by allowing them to hack unfettered, eventually they will come across someone who will hack back. By giving them immunity, it removes any possibility of legal recourse; the only path left for those who've been wronged by GCHQ hackers is now to follow far more illegal paths for retribution. "From Hell's heart, I strike at thee"...once the courts deny this, it will become an even more dangerous game.
One would think that Britain has had enough past experience of what happens when their rulers remove accountability from specific segments of their subjects. When the Courts won't listen, the next step is often quite bloody.
a decade-long extension of the moratorium on regulating commercial human spaceflight
Good! There is no commercial human spaceflight yet, not enough for the FAA to get involved and bog it down even more. IF Virgin Galactic actually takes passengers up, then that's when the FAA should get involved...it's just a waste of tax money for the FAA to do anything before hand. Look at the issues with the FAA and drones; their really doing a "great job!" But ten years is probably too long, this part needs to be reviewed every few years to keep track of when these flights start. Example, if VG proves they will have a passenger flight going up on XYZ date (proves, not just Branson doing marketing), they should HAVE to notify the FAA and do all due diligence possible before the launch. Looking at his recent crash, I'm not too optimistic for any of his previously announced scheduals lol
a nine-year extension of industry-government cost sharing for damages caused by launch accidents
Even with this, no launch company will have the fiscal suicide of not having their own insurance...but the insurance system is very complicated. This all depends on what's being launched, from where, who's doing the actual launching...just keeping the "current method" until there are multiple, monthly launches. SpaceX might not even be launching / landing from within US territory (with his floating pads, which adds another level of complications.
and an act that would give companies property rights to materials they mine from asteroids.
Good for them, if a company takes the risks, puts up their own investor's money and manages to bring back valuable materials it SHOULD belong to them. If you want in on the potential rewards, you should go invest in some "asteroid mining company". There will be ZERO asteroids that are privately mined in the next nine years. Even if one is launched, it won't have any "finished project" to drop on your city in the next decade. With current engine tech it takes months to get to asteroids, if not years. A remote mining operation (and potential refining) will take time, then a very calculated trajectory back to Earth. Now, mining on the Moon...if the current treaties weren't in place we wouldn't even be talking about mining asteroids! A large nation-state might be able to get some type of mining operation done in the next ten years.
If humanity, as a species, wanted to mine the Moon with a combination of remotes and crew, that might be doable within ten years. Even then, I don't see unfinished materials being sent back. In-space fabrication will be able to do far more amazing stuff than we can do on the ground anyway.
The biggest threat to your city would be someone hacking an automated return mission, re-directing it to smash into a city.
Patenting "geosynchronous communications satellites"...well, to quote Clarke himself:"I learned from my patent attorney that even if I had tried to patent the communications satellite in 1945, the patent would have been rejected because the required technology did not yet exist, and the patent wouldn't have been worth getting because its life would only have been 17 years. The patent would have expired the year before the Early Bird was launched." So...unfortunately he wouldn't have. By publishing the idea and not patenting it, he put the idea into the public domain for the betterment of mankind. Of course, the patent system back then wasn't nearly as horrible as it is today...
"Can't believe that it has been hacked" Really? I'm honestly surprised it took this long, and these types of apps are very high-value targets for scammers and their hacker helpers.
HAHAHA LOL "PantShitter" is the best name ever. I can only dream of a vulnerability with that name...I'd pay good money to see that name up on my work's Situation Management page.
I'd guess that's because closed source has real marketing people in the organization, people with 4+ year advertising, promotion, and marketing degrees who are naming these. In open source, it's whatever the dev wants to call it...the "professional" closed source apps have a marketing department who steps in and says "that name is horrible, it will make our clients subconsciously afraid to use the product, call it this instead." Very few devs have any real education in marketing; I've taken a few classes in it so I know a few of the basics behind it all.
The last time I did some ESXi troubleshooting (about two weeks ago), I had to look up documentation that I would think our "system admins" would already know. I personally don't even know that much about the actual nuts n bolts of it yet, but our Indian sysadmins really won't do anything without someone like me beating them over the head with step-by-step instructions for the entire maintenance window. "Enter this command"...silence on the phone..."now hit Enter"...it's ridiculous.
I blame this on the British, who beat this whole "do not act first, always ask" meme into the Indians during the colonial times. I so want to tell them "You work for an American company now, just GET IT DONE!" Sometimes it even gets to the point where SMT (Situation Management, the team that coordinates all our SEV1 / SEV2 issues) had to tell them "He is not your technical adviser, you need to keep trying to contact XYZ and bring them on this call" lol
if the choice was between "using a cargo return Dragon" or "slowly suffocating on the ISS", the choice is pretty clear. Clamp down those helmets and hang on...
well, if NASA suddenly told SpaceX "their stranded, this is an emergency" and we HAD to use an "non-man rated" Dragon to get them back...even if it didn't work right and crashed this isn't SpaceX's fault. It's Congress's / NASA's fault for screwing up so badly that there was no other choice...at least there is a chance to get them down if Russia can't.
my work laptop contains digital certificates, VPN software, etc that could potentially be used in some giant "cyber attack" on the SABRE system, AA, USAIR, DOE, etc. If I was ever subjected to any of this, I would use all my jargon to scare them away from even opening it up...especially seeing as we also support a few DHS apps, US Navy, etc. Not that there is anything on the laptop that's illegal, I'd do it just to screw with them. Something like "well, sure, you CAN look in it if you want...but I will have to file a report with the Cyber Defense Center because you are not authorized and this would be a Unauthorized Information Disclosure event. I'll need your name, badge number, and a contact phone number for your direct management. The FBI might be contacting you too, and your manager."
LOL...the TSA doesn't employ people who could even comprehend the idea of a "fresh install". Most of them are on the same educational level as Walmart greeters. In fact, about a month ago the DHS didn't even bother to tell ANY airlines they where doing some "maintenance" on their no-fly list database...it just suddenly went down and our alarms lit up. This almost resulted in a complete grounding of all US flights! "oh yeah, we forgot" was basically the answer FROM THEIR OWN IT PEOPLE. Even though all these systems use ITIL change control, are required by law to use proper change control methodology...they just "do whatever" and make it up as they go along...even when there is an established system they know they need to use. If I personally had done something like that to that level of a production system, I'd be fired (and possibly sued by my corp to recoup the giant FINE from the FAA)...but DHS does it and the FAA does nothing.
That's actually much like the theory behind the Alcubierre drive, using negative energy in a bubble that "pushes" itself "through" space. The link between the EmDrive and that is the EmDrive seems to be creating "real" particles out of virtual particle pairs and this Casimir Effect could also be used to generate the exotic matter needed to make the warp bubble. I'm still not sure how, other than that, these drives are really connected scientifically or technically. The biggest thing that "grinds my gears" is everyone is giving Nasa cradit for this when they initially rejected the EmDrive over ten years ago...Roger Sawyer is it's inventor, NOT Nasa...and Miguel Alcubierre proposed the warp drive; once again not a Nasa person.
My boss was just promoted into management after 25+ years of doing situation management...so he has yet to reach his "Peter Principle" plateau. He's still very much involved in our work, we call him all hours of the night to get engaged in various outages. I did however recently see someone reach a bit past their Peter point and go from running all the helpdesks to trying to work on our front ends systems then to the unemployment line. Even more ironic is I had to endure them for over a year when I was on the help desk...she actually fired me, then to see her again in an "equal" position only to get fired a few weeks later was ULTIMATE KARMA.
The US should be making it far easier for H1B's to get green cards and then get citizenship. Obviously, most H1B's have valuable skills and giving them a "fast track" to citizenship is very much inline with the idea of "the best and brightest" being US citizens. It shows that the H1B is highly skilled, understands US culture (eventually, after a few months of working here), and probably wants to be a US citizen. We SHOULD be welcoming people like yourself with open arms...instead of the current corporate indentured servant system. Highly skilled, intelligent, hard-working immigrants made the USA what it is today...our strength is through our diversity. But I'm not a CEO fixated on next quarter's results...I'm a citizen who wants the country to do better over-all over the long term.
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by allowing them to hack unfettered, eventually they will come across someone who will hack back. By giving them immunity, it removes any possibility of legal recourse; the only path left for those who've been wronged by GCHQ hackers is now to follow far more illegal paths for retribution. "From Hell's heart, I strike at thee"...once the courts deny this, it will become an even more dangerous game.
One would think that Britain has had enough past experience of what happens when their rulers remove accountability from specific segments of their subjects. When the Courts won't listen, the next step is often quite bloody.
a decade-long extension of the moratorium on regulating commercial human spaceflight
Good! There is no commercial human spaceflight yet, not enough for the FAA to get involved and bog it down even more. IF Virgin Galactic actually takes passengers up, then that's when the FAA should get involved...it's just a waste of tax money for the FAA to do anything before hand. Look at the issues with the FAA and drones; their really doing a "great job!" But ten years is probably too long, this part needs to be reviewed every few years to keep track of when these flights start. Example, if VG proves they will have a passenger flight going up on XYZ date (proves, not just Branson doing marketing), they should HAVE to notify the FAA and do all due diligence possible before the launch. Looking at his recent crash, I'm not too optimistic for any of his previously announced scheduals lol
a nine-year extension of industry-government cost sharing for damages caused by launch accidents
Even with this, no launch company will have the fiscal suicide of not having their own insurance...but the insurance system is very complicated. This all depends on what's being launched, from where, who's doing the actual launching...just keeping the "current method" until there are multiple, monthly launches. SpaceX might not even be launching / landing from within US territory (with his floating pads, which adds another level of complications.
and an act that would give companies property rights to materials they mine from asteroids.
Good for them, if a company takes the risks, puts up their own investor's money and manages to bring back valuable materials it SHOULD belong to them. If you want in on the potential rewards, you should go invest in some "asteroid mining company". There will be ZERO asteroids that are privately mined in the next nine years. Even if one is launched, it won't have any "finished project" to drop on your city in the next decade. With current engine tech it takes months to get to asteroids, if not years. A remote mining operation (and potential refining) will take time, then a very calculated trajectory back to Earth. Now, mining on the Moon...if the current treaties weren't in place we wouldn't even be talking about mining asteroids! A large nation-state might be able to get some type of mining operation done in the next ten years.
If humanity, as a species, wanted to mine the Moon with a combination of remotes and crew, that might be doable within ten years. Even then, I don't see unfinished materials being sent back. In-space fabrication will be able to do far more amazing stuff than we can do on the ground anyway.
The biggest threat to your city would be someone hacking an automated return mission, re-directing it to smash into a city.
the rest of it is going to fund the 2016 Tyson / Nye Presidential campaign....I wish...
Patenting "geosynchronous communications satellites"...well, to quote Clarke himself:"I learned from my patent attorney that even if I had tried to patent the communications satellite in 1945, the patent would have been rejected because the required technology did not yet exist, and the patent wouldn't have been worth getting because its life would only have been 17 years. The patent would have expired the year before the Early Bird was launched." So...unfortunately he wouldn't have. By publishing the idea and not patenting it, he put the idea into the public domain for the betterment of mankind. Of course, the patent system back then wasn't nearly as horrible as it is today...
I'll go with "huge", but is there some indication that these stars are mad, upset, or otherwise upset with their local stellar area?
"Can't believe that it has been hacked" Really? I'm honestly surprised it took this long, and these types of apps are very high-value targets for scammers and their hacker helpers.
"Parallel construction", just using an "illegal" channel to get the data to someplace where they can "legally" grab it.
HAHAHA LOL "PantShitter" is the best name ever. I can only dream of a vulnerability with that name...I'd pay good money to see that name up on my work's Situation Management page.
I'd guess that's because closed source has real marketing people in the organization, people with 4+ year advertising, promotion, and marketing degrees who are naming these. In open source, it's whatever the dev wants to call it...the "professional" closed source apps have a marketing department who steps in and says "that name is horrible, it will make our clients subconsciously afraid to use the product, call it this instead." Very few devs have any real education in marketing; I've taken a few classes in it so I know a few of the basics behind it all.
in the article, it does say that neither HyperV nor VMWare are affected by this...so in reality about 80% of VM's are safe lol
The last time I did some ESXi troubleshooting (about two weeks ago), I had to look up documentation that I would think our "system admins" would already know. I personally don't even know that much about the actual nuts n bolts of it yet, but our Indian sysadmins really won't do anything without someone like me beating them over the head with step-by-step instructions for the entire maintenance window. "Enter this command"...silence on the phone..."now hit Enter"...it's ridiculous.
I blame this on the British, who beat this whole "do not act first, always ask" meme into the Indians during the colonial times. I so want to tell them "You work for an American company now, just GET IT DONE!" Sometimes it even gets to the point where SMT (Situation Management, the team that coordinates all our SEV1 / SEV2 issues) had to tell them "He is not your technical adviser, you need to keep trying to contact XYZ and bring them on this call" lol
I say that we should upgrade every single mile of railroad! I also demand that every town that has a paved road should also get high-speed maglev.
if the choice was between "using a cargo return Dragon" or "slowly suffocating on the ISS", the choice is pretty clear. Clamp down those helmets and hang on...
well, if NASA suddenly told SpaceX "their stranded, this is an emergency" and we HAD to use an "non-man rated" Dragon to get them back...even if it didn't work right and crashed this isn't SpaceX's fault. It's Congress's / NASA's fault for screwing up so badly that there was no other choice...at least there is a chance to get them down if Russia can't.
my work laptop contains digital certificates, VPN software, etc that could potentially be used in some giant "cyber attack" on the SABRE system, AA, USAIR, DOE, etc. If I was ever subjected to any of this, I would use all my jargon to scare them away from even opening it up...especially seeing as we also support a few DHS apps, US Navy, etc. Not that there is anything on the laptop that's illegal, I'd do it just to screw with them. Something like "well, sure, you CAN look in it if you want...but I will have to file a report with the Cyber Defense Center because you are not authorized and this would be a Unauthorized Information Disclosure event. I'll need your name, badge number, and a contact phone number for your direct management. The FBI might be contacting you too, and your manager."
Honestly, I'd LOVE for this to happen...
LOL...the TSA doesn't employ people who could even comprehend the idea of a "fresh install". Most of them are on the same educational level as Walmart greeters. In fact, about a month ago the DHS didn't even bother to tell ANY airlines they where doing some "maintenance" on their no-fly list database...it just suddenly went down and our alarms lit up. This almost resulted in a complete grounding of all US flights! "oh yeah, we forgot" was basically the answer FROM THEIR OWN IT PEOPLE. Even though all these systems use ITIL change control, are required by law to use proper change control methodology...they just "do whatever" and make it up as they go along...even when there is an established system they know they need to use. If I personally had done something like that to that level of a production system, I'd be fired (and possibly sued by my corp to recoup the giant FINE from the FAA)...but DHS does it and the FAA does nothing.
far easier! "I didn't order a 'Grenade with pre-pulled pin' from Amazon!"
My next "response" would be directly to Wikileaks...anonymously...
don't forget "opening a portal to Hell" and "vacuum collapse extinction event" on your list.
That's actually much like the theory behind the Alcubierre drive, using negative energy in a bubble that "pushes" itself "through" space. The link between the EmDrive and that is the EmDrive seems to be creating "real" particles out of virtual particle pairs and this Casimir Effect could also be used to generate the exotic matter needed to make the warp bubble. I'm still not sure how, other than that, these drives are really connected scientifically or technically. The biggest thing that "grinds my gears" is everyone is giving Nasa cradit for this when they initially rejected the EmDrive over ten years ago...Roger Sawyer is it's inventor, NOT Nasa...and Miguel Alcubierre proposed the warp drive; once again not a Nasa person.
So is this like Dick Cheney, which is an Known Known, or like God, which is an Known Unknowable? Or like Bigfoot, an Unknown Known?
317,500 that won't be voting for her...
My boss was just promoted into management after 25+ years of doing situation management...so he has yet to reach his "Peter Principle" plateau. He's still very much involved in our work, we call him all hours of the night to get engaged in various outages. I did however recently see someone reach a bit past their Peter point and go from running all the helpdesks to trying to work on our front ends systems then to the unemployment line. Even more ironic is I had to endure them for over a year when I was on the help desk...she actually fired me, then to see her again in an "equal" position only to get fired a few weeks later was ULTIMATE KARMA.
"Never explain, never apologize"
The US should be making it far easier for H1B's to get green cards and then get citizenship. Obviously, most H1B's have valuable skills and giving them a "fast track" to citizenship is very much inline with the idea of "the best and brightest" being US citizens. It shows that the H1B is highly skilled, understands US culture (eventually, after a few months of working here), and probably wants to be a US citizen. We SHOULD be welcoming people like yourself with open arms...instead of the current corporate indentured servant system. Highly skilled, intelligent, hard-working immigrants made the USA what it is today...our strength is through our diversity. But I'm not a CEO fixated on next quarter's results...I'm a citizen who wants the country to do better over-all over the long term.