number of kids having died from the fortnight dance: none.
*the total count of entitled celebrity pseudo-rulers riding the coat-tails of an increasingly wasteful and arrogant theatrical monarchy into the apocalypse of Brexit remains uncounted, yet is at least 1.
Pathetic that slashdot has gotten to this point, but the original article has no link to any meaningful information.
in summary:
- this is an exploit in a windows program written by huawei called pcmanager.
- Dell, HP, and even Lenovo have had security bugs in their software as well. The fact that this is a huawei bug means every news outlet gets to ratched up the terror factor for clicks.
- googling the name Alan Woodward returns the exact same article title at nearly 2 dozen news sites, but nothing meaningful about the guy outside of his singular report.
https://www.huawei.com/en/psir...
Computed tomography is a cat scan. This is a life-saving medical procedure in American hospitals that could cost you upwards of two-thousand USD. Your insurance company could elect to accept or decline that procedure arbitrarily as they see fit.
However in US airports its now going to be a mandatory part of a theatricality introduced 18 years ago to stop terrorists we created after the fall of the soviet union through the funding and training of the Mujaheddin. This theatricality demands that we analyze nude photos of passengers through backscatter and millimeter wave systems, dump all our liquids out, and now requires we run our bags through yet another $80,000 machine to prevent terrorism. Smoking, cancer, diabetes, and even lightning strikes at 50 deaths per year kill more americans than terrorism.
hundreds of new CT machines paid for by the government could subsidize healthcare for poor communities, but no. We're going to use them to speed up an unreasonable, wasteful and cumbersome live performance art we could have eliminated a decade ago.
microsoft: we are committed to open source, here is some software we released as "opened source" internet: yeah this license isnt really open source microsoft: We have heard the feedback and are continuing our awesome open source initiative. internet: its cool. since you spent 40 years trying to force people to use your crappy software, we came up with other open source tools that all either do the same thing, or do it much better than yours. microsoft: Here is calculator. It is a small but advanced tool you can use internet: Linux has about 34 different calculators already. and they run in windows too. microsoft: Yes yes, you are welcome. finally, A calculator that is open source. now if youll excuse me, ive only got 2 plays left on my zune copy of mmm-bop and id like to enjoy them.
microsoft still hasnt explained exactly what they hope to achieve with the linux subsystem work. namely, what is it you hope to offer of value to something that you could install for free from any of more than 30 cloud providers and hundreds of VPS hosting sites? Who would actively go out of their way to add windows as a layer of complexity, and most importantly, why??
ok, youre there, hows the environment?
theres enough radiation down here to cook a chicken guys, can i come back up now?
not just yet, see that radioactive material? give it a squeeze....for real? is that safe? that sounds like its not safe.
sure yeah youre a robot just...give it a quick squeeze
ok, i squeezed it, what now??
wear it like a little hat. little robot hat.....so but this is for science?
oh uh, yeah all the best robots do it for science
this CPU shortage is only for Intel CPUs. AMD's Ryzen platform is not experiencing supply chain problems at all, but the likelyhood anyone at Lenovo or Dell has the muscle to steer the ship away from Intel is pretty slim.
our countries rationale for blacklisting huawei are shady at best:
1. spooky chinese government Does not hold water. Literally every tplink, every cisco, every netgear, and every D-Link are made in China. millions of routers and switches already run on hardware built in or under the direct supervision of the PRC. We've snored through 40 years of offshoring to China and now the government is somehow insisting just this one vendor is a big issue? unlikely.
2.Violation of ITAR: the federal legal statute that prevents you from selling Hitler a router. If you sell to iran -- which Huawei allegedly did -- then you're going to pay a fine. google "ITAR violations" and youll see a litany of various US owned and operated companies that have violated ITAR including Bluecoat and Symantec. Its virtually impossible not to violate it. not once did the US arrest a CEO of any of the ITAR violating companies and request their extradition. In every single case, A fine was paid and business resumed as usual. these companies did not even legally have to admit fault.
so what is the REAL reason we cant have huawei? is it because the Honor 10 is so damned good compared to the iPhone? No,..
The worry is that China will get widespread 5G coverage before the US does, which will allow it to accelerate the development of specific 5G-reliant technologies, like self-driving cars. With the help of Huaweis equipment, China would displace Silicon Valley as the worlds innovation center.
- if this service is end-to-end encrypted, then only alice and bob can read the messages. Carol is in no position to moderate anything.
- If carol was invited to this exchange, and given cryptographic access to Alice and Bobs chat, then she can investigate and report whatever child porn she finds. its no different than my coworker inviting me to go cockfighting after work.
- the concept of encryption has nothing to do with the cusp of the issue: child pornography exists in 2018 and is illegal. Its no different than say, the illegality of content of the panama papers or the coverup of Pat Tillmans execution (both illegal.) These illegalities and many other white-collar first-world crimes were also encrypted, but here we are using child pornography to sensationalize an otherwise mundane report on crime.
- using this story, we can turn end-to-end encryption into a hot button item that demonizes any politician that seeks to preserve constitutional freedom of speech.
example: We're not disagreeing that breaking end to end would ruin freedom, but we are saying that if you dont do something to outlaw crypto, you're a pedophile by proxy.
The crumbling infrastructure of cold-war politics surely comes as a surprise to no one. the USSR's incentives for building infrastructure and defense were much more resilient and sustainable based on the charter of the government they were building as a reflection of the society itself. ,br>
The US on the other hand only had one drive: just beat the USSR. It doesnt matter if your space program is run on nickels and dimes in 30 years, or your superhighways and bridges crumble without any meaningful maintenance or even a thought of repair, just so long as what you make now continues to promote the image that the US does it better. So here it is, our sterling testament to the defense of american freedom. At the time it was a pinnacle because it had to be. Now the doors are all ajar and the computers are run by idiots.
empty promises to avoid litigating a class action.
Exactly this, cutting off your nose to spite your face. Uber is responsible for several instances of major litigation, protest, documented evasion of law enforcement, sexual harassment, and offshore tax havens. Uber is also the most over-valued turd in this gig-economy race to the bottom, and at fifteen billion dollars in assets expects to release an IPO in 2019. Now its actively refusing to pay for the arbitration clauses it insisted upon?
If the IPO drops in 2019 its going to be hard to really justify why anyone bought the stock. Uber is basically a ponzi scheme with an advanced misery clause.
megacorporations like Microsoft are pushing for broadband, not because it provides a better internet experience for users, but because it makes internet bloat less perceptible. Your Windows internet experience might only be used for Amazon shopping and Facebook, but the number of realtime bandwidth-intensive telemetry, tracking, and advertising connections required to deliver a profitable experience for content providers is what is really at stake. Without fast, unlimited internet, customers will increasingly turn to ad-block and route blocking software for known advertiser subnets.
amazon employees: Quick! get to the exits! the loading robots accidentally punctured a pallet of bug spray!!
Amazon warehouse AI: Remain calm and return to your workstations, there is no cause for alarm.
amazon employees: sweet buttery jesus its trying to kill us all!
amazon warehouse AI: There is nothing to fear. This chemical release has been identified to be bug spray, which will not affect you as you are not bugs.
if we are truly just like our parents but poorer, then we can be expected to hold differing priorities and spending habits that are dictated by that poverty. The Federal Reserve is either pushing this idea to calm markets heading into a recession, or its manufacturing excuses for upcoming market instability.
The US plays a slight-of-hand trick with its unemployment figures, cherrypicking whom it considers homeless in order to improve its image. for example The U-3 is the rate most often reported in the media. In the U-3 rate, the Bureau of Labor Statistics only counts people without jobs who are in the labor force. To remain in the labor force, they must have looked for a job in the last four weeks. The U-6, or real unemployment rate, includes the underemployed, the marginally attached, and discouraged workers.
Hey slashdot. Full time engine mechanic here (learning python/pi.) For those of you who would like to exit the museum of 1984, disabling anti-features like remote control and data collection is relatively easy in US vehicles.
The OnStar device resides usually behind the stereo, so youll need to have a set of wrenches and a bit of elbow grease. The unit is stainless steel in most cases and about the size of an encyclopedia volume. It will have a MAC Address label as well as some cellular identification on it.
unplug the GPS, the header cable, and the wifi cable. Open the box and remove a small daughter board male/male jumper to disconnect the cellular modem. reassemble the box, and reconnect it. Your vehicle wont be able to make onstar calls anymore, but in turn, it also cant be remotely snooped by whomever decided the constitution wasnt important that day.
in the hands of ISPs in countries with a long history of Internet surveillance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... This might be news to some, but the US is a country with a long history of internet surveillance. AT&T maintains an entire room in one of their san francisco datacenters that does nothing but explicitly snoop traffic for the government.
the guy doesnt even play chess. why not Stephen Fry? Madonna? Mel Brooks? Chris rock? or heck, even the great Bill Cosby plays chess!.....
hold on a minute my husband just informed me of some very important news about Bill Cosby. it was his character Cliff Huxtable that played chess! not Cosby. So maybe hes not such a great pick
commerce: jesus christ are you crazy? we use DST for all sorts of marketing voodoo, especially cinemas and evening activities! you might buy less stuff!
americans: not likely. we buy everything online anyway.
commerce: b-but! think of the farmers! they need more time to harvest crops and this time switch gives them more daylight! without DST youll starve the whole country!
farmer: [casually turns the headlights on in the tractor]
The fact that Nat Friedman is heading this up is cause for me to lower my machete and molotov. Nat is a smart guy, and if given the opportunity hes shown he knows how to deliver what the community wants.
the canary for Microsofts acquisition however is, also, Nat. Once he resigns its an impossible act to follow for Microsofts dyed-in-the-wool chain of command. Theyll need to continue the momentum, redouble their commitment to the community and maintain good communication. Gitlab and Sourceforge are too readily available, too easy to use, and have all the same features as github. Microsoft is literally banking on their ability to curate a very perceptive userbase...something they have failed to do time and time again
i mean is one vendors supply chain shortage a real issue for the tech industry or is this just a cheap attempt from intel to remain relevant in the face of AMD by implying their chips are in high enough demand to cause a lack of availability in the market?
and for that matter who seriously cares? when my favourite brand of potato chip is gone i just reach for some other brand. Its just a chip.
cant tech companies just switch to ARM or AMD for CPU's? wouldnt they at least consider diversifying away from Intel in light of the meltdown vulnerability? or is intel trying to convince customers that not only has meltdown not been an issue, but they are so unaffected that customers are buying up all their chips?
20 top US corporate lawyers with decades of experience in corporate law and contract review were pitted against an AI.
What the article isnt saying is that these lawyers were pitted against a combat AI in a parking lot in the back of a derelict convenience store in the dark hours of the morning. The AI successfully dismembered virtually all of them, despite their decades of experience in corporate law.
Slashdot Mirror
drug deaths per year in the UK: 247 in 2015 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34...
alcohol deaths per year in the UK: 5,843 deaths in 2017 https://www.independent.co.uk/...
number of kids having died from the fortnight dance: none.
*the total count of entitled celebrity pseudo-rulers riding the coat-tails of an increasingly wasteful and arrogant theatrical monarchy into the apocalypse of Brexit remains uncounted, yet is at least 1.
Pathetic that slashdot has gotten to this point, but the original article has no link to any meaningful information.
in summary:
- this is an exploit in a windows program written by huawei called pcmanager.
- Dell, HP, and even Lenovo have had security bugs in their software as well. The fact that this is a huawei bug means every news outlet gets to ratched up the terror factor for clicks.
- googling the name Alan Woodward returns the exact same article title at nearly 2 dozen news sites, but nothing meaningful about the guy outside of his singular report.
https://www.huawei.com/en/psir...
Computed tomography is a cat scan. This is a life-saving medical procedure in American hospitals that could cost you upwards of two-thousand USD. Your insurance company could elect to accept or decline that procedure arbitrarily as they see fit.
However in US airports its now going to be a mandatory part of a theatricality introduced 18 years ago to stop terrorists we created after the fall of the soviet union through the funding and training of the Mujaheddin. This theatricality demands that we analyze nude photos of passengers through backscatter and millimeter wave systems, dump all our liquids out, and now requires we run our bags through yet another $80,000 machine to prevent terrorism. Smoking, cancer, diabetes, and even lightning strikes at 50 deaths per year kill more americans than terrorism.
hundreds of new CT machines paid for by the government could subsidize healthcare for poor communities, but no. We're going to use them to speed up an unreasonable, wasteful and cumbersome live performance art we could have eliminated a decade ago.
scientists: by 2050 Britain may run out of water...
british: *shrug*
scientists: Tea...is made with water...
british:: GOD SAVE THE QUEEN WE MUST ACT.
scotland:: kicks in the door AEY IS NO EVEN A QUESHUN DIDNYE KNOW BEER COME FROM WA'UH LADS
microsoft: we are committed to open source, here is some software we released as "opened source"
internet: yeah this license isnt really open source
microsoft: We have heard the feedback and are continuing our awesome open source initiative.
internet: its cool. since you spent 40 years trying to force people to use your crappy software, we came up with other open source tools that all either do the same thing, or do it much better than yours.
microsoft: Here is calculator. It is a small but advanced tool you can use
internet: Linux has about 34 different calculators already. and they run in windows too.
microsoft: Yes yes, you are welcome. finally, A calculator that is open source. now if youll excuse me, ive only got 2 plays left on my zune copy of mmm-bop and id like to enjoy them.
PRISM has several techniques you can use to escape. most are FLOSS. https://prism-break.org/
microsoft still hasnt explained exactly what they hope to achieve with the linux subsystem work. namely, what is it you hope to offer of value to something that you could install for free from any of more than 30 cloud providers and hundreds of VPS hosting sites? Who would actively go out of their way to add windows as a layer of complexity, and most importantly, why??
ok, youre there, hows the environment? theres enough radiation down here to cook a chicken guys, can i come back up now? not just yet, see that radioactive material? give it a squeeze ....for real? is that safe? that sounds like its not safe.
sure yeah youre a robot just...give it a quick squeeze
ok, i squeezed it, what now??
wear it like a little hat. little robot hat. ....so but this is for science?
oh uh, yeah all the best robots do it for science
this CPU shortage is only for Intel CPUs. AMD's Ryzen platform is not experiencing supply chain problems at all, but the likelyhood anyone at Lenovo or Dell has the muscle to steer the ship away from Intel is pretty slim.
disclosure: im an american.
our countries rationale for blacklisting huawei are shady at best:
1. spooky chinese government Does not hold water. Literally every tplink, every cisco, every netgear, and every D-Link are made in China. millions of routers and switches already run on hardware built in or under the direct supervision of the PRC. We've snored through 40 years of offshoring to China and now the government is somehow insisting just this one vendor is a big issue? unlikely.
2.Violation of ITAR: the federal legal statute that prevents you from selling Hitler a router. If you sell to iran -- which Huawei allegedly did -- then you're going to pay a fine. google "ITAR violations" and youll see a litany of various US owned and operated companies that have violated ITAR including Bluecoat and Symantec. Its virtually impossible not to violate it. not once did the US arrest a CEO of any of the ITAR violating companies and request their extradition. In every single case, A fine was paid and business resumed as usual. these companies did not even legally have to admit fault.
so what is the REAL reason we cant have huawei? is it because the Honor 10 is so damned good compared to the iPhone? No,..
The worry is that China will get widespread 5G coverage before the US does, which will allow it to accelerate the development of specific 5G-reliant technologies, like self-driving cars. With the help of Huaweis equipment, China would displace Silicon Valley as the worlds innovation center.
- if this service is end-to-end encrypted, then only alice and bob can read the messages. Carol is in no position to moderate anything.
- If carol was invited to this exchange, and given cryptographic access to Alice and Bobs chat, then she can investigate and report whatever child porn she finds. its no different than my coworker inviting me to go cockfighting after work.
- the concept of encryption has nothing to do with the cusp of the issue: child pornography exists in 2018 and is illegal. Its no different than say, the illegality of content of the panama papers or the coverup of Pat Tillmans execution (both illegal.) These illegalities and many other white-collar first-world crimes were also encrypted, but here we are using child pornography to sensationalize an otherwise mundane report on crime.
- using this story, we can turn end-to-end encryption into a hot button item that demonizes any politician that seeks to preserve constitutional freedom of speech. example: We're not disagreeing that breaking end to end would ruin freedom, but we are saying that if you dont do something to outlaw crypto, you're a pedophile by proxy.
The crumbling infrastructure of cold-war politics surely comes as a surprise to no one. the USSR's incentives for building infrastructure and defense were much more resilient and sustainable based on the charter of the government they were building as a reflection of the society itself.
,br> The US on the other hand only had one drive: just beat the USSR. It doesnt matter if your space program is run on nickels and dimes in 30 years, or your superhighways and bridges crumble without any meaningful maintenance or even a thought of repair, just so long as what you make now continues to promote the image that the US does it better. So here it is, our sterling testament to the defense of american freedom. At the time it was a pinnacle because it had to be. Now the doors are all ajar and the computers are run by idiots.
empty promises to avoid litigating a class action.
Exactly this, cutting off your nose to spite your face. Uber is responsible for several instances of major litigation, protest, documented evasion of law enforcement, sexual harassment, and offshore tax havens. Uber is also the most over-valued turd in this gig-economy race to the bottom, and at fifteen billion dollars in assets expects to release an IPO in 2019. Now its actively refusing to pay for the arbitration clauses it insisted upon?
If the IPO drops in 2019 its going to be hard to really justify why anyone bought the stock. Uber is basically a ponzi scheme with an advanced misery clause.
megacorporations like Microsoft are pushing for broadband, not because it provides a better internet experience for users, but because it makes internet bloat less perceptible.
Your Windows internet experience might only be used for Amazon shopping and Facebook, but the number of realtime bandwidth-intensive telemetry, tracking, and advertising connections required to deliver a profitable experience for content providers is what is really at stake. Without fast, unlimited internet, customers will increasingly turn to ad-block and route blocking software for known advertiser subnets.
amazon employees: Quick! get to the exits! the loading robots accidentally punctured a pallet of bug spray!!
Amazon warehouse AI: Remain calm and return to your workstations, there is no cause for alarm.
amazon employees: sweet buttery jesus its trying to kill us all!
amazon warehouse AI: There is nothing to fear. This chemical release has been identified to be bug spray, which will not affect you as you are not bugs.
if we are truly just like our parents but poorer, then we can be expected to hold differing priorities and spending habits that are dictated by that poverty. The Federal Reserve is either pushing this idea to calm markets heading into a recession, or its manufacturing excuses for upcoming market instability.
The US plays a slight-of-hand trick with its unemployment figures, cherrypicking whom it considers homeless in order to improve its image. for example The U-3 is the rate most often reported in the media. In the U-3 rate, the Bureau of Labor Statistics only counts people without jobs who are in the labor force. To remain in the labor force, they must have looked for a job in the last four weeks.
The U-6, or real unemployment rate, includes the underemployed, the marginally attached, and discouraged workers.
Actual unemployment in the US is 7.4%.
Google, and by extension, Alphabet, joined the US PRISM surveillance program in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hey slashdot. Full time engine mechanic here (learning python/pi.) For those of you who would like to exit the museum of 1984, disabling anti-features like remote control and data collection is relatively easy in US vehicles.
The OnStar device resides usually behind the stereo, so youll need to have a set of wrenches and a bit of elbow grease. The unit is stainless steel in most cases and about the size of an encyclopedia volume. It will have a MAC Address label as well as some cellular identification on it.
unplug the GPS, the header cable, and the wifi cable. Open the box and remove a small daughter board male/male jumper to disconnect the cellular modem. reassemble the box, and reconnect it. Your vehicle wont be able to make onstar calls anymore, but in turn, it also cant be remotely snooped by whomever decided the constitution wasnt important that day.
in the hands of ISPs in countries with a long history of Internet surveillance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This might be news to some, but the US is a country with a long history of internet surveillance. AT&T maintains an entire room in one of their san francisco datacenters that does nothing but explicitly snoop traffic for the government.
the guy doesnt even play chess. why not Stephen Fry? Madonna? Mel Brooks? Chris rock? or heck, even the great Bill Cosby plays chess!.....
hold on a minute my husband just informed me of some very important news about Bill Cosby. it was his character Cliff Huxtable that played chess! not Cosby. So maybe hes not such a great pick
americans: we need to get rid of DST
commerce: jesus christ are you crazy? we use DST for all sorts of marketing voodoo, especially cinemas and evening activities! you might buy less stuff!
americans: not likely. we buy everything online anyway.
commerce: b-but! think of the farmers! they need more time to harvest crops and this time switch gives them more daylight! without DST youll starve the whole country!
farmer: [casually turns the headlights on in the tractor]
The fact that Nat Friedman is heading this up is cause for me to lower my machete and molotov. Nat is a smart guy, and if given the opportunity hes shown he knows how to deliver what the community wants.
the canary for Microsofts acquisition however is, also, Nat. Once he resigns its an impossible act to follow for Microsofts dyed-in-the-wool chain of command. Theyll need to continue the momentum, redouble their commitment to the community and maintain good communication. Gitlab and Sourceforge are too readily available, too easy to use, and have all the same features as github. Microsoft is literally banking on their ability to curate a very perceptive userbase...something they have failed to do time and time again
i mean is one vendors supply chain shortage a real issue for the tech industry or is this just a cheap attempt from intel to remain relevant in the face of AMD by implying their chips are in high enough demand to cause a lack of availability in the market?
and for that matter who seriously cares? when my favourite brand of potato chip is gone i just reach for some other brand. Its just a chip. cant tech companies just switch to ARM or AMD for CPU's? wouldnt they at least consider diversifying away from Intel in light of the meltdown vulnerability? or is intel trying to convince customers that not only has meltdown not been an issue, but they are so unaffected that customers are buying up all their chips?
20 top US corporate lawyers with decades of experience in corporate law and contract review were pitted against an AI.
What the article isnt saying is that these lawyers were pitted against a combat AI in a parking lot in the back of a derelict convenience store in the dark hours of the morning. The AI successfully dismembered virtually all of them, despite their decades of experience in corporate law.