Maybe because his Webpage, not a blog or twitter account was named Bad Astronomy there is a theme.
Could also be for Caveman Lawyer reasons: I may just be a bad astronomer, hollywood, but I don't think there's no noise supposed to be coming from your improperly banking and turning spacecraft in those motion pictures you put on.
Well, we're there and we're doing it. Since we are comitted, maybe the best thing to do now is not get our boys killed running blind into buildings and caves full of people who want to kill them.
Also I can see DEA and SWAT teams using these in a manner where they typically use fiber optic cameras now.
You're missing out on the why, Samsung has said Apple is using their 3G wireless patents. This is simply retaliation for Apple blocking Samsung's Galaxy sales in Europe.
If Samsung can get sales of the iPhone 4S blocked in enough countries maybe Apple will stop their patents on rectangular shapes nonsense.
Well if it's a strictly Government program HIPAA isn't its regulatory framework. They'd still have a requirement to protect Personally Identifiable Information under FISMA act of 2002 and OMB Memorandum 06-16 which came out after the VA lost their records. Among other things M06-16 requires you to encrypt senstivie data on mobile media and data in transit.
I have one small problem with that, they're suing Marriott. While some Marriotts are franchises the parent company just might want to stop this shakedown before it gets to their other properties its bad for their business.
None of the companies listed is so small they need to settle out of court, honestly.
I have 8 pictures in my cube, motifake of Mohammed Ali, Ultraman "No Laser Beams" warning sign, a Stormtrooper in Samurai Armor, Terminator, picture of some jet fighters, two original art pictures from my scifi RPG project and one Motifake of Deadpool bemoaning the fact that "Common Sense is so rare it's a god damn Super Power" I didn't expect that one to meke it out the week, its been up for months. lots of my coworkers comment on it and one made a copy to take home to his kids.
The 2 pics from the Scifi RPG are headshot of the chick with the very blue eyes and the Power Armor.
It is on more often than your stove, and maybe more than your furnace. The article I read stated DVRs were a bigger drain than new energy efficient Fridges which used to be second only to AC as power draws.
I was feeling pretty bad about my 2 Tivo habit, so I googled it and apparently Tivo got some Energy Star rating not too long ago for power savings versus their previous models.
And to the detriment of the GP, a DVR with pretty much consistent power usage decrypting content and constant spinning hard drive would not negate this, the TV would still be the power spiking on the TV as scenes got darker and lighter. Now if the person watching your smart meter setup a hash of the movie or show you were watching, it might not adjust for commercial skipping.
There is a program at MIT where the students develop low tech and appropriate technology for the developing world. I guess that teaching locals to make their own biochar that burns cleaner than wood or cow dung and will reduce air pollution inside people's homes so they don't die of lung cancer is an evil plot to support the establishment?
Same goes for water purification systems, grain mills I guess too?
Get yourself some Data Extrusion Detection and Data Loss Prevention thinking going on.
The bad guy will get in, but most often one of your users will open an email with a PDF or other broken but normal looking file in it, whatever the payload is, it will drop on the user's system when they open the document. It will call home to its Command and Control node, the bad man will use that machine as a pivot point to access other machines. You never saw him come in because the user's machine opened up an outbound port 443 connection as far as you know the user is doing their online banking.
There are some things you can do with process monitoring and file whitelisting to notice when the new file tries to run on the user's system.
Your anti-virus will not catch the program, they usually know what vendor you use and have munged the file enough your AV doesn't notice it.
There is a really odd piece here I do not understand, and that is the munged file to slip past Symantec will be the same everywhere, and the one for McAfee will be the same everywhere, this is across multiple victim companies.
Anyways you're looking for indicators of compromise now, nobody knocks on the door anymore.
Not quite so certain what Parent is being mysterious about. However Grandparent's idea of the soft and chewy outside is a terrible misinterpretation of defense in depth.
You own some of the less valuable folks, you own some of the less valuable data, now you can send authentic looking emails from real coworkers to people on the sensitive side.
Not that their recon isn't already doing this, some of the emails they use are very convincing.
Advanced Persistent Threats know a lot about their targets before they ever make a move.
In the Article (I know new here, etc) they state the Hotfile case is in response to 5 Studios suing Hotfile.
So I want both Hotfile to vigourously pursue their legal claim, and the 5 studios suing Hotfile to not be allowed to drop their original suit if it looks like they will lose.
The article states loss of accounts and goodwill, but a software publisher was using hotfile to distribute his freeware app, and Warner deleted his files.
Hopefully Hotfile has the money to go the distance on this one and not settle out of court.
Hopefully the judge won't let Warner and the other four studios drop the case so no precedent can be set.
I might almost buy that Warner was using a piece of software and a script and made some mistakes, btu that the mistakes got worse after they were notified that is negligence.
Too bad they won't get fined MAFFIAA imaginary numbers. How many freeware downloads didn't happen because they deleted the file, must have been millions at $750 a piece right?
If GP poster could afford it maybe he means buy all the coins, melt half of them or so, then sell the rest on ebay as "rare" and see how much the price goes up.
Not that that's what the GP wrote, but there is a way to make that plan work.
Maybe the occupants of the planet realize the planet's spin was slowing down and they were becoming tidally locked with their sun like our moon is with us.
Instead of baking one side of the planet and freezing the other they built a Dyson Sphere and created their own internal day/night cycle.
"In 1898 the first international urban-planning conference convened in New York. It was abandoned after three days, instead of the scheduled ten, because none of the delegates could see any solution to the growing crisis posed by urban horses and their output.
The problem did indeed seem intractable. The larger and richer that cities became, the more horses they needed to function. The more horses, the more manure. Writing in the Times of London in 1894, one writer estimated that in 50 years every street in London would be buried under nine feet of manure. Moreover, all these horses had to be stabled, which used up ever-larger areas of increasingly valuable land. And as the number of horses grew, ever-more land had to be devoted to producing hay to feed them (rather than producing food for people), and this had to be brought into cities and distributed—by horse-drawn vehicles. It seemed that urban civilization was doomed."
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Maybe because his Webpage, not a blog or twitter account was named Bad Astronomy there is a theme.
Could also be for Caveman Lawyer reasons: I may just be a bad astronomer, hollywood, but I don't think there's no noise supposed to be coming from your improperly banking and turning spacecraft in those motion pictures you put on.
When do we get more?
Well, we're there and we're doing it. Since we are comitted, maybe the best thing to do now is not get our boys killed running blind into buildings and caves full of people who want to kill them.
Also I can see DEA and SWAT teams using these in a manner where they typically use fiber optic cameras now.
And not because Apple did the same thing to Samsung using a German court to block sales of the Galaxy Tablet in Europe?
You're missing out on the why, Samsung has said Apple is using their 3G wireless patents. This is simply retaliation for Apple blocking Samsung's Galaxy sales in Europe.
If Samsung can get sales of the iPhone 4S blocked in enough countries maybe Apple will stop their patents on rectangular shapes nonsense.
Well if it's a strictly Government program HIPAA isn't its regulatory framework. They'd still have a requirement to protect Personally Identifiable Information under FISMA act of 2002 and OMB Memorandum 06-16 which came out after the VA lost their records. Among other things M06-16 requires you to encrypt senstivie data on mobile media and data in transit.
I have one small problem with that, they're suing Marriott. While some Marriotts are franchises the parent company just might want to stop this shakedown before it gets to their other properties its bad for their business.
None of the companies listed is so small they need to settle out of court, honestly.
I have 8 pictures in my cube, motifake of Mohammed Ali, Ultraman "No Laser Beams" warning sign, a Stormtrooper in Samurai Armor, Terminator, picture of some jet fighters, two original art pictures from my scifi RPG project and one Motifake of Deadpool bemoaning the fact that "Common Sense is so rare it's a god damn Super Power" I didn't expect that one to meke it out the week, its been up for months. lots of my coworkers comment on it and one made a copy to take home to his kids.
The 2 pics from the Scifi RPG are headshot of the chick with the very blue eyes and the Power Armor.
http://www.evilrobotgames.com/ProjectArt.html
Paul
It is on more often than your stove, and maybe more than your furnace. The article I read stated DVRs were a bigger drain than new energy efficient Fridges which used to be second only to AC as power draws.
I was feeling pretty bad about my 2 Tivo habit, so I googled it and apparently Tivo got some Energy Star rating not too long ago for power savings versus their previous models.
And to the detriment of the GP, a DVR with pretty much consistent power usage decrypting content and constant spinning hard drive would not negate this, the TV would still be the power spiking on the TV as scenes got darker and lighter. Now if the person watching your smart meter setup a hash of the movie or show you were watching, it might not adjust for commercial skipping.
There is a program at MIT where the students develop low tech and appropriate technology for the developing world. I guess that teaching locals to make their own biochar that burns cleaner than wood or cow dung and will reduce air pollution inside people's homes so they don't die of lung cancer is an evil plot to support the establishment?
Same goes for water purification systems, grain mills I guess too?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/gonzo/4273674
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/smith-talk.html
Get yourself some Data Extrusion Detection and Data Loss Prevention thinking going on.
The bad guy will get in, but most often one of your users will open an email with a PDF or other broken but normal looking file in it, whatever the payload is, it will drop on the user's system when they open the document. It will call home to its Command and Control node, the bad man will use that machine as a pivot point to access other machines. You never saw him come in because the user's machine opened up an outbound port 443 connection as far as you know the user is doing their online banking.
There are some things you can do with process monitoring and file whitelisting to notice when the new file tries to run on the user's system.
Your anti-virus will not catch the program, they usually know what vendor you use and have munged the file enough your AV doesn't notice it.
There is a really odd piece here I do not understand, and that is the munged file to slip past Symantec will be the same everywhere, and the one for McAfee will be the same everywhere, this is across multiple victim companies.
Anyways you're looking for indicators of compromise now, nobody knocks on the door anymore.
Not quite so certain what Parent is being mysterious about. However Grandparent's idea of the soft and chewy outside is a terrible misinterpretation of defense in depth.
You own some of the less valuable folks, you own some of the less valuable data, now you can send authentic looking emails from real coworkers to people on the sensitive side.
Not that their recon isn't already doing this, some of the emails they use are very convincing.
Advanced Persistent Threats know a lot about their targets before they ever make a move.
Its worse than that Hotfile notified them they were taking down files that weren't theres and they kept doing it.
What about creating content with those search terms.
Instead of "The Matrix" how about 'my' movie review of "The Matrix" and essays on Eastern philosophies in the movie.
Wait for them to robo-take-down, and then sue.
It got me out of a bad non-compete, I think the "if you plan on continuing start saving all your emails" and the potential cost of discovery helped.
In the Article (I know new here, etc) they state the Hotfile case is in response to 5 Studios suing Hotfile.
So I want both Hotfile to vigourously pursue their legal claim, and the 5 studios suing Hotfile to not be allowed to drop their original suit if it looks like they will lose.
What are the odds that he acted alone and without the knowledge of the studios?
The article states loss of accounts and goodwill, but a software publisher was using hotfile to distribute his freeware app, and Warner deleted his files.
Hopefully Hotfile has the money to go the distance on this one and not settle out of court.
Hopefully the judge won't let Warner and the other four studios drop the case so no precedent can be set.
I might almost buy that Warner was using a piece of software and a script and made some mistakes, btu that the mistakes got worse after they were notified that is negligence.
Too bad they won't get fined MAFFIAA imaginary numbers. How many freeware downloads didn't happen because they deleted the file, must have been millions at $750 a piece right?
Why don't they park it in a Lagrange point?
So it can be JUST AS far away as the moon.
Now we know what Captain Nemo used to power his submarine!
If GP poster could afford it maybe he means buy all the coins, melt half of them or so, then sell the rest on ebay as "rare" and see how much the price goes up.
Not that that's what the GP wrote, but there is a way to make that plan work.
Maybe the occupants of the planet realize the planet's spin was slowing down and they were becoming tidally locked with their sun like our moon is with us.
Instead of baking one side of the planet and freezing the other they built a Dyson Sphere and created their own internal day/night cycle.
Jupiter's Magnetic field is supposed to be much bigger and more intense than Earth's, would it have more?
Could we use it and Saturn as some kind of anti-matter fuel depot?
Funny how you bring up Buggy whips
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894/
"In 1898 the first international urban-planning conference convened in New York. It was abandoned after three days, instead of the scheduled ten, because none of the delegates could see any solution to the growing crisis posed by urban horses and their output.
The problem did indeed seem intractable. The larger and richer that cities became, the more horses they needed to function. The more horses, the more manure. Writing in the Times of London in 1894, one writer estimated that in 50 years every street in London would be buried under nine feet of manure. Moreover, all these horses had to be stabled, which used up ever-larger areas of increasingly valuable land. And as the number of horses grew, ever-more land had to be devoted to producing hay to feed them (rather than producing food for people), and this had to be brought into cities and distributed—by horse-drawn vehicles. It seemed that urban civilization was doomed."
Godwin+