Or the guy hears the SWAT team arriving and shouts at the terrified woman. "You liar, you did call the sheriffs" "No honey, I swear I didn't", she replies, suddenly confused. "Liar!". BLAM BLAM
To better target their social media propaganda, for one thing, either demographically or individually. There's no reason to think their analysis of US voters is any less sophisticated than the Democratic Party's, for instance, especially if the data stolen from the latter is included.
Far more tacky, it was an Online Slot Game (screenshots are available for the brave). I'm sure Tolkien would have included them in The Scouring of the Shire. "And take your infernal contraptions with you," said Frodo as he hurled the last of the slot machines at Lotho Sackville-Baggins' rapidly retreating back.
Not only that, but the infected Ukrainian software MeDoc, was one of only 2 accounting packages which could be used by companies there. The other, made by the Russian company 1C, was banned by the Ukrainian government in May as part of sanctions against Russia for their invasion of Crimea.
The US is more generous than you suggest, even going so far as to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of civilian lives to protect something or other, though no-one's quite sure what now.
Nicholas Weaver, a security researcher at the International Computer Science Institute and a lecturer at UC Berkeley, said Petya appears to have been well engineered to be destructive while masquerading as a ransomware strain.
Weaver noted that Petyaâ(TM)s ransom note includes the same Bitcoin address for every victim, whereas most ransomware strains create a custom Bitcoin payment address for each victim.
Also, he said, Petya urges victims to communicate with the extortionists via an email address, while the majority of ransomware strains require victims who wish to pay or communicate with the attackers to use Tor, a global anonymity network that can be used to host Web sites which can be very difficult to take down.
âoeIâ(TM)m willing to say with at least moderate confidence that this was a deliberate, malicious, destructive attack or perhaps a test disguised as ransomware,â Weaver said. âoeThe best way to put it is that Petyaâ(TM)s payment infrastructure is a fecal theater.â
A ransomware attack that affected at least 2,000 individuals and organisations worldwide on Tuesday appears to have been deliberately engineered to damage IT systems rather than extort funds, according to security researchers.
"This is the first time we've actually seen ice from the High Arctic," said Barber, who has studied the impacts of climate change on sea ice for decades.
Typically when people think about climate change they think about thinning ice, but Barber points out the warming action also loosens ice and broken icebergs can travel long distances on ocean currents.
"It's very much a climate-change driven phenomenon," said Barber. "When you reduce the extent of the ice and reduce the thickness of it, it becomes more mobile."
Good luck with that. The UK have recently agreed that French and Chinese state entities should build the Hinkley Point C reactor. Unfortunately, the price agreed for the energy is twice the current wholesale price. The trouble with nuclear energy (apart from the waste and decommissioning costs) is that there are always huge delays and cost overruns. With proven simple technologies like wind and PV, this does not happen.
"China and Canada have signed an agreement vowing not to conduct state-sponsored cyber attacks against each other."
Yes, there's the loophole. They can just follow the Russian example and say it's not us, where's the proof, it's all MSM lies and you can't trust your intelligence agencies after Iraq.
It's not as if anyone ever owns up with, "Yes, we stole the plans for your new jet, but it's OK, we're state-sponsored."
Also, if there are any state-sponsored hackers reading this, do you get free stuff with your sponsors' logos on?
Christianity, which is generally not associated with violence.
Only if you're selective. Religion is just one of many excuses for violence thought up by us clever little monkeys and it doesn't really matter which one - look at the Buddhists in Burma murdering Muslims - and is usually not the root cause. I bet the proportion of Muslims, Christians, Jews and atheists who beat their spouses is about the same. This is Christianity v Islam only in the eyes of fanatics.
nobody is born a Muslim; people choose to be Muslim and can change at any time. Well, that enhanced screening is racist and anyone who supports that is a racist.
They can change but they don't; the vast majority of people have the same religion as their parents.
Your meaning is unclear but I assume you think the last sentence is an erroneous conclusion. The trouble is nearly all Muslims are people of colour, including the 800,000 African-American Muslims so any attempt to single them out looks the same as racism, unless everyone carries religious ID. Can't see any problems with that.
Let's say you don't like H-1B tech workers from India,... Well, that's not racist at all. In fact, it's encouraged.
There are two main reasons for not liking H-1B tech workers from India:
1. Because they are from India. This is racism.
2. They depress wages for American workers and take away their jobs. This may be a valid objection but the workers are the wrong target, unless you can maybe whip up sufficient hatred to get enough of them beaten up or killed to discourage more from coming but it's a messy and haphazard business and unlikely to succeed.
If instead you meant people don't like the idea of H-1B tech workers from India, the right targets are the employers and legislators.
E.U. member states agreed [last month] on an ambitious new open-access (OA) target. All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020, the Competitiveness Council - a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry -
concluded after a 2-day meeting in Brussels.
Chiropracty, like acupuncture, is a practice which seems to have a kernel of truth hidden within an aura of woo and it's a shame that science hasn't yet been able to separate them. The physical manipulations used by chiropractors do seem to be helpful to a lot of people, the crystals maybe less so.
Turkey around 10,000 years ago: Well Tiddles, I don't know about you but a lot of us have had enough of this abuse, kicking us when any little thing goes wrong, tormenting us for their sport, even murdering our poor children, so we're heading out to the desert until they've evolved a bit.
Egypt, thousands of years later: As you all know, some members of the exploration committee went in to town - and let me tell you we were all a bit scared after those tales we heard as kittens - spent a few weeks cautiously interacting with the humans and trying to teach them our language, generally being friendly and helping to put food on the table and you know what? They treated us like gods.
The Senate are serious about it, voting 98-2 for more sanctions on Russia; the House will probably follow suit. Trump would like to be buddies with Putin. The investigations should eventually find out how much sympathy and influence Russia has in the various other factions in Trump's Administration.
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I didn't criticize Animal Science or anyone who studies it, not even Rick Perry. That blindseeing isn't going too well - why don't you open your eyes?
degree in Animal Science
Might be quite useful in the Republican Party.
Or the guy hears the SWAT team arriving and shouts at the terrified woman.
"You liar, you did call the sheriffs"
"No honey, I swear I didn't", she replies, suddenly confused.
"Liar!". BLAM BLAM
why the voter databases?
To better target their social media propaganda, for one thing, either demographically or individually. There's no reason to think their analysis of US voters is any less sophisticated than the Democratic Party's, for instance, especially if the data stolen from the latter is included.
From Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary
Far more tacky, it was an Online Slot Game (screenshots are available for the brave). I'm sure Tolkien would have included them in The Scouring of the Shire. "And take your infernal contraptions with you," said Frodo as he hurled the last of the slot machines at Lotho Sackville-Baggins' rapidly retreating back.
Not only that, but the infected Ukrainian software MeDoc, was one of only 2 accounting packages which could be used by companies there. The other, made by the Russian company 1C, was banned by the Ukrainian government in May as part of sanctions against Russia for their invasion of Crimea.
The US is more generous than you suggest, even going so far as to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of civilian lives to protect something or other, though no-one's quite sure what now.
That's one way of looking at it; this is another:
From Krebs on Security
For the non-native English speakers here (and I know there are a lot of you), fecal theater is a euphemism for shit show.
Things aren't necessarily as they seem.
"Back in May, the company's software update mechanism also helped spread the XData ransomware."
Pardon me M.E.Doc but I think you left your backdoor open.
"In time it will cost one tenth as much as just about anything else."
We've had nukes for 60 years now. Any idea when you expect that to happen?
"eliminate the incentives for ransomware creators"
This assumes that the ransom is their main incentive.
Let's hear from one of the scientists involved.
"This is the first time we've actually seen ice from the High Arctic," said Barber, who has studied the impacts of climate change on sea ice for decades.
Typically when people think about climate change they think about thinning ice, but Barber points out the warming action also loosens ice and broken icebergs can travel long distances on ocean currents.
"It's very much a climate-change driven phenomenon," said Barber. "When you reduce the extent of the ice and reduce the thickness of it, it becomes more mobile."
Good luck with that. The UK have recently agreed that French and Chinese state entities should build the Hinkley Point C reactor. Unfortunately, the price agreed for the energy is twice the current wholesale price. The trouble with nuclear energy (apart from the waste and decommissioning costs) is that there are always huge delays and cost overruns. With proven simple technologies like wind and PV, this does not happen.
"China and Canada have signed an agreement vowing not to conduct state-sponsored cyber attacks against each other."
Yes, there's the loophole. They can just follow the Russian example and say it's not us, where's the proof, it's all MSM lies and you can't trust your intelligence agencies after Iraq.
It's not as if anyone ever owns up with, "Yes, we stole the plans for your new jet, but it's OK, we're state-sponsored."
Also, if there are any state-sponsored hackers reading this, do you get free stuff with your sponsors' logos on?
Christianity, which is generally not associated with violence.
Only if you're selective. Religion is just one of many excuses for violence thought up by us clever little monkeys and it doesn't really matter which one - look at the Buddhists in Burma murdering Muslims - and is usually not the root cause. I bet the proportion of Muslims, Christians, Jews and atheists who beat their spouses is about the same. This is Christianity v Islam only in the eyes of fanatics.
nobody is born a Muslim; people choose to be Muslim and can change at any time. Well, that enhanced screening is racist and anyone who supports that is a racist.
They can change but they don't; the vast majority of people have the same religion as their parents.
Your meaning is unclear but I assume you think the last sentence is an erroneous conclusion. The trouble is nearly all Muslims are people of colour, including the 800,000 African-American Muslims so any attempt to single them out looks the same as racism, unless everyone carries religious ID. Can't see any problems with that.
Let's say you don't like H-1B tech workers from India, ... Well, that's not racist at all. In fact, it's encouraged.
There are two main reasons for not liking H-1B tech workers from India:
1. Because they are from India. This is racism.
2. They depress wages for American workers and take away their jobs. This may be a valid objection but the workers are the wrong target, unless you can maybe whip up sufficient hatred to get enough of them beaten up or killed to discourage more from coming but it's a messy and haphazard business and unlikely to succeed.
If instead you meant people don't like the idea of H-1B tech workers from India, the right targets are the employers and legislators.
Aren't US legislators forbidden from admitting they drink alcohol, unless it's in a tearful confession after arrest or in rehab?
E.U. member states agreed [last month] on an ambitious new open-access (OA) target. All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020, the Competitiveness Council - a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry -
concluded after a 2-day meeting in Brussels.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
Chiropracty, like acupuncture, is a practice which seems to have a kernel of truth hidden within an aura of woo and it's a shame that science hasn't yet been able to separate them. The physical manipulations used by chiropractors do seem to be helpful to a lot of people, the crystals maybe less so.
Peter Lorre, damn you Slashdot.
Was that Peter Lorré's voice as the fox?
Here's Professor Yaffle with the mice and Bagpuss.
Turkey around 10,000 years ago:
Well Tiddles, I don't know about you but a lot of us have had enough of this abuse, kicking us when any little thing goes wrong, tormenting us for their sport, even murdering our poor children, so we're heading out to the desert until they've evolved a bit.
Egypt, thousands of years later:
As you all know, some members of the exploration committee went in to town - and let me tell you we were all a bit scared after those tales we heard as kittens - spent a few weeks cautiously interacting with the humans and trying to teach them our language, generally being friendly and helping to put food on the table and you know what? They treated us like gods.
The Senate are serious about it, voting 98-2 for more sanctions on Russia; the House will probably follow suit. Trump would like to be buddies with Putin. The investigations should eventually find out how much sympathy and influence Russia has in the various other factions in Trump's Administration.
You shouldn't need reminding that Russian interference in US elections was far more than Wikileaks.