Rather telling that once someone in China gets rich, the first thing they do is look for a way to move their money out of reach of Communism. It's like they don't have any faith in their government or something...
I sure hope they get all the alphabet soup agencies to register their black ops stealthy drones armed with laser guide munitions that are flying illegal off book kill missions over failed states.
Because, honestly those are the only ones worth worrying about. Who even gives a fuck about the retired guy who flys his 24" p-51 replica every Saturday at the local municipal soccer field? Amateur enthusiasts aren't really a problem. I'm not worried about actors like Amazon flying drones, they are going to be very safe about them because they don't want to get sued. Its just cops and military I worry about and they aren't going to register shit.
Elon has got the government to pony up a few billion for his ideas, I am guessing that you have got the government to pony up about $0 for yours. So yes, he has some talent at business.
I'd have given you a +1 if I had any right now. I am a little sad that this post got modded down, because while it isn't lending much to the depth of the discussion here on/., it is probably what Elon needs to be told.
I have made posts about this before, but Elon is talented in running big businesses, not in AI research. At this point he is just approaching crank territory with his hysteric claims about the impending 'bot-pocalyps'. He is using his position of celebrity to promote theories that he has really no understanding of. (His degrees are physics and business)
He is rather similar to another 'beloved' celebrity idiot that likes to talk about nothing she has any authority to speak on: Remember Jenny McCarthy and Vacations? How is Elon really any different than Jenny? Neither are remotely qualified to speak authoritatively about their respective pet theories.
So, Elon, if you or any of your friends or flunkies happens on this post by chance, please take this message to heart: STFU and stick to talking about things that you know about.
Moot point. The idea that a multi-billion dollar multi national corp can be completely controlled by a small group of leaders is just silly. Sure the CEO and board can steer the company in a given direction, but if some middle manager 10 steps removed from the c-levels decides to do something 'evil' (whatever that means) or at least morally questionable, they aren't going to find out until it hits the front page and lawyers are filing subpoenas.
If this is true, it begs the question: why is the NSA looking for Satoshi? Where are the warrants to do this kind of search? This is a fairly involved process, even if the software was already written, collecting the entirety of Satoshi's writing for input is time consuming work.
As a taxpayer, there be something pretty fuckin important they need to ask Satoshi personally to justify this waste of my tax money.
Using a taser on someone who is unarmed? Is that really necessary?
Apparently talking and patience are too much to expect of police officers. I find it hard to believe that many people are initiating physical assaults on cops, it seems like these are cases where a cop decides that just talking things out isn't cutting it, and they need to cuff the drunken frat boy staggering around at 2 am RIGHT NOW.
TLDR? From the first paragraph of the wikipedia summary:The law prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization.
Putting file on a computer for the purpose of an unrequested upgrade certainly seems to be 'in excess of authorization', especially when you factor in the several million counts of it. The people who authorized this decision are CRIMINALS.
Why not? I use it for all my projects, if for no other reason than to not be this guy. If I delete all my local code, its on a server and multiple other systems. it is cheap, simple and keeps everything in sync.
I have had non-coder friends who have heard about git, and asked if it would work for non-code digital assets. (Pictures, e-books, music, etc).
I like to keep my guns loaded, chambered and hidden throughout the house...where I'm never but a few steps away from any weapon that I can grab, and pull the trigger on (some do have safety on, but the glocks do not).
Sweet Jesus, are you that paranoid that someone wants to come take your shit? What is going on with you mentally that you have multiple guns, cocked and loaded all over your house? What is wrong with you, why are you so scared of everything?
An interesting fact mentioned is the use of the engine from an F-18. Fighter jet engines aren't very fuel efficient, they are fast. (Not an aeronautical engineer, but) I have read that the reason commercial jet engines are so large is because they are fan jets. They suck in a huge amount of air and bypass the main engine. The more air you suck through the main engine, the more fuel you can burn and you go faster. The large bypass allows slow jet planes to cruise along at 500mph while sipping gas.
So with all that in mind, is the barrier to selling a lot of supersonic jet tickets really the sonic booms? The Concorde didn't go under because it was annoying too many transatlantic tanker crews with sonic booms. I may not be fully informed, but this seems like a dumb business plan if you are just trying to solve the audio problem.
An interesting alternative: It is NASA, they do work with the military on occasion. Perhaps this is a research project that can apply to supersonic military aircraft in an effort to make them more stealthy. If you are invisible to radar, but everybody hears you once you punch the throttle, you have wasted a lot of green on stealth technology. So, for maximum stealth, you need to fly slow. This type of tech would solve that, and I can see the military spending hundreds of million on R&D to solve that problem.
An F-18 engine is exactly the sort of engine I would test with if I planned on introducing this technology to next generation military aircraft.
The vendor continues to insert their own ads and has been withholding the advertising revenue from us.
How is this not outright theft? If they are failing to pay you money they are contractually obligated to pay, wouldn't that invalidate the contract, or put them in an actionable position for damages?
The worst thing about Ayn Rand is that dumb people latch onto her crazy ideas and think that they are actually rationally sound. Her prose was terrible, but I really like her as a writer, because anytime someone starts talking about Atlas Shrugged I know I can just ignore the person. It's sort of like a big sign that says, 'I am not worth talking to' hanging over their head.
Where it goes off the rails is that every single person involved knows that the carriers can't be trusted to appropriately prioritize traffic
In short, network engineers can be trusted with QoS flags because they care about optimizing the network, where suits cannot because they care about optimizing profits.
Google Glass for every day knuckleheads on the street just wasn't a useful thing, which is why it died.
No the reason it 'died' was because luddites like yourself were being abusive about it. 'Glassholes', really? What did technology ever do to you? I bet there were a bunch of old people that said the same thing about cell phones when they came out a few decades back.
I dont know any better than you what will become the killer app for this hardware, but there will be something cool that people do with this. I am going to keep an open mind and wait and see.
Dev: "I lied on my resume; I said I worked for Google as a senior developer, but it was really a call center job with a company called 'Googe' that produces fake semen for German fetish parties."
So....is this product, is is available for import?
Why replace it at all? Why not just introduce new features into the c compilers, language, and libraries that just identify and correct bad patterns and practices? Why is it that we need to replace the language at all? The whole point of putting logic in software is that it can be changed relatively easily.
You are clearly being stupid. In 8 years, we will all share ubers that are self-driving boats. There are two SF startups that were just created for this very purpose just as I typed this. You just don't understand how the Technologies!
The NSA (and other ABC agencies that are undoubtedly running the same game plan) are doing what they are tasked with, finding ways to protect America and America's interests. Using hacking as a tool to this end is (relatively) new in the old game pf spycraft, so there are going to be a few epic disasters like this before the black ops people start to figure out all the types of blow back they can experience. The US was really big on foreign covert action in the 50's, and it took the bay of pigs to make people realize that there were ways that things could go horribly wrong. That didn't stop covert action from being used, but I think it was employed more carefully afterwards. Having all their shiny hacking toys stolen and having this happen is the hacking version of the 'Bay of Pigs'.
Also, while the NSA seems to have compiled a formidable array of exploits and tools to compromise enemy systems, that doesn't mean that everyone else isn't playing the exact same game. The only difference between the NSA and EVERY other state intelligence agency on the planet is that they seem to be able to properly secure their black ops toys. Being one of the largest agencies of this sort, there are going to be a lot of people in the know. And the more people involved, the harder it is to keep a secret.
Mind you, that doesn't make this any less tragic or regrettable. I sort of hope the CIA decides that it is in the US interest to find and vanish anyone connected with this ransomware to make an example of them. Alas, that sort of thing only happens in implausible Hollywood scripts.
If the court knew it was a reenactment then that's one thing, but if the officer attempted to pass-off the footage as legitimate then he needs to be found in-contempt.
Has making false statements to police ever been used against the police? Seems that it should qualify if an officer lies about the circumstances in official reports.
Fuck the reports, isn't it an outright felony to lie under oath in court? I know that it is for a Senate inquiry, what is the exact charge for this in a federal court? Perjury? Evidence tampering?
If I was a judge and anyone (defense, prosecution, cops) tried this sort of shit in my court, I would go medieval on their ass...
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Rather telling that once someone in China gets rich, the first thing they do is look for a way to move their money out of reach of Communism. It's like they don't have any faith in their government or something...
I sure hope they get all the alphabet soup agencies to register their black ops stealthy drones armed with laser guide munitions that are flying illegal off book kill missions over failed states.
Because, honestly those are the only ones worth worrying about. Who even gives a fuck about the retired guy who flys his 24" p-51 replica every Saturday at the local municipal soccer field? Amateur enthusiasts aren't really a problem. I'm not worried about actors like Amazon flying drones, they are going to be very safe about them because they don't want to get sued. Its just cops and military I worry about and they aren't going to register shit.
Elon has got the government to pony up a few billion for his ideas, I am guessing that you have got the government to pony up about $0 for yours. So yes, he has some talent at business.
Elon, shut the fuck up.
/., it is probably what Elon needs to be told.
I'd have given you a +1 if I had any right now. I am a little sad that this post got modded down, because while it isn't lending much to the depth of the discussion here on
I have made posts about this before, but Elon is talented in running big businesses, not in AI research. At this point he is just approaching crank territory with his hysteric claims about the impending 'bot-pocalyps'. He is using his position of celebrity to promote theories that he has really no understanding of. (His degrees are physics and business)
He is rather similar to another 'beloved' celebrity idiot that likes to talk about nothing she has any authority to speak on: Remember Jenny McCarthy and Vacations? How is Elon really any different than Jenny? Neither are remotely qualified to speak authoritatively about their respective pet theories.
So, Elon, if you or any of your friends or flunkies happens on this post by chance, please take this message to heart: STFU and stick to talking about things that you know about.
Moot point. The idea that a multi-billion dollar multi national corp can be completely controlled by a small group of leaders is just silly. Sure the CEO and board can steer the company in a given direction, but if some middle manager 10 steps removed from the c-levels decides to do something 'evil' (whatever that means) or at least morally questionable, they aren't going to find out until it hits the front page and lawyers are filing subpoenas.
If this is true, it begs the question: why is the NSA looking for Satoshi? Where are the warrants to do this kind of search? This is a fairly involved process, even if the software was already written, collecting the entirety of Satoshi's writing for input is time consuming work.
As a taxpayer, there be something pretty fuckin important they need to ask Satoshi personally to justify this waste of my tax money.
Using a taser on someone who is unarmed? Is that really necessary?
Apparently talking and patience are too much to expect of police officers. I find it hard to believe that many people are initiating physical assaults on cops, it seems like these are cases where a cop decides that just talking things out isn't cutting it, and they need to cuff the drunken frat boy staggering around at 2 am RIGHT NOW.
'In unrelated news, Amazon announces a new adult streaming service, featuring over 200 million gigabytes of content.'
...is a LOT of hand lotion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
TLDR? From the first paragraph of the wikipedia summary:The law prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization.
Putting file on a computer for the purpose of an unrequested upgrade certainly seems to be 'in excess of authorization', especially when you factor in the several million counts of it. The people who authorized this decision are CRIMINALS.
This guy is clearly a moron, but there are a lot of morons out there, and software should be designed with that in mind.
"When you make your code moron proof, they just build better morons..." - Tigger the Mad's axiom of programming #4
A single developer shouldn't be using git.
Why not? I use it for all my projects, if for no other reason than to not be this guy. If I delete all my local code, its on a server and multiple other systems. it is cheap, simple and keeps everything in sync.
I have had non-coder friends who have heard about git, and asked if it would work for non-code digital assets. (Pictures, e-books, music, etc).
I like to keep my guns loaded, chambered and hidden throughout the house...where I'm never but a few steps away from any weapon that I can grab, and pull the trigger on (some do have safety on, but the glocks do not).
Sweet Jesus, are you that paranoid that someone wants to come take your shit? What is going on with you mentally that you have multiple guns, cocked and loaded all over your house? What is wrong with you, why are you so scared of everything?
An interesting fact mentioned is the use of the engine from an F-18. Fighter jet engines aren't very fuel efficient, they are fast. (Not an aeronautical engineer, but) I have read that the reason commercial jet engines are so large is because they are fan jets. They suck in a huge amount of air and bypass the main engine. The more air you suck through the main engine, the more fuel you can burn and you go faster. The large bypass allows slow jet planes to cruise along at 500mph while sipping gas.
So with all that in mind, is the barrier to selling a lot of supersonic jet tickets really the sonic booms? The Concorde didn't go under because it was annoying too many transatlantic tanker crews with sonic booms. I may not be fully informed, but this seems like a dumb business plan if you are just trying to solve the audio problem.
An interesting alternative: It is NASA, they do work with the military on occasion. Perhaps this is a research project that can apply to supersonic military aircraft in an effort to make them more stealthy. If you are invisible to radar, but everybody hears you once you punch the throttle, you have wasted a lot of green on stealth technology. So, for maximum stealth, you need to fly slow. This type of tech would solve that, and I can see the military spending hundreds of million on R&D to solve that problem.
An F-18 engine is exactly the sort of engine I would test with if I planned on introducing this technology to next generation military aircraft.
The vendor continues to insert their own ads and has been withholding the advertising revenue from us.
How is this not outright theft? If they are failing to pay you money they are contractually obligated to pay, wouldn't that invalidate the contract, or put them in an actionable position for damages?
The worst thing about Ayn Rand is that dumb people latch onto her crazy ideas and think that they are actually rationally sound. Her prose was terrible, but I really like her as a writer, because anytime someone starts talking about Atlas Shrugged I know I can just ignore the person. It's sort of like a big sign that says, 'I am not worth talking to' hanging over their head.
There is a whole new generation of Slashdot users who don't know what the fuck they are doing.
As opposed to the older generation of Slashdot users who know what the fuck they are doing, but are too senile to remember it.
I'm part of the middle group who are just plain stoopid. Huzzah!
Where it goes off the rails is that every single person involved knows that the carriers can't be trusted to appropriately prioritize traffic
In short, network engineers can be trusted with QoS flags because they care about optimizing the network, where suits cannot because they care about optimizing profits.
Google Glass for every day knuckleheads on the street just wasn't a useful thing, which is why it died.
No the reason it 'died' was because luddites like yourself were being abusive about it. 'Glassholes', really? What did technology ever do to you? I bet there were a bunch of old people that said the same thing about cell phones when they came out a few decades back.
I dont know any better than you what will become the killer app for this hardware, but there will be something cool that people do with this. I am going to keep an open mind and wait and see.
Dev: "I lied on my resume; I said I worked for Google as a senior developer, but it was really a call center job with a company called 'Googe' that produces fake semen for German fetish parties."
So....is this product, is is available for import?
Why replace it at all? Why not just introduce new features into the c compilers, language, and libraries that just identify and correct bad patterns and practices? Why is it that we need to replace the language at all? The whole point of putting logic in software is that it can be changed relatively easily.
I am curious how this is going to not constitute destruction of criminal evidence when the first court case goes before a judge...
You are clearly being stupid. In 8 years, we will all share ubers that are self-driving boats. There are two SF startups that were just created for this very purpose just as I typed this. You just don't understand how the Technologies!
The NSA (and other ABC agencies that are undoubtedly running the same game plan) are doing what they are tasked with, finding ways to protect America and America's interests. Using hacking as a tool to this end is (relatively) new in the old game pf spycraft, so there are going to be a few epic disasters like this before the black ops people start to figure out all the types of blow back they can experience. The US was really big on foreign covert action in the 50's, and it took the bay of pigs to make people realize that there were ways that things could go horribly wrong. That didn't stop covert action from being used, but I think it was employed more carefully afterwards. Having all their shiny hacking toys stolen and having this happen is the hacking version of the 'Bay of Pigs'.
Also, while the NSA seems to have compiled a formidable array of exploits and tools to compromise enemy systems, that doesn't mean that everyone else isn't playing the exact same game. The only difference between the NSA and EVERY other state intelligence agency on the planet is that they seem to be able to properly secure their black ops toys. Being one of the largest agencies of this sort, there are going to be a lot of people in the know. And the more people involved, the harder it is to keep a secret.
Mind you, that doesn't make this any less tragic or regrettable. I sort of hope the CIA decides that it is in the US interest to find and vanish anyone connected with this ransomware to make an example of them. Alas, that sort of thing only happens in implausible Hollywood scripts.
Has making false statements to police ever been used against the police? Seems that it should qualify if an officer lies about the circumstances in official reports.
Fuck the reports, isn't it an outright felony to lie under oath in court? I know that it is for a Senate inquiry, what is the exact charge for this in a federal court? Perjury? Evidence tampering?
If I was a judge and anyone (defense, prosecution, cops) tried this sort of shit in my court, I would go medieval on their ass...