Hundreds of thousands personal (and not so personal) computers locked themselves today after rogue group of Mongolian hackers stole keychain from, as evidence shows, not so secure vaults at "EPIC Security Ltd.". EPIC security guards went high alert, but they failed to act in time before Mongols (riding bareback and yelling) departed.
EPIC Security Ltd. issued security update and instructions for unlocking targeted computers. Users just have to bring their computers (or if it's easier for them only their CPU's - very small chips with very many pins underside)to EPIC Security Ltd.'s premises or nearest servicing outlet.
List of outlet's is sent directly by email to every user targeted.
And whole ISS thing is labeled how? ISS2? ISS1 being what? And how many years ISS1 was in function? And when? And what happened to Skylab?
As for "hot air"... 1/10 of very big dollar quantity is surely not hot air. US gov surely pays better it's contractors (that's why they pay for elections, isn't it?) but, as someone else told, it does not mean more resources - it's just big profits for Boe*ng, Lock*eed, Rayt*eon,...
Because then it adds up very well. If they only attacked their food (and that food is grown up in monkey's habitat), it would be poor excuse for extermination of endangered species. So, they (people stealing monkey's habitat) have new angle - sexual harrasment. As no women was ready to testify being raped... it's only "rude gestures" and breast grabbing... What cultural background have monkeys to make "compatible" rude gestures - I don't know, but I have no doubt all this will lead to their extermination.
Of course it's something to downplay and ignore - it's rivaling US after all...
And, as for $99 missile guidance systems... When you have time, count missiles shot and people killed for, say, four countries. For example,
China,
US,
North Korea,
Russia.
After this little exercise, think again.. How dangerous is that plaything in whose hands?
For those lazy to count. North Korea would MAYBE kill some people with their missiles, but one of countries mentioned actually is doing it all the time.
In that case they would get prison and half a million fine.
Luckily, they only sent deadly virus to thousands of labs. Virus that once killed 1 to 4 million people, but at least nobody got distracted while flying a plane.
Unless your are in-crowd, meaning you have a "paper" to prove you know to service/use something, DMCA will keep you out.
Not yesterday's trend in USA, where it is more important to have sw/hw/... company controlled "certificates" than university diploma. Only it is sanctioned by law now, not only customer's will to work with you regardless of certificate set you keep on wall behind you.
Europeans can be ones "supporting this dictatorship" but US is one who killed democracy in Iran. Or you forgot your history so you can apply for US visa?
Once, it was H1B. It was not cheap enough, so operations moved to Russia/India. One can have five times better Russian/Indian IT worker for same money as European/American one, and it is if you "import" him. He works for 1/2 or 1/4 of that money when you employ him in Russia.
What about domestic IT workers? Who cares. If H1B passed, everything will.
There is no way a player can win any non-beginner with ONLY troop massing. Player which explores around and gains experience with two heroes can easily upgrade at least one to his ultimate spell (not to mention collected hero items and auras and hired healers...)... and with help of some defensive structure, moderate troops and 4-5-6 spellcasters kill any MASS of troops lead by loser hero at level 1 or 2.
My favorite is to wait for that type of player to attack one of my expansion towns and while he finishes my towers just teleport two heroes with 4-5 footmen/knights and 2-3 spellcasters set on autocast of heal/innerfire/slow.... It's pretty funny to watch demon hunter (even on higher levels) trying to escape while three priestesses are casting slow on him and Paladin level 7 beats sh*t out of him.
And yes - I am playing on bnetd server:). And I will spend $50 on WarCraft3 same day when it ships.
One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist (or, say, Arthur Clarke) to see this coming since Reagan's US. Maybe it's visible only outside of US?
US problems aside, how long can Slashdot dive like this?
Combined with fingerprint and/or retina verification, on each and every airport in civilized world. This would be good security measure. Inserted in some giant movement tracking database crosslinked with all other pieces of intelligence data, would do VERY good prevention job.
I understand American fixation with cavity searches, but it is too slow, too many people would complain hard - many on religious grounds and this does not exclude possibility of few martial arts trainees taking over airplane without anything except bare hands and legs.
In any case Microsoft is first software company whose name is 9 letters long, starting with same letter as My and ending with same letter as slot... with research lab. Maybe.
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I believe that it cost about $8000 when all is said and done for each line of code placed in the space shuttle software.
That's an expensive "{"
Only - there are not any "{"'s in space shuttle software. No C, no fun.
I am trying to imagine few possible variations of virus/worm/trojan writers:
first: Employee of antivirus/security company with agenda to keep people aware of dangers of Internet/"hackers" and so on... Working hard but enjoying hoopla and good compensation packages - as long as company is growing/becoming more know/visible/important. Being careful not to make real damage and making sure his PR team is first to report new findings of company's always alert "antivirus" team.
second: Stupid hacker who is smart enough to make working worm able to break 359,000 hosts in 13 hours, yet stupid enough to be easily blinded and nice enough to kill itself (stop spreading) after two days.
This second variation is, at least for me - not easy to imagine. But then, I am only a programmer with no more than 18 years of programming experience - what can I know about programming?:)
Fun begins when all brave and smart "journalists" of the net start bitching around how these "virus/trojan/worm" writers are, in fact, only stupid.
This American pride makes me sick from time to time:
"Built by The Boeing Co., the airlock will give station tenants an unprecedented level of self-sufficiency, enabling them to carry out spacewalking work at times when a visiting shuttle isn't docked to the outpost." (embolded by me)
Next paragraph:
"...The other took place within a spherical section of the station's Russian-built crew quarters, which can be converted into a makeshift airlock."
And some other guy said something like: "We only needed Russians because their space launch per pound is cheaper". Straight along lines of this "journalist":).
It looks like Americans spend so much time proving their superiority to do anything useful. Will they ever stop to boast themselves and do some real teamwork with other nations in world's interest?
And then we can research it. If we have spare resources.
As it appears to me, human genome knowledge is not complete and human genome map in fact does not exist. And yet, it was almost patented few months ago??
Too many tech educated people are forgetting difference beetwen technician and engineer (tech is someone who finished 4 years od technical high school, and engineer of course 4+ faculty years, all in our local school system - of former Yugoslavia). Technician is one who learns how to exploit existing tools and concepts. Engineer is one step above, at least, one who can make new tools and new concepts out of existing knowledge.
It is hard to see what is "S" in "CS" these days in USA. People are expecting to learn "the Language" because so they can get job fast and find their place "in bussinness". I am failing to see anything academic in this. Reminds me of people in local telco, of engineers whose primary function is to understand technical documentation and turn customer phones on or off on management demands. And turn them fast and crafty.
While I don't like Java (I am from Wirth's camp, using Modula-2 and Modula-3 as primary languages, but also C and Java for some projects) I really appreciate qualities Java brings to C family of languages. Most important - Java is high level language with very little compromise - if any. Almost perfect for OOP learning - Sun really had to think public/private/protected scheme better - and tens of timer better for learning than anything C. For learning of concepts and not of tool.
Speed will come in time. I am not using it, but I have every reason to believe in potential of gcj - potential to make as fast programs as are C or C++ ones.
As I see this, only safe way is colonization of Moon (right thing to invest in) and/or buying some small country/island out (another). "And" for every case - we need some safe place to launch from once we get UN sanctions after our Moon colony starts teaching Archimedes law to children without paying royalties to biggest American company which puts (c) on it.
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Hundreds of thousands personal (and not so personal) computers locked themselves today after rogue group of Mongolian hackers stole keychain from, as evidence shows, not so secure vaults at "EPIC Security Ltd.". EPIC security guards went high alert, but they failed to act in time before Mongols (riding bareback and yelling) departed.
EPIC Security Ltd. issued security update and instructions for unlocking targeted computers. Users just have to bring their computers (or if it's easier for them only their CPU's - very small chips with very many pins underside)to EPIC Security Ltd.'s premises or nearest servicing outlet.
List of outlet's is sent directly by email to every user targeted.
Something to see, and it's done far far ago. For extra safe kernel believers.
:).
And efficient, too
Or this is already almost safe technology?
As compared to early nuclear energy development, of course.
And there I thought Coppola's computers were stolen!?
Aren't they supposed to guard these notes better, and keep at least one set for NASA. Not rely on late Kubricks note-keeping, I mean.
Is this only a math understanding problem or what? How many priorities/duties do they have? Four? Ten? Or hundreds?
Are we sure people discussing this know 3.6% means "1/28 of WHOLE FBI agent staff"?
Or it's only "ohhhhh, cyber something! nerds will like it! Approved!"?
And whole ISS thing is labeled how? ISS2? ISS1 being what? And how many years ISS1 was in function? And when? And what happened to Skylab?
...
As for "hot air"... 1/10 of very big dollar quantity is surely not hot air. US gov surely pays better it's contractors (that's why they pay for elections, isn't it?) but, as someone else told, it does not mean more resources - it's just big profits for Boe*ng, Lock*eed, Rayt*eon,
Two facts are just too US-centric there...
:).
One - ISS... I would not take too much of credit for ISS lightly, if I am not at least from former SSSR
Two - space budget... US will spend lavishly, that is known and seen. 10x means nothing really.
Because then it adds up very well. If they only attacked their food (and that food is grown up in monkey's habitat), it would be poor excuse for extermination of endangered species. So, they (people stealing monkey's habitat) have new angle - sexual harrasment. As no women was ready to testify being raped... it's only "rude gestures" and breast grabbing... What cultural background have monkeys to make "compatible" rude gestures - I don't know, but I have no doubt all this will lead to their extermination.
Of course it's something to downplay and ignore - it's rivaling US after all...
And, as for $99 missile guidance systems... When you have time, count missiles shot and people killed for, say, four countries. For example,
China,
US,
North Korea,
Russia.
After this little exercise, think again.. How dangerous is that plaything in whose hands?
For those lazy to count. North Korea would MAYBE kill some people with their missiles, but one of countries mentioned actually is doing it all the time.
In that case they would get prison and half a million fine.
Luckily, they only sent deadly virus to thousands of labs. Virus that once killed 1 to 4 million people, but at least nobody got distracted while flying a plane.
Unless your are in-crowd, meaning you have a "paper" to prove you know to service/use something, DMCA will keep you out.
Not yesterday's trend in USA, where it is more important to have sw/hw/... company controlled "certificates" than university diploma. Only it is sanctioned by law now, not only customer's will to work with you regardless of certificate set you keep on wall behind you.
Europeans can be ones "supporting this dictatorship" but US is one who killed democracy in Iran. Or you forgot your history so you can apply for US visa?
Once, it was H1B. It was not cheap enough, so operations moved to Russia/India. One can have five times better Russian/Indian IT worker for same money as European/American one, and it is if you "import" him. He works for 1/2 or 1/4 of that money when you employ him in Russia.
What about domestic IT workers? Who cares. If H1B passed, everything will.
A non-US resident.
There is no way a player can win any non-beginner with ONLY troop massing. Player which explores around and gains experience with two heroes can easily upgrade at least one to his ultimate spell (not to mention collected hero items and auras and hired healers...)... and with help of some defensive structure, moderate troops and 4-5-6 spellcasters kill any MASS of troops lead by loser hero at level 1 or 2.
:). And I will spend $50 on WarCraft3 same day when it ships.
My favorite is to wait for that type of player to attack one of my expansion towns and while he finishes my towers just teleport two heroes with 4-5 footmen/knights and 2-3 spellcasters set on autocast of heal/innerfire/slow.... It's pretty funny to watch demon hunter (even on higher levels) trying to escape while three priestesses are casting slow on him and Paladin level 7 beats sh*t out of him.
And yes - I am playing on bnetd server
One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist (or, say, Arthur Clarke) to see this coming since Reagan's US. Maybe it's visible only outside of US?
US problems aside, how long can Slashdot dive like this?
Combined with fingerprint and/or retina verification, on each and every airport in civilized world. This would be good security measure. Inserted in some giant movement tracking database crosslinked with all other pieces of intelligence data, would do VERY good prevention job.
I understand American fixation with cavity searches, but it is too slow, too many people would complain hard - many on religious grounds and this does not exclude possibility of few martial arts trainees taking over airplane without anything except bare hands and legs.
Microsoft Mouse 1.0 is about 10 years old.
In any case Microsoft is first software company whose name is 9 letters long, starting with same letter as My and ending with same letter as slot... with research lab. Maybe.
I believe that it cost about $8000 when all is said and done for each line of code placed in the space shuttle software.
That's an expensive "{"
Only - there are not any "{"'s in space shuttle software. No C, no fun.
I am trying to imagine few possible variations of virus/worm/trojan writers:
:)
first: Employee of antivirus/security company with agenda to keep people aware of dangers of Internet/"hackers" and so on... Working hard but enjoying hoopla and good compensation packages - as long as company is growing/becoming more know/visible/important. Being careful not to make real damage and making sure his PR team is first to report new findings of company's always alert "antivirus" team.
second: Stupid hacker who is smart enough to make working worm able to break 359,000 hosts in 13 hours, yet stupid enough to be easily blinded and nice enough to kill itself (stop spreading) after two days.
This second variation is, at least for me - not easy to imagine. But then, I am only a programmer with no more than 18 years of programming experience - what can I know about programming?
Fun begins when all brave and smart "journalists" of the net start bitching around how these "virus/trojan/worm" writers are, in fact, only stupid.
Someone IS stupid, but who?
I can understand someone posting as AC with some hot information and/or opinion. But not one making stupid replies.
This American pride makes me sick from time to time:
:).
"Built by The Boeing Co., the airlock will give station tenants an unprecedented level of self-sufficiency, enabling them to carry out spacewalking work at times when a visiting shuttle isn't docked to the outpost." (embolded by me)
Next paragraph:
"...The other took place within a spherical section of the station's Russian-built crew quarters, which can be converted into a makeshift airlock."
And some other guy said something like: "We only needed Russians because their space launch per pound is cheaper". Straight along lines of this "journalist"
It looks like Americans spend so much time proving their superiority to do anything useful. Will they ever stop to boast themselves and do some real teamwork with other nations in world's interest?
That would make really cool mp3 server. Definatelly.
And then we can research it. If we have spare resources.
As it appears to me, human genome knowledge is not complete and human genome map in fact does not exist. And yet, it was almost patented few months ago??
It is hard to see what is "S" in "CS" these days in USA. People are expecting to learn "the Language" because so they can get job fast and find their place "in bussinness". I am failing to see anything academic in this. Reminds me of people in local telco, of engineers whose primary function is to understand technical documentation and turn customer phones on or off on management demands. And turn them fast and crafty.
While I don't like Java (I am from Wirth's camp, using Modula-2 and Modula-3 as primary languages, but also C and Java for some projects) I really appreciate qualities Java brings to C family of languages. Most important - Java is high level language with very little compromise - if any. Almost perfect for OOP learning - Sun really had to think public/private/protected scheme better - and tens of timer better for learning than anything C. For learning of concepts and not of tool.
Speed will come in time. I am not using it, but I have every reason to believe in potential of gcj - potential to make as fast programs as are C or C++ ones.
As I see this, only safe way is colonization of Moon (right thing to invest in) and/or buying some small country/island out (another). "And" for every case - we need some safe place to launch from once we get UN sanctions after our Moon colony starts teaching Archimedes law to children without paying royalties to biggest American company which puts (c) on it.