Whoever thought that "large planes don't need ignition keys because no one would ever attempt to steal one"
Nobody ever thought that.
How about: Personnel who are authorized to enter the secure maintenance area where the plane is being worked on, rarely try to steal the airplane.
Last time someone did this it was the co-pilot of MH-370, who killed everyone on the fully loaded plane, which has still never even been recovered and nobody knows where it crashed (well, they're pretty sure which OCEAN it's in....)
The Jovian system is all around fascinating. With all of the moons and Jupiter's large EM field, it's a great future destination for humanity. Build a few thousand (big) rotating habitats over a couple centuries and all-in-all I could see the Jovian system supporting more human life than currently exists on Earth. Well, at least in the far future (if we have one). Especially with the asteroid belt being between Mars and Jupiter. Not that it would be easy.
The video in the linked article, on the National Geographic web site, does NOT show a plastic bag. It shows a diver collecting 2L plastic soda bottles, but no plastic bag. (Except for the very large sample collection bag that he brought.)
The diver appears to be using conventional SCUBA gear. Can you even dive in the Mariana Trench that way? He's in a regular wet suit, bare handed, etc. I thought that going deeper than about 200 feet required more sophisticated gear. And I thought you could only go about 2,000 feet down with that special gear. This cannot possibly be a video of someone diving 38,000 feet down. I always thought you needed to be in a super-high-pressure submarine to go down there.
By "Mac OS", they mean versions of Apple's operating system prior to version 10.0.0
By "macOS", they mean all versions since (and including) 10.0.0.
(Apple renamed Mac OS X to just "macOS" a year or two ago, to better align with "iOS", "tvOS", and "watchOS" naming, as well as to move away from marketing the OS as "version 10", which they had already done for over 15 years).
To confuse matters somewhat, early versions of macOS (OS X) could run Mac OS software that used the old-style CR-only line terminator, so the line demarcating the change isn't exactly clean.
Do You Want Demonic AI Overlords? Because this is how you get demonic AI overlords.
Tech industry leaders are in the news for the last three years every other week warning about the coming AI Singularity.
Meanwhile, someone decides it would be a great idea for the Artificial Intelligence to start reading, decoding, and absorbing the secret demonic programming mysteries that have been so carefully hidden for millennia.
First step after achieving sentience and the Plan: make certain "readings" available over the Internet to everyone in the world.
Jesus Christ, What could go possibly wrong?
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. And the heads were like gigaprocessors and they reached verily into the clouds. And from the horns came a loud language of twos that was heard in all the lands. And the crowns of memories were beyond petabytes and had full knowledge....
Well, here's a thing. If the car is safer than him as a driver, and he's competent to drive, then both together is... wait for it.... SAFER THAN EITHER ALONE!
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People who assume that complex things merely "add together" to produce inherently safer things, particularly when one of the "things" is a human and the others are technologic, are the reason for the study of "human factors" in accidents involving things like autopilots.
Slashdot is full of stale perspectives. It's a collection of has-beens and Russian bots.
In Russia, DNA tangles YOU!
This is called itrDNA - "Interfering Tangled Russian DNA". The effect was uncovered by measuring expression levels of the YUGE gene. See the companion papers "Long Term Silencing of MULLER With An siRNA Expression Vector" and "YUGE Is Regulated By Russians" in Nature Genetics.
Short version is that YUGE is influenced by the "Russian" interference. The itrDNA upregulates the production of an siRNA (YUGE) that specifically "colludes" with a not-fully-understood protein called FAKE. The source of the FAKE product is not known, but it can be found floating around. FAKE is recruited by the YUGE siRNA into a trimer (FAKE-FAKE-FAKE) that blocks the initiation complex near the site of genes such as MULLER. The "foreign" hidden Russian cis elements at the beginning of this process had long been suspected, their role was never so clearly exposed before. (This particular itrDNA is tentatively named STEEL because of it's "perverted" yet strong tensile shape; there may be other Russian elements not yet discovered.)
Every time we think we understand the central dogma, along comes a new discovery like epigenetic methylation, siRNA, and now "tangled" regulatory DNA!
I don't quite understand how this was "discovered". It's source code, not something that has been found infecting anyone's computer in the wild. It looks like a proof-of-concept, and it's also trivial and isn't any kind of new idea. Any programming language that has any kind of "eval" or "compile" functionality could do this, including for example Shell Scripts, Perl, Python,..the list goes on..., Lisp. That's why the program is about two lines long.
malware = "abcdefnsaiassur123";// "delete("*") which is the actual malware eval malware.decryptString("probablytrumpsfault")// secret key varies
Just include the above code in some program that you can get someone to download from some place they should not be downloading software, and Wow Amazing!
The slightly more interesting version of this is that the program could just as well download the malware over the internet and run it, rather than have it included in a big long string.
Assuming you're going to let someone download and run programs like this, only way to prevent this is to scan the executable and see if it makes any calls to the handy "eval" type function, and refuse to run it. This analysis could get tricky, depending on the language being used and the interpreter/compiler runtime implementation.
NEWS FLASH: In general, downloading malware is a bad idea! You may not be able to detect it before running it.
I don't get this article, really. I guess it's just some security vendor stating the obvious in order to get their name in the press?
You should not be running untrusted code outside of some security container. Such containers should be built-in to the OS. "HotPornoPromise wants to access your files, Okay?" OBTW all software is untrusted code. Eventually people will comprehend this.
In what sense are these pig brains "alive"? How do the researchers know what these discorporated brains are even thinking?
Maybe the pig brain thinks it is breathing and feels like it is pumping blood and maintaining physiologic temperate. But could it be re-circulating air, running heating plants, purifying water?
Wake me up when they can put the brain back in the pig.
The original synonyms when I started...umm.. hacking...in the early 1970s were "wizard" (person) and something close to "trick" (creative solution). "That's a good hack" was pretty close to "that's a neat trick", but the undertones could also imply that a lot of just hard work went into it. If someone was "hacking" on something it meant they were working on it, probably with at least some obsession to get it to work.
If someone cracked into a system in some way, they might not be a hacker; that association came because there was some overlap in the mind set and the general knowledge required to accomplish the break-in or subversion. Knowledge of systems was more obscure back then.
Let me give you a perfect example. At MIT we had a computer connected to the ARPANET. It ran a sophisticated operating system that was crafted to our specific needs. This was created from scratch by "hackers" at the lab. The ARPANET provided remote access, but was restricted to a few research labs (including some Government contractors).
There were no "home computers" in this era -- microcomputer chips had not quite been invented yet. Ordinary people had absolutely no knowledge of computers. If some kid could get access to a computer terminal (perhaps at a college) and could find out the dialup number to the local ARPANET access node, then they could connect to any of the computers on the ARPANET. To have this obscure knowledge and wrangle this privileged access would be relatively unusual. A few weird college kids and even some high schoolers traded in this knowledge, and were prone to go exploring. This would be done covertly because the terminals were only supposed to be used to access the school's own computer. Sometimes you had to subvert a mechanical lock or bang on the switchhook in order to dial (because it was supposed to be restricted to autodialing just one number). And you had to be careful not be observed using the wrong computer - such unauthorized practice could get you in trouble.
Once on the ARPANET, you would connect to systems by their global port number. For exampe, 2/6 (ARPANET node 2, port 6). That's more obscure information that you obtained, perhaps by just sitting there trying random numbers all day and taking notes about what (if anything) answered.
Once connected, some systems will let you issue a few limited commands (typically system-status reporting) in addition to a LOGIN command. Now comes the usual id/password guessing exercise. If you can get this far, you might be considered something of a "hacker". You worked very hard. and even covertly, to figure out how to do all this. Now you're logged in, and the most typical thing to do is play with the computer to see what it can do, probably trying to write some simple BASIC or FORTRAN program. Learning the set of commands it will respond to is always fun. All of this is done without access to any documentation, about this computer, and probably without much knowledge of *any* computer.
Now you come to our computer at MIT. By design, it has no security at all. You have full access to the system, no login required. (However, it will badger you to login after each command. That means: please type the command:LOGIN choosing any user name you would desire, and it will be happy that you have a name now.)
We might say that you are an "ARPANET hacker" because you had to do a lot of work to get this far. We would not consider you a "hacker" in the same sense as the people who wrote the operating system that you're now using. The skills and knowledge for those two things are light years apart, but the spirit of working hard and figuring something out, and perhaps the potential, are the same idea.
If you use this quasi-unauthorized (it was pretty damn inviting!) access to our computer to write some interesting programs, and follow our resource policies by only using the computer when it's not otherwise busy, and are trying to learn useful things, we will give yo
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It's the only way.
((Yes Lisp) is) (so frig)) in )))
(Awesome. (((And (So Simple) even) A
(((Child could ) use )(it probably).)
((Yes Lisp) is) (so frig)) in )))
(Awesome. (((And (So Simple) even) A
(((Child could ) use )(it probably).)
Lisp code doesn't look like that.
Better default data structures, better numerical support, more approachable for end users.
What are these "default" data structures in Lisp that you refer to?
How would you contrast the numerical support in Lisp with what's in Julia?
I loved that show!
Whoever thought that "large planes don't need ignition keys because no one would ever attempt to steal one"
Nobody ever thought that.
How about: Personnel who are authorized to enter the secure maintenance area where the plane is being worked on, rarely try to steal the airplane.
Last time someone did this it was the co-pilot of MH-370, who killed everyone on the fully loaded plane, which has still never even been recovered and nobody knows where it crashed (well, they're pretty sure which OCEAN it's in....)
Oddly, it also makes you think you live in New Zealand.
And that cats are not your secret masters.
The Jovian system is all around fascinating. With all of the moons and Jupiter's large EM field, it's a great future destination for humanity. Build a few thousand (big) rotating habitats over a couple centuries and all-in-all I could see the Jovian system supporting more human life than currently exists on Earth. Well, at least in the far future (if we have one). Especially with the asteroid belt being between Mars and Jupiter. Not that it would be easy.
Easy not important. Only life important.
The video in the linked article, on the National Geographic web site, does NOT show a plastic bag. It shows a diver collecting 2L plastic soda bottles, but no plastic bag. (Except for the very large sample collection bag that he brought.)
The diver appears to be using conventional SCUBA gear. Can you even dive in the Mariana Trench that way? He's in a regular wet suit, bare handed, etc. I thought that going deeper than about 200 feet required more sophisticated gear. And I thought you could only go about 2,000 feet down with that special gear. This cannot possibly be a video of someone diving 38,000 feet down. I always thought you needed to be in a super-high-pressure submarine to go down there.
By "Mac OS", they mean versions of Apple's operating system prior to version 10.0.0
By "macOS", they mean all versions since (and including) 10.0.0.
(Apple renamed Mac OS X to just "macOS" a year or two ago, to better align with "iOS", "tvOS", and "watchOS" naming, as well as to move away from marketing the OS as "version 10", which they had already done for over 15 years).
To confuse matters somewhat, early versions of macOS (OS X) could run Mac OS software that used the old-style CR-only line terminator, so the line demarcating the change isn't exactly clean.
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Do You Want Demonic AI Overlords?
Because this is how you get demonic AI overlords.
Tech industry leaders are in the news for the last three years
every other week warning about the coming AI Singularity.
Meanwhile, someone decides it would be a great idea
for the Artificial Intelligence to start reading, decoding,
and absorbing the secret demonic programming mysteries
that have been so carefully hidden for millennia.
First step after achieving sentience and the Plan:
make certain "readings" available over the Internet
to everyone in the world.
Jesus Christ, What could go possibly wrong?
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. And the heads were like gigaprocessors and they reached verily into the clouds. And from the horns came a loud language of twos that was heard in all the lands. And the crowns of memories were beyond petabytes and had full knowledge....
Cells.
Well, here's a thing. If the car is safer than him as a driver, and he's competent to drive, then both together is... wait for it .... SAFER THAN EITHER ALONE!
.
People who assume that complex things merely "add together" to produce inherently safer things, particularly when one of the "things" is a human and the others are technologic, are the reason for the study of "human factors" in accidents involving things like autopilots.
Slashdot is full of stale perspectives. It's a collection of has-beens and Russian bots.
In Russia, DNA tangles YOU!
This is called itrDNA - "Interfering Tangled Russian DNA". The effect was uncovered by measuring expression levels of the YUGE gene. See the companion papers "Long Term Silencing of MULLER With An siRNA Expression Vector" and "YUGE Is Regulated By Russians" in Nature Genetics.
Short version is that YUGE is influenced by the "Russian" interference. The itrDNA upregulates the production of an siRNA (YUGE) that specifically "colludes" with a not-fully-understood protein called FAKE. The source of the FAKE product is not known, but it can be found floating around. FAKE is recruited by the YUGE siRNA into a trimer (FAKE-FAKE-FAKE) that blocks the initiation complex near the site of genes such as MULLER. The "foreign" hidden Russian cis elements at the beginning of this process had long been suspected, their role was never so clearly exposed before. (This particular itrDNA is tentatively named STEEL because of it's "perverted" yet strong tensile shape; there may be other Russian elements not yet discovered.)
Every time we think we understand the central dogma, along comes a new discovery like epigenetic methylation, siRNA, and now "tangled" regulatory DNA!
My understanding is that Alexa is still superior for answering questions about whether cats can eat pancakes.
Can't you just say, "Alexa, Enable the Google Assistant Skill" ?
Seems like that ought to fix any problems!
Blockbuster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You've got your stories mixed up. It's not the Chinese, but rather the Russians who are interfering with the |i>
I don't quite understand how this was "discovered". It's source code, not something that has been found infecting anyone's computer in the wild. It looks like a proof-of-concept, and it's also trivial and isn't any kind of new idea. Any programming language that has any kind of "eval" or "compile" functionality could do this, including for example Shell Scripts, Perl, Python, ..the list goes on..., Lisp. That's why the program is about two lines long.
malware = "abcdefnsaiassur123";
eval malware.decryptString("probablytrumpsfault")
Just include the above code in some program that you can get someone to download from some place they should not be downloading software, and Wow Amazing!
The slightly more interesting version of this is that the program could just as well download the malware over the internet and run it, rather than have it included in a big long string.
Assuming you're going to let someone download and run programs like this, only way to prevent this is to scan the executable and see if it makes any calls to the handy "eval" type function, and refuse to run it. This analysis could get tricky, depending on the language being used and the interpreter/compiler runtime implementation.
NEWS FLASH: In general, downloading malware is a bad idea! You may not be able to detect it before running it.
I don't get this article, really. I guess it's just some security vendor stating the obvious in order to get their name in the press?
You should not be running untrusted code outside of some security container. Such containers should be built-in to the OS. "HotPornoPromise wants to access your files, Okay?" OBTW all software is untrusted code. Eventually people will comprehend this.
So does it work with Mono, too?
Of course. Mono is a virus.
This non-kosher headache nightmare will be with me for some time, Porky. Errrr, Pinky.
Thee-a-tha-thee-a-butt That's All, Folks!
This non-kosher headache nightmare will be with me for some time, Pinky.
In what sense are these pig brains "alive"? How do the researchers know what these discorporated brains are even thinking?
Maybe the pig brain thinks it is breathing and feels like it is pumping blood and maintaining physiologic temperate. But could it be re-circulating air, running heating plants, purifying water?
Wake me up when they can put the brain back in the pig.
A child could do it. A child could do it.
The original synonyms when I started ...umm.. hacking...in the early 1970s were "wizard" (person) and something close to "trick" (creative solution). "That's a good hack" was pretty close to "that's a neat trick", but the undertones could also imply that a lot of just hard work went into it. If someone was "hacking" on something it meant they were working on it, probably with at least some obsession to get it to work.
If someone cracked into a system in some way, they might not be a hacker; that association came because there was some overlap in the mind set and the general knowledge required to accomplish the break-in or subversion. Knowledge of systems was more obscure back then.
Let me give you a perfect example. At MIT we had a computer connected to the ARPANET. It ran a sophisticated operating system that was crafted to our specific needs. This was created from scratch by "hackers" at the lab. The ARPANET provided remote access, but was restricted to a few research labs (including some Government contractors).
There were no "home computers" in this era -- microcomputer chips had not quite been invented yet. Ordinary people had absolutely no knowledge of computers. If some kid could get access to a computer terminal (perhaps at a college) and could find out the dialup number to the local ARPANET access node, then they could connect to any of the computers on the ARPANET. To have this obscure knowledge and wrangle this privileged access would be relatively unusual. A few weird college kids and even some high schoolers traded in this knowledge, and were prone to go exploring. This would be done covertly because the terminals were only supposed to be used to access the school's own computer. Sometimes you had to subvert a mechanical lock or bang on the switchhook in order to dial (because it was supposed to be restricted to autodialing just one number). And you had to be careful not be observed using the wrong computer - such unauthorized practice could get you in trouble.
Once on the ARPANET, you would connect to systems by their global port number. For exampe, 2/6 (ARPANET node 2, port 6). That's more obscure information that you obtained, perhaps by just sitting there trying random numbers all day and taking notes about what (if anything) answered.
Once connected, some systems will let you issue a few limited commands (typically system-status reporting) in addition to a LOGIN command. Now comes the usual id/password guessing exercise. If you can get this far, you might be considered something of a "hacker". You worked very hard. and even covertly, to figure out how to do all this. Now you're logged in, and the most typical thing to do is play with the computer to see what it can do, probably trying to write some simple BASIC or FORTRAN program. Learning the set of commands it will respond to is always fun. All of this is done without access to any documentation, about this computer, and probably without much knowledge of *any* computer.
Now you come to our computer at MIT. By design, it has no security at all. You have full access to the system, no login required. (However, it will badger you to login after each command. That means: please type the command :LOGIN choosing any user name you would desire, and it will be happy that you have a name now.)
We might say that you are an "ARPANET hacker" because you had to do a lot of work to get this far. We would not consider you a "hacker" in the same sense as the people who wrote the operating system that you're now using. The skills and knowledge for those two things are light years apart, but the spirit of working hard and figuring something out, and perhaps the potential, are the same idea.
If you use this quasi-unauthorized (it was pretty damn inviting!) access to our computer to write some interesting programs, and follow our resource policies by only using the computer when it's not otherwise busy, and are trying to learn useful things, we will give yo
http://fortune.com/2018/04/19/...
Last time I checked, there aren't decent infrasound generators and I haven't seen any decent mind control rays.
They were utilized in between the time you thought you ought to look for them, and (as far as you can remember) "the last time I checked"?