"We’ve commissioned a write only off-site aggregated log server which can only be accessed via the console. This will allow us a guarantee that any logging is intact." ref
"The game has been causing huge controversy since it was first released in 1993. And at Bethesda's big E3 event last night, it unveiled the new version of the game, which is likely to cause its own scandal once again." ref
How about designing a computer that can't be compromised by opening an email attachment or clicking on a URL. Design a system that runs on embedded hardware, that can't be overwritten and provides full usability to the end users.
Assuming this Sunday Times story is accurate, what idiot spymaster kept the real identities of active agents on a 'computer' that apparently any random IT techie had access to. I wonder if the media is trying to distract attention from that massive OPM hack.
"The split in Windows apps created by the launch of Windows 8 still persists today and Microsoft is currently trying to fix this huge blunder by creating a true Windows 10 Universal App that can run on desktop, phone and mobile"
What we need is something like a write-once run-anywhere application that is Operating System and Hardware agnostic. All is required is a unique runtime module. One wonders why the supreme software architects of the known universe hasn't come up with such an idea up to now.
"60% of Microsoft's announced titles remain unreleased a year later, and 50% of Sony's announced titles remain unreleased"
It's called vaporware, as in you pre-announce non-existant product to a) get a mention in the tech press and to b) dissuade your competitors bringing out a rival product and/or to dissuade your customer base from buying same while they await your more innovative PRODUC~1:)
"I just reached a senior level in a tech career and I've been doing pretty much a bit of everything, e.g. software architecture, full stack dev, eng. related specific dev, consultancy, etc.. Based on your experience of the.com collapse and your predictions for the current market, is there any path you wouldn't recommend (or strongly recommend)"
You'll be forever playing catch-up, your best career route is to go into teaching or become a tech journalist.
'In an angry conversation, recently reelected German Chancellor Angela Merkel (shown) told President Obama that the surveillance tapping of her cellphone by the National Security Agency (NSA) was “like the Stasi,” the infamous East German secret police.'
'The exchange, as reported by the New York Times December 16, occurred after reports surfaced of the NSA’s nearly decade-long surveillance of Merkel’s cellphone' ref."
Of course the real story is that the NSA is also spying on Obama, purely in his defence, it's not as if they would leak against him, if he didn't do what he was told..
@binarylarry: "It was great knowing you, Oculus. Hopefully Valve has a little more sense. They seem to have better hardware than Oculus."
'Engadget reports that Valve Software actually helped Oculus VR create the Crystal Cove VR headset that won so many awards at CES 2014 earlier this month ref.'
@dav1dc: "I first heard about the Therac-25 during my "Ethics in Computer Science" class many years ago - it made an excellent case study... about problems just like this one."
Mainly because the software was adapted for use in a dual purpose machine and once you selected a particular mode and then changed it, the previous mode was still in and the display showed the new-and-wrong settings.
"Is it so hard to have a integrity check and diagnostic set run as part of the preflight checks? If you can place hundreds of miles of wire and know what's what, surely they have computer engineers competent enough to make something like this to catch such glaring errors."
Even the simplest PC app would know enough to re-create a missing config file. Amd this software is designed to keep an airplane in the air. I don't believe it.
'The Greens in the German parliament want the Foreign Ministry to revert back to open source software solutions on its workstations. The ministry in 2010 abandoned its open source desktop strategy, pressured by staffers struggling with interoperability problems. The Greens are now asking the ministry to justify the proprietary licence costs it has made since then.'
They made a big mistake targeting Kapersky as they've given away most of their techniques. It does seem that someone went to an awful lot of trouble creating the malware. The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0
Have Kapersky considered running their business off of bootable CDs?
"In 2011, we were able to identify Duqu attacks that used Word Documents containing an exploit for a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402) that relied on a malicious embedded TTF (True Type Font File). This exploit allowed the attackers to jump directly into Kernel mode from a Word Document, a very powerful, extremely rare, technique.
A similar technique and zero-day exploit ( 4CVE-2014-4148) appeared again in June 2014, as part of an attack against a prominent international organization. The C&C server used in this 2014 attack as well as other factors have certain similarities with Duqu, however, the malware is different from both Duqu and Duqu 2.0. It is possible that this is a parallel project from the Duqu group and the same zero-day (CVE-2014-4148) might have been used to install Duqu 2.0. Duqu 2.0
"In the report, which will be released this week, the company details incidents of medical devices and management stations infected with malicious software at three, separate customer engagements."
Wouldn't it be safer to run these medical devices on a dedicated Real Time Operating System (RTOS). That isn't susceptible to acquiring malware through normal operation ref.
"One of the reasons we are attracted to the Colosseum is because of the incredible violence that went on here. The question it poses is, how could such an advanced culture have staged such bloody spectacles?"
'What I would like to argue is that situations created by violence, particularly structural violence, by which I mean forms of pervasive social inequality that are ultimately backed up by the threat of physical harm, invariably tend to create the kinds of willful blindness we normally associate with bureaucratic procedures'.
In such a society the state exercises authority through the threat of violence, the 'games' act as a legitimate outlet for the populaces hostility towards the state.
"The article does not say that he did that. Instead, the article says that the banks bought insurance against mortgage defaults (credit default swaps), and that prices of such insurance was very low. John Paulson decided the price was too low compared to the risk, so he bought a lot of the same insurance."
No he didn't, he went to the banks and 'persuaded' them to create a unique financial instrument in which he personally was the beneficiary rather than an institution. Nothing like it had existed up to that point.
"Mr. Paulson.. outlined a sophisticated securities trade.. The bank would have to be convinced that a mere individual, as opposed to an institution, qualified to be a counterparty in such a transaction" ref
Slashdot Mirror
"We’ve commissioned a write only off-site aggregated log server which can only be accessed via the console. This will allow us a guarantee that any logging is intact." ref
"The game has been causing huge controversy since it was first released in 1993. And at Bethesda's big E3 event last night, it unveiled the new version of the game, which is likely to cause its own scandal once again." ref
How about designing a computer that can't be compromised by opening an email attachment or clicking on a URL. Design a system that runs on embedded hardware, that can't be overwritten and provides full usability to the end users.
Assuming this Sunday Times story is accurate, what idiot spymaster kept the real identities of active agents on a 'computer' that apparently any random IT techie had access to. I wonder if the media is trying to distract attention from that massive OPM hack.
Second OPM Hack Revealed: Even Worse Than The First
"The split in Windows apps created by the launch of Windows 8 still persists today and Microsoft is currently trying to fix this huge blunder by creating a true Windows 10 Universal App that can run on desktop, phone and mobile"
What we need is something like a write-once run-anywhere application that is Operating System and Hardware agnostic. All is required is a unique runtime module. One wonders why the supreme software architects of the known universe hasn't come up with such an idea up to now.
"60% of Microsoft's announced titles remain unreleased a year later, and 50% of Sony's announced titles remain unreleased"
:)
It's called vaporware, as in you pre-announce non-existant product to a) get a mention in the tech press and to b) dissuade your competitors bringing out a rival product and/or to dissuade your customer base from buying same while they await your more innovative PRODUC~1
The Top 15 Vaporware Products of All Time
"I just reached a senior level in a tech career and I've been doing pretty much a bit of everything, e.g. software architecture, full stack dev, eng. related specific dev, consultancy, etc .. Based on your experience of the .com collapse and your predictions for the current market, is there any path you wouldn't recommend (or strongly recommend)"
You'll be forever playing catch-up, your best career route is to go into teaching or become a tech journalist.
'In an angry conversation, recently reelected German Chancellor Angela Merkel (shown) told President Obama that the surveillance tapping of her cellphone by the National Security Agency (NSA) was “like the Stasi,” the infamous East German secret police.'
..
'The exchange, as reported by the New York Times December 16, occurred after reports surfaced of the NSA’s nearly decade-long surveillance of Merkel’s cellphone' ref."
Of course the real story is that the NSA is also spying on Obama, purely in his defence, it's not as if they would leak against him, if he didn't do what he was told
@mystuff: "But does it run Linux?"
How dare you criticise MICROS~1
You know, it's stories like this is what keeps me coming back to the Internet's pre-eminent tech site.
@binarylarry: "It was great knowing you, Oculus. Hopefully Valve has a little more sense. They seem to have better hardware than Oculus."
'Engadget reports that Valve Software actually helped Oculus VR create the Crystal Cove VR headset that won so many awards at CES 2014 earlier this month ref.'
"An anonymous reader sends word that security researchers have been able to extract personal information from a pair of smartwatches"
@dav1dc: "I first heard about the Therac-25 during my "Ethics in Computer Science" class many years ago - it made an excellent case study... about problems just like this one."
Mainly because the software was adapted for use in a dual purpose machine and once you selected a particular mode and then changed it, the previous mode was still in and the display showed the new-and-wrong settings.
"Is it so hard to have a integrity check and diagnostic set run as part of the preflight checks? If you can place hundreds of miles of wire and know what's what, surely they have computer engineers competent enough to make something like this to catch such glaring errors."
Even the simplest PC app would know enough to re-create a missing config file. Amd this software is designed to keep an airplane in the air. I don't believe it.
I don't believe it!
Has Voat been slashdotted?
'The Greens in the German parliament want the Foreign Ministry to revert back to open source software solutions on its workstations. The ministry in 2010 abandoned its open source desktop strategy, pressured by staffers struggling with interoperability problems. The Greens are now asking the ministry to justify the proprietary licence costs it has made since then.'
They made a big mistake targeting Kapersky as they've given away most of their techniques. It does seem that someone went to an awful lot of trouble creating the malware. The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0
Have Kapersky considered running their business off of bootable CDs?
"In 2011, we were able to identify Duqu attacks that used Word Documents containing an exploit for a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402) that relied on a malicious embedded TTF (True Type Font File). This exploit allowed the attackers to jump directly into Kernel mode from a Word Document, a very powerful, extremely rare, technique.
A similar technique and zero-day exploit ( 4CVE-2014-4148) appeared again in June 2014, as part of an attack against a prominent international organization. The C&C server used in this 2014 attack as well as other factors have certain similarities with Duqu, however, the malware is different from both Duqu and Duqu 2.0. It is possible that this is a parallel project from the Duqu group and the same zero-day (CVE-2014-4148) might have been used to install Duqu 2.0. Duqu 2.0
"The modus operandi used by this criminal group is the so-called man-in-the-middle and involved repeated computer intrusions against medium"
Doesn't sound like my understanding of a man-in-the-middle attack more like emailing the victims malware and persuading them to execute it.
"The reason a lot of these devices use outdated OSes is that it has to be FDA approved"
What were the names of these 'out-dated operating systems' and what terms of the FDA prevented them applying security updates?
"In the report, which will be released this week, the company details incidents of medical devices and management stations infected with malicious software at three, separate customer engagements."
Wouldn't it be safer to run these medical devices on a dedicated Real Time Operating System (RTOS). That isn't susceptible to acquiring malware through normal operation ref.
"One of the reasons we are attracted to the Colosseum is because of the incredible violence that went on here. The question it poses is, how could such an advanced culture have staged such bloody spectacles?"
'What I would like to argue is that situations created by violence, particularly structural violence, by which I mean forms of pervasive social inequality that are ultimately backed up by the threat of physical harm, invariably tend to create the kinds of willful blindness we normally associate with bureaucratic procedures'.
In such a society the state exercises authority through the threat of violence, the 'games' act as a legitimate outlet for the populaces hostility towards the state.
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, by David Graeber
"And the dynamic is the same. People have yielded control over their lives in exchange for perceived benefits, and now they've got buyers' remorse."
Not the same, we had the illusion we controlled over the Government.
"The article does not say that he did that. Instead, the article says that the banks bought insurance against mortgage defaults (credit default swaps), and that prices of such insurance was very low. John Paulson decided the price was too low compared to the risk, so he bought a lot of the same insurance."
.. outlined a sophisticated securities trade .. The bank would have to be convinced that a mere individual, as opposed to an institution, qualified to be a counterparty in such a transaction" ref
No he didn't, he went to the banks and 'persuaded' them to create a unique financial instrument in which he personally was the beneficiary rather than an institution. Nothing like it had existed up to that point.
"Mr. Paulson