Obama is speaking out of the other side of his mouth when chastising the Egyptian government for doing what he and his congress is trying to do right now to Americans Internet and communication services.
Don't be stupid. Obama would only shut down the Internet to protect you from bad people.
To transport by train you have to load onto a truck, drive to the station, unload from the truck, load onto the train, take the train to the other end, unload from the train, load onto the truck, drive to where you want the shipment to go and then unload from the truck. That's generally slower than just taking it by truck, hence not much good for anything you want delivered ASAP.
And the rail strikes in the UK in the 90s were one of the reasons why a large amount of freight moved from rail to road there; one single union could disrupt rail deliveries to everyone for days, whereas if a trucking company goes on strike it only affects their customers and if you're one of them you can switch to a competing truck company.
I'm pretty sure that they are working on those other crimes, too (well not the spam - that's not a crime in all jurisdictions) but the people perpetrating are a bit more savvy than the teenagers in this case.
You clearly don't know the British police. All they care about is meeting their 'cleanup targets', which is why you'll see a dozen of them sitting at the side of the road looking for cars with expired road tax but you can't get one to come to your house when you're burgled, and they would much rather arrest a fifteen-year-old know-nothing who'll admit everything than a banker who's going to spend millions of his ill-gotten gains on lawyers and politicians.
My webcam used to have the telnet port open and would drop you straight into a root shell if you connected to it (no password required). Fortunately the new firmware fixed that.
I note that according to you, speeding isn't involved. Ever.
No, it's just not one of the primary contributors to road accidents. And not just 'according to him', research long ago established that the 85th percentile by speed were the safest drivers, slower drivers were more dangerous and the very fastest drivers were the most dangerous, at least where speed-related accidents are concerned.
But, hey, feel free to ignore reality if you like.
Cars at the moment all have a vulnerability, where if you throw a brick through the windshield, the driver may crash. Why isn't everyone going around throwing bricks?
Because standing at the side of the road throwing bricks is pretty damn obvious, whereas remotely hacking cars with a big antenna is very hard to detect.
Trusting random data from external sources which can easily send fake messages is simply retarded.
Not sure if this counts as a military advantage, but using the moon as a testbed for getting to Mars and offering haven in case the world explodes (which it eventually will given humans) will lead to advances in many types of technology.
There's very little you can test on the moon that would be useful on Mars; the environments are far too different (e.g. atmosphere vs no atmosphere, a 2x difference in gravity, etc).
I love how they try to pigeonhole the iPad into a "consumption" role when there are thousands of examples of things created using the iPad.
If you can only find 'thousands of examples' of things created on millions of iPads, then I think it's pretty clear that they're not a 'creation' device.
Most companies don't spend a lot of time finger-painting and if you have to carry a keyboard around to actually type long documents then there's little benefit over a netbook or laptop.
That's right. 5.1 setups are still unusual. Yes, they are out there, but just as wearing the glasses are not worth it to most people, neither is setting up a 5.1 system, and having to sit in the 'sweet spot' to get the proper effect.
The real problem is having to fix up five speakers all around your living room. I could take the 7.1 speakers from my PC and connect them to the Blu-Ray player, but we'd be constantly tripping over the wires.
I fear the 2% astronaut fatality rate will sour private space travel when the first disaster happens.
Only a government could get away with building a space vehicle that kills the crew one time in fifty; any private space vehicle will have to be much safer than that.
Tell me, if we did build one, wouldn't that prove we have ALL the resources, energy and technology we need, RIGHT HERE????
Building a space elevator is more a matter of finding a material which actually works than finding energy and resources... and right now I'm not aware of one.
In any case, a space elevator would be pointless for bring material _down_ from the moon since you can just drop it into some empty part of the planet and process it there. A space elevator would be good for taking bulk cargo up, and delicate things like people and manufactured products down, but if you have a kilometer-sized asteroid or lump of moon rock that you want to bring down to Earth then just deorbit it and hope you don't hit New York.
Of course in the real world the cost of bringing that material to Earth would make pretty much any resource unaffordably expensive anyway. No-one's going to spend untold billions of dollars building massive space infrastructure in order to extract iron from the moon or asteroids when they can dig it out of the ground.
The logs sent to the other machine wouldn't be trustworthy either...
Only after the attacker has rooted the box and been able to block further logging of his activities. You can easily edit the log files on a machine and remove old entries showing you doing bad things, but you can't do that wih a remote machine that you have no access to.
P.S. Of course if they were serious about security in the first place they wouldn't even allow logins with passwords and would require public key authentication instead.
This never would have happened if they were running Lin...
Most likely it's a weak SSH password: SSH and VNC with crappy passwords seem to be the two most common ways to get into Linux machines these days... just open port 22 and watch a million Chinese hackers testing out a bazillion ssh passwords on your machine.
If Windows actually supported SSH then it would be just as vulnerable.
I think last year it was CentOS that got hit, not Fedora. Also, the nature of the attack was different and I believe some packages were compromised, or at least the repo signing keys.
You know why studios love 3D? Because it is impossible to pirate while it is in the theatre.
Two synched camcorders, hacked-up pair of 3D glasses over the lens. Job done.
Of course who in their right mind really wants to watch a pirate copy of a movie that was recorded on a camcorder in a cinema? I remember years ago a friend had a camcorder copy of Lord of the Rings before it was released in the UK, and it was barely watchable; I'm glad I waited for the DVD.
Then again, the Matrix sequels might actually be improved if you could barely see what was going on or hear the dialogue... particularly with a big enough audience making fun of them.
The thing is that as action movies in their own right, the 2nd and 3rd movies were fine.
The second movie extended the pointless action sequences so much that they became... boring. I don't need to watch thirty minutes of actors in front of a green screen being superimposed onto a moving truck on the highway, thirty seconds would be plenty.
The second movie was so bad that I had no desire whatsoever to see the third. I can only imagine they're making the 4th and 5th becuase the Wachowskis either do that or get a job flipping burgers in McDonalds.
If anything it strikes me that self-censorship would be viewed negatively by their users, unlike most bricks-and-mortar retailers who want to maintain a family friendly image.
If you read the Steam forums the Germans are always complaining because Steam only sells German-government-approved censored versions of games there. Less so in America because most games intended for sale there are pre-cut to get an M rating or below regardless of which country the game was developed in... Witcher is the only exception I can think of, where the developers actually removed the censorship after release.
(There are good western comics I know, *I guess*, I've read great things about The Sandman)
What I've read of it is OK.
But yeah, as a kid growing up in the UK I was always surprised by how bland the US comics were in comparison to even mainstream British comics like 2000AD.
The irony is if they had allowed government censorship they probably could have taken a page from Larry Flint's book and fought (and won) on constitutional grounds.
You're assuming they would want to. The MPAA ratings also gave Hollywood an excellent weapon to keep competitors out of the market; for example, read Lloyd Kaufmann on how the MPAA forced cuts in his movies to remove things that would easily get past them in a Hollywood production.
Yeah, and? The post I was replying to was claiming that you wouldn't find boobs in Steam games. It's blatantly wrong.
The Witcher seems to exist in an AO version, but not on Steam. Indigo Prophecy Uncut is also AO, but also only on Steam in its cut M version.
It's hard to tell which version of Witcher is on Steam; I haven't played it since they released the 'Enhanced Edition' to replace the original censored version of the game, but I don't know whether that's still censored because there seem to be multiple versions in existence.
Part of the problem is the self-supporting nature of censorship; if you only release kids' games because you're not allowed to release anything more adult then only kids will play games, and then developers will only release kids' games because that's the only market.
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I'm a little confused. How does Tor work when they shut down the Internet?
RFC 1149.
Obama is speaking out of the other side of his mouth when chastising the Egyptian government for doing what he and his congress is trying to do right now to Americans Internet and communication services.
Don't be stupid. Obama would only shut down the Internet to protect you from bad people.
The only reason most goods go by road is cost.
That and speed and reliability.
To transport by train you have to load onto a truck, drive to the station, unload from the truck, load onto the train, take the train to the other end, unload from the train, load onto the truck, drive to where you want the shipment to go and then unload from the truck. That's generally slower than just taking it by truck, hence not much good for anything you want delivered ASAP.
And the rail strikes in the UK in the 90s were one of the reasons why a large amount of freight moved from rail to road there; one single union could disrupt rail deliveries to everyone for days, whereas if a trucking company goes on strike it only affects their customers and if you're one of them you can switch to a competing truck company.
I'm pretty sure that they are working on those other crimes, too (well not the spam - that's not a crime in all jurisdictions) but the people perpetrating are a bit more savvy than the teenagers in this case.
You clearly don't know the British police. All they care about is meeting their 'cleanup targets', which is why you'll see a dozen of them sitting at the side of the road looking for cars with expired road tax but you can't get one to come to your house when you're burgled, and they would much rather arrest a fifteen-year-old know-nothing who'll admit everything than a banker who's going to spend millions of his ill-gotten gains on lawyers and politicians.
My webcam used to have the telnet port open and would drop you straight into a root shell if you connected to it (no password required). Fortunately the new firmware fixed that.
I note that according to you, speeding isn't involved. Ever.
No, it's just not one of the primary contributors to road accidents. And not just 'according to him', research long ago established that the 85th percentile by speed were the safest drivers, slower drivers were more dangerous and the very fastest drivers were the most dangerous, at least where speed-related accidents are concerned.
But, hey, feel free to ignore reality if you like.
Cars at the moment all have a vulnerability, where if you throw a brick through the windshield, the driver may crash. Why isn't everyone going around throwing bricks?
Because standing at the side of the road throwing bricks is pretty damn obvious, whereas remotely hacking cars with a big antenna is very hard to detect.
Trusting random data from external sources which can easily send fake messages is simply retarded.
Not sure if this counts as a military advantage, but using the moon as a testbed for getting to Mars and offering haven in case the world explodes (which it eventually will given humans) will lead to advances in many types of technology.
There's very little you can test on the moon that would be useful on Mars; the environments are far too different (e.g. atmosphere vs no atmosphere, a 2x difference in gravity, etc).
That quote is even more retarded than it first appears, becasue Rand hated libertarians almost as much as she hated socialists.
I love how they try to pigeonhole the iPad into a "consumption" role when there are thousands of examples of things created using the iPad.
If you can only find 'thousands of examples' of things created on millions of iPads, then I think it's pretty clear that they're not a 'creation' device.
Most companies don't spend a lot of time finger-painting and if you have to carry a keyboard around to actually type long documents then there's little benefit over a netbook or laptop.
That's right. 5.1 setups are still unusual. Yes, they are out there, but just as wearing the glasses are not worth it to most people, neither is setting up a 5.1 system, and having to sit in the 'sweet spot' to get the proper effect.
The real problem is having to fix up five speakers all around your living room. I could take the 7.1 speakers from my PC and connect them to the Blu-Ray player, but we'd be constantly tripping over the wires.
I fear the 2% astronaut fatality rate will sour private space travel when the first disaster happens.
Only a government could get away with building a space vehicle that kills the crew one time in fifty; any private space vehicle will have to be much safer than that.
Tell me, if we did build one, wouldn't that prove we have ALL the resources, energy and technology we need, RIGHT HERE????
Building a space elevator is more a matter of finding a material which actually works than finding energy and resources... and right now I'm not aware of one.
In any case, a space elevator would be pointless for bring material _down_ from the moon since you can just drop it into some empty part of the planet and process it there. A space elevator would be good for taking bulk cargo up, and delicate things like people and manufactured products down, but if you have a kilometer-sized asteroid or lump of moon rock that you want to bring down to Earth then just deorbit it and hope you don't hit New York.
Of course in the real world the cost of bringing that material to Earth would make pretty much any resource unaffordably expensive anyway. No-one's going to spend untold billions of dollars building massive space infrastructure in order to extract iron from the moon or asteroids when they can dig it out of the ground.
The logs sent to the other machine wouldn't be trustworthy either...
Only after the attacker has rooted the box and been able to block further logging of his activities. You can easily edit the log files on a machine and remove old entries showing you doing bad things, but you can't do that wih a remote machine that you have no access to.
P.S. Of course if they were serious about security in the first place they wouldn't even allow logins with passwords and would require public key authentication instead.
This never would have happened if they were running Lin...
Most likely it's a weak SSH password: SSH and VNC with crappy passwords seem to be the two most common ways to get into Linux machines these days... just open port 22 and watch a million Chinese hackers testing out a bazillion ssh passwords on your machine.
If Windows actually supported SSH then it would be just as vulnerable.
That's why any secure system should be sending logs to a remote machine as well as /var/log.
I think last year it was CentOS that got hit, not Fedora. Also, the nature of the attack was different and I believe some packages were compromised, or at least the repo signing keys.
It was Red Hat, wasn't it?
http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html
You know why studios love 3D? Because it is impossible to pirate while it is in the theatre.
Two synched camcorders, hacked-up pair of 3D glasses over the lens. Job done.
Of course who in their right mind really wants to watch a pirate copy of a movie that was recorded on a camcorder in a cinema? I remember years ago a friend had a camcorder copy of Lord of the Rings before it was released in the UK, and it was barely watchable; I'm glad I waited for the DVD.
Then again, the Matrix sequels might actually be improved if you could barely see what was going on or hear the dialogue... particularly with a big enough audience making fun of them.
The thing is that as action movies in their own right, the 2nd and 3rd movies were fine.
The second movie extended the pointless action sequences so much that they became... boring. I don't need to watch thirty minutes of actors in front of a green screen being superimposed onto a moving truck on the highway, thirty seconds would be plenty.
The second movie was so bad that I had no desire whatsoever to see the third. I can only imagine they're making the 4th and 5th becuase the Wachowskis either do that or get a job flipping burgers in McDonalds.
did they didn't mention the bacteria only eats human flesh?
Exxon Green... is people!
If anything it strikes me that self-censorship would be viewed negatively by their users, unlike most bricks-and-mortar retailers who want to maintain a family friendly image.
If you read the Steam forums the Germans are always complaining because Steam only sells German-government-approved censored versions of games there. Less so in America because most games intended for sale there are pre-cut to get an M rating or below regardless of which country the game was developed in... Witcher is the only exception I can think of, where the developers actually removed the censorship after release.
(There are good western comics I know, *I guess*, I've read great things about The Sandman)
What I've read of it is OK.
But yeah, as a kid growing up in the UK I was always surprised by how bland the US comics were in comparison to even mainstream British comics like 2000AD.
The irony is if they had allowed government censorship they probably could have taken a page from Larry Flint's book and fought (and won) on constitutional grounds.
You're assuming they would want to. The MPAA ratings also gave Hollywood an excellent weapon to keep competitors out of the market; for example, read Lloyd Kaufmann on how the MPAA forced cuts in his movies to remove things that would easily get past them in a Hollywood production.
The first two are just M, not AO.
Yeah, and? The post I was replying to was claiming that you wouldn't find boobs in Steam games. It's blatantly wrong.
The Witcher seems to exist in an AO version, but not on Steam. Indigo Prophecy Uncut is also AO, but also only on Steam in its cut M version.
It's hard to tell which version of Witcher is on Steam; I haven't played it since they released the 'Enhanced Edition' to replace the original censored version of the game, but I don't know whether that's still censored because there seem to be multiple versions in existence.
Part of the problem is the self-supporting nature of censorship; if you only release kids' games because you're not allowed to release anything more adult then only kids will play games, and then developers will only release kids' games because that's the only market.