I'm absolutely positive this was a normal, everyday earthquake at Somom; add in the massive oil deposits everywhere and the reasonable explanation is earthquake + natural asphalt deposit = hellish explosion and destruction. No need for any angry supernatural entity.
Build a wall around The Google, to make the cyber GREAT AGAIN! We will make the Internets pay for it! Google is part of rigging, the Second Amendters must do something! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
I blame "only do A without changes" on the British Empire. I think it's a cultural left-over of Imperial education and cultural policies, being told what to do and exactly how to do it...and being told not to deviate from the exact instructions. The Indian "system admins" and programmers I've worked with through Wipro have to be told the EXACT steps and refuse to step outside those for any reason. There is also fear there; stay inside the lines and your OK even if it breaks. I couldn't just tell them to "install IIS", but had to tell him the exact steps one-by-one. Or another the exact menues to navigate through (including right-click on this, left-click on that) even though I was pasting from the same page he was reading off of...because as long as someone else is telling them what to do it's on my head if it goes wrong. I know the people I've worked with are more than competent to figure these tasks out on their own...but then it's also "their problem" if something breaks. Or a developer who won't install a program from their Wipro-provided MSDN account on a client's system to get a task done; until I argued with them "MSDN is there so you can do your development job, either install it and do your job or don't and get in trouble."
As for the question in TFA, our "special skill" is communication. I've had people speaking "the same language" who still couldn't understand each other due to accents that I had to "translate" for. I can understand a think accent, get my highly technical point across, and get the job done no matter who I'm talking to. I can use translation software...and I sheild my management and end-usrs from dealing with it. I am the "single point of contact" for our world-wide web of support. I can condense a highly technical problem into words and ideas that anyone can understand, and can adapt my explanations into something understandable to my exact audience. I also have a huge amount of patience and am not a diva. Good communication skills is a highly sought-after soft skill even though most companies don't realize they want.
4% of what? 4% of the people who have autism can prove it was because of a vaccine? 4% of people to get vaccines later develop autism? Approximately 1 in 68 children in the US have autism, but that's 1.4% per the CDC. Around 10-12% (3.5M out of 300M) people in the US suffer from autism. So, are you saying that 14,000 of these people can prove that this is a result of vaccines?
"this story concerns cable/satellite"...well, yes and no. OFFICIALLY, Dish and AT&T hadn't merged yet. But a merger doesn't just spontaneously occur. This here is proof they had been working together more as a "single business entity" in some respects far earlier than the announced merger. If one had "total access" to their files and emails, there are probably dozens of other collusions between Dish and AT&T pre-merger too that no one will ever know about.
Both AT&T and Verizon need to have their wireline, wireless, cable/content, and ISP services split up (again), and be prohibited from cross-industry consolidation forever. They will NEVER upgrade and significant portion to fiber, and instead are just pushing everyone into LTE "hotspot" systems so they can then gouge everyone with a 3gb cap + $10-$25 per gig over; but "zero rate" their own services.
"We lead the world in muddle and confusion" yes, but that has also given birth to amazing TV shows and movies like Monty Python, Red Dwarf, Black Adder...so this is the silver lining. Just imagine what fun a "Monty Python's Flying Circus presents: BREXIT the Musical" or something similarly ridiculous would be.
If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten! And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing...
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. . . " That's one issue that never made sense. Obamacare was for people who didn't already have insurance. Those people, by definition, didn't usually HAVE a primary care physician. Therefor, they had no doctor to keep. Except for a very few shitty "plans", Obamacare had little actual impact on most already-existing coverage for the majority of employed peoples. If you "lost" your doctor, it was most likely because your insurance company is using Obamacare as an excuse to cut your benefits and that would have probably happened ANYWAY.
Our American ignorance of UK laws and customs amazes you? LOL! Most Americans don't even comprehend our OWN laws, and we barely have any "customs" over time compared to the UK. 238 years vs 315 years for just the current UK, or almost 1,000 years going back to the Norman Conquest.
Technically, he got 52.9% out of 58.2% turnout in the popular vote, or roughly 1/4 of eligible voters. He got 67% of the electoral college votes. USA voter turnout hasn't gone over 60% since the late 1960s.
Or your SQL server freaking out after an update, not finishing it's "script upgrades", and resetting itself to a "default" location on a drive that hasn't existed for a few years. Just today I had to regedit my SQL server 2008 from E:\MSSQL back to C:\. Ridiculous.
Many businesses do. We'll be going from 7 Pro to 10 E just because of the loss of control. This type of meddling is just the beginning. If we wanted our users to download Candy Crush on their work laptops, we would have stuck it out on the file server. How soon before malware slips into the "store"? It's already happened with Apple and Android.
I notice this doesn't include Windows 7 Enterprise still. I haven't seen what Windows 10 Enterprise is like yet...but I have a feeling that my company will be rolling out whatever third-party app is needed to turn 10 back into a 7 experience.
Sure it is! Just keep slipping adderall into your Indian "employees" coffee / tea. Keep it up until the have a heart attack, replace them, and repeat. PROFIT! No one will ever catch you, because since their foreigners they won't ever go to the hospital, seek out any medical attention, or even have an autopsy done.
Maybe in their worldview the slaves "agreed" to be slaves by not running fast enough from the slavers, or didn't commit suicide but instead "allowed themselves to enter a work contract" by being captured alive.
Steve, is that you? The sysadmin before me at my current job? Because my firewall was FILLED with address objects, NAT policies, service objects, etc from many years ago that I'm still trying to work my way through. No documentation either...like "Webserver public private public IP" for a name, every address has it's own http and https service object, rules for servers long moved across the ocean...
When I was doing tier II work at an IBM facility the same policy applied. After 18 months, your gone. Usually, don't bother coming back after six months, because someone else is already 6 months into their own 18 month cycle.
I can also see a "Strategic military" option under the legislative side. If we have various countries who are part of some "cyber defense" treaty, and they cannot / will not deal with CnC servers, mass botnets, etc inside their territory...then the other treaty members should be able to do something proactive to stop such attacks. Now, I'm not meaning "we think XYZ is attacking us, so nuke them". But if X number of treaty members agree that the evidence is pointing to a particular IRC chatroom, specific server, or residence that is launching an attack then a non-lethal (to humans lol) response should be on the table. Local police to the direct upstream ISP to shut the connection down. Single-use targeted EMP drone to fry someone's computer. All treaty members should be in compliance of BCP38, reduce the servers on the Open Resolvers Project list, proper implementation of Anycast, DNSSEC, ect. Signatory countries should be able to audit each other, share knowledge and tools, and get each other into compliance.
No single country can build infrastructure to stop the IoT ddos attacks anymore, that much is obvious. Technical solutions do nothing without legislation to back them up and legislation that doesn't have a proper technical background is worse than useless...we can't have laws that address specific issues as the tech changes far faster than the law ever can. The solution is going to be a mesh of humans, systems, laws, and standards working in conjunction with eternal vigilance. Good luck on all that lol.
I explain this to people all the time. Places that high cyber-crime participants also have low job opportunities. Former Eastern Block countries have some great "IT people" who could do great in a normal environment...but there are no "normal" jobs for them. So, they get hired by criminal organizations instead. Everyone's got to eat.
I have a theory that this is how Sony's system got compromised via their media distribution system, that was built by five contractors on top of an Oracle media database.
It's not 100% either way. There is genetics, and there is epigenetics. You could have inherited genes that result in autistic effects but your environment never had the conditions for that to actually express. Autism isn't a single genetic expression, it's more of a description or condition that has multiple root causes.Could vaccines be a trigger? In a population of several billion, it's a near certainty. Is that a big enough risk to mitigate the risks of getting the disease the vaccine stops? Absolutely not, unless you are PROVEN to be one of the very few that whatever vaccine might affect. There is no actual test on that, and it's such a small percentage that real science has yet to be able to pin it down. Real science as in repeatable, provable, etc. If it's not repeatable and your theory doesn't provide for a failure / negative result, then it's pseudoscience.
In reality, we don't have enough knowledge of our genetic structure and how all of that system functions to do comprehensive testing.
Logically, your right. Emotionally though...we humans feel a great desire to "blame" someone for everything that happens. As a group, we just can't handle the Universe having any randomness or "unplanned events". A large portion of our population firmly believes that everything happens for a reason AND that reason is some intelligent, behind-the-scenes, incomprehensible, mostly unknowable entity who refuses to overtly reveal themselves because it would break the "faith game". They refer to this entity as God or "the Devil", depending on what happened to whom and their mood that day. For them, humanity is all pieces in a cosmic chess game and everything happens because we're "being tested", "punished", or "rewarded".
Well, Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them. You have committed a classic blunder, and have clearly chosen the vaccine containing "autism"!
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I'm absolutely positive this was a normal, everyday earthquake at Somom; add in the massive oil deposits everywhere and the reasonable explanation is earthquake + natural asphalt deposit = hellish explosion and destruction. No need for any angry supernatural entity.
in the "cloud of nonsense"! How dare Obama disparage my network suite!
Build a wall around The Google, to make the cyber GREAT AGAIN! We will make the Internets pay for it! Google is part of rigging, the Second Amendters must do something! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
I blame "only do A without changes" on the British Empire. I think it's a cultural left-over of Imperial education and cultural policies, being told what to do and exactly how to do it...and being told not to deviate from the exact instructions. The Indian "system admins" and programmers I've worked with through Wipro have to be told the EXACT steps and refuse to step outside those for any reason. There is also fear there; stay inside the lines and your OK even if it breaks. I couldn't just tell them to "install IIS", but had to tell him the exact steps one-by-one. Or another the exact menues to navigate through (including right-click on this, left-click on that) even though I was pasting from the same page he was reading off of...because as long as someone else is telling them what to do it's on my head if it goes wrong. I know the people I've worked with are more than competent to figure these tasks out on their own...but then it's also "their problem" if something breaks. Or a developer who won't install a program from their Wipro-provided MSDN account on a client's system to get a task done; until I argued with them "MSDN is there so you can do your development job, either install it and do your job or don't and get in trouble."
As for the question in TFA, our "special skill" is communication. I've had people speaking "the same language" who still couldn't understand each other due to accents that I had to "translate" for. I can understand a think accent, get my highly technical point across, and get the job done no matter who I'm talking to. I can use translation software...and I sheild my management and end-usrs from dealing with it. I am the "single point of contact" for our world-wide web of support. I can condense a highly technical problem into words and ideas that anyone can understand, and can adapt my explanations into something understandable to my exact audience. I also have a huge amount of patience and am not a diva. Good communication skills is a highly sought-after soft skill even though most companies don't realize they want.
4% of what? 4% of the people who have autism can prove it was because of a vaccine? 4% of people to get vaccines later develop autism? Approximately 1 in 68 children in the US have autism, but that's 1.4% per the CDC. Around 10-12% (3.5M out of 300M) people in the US suffer from autism. So, are you saying that 14,000 of these people can prove that this is a result of vaccines?
"this story concerns cable/satellite"...well, yes and no. OFFICIALLY, Dish and AT&T hadn't merged yet. But a merger doesn't just spontaneously occur. This here is proof they had been working together more as a "single business entity" in some respects far earlier than the announced merger. If one had "total access" to their files and emails, there are probably dozens of other collusions between Dish and AT&T pre-merger too that no one will ever know about.
Both AT&T and Verizon need to have their wireline, wireless, cable/content, and ISP services split up (again), and be prohibited from cross-industry consolidation forever. They will NEVER upgrade and significant portion to fiber, and instead are just pushing everyone into LTE "hotspot" systems so they can then gouge everyone with a 3gb cap + $10-$25 per gig over; but "zero rate" their own services.
It's almost as if this is a non-published "business strategy" policy! There's probably an email trail too.
"We lead the world in muddle and confusion" yes, but that has also given birth to amazing TV shows and movies like Monty Python, Red Dwarf, Black Adder...so this is the silver lining. Just imagine what fun a "Monty Python's Flying Circus presents: BREXIT the Musical" or something similarly ridiculous would be.
If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten! And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing...
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. . . " That's one issue that never made sense. Obamacare was for people who didn't already have insurance. Those people, by definition, didn't usually HAVE a primary care physician. Therefor, they had no doctor to keep. Except for a very few shitty "plans", Obamacare had little actual impact on most already-existing coverage for the majority of employed peoples. If you "lost" your doctor, it was most likely because your insurance company is using Obamacare as an excuse to cut your benefits and that would have probably happened ANYWAY.
Our American ignorance of UK laws and customs amazes you? LOL! Most Americans don't even comprehend our OWN laws, and we barely have any "customs" over time compared to the UK. 238 years vs 315 years for just the current UK, or almost 1,000 years going back to the Norman Conquest.
Technically, he got 52.9% out of 58.2% turnout in the popular vote, or roughly 1/4 of eligible voters. He got 67% of the electoral college votes. USA voter turnout hasn't gone over 60% since the late 1960s.
Or your SQL server freaking out after an update, not finishing it's "script upgrades", and resetting itself to a "default" location on a drive that hasn't existed for a few years. Just today I had to regedit my SQL server 2008 from E:\MSSQL back to C:\. Ridiculous.
Many businesses do. We'll be going from 7 Pro to 10 E just because of the loss of control. This type of meddling is just the beginning. If we wanted our users to download Candy Crush on their work laptops, we would have stuck it out on the file server. How soon before malware slips into the "store"? It's already happened with Apple and Android.
I notice this doesn't include Windows 7 Enterprise still. I haven't seen what Windows 10 Enterprise is like yet...but I have a feeling that my company will be rolling out whatever third-party app is needed to turn 10 back into a 7 experience.
Sure it is! Just keep slipping adderall into your Indian "employees" coffee / tea. Keep it up until the have a heart attack, replace them, and repeat. PROFIT! No one will ever catch you, because since their foreigners they won't ever go to the hospital, seek out any medical attention, or even have an autopsy done.
Maybe in their worldview the slaves "agreed" to be slaves by not running fast enough from the slavers, or didn't commit suicide but instead "allowed themselves to enter a work contract" by being captured alive.
Steve, is that you? The sysadmin before me at my current job? Because my firewall was FILLED with address objects, NAT policies, service objects, etc from many years ago that I'm still trying to work my way through. No documentation either...like "Webserver public private public IP" for a name, every address has it's own http and https service object, rules for servers long moved across the ocean...
When I was doing tier II work at an IBM facility the same policy applied. After 18 months, your gone. Usually, don't bother coming back after six months, because someone else is already 6 months into their own 18 month cycle.
I can also see a "Strategic military" option under the legislative side. If we have various countries who are part of some "cyber defense" treaty, and they cannot / will not deal with CnC servers, mass botnets, etc inside their territory...then the other treaty members should be able to do something proactive to stop such attacks. Now, I'm not meaning "we think XYZ is attacking us, so nuke them". But if X number of treaty members agree that the evidence is pointing to a particular IRC chatroom, specific server, or residence that is launching an attack then a non-lethal (to humans lol) response should be on the table. Local police to the direct upstream ISP to shut the connection down. Single-use targeted EMP drone to fry someone's computer. All treaty members should be in compliance of BCP38, reduce the servers on the Open Resolvers Project list, proper implementation of Anycast, DNSSEC, ect. Signatory countries should be able to audit each other, share knowledge and tools, and get each other into compliance.
No single country can build infrastructure to stop the IoT ddos attacks anymore, that much is obvious. Technical solutions do nothing without legislation to back them up and legislation that doesn't have a proper technical background is worse than useless...we can't have laws that address specific issues as the tech changes far faster than the law ever can. The solution is going to be a mesh of humans, systems, laws, and standards working in conjunction with eternal vigilance. Good luck on all that lol.
LOL. And if he takes his shirt off, it goes up to 20m!
I explain this to people all the time. Places that high cyber-crime participants also have low job opportunities. Former Eastern Block countries have some great "IT people" who could do great in a normal environment...but there are no "normal" jobs for them. So, they get hired by criminal organizations instead. Everyone's got to eat.
I have a theory that this is how Sony's system got compromised via their media distribution system, that was built by five contractors on top of an Oracle media database.
It's not 100% either way. There is genetics, and there is epigenetics. You could have inherited genes that result in autistic effects but your environment never had the conditions for that to actually express. Autism isn't a single genetic expression, it's more of a description or condition that has multiple root causes.Could vaccines be a trigger? In a population of several billion, it's a near certainty. Is that a big enough risk to mitigate the risks of getting the disease the vaccine stops? Absolutely not, unless you are PROVEN to be one of the very few that whatever vaccine might affect. There is no actual test on that, and it's such a small percentage that real science has yet to be able to pin it down. Real science as in repeatable, provable, etc. If it's not repeatable and your theory doesn't provide for a failure / negative result, then it's pseudoscience.
In reality, we don't have enough knowledge of our genetic structure and how all of that system functions to do comprehensive testing.
Logically, your right. Emotionally though...we humans feel a great desire to "blame" someone for everything that happens. As a group, we just can't handle the Universe having any randomness or "unplanned events". A large portion of our population firmly believes that everything happens for a reason AND that reason is some intelligent, behind-the-scenes, incomprehensible, mostly unknowable entity who refuses to overtly reveal themselves because it would break the "faith game". They refer to this entity as God or "the Devil", depending on what happened to whom and their mood that day. For them, humanity is all pieces in a cosmic chess game and everything happens because we're "being tested", "punished", or "rewarded".
Well, Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them. You have committed a classic blunder, and have clearly chosen the vaccine containing "autism"!