...sales lost for many people suddenly _hate_ Amazon is directly related to WikiLeaks debacle. Lets take as an example one average customer (me), who used to spend lots of money there...
Lets not forget (in the future) that searching for "Wikileaks" on Google takes you to 213.251.145.96
Google is US company, just like eBay/PayPal or Amazon. So, no excuse any more for those "low-abiding" dickheads.
Even if he wanted to target only one country (by far most powerful in military and engaging in wars most eagerly), I cannot see anything wrong with that. Your argument about despots in Africa resembles what communist governments used to say: "Don't criticise us for arresting political dissidents when USA is oppressing black people and slaughtered Native Americans!"
I proudly closed my Amazon Account and also reversed EC2 deployment plans of my company. I know, it is not like Amazon could care less, but I _had_ to do it.
This is not new vulnerability, this is old vulnerability called "security through obscurity". Designs of nulclear power plants are not open for review, which leads to these kind of flows quite naturally.
Well, if there is mechanical "switch" independant of what any microcontroller says (like: mechanical switch connected to microcontroller in cars. You can "push breaks" in SW, albait it is mechanical part), then I am accepting your argument. For this however, design of nuclear power plants should be open for review.
And what if I pay some random employee of nuclear plant $1 million to run.exe from USB key? Then I possibly can create another Chernobyl. In case of Nuclear plants only solution is to stay with pure electrical control systems and not moving it towards electronical programmable (computer) control systems. If there is no SW, there is no possibility of infection.
Obviously, this virus showed that nuclear security is much harder problem then anyone realised before. Nuclear plants are using on unsecure closed-source programs. It is unlikely that anyone competent reviewd sources of these programs. It should be remebered that all arguments on how "new reactors" are now safe, as opose to Chernobil, are invalid, all of a sudden and there is little Nuclear Lobby can do in short term to restore safety argument.
Google must be concerned because FB is becoming so big that it looks like Internet 2.0 itself. I bet search volume on FB is getting close to Google.com, and this is not even core business for FB. I hate FB as much as anyone else, but Larry or Sergey should take all their money and buy FB if they don't want to become "that other Internet company".
With high speed Internet, at one point it might be simpler to download zip with all relevant films ever made then to download it one by one. Lets assume there is 100 quality films created each year. For one movie in reasonable quality, you need 1GB. Assuming most people are interested in last 50 years of film industry and only few pieces older then that, you get something like 5TB zip file. Now, lets assume this 100Mbps line works on average with 60% avg. speed, it means 8 days to download "movie" file. So, still plenty room for improvement. We need something to download it overnight.
it seems some very nice aspects of Java, Pascal, C# and Basic combined, with both compiler and runtime library problems elegantly solved.. This looks really good to me. And I am not big fan of new languages.
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Only counterpart to Access I can think of would be if Fisher-Price and BP created DB engine together.
It was kept in refrigerator some time for emergency situations like this.
...sales lost for many people suddenly _hate_ Amazon is directly related to WikiLeaks debacle. Lets take as an example one average customer (me), who used to spend lots of money there...
Sad to disappoint you, but DailyShow epically FAILED (as in shown ugly "patriot" face) when it comes to WikiLeaks.
Yes, in "Two minutes of hate" daily workshop.
Lets not forget (in the future) that searching for "Wikileaks" on Google takes you to 213.251.145.96 Google is US company, just like eBay/PayPal or Amazon. So, no excuse any more for those "low-abiding" dickheads.
Only on /. you can find people debating whether sex with opposite sex is legal or not...
New patented feature for governments: "One click assassination of DNS registrar".
Even if he wanted to target only one country (by far most powerful in military and engaging in wars most eagerly), I cannot see anything wrong with that. Your argument about despots in Africa resembles what communist governments used to say: "Don't criticise us for arresting political dissidents when USA is oppressing black people and slaughtered Native Americans!"
I proudly closed my Amazon Account and also reversed EC2 deployment plans of my company. I know, it is not like Amazon could care less, but I _had_ to do it.
This is what girls used to tell me... always.
I want my money back!!!
And more importantly, it would mean end of religions, unless we want to fool ourselves now on new, grandiose scale.
This is not new vulnerability, this is old vulnerability called "security through obscurity". Designs of nulclear power plants are not open for review, which leads to these kind of flows quite naturally.
Well, if there is mechanical "switch" independant of what any microcontroller says (like: mechanical switch connected to microcontroller in cars. You can "push breaks" in SW, albait it is mechanical part), then I am accepting your argument. For this however, design of nuclear power plants should be open for review.
And what if I pay some random employee of nuclear plant $1 million to run .exe from USB key? Then I possibly can create another Chernobyl. In case of Nuclear plants only solution is to stay with pure electrical control systems and not moving it towards electronical programmable (computer) control systems. If there is no SW, there is no possibility of infection.
Obviously, this virus showed that nuclear security is much harder problem then anyone realised before. Nuclear plants are using on unsecure closed-source programs. It is unlikely that anyone competent reviewd sources of these programs. It should be remebered that all arguments on how "new reactors" are now safe, as opose to Chernobil, are invalid, all of a sudden and there is little Nuclear Lobby can do in short term to restore safety argument.
Especially given Google's track record on employing other then very young people.
Google must be concerned because FB is becoming so big that it looks like Internet 2.0 itself. I bet search volume on FB is getting close to Google.com, and this is not even core business for FB. I hate FB as much as anyone else, but Larry or Sergey should take all their money and buy FB if they don't want to become "that other Internet company".
With high speed Internet, at one point it might be simpler to download zip with all relevant films ever made then to download it one by one. Lets assume there is 100 quality films created each year. For one movie in reasonable quality, you need 1GB. Assuming most people are interested in last 50 years of film industry and only few pieces older then that, you get something like 5TB zip file. Now, lets assume this 100Mbps line works on average with 60% avg. speed, it means 8 days to download "movie" file. So, still plenty room for improvement. We need something to download it overnight.
it seems some very nice aspects of Java, Pascal, C# and Basic combined, with both compiler and runtime library problems elegantly solved.. This looks really good to me. And I am not big fan of new languages.
'People don't realize that when you pirate a movie it hurts all of the people who work very hard to get it produced'
Google new you will do this shit.
In Linux, I need .NET like I need shotgun blast to the face!