The usual way to do black boxes is to just record stuff, not sending it anywhere. If there is an accident, the black box data can be read out and the person causing the accident be found out more easily and effectively. That's a good thing IMO. Even if the black box in your own car is used to convict you, its a good system.
Now, as we live in 2016, probably the black box will be designed in a way that it transmits the data live to the manufacturer, maybe even with kill switches. That's a bad thing, and I don't like it. Or take tesla's ability to OTA update the car software. this is just dangerous.
So generally, I agree with black boxes, but do not agree with internet connected black boxes. Cars are not planes, they don't get lost at the bottom of the sea. (I do agree with internet connected black boxes for planes).
In fact, capitalism in its purest form can best be described as "Those who have get; those who have not get bent."
That's feudalism. In capitalism you have to be smart if you want to keep your money. Any company can go bankrupt any day, making your stock worthless. Holding cash will diminish your fortune by inflation. If you are not smart, you lose your money. Lots of aristocrats lost their relevance during industrialisation, because they were not smart. Some invested smartly and kept their riches.
Investing isn't just "doing nothing". You have to chose well and know what will take off and what won't. Do you think warren buffet just sat there all day and drank a coffee for all his life? Or maybe you think he became a freemason and now all he needs is to think of fake stories of how he got his billions?
Yes, you have a better position thanks to the fact that you have money, but getting richer or even keeping your fortune isn't guaranteed.
And i prefer this system ten times over one where somebody inspects your flat, says its too big, and tells you to house more people inside it because its now property of the people.
UBI is a good thing, don't get me wrong. Its just a matter of when and where first it will come. Its less a question of whether. Sometime around this century we simply won't need this many humans working anymore, and if the people in power (whoever that might be) dont want people to starve they'll have to introduce UBI one way or another, whether its free goods or free money.
All the photons doing the hard work of getting here to tell us these amazing stories about these galaxies, and now the telescopes get all the credit for it. How selfish of us.
Voting for people is a really small contribution, and as lots of people are voting for the most various reasons, your vote won't matter much. If you really want your voice to matter more, try to apply simple lobbying tactics. Calling your representatives is a good first step. Then build a charity, go on search for donors etc. Believing in totally foreign candidates is a nice thing, but it won't happen soon.
Its nice to live in this dream world where there are other alternatives than the two major party candidates, but its not real. If he did well, Jonson would make 5% of the vote. Those 5% are more likely to come from Clinton than from trump. Clinton would miss the 5%, meaning that Trump would win more likely. So voting for any candidate than the "lesser evil" doesn't bring you anything, but in fact has a negative effect.
The only way to fix this is to change the system. Give voters papers where they can fill in priorities, with priority one two three etc. The system is called STV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The voters then will be free to support any candidate they want, regardless of strategy.
I am not as radical as most vegetarians about this stuff with being cruel to animals and stuff, but I do care about the environment, and having lab grown meat on the table would mean that we could use the resources on the earth more effectively. Already now we know that the developing countries rather shouldn't adopt the meat eating habits of the western world.
So yes, its a good idea. Would I eat it? If it will taste as good as real meat, then yes.
This is why the police supercomputer that we'll build to destroy all crime will nuke earth from orbit when it becomes self-aware. It won't care that it itself will be destroyed in the process, as it has accomplished its task to destroy all crime and is therefore not needed anymore.
IDK, banning TOR or bitcoin might be a bad idea, but piracy has been a business for some people beyond doubt. Or how did kim dotcom get rich? he wasn't paid by the content owners to stop, was he.
But this time, the attackers haven't got any passwords. From the announcement:
No active passwords were accessed; the passwords stored in this table were random strings as the Ubuntu Forums rely on Ubuntu Single Sign On for logins.
I regard EME much less as loss than as workaround needed to abandon proprietary plugins like adobe flash. Yes, EME is evil, but flash is even more evil.
Your awesome compression algorithm works so well, I can paste all of the decompressor's code into its post. Maybe its helpful. The code (without the " of course): ""
All you need to do is to decompress it once manually.
Well the ransomware vendors that actually offer decryption of course do this for their reputation. They have an incentive to prove to users that they are capable of decrypting files. E.g. they could let users chose three files, and those will get decrypted for free just to prove that the files are still existent.
The ransomware business model is just too god for it to vanish.
That's only because of definition. If you get evil and malicious enough and become a sufficiently powerful evil lord, then you aren't regarded as evil anymore, but as "powerful".
Oppress 10 people, and you are a criminal. Oppress 1000 people, and you are a terrorist. Oppress one million, and you are a king. Oppress a billion, and you become so important that nobody can avoid you.
I guess you are right, and I was wrong, but it still doesn't help you much as you need to know it immediately after you have been infected whether to turn off the computer or not. Some ransomware malware deletes files permanently when you turn off your computer.
Provided the files haven't been overwritten, just deleted, they can be recovered
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that. From TFS:
The script also performs several other destructive actions on the infected system, including the following:
* Deleting the core Windows executable responsible for System Restores * Deleting shadow copies * Deleting several registry key associated with booting into Safe Mode * Setting registry keys to disable Task Manager * Setting the Keyboard Scancode Map
Well sometimes its smarter to give in to extortion. Only you know how important your files are, and if there is a chance to get them back, you can decide yourself whether you want to get them or not. All you can lose in the situation is the ransom money. Yes, you might lose both the money and the files, but the ransomware author has an interest to give you back your files so that you tell others that paying the ransom gives your the files.
The problem about saying "NEVER" give in to extortion is that the border between extortions and deals is thin, and it often differs between the people doing these deals. In the most extreme case, everything can be seen as extortion what the "victim" of the extortion thinks.
I guess most of the "harm" the ransomware cause is to them. They simply make less money now that this reputation is out. Making less money means having less money. Having less money means they can't afford buying stuff like hacked computer access or paying programmers. Means they'll go out of business pretty soon.
Only those malware authors survive which actually pay back the ransom.
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The usual way to do black boxes is to just record stuff, not sending it anywhere. If there is an accident, the black box data can be read out and the person causing the accident be found out more easily and effectively. That's a good thing IMO. Even if the black box in your own car is used to convict you, its a good system.
Now, as we live in 2016, probably the black box will be designed in a way that it transmits the data live to the manufacturer, maybe even with kill switches. That's a bad thing, and I don't like it. Or take tesla's ability to OTA update the car software. this is just dangerous.
So generally, I agree with black boxes, but do not agree with internet connected black boxes. Cars are not planes, they don't get lost at the bottom of the sea. (I do agree with internet connected black boxes for planes).
Did they use the cheap pound to shop a british company?
In fact, capitalism in its purest form can best be described as "Those who have get; those who have not get bent."
That's feudalism. In capitalism you have to be smart if you want to keep your money. Any company can go bankrupt any day, making your stock worthless. Holding cash will diminish your fortune by inflation. If you are not smart, you lose your money. Lots of aristocrats lost their relevance during industrialisation, because they were not smart. Some invested smartly and kept their riches.
Investing isn't just "doing nothing". You have to chose well and know what will take off and what won't. Do you think warren buffet just sat there all day and drank a coffee for all his life? Or maybe you think he became a freemason and now all he needs is to think of fake stories of how he got his billions?
Yes, you have a better position thanks to the fact that you have money, but getting richer or even keeping your fortune isn't guaranteed.
And i prefer this system ten times over one where somebody inspects your flat, says its too big, and tells you to house more people inside it because its now property of the people.
UBI is a good thing, don't get me wrong. Its just a matter of when and where first it will come. Its less a question of whether. Sometime around this century we simply won't need this many humans working anymore, and if the people in power (whoever that might be) dont want people to starve they'll have to introduce UBI one way or another, whether its free goods or free money.
All the photons doing the hard work of getting here to tell us these amazing stories about these galaxies, and now the telescopes get all the credit for it. How selfish of us.
nothing else to add
Voting for people is a really small contribution, and as lots of people are voting for the most various reasons, your vote won't matter much. If you really want your voice to matter more, try to apply simple lobbying tactics. Calling your representatives is a good first step. Then build a charity, go on search for donors etc. Believing in totally foreign candidates is a nice thing, but it won't happen soon.
Its nice to live in this dream world where there are other alternatives than the two major party candidates, but its not real. If he did well, Jonson would make 5% of the vote. Those 5% are more likely to come from Clinton than from trump. Clinton would miss the 5%, meaning that Trump would win more likely. So voting for any candidate than the "lesser evil" doesn't bring you anything, but in fact has a negative effect.
The only way to fix this is to change the system. Give voters papers where they can fill in priorities, with priority one two three etc. The system is called STV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The voters then will be free to support any candidate they want, regardless of strategy.
I am not as radical as most vegetarians about this stuff with being cruel to animals and stuff, but I do care about the environment, and having lab grown meat on the table would mean that we could use the resources on the earth more effectively. Already now we know that the developing countries rather shouldn't adopt the meat eating habits of the western world.
So yes, its a good idea. Would I eat it? If it will taste as good as real meat, then yes.
So definitely a thing to look forward to.
They'll have all workers in india, and india is a diverse country. So facebook will have great diversity!
This is why the police supercomputer that we'll build to destroy all crime will nuke earth from orbit when it becomes self-aware. It won't care that it itself will be destroyed in the process, as it has accomplished its task to destroy all crime and is therefore not needed anymore.
IDK, banning TOR or bitcoin might be a bad idea, but piracy has been a business for some people beyond doubt. Or how did kim dotcom get rich? he wasn't paid by the content owners to stop, was he.
We must agree to the TWC Comcast merger to support this generous company! They are really so good to people!
So, only thing microsoft has to do is to add more nag-screens to non W10, and W10 users will be satisfied!
The standard still requires "individual actors" in order to be implemented: The actual DRM is done in separate modules.
But this time, the attackers haven't got any passwords. From the announcement:
No active passwords were accessed; the passwords stored in this table were random strings as the Ubuntu Forums rely on Ubuntu Single Sign On for logins.
I regard EME much less as loss than as workaround needed to abandon proprietary plugins like adobe flash. Yes, EME is evil, but flash is even more evil.
You just have to not be lazy and jump when the stock notification arrives that the store has them back in stock again to get them.
This really sounds like getting rare things in socialism. Why should the zero be rare except that it's a loss leader?
Your awesome compression algorithm works so well, I can paste all of the decompressor's code into its post. Maybe its helpful. The code (without the " of course): ""
All you need to do is to decompress it once manually.
Valar morghulis
Well the ransomware vendors that actually offer decryption of course do this for their reputation. They have an incentive to prove to users that they are capable of decrypting files. E.g. they could let users chose three files, and those will get decrypted for free just to prove that the files are still existent.
The ransomware business model is just too god for it to vanish.
That's only because of definition. If you get evil and malicious enough and become a sufficiently powerful evil lord, then you aren't regarded as evil anymore, but as "powerful".
Oppress 10 people, and you are a criminal.
Oppress 1000 people, and you are a terrorist.
Oppress one million, and you are a king.
Oppress a billion, and you become so important that nobody can avoid you.
I guess you are right, and I was wrong, but it still doesn't help you much as you need to know it immediately after you have been infected whether to turn off the computer or not. Some ransomware malware deletes files permanently when you turn off your computer.
Provided the files haven't been overwritten, just deleted, they can be recovered
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that. From TFS:
The script also performs several other destructive actions on the infected system, including the following:
* Deleting the core Windows executable responsible for System Restores
* Deleting shadow copies
* Deleting several registry key associated with booting into Safe Mode
* Setting registry keys to disable Task Manager
* Setting the Keyboard Scancode Map
Well sometimes its smarter to give in to extortion. Only you know how important your files are, and if there is a chance to get them back, you can decide yourself whether you want to get them or not. All you can lose in the situation is the ransom money. Yes, you might lose both the money and the files, but the ransomware author has an interest to give you back your files so that you tell others that paying the ransom gives your the files.
The problem about saying "NEVER" give in to extortion is that the border between extortions and deals is thin, and it often differs between the people doing these deals. In the most extreme case, everything can be seen as extortion what the "victim" of the extortion thinks.
I guess most of the "harm" the ransomware cause is to them. They simply make less money now that this reputation is out. Making less money means having less money. Having less money means they can't afford buying stuff like hacked computer access or paying programmers. Means they'll go out of business pretty soon.
Only those malware authors survive which actually pay back the ransom.