Sensationalistic crap. No one ever claimed blockchains are unhackable by nature of being blockchains. A blockchain’s security is proportional to the number an diversity of devices mining and nodes forming the consensus. Dying forks like Ethereum Classic are bound to get hacked. That is just part of the final death throes of a blockchain. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Yes. The things that absolutely must be learned from kindergarten through, say, sixth grade do not require computers. When I show my kid the universe of bugs, slugs, and beetles that exist under a log I do it in the back yard. With a log. Not with YouTube. When I have a percussion jam with him we grab whatever we can find in the kitchen to hear how things sound different. We don't click mice. We draw pictures with crayons, markers, and pencils. We use paper, cardboard, or whatever material there is. Not with a iPad.
I grew up in a physical world, I learned about physical things and how they were made and how they worked. Not in a logical way, but in an experiential way. I obtained a very intuitive understanding of the world in wich we live. Putting rote learning aside, this is the core of early childhood learning. Math, physics, nature, and art all must thave this underpinning if they are to be bodies of knowledge and skills that will inform a persons life.
Early education is about testing, sharpening, and tuning childrens senses. In that task real experience matters, screen learning is worthless. I'll even argue that screen learning is of little help in learning the 3 R's.
Background: I did not have access to a computer(TI 99/4a) till I was nine years old. My first task was, well second actually, after I hunted the Wumpus, I started learning BASIC. I am now a sysadmin by profession.
Bad decisions were made. If you have ever had to deal with PCI DSS certification then you know what the credit card processing companies expect of their merchant customers. Now imagine the standards the credit card companies themselves try to adhere to. Some developers using BitCoin need to think about the security Big Picture before creating infrastructure for their projects/businesses. Keeping a BitCoin wallet containing thousands of BTC on a little cloud server is not wise.
I think one aspect of this is the trend toward associating low pitched voices with authority. Megamedia news outlets are the best example. When the message in the media is of poor quality they then try to pump up the authority of the messenger. How do they do it? Deep, chest resonating, bass voices.
I've observed people's behavior and noticed that when a person is in a position where he or she wants to seem authoritative that the pitch of the voice drops. And when when females(or males with higher pitched voices) are in a situation where they need to have their authority stand on par with that of males many will use vocal fry to attain the low pitches they seek.
One wonders how this bug rates on Google's internal bug tracking system and if any of the "me too" people have contacted the vendor of their particular phone first?
At my place of employment, 250 employee co-operative retail with three locations, I set up a 2 node DRBD/Heartbeat cluster. It is running NFS, Samba, LDAP. Clients, 42 of them, g are $275 Zotacs(Mag HD-ND01-U) running Ubuntu 10.04. I developed a disk image with everything the way we want it. It takes me 10 minutes to set up a new machine and most of that is the unboxing part. Clients authenticate via LDAP and mount NFS homes via autofs. Some apps are local such as Firefox and Thunderbird. Other business apps are accessed via A XenApp/Citrix server using the Citrix Native Linux client. And then there are the HR and Finance SAAS applications.
Now the clients could just offer a RDP connection application and the Citrix server could be a server providing virtual desktops. But why? It would add a few more layers of complexity with little benefit. The client machines are cheap, fast, easy to replace. The OS is free. The user gets the performance of silicon on the desk with the storage reliability of a server in the closet.
I've found that tracking IP allocations in the reverse DNS zone files work best for me. A machine is either in the DHCP pool range or it gets a static IP documented in the x.y.10.in-addr.arpa files and probably the forward zone file. Lastly, changes are tracked with subversion.
On with the tinfoil hats...and the cynical socks...
The power of technology from a government's perspective is to have the subjects of your suspicion(citizenry) freely and enthusiastically enter all their beliefs( micro/macro blogging), the topology of their personal relations(social networking sites), and their personal communications(gmail) into the databases of private corporations for the easy mining of the data by the keepers of all the keys(NSA, MI5, and others). Then is is a simple matter to assemble an n-dimentional database of relationships into a large net. Then they need only to pull a single knot(a person) of this net and see all others strings and knots which are pulled also. With this tool the government can intercept and neutralize any waxing movement, meme, or influential person.
...off with the tinfoil hat and back to my coffee.
A drill with a 1/4" bit will surely remove the offending camera from the device and, if done properly, will convince even the $7/hr guards while leaving the device operable. YMMV.
TDS Metrocom too... all a part of the monther company: Telephone & Data Systems(TDS). Fortunately my firewall is my DNS server and does not use the TDS name servers.
For Macs I just created a bash script which is scheduled to periodically(and during startup) check in with a PHP script on our webserver by sending it's serial number. When the PHP script replies and says that the laptop is stolen(in non-obvious language), the bash script send the machines IP address. The PHP script then emails the laptop's IP, apparent IP, and serial number to me. Now if the laptop has the iSight camera, it grabs a single shot from the camera(See: http://www.intergalactic.de/pages/iSight.html ) and sends it to the PHP script along with everything else. It's all shoe strings and duct-tape but it may help in recovery.
"He's gone on to collect images of every Web page he's ever visited, television shows he's watched, recorded phone conversations, and images and audio from conference sessions, along with his e-mail and instant messages. "
The article says "The key lies in a slight flaw in the mirrorlike relationship between matter and antimatter. Dubbed charge-parity (CP) violation, the asymmetry was first seen in 1964..."
Since when was the universe supposed to be perfectly symmetrical? Why is asymmetry a flaw? These expectations of symmetry are funny coming from creatures with their circulatory pumps offset from their midline by a few inches.
Another possible interpretation: "...by 2010, the number of US Earth-observing missions will not drop and the number of operating sensors and instruments on US spacecraft will not decrease."
Why? They are just going to take away from Science and give to Surveilance.
Some guy named John Fremlin in 1964[1] said that the Earth could theoretically sustain 60 million billion people[2]. Yes. Thats 6x10^14.
Now if we give each of those sardi^H^H^H^H^Hpeople a living space of 0.5 by 0.5 meters, that would mean we need abut 150 000 000 km^2. Luckily, the surface area of the earth is 148,939,063.133 km^2[3]. Hey! We'll have some left over for a Walmart!
Ooooh, seeeeecret! Page 19: "2 (S//NF) 2 VOIP is a technology that allows telephone calls to be made using a broadband internet connection instead of a regular (analog) phone line."
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Sensationalistic crap. No one ever claimed blockchains are unhackable by nature of being blockchains. A blockchain’s security is proportional to the number an diversity of devices mining and nodes forming the consensus. Dying forks like Ethereum Classic are bound to get hacked. That is just part of the final death throes of a blockchain.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
If I do not work why should I be punished(through inflation) for having set some money aside?
Um. That would require censorship. Of the family of the shooter. Of acquaintances of the shooter. Of the media. How far do you want to take this?
Yes. The things that absolutely must be learned from kindergarten through, say, sixth grade do not require computers. When I show my kid the universe of bugs, slugs, and beetles that exist under a log I do it in the back yard. With a log. Not with YouTube. When I have a percussion jam with him we grab whatever we can find in the kitchen to hear how things sound different. We don't click mice. We draw pictures with crayons, markers, and pencils. We use paper, cardboard, or whatever material there is. Not with a iPad.
I grew up in a physical world, I learned about physical things and how they were made and how they worked. Not in a logical way, but in an experiential way. I obtained a very intuitive understanding of the world in wich we live. Putting rote learning aside, this is the core of early childhood learning. Math, physics, nature, and art all must thave this underpinning if they are to be bodies of knowledge and skills that will inform a persons life.
Early education is about testing, sharpening, and tuning childrens senses. In that task real experience matters, screen learning is worthless. I'll even argue that screen learning is of little help in learning the 3 R's.
Background: I did not have access to a computer(TI 99/4a) till I was nine years old. My first task was, well second actually, after I hunted the Wumpus, I started learning BASIC. I am now a sysadmin by profession.
Shouldn't these phenomena be called vortexes? A tornado it a weather phenomenon that occurs under certain conditions on planet Earth.
Doesn't seem too long ago that I was having the same questions about Netscape Navigator 4.5. I survived.
Bad decisions were made. If you have ever had to deal with PCI DSS certification then you know what the credit card processing companies expect of their merchant customers. Now imagine the standards the credit card companies themselves try to adhere to. Some developers using BitCoin need to think about the security Big Picture before creating infrastructure for their projects/businesses. Keeping a BitCoin wallet containing thousands of BTC on a little cloud server is not wise.
Having said that, there is a solution in the pipe to help with this problem. Gavin Andresen, lead BitCoin developer, had his Bitcoin Faucet Linode server hacked. While only a few Bitcoins were lost he now is using this incident to support his proposal for Multisignature Transactions.
I think one aspect of this is the trend toward associating low pitched voices with authority. Megamedia news outlets are the best example. When the message in the media is of poor quality they then try to pump up the authority of the messenger. How do they do it? Deep, chest resonating, bass voices.
I've observed people's behavior and noticed that when a person is in a position where he or she wants to seem authoritative that the pitch of the voice drops. And when when females(or males with higher pitched voices) are in a situation where they need to have their authority stand on par with that of males many will use vocal fry to attain the low pitches they seek.
One wonders how this bug rates on Google's internal bug tracking system and if any of the "me too" people have contacted the vendor of their particular phone first?
At my place of employment, 250 employee co-operative retail with three locations, I set up a 2 node DRBD/Heartbeat cluster. It is running NFS, Samba, LDAP. Clients, 42 of them, g are $275 Zotacs(Mag HD-ND01-U) running Ubuntu 10.04. I developed a disk image with everything the way we want it. It takes me 10 minutes to set up a new machine and most of that is the unboxing part. Clients authenticate via LDAP and mount NFS homes via autofs. Some apps are local such as Firefox and Thunderbird. Other business apps are accessed via A XenApp/Citrix server using the Citrix Native Linux client. And then there are the HR and Finance SAAS applications. Now the clients could just offer a RDP connection application and the Citrix server could be a server providing virtual desktops. But why? It would add a few more layers of complexity with little benefit. The client machines are cheap, fast, easy to replace. The OS is free. The user gets the performance of silicon on the desk with the storage reliability of a server in the closet.
First off, stop considering yourself "a non-techie." That will help immensely. Second, don't seek to become "a techie". That will help even more.
I've found that tracking IP allocations in the reverse DNS zone files work best for me. A machine is either in the DHCP pool range or it gets a static IP documented in the x.y.10.in-addr.arpa files and probably the forward zone file. Lastly, changes are tracked with subversion.
Sure. Each client's configuration can contain a pre and post backup command. The pre-backup command could be:
wakeonlan aa:bb:cc:00:11:22 ; sleep 30
On with the tinfoil hats...and the cynical socks...
...off with the tinfoil hat and back to my coffee.
The power of technology from a government's perspective is to have the subjects of your suspicion(citizenry) freely and enthusiastically enter all their beliefs( micro/macro blogging), the topology of their personal relations(social networking sites), and their personal communications(gmail) into the databases of private corporations for the easy mining of the data by the keepers of all the keys(NSA, MI5, and others). Then is is a simple matter to assemble an n-dimentional database of relationships into a large net. Then they need only to pull a single knot(a person) of this net and see all others strings and knots which are pulled also. With this tool the government can intercept and neutralize any waxing movement, meme, or influential person.
A drill with a 1/4" bit will surely remove the offending camera from the device and, if done properly, will convince even the $7/hr guards while leaving the device operable. YMMV.
TDS Metrocom too... all a part of the monther company: Telephone & Data Systems(TDS). Fortunately my firewall is my DNS server and does not use the TDS name servers.
For Macs I just created a bash script which is scheduled to periodically(and during startup) check in with a PHP script on our webserver by sending it's serial number.
When the PHP script replies and says that the laptop is stolen(in non-obvious language), the bash script send the machines IP address. The PHP script then emails the laptop's IP, apparent IP, and serial number to me.
Now if the laptop has the iSight camera, it grabs a single shot from the camera(See: http://www.intergalactic.de/pages/iSight.html
) and sends it to the PHP script along with everything else.
It's all shoe strings and duct-tape but it may help in recovery.
"He's gone on to collect images of every Web page he's ever visited, television shows he's watched, recorded phone conversations, and images and audio from conference sessions, along with his e-mail and instant messages. "
Sounds like a new electronic form of Compulsive Hoarding Disorder...
http://www.helpinghoarders.com/
The article says "The key lies in a slight flaw in the mirrorlike relationship between matter and antimatter. Dubbed charge-parity (CP) violation, the asymmetry was first seen in 1964 ..."
Since when was the universe supposed to be perfectly symmetrical? Why is asymmetry a flaw? These expectations of symmetry are funny coming from creatures with their circulatory pumps offset from their midline by a few inches.
Slashdot IS a botnet. Blame the Taco.
The photoessay link: http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay_chernobyl/
Yep.9 5/
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/11/17
I suspect that the mountain of electronic junk could be recycled better with our inductrial technology than with chiness peasants...
Another possible interpretation:
"...by 2010, the number of US Earth-observing missions will not drop and the number of operating sensors and instruments on US spacecraft will not decrease."
Why? They are just going to take away from Science and give to Surveilance.
Some guy named John Fremlin in 1964[1] said that the Earth could theoretically sustain 60 million billion people[2]. Yes. Thats 6x10^14. Now if we give each of those sardi^H^H^H^H^Hpeople a living space of 0.5 by 0.5 meters, that would mean we need abut 150 000 000 km^2. Luckily, the surface area of the earth is 148,939,063.133 km^2[3]. Hey! We'll have some left over for a Walmart!
[1] How many people can the world support, John H Fremlin, New Scientist, 24, 285-287, (29 October 1964).
[2] Guardian.co.uk: Debate heats up over Earth's population
[3] Wikipedia: Earth
Ooooh, seeeeecret!
Page 19:
"2 (S//NF) 2 VOIP is a technology that allows telephone calls to be made using a broadband internet connection instead of a regular (analog) phone line."