accompanied by massive societal upheaval and starvation
See that is where I'd want to be able to read a map. Maybe not a road map but I'd want to know where the large areas of unbroken forest are, rivers, lakes, and streams within them, etc. Maybe which direction the more sizeable population centers are so I could avoid those places.
Being able to use a map and compass seems pretty useful in your post apocalyptic situ. If you are trying to ride it out anyway.
Windows and windows networks are a huge liability. CIOs and CSO need to have a come to Jesus moment on that.
I sometimes do internal pentest work, and Its rare even not in 2017 that some combination of null sessions to get user names, and password spray, or just shutting up and listening for LLMNR or old NetBios and than cracking the acquired hashes won't work at a big organization. That is before you even need to consider getting "fancy" with attacks on Kerberos or SPNs. Yes you need to be on the internal network to do these things but you one good phishing catch away from that with most big organizations too. Many of the other pentests I know rarely even both trying to exploit other types servers or internal web applications anymore.
I am not saying the traditional UNIX/Linux solutions like (YP|NIS|LDAP|Hesiod) with or without Kerberos are not worse in many ways than (AD/LDAP) + Kerberos. Its just the AD is the standard and most often I see UNIX land being made to talk to AD rather than and Windows infra being made to speak anything UNIXy.
My thesis here is that when your authentication/authorization infrastructure itself is the biggest liability and has been for nearly a decade something is terribly terribly wrong. Windows/Windows networking really is the way in and why that remains "acceptably" is beyond me. Sure you can harden it a lot, but that is a real challenge for anyone who isn't an expert and does not have $$$ to eliminate every old client, many of which are part of integrated solutions like controllers etc.
What M$ really needs to do is make the next windows server upgrade move the hardened configurations OOB. No NTLMv1, no LLMNR, no NetBIOS, no null sessions, password complexity enabled, and some others. They then need to provide a "Gateway" for legacy systems where the older protocols can be configured to only talk to certain hosts, and only allow the use of specific accounts easily.
For example is metasploit malware? If not the framework itself what about an exploit module someone authored?
Some will argue about some test being, "does this thing have a legitimate use case" The problem is one man's testing tool is another mans hacking tool.
We have been down this road over and over again, with things like lock picks. Probably the only solution here is to potentially classify this type of software as "burglars tools" or similar. Where its not illegal to produce/sell/possess but if you have happen to have them in your possession while commuting some other crime its an aggravating offense.
"If you truly care about great photography, you own an iPhone."
No! If you truly care about great photography you have dedicated purpose built camera. You to not use your phone for quick snap shots only, not for anything you'd take the time to think about composition for.
Finally you certainly don't do your post processing on the device. You use a PC/Laptop/Macbook etc with real photo editing software, and large color corrected screen to see what the heck you are actually doing.
I don't know why you'd bother removing the cable. If you don't want the jacks remove them and cover the holes. Make the spot in someway where the cable is though so you can find it again.
Stripping the cable out of the wall for no reason would be a bad idea imho. You never know it could be useful again for something. If nothing else should you ever decide to move the next person might not be a cord cutter and might be really glad to have those cable runs.
Because the Senate should not be a damned popularity contest. We have the House for that. House elections are very local though. So constituents can easy get to the rep, and force them to answer real questions and maybe just maybe primary them when required. You might not like the makeup of the House or maybe you do but at least they can enact legislation, and function as a parliamentary body.
The Senate by contrast is entirely disfunctional. Does not matter which party has the majority. Its been completely broken now for 9 years. Its was a bad before that. Senators are basically unaccountable to the electorate. You can't hardly unseat an incumbent and you certainly can't get any but the national parties hand picked crony past the post in a primary election. Because they are state wide and there are only 100 of them its very easy for lots of out of state money to be used to if not outright fix the elections, make it nearly impossible to compete.
If Senators represented the state rather than the a general popularity contest it would be much harder for out of state money to impact them. Getting a Senator in place would mean first getting your people into a plurality of state senate or house seats in many cases. Senators would have a smaller constituency of governors and state legislators to listen to. Those people have better understanding of the issues and how they will impact the state than the general public. So the Senate would actually consider the consequences of unfunded mandates and similar crap the actively interferes with good governing at the state level. Rather than getting tied up in populist pandering.
In short I think the system ought work as the framers intended.
I don't know, pretty much everything plant or animal is always growing and dying. Its just a few cells here and few cells there at a time. Pretty much when new stuff quits growing the organism as a whole dies eventually.
Cancer is really just an unsustainable growth rate.
In the case of Twitter, you need to add people at some rate because the older accounts might not be closed but they are as good as dead. The less their owners use them, the few page views the less the ad revenue generated. Twitter either needs new blood all the time or needs a gimmick to get existing account holders excited and coming back to state where they are heavy users again.
There are probably a few celebrities and trolls who tweet entirely to much, and they represent twitters cancers because they squeeze out/drive off/offend the good tweets and twitter users. So the that makes the "safety panel" or whatever they call it Twitters chemotherapy. Its kills the cancers but also a lot of interesting content many people want as well, and that also causes a loss of users, or damage to the surrounding tissue.
but it's too popular with media outlets and customer service departments to be a financial dead-end.
So was myspace. Twitter isnt going to be gone tomorrow but if they start making the changes required to monetize it effectively people may slowly leave or decide not to bother.
What Twitter needs to probably do is, a heck of a lot less. Don't police it, fire everyone but a core team of developers host everything in the could. Keep it mostly text and allow third party hosting of images, and other content to keep the bandwidth costs down. It will earn plenty of ad revenue to keep Jack and some core people in fancy suits for decades. If they let the thing just be a website rather than trying to be a whole damn media company with one real product that anyone cares about.
Kinda want to see Twitter go down because as rule social media is kinda dumb. If Twitter falls it will shake investors faith in other platforms. Might be a nice domino effect. Really hopeful something like this could take the wind out of facebooks sails some before Mark succeeds in politically weaponizing. Which will be somewhat hard for him to do thanks to all the hard working cleaver trolls out there but its not impossible.
If the investors could all get spooked and run off first, that would be great.
There is more to this story here. Health insurance can't cost more that 10% of your income: Thanks Obama. So how can they not afford FB's own health plan?
They are staying in a garage adjacent to their parents house. I assume therefore this is in fact their parents garage. Mom and Dad can't give them a little break on the rent long enough for them to get some savings?
I mean seriously if my kid had nowhere else to go with his family, and was apparently this broke. I think I'd say "Shit son, I'll back the cars out and you can stay in the garage, rent free as long as you need; if you'll clean any bird crap off the paint when you come home from work each day."
I suspect there is more going here. Somebody has an insane pile of student loan or credit card debt would be my first two guesses. Spend every dime on some get rich stock scam that fell apart would be my third.
The only thing I can think of is that it might be fun to go marauding through the rest of the game, killing every enemy with a single hit. Basically god mode in an RPG. That would be fun for 10min or so, certainly not worth the year long grind to get there.
Its the grind that fundamentally has always made me not really get RPGs that much. I have played and enjoyed a few but for the most part, its like watching a moving with the added frustration of having to do some repetitive action over and over for half an hour before you get to watch the next scene. Why do some people enjoy executing underfed teenage zombie lawn gnomes for a hour so they can level up?
The problem is the transsexual folks, still display a high rate of comorbidity with other other illness, suggesting they are probably still ill. More direct indicators like the suicide rate do not fall among those who have transitioned as compared to the gender dysphoric "community" as a whole. Suggesting that transitioning does not work. Its really self mutilation, nothing more an nothing less.
Because a bunch of doctors can get bullied into being politically correct does not suddenly make "Gender Dysphoria" not an mental illness.
The facts are these folks have a much higher suicide rate than the general population, and a much higher rate of other "mental illness" which tends to suggests their other problems are aggravating and maybe not the root cause of their real troubles.
Finally Obama policy wanted the VA to pay for sexual re-assignment surgery, well hmm its not an illness than why do they require treatment?
So you are right the argument might not work as well as you think but that is only because folks on the other side of it are being intellectually dishonest.
I take your meaning. I just caution people, if you have not been to the non-touristy parts of China, or closely worked with anyone on the ground in China that is on the Party's s*it list, its not like TV.
You can't understand what goes on there in the context of how things go in the United States or much of Europe. Most people don't realize just how effective the Chinese really are at being thought police.
You read a few articles how everyone there uses a VPN and think the folks in the government are a bunch of rubes who have no idea what goes on just beyond their office windows. This is not the case. They have just become masterful at 1) identifying what is real threat to their authority and what isn't 2) applying pressure in the places that matter and letting folks get away with a little of this and little of that other places; but only a 'little'.
Its a delicate balance of keeping people respectful and fearful but not so angry and frustrated they decided 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' like we saw all across the Arab spring. Where groups that don't like each other, never the less "teamed" long enough to riot and topple some governments, before going back to attacking each other.
China does not have open society with free practice of religion. Ask and missionary who has traveled there in recent decades. The Churches are filled with government minders.
I can't imagine the mosques would be different especially in light of the fact that the PRC's authority is probably much more greatly threaten by its Islamic population than their domestic Christian groups.
I would argue that Notepad should be killed off. I am not sure where in the pre-win 3.x world Write first made its appearance externally but Notepad has been obsolete almost ever since. Write was however a bit slow to start on Win 3.x 386-era hardware and did use more memory on often very limited systems. Remember we had 4 - 8MB of memory back than and liked it. Some folks still squeaking by with less. Consequently Notepad was useful for throwing up a README.TXT and similar without taxing the system, or jotting a few quick notes as its name implied.
Today I would suggest Write is better choice, for just about every situation. If nothing else it handles line breaks and larger files properly oh and it can handle RTF files. On modern systems its as quick to launch as Notepad and not exactly a memory hog. Kill Notepad, and make notepad.exe a shortcut/symlink/junction to write.exe so as not beak old scripts.
Right but there are a lot of safety standards that might not make ANY SENSE AT ALL for AVs. Should an AV for example be required to have a side and rear view mirrors for example? What about a rear backup camera with a display for the driver who does not exist?
There are current safety requirements that don't make sense when a human isn't the driver.
Possible yes, a computer with a stability control system that can apply breaking independently to the remaining three wheels, and also has steering control, stands a pretty good shot of safely slowing car and steering it onto the median.
Brakes fail.
Almost impossible, AVs will for the most part probably have 4 wheel independent braking. Almost all cars on the road today have two separate hydrolic circuits one on the front one for the rears, so you don't lose all breaks at once. A computer controlled system is going to detect that kind of failure and still be able to safely stop the car.
A camera fails, or dirt on the lens makes it pass incorrect information to computer.
Highly unlikely any AV is going to be equipped with a number of sensors. Its hardly likely enough of them would fail simultaneously that again the computer could not safely pull the vehicle off the road and say "safety critical repair required" obviously and AV is not going even start rolling if initial sensor checks fail.
A human outside the vehicle jumps out in front of traffic and no time for car to stop.
Yes! you can't violate the laws of physics; if I leap out onto the interstate no matter how good the computer control is you simply can't stop 2 tons + of steel at 70MPH on a couple sq feet of rubber in only a few feet.
A deer runs in front of car from a bush that is roadside.
Ditto for the most part but a camera with infrared range range can detect an object rapidly approaching the road way, that today could not be seen by you or I do to obstructions. AVs will probably be better able to cope with this than humans.
Car AI develops sentience and becomes suicidal and drives into lake Superior.
You need to put down the sci-fi novels and pickup a science book.
That's easy you just create some residency requirements. Like most states that offer lower instate rates for public colleges etc, will say you have to have been a resident for X years.
In the case of universal heath coverage that extra double plus works. Make the requirement five years or so and lots of folks with super expensive conditions they can't afford to cover would expire before becoming eligible. Meanwhile you long time tax paying residents and their families in the case of the newly born get to participate in your social contract fully.
Right which is why they ultimately land on medicare, payed for by the tax payers in the case of the uninsured. For everything thing else its simply an actuarial question.
What do you have to charge such that the investment income + revenue of the premiums themselves pay for the cost of covering the insured? That is pretty simple problem that everyone in the insurance business has understood an managed for the past 400 years!
That isn't true, it happened because of Tax policy. That is why it happened. Prior to that many union shops did have healthcare of a kind but it usually applied to injuries and illness that was clearly work related only.
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accompanied by massive societal upheaval and starvation
See that is where I'd want to be able to read a map. Maybe not a road map but I'd want to know where the large areas of unbroken forest are, rivers, lakes, and streams within them, etc. Maybe which direction the more sizeable population centers are so I could avoid those places.
Being able to use a map and compass seems pretty useful in your post apocalyptic situ. If you are trying to ride it out anyway.
I had no jack.
Really no wing or screw jack say under the spare in that thing? Strange....
Windows and windows networks are a huge liability. CIOs and CSO need to have a come to Jesus moment on that.
I sometimes do internal pentest work, and Its rare even not in 2017 that some combination of null sessions to get user names, and password spray, or just shutting up and listening for LLMNR or old NetBios and than cracking the acquired hashes won't work at a big organization. That is before you even need to consider getting "fancy" with attacks on Kerberos or SPNs. Yes you need to be on the internal network to do these things but you one good phishing catch away from that with most big organizations too. Many of the other pentests I know rarely even both trying to exploit other types servers or internal web applications anymore.
I am not saying the traditional UNIX/Linux solutions like (YP|NIS|LDAP|Hesiod) with or without Kerberos are not worse in many ways than (AD/LDAP) + Kerberos. Its just the AD is the standard and most often I see UNIX land being made to talk to AD rather than and Windows infra being made to speak anything UNIXy.
My thesis here is that when your authentication/authorization infrastructure itself is the biggest liability and has been for nearly a decade something is terribly terribly wrong. Windows/Windows networking really is the way in and why that remains "acceptably" is beyond me. Sure you can harden it a lot, but that is a real challenge for anyone who isn't an expert and does not have $$$ to eliminate every old client, many of which are part of integrated solutions like controllers etc.
What M$ really needs to do is make the next windows server upgrade move the hardened configurations OOB. No NTLMv1, no LLMNR, no NetBIOS, no null sessions, password complexity enabled, and some others. They then need to provide a "Gateway" for legacy systems where the older protocols can be configured to only talk to certain hosts, and only allow the use of specific accounts easily.
For example is metasploit malware? If not the framework itself what about an exploit module someone authored?
Some will argue about some test being, "does this thing have a legitimate use case" The problem is one man's testing tool is another mans hacking tool.
We have been down this road over and over again, with things like lock picks. Probably the only solution here is to potentially classify this type of software as "burglars tools" or similar. Where its not illegal to produce/sell/possess but if you have happen to have them in your possession while commuting some other crime its an aggravating offense.
"If you truly care about great photography, you own an iPhone."
No! If you truly care about great photography you have dedicated purpose built camera. You to not use your phone for quick snap shots only, not for anything you'd take the time to think about composition for.
Finally you certainly don't do your post processing on the device. You use a PC/Laptop/Macbook etc with real photo editing software, and large color corrected screen to see what the heck you are actually doing.
I don't know why you'd bother removing the cable. If you don't want the jacks remove them and cover the holes. Make the spot in someway where the cable is though so you can find it again.
Stripping the cable out of the wall for no reason would be a bad idea imho. You never know it could be useful again for something. If nothing else should you ever decide to move the next person might not be a cord cutter and might be really glad to have those cable runs.
Because the Senate should not be a damned popularity contest. We have the House for that. House elections are very local though. So constituents can easy get to the rep, and force them to answer real questions and maybe just maybe primary them when required. You might not like the makeup of the House or maybe you do but at least they can enact legislation, and function as a parliamentary body.
The Senate by contrast is entirely disfunctional. Does not matter which party has the majority. Its been completely broken now for 9 years. Its was a bad before that. Senators are basically unaccountable to the electorate. You can't hardly unseat an incumbent and you certainly can't get any but the national parties hand picked crony past the post in a primary election. Because they are state wide and there are only 100 of them its very easy for lots of out of state money to be used to if not outright fix the elections, make it nearly impossible to compete.
If Senators represented the state rather than the a general popularity contest it would be much harder for out of state money to impact them. Getting a Senator in place would mean first getting your people into a plurality of state senate or house seats in many cases. Senators would have a smaller constituency of governors and state legislators to listen to. Those people have better understanding of the issues and how they will impact the state than the general public. So the Senate would actually consider the consequences of unfunded mandates and similar crap the actively interferes with good governing at the state level. Rather than getting tied up in populist pandering.
In short I think the system ought work as the framers intended.
Right but 20 chars were reserved for the user name so you could send tweets over SMS and know where they came from.
I don't know, pretty much everything plant or animal is always growing and dying. Its just a few cells here and few cells there at a time. Pretty much when new stuff quits growing the organism as a whole dies eventually.
Cancer is really just an unsustainable growth rate.
In the case of Twitter, you need to add people at some rate because the older accounts might not be closed but they are as good as dead. The less their owners use them, the few page views the less the ad revenue generated. Twitter either needs new blood all the time or needs a gimmick to get existing account holders excited and coming back to state where they are heavy users again.
There are probably a few celebrities and trolls who tweet entirely to much, and they represent twitters cancers because they squeeze out/drive off/offend the good tweets and twitter users. So the that makes the "safety panel" or whatever they call it Twitters chemotherapy. Its kills the cancers but also a lot of interesting content many people want as well, and that also causes a loss of users, or damage to the surrounding tissue.
but it's too popular with media outlets and customer service departments to be a financial dead-end.
So was myspace. Twitter isnt going to be gone tomorrow but if they start making the changes required to monetize it effectively people may slowly leave or decide not to bother.
What Twitter needs to probably do is, a heck of a lot less. Don't police it, fire everyone but a core team of developers host everything in the could. Keep it mostly text and allow third party hosting of images, and other content to keep the bandwidth costs down. It will earn plenty of ad revenue to keep Jack and some core people in fancy suits for decades. If they let the thing just be a website rather than trying to be a whole damn media company with one real product that anyone cares about.
Kinda want to see Twitter go down because as rule social media is kinda dumb. If Twitter falls it will shake investors faith in other platforms. Might be a nice domino effect. Really hopeful something like this could take the wind out of facebooks sails some before Mark succeeds in politically weaponizing. Which will be somewhat hard for him to do thanks to all the hard working cleaver trolls out there but its not impossible.
If the investors could all get spooked and run off first, that would be great.
Which is a sound argument against no fault divorce.
There is more to this story here. Health insurance can't cost more that 10% of your income: Thanks Obama. So how can they not afford FB's own health plan?
They are staying in a garage adjacent to their parents house. I assume therefore this is in fact their parents garage. Mom and Dad can't give them a little break on the rent long enough for them to get some savings?
I mean seriously if my kid had nowhere else to go with his family, and was apparently this broke. I think I'd say "Shit son, I'll back the cars out and you can stay in the garage, rent free as long as you need; if you'll clean any bird crap off the paint when you come home from work each day."
I suspect there is more going here. Somebody has an insane pile of student loan or credit card debt would be my first two guesses. Spend every dime on some get rich stock scam that fell apart would be my third.
The only thing I can think of is that it might be fun to go marauding through the rest of the game, killing every enemy with a single hit. Basically god mode in an RPG. That would be fun for 10min or so, certainly not worth the year long grind to get there.
Its the grind that fundamentally has always made me not really get RPGs that much. I have played and enjoyed a few but for the most part, its like watching a moving with the added frustration of having to do some repetitive action over and over for half an hour before you get to watch the next scene. Why do some people enjoy executing underfed teenage zombie lawn gnomes for a hour so they can level up?
His given name is "Richard" you insensitive clod.
The problem is the transsexual folks, still display a high rate of comorbidity with other other illness, suggesting they are probably still ill. More direct indicators like the suicide rate do not fall among those who have transitioned as compared to the gender dysphoric "community" as a whole. Suggesting that transitioning does not work. Its really self mutilation, nothing more an nothing less.
Because a bunch of doctors can get bullied into being politically correct does not suddenly make "Gender Dysphoria" not an mental illness.
The facts are these folks have a much higher suicide rate than the general population, and a much higher rate of other "mental illness" which tends to suggests their other problems are aggravating and maybe not the root cause of their real troubles.
Finally Obama policy wanted the VA to pay for sexual re-assignment surgery, well hmm its not an illness than why do they require treatment?
So you are right the argument might not work as well as you think but that is only because folks on the other side of it are being intellectually dishonest.
I take your meaning. I just caution people, if you have not been to the non-touristy parts of China, or closely worked with anyone on the ground in China that is on the Party's s*it list, its not like TV.
You can't understand what goes on there in the context of how things go in the United States or much of Europe. Most people don't realize just how effective the Chinese really are at being thought police.
You read a few articles how everyone there uses a VPN and think the folks in the government are a bunch of rubes who have no idea what goes on just beyond their office windows. This is not the case. They have just become masterful at 1) identifying what is real threat to their authority and what isn't 2) applying pressure in the places that matter and letting folks get away with a little of this and little of that other places; but only a 'little'.
Its a delicate balance of keeping people respectful and fearful but not so angry and frustrated they decided 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' like we saw all across the Arab spring. Where groups that don't like each other, never the less "teamed" long enough to riot and topple some governments, before going back to attacking each other.
China does not have open society with free practice of religion. Ask and missionary who has traveled there in recent decades. The Churches are filled with government minders.
I can't imagine the mosques would be different especially in light of the fact that the PRC's authority is probably much more greatly threaten by its Islamic population than their domestic Christian groups.
I would argue that Notepad should be killed off. I am not sure where in the pre-win 3.x world Write first made its appearance externally but Notepad has been obsolete almost ever since. Write was however a bit slow to start on Win 3.x 386-era hardware and did use more memory on often very limited systems. Remember we had 4 - 8MB of memory back than and liked it. Some folks still squeaking by with less. Consequently Notepad was useful for throwing up a README.TXT and similar without taxing the system, or jotting a few quick notes as its name implied.
Today I would suggest Write is better choice, for just about every situation. If nothing else it handles line breaks and larger files properly oh and it can handle RTF files. On modern systems its as quick to launch as Notepad and not exactly a memory hog. Kill Notepad, and make notepad.exe a shortcut/symlink/junction to write.exe so as not beak old scripts.
Right but there are a lot of safety standards that might not make ANY SENSE AT ALL for AVs. Should an AV for example be required to have a side and rear view mirrors for example? What about a rear backup camera with a display for the driver who does not exist?
There are current safety requirements that don't make sense when a human isn't the driver.
A tyre bursts at 70mph on the motor-way.
Possible yes, a computer with a stability control system that can apply breaking independently to the remaining three wheels, and also has steering control, stands a pretty good shot of safely slowing car and steering it onto the median.
Brakes fail.
Almost impossible, AVs will for the most part probably have 4 wheel independent braking. Almost all cars on the road today have two separate hydrolic circuits one on the front one for the rears, so you don't lose all breaks at once. A computer controlled system is going to detect that kind of failure and still be able to safely stop the car.
A camera fails, or dirt on the lens makes it pass incorrect information to computer.
Highly unlikely any AV is going to be equipped with a number of sensors. Its hardly likely enough of them would fail simultaneously that again the computer could not safely pull the vehicle off the road and say "safety critical repair required" obviously and AV is not going even start rolling if initial sensor checks fail.
A human outside the vehicle jumps out in front of traffic and no time for car to stop.
Yes! you can't violate the laws of physics; if I leap out onto the interstate no matter how good the computer control is you simply can't stop 2 tons + of steel at 70MPH on a couple sq feet of rubber in only a few feet.
A deer runs in front of car from a bush that is roadside.
Ditto for the most part but a camera with infrared range range can detect an object rapidly approaching the road way, that today could not be seen by you or I do to obstructions. AVs will probably be better able to cope with this than humans.
Car AI develops sentience and becomes suicidal and drives into lake Superior.
You need to put down the sci-fi novels and pickup a science book.
That's easy you just create some residency requirements. Like most states that offer lower instate rates for public colleges etc, will say you have to have been a resident for X years.
In the case of universal heath coverage that extra double plus works. Make the requirement five years or so and lots of folks with super expensive conditions they can't afford to cover would expire before becoming eligible. Meanwhile you long time tax paying residents and their families in the case of the newly born get to participate in your social contract fully.
States rights are not a problem.
Right which is why they ultimately land on medicare, payed for by the tax payers in the case of the uninsured. For everything thing else its simply an actuarial question.
What do you have to charge such that the investment income + revenue of the premiums themselves pay for the cost of covering the insured? That is pretty simple problem that everyone in the insurance business has understood an managed for the past 400 years!
That isn't true, it happened because of Tax policy. That is why it happened. Prior to that many union shops did have healthcare of a kind but it usually applied to injuries and illness that was clearly work related only.