I dont mean to be a party pooper, but it does not seem as though armed conflict between north korea and south korea has solved anything in the last 30 years. Perhaps if we still weren't falling lock-step in line with the reagan administrations heritage foundation doctrines toward communism, we might get a chance at a civil multilateral discussion between both parties that could, in the long term, evolve into diplomatic relationships the likes of the industrial exchange that until recently had been a major step forward for both parties.
military complex and start banging the drums, its time for another cyberwar/security/terror/fud article. This is just information security with a shiny new name
we havent given close scrutiny to things like creation science lately. Im fairly certain one shit teacher can do more to screw up a generation than an entire school of laureate PHDs.
preface: this post gets real ugly...some might even say...trollish...but i need to form an opinion here.
being in IT ive already "sanctioned" the ipad, the iphone, and droid for our networks. My blessing doesnt automatically cause a product to fly off the fucking shelves, steve; it never had a bearing on the ipad at all.
in fact considering as we're still hopelessly mired in a recession that just wont end and my state has 10% unemployment as our company looms to cut costs of everything from daytime office lights to toilet paper, i could make a compelling argument that if i dont even have the budget for new CRAC filters, i damned sure dont have the budget for another lifeless battery sucking piece of half-hack competitionalist horse shit from redmond that will either die off completely in 2 years or cease to have any bearing on "productivity" in 3 weeks. I also dont have the manpower to support such a Utopian wireless dog turd, and i dont have the maintenance budget to replace it when someone leaves it in their car in the 110 deg. blistering desert summer heat.
its another cyberwar/cyberattack/cybersecurity article! your friends at Raytheon, a wholesome defense contractor, got the contract this time for a surveillance project to fight the upcoming cyber[war/attack]. they of course being shy about the whole thing declined to comment about it.
Perfect Citizen will look at large, typically older computer control systems that were often designed without Internet connectivity or security in mind. the bigger issue is why are private corporations allowed to operate things like nuclear reactors in such a manner that apparently poses imminent threat to national security and public safety, then turn around and ask the government to secure their systems for them?
I can attest to the fact that we are by and large utterly incompetent when handling reports of hacks. as an example we had never seen them in our products before and only recently became aware of several nasty buffer overflows in our flagship product. the 'hat' that found the problems was based out of quebec and didnt speak english, our corporate office having first been informed of the issue immediately declared their intent to prosecute the perceived hacker. we had a generous 5 days to respond as well before he disclosed
11 days into the fiasco we still had no team, we had no direction and we were scrambling to find the firmware and software our products used that was vulnerable to notify our customers, most of them DoD and government entities. we strung this poor schmuck along for 15 days total before we began publishing the exploit. we even initially toyed with the idea of withholding his name in the report but thank god all agreed that would be not only rude, but very dangerous since he was still in possession of a few flaws we had not found.
we sent an NDA, we sent legal agreements, we came back very empty handed
America. America is driving the cyber war nonsense and the reason is clear. the natural progression of our regularly scheduled wars that operate on ~4 year cycle is boring the american public, who are tired of sending their kids to the meatgrinder in some third world hell-desert. American voters are also tired of high taxes required to pay for these "necessary wars" that drive GDP up, but in the long term which most americans and politicians dont concern themselves with, bankrupt a nation.
Drones made war more popular by removing the "little johnny isnt coming home" factor from war, but their most recent theatre also made them politically despicable as they became used casually to invade sovereign states to bomb the living shit out of army bases and cars with "suspected" terrorist leaders. This set the precedent for any country with an agenda to disregard national sovereignty because, well, america does too.
cyberwar is an innocuous catchall thats managed by a US military entity (the airforce,) sufficiently complex as to avoid questioning by the general populous, and can easily be related to americans in terms of website hacks, email hacks, etc...to such an extent as to drive support and backing for cyberwars. Cyberwars, being ambiguous and beyond comprehension by joe six-pack also enjoy the luxury of being cheap, or expensive, depending on the size of the pocketbook and willingness of the nation to spend.
Cyberwar, like the war on terror, is designed as a continued investment by quite likely the very same government entrenched corporations that drove most any of the other wars we've had. it doesnt seek to protect anyone or solve anything, only create new consumer products the likes of the AR-15 and the hummer and line the pockets of the richest and most vile human beings who have ever come under the service of the people of the united states of america. And so long as we have potbellied senators from the carolinas barking cyberwar, there will always be a market for what we fear but do not understand.
colleges can outsource student networks (dorm, cafeteria, etc...) to ISP's, and maintain their own in-house networks for things like computing projects, internet2, etc...cost savings and flipping the bird to RIAA controlled legislators is certain to be a win-win.
hardware reliability or quality, arguably. I just filled out a Purchase order for ~1mil. in dell hardware. all our megacorp cares about is how good is the corporate support, how fast to return parts arrive, how big is the discount.
uptime and scalability are all our concerns. for us to care about dell lying would be calling the kettle black.
if in america colleges hold the monopoly on effective education, what repercussions will be fired at these rogue corporations who (gasp!) hire people based on the talent and technical knowledge they have historically used to succeed and not that pretty piece of paper?
worth asking? every 6-10 months slashdot features a new study revealing such horrors as "average person doesnt know how many revolutions around the sun earth makes in a year" and "average person does not know if difference between color absorbency and reflection." its not like these studies come out of nowhere, its a flagrant red alert that for some reason our country has not kept pace with science.
if the only science americans are exposed to is the "what if we all left the planet tomorrow?" and "lets blow shit up" sensationalisms of a neutered scientific method then all we can assume is the next scientist to come out and publicly release findings on global warming, climate change, carbon emissions, or the next major oil slick will be met with furrowed brows and balks of disregard and disbelief...but its not all their fault!
science fed to the public by corporations has historically been intentionally if not flagrantly inaccurate in some cases and by and large gets away with massive deception. Kellogs has been caught twice this year with bogus studies and statistics insisting their cereal boosts immunity, deepwater rig science speculation was effectively accepted without premise or any proof, tobacco corporations insisted the science behind cigarettes is safe and major petroleum corporations are now force-feeding anti climate change rhetoric to americans on a monthly basis and applied as needed to reduce flairups in dissenting opinion. reform is going to be needed before anyone, american or otherwise, can begin to give back trust to science. Trust is essential to a drive for understanding as without trust, no attempt is made to follow what is widely perceived to be shenanigans and tomfoolery.
this madness will end with new standards, it wont. The connector standard has become as much a marketing phenomenon as it has a control of the customers choice of provider and repeat purchase options. Just take a look at cellphone power connectors as a prime example. or for us old farts, i can simply whisper betamax and we're all sent running for cover. The easiest thing to do in light of all these changes is wait a few years for the price to drop substantially, and upgrade components as needed. yeah, i still have VGA for my monitor, and composite or svid for my video. things that need to go a long distance get baluns or repeaters.
at the risk of getting the troll stamp, you could go so far as to say the entire HDMI standard and its accompanying 720p/i 1080p/i standards are complete poppycock. computer monitors have had resolution superior to these standards for years before their inception.
makes me nostalgic. a long time ago this was seen as a shining beacon of capitalist supremacy first, and a scientific marvel second. Buran came and went, but the shuttle endured. the cosmodrome practically paid for itself on a global stage with satellites from near and far and even from the very same country it once locked horns with, and the shuttle still remained. shuttle missions brought new technologies, new achievements, and some of the most spectacular tragedies science has ever been privilege to witness. Im anxious to see what supersedes it
is that freedom of speech and democracy are virtually exclusive to a few nations. maybe im just approaching this from the wrong side, maybe im wrong, im perfectly willing to concede both but im at least a bit confused...
if laws in another country are different, why dont we just respect them and do business on their terms? and if we cant, then we need to stop being hypocritical and begin questioning and denying trade on more than just the internet with china in reaction to their censorship requirements.
imagine donald, with all the work hes put into latex and the public opinions hes made related to open source and copyright law, will take this laying down.
the "if you dont follow the community we'll just do it ourselves" threat is very real.
BP is complete fail...like this is going to be something that will be forever flaunted in the face of any politician brassy enough to imply a self regulated industry as innocuous as even a q-tip packager is a sane idea.
ive heard everything from "bp is censoring the media" to "bp is burning sea turtles alive" and now "bp is smashing robots into the well cap." BP has tried FIVE TIMES to contain this spill for over two months now. every wild fancy from broken golfballs and rope to heavy mud and cement has been thrown at this thing and nothing BP "engineers" can come up with seems to be imaginative enough to stop this fucking leak.
in another six months the gulf coast will not only have to contend with the fallout from its annual bevy of hurricanes, but the inevitable complexities coastal crude oil fires pose as municipalities will be forced to extinguish flaming transformers and ruptured gas lines tainted with this shit. ground water table pollution is also a consideration after the hurricane season.
for those slashdot customers experiencing loss of signal and poor quality,
we recommend exiting the basement and removing your storm trooper helmet to place calls.
the lobby in discussion has not only recognized the rise of GPL/copyleft, but that they have tacitly conceded it fosters competitive and worthwhile art and media with and empowers creators and artists to supplant these lobby groups...sounds like we just realized bottled water was tap water all along.
i feel i speak for the community when i say, I will refuse to support twitter until they support curl on atari. i may, may consider lynx in the future.
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I dont mean to be a party pooper, but it does not seem as though armed conflict between north korea and south korea has solved anything in the last 30 years. Perhaps if we still weren't falling lock-step in line with the reagan administrations heritage foundation doctrines toward communism, we might get a chance at a civil multilateral discussion between both parties that could, in the long term, evolve into diplomatic relationships the likes of the industrial exchange that until recently had been a major step forward for both parties.
military complex and start banging the drums, its time for another cyberwar/security/terror/fud article. This is just information security with a shiny new name
we havent given close scrutiny to things like creation science lately. Im fairly certain one shit teacher can do more to screw up a generation than an entire school of laureate PHDs.
preface: this post gets real ugly...some might even say...trollish...but i need to form an opinion here.
being in IT ive already "sanctioned" the ipad, the iphone, and droid for our networks. My blessing doesnt automatically cause a product to fly off the fucking shelves, steve; it never had a bearing on the ipad at all.
in fact considering as we're still hopelessly mired in a recession that just wont end and my state has 10% unemployment as our company looms to cut costs of everything from daytime office lights to toilet paper, i could make a compelling argument that if i dont even have the budget for new CRAC filters, i damned sure dont have the budget for another lifeless battery sucking piece of half-hack competitionalist horse shit from redmond that will either die off completely in 2 years or cease to have any bearing on "productivity" in 3 weeks. I also dont have the manpower to support such a Utopian wireless dog turd, and i dont have the maintenance budget to replace it when someone leaves it in their car in the 110 deg. blistering desert summer heat.
its another cyberwar/cyberattack/cybersecurity article! your friends at Raytheon, a wholesome defense contractor, got the contract this time for a surveillance project to fight the upcoming cyber[war/attack]. they of course being shy about the whole thing declined to comment about it.
Perfect Citizen will look at large, typically older computer control systems that were often designed without Internet connectivity or security in mind.
the bigger issue is why are private corporations allowed to operate things like nuclear reactors in such a manner that apparently poses imminent threat to national security and public safety, then turn around and ask the government to secure their systems for them?
at this thing...it doesnt really exude confidence
why aren't we sending these? with much more advanced optics and sensor systems, and the ability to operate autonomously
I can attest to the fact that we are by and large utterly incompetent when handling reports of hacks. as an example we had never seen them in our products before and only recently became aware of several nasty buffer overflows in our flagship product. the 'hat' that found the problems was based out of quebec and didnt speak english, our corporate office having first been informed of the issue immediately declared their intent to prosecute the perceived hacker. we had a generous 5 days to respond as well before he disclosed
11 days into the fiasco we still had no team, we had no direction and we were scrambling to find the firmware and software our products used that was vulnerable to notify our customers, most of them DoD and government entities. we strung this poor schmuck along for 15 days total before we began publishing the exploit. we even initially toyed with the idea of withholding his name in the report but thank god all agreed that would be not only rude, but very dangerous since he was still in possession of a few flaws we had not found.
we sent an NDA, we sent legal agreements, we came back very empty handed
America. America is driving the cyber war nonsense and the reason is clear. the natural progression of our regularly scheduled wars that operate on ~4 year cycle is boring the american public, who are tired of
sending their kids to the meatgrinder in some third world hell-desert. American voters are also tired of high taxes required to pay for these "necessary wars" that drive GDP up, but in the long term which most americans
and politicians dont concern themselves with, bankrupt a nation.
Drones made war more popular by removing the "little johnny isnt coming home" factor from war, but their most recent theatre also made them politically despicable as they became used casually to invade sovereign states to bomb the living shit out of army bases and cars with "suspected" terrorist leaders. This set the precedent for any country with an agenda to disregard national sovereignty because, well, america does too.
cyberwar is an innocuous catchall thats managed by a US military entity (the airforce,) sufficiently complex as to avoid questioning by the general populous, and can easily be related to americans in terms of website hacks, email hacks, etc...to such an extent as to drive support and backing for cyberwars. Cyberwars, being ambiguous and beyond comprehension by joe six-pack also enjoy the luxury of being cheap, or expensive, depending on the size of the pocketbook and willingness of the nation to spend.
Cyberwar, like the war on terror, is designed as a continued investment by quite likely the very same government entrenched corporations that drove most any of the other wars we've had. it doesnt seek to protect anyone or solve anything, only create new consumer products the likes of the AR-15 and the hummer and line the pockets of the richest and most vile human beings who have ever come under the service of the people of the united states of america. And so long as we have potbellied senators from the carolinas barking cyberwar, there will always be a market for what we fear but do not understand.
colleges can outsource student networks (dorm, cafeteria, etc...) to ISP's, and maintain their own in-house networks for things like computing projects, internet2, etc...cost savings and flipping the bird to RIAA controlled legislators is certain to be a win-win.
every american businessman inevitably refers to business process in terms of war.
hardware reliability or quality, arguably. I just filled out a Purchase order for ~1mil. in dell hardware. all our megacorp cares about is how good is the corporate support, how fast to return parts arrive, how big is the discount.
uptime and scalability are all our concerns. for us to care about dell lying would be calling the kettle black.
if in america colleges hold the monopoly on effective education, what repercussions will be fired at these rogue corporations who (gasp!) hire people based on the talent and technical knowledge they have historically used to succeed and not that pretty piece of paper?
worth asking? every 6-10 months slashdot features a new study revealing such horrors as "average person doesnt know how many revolutions around the sun earth makes in a year" and "average person does not know if difference between color absorbency and reflection." its not like these studies come out of nowhere, its a flagrant red alert that for some reason our country has not kept pace with science.
if the only science americans are exposed to is the "what if we all left the planet tomorrow?" and "lets blow shit up" sensationalisms of a neutered scientific method then all we can assume is the next scientist to come out and publicly release findings on global warming, climate change, carbon emissions, or the next major oil slick will be met with furrowed brows and balks of disregard and disbelief...but its not all their fault!
science fed to the public by corporations has historically been intentionally if not flagrantly inaccurate in some cases and by and large gets away with massive deception. Kellogs has been caught twice this year with bogus studies and statistics insisting their cereal boosts immunity, deepwater rig science speculation was effectively accepted without premise or any proof, tobacco corporations insisted the science behind cigarettes is safe and major petroleum corporations are now force-feeding anti climate change rhetoric to americans on a monthly basis and applied as needed to reduce flairups in dissenting opinion. reform is going to be needed before anyone, american or otherwise, can begin to give back trust to science. Trust is essential to a drive for understanding as without trust, no attempt is made to follow what is widely perceived to be shenanigans and tomfoolery.
this madness will end with new standards, it wont. The connector standard has become as much a marketing phenomenon as it has a control of the customers choice of provider and repeat purchase options. Just take a look at cellphone power connectors as a prime example. or for us old farts, i can simply whisper betamax and we're all sent running for cover. The easiest thing to do in light of all these changes is wait a few years for the price to drop substantially, and upgrade components as needed. yeah, i still have VGA for my monitor, and composite or svid for my video. things that need to go a long distance get baluns or repeaters.
at the risk of getting the troll stamp, you could go so far as to say the entire HDMI standard and its accompanying 720p/i 1080p/i standards are complete poppycock. computer monitors have had resolution superior to these standards for years before their inception.
makes me nostalgic. a long time ago this was seen as a shining beacon of capitalist supremacy first, and a scientific marvel second. Buran came and went, but the shuttle endured. the cosmodrome practically paid for itself on a global stage with satellites from near and far and even from the very same country it once locked horns with, and the shuttle still remained. shuttle missions brought new technologies, new achievements, and some of the most spectacular tragedies science has ever been privilege to witness. Im anxious to see what supersedes it
bottle of spiked evian, 4chan's /b anons go from sending justin bieber to North Korea, to sending justin bieber to Cuba.
is that freedom of speech and democracy are virtually exclusive to a few nations. maybe im just approaching this from the wrong side, maybe im wrong, im perfectly willing to concede both but im at least a bit confused...
if laws in another country are different, why dont we just respect them and do business on their terms? and if we cant, then we need to stop being hypocritical and begin questioning and denying trade on more than just the internet with china in reaction to their censorship requirements.
imagine donald, with all the work hes put into latex and the public opinions hes made related to open source and copyright law, will take this laying down.
the "if you dont follow the community we'll just do it ourselves" threat is very real.
i thought farmville was another name for facebook in general.
BP is complete fail...like this is going to be something that will be forever flaunted in the face of any politician brassy enough to imply a self regulated industry as innocuous as even a q-tip packager is a sane idea.
ive heard everything from "bp is censoring the media" to "bp is burning sea turtles alive" and now "bp is smashing robots into the
well cap." BP has tried FIVE TIMES to contain this spill for over two months now. every wild fancy from broken golfballs and rope to heavy mud and cement has been thrown at this thing and nothing BP "engineers" can come up with seems to be imaginative enough to stop this fucking leak.
in another six months the gulf coast will not only have to contend with the fallout from its annual bevy of hurricanes, but the inevitable complexities coastal crude oil fires pose as municipalities will be forced to extinguish flaming transformers and ruptured gas lines tainted with this shit. ground water table pollution is also a consideration after the hurricane season.
for those slashdot customers experiencing loss of signal and poor quality, we recommend exiting the basement and removing your storm trooper helmet to place calls.
i propose the massive and relentless colocation of 4chan. we must not rest until the prophet muhammad and pedobear are socially indistinguishable.
the lobby in discussion has not only recognized the rise of GPL/copyleft, but that
they have tacitly conceded it fosters competitive and worthwhile art and media with and empowers
creators and artists to supplant these lobby groups...sounds like we just realized bottled water was tap
water all along.
..did anyone ever figure out how magnets work? im losing sleep over this one.
i feel i speak for the community when i say, I will refuse to support twitter until they
support curl on atari. i may, may consider lynx in the future.