Comment Re:Wait a goddamn minute here (Score 1) 421
The temperature also dropped.
Honestly, the whole "Climate Change" thing was to explain that "it's not really global warming"; now they want to stop climate change by cooling the earth.
This kind of tampering would be a disaster.
Mental instability, irrationality, and other issues would cause global nuclear destruction. Hostility is a problem. On the other hand, aggression is the driver that prevents the world from stagnating; remove aggression entirely and nobody would even mate, causing a collapse of the human species.
Ants and bees are aggressive as all fuck. Honeybees are notable for being docile, and only certain subspecies at that; honeybees, the most successful organism second only to ants, are among the most violent and aggressive motherfuckers in existence, with the Megapsis species able to quickly kill a human if annoyed, and some of the smaller African apsis species prone to violent and fatal attacks in which they chase you forever and sting you until you die. The more docile species have been propagated by human effort.
No, it's stupidity coming from a fool who has no idea what he's talking about. He's a cosmologist and a quantum physicist, not a social scientist.
That's ATT's new model. In Kansas you can get a $70, gigabit connection from ATT but if you want to opt out of the customer abuse plan they charge you $30/mo extra. No I'm not making that up, but they don't call it the customer abuse plan, but that's what it is. The $30 is so they don't track you and monetize you with the scrutiny that only an ISP can do (see Verizon's tracking cookies).
Lenovo should just say the truth: the laptop was $200 cheaper than it would have been because of SuperFish. If you want to opt out of da'Fish then you gotta pay. Nobody gets hurt okay.
http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Some news reports say that the removal tool is only partial. It removes the evil Certs from some browsers but not all. In particular not Firefox. However, it could be that there is yet another fix in the pipeline and that this is what the story is referring to.
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Samsung also got caught this month injecting ads into TV viewing. They only got caught because they screwed up the algorithm and injected ads into people's personal ad-free videos. And then samsung's genius engineers biffed again by sending the TV microphone pickups back to samsung (which is okay--that's what siri, alexa, cortana, and google do) but doing so unencrypted.
Obviously parasitic ad injection is the the single most lucrative way to earn money on the internet. Your doing it just like google does for nearly all its revenue, selling ads and harvesting click-thru data, but your doing it without the associated cost of attracting customers with a product. No wonder Lenovo wanted this action.
Oh man, you should see the bullshit it takes to hook up a YMF262 and YAC512 to an Arduino. It's not just programming the YMF, or even emulating the YAC512 interface (on both ends) so you can pass the audio stream through the ARM core and possibly out to a second Atmel or a DSP for processing or further synthesis (e.g. a SID or YM2612); to hook up any of these chips, you need multiple crystals, piles of capacitors, resistors, and then you need a strategy for matching clock on the interface pins.
I expect a hilarious amount of effort just to plan out how everything gets plugged together and gets its data across; and then a minimal amount of effort to create a SID/2A03/VC6 emulator on a separate hardware chip. I'd use a DSP for effects processing and SID/2A03/VC6 if I could; some of these things run at 1.2GHz with 64K of RAM. I doubt I'd have the IO to get that much data in/out of the main processor.
EMV is hacked not because EMV is theoretically secure but the implementations of it are botched. Predictable unpredictable numbers, transactions not testing cypher validity or the incrementing number are hacks in widespread use right now. The easiest hack of all is to move the card number from europe to any country that does not yet use EMV. all the EMV cards work in those countries by reverting to just mag stripe signature cards. yeah you could implement geo-locking but once again, they haven't done the implementation right. Chip and pin on ATM cards is also being exploited by card snatchers in false facia of ATM machines (they video your pin, then physically steal the card unlike the mag stripe which don't have to be physcially inserted all the way into the machine to work).
http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
