Does 4chan create the monster, or do the monsters need to go somewhere as to not be so alone?

I see the problem with 4chan to effectively be the same problem as brothels or prostitution. At the end of the day, would the problem be worse without them? I have to lean on 'yes' - there are people in life who are dysfunctional with relationships or public, but that doesn't remove peoples need for fulfillment and dialog.. I'd have to say that 4chan is a better form of outlet than none at all. Its not even the 'dark web', its just a public website that users optionally post to anonymously.

Interestingly, the best movie I saw last year was Dune, and that contradicted the article in that it didn't even tell the whole story, yet reinforces your point that 90mins is barely enough time to become invested in chars let alone tell a decent action/mystery/horror story. It means that most movies either need to focus on chars or sensation, but rarely both

Its an interesting metric that Google are currently using to tout the performance of their browser. I own a Pixel mobile phone, made by Google, and I've recently had to remove Google Chrome from the device and replace it with Firefox. Why? Well the performance of Google Chrome on Google Pixel is so lousy that the entire phone becomes unresponsive when reading websites. What websites? Well, Slashdot.org - a website that is basically only text. I'm not sure how the Chrome browser can run so rubbish on Google's hardware

Another thing I've noticed is how garbage the performance of Google Chrome is in Windows 10. I recently had to remove Google Chrome from my Windows 10 i7 computer. Why? When using Google Chrome to browse Google's YouTube it would cause frequent stop errors and would shut down the video card for about 10 minutes *after* the computer was completely powered off (turning the computer back on within that time would cause Windows to load without a 0 x 0 pixel resolution and would for some reason connect the line in to the line out). The solution? Use Firefox to view Google's YouTube - no further problems.

Don't get me wrong, I think Google is great, and I love a lot of their web services. Its just a shame that they've broken WebKit in such a spectacular fashion that its a pointless exercise trying to use Google Chrome to access Google web services.

It would be nice if there was more competition in the browser space by browser vendors NOT using Webkit.

This is an interesting precedent because I would imagine that a great many embedded IP leaking services are embedded in most websites.

For example, all advertising services, google 'ad sense' and tracking capabilities, style sheets, java* libraries, Facebooks etc.

I appreciate that the courts in this scenario specifically don't like Google as a company, but Google is far from unique in regards to data harvesting and I'd trust Google to mitigate a data leak above just about anyone else given my experience with their GMail platform for more than 15 years

Often the problem is the control and access plane for this disks and the tapes is vulnerable. Obviously, in the case of DAS this is far more problematic since the OS typically manages its disk's presentation.

I suspect the reality is that cryptolockers for tapes are coming slower because tape drivers and access are a bit exotic. If you had a driver or a backup program infiltrated for your tape library, you could potentially be writing crypolocked tape backups for months without realising. Often basic restore testing would determine that if it were the case. Also, the lack of random access on linear tape significantly limits attacks after the fact.

When I work with large enterprise NAS storage, often these devices are able to manage your storage and your snapshots in a way that is not directly accessible to operating systems aside from the NAS OS. This doesn't preclude malware attacking a vulnerability in the NAS OS in order to get access to that control plane to purge snaps via a remote code execution vulnerability or something, but like tape libraries, because there are a lot of vendors on the field there is a reasonably low chance a cryptolocker will know how to exploit your specific device.

To me, the big thing is speed, just as Mr. Newman rightly pointed out. However, where Mr. Newman talks about the signficantly longer RTO/RPO for tape, I focus more on the time to total data loss on disk based backups. I'm quite familiar with panicked calls from colleages saying "a cryptolocker has ripped through our primary datacentre backup disks and is now working on the second datacentres backup volumes". You see, in these scenarios, Mr. Newman's high speed disk RPO/RTO times start to extend out to infinity (or the time it takes to pay the ransom). If I have to programmatically turn on a switch to de-airgap my backup disks in order to run a backup, and in the time that the backup occurs, a crytolocker can eat all of the other existing backups on the disk system, then my airgap was useless.

An air-gapped disk system can be done, but that doesn't make the disks ideal for archiving. If I need to get someone to offsite my disks the way I get them to offsite my tapes, my data is almost guaranteed to be bad by the time I get be disk returned for a restore.

Cloud providers will be the next target. While I doubt cryptolockers will be able to encrypt virtual tapes and snapshots in the cloud, I suspect the low hanging fruit is still the control plane and accessing servers that either have access keys or profiles attached to them that have access to delete snaps, virtual tapes, so that once the OS is locked up, there are no further restore points.

I think its great that Microsoft has finally made some progress in this space, but I feel like Google is already light-years ahead given that my phone can already do this automatically. I guess the big different is that when Google did it, they didn't need a bunch of fanfare and media, they just gave user the option to turn it on. Microsoft, on the other hand, acts like its the second coming of Jesus and "look at us! We're still relevant!".

I guess the thing to keep in mind here is, as an 'also ran', Microsoft are really struggling in the cloud space as a company that can 'do it all... sort of'. You can see this from the way Microsoft is branding and positioning its products: Active Directory can do
* x
* y
* z


However, when you look more closely at the claim it becomes clear that there is more than one Microsoft technology called "Active Directory" and while technology 1 can do X and Y, only technology 2 can do Z. I think MS need to do a lot more to rebrand their products to alleviate this product confusion and reduce this perception that the tagline for Microsoft Azure should be "we have implementation problems"

You mean that app in Windows that makes you pay $50 to download each open source application? That store should be illegal

Justice.gov are confusing the words 'criminal' with 'revolutionary' again. They also appear to be confusing the words 'America' with 'Japan', unless Nintendo and Sony suddenly became US companies, in which case someone needs to update their respective wikipedia pages. And, look, if this stuff was actually 'illegal', Nintendo and Sony wouldn't be profiting off emulation technology to sell new versions of their old consoles or games. Defeating the technological constraints of game console hardware is so integral to the Nintendo Switch software line-up that its effectively makes up more than 50% of most owner's software library.

Hey, I know how to use a web browser And I know that arcade games are like Donkey Kong and Pac Man But after spending about 15 minutes looking at their site I can't tell what this is. I have a gen 1 AppleTV here, but that won't run it. I have an Apple notebook here, but that can't install the right version of MacOS. I also have an iPhone 4, but same problem (Apple make some terrible products). What is the cheapest device I can get that would run this? Also, what are the games like? They look like complete no-name knock-off Android Play store games. Is it just ports of stuff from Android mobile phones? Can't find any thing like Double Dragon, Outrun, Daytona, Time Crisis. In fact, I can't really find any game that I've ever heard about.

If automakers aren't legally liable for the defects of their products, there is no longer a reason to prevent vehicle 3rd party modifications or repairs. I mean, their entire argument is predicated on safety, but if they are not legally liable for safety, there is no reason they should retain any rights on the product after sale

I guess it really depends on what kind of x86 based servers your talking about. A 386DX/40 based server is technically running x86 instructions. Bolt 1500 of those together and, yeah, its no longer a lie, but it is a bit deceptive. But none of that really matters when the majority of all your code is designed for batch rather than real-time processing loads.

and that comes through a cable.

Well yes, thats what happens when you treat 'programming' like updating a "spreadsheet". Sure, you can do a lot of "programming" in a spreadsheet with functions or database selects, but they still need a human brain to actually provide the "code" to get any use out of the data. This article is up there with on the of the most stupid things I've ever seen posted to Wired. I mean, I think its great his wife has learned how to use MS Access, but if that was all that was required, people wouldn't study beyond high school, which would have armed her with those elite skills.

They might have backups that were mounted during the auto-update?

I did predict this walled garden approach was likely to end up in an anti trust case and the split of Apple from its App Store. It was a terrible idea akin to China's Great Firewall.