Russia's been one of the biggest sources of hackers, Internet attacks, online fraud, credit card theft, and the like for years now, and they've done damn all about it.
So it looks like this thing actually works! Hooray! Still lots of Doubting Thomases and questions. Me, I don't give a damn HOW or WHY it works. Put a few of them on the back end of a nuclear or solar power source, put it into orbit, orient it forward or outwards (no difference, right?), and see if the orbit changes. Bidda bing, bidda boom. If it changes, rename the whole damned thing the "Toad Drive" and get one headed for the nearest planet-orbited star.
Obviously you've never carried up the heavy bundles of asphalt shingles to repair or redo a roof, or carry off the old ones they just removed. Not an easy task: those bastiges are heavy as hell!
Not to mention flammable, and they never decompose. Why the old ones aren't mixed with petroleum-based road mixes, I'll never know. Maybe all the roofing nails:-)
Lessee here.. global temperatures rise. Ice melts. Ocean levels rise. Doh... I'm in the wrong business!
Unless.. if some of that ice is floating on an ocean, and it melts, does that make the ocean level rise? Or fall? Or just dilute it, which changes the specific gravity, but that won't change the levels, just how deep my yacht sinks in it. And how hard whales have to swim to stay afloat!
Below 0C? Hell, that's not cold! Admittedly I'm living in Nawth Ca'lina now, far different from my years in Massachusetts, Bavaria, and winters in northern Maine.
I for one am VERY glad to see ANY sort of suggested solution to this huge problem. I've always had the motto, "Don't bitch unless you have a solution." I had no solution (other than "sue the careless hardware vendors until they fix it", and that's no solution at all), so I just kept quiet. But this is a good one. Liability be damned: white hats, go for it! Brick them sons of bitches!
Alternatively, force a second "Internet Of Things" Internet, used ONLY by inhuman devices. If you want to talk to your goddamned front door lock, use THAT Internet. Stay the hell off mine: I need it for WoW!
I would've chucked it in the stainless steel sink in the toilet area (which has its separate ventilation system). No worries then.
Unless, of course, it was already too hot to handle.
Incidentally, airline cabins aren't SEALED: there's a constant flow of fresh air (well, okay, from a jet engine, but that's okay) into the cabin. Otherwise the passengers would probably be running out of oxygen long before they landed.
"You eat the cookie, the cookie is gone, but you transmit data over a network, the network is still there and can transmit data endlessly. Mediacom's assertion that the Internet is like a cookie you eat, is like saying copying a file on your computer somehow diminishes or degrades the original file, which of course is ridiculous."
While you're using the network to transmit data, someone else can not. The network has a finite bandwidth: by definition, it can only carry so much. If you're hogging it, someone else is limited.
Two houses are on fire. One home owner has a garden hose; the other has a fire hose. They're both drawing from the same hydrant. The amount of water available is basically unlimited; the water is unchanged no matter which hose it goes through.. but the amount available to be pushed through a hose is not! Now.. who do you think will get the most water on his burning house?
Why is that so hard to understand? Who do you want to be? The owner with the garden hose, or the owner with the fire hose?
Why does everyone treat these DDOS attacks (and other cyber threats) so lightly? These two punks get a slap on the wrist, and it just goes on and on! There are significant effects from these threats, you know; not just some bank inconvenienced for a day or so, or the release of a new computer game being spoiled.
Public whipping would be nice, actually. I stop short at firing squads.. barely.
I was in the XVIII Corps Automation Management Office in '83-'84 when we bought at least one of these things. They were militarized models with a different, more dust-proof, with fewer electronic emissions. Worked fine: although the GriD-OS was different, it was just as usable as PC-DOS and MS-DOS. The orange screen was different too, but quite usable. (Note the upper-case "D" in "GriD".. the company was quite insistent on that and would have their feelings hurt if you didn't type it that way in correspondence.)
I seem to recall them costing about $5K back then, quite a bit of money, especially compared to the Apple II's we were using for other purposes. We even took one down to Grenada during the little expedition down there, where it promptly disappeared on its way back for trouble-shooting. (I'm still proud of my successful effort to track it down from Grenada to C-141 to "captured" Soviet truck cab to.. well, it ended up in the supply room of an infantry company in the 82d Airborne Division, where the first sergeant insisted he was just keeping it secure while he went on leave. Could be: he didn't take it home with him:-) I'd have called in El Cid if that had been the case, but as it was I accepted his explanation and just took the GriD back to the office.. Amazing what you can actually accomplish when you're a Special Forces sergeant major:-)
Whole idea was to "automate the Corps" and its subordinate unit headquarters. Very interesting times, and we weren't spending much money or resources at all compared to some other agencies we heard about. We actually got more practical use from the networked Apple II's than we did from the stand-alone (but NOT portable: no batteries) Grids. All history now, ancient history at that, but interesting times indeed.
And how long do you think it'll take for the Bad Guys [tm] to invent their own "one-tap app", that will look and act exactly like Google's.. or worse, will be phished or sneaked into your system without your knowing, will act like your phone, and will transmit everything it discovers to its real owners? Lessee, what is today.. Tuesday?
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Russia's been one of the biggest sources of hackers, Internet attacks, online fraud, credit card theft, and the like for years now, and they've done damn all about it.
Serves the bastiges right.
Couldn't a halfway decent modern router be designed to do something like this?
Naw .. never mind .. that's just crazy talk.
But but but but but .. I don't LIKE seaweed!
I'm very curious as to how the incoming Republican Administration and Congress will respond to this demand for information.
So it looks like this thing actually works! Hooray! Still lots of Doubting Thomases and questions. Me, I don't give a damn HOW or WHY it works. Put a few of them on the back end of a nuclear or solar power source, put it into orbit, orient it forward or outwards (no difference, right?), and see if the orbit changes. Bidda bing, bidda boom. If it changes, rename the whole damned thing the "Toad Drive" and get one headed for the nearest planet-orbited star.
Obviously you've never carried up the heavy bundles of asphalt shingles to repair or redo a roof, or carry off the old ones they just removed. Not an easy task: those bastiges are heavy as hell!
Not to mention flammable, and they never decompose. Why the old ones aren't mixed with petroleum-based road mixes, I'll never know. Maybe all the roofing nails :-)
First line is spot on. If my day was crappy, does that mean my gaming experience that evening must be crappy as well?
That EA fool is just talking crazy, talking to be heard, making nose. ("Any publicity is good publicity!")
Ignore the idiot.
That strange description given by the discoverer certainly doesn't sound like any nuke I've ever seen or heard of.
Lessee here .. global temperatures rise. Ice melts. Ocean levels rise. Doh ... I'm in the wrong business!
Unless .. if some of that ice is floating on an ocean, and it melts, does that make the ocean level rise? Or fall? Or just dilute it, which changes the specific gravity, but that won't change the levels, just how deep my yacht sinks in it. And how hard whales have to swim to stay afloat!
Hmmmm .. trickier than I thought.
Below 0C? Hell, that's not cold! Admittedly I'm living in Nawth Ca'lina now, far different from my years in Massachusetts, Bavaria, and winters in northern Maine.
I for one am VERY glad to see ANY sort of suggested solution to this huge problem. I've always had the motto, "Don't bitch unless you have a solution." I had no solution (other than "sue the careless hardware vendors until they fix it", and that's no solution at all), so I just kept quiet. But this is a good one. Liability be damned: white hats, go for it! Brick them sons of bitches!
Alternatively, force a second "Internet Of Things" Internet, used ONLY by inhuman devices. If you want to talk to your goddamned front door lock, use THAT Internet. Stay the hell off mine: I need it for WoW!
"Am I under arrest?"
"Uhh .. no."
"Well then, screw you very much." And sit down, right in the middle of wherever.
I would've chucked it in the stainless steel sink in the toilet area (which has its separate ventilation system). No worries then.
Unless, of course, it was already too hot to handle.
Incidentally, airline cabins aren't SEALED: there's a constant flow of fresh air (well, okay, from a jet engine, but that's okay) into the cabin. Otherwise the passengers would probably be running out of oxygen long before they landed.
What the hell is NATO getting involved in (or even interested in) movie downloads?
Unless the guy is simply writing as a movie downloader and viewer, in which case he should drop that title, ne?
"You eat the cookie, the cookie is gone, but you transmit data over a network, the network is still there and can transmit data endlessly. Mediacom's assertion that the Internet is like a cookie you eat, is like saying copying a file on your computer somehow diminishes or degrades the original file, which of course is ridiculous."
While you're using the network to transmit data, someone else can not. The network has a finite bandwidth: by definition, it can only carry so much. If you're hogging it, someone else is limited.
Two houses are on fire. One home owner has a garden hose; the other has a fire hose. They're both drawing from the same hydrant. The amount of water available is basically unlimited; the water is unchanged no matter which hose it goes through .. but the amount available to be pushed through a hose is not! Now .. who do you think will get the most water on his burning house?
Why is that so hard to understand? Who do you want to be? The owner with the garden hose, or the owner with the fire hose?
Wot? Hold a stupid, lazy, possibly corrupt gummint official responsible for his actions? Now you're just talking crazy!
Why does everyone treat these DDOS attacks (and other cyber threats) so lightly? These two punks get a slap on the wrist, and it just goes on and on! There are significant effects from these threats, you know; not just some bank inconvenienced for a day or so, or the release of a new computer game being spoiled.
Public whipping would be nice, actually. I stop short at firing squads .. barely.
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I was in the XVIII Corps Automation Management Office in '83-'84 when we bought at least one of these things. They were militarized models with a different, more dust-proof, with fewer electronic emissions. Worked fine: although the GriD-OS was different, it was just as usable as PC-DOS and MS-DOS. The orange screen was different too, but quite usable. (Note the upper-case "D" in "GriD" .. the company was quite insistent on that and would have their feelings hurt if you didn't type it that way in correspondence.)
I seem to recall them costing about $5K back then, quite a bit of money, especially compared to the Apple II's we were using for other purposes. We even took one down to Grenada during the little expedition down there, where it promptly disappeared on its way back for trouble-shooting. (I'm still proud of my successful effort to track it down from Grenada to C-141 to "captured" Soviet truck cab to .. well, it ended up in the supply room of an infantry company in the 82d Airborne Division, where the first sergeant insisted he was just keeping it secure while he went on leave. Could be: he didn't take it home with him :-) I'd have called in El Cid if that had been the case, but as it was I accepted his explanation and just took the GriD back to the office.. Amazing what you can actually accomplish when you're a Special Forces sergeant major :-)
Whole idea was to "automate the Corps" and its subordinate unit headquarters. Very interesting times, and we weren't spending much money or resources at all compared to some other agencies we heard about. We actually got more practical use from the networked Apple II's than we did from the stand-alone (but NOT portable: no batteries) Grids. All history now, ancient history at that, but interesting times indeed.
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Or the more famous Bugs:
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Good comment. I DO like that last paragraph!
And HEY, look at that "swoosh" icon! Are they promoting the wearing of athletic shoes as well?
Yeah, must be a hell of a slow day at Reuters, ne? Isn't there a coup or something they could cover?
Although I must admit the theory is .. interesting :-)
Example:
Do NOT click on this URL: http://heavy.com/tag/isis/
On the other hand, this is a perfectly safe Mickey Mouse cartoon site: http://heavy.com/tag/isis/
How many times have YOU been misdirected to a website to which you had no intention of going? And that idiot wants it to be illegal?
And how long do you think it'll take for the Bad Guys [tm] to invent their own "one-tap app", that will look and act exactly like Google's .. or worse, will be phished or sneaked into your system without your knowing, will act like your phone, and will transmit everything it discovers to its real owners? Lessee, what is today .. Tuesday?