You are living in a fantasy land where the laws cover everything and the laws protect you in every single case
Wake up !!
This world that we live in, there are a lot of grey areas, and then there are a lot of very very dark areas where no law, no court, no nothing has any jurisdiction over them
Money is the only recognized currency - as long as you can afford to pay, they will do it for you
After all, if you were competent then you'd be able to block the attacks or at the very least mitigate/ameliorate any possible damage from them.
We are talking about a counter strike
Corporation A being attacked by cyberpunks somewhere
Corporation A might have suffered damages, or might not be, it does not matter, because the attack on Corporation A had taken place, and Corporation A is determined to strike back
Which means, the competency of the IT staffs of Corporation A do not fall in this equation - because all the counter-strike will be handled by "private contractors", not the staffs of Corporation A
In that situation you should pay off the local government police and or military forces. If you can't pay them more than the local militias or criminals, you shouldn't do business there.
As long as there's money to be made, most multi-national corporations (mnc) will pay
But sometimes the local government isn't the one who pull the shot - and the more complicated the situation is, the more you need "private contractors" to carry out "the tasks"
That's a great idea right up until it is a server in a hospital that is being used for the attack.
So ?
You mean, the attacker using a server in the hospital to attack you is okay, but it's not okay when you retaliate ?
It's not your fault that the server is located in the hospital
A server compromised, no matter where it's located, is a server compromised
As long as that server is not brought down, it could still be used to attack others
Might as well bring down that server - if there happened to be patients died as a result, it's not your fault either, it's the fault of the hospital IT staff that let their server to be compromised
And in military parlance, it's called "collateral damage"
Although not as high as some Western countries, crime rate in China should be considered as "High"
But there is one big different between China and those so-called "Western countries"
Unlike in Western countries, where criminals are "protected" by the laws, crime victims in China often take the law in their own hand and punish the perpetrators - sometimes killing the criminals\
And that has nothing to do with Confucianism - "Confucianism" is but an obsolete piece of cultural artifact
There are companies that I know, who employed "private contractors" to do things that they can not legally do, to "make things right"
One of those companies, when its refinery was damaged by some African guerillas, got its own "private contractors" to hit back, and they hit back very very hard
So, I am not surprise of what they will do on the Cyberwar front - the "private contractors" can do anything for you, so long as you pay them
I am not as confident as you that super-corporation will be in it for only "profit" motive
The temptation of having a firm control over something is very great - and profit will almost always follow whoever having a monopoly over a sizeable segment of paying audience - whether it be online, bio-tech or even in food-resourcing
Nokia is dead, even if it doesn't know that it's dead
Microsoft is the one who kills it
And Elop? This guy is only a hired hand, who pulled the trigger
As a former Nokia user, - I'm using Samsung now, - I just can't tell you how sad I am, looking at the how absolutely clueless the BOD of Nokia really is
This should serve couples of warnings:
1. Avoid Microsoft at all costs -
If you looked at the history of Microsoft, you'll spot a long road littered with dead corporate corps, which, one time or another, were "bed partners" of Microsoft, but ended up being sucked dried and gutted by Microsoft when they are of no more use
2. Avoid hiring any ex-Microsoft exec -
You will never know what are their intentions
Elop is one fine example
3. Ensured that the BOD must be personally and financially responsibled for any failure -
BOD of Nokia IS, for a very large part, responsible for the final collapse of Nokia
The warning signs are everywhere, that Elop is going to kill Nokia, but still, the BOD of Nokia doesn't care, and didn't do anything to prevent it from happening
There is no listing of what they did, nor what they had achieved, nor any project, nor program, nor nothing that they can convince anyone to participate on SOCIS 2012
Wonder why taxpayers of Europe are allowing this scam to go on ?
What I mean is, at the very least the SOCIS people should have let the world know what they have done, what kind of achievement they have attained, in past year's SOCIS, before announcing this year's SOCIS
... and I am not talking about "pirates" as defined by the MAFIAA...
The most successful pirates do not live near the Somalia coast
They live in big western cosmopolitans, and are earning much more than their counterparts in Somalia
How they made their killings?
They purchase old ships, - very very very old ships, 30+ year old ships, rust buckets, really - that barely can float
They gave those ship a fresh coat of paint
Re-register the ships
And set them a-sail, as merchant ships
These ships that barely floats, will ply in waters of Africa, or South America, or in Asia
And then sink
Of course, people die when ships sank - mainly those poorly paid sailors
But that does not matter to those pirates
What really matters to those successful pirates is the insurance claim - they bought big insurance on their rust buckets, and reap the rewards when their ships sink
Of course, the bank robbers are stupid
They are not the one really robbing the banks
It's the stripes who are doing the real robbing
Just like the most successful pirates, who do not rob even a single ship
I like Sci Fi, and have read a lot of Sci Fi books.
A story was about the future world where the global economy being controlled by a handful of super-corporations, and some even launched attacks (military style attacks) on each others' installations
When I look at the rate tech giants snatching up all the promising upstarts, I just can't shake the impression that this world we live in might _just_ be moving towards the story above that I read many moons ago
Comparing to the acquisition / mergers of the brick and mortar industry, the tech industry and the bio industry's A/M is super fierce and super fast pace
I shiver when thinking of how many upstarts would remain independent after the dust settles - and it's important because, if the tech giants decide NOT to cooperate with each others, then the internet that we are using may just be split apart into incompatible segments
Slashdot Mirror
You are living in a fantasy land where the laws cover everything and the laws protect you in every single case
Wake up !!
This world that we live in, there are a lot of grey areas, and then there are a lot of very very dark areas where no law, no court, no nothing has any jurisdiction over them
Money is the only recognized currency - as long as you can afford to pay, they will do it for you
Haven't read 2600 ever since it became mainstream
We are not anonymous nor 4chan
We are all guests on /.
We must respect /.'s decision on what to do
If /, decides that it wants this annoyance to continue, that this annoyance will continue
After all, if you were competent then you'd be able to block the attacks or at the very least mitigate/ameliorate any possible damage from them.
We are talking about a counter strike
Corporation A being attacked by cyberpunks somewhere
Corporation A might have suffered damages, or might not be, it does not matter, because the attack on Corporation A had taken place, and Corporation A is determined to strike back
Which means, the competency of the IT staffs of Corporation A do not fall in this equation - because all the counter-strike will be handled by "private contractors", not the staffs of Corporation A
Good luck with that in court.
Look, man
We are talking about an operation handled by the private contractors
No court system in the world has any jurisdiction over "private contractors", or they won't be "private contractors"
Plus, corporations that employ "private contractors" aren't as stupid as you think
I've used many many graphic cards from many many vendors, on many many platforms, from monochrome to cga to vga to whatever-ga that we have now
I must have missed something. I never had the pleasure to use any GPU that gave me 11/10ths performance
In that situation you should pay off the local government police and or military forces. If you can't pay them more than the local militias or criminals, you shouldn't do business there.
As long as there's money to be made, most multi-national corporations (mnc) will pay
But sometimes the local government isn't the one who pull the shot - and the more complicated the situation is, the more you need "private contractors" to carry out "the tasks"
TFA talked about Google Plus
" ... wrap everything else around Facebook and the users will cope"
Umm ...
Excuse me for being dense, I do not understand what exactly does that mean
Anyone care to explain ?
Thanks !!
You missed out on the word "part"
SoF is but one of the many venues that you can find "private contractors", and they come with all kinds of "skill sets"
That's a great idea right up until it is a server in a hospital that is being used for the attack.
So ?
You mean, the attacker using a server in the hospital to attack you is okay, but it's not okay when you retaliate ?
It's not your fault that the server is located in the hospital
A server compromised, no matter where it's located, is a server compromised
As long as that server is not brought down, it could still be used to attack others
Might as well bring down that server - if there happened to be patients died as a result, it's not your fault either, it's the fault of the hospital IT staff that let their server to be compromised
And in military parlance, it's called "collateral damage"
Although not as high as some Western countries, crime rate in China should be considered as "High"
But there is one big different between China and those so-called "Western countries"
Unlike in Western countries, where criminals are "protected" by the laws, crime victims in China often take the law in their own hand and punish the perpetrators - sometimes killing the criminals\
And that has nothing to do with Confucianism - "Confucianism" is but an obsolete piece of cultural artifact
There are companies that I know, who employed "private contractors" to do things that they can not legally do, to "make things right"
One of those companies, when its refinery was damaged by some African guerillas, got its own "private contractors" to hit back, and they hit back very very hard
So, I am not surprise of what they will do on the Cyberwar front - the "private contractors" can do anything for you, so long as you pay them
One of the troll's aim is for others to repeat "mcpc"
What you are doing is just that, repeating it, 4 times
Stop playing that troll's game
Stop repeating "mcpc"
Control your temptation
A few day before Liu Yang became the first Chinese female Taikonaut, another Chinese lady was forced to abort her 7-month old fetus
What an irony !!
The guy's intention is to get as many mention of "mcpc" as possible to push it in front of SEO listing
Do not repeat that "mcpc" !!
Do not fall for his game !!!
This is getting too serious
I will not mention the name, but the post I'm replying to, is littered with links to that joint
I am not asking for censorship, but what those guys are doing (I am not sure it's one person or several) is too much
Being parasitic is one thing, being parasitic _and_ annoying is a totally different beast altogether !!
Do something, Slashdot, please do something !!
I am not as confident as you that super-corporation will be in it for only "profit" motive
The temptation of having a firm control over something is very great - and profit will almost always follow whoever having a monopoly over a sizeable segment of paying audience - whether it be online, bio-tech or even in food-resourcing
It really doesn't matter who is disingenious
Nokia is dead, even if it doesn't know that it's dead
Microsoft is the one who kills it
And Elop? This guy is only a hired hand, who pulled the trigger
As a former Nokia user, - I'm using Samsung now, - I just can't tell you how sad I am, looking at the how absolutely clueless the BOD of Nokia really is
This should serve couples of warnings:
1. Avoid Microsoft at all costs -
If you looked at the history of Microsoft, you'll spot a long road littered with dead corporate corps, which, one time or another, were "bed partners" of Microsoft, but ended up being sucked dried and gutted by Microsoft when they are of no more use
2. Avoid hiring any ex-Microsoft exec -
You will never know what are their intentions
Elop is one fine example
3. Ensured that the BOD must be personally and financially responsibled for any failure -
BOD of Nokia IS, for a very large part, responsible for the final collapse of Nokia
The warning signs are everywhere, that Elop is going to kill Nokia, but still, the BOD of Nokia doesn't care, and didn't do anything to prevent it from happening
It is Swedish law. Not American not british but Swedish law
What I do not understand is, why the UK court has to obey a Swedish Law ?
Care to elaborate ?
Since this is the second instalment of SOCIS, I looked up SOCIS 2011's site -- http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2011/
And guess what?
There is no listing of what they did, nor what they had achieved, nor any project, nor program, nor nothing that they can convince anyone to participate on SOCIS 2012
Wonder why taxpayers of Europe are allowing this scam to go on ?
What I mean is, at the very least the SOCIS people should have let the world know what they have done, what kind of achievement they have attained, in past year's SOCIS, before announcing this year's SOCIS
TFA is basically asking us what's our "beef" with Windows Phone
I have no beef with anything
I just don't want to get hit by a flying chair
... and I am not talking about "pirates" as defined by the MAFIAA ...
The most successful pirates do not live near the Somalia coast
They live in big western cosmopolitans, and are earning much more than their counterparts in Somalia
How they made their killings?
They purchase old ships, - very very very old ships, 30+ year old ships, rust buckets, really - that barely can float
They gave those ship a fresh coat of paint
Re-register the ships
And set them a-sail, as merchant ships
These ships that barely floats, will ply in waters of Africa, or South America, or in Asia
And then sink
Of course, people die when ships sank - mainly those poorly paid sailors
But that does not matter to those pirates
What really matters to those successful pirates is the insurance claim - they bought big insurance on their rust buckets, and reap the rewards when their ships sink
Of course, the bank robbers are stupid
They are not the one really robbing the banks
It's the stripes who are doing the real robbing
Just like the most successful pirates, who do not rob even a single ship
I like Sci Fi, and have read a lot of Sci Fi books.
A story was about the future world where the global economy being controlled by a handful of super-corporations, and some even launched attacks (military style attacks) on each others' installations
When I look at the rate tech giants snatching up all the promising upstarts, I just can't shake the impression that this world we live in might _just_ be moving towards the story above that I read many moons ago
Comparing to the acquisition / mergers of the brick and mortar industry, the tech industry and the bio industry's A/M is super fierce and super fast pace
I shiver when thinking of how many upstarts would remain independent after the dust settles - and it's important because, if the tech giants decide NOT to cooperate with each others, then the internet that we are using may just be split apart into incompatible segments
A bitrig is 1/8 of a byterig.
If that's the case ...
1 Bytecoin = 8 bitcoins
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