After getting through ASUS server compromise, they just targeted 600 computers with hard coded MAC tables?
It could be a high level state actor looking for high value targets.
Or this is the test exploit verifying the ability for field testing. Subsequently they might have installed other back doors, and erased those operations from the update process. They forgot to clean up the original test code.
Given the level of persistence these things can have, it would be really impossible to clean up the infected ASUS machines.
Four cars rolled up to the four-way stop sign. They departed in the order they rolled in. No one crashed. No life was in danger. All the car occupants went on to continue their miserable pathetic existence, some traffic rule was observed. Nothing more.
STOP signs saved your life? Another 2 billion spent on traffic rule signage? All waste of money.
If a call seems to be coming from Telco A to Telco B, A must authenticate and owe a small fee to B. And vice versa. If it does not cost any money or revenue, there is no incentive for Telco A to be vigilant or sincere in the authentication issue.
Times have changed a lot since my immigration. Those days, (1990s) most top quality graduates emigrated. Education is the classic ticket out of poverty, out of India. These are the ones that came to USA worked their butts off and impressed their bosses and made them think, "ALL Indians are smart, well educated and hard working". The supply is not all that deep. Once you get past IITs, IISc, RECs, NITs the quality drops precipitously. Emigrants till about 2002 - 2005 were decent.
Then the H1B to green card transition became hard, the waiting lists got longer, and USA was losing its charm for the elite graduates. At the same time, Indian economy boomed, these grads were getting great career prospects back at home. The stream of resumes with IIT BTech has dwindled to nearly nothing.
Let Canada keep them. When USCompanies realize most of them are duds, it will be Canada's problem, bot ours.
uh!oh! Slowdown cowboy! Highly technical terms like blink of an eye to measure the seek time in the hard disks! What next? Going to use cubits to measure the thickness of paper? Or may be go all the way and express speed in furlongs/fortnight?
OK, the warning systems were not secured. It is like leaving the door opened. So one could argue the city should have designed a hacker proof system or it should have worked on double speed to restore it. But, is that a reasonable argument?
For example, if some vandal spray painted the traffic light covers and make them useless, or drops a sackful of nails on a highway, he/she could cause huge damage. We don't immediately take DoT for not creating secure highways where vadals could not mess with traffic lights or strew nails on the road.
Invariably in almost all these incidents we keep blaming "the officials", "the authorities". And they instinctively develop CMA tactics. They don't do anything unless they can have a paper trail that lets them shift the blame to someone else.
I got 2400 feet of half an inch spool recorded at a breath taking 6250 Bytes per inch by VAX 11-780. It has a FORTRAN pre-processor I wrote in 1984 to add constructs like repeat until (){}, do while (){} to FortranIV written in FortranIV. My own syntax.
There was the arms race in that corner of the universe creating supermassive blackholes. One team was going one up over the other. And when the score was 41-42, one team got the ultimate answer. So they won and the tournament ended. That's how they ended up with 83.
You are not a customer of MySpace. You are the product. You paid nothing to store your tracks in the cloud. They did it, hoping they can sell your eyeball time.
It is not valuable anymore to MySpace. So they deleted the data you up loaded.
If those tracks are valuable to you, you would taken proper backups or paid someone to store it properly.
One of the common practice in Hinduism is the thirtha yatra[*] , meaning (thirth = water, yatra = journey sanskrit) water pilgrimage. Visit so many holy temples and take a ceremonial drink of a few drops from that temple pond.
Thinking about it, this would be like deliberately exposing oneself to various pathogens, fungi, bacteria, virii that are endemic to different parts of the country. And this is a sort of primitive immunization protocol, isn't it. If it so happens some temple pond is always infested with cow-pox virus, these pilgrims will get immunity from small pox. Edward Jenner's casual observation "milkmaids who get cow-pox never get small pox" was how the entire vaccination (vacca = cow in Latin) science started.
Looks like they stumbled on to an useful practice by trial and error.
[*] Many variations and pronounciations in various Indian languages.
Any argument that we can't stop robo-calls because it's "too expensive" is just stupid. The cost of stopping them is miniscule compared to the cost of allowing them.
Cost of stopping them will have to be borne by the telco,.
Cost of allowing will by borne by you, not the telco.
There is not much of money in servicing the electric cars. Brake, suspension, collision repairs... Tesla should simply out source all its servicing to national chains like NTB or Pep Boys. It will save itself from the service hell. After manufacturing hell and delivery hell, it is approaching service hell.
Every mile for a gasoline car comes from the gas station. For an electric car 90% of the miles come from an outlet in your home. You need to buy 10 times fewer miles off home. In the BEV universe, every outlet is a gas station!. All the 240 v outlets in camp grounds, hotels.. all are like gas stations.
6 a week is plenty. It is exclusive to Tesla, anyway. For a 500K a year production rate this is good enough.
Electric car, skateboard floor plan is surprisingly roomy. There is no engine, radiator, transmission. The electric motor is no bigger than the differential. The battery is just a thick floor.
X does not look all that bigger than S, but it is very very spacious.
Indications are US pent up demand is gone. Europe sales did not begin well in time. Took too much time in getting European certificates etc. Too much of inventory in transit. So 19Q1 is going to be ugly. But that news is already baked into the price.
Long term situation looks decent. Though the pent up demand is gone, the base model will sell well. That will help with economy of scale. It is believed base model gross margin is not 20%. But it is not negative either. With all those slash and burn cost cutting the Q1 results will not be that bad.
Come 19Q2, the 750 million dollar loss 18Q2 will roll off the trailing four quarter view. So Tesla might make be profitable and will be included in SP500. That will bring much needed price support due to index fund buying. By that time world wide pent up demand will be gone. But base model will have margins in 10% range and the company will be able chugg along.
Demand will pick up for the model 3 in later half of the year. Tesla has not done leasing, advertising, fleet sales etc. It should be able to easily sell 350K model 3s world wide with an average sales price of around 40K.
It is 7 years for batteries instead of 18 months for the chips. No one thought it is possible, many still dont believe it. Only Tesla believed it and bet the entire company on the trend line.
All the "delays" and "missteps" by Tesla are basically waiting for battery price to fall enough to make its promises deliverable. Every announcement of Tesla is met with, "it is impossible". Then as years go by and when people are all berating Tesla for not keeping the promise, the battery price falls enough and suddenly its product is viable and has a positive gross margin!
Stall warning happens before the plane loses altitude. The idea is not to lose altitude.
The angle of attack is NOT the orientation of the plane. It is the orientation of the plane measured relative to the air flow direction. Without knowing the airflow you can not estimate it. That is why there is a sensor outside (basically a weather wane with instrumentation to measure its orientation with respect to the plane's axis).
Again why they rely on a single sensor, why they did not make this critical sensor redundant I don't know. There have been a case where a worker pressure washed the plane near the sensor and water got into the casing. No problem at sea level, but at altitude water froze and the sensor got stuck. So I would have assumed they would have made it redundant.
I can think of a better system, but even if the idea is sound it would take years. Basically we can emit a very thin stream of microscopic water droplets and/or smoke from the fuselage. And have a small glass window and a camera watching the path of the droplets, and measure the flow direction. From there we can estimate the angle of attack.
You see, Win10 is huge step for Windows. For ages they were trying to cram a full desktop UI into the tiny 4 inch screens, without keyboard. Then, they turned around and slapped a UI designed for 4 inch screens on the 24 inch desktop.
With App mirroring the full power of stretching a 5 inch UI over 24 inch display will be totally apparent.
Right now Microsoft is busy implementing a gesture UI for their minitowers.
After that they will think of doing something about the swipe control using a three button mouse.
Why did Facebook create the ability of third party apps/extensions to grab such data?
OR the real crime here is that they grabbed the data without becoming "an official partner" of Facebook providing its users with "new and exciting services and products" who pay the required tribute to Facebook and share the spoils?
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This is a meta april 1 email that got sent out three days too early.
It could be a high level state actor looking for high value targets.
Or this is the test exploit verifying the ability for field testing. Subsequently they might have installed other back doors, and erased those operations from the update process. They forgot to clean up the original test code.
Given the level of persistence these things can have, it would be really impossible to clean up the infected ASUS machines.
STOP signs saved your life? Another 2 billion spent on traffic rule signage? All waste of money.
Right buddy?
If a call seems to be coming from Telco A to Telco B, A must authenticate and owe a small fee to B. And vice versa. If it does not cost any money or revenue, there is no incentive for Telco A to be vigilant or sincere in the authentication issue.
Then the H1B to green card transition became hard, the waiting lists got longer, and USA was losing its charm for the elite graduates. At the same time, Indian economy boomed, these grads were getting great career prospects back at home. The stream of resumes with IIT BTech has dwindled to nearly nothing.
Let Canada keep them. When USCompanies realize most of them are duds, it will be Canada's problem, bot ours.
uh!oh! Slowdown cowboy! Highly technical terms like blink of an eye to measure the seek time in the hard disks! What next? Going to use cubits to measure the thickness of paper? Or may be go all the way and express speed in furlongs/fortnight?
Vegan diet gives them a condescending tone towards others.
For example, if some vandal spray painted the traffic light covers and make them useless, or drops a sackful of nails on a highway, he/she could cause huge damage. We don't immediately take DoT for not creating secure highways where vadals could not mess with traffic lights or strew nails on the road.
Invariably in almost all these incidents we keep blaming "the officials", "the authorities". And they instinctively develop CMA tactics. They don't do anything unless they can have a paper trail that lets them shift the blame to someone else.
Wish I can read that code once again.
There was the arms race in that corner of the universe creating supermassive blackholes. One team was going one up over the other. And when the score was 41-42, one team got the ultimate answer. So they won and the tournament ended. That's how they ended up with 83.
It is not valuable anymore to MySpace. So they deleted the data you up loaded.
If those tracks are valuable to you, you would taken proper backups or paid someone to store it properly.
You paid them nothing. They owe you nothing.
Thinking about it, this would be like deliberately exposing oneself to various pathogens, fungi, bacteria, virii that are endemic to different parts of the country. And this is a sort of primitive immunization protocol, isn't it. If it so happens some temple pond is always infested with cow-pox virus, these pilgrims will get immunity from small pox. Edward Jenner's casual observation "milkmaids who get cow-pox never get small pox" was how the entire vaccination (vacca = cow in Latin) science started.
Looks like they stumbled on to an useful practice by trial and error.
[*] Many variations and pronounciations in various Indian languages.
Any argument that we can't stop robo-calls because it's "too expensive" is just stupid. The cost of stopping them is miniscule compared to the cost of allowing them.
Cost of stopping them will have to be borne by the telco,.
Cost of allowing will by borne by you, not the telco.
So what would telco do?
There is not much of money in servicing the electric cars. Brake, suspension, collision repairs... Tesla should simply out source all its servicing to national chains like NTB or Pep Boys. It will save itself from the service hell. After manufacturing hell and delivery hell, it is approaching service hell.
6 a week is plenty. It is exclusive to Tesla, anyway. For a 500K a year production rate this is good enough.
X does not look all that bigger than S, but it is very very spacious.
Long term situation looks decent. Though the pent up demand is gone, the base model will sell well. That will help with economy of scale. It is believed base model gross margin is not 20%. But it is not negative either. With all those slash and burn cost cutting the Q1 results will not be that bad.
Come 19Q2, the 750 million dollar loss 18Q2 will roll off the trailing four quarter view. So Tesla might make be profitable and will be included in SP500. That will bring much needed price support due to index fund buying. By that time world wide pent up demand will be gone. But base model will have margins in 10% range and the company will be able chugg along.
Demand will pick up for the model 3 in later half of the year. Tesla has not done leasing, advertising, fleet sales etc. It should be able to easily sell 350K model 3s world wide with an average sales price of around 40K.
All the "delays" and "missteps" by Tesla are basically waiting for battery price to fall enough to make its promises deliverable. Every announcement of Tesla is met with, "it is impossible". Then as years go by and when people are all berating Tesla for not keeping the promise, the battery price falls enough and suddenly its product is viable and has a positive gross margin!
I saw a documentary where the aliens were sending messages to civilizations by encoding message from the 1 trillionth digit of pi.
For a mere 10$ more, Verizon will call its current service 5G just for you.
It raises the question, does not beg the question.
The angle of attack is NOT the orientation of the plane. It is the orientation of the plane measured relative to the air flow direction. Without knowing the airflow you can not estimate it. That is why there is a sensor outside (basically a weather wane with instrumentation to measure its orientation with respect to the plane's axis).
Again why they rely on a single sensor, why they did not make this critical sensor redundant I don't know. There have been a case where a worker pressure washed the plane near the sensor and water got into the casing. No problem at sea level, but at altitude water froze and the sensor got stuck. So I would have assumed they would have made it redundant.
I can think of a better system, but even if the idea is sound it would take years. Basically we can emit a very thin stream of microscopic water droplets and/or smoke from the fuselage. And have a small glass window and a camera watching the path of the droplets, and measure the flow direction. From there we can estimate the angle of attack.
You see, Win10 is huge step for Windows. For ages they were trying to cram a full desktop UI into the tiny 4 inch screens, without keyboard. Then, they turned around and slapped a UI designed for 4 inch screens on the 24 inch desktop.
With App mirroring the full power of stretching a 5 inch UI over 24 inch display will be totally apparent.
Right now Microsoft is busy implementing a gesture UI for their minitowers.
After that they will think of doing something about the swipe control using a three button mouse.
How many other Apps are grabbing the data?
Why did Facebook create the ability of third party apps/extensions to grab such data?
OR the real crime here is that they grabbed the data without becoming "an official partner" of Facebook providing its users with "new and exciting services and products" who pay the required tribute to Facebook and share the spoils?
The greatest enemy for the democracy is not some foreign country, it is the apathy of the voting population.