five bank officials were guilty of negligence but that they were only unwitting accomplices. Alam told Reuters his investigations had discovered that some bank officials had knowingly created vulnerabilities in the bank's connection to the SWIFT system, used for global transactions.
Sure sounds like some bank officials wanted the typical security exemptions of management and that it really bit them in the ass this time. Bangladesh isn't known for it's leniency and frankly, I hope they throw the book at them.
"a group of computer science students from Syria," and that "all the money that we get goes to food, medicine, shelter to our people. We are extremely sorry that we are forcing you to pay but that's the only way that we can keep living."
This is a brilliant twist on malware. These are not people from Syria but rather a story concocted to try and have you help them. It's basically, it's an alternate version of the "Nigerian Prince" that needs money to bribe his captors to release him. Logically, a person in a warzone cannot exchange bitcoin for money or goods which makes the whole thing implausible from the start. I would bet what when they tear the binary apart, they'll find that it's been compiled for the Russian locale.
So what would you do if this ransomware infected your files?
A) wipe your system B) load Linux instead of Windows C) restore files from backups
I'm not happy that you have to give up all feature updates for years in order to get an OS they're not going to be changing behavior on every month.
The good news is that I can fix your problem. The bad news is you won't be reveling as part of "The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" with the latest titles anymore.
If a company's products cause illness, won't they loose any class action suit and have to pay millions? Don't they break the law by knowingly selling products that cause illness? I would think so.
How many decades did it take to finally bring tobacco companies under control? the truth is that we still haven't despite the science. food companies are using the same tactics of doubt to delay this fight and make as much money as they can while millions die.
You don't want to prevent illness and death in the first place by adequate consumer protection laws and their enforcement?
As long as we're making magical wishes, why don't we wish for bad people to not be bad. In the meantime, it's best to attack problems using the most effective methods.
A company can just kill a few customers here and there if they can get away with it financially? Only in the US can someone come up with such an idea...
A few people? They are killing millions of people and getting away with it because it's difficult to prove because it's the extended use of their product that kills. Therefore, it only makes sense to make it so that their actions catch up with them, even if it takes 40 years to manifest heart disease.
The problem is that there is no incentive for corporations to have people live healthy lives. As a result of this people are slowly being killed by the things they eat and the medicines they take. The obvious solution is to create feedback loops that discourage damaging profit motives.
For example, if you sell a product and a customer become ill as a result, your company has to contribute to their rehabilitation. This of course has the caveat of needing to record what people buy (already done by most companies) and relying on statistical analysis. As more and more data correlates a product to illness, the heavier the monetary burden is put on the corporation making it.
Corporation have already fubar'd a lot of people so the burden is going to be quite heavy for them for many years but if they correct the products they know are hurting people, it will decrease over time. If they decide, "fuck it, sell it anyway" then the monetary burden will increase until it drives them out of business.
As someone who actually looked and considered it, the toys are less nefarious than they seem to be accused of being. The physical toys are actually just (insecure) bluetooth speakerphone devices. Seriously, you can use the dolls to talk to people on the phone. Where the real danger lies is in the Android/iOS applications. I do not know if the application runs in the background 24/7 but I get the feeling you have to activate it to make the toy "smart" because always being on would cause battery drain issues. If your kid already has their own Android/iOS device then you have already failed on the privacy front.
Looking at the specs, it appears that this is likely just a build of MAME that runs on a single board computer with an ARM chip. It may be a quad core chip but due to IPC speed limitations, only one core can be effectively utilized by emulators. You'll get better performance out of a Raspberry Pi 3 but this does come in a fun case.
> Accounts originating from the same IP address would be kept in the same verse. If it's that easy, then just ban.
But it takes time to evaluate if someone should be banned. Therefore, it is far better to keep people banned as long as possible.
Its not like i cannot just have my "am i shadowbanned" account on my phone...
Again, it's not intended to be a cure-all.
> it's to delay them as long as possible. Which is bullshit. You* do not ban people, you do not ban opinions, you ban behaviour.
It is unreasonable to expect a forum can be read and fully managed by the people hosting it all the while not becoming frustrated with malicious users. The only thing that could manage that is a highly sophisticated AI. The alternative to this is to ban malicious posters.
People trolling, people flaming and people posting hate (that are three different things!) may be unwelcome (and this should be stated before) and that's a behaviour. Banning an account won't stop the next. No matter how clever your special kind of ban seems to be.
So when somebody commits a crime, do tell them, "don't break the law" and move on? No, there need to be repercussions like removing them from society, which then becomes a deterrent.
> The point is to keep them busy in an environment that doesn't harm others and possibly frustrate them enough times that they don't want continue. Which you try to solve technically, but where you won't succeed.
The point is not to solve the issue of malicious posters, it's to keep them at bay for as long as possible. By banning them you have already succeeded and the longer they are removed from the forum, the more successful the ban. However, claiming that you cannot frustrate them is non-sense because everyone gets frustrated eventually.
You may be thinking about the matter in an idealistic manner which is unrealistic. Malicious posting would exist even in an ideal society because it's a form of entertainment. This is a problem with homo sapiens and when we finally evolve to the point where it's no longer an issue then we will no longer be homo sapiens. In the mean time, we can only ban people and the longer the ban lasts, the better it is for everyone else.
DeepMind is an excellent platform but it's not without it's flaws. In creating a image labeling program, I noticed it did a great job identifying objects but when I tried to get it to identify various persons, it always returned with "ugly giant bag of mostly water".;)
And here the workaround to your idea: Troll with two accounts. Do you still see the second one? Oh, it must be "versebanned".
Accounts originating from the same IP address would be kept in the same verse.
Ideas like shadow banning seem clever to their inventors, but actually they are a silly game.
They are clever but you seem to think that they are intended to be a cure-all which isn't the point at all! The point isn't to keep them off the site forever, it's to delay them as long as possible.
Just convery your message and say "You're banned. That's it".
The immediate response is that they will create a new account.
Controlling if somebody returns needs to be done anyway, and hoping nobody notices your fancy new type of ban is just hopeless. Like the forums with the "crash browser of banned users" option in the good ol' times.
The point is to keep them busy trolling in an environment that doesn't harm others and possibly frustrate them enough times that they don't want continue.
If you ban a troll, they can just create a new account. If you shadowban a troll, it will take some time and then they will figure it out and make a new account. What we need is a "verseban" for trolls. This would be a progression of a shadowban but instead of being shunned it would appear that people are responding to them when in fact they are conversing with AI chatbots posing as those users. With the latest AI, this would be significantly more difficult to detect, especially if the replies were modeled on things users had written previously. In effect the troll would be banished to their own little universe where they cannot hurt anyone but also don't know they have been caged.
Makerbot capitalized on a great idea that came from expired patents. It wasn't cutting edge stuff but it is part of the history of 3D printing revolution, much like the people with 2400 baud modems were part of the internet revolution. There have already been significant advancements in 3D printing (like SLS and SLM) but they are locked behind patents and a lack of inexpensive pulsed lasers. Once these issues can be addressed, there will be inexpensive SLS and SLM which can then easily be used for semiconductor fabrication. It wouldn't be anything cutting edge but being able to make micrometer ICs on the cheap would be a boon for everyone.
So, in other words, you must cure humanity of the pure unadulterated, narcissistic greed that has created the chasm between the elitists and the rest of the human race.
Fat fucking chance of that shit happening.
How positively uncreative! What we can do is reform our societies and cultures so that greed is deemed to be the worst trait a person can have. Combine this with legal traps for greedy behavior that result in long jail sentences and evolution will solve our genetic issue. It wouldn't be easy to accomplish but it could be done.
I hope Microsoft knows that they just started infinite recursion in management. What's going to happen is a manager will schedule an in person discussion on some bullshit which will need a pointless PowerPoint presentation. Before the meeting happens, it will suddenly be pushed back so that there can be a phone meeting about collaborating on the PowerPoint presentation for the in person meeting. Confusion and discourse will occur and suddenly and an in person meeting will be scheduled for collaborating on presentation for the original in person meeting. This in person meeting will of course need a PowerPoint presentation to explain the confusion and discourse for which the meeting was called but after becoming a meta-meeting the manager insist on having assistance on making this presentation due to it's complexity... for which a phone meeting will be scheduled. An ever growing number of meetings and postponing of meetings will appear in your email inbox which will include and ever growing number of participants until the entire company's focus is on making presentations for presentations for presentations etc. So if you see an in person meeting scheduled and suddenly pushed back with a phone meeting scheduled before it, just run and don't look back!
Correlation is not causation, but in my unprofessional opinion, these maps look eerily similar.
There is definitely a link here somewhere but I think you have it backwards. Instead of antibiotic prescriptions making people obese, I think obese people have poor diets and as a side-effect of the poor diet and obesity they are more prone to become sick. Then end result being that people that get sick more often are giving antibiotics more often.
"Whatever it is that you normally do on Linux to build an application: whether it's in Go, in Erlang, in C, whatever you use, please, give it a try on Bash WSL, and importantly file bugs on us. It really makes our life a lot easier and helps us build a product...
Amazon has dismissed the claims, insisting that the firm values its employees and maintains a 'culture of direct dialogue' with them
Here's how that "direct dialogue" goes, "Oh, you have a problem with your job? Ok, I'll listen to your complaints while security escorts you out the door."
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If they were inside accomplices then why the need to hack the Windows desktops that performed the SWIFT transactions?
do you not know what an unwitting accomplice is? the internet has answers.
five bank officials were guilty of negligence but that they were only unwitting accomplices. Alam told Reuters his investigations had discovered that some bank officials had knowingly created vulnerabilities in the bank's connection to the SWIFT system, used for global transactions.
Sure sounds like some bank officials wanted the typical security exemptions of management and that it really bit them in the ass this time. Bangladesh isn't known for it's leniency and frankly, I hope they throw the book at them.
"a group of computer science students from Syria," and that "all the money that we get goes to food, medicine, shelter to our people. We are extremely sorry that we are forcing you to pay but that's the only way that we can keep living."
This is a brilliant twist on malware. These are not people from Syria but rather a story concocted to try and have you help them. It's basically, it's an alternate version of the "Nigerian Prince" that needs money to bribe his captors to release him. Logically, a person in a warzone cannot exchange bitcoin for money or goods which makes the whole thing implausible from the start. I would bet what when they tear the binary apart, they'll find that it's been compiled for the Russian locale.
So what would you do if this ransomware infected your files?
A) wipe your system
B) load Linux instead of Windows
C) restore files from backups
The vulnerability is a race condition that was discovered in the af_packet implementation in the Linux kernel
racism is ruining our country... and now our kernel too? IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE?! ;)
I'm not happy that you have to give up all feature updates for years in order to get an OS they're not going to be changing behavior on every month.
The good news is that I can fix your problem. The bad news is you won't be reveling as part of "The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" with the latest titles anymore.
I dunno. I thought I was being wise to create a diversion. See the badged guys will be checking women and their lipsticks and...
You would be put on the no-fly list after being caught the first time. Nothing you have stated is wise.
If a company's products cause illness, won't they loose any class action suit and have to pay millions? Don't they break the law by knowingly selling products that cause illness? I would think so.
How many decades did it take to finally bring tobacco companies under control? the truth is that we still haven't despite the science. food companies are using the same tactics of doubt to delay this fight and make as much money as they can while millions die.
You don't want to prevent illness and death in the first place by adequate consumer protection laws and their enforcement?
As long as we're making magical wishes, why don't we wish for bad people to not be bad. In the meantime, it's best to attack problems using the most effective methods.
A company can just kill a few customers here and there if they can get away with it financially? Only in the US can someone come up with such an idea...
A few people? They are killing millions of people and getting away with it because it's difficult to prove because it's the extended use of their product that kills. Therefore, it only makes sense to make it so that their actions catch up with them, even if it takes 40 years to manifest heart disease.
The problem is that there is no incentive for corporations to have people live healthy lives. As a result of this people are slowly being killed by the things they eat and the medicines they take. The obvious solution is to create feedback loops that discourage damaging profit motives.
For example, if you sell a product and a customer become ill as a result, your company has to contribute to their rehabilitation. This of course has the caveat of needing to record what people buy (already done by most companies) and relying on statistical analysis. As more and more data correlates a product to illness, the heavier the monetary burden is put on the corporation making it.
Corporation have already fubar'd a lot of people so the burden is going to be quite heavy for them for many years but if they correct the products they know are hurting people, it will decrease over time. If they decide, "fuck it, sell it anyway" then the monetary burden will increase until it drives them out of business.
As someone who actually looked and considered it, the toys are less nefarious than they seem to be accused of being. The physical toys are actually just (insecure) bluetooth speakerphone devices. Seriously, you can use the dolls to talk to people on the phone. Where the real danger lies is in the Android/iOS applications. I do not know if the application runs in the background 24/7 but I get the feeling you have to activate it to make the toy "smart" because always being on would cause battery drain issues. If your kid already has their own Android/iOS device then you have already failed on the privacy front.
Cell Phone Jammer In a lipstick tube FTW.
Congratulations on being the idiot that will make lipstick a prohibited item on airplanes!
Looking at the specs, it appears that this is likely just a build of MAME that runs on a single board computer with an ARM chip. It may be a quad core chip but due to IPC speed limitations, only one core can be effectively utilized by emulators. You'll get better performance out of a Raspberry Pi 3 but this does come in a fun case.
Now in my adult life people get frustrated when I can't hear them.
Then get some hearing aids!
> Accounts originating from the same IP address would be kept in the same verse.
If it's that easy, then just ban.
But it takes time to evaluate if someone should be banned. Therefore, it is far better to keep people banned as long as possible.
Its not like i cannot just have my "am i shadowbanned" account on my phone ...
Again, it's not intended to be a cure-all.
> it's to delay them as long as possible.
Which is bullshit. You* do not ban people, you do not ban opinions, you ban behaviour.
It is unreasonable to expect a forum can be read and fully managed by the people hosting it all the while not becoming frustrated with malicious users. The only thing that could manage that is a highly sophisticated AI. The alternative to this is to ban malicious posters.
People trolling, people flaming and people posting hate (that are three different things!) may be unwelcome (and this should be stated before) and that's a behaviour. Banning an account won't stop the next. No matter how clever your special kind of ban seems to be.
So when somebody commits a crime, do tell them, "don't break the law" and move on? No, there need to be repercussions like removing them from society, which then becomes a deterrent.
> The point is to keep them busy in an environment that doesn't harm others and possibly frustrate them enough times that they don't want continue.
Which you try to solve technically, but where you won't succeed.
The point is not to solve the issue of malicious posters, it's to keep them at bay for as long as possible. By banning them you have already succeeded and the longer they are removed from the forum, the more successful the ban. However, claiming that you cannot frustrate them is non-sense because everyone gets frustrated eventually.
You may be thinking about the matter in an idealistic manner which is unrealistic. Malicious posting would exist even in an ideal society because it's a form of entertainment. This is a problem with homo sapiens and when we finally evolve to the point where it's no longer an issue then we will no longer be homo sapiens. In the mean time, we can only ban people and the longer the ban lasts, the better it is for everyone else.
DeepMind is an excellent platform but it's not without it's flaws. In creating a image labeling program, I noticed it did a great job identifying objects but when I tried to get it to identify various persons, it always returned with "ugly giant bag of mostly water". ;)
Technology never solved social problems.
Who said anything about solving it?
And here the workaround to your idea: Troll with two accounts. Do you still see the second one? Oh, it must be "versebanned".
Accounts originating from the same IP address would be kept in the same verse.
Ideas like shadow banning seem clever to their inventors, but actually they are a silly game.
They are clever but you seem to think that they are intended to be a cure-all which isn't the point at all! The point isn't to keep them off the site forever, it's to delay them as long as possible.
Just convery your message and say "You're banned. That's it".
The immediate response is that they will create a new account.
Controlling if somebody returns needs to be done anyway, and hoping nobody notices your fancy new type of ban is just hopeless. Like the forums with the "crash browser of banned users" option in the good ol' times.
The point is to keep them busy trolling in an environment that doesn't harm others and possibly frustrate them enough times that they don't want continue.
If you ban a troll, they can just create a new account. If you shadowban a troll, it will take some time and then they will figure it out and make a new account. What we need is a "verseban" for trolls. This would be a progression of a shadowban but instead of being shunned it would appear that people are responding to them when in fact they are conversing with AI chatbots posing as those users. With the latest AI, this would be significantly more difficult to detect, especially if the replies were modeled on things users had written previously. In effect the troll would be banished to their own little universe where they cannot hurt anyone but also don't know they have been caged.
Makerbot capitalized on a great idea that came from expired patents. It wasn't cutting edge stuff but it is part of the history of 3D printing revolution, much like the people with 2400 baud modems were part of the internet revolution. There have already been significant advancements in 3D printing (like SLS and SLM) but they are locked behind patents and a lack of inexpensive pulsed lasers. Once these issues can be addressed, there will be inexpensive SLS and SLM which can then easily be used for semiconductor fabrication. It wouldn't be anything cutting edge but being able to make micrometer ICs on the cheap would be a boon for everyone.
So, in other words, you must cure humanity of the pure unadulterated, narcissistic greed that has created the chasm between the elitists and the rest of the human race.
Fat fucking chance of that shit happening.
How positively uncreative! What we can do is reform our societies and cultures so that greed is deemed to be the worst trait a person can have. Combine this with legal traps for greedy behavior that result in long jail sentences and evolution will solve our genetic issue. It wouldn't be easy to accomplish but it could be done.
What is the difference between this and the IRS asking for banks to release 3 years of all of its customers records, because cash is anonymous?
The difference is that the IRS defines bitcoin as being property.
Hi, this is Kim Jong-un; Do you accept payment in cash?
Considering that North Korea is a notorious counterfeiter, no, they would not even if there wasn't a trade embargo.
I hope Microsoft knows that they just started infinite recursion in management. What's going to happen is a manager will schedule an in person discussion on some bullshit which will need a pointless PowerPoint presentation. Before the meeting happens, it will suddenly be pushed back so that there can be a phone meeting about collaborating on the PowerPoint presentation for the in person meeting. Confusion and discourse will occur and suddenly and an in person meeting will be scheduled for collaborating on presentation for the original in person meeting. This in person meeting will of course need a PowerPoint presentation to explain the confusion and discourse for which the meeting was called but after becoming a meta-meeting the manager insist on having assistance on making this presentation due to it's complexity... for which a phone meeting will be scheduled. An ever growing number of meetings and postponing of meetings will appear in your email inbox which will include and ever growing number of participants until the entire company's focus is on making presentations for presentations for presentations etc. So if you see an in person meeting scheduled and suddenly pushed back with a phone meeting scheduled before it, just run and don't look back!
Correlation is not causation, but in my unprofessional opinion, these maps look eerily similar.
There is definitely a link here somewhere but I think you have it backwards. Instead of antibiotic prescriptions making people obese, I think obese people have poor diets and as a side-effect of the poor diet and obesity they are more prone to become sick. Then end result being that people that get sick more often are giving antibiotics more often.
"Whatever it is that you normally do on Linux to build an application: whether it's in Go, in Erlang, in C, whatever you use, please, give it a try on Bash WSL, and importantly file bugs on us. It really makes our life a lot easier and helps us build a product...
Fuck you, PAY ME.
I'm going to miss the lighting of the Vigoda. I don't understand what happened, they're supposed to live 200 years. :(
Amazon has dismissed the claims, insisting that the firm values its employees and maintains a 'culture of direct dialogue' with them
Here's how that "direct dialogue" goes, "Oh, you have a problem with your job? Ok, I'll listen to your complaints while security escorts you out the door."