Fermi's paradox assumes that intelligence is the endgame of evolution, and that any (or some) intelligent species will survive. Perhaps intelligence is an evolutionary dead end, that we just have not reached yet.
Regardless even if billion year old civilizations do exist, as posted above, there may well be hard physical limits on expansion due c etc. And just listening for radio evidence is unlikely, both due to distance, and the fact that out own radio window (and any other species) is likely to be short. already more and more of our radio transmissions are low power and directed. This will only continue, reducing our emissions, Listening for any leakage from a great distance is akin to trying to smell a fart in a hurricane.
Someone could. Someone could get past the legal and financial barriers. Secure capital to build an infrastructure, and keep their investors from bailing when the incumbents apply legal and other challenges.
Be careful there bud. Water is known to always contain dihydrogen monoxide. This dangerous compound is needed by living creatures, but in the wrong doses can lead to low blood pressure, sunken eyes, kidney and other organ failure, spinal and brain swelling and death.
We need voter friendly measurements. Instead of "Los Angeles to San Francisco in 28 minutes.", we need "like crossing 20 Olympic swimming pools in 13 parsecs."
Good job boys. Stop those dopers! They would be raping your grandma and selling acid to your 5 year old if we didn't do this! Look how violently they fight over the black market we created!
Now, kindly pay your taxes, drink a case of beast and watch the football game. Thank you!
It is not 'a simple browser' when loaded with extensions. Without extensions, the performance of chrome and firefox are fine. My argument holds, and the issues is not the browser. The biggest issue I see is webpage bloat. 2-3 tabs can easily take over 1GB RAM, but RAM is cheap and easily upgradable in most cases.
This... aside from hard drive failure (other hardware failure is rare in comparison), and malware/OS bloat. There is nothing a core 2 duo cant do for 90% of computer users.
The only way that will change is a killer app that requires more (which I do not see). For workstations and scientific data the march is great, but it has moved beyond consumer needs.
Looks like you are onto something. Its the SSH of things. I think I need to start a CloudSSH provider now and leverage the intrinsic value of the buzzword.
Not only that, if you believe in mythical sky beings (I do not), then God gave HUMANS the power and responsibility to make of this world what we will. To say whatever happens is God's will and we have to accept, not change is either willful ignorance, abject laziness, or masking some ulterior motive (IE greed and power).
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28 KJV
You seem to know more than I do,however, the COW, being a device inserted into the carriers network by said carrier, I would think would have a different ID for whatever loadbalancing/handoff protocols occur on that network. This may not be true, as it may be easier to just copy an existing base station ID than provision all the backend hoo haw for a temporary device. But if it is true, my scheme should not produce as many false positives as thought.
By their nature (unless willingly installed by the carrier), a stingray would be spoofing its identity and therefore slightly easier to detect. Combined with a crowdsourced map to create a basic whitelist, you could do quite a bit I wager.
Instead of just spotting recent additions, also looking for timing advance shifts over a certain margin while the tower/antenna ID remain the same. I am not cellular engineer, but it would see that would be a possible indicator of a spoofed tower.
The cat is gone from that bag. Do you think dive wouldn't just handover the keys when asked? If you want security, encrypt yourself and kep private messages private. Trusting a 3rd party to any secrets is laughable.
That used to be the difference between hacker vs cracker. One was for personal enlightenment or social gain, while the other was for various profit/greed/destructive motives. Then the mass media co-opted hacker to be the bad guy.
Now we have 'hacktivists' (whether you love or loathe the term) who are supposed to use their powers for perceived social good. As is often the case, the distinction is not always black and white.
To what end should slashdot secure itself? Are you storing confidential info here? It is a public forum. Anyone, including an NSA agent can browse all your postings regardless of any encryption used between you and this site.
There would need to be a compelling business/financial reason for any site to do so. Helping others hide their traffic is not all that compelling from a beancounters point of view.
This is not your run of the mill ogg or mp3 codec. These codecs are typically VBR (variable bit rate), this means that the level of compression varies based on what the codec and network conditions dictate. If you swing the bitrate enough you WILL hear changes in volume and quality that sound like a flanging effect. http://www.voiceage.com/Audio-... http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/...
You can:rolleyes: when you know more than just bb smiley code. Until then, hand in your geek creds please.
The cards may do nothing, but they ARE a placebo. And being used to influence the idiots who have the power to stop abusive and monopolistic behavior. Therefore they DO have a use, and not a good one.
It is distorted and fading in and out because somewhere (perhaps multiple somewheres) along its path it is being compressed with a lossy compression designed for human vocal ranges and not muzak. When the system was mostly analog, this did not happen, however high and low frequencies were cut, resulting in a tin-cannish sound if you listened for it.
It’s been over a year since Ulbricht’s October 2013 arrest, an event that catapulted Silk Road into the national spotlight and shook the Dark Net, the seedy subsection of the Internet not indexed by Google
So we are supposed to accept that anyone on the up and up should be tracked and indexed by Google? Are we supposed to look at it as seedy when it helps people organize and communicate in oppressive regimes?
Most are rather dumb. They will encrypt standard file types such as jpg and doc, but leave really critical stuff (qbw, pst, etc) alone. I guess the writers, not knowing what files being encrypted in a user profile might brick a machine only go for easy targets. They will readily encrypt any attached drive as well, following the same ruleset. If your backup program stores in a standard.zip or in the clear, it will be encrypted too. The best safety net is an online backup that does versioning so you can roll back to pre-infection versions of files.
One last note, in about 5%-10% of the cases I have worked on, I was able to recover files from VSS. Most of these variants attempt to disable VSS and delete the shadow copies, but they either are not successful or do it slowly. Yanking the drive from the running environment and looking at it with shadow explorer on a clean box can sometimes save some data.
Here in the US Cryptorbit variants seem to be the most frequent I see (cryptodefense, cryptolocker, howdecrypt, etc). They have really exploded in the past month. A recent fake ADP email that was making it through spam filters was responsible for a lot. The linked site downloaded a zip containing an exe with an adobe pdf icon. If you have a suspect exe, see if it has been analyzed n malwr.com and you can get a good breakdown of its precise behavior.
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Regardless even if billion year old civilizations do exist, as posted above, there may well be hard physical limits on expansion due c etc. And just listening for radio evidence is unlikely, both due to distance, and the fact that out own radio window (and any other species) is likely to be short. already more and more of our radio transmissions are low power and directed. This will only continue, reducing our emissions, Listening for any leakage from a great distance is akin to trying to smell a fart in a hurricane.
Someone could. Someone could get past the legal and financial barriers. Secure capital to build an infrastructure, and keep their investors from bailing when the incumbents apply legal and other challenges.
Be careful there bud. Water is known to always contain dihydrogen monoxide. This dangerous compound is needed by living creatures, but in the wrong doses can lead to low blood pressure, sunken eyes, kidney and other organ failure, spinal and brain swelling and death.
No matter how good, I won't pay Hollywood or the mpaa. Period.
We need voter friendly measurements. Instead of "Los Angeles to San Francisco in 28 minutes.", we need "like crossing 20 Olympic swimming pools in 13 parsecs."
Now, kindly pay your taxes, drink a case of beast and watch the football game. Thank you!
It is not 'a simple browser' when loaded with extensions. Without extensions, the performance of chrome and firefox are fine. My argument holds, and the issues is not the browser. The biggest issue I see is webpage bloat. 2-3 tabs can easily take over 1GB RAM, but RAM is cheap and easily upgradable in most cases.
c) not particularly enamored with government spending on principle,
Wrong. They give lip service to it, but pork projects abound with th GOP. Especially if it feeds spending/defense etc in their home state.
Think that's invasive, try a plethysmograph. Required of sex offenders everywhere.
The only way that will change is a killer app that requires more (which I do not see). For workstations and scientific data the march is great, but it has moved beyond consumer needs.
Backups.. multiple copies. 15 copies on 15 encrypted flash drives. Doesnt matter, JUST DONT LEAVE MONEY IN AN UNREGULATED EXCHANGE.
Looks like you are onto something. Its the SSH of things. I think I need to start a CloudSSH provider now and leverage the intrinsic value of the buzzword.
To say whatever happens is God's will and we have to accept, not change is either willful ignorance, abject laziness, or masking some ulterior motive (IE greed and power).
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28 KJV
You seem to know more than I do,however, the COW, being a device inserted into the carriers network by said carrier, I would think would have a different ID for whatever loadbalancing/handoff protocols occur on that network. This may not be true, as it may be easier to just copy an existing base station ID than provision all the backend hoo haw for a temporary device. But if it is true, my scheme should not produce as many false positives as thought.
By their nature (unless willingly installed by the carrier), a stingray would be spoofing its identity and therefore slightly easier to detect. Combined with a crowdsourced map to create a basic whitelist, you could do quite a bit I wager.
Instead of just spotting recent additions, also looking for timing advance shifts over a certain margin while the tower/antenna ID remain the same. I am not cellular engineer, but it would see that would be a possible indicator of a spoofed tower.
The cat is gone from that bag. Do you think dive wouldn't just handover the keys when asked? If you want security, encrypt yourself and kep private messages private. Trusting a 3rd party to any secrets is laughable.
Now we have 'hacktivists' (whether you love or loathe the term) who are supposed to use their powers for perceived social good. As is often the case, the distinction is not always black and white.
There would need to be a compelling business/financial reason for any site to do so. Helping others hide their traffic is not all that compelling from a beancounters point of view.
This is not your run of the mill ogg or mp3 codec. These codecs are typically VBR (variable bit rate), this means that the level of compression varies based on what the codec and network conditions dictate. If you swing the bitrate enough you WILL hear changes in volume and quality that sound like a flanging effect. :rolleyes: when you know more than just bb smiley code. Until then, hand in your geek creds please.
http://www.voiceage.com/Audio-...
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/...
You can
The cards may do nothing, but they ARE a placebo. And being used to influence the idiots who have the power to stop abusive and monopolistic behavior. Therefore they DO have a use, and not a good one.
It is distorted and fading in and out because somewhere (perhaps multiple somewheres) along its path it is being compressed with a lossy compression designed for human vocal ranges and not muzak. When the system was mostly analog, this did not happen, however high and low frequencies were cut, resulting in a tin-cannish sound if you listened for it.
It’s been over a year since Ulbricht’s October 2013 arrest, an event that catapulted Silk Road into the national spotlight and shook the Dark Net, the seedy subsection of the Internet not indexed by Google
So we are supposed to accept that anyone on the up and up should be tracked and indexed by Google? Are we supposed to look at it as seedy when it helps people organize and communicate in oppressive regimes?
Home of the Whopper.
One last note, in about 5%-10% of the cases I have worked on, I was able to recover files from VSS. Most of these variants attempt to disable VSS and delete the shadow copies, but they either are not successful or do it slowly. Yanking the drive from the running environment and looking at it with shadow explorer on a clean box can sometimes save some data. Here in the US Cryptorbit variants seem to be the most frequent I see (cryptodefense, cryptolocker, howdecrypt, etc). They have really exploded in the past month. A recent fake ADP email that was making it through spam filters was responsible for a lot. The linked site downloaded a zip containing an exe with an adobe pdf icon. If you have a suspect exe, see if it has been analyzed n malwr.com and you can get a good breakdown of its precise behavior.
I came here looking for -intelligent- laser jokes. Perhaps involving some sort of conspiracy/tinfoil hattery. I am sorely disappointed.