"The FBI on Wednesday issued a private warning to industry that a group of highly skilled Chinese government hackers was in the midst of a long-running campaign to steal valuable data from U.S. companies and government agencies"
Seeing that the whole raison d'etre for Gulf War 11 was the non-existent WMDs, it's most curious at this coming to light just now. Is this part of some propaganda effort, talking up the war against ISIL/ISIS/al-Qaeda/...
"I'm in the midst of a rather lengthy job interview; something I haven't done for some time as I've worked as a contract employee with a much lower barrier to entry for years. Recently, I've started patenting some inventions that are applicable to my industry."
"Joseph Swan, a British inventor, obtained the first patent for the same light bulb in Britain one year prior to Edison's patent date. Swan even publicly unveiled his carbon filament light bulb in New Castle, England a minimum of 10 years before Edison shocked the world with the announcement that he invented the first light bulb. Edison's light bulb, in fact, was a carbon copy of Swan's light bulb".
@Vellmont: "Edison invented.. the electric light"..
No he didn't, he copied a design by Swan, was sued and later on went into 'partnership' to produce light-bulbs under the name of Ediswan. Edison could be considered the Bill Gates of his day.
@uvsc_wolverine: "I watched 10 minutes of it the other night (on accident I swear!) and had to spend another 10 minutes explaining to my wife why I was laughing so hard"
It's worse than I would have thought possible, see links to screenshots from episode one.. btw, can a magnet erase a harddrive enclosed in a hot-swappable caddy?.. refref
"All of the lazy copy and paste repurposed articles written about O’Brien after he helped sell a TV show are based on one initial article in The Irish Times." ref
Unfortunatly the cannabis produced today (skunk) is way more potent than that available in the nineteen seventies. Then, average THC content under 2%, now average THC content 20%. CBD, an anti-psychotic, is virtually absent in skunk.
@DrLang21: "I did read the article and I don't see where the researchers accounted for socio-economic background"..
Educational achievement does not equate to intelligence, does anyone here seriously think management got where they are because they're smarter? I would have thought that a more useful study would be the effects of growing up poor has on educational achievement. Something like the Linda Tirado article and book.
"When studies of separated Monozygotic Twins are examined.. environment also has a role."
"We conclude that the high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence."
Did they factor in the socio-economic background of the parents, as in children of rich-folk get better education than children of poor-parents, and therefore do better, and are expected to do better, in exams. While the children of poor-parents are ignored and expected to drop-out at fifteen, in short, it's a difference in lifestyle.
"The Security Ledger reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued final guidance on Wednesday that calls on medical device manufacturers to consider cyber security risks as part of the design and development of devices."
Just who in their right minds connect medical device to a publicly accessible network?
You shouldn't have conflated certain developers with anonymous trolls. These people specifically hang about Open Source forums to disrupt them. There's one sick fuck whose been doing it for the best part of a decade. I assume it's an individual, but how to explain someone posting on average one msg every five minutes over a twenty four hour period, mustn't sleep, eat or work ? And it isn't just Open Source forums. Some time back the Richard Dawkins forum had to be suspended as it had been infested and taken over by some particularly pathological people with their own agenda. Lastly, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols had this to say on the matter:
"But what I find particularly appalling is the fact that he regularly defends this, and advertises this as an efficient way to run a community. (But it is not just Linus, it's a certain group of people around him who use the exact same style, some of which semi-publicly even phantasize [sic] about the best ways to,... well, kill me)." Lennart Poetterings
'At this point, I think Poettering has gone off the rails.
I know most of Linux's top developers. None of them are fantasizing about killing anyone or encouraging such hateful attitudes" Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
'Leon Panetta.. says.. "I think we're looking at kind of a 30-year war," says Panetta, one that will have to extend beyond Islamic State to include emerging threats in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere.'
Does Leon Panetta or anyone else in the US administration, not realize that everything they attempt in the Mid-East is bringing about the exact opposite of what they want. Every drone strike is recuiting a whole streetfull of 'terrorists'. It's called the law of unintended consequences.
@lucm: "the only explanation that makes sense is that they were hoping that this operation would at some point lead them to Assange (who had prior contacts with Sabu)"
The only other explanation being yet another attempt to discredit Assange by linking him to alleged attempts to 'hack' the Icelandic Ministry of Finance.
Slashdot Mirror
"The FBI on Wednesday issued a private warning to industry that a group of highly skilled Chinese government hackers was in the midst of a long-running campaign to steal valuable data from U.S. companies and government agencies"
...
Nothing to read here, moving on
Seeing that the whole raison d'etre for Gulf War 11 was the non-existent WMDs, it's most curious at this coming to light just now. Is this part of some propaganda effort, talking up the war against ISIL/ISIS/al-Qaeda/ ...
How soon will it be before Microsoft 'invents' its own version of Docker and starts charging Open Docker for using Microsoft patented technology?
"I'm in the midst of a rather lengthy job interview; something I haven't done for some time as I've worked as a contract employee with a much lower barrier to entry for years. Recently, I've started patenting some inventions that are applicable to my industry."
Can we see these patented inventions?
@LazLong: "To sum up, it isn't a Linux back door and it isn't a vulnerability in the Linux kernel source code. It's merely a rootkit."
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Thank you, a bit more accurate and informative than the main article
How does this 'Linux backdoor' get onto the system in the first place?
Oracle "retained" Florian Müller as a consultant ref. Groklaw answering Florian Mueller FUD ref ref.
"Joseph Swan, a British inventor, obtained the first patent for the same light bulb in Britain one year prior to Edison's patent date. Swan even publicly unveiled his carbon filament light bulb in New Castle, England a minimum of 10 years before Edison shocked the world with the announcement that he invented the first light bulb. Edison's light bulb, in fact, was a carbon copy of Swan's light bulb".
@Vellmont: "Edison invented .. the electric light" ..
No he didn't, he copied a design by Swan, was sued and later on went into 'partnership' to produce light-bulbs under the name of Ediswan. Edison could be considered the Bill Gates of his day.
"Breaking In Season 2 Episode 1"
"Breaking In"
@uvsc_wolverine: "I watched 10 minutes of it the other night (on accident I swear!) and had to spend another 10 minutes explaining to my wife why I was laughing so hard"
.. btw, can a magnet erase a harddrive enclosed in a hot-swappable caddy? .. ref ref
It's worse than I would have thought possible, see links to screenshots from episode one
"All of the lazy copy and paste repurposed articles written about O’Brien after he helped sell a TV show are based on one initial article in The Irish Times." ref
How will this impact Microsofts Android Tax? I mean doesn't Microsoft have patented intellectual property rights to Android?
M-Cam casts doubts on Microsoft's Android patent portfolio
Unfortunatly the cannabis produced today (skunk) is way more potent than that available in the nineteen seventies. Then, average THC content under 2%, now average THC content 20%. CBD, an anti-psychotic, is virtually absent in skunk.
Cannabis as addictive as heroin, major new study finds
What a load of cyber BS ..
"I have been tasked with helping move our config center from one location to our Headquarters"
How many people has been allocated to the task and what is your budget and timeframe?
"Kaspersky Lab performed a forensic investigation into cybercriminal attacks targeting multiple ATMs around the world"
See, slashdot, wasn't difficult to mention the actual Operating System. ref
@DrLang21: "I did read the article and I don't see where the researchers accounted for socio-economic background" ..
.. environment also has a role."
Educational achievement does not equate to intelligence, does anyone here seriously think management got where they are because they're smarter? I would have thought that a more useful study would be the effects of growing up poor has on educational achievement. Something like the Linda Tirado article and book.
"When studies of separated Monozygotic Twins are examined
"We conclude that the high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence."
Did they factor in the socio-economic background of the parents, as in children of rich-folk get better education than children of poor-parents, and therefore do better, and are expected to do better, in exams. While the children of poor-parents are ignored and expected to drop-out at fifteen, in short, it's a difference in lifestyle.
This Is Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense"
You should try and look a little closer to home ref ref ref ref ..
"The Security Ledger reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued final guidance on Wednesday that calls on medical device manufacturers to consider cyber security risks as part of the design and development of devices."
Just who in their right minds connect medical device to a publicly accessible network?
You shouldn't have conflated certain developers with anonymous trolls. These people specifically hang about Open Source forums to disrupt them. There's one sick fuck whose been doing it for the best part of a decade. I assume it's an individual, but how to explain someone posting on average one msg every five minutes over a twenty four hour period, mustn't sleep, eat or work ? And it isn't just Open Source forums. Some time back the Richard Dawkins forum had to be suspended as it had been infested and taken over by some particularly pathological people with their own agenda. Lastly, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols had this to say on the matter:
... well, kill me)." Lennart Poetterings
"But what I find particularly appalling is the fact that he regularly defends this, and advertises this as an efficient way to run a community. (But it is not just Linus, it's a certain group of people around him who use the exact same style, some of which semi-publicly even phantasize [sic] about the best ways to,
'At this point, I think Poettering has gone off the rails.
I know most of Linux's top developers. None of them are fantasizing about killing anyone or encouraging such hateful attitudes" Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
'Leon Panetta .. says .. "I think we're looking at kind of a 30-year war," says Panetta, one that will have to extend beyond Islamic State to include emerging threats in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere.'
Does Leon Panetta or anyone else in the US administration, not realize that everything they attempt in the Mid-East is bringing about the exact opposite of what they want. Every drone strike is recuiting a whole streetfull of 'terrorists'. It's called the law of unintended consequences.
Underestimating ISIS: An Indictment of Decades of Failed US Policy in the Middle East
Ubuntu 3D Desktop
Ubuntu Demo
Distro Watch
@lucm: "the only explanation that makes sense is that they were hoping that this operation would at some point lead them to Assange (who had prior contacts with Sabu)"
The only other explanation being yet another attempt to discredit Assange by linking him to alleged attempts to 'hack' the Icelandic Ministry of Finance.