They spend 33% of their time in security. The spend the remaining 66% of the time making sure their developers can not do any legitimate work. They run stuff like Bit9 or real-time process whitelist etc and when it catches any build process that uses the same.Net API or MFC class header that was used in any malware their signatures match and the build process gets killed. Developers play this demolition derby testing whether their code changes and pull requests can get past all the hurdles thrown in by IT.
The motto of IT seems to be "Ironclad security is what we strive to deliver. If that reduces productivity to zero, it is not our problem."
When Anonymous or someone else floods a hash tag with thousands of identical links to the same video, the cpu resources to collect all the postings, filter the spam out, track the original posts and follow ups would require humongous CPU resources and server farms. So it is going to hamper our spooks' ability to... wait.. oh oh!
Let us set up a clandestine program to dope real RDX explosives red, make spectacular explosions as demo and lure them in. Let us sell them fake red mercury that would not explode well, add tracers to them and track them down.
You see you need a particularly malevolent deviant sadistic mind to be ultra selfish and be apathetic to fellow humans. That level of inhumanity and cruelty is unachievable by a machine.
Cops do fear there will be consequences when they do something illegal. Definitely. You see, most of the time they can't be 100% sure the victims of their illegal actions will be black. That is why they fear the consequences. sometimes.
We talk about Google as though it is a single monolithic entity. But Google is so big and so vast it would be more correct to say that some project manager manged to get approval of a chip design project or some manager decided to fund a technology demonstrator.
That is for one calculation. Most of the time we do a series of mulitplications, divisions and square roots. Thus keeping track of the decimal point is a chore we can dispense with. At the end the answer is 734 it could be 0.00734 or 0.0734 or 0.734 or 7.34 or 73.4 o 734 or ever 7340. Where the decimal point goes after a long series of computation, is done by knowing which answer feels right. This is where you can tell the students who connect their knowledge from the books with real life machines they see around them.
It was in the late 1970s calculators made it big into top engineering schools in India, till then it was all slide rules. So my class was one of the early users of calculators. Most of our professors were from slide rule era. One prof in particular, Electrical Engineering 1, a 300 level course, used to bemoan the loss of slide rule.
First some backgroung: Slide rules only give the characteristic of the answer not the mantissa. It is a fancy way of saying, it does not tell you where to place the decimal point. Thus often people fly through the slide rule all the way, without doing the decimal points for intermediate answers. Once you have the final answer, you eyeball the number, see which decimal point would be reasonable and jot it down. Saving valuable time not doing decimal work, during examn time.
This was the point that prof made: He would set up the problems in such way the answer would be off by a factor of 10 on purpose. A 230 volt, 10 cm dia motor would come in at 75 watts. But people who don't do decimals would write down 750 watts because, that is the reasonable answer for such a machine. Thus he would know which students have a feel for the numbers and answers and who blindly follow the procedures and write down whatever answer comes out of the formula. His complaint was that he lost a valuable filtering tool to judge which students are worthy of being considered for RAships.
Given how cheap it is to rent a manufacturing facility in China, it would be trivial for a malware vendor/hacker to create an USB charger or an USB cable with malware chip built in. So why have we they not done that yet?
How am I sure they have not done that yet?
OMG, how am I sure the they != us, I mean us by proxy, the NSA ??
Carbon dioxide is simply the product of combustion. It is not the result of incomplete combustion or anything. Nitrous/Nitric oxides are due to unintended combustion of nitrogen, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons are due to incomplete combustion, but carbon dioxide ??? What is going on there?
They are not used to having objects move at the speeds the airplanes move. Birds use parallax to estimate depth. Most terrestrial animals use stereoscoping vision for depth information. That is why prey animals have two eyes facing forward. But birds have 360 degree field of vision, despite needing very serious depth information. They just use parallax. Subtract next from from previous frame, all the objects in infinity are filtered out. The change tells them how near/far an object is. That is why most birds constantly cock their heads and whip their head back and forth while sitting on branches to gain depth perception.
But if they approach an airplane at an angle so that the plane is always at the same bearing, it gets filtered out, the bird thinks the plane is at inifinity. Only when it is too near, the increased in perceived size of the object will create parallax. But by that time it is too late because the planes move too fast.
There are tons of laws and regulations about recording. Wire tapping laws are quite complex and arcane. You could argue this is "wireless taping" so wire-tap laws don't apply. But many police departments claim recording the police violates the law.
Eventually the truth will dribble out, that they have indeed installed the software. They will blame the local engineering heads.
"These guys learnt about the defeat device in VW models. Then, on their own, without any directives from HQ, without any incentives from us, completely on their own, unbeknowest to the top management, did I say completely on their own, yes on their own, they did it.
We top management are completely blameless. We get paid oodles of money because we are the smartest and best in leading a complex company through difficult markets. So we deserve every penny we get as pay and bonus.
But everytime something like this happens, you can't blame the management, not the incentive structure, not the pressure we apply to deliver new and exciting products to our esteemed customers.
BTW, can we cash all our stocks and options before the company goes bankrupt? Hate to see all those millions of shares and option be priced at zero"
It is all legal folks. Let us just say some US Citizens decide to bottle the sewage from Washington DC and decide to market it. Some outlandish business plan. But hey! some one could do it. Let us say some Chinese SOE (state owned enterprise) thinks it would have a huge market in China, and order several hundred million dollars worth of bottled sewage from this company. The owners of this company, all legal US Citizens, flush with cash made by this deal, after paying all due taxes, are free to spend it anyway they want. Since money is speech, and campaign contribution is just speech you can't restrict it, as per Citizen's United decision. In fact when Obama said foreign governments can influence US elections because of this decision in a state of the union speech, Justice Alito was seen mouthing "It is not true".
Further in the Hobby Lobby decision, a closely held company was endowed with religious rights too! So we need to make sure our laws do not impose undue burden in their practice of Confucianism or Buddhism or even Communism because, Communism is a religion for the Chinese.
So welcome to the Brave New World guys. Our government has been shrunk small enough to be drowned in a bathtub. And someone just did it. Hip Hip Hurray!
If the station is owned by US Citizens, it is their first amendment right. That much was granted by our constitution.
The Roberts Supreme Court has ruled they are eligible for far more than that. The owners, if they are US Citizens, will/should be able to make unlimited campaign contributions and also able to seek relief from any US Law that imposes substantial burden on their practice of religion.
First it will give billions of dollars to the private banks. And then.. nothing. It will keep giving money to banksters. That is the only thing it knows.
Any energy storage device that approaches the energy storage density of gasoline will never ever be approved for regular road use.
No, I am not spinning some dark conspiracy theory about Big Oil. Simply this, if it had not been grandfathered out of product liability laws and hazardous substances regulation, gasoline and diesel will not be approved for use as automobile fuel. All other hydro carbons with the same energy density (42 MJ/Kg), volatility and flammability are strictly regulated.
The Fore people of Papua New Guinea subscribe to your principle. They share nothing outside their closely knit extended family clan. Absolutely no taxes and no sharing with anyone. No rules either, they will kill each other. That is why they remain small undeveloped brutal tribe in some land. They will never build a city. You are worse than Fore. You don't even understand how the mere existence of government and peaceful conflict resolution benefits you. Please leave America to civilized people like us and go live with the Fore.
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The motto of IT seems to be "Ironclad security is what we strive to deliver. If that reduces productivity to zero, it is not our problem."
When Anonymous or someone else floods a hash tag with thousands of identical links to the same video, the cpu resources to collect all the postings, filter the spam out, track the original posts and follow ups would require humongous CPU resources and server farms. So it is going to hamper our spooks' ability to ... wait .. oh oh!
Yea, and Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease. [cue creepy music]
More creepily all the onomatopoeia words sound like the sound they describe! bang!
Let us set up a clandestine program to dope real RDX explosives red, make spectacular explosions as demo and lure them in. Let us sell them fake red mercury that would not explode well, add tracers to them and track them down.
You see you need a particularly malevolent deviant sadistic mind to be ultra selfish and be apathetic to fellow humans. That level of inhumanity and cruelty is unachievable by a machine.
Cops do fear there will be consequences when they do something illegal. Definitely. You see, most of the time they can't be 100% sure the victims of their illegal actions will be black. That is why they fear the consequences. sometimes.
We talk about Google as though it is a single monolithic entity. But Google is so big and so vast it would be more correct to say that some project manager manged to get approval of a chip design project or some manager decided to fund a technology demonstrator.
That is for one calculation. Most of the time we do a series of mulitplications, divisions and square roots. Thus keeping track of the decimal point is a chore we can dispense with. At the end the answer is 734 it could be 0.00734 or 0.0734 or 0.734 or 7.34 or 73.4 o 734 or ever 7340. Where the decimal point goes after a long series of computation, is done by knowing which answer feels right. This is where you can tell the students who connect their knowledge from the books with real life machines they see around them.
He wanted students who would balk at writing down 75 watts when they "know" such a machine should be at 750 watts.
First some backgroung: Slide rules only give the characteristic of the answer not the mantissa. It is a fancy way of saying, it does not tell you where to place the decimal point. Thus often people fly through the slide rule all the way, without doing the decimal points for intermediate answers. Once you have the final answer, you eyeball the number, see which decimal point would be reasonable and jot it down. Saving valuable time not doing decimal work, during examn time.
This was the point that prof made: He would set up the problems in such way the answer would be off by a factor of 10 on purpose. A 230 volt, 10 cm dia motor would come in at 75 watts. But people who don't do decimals would write down 750 watts because, that is the reasonable answer for such a machine. Thus he would know which students have a feel for the numbers and answers and who blindly follow the procedures and write down whatever answer comes out of the formula. His complaint was that he lost a valuable filtering tool to judge which students are worthy of being considered for RAships.
How am I sure they have not done that yet?
OMG, how am I sure the they != us, I mean us by proxy, the NSA ??
So we have to extend the Keystone XL pipeline all the way to Titan, now.
... to create a large STEM work force ...
Carbon dioxide is simply the product of combustion. It is not the result of incomplete combustion or anything. Nitrous/Nitric oxides are due to unintended combustion of nitrogen, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons are due to incomplete combustion, but carbon dioxide ??? What is going on there?
But if they approach an airplane at an angle so that the plane is always at the same bearing, it gets filtered out, the bird thinks the plane is at inifinity. Only when it is too near, the increased in perceived size of the object will create parallax. But by that time it is too late because the planes move too fast.
There are tons of laws and regulations about recording. Wire tapping laws are quite complex and arcane. You could argue this is "wireless taping" so wire-tap laws don't apply. But many police departments claim recording the police violates the law.
"These guys learnt about the defeat device in VW models. Then, on their own, without any directives from HQ, without any incentives from us, completely on their own, unbeknowest to the top management, did I say completely on their own, yes on their own, they did it.
We top management are completely blameless. We get paid oodles of money because we are the smartest and best in leading a complex company through difficult markets. So we deserve every penny we get as pay and bonus.
But everytime something like this happens, you can't blame the management, not the incentive structure, not the pressure we apply to deliver new and exciting products to our esteemed customers.
BTW, can we cash all our stocks and options before the company goes bankrupt? Hate to see all those millions of shares and option be priced at zero"
Further in the Hobby Lobby decision, a closely held company was endowed with religious rights too! So we need to make sure our laws do not impose undue burden in their practice of Confucianism or Buddhism or even Communism because, Communism is a religion for the Chinese.
So welcome to the Brave New World guys. Our government has been shrunk small enough to be drowned in a bathtub. And someone just did it. Hip Hip Hurray!
The Roberts Supreme Court has ruled they are eligible for far more than that. The owners, if they are US Citizens, will /should be able to make unlimited campaign contributions and also able to seek relief from any US Law that imposes substantial burden on their practice of religion.
What! he rails against something but not at the GOTO statement!
She will buy Canada at inflated price and lay off half of America.
First it will give billions of dollars to the private banks. And then.. nothing. It will keep giving money to banksters. That is the only thing it knows.
Hush! he is going to put on fake hair and run a campaign "to make slashdot great again".
No, I am not spinning some dark conspiracy theory about Big Oil. Simply this, if it had not been grandfathered out of product liability laws and hazardous substances regulation, gasoline and diesel will not be approved for use as automobile fuel. All other hydro carbons with the same energy density (42 MJ/Kg), volatility and flammability are strictly regulated.
The Fore people of Papua New Guinea subscribe to your principle. They share nothing outside their closely knit extended family clan. Absolutely no taxes and no sharing with anyone. No rules either, they will kill each other. That is why they remain small undeveloped brutal tribe in some land. They will never build a city. You are worse than Fore. You don't even understand how the mere existence of government and peaceful conflict resolution benefits you. Please leave America to civilized people like us and go live with the Fore.