I have my own views on this but I would like to hear from others what they think.
There are ATM machines all across the world that handle billions of dollars of transactions -- a big percentage of it in cash -- and they are a network and the public has physical access to them 24/7. Many of them have more than $100K cash in them. If you ever had a great target for crooks to hack that would be it.
Yes there are reports of them getting hacked or robbed now and then but by and large the companies that own and operate ATMs are fully dependent on their security. Whatever losses they have are manageable if not negligible. And we don't see "hacked in 2 hours stories at Defcon" stories where ATMs are the target.
Some of the voting machines are made by the same companies that make ATMs. So why the shoddy security on voting machines versus ATMs?
Why would you (a presumably average income person) "invest" in Tesla? I truly don't understand it. Is it because you think you are going to make a lot of money off of it?.
2-3x my investment in less than 3 years ain't bad. I did somewhat better with Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) but gains like that are not that easy to find.
High risk. High gain.
Good news, but I have been getting these "I'm from the IRS" scam calls a lot recently. Just another a few hours ago. So obviously that team isn't part of the 24 in the article.
And it does answer a question I have had for a while -- do these creeps ever get caught and prosecuted? Apparently they can. So why not get all of them. It can't be that hard to trace them.
But apparently it is a profitable venture. There is zero chance that I or anyone reading here would fall for their crude charade but I really have to feel sorry for the people that do apparently fall for it. They must be so isolated and terrified and ignorant that they think their government actually operates that way. Talk about preying on the weak.
I've been talking about Tesla for years, and didn't own any Tesla stock until this spring, when Tesla fell down to $263....
I missed the early part of public Tesla trading and had meant to buy, but at the time I was so busy I just forgot about it until it was too late.
Then the news was all about Telsa Fires! Fires! Every Tesla car ever made is bursting into flame! Remember that?
The stock tanked for a while and that's when I bought. Never regretted it. Wish I had bought more but I didn't have the cash. But it was an easy decision because the negative hype was just so obvious that it just couldn't control the stock price forever. And it didn't.
I live in Tesla's neighborhood. My housekeeper's husband works there as a welder. Every day I drive down Kato road. These days it is lined with car-transport trucks either loaded or waiting to be loaded. They have no place to park all the trucks they need and these trucks are parked about 1Km from the plant and that's the closest parking.
I also talk to their vendors. LIke PCB contract manufacturers and metal shops. Tesla is not well liked in that regard because they are aggressive on price and very demanding. Some local shops turn down their business because if they took it they would use most/all of their capacity on Tesla and pretty much neglect the rest of their customer base. The shops that did take their business are in good times right now and if it lasts it will turn out they made the right decision.
For now, the forecast is good.
Tesla could have a force majure type of event or some major disaster that can bring them down, at least for a while. Their (Musk's) cash flow management requires nerves of steel but they seem to be making it work. In spite of the CONSTANT posts I see here about how they are "out of cash" and will have to shut their doors yada yada. Yeah the risk is NOT nonexistent and NOT negligible but the counter to that is very convincing:
1. Technological leadership.
2. Market space leadership.
3. Production leadership.
4. Big Backlog of Orders.
Call Musk delusional or badly behaved all you want but the above points are what is driving his stock price.
I use Java on the server side -- a REST interface application implemented with the javax.ws.rs.* class library and running in a Glassfish 5 container.
The kids are taught these days to use node.js on the server side but I like the facilities and frameworks you can get in the OSGI environment Glassfish 5 users. Also I have doubts about a node.js-based server being able to scale up for my application anyway. I might give it a try later and end up with an application Java-less from front to back.
I read this and I just can't forget the Leonard Cohen song:
Take the only tree that's left.
Shove it up the hole in your culture.
I don't know what else to say, except to point out that when they say "this will create jobs" what it really means is that some large corporate interests will make billions ravaging without any restraint the already-stressed ecosystem and some minor percentage of it will be paid out to workers with the least amount of benefits they can manage and no job security.
So a beetle is gone. Who cares it was totally totally worth it.
Not sure what you mean but I am sure there have been many people over the years who concluded -- wrongly -- that Java would be the ultimate language and you wouldn't ever need any other. I am not one of them.
I used to write a lot of 8GB+ file system images to 16GB SanDisk devices using an Ubuntu 14.04 system. The caching it did was immense. The dd or the cp command finished in less than 60 seconds but when I did a umount command on the volume it would block for about 5 whole minutes or more while the cache emptied.
These particular USB drives have a blue activity LED on them so it wasn't hard to figure out what was going on.
In that use case yanking the USB would have been a big no no.
It seems we will never get tired of "language X is the future of all computer science because Y it" tropes.
In the past, X can be replaced with Ada, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Erlang, or whatever. The list is endless.
The term Y can be replace with "I like it," "I really like it," "I really really like it," or "I don't know what is going on but the StackOverflow numbers seem to mean something.
Jeez. Can't we just all accept that some careers or individual software gigs involve programming in just one language. Most careers and gigs require multiple languages.
Right now I am doing an Angular project that includes HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Javascript, and Java all at the same time. Is that the "future?" I have no reason to believe so. I am just trying to get a job done.
There will always be another language to learn and there were always be another up-and-coming language on a hockey stick. That's not a bug that's a feature.
but this is as silly as raw milk producers claiming that pasteurized or skim milk isn't milk at all because those products clearly aren't directly secreted by cows.
I am on the consumer side of raw milk, not a producer. But I don't consider the milk you buy in supermarkets and the raw milk I have to go to considerably more trouble to get to be the same product. Judging by what correspondence I see most people who buy raw milk feel the same way. They aren't the same product.
That said I don't see anybody saying that the supermarket product is mislabeled. It is "pasteurized, homogenized milk" which is a fair description and commonly understood. Coconut milk, Soy milk, Raw milk and plain milk are all different things.
I am wondering how they managed to find the source.
Does the detector give them a vector of direction? After that how many calculations are needed? I would think you would have to figure in Earth's rotation, Earth's orbit, the sun's orbit, and the galaxy's path. Presumably the neutrino was traveling somewhat below C so there must be an adjustment there. All that to get a direction to look. Am I off base on this or is it not that complex?
All I can say is Astronomers must have fiendish concentration skills for math.
Yes absolutely. To employ me and some unknown but substantial percentage of the population you have to provide a suitable working environment. Full stop.
Software engineering at the level I do it requires continuous concentration. For that I need privacy and as few distractions as possible.
Maybe there are software engineers and other creative producers who can do quality work on their laptop at Starbucks with the music and everyone shouting out orders and stuff. Not me.
I wonder how many people here remember Pirsig and his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In it he explains clearly why those motorcycle shops where they have music blasting away while they are supposed to be working on the product. If you understand that you would understand fully why open offices won't work.
Here is an idea: Acknowledge and appreciate Torvalds for achievements that Torvalds has made. Acknowledge and appreciate Musk for achievements that Musk has made.
Can you do that? Or have you been so conditioned to take a "side" on everything that this just no longer works.
Maybe this will help: Leave worship for your church and Fox News.
Since he apparently has something of a confession by someone I have to assume that something real happened.
But speculating that a big automotive competitor is possibly involved sounds nutty even if true. He should have quit when he was ahead and left that out.
Even if Tesla hits all their numbers and all their sales are directly subtracted from any one of the established competitors the net result is really tiny. I haven't done the calculation but less than %1 tiny I am sure.
So the motive just ain't there. The ROI is just not there to justify the risks involved.
Can someone please provide a post or a link to any credible information as to what Kaspersky actually has done wrong? The authorities in the EU and the US has pretty much called them a malware manufacturer but I have never heard of anyone victimized by malware they were alleged to have made.
My guess is that they refused to play footsie with the U.S. security state and this is the payback.
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I have my own views on this but I would like to hear from others what they think.
There are ATM machines all across the world that handle billions of dollars of transactions -- a big percentage of it in cash -- and they are a network and the public has physical access to them 24/7. Many of them have more than $100K cash in them. If you ever had a great target for crooks to hack that would be it.
Yes there are reports of them getting hacked or robbed now and then but by and large the companies that own and operate ATMs are fully dependent on their security. Whatever losses they have are manageable if not negligible. And we don't see "hacked in 2 hours stories at Defcon" stories where ATMs are the target.
Some of the voting machines are made by the same companies that make ATMs. So why the shoddy security on voting machines versus ATMs?
Why would you (a presumably average income person) "invest" in Tesla? I truly don't understand it. Is it because you think you are going to make a lot of money off of it?.
2-3x my investment in less than 3 years ain't bad. I did somewhat better with Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) but gains like that are not that easy to find. High risk. High gain.
Good news, but I have been getting these "I'm from the IRS" scam calls a lot recently. Just another a few hours ago. So obviously that team isn't part of the 24 in the article.
And it does answer a question I have had for a while -- do these creeps ever get caught and prosecuted? Apparently they can. So why not get all of them. It can't be that hard to trace them.
But apparently it is a profitable venture. There is zero chance that I or anyone reading here would fall for their crude charade but I really have to feel sorry for the people that do apparently fall for it. They must be so isolated and terrified and ignorant that they think their government actually operates that way. Talk about preying on the weak.
I've been talking about Tesla for years, and didn't own any Tesla stock until this spring, when Tesla fell down to $263. ...
I missed the early part of public Tesla trading and had meant to buy, but at the time I was so busy I just forgot about it until it was too late.
Then the news was all about Telsa Fires! Fires! Every Tesla car ever made is bursting into flame! Remember that?
The stock tanked for a while and that's when I bought. Never regretted it. Wish I had bought more but I didn't have the cash. But it was an easy decision because the negative hype was just so obvious that it just couldn't control the stock price forever. And it didn't.
I live in Tesla's neighborhood. My housekeeper's husband works there as a welder. Every day I drive down Kato road. These days it is lined with car-transport trucks either loaded or waiting to be loaded. They have no place to park all the trucks they need and these trucks are parked about 1Km from the plant and that's the closest parking.
I also talk to their vendors. LIke PCB contract manufacturers and metal shops. Tesla is not well liked in that regard because they are aggressive on price and very demanding. Some local shops turn down their business because if they took it they would use most/all of their capacity on Tesla and pretty much neglect the rest of their customer base. The shops that did take their business are in good times right now and if it lasts it will turn out they made the right decision.
For now, the forecast is good.
Tesla could have a force majure type of event or some major disaster that can bring them down, at least for a while. Their (Musk's) cash flow management requires nerves of steel but they seem to be making it work. In spite of the CONSTANT posts I see here about how they are "out of cash" and will have to shut their doors yada yada. Yeah the risk is NOT nonexistent and NOT negligible but the counter to that is very convincing:
1. Technological leadership.
2. Market space leadership.
3. Production leadership.
4. Big Backlog of Orders.
Call Musk delusional or badly behaved all you want but the above points are what is driving his stock price.
Oh. Sorry I was being dense.
I use Java on the server side -- a REST interface application implemented with the javax.ws.rs.* class library and running in a Glassfish 5 container.
The kids are taught these days to use node.js on the server side but I like the facilities and frameworks you can get in the OSGI environment Glassfish 5 users. Also I have doubts about a node.js-based server being able to scale up for my application anyway. I might give it a try later and end up with an application Java-less from front to back.
I read this and I just can't forget the Leonard Cohen song:
Take the only tree that's left. Shove it up the hole in your culture.
I don't know what else to say, except to point out that when they say "this will create jobs" what it really means is that some large corporate interests will make billions ravaging without any restraint the already-stressed ecosystem and some minor percentage of it will be paid out to workers with the least amount of benefits they can manage and no job security.
So a beetle is gone. Who cares it was totally totally worth it.
You are right about the dd command. My error. I did lots of both kinds of copies as circumstances required.
Not sure what you mean but I am sure there have been many people over the years who concluded -- wrongly -- that Java would be the ultimate language and you wouldn't ever need any other. I am not one of them.
I used to write a lot of 8GB+ file system images to 16GB SanDisk devices using an Ubuntu 14.04 system. The caching it did was immense. The dd or the cp command finished in less than 60 seconds but when I did a umount command on the volume it would block for about 5 whole minutes or more while the cache emptied.
These particular USB drives have a blue activity LED on them so it wasn't hard to figure out what was going on.
In that use case yanking the USB would have been a big no no.
It seems we will never get tired of "language X is the future of all computer science because Y it" tropes.
In the past, X can be replaced with Ada, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Erlang, or whatever. The list is endless.
The term Y can be replace with "I like it," "I really like it," "I really really like it," or "I don't know what is going on but the StackOverflow numbers seem to mean something.
Jeez. Can't we just all accept that some careers or individual software gigs involve programming in just one language. Most careers and gigs require multiple languages.
Right now I am doing an Angular project that includes HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Javascript, and Java all at the same time. Is that the "future?" I have no reason to believe so. I am just trying to get a job done.
There will always be another language to learn and there were always be another up-and-coming language on a hockey stick. That's not a bug that's a feature.
but this is as silly as raw milk producers claiming that pasteurized or skim milk isn't milk at all because those products clearly aren't directly secreted by cows.
I am on the consumer side of raw milk, not a producer. But I don't consider the milk you buy in supermarkets and the raw milk I have to go to considerably more trouble to get to be the same product. Judging by what correspondence I see most people who buy raw milk feel the same way. They aren't the same product.
That said I don't see anybody saying that the supermarket product is mislabeled. It is "pasteurized, homogenized milk" which is a fair description and commonly understood. Coconut milk, Soy milk, Raw milk and plain milk are all different things.
I am wondering how they managed to find the source.
Does the detector give them a vector of direction? After that how many calculations are needed? I would think you would have to figure in Earth's rotation, Earth's orbit, the sun's orbit, and the galaxy's path. Presumably the neutrino was traveling somewhat below C so there must be an adjustment there. All that to get a direction to look. Am I off base on this or is it not that complex?
All I can say is Astronomers must have fiendish concentration skills for math.
I for one welcome our new USB-C overlords.
From the looks of it the bad actor xeactor didn't have any expectation beyond finding out if his little trick would work or not.
On the other side this could be a case study about the immune system that open source provides.
Yes, you seem easily distracted.
Yes absolutely. To employ me and some unknown but substantial percentage of the population you have to provide a suitable working environment. Full stop.
Software engineering at the level I do it requires continuous concentration. For that I need privacy and as few distractions as possible.
Maybe there are software engineers and other creative producers who can do quality work on their laptop at Starbucks with the music and everyone shouting out orders and stuff. Not me.
I wonder how many people here remember Pirsig and his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In it he explains clearly why those motorcycle shops where they have music blasting away while they are supposed to be working on the product. If you understand that you would understand fully why open offices won't work.
Woah. Where is that butthurt coming from anyway?
Here is an idea: Acknowledge and appreciate Torvalds for achievements that Torvalds has made. Acknowledge and appreciate Musk for achievements that Musk has made.
Can you do that? Or have you been so conditioned to take a "side" on everything that this just no longer works.
Maybe this will help: Leave worship for your church and Fox News.
Who wants to participate in a betting pool as to when this tech will be used in commercially available sexbots?
Does the upgrade give you an advantage in agar.io? If not then skip it.
Did they take his red stapler too?
Have you guys ever been in Denver International Airport main terminal? It's a tent. It gets as hot in Denver as it does in Fremont.
Snark all you want but just because something is a quote TENT unquote doesn't mean it isn't a robust and practical structure.
Since he apparently has something of a confession by someone I have to assume that something real happened.
But speculating that a big automotive competitor is possibly involved sounds nutty even if true. He should have quit when he was ahead and left that out.
Even if Tesla hits all their numbers and all their sales are directly subtracted from any one of the established competitors the net result is really tiny. I haven't done the calculation but less than %1 tiny I am sure.
So the motive just ain't there. The ROI is just not there to justify the risks involved.
Under what legal theory would Western Union be responsible for the content of the messages it carries?
Does this mean that I can sue my phone company if I fall for one of the scams that ring me up about 4 times a week every week for the past year?
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* - Standard American Diet.
Can someone please provide a post or a link to any credible information as to what Kaspersky actually has done wrong? The authorities in the EU and the US has pretty much called them a malware manufacturer but I have never heard of anyone victimized by malware they were alleged to have made.
My guess is that they refused to play footsie with the U.S. security state and this is the payback.