If this isn't on wikipedia, I know it's in the National Geographic archives. I remember reading about this when they were struggling to find a way to retain a communications channel (sometime in the early 80's IIRC). I remember the day they announced that the second half of the mission would likely be a failure... and then the day they announced a fix. It's actually what got me interested in advanced RF transmission, the doppler effect, and relativity.
Added to this: in Africa, a significant portion of children are born with HIV. How are they supposed to prevent getting infected? How about people who got it via blood transfusions? HIV is much more than just a STD.
A large attack vector for SEO poisoning is image searches. Unless you're running with NoScript or JS disabled, all you have to do is click on the wrong link in a random image search result, and the rest happens in the background. While you're sitting there looking at images of Martin Luther King, Jr. (and wondering why there's a photo of chocolate cake on the page as well, and one of some puppies), a multi-exploit probe script starts up in the background, quickly figures out what OS, browser and general environment you're using (think malware author's version of 'make'), and then downloads and executes an exploit path custom to your configuration.
Of course, the term "drive-by download" does also include the FakeAV stuff that automatically downloads and sits in your download folder, waiting for you to say, "hey, what's this zipfile doing in here with the 'reallysuperantivirus.exe' inside? I guess I should run it to find out!"
Sexpionage is standard MO for many world governments and large corporations. What happened to Assange looks very similar, but with lawsuits instead of blackmail. Read the first article; it can be very hard to combat this kind of attack, especially when all the immediate parties are unwitting at the time of the event.
The trick may be to spray with something not so inert as halon... say, nitrogen. You may end up with some nitrous oxide as a byproduct, but it should be something that can isolate the burn and be easily scrubbed/diluted into the atmosphere after the fact. Add a bit of vanilla to the gas as a warning that you're entering a nitrogen-high zone before the fans have mixed it back into the system.
This must mean I live in a country filled with idiots. In many places, the amber light is called the "go faster" light -- a warning that if you don't get through the intersection soon, you're going to have to stop at a red. Really. Delayed reds make much more sense to me than extended ambers. That way, you're only dealing with people who either intentionally or negligently entered the intersection against a red light. Cities still get their revenue from red light runners (in fact, they may get more that start into the intersection BEFORE the light goes green), and the amber light runners are avoided. The downside is that this is harder to synchronize across a traffic grid, which means in high volume areas, it can cause a traffic jam.
I wonder what all the retouching does in relation to the Uncanny Valley... are we changing our perception of what is "real" over time, so that eventually real people will feel very uncomfortable to look at? Or is this retouching coming to the point where people not exposed to the images on a regular basis will look at them and be creeped out instead of seeing them as the ultimate beauty?
...so what they're saying is that they touch the original instead of the resulting photo? I've seen lots of Jacob photos, and while the models likely exist, they definitely don't look like they do in the photos if you meet the models outside the studio or in alternate lighting conditions.
I'm not sure the quality is up to professional standards with this method.
Depends on what you're shooting... even a mid-range body with bracketing capabilities can give you excellent HDR in bright light, still image situations. Once the light starts to drop or you're dealing with a subject in motion, you have to go to the dual-camera with sync cable to get anything useful.
Oh, and for decent HDR, you really need 3 shots (you need to bracket your exposure so you have your range extremes and a midpoint reference), so a stereo rig won't quite cut it either.
Of course, if you're using SSH without a cert and a secure pass-phrase, it's not much better than having telnet open to the world. That said, I've had a number of sshds open to the world with password auth only for over a decade, and despite getting hit with numerous attacks a day, they have yet to be compromised. Turning off ssh access to all but a single account with a hard to guess user name and a much harder to guess pass-phrase probably has something to do with this. Most remote connections appear to be from China running a dictionary attack.
I did have one interesting connection from Indonesia once that appeared to be trying to leverage some sort of certificate exploit, but as I had certs disabled, it failed.
Right now, it appears that the most insecure part of my internet gateway is the part managed by my ISP and locked away from me... they're running a number of insecure services, some with known potential vulnerabilities. I haven't worried too much, as for the most part you'd have to be on their local line talking ATM to leverage most of the issues. And then you'd have to either re-flash the device with exploit code (dropping my connection) or get past my firewall to do anything at all nefarious.
1) There are no animals that I know of that depend upon this species of mosquito as a sole food-source. 2) Eradicating this species would not eradicate mosquitoes... it would just eradicate this species... others would quickly fill in the ecological hole. 3) This species of mosquito is out-competing other species in their natural habitats, resulting in the potential genocide of other mosquito species unless we intervene.
I, for one, think it's worth the risks. Even with the risk of cross-breeding and mutation.
A few things: mosquitoes have been shown to be particularly effective at controlling the population of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. This is obviously one of their prime uses.
Secondly, this GM mosquito will only infiltrate/reduce one species out of thousands -- and it is being introduced in an environment where the species is not even supposed to exist naturally.
In the long run, I'm sure that another mosquito species will find it relatively easy to fill the niche left by this departing species, except that it likely won't be capable of carrying quite so many HSS relevant diseases (hence it will fail on the population control front).
However, I'm sure more people are killed from automobile accidents and bathtub mishaps every year than from disease borne by this species of mosquito.
Interesting... I often think of Wikis as being the spiritual ancestors of HyperCard... and they usually solve the version control issue. Imagine a HyperCard-like stack-based Wiki with plugins for defined content types, and you've got a winner, IMO. It also gives you network-aware shared creation capabilities that were supposed to go into HyperCard, but never made it before the product was killed off.
Yes, I think OpenDoc was partly responsible for the demise of HyperCard... it was slated to become the replacement, and when it tanked, Apple decided there was no profitable demand for this way of looking for the world, instead of reverting to the stack model from the document model. Remember that this was during the Gil Amelio years, and Apple was almost bankrupt.
You talk about Supercard as if it were defunct. It still exists, and is still used by an extremely small minority.
HyperCard really "died" when Apple stopped bundling the editor with every Mac. Once you had to purchase it, it became just another "programming language" option.
You can still make HyperCard-compatible stacks today, and deploy them to Android, iOS, OS X, Windows and Linux. And some people do.
The beauty of native HyperCard was that anyone could build a stack to do what needed to get done... and this app could then be scripted/integrated/updated by those who wanted to make it a professional tool -- and anyone could go in and poke at the innards if something was wrong with it (barring osax crazyness).
Because the correct price for a good has nothing, zero, zip, nada, to do with the cost of producing it. The correct price for a good is "all the market will bear". And claiming the price is too high is simply not moral justification for stealing a book, electronically or otherwise.
Ah; but correct price defines your market. Lowering prices expands your market. I'm not going to touch the theft issue.
The only things you should need open to the internet are SSH ("the attackers may have used a zero-day in OpenSSH 4.3 to compromise the C&C servers initially") and/or IPSec/L2TP. Anything else should redirect to a DMZ that does NOT route to the same subnet as SSH/IPSec/L2TP. The DMZ should not have port access to the regular network (everything should be pushed). The firewall should be set to not allow active connections out from the DMZ to anywhere, and any activity should not just be logged, but flagged and sent to the administrator. All devices in the DMZ should log to a remote (to them) syslog that is polled from outside the DMZ.
There... that's the ideal world. In reality, this doesn't account for people who don't have that much hardware/expertise with VMs, for people who don't keep up with their patches, for those who want to do an end-run around this policy to set up torrents, etc. directly from their working computer, etc.
It also doesn't help that most gateway routers these days have some full-fledged OS inside and as a result often have exploits that can be leveraged directly against them due to inappropriate default configurations.
Argh... this mod system doesn't let you change a moderation when the mouse slips... so I have to comment to undo a negative rating when I was intending a positive one.... (and now everyone knows who one of today's mods is)
Hmm... I also have both a circular polarizing and a regular polarizing filter for my camera... so all I'll have to do is look through my camera, and optionally press the shutter button:D
I wonder if they're planning to use the gardens for drainage and moisture control too? I'd just hate to be living on the floor under one of the garden floors 20 years after the thing is built....
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If this isn't on wikipedia, I know it's in the National Geographic archives. I remember reading about this when they were struggling to find a way to retain a communications channel (sometime in the early 80's IIRC). I remember the day they announced that the second half of the mission would likely be a failure... and then the day they announced a fix. It's actually what got me interested in advanced RF transmission, the doppler effect, and relativity.
Added to this: in Africa, a significant portion of children are born with HIV. How are they supposed to prevent getting infected? How about people who got it via blood transfusions? HIV is much more than just a STD.
For instance, I haven't seen a UNIVAC-CON announced in a while... maybe the vacuum tube costs got too prohibitive.
"The German company Golden Delicous is building a new main board (called GTA-04)"
The next thing you know, an Indian company named Granny Smith will be building a new main board called AngryBirds-Cupertino....
A large attack vector for SEO poisoning is image searches. Unless you're running with NoScript or JS disabled, all you have to do is click on the wrong link in a random image search result, and the rest happens in the background. While you're sitting there looking at images of Martin Luther King, Jr. (and wondering why there's a photo of chocolate cake on the page as well, and one of some puppies), a multi-exploit probe script starts up in the background, quickly figures out what OS, browser and general environment you're using (think malware author's version of 'make'), and then downloads and executes an exploit path custom to your configuration.
Of course, the term "drive-by download" does also include the FakeAV stuff that automatically downloads and sits in your download folder, waiting for you to say, "hey, what's this zipfile doing in here with the 'reallysuperantivirus.exe' inside? I guess I should run it to find out!"
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Canadians+targets+sexpionage/5793483/story.html
http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-news/2011/12/01/sexpionage-are-chinas-hotel-rooms-bugged/
Sexpionage is standard MO for many world governments and large corporations. What happened to Assange looks very similar, but with lawsuits instead of blackmail. Read the first article; it can be very hard to combat this kind of attack, especially when all the immediate parties are unwitting at the time of the event.
The trick may be to spray with something not so inert as halon... say, nitrogen. You may end up with some nitrous oxide as a byproduct, but it should be something that can isolate the burn and be easily scrubbed/diluted into the atmosphere after the fact. Add a bit of vanilla to the gas as a warning that you're entering a nitrogen-high zone before the fans have mixed it back into the system.
This must mean I live in a country filled with idiots. In many places, the amber light is called the "go faster" light -- a warning that if you don't get through the intersection soon, you're going to have to stop at a red. Really.
Delayed reds make much more sense to me than extended ambers. That way, you're only dealing with people who either intentionally or negligently entered the intersection against a red light. Cities still get their revenue from red light runners (in fact, they may get more that start into the intersection BEFORE the light goes green), and the amber light runners are avoided. The downside is that this is harder to synchronize across a traffic grid, which means in high volume areas, it can cause a traffic jam.
I wonder what all the retouching does in relation to the Uncanny Valley... are we changing our perception of what is "real" over time, so that eventually real people will feel very uncomfortable to look at? Or is this retouching coming to the point where people not exposed to the images on a regular basis will look at them and be creeped out instead of seeing them as the ultimate beauty?
...so what they're saying is that they touch the original instead of the resulting photo? I've seen lots of Jacob photos, and while the models likely exist, they definitely don't look like they do in the photos if you meet the models outside the studio or in alternate lighting conditions.
I'm not sure the quality is up to professional standards with this method.
Depends on what you're shooting... even a mid-range body with bracketing capabilities can give you excellent HDR in bright light, still image situations. Once the light starts to drop or you're dealing with a subject in motion, you have to go to the dual-camera with sync cable to get anything useful.
Oh, and for decent HDR, you really need 3 shots (you need to bracket your exposure so you have your range extremes and a midpoint reference), so a stereo rig won't quite cut it either.
Of course, if you're using SSH without a cert and a secure pass-phrase, it's not much better than having telnet open to the world. That said, I've had a number of sshds open to the world with password auth only for over a decade, and despite getting hit with numerous attacks a day, they have yet to be compromised. Turning off ssh access to all but a single account with a hard to guess user name and a much harder to guess pass-phrase probably has something to do with this. Most remote connections appear to be from China running a dictionary attack.
I did have one interesting connection from Indonesia once that appeared to be trying to leverage some sort of certificate exploit, but as I had certs disabled, it failed.
Right now, it appears that the most insecure part of my internet gateway is the part managed by my ISP and locked away from me... they're running a number of insecure services, some with known potential vulnerabilities. I haven't worried too much, as for the most part you'd have to be on their local line talking ATM to leverage most of the issues. And then you'd have to either re-flash the device with exploit code (dropping my connection) or get past my firewall to do anything at all nefarious.
These scientists have obviously never played Worms Armageddon... just imagine the destruction if they control an entire planet!
Just you wait... soon we'll see swarms of mosquitoes with frikin lasers attached to their heads!
In corporate America, mosquitoes will vaporize YOU!
1) There are no animals that I know of that depend upon this species of mosquito as a sole food-source.
2) Eradicating this species would not eradicate mosquitoes... it would just eradicate this species... others would quickly fill in the ecological hole.
3) This species of mosquito is out-competing other species in their natural habitats, resulting in the potential genocide of other mosquito species unless we intervene.
I, for one, think it's worth the risks. Even with the risk of cross-breeding and mutation.
A few things: mosquitoes have been shown to be particularly effective at controlling the population of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. This is obviously one of their prime uses.
Secondly, this GM mosquito will only infiltrate/reduce one species out of thousands -- and it is being introduced in an environment where the species is not even supposed to exist naturally.
In the long run, I'm sure that another mosquito species will find it relatively easy to fill the niche left by this departing species, except that it likely won't be capable of carrying quite so many HSS relevant diseases (hence it will fail on the population control front).
However, I'm sure more people are killed from automobile accidents and bathtub mishaps every year than from disease borne by this species of mosquito.
Interesting... I often think of Wikis as being the spiritual ancestors of HyperCard... and they usually solve the version control issue. Imagine a HyperCard-like stack-based Wiki with plugins for defined content types, and you've got a winner, IMO. It also gives you network-aware shared creation capabilities that were supposed to go into HyperCard, but never made it before the product was killed off.
Yes, I think OpenDoc was partly responsible for the demise of HyperCard... it was slated to become the replacement, and when it tanked, Apple decided there was no profitable demand for this way of looking for the world, instead of reverting to the stack model from the document model. Remember that this was during the Gil Amelio years, and Apple was almost bankrupt.
You talk about Supercard as if it were defunct. It still exists, and is still used by an extremely small minority.
HyperCard really "died" when Apple stopped bundling the editor with every Mac. Once you had to purchase it, it became just another "programming language" option.
Actually, HyperCard never went away. Apple just stopped supporting it.
You can still make HyperCard-compatible stacks today, and deploy them to Android, iOS, OS X, Windows and Linux. And some people do.
The beauty of native HyperCard was that anyone could build a stack to do what needed to get done... and this app could then be scripted/integrated/updated by those who wanted to make it a professional tool -- and anyone could go in and poke at the innards if something was wrong with it (barring osax crazyness).
Because the correct price for a good has nothing, zero, zip, nada, to do with the cost of producing it. The correct price for a good is "all the market will bear". And claiming the price is too high is simply not moral justification for stealing a book, electronically or otherwise.
Ah; but correct price defines your market. Lowering prices expands your market. I'm not going to touch the theft issue.
The only things you should need open to the internet are SSH ("the attackers may have used a zero-day in OpenSSH 4.3 to compromise the C&C servers initially") and/or IPSec/L2TP. Anything else should redirect to a DMZ that does NOT route to the same subnet as SSH/IPSec/L2TP. The DMZ should not have port access to the regular network (everything should be pushed). The firewall should be set to not allow active connections out from the DMZ to anywhere, and any activity should not just be logged, but flagged and sent to the administrator. All devices in the DMZ should log to a remote (to them) syslog that is polled from outside the DMZ.
There... that's the ideal world. In reality, this doesn't account for people who don't have that much hardware/expertise with VMs, for people who don't keep up with their patches, for those who want to do an end-run around this policy to set up torrents, etc. directly from their working computer, etc.
It also doesn't help that most gateway routers these days have some full-fledged OS inside and as a result often have exploits that can be leveraged directly against them due to inappropriate default configurations.
Argh... this mod system doesn't let you change a moderation when the mouse slips... so I have to comment to undo a negative rating when I was intending a positive one....
(and now everyone knows who one of today's mods is)
Hmm... I also have both a circular polarizing and a regular polarizing filter for my camera... so all I'll have to do is look through my camera, and optionally press the shutter button :D
I wonder if they're planning to use the gardens for drainage and moisture control too?
I'd just hate to be living on the floor under one of the garden floors 20 years after the thing is built....