Re: he should have known better
"Earlier you said you gave up trying to infiltrate the cockpit from the IFES?"
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We haven't made any progress from when it was feared that Kevin Mitnick could start WWIII from prison by whistling launch codes in DTMF into the phone if any were provided to him to him, right?
Don't they have some terrorist sleeper cell to "incite" and then drag off to the cleaners?
You don't actually live in America do you, because you would know you can't do shit these days without giving out your SS number.
That's the effing point: If you give them to world&dog they are not secure. Using them for things they are not mean to be used for does not make them secure or worthy of high-level security measure. Read the link, Einstein.
Cyber War by Richard Clarke
If you enter the bookstore and see stuff by Richard Clarke, make a large detour around the heap of self-serving alarmist claptrap.
The Great Firewall of China is actually part of the defensive perimeter
Anyone who thinks that a "national router moat" is a good idea for playing "cyberdefense" is a few beers short of a sixpack.
It is pointless to put much "security" on Social Security numbers. They are totally unsecure in the first place (and this is as it should be: they are just a form of catalog number, not something for identification and certainly not for authentication). The fact that they are used for identification and possibly authentication by various outfits is another problem.
Rationally, the highest level of security you would have on a batch of SSN is the one you would put on a list of names.
Orbital will be using them for ISS resupply missions!
Once they get one off the pad.
There is a reason for why reusing old engines meant for a rocket that never survived launch back when UFOs were fresh is not the best idea.
amazingly reliable
Evidence says no, at least for the refurbished ones. Also, Preparing of NK-33 engine mass production says "NK-33 acquired the outlook for mass production restoration due to those successful launches.". This does not necessarily mean that russians re-use old engines, just that up to Feb. 2014 they didn't mass-produce them.
Additionally, the failure modes seems to have nothing to do first first-stage engines.
abnormal operation of the third stage engine booster
Not the NK-33. These are RD-0212 made by "Kosberg". Do they have any in store back from the glasnost era? I don't know...
On second thoughts, these guys most likely source a good percentage of the parts from the eastern provinces of Ukraine, which are now being freedomized by the neocon cabal...
... is there any adult on the planet that gives a rat's ass?
Planet's going up in flames currently mon, and the gvnm't is crawling up people's collective arse. Better get your rocks off while you still can... and while your money still can buy an "Oculus Rift", whatever that is (sound suspiciously sexual, somehow?)
GM crops are more pesticide tolerant thus allowing farmers to spray more
Farmers want to spray LESS, not more. That's the whole point. Ideally, they would not spray at all as the plant kills of the pests all by itself. OTOH, GM crops may be herbicide tolerant to not be killed off with the weed killers, but that is another problem. Then there is tolerance against the usual viruses which tend to ruin your harvest.
Is this linked to usage of GM crops?
However:
Pretty much the first article yields:
As the team reports in today's Science, they found that genes of the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) matched extremely well with hives with the disorder. "If you identify IAPV in a colony, the probability is over 96% that this is going to come from a CCD hive," says lead author Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York. The virus was found in only a single sample that was not identified as having CCD.
Time for Bayes!
Cell Phones are Killing Bees
Do they sneak out at night an whack them over the head?
That bullshit idea (in an article from 2011) is utterly stupid and from the "GSM signals gave my kid cancer/autism due to all the digital hardness in there" sunday morning science idiot brigade. It also has been repeatedly buried. Get lost.
bees reacted significantly to cell phones that were placed near or in hives in call-making mode
Clearly a real-world situation.
The impact has already been felt the world over, as the population of bees in the U.S. and the U.K. has decreased by almost half in the last thirty years – which coincides with the popularization and acceptance of cell phones as a personal device.
No it doesn't and that cretin who wrote that should be thrown out into the street and the "researchers" shot for asshattery.
I feel a whiff of aggression and forceful redrawing of maps which has not occurred in this world since the US single-handedly won WWII.
Why is the US not wading in to protect the people of X from being liberated by Y and rather make sure
☐ they democratically choose their independence
☐ something happens that has nothing at all to do with cleansing, ethnic or otherwise
☐ the rightful heir to the throne of the uniformed goons is a friend of Washington
and the people of X are given the freedoms they deserve?
Mayn reasons are possible:
1) Prima Donna programmers
2) Assertions, Bounds-checking, Lint, Fuzz Testing or even proprer programming languages have not been heard of
3) Dunning Kruger effect (the one on the bad side)
4) "You have USD 1000 to implement this in 2 days, it's just simple compression"
5) Freshmen devs with no guiding hand
6) Rank incompetence everywhere
7) Licensing code or using FLOSS? That's so unmanly!
any business with Russian Intelligence is against the most recent trade embargo
This kind of statement reaches new levels of retardation.
Anyway, dear American: Why don't you take your trade embargo and stick it where the sun don't shine. Please take the wife of Kagan with you. If you absolutely must defend Ukraine against the naughtiness of federalism and keep it safe for nazi-aligned oligarchs by way of forceful NATO integration, why don't you reimburse the EU for damages and consequences?
It's not the meat....
Agriculture accounts for 80 percent of the state’s water consumption, but 2 percent of the state’s economy. To spell it out a little more clearly: Under Jerry’s Brown water plan, it’s fine to use a gallon of subsidized water to grow a single almond in a desert, but if you take a shower that’s too long, prepare to be fined up to $500 per day. The fact that the growers, who remain a powerful interest group in California, happen to be exempt from water restrictions reminds us that water is not allocated according to any functional market system, but is allocated through political means by politicians and government agents.
a company with millions of dollars in funding and seeking to protect its intellectual property
"IP protection" for IoT shit is a no-no. I don't want crap black-box software hidden away in corners that I can't even reach and that have been transformed to festering boils of insecurity because of neglect by the company responsible. Open Source and standardize or just go die in a corner, crap peddler!
Your physics says you don't
And old Einstein says you won't
And I'm boilin' up inside
Ain't no way I'm gonna be slow this time
Tie your Lightspeed down
Tie your Lightspeed down
Lock your photons out of doors
I don't need them whizzing 'round
Tie your Lightspeed down
Tie your Lightspeed down
We gonna be FTL tonight
There are venerable systems in that line and frankly I commend the effort.
It's like you are really getting the Sun kit that you wanted in an earlier life.
Captain Kirk, sir! How did your beam from your pilot episode from the 60's to our sad-arse 21st century??
It brings tears of melancholy to my eyes.
The package will work exactly as designed 100 times in a row, but as soon as I click the ‘record’ button, it’s guaranteed to fail or freeze at some point
We should harness this meta-natural-law to effect better and more thorough testing of products!
You realize that all the information about the Iranian nuclear program (that the Intelligence Community actually says was stopped in 2004 once the politicians have left the room) and that has been nonstop in WaPo/NYT as being the Most Immediate Threat Ever only comes from the "smoking laptop", sourced from the messianic terror organization MEK (recently invited to testify before congress how implementing regime change in Iran would weaken ISIS, I kid you not) by way of Israel.
These kind of events are a FEATURE not a bug.
create J2EE backdoors
Hold on, SAP is based on Java? And the 2003-ish enterprisy framework of J2EE (as opposed to JEE) from a time when Sun didn't exactly know how to even design such a thing? Say it ain't so!
"The big surprise is that SAP cyber security is falling through the cracks at most companies due to a responsibility gap between the SAP operations team and the IT security team,”
O'Really? You know the scenario:
1) CFO demands SAP
2) Ops say "We can't support this unless we get a big increase in manpower and clean up the existing shit & processes for a year or two"
3) Board gives go-ahead because what does Ops know, they don't have business sense, wrong priorities and are not team players anyway
4) Any outlays go to SAP "consultancy and configuration" no money left for any issues raised under 2)
5) Wild installation into a "hands-off" operating mode where a super-expensive eejit drops by twice per year to "tune the SAP install"
6) ????
7) "WHY DIDN'T OPS TELL US THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITH SECURITY?"
gestapo were right wing as was the Nazis
The Secret State Police (aka. Geheime Staatspolizei) was a typical Omnipotent Government outfit - no wingery here, just action - and these have to be eliminated with extreme prejudice, and I mean literally by cracking heads including those of the suave politicians that propose them, and in the early days of their making. Alas, this never happens, because "terrorists" are those that act or refuse to obey.
As for the left-wing/right-wing thing (ultimately a sterile exercise as one has to look at the actions, real or proposed, through the smokescreen of politically vapid promised of "better times" instead of using tired old labels arranged on a 1-dimensional strip by the masters of thought control) we read in War Revisionism, Fascism, and the CIA:
As you will recall from history, both Germany and Italy respectively became unified nations in the latter part of the 19th century. The ideas of Marx and communism constituted an international movement advocating violence and force to eliminate private property and capitalism. Another international movement was socialism which also attacked property and individualism yet many socialists stated that socialism could be established through democracy rather than force by expanding the number of eligible voters. After World War I, communism became a severe threat to take over Italy. Mussolini was a dedicated socialist and journalist who supported fascism as a national rather than an international movement to fight international communism and socialism. He advocated force and war as the method to combat the violence of communism. There was no racism connected to fascism in Italy. (....)
One of the 20th century’s most astute intellectuals in political theory was Erik von Kuehenelt-Leddihn who agrees completely with me and Jonah Goldberg on placing fascism on the left. He covers this in his book entitled Leftism Revisited. In chapter four of that book entitled “Right and Left”, he points out that in Germany after World War I the National Socialist (or Nazis) were, seated on the far right of the Reichstag or Assembly because on the left side of the assembly were the internationalists who were the communists and the socialists. The conservatives and monarchists were national movements and were seated on the right. Since Nazism or fascism was a national movement in Germany rather than international, they were seated on the right with the conservatives. He explains this is how fascism became to be placed on the right rather than the left in political dialogue.
the current system is invaluable for all the niche cultures/language communities that do not have a global footprint
blue color is blue, ok?
per-territory sales make up a very large amount of the budget of a Polish film, for example
Color me surprised (not really).
"Geoblocking" seems to be all about interdicting customers that you don't have in the first place. If it were circumvented/interdicted, would all of yuropean culture meltd own into a soggy heap of fast food culture? A likely story.
Yes and well, it's not a real problem, really:
Lost Horizons by G.F.R. Ellis and T. Rothman
...it demands some careful reading though (which I haven't managed yet)