Lock down information sources such as the news media. Ensure that all information which is released is fully vetted to support government policies and decrees.
Once information is fully controlled, police activity to enforce government policy can proceed unabated with little fear of meeting organized resistance. President Trump appears to have learned quite well from history.
I also once believed that global cooling was leading us to another "snowball Earth" condition, and that there were nine planets in the solar system.
I wasn't intentionally deceived or lied to - the instruction and data were considered accurate at the time - as was the fact that humans have forty-eight chromosomes in their genetic structure and that men tend to survive the death of a spouse better than women do. Both took several years to correct, but the scientific community did correct them.
And I'm familiar with the peer review process. Reviewing another researcher's work can lead to inadvertently accepting assumptions, while re-creation of experimental data is far more likely (IMHO) to expose such assumptions.
Has anybody noticed that North-Central Oklahoma is averaging a couple (minor) earthquakes per day since large scale hydraulic fracture extraction (a.k.a., "fracking") started? That region of the US used to be seismically stable - rock solid, one might say.
I wonder if fracking will bring enough money into the region to pay for the damages which will be caused by the major earthquake which is now foreseeably coming their way?
I can recall two such egregious errors which went undetected for some time.
The first was as a grade-schooler: I was once taught that humans have forty-eight chromosomes, twenty-four pairs. Several years later it was forty-six chromosomes, twenty-three pairs. Inspection of the first researcher's data showed this clearly; apparently, the first researcher simply miscounted and nobody caught it at the time.
The second happened when I was in junior-high school. Research showed that men tend to survive much longer than women after the death of a spouse. In that case, the researcher applied Bayes theorem (a mathematical theorem regarding statistical correlation) backwards. As with the genetic analysis above, the scientific community reviewed his work but never bothered to double-check it.
In both cases, the error went undetected until someone actively attempted to recreate the original experiments from scratch. By the way . . . when I was young, the solar system had nine planets. Just sayin'.
As our new C in C has clearly stated, it's almost impossible to catch these guys if you don't catch them in the act. Besides, it's probably some four-hundred pound guy sitting on his couch somewhere anyhow, right?
Then again, I'm sure the FBI will figure it out - probably during the final days of the 2020 presidential election.
I'll admit, since I started aggressively using Yahoo's kludgy abuse reporting system, I'm seeing a lot less spam from the "at yahoo dot com" domain. Will this incentivize the current leadership at Yahoo! to finally fix their busted crap?
First - paying ransomware is not too far removed from negotiating with terrorists (IMHO, YMMV). If a ransomware scammer manages to kidnap your data, paying him or her only encourages more such attacks. Being given a big middle-finger (along with the bad press it generates) will only leave these data kidnappers to hide their involvement and hope they never get caught.
Second - St. Louis' libraries almost certainly can't afford to pay even one of these mutts. Libraries were once magnificent places where people went to read and borrow dead-tree media (a.k.a., books, although periodicals and reference works were also available there). While libraries have become the one publicly available free-as-in-beer places to get internet access, their core mission of providing free access to reference, literary and other materials was not directly impacted by this. One could still walk into a library, look up a desired text in the card catalog and physically access a nearly exploit-proof repository of knowledge and information. They don't have budgets for IT security which would prove to be exceedingly difficult to provide on hundreds of publicly accessible computers, nor do they have a mandate to provide electronic services.
Third - and this ties back to second - libraries in general don't have a budget for public IT. They can't afford the expertise to implement FOSS when the vast majority of the people who will maintain and use the provided services are not trained to use it. Even on their web presence, ease of implementation (which probably contributed to this problem) equals lower TCO for them.
Just remember - Federal law Trumps State law (as users of medical and recreational marijuana are painfully aware). The current administration may see the profit in ignoring recreational substances, but Ford has already got some some political equity with the current administration. It seems quite possible that the Federal government under the current administration could choose to invalidate such laws at the behest of a major American manufacturer - after all, Carrier has already demonstrated how to coerce the current administration.
I hope all of these admins are now getting well deserved unemployment checks. This was just plain stupid, and not being a security expert is no excuse.
Consider this a real-world lesson for our youth in the ways that design choices can have unanticipated effects on implementation, manageability and viability of software in the long haul. For extra credit, the kids that are affected should be encouraged to explore what they could have done to mitigate the risk caused by some grown-up's oversight.
less like someone talking from an informed opinion and more from a person that is willing to take even the remotest of opportunities to bash the new president
Surprising how similar those two things are these days, isn't it?
Not that a Trump presidency is itself attractive to anybody of average or higher intelligence, but I'm sure there are a great many highly intelligent individuals ready to cynically take advantage of an administration which has already clearly established is reliance on the"Big Lie" as a tool for governance.
Of course, the is a simpler solution available to the US Army - take back the bounty money and declare publicly that military cyber-security is perfect and no successful expires were found.
But swearing oaths on the Christian Bible, printing "In God We Trust" on our money, declaring Christian holidays such as Christmas to be national holidays . . . these aren't personal religious observances, these are state-sponsored endorsements of Christianity.
There are other examples. I assure you, it can be difficult to be a non-Christian in the US.
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Once information is fully controlled, police activity to enforce government policy can proceed unabated with little fear of meeting organized resistance. President Trump appears to have learned quite well from history.
I wasn't intentionally deceived or lied to - the instruction and data were considered accurate at the time - as was the fact that humans have forty-eight chromosomes in their genetic structure and that men tend to survive the death of a spouse better than women do. Both took several years to correct, but the scientific community did correct them.
And I'm familiar with the peer review process. Reviewing another researcher's work can lead to inadvertently accepting assumptions, while re-creation of experimental data is far more likely (IMHO) to expose such assumptions.
There's a difference between peer review and experimental confirmation.
I wonder if fracking will bring enough money into the region to pay for the damages which will be caused by the major earthquake which is now foreseeably coming their way?
Cervical cancer didn't become deadlier, we've just become slightly better informed.
The first was as a grade-schooler: I was once taught that humans have forty-eight chromosomes, twenty-four pairs. Several years later it was forty-six chromosomes, twenty-three pairs. Inspection of the first researcher's data showed this clearly; apparently, the first researcher simply miscounted and nobody caught it at the time.
The second happened when I was in junior-high school. Research showed that men tend to survive much longer than women after the death of a spouse. In that case, the researcher applied Bayes theorem (a mathematical theorem regarding statistical correlation) backwards. As with the genetic analysis above, the scientific community reviewed his work but never bothered to double-check it.
In both cases, the error went undetected until someone actively attempted to recreate the original experiments from scratch. By the way . . . when I was young, the solar system had nine planets. Just sayin'.
Tongue firmly planted in cheek, yes.
Then again, I'm sure the FBI will figure it out - probably during the final days of the 2020 presidential election.
I'll admit, since I started aggressively using Yahoo's kludgy abuse reporting system, I'm seeing a lot less spam from the "at yahoo dot com" domain. Will this incentivize the current leadership at Yahoo! to finally fix their busted crap?
Second - St. Louis' libraries almost certainly can't afford to pay even one of these mutts. Libraries were once magnificent places where people went to read and borrow dead-tree media (a.k.a., books, although periodicals and reference works were also available there). While libraries have become the one publicly available free-as-in-beer places to get internet access, their core mission of providing free access to reference, literary and other materials was not directly impacted by this. One could still walk into a library, look up a desired text in the card catalog and physically access a nearly exploit-proof repository of knowledge and information. They don't have budgets for IT security which would prove to be exceedingly difficult to provide on hundreds of publicly accessible computers, nor do they have a mandate to provide electronic services.
Third - and this ties back to second - libraries in general don't have a budget for public IT. They can't afford the expertise to implement FOSS when the vast majority of the people who will maintain and use the provided services are not trained to use it. Even on their web presence, ease of implementation (which probably contributed to this problem) equals lower TCO for them.
Just remember - Federal law Trumps State law (as users of medical and recreational marijuana are painfully aware). The current administration may see the profit in ignoring recreational substances, but Ford has already got some some political equity with the current administration. It seems quite possible that the Federal government under the current administration could choose to invalidate such laws at the behest of a major American manufacturer - after all, Carrier has already demonstrated how to coerce the current administration.
Awesome . . . Looks like Herr Drumpf's fans have mod points. More amusingly, looks like they're butt-hurt.
That's true. Cream may rise to the top, but shit floats.
Hey, at least in this case, he's right, and not spamming the board. When he behaves well we should treat him well.
I hope all of these admins are now getting well deserved unemployment checks. This was just plain stupid, and not being a security expert is no excuse.
Consider this a real-world lesson for our youth in the ways that design choices can have unanticipated effects on implementation, manageability and viability of software in the long haul. For extra credit, the kids that are affected should be encouraged to explore what they could have done to mitigate the risk caused by some grown-up's oversight.
Surprising how similar those two things are these days, isn't it?
How long have the Russians known about this, and what have they done with it?
Which don't seem to be preventing us from exporting weapons-grade stupidity, in any event.
Using swipe to input from an Android tablet . . . I've really got to start double-checking before I hit the 'submit' button.
Of course, the is a simpler solution available to the US Army - take back the bounty money and declare publicly that military cyber-security is perfect and no successful expires were found.
There are other examples. I assure you, it can be difficult to be a non-Christian in the US.
Trump didn't win . . . Hilary lost. So good of you to admit that.
Al, is that you?