This will enable my new ransomware extortion ring to be far more productive with a lot less work. Is it my fault that the victim can't forward or print our ransomware email for the authorities to even investigate?
1) Send extortion email with a No-Print attribute, and a one hour time delay for payment after first opening it.
2) Wait for payment using the supplied untraceable html link in the email.
3) Profit!
Of course who would ever think to do such a thing?
1) Buy up a lot of Bitcoin very quietly
2) Announce that you are thinking about buying Bitcoin
3) Sell all your Bitcoin
4) Tell everyone Bitcoinis just a bubble
5) Go back to step #1
I'm still holding out for the Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) model, with the integrated solar panel, charge controller, and a Stirling engine to turn some of that hash engine wasted heat back into even more inefficiently waste-able electricity. What fun is it if I can't even waste the same electricity more than once? With the Quantum Processor your electric bill can be in a superposition of both wasted and not wasted all at the same time. That's a 50% savings! Right?
In the mean time I'll get my latest QPU with NanoTech Enabled Maxwell's Daemon Quantum Spin ThermoElectric Generator patented , but that's taking a little longer to get it through the Patent Office than I had hoped. Before you know it QPU-NTE-MD-QS-TEG will be a standard household appliance, and everyone will talking about it. Take that Intel!
My job is done here. Now where did I part that flying car?
Hardware virtualization will get what you want. Qubes/Xen can run an HVM with just about whatever OS you might want to use. When surfing the Internet you can run a TOR like OS (whonix) for anonymity, or run a one time use VM instance for resilience against being hacked/malware. Everything shares the same start menu and desktop environment. You get Fedora, Whonix, and Debian right out of the box as easilly as installing a package. Need Windows, install your media, and then just a click from the menu, and up pops Edge, Word, or Photoshop. Need Kali to test your network? Install it and Click the menu. Need to test a new OS? Install it and try it out.
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Your NIC with its DMA controller is IOMMU constrained inside the sys-net VM, so it wont let it write to memory outside its own memory space. The sys-filewall VM and its iptables and nat keeps all your internal user VM's safe from the network.
He failed to even get high enough for that. Only high enough so that people will stop saying he was afraid to push the button.
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However... A trip to Mauna Kea would have cost a lot less, get him to 7 times the altitude, and a nice vacation. As for what this would prove? At the Mauna Kea altitude (13,802 ft) you can clearly tell the earth is not flat. End of flat Earth Theory. In any direction you look the horizon is curved sufficiently that you could never mistake Earth for being flat. Its worth the trip and won't even hurt you back coming back down. Just be prepared to for a slight case of oxygen deprivation at that altitude.
So I'm not that optimistic given the garbage we currently have.
Can we please have just a little optimism? I hear there is a new technology using plasma that can cleanly convert common garbage directly into electricity! I think that solves both problems at once./s
It shows just how out of touch the EU Finance heads are these days. Adding financial speculation to the cryptocurrency market was designed to destabilize the market, not stabilize it. Nobody makes money trading if the commodity is stable in price. Its only through the up's and downs that money is made or lost, and the investors like it that way.
If the price were stable and flat for long periods of time then they would only buy it if it paid back dividends. But cryptocurrencies are not stocks, and they don't "make" money like a company does, so they can not pay any dividends. Consequently all the investors holding it want it to go up and those that are not holding it want it to go down. No "investor" wants the price to simply stand still. So, by opening it up to speculation the market is doing exactly what the "Financial market" system wants it to do.
Its just that what it is doing is not necessarily what most people want it to do, like be used for buying and selling tangible real world things, where the price does not change while you are in the process of purchasing something with it.
Why not let the cloud providers duke this out? And thus it begins another rat-race of technology, where the browser of the future runs itself "in the cloud", to let the likes of Google and other competing providers are left to spin the necessary cpu's to pay for the advertising that was successfully blocked by their own service.
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In this scenario, why not let the cloud run the "malwareizements" and bit-miners, while you sit back and drink your morning coffee, malware and worry free? What's on your desktop, or mobile, could be little more than a thin client collecting clicks and keystrokes and displaying patches of tagged bitmap overlays rendered in the cloud, where the malware and miners are then someone else's problem to deal with.
The new web provider "with the right balance of service" (by *your* own definition) is the one who takes the marketplace by popularity, and thus financially. This new marketplace financial model, in fighting for readership, would now be biased towards providing what users want, and not dictated by advertisers alone. Here, you see the advertising content level you want. It's scaled to the advertisement level you personally chose, while the providers take most of the risk of malware or botnets and other infectious maladies. Your entire Internet connected PC could be a mostly-write-protected memory, to prevent any persistent malware infections, and would then fit on a RF connected credit card sized device smaller than a Raspberry Pi nano.
Perhaps the compromise is to allow the service to provide an advertisement free experience, but then provides an AI enhanced "personal adviser" when put it into a special shopping specific mode? That separation of modes would preclude all the day to day annoyances and malware but still offer a benefit for the service provider to recoup some costs while maintaining a certain level of service for the consumer. The consumer here always has the ability to select that level of service, or speak with their wallet, by walking to the next service provider.
Hey everyone, Look! Copyright Infringement is happening right over there.
The fact that what they were pointing out, was a bunch of very specific nude photographs that many people should easilly recognize as copyrighted material, probably didn't even factor into their decision to point them out to the public. The fact that they were all nude may have something to do with ratings for the sensationalism of the story linking it, not the copyrighted material.
Playboy on the other hand got lots of publicity out of it for sure. They have desperately been trying to remake their image to the public, and failing miserably in the process. The money they spent on lawyers in this case was at least equivalent to a good promotional advertisement. It at least got Playboy as a product back on the front page.
What we need to do is have both the FCC and Congress limited to 10Mbps for over a month! Wouldn't that be a riot if Russian/Ukranian/Saba hackers switched the BGP map for both FCC and Congress's carriers during that same period? I'm only dreaming of course...
Its "scientifically proven" that more people will click on your profile, if you actually have one. That's about it.
Alternatively they will continue to use statistics to prove almost anything they want, and then try to convince the public that science proves two that people are right for each other. That statistical correlation they offer to the "honest" answers to metaphysical questions, plus an advanced degree in alchemy, will guarantee you live happily ever after.
Yea, right. I bow in the presence of the deity of statistics. Anyone have a bridge for sale? Its "scientifically proven", by statistical correlation, that the more high dollar things I own the richer I will be.
Enter the traders market. The one thing for certain is that the value of Bitcoin will never be stable again.
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Hold them while you can, and don't worry, the price will be back up. Just as soon as those with enough money to manipulate the market are ready to cash in. You just need to sell before they do, and so the price goes back down again.
You thought the stock market was bad? Companies have intrinsic value. You can sell a physical hole in the ground for cash. Bitcoins are only worth what the people that don't have them assigns to them. Lets hope that value isn't zero anytime soon.
Yea, I see how they work. They blocked my non-Comcast voip outgoing calls and DNS blacklisted access to the FCC website. Anyway, all that shows is just how really desperate they are to get my business back. I've really got them over a barrel right now! They should be come crawling back to me any minute now. You'll see! Any minute now.
The value of currency is a lot like stocks or event gambling. They have no intrinsic value, only that which people assign to it. You are basically gambling on the other peoples perception of its worth come tomorrow. If its more valuable tomorrow then people will feel more comfortable holding it. As long as people think the currency has value, then it remains valuable.
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In a computer driven fast moving market like we have today, and with completely unpredictable governments turning on a dime, its hard to feel at ease with whatever things of value they are currently holding. The more uncertain the market is, then the more certain some people are going to be of its eventual devaluation, and will then be fearing that the market may soon tank, and that starts a downward trend. When others see the value declining, they too begin to think it is worth less. Once you cash out, others will follow. Its a self reinforcing feedback loop. The bad thing is that computers can algorithmically panic trade much faster, and even more completely, than their human counterparts, if not specifically coded to stop trading.
The bottom line is you are gambling against what other people will think tomorrow. You can't control what other people think, unless you own the media, or can do so by adjusting a commoditys scarcity.
It doesn't matter how cheep you push the stuff we don't want to watch. People want to watch what they want to watch. If your not offering it at a reasonable price then people will be doing something else. Why is this so hard to understand? It doesn't exactly take a PhD in rocket science to figure this out.
There are all kinds of people using my name. I never knew there were so many near by. The ones with pro net neutrality were organized, thoughtful, and polite. The ones against, without a full address, were spamming the filings database with an obvious cut and paste of the exact same message over and over and over and....
Idiots. Well, what can I say. Someone *is* making *me* look like a total idiot. Well, for anyone that knows my name and that I live in this zipcode.
Slow all the network connections down to the point of causing the most customers problems with their service. Then offer the fast lane at a much increased price just so you can get your work done. Once enough people pay the extortion, and performance improves for the remainder, lower the bandwidth a little more, to acquire the next batch of upgrades. This method is completely consistent with their public statements to the FCC, and completely consistent with how they appear to run their networks already.
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Nobody seems to get a Comcast fast lane connection unless they are (a) paying for it, (b) testing that link daily, *and* (c) complaining when they don't get the promised bandwidth they are already paying for. Funny how that bandwidth they do get can vary greatly from day to day, for no apparent congestion-like reason, which would have intermittent responsiveness, not a capped-like performance signature. I believe its just their way of saying "Nice business you got going there, be a shame is something unfortunate happened to it", as their elbow bumps the bandwidth capping switch to your network segment for a day or two.
Logic and legal reasons don't seem to matter much here, but its still easy to explain. As promised, they are just running the government like a business! A for profit, privately held, business. Just follow the money. Mr. Pai's next few tax returns will tell the background story and how the decision played out, or is it going to be through some hidden off shore bank accounts? One can only speculate, but there has to be an ulterior motive here.
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Drain the swamp? Yea, right. I didn't realize my bank account was considered a swamp.
Its very easy to do. Just keep the ones you like and sell the rest. Reproduction then leads to bigger descendants through completely natural means.
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What doesn't make *any* sense, is catching fish and only throwing the *small* ones back. The only fish left to reproduce are the smaller fish! Not only are we eating too many but we are "naturally" breeding smaller fish, crabs, etc. Logically we should instead change the rules, be eating the small and throwing back the large ones. If you are not an old guy like me then you probably don't even know what "big" means.
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This will enable my new ransomware extortion ring to be far more productive with a lot less work. Is it my fault that the victim can't forward or print our ransomware email for the authorities to even investigate?
1) Send extortion email with a No-Print attribute, and a one hour time delay for payment after first opening it.
2) Wait for payment using the supplied untraceable html link in the email.
3) Profit!
Of course who would ever think to do such a thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How to make lots more money
1) Buy up a lot of Bitcoin very quietly
2) Announce that you are thinking about buying Bitcoin
3) Sell all your Bitcoin
4) Tell everyone Bitcoinis just a bubble
5) Go back to step #1
I would agree with that statement.
If implied in their argument, LLC Corporations are to be treated like people...then logically...
cat << EOD
Corporations should not be allowed to own other corporations.
EOD \
| sed -e 's/corporations/people/g'
"People should not be allowed to own other people"
I would throw away that key for a lesser offense.
I'm still holding out for the Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) model, with the integrated solar panel, charge controller, and a Stirling engine to turn some of that hash engine wasted heat back into even more inefficiently waste-able electricity. What fun is it if I can't even waste the same electricity more than once? With the Quantum Processor your electric bill can be in a superposition of both wasted and not wasted all at the same time. That's a 50% savings! Right?
In the mean time I'll get my latest QPU with NanoTech Enabled Maxwell's Daemon Quantum Spin ThermoElectric Generator patented , but that's taking a little longer to get it through the Patent Office than I had hoped. Before you know it QPU-NTE-MD-QS-TEG will be a standard household appliance, and everyone will talking about it. Take that Intel!
My job is done here. Now where did I part that flying car?
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Your NIC with its DMA controller is IOMMU constrained inside the sys-net VM, so it wont let it write to memory outside its own memory space. The sys-filewall VM and its iptables and nat keeps all your internal user VM's safe from the network.
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However... A trip to Mauna Kea would have cost a lot less, get him to 7 times the altitude, and a nice vacation. As for what this would prove? At the Mauna Kea altitude (13,802 ft) you can clearly tell the earth is not flat. End of flat Earth Theory. In any direction you look the horizon is curved sufficiently that you could never mistake Earth for being flat. Its worth the trip and won't even hurt you back coming back down. Just be prepared to for a slight case of oxygen deprivation at that altitude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Can we please have just a little optimism? I hear there is a new technology using plasma that can cleanly convert common garbage directly into electricity! I think that solves both problems at once. /s
Well maybe you could use the GPU heat to drive a Sterling Engine, to turn a compressor, for some of that old fashion AC?
If the price were stable and flat for long periods of time then they would only buy it if it paid back dividends. But cryptocurrencies are not stocks, and they don't "make" money like a company does, so they can not pay any dividends. Consequently all the investors holding it want it to go up and those that are not holding it want it to go down. No "investor" wants the price to simply stand still. So, by opening it up to speculation the market is doing exactly what the "Financial market" system wants it to do.
Its just that what it is doing is not necessarily what most people want it to do, like be used for buying and selling tangible real world things, where the price does not change while you are in the process of purchasing something with it.
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In this scenario, why not let the cloud run the "malwareizements" and bit-miners, while you sit back and drink your morning coffee, malware and worry free? What's on your desktop, or mobile, could be little more than a thin client collecting clicks and keystrokes and displaying patches of tagged bitmap overlays rendered in the cloud, where the malware and miners are then someone else's problem to deal with.
The new web provider "with the right balance of service" (by *your* own definition) is the one who takes the marketplace by popularity, and thus financially. This new marketplace financial model, in fighting for readership, would now be biased towards providing what users want, and not dictated by advertisers alone. Here, you see the advertising content level you want. It's scaled to the advertisement level you personally chose, while the providers take most of the risk of malware or botnets and other infectious maladies. Your entire Internet connected PC could be a mostly-write-protected memory, to prevent any persistent malware infections, and would then fit on a RF connected credit card sized device smaller than a Raspberry Pi nano.
Perhaps the compromise is to allow the service to provide an advertisement free experience, but then provides an AI enhanced "personal adviser" when put it into a special shopping specific mode? That separation of modes would preclude all the day to day annoyances and malware but still offer a benefit for the service provider to recoup some costs while maintaining a certain level of service for the consumer. The consumer here always has the ability to select that level of service, or speak with their wallet, by walking to the next service provider.
The fact that what they were pointing out, was a bunch of very specific nude photographs that many people should easilly recognize as copyrighted material, probably didn't even factor into their decision to point them out to the public. The fact that they were all nude may have something to do with ratings for the sensationalism of the story linking it, not the copyrighted material.
Playboy on the other hand got lots of publicity out of it for sure. They have desperately been trying to remake their image to the public, and failing miserably in the process. The money they spent on lawyers in this case was at least equivalent to a good promotional advertisement. It at least got Playboy as a product back on the front page.
What we need to do is have both the FCC and Congress limited to 10Mbps for over a month! Wouldn't that be a riot if Russian/Ukranian/Saba hackers switched the BGP map for both FCC and Congress's carriers during that same period? I'm only dreaming of course...
Alternatively they will continue to use statistics to prove almost anything they want, and then try to convince the public that science proves two that people are right for each other. That statistical correlation they offer to the "honest" answers to metaphysical questions, plus an advanced degree in alchemy, will guarantee you live happily ever after.
Yea, right. I bow in the presence of the deity of statistics. Anyone have a bridge for sale? Its "scientifically proven", by statistical correlation, that the more high dollar things I own the richer I will be.
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Hold them while you can, and don't worry, the price will be back up. Just as soon as those with enough money to manipulate the market are ready to cash in. You just need to sell before they do, and so the price goes back down again.
You thought the stock market was bad? Companies have intrinsic value. You can sell a physical hole in the ground for cash. Bitcoins are only worth what the people that don't have them assigns to them. Lets hope that value isn't zero anytime soon.
Yea, I see how they work. They blocked my non-Comcast voip outgoing calls and DNS blacklisted access to the FCC website. Anyway, all that shows is just how really desperate they are to get my business back. I've really got them over a barrel right now! They should be come crawling back to me any minute now. You'll see! Any minute now.
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In a computer driven fast moving market like we have today, and with completely unpredictable governments turning on a dime, its hard to feel at ease with whatever things of value they are currently holding. The more uncertain the market is, then the more certain some people are going to be of its eventual devaluation, and will then be fearing that the market may soon tank, and that starts a downward trend. When others see the value declining, they too begin to think it is worth less. Once you cash out, others will follow. Its a self reinforcing feedback loop. The bad thing is that computers can algorithmically panic trade much faster, and even more completely, than their human counterparts, if not specifically coded to stop trading.
The bottom line is you are gambling against what other people will think tomorrow. You can't control what other people think, unless you own the media, or can do so by adjusting a commoditys scarcity.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/a...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.027...
http://sci2.esa.int/Microscope...
It doesn't matter how cheep you push the stuff we don't want to watch. People want to watch what they want to watch. If your not offering it at a reasonable price then people will be doing something else. Why is this so hard to understand? It doesn't exactly take a PhD in rocket science to figure this out.
Idiots. Well, what can I say. Someone *is* making *me* look like a total idiot. Well, for anyone that knows my name and that I live in this zipcode.
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Nobody seems to get a Comcast fast lane connection unless they are (a) paying for it, (b) testing that link daily, *and* (c) complaining when they don't get the promised bandwidth they are already paying for. Funny how that bandwidth they do get can vary greatly from day to day, for no apparent congestion-like reason, which would have intermittent responsiveness, not a capped-like performance signature. I believe its just their way of saying "Nice business you got going there, be a shame is something unfortunate happened to it", as their elbow bumps the bandwidth capping switch to your network segment for a day or two.
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Drain the swamp? Yea, right. I didn't realize my bank account was considered a swamp.
What doesn't make *any* sense, is catching fish and only throwing the *small* ones back. The only fish left to reproduce are the smaller fish! Not only are we eating too many but we are "naturally" breeding smaller fish, crabs, etc. Logically we should instead change the rules, be eating the small and throwing back the large ones. If you are not an old guy like me then you probably don't even know what "big" means.
Somebody just needs to teach them how to write a program. How hard could that be?
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I guess they wanted to make sure all the FB doors were locked and alarmed before approving that one?