I see it now - Moscow, Kuncevskaya metro station, winter, early morning, people are hurrying for work, entering metro station like an endless river. Before entering the station stream of people stops. what are they doing? Looks like everyone taking their cellphone out with cold, numb fingers, and wrap it with tinfoil. I see an old woman, she stays there with a cellphone in her hand, looking lost - what happened? Oh noes, she forgot her tinfoil! Will somebody help her, give her a piece of tinfoil to wrap up her phone? I guess we will never know...
This is a very unlikely scenario - in real life nobody will bother to switch a phone off. Passport is required to buy any sim card in Russia, so this will be very effective in tracking movements. Plus there are cameras on the entrance - they can match name on sim card with face, training face recognition software, if it is not ideal yet.
I can try to explain why. So far only known life form is our carbon based, situated exclusively on planet Earth - it includes every living organism on Earth, from amoeba to whale. We do not know it for sure, but it is possible (but unlikely) that it is the only life form existing in the universe. More likely is that life is like a sparkle in time in space - that there were (insert arbitrary large number) of life forms before us, and will be even more after us, but on cosmic time scale life expectancy of average life form is very small, so most of time/space is kinda lifeless and boring, and, most important of all, lacks an observer.
It's easy to think about observer as about god - it's something that everybody have or it lives inside everybody who's alive, it does not include any part of personality, it does not have any properties at all - so everybody have the same observer, or, you can say, it's one for everybody. If you think about it this way - it does not die after your death, so it makes you almost immortal - if you define 'me' such it does not include your personality, which I believe is right - as personality is just a sum of your genes and previous life experience.
So, what can be our purpose in life, and what can be the purpose of a humane race? Based on above I believe it should be protecting and expanding areal of carbon based life form. This runaway greenhouse scenario will end up with earth without liquid water on a surface - it can possible kill all life as we know it, so we should try to prevent it, even if it will happen after our personal deaths. Anyway, on a long enough time line, chances of survival of life on planet Earth drops to zero - so I believe we should do what we can to extend life, not necessary humans - maybe just a seeds from which evolution can begin - to as many planets as we can.
Oops, sorry - Senkaku Islands are controlled by Japan and disputed by China, so yes, looks like Japanese need US backing or there own strong military force (probably only nukes will count) to deter China.
So basically US backing Japan or not is irrelevant - as all this territorial claims you listed is Japan territorial claims to China and Russia, not the other way around, and Japan is not going to get anything anyway, with or without US backing them.
Japanese claim Russian islands, Russian claim to Japanese islands, it works out to the same thing. In a regular situation, after diplomatic breakdown, there would be war. Which side is in the right (you claiming that Russia is correct), is irrelevant. Having the US back Japan greatly deters the idea of a real, actual shooting war.
No it's not works out to the same thing, it's the matter of who need to start aggression to get what they perceive as theirs. I'm saying that de-facto Russia control those islands since WW2, and Russia have no territorial claims to Japan. US backing Japan is irrelevant in this case, as Russia would not start aggression on Japan (as it have no territorial claims), and Japan would not start aggression on Russia in foreseeable future as it could lead to nuclear strikes.
Japan already pays the cost of the US bases. (Ignoring the hidden costs) it won't effect the US bottom line very much. Having a superpower in the region is a good way to deter another superpower though, so I doubt that the US will be leaving Japan (but even if they did, there would still be S. Korea and Taiwan to deter China and Russia from enforcing their territorial claims).
Russia have no territorial claims to Japan, on contrary Japan have claims on some of islands that is currently a Russian territory.
It will keep those hackers away, sure:) You really dont know about vpn, socks, ssh tunnel, server with remote access? Or you are just a voice from under the bridge?
Having looked at the C&C IP addresses, domain names used by the attackers, shellcode inside the exploits and various pieces of metadata, AlienVault has surmised the attackers are operating out of China.
AlienVaults make the same mistake - like Chinese servers and domains are available only to Chinese, lol. Couple of years ago.cn domains was almost free, so 90 percent of spam domains were.cn. Chinese servers frequently used as 'bullet-proof' as Chinese datacenter staff tends not to react on foreign abuse complaints. IP's and domains have no relation whatsoever to attackers nationality.
I'll be surprised if those Russian domains will ever be widely used - about 3 years ago Russia got.RF (but in cyrillic letters, so I can not properly write it here, it's xn--p1ai ), and yet I've seen only one legitimate website advertised on this tld, and it was advertisement of demolision works service crudely painted in an elevator.
There are a few hotels that provide services for transit passengers in Sheremetevo, including couple four-five star hotes - so he probably stays in a nice room and gets regular meals delivered from hotel restaurant. Hotel do not have to be located inside airport transit zone, just a separate guarded floor in an ordinary hotel. So I bet he is pretty comfortable now.
New requirements mostly for registrars, not for domain owners. According to TFA domain buyers will have to provide valid phone or address, and registrar will be responsible for verifying those.
I am quite tired of this, but... Can we let this silly myth die already? Radiation from a coal plant is heavily diluted. Radiation is a problem of concentration, i.e. it is harmful when it passes a certain threshold. If you dilute it enough, radiation is not harmful, not any more than cosmic rays or a smoke detector.
Based on your wisdom I just invented a cheap way of storing nuclear waste - divide it in a relatively small piles and blow those up with explosives one by one every some time, and let the wind to do the rest!
Shit, still no utf-8 suppport here? FAIL:( anyway i was trying to say that
yes, this one would be sooo difficult to decode back to ASCII characters, it would take like 3 or even more hours of work to make script that will do it, that will save us all from all kinds of data mining for sure!
Quoting TFA "landed slightly off course but safely in a planted field near Orenburg, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) southeast of Moscow". Thats indeed near Kazakhstan border.
yep, just add touchscreen - and it's the best of two worlds! A bit like fujitsu p1620 circa 2003, that i used since around 2010. Just remember - keyboard got to be good (or at least acceptable), please manufacturers do not save ten bucks on a keyboard, please! I like 9 hour battery life in my acer, hi-res and overall good screen, but keyboard is shit beyong my wildest nightmares. And touchscreen, why it does not respond to a pen or any pen-shaped object, my fingers is not too fat, but anyway, i can not reliably click or scroll! Can I please have keyboard and touchscreen from the past, but battery life, weight, screen resolution and price from the current models?
How exactly water will be wasted? Moon colony, if there will ever be one, will operate as closed system - all water will be recycled, same as it is now recycled on ISS.
Because if you would have a lab rats, what would you rather give them - pure medical cocaine or nicotine? considering that you can save some of this for yourselve?
I bet glorious leader just getting payed for trolling. He creates media events, or how its called, and additionally justifies US military budget - quite valuable!
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I see it now - Moscow, Kuncevskaya metro station, winter, early morning, people are hurrying for work, entering metro station like an endless river. Before entering the station stream of people stops. what are they doing? Looks like everyone taking their cellphone out with cold, numb fingers, and wrap it with tinfoil. I see an old woman, she stays there with a cellphone in her hand, looking lost - what happened? Oh noes, she forgot her tinfoil! Will somebody help her, give her a piece of tinfoil to wrap up her phone? I guess we will never know...
This is a very unlikely scenario - in real life nobody will bother to switch a phone off. Passport is required to buy any sim card in Russia, so this will be very effective in tracking movements. Plus there are cameras on the entrance - they can match name on sim card with face, training face recognition software, if it is not ideal yet.
I can try to explain why. So far only known life form is our carbon based, situated exclusively on planet Earth - it includes every living organism on Earth, from amoeba to whale. We do not know it for sure, but it is possible (but unlikely) that it is the only life form existing in the universe. More likely is that life is like a sparkle in time in space - that there were (insert arbitrary large number) of life forms before us, and will be even more after us, but on cosmic time scale life expectancy of average life form is very small, so most of time/space is kinda lifeless and boring, and, most important of all, lacks an observer.
It's easy to think about observer as about god - it's something that everybody have or it lives inside everybody who's alive, it does not include any part of personality, it does not have any properties at all - so everybody have the same observer, or, you can say, it's one for everybody. If you think about it this way - it does not die after your death, so it makes you almost immortal - if you define 'me' such it does not include your personality, which I believe is right - as personality is just a sum of your genes and previous life experience.
So, what can be our purpose in life, and what can be the purpose of a humane race? Based on above I believe it should be protecting and expanding areal of carbon based life form. This runaway greenhouse scenario will end up with earth without liquid water on a surface - it can possible kill all life as we know it, so we should try to prevent it, even if it will happen after our personal deaths. Anyway, on a long enough time line, chances of survival of life on planet Earth drops to zero - so I believe we should do what we can to extend life, not necessary humans - maybe just a seeds from which evolution can begin - to as many planets as we can.
The thing is, we are all in favor of some sort of censorship aren't we?
Nope.
Why exactly should we want any censorship?
Oops, sorry - Senkaku Islands are controlled by Japan and disputed by China, so yes, looks like Japanese need US backing or there own strong military force (probably only nukes will count) to deter China.
So basically US backing Japan or not is irrelevant - as all this territorial claims you listed is Japan territorial claims to China and Russia, not the other way around, and Japan is not going to get anything anyway, with or without US backing them.
Japanese claim Russian islands, Russian claim to Japanese islands, it works out to the same thing. In a regular situation, after diplomatic breakdown, there would be war. Which side is in the right (you claiming that Russia is correct), is irrelevant. Having the US back Japan greatly deters the idea of a real, actual shooting war.
No it's not works out to the same thing, it's the matter of who need to start aggression to get what they perceive as theirs. I'm saying that de-facto Russia control those islands since WW2, and Russia have no territorial claims to Japan. US backing Japan is irrelevant in this case, as Russia would not start aggression on Japan (as it have no territorial claims), and Japan would not start aggression on Russia in foreseeable future as it could lead to nuclear strikes.
Japan already pays the cost of the US bases. (Ignoring the hidden costs) it won't effect the US bottom line very much. Having a superpower in the region is a good way to deter another superpower though, so I doubt that the US will be leaving Japan (but even if they did, there would still be S. Korea and Taiwan to deter China and Russia from enforcing their territorial claims).
Russia have no territorial claims to Japan, on contrary Japan have claims on some of islands that is currently a Russian territory.
Having looked at the C&C IP addresses, domain names used by the attackers, shellcode inside the exploits and various pieces of metadata, AlienVault has surmised the attackers are operating out of China.
AlienVaults make the same mistake - like Chinese servers and domains are available only to Chinese, lol. Couple of years ago .cn domains was almost free, so 90 percent of spam domains were .cn. Chinese servers frequently used as 'bullet-proof' as Chinese datacenter staff tends not to react on foreign abuse complaints. IP's and domains have no relation whatsoever to attackers nationality.
I'll be surprised if those Russian domains will ever be widely used - about 3 years ago Russia got .RF (but in cyrillic letters, so I can not properly write it here, it's xn--p1ai ), and yet I've seen only one legitimate website advertised on this tld, and it was advertisement of demolision works service crudely painted in an elevator.
He has both money and power, he just plays The Game... The Game of Thrones!
There are a few hotels that provide services for transit passengers in Sheremetevo, including couple four-five star hotes - so he probably stays in a nice room and gets regular meals delivered from hotel restaurant. Hotel do not have to be located inside airport transit zone, just a separate guarded floor in an ordinary hotel. So I bet he is pretty comfortable now.
In America the people vote for the government. So when if they hate the government then by logic they hate the people.
Exactly GP's point - you seems to actually beleive that citizens of your country freely choose their goverment.
New requirements mostly for registrars, not for domain owners. According to TFA domain buyers will have to provide valid phone or address, and registrar will be responsible for verifying those.
If you know system was compromised you can presume that data was stolen.
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By seeing malware signed by your certificate?
I am quite tired of this, but... Can we let this silly myth die already? Radiation from a coal plant is heavily diluted. Radiation is a problem of concentration, i.e. it is harmful when it passes a certain threshold. If you dilute it enough, radiation is not harmful, not any more than cosmic rays or a smoke detector.
Based on your wisdom I just invented a cheap way of storing nuclear waste - divide it in a relatively small piles and blow those up with explosives one by one every some time, and let the wind to do the rest!
"All crows are black"
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:( anyway i was trying to say that
Shit, still no utf-8 suppport here? FAIL
yes, this one would be sooo difficult to decode back to ASCII characters, it would take like 3 or even more hours of work to make script that will do it, that will save us all from all kinds of data mining for sure!
Quoting TFA "landed slightly off course but safely in a planted field near Orenburg, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) southeast of Moscow". Thats indeed near Kazakhstan border.
yep, just add touchscreen - and it's the best of two worlds! A bit like fujitsu p1620 circa 2003, that i used since around 2010. Just remember - keyboard got to be good (or at least acceptable), please manufacturers do not save ten bucks on a keyboard, please! I like 9 hour battery life in my acer, hi-res and overall good screen, but keyboard is shit beyong my wildest nightmares. And touchscreen, why it does not respond to a pen or any pen-shaped object, my fingers is not too fat, but anyway, i can not reliably click or scroll! Can I please have keyboard and touchscreen from the past, but battery life, weight, screen resolution and price from the current models?
In addition to GP's points moon is not in my backyard - we can try unsafe propulsion methods from there, like nuclear.
How exactly water will be wasted? Moon colony, if there will ever be one, will operate as closed system - all water will be recycled, same as it is now recycled on ISS.
Because if you would have a lab rats, what would you rather give them - pure medical cocaine or nicotine? considering that you can save some of this for yourselve?
oops, post to unmod. And yes, problems are political and in media - people got scared easy by nuclear incidents and media happily use.
I bet glorious leader just getting payed for trolling. He creates media events, or how its called, and additionally justifies US military budget - quite valuable!