Posts by Potemkine! 3270 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2017
Your money is going into the hands of private contractors, so in a way it goes back into the economy ...
The sad thing is they don't provide something valuable in return but still get public contracts (For instance, about the aforementionned Raytheon: Raytheon enters into £250 million contract with UK Ministry of Defence). Is that incompetence, is that corruption? Don't expect any inquriy about it.
That's not an assumption, that's a fact.
What that a fact for the people who sold the phone? Did they know the buyer was a drug dealer? Did the buyer tell them 'I'm in illegal activities, help me!' ?
A suggestion to companies in encryption: add a legal disclaimer saying your products shouldn't be used for criminal activities, that you don't endorse these activities and everyone using your products to do so should denounce himself/herself to the government.
I'd argue that it should be entirely possible for an automated vehicle to avoid rear-ending a stopped car.
Volvo famously tried that once ^^
Disclaimer: I don't intend to pretend to be in any good faith here
IMNSHO, the new logo is worse, because it reminds me the way Hitler's haircut. And the brown color like the brown shirts... If Amazon gets 1 or 2 millions $ it doesn't know what to do with, I can design them a new, not offending logo. Just contact me.
There was no "mysterious die out", the two groups merely assimilated each other and moved on
I doubt that. That would not explain why there is no Neanderthal remains younger that 40,000 years old. That would mean that "suddenly" all Neanderthals would have chosen to mix with Sapiens.
Also, AFAIK we have less of 2% of our genes coming from Neanderthal. That's very few for an assimilation.
randomized that are changed on a regular basis
Randomized? Not such a great idea
Changed on a regular basis? May be not such a great idea either
When you ask for a regular password change, most of the time it becomes a numerical increment at the end of a basic password. Not that secure.
Strong passwords and 2FA are indeed a good thing. But to have the former, users should be educated and provided a password manager so they haven't to rely on their memory only.
First of all, never ever consider that a mail is a good way to transmit confidential data - a message I hammer to users but who doesn't seam to enter their head. The higher in the hierarchy, the less it enters surprisingly.
Having access to an exchange server is a bad thing anyway, just having informations on calendars can be very insightful too.
I'm afraid this is the next step in a cyber war, to hack not just the traditional computer systems and smartphones, but also to get into the industrial systems, into infrastructure, including critical infrastructure
I wonder why cybercrooks didn't target industrial systems massively yet. Maybe because the "traditional market" is still lucrative enough?
Cybersecurity in industrial systems is most of the time a joke. I know an example of an industrial device provider asking for an open connection 24h a day to its system without even being able to provide a fixed public IP to filter (a little bit) the input. The same provider did not realize why it was wrong, and moreover didn't care.
There's a bright future for cybercrooks, they have plenty of devices to play with.
In one hand, many ask governments to be as efficient as companies, in the other hand, we want governments to respect the democratic way of doing things.
Companies are not democracies, far from that. On the contrary, most of them are small dictatorships where the C-Class is the ruler, when not the CEO himself/herself is. Decisions taken in a company are not democratic, they are the expression of the will of a few if not one.
So the problem lies also on our expectations. I'm all for a government being open, transparent, respecting rules. This implies we have to accept that it leads also to blunders.
But there are many loopholes:
- Retailers refusing to take the goods pretending they were not bought by them if there is no proof of the contrary (known by experience)
- In the end, products that should be recycled are smuggled to third world countries anyway to be burnt by children to extract the metal parts.
So enact the law, but also close the loopholes.
Absolutely. In Gaul only, they genocided 1/3 of the population and reduced to slavery an other 1/3.
I plan to sue the Italian government for what they did to my ancestors.
"Our Vision is to use the Oracle re-implementation to improve the support provided to the University by increasing automation, simplifying and standardising what we do, and reducing manual interventions in routine processes freeing up staff time for value-added activities,"
Such optimistic goals, generally for such a despairing result....
Thanks to smartphones, we can now be tracked everywhere, geolocalized constantly, to the point that one can guess what's your religion, your ethnicity or your state of health
We can also access such vital applications like Feckbook, Messenger, Tiktok or Wechat 24 hours a day and get the best and verified information and news.
1) Construct a secret base inside Olympus Mons
2) Rename 'Mars' to 'Musk' around 2042
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