Because water is a politically hot topic right now. If you can interject water into an argument, you can rile up the emotions of everyone from the greenies to indian tribes.
Where I live, we are currently under pressure from our state dept of resources to 'consolidate water rights' into a large public utility rather than drawing from a local lake individually. The only difference being that the utility wants to charge us all $75/month plus a $40K hookup fee. Never mind that they take their water out of the same lake that I do. But they have the local indian tribe beating drums, dancing around totem poles and chanting about 'Muh water resource'. And this appears to be the cities way of getting them to shut up (kickbacks from the monthly water bills).
Hey, how about me? I've rebuilt and kept four pre-emmissions control cars running rather than continually buying new models. Where's my environmentalists love?
And where does all that CO2 go when a tree dies, falls down and rots?* Back into the atmosphere. On longer time scales, trees are carbon neutral. The only carbon credit we should get for growing trees is for the amount that is hauled out of a forest on the back of a logging truck.
*I'm sitting here in Seattle, watching decades of carbon sequestration in British Columbia literally go up in smoke. The other place trees' carbon goes.
There is also an anti-meat subtext to this article.
Compared to a plant-based diet, meat production "requires more energy, land and water and has greater environmental consequences in terms of erosion, pesticides and waste," the study found.
The message here is not just to get rid of your pets but to go vegan. Of course, this only replaces cow farts (on the farm) with vegan farts (that we all have to put up with standing in line at Whole Foods).
No one puts kill switches in exploits - that's stupid.
No, its not. You might not want the exploit to propagate the payload in certain environments. Like within your government or contractors' intranets. So you give them a domain name that they can resolve to something. That way, when an infected system (laptop, USB stick, etc.) is inadvertently brought to work, it won't spread.
There's a theory that the kill switch was built into WannaCry to prevent it from being run in a sandbox environment. It checks for a non-existent URL and refuses to run if it gets a reply, figuring that the sandbox will reply to anything. But that is pretty simple-minded. It is trivially easy to get a decent sandbox to reply (or not) correctly based on actual DNS data. What viruses do (even scrip kiddie stuff) is to look for a correct response from a command and control network. And refuse to run (and be inspected) if a server replies but incorrectly.
It's more likely that the dummy URL was created to keep EternalBlue payloads from propagating within 'friendly' environments like government and contractor intranets. Just load the URL into the DNS cache inside your firewall and your network is safe.
WannaCry was built on top of an NSA exploit that had been leaked. A part of that NSA package was the kill switch that Hutchins discovered and published. He may have had nothing to do with WannaCry's development or propagation. But he caused a TLA to lose one of it's fun toys. And for that, he will be punished.
When agencies get this far out of control, it's time to shut them down.
To digress: I remember the time when the BSOD screen saver made it's way around our company. Numerous calls were made to IT support when people would leave their PC for a few minutes and return to what looked like a crashed system.
Try a directional high gain rooftop antenna. Perhaps one with a built-in RF amplifier. I can pick up Seattle stations from about 60 miles away, down in a valley.
And some manufacturers' OTA tuners are shit. Fortunately, there are stand-alone DTV tuners with great sensitivity and multipath rejection. Some that have a PVR function when an external disk drive is added.
You'll have paid this off by the time any interest would start,
Or miss just one payment and 19.99% kicks in retroactively. Not a problem, as all interest will be forgiven if you trade it in for the new Windows 11 "We've got you now, sucka!" edition (the only thing that qualifies for the forgiveness program).
The fine print: an interest rate of 19.99% kicks in after 24 months.
Poor student right in the middle of an education is looking at major financing charges starting to pile up. Or, you could trade up and your debt will be forgiven (or postponed?).
The problem is also with diffraction limits of small phone camera apertures. A phone camera might have 40 Megapixels, but all that gets you is a nice image of an Airy disk. You can have my 6x6 cm 'sensor area' when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands. Or when the last film lab goes out of business.
I'm sort of on the fence about this. I'm in favor of net neutrality. But when my local ISP blocks the GOP's fundraising websites because "You gotta pay to play" I can live with that.
Do you want to charge me for my actual usage? Fine, go right ahead. But I'll bet those Comcast customers will scream bloody murder when they get their bill for watching the Superbowl.
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Because water is a politically hot topic right now. If you can interject water into an argument, you can rile up the emotions of everyone from the greenies to indian tribes.
Where I live, we are currently under pressure from our state dept of resources to 'consolidate water rights' into a large public utility rather than drawing from a local lake individually. The only difference being that the utility wants to charge us all $75/month plus a $40K hookup fee. Never mind that they take their water out of the same lake that I do. But they have the local indian tribe beating drums, dancing around totem poles and chanting about 'Muh water resource'. And this appears to be the cities way of getting them to shut up (kickbacks from the monthly water bills).
like reusing things rather than throwing them out
Hey, how about me? I've rebuilt and kept four pre-emmissions control cars running rather than continually buying new models. Where's my environmentalists love?
The waste meat currently fed to pets could be better used as feed for other livestock
Enjoy your mad cow disease.
And where does all that CO2 go when a tree dies, falls down and rots?* Back into the atmosphere. On longer time scales, trees are carbon neutral. The only carbon credit we should get for growing trees is for the amount that is hauled out of a forest on the back of a logging truck.
*I'm sitting here in Seattle, watching decades of carbon sequestration in British Columbia literally go up in smoke. The other place trees' carbon goes.
There is also an anti-meat subtext to this article.
Compared to a plant-based diet, meat production "requires more energy, land and water and has greater environmental consequences in terms of erosion, pesticides and waste," the study found.
The message here is not just to get rid of your pets but to go vegan. Of course, this only replaces cow farts (on the farm) with vegan farts (that we all have to put up with standing in line at Whole Foods).
Good name for a rock band.
No one puts kill switches in exploits - that's stupid.
No, its not. You might not want the exploit to propagate the payload in certain environments. Like within your government or contractors' intranets. So you give them a domain name that they can resolve to something. That way, when an infected system (laptop, USB stick, etc.) is inadvertently brought to work, it won't spread.
This is dumb and wrong. The NSA didn't create the malware,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
There's a theory that the kill switch was built into WannaCry to prevent it from being run in a sandbox environment. It checks for a non-existent URL and refuses to run if it gets a reply, figuring that the sandbox will reply to anything. But that is pretty simple-minded. It is trivially easy to get a decent sandbox to reply (or not) correctly based on actual DNS data. What viruses do (even scrip kiddie stuff) is to look for a correct response from a command and control network. And refuse to run (and be inspected) if a server replies but incorrectly.
It's more likely that the dummy URL was created to keep EternalBlue payloads from propagating within 'friendly' environments like government and contractor intranets. Just load the URL into the DNS cache inside your firewall and your network is safe.
But the Russians manipulated the vote!
WannaCry was built on top of an NSA exploit that had been leaked. A part of that NSA package was the kill switch that Hutchins discovered and published. He may have had nothing to do with WannaCry's development or propagation. But he caused a TLA to lose one of it's fun toys. And for that, he will be punished.
When agencies get this far out of control, it's time to shut them down.
The colors also used to be configurable
To digress: I remember the time when the BSOD screen saver made it's way around our company. Numerous calls were made to IT support when people would leave their PC for a few minutes and return to what looked like a crashed system.
Is there anything it can't do?
Try a directional high gain rooftop antenna. Perhaps one with a built-in RF amplifier. I can pick up Seattle stations from about 60 miles away, down in a valley.
What is this 'Radio Shack' place that you refer to?
And some manufacturers' OTA tuners are shit. Fortunately, there are stand-alone DTV tuners with great sensitivity and multipath rejection. Some that have a PVR function when an external disk drive is added.
You'll have paid this off by the time any interest would start,
Or miss just one payment and 19.99% kicks in retroactively. Not a problem, as all interest will be forgiven if you trade it in for the new Windows 11 "We've got you now, sucka!" edition (the only thing that qualifies for the forgiveness program).
From TFA:
The fine print: an interest rate of 19.99% kicks in after 24 months.
Poor student right in the middle of an education is looking at major financing charges starting to pile up. Or, you could trade up and your debt will be forgiven (or postponed?).
Once you are here, you can never leave. Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!
The problem is also with diffraction limits of small phone camera apertures. A phone camera might have 40 Megapixels, but all that gets you is a nice image of an Airy disk. You can have my 6x6 cm 'sensor area' when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands. Or when the last film lab goes out of business.
ISPs must fast lane all political websites
But how will an ISP know that it's a political website unless the site makes a contribution to the ISP?
I'm sort of on the fence about this. I'm in favor of net neutrality. But when my local ISP blocks the GOP's fundraising websites because "You gotta pay to play" I can live with that.
I pay. Evey month.
Do you want to charge me for my actual usage? Fine, go right ahead. But I'll bet those Comcast customers will scream bloody murder when they get their bill for watching the Superbowl.
if you wish to accept that people are going to text while on the sidewalk
TFS says this fine is imposed on people crossing the street. Text/talk all you want up on the sidewalk.
Why don't we help addicts
They don't want help.
Actually, they do. But any help that comes with the condition "and eventually you won't need drugs anymore" is turned down.