Posts by Wzrd1

Re: The cats out of the bag

Erm, CIA operations *are* Top Secret from end to end.

The CIA is prohibited by its charter from operating within the United States, so need for a judge to sign off on anything.

Re: Simples!

That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

First, Gemalto does not make SIM cards for phones.

Second, the telephone companies were hacked, not their SIM cards.

Finally, sending the bill to GCHQ or the NSA, based upon allegations only would only turn things into a diplomatic incident.

So, what you are advocating for is a costly and lengthy process that mitigates less than nothing whatsoever, then billing two national governments over a mere allegation.

One that I find bizarre, as the NSA uses Gemalto cards themselves.

Re: Nah, we're safe

Strange, that is precisely what my home GCU thought initially.

After finding no fault in the software, it decided it was a liveware problem and investigated Earth.

It found no intelligent life present in most capitol buildings on the planet.

Earth has since been placed back into the control group.

Re: Advantages of an opaque box

"So if you get a solid black/red/blue case for your Pi rather than a transparent one (which I have on two of mine), that will suffice?"

Why bother replacing before testing? Many things that are clear optically to our eyes are opaque to IR and some even opaque to near IR.

So, get a flash and snap shots of your packaged device at a distance of 10cm or so. If it crashes, why replace the case when a spot of black epoxy would cure the problem?

Re: chimp <-> human

Fair enough.

So, go into a bar near a taxominists convention and ask the following question:

"Is it Pan Troglodytes or Homo Troglodytes, is it Homo Sapiens or Pan Sapiens"?

Then, stand off to the side for the bar room brawl.

For, genetically, our common ancestor wasn't that far off and there actually is a bit of heated discussion on just that subject.

Re: How much C4

For that type of drone, not enough to do more than break a car window. Their load carrying capacity is miniscule.

Re: Sad, and not good enough

"The IP could have been easily spoofed..."

Not really. IP spoofing works for something like UDP, but remember, SMTP is a two way communication process. Responses have to be received from server messages. Spoofing would prevent those server messages from being received.

There are some ways around that, but they're not very reliable.

Ah, but there's a better solution

The site is run by a contractor. The contractor can be cited for failure to perform and lose revenue. If it's found that there is no hope for satisfactory performance, it's a fundamental breach of contract and the contract goes to the runner-up.

Re: Now that other ad agencies are aware of it

Or another solution, block traffic from ad servers.

I'm actively DNS poisoning a handful of ad server sites after receiving malvertisement attempts.

Re: Lasarus Long quote on stupidity comes to mind.

Yeah, algal blooms suck. Royally.

Some people are sickened by atomized algae toxins 90 miles from US estuaries.

The real problem is teaching farmers to stop wasting their fertilizer, but retaining it in the soil by using less and preventing runoff. More simply, teaching them to stop pissing money away.

Re: Let's be fair here

The fact is, linear induction motors are rather old technology, so we do know how to make them work. See maglev for an example in use today.

Evacuated tubes would be an issue though, seals degrade and would erode performance, but again, not an overwhelming technological issue.

Now, for solar powered everything, I'm a lot dubious on that one, solar powered car, possibly, but the magnetic motor, I'm inclined to doubt that one.

Re: I had a...

...Quantum hard drive years ago and it only stored Schrödinger's data.

Re: "floating barge"

I dunno, an ocean bottom barge is pretty useful - for fouling ancor lines.

Re: I don't see a blue tick next to the profile name

"It wasn't a verified account and they weren't using 2FA?"

Twitter has 2FA for group accounts whose personnel rotate frequently? Talk about a logistiscal nightmare!

Re: Impressive computing power shown in that picture

Ah, but it's using a quite modern trackball.

Perhaps he's merely playing Missile Command.

"Apple; insecure, by default."

Apple; broke *BSD security badly by default.

Re: You see what you want to see

More like the NSA got into the proxy and got to watch traffic on both sides.

Hell, I'd not be surprised if the NSA got into their boxes as well.

Re: I'm outraged at this in principle...

For some reason, flight induces near coma in me. I'm rapidly out like a light and don't usually awake until feeding time or on final approach.

Still, MTM... OK. My sectets tend to keep themselves. My net-fu is typically stronger than theirs is. I was an NA/SA/BOFL for a long, long time.

Which means that my laser mounted sharks can beat up their laser mounted sharks every time.

Just gravity and a massive thermal difference between in sun and in shade of a few hundred degrees.

As for unfurling testing conducted in free fall, the Vomit Comet has quite a short period of free fall, lest the free fall be rudely interrupted by an unintentional air-ground incursion.

Re: "...this will provide between 15 and 60 minutes warning before the particles reach us..."

What is always done when advanced warning of a major increase in solar radiation flux is about to occur.

Shut down sensitive electronics on satellites and energy grid providers watch for geomagnetic storms that could trip major sections of the power grid.

Re: Truly amazing

That is some *really great* engineering! That environment is pretty tough on mechanical devices.

Re: Wrong side of somebody

"The part where they initially pulled the (The Interview) movie and said it would never see the light of day, to please the 'hackers'."

Epic reading failure.

Sony pulled the film because all of their major theater outlets refused to run the film. If it released without making money, Sony would have lost massive amounts of money. Not releasing it, due to no takers, kept the insurance clock stopped (upon release, the clock starts counting down).

Re: For the purist there is no problem finding a pig stomach.

As no English speaker comprehends "tomach", erm, WTF, over.?

Here, in the *real* world, availability of any part of a pig is varilable, *and* I honestly ponder your place as human. Add in the ignorance of pork skin and stomach differences...

Either you're not human or you avoid pork,

As one who avoids fat largely, I find the points... Interesting.

Either you are objecting to eating pork *or* you object to pigs by nature.

I have other considerations as well, but those are based upon NDA items.

I'll simply offer that the speaker is an APT .

Something I've dealt with repeatedly, for nearing a decade.

"Go whole hog - say Oracle."

As Java is still not anywhere near a zero security patch per month, you've made a /dev/null point.

"Selling narcotics or fake drugs over the Internet is a serious matter."

Fair enough, it is a very, very serious matter. One addressed by the federal government, which it was and a federal court of law found Google guilty of making the unlawful process easy and ordered Google to cease and desist.

Now, a *state* Attorney General seeks to enforce a federal court order? Not his jurisdiction. His jurisdiction is state level and below, with federal matters taken care of by the federal government. the *most* he can do is ask the US Attorney General to look into the matter.*

The author then goes on about a few thousand dollars here and there, ignoring the ancient bit of old news, that state officials come cheaper than federal officials, county officials coming even cheaper than state officials and those thousands of dollars contributed are remembered.

In short, what I've said for decades; The United States of America has the best government that money can buy.

Hell, during the "Robber Baron" era of sparse handful of industrialists having the majority of the money in the nation, they actually did buy themselves the President of their choice, with disastrous long term results.

I've read the tin foil hat version, I remain in contempt of those poor souls.

I've read "the enlightened" version of the story.

Now, I've read this one.

To be honest, the truth is in the middle between the two least outlandish versions.

For, an Attorney General is notable for one other thing. The Attorney General *is* an attorney and has many attorneys working under him or her. If legal action is taken against an Attorney General, the state pays for the defense and as those attorneys are getting paid the same to go to trial or sit and surf the internet, the cost isn't all that high. Everyone needed is already on the payroll and drawing their salaries regardless of what they are doing. The only one not to be is the attorney for Google.

As annotated at the end, the judge tossed the irreparable harm part, meaning no injunction will be issued.

So, it's reality as usual, a whole lot of bastards working for different corporations playing their usual games. On both sides.

*I've quite literally lost count of how many times I had to explain my nation's system of government to Europeans and especially to people from the UK. The marvel of the many different systems is universal, the amazement that it works at all is also universal.

What isn't typically apparent is, all too often, the entire thing lurches to a halt. Usually when one level of government attempts to do the job of a superior level of government.

Powers not granted the federal government fall to the states. Powers that the states are not granted by their constitutions fall to the counties, eventually to the individual.

For quite a long time, the entire US Constitution was believed to only grant rights to the governments federal and state (an interesting notion, considering the first handful of amendments), not to mention granting of citizenship and freedom of travel.

Indeed, before incorporation under the fourteenth amendment, the militia acts (which defined what age men were to be considered members of the militia (hence, how conscripting men for the armed forces operated as a mobilization of the militias) made no sense, as those laws were directed at citizens of the nation and state, but who were not incorporated under the Constitution and federal laws. But then, we've long ignored the hell out of common sense and laws (see the torture bit, as we have signed and ratified treaties, which are the law of the land, per the Constitution). For that matter, in many states and in federal court, it is possible to request a judicial duel, as the federal government never wrote a law against the ancient common law practice and many states did not as well.

Fortunately, most of my peers are unaware of that fact.

Really, I'm serious. Out of a joke, I researched the matter. I've hat attorneys confirm it.

The United States of America, a land where sanity never broached her shores.

Re: "I haven't even mentioned a specific agency and the theories are already flowing"

"This kind of thing is much easier to do in the EU than the US. So yeah, almost certainly some european security service, albeit at the request of the US (it's believed this is the beginning of the payback for the Sony hack)."

Why bother? The NSA cracked TOR a handful of years ago.