I'm fairly certain you're remembering a Peter Watts novel; IIRC that's from Starfish (or possibly the sequel Maelstrom?)
There was a story here last week about some researchers who'd managed to 3D print a turtle that would be reliably misidentified as a rifle, despite not actually looking anything like one. These remind me that AI don't really work the way Hollywood (or even sci-fi) would typically want them to.
Can anyone explain why Amazon even allows users to set up databases with no passwords? It seems to me that this type of leak happens monthly, if not more frequently. Surely the bad press Amazon gets by association is enough by itself for them to make passwords mandatory? I truly do not understand how this keeps happening again and again and again.
When I replaced the battery in my Nexus 4 a few years back, I was convinced that _everything_ available was a fake (despite them all touting their "ORIGINAL", "GENUINE", "OEM", etc. status).
I'd have paid 40$ or so for something from a clearly official source, but ended up having to settle for a 10$ China-shipped fake.
Yeah! If they don't go from standard taxis immediately to un-manned cars and firing their drivers in a weekend, then how can we possibly take them seriously?
I couldn't find any information on _when_ this was likely to have happened. I use 1/2 that list at home and the office, but haven't updated any in a few weeks at least, so I'd like to check that out.
I'd much rather they fixed their stupid comment system, since it infects other websites with it's presence. As a single father working on my laptop, they use up the time I could be spending making 500$ a week from home! [click here]
Start with _this_ math - take your average page views per day, multiply it by $.001 to find how much websites are making per day by making your web browsing experience miserable. It's a piddly number _even_ for a lowly intern making minimum wage.
Then absolutely yes think about other ways a site can generate that kind of revenue, 'cause they need to use them. Patreon comes to mind for a start.
"The exploit was created by Todor Donev, member of a Bulgarian security research outfit called Ethical Hacker[...]" "Donev did not report the vulnerability to D-Link and as far as he knows it is currently a zero-day[...]"
I don't think that word means what you think it means.:-/
Wiki here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I'm sure someone can explain this... to me it sounds like an attempt to invent a new generic credit card that uses an existing popular financial transaction network.
He had done nothing at that point, he had made no plans to do anything[...]
It might not be in the particular article linked above, but this guy was using police databases to research a bunch of women. I'm certainly not happy leaving people like that to their own devices.
No kidding. My Synology NAS had a same-day update to patch this - my custom router firmware needed updating too. If there's a story for every device someone forgot might contain OpenSSL code, it's going to be a busy month.
After being incredibly turned off by "reality" shows that contain no reality at all ("Dangerous Flights" is the most egregious example I've seen lately), I was totally absorbed by Penny Arcade's low-budget reality show offering of Strip Search last year. (The site is slightly misorganized, but you can find stuff if you try).
The show was a dozen web comic artists in competition. The premise of a single artist being funded and supported by Penny Arcade for a year was motivational, and the simple act of appearing in an episode granted even the entrants ousted first an audience for their work. While it was clear the producers provided for the possibility of backstabbing and conflict, they didn't go out of their way to insert any, and in the end the show was all the better for it. I'd actually put PA's Strip Search above 90% of professional, high-budget, high-production-values TV series.
My point being, it's totally possible to structure an interesting show where game dev competition is friendly and rewarding for all, and producers with zero-sum on the brain don't exist. It just hasn't been made yet, apparently.
Sure. 'cept of course the one on Surveyor 3 that Apollo 12 brought back. The one that famously (but, I now see, apparently controversially) had viable bacteria in it after 2.5 years on the moon.
And I built 1 system with an OCZ Petrol and it vaporized the partitions 6 months later, so that's 100%. I think luck had more to do with success than anything.
I actually _was_ surprised to get a replacement Vertex 4 fairly quickly, which reminds me I should open it and flash it while the firmwares are still easy to get.
What is "unstable code" and how can a compiler leave it out?
The article is actually using that as an abbreviation for what they're calling "optimization-unstable code", or code that is included at some specified compiler optimization levels, but discarded at higher levels. Basically they think it's unstable due to being included or not randomly, not because the code itself necessarily results in random behaviour.
This was a standard clinical study with 100 fully-aware participants trying to improve PTSD diagnosis to help the incidents of suicide and psychological issues in returning vets. You've got plenty of other things to gripe about with PATRIOT / PRISM / etc., but for crying out loud this isn't one of them.
Or wipes out competing plants entirely. I read a book last month by Paolo Bacigalupi called The Windup Girl which involved a world where multinational conglomerates owned the genetic codes for engineered plants, and engineered plants were all that was left.
Pretty scary that things are getting even this close to that.
They don't get it. The people who block your content in-line can send you back any page they choose, including a 404.
Of course they can. The idea is that those doing the blocking have been forced to do so, and thus can use this alternate error page to distinguish these cases, and show their users how much of the internet they're missing due to government intervention. A standard 404 could be legitimate, and isn't going to help garner any group support for open-ness.
It's really for stolen phones.. just like the kill switch for the internet was for emergency purposes. This has nothing whatsoever to do with cutting off people's means of communicating effectively with each other.
Don't be asinine. Your cellphone can already be tracked, tapped, disabled, folded, spindled and mutilated. What this is about is centralising and sharing information about stolen phones so that the utility of stolen phones diminishes to the point that you walking around with an iPhone doesn't look like an easy 200$ target to ne'er-do-wells.
On my home network, I use the private 24-bit block 10.x.x.x, in case I buy more than 16 million devices. Is the article saying that they decided to map public IPs they didn't own to internal devices? Notwithstanding the confusion such cases like the above would cause, this bank could conceivably leak banking data out to that Chinese ISP!
All the articles I can find are equally uninformative.
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Too right. I need to contact my MP.
I'm fairly certain you're remembering a Peter Watts novel; IIRC that's from Starfish (or possibly the sequel Maelstrom?)
There was a story here last week about some researchers who'd managed to 3D print a turtle that would be reliably misidentified as a rifle, despite not actually looking anything like one. These remind me that AI don't really work the way Hollywood (or even sci-fi) would typically want them to.
Can anyone explain why Amazon even allows users to set up databases with no passwords? It seems to me that this type of leak happens monthly, if not more frequently. Surely the bad press Amazon gets by association is enough by itself for them to make passwords mandatory? I truly do not understand how this keeps happening again and again and again.
When I replaced the battery in my Nexus 4 a few years back, I was convinced that _everything_ available was a fake (despite them all touting their "ORIGINAL", "GENUINE", "OEM", etc. status).
I'd have paid 40$ or so for something from a clearly official source, but ended up having to settle for a 10$ China-shipped fake.
Where can I buy a Chinese yoyo factory? I'm gonna be rich!
Yeah! If they don't go from standard taxis immediately to un-manned cars and firing their drivers in a weekend, then how can we possibly take them seriously?
I couldn't find any information on _when_ this was likely to have happened. I use 1/2 that list at home and the office, but haven't updated any in a few weeks at least, so I'd like to check that out.
I'd much rather they fixed their stupid comment system, since it infects other websites with it's presence. As a single father working on my laptop, they use up the time I could be spending making 500$ a week from home! [click here]
Start with _this_ math - take your average page views per day, multiply it by $.001 to find how much websites are making per day by making your web browsing experience miserable. It's a piddly number _even_ for a lowly intern making minimum wage.
Then absolutely yes think about other ways a site can generate that kind of revenue, 'cause they need to use them. Patreon comes to mind for a start.
"The exploit was created by Todor Donev, member of a Bulgarian security research outfit called Ethical Hacker[...]"
"Donev did not report the vulnerability to D-Link and as far as he knows it is currently a zero-day[...]"
I don't think that word means what you think it means. :-/
Wiki here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm sure someone can explain this... to me it sounds like an attempt to invent a new generic credit card that uses an existing popular financial transaction network.
He had done nothing at that point, he had made no plans to do anything[...]
It might not be in the particular article linked above, but this guy was using police databases to research a bunch of women. I'm certainly not happy leaving people like that to their own devices.
News: Not just webservers use OpenSSL!
No kidding. My Synology NAS had a same-day update to patch this - my custom router firmware needed updating too. If there's a story for every device someone forgot might contain OpenSSL code, it's going to be a busy month.
After being incredibly turned off by "reality" shows that contain no reality at all ("Dangerous Flights" is the most egregious example I've seen lately), I was totally absorbed by Penny Arcade's low-budget reality show offering of Strip Search last year. (The site is slightly misorganized, but you can find stuff if you try).
The show was a dozen web comic artists in competition. The premise of a single artist being funded and supported by Penny Arcade for a year was motivational, and the simple act of appearing in an episode granted even the entrants ousted first an audience for their work. While it was clear the producers provided for the possibility of backstabbing and conflict, they didn't go out of their way to insert any, and in the end the show was all the better for it. I'd actually put PA's Strip Search above 90% of professional, high-budget, high-production-values TV series.
My point being, it's totally possible to structure an interesting show where game dev competition is friendly and rewarding for all, and producers with zero-sum on the brain don't exist. It just hasn't been made yet, apparently.
Sure. 'cept of course the one on Surveyor 3 that Apollo 12 brought back. The one that famously (but, I now see, apparently controversially) had viable bacteria in it after 2.5 years on the moon.
That's fantastic, 'cause I'll definitely pay $0.0006 to not see an ad. Someone show me how to buy up all my personal pageviews.
And I built 1 system with an OCZ Petrol and it vaporized the partitions 6 months later, so that's 100%. I think luck had more to do with success than anything.
I actually _was_ surprised to get a replacement Vertex 4 fairly quickly, which reminds me I should open it and flash it while the firmwares are still easy to get.
What is "unstable code" and how can a compiler leave it out?
The article is actually using that as an abbreviation for what they're calling "optimization-unstable code", or code that is included at some specified compiler optimization levels, but discarded at higher levels. Basically they think it's unstable due to being included or not randomly, not because the code itself necessarily results in random behaviour.
it can spy on what you say!!!
Seriously, if my phone is compromised, everything else is pretty much moot.
This was a standard clinical study with 100 fully-aware participants trying to improve PTSD diagnosis to help the incidents of suicide and psychological issues in returning vets. You've got plenty of other things to gripe about with PATRIOT / PRISM / etc., but for crying out loud this isn't one of them.
Because it's been promised for years.
Or wipes out competing plants entirely. I read a book last month by Paolo Bacigalupi called The Windup Girl which involved a world where multinational conglomerates owned the genetic codes for engineered plants, and engineered plants were all that was left.
Pretty scary that things are getting even this close to that.
They don't get it. The people who block your content in-line can send you back any page they choose, including a 404.
Of course they can. The idea is that those doing the blocking have been forced to do so, and thus can use this alternate error page to distinguish these cases, and show their users how much of the internet they're missing due to government intervention.
A standard 404 could be legitimate, and isn't going to help garner any group support for open-ness.
It's really for stolen phones .. just like the kill switch for the internet was for emergency purposes. This has nothing whatsoever to do with cutting off people's means of communicating effectively with each other.
Don't be asinine. Your cellphone can already be tracked, tapped, disabled, folded, spindled and mutilated. What this is about is centralising and sharing information about stolen phones so that the utility of stolen phones diminishes to the point that you walking around with an iPhone doesn't look like an easy 200$ target to ne'er-do-wells.
On my home network, I use the private 24-bit block 10.x.x.x, in case I buy more than 16 million devices. Is the article saying that they decided to map public IPs they didn't own to internal devices? Notwithstanding the confusion such cases like the above would cause, this bank could conceivably leak banking data out to that Chinese ISP!
All the articles I can find are equally uninformative.