FYI, with a menace like bed bugs, you should ALWAYS call the local health department and report it. Even if you're wrong and got them somewhere else, you may have carried them into the hotel.
As a secondary matter, the department of health will inspect and, if they find bedbugs, you can use that finding to leverage compensation from the hotel.
Why not ban all research on tissues from unconsenting donors?
The goal of medical research is public benefit, to try to make discoveries that are going to help people. And although the use of archived specimens is limiting in certain ways, [those tissues still offer] an incredible trove of material. If you shut off access to them, you would undoubtedly slow research right now, in terms of diseases such as cancer. The trade-off would not justify that extreme position.
Requiring consent is an extreme position? I'd say that calling it an extreme position is very self serving and not at all honest.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? If I wanted a browser with a shitty UI and almost no configurability I would use Internet Explorer
That's funny, because Internet Explorer does less to hide your (relatively limited) configuration options. Sure, FF's about:config has everything, but if you don't know what you're looking for, good luck wading through the 10,000 options.
Going a step further, if a Pineapple user is inside a coffee shop (or office location), the research can execute what is known as a "deauth" attack, essentially disconnecting the end user from legitimate access point, then reconnecting him or her to the Pineapple.
However, some security experts say that weaknesses in WiFi and user behavior need to be identified and weeded out in order to make organizations more secure. If the Pineapple is able to help security researchers do that, they say, than it will improve security for us all.
As a user, how the fuck can my behavior be modified to deal with a deauthorization attack? WiFi has become so stupid simple to use that it leaves us vulnerable, despite all the encryption in the world.
A truly 'Balkanized' Internet would mean that there would be choke-points through which packets have to travel between subnets.
Define "subnets" Most national internet traffic goes through a relatively limited number of physical backhauls. Almost all international traffic goes through an extremely limited number of inter-state links or undersea cables.
The amount of traffic that doesn't transit these fiber links is a rounding error. Satellite traffic, miscellaneous point-to-point wireless, and station wagons full of hard drives.
If you think what the government is doing is OK, please STFU and let people bring the issue to the supreme court. If you're correct, then it won't matter and you shouldn't object to raising the question. There's no honourable reason to argue against verification.
Fuck no, I don't want this to go to the Supreme Court. 99% of the time, SCOTUS defers to the Executive Branch when they claim National Security.
I'd much rather see this case tried in the court of public opinion, with our representatives in government passing [strike]sentence[/strike] laws to rein in the NSA.
Don't forget that Huawei is the #1 manufacturer of telecom equipment as is considered one of the most *innovative companies in the world. The rest of the world knows Huawei for a lot more than "zomg China".
*When they're not stealing technology from others.
Spoiler Alert: China does trade with regimes that routinely use torture and abuse human rights. Unlike western countries, China doesn't even make better governance (or even a basic accounting of funds) a condition of its loans.
More often than not, China gives loans and asks for repayment in natural resources, which allows [government] and its cronies to turn the country's natural resources into cash + infrastructure.
I guess if it comes for free, that's one thing, but how much money do you think China wants to invest exfiltrating data from Africa as opposed to their first-world competitors?
Right. Because first-world companies don't do any business in Africa.
Alternatively, China is investing in Africa for the long haul, because China desperately wants access to Africa's vast natural resources. Many African Governments include infrastructure projects as a requirement for Chinese acquisitions or in trade deals with China.
Missing from the summary, of course, is that the family had a son who has actually clicked on a link to an artlcle on how to make a pressure cooker bomb.
FFS man, I bet you couldn't follow a recipe if it had four ingredients and three steps.
You might just read a CNN piece about how bomb making instructions are readily available on the internet and you will in all probability, if you are that kid, click the link provided.
Which might not raise any red flags. Because who wasn't reading those stories? Who wasn't clicking those links? But my son's reading habits combined with my search for a pressure cooker and my husband's search for a backpack set off an alarm of sorts at the joint terrorism task force headquarters.
That's how I imagine it played out, anyhow. Lots of bells and whistles and a crowd of task force workers huddled around a computer screen looking at our Google history.
It's like you intentionally went out of your way to strip out the context.
If you owned a museum which was wildly popular (say, "Mecca" as a museum) you'd hike up the ticket prices as high as you could, and would be under no incentive to improve the experience. If, on the other hand you could only charge a fixed upper price per person, then you have incentive to push more people through the museum - you'd upgrade the infrastructure to handle more people.
It's a Game Theory thing.
Funny that you picked Mecca. Saudi Arabia is & has been spending 10s of billions to upgrade or build roads, trains, elevated metro, housing, mosques and other infrastructure in and around Mecca + other holy sites.
Why? Because game theory doesn't apply to everything all the time. An alternative explanation is that this is a really expensive way to continue 200 years of destroying religious sites around Mecca that the Wahhabis don't like
/Their single metro line is the busiest line in the world and one of the busiest metro systems in the world //They're going to add three more lines at a cost of $16 billion.
there was a cop standing next to a pedestrian crossing en route to the rental car lot ticketing all the furriners who didn't realise that pedestrian signals were mandatory and who were crossing against the light.
It's not just at the airport. The culture in San Francisco does not support jay walking and the police reinforce that culture with meaningful enforcement.
I have numerous friends from San Francisco who visit and find themselves left at the curb because, where I live, the police don't care about jay walking.
Computer science worked better historically in part because humorless totalitarian nincompoopery hadn't been invented yet. People were more concerned with solving actual problems than paying attention to idiots who feel a need to police productive people's language for feminist ideological correctness.
You may now go fuck yourself with a carrot scraper in whatever gender-free orifice you have available. Use a for loop while you're at it.
My interpretation of the abstract (I cannot access the actual paper) is that they could not show that any particular compiler or architecture made the predictions any better, just different. In that case you just go with whichever runs fastest.
Or you could, you know, compare the results with reality and go with whichever one is most accurate.
With the internet, USPS may not have the revenue to in 40 years to cover the retirement pay for today's employees. That's why they now have to invest retirement pay for today's employees today, just like private companies do.
Except USPS has to prefund for 75 years. They're literally socking away money for employees that haven't been born yet.
A 50% chance of passing away prior to the start of the gathering and a 50% chance of passing away after the start of the gathering.
That's not how statistics work. The guy was 35 years old and his chances of passing away before the start of Black Hat should have been significantly less than 50%, barring any pre-existing medical conditions or risky behaviors.
For our organization, due to the highly confidential nature of some of our data and communications, I am about to build a machine that will have no network connection whatsoever that will hold the CA and private keys, and will use it to produce public keys for our VPN, mail server, web services and the like. The server will be behind lock and key and locked down with LUKS, and the keys for that will be held in a separate location. Obviously nothing is 100%, but it's going to physical access to the server and to the private keys to compromise the system.
During a coffee break at an intelligence conference held in The Netherlands a few years back, a senior Scandinavian counterterrorism official regaled me with a story. One of his service's surveillance teams was conducting routine monitoring of a senior militant leader when they suddenly noticed through their high-powered surveillance cameras two men breaking into the militant's apartment. The target was at Friday evening prayers at the local mosque. But rather than ransack the apartment and steal the computer equipment and other valuables while he was away -- as any right-minded burglar would normally have done -- one of the men pulled out a disk and loaded some programs onto the resident's laptop computer while the other man kept watch at the window. The whole operation took less than two minutes, then the two trespassers fled the way they came, leaving no trace that they had ever been there.
Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world's largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations.
so my question is, is it really that expensive to store them, just for posterity's sake? even then you could just destroy them via sloppy storage rather than intentionally burning energy for destroying them..
There's no practical difference between an item you can't find and an item that's been destroyed.
So in reality, you don't even have to destroy the stored items, just go ahead and lose the manifest.
These almost universally suck. Any clear/white plastic will yellow, the metal will rust, then the top eventually comes off and it's an eyesore until you remove it in disgust.
If you're not willing to dig a trench and run wiring to proper outdoor grade lighting, just don't bother.
The Indian Air Force embarrassed the USAF in Cope India 2004 and again at Red Flag in 2008. The first time was against USAF F-15Cs and the second time, against the F-22.
The real problem for the USAF is that the F-22 and F-35 will always run out of missiles before they run out of targets. And when that happens, their close combat abilities cannot out-class previous generation fighters.
The series of summer bombs is promising to shake up the American movie industry. Whether that means they'll spend more on multiple smaller movies or just spend more on sequels....
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Second, The hotel denies everything.
FYI, with a menace like bed bugs, you should ALWAYS call the local health department and report it.
Even if you're wrong and got them somewhere else, you may have carried them into the hotel.
As a secondary matter, the department of health will inspect and, if they find bedbugs, you can use that finding to leverage compensation from the hotel.
Why not ban all research on tissues from unconsenting donors?
The goal of medical research is public benefit, to try to make discoveries that are going to help people. And although the use of archived specimens is limiting in certain ways, [those tissues still offer] an incredible trove of material. If you shut off access to them, you would undoubtedly slow research right now, in terms of diseases such as cancer. The trade-off would not justify that extreme position.
Requiring consent is an extreme position?
I'd say that calling it an extreme position is very self serving and not at all honest.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? If I wanted a browser with a shitty UI and almost no configurability I would use Internet Explorer
That's funny, because Internet Explorer does less to hide your (relatively limited) configuration options.
Sure, FF's about:config has everything, but if you don't know what you're looking for, good luck wading through the 10,000 options.
Going a step further, if a Pineapple user is inside a coffee shop (or office location), the research can execute what is known as a "deauth" attack, essentially disconnecting the end user from legitimate access point, then reconnecting him or her to the Pineapple.
However, some security experts say that weaknesses in WiFi and user behavior need to be identified and weeded out in order to make organizations more secure. If the Pineapple is able to help security researchers do that, they say, than it will improve security for us all.
As a user, how the fuck can my behavior be modified to deal with a deauthorization attack?
WiFi has become so stupid simple to use that it leaves us vulnerable, despite all the encryption in the world.
A truly 'Balkanized' Internet would mean that there would be choke-points through which packets have to travel between subnets.
Define "subnets"
Most national internet traffic goes through a relatively limited number of physical backhauls.
Almost all international traffic goes through an extremely limited number of inter-state links or undersea cables.
The amount of traffic that doesn't transit these fiber links is a rounding error.
Satellite traffic, miscellaneous point-to-point wireless, and station wagons full of hard drives.
If you think what the government is doing is OK, please STFU and let people bring the issue to the supreme court. If you're correct, then it won't matter and you shouldn't object to raising the question. There's no honourable reason to argue against verification.
Fuck no, I don't want this to go to the Supreme Court.
99% of the time, SCOTUS defers to the Executive Branch when they claim National Security.
I'd much rather see this case tried in the court of public opinion,
with our representatives in government passing [strike]sentence[/strike] laws to rein in the NSA.
Exactly why do we discuss articles like this? There is zero evidence so far that China is doing mass surveillance outside of China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act
The US Government knows what we're doing, so they just assume the Chinese are doing the exact same thing.
Don't forget that Huawei is the #1 manufacturer of telecom equipment as is considered one of the most *innovative companies in the world.
The rest of the world knows Huawei for a lot more than "zomg China".
*When they're not stealing technology from others.
Spoiler Alert: China does trade with regimes that routinely use torture and abuse human rights.
Unlike western countries, China doesn't even make better governance (or even a basic accounting of funds) a condition of its loans.
More often than not, China gives loans and asks for repayment in natural resources, which allows [government] and its cronies to turn the country's natural resources into cash + infrastructure.
I guess if it comes for free, that's one thing, but how much money do you think China wants to invest exfiltrating data from Africa as opposed to their first-world competitors?
Right. Because first-world companies don't do any business in Africa.
Alternatively, China is investing in Africa for the long haul, because China desperately wants access to Africa's vast natural resources. Many African Governments include infrastructure projects as a requirement for Chinese acquisitions or in trade deals with China.
Missing from the summary, of course, is that the family had a son who has actually clicked on a link to an artlcle on how to make a pressure cooker bomb.
FFS man, I bet you couldn't follow a recipe if it had four ingredients and three steps.
You might just read a CNN piece about how bomb making instructions are readily available on the internet and you will in all probability, if you are that kid, click the link provided.
Which might not raise any red flags. Because who wasn't reading those stories? Who wasn't clicking those links? But my son's reading habits combined with my search for a pressure cooker and my husband's search for a backpack set off an alarm of sorts at the joint terrorism task force headquarters.
That's how I imagine it played out, anyhow. Lots of bells and whistles and a crowd of task force workers huddled around a computer screen looking at our Google history.
It's like you intentionally went out of your way to strip out the context.
If you owned a museum which was wildly popular (say, "Mecca" as a museum) you'd hike up the ticket prices as high as you could, and would be under no incentive to improve the experience. If, on the other hand you could only charge a fixed upper price per person, then you have incentive to push more people through the museum - you'd upgrade the infrastructure to handle more people.
It's a Game Theory thing.
Funny that you picked Mecca. Saudi Arabia is & has been spending 10s of billions to upgrade or build roads, trains, elevated metro, housing, mosques and other infrastructure in and around Mecca + other holy sites.
Why? Because game theory doesn't apply to everything all the time.
An alternative explanation is that this is a really expensive way to continue 200 years of destroying religious sites around Mecca that the Wahhabis don't like
/Their single metro line is the busiest line in the world and one of the busiest metro systems in the world
//They're going to add three more lines at a cost of $16 billion.
there was a cop standing next to a pedestrian crossing en route to the rental car lot ticketing all the furriners who didn't realise that pedestrian signals were mandatory and who were crossing against the light.
It's not just at the airport.
The culture in San Francisco does not support jay walking and the police reinforce that culture with meaningful enforcement.
I have numerous friends from San Francisco who visit and find themselves left at the curb because, where I live, the police don't care about jay walking.
http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgotten-empires-apl-languages/#comment-6301
Computer science worked better historically in part because humorless totalitarian nincompoopery hadn't been invented yet. People were more concerned with solving actual problems than paying attention to idiots who feel a need to police productive people's language for feminist ideological correctness.
You may now go fuck yourself with a carrot scraper in whatever gender-free orifice you have available. Use a for loop while you're at it.
Not horribly slow.
BMW is claiming 0-60 in under seven seconds.
That's fast for a compact car, but slow for a compact car that costs $40k~$45k.
Then again, no one is buying this car for its acceleration.
/And the range extender adds 12% to the car's weight.
, it's relatively trivial for someone to repeat Garcia's work and publish it.
The speculation is that Garcia sliced the chip layer by layer to reconstruct the logic and algorithms that VW's Megamos Crypto uses.
That's neither quick to do, nor trivial to recreate.
My interpretation of the abstract (I cannot access the actual paper) is that they could not show that any particular compiler or architecture made the predictions any better, just different. In that case you just go with whichever runs fastest.
Or you could, you know, compare the results with reality and go with whichever one is most accurate.
China owns enough foreign debt to move the market on US currency.
That matters more than the fact that 80% of US Debt is owned domestically.
With the internet, USPS may not have the revenue to in 40 years to cover the retirement pay for today's employees. That's why they now have to invest retirement pay for today's employees today, just like private companies do.
Except USPS has to prefund for 75 years.
They're literally socking away money for employees that haven't been born yet.
A 50% chance of passing away prior to the start of the gathering and a 50% chance of passing away after the start of the gathering.
That's not how statistics work.
The guy was 35 years old and his chances of passing away before the start of Black Hat should have been significantly less than 50%, barring any pre-existing medical conditions or risky behaviors.
Military killing depends a lot on dehumanizing foes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Op1zjd7KKE&t=1m28s
That's not dehumanizing, that's conditioning.
Variations on "Kill kill" has been the mantra of bayonet training for decades.
For our organization, due to the highly confidential nature of some of our data and communications, I am about to build a machine that will have no network connection whatsoever that will hold the CA and private keys, and will use it to produce public keys for our VPN, mail server, web services and the like. The server will be behind lock and key and locked down with LUKS, and the keys for that will be held in a separate location. Obviously nothing is 100%, but it's going to physical access to the server and to the private keys to compromise the system.
Counterpoint:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/16/the_cias_new_black_bag_is_digital_nsa_cooperation?page=full
During a coffee break at an intelligence conference held in The Netherlands a few years back, a senior Scandinavian counterterrorism official regaled me with a story. One of his service's surveillance teams was conducting routine monitoring of a senior militant leader when they suddenly noticed through their high-powered surveillance cameras two men breaking into the militant's apartment. The target was at Friday evening prayers at the local mosque. But rather than ransack the apartment and steal the computer equipment and other valuables while he was away -- as any right-minded burglar would normally have done -- one of the men pulled out a disk and loaded some programs onto the resident's laptop computer while the other man kept watch at the window. The whole operation took less than two minutes, then the two trespassers fled the way they came, leaving no trace that they had ever been there.
Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world's largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations.
so my question is, is it really that expensive to store them, just for posterity's sake? even then you could just destroy them via sloppy storage rather than intentionally burning energy for destroying them..
There's no practical difference between an item you can't find and an item that's been destroyed.
So in reality, you don't even have to destroy the stored items, just go ahead and lose the manifest.
Mini "lamp-post style"
These almost universally suck.
Any clear/white plastic will yellow, the metal will rust, then the top eventually comes off and it's an eyesore until you remove it in disgust.
If you're not willing to dig a trench and run wiring to proper outdoor grade lighting, just don't bother.
The Indian Air Force embarrassed the USAF in Cope India 2004 and again at Red Flag in 2008.
The first time was against USAF F-15Cs and the second time, against the F-22.
The real problem for the USAF is that the F-22 and F-35 will always run out of missiles before they run out of targets.
And when that happens, their close combat abilities cannot out-class previous generation fighters.
The series of summer bombs is promising to shake up the American movie industry.
Whether that means they'll spend more on multiple smaller movies or just spend more on sequels....