In that case I wouldn't call it a zero day vulnerability, I would call it vulnerability due to incompetence.
Hack the systems and make them go down permanently by a hard disk low level format or corresponding. That would raise the security awareness more than a slashdot article.
Only case to have an unpatched server is when you are running it standalone with no possibility to install anything new on it without opening a padlock.
If you for some reason need to have an email account at gmail (it's useful in some cases as a secondary) then use a name that's unique and still easy for you to remember.
And even if someone tells the cops about the low profile gangs the cops will have a hard time to isolate them. People had a hard time to believe that an animal like the platypus did exist even when presented with dead ones. An egg-laying mammal with a duck bill? Or the fictional criminal Keyser Söze. (or is he really a fictional criminal?)
If you look at the history of gaming consoles a lot of them has come and gone. The PC has been around longer and is evolutionary, gaming consoles are just dropped and not evolved.
Overall this means that a gaming platform for PC can evolve instead of requiring a completely new re-design with new developers each time a new gaming platform is released. It also means that if the gaming platform is done right and is backward compatible it should be able to run older games as well as the latest.
Valve is with Steam trying to do the same thing as IBM did when releasing the PC. It may not be the best platform (the PC was in reality pretty crappy when it was released) but it will be widespread.
The problem here is that those show-offs draws the attention of the law enforcement from the ones working silently. Some of the silent ones can be even more dangerous because you don't know who they are and where they will strike.
And if you have a show-off gang in an area it's easy to put down evidence that at least circumstantially indicates that gang.
And it really doesn't matter in the overall theme.
What's really messed up is to arrest someone pointing out a problem. The next time a problem is discovered it's then a lot better to just mess up the whole thing instead and let the flawed organization take the full power of the force of a failure.
The CC companies are equally guilty - they should remove the magnetic strip and at least use an already implemented technical solution with chips on the cards.
In a proper solution the dealer like Target shall not even have access to the unencrypted identification data, that shall be passed between the terminal and the bank or payment handler encrypted and the dealer shall only need to get "approved" or "denied" back for the request.
In addition to this - magnetic stripes are obsolete, they were introduced during the 70's. Modern cards has a chip which is harder to duplicate. Not impossible, but a lot harder. Almost all terminals in Europe handles chips, and all major European banks provides cards with chips these days.
Of course - credit card identification data should be considered an ID theft and that should be a capital crime. It would sure deter at least some criminals when they know that they will face Madame Guillotine.
Efficient code and new ways to solve computing problems using massive multi-core solutions.
However many "problems" with performance today are I/O-based and not calculation based. It's time for the storage systems to catch up in performance with the processors, and they are on the way with SSD disks.
The analogy is good enough to show the effects, but since it's a 2D effect visualized in 3D while the actual effect is in 3D it is bound to have errors. And the rubber itself isn't infinitely flexible but offers drag which in turn means that the rubber sheet presentation is just a rough approximation and not useful from a mathematical point of view.
It would have been a lot more interesting if it actually was 192 CPU cores in it. Of course it would be a bit of a challenge to code for it - and to get an efficient OS build for it. But on the other hand it's probably the way that we need to go in order to get more performance in the future.
Almost all ads are malicious in one way or another. If they don't carry bad stuff to your computer you can be misled to click on them and $DIETY knows where you end up sometimes. If nothing else they burn a lot of CPU ticks and makes your computer consume more power.
I'd rather say that for success you need two kinds of managers:
Line manager - taking care of the day to day operation, HR work and long term issues.
Project manager - taking care of coordination of a project and short term issues.
A project manager shall have technical skills and know who knows what and be able to tie things together. A line manager shall keep track of people and hold off upper management. Sometimes a line manager and a project manager may be in disagreement, but they should sort that out by themselves.
I agree - and if they do something it has to be actions that dissipates quickly in the noise and don't disturb the future. A small gambling win is quickly absorbed in the currents of time but a major one makes the headlines and may hurt the future.
Killing Hitler in the cradle might have stopped WWII, but it could also have been a stopper for the Apollo project. Or it might only have delayed WWII and made it a nuclear war where the whole world now would be speaking German. Ordnung muss sein!
Another problem with posting on twitter - how do you distinguish between an accurate prediction based on existing facts and a post from someone from the future? Especially if a post made is somewhat fuzzy in the prediction.
If we have time travelers - then I doubt that they actually do show up in our time where there's a crapload of information produced, look back in history instead. Some might want to see and meet Leonardo da Vinci, others might want to see Jesus. The three wise men showing up when Jesus was born?
The railroads themselves don't care about the cars running on them, but my word for some the US rails where they transport goods is "scary".
Ties that are overage, crooked tracks, missing track binders etc. And on those tracks trains there's a lot of dangerous goods transported. Crude oil is harmless compared to some stuff that's transported.
I'm just waiting for an upcoming accident with a chlorine car in a city...
I have seen railroads in both the US and in Europe, and even though we in Europe complains that the railroads here aren't up to the standard they run in Japan I would say that many of the railroads in the US are really lagging behind when it comes to capacity, reliability and safety measures.
I don't think that blaming cold weather is a good point - if you have correct safety precautions you would compensate for that.
Add to it the fact that the quality of most of the railroads in the US are a century or more behind the leading railroads in Europe and Japan. Only a few have a reasonable quality standard, and even fewer are electrified.
Disable breakers first to make sure they stay in the "on" position, then take out the transformers.
That will cause more problems and can also result in spectacular arc lights until "upstream" breakers do their job cutting off a larger section of the net than usually necessary. That's why I stated that the breakers shall be "fixed" first.
When the station is randomly arc-welded together then it takes a lot more effort to fix.
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In that case I wouldn't call it a zero day vulnerability, I would call it vulnerability due to incompetence.
Hack the systems and make them go down permanently by a hard disk low level format or corresponding. That would raise the security awareness more than a slashdot article.
Only case to have an unpatched server is when you are running it standalone with no possibility to install anything new on it without opening a padlock.
If you for some reason need to have an email account at gmail (it's useful in some cases as a secondary) then use a name that's unique and still easy for you to remember.
And even if someone tells the cops about the low profile gangs the cops will have a hard time to isolate them. People had a hard time to believe that an animal like the platypus did exist even when presented with dead ones. An egg-laying mammal with a duck bill? Or the fictional criminal Keyser Söze. (or is he really a fictional criminal?)
If you look at the history of gaming consoles a lot of them has come and gone. The PC has been around longer and is evolutionary, gaming consoles are just dropped and not evolved.
Overall this means that a gaming platform for PC can evolve instead of requiring a completely new re-design with new developers each time a new gaming platform is released. It also means that if the gaming platform is done right and is backward compatible it should be able to run older games as well as the latest.
Valve is with Steam trying to do the same thing as IBM did when releasing the PC. It may not be the best platform (the PC was in reality pretty crappy when it was released) but it will be widespread.
The problem here is that those show-offs draws the attention of the law enforcement from the ones working silently. Some of the silent ones can be even more dangerous because you don't know who they are and where they will strike.
And if you have a show-off gang in an area it's easy to put down evidence that at least circumstantially indicates that gang.
That's what the military calls "gun fodder".
And it really doesn't matter in the overall theme.
What's really messed up is to arrest someone pointing out a problem. The next time a problem is discovered it's then a lot better to just mess up the whole thing instead and let the flawed organization take the full power of the force of a failure.
It's in that case every outlet in North America regardless of size.
The CC companies are equally guilty - they should remove the magnetic strip and at least use an already implemented technical solution with chips on the cards.
In a proper solution the dealer like Target shall not even have access to the unencrypted identification data, that shall be passed between the terminal and the bank or payment handler encrypted and the dealer shall only need to get "approved" or "denied" back for the request.
In addition to this - magnetic stripes are obsolete, they were introduced during the 70's. Modern cards has a chip which is harder to duplicate. Not impossible, but a lot harder. Almost all terminals in Europe handles chips, and all major European banks provides cards with chips these days.
Of course - credit card identification data should be considered an ID theft and that should be a capital crime. It would sure deter at least some criminals when they know that they will face Madame Guillotine.
And a large room to house them in - that way I would be really productive!
No need to have then 39", pull down to 30" and they will be easier to handle and place.
Efficient code and new ways to solve computing problems using massive multi-core solutions.
However many "problems" with performance today are I/O-based and not calculation based. It's time for the storage systems to catch up in performance with the processors, and they are on the way with SSD disks.
I know - but I still would like to see them provided natively by an OS.
The analogy is good enough to show the effects, but since it's a 2D effect visualized in 3D while the actual effect is in 3D it is bound to have errors. And the rubber itself isn't infinitely flexible but offers drag which in turn means that the rubber sheet presentation is just a rough approximation and not useful from a mathematical point of view.
It would have been a lot more interesting if it actually was 192 CPU cores in it. Of course it would be a bit of a challenge to code for it - and to get an efficient OS build for it. But on the other hand it's probably the way that we need to go in order to get more performance in the future.
Almost all ads are malicious in one way or another. If they don't carry bad stuff to your computer you can be misled to click on them and $DIETY knows where you end up sometimes. If nothing else they burn a lot of CPU ticks and makes your computer consume more power.
Is it antisocial behavior to not have any FB account at all?
There are two Bethlehem too... One outside Jerusalem, the other outside Nazareth.
I'd rather say that for success you need two kinds of managers:
A project manager shall have technical skills and know who knows what and be able to tie things together. A line manager shall keep track of people and hold off upper management. Sometimes a line manager and a project manager may be in disagreement, but they should sort that out by themselves.
I agree - and if they do something it has to be actions that dissipates quickly in the noise and don't disturb the future. A small gambling win is quickly absorbed in the currents of time but a major one makes the headlines and may hurt the future.
Killing Hitler in the cradle might have stopped WWII, but it could also have been a stopper for the Apollo project. Or it might only have delayed WWII and made it a nuclear war where the whole world now would be speaking German. Ordnung muss sein!
Another problem with posting on twitter - how do you distinguish between an accurate prediction based on existing facts and a post from someone from the future? Especially if a post made is somewhat fuzzy in the prediction.
If we have time travelers - then I doubt that they actually do show up in our time where there's a crapload of information produced, look back in history instead. Some might want to see and meet Leonardo da Vinci, others might want to see Jesus. The three wise men showing up when Jesus was born?
You mean facial recognition and play a commercial depending on gender and skin color?
The railroads themselves don't care about the cars running on them, but my word for some the US rails where they transport goods is "scary".
Ties that are overage, crooked tracks, missing track binders etc. And on those tracks trains there's a lot of dangerous goods transported. Crude oil is harmless compared to some stuff that's transported.
I'm just waiting for an upcoming accident with a chlorine car in a city...
I have seen railroads in both the US and in Europe, and even though we in Europe complains that the railroads here aren't up to the standard they run in Japan I would say that many of the railroads in the US are really lagging behind when it comes to capacity, reliability and safety measures.
I don't think that blaming cold weather is a good point - if you have correct safety precautions you would compensate for that.
Add to it the fact that the quality of most of the railroads in the US are a century or more behind the leading railroads in Europe and Japan. Only a few have a reasonable quality standard, and even fewer are electrified.
Disable breakers first to make sure they stay in the "on" position, then take out the transformers.
That will cause more problems and can also result in spectacular arc lights until "upstream" breakers do their job cutting off a larger section of the net than usually necessary. That's why I stated that the breakers shall be "fixed" first.
When the station is randomly arc-welded together then it takes a lot more effort to fix.