Finally, some open source ransomware! I had held off on downloading ransomware because everything was always closed source bullshit but now, I'll have my data held hostage with the software freedom I demand!;)
I am posting from a cheap windows netbook that I picked up for under a hundred bucks at Wal-mart. It does the job perfectly - provides a nice screen and good connectivity for browsing, web apps, email and video streaming. It has nice long battery life. And no hard drive. Just a tiny 32 gig "solid state drive". It does have an SD slot, but that gets treated as removable media, so installing stuff there is limited.
I have one of those too, it's called a Chromebook.;)
Um... Yea, a lot of stuff is POSSIBLE, but the question really is about how practical it is. What's the actual level of risk? Pretty low.
I disagree because any nation-states would love to have some free satellites under their control, especially if they can spy on other people who do use it. Russia in particular has been known to use hacked sats to try and mask the origin of their hack attacks.
An uplink setup is prohibitively expensive for an individual to build...
but not a nation-state!
State actors might have the resources, but apart from that, it's not going to be worth the effort and costs.
...how many years Trump, sons and lawyers are going to collectively get lol?
Um... none?
You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution to the AG for Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?
Yes, the Republican party has been working hard to discredit the investigation into the Trump presidential campaign but the truth shall prevail. Also, I have some bad news about the upcoming elections: Democrats are poised to take control of both the House and the Senate. Taking control of the House was previously seen as "impossible" now it's likely and taking the Senate is now within reach. Undoing gerrymandering is doing great things for democracy.
And unlike nebulous charge of "collusion", the recommendation letter lays out the specific actions these people took and the specific federal laws that were broken.
Collusion isn't a legal term but Conspiracy and Obstruction of Justice are. It's also possible many other criminal activities will be revealed since the raid on Michael Cohen.
Also, you do know that the original FISA court warrant was invalid on its face, so any evidence Mueller uncovers would be thrown out, right?
Actually, it's not and such facts have been reviewed closely. Also, bad news, the raid on Michael Cohen wasn't done by Mueller and thus is a separate investigation by the stated of New York.
Also, there's been no leaks of evidence from the Muller investigation, even though everything *else* seems to have been leaked. Even when those leaks are a violation of federal law, they still happen, and yet none of them have been about evidence.
That's not entirely true. It seems to have leaked that Michael Cohen was indeed in Prague which is at the crux of the Russia investigation. However, do note that information only leaks when there is a vested interest in information being leaked. The team of lawyers investigating have a vested interest in information not leaking.
Also note that impeaching the president is an extremely high bar to clear. President Clinton was caught on camera in a baldfaced lie to congress and the people of the US ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman"), and was acquitted.
Absolutely. Clinton was being impeached over perjuring himself over an affair. That's a far cry from conspiring with a foreign nation, obstructing justice or whatever other crimes are unveiled.
I keep hearing all this bullshit from one side of the aisle about the "free market" being the best thing ever but then when the free market stops promoting their favorite industries then they suddenly need to swoop in and bail them out. What's worse is that they are rapidly expending shared capital: our uncontaminated environment.
The truth of the matter is that goods (including energy generation) should have to pay for the pollution caused by their production. That money can then in turn be used to remove said pollution from the environment. This is how the free market should really be and it would be utterly devastating to regressive industries that pay no mind to the damage they do to our environment.
Unleash the free market and destroy those who are hellbent on destroying the planet.
I agree that serious missteps were made. However, I think losing was actually a blessing in disguise because it exposed how the Republican party is incapable of even basic governance. They have control of both Congress and the White House and yet they have made a complete and total mess of things. It's also exposed how they are willing to put the good of their political party before the good of the nation. McConnell refuses to put basic safeguards in place to prevent a constitutional crisis despite ample evidence that it's needed.
Honestly, this is the custerfuck that everyone needed to witness.
CAN anything REALISTICALLY be done in a time-frame that would help save ANY of the remainder?
There is more at stake than just the coral of the Great Barrier Reef. This is just the foreword of the many extinctions that are to come. There are MANY things we must do to veer off this catastrophic path, the first of which is informing people of what is actually happening. An informed public can elect leaders to change the law so that we actually improve the situation instead of sitting around and claiming everything is fine.
Imagine a law that says you cannot serve food in restaurants to anyone that either has a felony conviction or is a suspect in an ongoing case in any jurisdiction in the US.
A more apt example would be selling someone a gun when you know they intend to use it to use it to rob a bank. Surprise, that is already illegal!
Cloudflare claims "Congress didn’t do the hard work of understanding how the internet works and how this law should be crafted to pursue its goals without unintended consequences. We talked to them about this. A lot of groups did. And it was hard work that they decided not do.”
This is a load of crap. What Cloudflare really wanted was a way that they could continue doing business without having to doing any of the work required for taking on clients. What they wanted was a "get out of jail free" card that gave them a eternal pass to shirk any and all responsibility.
Regardless of how you feel about the bill itself, you shouldn't be bothered by the crocodile tears coming from Cloudflare.
I think what we'll be seeing in the future is viruses that are completely benign and spread far and wide without doing anything suspicious... until you run a cryptocurrency application of some sort and then it will phone home a copy of the keys. It'll be embedded in documents and application installers, spreading like stuxnet but then you'll suddenly find that POOF! All your money has been transferred elsewhere.
I posit that advertisements are simply a form of information pollution. Instead of getting just the information you want, that information is polluted with contaminated by the inclusion of advertisements. There is a far better argument to be made for outlawing unrequested advertisements than there is for forcing people to see them.
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla? Are we also going to get "Janitors at Tesla factory had to put overtime to unclog plugged toilet" headlines?
I knew nature was going to catch on eventually (long before the "thousands of years to decay" prediction) and I'm glad it has. Plastics are nice but the half-life of the products they are used in are astonishingly short. My hope is that we will be able to spray trash with a variety of monocelluar critters and it will turn it into various gases that can be harvested and used for something else. Once they have done their job, they'll leave a biosludge and elemental components like metals that can be reclaimed. The sludge will make a great fertilizer.
I hope people realize this is a good thing rather than flailing nonsensically about how their iphone is going to fall apart.
We should be thrilled (I know I am) that a new generation of explorers and engineers is developing re-usable and cost effective space travel.
And everyone is... except congress.
NASA should stick to the science.
That's kind of a problem when congress is doing everything in there power to prevent them from doing important science like closely monitoring Earth as climate change happens.
This is actually one of the advances I had predicted many years ago. The next steps are interesting but ultimately you end up with what I refer to as "Rapid Physical Modeling" where in you can take an object, do a quick 360 view of it and then capture it's physical properties by manipulating it. A simple example is demonstrating how a potted plant can bend and it's ability to bend and spring back are inferred. The obvious benefit of this is that you can quickly model things with complex interactive response. With a little data regarding the material, clothing for your character could quickly be modeled and react properly (think folding) to the characters physical movements.
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Finally, some open source ransomware! I had held off on downloading ransomware because everything was always closed source bullshit but now, I'll have my data held hostage with the software freedom I demand! ;)
here's the history of FISA orders.
FISA info for 2017:
1614 orders were made
1147 orders were approved
391 orders were approved after being modified
21 orders were rejected
This is a non-story.
I am posting from a cheap windows netbook that I picked up for under a hundred bucks at Wal-mart. It does the job perfectly - provides a nice screen and good connectivity for browsing, web apps, email and video streaming. It has nice long battery life. And no hard drive. Just a tiny 32 gig "solid state drive". It does have an SD slot, but that gets treated as removable media, so installing stuff there is limited.
I have one of those too, it's called a Chromebook. ;)
I think unicode support would have made your post better but that's just my 2Â. ;)
My favorite new feature is that it no longer gives you the Blue Screen offffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
LOL @ starting a war.
They hack commercial satellites and there are lots of them, nimrod.
... Firefox copying the new UI. ;)
Um... Yea, a lot of stuff is POSSIBLE, but the question really is about how practical it is. What's the actual level of risk? Pretty low.
I disagree because any nation-states would love to have some free satellites under their control, especially if they can spy on other people who do use it. Russia in particular has been known to use hacked sats to try and mask the origin of their hack attacks.
An uplink setup is prohibitively expensive for an individual to build...
but not a nation-state!
State actors might have the resources, but apart from that, it's not going to be worth the effort and costs.
Poppycock! A private sat would be awesome!
...how many years Trump, sons and lawyers are going to collectively get lol?
Um... none?
You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution to the AG for Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?
Yes, the Republican party has been working hard to discredit the investigation into the Trump presidential campaign but the truth shall prevail. Also, I have some bad news about the upcoming elections: Democrats are poised to take control of both the House and the Senate. Taking control of the House was previously seen as "impossible" now it's likely and taking the Senate is now within reach. Undoing gerrymandering is doing great things for democracy.
And unlike nebulous charge of "collusion", the recommendation letter lays out the specific actions these people took and the specific federal laws that were broken.
Collusion isn't a legal term but Conspiracy and Obstruction of Justice are. It's also possible many other criminal activities will be revealed since the raid on Michael Cohen.
Also, you do know that the original FISA court warrant was invalid on its face, so any evidence Mueller uncovers would be thrown out, right?
Actually, it's not and such facts have been reviewed closely. Also, bad news, the raid on Michael Cohen wasn't done by Mueller and thus is a separate investigation by the stated of New York.
Also, there's been no leaks of evidence from the Muller investigation, even though everything *else* seems to have been leaked. Even when those leaks are a violation of federal law, they still happen, and yet none of them have been about evidence.
That's not entirely true. It seems to have leaked that Michael Cohen was indeed in Prague which is at the crux of the Russia investigation. However, do note that information only leaks when there is a vested interest in information being leaked. The team of lawyers investigating have a vested interest in information not leaking.
Also note that impeaching the president is an extremely high bar to clear. President Clinton was caught on camera in a baldfaced lie to congress and the people of the US ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman"), and was acquitted.
Absolutely. Clinton was being impeached over perjuring himself over an affair. That's a far cry from conspiring with a foreign nation, obstructing justice or whatever other crimes are unveiled.
You're mad.
You're ill-informed and/or possibly deluded.
I keep hearing all this bullshit from one side of the aisle about the "free market" being the best thing ever but then when the free market stops promoting their favorite industries then they suddenly need to swoop in and bail them out. What's worse is that they are rapidly expending shared capital: our uncontaminated environment.
The truth of the matter is that goods (including energy generation) should have to pay for the pollution caused by their production. That money can then in turn be used to remove said pollution from the environment. This is how the free market should really be and it would be utterly devastating to regressive industries that pay no mind to the damage they do to our environment.
Unleash the free market and destroy those who are hellbent on destroying the planet.
Yeah, it's definitely a fetish. ;)
I agree that serious missteps were made. However, I think losing was actually a blessing in disguise because it exposed how the Republican party is incapable of even basic governance. They have control of both Congress and the White House and yet they have made a complete and total mess of things. It's also exposed how they are willing to put the good of their political party before the good of the nation. McConnell refuses to put basic safeguards in place to prevent a constitutional crisis despite ample evidence that it's needed.
Honestly, this is the custerfuck that everyone needed to witness.
CAN anything REALISTICALLY be done in a time-frame that would help save ANY of the remainder?
There is more at stake than just the coral of the Great Barrier Reef. This is just the foreword of the many extinctions that are to come. There are MANY things we must do to veer off this catastrophic path, the first of which is informing people of what is actually happening. An informed public can elect leaders to change the law so that we actually improve the situation instead of sitting around and claiming everything is fine.
Imagine a law that says you cannot serve food in restaurants to anyone that either has a felony conviction or is a suspect in an ongoing case in any jurisdiction in the US.
A more apt example would be selling someone a gun when you know they intend to use it to use it to rob a bank. Surprise, that is already illegal!
If you actually gave a damn about Microsoft spying on you then you wouldn't be using Microsoft products because (surprise!) they all spy on you.
The most common excuse for not using Linux is lazy users that insist on 100% feature parity.
Cloudflare claims "Congress didn’t do the hard work of understanding how the internet works and how this law should be crafted to pursue its goals without unintended consequences. We talked to them about this. A lot of groups did. And it was hard work that they decided not do.”
This is a load of crap. What Cloudflare really wanted was a way that they could continue doing business without having to doing any of the work required for taking on clients. What they wanted was a "get out of jail free" card that gave them a eternal pass to shirk any and all responsibility.
Regardless of how you feel about the bill itself, you shouldn't be bothered by the crocodile tears coming from Cloudflare.
I think what we'll be seeing in the future is viruses that are completely benign and spread far and wide without doing anything suspicious... until you run a cryptocurrency application of some sort and then it will phone home a copy of the keys. It'll be embedded in documents and application installers, spreading like stuxnet but then you'll suddenly find that POOF! All your money has been transferred elsewhere.
I posit that advertisements are simply a form of information pollution. Instead of getting just the information you want, that information is polluted with contaminated by the inclusion of advertisements. There is a far better argument to be made for outlawing unrequested advertisements than there is for forcing people to see them.
That means they finally found a vict^H^H^H^H buyer for the 10th Windows Phone! ;)
It just so happens that I built a robot that smashes IKEA furniture! ;)
I've been using the latest Win10 update and my computer is justttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Why such obsession over trivial and routine manufacturing decisions at Tesla? Are we also going to get "Janitors at Tesla factory had to put overtime to unclog plugged toilet" headlines?
Pff! What? Nooo... *closes Slashdot submission tab detailing plumbing issues*
I knew nature was going to catch on eventually (long before the "thousands of years to decay" prediction) and I'm glad it has. Plastics are nice but the half-life of the products they are used in are astonishingly short. My hope is that we will be able to spray trash with a variety of monocelluar critters and it will turn it into various gases that can be harvested and used for something else. Once they have done their job, they'll leave a biosludge and elemental components like metals that can be reclaimed. The sludge will make a great fertilizer.
I hope people realize this is a good thing rather than flailing nonsensically about how their iphone is going to fall apart.
We should be thrilled (I know I am) that a new generation of explorers and engineers is developing re-usable and cost effective space travel.
And everyone is... except congress.
NASA should stick to the science.
That's kind of a problem when congress is doing everything in there power to prevent them from doing important science like closely monitoring Earth as climate change happens.
This is actually one of the advances I had predicted many years ago. The next steps are interesting but ultimately you end up with what I refer to as "Rapid Physical Modeling" where in you can take an object, do a quick 360 view of it and then capture it's physical properties by manipulating it. A simple example is demonstrating how a potted plant can bend and it's ability to bend and spring back are inferred. The obvious benefit of this is that you can quickly model things with complex interactive response. With a little data regarding the material, clothing for your character could quickly be modeled and react properly (think folding) to the characters physical movements.
I'm looking forward to characters in Final Fantasy XVIII having to constantly adjust their clothing because it's construction patently absurd. ;)