.
And they often lack Cone cells, which provides more space for Rod cells. Nightvision is typically not in colour as the more sensitive of the two (Rods and Cones) are Rods.
But don't you know, all suspects are guilty. Otherwise they wouldn't be suspects.
And when you no longer hear screaming from the scorpion pit you know everyone is completely cool with it, as they have stopped complaining.
Besides, anyone who would hit so close to the enemy through a traceable connection is a moron.
Not even necessary to trace their connection - with each incident they expose vulnerabilities and the means used to exploit them. It's almost a service to government and industry, helping harden their systems. Certain this is not what they intend, but it is what they are accomplishing.
You wouldn't be able to arbitrarily control the entire internet under the new model. How terrible.
Philosophy: The law and how it should apply to other people.
We need to bypass law enforcement and courts and go straight to Instant Fine and Imprisonment.
Next they'll be advocating their own personal drones.
That was my first thought too. Knowing what little I do of him, he'd probably be the first in line to volunteer for human experimental studies of this.
And not out of selfishness, but to benefit others with his experience.
I have attended a few of his readings, over the past 6 years and he had first explained he thought he'd suffered some kind of minor stroke, the following year he came through town with another reading and shed more light on his experience. Finally there was the "embuggerance" note posted publicly after the diagnosis of Early Onset Alzheimer's. He has tried many treatments and has been advocating Right To Die.
You can see how he has grown tremedously from his experience and is now a great champion of research and rights.
Well done him. I hope they can develop something to halt the progress of this insidious malady.
So it's wrong to make sure the government isn't up to no good? You sound like you would have been a loyal Nazi sympathizer back in the 30s.
All this is doing is making government more careful.
And resulting in the occasional arrest of some child with parents who don't check up on them often enough.
Reminds me of Oliver Wendell Jones from Bloom County.
Based on the vague discussion details and how the FBI sent out an email with the conference call number and password, it sounds more likely to be a setup by the FBI to lure Anon into the call so they could glean more location data off of them.
Nah. Never expect cleverness where carelessness would as easily explain how it was achieved.
Some agent has been found and his mailbox is regularly visited for content of interest. Use some better security, send out a honeypot once in a while and see who connects, etc. This is a lesson for FBI and Scotland Yard not to take their security for granted. Could have been worse.
I'm certain anyone else who was privy to these conference calls is highly annoyed at the exposure, which will result in some changes.
Seems to me a clever FBI/Scotland Yard, could take advantage of that to find their listeners.
If nothing else I expect they'll be a bit more careful now, which could be a good thing. Anonymous likes to brag about accomplishments .. more insidious people have no desire to make it known they are tapping in.
But if you do have DRM your games will *still* be pirated. I have yet to encounter even one piece of single-player DRM for games that defeated the pirates - it only takes one cracker, and their work will be all over the p2p networks in hours. Multiplayer is a different story, yes - you can use things like requiring unique serials then that really do bother the pirates - but single player? No, DRM is useless. Might buy a couple of days.
Cracking hand-written security is easy. Have an application create algorythms and your cracker will be spending a life-time trying to weed through the code
I still have very good night vision, but as I age it's not as effective as it was when I was a teenager. I have above average visual acuity, which I think is the basis of it. Having blue eyes I can't see as being relevent or even reflecting eyes (hay, anyone ever hear of red eye?) His irises are simply able to dilate enough to let in more of the limited light available and has sensitive Rod cells.
How does this make you feel?
Is this Eliza?
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Complaints about this will NEVER MATTER until it impacts the bottom line.
STOP BUYING UBI GAMES.
Unless and until publishers see a recognizable impact on their sales that they can attribute to repressive DRM, they won't stop.
And remember, a lot of these guys BELIEVE the bullshit line about every pirated game is a "lost sale" so the negative impact of DRM would have to be a pretty massive number.
Sadly, and I speak from experience, if you don't have some DRM your game will be pirated and you will make zilch. But it doesn't have to be repressive and a good fundamental system design, how to validate users, hand out certificates, etc. could have been done very easily. Sounds like they hired some stupid system people or contracted it out to some stupid system designers. Even Microsoft handles this sort of thing better with software install/registration, and if they can get it right, with their empires within empires company structure, there's no reason UBI shouldn't be able to.
There's just so much wrong with this... it's amazing...
It just leaves me completely flabbergasted. I can't imagine this entire process coming to this point without someone, somewhere in the decision process saying "Who gives a shit what they think? Just do whatever's cheapest right now"
The obvious gaffe is in the design - how they validate/deliver certificates, could have been done better.
You can
Right.
The next time I get a pile of their games with some piece of video hardware, motherboard, USB cable, guitar pick, can of condensed chicken fat or sack of kitty litter, I'll not install it.
This is news?
Next thing you'll be telling us Credit Suisse has bad data ...
oh, wait.
You must have never dropped an iPhone 4/S from a foot up on something that isn't memory foam.
Try leaving it on top of the car and then driving away -- hearing a clatter -- thinking 'um where's the phone?' and going back to find it -- fully functional, just some case scratches. Done it not, once, but twice.
BTW, there's some great news on Alzheimers Research in a following news post. Hope they get this sorted before I really need it. Ok.. I have the phone, but where's the car?
I don't think putting incorrect data into the software can really count as manipulating the IT system.
Even banking systems have to obey the cardinal rule: Garbage in, Garbage out.
Intentionally putting in incorrect information ... however ... is a time-honoured tradition in business.