Well, I see it, because you replied to me.:) Very interesting.
It still leads back to the original problem. Why the hell were they given access to the Internet to feed the data out? Or was it a bigger inside job than they're leading us to believe?
I could believe "rogue chip" or even common access credentials. The it could go from the Internet, to somewhere in-house.
I've seen that too many times. Users have forced passwords twice a month, with no repetition, at least 12 characters, mixed upper, lower, and symbols (all required). Then you find out "Oh and every server has the root password of N01WillGuessTh1s!. We don't bother to change it because only we know. Well, the IT department, the managers, senior management. The COO keeps the list on his desk, to show others how good passwords should look."... but... if it were in-house, the announcement of the breech is amazingly suspicious. So you'd have to wonder who would have motive to do such a thing. I think almost anyone in the US or familiar with US "low price" retail establishments will have the same companies in the top 5 list. The order may change, but the suspects will remain the same.
I used to be in that business, I'll tell you... it's already out there. I'm very glad I'm no longer anywhere near the industry. I'd feel better dealing with hitmen and druglords.
Some of the Fortune 1000 crowd have their data flagged. If you have access to a service that provides such information, and you search for say "Bill Gates", there will be a shitstorm.
We were told by some 3rd party data sources that we were contractually obliged to maintain a list of "high profile" people, so those searches would always return empty. I pushed them for who "high profile" was. Bill Gates was obvious, because that was the reason the conversation came up. Theoretically, the list should include the Fortune 1000 crowd, and anyone who shows up in the news. They couldn't provide parameters, so that obligation wasn't possible to fulfill.
And on that specific search, they weren't searching for the obvious Bill Gates of Microsoft. It was someone with the same name in another state on an authorized background check.
The amount of data that I was exposed to was absolutely insane. Pretty much, I could tell you stuff about yourself that you may not even remember, plus your neighbors, relatives, romantic partners, and people you associate with. It was down to your hobbies, shopping habits, and even photos and messages from social media.
That's the #1 reason. If we had infinite thrust with no fuel consumption, we could put up... well, some really cool stuff. Spacecraft wouldn't need to be concerned with stuff hitting them, if they could put a mile of dirt around a steel reinforced concrete floating bunker.:) And we'd probably have a few Stanford Torus' or Bishop Rings in orbit already.
This puppy can withstand two failures and keep on truckin
Looking at the design, and the images, the front left wheel is actually pretty rough. In the linked story, look at the bottom half of the 9th picture. The metal has split almost half way across. It may end up digging into the softer sand, and could catch on rocks.
They'd have a better chance driving it backwards, letting that wheel drag along. That won't work very well though, since all the gear is on the front.
The card readers that I've worked with do their encoding at the reader. They should only be showing the user (the clerk) something like the last 4 digits, if anything.
From what others said, based on the vague information released, it sounds like the card readers had firmware updates that allowed this to happen.. I still see two tremendously troubling things.
1) If it was someone in-house who did that, how the hell were they allowed to do that.
2) Even if the firmware captured all the card, why was it allowed to send out to a 3rd party destination. If it's all on private circuits, they simply wouldn't have a way to talk out. Obviously, they did, or else it wouldn't have been a breech.
Remember to keep that 50' 18 gauge extension cord running, that you're using to charge your new Tesla, under it. It helps keep the garage smelling nice.:)
They don't need direct access. Actually, your CC data is suppose to be kept away from the Internet. That's what private circuits are for. In the case of a major retailer like Target, they should be doing all financial transfers over private circuits, with no Internet access.
Someone may have decided it would be cheaper to share the circuit with Internet access. That was *very* dumb of them.
So, invalidate and reissue on the behalf of Ulbricht, and any other bitcoins that were confiscated. That would actually be nice. The ultimate in theft prevention.
Imagine, if someone steals your (real world) wallet. You invalidate all the cash in it, and issue new cash.
Unfortunately, I can see the *huge* number of reasons why it's a bad idea. The first being, I do a high dollar transaction. I get the physical product. I complain that it never arrived, and 51% agree that I'm a good guy. Now the seller is out the funds, and the product.
So does this plan go for only funds seized in high profile cases? If the feds didn't say they seized the funds publicly, would they get to keep the them, and screw the accused? Who do you believe for deciding, the holder of the bitcoins, or the media?
Maybe my knowledge of biology is a bit lacking, but doesn't a gene need an organism? It sounds like they are talking about drug resistant bacteria, which have a traits of their DNA.
It's just as annoy as cop shows where look for DNA samples. You're not sampling the DNA with your cotton swab, you're attempting to capture cells, from which you can extract the DNA.
Then again, we're talking about two of the same groups (news media and fictional cop shows) where they'd both easily say "hack the mainframe". Ahh, the mainframe. The mysterious device I can access from a Nintendo Gameboy in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, using more more than my good looks, the Gameboy, a clothes pin, and some chewing gum.
Ya, tell me about those evil genes floating around by themselves, in their attempt to take over the world.
Pretty much.... I should start submitting my own not-news column here...
In other news, thousands of people looking up instructions on the Internet did not commit any domestic terrorist acts, despite the recent trend on searching for pressure cookers. Our analysts speculate this may because families may be shopping in preparation of their holiday meals.
On the international scene, nuclear weapons were not used in an attack for the 24,964th consecutive day. China, North Korea, Russia, and the United States have all vowed to "wipe their enemies off the map" if they shoot first. Civilians world-wide failed to cower in fear of the eminent threat of nuclear war.
And finally, in science news, it seems the Earth has survived another day without a cataclysmic meteorite impact, despite reassurances by YouTube experts that there will be one "any day now".
That's all from Things-That-Didn't-Happen-Today News, I am JW Smythe, and we hope to bring you more news tomorrow!
It's not just flamebait. I can't imagine there were only 44 people in all of Oregon that were interested and went through the process. There are about 3.89 million residents. So less than 0.00113% of the population.
Now, if there were a technical problem, and only 44 got through, that's another story, but it's not what this one says. It may have something in the included scribe document, but it isn't working right now.
Did you swap your Y-pipe yet? That was the single most significant change I made. I did the air lid years ago. I don't know that it made a difference in performance, but it looks better. The other change I liked most was putting on a lightened flywheel. Between the two, it makes downshifting a bit different, but it has helped torque. I didn't really notice the difference in time to rev up, until a friend with a stock '00 Camaro SS (same specs as my WS6) was sitting beside me at a light, and it sounded like the Camaro engine had to work harder to spin up.
I've found that almost every county in the US I've checked, court records (sometimes including traffic citations) are available online to the general public by the court.
I went looking for information for someone I knew. I was able to pull up records on her in 3 states, including a speeding ticket and a ticket for a burned out taillight.
The problem is, the citations and arrests are easy to find. Digging through the court records to find the final disposition of the case is frequently difficult or impossible. For example, I could find that you were arrested for say possession of drug paraphernalia. The arrest record is usually a booking photo, list of charges, and some personal information. It doesn't say that the "paraphernalia" was actually a cigarette lighter and sandwich bag (with no drugs or residue), and that the charges were dropped.
Despite remaining innocent until proven guilty, a charge or arrest is a conviction in too many people's minds. They believe "If you were arrested, you must have been doing something wrong".
IMHO, court records without convictions, or even with convictions and time served, are far worse than a picture posted by an ex. All the later shows is, ya, you did have intimate relations with someone in the past. By the time you're 20-something, we've all had intimate relations.
Basically, anywhere that is a road, or there is expressed or implied consent to drive, traffic laws can be enforced.
You could argue that you don't have to obey them. You would lose in court. And as I mentioned in the previous post, this is Florida law, so your state may be different.
The first number was the factory spec. The second set was measured on a dyno.
I did change a few things. There were intake restrictions that I removed. The factory Y-pipe was designed for ground clearance, but had a nasty restriction too, so I swapped it for an aftermarket Y-pipe.
It probably was a little bit higher at some point between about 20k miles and 130k miles, since it still had the factory spark plugs for the 130k, mile dyno test.
Well on Earth, it took 3 million years for life to go from very simple single cell organisms to primitive animals.
Their hypothesis says that rather than the occasional rock like Earth, the environment may have been favorable on quite a few planets. Well, "quite a few" being "just about infinite" in our concept of numbers.
Meteorites bombard planets. We know that. We believe planetary collisions happen. I don't think we've observed that yet. So pieces of planets are ejected on a fairly regular basis. Earth seems to do a pretty good job of keeping our chunks attached... for now.
If the idea was not that life evolved relatively close to our planet's life timeline, and with a virtually infinite of source planets in relatively close proximity to each other, it would be more feasible to consider that panspermia could be real.
It will be quite a while before we can even begin to test for something like that. Well, unless someone drops by with a starship and 2 billion years of intergalactic research. Or more likely, someone does build an Einstein-Rosen bridge. I'm sure if we are the first to do it, it will be militarized, to be the way to win any war, anywhere. Who needs nukes, when we can just open a bridge from an enemy stronghold to the photosphere of any convenient star for a few seconds. Hmmm, considering that, maybe someone has made it, and realized the potential for harm.
Ya, most states have laws against it. Except on private property.
Florida defines any surface made for vehicle travel, attached to a road, as being "public" for the purpose of motor vehicle citations. So a burnout in your driveway is illegal. Rolling a stop sign in a store parking lot is illegal too. If you do a burnout in a store parking lot after hours, and you exceed the posted speed limit (usually like 15mph or less), you can get cited with speeding, unlawful exhibition of speed, careless driving. If you go past the line at the end of a row without stopping, you can get a ticket for failing to obey a traffic control device. So 5 easy tickets, and they don't even have to contact the property management to try to cite you for trespassing and/or vandalism.
Usually, they'll just tell you to stop it and go home.
Racetracks usually have multiple gates between the public roads and the track, which makes it legal.
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Well, I see it, because you replied to me. :) Very interesting.
It still leads back to the original problem. Why the hell were they given access to the Internet to feed the data out? Or was it a bigger inside job than they're leading us to believe?
I could believe "rogue chip" or even common access credentials. The it could go from the Internet, to somewhere in-house.
I've seen that too many times. Users have forced passwords twice a month, with no repetition, at least 12 characters, mixed upper, lower, and symbols (all required). Then you find out "Oh and every server has the root password of N01WillGuessTh1s!. We don't bother to change it because only we know. Well, the IT department, the managers, senior management. The COO keeps the list on his desk, to show others how good passwords should look." ... but ... if it were in-house, the announcement of the breech is amazingly suspicious. So you'd have to wonder who would have motive to do such a thing. I think almost anyone in the US or familiar with US "low price" retail establishments will have the same companies in the top 5 list. The order may change, but the suspects will remain the same.
I used to be in that business, I'll tell you ... it's already out there. I'm very glad I'm no longer anywhere near the industry. I'd feel better dealing with hitmen and druglords.
Some of the Fortune 1000 crowd have their data flagged. If you have access to a service that provides such information, and you search for say "Bill Gates", there will be a shitstorm.
We were told by some 3rd party data sources that we were contractually obliged to maintain a list of "high profile" people, so those searches would always return empty. I pushed them for who "high profile" was. Bill Gates was obvious, because that was the reason the conversation came up. Theoretically, the list should include the Fortune 1000 crowd, and anyone who shows up in the news. They couldn't provide parameters, so that obligation wasn't possible to fulfill.
And on that specific search, they weren't searching for the obvious Bill Gates of Microsoft. It was someone with the same name in another state on an authorized background check.
The amount of data that I was exposed to was absolutely insane. Pretty much, I could tell you stuff about yourself that you may not even remember, plus your neighbors, relatives, romantic partners, and people you associate with. It was down to your hobbies, shopping habits, and even photos and messages from social media.
That's the #1 reason. If we had infinite thrust with no fuel consumption, we could put up ... well, some really cool stuff. Spacecraft wouldn't need to be concerned with stuff hitting them, if they could put a mile of dirt around a steel reinforced concrete floating bunker. :) And we'd probably have a few Stanford Torus' or Bishop Rings in orbit already.
Looking at the design, and the images, the front left wheel is actually pretty rough. In the linked story, look at the bottom half of the 9th picture. The metal has split almost half way across. It may end up digging into the softer sand, and could catch on rocks.
They'd have a better chance driving it backwards, letting that wheel drag along. That won't work very well though, since all the gear is on the front.
Who are you talking to?
You know, talking to yourself may be a symptom of an underlying disorder. Have you talked with your psychiatrist lately?
The card readers that I've worked with do their encoding at the reader. They should only be showing the user (the clerk) something like the last 4 digits, if anything.
From what others said, based on the vague information released, it sounds like the card readers had firmware updates that allowed this to happen.. I still see two tremendously troubling things.
1) If it was someone in-house who did that, how the hell were they allowed to do that.
2) Even if the firmware captured all the card, why was it allowed to send out to a 3rd party destination. If it's all on private circuits, they simply wouldn't have a way to talk out. Obviously, they did, or else it wouldn't have been a breech.
Remember to keep that 50' 18 gauge extension cord running, that you're using to charge your new Tesla, under it. It helps keep the garage smelling nice. :)
But security is hard. {sigh}
They don't need direct access. Actually, your CC data is suppose to be kept away from the Internet. That's what private circuits are for. In the case of a major retailer like Target, they should be doing all financial transfers over private circuits, with no Internet access.
Someone may have decided it would be cheaper to share the circuit with Internet access. That was *very* dumb of them.
So, invalidate and reissue on the behalf of Ulbricht, and any other bitcoins that were confiscated. That would actually be nice. The ultimate in theft prevention.
Imagine, if someone steals your (real world) wallet. You invalidate all the cash in it, and issue new cash.
Unfortunately, I can see the *huge* number of reasons why it's a bad idea. The first being, I do a high dollar transaction. I get the physical product. I complain that it never arrived, and 51% agree that I'm a good guy. Now the seller is out the funds, and the product.
So does this plan go for only funds seized in high profile cases? If the feds didn't say they seized the funds publicly, would they get to keep the them, and screw the accused? Who do you believe for deciding, the holder of the bitcoins, or the media?
So, you're saying this is where the zombie apocalypse is starting, eh?
[puts on his biohazard suit, and grabs a crowbar]
Ok, I'm ready.
Ah. I'm short any college biololgy books here, and college was a long time ago. I remember .. umm .. drinking.. and that one girl.. ahhh...
I understand what you're saying though. I still don't like the phrasing, but I see how it is accurate. :)
That still requires the bacteria, not free roaming genes floating around in the water.
Maybe my knowledge of biology is a bit lacking, but doesn't a gene need an organism? It sounds like they are talking about drug resistant bacteria, which have a traits of their DNA.
It's just as annoy as cop shows where look for DNA samples. You're not sampling the DNA with your cotton swab, you're attempting to capture cells, from which you can extract the DNA.
Then again, we're talking about two of the same groups (news media and fictional cop shows) where they'd both easily say "hack the mainframe". Ahh, the mainframe. The mysterious device I can access from a Nintendo Gameboy in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, using more more than my good looks, the Gameboy, a clothes pin, and some chewing gum.
Ya, tell me about those evil genes floating around by themselves, in their attempt to take over the world.
So I guess buying a used Crown Victoria, and cloning unmarked law enforcement license plates on it was a good idea, eh? :)
Hey, you guys sent me this same notice, but no one has shown up.. I'm getting bored. Can you please hurry up? :)
Pretty much.... I should start submitting my own not-news column here...
In other news, thousands of people looking up instructions on the Internet did not commit any domestic terrorist acts, despite the recent trend on searching for pressure cookers. Our analysts speculate this may because families may be shopping in preparation of their holiday meals.
On the international scene, nuclear weapons were not used in an attack for the 24,964th consecutive day. China, North Korea, Russia, and the United States have all vowed to "wipe their enemies off the map" if they shoot first. Civilians world-wide failed to cower in fear of the eminent threat of nuclear war.
And finally, in science news, it seems the Earth has survived another day without a cataclysmic meteorite impact, despite reassurances by YouTube experts that there will be one "any day now".
That's all from Things-That-Didn't-Happen-Today News, I am JW Smythe, and we hope to bring you more news tomorrow!
It's not just flamebait. I can't imagine there were only 44 people in all of Oregon that were interested and went through the process. There are about 3.89 million residents. So less than 0.00113% of the population.
Now, if there were a technical problem, and only 44 got through, that's another story, but it's not what this one says. It may have something in the included scribe document, but it isn't working right now.
Did you swap your Y-pipe yet? That was the single most significant change I made. I did the air lid years ago. I don't know that it made a difference in performance, but it looks better. The other change I liked most was putting on a lightened flywheel. Between the two, it makes downshifting a bit different, but it has helped torque. I didn't really notice the difference in time to rev up, until a friend with a stock '00 Camaro SS (same specs as my WS6) was sitting beside me at a light, and it sounded like the Camaro engine had to work harder to spin up.
I've found that almost every county in the US I've checked, court records (sometimes including traffic citations) are available online to the general public by the court.
I went looking for information for someone I knew. I was able to pull up records on her in 3 states, including a speeding ticket and a ticket for a burned out taillight.
The problem is, the citations and arrests are easy to find. Digging through the court records to find the final disposition of the case is frequently difficult or impossible. For example, I could find that you were arrested for say possession of drug paraphernalia. The arrest record is usually a booking photo, list of charges, and some personal information. It doesn't say that the "paraphernalia" was actually a cigarette lighter and sandwich bag (with no drugs or residue), and that the charges were dropped.
Despite remaining innocent until proven guilty, a charge or arrest is a conviction in too many people's minds. They believe "If you were arrested, you must have been doing something wrong".
IMHO, court records without convictions, or even with convictions and time served, are far worse than a picture posted by an ex. All the later shows is, ya, you did have intimate relations with someone in the past. By the time you're 20-something, we've all had intimate relations.
Sorry, I meant to type billion. :)
Here's a writeup on it from the Florida Attorney General's office.
http://myfloridalegal.com/ago.nsf/0/2be69982597761f385256eb7005f8fdf?OpenDocument.
Basically, anywhere that is a road, or there is expressed or implied consent to drive, traffic laws can be enforced.
You could argue that you don't have to obey them. You would lose in court. And as I mentioned in the previous post, this is Florida law, so your state may be different.
The first number was the factory spec. The second set was measured on a dyno.
I did change a few things. There were intake restrictions that I removed. The factory Y-pipe was designed for ground clearance, but had a nasty restriction too, so I swapped it for an aftermarket Y-pipe.
It probably was a little bit higher at some point between about 20k miles and 130k miles, since it still had the factory spark plugs for the 130k, mile dyno test.
Well on Earth, it took 3 million years for life to go from very simple single cell organisms to primitive animals.
Their hypothesis says that rather than the occasional rock like Earth, the environment may have been favorable on quite a few planets. Well, "quite a few" being "just about infinite" in our concept of numbers.
Meteorites bombard planets. We know that. We believe planetary collisions happen. I don't think we've observed that yet. So pieces of planets are ejected on a fairly regular basis. Earth seems to do a pretty good job of keeping our chunks attached ... for now.
If the idea was not that life evolved relatively close to our planet's life timeline, and with a virtually infinite of source planets in relatively close proximity to each other, it would be more feasible to consider that panspermia could be real.
It will be quite a while before we can even begin to test for something like that. Well, unless someone drops by with a starship and 2 billion years of intergalactic research. Or more likely, someone does build an Einstein-Rosen bridge. I'm sure if we are the first to do it, it will be militarized, to be the way to win any war, anywhere. Who needs nukes, when we can just open a bridge from an enemy stronghold to the photosphere of any convenient star for a few seconds. Hmmm, considering that, maybe someone has made it, and realized the potential for harm.
I don't think so, but I've never heard of a move "pump the gas pedal". :)
Ya, most states have laws against it. Except on private property.
Florida defines any surface made for vehicle travel, attached to a road, as being "public" for the purpose of motor vehicle citations. So a burnout in your driveway is illegal. Rolling a stop sign in a store parking lot is illegal too. If you do a burnout in a store parking lot after hours, and you exceed the posted speed limit (usually like 15mph or less), you can get cited with speeding, unlawful exhibition of speed, careless driving. If you go past the line at the end of a row without stopping, you can get a ticket for failing to obey a traffic control device. So 5 easy tickets, and they don't even have to contact the property management to try to cite you for trespassing and/or vandalism.
Usually, they'll just tell you to stop it and go home.
Racetracks usually have multiple gates between the public roads and the track, which makes it legal.