The 3 digit security code, expiration date and the account holder name is not on the magstripe. Since those got stolen too, we know it's a database that got ripped from a computer system. A database that should not have existed, since it's illegal for anyone processing card data to store the 3 digit security code. Assuming this is because of a magstripe skimming device in *every* Target store card reading device at the same time is just not logical at all.
These back doors may exist in new devices, but any older device is likely to have a back door. If the vendor updates the devices at all, they usually stop doing that shortly after they stop sales of the device. Your perfectly fine WiFi router or DSL box will most likely have vulnerabilities on it that make it just as insecure as these new devices.
I actively check my DSL router and I know my ISP and several security minded customers do the same. Any WiFi router in my home runs a modified Linux distribution like Tomato, openWRT or DD-WRT that is actively maintained. While it's bad that A-brand companies evidently don't do this this the stuff they buy from other vendors, most devices in the field are just as vulnerable as these boxes are, simply because they don't get updates.
Burning vendors for selling insecure devices is good practice to get this problem solved. Burning them for not being responsible for their sale and updating or liberating the devices they sold should be just as normal as burning them for new equipment. You can't expect people to buy a new device every year simply because the vendor refuses responsibility once it's left their factory.
Any old/small PC will use way more electricity than the small embedded box you are replacing. Even if you get the PC for free, you'd have spent more on extra electricity in a year than you would have paid for a new device that was ready to run and has no back doors.
Really, if you can't be arsed to actually deal with coins, you obviously don't need the money that much. If those coins would be valuable enough to warrant carrying around, you wouldn't mind the strategy at all. Why doesn't the USA adapt coins for anything up to 20 dollar? You wouldn't need to carry paper money around anymore, just coins and plastic. Still the same strategy and it would save a lot of printing and recycling cost.
I don't know what the exact laws on net neutrality is where this happened. However, if an ISP were to do this in the Netherlands, they would get hit with fraud, net neutrality and "criminal organization" charges. You'd have to have some pretty good lawyers to be able to stay in business at all
First of all, Amazon doesn't get a very high percentage of affiliate tagged traffic/purchases. If every ISP would do this, it would get 100% and the whole business model wouldn't work any more. Amazon would have to pay out way too many affiliate bonuses. Second, any affiliate that the user might choose, would lose out because their tag would get replaced by that of the ISP.
Modern systems often aren't a single purpose hardware server any more. Mobile devices that have to switch on services like GPS, several networking modems, voice over IP, hotplug hardware and start/stop associated services and such will make you have to run numerous daemons that control just restarting the one small group of services and hardware for every corner case you can imagine if you keep using RC scripts.
Even servers often have nested dependencies these days. You'd want the system to restart a failing middleware application in the correct sequence after you've fixed the filesystem on the storage that ran out of space that caused it to remount r/o on all your web server platform VMs. Try doing a bunch of init.d scripts for that. Either you custom write a script to do it remotely just for your app, or you have the systemd-like control that will just figure out what to do all by itself.
Yes, it adds complexity to very simple single use systems, but it makes dealing with all the glue you have to do to get dependencies on other services and corner cases so much easier. I used to think it was a solution looking for a problem too, until I found out that I could now stop worrying about getting my systems up again after I just solved the single cause of all the problems that got them down in the middle of the night.
You can really really use all the RAM you can get with video editing. The same applies to the 1TB SSD. If you're a pro photo or video editor, you're wasting time waiting on your computer processing and time is money. In a 3 year write off period, you can make a business case for spending $5K more on a computer that will easily save you over $100 a week in hours you can bill a customer. I bet that if these were supported hardware for Linux, AutoDesk would waste no time whatsoever getting these tested and certified as hardware for their Discreet Logic video editing product line. They use HP stuff now and those are more expensive than this apple with less video editing power in them.
DarkTable isn't a clone of LightRoom. It is a program that is used for the same sort of work and the UI has a lot of resemblance with LightRoo, but that's about it. While LightRoom has some features that aren't (yet) implemented in DarkTable, DarkTable has many features that don't have anything equivalent in LightRoom. For instance the equalizer and the profiled denoise are absolute killer features that make working with DarkTable give you results that would require much more work in the Adobe creative suite. Also, DarkTable has openCL support, making it one of the fastest tools ever to do complex manipulations on large images in (near) realtime.
The last I read was that there was a raid of "live" bitcoin on the server for silkroad, but it was only a fraction of the total sum that DPR had control over. For all we know, the mother-lode is still somewhere in one or more locked wallets. If I had that much money in BTC wallets, I'd have locked backup on several places. I'd abandon all the unlocked BTC and get my backups taken care off by a trustee so I'd be rich when I got out of jail and my lawyers would get paid.
I honestly can't think of any good reason to start this discussion about whether these BTC are of value and could be confiscated/impounded by the USA government for whatever reason, other than the dude is broke, has no backups of any wallet whatsoever or he's delusional and his lawyers can't talk him out of this.
For prolonged use, you need to have a comfortable distance from your eyes to the screen. That is, in general, at least 60cm (2 feet). Anything closer than that will make the focusing muscles in your eyes tired. The amount of detail we humans can comfortably dissolve at that distance stops at somewhere around 200dpi and the difference between 110dpi and 200dpi isn't much any more.
Given these hard biological facts, going anywhere over 110dpi for screens you look on longer than a few seconds at the time is mostly luxury and posing. Sure, you can put more information on a screen with more pixels, but you can't really use it effectively, since you will have to leer over to look at the screen more closely and your eyes and brain will have to work a lot harder to get that information processed if you don't. This does not apply to short term screens like your phone or tablet, but for laptops and desktops, just get a screen that has great colour rendition and enough resolution to look pretty at a comfortable distance.
Copyright != classified. If you want to copyright something, you don't do it to keep it classified, but to prevent people making unauthorized copies of it (for profit). Publishing about the content is still legal and quoting is too, up till a certain degree, when it comes to copyright. When you want it classified, you don't want the contents in any form to become public. It's not about copies being made, but about the actual things that are in the document. Quoting or describing what's inside is prohibited then.
This computer holds the latest and greatest they have in espionage software and possibly hardware. I'd say get it thoroughly examined so we know what to look for on other machines.Make good forensic copies of anything that is able to hold data in the device and only work on copies of copies so you'll always be able to start from scratch if you mess up or want to prove your findings.
Part of this gun is unique to the 1911 design. the bore of the barrel to be exact. Because of that, it shoots more precise than CNC machined/lathed barrels would. You may be able to use a lathe and/or CNC machine to make the same quality barrels, but it wouldn't really be cheaper, especially in single or limited editions.
Well there you have it. The USA government finds security so important they are willing to spend the grand sum of $0 on it. They could have some pretty good consultants if they'd pay $100/hour
The interns they really want, easily get a decent pay for their skills in a lot of computer companies. Anyone willing to work for $0 will have ulterior motives to do so. Either they are so unskilled that even operating a cash register at a fast food restaurant at minimum wages is too difficult for them, or someone else is paying them to go do the work.
If the government didn't want to be regulating prices and wages and income of their citizens, they would put out a bid and have the lowest qualifying bidders do the job. Now they are pushing the market by forcing the price to zero.
I don't know who came up with this plan, but they really must hate their country and it's citizens a lot.
If work won't invest in lab space,time or training, I won't invest *my* time in doing what they should be doing. I do have my stuff, but I learn what I think will benefit me. Sometimes that happens to be the same as my work is about at that moment, but almost always it's something that I find interesting at that moment.
If work asks me to check out stuff at home, I tell them I leave home to go to work and when I'm done working I go home again. I'd like to keep the two separated. They know I have stuff going on at home and would probably be more than able to do what they want there, but they pay for my time there only, not for my time or equipment at home.
Cheapskates will always be cheapskates. If you want to work for a company where you get to nerd out and try new stuff, go work for a company that has that. They're not going to change because you want them to.
There is no proof we have actually been domesticating cats as petting animals for more than a few hundred years. Until the 19th century or so, these were just semi-wild animals that got access to our barns and homes to kill rodents, but they would claw you the moment you tried to touch them. It wasn't until we started breeding them for special looks that we got the "cute and friendly" animal we have now. Even that animal gets feral really quick, kittens born in the wild often act just like wild cats and aren't cute or attracted to humans at all. Domestication as in tolerating each other probably went on for a long time, but we haven't been petting them until we got the luxury of being able to breed them purely for their looks.
The Treasury is the Government. If the government wanted to, they could pass a law that would nationalize GM and make all shares currently owned by shareholders worthless. Or they could just do it for the amount they feel GM owes them. Maybe GM shouldn't let it get that far. They got bailed out by the only one that wanted to bail them out at terms that they "just could not refuse". Maybe they need to watch the Godfather a few times to let it sink in?
Basically, China pulled a Huawei on IBM, just like the USA basically chased Huawei out of the USA. Correlation and Causation being mixed up again. This has nothing to do with IBM lobbying and cooperating with the NSA, but everything with Huawei getting chased out of the USA. It's pure and simple retaliation for that, the Chinese knew that the NSA was fist deep in IBM and MicroSoft and all those companies all along. Sorry sherrifs, no pension for you, you could have seen this coming the moment Huawei was first being accused of backdooring equipment.
He won't get an accident as long as they want him alive and well more than they want him gone. As far as we know, there's a group of three unknown people that together can "set free" all the data he has stolen. As long as the USA doesn't want him to reveal all that data, he's safe from them killing him. They may want to abduct him back to the USA, but they know they can't kill him because then all hell will break loose.
The Soviet Union probably gets something in return for his visa, but he won't be giving them the crown jewels all at once. They won't tolerate him there once he's of no use to them any more, so whatever the deal is, they're not getting a lot of secrets out of him. For all we know, they might just keep him around to piss off the USA and that alone is of enough value to them.
The "amnesty" sounds like a trap. What possible gain could the USA have to keep him free/alive once the bear is back in the cage? He's a liability just for knowing what he stole, so the only way to contain that is to contain him.
It appears that T-Online linked an IP in a subpoena to you. But 1) Was that the actual IP address at that time that was used to share that film? 2) Was that IP address actually assigned to your system? Mistakes are easy, I'm assuming you already asked for a full list of all IP addresses assigned to your connection for a full year before and after this incident took place with *all* log file entries they have on you? Any inconsistency or missing/improbable timestamp in that will help you proof that they don't have a perfect administration. Also ask for full log files from the company providing logs, not just your own data, plus a list of all software used on the systems they detected it with. Get the full setup and configuration details for their time/NTP config. If they won't provide those, claim you are not given the data you need to prove your innocence and they simply don't have adequate log files or are serious about getting the time stamps right in their log files.
The true analogy would be: Would you, as a judge, allow listeners to a pirate radio station (not certain if the listeners know it's a pirate station or not) to get sued by the record companies for loyalties. The site that was streaming the content most likely was aware of the fact that they were streaming content they did not have rights for.and that's malicious intent.
Because there's a legal reason to want to keep your wheels spinning while you drive off, it'll be labeled "Snow and Ice". Try driving away on a slippery surface on a slight inclination with a car with traction control. You'll never get anywhere, unless you can disable it.
You need an external DA converter that uses DSD to convert to analog, but that can accept PCM. The advantage of DSD (if any, purists sometimes come up with insane things) would be in the DA conversion part, not in the digital stream.
Don't start the mumbo jumbo about "synchronized clocks" and PCM vs DSD since the only clock you want to synchronize to is the one used during recording and that's in the past. Just get a good and stable clock in your DA converter and you're set.
Have you tried audio pebbles? If you stuff them in your ears, everything sounds much better.
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The 3 digit security code, expiration date and the account holder name is not on the magstripe. Since those got stolen too, we know it's a database that got ripped from a computer system. A database that should not have existed, since it's illegal for anyone processing card data to store the 3 digit security code. Assuming this is because of a magstripe skimming device in *every* Target store card reading device at the same time is just not logical at all.
These back doors may exist in new devices, but any older device is likely to have a back door. If the vendor updates the devices at all, they usually stop doing that shortly after they stop sales of the device. Your perfectly fine WiFi router or DSL box will most likely have vulnerabilities on it that make it just as insecure as these new devices.
I actively check my DSL router and I know my ISP and several security minded customers do the same. Any WiFi router in my home runs a modified Linux distribution like Tomato, openWRT or DD-WRT that is actively maintained. While it's bad that A-brand companies evidently don't do this this the stuff they buy from other vendors, most devices in the field are just as vulnerable as these boxes are, simply because they don't get updates.
Burning vendors for selling insecure devices is good practice to get this problem solved. Burning them for not being responsible for their sale and updating or liberating the devices they sold should be just as normal as burning them for new equipment. You can't expect people to buy a new device every year simply because the vendor refuses responsibility once it's left their factory.
Any old/small PC will use way more electricity than the small embedded box you are replacing. Even if you get the PC for free, you'd have spent more on extra electricity in a year than you would have paid for a new device that was ready to run and has no back doors.
Really, if you can't be arsed to actually deal with coins, you obviously don't need the money that much. If those coins would be valuable enough to warrant carrying around, you wouldn't mind the strategy at all. Why doesn't the USA adapt coins for anything up to 20 dollar? You wouldn't need to carry paper money around anymore, just coins and plastic. Still the same strategy and it would save a lot of printing and recycling cost.
I don't know what the exact laws on net neutrality is where this happened. However, if an ISP were to do this in the Netherlands, they would get hit with fraud, net neutrality and "criminal organization" charges. You'd have to have some pretty good lawyers to be able to stay in business at all
First of all, Amazon doesn't get a very high percentage of affiliate tagged traffic/purchases. If every ISP would do this, it would get 100% and the whole business model wouldn't work any more. Amazon would have to pay out way too many affiliate bonuses. Second, any affiliate that the user might choose, would lose out because their tag would get replaced by that of the ISP.
Modern systems often aren't a single purpose hardware server any more. Mobile devices that have to switch on services like GPS, several networking modems, voice over IP, hotplug hardware and start/stop associated services and such will make you have to run numerous daemons that control just restarting the one small group of services and hardware for every corner case you can imagine if you keep using RC scripts.
Even servers often have nested dependencies these days. You'd want the system to restart a failing middleware application in the correct sequence after you've fixed the filesystem on the storage that ran out of space that caused it to remount r/o on all your web server platform VMs. Try doing a bunch of init.d scripts for that. Either you custom write a script to do it remotely just for your app, or you have the systemd-like control that will just figure out what to do all by itself.
Yes, it adds complexity to very simple single use systems, but it makes dealing with all the glue you have to do to get dependencies on other services and corner cases so much easier. I used to think it was a solution looking for a problem too, until I found out that I could now stop worrying about getting my systems up again after I just solved the single cause of all the problems that got them down in the middle of the night.
You can really really use all the RAM you can get with video editing. The same applies to the 1TB SSD. If you're a pro photo or video editor, you're wasting time waiting on your computer processing and time is money. In a 3 year write off period, you can make a business case for spending $5K more on a computer that will easily save you over $100 a week in hours you can bill a customer. I bet that if these were supported hardware for Linux, AutoDesk would waste no time whatsoever getting these tested and certified as hardware for their Discreet Logic video editing product line. They use HP stuff now and those are more expensive than this apple with less video editing power in them.
DarkTable isn't a clone of LightRoom. It is a program that is used for the same sort of work and the UI has a lot of resemblance with LightRoo, but that's about it. While LightRoom has some features that aren't (yet) implemented in DarkTable, DarkTable has many features that don't have anything equivalent in LightRoom. For instance the equalizer and the profiled denoise are absolute killer features that make working with DarkTable give you results that would require much more work in the Adobe creative suite. Also, DarkTable has openCL support, making it one of the fastest tools ever to do complex manipulations on large images in (near) realtime.
The last I read was that there was a raid of "live" bitcoin on the server for silkroad, but it was only a fraction of the total sum that DPR had control over. For all we know, the mother-lode is still somewhere in one or more locked wallets. If I had that much money in BTC wallets, I'd have locked backup on several places. I'd abandon all the unlocked BTC and get my backups taken care off by a trustee so I'd be rich when I got out of jail and my lawyers would get paid.
I honestly can't think of any good reason to start this discussion about whether these BTC are of value and could be confiscated/impounded by the USA government for whatever reason, other than the dude is broke, has no backups of any wallet whatsoever or he's delusional and his lawyers can't talk him out of this.
For prolonged use, you need to have a comfortable distance from your eyes to the screen. That is, in general, at least 60cm (2 feet). Anything closer than that will make the focusing muscles in your eyes tired. The amount of detail we humans can comfortably dissolve at that distance stops at somewhere around 200dpi and the difference between 110dpi and 200dpi isn't much any more.
Given these hard biological facts, going anywhere over 110dpi for screens you look on longer than a few seconds at the time is mostly luxury and posing. Sure, you can put more information on a screen with more pixels, but you can't really use it effectively, since you will have to leer over to look at the screen more closely and your eyes and brain will have to work a lot harder to get that information processed if you don't. This does not apply to short term screens like your phone or tablet, but for laptops and desktops, just get a screen that has great colour rendition and enough resolution to look pretty at a comfortable distance.
Copyright != classified. If you want to copyright something, you don't do it to keep it classified, but to prevent people making unauthorized copies of it (for profit). Publishing about the content is still legal and quoting is too, up till a certain degree, when it comes to copyright. When you want it classified, you don't want the contents in any form to become public. It's not about copies being made, but about the actual things that are in the document. Quoting or describing what's inside is prohibited then.
This computer holds the latest and greatest they have in espionage software and possibly hardware. I'd say get it thoroughly examined so we know what to look for on other machines.Make good forensic copies of anything that is able to hold data in the device and only work on copies of copies so you'll always be able to start from scratch if you mess up or want to prove your findings.
Part of this gun is unique to the 1911 design. the bore of the barrel to be exact. Because of that, it shoots more precise than CNC machined/lathed barrels would. You may be able to use a lathe and/or CNC machine to make the same quality barrels, but it wouldn't really be cheaper, especially in single or limited editions.
Well there you have it. The USA government finds security so important they are willing to spend the grand sum of $0 on it. They could have some pretty good consultants if they'd pay $100/hour
The interns they really want, easily get a decent pay for their skills in a lot of computer companies. Anyone willing to work for $0 will have ulterior motives to do so. Either they are so unskilled that even operating a cash register at a fast food restaurant at minimum wages is too difficult for them, or someone else is paying them to go do the work.
If the government didn't want to be regulating prices and wages and income of their citizens, they would put out a bid and have the lowest qualifying bidders do the job. Now they are pushing the market by forcing the price to zero.
I don't know who came up with this plan, but they really must hate their country and it's citizens a lot.
If work won't invest in lab space,time or training, I won't invest *my* time in doing what they should be doing. I do have my stuff, but I learn what I think will benefit me. Sometimes that happens to be the same as my work is about at that moment, but almost always it's something that I find interesting at that moment.
If work asks me to check out stuff at home, I tell them I leave home to go to work and when I'm done working I go home again. I'd like to keep the two separated. They know I have stuff going on at home and would probably be more than able to do what they want there, but they pay for my time there only, not for my time or equipment at home.
Cheapskates will always be cheapskates. If you want to work for a company where you get to nerd out and try new stuff, go work for a company that has that. They're not going to change because you want them to.
There is no proof we have actually been domesticating cats as petting animals for more than a few hundred years. Until the 19th century or so, these were just semi-wild animals that got access to our barns and homes to kill rodents, but they would claw you the moment you tried to touch them. It wasn't until we started breeding them for special looks that we got the "cute and friendly" animal we have now. Even that animal gets feral really quick, kittens born in the wild often act just like wild cats and aren't cute or attracted to humans at all. Domestication as in tolerating each other probably went on for a long time, but we haven't been petting them until we got the luxury of being able to breed them purely for their looks.
The Treasury is the Government. If the government wanted to, they could pass a law that would nationalize GM and make all shares currently owned by shareholders worthless. Or they could just do it for the amount they feel GM owes them. Maybe GM shouldn't let it get that far. They got bailed out by the only one that wanted to bail them out at terms that they "just could not refuse". Maybe they need to watch the Godfather a few times to let it sink in?
Basically, China pulled a Huawei on IBM, just like the USA basically chased Huawei out of the USA. Correlation and Causation being mixed up again. This has nothing to do with IBM lobbying and cooperating with the NSA, but everything with Huawei getting chased out of the USA. It's pure and simple retaliation for that, the Chinese knew that the NSA was fist deep in IBM and MicroSoft and all those companies all along. Sorry sherrifs, no pension for you, you could have seen this coming the moment Huawei was first being accused of backdooring equipment.
He won't get an accident as long as they want him alive and well more than they want him gone. As far as we know, there's a group of three unknown people that together can "set free" all the data he has stolen. As long as the USA doesn't want him to reveal all that data, he's safe from them killing him. They may want to abduct him back to the USA, but they know they can't kill him because then all hell will break loose.
The Soviet Union probably gets something in return for his visa, but he won't be giving them the crown jewels all at once. They won't tolerate him there once he's of no use to them any more, so whatever the deal is, they're not getting a lot of secrets out of him. For all we know, they might just keep him around to piss off the USA and that alone is of enough value to them.
The "amnesty" sounds like a trap. What possible gain could the USA have to keep him free/alive once the bear is back in the cage? He's a liability just for knowing what he stole, so the only way to contain that is to contain him.
It appears that T-Online linked an IP in a subpoena to you. But 1) Was that the actual IP address at that time that was used to share that film? 2) Was that IP address actually assigned to your system? Mistakes are easy, I'm assuming you already asked for a full list of all IP addresses assigned to your connection for a full year before and after this incident took place with *all* log file entries they have on you? Any inconsistency or missing/improbable timestamp in that will help you proof that they don't have a perfect administration. Also ask for full log files from the company providing logs, not just your own data, plus a list of all software used on the systems they detected it with. Get the full setup and configuration details for their time/NTP config. If they won't provide those, claim you are not given the data you need to prove your innocence and they simply don't have adequate log files or are serious about getting the time stamps right in their log files.
The true analogy would be: Would you, as a judge, allow listeners to a pirate radio station (not certain if the listeners know it's a pirate station or not) to get sued by the record companies for loyalties. The site that was streaming the content most likely was aware of the fact that they were streaming content they did not have rights for.and that's malicious intent.
Cue Trinity in a long leather coat sitting behind a desk starting a printer.
Because there's a legal reason to want to keep your wheels spinning while you drive off, it'll be labeled "Snow and Ice". Try driving away on a slippery surface on a slight inclination with a car with traction control. You'll never get anywhere, unless you can disable it.
You need an external DA converter that uses DSD to convert to analog, but that can accept PCM. The advantage of DSD (if any, purists sometimes come up with insane things) would be in the DA conversion part, not in the digital stream.
Don't start the mumbo jumbo about "synchronized clocks" and PCM vs DSD since the only clock you want to synchronize to is the one used during recording and that's in the past. Just get a good and stable clock in your DA converter and you're set.
Have you tried audio pebbles? If you stuff them in your ears, everything sounds much better.