I don't know about this particular plane, but AFAIK the flight recorders are usually located in the tail section so they might well be disconnected immediately in such a scenario,
A tail section badly repaired after a minor accident came off in mid-air. The airplane spun out of control and disintegrated before crashing into the ground. That fits this accident very well.
Without conclusive evidence of a bomb, I would be very careful to scream terrorism. Terrorists claiming responsibility doesn't mean a thing without evidence.
AFAIK the amount of CO2 produced is directly related to the amount of gasoline used. Car manufacturers - all car manufacturers - lie about mileage the same way all laptop and phone manufacturers lie about battery usage.
We all know this, we've all known this for a long time. How is this suddenly news?
Again AFAIK these schemes install a trojan on your system which generates a unique private/public key pair. The private key is sent to the C&C server and stored while the public key is used to encrypt the data and discarded after use. They could even use symmetric encryption since key exchange is not a big problem in this scenario. In any case a new key is generated for each victim and sent back to the C&C server. If this is true, the 15000 keys would correspond to the number of victims (not files).
Yeah sure, I'll bet you're selective in what you want to do and how long you want to do it, though. It will be a very Utopian society in which we all just do want we find interesting at that moment and get paid anyway.
"While it's a worthy effort, I suspect that it's mostly just a PR stunt though since I doubt very many people will actually be able to use these keys to avoid paying the ransom, given that the criminals will indeed switch to new keys pretty much overnight, potentially re-encrypting any data on PCs they have already compromised in the process if they can re-establish control via other C&C servers."
AFAIK the guys who did it are now in jail, which makes it a lot harder to change keys. Evene if they didn't catch them all, the remaining bad guys may want to lay low for a while.
So, it looks pretty much like a success to me. Locking these guys up and retrieving the keys is pretty much the best you can do in such a case.
Let's put the political stuff aside for a moment and look at the technical side. How did the attackers operate? A fake mail/vpn server? How is that supposed to work?
Or are we talking about standard script kiddie attacks (seeen by every site on the web) interpreted by Trend Micro as Russian government attacks? Let's not forget that this is a great commercial message for Trend Micro. Is this stuff for real or is someone trying to scare us?
Obviously there are lots of Russian hackers/script kiddies who are angry enough at the west to start something like this on their own. No real need for a big Russian government conspiracy.
(Never thought I'd be defending Poetin some day. You owe me one Vladimir!)
"The Swedish authorities, against all reason and without explanation, have refused to come question him. Why do you think that might be? -PCP"
That's just what governments do, really. Mine does many things that I find unreasonable.
I find it highly unlikely that the Swedes (unreasonable or not) would extradite him to the US. Much more likely that they would charge him with sexual assault. (they're -un-reasonably fanatical in that area)
"He believes that once he is in Sweden, he will be extradited again to the US where he could face espionage charges"
Hold on. That's what he says he believes. It's also quite possible that he believes he will be convicted for the sexual assault charges, but that he stands a better chance claiming that he's the victim of a conspiracy.
Everybody loves a free speech martyr. Sexual predators are usually not so popular.
Let's face it, an autonomous vehicle would have to be an AI device.Seen any AI devices lately? And,... were you impressed? You don't hear the word 'AI' much these days. After decades of promises and verylittle progress outside some niche areas who dare to come out say he's in the AI field?
I saw a 'robot' this afternoon at a maker faire. Ridiculous. Driving a car through mixed traffic in a dynamic environment with pedestrians, children and old folks, unpredictable or incapacitated. It's impossible to do right with today's state of AI.
And if you *can* get it right then comes the problem of morality. What if the car's computer has to make a moral decision? What will you program it to do?
At the time I had this big expensive intimidating Solaris box on my desk that I hardly dared to touch.
Linux seemed a lot more accessible. I tried something called SLS (Soft Landing System) to installed it but failed.
A few months later I found Slackware (1.0) and I tried again together with a colleague, this time I was successful, kernel version 0.99 or something, that must have been 1993, 22 years ago... I've been running one or more Linux boxes (usually headless) ever since.
"it therefore seems plausible that the popularity of homeopathy can take a huge hit just by telling the public what it actually is."
This is a startlingly naive statement. If there were any truth in this there wouldn't have been homeopathy in the first place. People are not rational. Telling them the simple truth will only make them more stubborn in their ignorance.
To quote another Slashdotter (19thNervousBreakdown):
"The placebo effect from homeopathy is pretty neat, but on the downside you have to be a fucking idiot for it to work"
Last summer I spent in a renovated Italian cottage. The owners had done the electricity in what I assume was the 'old' Italian way. Thick insulated wires (separates wires visible) ran from the switches over the wall with standoffs up to the beams of the roof where they connected to the hanging armatures. Looked pretty interesting.
It's not black & white. I understand that most dotters aren't very good in discussing shades of gray and which shade is still acceptable and which isn't.
Slashdot used to be a place to get away from this kind of 'discussion'. Where something with an inflammatory title like 'Draw The Pedophile' gets marked as insightful...
Now I personally love a good religion bashing, but do we really want this kind of discussion on Slashdot? There's lots of other forums to discuss this kind of thing.
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I don't know about this particular plane, but AFAIK the flight recorders are usually located in the tail section so they might well be disconnected immediately in such a scenario,
Don't discount the possibility of an accident. Something very similar happened to China Airlines flight 611
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A tail section badly repaired after a minor accident came off in mid-air. The airplane spun out of control and disintegrated before crashing into the ground. That fits this accident very well.
Without conclusive evidence of a bomb, I would be very careful to scream terrorism. Terrorists claiming responsibility doesn't mean a thing without evidence.
AFAIK the amount of CO2 produced is directly related to the amount of gasoline used. Car manufacturers - all car manufacturers - lie about mileage the same way all laptop and phone manufacturers lie about battery usage.
We all know this, we've all known this for a long time. How is this suddenly news?
Again AFAIK these schemes install a trojan on your system which generates a unique private/public key pair. The private key is sent to the C&C server and stored while the public key is used to encrypt the data and discarded after use. They could even use symmetric encryption since key exchange is not a big problem in this scenario. In any case a new key is generated for each victim and sent back to the C&C server. If this is true, the 15000 keys would correspond to the number of victims (not files).
"yet I still enjoy being productive"
Yeah sure, I'll bet you're selective in what you want to do and how long you want to do it, though. It will be a very Utopian society in which we all just do want we find interesting at that moment and get paid anyway.
Utopian as in impossible...
"While it's a worthy effort, I suspect that it's mostly just a PR stunt though since I doubt very many people will actually be able to use these keys to avoid paying the ransom, given that the criminals will indeed switch to new keys pretty much overnight, potentially re-encrypting any data on PCs they have already compromised in the process if they can re-establish control via other C&C servers."
AFAIK the guys who did it are now in jail, which makes it a lot harder to change keys. Evene if they didn't catch them all, the remaining bad guys may want to lay low for a while.
So, it looks pretty much like a success to me. Locking these guys up and retrieving the keys is pretty much the best you can do in such a case.
Let's put the political stuff aside for a moment and look at the technical side. How did the attackers operate? A fake mail/vpn server? How is that supposed to work?
Or are we talking about standard script kiddie attacks (seeen by every site on the web) interpreted by Trend Micro as Russian government attacks? Let's not forget that this is a great commercial message for Trend Micro. Is this stuff for real or is someone trying to scare us?
Obviously there are lots of Russian hackers/script kiddies who are angry enough at the west to start something like this on their own. No real need for a big Russian government conspiracy.
(Never thought I'd be defending Poetin some day. You owe me one Vladimir!)
This makes a pretty convincing case, IMHO:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/08/18/would-sweden-ever-extradite-assange-to-the-united-states/
"The Swedish authorities, against all reason and without explanation, have refused to come question him. Why do you think that might be? -PCP"
That's just what governments do, really. Mine does many things that I find unreasonable.
I find it highly unlikely that the Swedes (unreasonable or not) would extradite him to the US. Much more likely that they would charge him with sexual assault. (they're -un-reasonably fanatical in that area)
"He believes that once he is in Sweden, he will be extradited again to the US where he could face espionage charges"
Hold on. That's what he says he believes. It's also quite possible that he believes he will be convicted for the sexual assault charges, but that he stands a better chance claiming that he's the victim of a conspiracy.
Everybody loves a free speech martyr. Sexual predators are usually not so popular.
Stop pretending that Europe is a country. I never heard of such a ridiculous rule in Holland.
In some places in Europe, you mean. I've seen this in France, but never in Holland, Belgium, Britain, Germany,
Let's face it, an autonomous vehicle would have to be an AI device.Seen any AI devices lately? And,... were you impressed? You don't hear the word 'AI' much these days. After decades of promises and verylittle progress outside some niche areas who dare to come out say he's in the AI field?
I saw a 'robot' this afternoon at a maker faire. Ridiculous. Driving a car through mixed traffic in a dynamic environment with pedestrians, children and old folks, unpredictable or incapacitated. It's impossible to do right with today's state of AI.
And if you *can* get it right then comes the problem of morality. What if the car's computer has to make a moral decision? What will you program it to do?
https://medium.com/@tanayj/sel...
The autonomous car needs Asimov's three laws of robotics, but obviously it's too damn stupid to understand them.
My $50K state of the art plugin hybrid doesn't even understand someone would want to close the windows after shutting off the engine.
At the time I had this big expensive intimidating Solaris box on my desk that I hardly dared to touch.
Linux seemed a lot more accessible.
I tried something called SLS (Soft Landing System) to installed it but failed.
A few months later I found Slackware (1.0) and I tried again together with a colleague, this time I was successful, kernel version 0.99 or something, that must have been 1993, 22 years ago...
I've been running one or more Linux boxes (usually headless) ever since.
See, I swear it looked great when I previewed it ;-)
"Whatever the state of your code is today, it will be a mess in a few years."
Funny, I just said that to a colleague tow hours ago. It's the fate of all software development.
"it therefore seems plausible that the popularity of homeopathy can take a huge hit just by telling the public what it actually is."
This is a startlingly naive statement. If there were any truth in this there wouldn't have been homeopathy in the first place. People are not rational. Telling them the simple truth will only make them more stubborn in their ignorance.
To quote another Slashdotter (19thNervousBreakdown):
"The placebo effect from homeopathy is pretty neat, but on the downside you have to be a fucking idiot for it to work"
Last summer I spent in a renovated Italian cottage. The owners had done the electricity in what I assume was the 'old' Italian way. Thick insulated wires (separates wires visible) ran from the switches over the wall with standoffs up to the beams of the roof where they connected to the hanging armatures. Looked pretty interesting.
Looks like this kind of stuff:
http://www.creative-cables.co....
Have you got a link to that post, youi made me curious.
It's not black & white. I understand that most dotters aren't very good in discussing shades of gray and which shade is still acceptable and which isn't.
Slashdot used to be a place to get away from this kind of 'discussion'. Where something with an inflammatory title like 'Draw The Pedophile' gets marked as insightful...
There are muslim nerds too...
The problem is that it draws a certain kind of crowd and the bashing soon spreads to unrelated topics.
Now I personally love a good religion bashing, but do we really want this kind of discussion on Slashdot? There's lots of other forums to discuss this kind of thing.
...how is this news?
P'haps they wanna fix it till it's broke...