"The update apparently will not solve the well-known vulnerabilities in the keyless ignition feature, which reportedly allow thieves to easily unlock the cars with the help of a hardware device that can be bought online.. it's generally believed that the industry is still far from creating a reliable system that can't be hacked and abuse" ref
Is it really impossible to design a keyless ignition system that can't be compromises, or is it the case that the car manufacturers are not allowed to design such. The doors to your house can be picked with the right system, so as to allow the locksmith back in if you lose the keys.
"Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system. The core of the system is based on Linux and Ubuntu. Lubuntu uses the minimal desktop LXDE, and a selection of light applications." ref
"In 2010 and 2012, Greece accepted bailout deals from European creditors totaling hundreds of billions of euros in order to prevent the collapse of the Greek banking system. The funds kept Greece from a potential default that would force it out of the eurozone, but most of the enormous sum of money involved in the bailouts ultimately didn't end up funding public services or directly going to the Greek people." ref
Terry Anderson: 'When I came home from Lebanon, I was given a generous fellowship at Columbia University by Freedom Forum. So my wife and I could write a book about our experience. We decided to ask under the Freedom of Information Act for any information on my kidnappers that might be held by the various intelligence agencies, the CIA the FBI, the NSA. In all we requested responses from thirteen government agencies. As you know, FOYA sets time limits and parameters for official responses to that kind of request. As well as procedures for appeal, ultimately to a court of law.
After two and a half years of messing about with denials and denials of appeals and outright failures to respond, I finally too advantage of that last provision and filed suit in US district Court in Washington. Included in the legal submission was the initial response from the DEA. Which was made long after its FOYA deadline had expired. But informed me that they could not furnish the information I requested because it would violate the privacy rights of the individuals concerned. However if I was able to get a signed notarized release from my former hosts they would be happy to co-operate.'
"Swift's greatest contribution to political thought in the narrower sense of the words, is his attack, especially in Part III, on what would now be called totalitarianism. He has an extraordinarily clear prevision of the spy-haunted ‘police State’, with its endless heresy-hunts and treason trials, all really designed to neutralize popular discontent by changing it into war hysteria." ref
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."
@faway: "Sometimes I feel like Ahab when it comes to Microsoft. and yet the truth is, Google is the new Microsoft. they are the Microsoft of the Internet so to speak".
How is Google forcing you to use their search engine on your browser?
@31415926535897: "It used to be Slashdot. Not sure what this site is anymore, and I'm still looking for a reasonable replacement. I guess a collection of experts would be a decent way to go."
"Goldman Sachs CEO, Cohn, now President and COO, and Loudiadis, a Managing Director, all played a role in structuring complex derivative deals with Greece which accomplished two things: they allowed Greece to hide the true extent of its debt and they ended up almost doubling the amount of debt Greece owed under the dubious derivative deals."
@anon: "Holy fuck that's amazingly creepy. Hillary Clinton effectively got a man who raped a 12 year old off scot-free. Your champion of liberalism and women's rights, right there."
'Hillary Clinton asked to be removed from a 1975 rape case in which her client was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl' ref
A month a go some businessman called Tony owed me $300k. Then I had a meeting with one of his 'advisors'. He offered to loan me $900k, deducted the $300k and now I owe him $600k - it's inexplicable !
"Online-media revolutionaries once figured they could eat TV’s lunch by stealing TV’s business model" ref
I disagree, some people in television thought they could recreate the television broadcast modem online - as in videos interrupted by adverts. They were wrong on two counts, people didn't like their videos being interrupted and the Internet couldn't scale to the numbers that a conventional broadcast could. If you take a look at the television demography - the audience is growing older. If online-media wasn't such a threat then why did the Murdochs expend much energy in shuting it down. refref
Slashdot Mirror
"The update apparently will not solve the well-known vulnerabilities in the keyless ignition feature, which reportedly allow thieves to easily unlock the cars with the help of a hardware device that can be bought online .. it's generally believed that the industry is still far from creating a reliable system that can't be hacked and abuse" ref
Is it really impossible to design a keyless ignition system that can't be compromises, or is it the case that the car manufacturers are not allowed to design such. The doors to your house can be picked with the right system, so as to allow the locksmith back in if you lose the keys.
"The existence of the flaw was discovered by finding suspicious URLs that hosted the exploit"
Is it possible to design a browser that can't be compromised by navigating to a 'suspicious URLs'?
Hilarious sketch from the fourth episode of series three of 'That Mitchell and Webb Look.'
"Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system. The core of the system is based on Linux and Ubuntu. Lubuntu uses the minimal desktop LXDE, and a selection of light applications." ref
"In 2010 and 2012, Greece accepted bailout deals from European creditors totaling hundreds of billions of euros in order to prevent the collapse of the Greek banking system. The funds kept Greece from a potential default that would force it out of the eurozone, but most of the enormous sum of money involved in the bailouts ultimately didn't end up funding public services or directly going to the Greek people." ref
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
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Terry Anderson: 'When I came home from Lebanon, I was given a generous fellowship at Columbia University by Freedom Forum. So my wife and I could write a book about our experience. We decided to ask under the Freedom of Information Act for any information on my kidnappers that might be held by the various intelligence agencies, the CIA the FBI, the NSA. In all we requested responses from thirteen government agencies. As you know, FOYA sets time limits and parameters for official responses to that kind of request. As well as procedures for appeal, ultimately to a court of law.
After two and a half years of messing about with denials and denials of appeals and outright failures to respond, I finally too advantage of that last provision and filed suit in US district Court in Washington. Included in the legal submission was the initial response from the DEA. Which was made long after its FOYA deadline had expired. But informed me that they could not furnish the information I requested because it would violate the privacy rights of the individuals concerned. However if I was able to get a signed notarized release from my former hosts they would be happy to co-operate.'
"Swift's greatest contribution to political thought in the narrower sense of the words, is his attack, especially in Part III, on what would now be called totalitarianism. He has an extraordinarily clear prevision of the spy-haunted ‘police State’, with its endless heresy-hunts and treason trials, all really designed to neutralize popular discontent by changing it into war hysteria." ref
A good hosts file would block a lot of these ...
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."
Yes, but only for the people selling them, especially if you have to pay for a yearly renewall.
How east Texas became the epicenter for 'patent troll' lawsuits
Company with no product wins $533M verdict vs. Apple, says it’s no “patent troll”
East Texas Federal Judge Sets Rules for Post-'Alice' World
@faway: "Sometimes I feel like Ahab when it comes to Microsoft. and yet the truth is, Google is the new Microsoft. they are the Microsoft of the Internet so to speak".
How is Google forcing you to use their search engine on your browser?
Microsoft bought Nokia to get them out of the Android ecosystem, was it worth it at $7.6 billion?
@31415926535897: "It used to be Slashdot. Not sure what this site is anymore, and I'm still looking for a reasonable replacement. I guess a collection of experts would be a decent way to go."
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How cruel - how true
@Proudrooster: "If someone has a link the to torrent, please post it."
torrent
Goldman Sachs Doesn’t Have Clean Hands in Greece Crisis
"Goldman Sachs CEO, Cohn, now President and COO, and Loudiadis, a Managing Director, all played a role in structuring complex derivative deals with Greece which accomplished two things: they allowed Greece to hide the true extent of its debt and they ended up almost doubling the amount of debt Greece owed under the dubious derivative deals."
@anon: "Holy fuck that's amazingly creepy. Hillary Clinton effectively got a man who raped a 12 year old off scot-free. Your champion of liberalism and women's rights, right there."
'Hillary Clinton asked to be removed from a 1975 rape case in which her client was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl' ref
@Kunedog: An absolutely brilliant analysis of reddit, I would repost it on reddit only there's no point cause I'm shadowbanned :)
@anon: "Yeah, you've got to love the pseudo-intellectual jargon he's spewing."
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'focus on using its enormous data assets to make meaningful connections between people and facilitate organic engagement within a rich ecosystem'
agile, business-available, components, elastic, elastic-capacity, environments, extensible, front facing, leverage, methodologies, MVC, public cloud, resources, solutions, teams, test-driven, touchpoint, versioned API services
"What I found was that the transcript company had sent an e-mail with a URL (not a link)"
I thought a URL was a link, what other kind of link are you referring to?
A month a go some businessman called Tony owed me $300k. Then I had a meeting with one of his 'advisors'. He offered to loan me $900k, deducted the $300k and now I owe him $600k - it's inexplicable !
"Online-media revolutionaries once figured they could eat TV’s lunch by stealing TV’s business model" ref
I disagree, some people in television thought they could recreate the television broadcast modem online - as in videos interrupted by adverts. They were wrong on two counts, people didn't like their videos being interrupted and the Internet couldn't scale to the numbers that a conventional broadcast could. If you take a look at the television demography - the audience is growing older. If online-media wasn't such a threat then why did the Murdochs expend much energy in shuting it down. ref ref