On a technical level this is pure BS: Kaspersky (and any other AV for that matter) updates include application components like libraries and binaries, so this source code audit is only valid for one particular version of the application which will be outdated days if not hours after being submitted. So, unless Kaspersky submits the source code continuously, this proposal is pretty much meaningless.
Either I don't understand how it works or it can be circumvented by gaining the SYSTEM level privileges (and most Windows users say "yes" to all UAC warnings so getting the said privileges is not that difficult).
Was there any financial harm? Or it's just someone's reputation and pride were wounded? This incident surely looks like the latter which means that the security department should have held responsible and the student should have gotten an oral reprimand, but not, "[Professors] also hope the university presses charges with local police to deter similar cases".
Bank transfers often take up to a week to be confirmed. 142 minutes are the average. If you're smart enough you'll choose a fee which will make your transaction be confirmed in under an hour.
Western Union is used by the people of the world. Tell me, how'd you send money (more or less instantly) from the US to a random person in some odd country or vice versa? Bitcoin makes it trivial. Bitcoin allows you to remain fully anonymous. Bitcoin won't make you fill in forms or show your ID. There will be no IRS involved.
Every currency on Earth generates wealth if it's deposited in a bank. Or if there's a deflation.
It supposed to store wealth and make transactions easier. And if it isn't good as a currency, what good is it for?
Bitcoin stores wealth just fine and transactions using bitcoin are a lot easier and faster than using the traditional banking system.
But my point is that as long as people are treating Bitcoin as an investment, it really isn't much good as a currency.
People are inclined to treat everything which is rare and perceived as valuable as an investment. Every limited crypto-currency will be treated the same way.
It has no intrinsic value.
Fiat money has zero intrinsic value. Different countries and governments regularly refuse to pay debts and default on bonds.
It's no good for currency since transaction times are too long and transaction costs are too high.
Transaction times are fine and costs are nowhere near what you pay for e.g. SWIFT or Western Union transfers.
Eventually, people will figure out that Bitcoin is worthless.
Gold and silver are in a similar position. Or shares. Or bonds. Or even currencies in certain countries of the world. Go by something using gold... oh, wait, you cannot. All by themselves gold and silver are worthless.
The only value it generates is taken from the suckers at the bottom of the pyramid.
The whole financial system of this world is basically a pyramid.
If you want to design a crypto-currency that actually functions as currency, you gotta design something that isn't used as an investment.
Good luck with that. You may as well rewrite people's DNA for that.
Otherwise, speculators are going to ruin it.
You mean human beings? And also tell me how Bitcoin is being ruined.
When the power goes out the world as we know it will end. Bitcoin or not will mean zilch. The world will become total chaos and you can only pray that fiat money/gold/silver will still be worth anything at all.
I'm more curious as to why bitcoin's dominance has been steadily increasing since July. One possible explanation is that alternative currencies (mainly Ethereum) are no longer as profitable as they used to be due to an increase in difficulty. Or maybe Bitcoin receives a lot more attention. Or maybe it's just the sum of everything: a number of large exchanges, publicity, many vaporware ICOs, etc. etc. etc.
This is actually an excellent solution even for "valid" websites which misuse shady ad networks and contain otherwise bad JS code (for rendering/user interaction/ajax/etc). I just want these variables to be configurable, i.e. >=5 seconds of more than 70% 1 CPU core usage and the tab gets throttled.
This "problem" is so exaggerated it's becoming annoying to hear about it again and again.
First of all, most respectable websites will never do anything like that. Secondly, shady websites which do host mining JavaScript are not normally visited by most people and the ones who visit such websites usually leave them quite fast, which means bad scripts can only run for a very limited amount of time. Thirdly, we've always had websites which peddle malware and somehow they stopped being newsworthy years ago. All of a sudden, they are again in the news.
Fourthly, we now have "good" websites which stress your CPU so much they can be considered "harmful". What about ad networks whose JS tax your CPU? Why aren't we talking about them?
I perfectly understood what I said, and you keep arguing about something absolutely irrelevant.
I don't fucking care that AVs require kernel level drivers - that was not the point of my statement. The point was that by doing so they make the underlying OS a lot less secure because they make the attack surface a lot wider. A perfectly built OS does not require an AV. Check iOS, Android (to a lesser extent) and UWP (on Windows) - neither of them require an AV to stay secure.
Now fuck off, please, a wanna-be-security-researcher. You've written pretty much three completely inane paragraphs. I don't even understand why I decided to reply to your comments. A complete waste of time.
I've already said that an OS which requires an AV in order to guard apps/data is not the OS you should be running in the first place.
Also, I am indeed a raving idiot because I don't have an AV installed and for my 25+ years of computer usage I've never been infected or lost my credentials (aside from companies leaking them, e.g. Adobe). That couldn't be attributed to sheer luck, right? Windows is inherently insecure and an AV gives you a false sense of security as indicated by literally tens of millions of examples when people have got infected while having a fully updated AV installed and running.
It makes you trust unknown software with dubious functions.
It potentially makes your PC less secure, because AV needs kernel level drivers.
It may potentially be used to gather any information/spy on you without your knowledge.
Most AVs are dumb as fuck which means they cannot intelligently tell bad software from good software. Their heuristics is either a joke or a joke which makes your PC slow as hell.
Either your OS has means of protecting your data from apps, or apps from each other, or you cannot use this OS to run any new/unknown software.
Windows can be made more or less 100% secure if you use SandBoxie.
I hate all this constant stream of FUD in regard to crypto currencies. Fiat money can be stolen as well and it happens all the time, yet/. rarely if ever features such articles.
Every passing week brings at least five news pieces featuring five new prominent economists/advisors/CFO/etc. who all declare that Bitcoin is either a bubble or a Ponzi scheme.
We've all heard that Bitcoin is a fraud at least a thousand times already. Now leave it alone please. People who trade bitcoins or invest in bitcoins perfectly understand their risks. It's true that bitcoin's worth is basically zero unless the market agrees that it has a different price. The market has decided that it costs ~$4200 at the moment. It's true that Bitcoin might become worthless tomorrow. If you think otherwise you need to get a shot of common sense.
This is a perfectly hidden advertisement for N-Tech.Lab. Yes, their algorithm has won certain face recognition competitions but this bloomberg article is a whole lot better for their publicity.
You need to say thank you that your smartphone cannot be remotely turned into a recording/spying device without your knowledge or consent and without installing any apps. Oh, wait..
I've got just one question: why is this news at all? Even it's true, does it change anything in regard to Android? Hardly so. Also, considering Motorola I'd really doubt they are keen to step into the same river twice. HTC's patents are perhaps the only thing they are after but I'm still doubtful.
Having said that, this article is just another academic, masturbatory exercise in word play without offering anything really new, just newly rephrased.
Like a lot of "science" about consciousness. We desperately need a break through in its understanding and it seems like we haven't learned much in the past three thousand years. However we have a ton of ideas, suggestions an assumptions. Maybe we should direct our energy, resources and minds towards the openworm project. It makes sense to start with something "relatively" simple before trying to understand what's going on in our brains.
From the blog post: "Instead, they [children] are conscious from the get-go".
God, not so fast! Could you define this "get-go", please? Is it when a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell? Or some time later? And if some time later then when exactly? At 2 weeks? 3? 4? 5? 20? 40?
What is abundantly clear is that we try to simply consciousness way too much and it's a far more complex phenomenon than we're led to believe when we read its quite simplistic definitions. While these definitions do a good job of describing how consciousness operates, they don't even begin to scratch the surface of what consciousness really is.
It might be possible that consciousness is a quantitative property of any neurological system which also means that consciousness has varying degrees, ranging from simple worms to what human beings experience. Which also means that's it's really hard to define the lower limit of consciousness which also means that even inanimate objects might be considered conscious. And we go further we might arrive at the conclusion that consciousness is a property of this universe and everything in it including quarks and radiation.
You seriously underestimate the computational capacity of the human brain. You may want to read this and this. Wake me up when we have computers which are capable of performing 1exaFLOP at 20W power budget.
This analogy falls apart as soon as you try to recreate something complex, like the internal combustion engine.
While you may perfectly understand how parts of it work, no amount of random recombination of the said parts will yield you a working efficient engine. And even if you manage to combine them properly by a sheer luck, you'll still have zero understanding of how it works or how it can be made better/faster/more efficient.
In the end the human brain is several (if not several thousand) orders of magnitude more complex than anything we've ever created. The fact that it actually works is beyond the reach of modern science.
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On a technical level this is pure BS: Kaspersky (and any other AV for that matter) updates include application components like libraries and binaries, so this source code audit is only valid for one particular version of the application which will be outdated days if not hours after being submitted. So, unless Kaspersky submits the source code continuously, this proposal is pretty much meaningless.
Either I don't understand how it works or it can be circumvented by gaining the SYSTEM level privileges (and most Windows users say "yes" to all UAC warnings so getting the said privileges is not that difficult).
/should have been held/
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Was there any financial harm? Or it's just someone's reputation and pride were wounded? This incident surely looks like the latter which means that the security department should have held responsible and the student should have gotten an oral reprimand, but not, "[Professors] also hope the university presses charges with local police to deter similar cases".
Bank transfers often take up to a week to be confirmed. 142 minutes are the average. If you're smart enough you'll choose a fee which will make your transaction be confirmed in under an hour.
Western Union is used by the people of the world. Tell me, how'd you send money (more or less instantly) from the US to a random person in some odd country or vice versa? Bitcoin makes it trivial. Bitcoin allows you to remain fully anonymous. Bitcoin won't make you fill in forms or show your ID. There will be no IRS involved.
Every currency on Earth generates wealth if it's deposited in a bank. Or if there's a deflation.
Bitcoin stores wealth just fine and transactions using bitcoin are a lot easier and faster than using the traditional banking system.
People are inclined to treat everything which is rare and perceived as valuable as an investment. Every limited crypto-currency will be treated the same way.
Fiat money has zero intrinsic value. Different countries and governments regularly refuse to pay debts and default on bonds.
Transaction times are fine and costs are nowhere near what you pay for e.g. SWIFT or Western Union transfers.
Gold and silver are in a similar position. Or shares. Or bonds. Or even currencies in certain countries of the world. Go by something using gold ... oh, wait, you cannot. All by themselves gold and silver are worthless.
The whole financial system of this world is basically a pyramid.
Good luck with that. You may as well rewrite people's DNA for that.
You mean human beings? And also tell me how Bitcoin is being ruined.
When the power goes out the world as we know it will end. Bitcoin or not will mean zilch. The world will become total chaos and you can only pray that fiat money/gold/silver will still be worth anything at all.
I'm more curious as to why bitcoin's dominance has been steadily increasing since July. One possible explanation is that alternative currencies (mainly Ethereum) are no longer as profitable as they used to be due to an increase in difficulty. Or maybe Bitcoin receives a lot more attention. Or maybe it's just the sum of everything: a number of large exchanges, publicity, many vaporware ICOs, etc. etc. etc.
This is actually an excellent solution even for "valid" websites which misuse shady ad networks and contain otherwise bad JS code (for rendering/user interaction/ajax/etc). I just want these variables to be configurable, i.e. >=5 seconds of more than 70% 1 CPU core usage and the tab gets throttled.
This "problem" is so exaggerated it's becoming annoying to hear about it again and again.
First of all, most respectable websites will never do anything like that. Secondly, shady websites which do host mining JavaScript are not normally visited by most people and the ones who visit such websites usually leave them quite fast, which means bad scripts can only run for a very limited amount of time. Thirdly, we've always had websites which peddle malware and somehow they stopped being newsworthy years ago. All of a sudden, they are again in the news.
Fourthly, we now have "good" websites which stress your CPU so much they can be considered "harmful". What about ad networks whose JS tax your CPU? Why aren't we talking about them?
I perfectly understood what I said, and you keep arguing about something absolutely irrelevant.
I don't fucking care that AVs require kernel level drivers - that was not the point of my statement. The point was that by doing so they make the underlying OS a lot less secure because they make the attack surface a lot wider. A perfectly built OS does not require an AV. Check iOS, Android (to a lesser extent) and UWP (on Windows) - neither of them require an AV to stay secure.
Now fuck off, please, a wanna-be-security-researcher. You've written pretty much three completely inane paragraphs. I don't even understand why I decided to reply to your comments. A complete waste of time.
I've already said that an OS which requires an AV in order to guard apps/data is not the OS you should be running in the first place.
Also, I am indeed a raving idiot because I don't have an AV installed and for my 25+ years of computer usage I've never been infected or lost my credentials (aside from companies leaking them, e.g. Adobe). That couldn't be attributed to sheer luck, right? Windows is inherently insecure and an AV gives you a false sense of security as indicated by literally tens of millions of examples when people have got infected while having a fully updated AV installed and running.
This is the question that needs to be asked.
Here's a list of the features that every AV has:
Either your OS has means of protecting your data from apps, or apps from each other, or you cannot use this OS to run any new/unknown software.
Windows can be made more or less 100% secure if you use SandBoxie.
This serves an example of people's state of mind. When everything around you is getting progressively worse you start questioning the official media.
I hate all this constant stream of FUD in regard to crypto currencies. Fiat money can be stolen as well and it happens all the time, yet /. rarely if ever features such articles.
Every passing week brings at least five news pieces featuring five new prominent economists/advisors/CFO/etc. who all declare that Bitcoin is either a bubble or a Ponzi scheme.
We've all heard that Bitcoin is a fraud at least a thousand times already. Now leave it alone please. People who trade bitcoins or invest in bitcoins perfectly understand their risks. It's true that bitcoin's worth is basically zero unless the market agrees that it has a different price. The market has decided that it costs ~$4200 at the moment. It's true that Bitcoin might become worthless tomorrow. If you think otherwise you need to get a shot of common sense.
This is a perfectly hidden advertisement for N-Tech.Lab. Yes, their algorithm has won certain face recognition competitions but this bloomberg article is a whole lot better for their publicity.
"Just when you thought we want to rob you once, we actually want to rob you twice."
-- Apple Care
You need to say thank you that your smartphone cannot be remotely turned into a recording/spying device without your knowledge or consent and without installing any apps. Oh, wait ..
I've got just one question: why is this news at all? Even it's true, does it change anything in regard to Android? Hardly so. Also, considering Motorola I'd really doubt they are keen to step into the same river twice. HTC's patents are perhaps the only thing they are after but I'm still doubtful.
Like a lot of "science" about consciousness. We desperately need a break through in its understanding and it seems like we haven't learned much in the past three thousand years. However we have a ton of ideas, suggestions an assumptions. Maybe we should direct our energy, resources and minds towards the openworm project. It makes sense to start with something "relatively" simple before trying to understand what's going on in our brains.
The problem with this definition is that inanimate matter suddenly becomes conscious as well.
From the blog post: "Instead, they [children] are conscious from the get-go".
God, not so fast! Could you define this "get-go", please? Is it when a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell? Or some time later? And if some time later then when exactly? At 2 weeks? 3? 4? 5? 20? 40?
What is abundantly clear is that we try to simply consciousness way too much and it's a far more complex phenomenon than we're led to believe when we read its quite simplistic definitions. While these definitions do a good job of describing how consciousness operates, they don't even begin to scratch the surface of what consciousness really is.
It might be possible that consciousness is a quantitative property of any neurological system which also means that consciousness has varying degrees, ranging from simple worms to what human beings experience. Which also means that's it's really hard to define the lower limit of consciousness which also means that even inanimate objects might be considered conscious. And we go further we might arrive at the conclusion that consciousness is a property of this universe and everything in it including quarks and radiation.
You seriously underestimate the computational capacity of the human brain. You may want to read this and this. Wake me up when we have computers which are capable of performing 1exaFLOP at 20W power budget.
This analogy falls apart as soon as you try to recreate something complex, like the internal combustion engine.
While you may perfectly understand how parts of it work, no amount of random recombination of the said parts will yield you a working efficient engine. And even if you manage to combine them properly by a sheer luck, you'll still have zero understanding of how it works or how it can be made better/faster/more efficient.
In the end the human brain is several (if not several thousand) orders of magnitude more complex than anything we've ever created. The fact that it actually works is beyond the reach of modern science.