I think you've *almost* hit the nail on the head. A glancing blow, so to speak.
It isn't that they're more efficient, but that they are wielding more control. I suspect they now write the lyrics, the music, all of it -- and merely parade anyone out front to sing the trash.
This isn't to say that some of this didn't happen before, but I suspect that they're doing it much more directly, powerfully, and with of course the lack of understanding that any exec seems to have in the entertainment industry.
So of course, all they're doing is formulaically copying the past...
Thing is -- look at the whole subprime mortgage thing. People, businesses, unions, other banks, and even countries invested in securities they had zero idea about. If you're thinking bitcoin is a bad investment because the normals are getting involved?
Likely not.
If so, then there is quite the potential for it to take off like crazy. The real problem is -- getting out before the bubble pops... just like with every other scheme over the last.. well, since we've had markets.
The majority of people are extremely emotional. They allow themselves to be entirely controlled by fear, have no idea of statistics, and aren't able to properly manage risk.
And it isn't "getting". No, people have always, always been like this.
What happened after 9/11? The largest removal of rights in US history! Most of those rights are STILL gone.
And to make this a 'German thing', just how do you think Hitler got into power? His government was elected in power, because FEAR FEAR! Fear the foreigner! Fear this and that!
FEAR. It's been used forever, and it's being used now. The terrorist. The foreigner. The stolen election. The Internet that will screw up children, unless controlled. The list goes on, and on, and on.
It was The Bomb/The USSR the last half, of last century. It was the French to the British, and the British to the French, centuries before.
It's always *something* that allows a few, to control many.
The only difference now, is that the few have powers of control much more subtle, and precise than ever before. Thanks to modern tech.
Not to mention, as the last 20 years has shown -- the entire Western economy is based upon *credit*. Lending. Borrowing. *Debit*.
If you decided tomorrow that Equifax couldn't share info. Or, something immediate and drastic was done?
You'd see massive unemployment, economic crash, you name it.
No new mortgages. No loans. No new credit cards. Even ongoing credit monitoring would be a concern.
Equifax and its ilk are in a unique position that every bank, mortgage company, you name it -- relies upon them relentlessly to do business.
Frankly, I'd almost suspect that if someone wanted to "destroy the American way of life", ensuring that things like Equifax = destroyed, would be the best way!
And yes, Equifax deserves to explode. But... perhaps lawmakers honestly, truly don't know wtf to do. And like all other such issues, from sub-prime to you name it -- are just ignoring it.
I've used 3ware -> LSI -> Avago -> Broadcom raid cards for 20 years.
Support during the 3ware and LSI days was great. Never had an issue, even with 'unsupported' drives and support -- as long as I showed the technical skill to work with LSI on issues.
Avago was fine right after the buyout, but these days technical support people at Broadcom are just not skilled. With LSI, you'd call/email.. and someone that seemed to actually understand raid, and how their products worked, would assist you.
Not now. Every contact I've had there in the last 2 years, has resulted in people that are effectively looking up info from internal wikis or knowledge libraries, and just reading those responses. Issues are often replied to with canned responses, from people that don't even 'get' what's happening.
This is with detailed logs, and other info that makes the response nonsensical.
For example, I had issues with 10TB drives dropping out of an array. I was quickly told that my drives were NAS drives, so how could I expect them to work with a raid card!? Meanwhile, these same NAS drives are raided in every NAS application I've ever seen, and yes with similar broadcom products.
Also, retailers like Newegg were selling a raid card directly, not via 3rd party sellers -- and in quantity, just a year ago. Yet, another issue with a broadcom product, this raid card, I was told that the product was "out of support" for 4 years. 4 years!!
Surely, there was not 3+ years of stock in the supply chain. Meaning, that Broadcom was selling product for years after refusing to support it?
No, likely it was again a case of support trying to 'get out of doing their job'.
Support has gone way, waaaay, waaaaaaaaay downhill after the takeover.
The scary part is, these guys account for almost all raid card chips in the world. LSI was a powerhouse, products in every server, rebranded by Dell, Supermicro, HP, you name it. And Broadcoms own puny lineup of pre-existing raid chips, must put it up very high end, for hardware raid.
(EG, not chips that are really hybrid/software raid chips)
NVMe gives hope, I've seen many new players in the market. It would be nice to see competition again.
And, custom silicon will be the answer for sure -- and it won't even be 'custom' once deployed.
EG, think of all the massive optimizations in Intel and AMD cpus for the decoding / encoding of mpeg/h.264/5/etc. The same, I'm sure, would be implemented for future CPUs or GPUs, so that custom won't be required.
I admit I didn't read the article, but the summary is insane. Like the person has zero idea of how many optimizations have occurred, and how much power they save.
The law already handles this all over the spectrum. It's called 'negligence'. Fault is easy to assign.
You don't patch shit? That's negligent. That's jail time.
You get hit by a zero day, you have firewalls, and you catch it (because you're monitoring things!) fast? That's not your fault. You're not to blame.
Equifax CxOs *do* deserve jail time. They were negligent. There needs to be criminal charges, and jail time served.
Equating it to cars? You're driving down the road drunk. Or, you're on your phone not paying attention. You can be charged with various things at that point, which result in jail time (including dangerous driving here). But, you *hit* someone or something, and it's shown this is the case? EG, you were negligent?
No sorries or excuses, you'll be seeing the inside of a jail cell...
To be honest -- that's not really all that geographically spread out. Except for Mexico, you could fit all that in a Canadian province almost. Nationally spread out, sure. But all of those places a very close geographically.
It's bad enough that even on hacked phones, we don't have access to the firmwares. And that we have no idea, 100% idea if the NSA/etc can exploit vulnerabilities to take pics even on a clean phone.
Even outside of that, on 'normal' phones, no doubt 1/2 the malware on Google Play is the CIA.
But no. That's not enough.
Now people are going to willingly walk around with devices that take pics of everything they do. What the hell man!
an Equifax e-mail directing administrators to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework went unheeded
Yeah, right. Makes it sound like "equifax", eg some MBA, tried to get "admins" to patch it, but they refused.
Almost certainly what happened was the "Equifax email" was from an IT guy, and some admin manager said "NO, we can't do it right now."
I wonder what department the email was from, and to. And what conversation was had outside of an email stream. "Too costly", "Too busy", "No time", "Can't afford it".
Now that all hell has broken loose, I'm sure everyone's trying to claim "I wanted to do it!". Lies!
You have a weird definition of 'open source'. By your above link, I see a bunch of bsd/OSS/other open source software bits, most of them just... glue bits.
Where's the kernel? Firmwares? Boot scripts? Ability to build the entire OS from scratch?
By this claim (a page with some OSS bits), you'd be able to call Windows "open source" too. It has bash, and lots of other OSS bits now. So?
(NOTE: this isn't a reason to hate Apple, any more than it's a reason to LIKE Apple... you can be open source and evil, and closed source and good)
No, they didn't. 2000 years of no country, doesn't really count when you get one again. If that's the case, the Irish weren't there first -- they displaced someone. And the Irish never LOST their country entirely. It was always still called "Ireland", even if remotely administered and part of the British Empire.
Unlike the Jewish State (by a dozen names) more than 2000+ years ago, that was lost, and the map redrawn 100 times until the re-formation of the 'new' Jewish State.
# Piece together the user agent USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime"
Nothing really damning. However, there is an advantage to gathering this info, even if it is (mostly) anonymous.
EG, how long people leave their machines up, how long between a kernel security announcement, and an reboot after that fact, what types of machines the userbase has, and on and on.
Couple that with advertising (and yes, telling people about yourself is advertising, it's called "brand awareness"), and you get definite value for Ubuntu.
I think it's silly, and even realistically a stupid feature -- but, it is something you can disable. And, all did was go to the package page for base-files, and download it, extract, and examine the script.
NATO. Shared military secrets. Any planes / high tech military hardware we buy, come with full specs on how to repair. Learn how to hack our planes, you learn how to hack allies' planes.
GoC contracts. Shared military drills. Military defense plans for NATO / North America. Outcomes of war games, war simulations, shared with all allies. Studies and tests on munitions, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. (Yes, we do this, we simulate this).
There's *tonnes* to obtain through state to state hacking. Yes, even from Canada.
And, Google the size and scope of CSEC. Signal Intelligence is all about caliber and quality of processing, not about raw manpower.
There's lots to see and do in Canada, for China.;P
But, realistically Canadian companies are often world leaders in tech. There's more meat for the Chinese to steal, to boost their local economy. The National Capital Region is known as 'Silicon Valley North', for the sheer scope and size of startups, high tech, IC design firms, and more. Lots, lots, lots to steal here. Which is why this agreement benefits us, more than China.
State to Corporate espionage has a long, long history. Everyone from Canada, the US, to non-democratic regimes have employed state power, spying, and more to enhance the position and power of domestic corps.
In this scenario, I'd say this is a win (if China were to be honestly trusted) for Canadian corps.
People with some spare cash, are more apt to say "Let's pool our money, we'll call it taxes, and give it to $x"
Sure, works out better if people slightly less well to do, contribute too! Even if those are still above major tax breaks, and have less disposable cash...
When I looked less well to do, I could haggle pricing off everything.
And, when I used to work retail, pre-internet, and someone drove in to order parts? In an expensive car? Well... come on!
This sort of thing has ALWAYS gone on, it is just that big box stores were too big for it, over the last few decades. There was no one to easily haggle with.
(Yet, I've done so! And you can too!)
Amazon is just doing what merchants in Roman times even did, ffs.
Don't like it... shop around, like you SHOULD BE ANYWAYS!
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Even at 99%, that's a boatload of misses heh.
I think you've *almost* hit the nail on the head. A glancing blow, so to speak.
It isn't that they're more efficient, but that they are wielding more control. I suspect they now write the lyrics, the music, all of it -- and merely parade anyone out front to sing the trash.
This isn't to say that some of this didn't happen before, but I suspect that they're doing it much more directly, powerfully, and with of course the lack of understanding that any exec seems to have in the entertainment industry.
So of course, all they're doing is formulaically copying the past...
Thing is -- look at the whole subprime mortgage thing. People, businesses, unions, other banks, and even countries invested in securities they had zero idea about. If you're thinking bitcoin is a bad investment because the normals are getting involved?
Likely not.
If so, then there is quite the potential for it to take off like crazy. The real problem is -- getting out before the bubble pops... just like with every other scheme over the last .. well, since we've had markets.
The first season was good. Even the second. The third lagged.
I don't care about 'relationships' and 'soap operas'.
Take The Walking Dead. It's just a soap opera now, with about 4 minutes of action per episode.
HCF seemed to move that way. More drama, less tech. It sells! :P
ROTFL -- I made it to the end of episode 1.. maybe you're just a tad more optimistic then I ("It'll get better!").
I suspect that the low ratings, gave 'power' to the suits who immediately tried to add all forms of conflict. Sexual, general interpersonal, marital.
The first season was good. The second was... palatable. But, down it spiraled. I barely made it through season #3.
Shame, really.
FYI -- Mr Robot is nothing like Silicon Valley or HCF. Give the first episode a spin.
In general?
The majority of people are extremely emotional. They allow themselves to be entirely controlled by fear, have no idea of statistics, and aren't able to properly manage risk.
And it isn't "getting". No, people have always, always been like this.
What happened after 9/11? The largest removal of rights in US history! Most of those rights are STILL gone.
And to make this a 'German thing', just how do you think Hitler got into power? His government was elected in power, because FEAR FEAR! Fear the foreigner! Fear this and that!
FEAR. It's been used forever, and it's being used now. The terrorist. The foreigner. The stolen election. The Internet that will screw up children, unless controlled. The list goes on, and on, and on.
It was The Bomb/The USSR the last half, of last century. It was the French to the British, and the British to the French, centuries before.
It's always *something* that allows a few, to control many.
The only difference now, is that the few have powers of control much more subtle, and precise than ever before. Thanks to modern tech.
Not to mention, as the last 20 years has shown -- the entire Western economy is based upon *credit*. Lending. Borrowing. *Debit*.
If you decided tomorrow that Equifax couldn't share info. Or, something immediate and drastic was done?
You'd see massive unemployment, economic crash, you name it.
No new mortgages. No loans. No new credit cards. Even ongoing credit monitoring would be a concern.
Equifax and its ilk are in a unique position that every bank, mortgage company, you name it -- relies upon them relentlessly to do business.
Frankly, I'd almost suspect that if someone wanted to "destroy the American way of life", ensuring that things like Equifax = destroyed, would be the best way!
And yes, Equifax deserves to explode. But... perhaps lawmakers honestly, truly don't know wtf to do. And like all other such issues, from sub-prime to you name it -- are just ignoring it.
I've used 3ware -> LSI -> Avago -> Broadcom raid cards for 20 years.
Support during the 3ware and LSI days was great. Never had an issue, even with 'unsupported' drives and support -- as long as I showed the technical skill to work with LSI on issues.
Avago was fine right after the buyout, but these days technical support people at Broadcom are just not skilled. With LSI, you'd call/email.. and someone that seemed to actually understand raid, and how their products worked, would assist you.
Not now. Every contact I've had there in the last 2 years, has resulted in people that are effectively looking up info from internal wikis or knowledge libraries, and just reading those responses. Issues are often replied to with canned responses, from people that don't even 'get' what's happening.
This is with detailed logs, and other info that makes the response nonsensical.
For example, I had issues with 10TB drives dropping out of an array. I was quickly told that my drives were NAS drives, so how could I expect them to work with a raid card!? Meanwhile, these same NAS drives are raided in every NAS application I've ever seen, and yes with similar broadcom products.
Also, retailers like Newegg were selling a raid card directly, not via 3rd party sellers -- and in quantity, just a year ago. Yet, another issue with a broadcom product, this raid card, I was told that the product was "out of support" for 4 years. 4 years!!
Surely, there was not 3+ years of stock in the supply chain. Meaning, that Broadcom was selling product for years after refusing to support it?
No, likely it was again a case of support trying to 'get out of doing their job'.
Support has gone way, waaaay, waaaaaaaaay downhill after the takeover.
The scary part is, these guys account for almost all raid card chips in the world. LSI was a powerhouse, products in every server, rebranded by Dell, Supermicro, HP, you name it. And Broadcoms own puny lineup of pre-existing raid chips, must put it up very high end, for hardware raid.
(EG, not chips that are really hybrid/software raid chips)
NVMe gives hope, I've seen many new players in the market. It would be nice to see competition again.
No no.. it's systemd. RPN is too 'old'. It's Forward polish notation.
And, custom silicon will be the answer for sure -- and it won't even be 'custom' once deployed.
EG, think of all the massive optimizations in Intel and AMD cpus for the decoding / encoding of mpeg/h.264/5/etc. The same, I'm sure, would be implemented for future CPUs or GPUs, so that custom won't be required.
I admit I didn't read the article, but the summary is insane. Like the person has zero idea of how many optimizations have occurred, and how much power they save.
It apparently took the hackers months to get all the data. Why? They kept data transfers to a minimum, so it didn't show up on graphs.
The law already handles this all over the spectrum. It's called 'negligence'. Fault is easy to assign.
You don't patch shit? That's negligent. That's jail time.
You get hit by a zero day, you have firewalls, and you catch it (because you're monitoring things!) fast? That's not your fault. You're not to blame.
Equifax CxOs *do* deserve jail time. They were negligent. There needs to be criminal charges, and jail time served.
Equating it to cars? You're driving down the road drunk. Or, you're on your phone not paying attention. You can be charged with various things at that point, which result in jail time (including dangerous driving here). But, you *hit* someone or something, and it's shown this is the case? EG, you were negligent?
No sorries or excuses, you'll be seeing the inside of a jail cell...
To be honest -- that's not really all that geographically spread out. Except for Mexico, you could fit all that in a Canadian province almost. Nationally spread out, sure. But all of those places a very close geographically.
Oh come on! COME ON!
It's bad enough that even on hacked phones, we don't have access to the firmwares. And that we have no idea, 100% idea if the NSA/etc can exploit vulnerabilities to take pics even on a clean phone.
Even outside of that, on 'normal' phones, no doubt 1/2 the malware on Google Play is the CIA.
But no. That's not enough.
Now people are going to willingly walk around with devices that take pics of everything they do. What the hell man!
#_$)#@+_$)@#_+$)@#+$)@+_#)$+_
an Equifax e-mail directing administrators to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework went unheeded
Yeah, right. Makes it sound like "equifax", eg some MBA, tried to get "admins" to patch it, but they refused.
Almost certainly what happened was the "Equifax email" was from an IT guy, and some admin manager said "NO, we can't do it right now."
I wonder what department the email was from, and to. And what conversation was had outside of an email stream. "Too costly", "Too busy", "No time", "Can't afford it".
Now that all hell has broken loose, I'm sure everyone's trying to claim "I wanted to do it!". Lies!
You have a weird definition of 'open source'. By your above link, I see a bunch of bsd/OSS/other open source software bits, most of them just ... glue bits.
Where's the kernel? Firmwares? Boot scripts? Ability to build the entire OS from scratch?
By this claim (a page with some OSS bits), you'd be able to call Windows "open source" too. It has bash, and lots of other OSS bits now. So?
(NOTE: this isn't a reason to hate Apple, any more than it's a reason to LIKE Apple... you can be open source and evil, and closed source and good)
No, they didn't. 2000 years of no country, doesn't really count when you get one again. If that's the case, the Irish weren't there first -- they displaced someone. And the Irish never LOST their country entirely. It was always still called "Ireland", even if remotely administered and part of the British Empire.
Unlike the Jewish State (by a dozen names) more than 2000+ years ago, that was lost, and the map redrawn 100 times until the re-formation of the 'new' Jewish State.
One must define levels of 'wrong'.
"Evil shit" might be a bit much. In the world of 'evil', this is like jaywalking. Or, not picking up your dog's shit.
platform="$(uname -o)/$(uname -r)/$(uname -m)" /proc/cpuinfo | sed -e "s/.*: //" -e "s:\s\+:/:g")"
arch="$(uname -m)"
cpu="$(grep -m1 "^model name"
# Piece together the user agent
USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime"
Nothing really damning. However, there is an advantage to gathering this info, even if it is (mostly) anonymous.
EG, how long people leave their machines up, how long between a kernel security announcement, and an reboot after that fact, what types of machines the userbase has, and on and on.
Couple that with advertising (and yes, telling people about yourself is advertising, it's called "brand awareness"), and you get definite value for Ubuntu.
I think it's silly, and even realistically a stupid feature -- but, it is something you can disable. And, all did was go to the package page for base-files, and download it, extract, and examine the script.
So, it's hard for me to get extremely upset.
Erm.
NATO. Shared military secrets. Any planes / high tech military hardware we buy, come with full specs on how to repair. Learn how to hack our planes, you learn how to hack allies' planes.
GoC contracts. Shared military drills. Military defense plans for NATO / North America. Outcomes of war games, war simulations, shared with all allies. Studies and tests on munitions, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. (Yes, we do this, we simulate this).
There's *tonnes* to obtain through state to state hacking. Yes, even from Canada.
And, Google the size and scope of CSEC. Signal Intelligence is all about caliber and quality of processing, not about raw manpower.
There's lots to see and do in Canada, for China. ;P
But, realistically Canadian companies are often world leaders in tech. There's more meat for the Chinese to steal, to boost their local economy. The National Capital Region is known as 'Silicon Valley North', for the sheer scope and size of startups, high tech, IC design firms, and more. Lots, lots, lots to steal here. Which is why this agreement benefits us, more than China.
State to Corporate espionage has a long, long history. Everyone from Canada, the US, to non-democratic regimes have employed state power, spying, and more to enhance the position and power of domestic corps.
In this scenario, I'd say this is a win (if China were to be honestly trusted) for Canadian corps.
This has GOT to be an ad.
What. The. Hell.
"Hi, we've just added something that others have had for decades! We're the best (now for pay for ad placement)"
At least in Seinfeld, that'd make an exceptionally overt joke about an ad placement.
I just realised, that 'government job or office' might not be strict enough.
Imagine these clowns, fired, looking for work.
Where might they work next? And who would benefit from their knowledge?
Of course!
People with some spare cash, are more apt to say "Let's pool our money, we'll call it taxes, and give it to $x"
Sure, works out better if people slightly less well to do, contribute too! Even if those are still above major tax breaks, and have less disposable cash...
Exactly.
There's a sucker born every minute.
When I looked less well to do, I could haggle pricing off everything.
And, when I used to work retail, pre-internet, and someone drove in to order parts? In an expensive car? Well... come on!
This sort of thing has ALWAYS gone on, it is just that big box stores were too big for it, over the last few decades. There was no one to easily haggle with.
(Yet, I've done so! And you can too!)
Amazon is just doing what merchants in Roman times even did, ffs.
Don't like it... shop around, like you SHOULD BE ANYWAYS!
Dumbasses!
Canadiam.... my Capital One catd has a pin...