1) War. You use this weapon in battle. We are most familiar with this class. Guns, tanks, bombs, planes, etc.
2)Bluff. This category includes things like nuclear weapons. No (sane) person wants to use these. Most Americans currently alive, wish it had not been necessary to use them in WWII.
How do you think the American people will react when they finally learn that, after the first nuke, the Japanese were actively trying to surrender and the US ignored that and went and nuked them again?
Theres no excuse for nuking babies, especially when their government is trying to surrender to you.
They're publishing it because they stole it from the United States and want to gloat a bit over it.
And the US can't even admit that it was stolen from them, can't claim any credit for it because its so heavily classified. And now everyone in the world can look at this super secret classified tech and start finding holes in it. Go China!
I've always found the term "morbidly obese" to be funny. Sounds like the name of one of those Scandinavian death metal bands. Imagine four or five fat-assed guys jamming on a stage and the stage collapsing from the weight.
I've often wondered if truly fat people don't create a seal when they sit on the toilet. Do they have to lean to one side to break the seal. Psssssssssssssssttttttttttt!!!!!
Its funny you should mention this but toilets in North America seem quite unsuited to 'Murcan arses.
For one thing the outlet hole, thru which the poopy leaves the toilet bowl, is extremely tiny, just a few cm diameter. Surely the gargantuan meals these people eat produces matching gargantuan turds. Almost all toilets in North America have a plunger sitting right next to them. That shows forward thinking!
For another thing, unlike toilets in eg the UK, the outlet pipe goes down through the floor. Now, in the UK the toilet has an S-bend and the outlet pipe comes out the back of the toilet and connects through a flexible fitting to a pipe in the wall, so when you sit on the toilet your weight is supported by the toilet itself which is securely bolted to the floor.
In North America this outlet pipe on the floor is more or less flush to the ground and has a flange which you connect to the matching flange on the bottom of the toilet, presumably with some sealant to form a gasket. The thing is that when you sit on the toilet your entire weight is pressing down onto this gasket. Any slight movement to one side or the other can cause the gasket to come unsealed.
Got a citation for the claim that felons voting to legalize their crimes was a problem in the past?
Because the way I see it, if there is such a broad danger that a crime won't be a crime if there are enough criminals to support removing it from law, then perhaps it shouldn't be a crime.
Or putting it another way, if criminals can form enough of a voting bloc to where they make for a significant impact on politics, then perhaps we have made crimes of too many behaviors.
You are missing the point of the law. The whole purpose of the law is to ensure that everyone is guilty of something.
The goddam botnets are smart enough to change IP addresses at random, and often.
It's Whack-a-Mole.
Theres even another level of indirection; in reflection attacks you, the recipient of the attack, gets to see the IP addresses of the machines used as reflectors. You don't get to see the IP addresses of the machines used to trigger those reflections. Only the people hosting the reflector get to see the these.
In practice, making fake fingers is not terribly hard. But shoulder-surfing PINs is even easier. Which is more secure? That depends on who you're trying to protect your data from. The FBI absolutely will make fake fingers and unlock your phone, but they may not have an opportunity to shoulder surf a PIN. Advantage: PIN. Your suspicious girlfriend probably won't make fake fingers, but has ample opportunity to shoulder surf you. Advantage: fingerprint.
The reasoning goes; you can change your PIN every day, even several times per day. Fingerprints not so much. Advantage PIN.
State actors or malicious mischief? That is the real question.
We shall see.
If these guys suddenly start getting payments of just over US$10,000 into their bank accounts, which are then reversed or cancelled, so that their bank is forced to close their accounts because they can't cope with the overhead of the constant stream of reporting on possible money laundering, then we'll know its a state actor.
I spent 3 months carpooling in from West Covina to LA in the HOV lane looking at all of the cars with 1 person per car enjoying their time sitting still on the freeway. Please don't tell me that there isn't a better way.
Yeah, most of those guys were literally enjoying their time sitting still on the freeway and having some personal space.
You haven't got kids, have you. Getting some alone time is bliss! Just sitting there alone in the car for a few hours and being able to legitimately claim "I got held up in traffic"...
Commercial vehicles have emissions rules and pollution controls. They don't happen to be the same as your passenger car, because first, there are many less commercial vehicles than there are passenger vehicles so as a whole they're already polluting less than in-total for passenger vehicles, and second, the rules for commercial vehicles are based around what the vehicle is expected to move.
Where I live I mostly see commercial vehicles being used as passenger vehicles; people driving their (HUGE) pickup trucks to the mall for some shopping etc.
Commercial vehicles which are actually used as such are probably outnumbered by the 'commercial vehicles' which are actually family cars.
It stinks that commercial vehicles don't have to have pollution controls.
I would very much agree with that and we should work to fix that problem. What I think stinks more is that companies will fight fixing the problem every step of the way.
The worst part is all those people who buy vehicles that are technically commercial (eg pickups) and use them for recreational purposes (or just to go to the shops). This probably accounts for the majority of emissions from 'commercial' vehicles!
And yes this benefits the manufacturer and the manufacturer will definitely fight this and continue to market commercial vehicles for personal use.
Yes, but you can't use a knife on someone 20 feet away, especially while they're shooting at you.
When you are literally eyeball to eyeball my money would be on the knife. Way faster, doesn't need to be particularly aimed, has multiple attack vectors ie isn't only lethal in one direction. Even an unskilled person with a knife can be devastating at close quarters (look for youtube videos of frenzied stabbing attack vs martial artist).
Apple can't tell you which file is bad. You have to scan them yourself.
Nice heroic effort to track it down on their part; but I wonder if a general-purpose malware scanner could have saved them some time.
I doubt its that Apple can't; its more likely that Apple doesn't want or can't be bothered.
They may even have an ulterior motive when an app developer is creating something that Apple themselves have an app developer working on; they'll just reject the app and give no reason just to block the dev so they can bring it to market themselves, or even try to discredit a dev to blow away their business.
From the supposed CTO...."Trying to figure out what is in a binary is what security researchers do, not app developers, Graves said. After scratching their heads, they guessed that the problem was probably in a third-party framework.". Sorry, you're wrong, that's exactly what app developers are supposed to do.
App developers are just construction workers, they aren't engineers, they aren't scientists.
They just clip construction blocks together. Why would they have any clue whats inside the construction blocks? Why should they?
<p>As to areas which allow you to carry a gun, if someone threatens you with a knife and you have a gun, you do have the option to take it out and hope there's not an accomplice behind you, of course. Again, the average citizen is not well trained.</p> </p></quote>
You've probably heard the saying "Don't take a knife to a gun fight". Well the reverse also holds true; "Don't take a gun to a knife fight."
At the ranges within which knife fights take place a gun is a liability and thinking the gun will give you leverage or protection is just wrong and will get you maimed or killed.
"Parallel construction" is also known as legalized perjury.
Theres already a precedent for that in the USA; plea bargaining "I know I'm innocent but I agree to lie under oath to get a reduced sentence since you are going to find me guilty anyway".
I don't think they allow quite this level of judicial corruption in the UK *yet*.
Netflix is the thing that Apple included because it has to because it's not the dominant player in the industry. It's much like Apple including Microsoft support. They would leave it off if they thought they could get away with it but they can't.
I would be shocked if Apple allowed a Plex app.
Does it even do Youtube? That'd be a surprise too.
<quote><p>What prevents Samsung from doing the same? Perhaps they made deals with carriers not to provide you the updates directly? In which case, how is that anyone's fault but their own, and why would you want to make excuses for that customer-fucking behavior?</p></quote>
<p>In a word: <b>TouchWiz</b>.
TouchWiz is the ROM atop the Android ROM on Samsung phones. It provides a customized UI, custom lock screens, customized dialer, contacts, alarms, settings, etc... That's why they require Dual core or better and loads of RAM. It must take a cubic butt-ton of effort to get that crud to run over the top of Android. </p></quote>
I don't see why TouchWiz stops Samsung from deploying OTA updates to its phones independent of the telcos/carriers. OTA updates are really NOTHING to do with the carriers at all.
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1) War. You use this weapon in battle. We are most familiar with this class. Guns, tanks, bombs, planes, etc.
2)Bluff. This category includes things like nuclear weapons. No (sane) person wants to use these. Most Americans currently alive, wish it had not been necessary to use them in WWII.
How do you think the American people will react when they finally learn that, after the first nuke, the Japanese were actively trying to surrender and the US ignored that and went and nuked them again?
Theres no excuse for nuking babies, especially when their government is trying to surrender to you.
They're publishing it because they stole it from the United States and want to gloat a bit over it.
And the US can't even admit that it was stolen from them, can't claim any credit for it because its so heavily classified. And now everyone in the world can look at this super secret classified tech and start finding holes in it. Go China!
How much water or other suppressant can it carry?
Doesn't help if you can get to a fire, and not have anything to put it out.....
Don't be silly, they will have cold grenades!
I suppose Apple will think they can get away with taking 30% of each transfer.
And it'll count as a $30 wire transfer too!
My bank has let people do that for some time. Then again, I'm in Canada ...
Does that count as a $30 wire transfer? Cos Apple would loe a 30% cut of that!
(I've been kind of shocked at Canadian banks wanting $30 to transfer money from one Canadian bank to another)
I've always found the term "morbidly obese" to be funny. Sounds like the name of one of those Scandinavian death metal bands. Imagine four or five fat-assed guys jamming on a stage and the stage collapsing from the weight.
I've often wondered if truly fat people don't create a seal when they sit on the toilet. Do they have to lean to one side to break the seal. Psssssssssssssssttttttttttt!!!!!
Its funny you should mention this but toilets in North America seem quite unsuited to 'Murcan arses.
For one thing the outlet hole, thru which the poopy leaves the toilet bowl, is extremely tiny, just a few cm diameter. Surely the gargantuan meals these people eat produces matching gargantuan turds. Almost all toilets in North America have a plunger sitting right next to them. That shows forward thinking!
For another thing, unlike toilets in eg the UK, the outlet pipe goes down through the floor. Now, in the UK the toilet has an S-bend and the outlet pipe comes out the back of the toilet and connects through a flexible fitting to a pipe in the wall, so when you sit on the toilet your weight is supported by the toilet itself which is securely bolted to the floor.
In North America this outlet pipe on the floor is more or less flush to the ground and has a flange which you connect to the matching flange on the bottom of the toilet, presumably with some sealant to form a gasket. The thing is that when you sit on the toilet your entire weight is pressing down onto this gasket. Any slight movement to one side or the other can cause the gasket to come unsealed.
Got a citation for the claim that felons voting to legalize their crimes was a problem in the past?
Because the way I see it, if there is such a broad danger that a crime won't be a crime if there are enough criminals to support removing it from law, then perhaps it shouldn't be a crime.
Or putting it another way, if criminals can form enough of a voting bloc to where they make for a significant impact on politics, then perhaps we have made crimes of too many behaviors.
You are missing the point of the law. The whole purpose of the law is to ensure that everyone is guilty of something.
You really don't understand this shit, do you?
The goddam botnets are smart enough to change IP addresses at random, and often.
It's Whack-a-Mole.
Theres even another level of indirection; in reflection attacks you, the recipient of the attack, gets to see the IP addresses of the machines used as reflectors. You don't get to see the IP addresses of the machines used to trigger those reflections. Only the people hosting the reflector get to see the these.
You didn't read my post. Rotation is irrelevant to biometric security.
You can try to make it irrelevant but thats just because its not possible. The problem is that rotation actually is relevant to security.
You can lift fingerprints from photos. Photos can be accessed remotely by people you have no contact with.
In practice, making fake fingers is not terribly hard. But shoulder-surfing PINs is even easier. Which is more secure? That depends on who you're trying to protect your data from. The FBI absolutely will make fake fingers and unlock your phone, but they may not have an opportunity to shoulder surf a PIN. Advantage: PIN. Your suspicious girlfriend probably won't make fake fingers, but has ample opportunity to shoulder surf you. Advantage: fingerprint.
The reasoning goes; you can change your PIN every day, even several times per day. Fingerprints not so much. Advantage PIN.
State actors or malicious mischief? That is the real question.
We shall see.
If these guys suddenly start getting payments of just over US$10,000 into their bank accounts, which are then reversed or cancelled, so that their bank is forced to close their accounts because they can't cope with the overhead of the constant stream of reporting on possible money laundering, then we'll know its a state actor.
Well, nobody really exposes mentioned software to the internet, right?
For instance, It is accepted as good practice to have nginx used a request router, which kinda lowers the impact of this exploit, or am I am wrong?
'remote' doesn't just mean 'the internet' it can also mean 'local network'.
I spent 3 months carpooling in from West Covina to LA in the HOV lane looking at all of the cars with 1 person per car enjoying their time sitting still on the freeway. Please don't tell me that there isn't a better way.
Yeah, most of those guys were literally enjoying their time sitting still on the freeway and having some personal space.
You haven't got kids, have you. Getting some alone time is bliss! Just sitting there alone in the car for a few hours and being able to legitimately claim "I got held up in traffic"...
Commercial vehicles have emissions rules and pollution controls. They don't happen to be the same as your passenger car, because first, there are many less commercial vehicles than there are passenger vehicles so as a whole they're already polluting less than in-total for passenger vehicles, and second, the rules for commercial vehicles are based around what the vehicle is expected to move.
Where I live I mostly see commercial vehicles being used as passenger vehicles; people driving their (HUGE) pickup trucks to the mall for some shopping etc.
Commercial vehicles which are actually used as such are probably outnumbered by the 'commercial vehicles' which are actually family cars.
It stinks that commercial vehicles don't have to have pollution controls.
I would very much agree with that and we should work to fix that problem. What I think stinks more is that companies will fight fixing the problem every step of the way.
The worst part is all those people who buy vehicles that are technically commercial (eg pickups) and use them for recreational purposes (or just to go to the shops). This probably accounts for the majority of emissions from 'commercial' vehicles!
And yes this benefits the manufacturer and the manufacturer will definitely fight this and continue to market commercial vehicles for personal use.
When you are literally eyeball to eyeball my money would be on the knife.
If you managed to get that close after being shot repeatedly, then I'd knife you.
Your scenario of an assailant who starts off at sufficient distance for your firearm to be useful resembles something like confirmation bias...
I knive doesn't run out of bullets
Yes, but you can't use a knife on someone 20 feet away, especially while they're shooting at you.
When you are literally eyeball to eyeball my money would be on the knife. Way faster, doesn't need to be particularly aimed, has multiple attack vectors ie isn't only lethal in one direction. Even an unskilled person with a knife can be devastating at close quarters (look for youtube videos of frenzied stabbing attack vs martial artist).
Apple can't tell you which file is bad. You have to scan them yourself.
Nice heroic effort to track it down on their part; but I wonder if a general-purpose malware scanner could have saved them some time.
I doubt its that Apple can't; its more likely that Apple doesn't want or can't be bothered.
They may even have an ulterior motive when an app developer is creating something that Apple themselves have an app developer working on; they'll just reject the app and give no reason just to block the dev so they can bring it to market themselves, or even try to discredit a dev to blow away their business.
From the supposed CTO...."Trying to figure out what is in a binary is what security researchers do, not app developers, Graves said. After scratching their heads, they guessed that the problem was probably in a third-party framework.". Sorry, you're wrong, that's exactly what app developers are supposed to do.
App developers are just construction workers, they aren't engineers, they aren't scientists.
They just clip construction blocks together. Why would they have any clue whats inside the construction blocks? Why should they?
May I introduce you to my friend the preview button? Comes free with every Slashdot post.
Yeah I know, I'd set it to extrans for a post the other day and forgotten to switch it back and missed the obvious on preview.
My point still stands though!!
<p>As to areas which allow you to carry a gun, if someone threatens you with a knife and you have a gun, you do have the option to take it out and hope there's not an accomplice behind you, of course. Again, the average citizen is not well trained.</p>
</p></quote>
You've probably heard the saying "Don't take a knife to a gun fight". Well the reverse also holds true; "Don't take a gun to a knife fight."
At the ranges within which knife fights take place a gun is a liability and thinking the gun will give you leverage or protection is just wrong and will get you maimed or killed.
"Parallel construction" is also known as legalized perjury.
Theres already a precedent for that in the USA; plea bargaining "I know I'm innocent but I agree to lie under oath to get a reduced sentence since you are going to find me guilty anyway".
I don't think they allow quite this level of judicial corruption in the UK *yet*.
It's not just Android.
Alternative services are on ALL OTHER DEVICES.
Netflix is the thing that Apple included because it has to because it's not the dominant player in the industry. It's much like Apple including Microsoft support. They would leave it off if they thought they could get away with it but they can't.
I would be shocked if Apple allowed a Plex app.
Does it even do Youtube? That'd be a surprise too.
<quote><p>What prevents Samsung from doing the same? Perhaps they made deals with carriers not to provide you the updates directly? In which case, how is that anyone's fault but their own, and why would you want to make excuses for that customer-fucking behavior?</p></quote>
<p>In a word: <b>TouchWiz</b>.
TouchWiz is the ROM atop the Android ROM on Samsung phones. It provides a customized UI, custom lock screens, customized dialer, contacts, alarms, settings, etc... That's why they require Dual core or better and loads of RAM. It must take a cubic butt-ton of effort to get that crud to run over the top of Android.
</p></quote>
I don't see why TouchWiz stops Samsung from deploying OTA updates to its phones independent of the telcos/carriers. OTA updates are really NOTHING to do with the carriers at all.