I feel like you have a reasonable assessment of the security problems the country faces, but I think you underestimate the resources required to exploit them. It's probably takes more than five malware assisted spies to take down the infrastructure (say, the power grid). It takes a lot of training, expertise, and if you want to target SCADA systems, a lot of expensive equipment, and if you want to attack hardware that is properly air-gapped, then even more effort and a bit of luck, too. It's not a cheap operation to take down a big system (which is why no hacker has done it yet for the lulz although maybe they are trying?)
ok, someone modded it down, but the push with "cyber security" and power is not a new thing. Remember when they wanted an 'internet kill switch?' It's not about Russians, or Chinese, or fat people in the basement, it's about people using excuses to increase their power. This theme has been going on for as long as the 'invade Iraq' thing was going on........many years before the invasion actually happened.
How many spies and saboteurs with well-placed bombs (or high-powered rifles) would it take to disable the power grid? Not many, I would think. There are a lot of threats besides 'the cyber.'
Security is something for professionals like us to think about always while we're working, but it's not something to panic about. A lot of these news stories like this one are designed to spread panic, and to increase power to those who are spreading panic.
At the same time, efforts to diversify into other areas have not been, to put it charitably, as successful as they would have liked.
No, they making money by the bucket-load. Check it out, the new face of Microsoft. They missed mobile, but they've managed to diversify sufficiently into other areas that they are now more profitable than any time in the company's history.
Good riddance to Windows, though. May it die a quick death.
The goal is to hurt consulting companies like Infosys who import H1B programmers wholesale then underpay them by a ridiculous amount, and generally treat them badly. This will ruin their normal recruiting methods.
Also, there's been a lot of propaganda recently about how we train people in universities, and then kick them out. The logic is that we might as well keep their expertise in the country, since we've given it to them.
No, watch what he does (if you can stomach listening to him for that long). While he was campaigning, he would usually try out some of his lines in front of smaller audiences. If they worked, he would try them in front of bigger audiences. If they didn't, he dropped them. There's a very clear pattern to what he does.
Don't expect him to stop saying things that are outrageous as long as that works.
There's only so much space available in the design and automakers have been producing "weak" boxes for a long time on the basis that it increases their servicing business and 99%
That's only true if they fail simultaneously. Since they know one is bad, they can eliminate it before the next one fails. Now if one more fails, they are fine (the other two are still in agreement).
If they have a way of externally checking the correctness then they can have three fail and still be operational, because they know which one is correct.
the brain (and intelligence) is just a collection of neurons, and neurons can be modeled in circuits. Guess what? It can't.
Why not? If you could prove that, or even come up with a reasonable explanation of why, that would be the most important discovery in Computer Science in the last 50 years.
If it's all based on theoreticals then surely you could counter their theoretical with another
No, it doesn't work that way, because the law states which things can be hypothesized about. You get to count theoretical damages, you don't get to count theoretical benefits (although if you could actually prove that you caused more people to pay money to the owner, that could help your case).
is it still pirating when there's no possible loss to anyone ?
Same question for old music, books, software...
The answer is yes, although only the rights-holder is able to sue you, and if they aren't around, then you can get away with it.
Under copyright law (this is the way the law is written), not only do you have to pay for actual damages, you also have to pay for theoretical damages. So the copyright holder can say, "We weren't releasing it to increase demand at a later date, when we theoretically would release it. Your piracy robbed us of those theoretical potential profits."
Most of those reasons for pirating are because they can't get the content very easily in a legal way. I guess most people are willing to pay, as long as it doesn't get too complicated.
When Google first started branching out into non-search, they made a huge effort to declare that they didn't give their own products higher search results. The reason, of course, is because they wanted to defend accusations of abusing their monopoly. Maybe you don't remember that.
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I feel like you have a reasonable assessment of the security problems the country faces, but I think you underestimate the resources required to exploit them. It's probably takes more than five malware assisted spies to take down the infrastructure (say, the power grid). It takes a lot of training, expertise, and if you want to target SCADA systems, a lot of expensive equipment, and if you want to attack hardware that is properly air-gapped, then even more effort and a bit of luck, too. It's not a cheap operation to take down a big system (which is why no hacker has done it yet for the lulz although maybe they are trying?)
Interesting point.
ok, someone modded it down, but the push with "cyber security" and power is not a new thing. Remember when they wanted an 'internet kill switch?' It's not about Russians, or Chinese, or fat people in the basement, it's about people using excuses to increase their power. This theme has been going on for as long as the 'invade Iraq' thing was going on........many years before the invasion actually happened.
How many spies and saboteurs with well-placed bombs (or high-powered rifles) would it take to disable the power grid? Not many, I would think. There are a lot of threats besides 'the cyber.'
Security is something for professionals like us to think about always while we're working, but it's not something to panic about. A lot of these news stories like this one are designed to spread panic, and to increase power to those who are spreading panic.
There are probably a lot of them, but honestly enough to make a dent in the allotment?
Maybe not.
At the same time, efforts to diversify into other areas have not been, to put it charitably, as successful as they would have liked.
No, they making money by the bucket-load. Check it out, the new face of Microsoft. They missed mobile, but they've managed to diversify sufficiently into other areas that they are now more profitable than any time in the company's history.
Good riddance to Windows, though. May it die a quick death.
So, question.......would you really build a death star out of steel?
There was one where the Enterprise was parked underwater just to hide from a pre-industrial civilization - can you believe that?
It makes sense, they probably didn't have sonar back in the 80s. Right?
There's a limited number of H1B visas. If other people have priority over Infosys, then they won't be able to get the visas they need.
The goal is to hurt consulting companies like Infosys who import H1B programmers wholesale then underpay them by a ridiculous amount, and generally treat them badly. This will ruin their normal recruiting methods.
Also, there's been a lot of propaganda recently about how we train people in universities, and then kick them out. The logic is that we might as well keep their expertise in the country, since we've given it to them.
No, watch what he does (if you can stomach listening to him for that long). While he was campaigning, he would usually try out some of his lines in front of smaller audiences. If they worked, he would try them in front of bigger audiences. If they didn't, he dropped them. There's a very clear pattern to what he does.
Don't expect him to stop saying things that are outrageous as long as that works.
Sad thing is that Schwarzenegger was still better than the governor who preceded him.
This shows their internal polls were much more accurate.
Good point.
I'm not really sure what you're saying, and how it relates to what I said.
There's only so much space available in the design and automakers have been producing "weak" boxes for a long time on the basis that it increases their servicing business and 99%
That's...........
Sometimes it's good to get the news later to let the facts reveal themselves. Not everything needs to be tied to the '24 hour immediate news' cycle.
4 clocks can only tolerate 1 failure
That's only true if they fail simultaneously. Since they know one is bad, they can eliminate it before the next one fails. Now if one more fails, they are fine (the other two are still in agreement).
If they have a way of externally checking the correctness then they can have three fail and still be operational, because they know which one is correct.
the brain (and intelligence) is just a collection of neurons, and neurons can be modeled in circuits. Guess what? It can't.
Why not? If you could prove that, or even come up with a reasonable explanation of why, that would be the most important discovery in Computer Science in the last 50 years.
It's worth mentioning that each person has a brain in their head they can observe in more detail than any MRI will ever give.
That is, observing your own thoughts isn't perfect, but it can give you a ton of data if you're willing to look.
If it's all based on theoreticals then surely you could counter their theoretical with another
No, it doesn't work that way, because the law states which things can be hypothesized about. You get to count theoretical damages, you don't get to count theoretical benefits (although if you could actually prove that you caused more people to pay money to the owner, that could help your case).
I guess I should see an obesity specialist, then.
In Europe they use weight-loss medication that has proven fairly effective and safe.
What sort of weight loss medicine are you referring to here? I'm interested.
is it still pirating when there's no possible loss to anyone ? Same question for old music, books, software ...
The answer is yes, although only the rights-holder is able to sue you, and if they aren't around, then you can get away with it.
Under copyright law (this is the way the law is written), not only do you have to pay for actual damages, you also have to pay for theoretical damages. So the copyright holder can say, "We weren't releasing it to increase demand at a later date, when we theoretically would release it. Your piracy robbed us of those theoretical potential profits."
Most of those reasons for pirating are because they can't get the content very easily in a legal way. I guess most people are willing to pay, as long as it doesn't get too complicated.
When Google first started branching out into non-search, they made a huge effort to declare that they didn't give their own products higher search results. The reason, of course, is because they wanted to defend accusations of abusing their monopoly. Maybe you don't remember that.
Now they are abusing their monopoly, it seems.