>Right now, Slack stores everything you do on its platform by default -- your username and password, every message you've sent
Ok, everything else is a given, but do they really store passwords? Nothing in the link documents suggested that they actually did? What's Slacks password set up?
Agreed.
What's more every telecoms company around the World buying large swathes of kit from Huawei has presumably done their due diligence and considered that the vulnerabilities weren't sufficient to warrant buying from a different company -- until Trump declared it was anti-USA to do so and started telling other countries who they were allowed to buy their telecoms equipment from (hint: it begins with U and ends in SA).
More than likely it's just to ensure that USA have access and other state actors don't.
Personally I'd rather China was hacking my comms than USA. Take your pick, I guess.
From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:
> ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.[16] The team of design engineers assisting the development included Robert F. Shaw (function tables), Jeffrey Chuan Chu (divider/square-rooter), Thomas Kite Sharpless (master programmer), Frank Mural (master programmer), Arthur Burks (multiplier), Harry Huskey (reader/printer) and Jack Davis (accumulators).[17] In 1946, the researchers resigned from the University of Pennsylvania and formed the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.
> ENIAC was a modular computer, composed of individual panels to perform different functions. Twenty of these modules were accumulators that could not only add and subtract, but hold a ten-digit decimal number in memory. Numbers were passed between these units across several general-purpose buses (or trays, as they were called). In order to achieve its high speed, the panels had to send and receive numbers, compute, save the answer and trigger the next operation, all without any moving parts. Key to its versatility was the ability to branch; it could trigger different operations, depending on the sign of a computed result.
Are you really telling me that the people that made the machine had no idea how to programme it, not even a system in place to enable that? The OP makes it sounds like the makers just randomly built stuff and it took women (not computer scientists, or mathematicians; but women, if they'd had testicles they'd have been unable
This whole retconning of past scientific and engineering efforts as solely performed by women is silly.
The Bank don't know who you are, their machine recognises your customer ID and handles moving around the numbers that represent your money. They've no interest in you beyond your ability to make them money; in the past a person at the bank would be able to greet you by name and would probably know your balance and your general banking habits.
The government could probably be turned in to a system that is good for signing people's keys but in the UK at least it's not yet such a thing IMO.
While I agree with you in principle, there are practical problems with nuclear power.
The first is that they usually end up a lot more expensive to build, run, and decommission than estimated in the planning stage; partly due to stringent regulation, as well as the required expertise. Nuclear does need strong oversight, because it's way too tempting for operators to start cutting corners to save operating costs, and we have multiple examples of nuclear contamination when that happened. Yes, new designs are a lot safer - they're also more expensive, which is one reason that they haven't really been built. It's more cost effective to run old plants long past their original design date, which of course has risks.
The second is public acceptance. If green lobby groups had that kind of power to influence government policy, we wouldn't have a carbon crisis in the first place. The oil and gas lobbies are extremely well funded, and that's what's ultimately kept them top of the pile - money talks. Radioactive and nuclear are maximum NIMBY, that's just the general public's view of nuclear, and it has been since at least the 70s. Coal plants emit more radioactive waste in the smoke than an equivalent rated nuclear reactor, but that is definitely not the public perception, and swinging the public behind radical energy-policy change is going to be hard enough without also trying to sell nuclear as the solution which has a very poor general public image, not least due to Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Lastly, and the biggest one really - it's just too late. We should have embarked on mass building nuclear 20-30 years ago, but we didn't, and we have to deal with where we are now. We need to be bring online non-carbon energy plants fast, not in 15 years when new nuke plants would finally be going online. Not that we shouldn't start on new nuclear plants too to kill off the hardest-to-replace carbon plants, but to avoid the 2deg point we need to stop building carbon plants right now, and aggressively decommission the existing ones as the carbon footprint extends for decades for every plant. Solar and wind plants can go up relatively quickly, grid redesign to decentralise can continue more aggressively, and the improvements and lowered costs will get here sooner if we're actually building them in bulk rather than waiting for theoretical tech improvements.
As a species we've made some pretty bad decisions, but our lack of action on energy production even though we knew the consequences looks like it might well be the worst. The perfect being the enemy of the good applies just as much to not building solar and wind plants today as it does to not building nuclear plants in the past. Frankly, I'm not bothered personally whether we build nuclear, solar or both, as long as we start getting non-carbon power online fast.
Because otherwise insane(ly expensive) geoengineering projects like TFA - with major drawbacks - will be our last ditch chance.
Pen testing is a legitimate use. If it's possible to create such a tool then it's necessary for security operatives to use such tools to treat the effects they would have when penetrating a particular network's security.
Oh no they'll have to make better printers, how terrible for the consumer
How many words did the control group get right by the end? 20 hours of memorising for 72 words
FWIW I tried memory-palacing and couldn't remember any of the items that were supposed to help me recall the data. I could remember some of the data though. Clearly not for me.
If it helps to soften the blow I live in a city, albeit a small one, and can't get mobile phone reception enough to work the credit card machine at work in the city centre. We also have a sight line from our house to a mobile mast and can't get good reception there. I think we must have secret government research facilities oro something that interferes with the signals.
Well I barely have any non-white friends and one of the few I know was verbally assaulted in the street. Some people apparently thought that voting "out" meant we'd then immediately evict anyone who wasn't 7th generation British. Figures show something like a doubling of racially motivated attacks and that's the reported figures, like my friend I suspect most incidents went unreported.
The Independent [1] reported a 3-fold increase between the days immediately after the referendum and the comparative dates in 2015. That seems like it qualifies as a very large surge [which thankfully doesn't appear to have been sustained].
So cancelling orders (his apparent "crime" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...) is now illegal in USA. Wonder what the market impact of that will be.
Also why did UK allow the extradition. He wasn't in USA and quite possibly didn't break any laws where he was; this looks like USA doing the usual thing of trying to make it's own laws global.
Compose used to by default be mapped as AltGr in Linux distros.
For me on Kubuntu AltGr+;,e (ie hold AltGr [aka "right alt"] whilst pressing semi-colon, then press e) gives me é (that's e-acute), AltGr+',e gives me ê (that's e-circumflex).
On MS Windows it used to be that you could hold alt and then type a code number _using the keypad_ for the character, so Alt+0233 (using NumPad) would give you é. Not sure if it has to be right-alt again but don't think it does.
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu... has a good synopsis.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
