Deaths? multiple injured people? Why isn't that secured in the first place? With all the news about stuff getting *hacked*, why are they still doing this?
They are waiting for the first part, because unless there is a big uproar about it (which there won't be until it gets abused enough to cause deaths) it costs too much money to fix.
How this is a surprise to anyone by now is a surprise to me, this has been standard operating procedures with pretty much everyone since computers have come out. That is, security is non existent or an afterthought. Paying money to make sure everything is secure for any sort of attacks/compromise/whatever takes away from the bottom line, so shareholders don't like that stuff. And management is kissing the shareholders ass, so it's not as important.
Now for government work, it's a bidding process and well, you aren't going to make any money on the job by having to hire some sort of computer type to make sure the system is secure. And since the contract probably didn't state it needed to be done, well, this is what we have.
So wait until it gets abused bad enough to kill people, nothing will get done.
There is a problem with nuclear bombs these days. It's not that any of the countries that have them are going to use them, in all honesty, it seems like the places that have them have no desire to use them.
So pissing off the countries that don't have them, means that if they can find a way to get them, they will use them on us. Why? Because No countries that have them will use them in retaliation.
So in all honesty, the best bet would be to get rid of them all, so no one can get their hand on them and use them.
They aren't protecting us anymore, they aren't protecting anyone anymore.
To clarify a bit, I was referring to the period between 1960 and today, when multiprocessing systems established what could properly be called the "historic norm" for the industry. That's the lineage, starting with mainframes, which led directly to virtualization. In fact we were working on primitive virtualization and hypervisors even then, though for the sake of faster system restarts, live failovers and upgrades rather than anything like the cloud services of today. I hadn't thought to include hobbyist systems in this account because they're not really part of this lineage. It was a long time before they became powerful enough to borrow from it. What they did contribute was an explosion in commodity hardware, so that when networking became ubiquitous it became economical to dedicate systems to a single application. But that comes quite late in the story.
Ya, I ended up doing what i said in the last part of my post and didn't think of that fact that computers were around before my kid days. =(
What is going on is the governemnt/police want a way to turn off phones when protests are going on. They don't want protestors to communicate. My guess is they know that people are going to be getting sick of the bullshit the government/police pull and will start protesting more.
"The operating system is therefore not being configured, tuned, integrated, and ultimately married to a single application as was the historic norm, but it's no less important for that change."
What? I had to read this a couple of times. The historic norm was for a single operating system to serve multiple applications. Only with the advent of distributed computing did it become feasible, and only with commodity hardware did it become cost-effective, to dedicate a system instance to a single application. Specialized systems for special purposes came into use first, but the phenomenon didn't really begin to take off in a general way until around 1995.
Going to point out in the DOS days, you've have different memory setups for different stuff. Plenty of apps (mostly games though) required a reboot to get the correct memory manager set up for it. Granted, this was a 640k barrier problem, and the main OS didn't actually load/not load anything different, just the memory managers and possible 3rd party programs.
Even back on the C64 days you'd have to reboot the computer after playing a game, since you didn't normally have a way to exit it. Granted that was because floppies were how things were done.
But I get what you are saying, just wanted to point out some history in case we got some of them young kids reading this stuff and think computers started in the 2000's after Gore invented the Internet.
Most likely just the typical bullshit you get in a 3rd world country. Low education, coupled by poverty, corrupt government and when you get a health epidemic, people panic and do stupid shit
Terrorism is pretty common "bullshit" in some 3rd world countries. The culture of some groups that engage in terrorism celebrates self-sacrifice when engaging in terrorism. Indeed, there is essentially a death cult there when they state "we love death more than you love life." Terrible diseases like Ebola induce terror while killing many people. Modern air travel has reduced the what had been the travel of months to a few hours. Hmmm. Hmmm.
I live in the USA where the terrorist groups are called Politicians and Lawmakers.
You don't want to cut off their web browsing, you want to cut their power. Get the electric companies to cut the power till they pay up. Can't download or watch them infringing files with no power.
When you do this for a member of congress, it's called Lobbying, when it do it for lesser politicians, they call it a bribe. Guess these peeps are finding out the hard way.
I just hope this isn't a deliberate attempt to spread the virus, remove medical supplies and become martyrs
I doubt it. Most likely just the typical bullshit you get in a 3rd world country. Low education, coupled by poverty, corrupt government and when you get a health epidemic, people panic and do stupid shit.
Family supposed got some of the sick, which is understandable that they want to spend the last days with the people, and same for those that supposedly left when the riot started.
As for the looting of the place and the start of the riot, who knows the real agenda there. Panic? Planned? Stupidity? Guess we might find out.
One thing I have learned over the course of MS OS's lives, is to NEVER update the computer at within a week of the updates being released. MS had a nice reputation for putting out crappy patches every now and then.
You are the product tester and you get to pay for it. So be smart, let the stupid people get the BSOD's so you don't have to.
I'm willing to be damaging a companies reputation with an illegal recording is going to get you into trouble, but I've always taken "this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes" to mean I am allowed to record, to assure quality service.
If one of that parties says they reserve the right to record, it allows the other party to record without saying anything in Washington State.
If they notify you that the call is being recorded then that's all they have to do. If you don't consent then hang up, that's the purpose of the notification.
When I call, I just tell the automated thingy I'm recording the call. If they can tell me without a live person telling it to me, I can tell it to their answering software.
Not my fault they don't use real people to answer the phone.
And he's not in jail, so sure, he's a genius. But are his exploits legendary? Well, much like fishing stories, I take hacking stories have more elaborations then truth.
Look, these days if you want to be safe, do not use a smartphone. Get a dumb phone, then you don't have to worry about any apps leaking your data.
Either an app will leak your data, someone will hack your phone, you leave it somewhere or someone steals it. Either way, you are screwed if you use your phone for all sorts of personal/business stuff.
I guess it's about convenience over personal/financial/business safety.
Let me be the first one to welcome Half-Life 3 for Christmas...2025.
I say Half-Life 3 comes out when the Steam Console comes out. You always want the killer app, and well, Half-life has the chance to bring more people to the Steam Console then probably any other game.
So... In short, the company wants me to pay full price for the service and expect me to not use it? I pay for a car, but I can not use it? Ok, I give up trying to understand the humans...
Corporations are not humans. And while I know you are trying to be funny, it's not a funny matter, it's serious. The Corporate Greed Culture has gone overboard, and this is a prime example of it.
Why can't they just remove the sexual areas of pedophile brains rather than jail them for 20 years (as an option)? Often they are otherwise normal people who abide by the law, show up to work on time, and pay taxes. Their craving is very specific such as to be relatively easy to "short circuit".
As a tax-payer, it would probably be cheaper to snip around in their brain than house them for 20 years.
Because, as history has shown, pedophile run in all walks of life. Ministers, Police, Judges, Boy/Cub Scout Leaders, Teachers, Lawyers, etc. Now you think that pedophile judge is going to let his pedophile friend the police chief get taken down? Hell no, he might get taken, so they all take care of each other.
Every now and then, some unconnected pedophile gets thrown to the wolves, makes it seem like people are doing something about it, while they get to do seem like they are doing their job.
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Deaths? multiple injured people? Why isn't that secured in the first place? With all the news about stuff getting *hacked*, why are they still doing this?
They are waiting for the first part, because unless there is a big uproar about it (which there won't be until it gets abused enough to cause deaths) it costs too much money to fix.
How this is a surprise to anyone by now is a surprise to me, this has been standard operating procedures with pretty much everyone since computers have come out. That is, security is non existent or an afterthought. Paying money to make sure everything is secure for any sort of attacks/compromise/whatever takes away from the bottom line, so shareholders don't like that stuff. And management is kissing the shareholders ass, so it's not as important.
Now for government work, it's a bidding process and well, you aren't going to make any money on the job by having to hire some sort of computer type to make sure the system is secure. And since the contract probably didn't state it needed to be done, well, this is what we have.
So wait until it gets abused bad enough to kill people, nothing will get done.
There is a problem with nuclear bombs these days. It's not that any of the countries that have them are going to use them, in all honesty, it seems like the places that have them have no desire to use them.
So pissing off the countries that don't have them, means that if they can find a way to get them, they will use them on us. Why? Because No countries that have them will use them in retaliation.
So in all honesty, the best bet would be to get rid of them all, so no one can get their hand on them and use them.
They aren't protecting us anymore, they aren't protecting anyone anymore.
Why would anyone actually want to watch it?
I didn't care to watch it, but now that the UK wants to declare that it's a crime to watch it, I am now downloading it (thanks tpb!)
Will I enjoy it? Probably not, but if the governement(s) don't want me to see it, then I probably should see it.
ya, but moth balls will always bring them down.
To clarify a bit, I was referring to the period between 1960 and today, when multiprocessing systems established what could properly be called the "historic norm" for the industry. That's the lineage, starting with mainframes, which led directly to virtualization. In fact we were working on primitive virtualization and hypervisors even then, though for the sake of faster system restarts, live failovers and upgrades rather than anything like the cloud services of today. I hadn't thought to include hobbyist systems in this account because they're not really part of this lineage. It was a long time before they became powerful enough to borrow from it. What they did contribute was an explosion in commodity hardware, so that when networking became ubiquitous it became economical to dedicate systems to a single application. But that comes quite late in the story.
Ya, I ended up doing what i said in the last part of my post and didn't think of that fact that computers were around before my kid days. =(
What is going on is the governemnt/police want a way to turn off phones when protests are going on. They don't want protestors to communicate. My guess is they know that people are going to be getting sick of the bullshit the government/police pull and will start protesting more.
No seriously, I'd love to see a video of this.
Very interesting problem, wonder how it can be solved?
"The operating system is therefore not being configured, tuned, integrated, and ultimately married to a single application as was the historic norm, but it's no less important for that change."
What? I had to read this a couple of times. The historic norm was for a single operating system to serve multiple applications. Only with the advent of distributed computing did it become feasible, and only with commodity hardware did it become cost-effective, to dedicate a system instance to a single application. Specialized systems for special purposes came into use first, but the phenomenon didn't really begin to take off in a general way until around 1995.
Going to point out in the DOS days, you've have different memory setups for different stuff. Plenty of apps (mostly games though) required a reboot to get the correct memory manager set up for it. Granted, this was a 640k barrier problem, and the main OS didn't actually load/not load anything different, just the memory managers and possible 3rd party programs.
Even back on the C64 days you'd have to reboot the computer after playing a game, since you didn't normally have a way to exit it. Granted that was because floppies were how things were done.
But I get what you are saying, just wanted to point out some history in case we got some of them young kids reading this stuff and think computers started in the 2000's after Gore invented the Internet.
Most likely just the typical bullshit you get in a 3rd world country. Low education, coupled by poverty, corrupt government and when you get a health epidemic, people panic and do stupid shit
Terrorism is pretty common "bullshit" in some 3rd world countries. The culture of some groups that engage in terrorism celebrates self-sacrifice when engaging in terrorism. Indeed, there is essentially a death cult there when they state "we love death more than you love life." Terrible diseases like Ebola induce terror while killing many people. Modern air travel has reduced the what had been the travel of months to a few hours. Hmmm. Hmmm.
I live in the USA where the terrorist groups are called Politicians and Lawmakers.
You don't want to cut off their web browsing, you want to cut their power. Get the electric companies to cut the power till they pay up. Can't download or watch them infringing files with no power.
Cut the power!!!!
No, i would not pay to get a website free of trolls.
Nor would I pay to have a city free of homeless people.
You need to have the parts of life you don't like to remind you why you are better then them.
When you do this for a member of congress, it's called Lobbying, when it do it for lesser politicians, they call it a bribe. Guess these peeps are finding out the hard way.
I just hope this isn't a deliberate attempt to spread the virus, remove medical supplies and become martyrs
I doubt it. Most likely just the typical bullshit you get in a 3rd world country. Low education, coupled by poverty, corrupt government and when you get a health epidemic, people panic and do stupid shit.
Family supposed got some of the sick, which is understandable that they want to spend the last days with the people, and same for those that supposedly left when the riot started.
As for the looting of the place and the start of the riot, who knows the real agenda there. Panic? Planned? Stupidity? Guess we might find out.
One thing I have learned over the course of MS OS's lives, is to NEVER update the computer at within a week of the updates being released. MS had a nice reputation for putting out crappy patches every now and then.
You are the product tester and you get to pay for it. So be smart, let the stupid people get the BSOD's so you don't have to.
After all, we know it's from MS so it's going to be buggy and crappy.
For example, how many of that 30% women makes the same as males doing the same job?
Same goes for the non white compared to the white workers.
I'm willing to be damaging a companies reputation with an illegal recording is going to get you into trouble, but I've always taken "this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes" to mean I am allowed to record, to assure quality service.
If one of that parties says they reserve the right to record, it allows the other party to record without saying anything in Washington State.
If they notify you that the call is being recorded then that's all they have to do. If you don't consent then hang up, that's the purpose of the notification.
When I call, I just tell the automated thingy I'm recording the call. If they can tell me without a live person telling it to me, I can tell it to their answering software.
Not my fault they don't use real people to answer the phone.
And he's not in jail, so sure, he's a genius. But are his exploits legendary? Well, much like fishing stories, I take hacking stories have more elaborations then truth.
Look, these days if you want to be safe, do not use a smartphone. Get a dumb phone, then you don't have to worry about any apps leaking your data.
Either an app will leak your data, someone will hack your phone, you leave it somewhere or someone steals it. Either way, you are screwed if you use your phone for all sorts of personal/business stuff.
I guess it's about convenience over personal/financial/business safety.
Let me be the first one to welcome Half-Life 3 for Christmas...2025.
I say Half-Life 3 comes out when the Steam Console comes out. You always want the killer app, and well, Half-life has the chance to bring more people to the Steam Console then probably any other game.
So... In short, the company wants me to pay full price for the service and expect me to not use it? I pay for a car, but I can not use it? Ok, I give up trying to understand the humans...
Corporations are not humans. And while I know you are trying to be funny, it's not a funny matter, it's serious. The Corporate Greed Culture has gone overboard, and this is a prime example of it.
Why can't they just remove the sexual areas of pedophile brains rather than jail them for 20 years (as an option)? Often they are otherwise normal people who abide by the law, show up to work on time, and pay taxes. Their craving is very specific such as to be relatively easy to "short circuit".
As a tax-payer, it would probably be cheaper to snip around in their brain than house them for 20 years.
Because, as history has shown, pedophile run in all walks of life. Ministers, Police, Judges, Boy/Cub Scout Leaders, Teachers, Lawyers, etc. Now you think that pedophile judge is going to let his pedophile friend the police chief get taken down? Hell no, he might get taken, so they all take care of each other.
Every now and then, some unconnected pedophile gets thrown to the wolves, makes it seem like people are doing something about it, while they get to do seem like they are doing their job.
Should I post the same post here that I did on SovlentNews? Oops, too late, I didn't.
But it had something to do with tasting like chicken. It was really good, seriously.
Sure, I'd love for everyone to forget the stupid crap I do, but that isn't the way life works.