No one has ever stated that the "business card" was located inside the vault, it could very well have been on the lobby floor. All the same, what is to stop someone from leaving a tag that does not reflect/represent the meme?
You would cloak yourself in meat and expect the wolves to uphold your right to personal integrity? Really? I'm not trying to excuse/escape the men that would violate the girl but at the same time responsibility needs to be taken for baiting her violators which was my point with Sony. Not only did Sony walk around "naked" but when they were warned that that was an open invitation to be compromised they ignored the warnings. Low and behold, guess what a few months later they were. Did the girl deserve it? No. Does Sony and it's customers? No. Did each place themselves into a compromising position that advertised their exploitability? Absolutely.
I beg to differ, a stupid victim is in part responsible and so do in a manner of speaking by your statement about Sony failing to apply due diligence. Which of course they hadn't. Researchers months prior discovered that they not only did not have a firewall, but also, unpatched server software. These researchers notified Sony of this vulnerability but Sony ignored them.
Perhaps we watched two different versions...? There was an actual hacker that committed the first incident--the kidnapping of the head of Serano--named Aoi who was inspired by the discovery of a file deep within the net detailing rampant corporate corruption. Aoi put a voice to what might be considered the original Laughing Man, the author of that file. He manipulated (puppetted) some and inspired many others to take up the cause of truth becoming a Laughing Man type. A corrupt group in the government took advantage of the appearance of the Laughing Man to further their aims through corporate sabotage using the Laughing Man branding as a cover.
Innocent until proven guilty. Just because it is a major corp pointing the finger doesn't make it so and yet people are quick to give them the benefit of the doubt.
If you want to understand Anonymous you need to watch the Ghost in the Shell anime. Anonymous is a seeded attempt at the "Laughing Man" of the series.
With respect to this case, the entire body of evidence linking Anonymous with this intrusion is nothing more than a single file that Sony "claims" to have found on their system. Even "if" this file actually existed, and was found rather than "placed" by Sony employees, it's is analogous to finding a business card on the bank floor after a heist has taken place.
Regardless of who actually penetrated Sony's systems, there is a serious issue that doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves. Sony wasn't minding the shop. Independent researchers informed Sony of their vulnerable systems and Sony ignored them. If a very attractive girl decides to strip naked and run around inside a men's prison should the girl not be at least partially responsible for anything that happens to her. Now in the case of Sony it isn't much different, except for them they aren't just opening themselves up for abuse, they are opening up everyone of their customers whom entrusted them with their exploitable financial data.
As with many, I question the "star programmer" bit but that angle not withstanding. Take you're budget and hire a consultant. Position yourself as supervisor to this group. Mean while if you really are a "star programmer" go look for another job.
Yes, you don't have to suffer the abuse dished out by students who like their torrents, video, pornz, warez, etc. etc. You have suits that like their torrents, video, pornz, warez, etc. etc..
... and no, it's not destined for use in tiny mobile phones or covert surveillance devices, instead the camera is designed for medical endoscopic procedures in hard to reach regions of the human anatomy."
Are you kidding me?
Agent 1:"Sir, I have this cool new camera we can use to watch the Smith house with."
Agent 2:"Alright, where is it?"
Agent 1:"Here." holds up his hand
Agent 2:"I don't see it."
Agent 1:Hands him a magnifying class. "Try again"
Agent 2:"That's just a spec of sand."
Agent 1:"No, seriously sir, it's a camera"
Agent 2:"You're full of it!"
Agent 1:"Just imagine where we can put these things, and no one would ever know."
Agent 2:"Why would we need something that small? No, we're going to use this device." pulls out 5x3cm brick
Agent 1:rolls his eyes, walks off and sits down in from of a monitor showing what appears to be very pixelated Lady Gaga porn
That attitude/behavior causes half of your day to be a required but not desired activity. Personally I'd prefer to desire or at least not mind going to work.
Further such an attitude hinders your productivity (unless you are both customer, CEO, and sole employee). Perhaps you don't care since you just want to get paid. Though I can't help but wonder if people with that kind of attitude might not be first on the list for layoffs and low on priority for raises.
It doesn't cost anything (fuel) to orbit. It only costs something when you change orbit. As per Newton's first law of motion. Orbits around a planetary body can degrade due to atmospheric drag, however heliocentric orbits (around the sun) do not have this consideration. Halo orbits--the ones involving Lagrange points--are useful for maintaining position relative to two other gravitational bodies such as Earth-Moon, Earth-Sun, etc..
Humans are an expensive pain the arse to launch. The smaller their vehicle, the cheaper, and safer they become. Non-human payloads do not require the safety (nor life support) of a human rated vehicle. This makes them significantly cheaper. The expense of a rocket grows exponentially the larger you make them. Smaller rockets are also easier to mass-produce.
It wouldn't be necessary to "stop" even if you were to refuel mid-flight. The refueling vessel would be placed in opportune orbit--around the sun, around a planet, etc.. An inbound vehicle would simply intercept the refueling vessel's orbit, refuel, and continue on it's merry way.
The problem trying to be resolved by in space fueling is the elimination of the need to carry it with you from earth on the same launch. Take for instance the most immediate need for this capability, satellite refueling. Presently the lifespan of a satellite is no longer than the fuel supply it was launched with. After this runs out it is no longer possible to correct for orbital decay, nor collision avoidance--an ever growing problem. Launching satellites with less fuel and being able to refuel them in orbit would create substantial launch and replacement cost savings.
Moving out a bit, the goal then becomes moving humans around in space. Humans come at a severe expense of weight due to life support and safety systems. The more weight, the bigger the launcher. The bigger the launcher the more complex and expensive they become both in terms of development, manufacture, launch as well as operation. If we can do away with the need to launch everything together, humans can be sent up in substantially smaller, cheaper, and safer vehicles. Payloads of fuel, and/or hardware don't require anything near the expense of humans, and can be sent up piecemeal with lower costs related to failure. In other words human payloads absolutely can not fail, but non-human ones while detrimental, do not matter so much.
One of the largest hurdles for humans going to places outside Earth orbit is how to return them. Our society doesn't have the will for one-way trips. Unfortunately, return trips require return fuel. We can either send it with the astronauts at great--possibly prohibitive--expense or we can have it already at the destination waiting for them to fuel up for the return trip. If we can manufacture it at the destination, even better.
The raw materials available for building components in space via NEOs (near Earth objects) are orders of magnitude greater than they are on earth. The problems lie more in the host of technologies that do not yet exist for harvesting, transforming, and manufacturing in space. There are further logistical issues regarding getting to the materials. Flying out to an asteroid isn't cheap, neither is returning with the goods.
All that said, the rewards for conquering these technological hurdles is mind boggling. To date we've only been getting our toes wet with respect to researching technology leading to the industrialization of space. Because of which much of this seems more sci-fi than anything. The short-term thinking majority can't conceive of any kind of substantial future in space. But they are the same kind of visionless people that wouldn't have bothered trying to industrialize Earth because it was too hard with solutions difficult to imagine. Explaining our vision for humanity in space to such people is like trying to explain your vision for creating what we know today as a smartphone to a pre-industrialization era person. All you'd get is mockery and ridicule about your pie in the sky, day dreaming flights of fancy.
Many of the laws and regulations pertaining to the conduct of business were conceived prior to and thus without consideration of the advent of certain technologies. This notion of technology, even if it isn't apparent to our legal system, includes not only hardware and software, but business methods. These laws and regulations come about as a protection against certain behaviors we've deemed harmful to some facet of society. This cage meant to trap such behavior however is never perfect and being caged is contrary to human nature. By some mechanism of technology the caged behavior escapes through whatever breach it can find. By the time this occurs the political motivation to curtail the behavior has long since left.
I thought that was because they didn't care for a competitor having superior service at a lower price. All I know is I am not the slightest bit please to see my carrier gobbled by those bastards. If the FTC doesn't block the sale I'll likely be switching after it finalizes.
Except they are--presently, and "not sure" for the future.
The Mobile/Handheld CE development kit will be released in July of this year. The Army is whether or not a commercial made phone or government off the shelf model is more appropriate. Regardless, the Army says, the software development kit will be designed for a variety of Android based systems.
"I saw the ability when a soldier is wounded to take a picture of the wound and to pass that to the doctors, so that medics can make sure that they are treating the soldier in the appropriate way, given the wound that he has received. So there are many, many applications of this,"
McCarthy said that to date, the project has been run on shoestring budget, and he'd like to keep it that way. Defense contractors have provided him with proposals that would requrre the expenditure "of a lot of money," he said, but he does not want to pursue proposals that would transform a $200 commercial gadget into a $2,400 Army-unique phone.
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I'm not certain if the you you speak of is directed targeted at me or what you perceive to be people like me, but really, I think there's a benefit to people thinking critically and trying to not simply believe the marketing without due consideration and proper knowledge.
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No one has ever stated that the "business card" was located inside the vault, it could very well have been on the lobby floor. All the same, what is to stop someone from leaving a tag that does not reflect/represent the meme?
You would cloak yourself in meat and expect the wolves to uphold your right to personal integrity? Really? I'm not trying to excuse/escape the men that would violate the girl but at the same time responsibility needs to be taken for baiting her violators which was my point with Sony. Not only did Sony walk around "naked" but when they were warned that that was an open invitation to be compromised they ignored the warnings. Low and behold, guess what a few months later they were. Did the girl deserve it? No. Does Sony and it's customers? No. Did each place themselves into a compromising position that advertised their exploitability? Absolutely.
Hmm, I can't speak for which is "closer" but it looks to be an interesting anime series, thanks, I'll have to look into it...
I beg to differ, a stupid victim is in part responsible and so do in a manner of speaking by your statement about Sony failing to apply due diligence. Which of course they hadn't. Researchers months prior discovered that they not only did not have a firewall, but also, unpatched server software. These researchers notified Sony of this vulnerability but Sony ignored them.
Perhaps we watched two different versions...? There was an actual hacker that committed the first incident--the kidnapping of the head of Serano--named Aoi who was inspired by the discovery of a file deep within the net detailing rampant corporate corruption. Aoi put a voice to what might be considered the original Laughing Man, the author of that file. He manipulated (puppetted) some and inspired many others to take up the cause of truth becoming a Laughing Man type. A corrupt group in the government took advantage of the appearance of the Laughing Man to further their aims through corporate sabotage using the Laughing Man branding as a cover.
Innocent until proven guilty. Just because it is a major corp pointing the finger doesn't make it so and yet people are quick to give them the benefit of the doubt.
If you want to understand Anonymous you need to watch the Ghost in the Shell anime. Anonymous is a seeded attempt at the "Laughing Man" of the series.
With respect to this case, the entire body of evidence linking Anonymous with this intrusion is nothing more than a single file that Sony "claims" to have found on their system. Even "if" this file actually existed, and was found rather than "placed" by Sony employees, it's is analogous to finding a business card on the bank floor after a heist has taken place.
Regardless of who actually penetrated Sony's systems, there is a serious issue that doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves. Sony wasn't minding the shop. Independent researchers informed Sony of their vulnerable systems and Sony ignored them. If a very attractive girl decides to strip naked and run around inside a men's prison should the girl not be at least partially responsible for anything that happens to her. Now in the case of Sony it isn't much different, except for them they aren't just opening themselves up for abuse, they are opening up everyone of their customers whom entrusted them with their exploitable financial data.
As with many, I question the "star programmer" bit but that angle not withstanding. Take you're budget and hire a consultant. Position yourself as supervisor to this group. Mean while if you really are a "star programmer" go look for another job.
Yes, you don't have to suffer the abuse dished out by students who like their torrents, video, pornz, warez, etc. etc. You have suits that like their torrents, video, pornz, warez, etc. etc..
... and no, it's not destined for use in tiny mobile phones or covert surveillance devices, instead the camera is designed for medical endoscopic procedures in hard to reach regions of the human anatomy."
Are you kidding me?
Agent 1:"Sir, I have this cool new camera we can use to watch the Smith house with."
Agent 2:"Alright, where is it?"
Agent 1:"Here." holds up his hand
Agent 2:"I don't see it."
Agent 1:Hands him a magnifying class. "Try again"
Agent 2:"That's just a spec of sand."
Agent 1:"No, seriously sir, it's a camera"
Agent 2:"You're full of it!"
Agent 1:"Just imagine where we can put these things, and no one would ever know."
Agent 2:"Why would we need something that small? No, we're going to use this device." pulls out 5x3cm brick
Agent 1:rolls his eyes, walks off and sits down in from of a monitor showing what appears to be very pixelated Lady Gaga porn
...would only do it for beer.
Star Trek:TNG - "The Neutral Zone"
SONNY Yeah, boob-tube... you know. I'd like to find out how the Braves are doin' after all this time. Probably still finding ways to lose.
DATA (to Riker) Oh -- I think he means television, sir.
SONNY Or maybe catch up on the soaps.
DATA (to Sonny) That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year Two Thousand Forty.
That attitude/behavior causes half of your day to be a required but not desired activity. Personally I'd prefer to desire or at least not mind going to work.
Further such an attitude hinders your productivity (unless you are both customer, CEO, and sole employee). Perhaps you don't care since you just want to get paid. Though I can't help but wonder if people with that kind of attitude might not be first on the list for layoffs and low on priority for raises.
Most people have one particular ISP or another for a reason. Typically it is because the alternatives are worse, or none exist.
It doesn't cost anything (fuel) to orbit. It only costs something when you change orbit. As per Newton's first law of motion. Orbits around a planetary body can degrade due to atmospheric drag, however heliocentric orbits (around the sun) do not have this consideration. Halo orbits--the ones involving Lagrange points--are useful for maintaining position relative to two other gravitational bodies such as Earth-Moon, Earth-Sun, etc..
Humans are an expensive pain the arse to launch. The smaller their vehicle, the cheaper, and safer they become. Non-human payloads do not require the safety (nor life support) of a human rated vehicle. This makes them significantly cheaper. The expense of a rocket grows exponentially the larger you make them. Smaller rockets are also easier to mass-produce.
And there are such things as solar sails... and technically there is a Dirac sea... :P
It wouldn't be necessary to "stop" even if you were to refuel mid-flight. The refueling vessel would be placed in opportune orbit--around the sun, around a planet, etc.. An inbound vehicle would simply intercept the refueling vessel's orbit, refuel, and continue on it's merry way.
The problem trying to be resolved by in space fueling is the elimination of the need to carry it with you from earth on the same launch. Take for instance the most immediate need for this capability, satellite refueling. Presently the lifespan of a satellite is no longer than the fuel supply it was launched with. After this runs out it is no longer possible to correct for orbital decay, nor collision avoidance--an ever growing problem. Launching satellites with less fuel and being able to refuel them in orbit would create substantial launch and replacement cost savings.
Moving out a bit, the goal then becomes moving humans around in space. Humans come at a severe expense of weight due to life support and safety systems. The more weight, the bigger the launcher. The bigger the launcher the more complex and expensive they become both in terms of development, manufacture, launch as well as operation. If we can do away with the need to launch everything together, humans can be sent up in substantially smaller, cheaper, and safer vehicles. Payloads of fuel, and/or hardware don't require anything near the expense of humans, and can be sent up piecemeal with lower costs related to failure. In other words human payloads absolutely can not fail, but non-human ones while detrimental, do not matter so much.
One of the largest hurdles for humans going to places outside Earth orbit is how to return them. Our society doesn't have the will for one-way trips. Unfortunately, return trips require return fuel. We can either send it with the astronauts at great--possibly prohibitive--expense or we can have it already at the destination waiting for them to fuel up for the return trip. If we can manufacture it at the destination, even better.
The raw materials available for building components in space via NEOs (near Earth objects) are orders of magnitude greater than they are on earth. The problems lie more in the host of technologies that do not yet exist for harvesting, transforming, and manufacturing in space. There are further logistical issues regarding getting to the materials. Flying out to an asteroid isn't cheap, neither is returning with the goods.
All that said, the rewards for conquering these technological hurdles is mind boggling. To date we've only been getting our toes wet with respect to researching technology leading to the industrialization of space. Because of which much of this seems more sci-fi than anything. The short-term thinking majority can't conceive of any kind of substantial future in space. But they are the same kind of visionless people that wouldn't have bothered trying to industrialize Earth because it was too hard with solutions difficult to imagine. Explaining our vision for humanity in space to such people is like trying to explain your vision for creating what we know today as a smartphone to a pre-industrialization era person. All you'd get is mockery and ridicule about your pie in the sky, day dreaming flights of fancy.
Many of the laws and regulations pertaining to the conduct of business were conceived prior to and thus without consideration of the advent of certain technologies. This notion of technology, even if it isn't apparent to our legal system, includes not only hardware and software, but business methods. These laws and regulations come about as a protection against certain behaviors we've deemed harmful to some facet of society. This cage meant to trap such behavior however is never perfect and being caged is contrary to human nature. By some mechanism of technology the caged behavior escapes through whatever breach it can find. By the time this occurs the political motivation to curtail the behavior has long since left.
Why they hell is everyone modding this funny? This is NOT funny!
I thought that was because they didn't care for a competitor having superior service at a lower price. All I know is I am not the slightest bit please to see my carrier gobbled by those bastards. If the FTC doesn't block the sale I'll likely be switching after it finalizes.
Not really. They round up...
Except they are--presently, and "not sure" for the future.
The Mobile /Handheld CE development kit will be released in July of this year. The Army is whether or not a commercial made phone or government off the shelf model is more appropriate. Regardless, the Army says, the software development kit will be designed for a variety of Android based systems.
"I saw the ability when a soldier is wounded to take a picture of the wound and to pass that to the doctors, so that medics can make sure that they are treating the soldier in the appropriate way, given the wound that he has received. So there are many, many applications of this,"
McCarthy said that to date, the project has been run on shoestring budget, and he'd like to keep it that way. Defense contractors have provided him with proposals that would requrre the expenditure "of a lot of money," he said, but he does not want to pursue proposals that would transform a $200 commercial gadget into a $2,400 Army-unique phone. from
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I'm not certain if the you you speak of is directed targeted at me or what you perceive to be people like me, but really, I think there's a benefit to people thinking critically and trying to not simply believe the marketing without due consideration and proper knowledge.