I was adding to the ways in which a foreign government can mess up someone's life.
Tangential maybe but this is about Kaspersky who are defending themselves from the accusation of being, hosting, or being used as a vector by, Russian spies.
We have this NSA analyst who has access to the source code of their spying tools, copies a zip file containing it and the tools themselves to a USB drive, takes it home and plugs it into his PC which is running antivirus software from a non-friendly state but that's OK because he's not meant to take classified info home.
Then the Kaspersky scan discovers this malware in a zip file and downloads it as a sample.
Why didn't the NSA analyst notice the big Kaspersky warning about malware on his PC? Maybe because they used a silent signature. Kaspersky have a patent on that: "If the silent signature coincides with malware signature, a user is not informed".
But now Kaspersky say there was other malware on the PC. Easy enough for the NSA to verify.
Will the US government say fair enough maybe it wasn't you and sorry for the lost business?
Israeli intelligence officers informed the N.S.A. that in the course of their Kaspersky hack, they uncovered evidence that Russian government hackers were using Kasperskyâ(TM)s access to aggressively scan for American government classified programs, and pulling any findings back to Russian intelligence systems. They provided their N.S.A. counterparts with solid evidence of the Kremlin campaign in the form of screenshots and other documentation, according to the people briefed on the events.
The most obvious route is for the Russian government to have a willing or unwilling accomplice inside Kaspersky.
You forgot that a foreign government can also manipulate your country's electorate into choosing a monumentally unsuitable, incompetent, damaging and divisive leader.
That may be true but the Bugatti and its kind come at the end of the internal combustion era; any further improvements will be small and incremental. Current electric vehicle technology is comparable and in some ways (acceleration, energy efficiency, pollution) already better. The next generation of batteries a few years hence with some combination of improved cost, capacity and weight will see them overtake the old vehicles even faster.
Gee, a Congressional Committee's given me an invite. I wonder what they want to talk to me about? I don't suppose it'll be that massive data breach we had a couple of months ago.
Jackson Klaxon, a 32 year old software developer from Nohope Idaho, was today arrested outside a local dentist's office for indecent behaviour, stealing a llama from a nearby llama farmer and suspicion of being under the influence of hallucinogens.
"The door to the surgery opened and I was shocked to see Mr Klaxon standing there naked, particularly as he didn't have an appointment", said Ethel Mercaptan, Receptionist, mother of six and part-time meth addict. "He turned round, a sight none of us was ready for, and dragged a large, somewhat reluctant animal in after him. I thought it was a stretch goat but was later informed it's what they call a llama. I became alarmed when Mr Klaxon started dancing and waving his arms around in Reception, all the time singing a silly song."
"I told him he had to stop but he took no notice so I called the police, I mean we had women and children waiting and going to the dentist can be stressful enough. It's true some of the children were laughing and clapping and a couple of the adults were smiling but we really can't have that sort of behavior."
"We'll have to have the carpet replaced because of the mess. What? No, the llama was well behaved by comparison. I'm afraid most of it was Mr Klaxon."
Russia has no choice but to ban VPNs, censor websites and prosecute operators because, er, the west does it, no wait the Chinese do it, no, terrorists that's why, because of Scary Scary Terrorists. Russia must protect its poor people from Scary Terrorists by controlling all their communications.
Exotic materials and radioactive power sources in an isolated deep sea trench. Do they want giant mutant sea creatures ravaging thousands of square miles of ocean? Because that's how you get giant mutant sea creatures ravaging thousands of square miles of ocean.
I'm sure what you say is true but if those two cases aren't outliers then most of the fault seems to lie with the GMC's procedures.
It says in the piece it's about the money: A joint committee of the Hertfordshire Valleys and the East and North Hertfordshire CCGs, which made the decisions, said they had to "make best use of the money and resources available."
Socialized medicine inverts the usual relationship and gives an effective monopoly to the consumer who can then dictate the terms, not least because they collectively (and with the help of surgeons, statisticians etc) know how much knee operations do and should cost.
Of course there are other reasons why the US spends twice as much as everyone else on healthcare, for instance the amounts each physician, insurance company, health scheme, hospital and drug company takes out in profit and spends on advertising, billing, lawyers and other extra administration.
The consumer of course pays the costs of this immense added complexity and if they're insured have the extra benefit of spending hours working out what's covered and worrying about how much they'll still have to pay (and then the insurers say no that's not covered).
There's also the human cost to those who can't afford the right healthcare or even the copay and have to wait till they're sick enough to qualify as an emergency.
This isn't the first time you've got something this wrong, not just ordinary wrong but completely backwards wrong.
I'm surprised it isn't routine to find out if those involved in a fatal incident were using their phones, by looking at the phone and the service provider's logs and asking any survivors. Or is it that the data exist but are not being collated?
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I was adding to the ways in which a foreign government can mess up someone's life.
Tangential maybe but this is about Kaspersky who are defending themselves from the accusation of being, hosting, or being used as a vector by, Russian spies.
We have this NSA analyst who has access to the source code of their spying tools, copies a zip file containing it and the tools themselves to a USB drive, takes it home and plugs it into his PC which is running antivirus software from a non-friendly state but that's OK because he's not meant to take classified info home.
Then the Kaspersky scan discovers this malware in a zip file and downloads it as a sample.
Why didn't the NSA analyst notice the big Kaspersky warning about malware on his PC? Maybe because they used a silent signature. Kaspersky have a patent on that: "If the silent signature coincides with malware signature, a user is not informed".
But now Kaspersky say there was other malware on the PC. Easy enough for the NSA to verify.
Will the US government say fair enough maybe it wasn't you and sorry for the lost business?
Then again, maybe you believe this,
The most obvious route is for the Russian government to have a willing or unwilling accomplice inside Kaspersky.
You forgot that a foreign government can also manipulate your country's electorate into choosing a monumentally unsuitable, incompetent, damaging and divisive leader.
That may be true but the Bugatti and its kind come at the end of the internal combustion era; any further improvements will be small and incremental. Current electric vehicle technology is comparable and in some ways (acceleration, energy efficiency, pollution) already better. The next generation of batteries a few years hence with some combination of improved cost, capacity and weight will see them overtake the old vehicles even faster.
Gee, a Congressional Committee's given me an invite. I wonder what they want to talk to me about? I don't suppose it'll be that massive data breach we had a couple of months ago.
No it isn't.
Jackson Klaxon, a 32 year old software developer from Nohope Idaho, was today arrested outside a local dentist's office for indecent behaviour, stealing a llama from a nearby llama farmer and suspicion of being under the influence of hallucinogens.
"The door to the surgery opened and I was shocked to see Mr Klaxon standing there naked, particularly as he didn't have an appointment", said Ethel Mercaptan, Receptionist, mother of six and part-time meth addict. "He turned round, a sight none of us was ready for, and dragged a large, somewhat reluctant animal in after him. I thought it was a stretch goat but was later informed it's what they call a llama. I became alarmed when Mr Klaxon started dancing and waving his arms around in Reception, all the time singing a silly song."
"I told him he had to stop but he took no notice so I called the police, I mean we had women and children waiting and going to the dentist can be stressful enough. It's true some of the children were laughing and clapping and a couple of the adults were smiling but we really can't have that sort of behavior."
"We'll have to have the carpet replaced because of the mess. What? No, the llama was well behaved by comparison. I'm afraid most of it was Mr Klaxon."
Story time.
It's a "triumph over adversity" story. That you feel the need to question it shows you are a terrible person.
IME can turn the machine on remotely only if there's power to the PSU.
The courts had better hope those US citizens who flout the rules by using sci-hub don't compound their crimes by using a VPN.
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Sophocles
"And that is good or bad?"
If the problem is that the tax system is rigged in favour of the rich, then it's bad.
"Tolkien Estate is looking to sell the television rights to the iconic fantasy series to the tune of $200-250 million"
Grima Wormtongue must have found a job there.
Lumme Cap'n, do you think HMS Troutbridge will be ready for manoeuvres with the US Navy next week?
Russia has no choice but to ban VPNs, censor websites and prosecute operators because, er, the west does it, no wait the Chinese do it, no, terrorists that's why, because of Scary Scary Terrorists. Russia must protect its poor people from Scary Terrorists by controlling all their communications.
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
On my desktop I can see the link at the end of the Title on both the main and story pages but it's not there on my phone.
Here's the Guardian article, here's Transport&Environment's press release and the briefing and study.
Volcanoes.
Exotic materials and radioactive power sources in an isolated deep sea trench. Do they want giant mutant sea creatures ravaging thousands of square miles of ocean? Because that's how you get giant mutant sea creatures ravaging thousands of square miles of ocean.
"We're hoping to run another study, this time with the cameras turned on."
I haven't checked your figures but I like the poem. Started laughing at
dropping tiny deposits
on your head
I'm having a heart attack, phone BUPA!
I'm sure what you say is true but if those two cases aren't outliers then most of the fault seems to lie with the GMC's procedures.
It says in the piece it's about the money:
A joint committee of the Hertfordshire Valleys and the East and North Hertfordshire CCGs, which made the decisions, said they had to "make best use of the money and resources available."
Socialized medicine inverts the usual relationship and gives an effective monopoly to the consumer who can then dictate the terms, not least because they collectively (and with the help of surgeons, statisticians etc) know how much knee operations do and should cost.
Of course there are other reasons why the US spends twice as much as everyone else on healthcare, for instance the amounts each physician, insurance company, health scheme, hospital and drug company takes out in profit and spends on advertising, billing, lawyers and other extra administration.
The consumer of course pays the costs of this immense added complexity and if they're insured have the extra benefit of spending hours working out what's covered and worrying about how much they'll still have to pay (and then the insurers say no that's not covered).
There's also the human cost to those who can't afford the right healthcare or even the copay and have to wait till they're sick enough to qualify as an emergency.
This isn't the first time you've got something this wrong, not just ordinary wrong but completely backwards wrong.
Are we not bots?
We are Devo.
It reminds me of David Byrne's music a few years later with Talking Heads.
I'm surprised it isn't routine to find out if those involved in a fatal incident were using their phones, by looking at the phone and the service provider's logs and asking any survivors. Or is it that the data exist but are not being collated?