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Cyber attacks use patched exploit to attack systems running out of date software, even in large enterprises handling sensitive data?

I give a pass to individuals (bandwidth for updates can be expensive, regular users don't know about patch Tuesday etc), but enterprise scale deployment should have IT for this, and IT should have been well aware of this kind of thing happening.
> A bridge is a largely static unmoving object, but even bridges require maintenance - some bridges require more maintenance frequent maintenance than others. It's not that bridges are necessarily of low quality.

That's a laymans impression of what a bridge is. In reality bridges are in an extremely dynamic environment with loads changing magnitude and direction constantly, unpredictably. The fact that you think that a bridge is 'a largely static unmoving object' is a tribute to the engineers that designed it and the contractors that built it, it's whole function can be described as 'appear not to move'.

But if you looked at the bridge in a little bit more detail and you would see how the bridge copes with the load your estimate would change to 'a bridge is an extremely versatile structure that dynamically responds to a wide variety of loads by rejecting those loads onto the foundation and soil around it'.
Which constitution? There's no "the" constitution, it's just as valid to say that there's no free speech in the constitution because, frankly, having free speech in constitution in just as rare as having god in constitution.

I'd agree that it would be nice that if it was differently, but saying "shouldn't be accepted" is just like wishing for a pony, it has no connection to reality - we simply don't get a say in such matters, and I'd bet dollars to pennies that a magical totally fair democratic vote in those countries would prove that the average voter there definitely supports prohibiting blasphemy and restricting speech to do so.

It's ridiculous to simply unilaterally declare that your moral system is more valid than someone else's, and forcing your constitution on some other place is just as reasonable as someone else wanting to replace your constitution with theirs.
So is this a way around mainlining all of the silicon vendor's various kernels? I have heard that each vendor just hacks their hardware into the 3.10.X and then just keeps a repo of it to meet open source requirements. Because they are unable to make the quality requirements to get their code upstream.
This was a bug, Sorry! I'd previously set the target score to 15, but I changed it to 1 whilst debugging something this afternoon. Noob error - Fixed now :)

Edit: Not sure what the undefined bug was will keep looking, ... thanks for flagging it up.

I added the tooltips in the game to explain what to do but I agree it could be more intuitive.
Young America's Foundation.

http://www.yaf.org/news/statement-young-americas-foundations...
Honda mechanicals, absolutely. Honda paint, on the other hand, just doesn't seem to hold up as well as other brands.

Meanwhile whatever godforsaken toxic chemical Mercedes Benz was putting in their paints in the 70s and 80s seems to have left those cars impervious to dulling and fading.
It is already a one party state, effectively: the party being the wealthy and connected. "R vs. D" is a distraction.
Only a little. I was going to write that it was a different version because the updated versions have been frequently ported to new platforms, but that's not proof, they might have changed their pattern. And while the new codebase seems more portable and flexible, there's no reason the Switch couldn't be made to run Java.

The proof is that while the Java version runs acceptably on a modern PC - which is all it needs to do - a PC with the performance of the Switch would not be capable of this performance level. Instead, the Pocket edition running on phones would be closer to this performance.

(Also, you might be misreading me because I forgot "PC version" between "the" and "at 720p".)
One of the big problems here will be for any country which makes a lot of use of older computers using Windows XP as there is no patch for this vulnerability on that OS version.

How many systems that is, is debatable but by at least one benchmark (https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...) we're looking at 7% of the desktop PC market that could be exposed with no patch available.
There are absolutely lines to draw between exercising your right to free speech and yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.
Are you saying that places that prohibit "hate speech" have only generic laws or that there isn't one definition that is internationally valid?

Because if it's the first, I suggest you look again, and if it's the later, I don't see how it is relevant.
jquery + vue.js on rails is pretty sweet

and no npm dependency BS!
Linux doesn't have a magic fix for buffer overflows in networking stacks written in C.
It's incredible to me how long it took Google to realize this was their fault. A lot of people here have bought the "blame the OEM" nonsense for a really long time, and you can see the comments here reflect that.

But in reality, there's a huge expense to all the work of updating devices to support Google's rapid change cycle for dozens or hundreds of different models, and the problem stems first and foremost from that lack of abstraction layer.

This is likely a first step to finally catching up to Windows Mobile: Making the core OS upgrade come straight from the actual OS developer, so that the company that writes the code is actually the one that updates the code.
I don't know if the writer understands the fundamental problem in the discussion of Silicon Valley centers on the fact that it's the peak of capitalism gone awry. So for every little research project he listed there's ten or more silly "ventures" into DRM'd juicing machines or spying social media apps.
>Once cars are fully autonomous and become cheaper, faster, and more efficient than current forms of public transportation

You state this as if it is inevitable, but I don't see this as true. Take, for example, the density in cities in, say, China. If we took everyone who took the buses and the subway trains and moved them out to cars today, Shanghai would be a perpetual traffic jam.

In addition, you have pedestrians to deal with at surface level, which of course will slow cars down. The laws of physics also dictate that things must slow down during things like turns, and when you exit the tunnel. Unless we create dedicated interchanges and acceleration and deceleration lanes... That already exists and it's called a highway. Traffic is rarely made slow on the highway because of the cars traveling on it or the number of lanes, it's made slow by the cars wanting to get off and slowing down. Yes, you can make the cars move faster, but the bottleneck is precisely where the cars decelerate, even today. I fail to see how making a bunch of tunnels solves the issue.
This feels topical: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
This is what blowback looks like.

The US military and intelligence communities focused hard on cyber offense, rather than improving the defensive standards and technologies practiced among allies. Because of this, several allies have important systems compromised by (essentially) US-engineered malware.

Well, at least DARPA is sort of on it: http://archive.darpa.mil/cybergrandchallenge/

(There's also work stemming from the HoTT body of work on verified systems, as I understand it. But that doesn't have a sexy webpage.)
I agree, extortion is not OK. Simply saying that this could have been mitigated and if there's someone's job to mitigate things like this, it's on them.
I am amused that their graphical representation of the Android version customized for a particular model of phone is "Android mascot dressed up in a really cool spacesuit looking thing" and not "Android mascot with bags of trash stapled haphazardly to him," which would probably be more accurate.
"What I will argue is that when looking at a public policy problem, the best place to create liability is where it will have the desired impact. If the goal is to stop ransomware attacks, raising the costs of paying ransoms beyond what the criminals are demanding is the best way to do that."

http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/02/29/paying-ransom-on-ranso...
That's not really a fair characterization, I think. For one thing, I've been lukewarm at best on the "LGBT movement", as you have it, for most of my life - and I really don't think that's because I "don't like seeing unusual couples in public", being as I'm gay myself and have been party to a few "unusual couples" in my own right. None of the conversations I've had, with others who weren't unalloyed supporters of the movement or indeed supporters at all, suggest that their own concerns were so shallowly founded, either.

I don't doubt that there are people who just don't like to see two men, or two women, holding hands. But I find no reason, of my own experience, to suspect they are any less outliers in that regard than some might imagine I myself must be.
Thanks for helping society out.
customers would be more inclined to buy from a vendor that does use Treble
Telemedicine Myths and the Truth Behind Them
I'd be interested in knowing which cases you're thinking about.
WW3 LEGAL RAPE IN EUROPE
Big Bang or Big Bounce? Hawking and Others Pen Letter about How the Universe Began
Ask HN: Building a deep learning PC. Which GTX 1080 Ti has best Linux support?
Let's assume I have already decided on a 1080 Ti. The problem is, there are several vendors that have added on some pretty tempting tweaks such as great cooling and overclocking options. Some of these offer software for setting up the overclocking, shaping the fan response to temperature curve, and monitoring temperature and such. But as far as I can tell, most of the software is made for Windows. I won't be running Windows.

Maybe I don't need the software, I don't know. But I'm just wondering what all the options are.

Does anyone know whether any of the handful of card makers have come out with Linux versions of their add on software? Or short of that, which vendors' cards work best with Linux? And since the 1080 Ti isn't that old, anecdotal information about historic Linux support for previous generation cards (such as 1080) would also be helpful.

I think the drivers are already taken care of by Nvidia, so I'm not as worried about that part. My question is more about what additional things there might be to think about with respect to the choice of vendor for a Linux machine.

BTW I do not own a Windows license and do not desire to shell out for one, so booting into a Windows partition just to do tweaks is not my favorite option. I'm aware of it as an option, but am wondering what else people might suggest as far as the best choice of vendor.
Wow, that looks like a lot of really cool stuff. Might have to get back in a python kind of mood, this really looks impressive, especially the c++ extensions.
If you do that, how do the images get from the x-ray machine to the radiologist for analysis? How do they end up as part of the electronic health record & accessible for future use? If you create an air gap and ask people to use USB sticks to move data from "mission-critical" systems to the main network, you only slightly reduce the risk of those systems becoming infected and you now have a situation that's much less convenient (time is money) and creates a new vector for leaking personal health information.
You could have simply omitted the second paragraph and your argument would actually be more forceful. I agree overall with what you say.

I don't think the problem is with how fast Bill Gates' money is increasing or whether the money is being hoarded. "Hoarding is bad" - some folks say this is a somewhat dubious economic proposition because in theory hoarding reduces the overall cash supply with fewer currency units chasing the same number of goods and services. This is actually really good for savers until the hoarding exceeds a certain threshold where it starts interfering with the velocity of money and all that good stuff. (and frankly, the US GDP is something like 18 trillion, the M2 money supply is apparently 10 trillion, and Bill Gates, despite his enormous pile of money, does not even have 1% of it. I don't think he would make much of a dent even if he hoarded every single penny).

The real problem is the propagation of unchecked power. Be it governments. Be it corporations. Be it dictators or whatever. At least, in theory, well designed governments already include checks and balances. Even the most corrupt banana republic is rarely beholden to the power of such a small group of people like we have in the top tech companies. I mean, how the fuck does Microsoft have the temerity to sneakily upgrade OSes even if people don't want to? Why is there no lawsuit against them of any significance? (And I am sure you can find equally bad examples of abuses of power from all the tech giants).

And while we were all told that competition is supposed to cause the checks and balances and will prevent power from accumulating in any one business - it is probably time to ask if that actually holds true in the technology sector, especially at the bleeding edge? It is probably time to legislate the dismantling of these tech giants.
An almost nonexistent percentage of users know what version of Android they have or if it's the latest, in the grand scheme of things. In the tech bubble, it's hard to imagine, but I'd go so far as to suggest most Android users don't know they run Android.

If people realized how many security risks they open themselves up to by running old Android versions and that the "your phone is up to date" line in their Settings app is basically a lie, Android would not be the dominant platform on earth.
Poor collaboration within a small team is something I'm experiencing now, and it's devastating.

Would be curious to hear if you found a way out, or a way to improve collaboration within a currently flawed group.
Well this justifies MS's decision for forced updates in Win10. Not that I like it, just saying.
Exactly how is the culture of free speech missing? Freedom of speech doesn't mean you're guaranteed a venue at which to speak...

Prevalence of coercive and even violent tactics to shut down speech, using excuses like "Freedom of speech doesn't mean you're guaranteed a venue at which to speak"

Relative paucity of anyone willing to engage with these conservatives honestly in a battle of ideas.
Event organizer here. Our team also helped organize NodeKnockout and AngularAttack. Let me know if you have any questions!
Still, there are successful migrations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
The corporate oligarchy party.
If you are reading this comment before the article: they use Yandex's OLAP solution, ClickHouse, and Kafka.

The whole article explains how and why they got there, it is actually very well written!
> It sounds like the basic (?) security practices recommended by professionals - keep systems up-to-date, pay attention to whether an email is suspicious - would have covered your network.

This is secondhand information (so take it for what it's worth, there could be pieces I'm missing), but I talked with a startup that was focusing on this problem, and the issue was not quite the computers and servers that IT were using (although sometimes it was), it was that many medical devices (like CT scanners, pumps, etc) come shipped with old outdated versions of operating systems and libraries.

No big deal right? Just make sure those are up to date too? Well, many times the support contract for these medical devices are so strict that you can invalidate the warranty by installing third party software like an antivirus, or even doing something like Windows update.

Even worse, many hospitals don't even know what devices they have -- it's easy for IT to know about laptops and computers, but when every single medical device more complicated than a stethoscope has a chip in it and may respond to calls on certain ports, it's a tougher picture to know.

The startup was https://www.virtalabs.com/ by the way, they really are doing some cool things to help with this.
Companies are incentivized in the long term to make good products. This incentive usually eclipses incentives that our (often justified) anti-corporate suspicions invent.
The first words I wrote were 'of course they're culpable.' Human behavior is very much like the weather in that our actions today shape the environment of tomorrow, albeit by long and often obscure causal chains.

Nowhere id I assert that it's a binary choice, and that interpretation of ym words only make sense if you ignore chunks of what I'm saying. Over the near term, you're not going to eliminate crime by moral suasion so it's important to have a strategy to mitigate its predictable incidence while we also work on the problem of how to reduce crime through deterrence, reducing incentives, and so on.
Random number generator, I guess. :)
There is a large quality of life difference based on maximum trip time.

If I need to make 2 trains each way with an max of 15 minutes of wait time each. Then I need to add 1 hour of padding to cover that worst case over the day or risk being late. Further, if anything happens that can go well past 1h of just waiting. Cut that to a daily 12 minutes 'worse case' makes a massive difference.
Ask HN: How to compute 'byte miles' and other Internet traffic costs?
Can anyone help me make better estimates for the 'costs' of serving pages over HTTP/2 vs HTTP/1.1 for this item that I'm working on?

http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-carbon-cost-of-CDN.html

At the moment I'm seeing a 10--100% inflation in visible bytes on the connection for my simple case, but I'm not including factors for distance travelled, crypto overhead, TCP setup costs end-to-end for 'extra' connections, per-packet costs, etc! All help gratefully received!
My theory is that any sufficiently advanced self-replicating system of memes, will develop an 'immune system' to combat out of control memetic mutation. That's why heretics and blasphemers are burned, and ideological sedition is just as likely to expel one from any secular 'in-group'. If this didn't happen everyone would just go thinking whatever they please and and a memetic-system would die a death of a thousand schisms and cease to be as competitive in the arena of other meme systems.
> except for clients that paid for an extended support deal

It does have a fix for this, though
What about democracy suggests that tyranny of the majority is not a very probable failure mode? It's like a fission reactor with a positive void coefficient - the problem is not that it can't be run safely with sufficiently complex controls, but rather what happens when those complex controls themselves fail.
Conservatives aren't the one attacking people.

If liberals are upset that we keep bring up the violence, then they should stop assaulting people AND stop defending the violent crazies who do so.

Go read the Berkeley student newspaper online and see what these people ACTUALLY believe. You should be absolutely horrified by how many student writers are defending violence.

Conservatives "dropped" Milo by disinviting him from speaking at private events.

That is absolutely not the same as assaulting people who show up to an event.

If the Berkeley Republicans club wanted to disinvite Milo, they are free to do so.

But Milo, and anyone else, can also just show up at a public park near Berkley, and nobody should be able to stop them.
Maybe I'm mistaken then but I seem to remember having seen numerous cases in which GPL was involved, but only in the sense that the software was being redistributed as an unmodified unit or with modifications. But those cases may have been settled - I'm not sure.

Reciprocity and the conditions that trigger it (I link to your GPL library and so must release my application source code) has never been ruled on from what I've seen.
Well there has been research done on "how Muslims think" and the views of majority Muslim countries: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...

If I'm reading it correctly, it says that in Malaysia, 86% of Muslims believe Sharia should be the law of the land, with 62% of those wanting death for apostates. Overall, the global picture of what "Muslims think" is not pretty.
Hackers use NSA tools in UK health service cyber attack
The State of Iowa criminalizes "annoying" speech under Iowa Code 708.7. "Iowa nice" is the law.
Just to kick it off — I don't.

Even as someone working in tech, or especially as someone working in tech, the idea of investing in an unregulated currency concerns me too much. Besides that I'd only be willing to put a small amount < 10% of my investments into it. Anecdotally there are a lot of news stories about bitcoin wallets getting compromised — maybe it's just the press being sensationalist but you don't hear the same about more traditional investment accounts.

I'm onboard with index funds and robo advisors and most other types of financial innovation, but no cryptocurrency has done it for me yet.
> if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all.

While I agree with that statement in general, I don't agree with making laws to use that to infringe on free speech. We've never made a law to prevent assholes from being assholes. I prefer them being exposed anyway. It makes it easier to hire or to decide who to be friends with when they are allowed by society to do as they wish with their free speech.

Apart from that - who decides what's nice? Many things are subjective when it comes to nice. As an example - Is it nice to say that our society is obese and needs to take more accountability? That most people can prevent diabetes? To most people, no that's not a nice thing to say. I wouldn't label it as a malicious thing to say though. It's accurate.

Some discussions aren't going to be nice. You can't talk about anything of substance as a society without some groups getting upset. We should aim for pragmatic discussions though.
Second that request for how to deal with poor collaboration within teams.
This is great, I'm spanish and I never learned to speak (read pretty well). My conjugation is abysmal so I sound like some kind of backwoods hill billy (the spanish version of that). I may give this a go, get conversational. Great project!
They are not mere offenses against free speech. These prosecutions are crimes against humanity perpetrated in all cases by organizations (religions) with long histories of murder, theft, genocide and voluminous deranged acts whose evil is beyond the comprehension of mortals.
I mean that there exists no classifier which consumes as input arbitrary speech, and emits as output a foolproof classification of "hate" or "not hate."

Therefore humans are required to emulate that classifier. Perhaps we call them "judges" or "arbitration panels" or whatever, the name doesn't matter.

My point is that politics will guide the emulation of the classifier, such that it emits results favorable to the loud faction and unfavorable to that faction's enemies.
We'll find out when the first vendor inevitably abuses a feature in the interface to specifically make their phone un-upgradable.
This is true, but Google may have more leverage than they think. If the phone vendors don't like the direction of Android what are they going to do, switch to Windows/Tizen/webOS/FirefoxOS?
Well, I still play Super Meat Boy. I just bought a new Alienware laptop and I plan to play this weekend (via Steam). I haven't ever played any of the console versions, except XBox 360. If I bought a new console now, I'm not sure what else I would play. Perhaps a Switch would be my best choice since I like the Mario games and older Zelda games.

Edit: I own Fez, Braid, etc also, but I don't play them much.
Well, hopefully they have backups, but the point of this statement is to reassure everyone that patient data has not been leaked.
> etnocracy

Do you mean "Ethnocracy", a form of government controlled by a particular ethnic group? I would have assumed this was just a typo, but you wrote it this way twice.