Also since a frozen (anything) will be able to maintain a higher velocity due to the additional weight of the water as well as aerodynamics and reduced friction of the ice over the air. Keeping the center of mass stationary goes along way of increasing momentum which a frozen object is much more efficient at maintaining.
Its funny how they talk about your 'real' life (people you already talk to in "real life") as being the best way of getting info. Isn't the Best Way(tm) to consider as many resources and then convene with those people to determine which is best? If your only information source is your 'family' is that really the most balanced form of discovering information? So they are basically saying if we can sell one of your friends on a product then you should buy it as well. As a strategy this is awesome for advertising, they can take a look at your circle of friends and advertise products to your friends that are targeted at you. To give you an example of how I would pull this off: Lets say I am a photo-buff and I have a friend that is digitally inept you would be able to assert that the best photo-product to consider would be the one my friend was sold on. So by coming up with a clever way of providing your friends / family with questionnaires or other types of interactions I can base your search results on those responses. This will become useful for me because I can eventually increase the revenue of the vendor I chose to include in the questionnaire, making it more likely for me to increase traffic / make more money from that vendor, increasing that vendors presence and altering the results I provide to you because if I am basing your results on your friends then what will be my method of telling you what no one in your profile knows? If they include a reasonable return on results for outside information how will it be influenced by your friends who don't know what its really about? If your friends are all XP users then will all your results be leaning to that type of result?
Compared to Google who concedes to the fact that they must allow vendors to have some point of latitude amongst their competitors. The vendors are allowed to bid higher for preferred positioning, it still allows for a wider view of the available information since the vendors are competing with each other rather than you. A great by-product of this in terms of revenue is that the more profitable any given vendor category becomes you generate what you could estimate based on the categories perspective profit margins (the more disposable income they produce the more they will invest) and this all happens dynamically across the board! If an over night success starts hitting it rich he will likely pay more to keep his market cornered and not having to worry about negotiating or dealing with Google in a direct way other than bidding against his competitors. Google doesn't have to do anymore then making sure the hardware is humming along.
I personally will use any service that I think is interesting and don't limit myself to any one in particular but I weigh the pros, cons and angles before I use it for information I'm serious about being accurate. Since I am not a vendor I want my results as relevant as possible so I can find data / information with pros and cons about anything I search for. This is like being able to see everyone else's 'inner circle' and convening with my own to work out the best path rather than by proxy.
As far as your post I do believe Facebook or anyone should be able to make available any service they want, they just won't be paying any bills off of me;)
While living a long time (in the order of 100's of years) sounds cool you have to remember you will face becomming obsolete. Every generation brings new challenges and new fields. For example in programming / computer science we have completed many revolutions in terms of technology. In most cases a certain language, platform or ideal starts off a new generation (cough Web 2.0 cough) and your COBOL skills get flushed. While starting from scratch isn't going to be as difficult if you do have expertise in the field it will be at the very least frustrating having to relearn many concepts from scratch. Also ideals changing in society as time goes on may make it difficult to adjust.
Actually Canada has more oil than every one except Saudi Arabia. We also provide US with their lumber as well they get a good stake in our fresh water, so fucking us for our rights are just a bonus.
It's still running on a cell network though;) If you can trust a cell phone on a digital network then whats the difference when a different processor on the phone encodes the data to send it out?
The main idea of not using cash is for the credit companies to collect the real cash and substitute that for credit. The fewer transactions that are done using paper the more credit will consume your actual money.
Exactly, it sounds like the writer spoke to his anonymous fairy god mother and she told him what he wanted to hear. No fact just some anonymous person said Sergey is uber scared. The rest of B Gates buddies (read Murdoch, Buffet) use this BS story from a reputable paper as some sort of evidence to the fact it must be true. I'm just glad they only pull this shit for tech related subject and not world news, boy that would suck!
It was never about the paper it was about the words on the paper. All of this unreasonable search and seizure is based on protecting your words and belongings, why we continue debate this based on the medium is beyond me.
It looks like these 'News Jockeys' are still stuck in this mentality from the early 1900's where a million of anything was a fascinating concept. This 'stat' seems to infer that with each asteroid that makes it past the atmosphere there is a 1 in 1 mil chance of it hitting a person. That would mean that each asteroid would definitely hit someone somewhere, and that just isn't happening. So I guess we chalk it up to "lies, dammed lies, and statistics".
If lives depend on this service then would you rather these guys bring this flaw to light or wait until someone wants the system to fail takes it from under you with out a word of warning?
I think the "good job" attitude we refer to in situations like this is not because of the actual property / data compromised but the fact it sheds light to the public that computer security is not being scaled as it should. Mom & Pop shops getting hacked likely happens quite a bit but for a much larger company (that specializes in data) to get touched like this is a wake up call. If we talk about bank robbers it would be similar to some kid taking all the money out of a bank with out having to walk into it and no one noticing it was gone, for something like that to happen it is not legally the banks fault but in reality they should taken to the wood shed and smacked around. I think the mentality behind this is that the "hackers" want to be caught and get somewhat disappointed when they don't that's why they raise all this bs. It's kinda like saying this shouldn't be happening what's going on. I'm almost happy this has happened since if there are vectors that can be exploited to result in this, these guys were not likely the first ones to do it. Now all we need is for each T-Mobile customer to dispute their bill based on this for them to really start to take this stuff seriously.
In reality they have just shot themselves in the foot by admitting they have had sensitive information retrieved by an unauthorized person. The whole idea of contests like this is for marketing and the CEO looking for a gold star type reputation. If the contest had gone without a hitch then they would pass their service off as 'air tight' since they are "securewebmail.com";) Regardless now of whether they pay out it is obvious that they are insecure so spending time arguing semantics is just going to kill them by the Streisand effect. It's stupid for them to argue over 10K while their rep will cost the company its livelihood regardless if they pay it or not. Some posts here seem to refer that any social engineering would likely be limited in nature as off-the-cuff phone calls to employees where the attacker seems to be a trusted member will not likely be effective in the long run. The truth is that supply and demand will mitigate this factor, especially since people get more interested in whats inside a room the more locks you put on it;) New vectors will be sought and acted on and they will be hacked again. It would have been better for them to offer the 10K as a consultants fee and have all this under a NDA then going balls out with this kind of thing cause obviously it wasn't secure to begin with.
PCI compliance is mostly about network security and infrastructure, such as ensuring networks that service secured endpoints are isolated from networks that aren't. The auditor is really only there to attempt to mitigate and isolate known security issues that most shops don't bother to take too seriously. By starting this buck passing all you are really doing is starting a new age of insurance that you will need to take to cover the possible fraud that can take place rather than working with the banks to just keep it to a minimum and deal with the one offs. I do believe that if an auditor checks out a network / system and approves a network / protocol that is insecure by their own standards then of course it is the fault of the auditor and the responsibility of the auditors company to clean up the mess. As many are alluding to as far as OS exploits and the like no one is really able to prevent or anticipate all these possibilities and those are just the "breaks".
As I said before looking for a fall guy (especially when both parties are financially powerful) will never resolve anything rather than finding a way to screw the business running the system that was audited. This will likely be too much of a liability for many to handle and will rather come out of your pocket in other ways. If you think any financial type business will actually take responsibility on paper or other wise for anything then you are way to new to this game to be making decisions like this.
Very good! you get a cookie! It is likely though that anyone who does 'receive' your system will at least turn it on and provided you have a web cam (built in or otherwise) you will start recording whether they login or not, taking a snap every second or so will give you a few snapshots and a chance to connect to an open AP and transmit the data. If you have a GPS receiver as well you would at least get the lat/long of the location. After that if he wipes it, its wiped regardless of what software you have installed, this is just the most convenient way of doing it (on linux;)
You have a good point. I think they should allow to contrast requested additions from suspicious IP's this way we can at least identify the pure propaganda from what are people's honest encounters. At the end of the day when you pull up a page it will show you the regular page but show a caption as they already do informing you that someone who is suspected of abuse wants to change certain text. By keeping this data you can keep track of similar edits from foreign IP's that maybe the same group but trying to edit from different vectors. Their goal will likely be to contradict text already posted, multiple requests to edit the same text will uncover their propaganda. This of course would be difficult to code because any dynamic weighted scale is applicable to tampering depending on how many layers deep you want to research each claim programmaticaly but will help follow the 'trail' of abuse and make public their attempts rather than starting fresh allowing them to keep on banging on the door.
Since this is/., 1 cron job and an addition to your/etc/rc.local(or distro equiv.) would do the trick. You could first use mencoder to capture and video sources (using command line it will take snaps at intervals all on its own) and rsync as you cron job taking the diffs of the whole drive to online storage, bonus points to trigger a sync the moment the network route becomes available. Nifty idea would be to set up a gmail account and use it to store incremental backups rather than the original image, 7-8 GB of diffs could likely go a long way.
It's probably better no one touches it. The kindle is a cool concept but it is being sold into the hands of avid (book) readers, who on average open up to a much wider audience that are likely on average more intelligent then bloggers;)
Let them get burned they are smart enough to take care of these things on their own. Sometimes I think these companies sell all this DRM crap because they know it will be cracked. This way a large portion of the suckers will get caught on the treadmill and the ones who other wise would have asked for the companies head on a steak, will default to cracking their device to get it to work and keep quiet.
I personally hope all of the tech savvy back away from this and for once let a company release something and let their customers suffer for a bit. When Jane Doe pays for something and finds out the company doesn't want her to have certain options available to her that's when you will have a good reason to fight back. It's not so easy to do that when you've already hacked the crap out of it and its downloading torrents while calculating your BMI after your breakfast reading.
Maybe 1 could be behind the curtain while the other one was on the other side of the curtain watching out? Or maybe the guy working the machine is also responsible to watch out?
I'd like to know how long they can hold you with out charging you. Taking a picture can raise suspicions but unless you actually do something with it what can they really charge you with? I could see they might ask you to delete the picture but to arrest the guy that was a bit much. It's your job to keep you unmentionables to yourself if you can't do that then some one who wants to do it and get away with it will.
Wouldn't it only be fraud if you paid and received the service for which you paid just to keep the service and take your money back? It seems the "service" or good your putting your money on is the record companies 'bill' so if you pay a portion and request your money back before the bill is paid in full the bill is still owed and your just paying to help-a-friend kind of thing
The reason PDF is so accepted in business is that it is seen as a static resource / record of events. By throwing scripting in the mix the content becomes dynamic and can mislead someone who would compare the format to a paper copy. The idea of dynamic content is by no means a bad idea but confusing and even abandoning a static format makes it just a bit more difficult to rely on this form for archiving documents which is the whole reason business adopt it, it is only one file and shows the exact same thing every time and can be relied on to do that x years in the future (provided you have the reader)
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41% efficient for systems running at 100 celsius. 64% for 850 celsuis . Not sure that's suitable for consumer equipment!
The combustion chamber in your engine is around 1000 - 1800 Celsius .
Also since a frozen (anything) will be able to maintain a higher velocity due to the additional weight of the water as well as aerodynamics and reduced friction of the ice over the air. Keeping the center of mass stationary goes along way of increasing momentum which a frozen object is much more efficient at maintaining.
Its funny how they talk about your 'real' life (people you already talk to in "real life") as being the best way of getting info. Isn't the Best Way(tm) to consider as many resources and then convene with those people to determine which is best? If your only information source is your 'family' is that really the most balanced form of discovering information? So they are basically saying if we can sell one of your friends on a product then you should buy it as well. As a strategy this is awesome for advertising, they can take a look at your circle of friends and advertise products to your friends that are targeted at you. To give you an example of how I would pull this off: Lets say I am a photo-buff and I have a friend that is digitally inept you would be able to assert that the best photo-product to consider would be the one my friend was sold on. So by coming up with a clever way of providing your friends / family with questionnaires or other types of interactions I can base your search results on those responses. This will become useful for me because I can eventually increase the revenue of the vendor I chose to include in the questionnaire, making it more likely for me to increase traffic / make more money from that vendor, increasing that vendors presence and altering the results I provide to you because if I am basing your results on your friends then what will be my method of telling you what no one in your profile knows? If they include a reasonable return on results for outside information how will it be influenced by your friends who don't know what its really about? If your friends are all XP users then will all your results be leaning to that type of result?
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Compared to Google who concedes to the fact that they must allow vendors to have some point of latitude amongst their competitors. The vendors are allowed to bid higher for preferred positioning, it still allows for a wider view of the available information since the vendors are competing with each other rather than you. A great by-product of this in terms of revenue is that the more profitable any given vendor category becomes you generate what you could estimate based on the categories perspective profit margins (the more disposable income they produce the more they will invest) and this all happens dynamically across the board! If an over night success starts hitting it rich he will likely pay more to keep his market cornered and not having to worry about negotiating or dealing with Google in a direct way other than bidding against his competitors. Google doesn't have to do anymore then making sure the hardware is humming along.
I personally will use any service that I think is interesting and don't limit myself to any one in particular but I weigh the pros, cons and angles before I use it for information I'm serious about being accurate. Since I am not a vendor I want my results as relevant as possible so I can find data / information with pros and cons about anything I search for. This is like being able to see everyone else's 'inner circle' and convening with my own to work out the best path rather than by proxy.
As far as your post I do believe Facebook or anyone should be able to make available any service they want, they just won't be paying any bills off of me
While living a long time (in the order of 100's of years) sounds cool you have to remember you will face becomming obsolete. Every generation brings new challenges and new fields. For example in programming / computer science we have completed many revolutions in terms of technology. In most cases a certain language, platform or ideal starts off a new generation (cough Web 2.0 cough) and your COBOL skills get flushed. While starting from scratch isn't going to be as difficult if you do have expertise in the field it will be at the very least frustrating having to relearn many concepts from scratch. Also ideals changing in society as time goes on may make it difficult to adjust.
Actually Canada has more oil than every one except Saudi Arabia. We also provide US with their lumber as well they get a good stake in our fresh water, so fucking us for our rights are just a bonus.
It's still running on a cell network though ;) If you can trust a cell phone on a digital network then whats the difference when a different processor on the phone encodes the data to send it out?
The main idea of not using cash is for the credit companies to collect the real cash and substitute that for credit. The fewer transactions that are done using paper the more credit will consume your actual money.
Exactly, it sounds like the writer spoke to his anonymous fairy god mother and she told him what he wanted to hear. No fact just some anonymous person said Sergey is uber scared. The rest of B Gates buddies (read Murdoch, Buffet) use this BS story from a reputable paper as some sort of evidence to the fact it must be true. I'm just glad they only pull this shit for tech related subject and not world news, boy that would suck!
You mean especially since the bounty for a prime goes from $100K - $250K?
It was never about the paper it was about the words on the paper. All of this unreasonable search and seizure is based on protecting your words and belongings, why we continue debate this based on the medium is beyond me.
It looks like these 'News Jockeys' are still stuck in this mentality from the early 1900's where a million of anything was a fascinating concept. This 'stat' seems to infer that with each asteroid that makes it past the atmosphere there is a 1 in 1 mil chance of it hitting a person. That would mean that each asteroid would definitely hit someone somewhere, and that just isn't happening. So I guess we chalk it up to "lies, dammed lies, and statistics".
If lives depend on this service then would you rather these guys bring this flaw to light or wait until someone wants the system to fail takes it from under you with out a word of warning?
I think the "good job" attitude we refer to in situations like this is not because of the actual property / data compromised but the fact it sheds light to the public that computer security is not being scaled as it should. Mom & Pop shops getting hacked likely happens quite a bit but for a much larger company (that specializes in data) to get touched like this is a wake up call. If we talk about bank robbers it would be similar to some kid taking all the money out of a bank with out having to walk into it and no one noticing it was gone, for something like that to happen it is not legally the banks fault but in reality they should taken to the wood shed and smacked around. I think the mentality behind this is that the "hackers" want to be caught and get somewhat disappointed when they don't that's why they raise all this bs. It's kinda like saying this shouldn't be happening what's going on. I'm almost happy this has happened since if there are vectors that can be exploited to result in this, these guys were not likely the first ones to do it. Now all we need is for each T-Mobile customer to dispute their bill based on this for them to really start to take this stuff seriously.
That's not a bug! It's a feature!
Question: Is this StrongWebmail.com a software or a service ?
Question: Since the CEO got his information retrieved with out his permission would you trust their claims with your own data?
In reality they have just shot themselves in the foot by admitting they have had sensitive information retrieved by an unauthorized person. The whole idea of contests like this is for marketing and the CEO looking for a gold star type reputation. If the contest had gone without a hitch then they would pass their service off as 'air tight' since they are "securewebmail.com" ;) Regardless now of whether they pay out it is obvious that they are insecure so spending time arguing semantics is just going to kill them by the Streisand effect. It's stupid for them to argue over 10K while their rep will cost the company its livelihood regardless if they pay it or not. Some posts here seem to refer that any social engineering would likely be limited in nature as off-the-cuff phone calls to employees where the attacker seems to be a trusted member will not likely be effective in the long run. The truth is that supply and demand will mitigate this factor, especially since people get more interested in whats inside a room the more locks you put on it ;) New vectors will be sought and acted on and they will be hacked again. It would have been better for them to offer the 10K as a consultants fee and have all this under a NDA then going balls out with this kind of thing cause obviously it wasn't secure to begin with.
PCI compliance is mostly about network security and infrastructure, such as ensuring networks that service secured endpoints are isolated from networks that aren't. The auditor is really only there to attempt to mitigate and isolate known security issues that most shops don't bother to take too seriously. By starting this buck passing all you are really doing is starting a new age of insurance that you will need to take to cover the possible fraud that can take place rather than working with the banks to just keep it to a minimum and deal with the one offs. I do believe that if an auditor checks out a network / system and approves a network / protocol that is insecure by their own standards then of course it is the fault of the auditor and the responsibility of the auditors company to clean up the mess. As many are alluding to as far as OS exploits and the like no one is really able to prevent or anticipate all these possibilities and those are just the "breaks".
As I said before looking for a fall guy (especially when both parties are financially powerful) will never resolve anything rather than finding a way to screw the business running the system that was audited. This will likely be too much of a liability for many to handle and will rather come out of your pocket in other ways. If you think any financial type business will actually take responsibility on paper or other wise for anything then you are way to new to this game to be making decisions like this.
Very good! you get a cookie! It is likely though that anyone who does 'receive' your system will at least turn it on and provided you have a web cam (built in or otherwise) you will start recording whether they login or not, taking a snap every second or so will give you a few snapshots and a chance to connect to an open AP and transmit the data. If you have a GPS receiver as well you would at least get the lat/long of the location. After that if he wipes it, its wiped regardless of what software you have installed, this is just the most convenient way of doing it (on linux ;)
You have a good point. I think they should allow to contrast requested additions from suspicious IP's this way we can at least identify the pure propaganda from what are people's honest encounters. At the end of the day when you pull up a page it will show you the regular page but show a caption as they already do informing you that someone who is suspected of abuse wants to change certain text. By keeping this data you can keep track of similar edits from foreign IP's that maybe the same group but trying to edit from different vectors. Their goal will likely be to contradict text already posted, multiple requests to edit the same text will uncover their propaganda. This of course would be difficult to code because any dynamic weighted scale is applicable to tampering depending on how many layers deep you want to research each claim programmaticaly but will help follow the 'trail' of abuse and make public their attempts rather than starting fresh allowing them to keep on banging on the door.
Since this is /., 1 cron job and an addition to your /etc/rc.local(or distro equiv.) would do the trick. You could first use mencoder to capture and video sources (using command line it will take snaps at intervals all on its own) and rsync as you cron job taking the diffs of the whole drive to online storage, bonus points to trigger a sync the moment the network route becomes available. Nifty idea would be to set up a gmail account and use it to store incremental backups rather than the original image, 7-8 GB of diffs could likely go a long way.
It's probably better no one touches it. The kindle is a cool concept but it is being sold into the hands of avid (book) readers, who on average open up to a much wider audience that are likely on average more intelligent then bloggers ;)
Let them get burned they are smart enough to take care of these things on their own. Sometimes I think these companies sell all this DRM crap because they know it will be cracked. This way a large portion of the suckers will get caught on the treadmill and the ones who other wise would have asked for the companies head on a steak, will default to cracking their device to get it to work and keep quiet.
I personally hope all of the tech savvy back away from this and for once let a company release something and let their customers suffer for a bit. When Jane Doe pays for something and finds out the company doesn't want her to have certain options available to her that's when you will have a good reason to fight back. It's not so easy to do that when you've already hacked the crap out of it and its downloading torrents while calculating your BMI after your breakfast reading.
Maybe 1 could be behind the curtain while the other one was on the other side of the curtain watching out? Or maybe the guy working the machine is also responsible to watch out?
I'd like to know how long they can hold you with out charging you. Taking a picture can raise suspicions but unless you actually do something with it what can they really charge you with? I could see they might ask you to delete the picture but to arrest the guy that was a bit much. It's your job to keep you unmentionables to yourself if you can't do that then some one who wants to do it and get away with it will.
Wouldn't it only be fraud if you paid and received the service for which you paid just to keep the service and take your money back? It seems the "service" or good your putting your money on is the record companies 'bill' so if you pay a portion and request your money back before the bill is paid in full the bill is still owed and your just paying to help-a-friend kind of thing
The reason PDF is so accepted in business is that it is seen as a static resource / record of events. By throwing scripting in the mix the content becomes dynamic and can mislead someone who would compare the format to a paper copy. The idea of dynamic content is by no means a bad idea but confusing and even abandoning a static format makes it just a bit more difficult to rely on this form for archiving documents which is the whole reason business adopt it, it is only one file and shows the exact same thing every time and can be relied on to do that x years in the future (provided you have the reader)