So if Anonymous makes a mistake and outs the wrong person and that person becomes harassed by the public backlash to the point of committing suicide... Will Anonymous out their outer?
Change is good for your personal development. New contexts, new situations, new skills, new contacts. So long as you keep on good terms with your current "fun" organization is there any reason to believe that they won't have you back if you don't like the other venture? If there is such strong rapport with those people would they bare you any ill will for trying something else for a change? Are you irreplaceable and would cause tremendous stress and hardship if you left? Do you have shares/ownership of the company that you feel could swell in value by your continued involvement?
Just because you change jobs doesn't necessarily mean you become an enemy or are no longer useful to your old colleagues. You might be able to scout out new clients or opportunities for them in the course of your new job (that do not conflict with your new loyalties). You might encounter some skilled professional that fits exactly what your old crew really needs.
In the simplest most realistic terms, it is a business decision. The #1 person you are fighting for is yourself and your family. In my opinion the creative freedom of being able to help craft a new organization is very attractive to establish the kind of culture you desire. If that organization does not appear to value some of the same things that you do (software) you can be instrumental in helping them see where they might be mistaken.
Controversial legislation will attempt to lull some opponents by having a "Sunset" provision where the law will expire or require some sort of a reauthorization. The thought is "Okay we need it for right now but it is far too terrible to make permanent." When that time comes they always pass or are made permanent. Proponents argue "We've already spent all this money to implement it, no sense in squandering it now", "It is just so useful and important it is absurd to abandon it", or "Termination of the program would cause the layoffs of thousands of government & contract workers (in my jurisdiction)." PATRIOT Act did this too. Not to mention taxes and tolls as well. Government just cannot resist getting bigger. And yes, as others have pointed out, it doesn't matter which political party is in power when they pass. As soon as another party takes over for a term they really start to love these new powers and suddenly their criticism vanishes along with their promises to repeal.
If you are affected by this DDoS you might as well disable any PPC ads you have with Google, etc. No sense in spending money to drive traffic to your site if it is unreachable.
I always figured that the digital representation of your fingerprint would be extracted and copied. With that copy a number of options could be possible. Perhaps the scan can be bypassed entirely and the biometric computer fed the digital copy. Or perhaps the copy can be used with the reverse-algorithm from the reverse-engineered reader to produce a fingerprint that will have the same "hash value" even if it is not exactly like the owner's. Any one of these "solution" fingerprints could be printed onto paper or some material that would allow proper scanning as a normal finger.
Let us not forget the rumored "gummy bear" attack on biometric readers in the past.
But no, I guess it is far,far easier to just read the users password out of the registry from where the biometric system wrote it.
If hackers owned (in the domination sense) that FBI laptop to pull files off, then it could be possible to plant files too. While it may be typical for govt and corp to deny everything which plays well into the public's suspicion, hackers that have a goal of embarrassing both entities can plant evidence to achieve this. It is nearly equally believable that a hacker group might be in possession of these lists to begin with. I don't see what value a government investigative agency would even have in this data because it can relate to so many uninteresting devices. It really fits the M.O. of hacker groups, however, to poke around the realm of popular consumer electronics. The fact that these UDID's are considered deprecated might support the case that security concerning their safekeeping has become lax as well... and as a result were taken.
So the main possibilities are: Apple provided the data. The FBI "acquired" the data. The particular agent "acquired" the data (Apple mole, or perhaps from hackers in the dark net). Hackers planted the data.
I suppose it is not too far fetched to think that maybe the lists were taken by hackers and circling some underground file exchange. Perhaps the agent is tasked for monitoring these exchanges, grabbed a copy, was observed getting a copy, and the hackers followed up by owning the agent's laptop because he didn't give the secret handshake. The hackers discover it is an FBI laptop and can't resist disclosing that fact.
My understanding is... no. HTML5 and plain old JavaScript should replace or supercede pretty much anything an Applet can do. I think there still could be a place for Java WebStart, but I'm concerned for JavaFX in light of HTML5 as well. JavaFX seems just too late to the game. Like Java's eventual answer to Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight just in time to surrender to HTML5. Then again, this is in terms of using JavaFX in the web tier, you can still write native apps, like games, with JavaFX for hardware accelerated graphic goodness.
Coincidentally Java 6 update 35 was also released at the same time. The release notes cite a security fix. All CVE entries and info I could find only describe this issue as a Java 7 vulnerability. I had not see any confirmation yet that it also applied to Java 6 other than the brand new update.
But I think most of us are being too "ethnocentric" here. If this is their culture then that is all there is to it. As a sovereign nation they are deciding (for whatever reasons) that women should not be in those fields. Note that previously they were allowed, the change is due to the reality of the workplace - they aren't being hired. So in one regard you can see it as "helpful" to steer women away from certain failure within their culture as it would literally be a waste of their time and talent and end up not benefiting anyone. Sure most of us in the west would prefer that the women be given the choice to pursue whatever they desire academically, but that's just us. And it isn't up to us.
There was a good comment about how in ancient history this region was a pioneer in math, astronomy, architecture, and so forth. And maybe they could be once more if they allowed women into these fields. While that may be true, what if that level of vain national prestige is culturally irrelevant to them?
As far as I know, Iranians are free enough to travel outside the country. There is no reason to believe that if a particular Iranian woman wanted to study a now-banned subject that she couldn't still do so... elsewhere. If it mattered *that* much to her. So be it, let the west (and far-east) have the world's supply of educated women.
Just remember that as distasteful as these practices may feel to us, ours are just as distasteful to them. We like to think of ourselves as the most enlightened, but so do they. Now I do realize that Muslim extremists are not nearly so understanding and do impose their values on every culture they "conquer." For example PBS News Hour just had an interesting segment on the people of Mali who are struggling to maintain tradition that is being strangled by Islamic encroachment that regards them as Satanic.
I'd imagine you're right. If the ADS-B goals lead to greater automation then there could be a problem. Even if fake signals were generated against the ADS-B system while radar was fully functional. Sure the system might cause a few alarms, but operators can easily qualify the alerts by checking the radar, and what not. With more automation, however, perhaps that level of qualification and human oversight is not used to discriminate alerts. I do not know just how far the ADS-B system (or future ones) intend to go, but if it ever extends to automatically sending instructions to pilots it could cause real problems. For example I recall a PBS show describing a case of 2 Russian planes on a collision course. Both of their mid-air crash warning systems detected the other aircraft and both systems advised their pilots to "pull up." They both did... and still collided. So in the worst case (and with a lot of assumptions) all I can see is an attack vector to possibly confuse pilots. Like you, I don't see a real threat here.
Lt. Worf mastered the use of illusionary ship signatures to fool enemy warships. The trick, as it seems to apply here, is to fool the computer not the sensors. The ATC system may believe there are ghost ships out there, but sensors (radar) won't corroborate it.
I wonder what kind of "certificates" you can order online and use effectively. Besides diplomas I mean... Certainly those don't work, right? Not as if there were ever a Yahoo CEO to have falsified their education. Press credentials? Security certs?
Combine old fashioned pen & paper combined with a digital copy that binds audio into a timeline for playback. You can tap on your paper and playback the audio from when you were writing something. Great for capturing surrounding context. The digital form also features text search where you can enter words and the software will find that word, in your handwriting, on the page. You can print your own dot-paper too! Gobs of storage capacity and fairly long battery life. Should be more than adequate for classroom settings. I tend to use it for business meetings nowadays. I first saw this device at a JavaOne conference.
I've played SWTOR for a while. It is a pretty game and does a great job immersing you into the Star Wars universe. If you're really into story, the problem becomes that it really does feel like the most expensive single-player game you'll ever play. It is as if other players only exist to chat and trade with. It is very easy max out a character of each class to burn out the story lines, then there is nothing to do but grind away endgame gear for PVE or PVP. That is my biggest complaint is that levels 1..49 go by rather quickly (so quickly that it is barely worthwhile to equip properly) and all that is left is to grind and raid for prettier shineys.
The PVP Warzones were really neat and quite frankly the best PVP activity I've yet seen in an MMO. However there is presently a rash of cheating going on that BioWare is having difficulty combating.
The entertainment value wasn't worth the subscription price and naturally players have been leaving in droves. This exodus was exacerbated by the fact that BioWare did not have a tool to help find groups after 7 months of going live! Whereas most MMOs start with one nowadays. To make matters worse server populations were crashing and it took BioWare a considerable time to effect character transfers. The first waves of consolidation did breath new life into the game temporarily... but even those servers are in decline now.
There was some press release or statement from BioWare a number of weeks back that described subscription levels. At launch there were something like 1.5 million and in recent months had dropped to like 700k or so. 400k was stated as the minimum to retain profitability. Since then, I imagine, subscriptions continued to plummet and now they are offering F2P. Some might consider that desperation but in fairness I'd say that the true market value of the game is being established.
If you like Star Wars it really is worth a look. The F2P offering may actually be very attractive for Story players.
It might be worth mentioning that Banks will provide access to your Safe Deposit Box to law enforcement in various circumstances. I'm confident you can dig up news articles of consumer complaints that police accessed private SDBs with little (if any) proper process or authority. I've also come to understand that banks are required to turn over SDBs to the state in the event that the account holder dies so that the contained property can be included Probate into the estate for valuation and taxation purposes. If your credentials are in there it widens the scope of what can be seized for probate or snooped upon.
Numerous email address validations start with RFC compliance of the string. Some go a step further and make sure the TLD is valid and the domain exists. Some of those validators (rightly or wrongly) use arrays of TLDs (.org,.com,.name,.ca,.uk,..) or REGEX for the TLD validation component. Now there are arbitrary TLDs? Doom!
If it is their patent, filed and awarded fair-and-square then they have a government issued, temporary license for a monopoly on that technology as a reward for their invention. The damages would be lost profits that the inventors were deprived of for the unauthorized use of the invention. If the technology is so useful then competitors must either license it (if inventor allows it), buy the patent, spend their own R&D to develop their own alternative, wait for the patent to expire, or buy the company that owns the patent. That's fair.
Who cares if it is "establishment" or not. What if it were Joe Brown with his patented nose hair trimmer? Would he be wrong in asserting his rights because it "kills competition?" I know it is fashionable to bash big business, but c'mon. You can't play favorites here, its the law and applies equally.
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So if Anonymous makes a mistake and outs the wrong person and that person becomes harassed by the public backlash to the point of committing suicide... Will Anonymous out their outer?
Anyone for a live action game of Shadowrun?
Change is good for your personal development. New contexts, new situations, new skills, new contacts. So long as you keep on good terms with your current "fun" organization is there any reason to believe that they won't have you back if you don't like the other venture? If there is such strong rapport with those people would they bare you any ill will for trying something else for a change? Are you irreplaceable and would cause tremendous stress and hardship if you left? Do you have shares/ownership of the company that you feel could swell in value by your continued involvement?
Just because you change jobs doesn't necessarily mean you become an enemy or are no longer useful to your old colleagues. You might be able to scout out new clients or opportunities for them in the course of your new job (that do not conflict with your new loyalties). You might encounter some skilled professional that fits exactly what your old crew really needs.
In the simplest most realistic terms, it is a business decision. The #1 person you are fighting for is yourself and your family. In my opinion the creative freedom of being able to help craft a new organization is very attractive to establish the kind of culture you desire. If that organization does not appear to value some of the same things that you do (software) you can be instrumental in helping them see where they might be mistaken.
Because phenomenal powers are only evil when the opposition is in position to use them. Win some elections and suddenly they are okay again.
Controversial legislation will attempt to lull some opponents by having a "Sunset" provision where the law will expire or require some sort of a reauthorization. The thought is "Okay we need it for right now but it is far too terrible to make permanent." When that time comes they always pass or are made permanent. Proponents argue "We've already spent all this money to implement it, no sense in squandering it now", "It is just so useful and important it is absurd to abandon it", or "Termination of the program would cause the layoffs of thousands of government & contract workers (in my jurisdiction)." PATRIOT Act did this too. Not to mention taxes and tolls as well. Government just cannot resist getting bigger. And yes, as others have pointed out, it doesn't matter which political party is in power when they pass. As soon as another party takes over for a term they really start to love these new powers and suddenly their criticism vanishes along with their promises to repeal.
One way to be sure... hit em' again!
If you are affected by this DDoS you might as well disable any PPC ads you have with Google, etc. No sense in spending money to drive traffic to your site if it is unreachable.
Now lets see what these little buggers look like in their own respective slow motion. Careful not to give the quarks any seizures.
I always figured that the digital representation of your fingerprint would be extracted and copied. With that copy a number of options could be possible. Perhaps the scan can be bypassed entirely and the biometric computer fed the digital copy. Or perhaps the copy can be used with the reverse-algorithm from the reverse-engineered reader to produce a fingerprint that will have the same "hash value" even if it is not exactly like the owner's. Any one of these "solution" fingerprints could be printed onto paper or some material that would allow proper scanning as a normal finger.
,far easier to just read the users password out of the registry from where the biometric system wrote it.
Let us not forget the rumored "gummy bear" attack on biometric readers in the past.
But no, I guess it is far
If hackers owned (in the domination sense) that FBI laptop to pull files off, then it could be possible to plant files too. While it may be typical for govt and corp to deny everything which plays well into the public's suspicion, hackers that have a goal of embarrassing both entities can plant evidence to achieve this. It is nearly equally believable that a hacker group might be in possession of these lists to begin with. I don't see what value a government investigative agency would even have in this data because it can relate to so many uninteresting devices. It really fits the M.O. of hacker groups, however, to poke around the realm of popular consumer electronics. The fact that these UDID's are considered deprecated might support the case that security concerning their safekeeping has become lax as well... and as a result were taken.
So the main possibilities are: Apple provided the data. The FBI "acquired" the data. The particular agent "acquired" the data (Apple mole, or perhaps from hackers in the dark net). Hackers planted the data.
I suppose it is not too far fetched to think that maybe the lists were taken by hackers and circling some underground file exchange. Perhaps the agent is tasked for monitoring these exchanges, grabbed a copy, was observed getting a copy, and the hackers followed up by owning the agent's laptop because he didn't give the secret handshake. The hackers discover it is an FBI laptop and can't resist disclosing that fact.
My understanding is... no. HTML5 and plain old JavaScript should replace or supercede pretty much anything an Applet can do. I think there still could be a place for Java WebStart, but I'm concerned for JavaFX in light of HTML5 as well. JavaFX seems just too late to the game. Like Java's eventual answer to Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight just in time to surrender to HTML5. Then again, this is in terms of using JavaFX in the web tier, you can still write native apps, like games, with JavaFX for hardware accelerated graphic goodness.
Coincidentally Java 6 update 35 was also released at the same time. The release notes cite a security fix. All CVE entries and info I could find only describe this issue as a Java 7 vulnerability. I had not see any confirmation yet that it also applied to Java 6 other than the brand new update.
But I think most of us are being too "ethnocentric" here. If this is their culture then that is all there is to it. As a sovereign nation they are deciding (for whatever reasons) that women should not be in those fields. Note that previously they were allowed, the change is due to the reality of the workplace - they aren't being hired. So in one regard you can see it as "helpful" to steer women away from certain failure within their culture as it would literally be a waste of their time and talent and end up not benefiting anyone. Sure most of us in the west would prefer that the women be given the choice to pursue whatever they desire academically, but that's just us. And it isn't up to us.
There was a good comment about how in ancient history this region was a pioneer in math, astronomy, architecture, and so forth. And maybe they could be once more if they allowed women into these fields. While that may be true, what if that level of vain national prestige is culturally irrelevant to them?
As far as I know, Iranians are free enough to travel outside the country. There is no reason to believe that if a particular Iranian woman wanted to study a now-banned subject that she couldn't still do so... elsewhere. If it mattered *that* much to her. So be it, let the west (and far-east) have the world's supply of educated women.
Just remember that as distasteful as these practices may feel to us, ours are just as distasteful to them. We like to think of ourselves as the most enlightened, but so do they. Now I do realize that Muslim extremists are not nearly so understanding and do impose their values on every culture they "conquer." For example PBS News Hour just had an interesting segment on the people of Mali who are struggling to maintain tradition that is being strangled by Islamic encroachment that regards them as Satanic.
I'd imagine you're right. If the ADS-B goals lead to greater automation then there could be a problem. Even if fake signals were generated against the ADS-B system while radar was fully functional. Sure the system might cause a few alarms, but operators can easily qualify the alerts by checking the radar, and what not. With more automation, however, perhaps that level of qualification and human oversight is not used to discriminate alerts. I do not know just how far the ADS-B system (or future ones) intend to go, but if it ever extends to automatically sending instructions to pilots it could cause real problems. For example I recall a PBS show describing a case of 2 Russian planes on a collision course. Both of their mid-air crash warning systems detected the other aircraft and both systems advised their pilots to "pull up." They both did... and still collided. So in the worst case (and with a lot of assumptions) all I can see is an attack vector to possibly confuse pilots. Like you, I don't see a real threat here.
Lt. Worf mastered the use of illusionary ship signatures to fool enemy warships. The trick, as it seems to apply here, is to fool the computer not the sensors. The ATC system may believe there are ghost ships out there, but sensors (radar) won't corroborate it.
Sounds like a Dlibert comic
I wonder what kind of "certificates" you can order online and use effectively. Besides diplomas I mean... Certainly those don't work, right? Not as if there were ever a Yahoo CEO to have falsified their education. Press credentials? Security certs?
He had but one simple request... to have robotic earthworms with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
Combine old fashioned pen & paper combined with a digital copy that binds audio into a timeline for playback. You can tap on your paper and playback the audio from when you were writing something. Great for capturing surrounding context. The digital form also features text search where you can enter words and the software will find that word, in your handwriting, on the page. You can print your own dot-paper too! Gobs of storage capacity and fairly long battery life. Should be more than adequate for classroom settings. I tend to use it for business meetings nowadays. I first saw this device at a JavaOne conference.
I've played SWTOR for a while. It is a pretty game and does a great job immersing you into the Star Wars universe. If you're really into story, the problem becomes that it really does feel like the most expensive single-player game you'll ever play. It is as if other players only exist to chat and trade with. It is very easy max out a character of each class to burn out the story lines, then there is nothing to do but grind away endgame gear for PVE or PVP. That is my biggest complaint is that levels 1..49 go by rather quickly (so quickly that it is barely worthwhile to equip properly) and all that is left is to grind and raid for prettier shineys.
The PVP Warzones were really neat and quite frankly the best PVP activity I've yet seen in an MMO. However there is presently a rash of cheating going on that BioWare is having difficulty combating.
The entertainment value wasn't worth the subscription price and naturally players have been leaving in droves. This exodus was exacerbated by the fact that BioWare did not have a tool to help find groups after 7 months of going live! Whereas most MMOs start with one nowadays. To make matters worse server populations were crashing and it took BioWare a considerable time to effect character transfers. The first waves of consolidation did breath new life into the game temporarily... but even those servers are in decline now.
There was some press release or statement from BioWare a number of weeks back that described subscription levels. At launch there were something like 1.5 million and in recent months had dropped to like 700k or so. 400k was stated as the minimum to retain profitability. Since then, I imagine, subscriptions continued to plummet and now they are offering F2P. Some might consider that desperation but in fairness I'd say that the true market value of the game is being established.
If you like Star Wars it really is worth a look. The F2P offering may actually be very attractive for Story players.
It might be worth mentioning that Banks will provide access to your Safe Deposit Box to law enforcement in various circumstances. I'm confident you can dig up news articles of consumer complaints that police accessed private SDBs with little (if any) proper process or authority. I've also come to understand that banks are required to turn over SDBs to the state in the event that the account holder dies so that the contained property can be included Probate into the estate for valuation and taxation purposes. If your credentials are in there it widens the scope of what can be seized for probate or snooped upon.
"go a step further" (than the RFC)
Exactly. Some validators are already weak. Now we'll have a whole new generation of broken ones. Even more people can experience your frustration.
Numerous email address validations start with RFC compliance of the string. Some go a step further and make sure the TLD is valid and the domain exists. Some of those validators (rightly or wrongly) use arrays of TLDs (.org, .com, .name, .ca, .uk, ..) or REGEX for the TLD validation component. Now there are arbitrary TLDs? Doom!
Webmail:
To: complaint@mail.pepsi
ERROR! Invalid email address.
If it is their patent, filed and awarded fair-and-square then they have a government issued, temporary license for a monopoly on that technology as a reward for their invention. The damages would be lost profits that the inventors were deprived of for the unauthorized use of the invention. If the technology is so useful then competitors must either license it (if inventor allows it), buy the patent, spend their own R&D to develop their own alternative, wait for the patent to expire, or buy the company that owns the patent. That's fair.
Who cares if it is "establishment" or not. What if it were Joe Brown with his patented nose hair trimmer? Would he be wrong in asserting his rights because it "kills competition?" I know it is fashionable to bash big business, but c'mon. You can't play favorites here, its the law and applies equally.
In my best Keanu impression: *boggle* whoa! that's deep.