The GNN branding in this situation was a concession to CNN who didn't want to use any real logos in the fictional updates, for fear it might be confused with real news.
In this simulations, they weren't. The public cell phone network had a widespread trojan, which went on to attack the public Internet. With phones and data down, they weren't able to respond to simple bomb attacks on a few power locations, and the power grid collapsed.
The threat to the power grid wasn't that that it was cyber attacked, but that a conventional attack was much more powerful when there was no way to direct the repair people. With no way to direct truck drivers or send orders, there was no way to get gas to critical things like hospital and police to run generators.
The team lost the wargame, and was punished by having to be interviewed by Wolf Blitzer.
If you watched the broadcast of this exercise on CNN, you heard many people arguing for things that the government just can't do such as ordering telcos to disable all smartphones, suspending rights, and even nationalizing the power companies.
They spent so much time being told by the simulated AG what they couldn't do, they didn't have time left to discuss what they could do.
The IOC released this video to the major news sources after the accident happened, then NBC announced the day after that they'll not be showing it again in the remainder of their coverage, and other sources had their limited rights expire. Without the IOC being so nice and sharing the video, it would have been seen by a lot fewer people.
If this guy wanted to use the Canadian law exemption, he should have also put in a block (which is available to the big guys like the NBC and MLB) that made sure his stream was only available in Canada. He'd have no liability there, but he's breaking copyright law in the USA because he's not NBC, and every other territory where there's an official broadcaster. Remember, if you're positing on the web and not targeting a specific part of the world, you better be ready to comply with laws all over the world.
Do they require that everyone attending sign an agreement assigning all rights in any recordings they make to the IOC, or something along those lines?
Haven't read the back of a sports ticket lately? Every sports league claims copyright over their event, and the right to use your image while you're there. You'll find your Bluetooth not working because 2.4 GhZ unlicensed band devices are being jammed... and if you talk on the phone too long you'll find an usher making sure you're talking about something other than the game.
Looks like we've got the "1984" baseball season about to start...
Yep, and the "Olympic Movement" is given special rights under US Laws that give their trademarks such as the five-ring-design even stronger protection than a typical trademark. Basically, they're claiming they need NBCU/CBC/FoxTel/your-local-Olympic-broadcaster's money to put on the games, and therefore they need super-copyright. They have it now, it'll take an act of Congress to get rid of it.
People loved when CDDB offered to identify CD's so when ripping you could not have to type everything in for your music app. Many people donated time to this "project"... but once it was done, suddenly developers started to have to pay Gracenote for the data, and "free" music programs went away for paid-for-somehow models like Windows Media Player, iTunes, and the such.
It seems like bait and switch is a viable business model these days. Start off as a free project taking free help, then turn around and exercise your copyright burning your former free help but having plenty of money for paid help to take their place.
Yep. This is exactly why Apple has a killbit by which they can get rid of an trojan app as soon as they find out about it. Too bad these people didn't realize that before they took the wrong action.
Checking the Washington TerrorBall League scores, Cyberspace Security went undefeated during the Bush administration so it's logical that this guy didn't get cut from the team. Bush had an overall losing record, even as today's teabaggers are still protesting the scores, but that's why he had to go.
As covered by Slashdot last week, a team of Bush-era staffers simulating a White House situation room responding to a "March Madness" trojan app attack was broadcast repeatedly by CNN over the weekend. That simulated attack turned smartphones into a botnet, then started attacking the Internet, and then with communications down it was easy for a few explosions to knock out power to the East Coast. The team failed... they took too long arguing over what they couldn't do instead of doing what they could. For example, telling people to shut off smartphones was met with theories into how they could require smartphones to go offline.. and that was just a waster of clock time because there's no law providing for that.
The government needs the help of geeks, but the problem is anybody who gets into government wants to give themselves too much power, and that turns out ruining them.
Yep. All hosting resources are finite, so anybody offering anything "unlimited" is clearly overselling what they have. I'd look for somebody who quotes a higher-than-I'll-ever-need number as proof that they're limiting potential hogs.
You can't fly anything in the USA without being identifiable. So, enemy drones here are impossible... they'd be noticed and shot down immediately. Surely, a team of attackers could attack like that recent assassination by Israel, but then conventional crime-fighting would be able to clear that up.
We are not at war with all Muslims, but a particular corruption of that religion that believes all non-believers (including Muslims who don't share in their corrupt version) must be killed.
You seem to have forgotten that 9/11 changed everything. A small number of people crossed the border through the front doors, then assembled and killed thousands in an attack nobody had thought of defending against yet. This isn't a conventional wars where we can shoot down personnel carriers, and there's no "homeland" to attack.
That's called fighting the last war... when we thought that hijackers wanted to go somewhere, we let them into the cockpit. When the new hijackers got the idea that they could take over the plane and hit a target, we ended up with a small number of people able to cause a large number of people, and they didn't care about guilt or punishment because they were fine with the idea of dying in the crash.
The rules of war have changed... the enemy isn't a state, it's a force of people loyal to a cult that believes a corrupted religion. There's no way to blockade them, there's no way to disable their tech because they don't use much. We have to change our response or else they'll find the weakness in the current way of doing things.
The risk to them: We kill them. If we ever get Bin Ladin in the sights of one of these things, it'll be well worth the investment.
The risk to us: We lose a drone. Pilot safe, and he can move on to another drone to keep going.
Sure, they can try to kill the pilot in Vegas... but that's a mainland murder and that's a whole lot easier to solve and capture them here. Furthermore, they've got to be here to do that.
So, net result is we're bringing the war to them using technology we have and they don't. Now our fighter planes don't need to have the fighter pilot on-board. They might own the ground in the war zone, but we own the air.
Yep... that'd be standard operating procedure in media. Most TV people aren't allowed to appear on rival media outlets... but take for example Suze Orman who appears regularly on PBS and CNBC. Why'd CNBC agree to that? Because she already was famous for her books, and for them part-of-Suze was better than no Suze at all.
Layla Kayleigh left G4 about a year ago and was replaced with a rotation of the show's correspondents timed for when they're in the studio building rather than on assignment somewhere else.
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The GNN branding in this situation was a concession to CNN who didn't want to use any real logos in the fictional updates, for fear it might be confused with real news.
Yep, this was set up by Fox N... wait a second, it was on CNN!
In this simulations, they weren't. The public cell phone network had a widespread trojan, which went on to attack the public Internet. With phones and data down, they weren't able to respond to simple bomb attacks on a few power locations, and the power grid collapsed.
The threat to the power grid wasn't that that it was cyber attacked, but that a conventional attack was much more powerful when there was no way to direct the repair people. With no way to direct truck drivers or send orders, there was no way to get gas to critical things like hospital and police to run generators.
The team lost the wargame, and was punished by having to be interviewed by Wolf Blitzer.
If you watched the broadcast of this exercise on CNN, you heard many people arguing for things that the government just can't do such as ordering telcos to disable all smartphones, suspending rights, and even nationalizing the power companies.
They spent so much time being told by the simulated AG what they couldn't do, they didn't have time left to discuss what they could do.
Just being an American is cause to be arrested in Iran or North Korea... they'll gladly trump up some spy charges for you.
The IOC released this video to the major news sources after the accident happened, then NBC announced the day after that they'll not be showing it again in the remainder of their coverage, and other sources had their limited rights expire. Without the IOC being so nice and sharing the video, it would have been seen by a lot fewer people.
If this guy wanted to use the Canadian law exemption, he should have also put in a block (which is available to the big guys like the NBC and MLB) that made sure his stream was only available in Canada. He'd have no liability there, but he's breaking copyright law in the USA because he's not NBC, and every other territory where there's an official broadcaster. Remember, if you're positing on the web and not targeting a specific part of the world, you better be ready to comply with laws all over the world.
Do they require that everyone attending sign an agreement assigning all rights in any recordings they make to the IOC, or something along those lines?
Haven't read the back of a sports ticket lately? Every sports league claims copyright over their event, and the right to use your image while you're there. You'll find your Bluetooth not working because 2.4 GhZ unlicensed band devices are being jammed... and if you talk on the phone too long you'll find an usher making sure you're talking about something other than the game.
Looks like we've got the "1984" baseball season about to start...
Yep, and the "Olympic Movement" is given special rights under US Laws that give their trademarks such as the five-ring-design even stronger protection than a typical trademark. Basically, they're claiming they need NBCU/CBC/FoxTel/your-local-Olympic-broadcaster's money to put on the games, and therefore they need super-copyright. They have it now, it'll take an act of Congress to get rid of it.
People loved when CDDB offered to identify CD's so when ripping you could not have to type everything in for your music app. Many people donated time to this "project"... but once it was done, suddenly developers started to have to pay Gracenote for the data, and "free" music programs went away for paid-for-somehow models like Windows Media Player, iTunes, and the such.
It seems like bait and switch is a viable business model these days. Start off as a free project taking free help, then turn around and exercise your copyright burning your former free help but having plenty of money for paid help to take their place.
Yep. This is exactly why Apple has a killbit by which they can get rid of an trojan app as soon as they find out about it. Too bad these people didn't realize that before they took the wrong action.
Checking the Washington TerrorBall League scores, Cyberspace Security went undefeated during the Bush administration so it's logical that this guy didn't get cut from the team. Bush had an overall losing record, even as today's teabaggers are still protesting the scores, but that's why he had to go.
As covered by Slashdot last week, a team of Bush-era staffers simulating a White House situation room responding to a "March Madness" trojan app attack was broadcast repeatedly by CNN over the weekend. That simulated attack turned smartphones into a botnet, then started attacking the Internet, and then with communications down it was easy for a few explosions to knock out power to the East Coast. The team failed... they took too long arguing over what they couldn't do instead of doing what they could. For example, telling people to shut off smartphones was met with theories into how they could require smartphones to go offline.. and that was just a waster of clock time because there's no law providing for that.
The government needs the help of geeks, but the problem is anybody who gets into government wants to give themselves too much power, and that turns out ruining them.
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Yep. All hosting resources are finite, so anybody offering anything "unlimited" is clearly overselling what they have. I'd look for somebody who quotes a higher-than-I'll-ever-need number as proof that they're limiting potential hogs.
You can't fly anything in the USA without being identifiable. So, enemy drones here are impossible... they'd be noticed and shot down immediately. Surely, a team of attackers could attack like that recent assassination by Israel, but then conventional crime-fighting would be able to clear that up.
We are not at war with all Muslims, but a particular corruption of that religion that believes all non-believers (including Muslims who don't share in their corrupt version) must be killed.
You seem to have forgotten that 9/11 changed everything. A small number of people crossed the border through the front doors, then assembled and killed thousands in an attack nobody had thought of defending against yet. This isn't a conventional wars where we can shoot down personnel carriers, and there's no "homeland" to attack.
That's called fighting the last war... when we thought that hijackers wanted to go somewhere, we let them into the cockpit. When the new hijackers got the idea that they could take over the plane and hit a target, we ended up with a small number of people able to cause a large number of people, and they didn't care about guilt or punishment because they were fine with the idea of dying in the crash.
The rules of war have changed... the enemy isn't a state, it's a force of people loyal to a cult that believes a corrupted religion. There's no way to blockade them, there's no way to disable their tech because they don't use much. We have to change our response or else they'll find the weakness in the current way of doing things.
The risk to them: We kill them. If we ever get Bin Ladin in the sights of one of these things, it'll be well worth the investment.
The risk to us: We lose a drone. Pilot safe, and he can move on to another drone to keep going.
Sure, they can try to kill the pilot in Vegas... but that's a mainland murder and that's a whole lot easier to solve and capture them here. Furthermore, they've got to be here to do that.
So, net result is we're bringing the war to them using technology we have and they don't. Now our fighter planes don't need to have the fighter pilot on-board. They might own the ground in the war zone, but we own the air.
Yep, but at least this one comes pre-jailbroken.
As a user of the real iPhoney I'm offended you would say that.
Yep... that'd be standard operating procedure in media. Most TV people aren't allowed to appear on rival media outlets... but take for example Suze Orman who appears regularly on PBS and CNBC. Why'd CNBC agree to that? Because she already was famous for her books, and for them part-of-Suze was better than no Suze at all.
I'm not sure why Schefter gets an exemption, but the large majority of ESPN personalities in mass deleted their Twitter accounts on a boss' say-so.
Layla Kayleigh left G4 about a year ago and was replaced with a rotation of the show's correspondents timed for when they're in the studio building rather than on assignment somewhere else.