The US space program has killed 14 people within spacecraft, 3 more in a test craft.
Countless test pilots have been killed in experimental aircraft.
These people know the situations they're put in, and to die on the job like they did, and to call it needless, grossly insults their memory. These people put their lives on the line for the betterment of science and humanity and I highly doubt any of them would want it any other way.
The Saturn V's gone. The shuttle is in it's waning years. Constellation is cancelled. We have no launch vehicle anymore.
But it's ok, if we need someone shot into space, we'll just ask the Russians or Chinese. The Indians are getting close too. Apparently THEY still see reasons to maintain and develop space programs. What's our ruddy excuse?
I didn't follow the Java one much, but the PDF one quickly devolved into arguments on security models between Linux and Windows.
The ATM malware comments, on the other hand, were heavily anti-Windows even though the culprit was the human element. You've got a person with physcial access and the local admin password. Everything is hosed with that equation if they want to be malicious.
they would play songs, get this, FOR FREE. anyone could hear it without having to pay money and signing away their rights! can you imagine something so socialist and unamerican?!
Yes. The library.
You can read books there FOR FREE! Same with newspapers and magazines too!!
In January 2005, a 100-pound woman became the first person to win the Denny's Beer Barrel Pub challenge when 19-year-old Kate Stelnick of Princeton, New Jersey, downed a six-pound Denny's "96er" hamburger and five pounds of fixins' in 2 hours and 54 minutes, just shy of the three-hour time limit. For her trouble, Ms. Stelnick got a special certificate, a T-shirt, and other prizes, as well as having her tab for the $23.95 burger picked up by the house.
(There's other links if you google her name...I just got the snopes one first)
At least the Census numbers are close. They jive pretty well with the H&HS's survey, performed over the phone at regular intervals. 40 mil's closer than the other side's 15 mil at least.
You know, I don't think this is the first time you've trotted out how wholly inaccurate that 42 mil number is either.
Oh, and the best part? I don't trust these GAO piracy numbers. They are biased, nonscientific, and inflated. But sadly they'll problably be quoted by politicians during the election, in order to justify why the ACTA Treaty needs to be passed.
The GAO was studying the studies, and in an even bigger revelation, GAO agrees with you!
FTFA: "Three widely cited U.S. government estimates of economic losses resulting from counterfeiting cannot be substantiated due to the absence of underlying studies," the GAO said. "Each method (of measuring) has limitations, and most experts observed that it is difficult, if not impossible, to quantify the economy-wide impacts."
None of those studies put out were from the GAO, instead they were cited as coming from the FBI, CBP and FTC. GAO actually called them and asked for the report. All three came back saying, "what report?"
So we have a government entity saying these piracy reports are wildly inaccurate. They did something right. Is your mind blown yet?
Why is the government even looking into this issue? It's all due to the PRO-IP Act, which passed under President Bush and has led President Obama to appoint an Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator within the White House. Part of the IPEC's duties include gathering data on piracy and counterfeiting, and current IPEC Victoria Espinel is now rounding up that data. The GAO report is part of this process, and it certainly doesn't make industry estimates look compelling.
This is ironic for a bill that was backed by the big rightsholders; even its acronym, the PRO-IP Act, shows what it was supposed to do. But, by hauling the black art of "piracy surveys" into the light, the PRO-IP Act is forcing rightsholders to tone down some of their more specific and alarmist rhetoric.
It's just funny, to me, that the tone here is very moderate, calm, and perhaps even lightly defensive.
If this same thing happened on an IIS box, we'd have a flood of comments of 'get a real OS!' regardless of how off target those shouts would be. It's just the nature of the beast.
Also, inb4 "Ubuntu sucks" or similar trolls. Linux haters would be in here if it were Ubuntu or Red Hat. Netcraft would be trolling if FreeBSD were the host OS. And God Forbid Apache had been using Server 2008.
Yeah, I'd forsee twice the number of comments by this time if this was IIS with half of them saying "switch to a real OS!!"
Very bizzare; wouldn't it be harder these days to explicitly make a custom time function rather than use some sort of default one that can take nearly anything?
Well, *most* of the Sherlock stories are public domain. But thanks to bizzare copyrighting, the characters are still under protection. Web, weave, tangled.
It didn't end with "home of the pansies afraid of dying because 1 in 1000 people can't drive an automatic and have a conversation with their passenger"
Or '...because 1 in millions of air passengers have tried to blow up a plane with their underwear' and yet...
I still use a VCR, and I will until it starts eating tapes. (It's not that I'm some sort of zealot, it's just...well...it still works. Why fix what isn't broken?)
Course, it serves one, and only one, purpose: recording Jeopardy OTA from my DTV box. Which is, incidentally, the only reason I even need the DTV converter in the first place.
Funny story, my VCR is not year 2010 compliant, so I actually have to use a year with the same template as this year to get it working. (My VCR thinks that (as of this post) it's 11 Apr, 1999.) More useless trivia, it doesn't know about years preceeding 1990 either.
Mommy should've pulled over to the shoulder. If little susy is calling mommy to tell her that little billy got his arm ripped off by the wheat thresher, I don't think mommy is going to be driving all that well with news like that, cell phone or not.
The authors also took the time to remind their readers that the supertasking population really is small, so you shouldn't assume you're one of them. Unfortunately, it looks like most people tend to believe they're the exception to this rule, as the authors note, "our studies over the last decade have found that a great many people have the belief that the laws of attention do not apply to them (e.g., they have seen other drivers who are impaired while multi-tasking, but they are the exception to the rule). In fact, some readers may also be wondering if they too are supertaskers; however, we suggest that the odds of this are against them."
Yeah, guess it doesn't matter he had physical access and passwords to the device.
Security through obscurity is not the solution. Proper IT policies are the solution. This is an ATM; not something that needs to play dancing bunnies. It should not have been possible to alter the system state away from a trusted environment without forcing a crash.
When the system admin is the one planting malware, it doesn't matter what OS it's running. When the default passwords aren't changed, it doesn't matter what OS it's running.
The real questions are: 1st, why isn't the system state verified? It's an ATM. It should be static. Anything new installed should force a crash if it's not properly vetted. 2nd, why is stuff even allowed to install on it? It's an ATM. See above.
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The US space program has killed 14 people within spacecraft, 3 more in a test craft.
Countless test pilots have been killed in experimental aircraft.
These people know the situations they're put in, and to die on the job like they did, and to call it needless, grossly insults their memory. These people put their lives on the line for the betterment of science and humanity and I highly doubt any of them would want it any other way.
How can we 'refine' what we no longer have?
The Saturn V's gone. The shuttle is in it's waning years. Constellation is cancelled. We have no launch vehicle anymore.
But it's ok, if we need someone shot into space, we'll just ask the Russians or Chinese. The Indians are getting close too. Apparently THEY still see reasons to maintain and develop space programs. What's our ruddy excuse?
There will always be 'other issues.'
At what point do we resume space travel, not puddlejump to the edge of atmo?
I didn't follow the Java one much, but the PDF one quickly devolved into arguments on security models between Linux and Windows.
The ATM malware comments, on the other hand, were heavily anti-Windows even though the culprit was the human element. You've got a person with physcial access and the local admin password. Everything is hosed with that equation if they want to be malicious.
they would play songs, get this, FOR FREE. anyone could hear it without having to pay money and signing away their rights! can you imagine something so socialist and unamerican?!
Yes. The library.
You can read books there FOR FREE! Same with newspapers and magazines too!!
And just to make you feel worse...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/bigburger.asp
In January 2005, a 100-pound woman became the first person to win the Denny's Beer Barrel Pub challenge when 19-year-old Kate Stelnick of Princeton, New Jersey, downed a six-pound Denny's "96er" hamburger and five pounds of fixins' in 2 hours and 54 minutes, just shy of the three-hour time limit. For her trouble, Ms. Stelnick got a special certificate, a T-shirt, and other prizes, as well as having her tab for the $23.95 burger picked up by the house.
(There's other links if you google her name...I just got the snopes one first)
At least the Census numbers are close. They jive pretty well with the H&HS's survey, performed over the phone at regular intervals. 40 mil's closer than the other side's 15 mil at least.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/18/barack-obama/number-those-without-health-insurance-about-46-mil/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/21/orrin-hatch/who-are-uninsured-hatchs-take/
You know, I don't think this is the first time you've trotted out how wholly inaccurate that 42 mil number is either.
Oh, and the best part?
I don't trust these GAO piracy numbers. They are biased, nonscientific, and inflated. But sadly they'll problably be quoted by politicians during the election, in order to justify why the ACTA Treaty needs to be passed.
The GAO was studying the studies, and in an even bigger revelation, GAO agrees with you!
FTFA: "Three widely cited U.S. government estimates of economic losses resulting from counterfeiting cannot be substantiated due to the absence of underlying studies," the GAO said. "Each method (of measuring) has limitations, and most experts observed that it is difficult, if not impossible, to quantify the economy-wide impacts."
None of those studies put out were from the GAO, instead they were cited as coming from the FBI, CBP and FTC. GAO actually called them and asked for the report. All three came back saying, "what report?"
So we have a government entity saying these piracy reports are wildly inaccurate. They did something right. Is your mind blown yet?
Ars has a piece on it too that sheds a little light on it:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-government-finally-admits-most-piracy-estimates-are-bogus.ars
It's just funny, to me, that the tone here is very moderate, calm, and perhaps even lightly defensive.
If this same thing happened on an IIS box, we'd have a flood of comments of 'get a real OS!' regardless of how off target those shouts would be. It's just the nature of the beast.
Also, inb4 "Ubuntu sucks" or similar trolls. Linux haters would be in here if it were Ubuntu or Red Hat. Netcraft would be trolling if FreeBSD were the host OS. And God Forbid Apache had been using Server 2008.
Yeah, I'd forsee twice the number of comments by this time if this was IIS with half of them saying "switch to a real OS!!"
Eight Terran Out
It's actually 20 years: 1990 to 2009.
Very bizzare; wouldn't it be harder these days to explicitly make a custom time function rather than use some sort of default one that can take nearly anything?
Watch Lost in La Mancha then.
Well, *most* of the Sherlock stories are public domain. But thanks to bizzare copyrighting, the characters are still under protection. Web, weave, tangled.
It didn't end with "home of the pansies afraid of dying because 1 in 1000 people can't drive an automatic and have a conversation with their passenger"
Or '...because 1 in millions of air passengers have tried to blow up a plane with their underwear' and yet...
I still use a VCR, and I will until it starts eating tapes. (It's not that I'm some sort of zealot, it's just...well...it still works. Why fix what isn't broken?)
Course, it serves one, and only one, purpose: recording Jeopardy OTA from my DTV box. Which is, incidentally, the only reason I even need the DTV converter in the first place.
Funny story, my VCR is not year 2010 compliant, so I actually have to use a year with the same template as this year to get it working. (My VCR thinks that (as of this post) it's 11 Apr, 1999.) More useless trivia, it doesn't know about years preceeding 1990 either.
Mommy should've pulled over to the shoulder. If little susy is calling mommy to tell her that little billy got his arm ripped off by the wheat thresher, I don't think mommy is going to be driving all that well with news like that, cell phone or not.
however, it does seem unfair to punish those who can drive while talking without a loss in attention or skill.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/rare-supertaskers-balance-driving-and-cellphone-use.ars
Oh heck no! My whole point is that the transactions were undoubtedly untraceable!
He probably got greedy or they set up a sting and he got caught on camera. The withdrawls were untraceable. He, personally, was traceable.
Pretty certain that's only a showpiece helmet.
When Congress can and wants to override a presidential veto (hint: that can be done) then it doesn't matter what you do from the Executive chair.
He was at this for seven months. My gut's telling me it wasn't the malware that caught him in the end.
Score one for karma.
Yeah, guess it doesn't matter he had physical access and passwords to the device.
Security through obscurity is not the solution. Proper IT policies are the solution. This is an ATM; not something that needs to play dancing bunnies. It should not have been possible to alter the system state away from a trusted environment without forcing a crash.
And, by the way, you can do that on Windows.
When the system admin is the one planting malware, it doesn't matter what OS it's running.
When the default passwords aren't changed, it doesn't matter what OS it's running.
The real questions are:
1st, why isn't the system state verified? It's an ATM. It should be static. Anything new installed should force a crash if it's not properly vetted.
2nd, why is stuff even allowed to install on it? It's an ATM. See above.
Windows did not fail, BoA's IT policies failed.