Given the large number of incidents that have transpired lately, the opportunity-cost for someone wanting to close their school for a day or harass a business or event or building with very little chance of being caught is extraordinarily low. If the end-perpetrator actually is in another country with little to no chance of being caught, or if they can script this so that third-party computers are used to actually make the threat then they can rake in money from lots of disgruntled people each wanting to make small-scale havoc. It might be impossible to catch those purchasing the attacks other than if they end up inadvertently contacting law enforcement sting operations by accident.
Catalog purchases? With the advent of businesses that are willing to accept Bitcoin for purchases this could be a fairly good way to get some kinds of goods, which would free up local fiat currency for things like rent or food or bribes.
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put out in KP.
Mmmhmm. They actually state in the owner's manual that one is supposed to use the parking brake when parking. Few people actually do, but that's contrary to the directions.
Rollback means playback, right? Like, they record how the ATM communicates the authentication portion of the transaction, and replay that same communication with the ATM until its stored cash has all been dispensed and it's now empty?
Seems like the people that designed the ATMs and their authentication protocols have some 'splaining to do. This kind of vulnerability should have been anticipated and the software hardened against, given that this is machine-to-machine encryption, not person-to-machine.
I've seen people reprimanded for not working the shift that they are expected to work, including a couple of people that were early and expected to leave early. Coverage was expected and not working the assigned shift messed with that.
It really depends on where you live. The weather where I live is gorgeous probably 280 days a year, and when it's not gorgeous it's because it's too hot, not because of snow or other things that make the roads impassable. Here, it's common to work 7:00-3:30 in an office job, and starting as late as 9:00am is uncommon for office work. Trades often will start at 6:00am during the summer because of the heat.
Up north, with roads to clear, the northerly latitude leading to a later sunrise, and other problems it seems that a later start time makes more sense.
I have a general rule, that I do not judge people on things like ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other things that they are born-with and are beyond their control.
I think that the article's point, from an American perspective, is that one probably isn't going to get rich hacking, in the same way that one isn't going to get rich robbing banks. Like robbing banks, the more one hacks, the greater the chances one is caught, so trying to get rich is the fastest way to get caught.
It's also kind of interesting to note that both crimes are investigated by the FBI, rather than solely by local authorities. The FBI has a better track record of not forgetting cold cases too, so depending on the statute of limitations one may never be in-the-clear.
Those two days of work for a hacker are followed by months or years of worrying which of the 40 odd jobs the FBI is investigating. I'd imagine an honest job provides a more enjoyable income than one in which you spend the following 7 years hoping the SWAT team doesn't boot your door in.
That's probably why sustained-effort hacks are called off after a fairly short time, assuming that the article is correct. Even if the FBI or other law enforcement had full authority to go to each compromised system in-turn to analyse the connections to keep tracking back, there's still the issue of finding the owners, finding the system admins, possibly going in to look at paper records for credentials for systems that aren't commonly accessed, analyzing logs, etc. Quite some time will pass for the investigator to work back to the origin, and if the hacker stops and manages to obfuscate his trail several hops out, they probably won't reach him.
They probably converted currencies and didn't bother with significant digits across the conversion. That creates oddly specific numbers even when the source number is rough.
Of course it has. It's very limited in materials. Designs do not come out smooth. Because the material is applied at standard temperature and pressure, there are real fundamental limits as to how the material turns out.
This is why subtractive technologies, extrusion technologies, and other mass technologies still win-out. You can do things to the material before you ever start machining it to give it strength characteristics and other traits that you want. That's why sub-$1000 mass-produced pistols can be stress-tested with 2000 rounds through them as fast as the tester can fire and reload and continue to work properly, compared to a 3d-printed pistol basically melting from the heat.
Would you find it more accurate to state that the Civil Rights Movement, by and large, sought to achieve that which was denied to them, while the modern college campus movements often seek to deny that which others may currently be allowed?
The article still leaves out that designers will apply the logic of the bell-curve to their designs. They don't design for the perfect average, they design for a certain percentage of the area under the curve, based on real-world measurements that the curve represents, and that area is defined by many characteristics including design cost and where their hard, fast cutoffs are.
When I complain about a company publicly, I do so with the expectation of never doing business with them again, or with any future relationships being affected by that public complaint.
If I want to make a complaint that does not permanently destroy or severely harm a relationship with a company, I make that complaint to the company directly. If it's a large company and the division or department or section that I'm having problems with isn't addressing the issues, I see if that company has a public or customer relations group, and I address it through them. The way it works is that those people notify department heads, or directors, or sometimes even corporate officers of the nature of the complaints, and then those individuals deal with the subordinates that have been complained-about. From my perspective I don't care how the company fixes it, I only care that the company fixes it.
I also have something of a minimum threshold before it's worth complaining in this fashion. The last time I made such a complaint, the franchise failed to disclose extra costs, failed to keep me informed of the progress of the work, and failed to create documentation of the work, essentially providing zero proof of exactly what they did and what the original conditions were that they were hired to address. As such, the franchise owner refunded my money, and given how the work done has proven ineffective it's for the best that he did so.
If this guy had a problem with the Tesla event he should have taken it up privately with them first. Given that he already has a history with auto brands I am not surprised in the slightest that they chose to terminate business with him while the issue is very small, as the profit from him as a customer is well offset by the damage that he's proven he will attempt to do if things don't satisfy his expectations, nor will he even attempt to use private means to address problems before he starts a public campaign.
I like thinking in-terms of systems, in the sense of working or competing within the system, versus manipulation of the system itself.
There are definitely times when the system itself needs modification, because the system natively discriminates. A good example would be the Jim Crow Laws in the American South, where black people and arguably any non-white people were at a statute disadvantage right from the start because the very system was intentionally stacked against them. Minorities could not compete on a level playing-field with the majority population because they were legally hamstrung. That system needed to be changed to put everyone on the same plain, and given how slowly attitudes change, there's a compelling argument for the artificial structures enacted to help those changes become permanent. It took a hundred years post-civil-war to become what it became, I would not be surprised if it took a hundred years post-Civil Rights Act to normalize-out.
What I see with this current crop of arguments about safe spaces, "identification," and other concepts are that people are trying to take a system that starts out mostly on-the-level and they're trying to manipulate it to where it is imbalanced, citing their particular cause as a reason to do so. There are some initial merits to investigating how people are being treated, but the conclusions drawn, ie, safe spaces, are incorrect. Contrasting then to now, the Civil Rights Movement sought to be inclusive, while this current crop of movements seeks to be exclusive. This approach would seek to further divide people into smaller and smaller groups instead of confronting the behaviors that cause the problems in the first place, and without teaching people how their choices will impact them.
And that leads to another difference, the nature of choice. I am very much against judging others on traits beyond their control or that they were literally born into. Race, gender, a degree of financial means, a degree of physical health, sexual orientation. Those things are either entirely beyond the control of the individual or are initial conditions that can be very, very difficult to change. On the other hand, I do not see a problem judging someone based on the choices that they've made, the company they keep, or their behavior, as all of those are, to a large extent, within the control of the individual. They are not natural characteristics. Even areas of dispute, like intelligence and health, have degrees of choice in how people behave or how people take care of themselves.
Some of the College Campus Movements are based on characteristics beyond the control of the individual, but many of the movements, probably most of the movements, are based things that people have chosen for themselves. The world beyond College is not going to respect the individual and it has no obligation to, and it's not the College's mission to cater to people in this fashion.
Wouldn't the best policy be to simply not let rm propagate through mounted filesystems beyond the initial filesystem, other than to basically cause an unmount condition prior to deleting the mount point itself?
There's an extra connector for the dock on this machine, integrated in with the power connector. We also have no issues with battery life, it lasts just fine.
I suppose that I should add, this laptop, which normally goes hours and hours on a charge, ate battery so fast in the ten minutes it took to do a firmware update on the scanner that I had to grab the AC adapter. Went from claiming over an hour remaining to the 9% warning in about eight minutes.
The adapters exist, but they are by no means efficient.
I carry a Thinkpad Yoga 12 for work, and a couple of coworkers have X1 Carbons. When we went shopping for a replacement for my wife's X301 we ended up buying a Thinkpad Yoga 12 for her. Her needs include traveling with the computer, and she was had to deal with a family health issue and was going to be away with no Internet service for several weeks, so the machine needed local storage for movies and TV shows and music. Basically we needed a computer that was reasonably rugged, was reasonably lightweight, and was most definitely set up for extended off-network usage. At the time we bought it that model had the best balance of features that we could get our hands on, and since I'd been slinging around one for the last six months, carrying it to and from work every day without being especially gentle it had already proven to be up to the task.
A coworker has one of the MacBook Pros that is an early post-optical-drive version. It seems to mostly suit him very well. Only complaint I'd have if I had it is the lack of integrated Ethernet, he has to use an adapter from one of the Thunderbolt(?) ports to make that happen. Granted, I have to with the Thinkpad Yoga as well, or use the docking station, so in the end it doesn't matter that much.
Of course I would say DB-9 has been far from ubiquitous for quite a few years. Most boards have a header for it (not much reason to not have that). Even in servers, they increasingly omit a physical connection (favoring instead using network to get serial port data).
Last generation of desktop computers I've routinely worked with at work, Dell Optiplex 7010, has DB-9 serial, and it looks like the 4th Quarter 2015 Dell Optiplex 7040 still has a DB-9 serial port as well.
I had to do firmware updates on some Fluke network testers last week. Admittedly these were slightly older models, but the update gave them the ability to identify 1G advertisement from the switch, to do in-line PoE voltage monitoring, to identify appliance/voice VLAN, and to do identify CDP from the switch. Doing this required the use of a serial cable with good old pins 2, 3, and 5 for receive, transmit, and ground respectively. It was harder to get the serial-part of the process going than it should have been, trying to use a serial-less Windows 8.1 laptop with adapters was a challenge and I finally ended up getting out a WYSE 52 terminal and null-modem cable to see if the software on the PC was actually sending anything out through Microsoft's weird wrappers on top of the keyspan USB to serial adapter, then establishing that yes, the software was talking, try to figure out why the scanner wasn't acknowledging. Turns out that was problems with the socket for the 2.5mm phono jack on the scanner itself.
Anyway, as much as some of us might like for RS-232 serial to be dead it doesn't look like we can write it off entirely any time soon, given the sheer expense of the kinds of devices that we have to support that use it. It's a lot easier to give up VGA because monitors, by and large, are not expensive, and even when they are there will still be methods to get analog video to them either through add-in cards or through conversion devices.
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Given the large number of incidents that have transpired lately, the opportunity-cost for someone wanting to close their school for a day or harass a business or event or building with very little chance of being caught is extraordinarily low. If the end-perpetrator actually is in another country with little to no chance of being caught, or if they can script this so that third-party computers are used to actually make the threat then they can rake in money from lots of disgruntled people each wanting to make small-scale havoc. It might be impossible to catch those purchasing the attacks other than if they end up inadvertently contacting law enforcement sting operations by accident.
Catalog purchases? With the advent of businesses that are willing to accept Bitcoin for purchases this could be a fairly good way to get some kinds of goods, which would free up local fiat currency for things like rent or food or bribes.
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put out in KP.
Mmmhmm. They actually state in the owner's manual that one is supposed to use the parking brake when parking. Few people actually do, but that's contrary to the directions.
Just to confirm...
Rollback means playback, right? Like, they record how the ATM communicates the authentication portion of the transaction, and replay that same communication with the ATM until its stored cash has all been dispensed and it's now empty?
Seems like the people that designed the ATMs and their authentication protocols have some 'splaining to do. This kind of vulnerability should have been anticipated and the software hardened against, given that this is machine-to-machine encryption, not person-to-machine.
I've seen people reprimanded for not working the shift that they are expected to work, including a couple of people that were early and expected to leave early. Coverage was expected and not working the assigned shift messed with that.
It really depends on where you live. The weather where I live is gorgeous probably 280 days a year, and when it's not gorgeous it's because it's too hot, not because of snow or other things that make the roads impassable. Here, it's common to work 7:00-3:30 in an office job, and starting as late as 9:00am is uncommon for office work. Trades often will start at 6:00am during the summer because of the heat.
Up north, with roads to clear, the northerly latitude leading to a later sunrise, and other problems it seems that a later start time makes more sense.
I hate their DNA.
I have a general rule, that I do not judge people on things like ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other things that they are born-with and are beyond their control.
In this case I would have to make an exception.
And you'll hahv ta take the Oanhg line ta Meffa or the Red line ta Somahville to the toah yahd ta gat it...
I think that the article's point, from an American perspective, is that one probably isn't going to get rich hacking, in the same way that one isn't going to get rich robbing banks. Like robbing banks, the more one hacks, the greater the chances one is caught, so trying to get rich is the fastest way to get caught.
It's also kind of interesting to note that both crimes are investigated by the FBI, rather than solely by local authorities. The FBI has a better track record of not forgetting cold cases too, so depending on the statute of limitations one may never be in-the-clear.
Those two days of work for a hacker are followed by months or years of worrying which of the 40 odd jobs the FBI is investigating. I'd imagine an honest job provides a more enjoyable income than one in which you spend the following 7 years hoping the SWAT team doesn't boot your door in.
That's probably why sustained-effort hacks are called off after a fairly short time, assuming that the article is correct. Even if the FBI or other law enforcement had full authority to go to each compromised system in-turn to analyse the connections to keep tracking back, there's still the issue of finding the owners, finding the system admins, possibly going in to look at paper records for credentials for systems that aren't commonly accessed, analyzing logs, etc. Quite some time will pass for the investigator to work back to the origin, and if the hacker stops and manages to obfuscate his trail several hops out, they probably won't reach him.
They probably converted currencies and didn't bother with significant digits across the conversion. That creates oddly specific numbers even when the source number is rough.
Of course it has. It's very limited in materials. Designs do not come out smooth. Because the material is applied at standard temperature and pressure, there are real fundamental limits as to how the material turns out.
This is why subtractive technologies, extrusion technologies, and other mass technologies still win-out. You can do things to the material before you ever start machining it to give it strength characteristics and other traits that you want. That's why sub-$1000 mass-produced pistols can be stress-tested with 2000 rounds through them as fast as the tester can fire and reload and continue to work properly, compared to a 3d-printed pistol basically melting from the heat.
I've found it a lot more difficult to deal with the issues affecting my various Linux desktops since Lennart started Poettering around with things.
Would you find it more accurate to state that the Civil Rights Movement, by and large, sought to achieve that which was denied to them, while the modern college campus movements often seek to deny that which others may currently be allowed?
The article still leaves out that designers will apply the logic of the bell-curve to their designs. They don't design for the perfect average, they design for a certain percentage of the area under the curve, based on real-world measurements that the curve represents, and that area is defined by many characteristics including design cost and where their hard, fast cutoffs are.
When I complain about a company publicly, I do so with the expectation of never doing business with them again, or with any future relationships being affected by that public complaint.
If I want to make a complaint that does not permanently destroy or severely harm a relationship with a company, I make that complaint to the company directly. If it's a large company and the division or department or section that I'm having problems with isn't addressing the issues, I see if that company has a public or customer relations group, and I address it through them. The way it works is that those people notify department heads, or directors, or sometimes even corporate officers of the nature of the complaints, and then those individuals deal with the subordinates that have been complained-about. From my perspective I don't care how the company fixes it, I only care that the company fixes it.
I also have something of a minimum threshold before it's worth complaining in this fashion. The last time I made such a complaint, the franchise failed to disclose extra costs, failed to keep me informed of the progress of the work, and failed to create documentation of the work, essentially providing zero proof of exactly what they did and what the original conditions were that they were hired to address. As such, the franchise owner refunded my money, and given how the work done has proven ineffective it's for the best that he did so.
If this guy had a problem with the Tesla event he should have taken it up privately with them first. Given that he already has a history with auto brands I am not surprised in the slightest that they chose to terminate business with him while the issue is very small, as the profit from him as a customer is well offset by the damage that he's proven he will attempt to do if things don't satisfy his expectations, nor will he even attempt to use private means to address problems before he starts a public campaign.
I like thinking in-terms of systems, in the sense of working or competing within the system, versus manipulation of the system itself.
There are definitely times when the system itself needs modification, because the system natively discriminates. A good example would be the Jim Crow Laws in the American South, where black people and arguably any non-white people were at a statute disadvantage right from the start because the very system was intentionally stacked against them. Minorities could not compete on a level playing-field with the majority population because they were legally hamstrung. That system needed to be changed to put everyone on the same plain, and given how slowly attitudes change, there's a compelling argument for the artificial structures enacted to help those changes become permanent. It took a hundred years post-civil-war to become what it became, I would not be surprised if it took a hundred years post-Civil Rights Act to normalize-out.
What I see with this current crop of arguments about safe spaces, "identification," and other concepts are that people are trying to take a system that starts out mostly on-the-level and they're trying to manipulate it to where it is imbalanced, citing their particular cause as a reason to do so. There are some initial merits to investigating how people are being treated, but the conclusions drawn, ie, safe spaces, are incorrect. Contrasting then to now, the Civil Rights Movement sought to be in clusive, while this current crop of movements seeks to be ex clusive. This approach would seek to further divide people into smaller and smaller groups instead of confronting the behaviors that cause the problems in the first place, and without teaching people how their choices will impact them.
And that leads to another difference, the nature of choice. I am very much against judging others on traits beyond their control or that they were literally born into. Race, gender, a degree of financial means, a degree of physical health, sexual orientation. Those things are either entirely beyond the control of the individual or are initial conditions that can be very, very difficult to change. On the other hand, I do not see a problem judging someone based on the choices that they've made, the company they keep, or their behavior, as all of those are, to a large extent, within the control of the individual. They are not natural characteristics. Even areas of dispute, like intelligence and health, have degrees of choice in how people behave or how people take care of themselves.
Some of the College Campus Movements are based on characteristics beyond the control of the individual, but many of the movements, probably most of the movements, are based things that people have chosen for themselves. The world beyond College is not going to respect the individual and it has no obligation to, and it's not the College's mission to cater to people in this fashion.
It's a primary, so it's the particular party's issue to decide. If I understand correctly parties aren't even mentioned in the Constitution.
Wouldn't the best policy be to simply not let rm propagate through mounted filesystems beyond the initial filesystem, other than to basically cause an unmount condition prior to deleting the mount point itself?
There's an extra connector for the dock on this machine, integrated in with the power connector. We also have no issues with battery life, it lasts just fine.
It also has to be able to do work. We looked at cheap devices as well as expensive ones, and this expensive one won-out.
I suppose that I should add, this laptop, which normally goes hours and hours on a charge, ate battery so fast in the ten minutes it took to do a firmware update on the scanner that I had to grab the AC adapter. Went from claiming over an hour remaining to the 9% warning in about eight minutes.
The adapters exist, but they are by no means efficient.
I carry a Thinkpad Yoga 12 for work, and a couple of coworkers have X1 Carbons. When we went shopping for a replacement for my wife's X301 we ended up buying a Thinkpad Yoga 12 for her. Her needs include traveling with the computer, and she was had to deal with a family health issue and was going to be away with no Internet service for several weeks, so the machine needed local storage for movies and TV shows and music. Basically we needed a computer that was reasonably rugged, was reasonably lightweight, and was most definitely set up for extended off-network usage. At the time we bought it that model had the best balance of features that we could get our hands on, and since I'd been slinging around one for the last six months, carrying it to and from work every day without being especially gentle it had already proven to be up to the task.
A coworker has one of the MacBook Pros that is an early post-optical-drive version. It seems to mostly suit him very well. Only complaint I'd have if I had it is the lack of integrated Ethernet, he has to use an adapter from one of the Thunderbolt(?) ports to make that happen. Granted, I have to with the Thinkpad Yoga as well, or use the docking station, so in the end it doesn't matter that much.
Of course I would say DB-9 has been far from ubiquitous for quite a few years. Most boards have a header for it (not much reason to not have that). Even in servers, they increasingly omit a physical connection (favoring instead using network to get serial port data).
Last generation of desktop computers I've routinely worked with at work, Dell Optiplex 7010, has DB-9 serial, and it looks like the 4th Quarter 2015 Dell Optiplex 7040 still has a DB-9 serial port as well.
I had to do firmware updates on some Fluke network testers last week. Admittedly these were slightly older models, but the update gave them the ability to identify 1G advertisement from the switch, to do in-line PoE voltage monitoring, to identify appliance/voice VLAN, and to do identify CDP from the switch. Doing this required the use of a serial cable with good old pins 2, 3, and 5 for receive, transmit, and ground respectively. It was harder to get the serial-part of the process going than it should have been, trying to use a serial-less Windows 8.1 laptop with adapters was a challenge and I finally ended up getting out a WYSE 52 terminal and null-modem cable to see if the software on the PC was actually sending anything out through Microsoft's weird wrappers on top of the keyspan USB to serial adapter, then establishing that yes, the software was talking, try to figure out why the scanner wasn't acknowledging. Turns out that was problems with the socket for the 2.5mm phono jack on the scanner itself.
Anyway, as much as some of us might like for RS-232 serial to be dead it doesn't look like we can write it off entirely any time soon, given the sheer expense of the kinds of devices that we have to support that use it. It's a lot easier to give up VGA because monitors, by and large, are not expensive, and even when they are there will still be methods to get analog video to them either through add-in cards or through conversion devices.