'A senior network engineer had disabled the company's WatchGuard firewalls and routed all of the broker-dealer's IP traffic--including trades and VoIP calls--through his home cable modem.
That's got to be the funniest thing I've ever read on/. Seriously, it sounds like something from an Onion story.
The thing I'm really struggling with is why on Earth would anyone do such a thing
'A senior network engineer had disabled the company's WatchGuard firewalls and routed all of the broker-dealer's IP traffic--including trades and VoIP calls--through his home cable modem.
That's got to be the funniest thing I've ever read on/. Seriously, it sounds like something from an Onion story.
The thing I'm really struggling with is why on Earth would anyone do such a thing
As others have pointed out it is possible to deduce where genes are by looking at the sequence however this is by no means straightforward DNA is spaghetti code of the very worst kind.
It is possible to "run the DNA to see what it produces", basically when a (DNA) gene is active copy's of its sequence are made in messenger RNA (mRNA, its like DNA but much less stable) the mRNA copy's are perhaps akin to compiled code as there is a fair amount of rearrangement that goes on before its '3D printed' in protein.
Now its possible to take the mash up cells or tissue extract the mRNA convert it back to DNA (stabilising it) then sequence the different DNA molecules to find out what genes are active in a given tissue.
Mapping the sequences back to the genes is not straight forward, genes can exist in multiple identical or near identical copy's making it hard to map back, some genes never express or only express under very specific circumstances or only in certain people
Because pissing people off is an effective way to get them to leave you alone.
The people being pissed off are already radically pissed off, a little trolling is not going to make
much difference... OTOH making them appear aggressive and irrational online should make it harder
to groom new recruits.
Sapphire and platinum, I bet it would be a unique, beautiful and cool object... so unique and beautiful that
its going to get stolen.... and if its known that nuclear sites have them it will just encourage people to dig there looking for the
disk.
Sounds very reasonable to me; better than having it go to the profit of some private business.
You mean the private business that safeguarded it for all that time?
You know banks arent charities, right? That they arent safeguarding your money and providing interest for the general good?
OK so what your saying here is that the banks lose money maintaining my bank account?
Seems perfectly fair if I agree to hold people's money and take liability for it for many years, and you disappear with no will or anything else, that I should keep the money (assuming no heirs or next of kin) rather than the government-- after all, the government already gets a big piece of the pie, but THIS piece they didnt earn.
Exactly what liability are the banks taking for the money? This is actual real money, not dependent on the health
of the CEO or the wizardary of finance guy. On top of that the capital sum is getting less and less valuable
as inflation chips away at it. $1000 in 1912 was a years and a half pay now its a weeks pay. As long as the interest rate is lower than inflation the bank can make a profit because they only have to return the same amount of currency not the same value of currency.
A bulk purchase of low capacity but nice looking keydrives could easily be less than $1 a pop...
for that sort of money I could see a mass (snail)mailing of malware being quite feasible...
Targeted advertising data could be used to select young, affluent, non-techical types,
perhaps package the drive as a free trial version of a music/movie download service
even have a slick looking website with the 'viewing' software there as a free download.
Taking a ultralight desktop to a hotel room makes a lot of sense if you ditch the pico projector you could do a Raspberry Pi. mouse and
keyboard for under £100 and 300grams.... its the pico projector
that boosts the cos/weightt to rival a ultra-portable laptop.
I suspect the thing to do is Raspberry Pi plus rolling keyboard and mouse and take along enough AV cables to plug it into any hotel room TV
Wouldn't frying the stock marker help the economy?
Er No.... one of the prime functions of the stock market is that it allows companies to raise money and fund growth
it may be irrational and occasionally insane, but its what the worlds finance is built on.
There may a better system but its hard to think of one...
Has anyone, anywhere, managed to build a serious one yet? One you can actually deploy without also triggering a nuclear holocaust in the process? Because in that case we have bigger problems than a few fried bits of kit.
Non Nuclear EMP bombs do exsit. How easy it is to make one in your garage is another matter
sill your right about a bigger problems than a few fried bits of kit. pop off one of those next to any big Stock Markets could shut it down for days or weeks. perhaps cause enough economic damage push over an already unstable economy.
then all you need to do is insure the physical items and ensure that anyone stealing them would be unable to get information of value.
Personally I don't trust the internet that much.
Came to say this..... though I would say that you can trust the internet for certain values of secure.
If its secure against dataloss a copy on your hard disk with backups on Dropbox and a another provider would
be pretty bombproof.
If is secure against disclosure that's harder...... you could buy a parents/sibling/good fiend Broadband Internet on the condition
you can run a small server in their house copying data to the backup server would be going through the faster Download part of the ADSL
now? I gave away a 800mhz P3 with 512 megs of ram 3 years ago, sure its not a credit card, but it was a pizza box just cause you make it small does not mean its the only thing available
(ps waiting on my pi)
I'm willing to bet that the pizza box would draw 50-100W ie $50-100 a year in electricity, the RasPi should draw less than 5W
and (and relative to the pizza) pay for itself in a year.
[preaching to the converted]
What makes the RasPi exciting is its small and cheap and low wattage and a reasonable computer and has decent IO (USB ports, HDMI Ethernet etc) take away any of those and there are alternatives (FX a rooted Pogoplug is as good or better than a RasPi but fails in the IO department, Intel are bringing out a Next Unit of Computing but that is liable to be in the $100 price bracket which is well outside the 'expendable computer' price of the model A (and B).
[/preaching to the converted]
I've spoke with people who let a phone caller from "Microsoft" take control of their PC.
Fair do's here... this con has always been quite convincing, you are after all talking to a real person
and they know your computer is running slow, so they must be on the level and there getting better and better scripts .
The first ones I got were pretty crude where they make a non-specific allegation that "We are calling on
behalf of your ISP and they say..." more recently they have talked me through opening up my Event Viewer so I could see
all the scary warnings and errors to be told 'ohhh its worse than we thought your computer has only 3 days to live...'
I've had 2-3 of these a year for the last few years and I try and string them along as long as possible as a service to
society... Its great fun, but don't try and buy time by saying you have to switch your computer on, they just ring off:-(
Its already pretty unfair in the Homework field, Teachers seem to assume that the kids will just Google for
their information so they raise the bar on what's expected.
As others have noted you can't beat a notebook. Cheap, light, no power issues, no theft issues, doesn't crash ,
if your pen dies there are normally masses of handout ones. same goes for paper.
However I would add a digital camera (assuming the conference regs allow it) you can scoot
round the posters snapping all that look potentially interesting. Then retire to hotel room and review them
in comfort and decide which ones you want/need go back to for a chat to during the poster session.
It is also handy to snap really interesting but complex slides during a talk.
The number plate recognition systems are limited to the big company's. Most/all independent garages don't have them
and could expect a corresponding spike in business.
The problem is more complicated than that. Companies that don't pursue any infringement they find out about vigorously often end up losing their trademark. This leads to these silly types of cases where the company doesn't really care that some small pub somewhere is using its trademark but if they don't come down hard on them the fact that they knew about it and didn't vigorously defend their trademark could cause them to lose a trademark decision against someone they do care about.
Don't blame the company, blame the law that forces companies to act this way or risk losing their trademarks.
I was on the point of posting to say this and its a great evil... but on reflection I think its the lesser of two evils, ie a trademark version of
of sitting on a patent till the technology becomes ubiquitous and then trying to sue anyone who is using it.
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'A senior network engineer had disabled the company's WatchGuard firewalls and routed all of the broker-dealer's IP traffic--including trades and VoIP calls--through his home cable modem.
That's got to be the funniest thing I've ever read on /. Seriously, it sounds like something from an Onion story.
The thing I'm really struggling with is why on Earth would anyone do such a thing
It sounds like a case of Munchausen syndrome ...
[ puts on sunglasses ]
by proxy!
YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
That joke was bad and you should feel bad
'A senior network engineer had disabled the company's WatchGuard firewalls and routed all of the broker-dealer's IP traffic--including trades and VoIP calls--through his home cable modem.
That's got to be the funniest thing I've ever read on /. Seriously, it sounds like something from an Onion story.
The thing I'm really struggling with is why on Earth would anyone do such a thing
A few cool astronomical alignments say the rays of the solstice sun strike the coffee machine etc
As others have pointed out it is possible to deduce where genes are by looking at the sequence however this is by no means straightforward DNA is spaghetti code of the very worst kind.
It is possible to "run the DNA to see what it produces", basically when a (DNA) gene is active copy's of its sequence are made in messenger RNA (mRNA, its like DNA but much less stable) the mRNA copy's are perhaps akin to compiled code as there is a fair amount of rearrangement that goes on before its '3D printed' in protein.
Now its possible to take the mash up cells or tissue extract the mRNA convert it back to DNA (stabilising it) then sequence the different DNA molecules to find out what genes are active in a given tissue.
Mapping the sequences back to the genes is not straight forward, genes can exist in multiple identical or near identical copy's making it hard to map back, some genes never express or only express under very specific circumstances or only in certain people
I guess the sun doesn't work in space...why not create greenhouses and use the sun to grow plants rather than create some overly complex system?
Perhaps its something to do with the 2 week lunar night that a lunar colony would experience.
The Germans had wire guided Glide Bomb as early as 1914. and operational one in 1941.
Part of the gun turret mechanisms from the battleships HMS Revenge and Royal Sovereign were reused in the motor system for the telescope. Ob wikipedia
Because pissing people off is an effective way to get them to leave you alone.
The people being pissed off are already radically pissed off, a little trolling is not going to make much difference... OTOH making them appear aggressive and irrational online should make it harder to groom new recruits.
It's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
Sapphire and platinum, I bet it would be a unique, beautiful and cool object... so unique and beautiful that its going to get stolen.... and if its known that nuclear sites have them it will just encourage people to dig there looking for the disk.
Sounds very reasonable to me; better than having it go to the profit of some private business.
You mean the private business that safeguarded it for all that time?
You know banks arent charities, right? That they arent safeguarding your money and providing interest for the general good?
OK so what your saying here is that the banks lose money maintaining my bank account?
Seems perfectly fair if I agree to hold people's money and take liability for it for many years, and you disappear with no will or anything else, that I should keep the money (assuming no heirs or next of kin) rather than the government-- after all, the government already gets a big piece of the pie, but THIS piece they didnt earn.
Exactly what liability are the banks taking for the money? This is actual real money, not dependent on the health of the CEO or the wizardary of finance guy. On top of that the capital sum is getting less and less valuable as inflation chips away at it. $1000 in 1912 was a years and a half pay now its a weeks pay. As long as the interest rate is lower than inflation the bank can make a profit because they only have to return the same amount of currency not the same value of currency.
A bulk purchase of low capacity but nice looking keydrives could easily be less than $1 a pop... for that sort of money I could see a mass (snail)mailing of malware being quite feasible...
Targeted advertising data could be used to select young, affluent, non-techical types, perhaps package the drive as a free trial version of a music/movie download service even have a slick looking website with the 'viewing' software there as a free download.
18-25 year olds don't think bad things could happen to them.
On the bright side an 18-25 year old probably doesn't have much worth stealing.
Their credit rating is probably worth a bob or two
Taking a ultralight desktop to a hotel room makes a lot of sense if you ditch the pico projector you could do a Raspberry Pi. mouse and keyboard for under £100 and 300grams.... its the pico projector that boosts the cos/weightt to rival a ultra-portable laptop. I suspect the thing to do is Raspberry Pi plus rolling keyboard and mouse and take along enough AV cables to plug it into any hotel room TV
perhaps you should read the question
Wouldn't frying the stock marker help the economy?
Er No.... one of the prime functions of the stock market is that it allows companies to raise money and fund growth it may be irrational and occasionally insane, but its what the worlds finance is built on.
There may a better system but its hard to think of one ...
Has anyone, anywhere, managed to build a serious one yet? One you can actually deploy without also triggering a nuclear holocaust in the process? Because in that case we have bigger problems than a few fried bits of kit.
Non Nuclear EMP bombs do exsit. How easy it is to make one in your garage is another matter sill your right about a bigger problems than a few fried bits of kit. pop off one of those next to any big Stock Markets could shut it down for days or weeks. perhaps cause enough economic damage push over an already unstable economy.
So they've built an EMP bomb which doesn't require setting off a nuclear bomb as well?
Why don't we start worrying that the UK is ineffectively protected against ray-guns and lightsabers as well?
Yes
then all you need to do is insure the physical items and ensure that anyone stealing them would be unable to get information of value.
Personally I don't trust the internet that much.
Came to say this ..... though I would say that you can trust the internet for certain values of secure.
If its secure against dataloss a copy on your hard disk with backups on Dropbox and a another provider would be pretty bombproof.
If is secure against disclosure that's harder...... you could buy a parents/sibling/good fiend Broadband Internet on the condition you can run a small server in their house copying data to the backup server would be going through the faster Download part of the ADSL
now? I gave away a 800mhz P3 with 512 megs of ram 3 years ago, sure its not a credit card, but it was a pizza box
just cause you make it small does not mean its the only thing available
(ps waiting on my pi)
I'm willing to bet that the pizza box would draw 50-100W ie $50-100 a year in electricity, the RasPi should draw less than 5W and (and relative to the pizza) pay for itself in a year.
[preaching to the converted]
What makes the RasPi exciting is its small and cheap and low wattage and a reasonable computer and has decent IO (USB ports, HDMI Ethernet etc) take away any of those and there are alternatives (FX a rooted Pogoplug is as good or better than a RasPi but fails in the IO department, Intel are bringing out a Next Unit of Computing but that is liable to be in the $100 price bracket which is well outside the 'expendable computer' price of the model A (and B).
[/preaching to the converted]
I've spoke with people who let a phone caller from "Microsoft" take control of their PC.
Fair do's here... this con has always been quite convincing, you are after all talking to a real person and they know your computer is running slow, so they must be on the level and there getting better and better scripts .
The first ones I got were pretty crude where they make a non-specific allegation that "We are calling on behalf of your ISP and they say..." more recently they have talked me through opening up my Event Viewer so I could see all the scary warnings and errors to be told 'ohhh its worse than we thought your computer has only 3 days to live...'
I've had 2-3 of these a year for the last few years and I try and string them along as long as possible as a service to society... Its great fun, but don't try and buy time by saying you have to switch your computer on, they just ring off :-(
Its already pretty unfair in the Homework field, Teachers seem to assume that the kids will just Google for their information so they raise the bar on what's expected.
As others have noted you can't beat a notebook. Cheap, light, no power issues, no theft issues, doesn't crash , if your pen dies there are normally masses of handout ones. same goes for paper.
However I would add a digital camera (assuming the conference regs allow it) you can scoot round the posters snapping all that look potentially interesting. Then retire to hotel room and review them in comfort and decide which ones you want/need go back to for a chat to during the poster session. It is also handy to snap really interesting but complex slides during a talk.
The number plate recognition systems are limited to the big company's. Most/all independent garages don't have them and could expect a corresponding spike in business.
The problem is more complicated than that. Companies that don't pursue any infringement they find out about vigorously often end up losing their trademark. This leads to these silly types of cases where the company doesn't really care that some small pub somewhere is using its trademark but if they don't come down hard on them the fact that they knew about it and didn't vigorously defend their trademark could cause them to lose a trademark decision against someone they do care about. Don't blame the company, blame the law that forces companies to act this way or risk losing their trademarks.
I was on the point of posting to say this and its a great evil... but on reflection I think its the lesser of two evils, ie a trademark version of of sitting on a patent till the technology becomes ubiquitous and then trying to sue anyone who is using it.