Not suggesting we have a better alternative. But so many things that seemed like good ideas at the time look bloody awful with 20-20 hindsight and a lack of understanding of the true costs. For the record I am all for harnessing wind and tidal power, but I still wonder whether we are just painting another coat of lipstick on the pig and praising it for its new found beauty.
I wonder if in another 50 or 100 years we will have people screaming about how thoughtless this generation was in taking energy out of the earths natural winds and currents thus altering long term climate. I know it is such a tiny proportion that is extracted, but still I do wonder. nothing is free, the cost is just not as visible.
> reporting vulnerabilities doesn't get you put in Jail, however manipulating sites without permission to look for them does
How orwellian of you. It is totally OK to report vulnerabilities but finding out about them, that's verboten. So when Target and Home Depot tell you that they've never had a report of a problem, you know that means their sites are 100% secure.
of course it doesn't mean they are secure. That doesn't make it ok to try and break their security. Try going to the backdoor of banks and looking for a way to jimmy the door open to see if you can steal money, it won't matter whether you give the money you take back if you find a way in, or even if you didn't take any money, you will go to jail. If you want to help them do vulnerability scanning for free then approach them with your offering, if you can show you have the skills and background most will take a free offering of your labour, if not you can always out them as not even being willing to have their security checked.
reporting vulnerabilities doesn't get you put in Jail, however manipulating sites without permission to look for them does. incidently the guy you linked did a lot more than "just" tell then just discover and tell them of a vulnerability, he exploited it and extracted a ton of information from their systems.
hackers constantly trawl github for morons that leave keys in their code. So many organizations have been caught out now, especially ones that host on amazon, that their is simply no excuse for this happening anymore.
how the hell did you get marked insightful, even on here. This is EXACTLY the sort of welfare programs that government should be investing in, investments that lead to jobs for members of the public, investment that leads to higher income and the ability for the state to attract other corporations and investment.
go check some of the things people have been admitted to hospital attached too, inserted in them or stuck on them. People will fuck anything, living, dead, animal, vegetable, inanimate.
there was nothing special about laplink cables, they really were just null modem cables. used to use them a lot back in the day, still even have my 232 breakout box somewhere which I used to use. having said that you are way overcomplicating this. just get a USB to IDE adapter. fast easy and no need for ports that probably don't even exist on his current machine.
They don't get to decide that they just aren't going to follow the laws.
Obeying dumb "we said so" laws is dumb.
So you want companies to be allowed to pick and choose which laws they will obey? hmmm that will make for an interesting world, one in which I am sure the consumers will do well out of...NOT.
regardless of what you think of Uber's model, blatantly breaking a countries laws or incenting others to break laws is just asking for trouble. I am surprised more criminal charges haven't been brought down on the CEO's and other execs at Uber, could see some interesting tests of those extradition laws.
Where do you live? some cities don't license many of those jobs. But in Australia nearly all of them are. Think it is the same in the US too, e.g. a quick search of the two obvious ones that I know regularly need city licenses showed up
I still wear a nice Tag watch, but it is more bling than an essential, I "currently" see no value in a smartwatch over my smartphone which I always have with me anyway and my phone has a much better size screen.
Then you really have a seriously subpar brain. The human brain can perform an estimated 100 trillion operations a second. Even things as simple as typing a sentence take 10's of thousands of operations per second. If your brain can't even do a billion a minute you would be a drooling moron.
really? 1. so you think the massive amount of troops and equipment along the border today with international support isn't stopping NK. But mines in the ground that will kill a few thousand troops from a country that doesn't give a shit about people will stop them or act as even a minor deterent? are you retarded? 2. again the quarter million standing army and the international backlash that china would face is what stops china. China is a well equipped army with everything from mine sweepers, a massive army and again a government that has shown somewhat indifference to human life and you reckon it is the land mines that is stopping them? 3. Israel is backed by billions of dollars of state of the art military equipment 200k active personnel and half a million reservists as well as many of the worlds largest militaries behind it and still you reckon it is land mines that is why they survive.
Nothing strange. When shooting humans in war you aren't supposed to be looking to ensure maximum carnage and death, a stomach or chest shot already renders a human as not able to continue in a battle, expanding bullets just increases the chance that they will also die and not just stop participating. When hunting the objection is to ensure the animal you hit dies as quickly as possible, a lot of military bullets will go cleanly through an animal and unless you performed a fatal shot they may be in for a very slow an agonising death over hours days or even weeks and anything that reduces the likelihood of that is good, humans get the luxury of being patched up afterwards (if possible).
Actually I think more the opposite, Greece being pushed out would show the healthy countries that the EU is not just wealth fare system for countries that mismanage their economies while at the same time scaring some of the more troubled countries into doing something to rectify their own issues. Greece staying in the Euro and NOT fixing their economy I think is far more likely to shatter the EU than them being ejected.
Germany also has one of the worlds highest per capita of government, but they collect taxes. Interestingly Greece actually spend significantly more on military than Germany per capita, that is the sort of shit that gets them in this mess. When you have such insanely high levels of government you have to be incredibly careful on how you run your economy and ensure you have a healthy tax base that actually pays tax.
Funding grants are given irrespective of the findings....unless you're referring to the funding which comes from the fossil fuel industry.
This simply isn't true, funding grants normally look at what you are looking to find or research, only a rare few are actually independent and don't care which way your results go. If they are pro something and it looks like you are searching for proof against then good luck getting funding and vice versa.
It's also funny how they act like nVidia did this to "harm" people for some business reason. If anything, they'd want to make the 970 look worse so people would be more likely to spend the near double to get a 980. However instead they made the 970 as close to the 980 as they could and I'm sure that ate in to the 980 market.
That is just silly. Nvidia benefit by making the product look better to highend gamers so they don't choose the competitions card. You act like Nvidia is the only maker of highend gaming cards. It is actually worse than a 3.5GB card as at least with 3.5GB gamers and drivers by default understand they are going to have a performance impact if beyond that is accessed and hence will only use it when necessary, with 500MB of slow memory by default the games had no understanding they would be crippling game performance by accessing that part of the memory. The 970 is a nice card, but Nvidia did blatantly mislead purchasers and while the issue won't even impact more than 90% of owners it is still an issue and one that could have been avoided by Nvidia being honest.
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Not suggesting we have a better alternative. But so many things that seemed like good ideas at the time look bloody awful with 20-20 hindsight and a lack of understanding of the true costs. For the record I am all for harnessing wind and tidal power, but I still wonder whether we are just painting another coat of lipstick on the pig and praising it for its new found beauty.
I wonder if in another 50 or 100 years we will have people screaming about how thoughtless this generation was in taking energy out of the earths natural winds and currents thus altering long term climate. I know it is such a tiny proportion that is extracted, but still I do wonder. nothing is free, the cost is just not as visible.
> reporting vulnerabilities doesn't get you put in Jail, however manipulating sites without permission to look for them does
How orwellian of you. It is totally OK to report vulnerabilities but finding out about them, that's verboten.
So when Target and Home Depot tell you that they've never had a report of a problem, you know that means their sites are 100% secure.
of course it doesn't mean they are secure. That doesn't make it ok to try and break their security. Try going to the backdoor of banks and looking for a way to jimmy the door open to see if you can steal money, it won't matter whether you give the money you take back if you find a way in, or even if you didn't take any money, you will go to jail. If you want to help them do vulnerability scanning for free then approach them with your offering, if you can show you have the skills and background most will take a free offering of your labour, if not you can always out them as not even being willing to have their security checked.
reporting vulnerabilities doesn't get you put in Jail, however manipulating sites without permission to look for them does. incidently the guy you linked did a lot more than "just" tell then just discover and tell them of a vulnerability, he exploited it and extracted a ton of information from their systems.
hackers constantly trawl github for morons that leave keys in their code. So many organizations have been caught out now, especially ones that host on amazon, that their is simply no excuse for this happening anymore.
how the hell did you get marked insightful, even on here. This is EXACTLY the sort of welfare programs that government should be investing in, investments that lead to jobs for members of the public, investment that leads to higher income and the ability for the state to attract other corporations and investment.
go check some of the things people have been admitted to hospital attached too, inserted in them or stuck on them. People will fuck anything, living, dead, animal, vegetable, inanimate.
When was the last time you downloaded an ISO from them? a decade ago?
there was nothing special about laplink cables, they really were just null modem cables. used to use them a lot back in the day, still even have my 232 breakout box somewhere which I used to use. having said that you are way overcomplicating this. just get a USB to IDE adapter. fast easy and no need for ports that probably don't even exist on his current machine.
They don't get to decide that they just aren't going to follow the laws.
Obeying dumb "we said so" laws is dumb.
So you want companies to be allowed to pick and choose which laws they will obey? hmmm that will make for an interesting world, one in which I am sure the consumers will do well out of...NOT.
regardless of what you think of Uber's model, blatantly breaking a countries laws or incenting others to break laws is just asking for trouble. I am surprised more criminal charges haven't been brought down on the CEO's and other execs at Uber, could see some interesting tests of those extradition laws.
Where do you live? some cities don't license many of those jobs. But in Australia nearly all of them are. Think it is the same in the US too, e.g. a quick search of the two obvious ones that I know regularly need city licenses showed up
https://www1.nyc.gov/nycbusine...
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/ht...
Will any of you be jumping on this?
NO
Holding out for the Apple Watch?
NO
Waiting for wearables to get more capable?
NO
I still wear a nice Tag watch, but it is more bling than an essential, I "currently" see no value in a smartwatch over my smartphone which I always have with me anyway and my phone has a much better size screen.
Then you really have a seriously subpar brain. The human brain can perform an estimated 100 trillion operations a second. Even things as simple as typing a sentence take 10's of thousands of operations per second. If your brain can't even do a billion a minute you would be a drooling moron.
many people use silicon to watch silicone so maybe they are more closely related than we think.
really?
1. so you think the massive amount of troops and equipment along the border today with international support isn't stopping NK. But mines in the ground that will kill a few thousand troops from a country that doesn't give a shit about people will stop them or act as even a minor deterent? are you retarded?
2. again the quarter million standing army and the international backlash that china would face is what stops china. China is a well equipped army with everything from mine sweepers, a massive army and again a government that has shown somewhat indifference to human life and you reckon it is the land mines that is stopping them?
3. Israel is backed by billions of dollars of state of the art military equipment 200k active personnel and half a million reservists as well as many of the worlds largest militaries behind it and still you reckon it is land mines that is why they survive.
Nothing strange. When shooting humans in war you aren't supposed to be looking to ensure maximum carnage and death, a stomach or chest shot already renders a human as not able to continue in a battle, expanding bullets just increases the chance that they will also die and not just stop participating. When hunting the objection is to ensure the animal you hit dies as quickly as possible, a lot of military bullets will go cleanly through an animal and unless you performed a fatal shot they may be in for a very slow an agonising death over hours days or even weeks and anything that reduces the likelihood of that is good, humans get the luxury of being patched up afterwards (if possible).
not just Syria, Ukraine as well.
They've saved far more lives than they've taken.
A robot will be assumed to have much greater leeway to determine NOT to fire, versus today's trip wires and pressure plates.
bullshit, thousands die every year from landmines. nearly all of them innocent victims.
If they don't yet exist what do they classify sentry guns as? I thought both korea and Israel used them?
Actually I think more the opposite, Greece being pushed out would show the healthy countries that the EU is not just wealth fare system for countries that mismanage their economies while at the same time scaring some of the more troubled countries into doing something to rectify their own issues. Greece staying in the Euro and NOT fixing their economy I think is far more likely to shatter the EU than them being ejected.
The single genius can do very little without the shoulders of the thousands that do the drudgery to stand upon.
Germany also has one of the worlds highest per capita of government, but they collect taxes. Interestingly Greece actually spend significantly more on military than Germany per capita, that is the sort of shit that gets them in this mess. When you have such insanely high levels of government you have to be incredibly careful on how you run your economy and ensure you have a healthy tax base that actually pays tax.
Funding grants are given irrespective of the findings. ...unless you're referring to the funding which comes from the fossil fuel industry.
This simply isn't true, funding grants normally look at what you are looking to find or research, only a rare few are actually independent and don't care which way your results go. If they are pro something and it looks like you are searching for proof against then good luck getting funding and vice versa.
It's also funny how they act like nVidia did this to "harm" people for some business reason. If anything, they'd want to make the 970 look worse so people would be more likely to spend the near double to get a 980. However instead they made the 970 as close to the 980 as they could and I'm sure that ate in to the 980 market.
That is just silly. Nvidia benefit by making the product look better to highend gamers so they don't choose the competitions card. You act like Nvidia is the only maker of highend gaming cards. It is actually worse than a 3.5GB card as at least with 3.5GB gamers and drivers by default understand they are going to have a performance impact if beyond that is accessed and hence will only use it when necessary, with 500MB of slow memory by default the games had no understanding they would be crippling game performance by accessing that part of the memory. The 970 is a nice card, but Nvidia did blatantly mislead purchasers and while the issue won't even impact more than 90% of owners it is still an issue and one that could have been avoided by Nvidia being honest.