The real sticking point is whether your software is really compatable and supported, or just kinda-sorta runs without too many obvious problems; Win7 is much more compatable with specialized software used in bussiness.
The real question is, how can we prevent this to ensure that we don't have security compromised by the NSA?
Well you never have security, the best you can hope for is to have the cost of being survailed higher than the value of any intel gathered. I don't worry about the NSA spying on me because I'm not narcisitic enough to think I'm anything but boring to the USG.
They probably intercept the packages from the distributer and substitute the bugged cable in an identical looking blister pac; it even has the optional "RFID" chip installed so that IT can easily tell if the end-user substitutes an unauthorized cable for the bugged one that slipped through the security inspection.
I am considered by many to be a denier and I fall more toward the Keynesian Economics than laissez faire capitalism, but if an error is to be made I'd opt for erring on the laissez faire side rather than the socialist side.
So, even IF Global Warming is a complete hoax created by a conspiracy of Illuminati Hippies, I welcome it so maybe, one day in my lifetime I can spend a Summer and enjoy the outdoors without coughing up my lungs.
Then be a mensch and say what you mean, its patenly obvious that almost everyone in this Global Warming religion scheme has ulterior motives, and the average joe is starting to see it, the push-back is likely to be ugly. Alot of other enviromental concerns have been starved for funding to fight the present 0.27 Deg C of warming.
Still almost every missile with a passive, semi-active or active homing system breaks lock on firing and re-establishes in-flight. The Improved Hawk Missile system could actually fire the missiles until the launchers ran dry.
The first autonomous killer robot I'm aware of had a CPU made by RCA out of hand wire wrapped nand gates so your at least 43 years too late; that was the same time as Intel realsed the 4004!
Imagine a robot which is programmed to kill only people with a certain color of skin (black or yellow, or white, or skin) - not unlike what those Muslim terrorists did when they attack that shopping center in Kenya (they only spare Muslims in their rampage) - that robot would be one hell of a "hate machine" !!
In combat everyone is the same color, dirty. Any measure has a counter-measure, every counter-measure has counter-countermeasures; as Jonathan Swift wrote
So nat'ralists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em. And so proceeds Ad infinitum.
I have friends who were in Operation Just Cause, United States Invasion of Panama, and they would literaly get on the cell phone, pay with their credit cards and Dominoes would deliver pizza right to their foxholes!
A bullet isn't going to do much damage to one of those big transformers, even in the article it resulted in an oil leak. To do real damage you would need something like an RPG round but the problem there is the chain link fence is amazingly effective at stopping RPG rounds, the way to do it is the old fashioned way send a sapper with a satchel charge to blow it to smithereens.
This thing is like a pavement grinder 57 feet in diameter, it would go through a waterlogged wood hull like it was wet tissue paper; even a steel hull would only slow it down a bit. Bertha just had the bad luck of hitting a large boulders that was too round and too close to the center of rotation for the cutters to bite without the whole thing spinning in the mud.
The US relationship with Brasil has had numerous spats over trade issues, so most likely the reason for the decision has nothing to do with NSA spying, but NSA spying make a good excuse.
Prices are in flux right now, but I'm 59, the Wife is 62, neither of us use tobacco, PriorityHealth, MyHealth Access Bronze, $20 Office visit, $5,000 (individual) $10,000 (family) deductable, $1,191.23 monthly cost; United Healthcare, Silver Copay SelectSM 1, $35 Copay , $5,000 (individual) $10,000 (family) $1,177.76 Aetna, MI Aetna Advantage 6350 PD, 0% after deductible, $6,350 (individual) $12,700 (family) , $1,209.27.
Now I'll get a subsidy of $11,125 annually or $927 a month, with a halfway decent plan; Blue Cross® Premier Silver, $30 copay per visit after deductible, $1,650 (individual) $3,300 (family), $1,128.56, that leaves $201 to be paid even after the taxpayers get ass-raped.
Well since he just fought tooth and nail to keep the individual portion of ACA from being delayed, even to the point of shutting down the USG, only to have it revieled that the sign-up web-site went live DOA, I think he pretty well shot his wad politically.
Please pray tell what could possible be bad enough to blackmail the President who's administration has been a constant string of scandals; would rape, drug dealing, murder be enough? Obama is making Nixon look like a choir-boy.
I'm usually libertarian leaning, but this is one area where the state or better yet DOT needs to set some realistic standards for traffic light timing; in this day and age there is no excuse for not having accurate and consistantly timed lights. We have NTP and GPS, if I'm driving the speed limit cross town, hitting a red light should be rare anyways.
I wouldn't be surprised if you had the desired qualifications, that it would be typical that your student loan debts would be paid off as part of your signing bonus if your contract was long enough.
More likely made sure all of the Anti-virus vendors had a copy of the virus so it could be added to the signatures. I'm sure that since computer and network security is a major part of their mission, they had back-channels into all of the AV vendors and when they effectively say this "this shit is bad, we wouldn't wish it on our enemies" people pay attention.
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The real sticking point is whether your software is really compatable and supported, or just kinda-sorta runs without too many obvious problems; Win7 is much more compatable with specialized software used in bussiness.
The real question is, how can we prevent this to ensure that we don't have security compromised by the NSA?
Well you never have security, the best you can hope for is to have the cost of being survailed higher than the value of any intel gathered. I don't worry about the NSA spying on me because I'm not narcisitic enough to think I'm anything but boring to the USG.
They probably intercept the packages from the distributer and substitute the bugged cable in an identical looking blister pac; it even has the optional "RFID" chip installed so that IT can easily tell if the end-user substitutes an unauthorized cable for the bugged one that slipped through the security inspection.
I am considered by many to be a denier and I fall more toward the Keynesian Economics than laissez faire capitalism, but if an error is to be made I'd opt for erring on the laissez faire side rather than the socialist side.
So, even IF Global Warming is a complete hoax created by a conspiracy of Illuminati Hippies, I welcome it so maybe, one day in my lifetime I can spend a Summer and enjoy the outdoors without coughing up my lungs.
Then be a mensch and say what you mean, its patenly obvious that almost everyone in this Global Warming religion scheme has ulterior motives, and the average joe is starting to see it, the push-back is likely to be ugly. Alot of other enviromental concerns have been starved for funding to fight the present 0.27 Deg C of warming.
Still almost every missile with a passive, semi-active or active homing system breaks lock on firing and re-establishes in-flight. The Improved Hawk Missile system could actually fire the missiles until the launchers ran dry.
Fail, it still takes a chemical battery to operate the firing circuits.
Select targets? Really? Wait until the system realizes ALL humans are targets.
Don't worry my magic tallisman will protect my from Evil, OOPs I mean my cryptographically secure IFF fob will identify me to the killbots.
The first autonomous killer robot I'm aware of had a CPU made by RCA out of hand wire wrapped nand gates so your at least 43 years too late; that was the same time as Intel realsed the 4004!
Imagine a robot which is programmed to kill only people with a certain color of skin (black or yellow, or white, or skin) - not unlike what those Muslim terrorists did when they attack that shopping center in Kenya (they only spare Muslims in their rampage) - that robot would be one hell of a "hate machine" !!
In combat everyone is the same color, dirty. Any measure has a counter-measure, every counter-measure has counter-countermeasures; as Jonathan Swift wrote
Yeah and now there is a shortage of Velveeta, next it'll be Rotel tomatoes and nacho chips!
I have friends who were in Operation Just Cause, United States Invasion of Panama, and they would literaly get on the cell phone, pay with their credit cards and Dominoes would deliver pizza right to their foxholes!
Climatic temperatures tend to follow 30, 60 and 120 year cycles, they can easily explain past warming.
A bullet isn't going to do much damage to one of those big transformers, even in the article it resulted in an oil leak. To do real damage you would need something like an RPG round but the problem there is the chain link fence is amazingly effective at stopping RPG rounds, the way to do it is the old fashioned way send a sapper with a satchel charge to blow it to smithereens.
This thing is like a pavement grinder 57 feet in diameter, it would go through a waterlogged wood hull like it was wet tissue paper; even a steel hull would only slow it down a bit. Bertha just had the bad luck of hitting a large boulders that was too round and too close to the center of rotation for the cutters to bite without the whole thing spinning in the mud.
I was on a website and they just basically said everything they sold contained substances known to cause cancer to the state of California.
The US relationship with Brasil has had numerous spats over trade issues, so most likely the reason for the decision has nothing to do with NSA spying, but NSA spying make a good excuse.
Prices are in flux right now, but I'm 59, the Wife is 62, neither of us use tobacco,
PriorityHealth, MyHealth Access Bronze, $20 Office visit, $5,000 (individual) $10,000 (family) deductable, $1,191.23 monthly cost;
United Healthcare, Silver Copay SelectSM 1, $35 Copay , $5,000 (individual) $10,000 (family) $1,177.76
Aetna, MI Aetna Advantage 6350 PD, 0% after deductible, $6,350 (individual) $12,700 (family) , $1,209.27.
Now I'll get a subsidy of $11,125 annually or $927 a month, with a halfway decent plan;
Blue Cross® Premier Silver, $30 copay per visit after deductible, $1,650 (individual) $3,300 (family), $1,128.56, that leaves $201 to be paid even after the taxpayers get ass-raped.
Well since he just fought tooth and nail to keep the individual portion of ACA from being delayed, even to the point of shutting down the USG, only to have it revieled that the sign-up web-site went live DOA, I think he pretty well shot his wad politically.
Please pray tell what could possible be bad enough to blackmail the President who's administration has been a constant string of scandals; would rape, drug dealing, murder be enough? Obama is making Nixon look like a choir-boy.
Actualy to me it seems like letting the slaves choose which foreman beats them when they are tied to the whipping-post.
I'm usually libertarian leaning, but this is one area where the state or better yet DOT needs to set some realistic standards for traffic light timing; in this day and age there is no excuse for not having accurate and consistantly timed lights. We have NTP and GPS, if I'm driving the speed limit cross town, hitting a red light should be rare anyways.
I wouldn't be surprised if you had the desired qualifications, that it would be typical that your student loan debts would be paid off as part of your signing bonus if your contract was long enough.
The odd thing about China is one is never sure if something the government does is an official action or if it one of the loose cannons going rogue.
More likely made sure all of the Anti-virus vendors had a copy of the virus so it could be added to the signatures. I'm sure that since computer and network security is a major part of their mission, they had back-channels into all of the AV vendors and when they effectively say this "this shit is bad, we wouldn't wish it on our enemies" people pay attention.