"A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand.
Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose
an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk averse case."
Have these scientists ever considered not opening this msg on their Microsoft Windows computers?
'Do this for us, or we'll make your sun go supernova and destroy Earth'"
'When companies transition from Microsoft's traditional licensing business to cloud-based subscriptions, it's "not a one-for-one move"'
Instead of paying the once for the software, you'll be paying a yearly rent into perpetuity. Does anyone here remember when this was a technology forum?
AlanObject: "Interesting how this article accumulated over 50 posts and nobody (unless I just totally missed it) has pointed out that we are in the fix of a) being under concentrated cyber-attack from Russia and b) we have a president 100% committed to the idea that there is no threat. Hopefully the career military, spooks, and bureaucrats are on the job because it is pretty much up to them to defend us."
Have you tried unplugging your 'computer' from the Internet. You're sleepwalking into a police state. This whole Russian hacking story is bogus. You can tell by the solution proposed, even more onerous surveillance of your own citizens and shutting down free discourse on the Internet.
The threat is a lot closer to home. A mouthpiece for the US state security apparatus, possibly tasked with signaling the Washington establishment as to what their policies are going to be. These leaks against Trump being an attempt to persuade him to get with the program. The program being to do exactly what he's told. America's greatest vulnerability is the backdoors inserted into the communications infrastructure and allowing a particular foreign intelligence to control of them.
@StikyPad: "B/c the core components may need to be updated in certain circumstances.... such as when the source code for your bootloader leaks and gets exploited six ways to Sunday."
Then I'll set the switch to read/write boot into update mode, update the core, then reboot back into normal mode. For normal operation you don't need write access to any core components. Which is simpler, try and protect the boot sequence from malicious compromise or set the core to read-only-memory.
"these new web apps are built on a raft of nifty technologies -- including Service Worker, Fetch networking, Push notifications and more -- all of which will be enabled when EdgeHTML 17"
Ah so, they're trying the same dodge they implementing with Internet Explorer and Internet Information Services (IIS), as in PWAs won't run on anything else except EdgeHTML on Windows 10. Are these nifty technologies available to third parties without having to pay a license to Microsoft. Meanwhile will any of these 'nifty technologies' protect the end user from getting hacked by opening an email attachment or clicking on a malicious weblink.
@Anonymous Coward: "Yes, wouldn't want them to grow up to be insane, right-wing shitheads who will never feel the touch of a woman. Your inadequacies are literally steaming off your post history."
There is nothing stopping any woman from contributing to open Source. All they have to do is write the code and post to github.
> At this point I give it > 50% that feminist activists set those up so they'd have a topic to complain about and claim sexism..
You would be correct. There's a set of feminist activists who attended techie conferences specifically with the intend of finding sexual harassment. They then use evidence of such harassment as a pretext to getting the male organizers removed. for a typical example see this from July 2012. If you ever come across such at a conference, record all such encounters, as you may need it as evidence to clear your name later on.
"Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election."
The conventional media and the Washington establishment assumed that Clinton was a shoe-in for President. The fact that the majority of Americans voted for Trump demonstrated that they didn't accept the msg. Trying to foist blame onto Facebook or the Russians is disingenuous in the extreme. Trump was good entertainment but no one seriously expected him to win. The golden shower dossier and similar are an attempt to have Trump removed. A conspiracy by elements of the deepstate. A palace coup in all but name.
'someone from the audience got up and drew the attention of the gathering to the wi-fi hotspots in the hall. They were named "Shut the fk up" and "Feminism sucks."'
"Both human deployment of the patch and the scanning deployment did not work. The protocol was followed.. The human error was the individual who is responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch did not." transcript
You could dissect these ants and find no evidence of consciousnesses and yet in cooperation are able to build a bridge or make a raft. How neurons interact in the brain are analogous to this, masses of neurons making and remaking connections and in the process producing consciousnesses.
@Anonymous Coward: "Given that the characters were from Buenos Aires in the movie that does seem like a reasonable edit. Admittedly they did speak English but, well, it doesn't seem a bit unlikely that the soldiers in the movie were specifically supposed to be US soldiers."
By the time this future comes around, everyone in the US will be from Buenos Aires..
Slashdot editors: Please leave that kind of waffle to Faux News. What is this neocon waffle doing on slashdot. Notice this is from some ' intelligence agency' the same kind of people that produced the Trump golden shower dossier. The only evidence being produced here is of the deep state manipulating public opinion. I don't believe Dutch hackers bugged Russian hackers, you see the Russian FSB isn't as incompetent as their US counterpart.
Slashdot Mirror
"a space-grade network which would be a small piece of hardware weighing less than a bag of sugar."
It's for incisive technological analysis such as the about that I come to slashdot.
"A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk averse case."
Have these scientists ever considered not opening this msg on their Microsoft Windows computers?
'Do this for us, or we'll make your sun go supernova and destroy Earth'"
Enough of this cyber bullshit?
'When companies transition from Microsoft's traditional licensing business to cloud-based subscriptions, it's "not a one-for-one move"'
Instead of paying the once for the software, you'll be paying a yearly rent into perpetuity. Does anyone here remember when this was a technology forum?
AlanObject: "Interesting how this article accumulated over 50 posts and nobody (unless I just totally missed it) has pointed out that we are in the fix of a) being under concentrated cyber-attack from Russia and b) we have a president 100% committed to the idea that there is no threat. Hopefully the career military, spooks, and bureaucrats are on the job because it is pretty much up to them to defend us."
Have you tried unplugging your 'computer' from the Internet. You're sleepwalking into a police state. This whole Russian hacking story is bogus. You can tell by the solution proposed, even more onerous surveillance of your own citizens and shutting down free discourse on the Internet.
The threat is a lot closer to home. A mouthpiece for the US state security apparatus, possibly tasked with signaling the Washington establishment as to what their policies are going to be. These leaks against Trump being an attempt to persuade him to get with the program. The program being to do exactly what he's told. America's greatest vulnerability is the backdoors inserted into the communications infrastructure and allowing a particular foreign intelligence to control of them.
After all, in 'The Island' (2005), set in the year 2019, the 'Information Directory' looks suspiciously like Bing.
"Sonya Ahuja, the company's head of investigations .. told him that she had their messages on Gchat"
Well, a big fucking DOH!
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sig: I'll bet you're the kind of guy that hangs round Reddit fapping off over pictures of furries and yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin
"when your console starts, it reads and executes a piece of code stored in a read-only memory (hence the name ROM)"
It's highly detailed technical analysis like the above that I come here for.
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sig: I'll bet you're the kind of guy that hangs round Reddit fapping off over pictures of furries and yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin
"according to a new survey .. almost 51 percent say existing technology is holding back innovation. "
How about they stop relying on the industry standard Microsoft Windows.
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I'll bet you're the kind of guy that hangs round Reddit fapping off over pictures of furries and yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin
@StikyPad: "B/c the core components may need to be updated in certain circumstances.... such as when the source code for your bootloader leaks and gets exploited six ways to Sunday."
Then I'll set the switch to read/write boot into update mode, update the core, then reboot back into normal mode. For normal operation you don't need write access to any core components. Which is simpler, try and protect the boot sequence from malicious compromise or set the core to read-only-memory.
Will these PWA run under OS X or Linux?
"these new web apps are built on a raft of nifty technologies -- including Service Worker, Fetch networking, Push notifications and more -- all of which will be enabled when EdgeHTML 17"
Ah so, they're trying the same dodge they implementing with Internet Explorer and Internet Information Services (IIS), as in PWAs won't run on anything else except EdgeHTML on Windows 10. Are these nifty technologies available to third parties without having to pay a license to Microsoft. Meanwhile will any of these 'nifty technologies' protect the end user from getting hacked by opening an email attachment or clicking on a malicious weblink.
How about storing the core components on a ROM that cannot be overwritten unless a hardware switch is set in the ON position.
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I'll bet you're the kind of guy that hangs round Reddit fapping off over pictures of furries and yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin
@Anonymous Coward: "Yes, wouldn't want them to grow up to be insane, right-wing shitheads who will never feel the touch of a woman. Your inadequacies are literally steaming off your post history."
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Dear anonymous gutless fuck, thank you for that brief extract from your autobiography, now why not fuck off back to Reddit and fap off over furries, an expansive ornate building or yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin
There is nothing stopping any woman from contributing to open Source. All they have to do is write the code and post to github.
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> At this point I give it > 50% that feminist activists set those up so they'd have a topic to complain about and claim sexism
You would be correct. There's a set of feminist activists who attended techie conferences specifically with the intend of finding sexual harassment. They then use evidence of such harassment as a pretext to getting the male organizers removed. for a typical example see this from July 2012. If you ever come across such at a conference, record all such encounters, as you may need it as evidence to clear your name later on.
"Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election."
The conventional media and the Washington establishment assumed that Clinton was a shoe-in for President. The fact that the majority of Americans voted for Trump demonstrated that they didn't accept the msg. Trying to foist blame onto Facebook or the Russians is disingenuous in the extreme. Trump was good entertainment but no one seriously expected him to win. The golden shower dossier and similar are an attempt to have Trump removed. A conspiracy by elements of the deepstate. A palace coup in all but name.
The solution being, don't let your kids on the Internet unsupervised !!!
'someone from the audience got up and drew the attention of the gathering to the wi-fi hotspots in the hall. They were named "Shut the fk up" and "Feminism sucks."'
Illustrating the perils of outsourcing your stuff to the private sector :]
Illustrating the dangers of storing your stuff in someone elses centralized cloud ..
"Both human deployment of the patch and the scanning deployment did not work. The protocol was followed .. The human error was the individual who is responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch did not." transcript
Sole Equifax security worker at fault for failed patch, says former CEO
You could dissect these ants and find no evidence of consciousnesses and yet in cooperation are able to build a bridge or make a raft. How neurons interact in the brain are analogous to this, masses of neurons making and remaking connections and in the process producing consciousnesses.
Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle
Ants making bridge, team work
Termite World - Life in the Undergrowth - BBC Attenborough
@Anonymous Coward: "Given that the characters were from Buenos Aires in the movie that does seem like a reasonable edit. Admittedly they did speak English but, well, it doesn't seem a bit unlikely that the soldiers in the movie were specifically supposed to be US soldiers."
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By the time this future comes around, everyone in the US will be from Buenos Aires
"Interesting theory, can you explain how it is falsifiable?"
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Well, if I remove your brain you'll lose the ability to post to slashdot
"So the emails were real. Not fake."
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No they were not fake, but it suited some political purpose to say so, besides which, that was last years bullshit
Slashdot editors: Please leave that kind of waffle to Faux News. What is this neocon waffle doing on slashdot. Notice this is from some ' intelligence agency' the same kind of people that produced the Trump golden shower dossier. The only evidence being produced here is of the deep state manipulating public opinion. I don't believe Dutch hackers bugged Russian hackers, you see the Russian FSB isn't as incompetent as their US counterpart.