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Comment Re:Welcome to corporate future (Score 2) 255

99.99999% of all stats on the internet are fake, especially if I disagree with them - Benjamin Franklin

Let us make it easy, here is the definition for hate speech:

Hate speech is a communication that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, especially in circumstances in which the communication is likely to provoke violence. It is an incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons defined in terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and the like. Hate speech can be any form of expression regarded as offensive to racial, ethnic and religious groups and other discrete minorities or to women.

Is it overly broad, yes. But there you go.

Comment Doesn't work (Score 0) 167

Here is the problem. Blowing up or melting items does not work. Just leaves smaller material in orbit. Solution would likely be either breaking up space junk and then bringing it down or ejecting it out. Both are fraught with problems, mainly with timing and making sure we don't make the problem worse. Of course, if you want to clear out the orbit really quick, just grind up an asteroid and toss the resulting pebbles and sand into a retrograde, slowly diminishing orbit. What satellites?

Comment Re:Must hackers be such dicks about this? (Score 3, Insightful) 270

Common sense at this level is why we need a score of 6 - Application of Common Sense. Point is spot on. When you are arrested, everything on your person, etc... is fair game. No need for a warrant to seize the laptop and such. Now, get the password is likely a court order.

Submission + - U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking (nytimes.com)

schwit1 writes: Speaking off the record, senior intelligence officials have told the New York Times, CNN, and other news agencies that North Korea was "centrally involved" in the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).

It is not known how the US government has determined that North Korea is the culprit, though it is known that the NSA has in the past penetrated North Korean computer systems.

Analysis of code shows it used knowledge of Sony's Windows network to spread and wreak havoc.

Previous analysis of the malware that brought down Sony Pictures' network showed that there were marked similarities to the tools used in last year's cyber-attack on South Korean media companies and the 2012 "Shamoon" attack on Saudi Aramco. While there was speculation that the "DarkSeoul" attack in South Korea was somehow connected to the North Korean regime, a firm link was never published.

Submission + - Google Proposes to Warn People About non-SSL web sites

mrspoonsi writes: The proposal was made by the Google developers working on the search firm's Chrome browser. The proposal to mark HTTP connections as non-secure was made in a message posted to the Chrome development website by Google engineers working on the firm's browser. If implemented, the developers wrote, the change would mean that a warning would pop-up when people visited a site that used only HTTP to notify them that such a connection "provides no data security". Currently only about 33% of websites use HTTPS, according to statistics gathered by the Trustworthy Internet Movement which monitors the way sites use more secure browsing technologies. In addition, since September Google has prioritised HTTPS sites in its search rankings.

Submission + - Magic Leap Hires Sci-Fi Writer Neal Stephenson as Chief Futurist (hacked.com)

giulioprisco writes: Magic Leap, a secretive Florida augmented reality startup that raised $542 million in October, hired renowned science fiction writer Neal Stephenson as its “Chief Futurist.” Stephenson offers hints at the company’s technology and philosophy: "Magic Leap is bringing physics, biology, code, and design together to build a system that is going to blow doors open for people who create things." According to the Magic Leap website, their Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal technology permits generating images indistinguishable from real objects.

Submission + - Over 9,000 PCs in Australia infected by TorrentLocker ransomware (cso.com.au)

River Tam writes: Cybercriminals behind the TorrenLocker malware may have earned as much as $585,000 over several months from 39,000 PC infections worldwide, of which over 9,000 were from Australia. If you're a Windows user in Australia who's had their files encrypted by hackers after visiting a bogus Australia Post website, chances are you were infected by TorrentLocker and may have contributed to the tens of thousands of dollars likely to have come from Australia due to this digital shakedown racket.

Comment Have tried everything (Score 2) 205

Hello everyone,

I have tried a bunch of ways. Trained the 'expert' users in the area on how to put in a better ticket. Sent tickets back to them because of lack of information. Judicious of cattle prods and a tack hammer... However, users will use what method is easiest to them, which tends to be:

  1. Calling someone they know directly
  2. Emailing someone they know directly
  3. Emailing the ticket capture email address with 'Call me'
  4. Calling the service desk
  5. Screaming at someone from IS in the hallway
  6. Emailing the ticket capture email address with a long email chain which tangentally mentions the issue somewhere in the middle
  7. Complaining to coworkers
  8. not doing anything
  9. Log into the ticket system and put in 'call me'

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