re Mother Teresa:
Fox, Robin (1994). "Mother Theresa's care for the dying". The Lancet 344 (8925): 807 ---
s. The Lancet and the British Medical Journal reported the reuse of hypodermic needles, poor living conditions, including the use of cold baths for all patients, and an approach to illness and suffering that precluded the use of many elements of modern medical care, such as systematic diagnosis.[77] Dr. Robin Fox, editor of The Lancet, described the medical care as "haphazard", as volunteers without medical knowledge had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors. He observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. Dr. Fox makes it a point to contrast the term "hospice", on the one hand, with what he calls "Mother Teresa's Care for the Dying" on the other hand; noting that, while hospice emphasises minimising suffering with professional medical care and attention to expressed needs and wishes of the patient, her approach does not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_teresa#Criticismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position
Pretty much look up her name and "criticism", and see the results, including believing that the poor need to suffer in order to get closer to christ and god, and helping them achieve that suffering by not using any painkillers and not actually trying to treat the ill and by actively discouraging the treatment of the ill in "their care".
Thanks for the info and details! I know about the specific information about the cherry-wood-desks and the mahogany paneling because the CEO of the local Red Cross and United ways here in San Diego got caught spending hundreds-of-thousands of dollars on a desk (yes, "a" singular desk) and wood paneling for his office, along with raking in a crazy high salary. There's also something weird with how they get "volunteers" to do all of the work for "driving patients and the elderly from their home to their doctors appointments" but get paid as an institution (red cross) about $50-$100 per trip, while the volunteer gives their time and their gasoline costs and their insurance costs. In fact, my mom rails about how much more the cross gets in money for driving patients to their appointments than she gets for actually seeing diagnosisng and treating the patients.!!!
Yeah, it could be considered a copyright violation if you didn't have to waive copyright and assign perpetual use license over to turnitin when you in fact actually turn it in. That's the insidious part of this: certain schools and teachers require you to use turnitin to actually turn your homework in. The few students that have fought against this and have lost their cases appear to have lost their cases because they actually (at least once) used the service to turn in their homework, thereby agreeing to the terms and conditions of the service, with one of the terms being that you grant turnitin a perpetual license to your work. .
People! Stand up for yourselves and your own work! Students are NOT employees of a school, whether elementary or high-school or college level!!! Their work is not done as "work for hire": it is done as a compulsory portion of their education and training!!! Not as work!
Next scheme coming up will be to add eyetrackers and scan which words you are reading which will allow (sarcasm begin) two great new additions:
1 -- why, you only pay for the words you read! Boring paragraphs like Jules Verne's 20k Leagues of their Own Under the Sea 5-page long paragraphs describing every color of every fish seen can be skipped and you'll save money!!!
2 -- need to re-read a sentence to grok its meaning? We'll charge you for the opportunity!
(/sarcasm)
Seriously, why do people fall for these crazy crazy ideas? Lke submitting your schoolwork to turnitin and giving them a life-time or perpetual license on your work... as in that other article earlier.... cray-crazy!
yep, it's the same as the "mother teresa" scam, in which the PR is such that everyone thinks that this "saint" is helping out the poor, but the reality is that the poverty is being continued and no actual help is being given out, and the dontations taken in are used to perpetuate and strengthen the infrastructure of the so-called "charity organization". . Wait a minute, that's the same type of scam pulled by the Red Cross and the United Way: they all come out of the woodwork during disasters and ask for a lot of donations and money (because they can skim off the top [heavily skim] of money, but not of actual goods) which can be put towards expensive cherry desks and mahogany paneling and half-a-million-dollars-per-year executive salaries. . Sadly, the business and MBA types find every possible way that people like to part with their money (whether it's for food you need, or toys you want or lust after, or donations you gladly give to help others or assuage their own consciences) and insert themselves into the equation to take the majority of the money as "overhead costs" for running the schemes themselves.
The linked article itself mentions brute force breaking into the voice-mail accounts and "bluff verfication", forcing the bank to check the victim's voice mail accounts:
The final step required a means to automate the playback of the fake one time passwords and bluff verification. To achieve this, the researchers brute-forced their way into victim voice mail accounts and replaced greeting messages with the generated tokens.
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The bank could be forced to voice mail -- and the fake audio token -- by setting a phone number diversion within voice mail, or by simply calling the victim to make the line engaged.
The article also points out that they created 10-thousand fake accounts in order to create 10k "voice token" one-time-passwords which they recorded and analyzed using open-source audio-software. (sounds like Audacity used in a way to show the spectral characteristics: the fourier transform built into it for spectral/frequency analysis and display)
grammar-free context!, not context-free grammar!
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You say:the exploit was written with a context-free grammar. .
I say: the article was written with a grammar-free context! ;>)
Why couldn't this be a new use for all of the drones being used by all the branches of the military and the cia and the local police forces? .
Couldn't the geniuses at AT&T, a branch of the NSA, put together a system that would: -- pinpoint the true location of the spam caller, --
allocate a vote tally system and tabulate how many people have reported that particular spam location (not just number on Caller ID, but number as in billed-to-number, and the physical location of the system making the call) --
keep some sort of time-adjusted average and when it passes the magic threshold value... --
send out the GPS coordinates of that caller location for the next drone attack. I'm sure a few civilian casualties of the telemarketers sitting around them would be acceptable collateral damage, eh? . ;>)
Dude, tweet about it every time it happens. There was this one guy out in nowheresville, Pakistan (abbottabad, costelloabad?), who tweeted when some chopper buzzed by and seemed to be landing at like early hours of the morning, and he got tons of publicity from his tweets. Maybe that would help you! ;>) (jk, don't piss off the guys with loaded weapons!)
Mod the parent post up. That's the point of a whole lot of training and live fire exercises and with manning submarine posts and missile launch posts: getting trained to follow orders and to jump as high as possible without even asking "how high?" when asked to jump. Do you think they want people who are going to wuss out and not turn the keys when they're asked to go through a launch sequence? The majority of soldiers are all good guys, but they expect the guys above them to be good guys, and they are selected and trained on the point of and ability of being able to take orders and execute them. Even though you're supposed to fall on your sword and not carry out illegal orders, there's no time or ability to check on commands in high pressure rapdily changing situations. .
But what about my Japanese ancestry friend with a last name of Fuqua? He's had snickers and giggles about his last name since 2nd grade! But his family's been here since the early 1820's in California, so why should the DMV give them a hard time for wanting their last name on their license plate?? They shouldn't, but they did and they do if you want a vanity plate that offends the minds and mindless-sensibilities of these Puritanical U-S-of-A.
Yeah, scanning port 80 ought not be illegal, as port 80 is recognized as a resource point for the WWW, but if you kept trying out ports 25 for SMTP looking for an accessible proxy or 23 or 107 for telnet or even banging on 22 for ssh and even trying a few default user/pw combos, that somehow feels wronger, doesn't it? That's more like walking up to the door and not just rattling the knob but telling the butler, "hey it's me, let me in, you know me!, c'mon let me in!"
ah, if only there were a way to mark spammer-trolls and slowly-deactivate their accounts without inviting a way for other types of trolls to abuse that capacity to mark down people whom they do not like. The scary / scarier part is that they picked a "name" Diane Kua that is actually a name of "1 real person in the USA" when you search for them. That identity theft is probably part of this spam-troll technique, but their blatant use of a real person's identity may be the leverage against them because it might actually be unlawful and illegal to impersonate an actual person that way: using identity theft.
Re: I'm more interesting in how the headline writer got from "1,572,864 cores" to "million core".Rounding down to the nearest million?;>) I think the achievement was surpassing the arbitrary limit of "one million cores" in a cluster or parallel environment. The same way that people like to celebrate milestones of 10^3 somethings or multiples of {365,365,365,366) added together in ratios of approximately 4 to 1. And yes, that does (or should) make you "more interesting"! (you said "I'm more interesting..." rather than "I'm more interested in")
Well, they didn't have to use a representative sample of IP addresses, as they went ahead and sent "probes" about UPnP to every routable IPv4 address over 4+1/2 months (from June to mid-november 2012)
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Halfway through the first page of executive summary you'll find the following:
UPnP discovery requests were sent to every routable IPv4 address approximately once a week from
June 1 to November 17, 2012.
I didn't notice that detail the first time I read the article.
So did they come up with the number of vulnerable sites from
(a) -- sales figures of devices with UPnP enabled by default,
or did they actually do active spidering of (b):
1 -- a representative sample of IP addresses in a particular space
2 -- a wide ranging probe of many many IP addresses all around the world? .
If they did (a) above, then sure it makes sense. If they did (b1) or (b2) above, especially if they didn't get the permission of every IP address which they probed/tested, then aren't they doing illegal penetration testing, even if all they are doing is checking for the existence of a responding port? I mean one or two or an accidental port knock would be like knocking IRL on a random stranger's door, but a sequential serialized intentional attempt to knock on so many doors to test vulnerability, well that's just annoying and wrong, and possibly illegal,eh?
Holey moley! Thanks for the amazing link! I didn't realize from the Stanford pages and the wired article that this was a big blue Blue Gene hardware setup. (I guess I would have if I'd searched wikipedia for sequoia and disambiguated myself to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Sequoia )
Okay, so I see that they have 1,572,864 cores which happens to be
1 572 864 = 2**19 + 2**20 = (2**19)*3 = (524288)*3
I'm wondering about how they've connected the CPUs. There's probably 4 cores per cpu, so drop the powers of 2 by two above. There's a link on the Wired article that says:
But Sequoiaâ(TM)s processors are organized and networked in a new way â" using a âoe5D Torusâ interconnect. Each processor is directly connected to ten other processors, and can connect, with lower latency, to processors further away. But some of those processors also have an 11th connection, which taps into a central input/output channel for the entire system. These special processors collect signals from the processors and write the results to disk. This allowed most of the necessary communications to occur between the processors without a need to hit the disk.
But searching for "5-d torus interconnect" gets you nothing on wikipedia. Here's the 2-dimensional version explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_interconnect
and the K computer by Fujitsu at Riken uses a 6-d (six dimensional) torus network.
So how does the 5-d torus interconnect lead to the 2**19 + 2**20 cores or possibly 2**17+2**18 cpus? I'm not seeing it in my head clearly. Off to a paper-napkin to sketch it out! .
Each core connects 5-dimensionally going forward or back in each dimension gives 10 interconnects from one core to the 10 5-dimensional neighbors one distance away. But the number of cores is divisible only by twos and a three (factor number of cores = 3 * 2^19) so I'm not seeing the construct...
The interesting part in the berkeley link is the possibilty for "electrical intervention":
For example, in an earlier study, neuroscientists in Germany successfully used electrical stimulation of the brain in young adults to enhance deep sleep and doubled their overnight memory.
So what kind of voltage, current, and signal sequence would you use for this?
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--- s. The Lancet and the British Medical Journal reported the reuse of hypodermic needles, poor living conditions, including the use of cold baths for all patients, and an approach to illness and suffering that precluded the use of many elements of modern medical care, such as systematic diagnosis.[77] Dr. Robin Fox, editor of The Lancet, described the medical care as "haphazard", as volunteers without medical knowledge had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors. He observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. Dr. Fox makes it a point to contrast the term "hospice", on the one hand, with what he calls "Mother Teresa's Care for the Dying" on the other hand; noting that, while hospice emphasises minimising suffering with professional medical care and attention to expressed needs and wishes of the patient, her approach does not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_teresa#Criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position
Pretty much look up her name and "criticism", and see the results, including believing that the poor need to suffer in order to get closer to christ and god, and helping them achieve that suffering by not using any painkillers and not actually trying to treat the ill and by actively discouraging the treatment of the ill in "their care".
Thanks for the info and details! I know about the specific information about the cherry-wood-desks and the mahogany paneling because the CEO of the local Red Cross and United ways here in San Diego got caught spending hundreds-of-thousands of dollars on a desk (yes, "a" singular desk) and wood paneling for his office, along with raking in a crazy high salary. There's also something weird with how they get "volunteers" to do all of the work for "driving patients and the elderly from their home to their doctors appointments" but get paid as an institution (red cross) about $50-$100 per trip, while the volunteer gives their time and their gasoline costs and their insurance costs. In fact, my mom rails about how much more the cross gets in money for driving patients to their appointments than she gets for actually seeing diagnosisng and treating the patients.!!!
Yeah, it could be considered a copyright violation if you didn't have to waive copyright and assign perpetual use license over to turnitin when you in fact actually turn it in. That's the insidious part of this: certain schools and teachers require you to use turnitin to actually turn your homework in. The few students that have fought against this and have lost their cases appear to have lost their cases because they actually (at least once) used the service to turn in their homework, thereby agreeing to the terms and conditions of the service, with one of the terms being that you grant turnitin a perpetual license to your work.
.
People! Stand up for yourselves and your own work! Students are NOT employees of a school, whether elementary or high-school or college level!!! Their work is not done as "work for hire": it is done as a compulsory portion of their education and training!!! Not as work!
Next scheme coming up will be to add eyetrackers and scan which words you are reading which will allow (sarcasm begin) two great new additions:
1 -- why, you only pay for the words you read! Boring paragraphs like Jules Verne's 20k Leagues of their Own Under the Sea 5-page long paragraphs describing every color of every fish seen can be skipped and you'll save money!!!
2 -- need to re-read a sentence to grok its meaning? We'll charge you for the opportunity!
(/sarcasm)
Seriously, why do people fall for these crazy crazy ideas? Lke submitting your schoolwork to turnitin and giving them a life-time or perpetual license on your work... as in that other article earlier.... cray-crazy!
yep, it's the same as the "mother teresa" scam, in which the PR is such that everyone thinks that this "saint" is helping out the poor, but the reality is that the poverty is being continued and no actual help is being given out, and the dontations taken in are used to perpetuate and strengthen the infrastructure of the so-called "charity organization".
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Wait a minute, that's the same type of scam pulled by the Red Cross and the United Way: they all come out of the woodwork during disasters and ask for a lot of donations and money (because they can skim off the top [heavily skim] of money, but not of actual goods) which can be put towards expensive cherry desks and mahogany paneling and half-a-million-dollars-per-year executive salaries.
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Sadly, the business and MBA types find every possible way that people like to part with their money (whether it's for food you need, or toys you want or lust after, or donations you gladly give to help others or assuage their own consciences) and insert themselves into the equation to take the majority of the money as "overhead costs" for running the schemes themselves.
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The bank could be forced to voice mail -- and the fake audio token -- by setting a phone number diversion within voice mail, or by simply calling the victim to make the line engaged.The article also points out that they created 10-thousand fake accounts in order to create 10k "voice token" one-time-passwords which they recorded and analyzed using open-source audio-software. (sounds like Audacity used in a way to show the spectral characteristics: the fourier transform built into it for spectral/frequency analysis and display)
Re:"manager of network did security not specify"
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You say:the exploit was written with a context-free grammar.
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I say: the article was written with a grammar-free context!
;>)
Why couldn't this be a new use for all of the drones being used by all the branches of the military and the cia and the local police forces? :
;>)
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Couldn't the geniuses at AT&T, a branch of the NSA, put together a system that would
-- pinpoint the true location of the spam caller,
-- allocate a vote tally system and tabulate how many people have reported that particular spam location (not just number on Caller ID, but number as in billed-to-number, and the physical location of the system making the call)
-- keep some sort of time-adjusted average and when it passes the magic threshold value...
-- send out the GPS coordinates of that caller location for the next drone attack. I'm sure a few civilian casualties of the telemarketers sitting around them would be acceptable collateral damage, eh?
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Dude, tweet about it every time it happens. There was this one guy out in nowheresville, Pakistan (abbottabad, costelloabad?), who tweeted when some chopper buzzed by and seemed to be landing at like early hours of the morning, and he got tons of publicity from his tweets. Maybe that would help you! ;>) (jk, don't piss off the guys with loaded weapons!)
Mod the parent post up. That's the point of a whole lot of training and live fire exercises and with manning submarine posts and missile launch posts: getting trained to follow orders and to jump as high as possible without even asking "how high?" when asked to jump. Do you think they want people who are going to wuss out and not turn the keys when they're asked to go through a launch sequence? The majority of soldiers are all good guys, but they expect the guys above them to be good guys, and they are selected and trained on the point of and ability of being able to take orders and execute them. Even though you're supposed to fall on your sword and not carry out illegal orders, there's no time or ability to check on commands in high pressure rapdily changing situations.
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But what about my Japanese ancestry friend with a last name of Fuqua? He's had snickers and giggles about his last name since 2nd grade! But his family's been here since the early 1820's in California, so why should the DMV give them a hard time for wanting their last name on their license plate?? They shouldn't, but they did and they do if you want a vanity plate that offends the minds and mindless-sensibilities of these Puritanical U-S-of-A.
Yeah, scanning port 80 ought not be illegal, as port 80 is recognized as a resource point for the WWW, but if you kept trying out ports 25 for SMTP looking for an accessible proxy or 23 or 107 for telnet or even banging on 22 for ssh and even trying a few default user/pw combos, that somehow feels wronger, doesn't it? That's more like walking up to the door and not just rattling the knob but telling the butler, "hey it's me, let me in, you know me!, c'mon let me in!"
ah, if only there were a way to mark spammer-trolls and slowly-deactivate their accounts without inviting a way for other types of trolls to abuse that capacity to mark down people whom they do not like. The scary / scarier part is that they picked a "name" Diane Kua that is actually a name of "1 real person in the USA" when you search for them. That identity theft is probably part of this spam-troll technique, but their blatant use of a real person's identity may be the leverage against them because it might actually be unlawful and illegal to impersonate an actual person that way: using identity theft.
in ratios of approximately 4 to 1
Shouldn't that be in ratios of 3 to 1 approximately? Responding to myself to catch the error of leap year frequency!
Re: I'm more interesting in how the headline writer got from "1,572,864 cores" to "million core". Rounding down to the nearest million? ;>) I think the achievement was surpassing the arbitrary limit of "one million cores" in a cluster or parallel environment. The same way that people like to celebrate milestones of 10^3 somethings or multiples of {365,365,365,366) added together in ratios of approximately 4 to 1. And yes, that does (or should) make you "more interesting"! (you said "I'm more interesting..." rather than "I'm more interested in")
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Halfway through the first page of executive summary you'll find the following: UPnP discovery requests were sent to every routable IPv4 address approximately once a week from
June 1 to November 17, 2012.
I didn't notice that detail the first time I read the article.
yep, i noticed that too when i RTFA'd after posting, just like every other dottir here on /. ;>)
Ah, so there is a hardware analog to 'psghetti code, eh? ;>)
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"Spaghetti code, I'd like you to meet the spaghetti interconnect."
or did they actually do active spidering of (b):
1 -- a representative sample of IP addresses in a particular space 2 -- a wide ranging probe of many many IP addresses all around the world?.
If they did (a) above, then sure it makes sense. If they did (b1) or (b2) above, especially if they didn't get the permission of every IP address which they probed/tested, then aren't they doing illegal penetration testing, even if all they are doing is checking for the existence of a responding port? I mean one or two or an accidental port knock would be like knocking IRL on a random stranger's door, but a sequential serialized intentional attempt to knock on so many doors to test vulnerability, well that's just annoying and wrong, and possibly illegal,eh?
https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/bgq/images/5Dtorus.jpg
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is the relevant picture showing a "Midplane, 512 nodes, 4x4x4x4x2 Torus". So a five-dimensional torus of size 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 2 is divisible by three.
Holey moley! Thanks for the amazing link! I didn't realize from the Stanford pages and the wired article that this was a big blue Blue Gene hardware setup. (I guess I would have if I'd searched wikipedia for sequoia and disambiguated myself to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Sequoia )
But searching for "5-d torus interconnect" gets you nothing on wikipedia. Here's the 2-dimensional version explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_interconnect
and the K computer by Fujitsu at Riken uses a 6-d (six dimensional) torus network. So how does the 5-d torus interconnect lead to the 2**19 + 2**20 cores or possibly 2**17+2**18 cpus? I'm not seeing it in my head clearly. Off to a paper-napkin to sketch it out!
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Each core connects 5-dimensionally going forward or back in each dimension gives 10 interconnects from one core to the 10 5-dimensional neighbors one distance away. But the number of cores is divisible only by twos and a three (factor number of cores = 3 * 2^19) so I'm not seeing the construct...
Thanks for the link!
So what kind of voltage, current, and signal sequence would you use for this?
yes, i goofed. I meant to say "rain", not "clouds". How does rain affect polarization of skylight that's already been diffused through the clouds?