Dishonor! You not hide tracks?

"The Comment Crew are, in general, not terribly sophisticated, But there are some people in there who are quite skilled not just in the malware they create but in their ability to hide their tracks. You are always going to get some junior members in any hacking or security group who are less skilled."

That's sure going to cause some ruckus in the oriental haxxors crew!

LinkedOut

If only one could upload a personality construct...

Log in to LinkedOut:

"What kept you?" the Flatline asked, and laughed.

"Told you don't do that," Case said.

"Joke, boy," the construct said, "zero time lapse for me."

At least they won't tweet.

Attention whoring brings you friends and political fortune

Jesus Christ, I'm still not even at 2.5G, WTF?

"For the next global standard, and the next generation of technology, will Europe lead the world, or merely follow?"

I can answer that now already.

"Will future ubiquitous ultra-high bandwidth communication infrastructure, also known as 5G, be pioneered by European industry, based on European research, creating European jobs? Or will global competitors get there first – and, by the way, many of them are already investing heavily."

Jesus Christ. Mercantilist much? I imagine the "IP homesteading" faggotry that goes on in these affairs really puts the red-hot point of a branding iron onto a sensitive skin part, but still...

Any particular "european industry" that hasn't yet sold off its assets and/or is basically state-owned which might apply? Do I smell sweetheart deals?

That's the Mobile Healthcare Market for the Babyboomers all stitched up, then.

Nice trick, Apple.

Cuber Purl Hurbor

Well, it has at least that thing in common with the actual "Pearl Harbour" in that some people are salivating for it to occur so that the floodgates of "PUBLIC SPLURGING" may be opened wide ... wide. Maybe one could finagle something? An unknown country (or maybe Venezuela) causes havoc using unheard-of Weapons of Cybermass Destruction, after which we can solemnly declare "You are either Cyber-With Us or Cyber-Against us". Let the bombing commence! Hold on, I am getting a call by Krugman.

Also:

> a transactional risk engine based on feedback from 50 billion data points

WTF does that shite even mean?

Only the paranoid survive

> Altera and said that the other major suppliers of FPGAs – that is mainly Xilinx – would not be given access to Chipzilla's fabs

I suppose someone's soul or possibly IP portfolio must have been put on the table in this kind of deal.

Psychedelicious!

I misread "Boffin snaps spotty student mobe sperm horror", which would have been interesting.

IIRC, these microsbes can be harmless or really nasty skin eating strains. I foresee a market for slightly radioactive mobiles, though the hardware would fail quickly.

Listening to Linking Park?

So this is all about how to patch up things after the CAP theorem struck and made things go haywire?

Any numbers on how much of such a database is in an inconsistent / non-replicated state? The whole approach sounds bizarre and wild, something I might have come up with in my earlier years...

"Legitimate download sites like amazon.com"

1) Go to amazon.com

2) Just shitty MP3 and "cloud service", WTF? Needs windows. WTF???

3) Oh all right then. Clickety clickety click VISA click click

4) "This service is not available in your country"

5) FUUUUUUU.......

6) Become proud user of bittorrent

Mission Impossible

"Unless, that is, you skydive onto its roof and then dodge various guards using your biking skills, as some Google Glass–wearing bandits did at I/O 2012."

Pics or it didn't happen.

Seriously, why would anyone do that? I guess because they can!

"the Shanghai Tower, which will be the tallest building in China when it is finished next year"

Bad sign, Johnny!

Skyscrapers and Business Cycles

"The skyscraper is the great architectural contribution of modern capitalistic society and is even one of the yardsticks for 20th-century superheroes, but no one had ever really connected it with the quintessential feature of modern capitalistic history — the business cycle. Then in 1999, economist Andrew Lawrence created the 'skyscraper index' which purported to show that the building of the tallest skyscrapers is coincidental with business cycles, in that he found that the building of world's tallest building is a good proxy for dating the onset of major economic downturns. Lawrence described his index as an 'unhealthy 100 year correlation.'

The ability of the index to predict economic collapse is surprising. For example, the Panic of 1907 was presaged by the building of the Singer Building (completed in 1908) and the Metropolitan Life Building (completed in 1909). The skyscraper index also accurately predicted the Great Depression with the completion of 40 Wall Tower in 1929, the Chrysler Building in 1930, and the Empire State Building in 1931. There are, however, important exceptions in the ability of the index to predict, so the first question is: how good of a predictor is the skyscraper index?

Changes in the rate of interest (the relative price between consumption goods and capital goods) can have three separate Cantillon effects on skyscrapers. All three effects are reinforcing and all three effects are interconnected to the transformation of the economy toward more roundabout production processes. When the rate of interest is reduced, all three effects contribute to the desire to build taller structures. The world's tallest buildings are generally built when there is a substantial and sustained divergence between the actual interest rate and the natural rate of interest, where the actual rate is below the natural rate as a result of government intervention. When the rate of interest increases, the financial effects all reduce the value of existing structures and the demand to build tall structures and when combined with depressed economic activity, the desire to build at all."

So is this like Qualys web vulnerability scan?

Unfortunately, I suspect that a honest-to-god "vuln scan" might well make the scanned site unresponsive or worse and get the author into hot water. So these will be avoided...

Meh

It's 2013 and people still think "rockstar" opinions are relevant?

Get outta here!

Sanctimonious crud for the rubes.

"You cheated the Inland Revenue and therefore this country, by evasion of income tax"

Because we need more money for our friends, the friends of our friends as well as a few wars.

"Crimes motivated by greed and selfishness."

Not socialistic enough? Guilty!

"To suspend these sentences would offend any reasonable sense of justice on the part of the honest taxpayer."

The suckers have to keep on believing that we rob them for their own good.

Judge should just say "You better pay your protection money. What you gonna do about it?". End of story.

Until unemployment reaches 6.5% or his version of inflation exceeds 2.5%!!!

> Of course, the fact that federal coffers have been a bit light since the global economic recession

What? What do you mean? The treasury is issuing bonds like crazy to the Federal Reserve and receives ~50 billion USD per month (either as a container of paper with pictures of dead white males or as an XML datablock, not sure) for the privilege.

I don't call that "light".

At all.

Hey customer, not feeling f*cked enough? Smell Ballmer's sweaty armpits, then.

So we will have yet another one of those NONREMOVABLE UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH ... I mean CONTRACT BREACH ... stickers on our machines?

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