Just get rid of daylight savings time, but no chance in hell is this silly idea of coordinated UTC going to catch on!
When Bush extended the DST by 4 weeks in the USA, the idea was to save energy by reducing electricity used for lighting in the evenings. (There is ample debate if that worked: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ke...). But there were also proposals at the time to move to permanent daylight savings time to save even more energy and remove the hassle and "$1.7 billion of lost opportunity cost [in the USA]" from the time changes.
So we could debate whether the extinction of DST should mean permanent DST or no DST, but either way, it would solve the nuisance and confusion caused by the convention.
Oh wait a minute! Sorry, it was New York Times' story on the same topic. I read it about the same time so, didn't realize it was a different source. Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10...
He may be "cleared" of being Patient Zero, but he still sounds like an asshole. As the article says, he "ignored a doctor’s demand that he stop having unprotected sex, and coldbloodedly told some sex partners that he had 'gay cancer' and now they might get it."
I appreciate the counterargument. It's a good point that the vulnerabilities these tools exploit will hopefully be patched and help mitigate the risks, and that is a comforting fact. I also suspect there are tactics and techniques revealed that might be generally applicable in a strategic sense, and likely exploits that are impractical to patch due to being in low-level, ubiquitous libraries, firmware, or other difficult to resolve places. So in that sense, the sharing of these high level "weaponized" techniques of a nation-state hacking team is very dangerous to civilians and populations everywhere I think.
In addition, I would like to clarify that my analogy with bioweapons was not to imply that the cyber weapons have bioweapon applicability, but to draw an analogy at the scope and impact of their becoming widely available. For example, AK-47's are widely dispersed weapons of war and used by criminals and terrorists in many places. They are relatively easy to manufacture and don't require the resources of a nation-state to do so, but they do not have "WMD" capability. In contrast, sophisticated WMD are more difficult in practice to design, manufacture, and deploy and are (thankfully) limited to the wheelhouses of nation-states. However, if a large cache of them or an easy-to-use recipe for creating them were to be divulged to the public such that they landed in the hands of criminal gangs and terrorist organizations, the potential for horror is much greater than the situation that exists with AK-47's. That is the similarity I was attempting to draw between having the "crown jewels" of a nation-state's cyberweapons divulged.
As for the original post: "Does anyone besides me feel a little tickled about the irony of the NSA complaining about chilling effects of possibly being monitored?"
NO! I'm not cheerful at all because schadenfreude here is naively childish and shows ignorance of what it means that extremely potent weapons are now at risk of becoming widely available to criminals or even the general public. Even granting that one can have completely valid criticisms of some NSA actions, would you be so "tickled" and idioticly gleeful if bioweapons of a government regime had been stolen and sold online? Of course not, you would realize that no matter where they came from, the theft and distribution of military weapons to criminals is mortally perilous to innocent people everywhere. If you don't have the insight to realize that cyberweapons are ultimately no less potentially deadly in a real and physical way, then you haven't spent enough time educating yourself about the growing potential of these cyberweapons.
I wondered why I've been hearing about macros malware again! Granted, I haven't used office in a looong time. But I thought, wasn't that solved in like 1993... don't allow macros? Guess history does repeat itself.
Not interested in your conjecture. Because actually, as the post says, there was no mention of Obamacare in the report.
Also, no mention was made of whether the Flying Spaghetti Monster might have had some effect.
The point you are missing is not about Obamacare but about the fact that it is completely disingenuous and fallacious to report on a study and *ADD* your own pet project causes into the report that aren't there. If you want to implicate Obamacare, you either have to find a study that does it or run your own damn study!
No mention was made of whether the Flying Spaghetti Monster might have had some effect.
The point you are missing is not about Obamacare but about the fact that it is completely disingenuous and fallacious to report on a study and *ADD* your own pet project causes into the report that aren't there. If you want to implicate Obamacare, you either have to find a study that does it or run your own damn study!
Which is why I find is so suspicious that the post ridiculously and spuriously includes this bias-ridden sentence:
No mention was made of whether the cutover to Obamacare might have had some effect.
Equally, a less Obamacare-dead-horse-beating person could have written, "No mention was made of whether the disastrous foreign policy blunders of George W Bush or the unprecedented obstructionist Congress-paralyzing politics of Mitch McConnell had some effect."
LOL
Although maybe I am being too quick to say that the above are all equally preposterous to mention as having had no effect. Because in fact, I can imagine a reasonable argument to be made that expanding medical coverage to include millions of Americans who previously had no insurance could quite likely have led to a REDUCTION IN THE DEATH RATE such that without the introduction of Obamacare the rise would have been larger.
No mention was made of whether the cutover to Obamacare might have had some effect.
Equally, a less Obamacare-dead-horse-beating person could have written, "No mention was made of whether the disastrous foreign policy blunders of George W Bush or the unprecedented obstructionist Congress-paralyzing politics of Mitch McConnell had some effect."
LOL
Although maybe I am being too quick to say that the above are all equally preposterous to mention as having had no effect. Because in fact, I can imagine a reasonable argument being made that expanding medical coverage to include millions of Americans who previously had no insurance could quite likely have led to a REDUCTION IN THE DEATH RATE such that without the introduction of Obamacare the rise would have been larger.
Suspicious?!? "Of course my hard disk is encrypted, officer. It contains my personal data and I don't want that ending up in the wrong hands if my laptop is lost or stolen."
A Slashdot maker challenge... Who can create the most inventive device with the following items? - drugs - a cell phone - hacksaw blades - cigarettes - glue
WHAT? You mean this mass murderer didn't respect the gun-free zone and violated the law by bringing a gun onto the campus?! That makes this tragic story even worse. What kind of new laws can we pass to fix this problem???!!!
OK, but seriously, respect to the victims and their loved ones.
If they didn't design an app that has a concept of permissions even being *possible* then they have no business running a website like this.
Otherwise, yes, it is not hard to fix! And even granting that it were more difficult than one would ordinarily expect, the cost/benefit and risk/reward equations make it imperative to do so.
It probably is all too common, but fixing it is completely easy:
1) get user id from logged in session, else return must login error 2) get photo id from URL and query db "exists where userid=X and photoid=Y", else return access denied error
It's trivially easy and f*ing negligent that anyone wouldn't do this.
Last time I checked, the Netherlands was in Europe. (See article)
Europe may have excellent social welfare programs, but when it comes to multiculturalism, Europe is a patent failure (not my view only; see below). Perhaps this has something to do with the limits on open speech and dialogue?
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Just get rid of daylight savings time, but no chance in hell is this silly idea of coordinated UTC going to catch on!
When Bush extended the DST by 4 weeks in the USA, the idea was to save energy by reducing electricity used for lighting in the evenings. (There is ample debate if that worked: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ke...). But there were also proposals at the time to move to permanent daylight savings time to save even more energy and remove the hassle and "$1.7 billion of lost opportunity cost [in the USA]" from the time changes.
So we could debate whether the extinction of DST should mean permanent DST or no DST, but either way, it would solve the nuisance and confusion caused by the convention.
Oh wait a minute! Sorry, it was New York Times' story on the same topic.
I read it about the same time so, didn't realize it was a different source.
Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10...
Fags are not known for their mental powers. Sticking your penis into a rectum is not very smart.
Extrapolate much? #bigotry
The article in this Slashdot story! LOL
He may be "cleared" of being Patient Zero, but he still sounds like an asshole. As the article says, he "ignored a doctor’s demand that he stop having unprotected sex, and coldbloodedly told some sex partners that he had 'gay cancer' and now they might get it."
I appreciate the counterargument. It's a good point that the vulnerabilities these tools exploit will hopefully be patched and help mitigate the risks, and that is a comforting fact. I also suspect there are tactics and techniques revealed that might be generally applicable in a strategic sense, and likely exploits that are impractical to patch due to being in low-level, ubiquitous libraries, firmware, or other difficult to resolve places. So in that sense, the sharing of these high level "weaponized" techniques of a nation-state hacking team is very dangerous to civilians and populations everywhere I think.
In addition, I would like to clarify that my analogy with bioweapons was not to imply that the cyber weapons have bioweapon applicability, but to draw an analogy at the scope and impact of their becoming widely available. For example, AK-47's are widely dispersed weapons of war and used by criminals and terrorists in many places. They are relatively easy to manufacture and don't require the resources of a nation-state to do so, but they do not have "WMD" capability. In contrast, sophisticated WMD are more difficult in practice to design, manufacture, and deploy and are (thankfully) limited to the wheelhouses of nation-states. However, if a large cache of them or an easy-to-use recipe for creating them were to be divulged to the public such that they landed in the hands of criminal gangs and terrorist organizations, the potential for horror is much greater than the situation that exists with AK-47's. That is the similarity I was attempting to draw between having the "crown jewels" of a nation-state's cyberweapons divulged.
As for the original post:
"Does anyone besides me feel a little tickled about the irony of the NSA complaining about chilling effects of possibly being monitored?"
NO! I'm not cheerful at all because schadenfreude here is naively childish and shows ignorance of what it means that extremely potent weapons are now at risk of becoming widely available to criminals or even the general public. Even granting that one can have completely valid criticisms of some NSA actions, would you be so "tickled" and idioticly gleeful if bioweapons of a government regime had been stolen and sold online? Of course not, you would realize that no matter where they came from, the theft and distribution of military weapons to criminals is mortally perilous to innocent people everywhere. If you don't have the insight to realize that cyberweapons are ultimately no less potentially deadly in a real and physical way, then you haven't spent enough time educating yourself about the growing potential of these cyberweapons.
I wondered why I've been hearing about macros malware again! Granted, I haven't used office in a looong time. But I thought, wasn't that solved in like 1993... don't allow macros? Guess history does repeat itself.
Not interested in your conjecture. Because actually, as the post says, there was no mention of Obamacare in the report.
Also, no mention was made of whether the Flying Spaghetti Monster might have had some effect.
The point you are missing is not about Obamacare but about the fact that it is completely disingenuous and fallacious to report on a study and *ADD* your own pet project causes into the report that aren't there. If you want to implicate Obamacare, you either have to find a study that does it or run your own damn study!
No mention was made of whether the Flying Spaghetti Monster might have had some effect.
The point you are missing is not about Obamacare but about the fact that it is completely disingenuous and fallacious to report on a study and *ADD* your own pet project causes into the report that aren't there. If you want to implicate Obamacare, you either have to find a study that does it or run your own damn study!
Equally, a less Obamacare-dead-horse-beating person could have written,
"No mention was made of whether the cancellation of American Idol had some effect"
In this case perhaps inverse, suicides may decline somewhat.
Exactly! ;)
Both are likely to have had a positive effect. LOL
Which is why I find is so suspicious that the post ridiculously and spuriously includes this bias-ridden sentence:
No mention was made of whether the cutover to Obamacare might have had some effect.
Equally, a less Obamacare-dead-horse-beating person could have written, "No mention was made of whether the disastrous foreign policy blunders of George W Bush or the unprecedented obstructionist Congress-paralyzing politics of Mitch McConnell had some effect."
LOL
Although maybe I am being too quick to say that the above are all equally preposterous to mention as having had no effect. Because in fact, I can imagine a reasonable argument to be made that expanding medical coverage to include millions of Americans who previously had no insurance could quite likely have led to a REDUCTION IN THE DEATH RATE such that without the introduction of Obamacare the rise would have been larger.
Speaking of biased writing...
No mention was made of whether the cutover to Obamacare might have had some effect.
Equally, a less Obamacare-dead-horse-beating person could have written, "No mention was made of whether the disastrous foreign policy blunders of George W Bush or the unprecedented obstructionist Congress-paralyzing politics of Mitch McConnell had some effect."
LOL
Although maybe I am being too quick to say that the above are all equally preposterous to mention as having had no effect. Because in fact, I can imagine a reasonable argument being made that expanding medical coverage to include millions of Americans who previously had no insurance could quite likely have led to a REDUCTION IN THE DEATH RATE such that without the introduction of Obamacare the rise would have been larger.
"Mozilla decided to ask due to buggy code."? /.'s editors got their lingo wrong.
I think
You better axe somebody!
Suspicious?!?
"Of course my hard disk is encrypted, officer. It contains my personal data and I don't want that ending up in the wrong hands if my laptop is lost or stolen."
+1 =)
+1 =)
+1 =)
A Slashdot maker challenge... Who can create the most inventive device with the following items?
- drugs
- a cell phone
- hacksaw blades
- cigarettes
- glue
WHAT? You mean this mass murderer didn't respect the gun-free zone and violated the law by bringing a gun onto the campus?!
That makes this tragic story even worse. What kind of new laws can we pass to fix this problem???!!!
OK, but seriously, respect to the victims and their loved ones.
5 days seems crazy quick.
Agreed. 30 days notice seems to be sort of the minimum norm for advance notice before disclosure.
If they didn't design an app that has a concept of permissions even being *possible* then they have no business running a website like this.
Otherwise, yes, it is not hard to fix! And even granting that it were more difficult than one would ordinarily expect, the cost/benefit and risk/reward equations make it imperative to do so.
It probably is all too common, but fixing it is completely easy:
1) get user id from logged in session, else return must login error
2) get photo id from URL and query db "exists where userid=X and photoid=Y", else return access denied error
It's trivially easy and f*ing negligent that anyone wouldn't do this.
How is a bitcoin exchange supposedly spying on someone related to a vulnerability disclosure for a digital lock?!
Last time I checked, the Netherlands was in Europe. (See article)
Europe may have excellent social welfare programs, but when it comes to multiculturalism, Europe is a patent failure (not my view only; see below). Perhaps this has something to do with the limits on open speech and dialogue?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com...
http://realtruth.org/articles/...
http://www.economist.com/blogs...
http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...