I'm trying to figure out how this was possible. I'll post more when I learn a bit more. Till then this will make you smile (devops199 chat)
https://lh3.googleusercontent....
Ottawa, Canada, 10km south of the parliament buildings. Our former prime minister Jean Cretian locked his door and it took the RCMP 7 minutes to respond because the first officer had forgotten his key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've never locked my front door. I didn't even have a proper key for some of the places I've lived. Other than raccoons opening the back door I've never had any unwanted guests. What percentage of slashdot users live in neighbourhoods so unsafe you have to lock your house?
Stephen Bronfman and a trust fund he is involved with appear to have avoided Canadian, US and Israeli taxes. I love how the media, instead of starting with his name mention that he is a friend and head of election fund raising for the Canadian prime minister. I'll wait and find out if the anyone in the governing party knew about it. If they have I expect resignations at the very least.
I assume you mean front line or customer facing. So thank you for showing your contempt for these people msmash.
You have to give these people all these powers but ideally you audit them and have a way of backing out any changes they make. (The only thing I can think of that you really can't back out of a system is if someone reports you dead to the credit bureau. Sorry Jesus). The admins, programmers and anyone else who has access to the raw data generally are not audited.
Because getting ID in the USA is hard. If you don't drive, are poor and can't get credit what piece of ID would you have? There are many parts of the USA that are essentially third world. Voter ID laws mean that people from these places won't be able to vote so their areas can then be further ignored.
Pay the salaries or stop complaining that you lose all your talent. We should be devoting at least a few percent of GDP to pure research. University should be a place for pure research but having our brightest minds chasing grants half the time and doing teaching, marking and committee work another 15 hours a week is a total waste basically means professors do their research for free on their own time. It is so frustrating the way we organize pure research at western universities. The USA also has other institutions that do leading edge research such as NASA and a few others. I can't even think of another famous non-american pure research organization other than CERN.
Pay has to be competitive. Canada has to be the worst example of this. Canadian math and computer science departments essential are producing engineers for US companies. A friend just messaged me from California, I realized I was the only Canadian born engineer I knew still working in engineering in Canada and I work remotely for a US company! (sample size 100+ Canadian born colleagues from university or work, 200+ engineers I know well enough in Canada to know their background)
But our chief security officer was such an idiot he never even knew we had the database so everything was fine.
More seriously, security requires a minds set of at least some of your employees. Someone inside google should have been messing around and found this. If no one inside google was allowed to mess around at almost anything they want then there's a problem.
The copy right laws and more importantly the trade mark laws likely forced their hand. The battlefield games are trade marked to EA. They have to defend their trade mark to keep it. They could in theory license it to another entity but that still requires EA to maintain a level of control over Revive and how they use it. It's a pain to do it with another company that has its own legal department, accounting, QA etc. It would be impossible to do with a group of volunteers. I'm pretty sure EA let this slide for as long as possible.
After discovering the suspected Equation malware source code, the analyst reported the incident to the CEO. Following a request from the CEO, the archive was deleted from all our systems. The archive was not shared with any third parties.
To be fair, this puts them in a bind. They acquired NSA malware source code but they got it because their product uploaded it to them. If they keep it and use it they are breaching the trust of their client. I trust and give Kaspersky permission to scan for viruses and pull their executables. I don't give them permission to look through various source code on my computer. This isn't about saving or shielding the NSA, it's about the integrity of their contract with their users. Screw the NSA but Kaspersky showed more integrity here than the NSA has ever shown in its entire existence.
Canadian bank exchange rates have an 8% spread on buy and sell for USD. It gets far worse for other currencies.
https://www.uexchange.ca/compa...
Also to the other commentor, credit cards don't charge to exchange money they just give you a terrible rate.
Using Etherium or Vertcoin my transaction costs are insignificant. My broker makes its money by facilitating buy and sells within the brokers clients (and skimming a tiny bit on the buy/sell spread). Transferring money in and out of the brokerage account is free. It is so painless I rarely even hold crypto currencies or worry about their volatility.
Bitcoin - high latency and transaction costs, organizationally dysfunctional*, most recognized and most accepted. If you are sending money or live in a country with unreliable banks use this.
Monero - if you are donating to Wikileaks (or doing something else you don't want the government seeing) use this and only use sites that exclusively use it.
Etherium - low transaction costs, fairly good acceptance, most convenient for day to day banking
Vertcoin - features, speed and a good development community, likely the next currency I will support
Proof of stake currencies???
One day a crypto coin will replace a good chunk of M2 (currently 30 Trillion USD). It won't be bitcoin, it may not be a coin that exists today.
Disclaimer - At any given time I may hold some or all of the above currencies.
*I'm not saying Bitcoin supporters or devs are dysfunctional. I'm saying the process that is required to add a new feature is dysfunctional.
A crypto currency is a very convenient way to store and move money. Banks will charge 5% or more to convert your money from one currency to another and wire transfers are a pain and usually cost $10. Other money transfers often come with 1 or 2% fees and banks in some countries are corrupt and incompetent. Crypto currencies could replace a good portion of M2 since they work better than most traditional money. M2 world wide is equivalent to almost 30 Trillion USD. One day one crypto currency will likely approach this amount.
ICOs are a scam. They replace shares but are inferior in almost every way except they by-pass the traditional stock markets. (I suppose some conspiracy people might think this is a good idea). ICOs also don't allow high frequency trading since trades can only take place as fast as blocks are added to the block chain and buried to a sufficient depth to be trusted.
Mining using javascript is (depending on the coin) at best a 1000 to 1 cost to benefit. For bit coin it would cost between 10 million to 100 million in electricity to mine one coin.
Golem might give you a better than 1000 to one cost but it will have other problems. If javascript could access your graphics card maybe you could mine one of the currencies that is optimized for graphics cards.
Realistically, running flat out my CPU is going to mine less than $5 per year. The only way I could make money on this is if I trick millions of people to mine for a me for a number of months.
The pay system is f%#ked and but it's not an IT problem. It's an organizational psychology problem. The pay algorithms are extremely complicated, are based on a large number of variables and are in some cases contradictory. But that's not the worst of the problem. It's the way the government makes the rules. The various unions and the government negotiate by making proposals that add to the pay rules. Now each new rule that they add on its own might make sense if you didn't know all the existing rules. So after the unions and the government have finished their negotiations the new rules are sent to payroll to be implemented. Now payroll has no way of pushing back on the rules, or saying that they are stupid, complicated or contradictory, so in the past they used humans to make the best compromises possible and minimize the complaints. Then some bean counter realized that payroll was huge and expensive and totally out of line with what other organizations were spending. They unfortunately came up with the wrong solution. Instead of simplifying the rules they decided to move all the different pay systems into one giant system. It was doomed from the start.
Canada's next federal election will likely be 2 years away on October 21, 2019. The federal government can sometimes be very competent in areas like this. They can also fail spectacularly but as long as this effort doesn't get to much media or political attention it will likely do well.
They only authenticate you to the machine reading you. I can't use biometrics on line unless the machine reading me is already trusted. So how does a bank trust the finger print scanner?
A secret is always going to be the best security. However, how knowledge of the secret is verified can can be improved in a lot of ways.
90% of the illegals crossing into the USA are doing so because it is so easy to get a job in the USA. In the Bay area, every morning at 4am you will see school buses (likely the same ones that take your kids to school 2 hours later), busing in workers to do yard work, cleaning and other manual labor. They aren't getting paid minimum wage, they all seem to look a bit Latino and aren't speaking English. hmm. The USA's laws about illegal migrants are not about keeping them out, it is about keeping their wages down and making sure they don't use any government services. If the USA wanted to end 90% of the illegal migrants they could just grant the migrants the right to a $30/hr wage and then enforce it by going after the employers. It would solve the illegal migrant problem over night. It would be total chaos for months as businesses that relied on $2/hr wages collapsed but most of those companies are total leaches anyway (I'm talking about the high water usage farming in the California in particular).
The spacing at low speeds is actually the limiting factor. I suspect the experience will be like loading onto the 8 person gondolas at a ski resort. Which have a capacity of about 1.1 person per second which is entirely limited by the ability for humans to get in and out of the gondolas. For reference a highway lane has a maximum throughput of 0.5 vehicles per second.
Russians are and people in Russia are protected by it. The US constitution says what the US government is allowed to do and what it can't. It doesn't say that the US government can do anything it wants to people outside the US borders or non-citizens. It is very clear on that. In fact the limits are the same for in the USA and outside, and mostly for citizens and non-citizens*. The trouble with most constitutions is if politicians choose not to follow them and the people don't actually read, understand and hold the politicians accountable then it really is just a scrap of paper.
*And now blacks and women. Don't hold your breath for native Americans though.
They found some of the missing baryon matter. This is the normal matter that is around us every day. Dark matter is stuff that has momentum and exerts a gravitational field but doesn't interact electromagnetically, so we can't see it. We believe most of the matter in the universe is dark matter but we also believe there is a lot more of the normal baryon matter out there but we just don't know where or what it is. These studies have shown that there are filaments of hot gas stretching between galaxies. The density of this gas is extremely low but the volume it occupies is huge so it contributes to a large amount of the baryon matter in the universe.
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I'm trying to figure out how this was possible. I'll post more when I learn a bit more. Till then this will make you smile (devops199 chat) https://lh3.googleusercontent....
Ottawa, Canada, 10km south of the parliament buildings. Our former prime minister Jean Cretian locked his door and it took the RCMP 7 minutes to respond because the first officer had forgotten his key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've never locked my front door. I didn't even have a proper key for some of the places I've lived. Other than raccoons opening the back door I've never had any unwanted guests. What percentage of slashdot users live in neighbourhoods so unsafe you have to lock your house?
Stephen Bronfman and a trust fund he is involved with appear to have avoided Canadian, US and Israeli taxes. I love how the media, instead of starting with his name mention that he is a friend and head of election fund raising for the Canadian prime minister. I'll wait and find out if the anyone in the governing party knew about it. If they have I expect resignations at the very least.
I assume you mean front line or customer facing. So thank you for showing your contempt for these people msmash.
You have to give these people all these powers but ideally you audit them and have a way of backing out any changes they make. (The only thing I can think of that you really can't back out of a system is if someone reports you dead to the credit bureau. Sorry Jesus). The admins, programmers and anyone else who has access to the raw data generally are not audited.
Scott Adams does a good job explaining how these tokens work. http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/1...
Because getting ID in the USA is hard. If you don't drive, are poor and can't get credit what piece of ID would you have? There are many parts of the USA that are essentially third world. Voter ID laws mean that people from these places won't be able to vote so their areas can then be further ignored.
Pay the salaries or stop complaining that you lose all your talent. We should be devoting at least a few percent of GDP to pure research. University should be a place for pure research but having our brightest minds chasing grants half the time and doing teaching, marking and committee work another 15 hours a week is a total waste basically means professors do their research for free on their own time. It is so frustrating the way we organize pure research at western universities. The USA also has other institutions that do leading edge research such as NASA and a few others. I can't even think of another famous non-american pure research organization other than CERN.
Pay has to be competitive. Canada has to be the worst example of this. Canadian math and computer science departments essential are producing engineers for US companies. A friend just messaged me from California, I realized I was the only Canadian born engineer I knew still working in engineering in Canada and I work remotely for a US company! (sample size 100+ Canadian born colleagues from university or work, 200+ engineers I know well enough in Canada to know their background)
But our chief security officer was such an idiot he never even knew we had the database so everything was fine.
More seriously, security requires a minds set of at least some of your employees. Someone inside google should have been messing around and found this. If no one inside google was allowed to mess around at almost anything they want then there's a problem.
The copy right laws and more importantly the trade mark laws likely forced their hand. The battlefield games are trade marked to EA. They have to defend their trade mark to keep it. They could in theory license it to another entity but that still requires EA to maintain a level of control over Revive and how they use it. It's a pain to do it with another company that has its own legal department, accounting, QA etc. It would be impossible to do with a group of volunteers. I'm pretty sure EA let this slide for as long as possible.
Wikipedia explains it better than I ever could https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Seriously, the author is worried about spending a tiny bit more at Walmart because school kids in China now get cleaner air?
After discovering the suspected Equation malware source code, the analyst reported the incident to the CEO. Following a request from the CEO, the archive was deleted from all our systems. The archive was not shared with any third parties.
To be fair, this puts them in a bind. They acquired NSA malware source code but they got it because their product uploaded it to them. If they keep it and use it they are breaching the trust of their client. I trust and give Kaspersky permission to scan for viruses and pull their executables. I don't give them permission to look through various source code on my computer. This isn't about saving or shielding the NSA, it's about the integrity of their contract with their users. Screw the NSA but Kaspersky showed more integrity here than the NSA has ever shown in its entire existence.
https://usa.kaspersky.com/abou...
Canadian bank exchange rates have an 8% spread on buy and sell for USD. It gets far worse for other currencies. https://www.uexchange.ca/compa... Also to the other commentor, credit cards don't charge to exchange money they just give you a terrible rate.
Using Etherium or Vertcoin my transaction costs are insignificant. My broker makes its money by facilitating buy and sells within the brokers clients (and skimming a tiny bit on the buy/sell spread). Transferring money in and out of the brokerage account is free. It is so painless I rarely even hold crypto currencies or worry about their volatility.
Bitcoin - high latency and transaction costs, organizationally dysfunctional*, most recognized and most accepted. If you are sending money or live in a country with unreliable banks use this.
Monero - if you are donating to Wikileaks (or doing something else you don't want the government seeing) use this and only use sites that exclusively use it.
Etherium - low transaction costs, fairly good acceptance, most convenient for day to day banking
Vertcoin - features, speed and a good development community, likely the next currency I will support
Proof of stake currencies???
One day a crypto coin will replace a good chunk of M2 (currently 30 Trillion USD). It won't be bitcoin, it may not be a coin that exists today.
Disclaimer - At any given time I may hold some or all of the above currencies.
*I'm not saying Bitcoin supporters or devs are dysfunctional. I'm saying the process that is required to add a new feature is dysfunctional.
A crypto currency is a very convenient way to store and move money. Banks will charge 5% or more to convert your money from one currency to another and wire transfers are a pain and usually cost $10. Other money transfers often come with 1 or 2% fees and banks in some countries are corrupt and incompetent. Crypto currencies could replace a good portion of M2 since they work better than most traditional money. M2 world wide is equivalent to almost 30 Trillion USD. One day one crypto currency will likely approach this amount.
ICOs are a scam. They replace shares but are inferior in almost every way except they by-pass the traditional stock markets. (I suppose some conspiracy people might think this is a good idea). ICOs also don't allow high frequency trading since trades can only take place as fast as blocks are added to the block chain and buried to a sufficient depth to be trusted.
Mining using javascript is (depending on the coin) at best a 1000 to 1 cost to benefit. For bit coin it would cost between 10 million to 100 million in electricity to mine one coin. Golem might give you a better than 1000 to one cost but it will have other problems. If javascript could access your graphics card maybe you could mine one of the currencies that is optimized for graphics cards.
Realistically, running flat out my CPU is going to mine less than $5 per year. The only way I could make money on this is if I trick millions of people to mine for a me for a number of months.
The pay system is f%#ked and but it's not an IT problem. It's an organizational psychology problem. The pay algorithms are extremely complicated, are based on a large number of variables and are in some cases contradictory. But that's not the worst of the problem. It's the way the government makes the rules. The various unions and the government negotiate by making proposals that add to the pay rules. Now each new rule that they add on its own might make sense if you didn't know all the existing rules. So after the unions and the government have finished their negotiations the new rules are sent to payroll to be implemented. Now payroll has no way of pushing back on the rules, or saying that they are stupid, complicated or contradictory, so in the past they used humans to make the best compromises possible and minimize the complaints. Then some bean counter realized that payroll was huge and expensive and totally out of line with what other organizations were spending. They unfortunately came up with the wrong solution. Instead of simplifying the rules they decided to move all the different pay systems into one giant system. It was doomed from the start.
Canada's next federal election will likely be 2 years away on October 21, 2019. The federal government can sometimes be very competent in areas like this. They can also fail spectacularly but as long as this effort doesn't get to much media or political attention it will likely do well.
They only authenticate you to the machine reading you. I can't use biometrics on line unless the machine reading me is already trusted. So how does a bank trust the finger print scanner?
A secret is always going to be the best security. However, how knowledge of the secret is verified can can be improved in a lot of ways.
90% of the illegals crossing into the USA are doing so because it is so easy to get a job in the USA. In the Bay area, every morning at 4am you will see school buses (likely the same ones that take your kids to school 2 hours later), busing in workers to do yard work, cleaning and other manual labor. They aren't getting paid minimum wage, they all seem to look a bit Latino and aren't speaking English. hmm. The USA's laws about illegal migrants are not about keeping them out, it is about keeping their wages down and making sure they don't use any government services. If the USA wanted to end 90% of the illegal migrants they could just grant the migrants the right to a $30/hr wage and then enforce it by going after the employers. It would solve the illegal migrant problem over night. It would be total chaos for months as businesses that relied on $2/hr wages collapsed but most of those companies are total leaches anyway (I'm talking about the high water usage farming in the California in particular).
The spacing at low speeds is actually the limiting factor. I suspect the experience will be like loading onto the 8 person gondolas at a ski resort. Which have a capacity of about 1.1 person per second which is entirely limited by the ability for humans to get in and out of the gondolas. For reference a highway lane has a maximum throughput of 0.5 vehicles per second.
Russians are and people in Russia are protected by it. The US constitution says what the US government is allowed to do and what it can't. It doesn't say that the US government can do anything it wants to people outside the US borders or non-citizens. It is very clear on that. In fact the limits are the same for in the USA and outside, and mostly for citizens and non-citizens*. The trouble with most constitutions is if politicians choose not to follow them and the people don't actually read, understand and hold the politicians accountable then it really is just a scrap of paper.
*And now blacks and women. Don't hold your breath for native Americans though.
They found some of the missing baryon matter. This is the normal matter that is around us every day. Dark matter is stuff that has momentum and exerts a gravitational field but doesn't interact electromagnetically, so we can't see it. We believe most of the matter in the universe is dark matter but we also believe there is a lot more of the normal baryon matter out there but we just don't know where or what it is. These studies have shown that there are filaments of hot gas stretching between galaxies. The density of this gas is extremely low but the volume it occupies is huge so it contributes to a large amount of the baryon matter in the universe.