but it doesn't seem to be a likely threat vector.
Do some traffic analysis on your target's porn habits at the ISP, leave a compromised disc about his favorite kink in a bag on the ground near where he parks his car, and use his "connected" player to zero-day the other equipment on his LAN, installing the APT without even needing to pretend about premesis warrants or anything.
I will preface this by saying "this is really true" because you probably would otherwise read it as a nonsense, sarcastic, or glib comment.
I heard a conversation the other day about some of the terrible new buildings at the nearby university. A very senior administrator said (paraphrased), "you need to hire a hot architect and pay him 20% of the project price to come up with some really shocking architecture, to prove to prospective students that the school is still relevant."
I think he was talking mostly about the atrocity that they added to the Medical School, which looks suspiciously like the post-accident Chernobyl reactor. The "architecture" part of the project probably added $20M over making it look like a classical higher-ed building. I believe this administrator had final sign-off on such an expense.
It is not like an educated population is some kind of public good.
It's not, if you're speaking about the economic term. A 'public good', to an economist, is something that cannot be provided by the private market (a "market failure") and therefore must fall to a government to provide. Education is one where the private market excels in comparison to the public provision, which would be a counter-example.
And how should the government do that? With the tax income that these companies managed to avoid paying? Cool story bro.
The government should take money from the poor and funnel it into the coffers of these corporations. Did you miss the part where government is for the privatization of gains and the socialization of losses?
The alternative is asking for bankruptcy.
I can just about guarantee you that several buyers of bandwidth in Phoenix had contracts with the people who owned this fiber and those contracts specified multiple redundant paths out of the city.
Odds are we're looking at backup system failure or contract fraud. Probably the former.
How so? Everyone gets the same speed....
It's almost as fair as the toilet paper supply in Venezuela, Comrade!
Ah - they'll face opposition in some southern cities where they want to expand Google Fiber, but they won't suffer the wrath of the LGBT... community.
Put the key in off the license sticker on your PC
Yeah, the one that rubbed off the bottom of your laptop in three months and you forgot to take a picture of it when it was new...
Ah, I hope Redbox helped fund this feature since they're going to be a primary beneficiary!
"Right now, we can't even repair spinal cord injuries where head and body belong to the same person. Once that becomes a routine medical procedure, we might think about head transplants and how to solve the problems associated with them."
That may very well be, but there are no people with spine injuries on the boards that decide about the grants to scientists, but many old people with a need for a young body.
"That's Frankenstein. "
First, that's _Doctor_ Frankenstein.
Victor, for my friends.
An it's pronounced Frank-on-steen!
"Anybody else's Slashdot break today?"
I had to click on every icon on the page, to try to log in.
Only when I clicked the icon with an arrow pointing to an exit door, I succeeded. (sic)
Also, why show me the crappy 'deals' stuff if I have a non-US IP, since you won't ship anything, even if I wanted it.
This has been the _worldwide_ web for a quarter of a century, assholes.
you forgot to order the right Compaq IDE laptop header adapter. Whichever one it is for this model...
Suddenly a Laplink cable and a VirtualBox running DOS with a detachable D: doesn't seem so awful bad. Move the image from the XP box via flash drive or network, mount it loopback and profit before lunch.
So, for the 1,250,000 illegals a year, it would only cost 32,500,000,000$ per year so that nobody would cook my dinner at Denny's anymore?
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
