Comment Re:NASA is the world leader in what? (Score 5, Insightful) 229
I can confidently say no NASA money was wasted on hookers and blow, in space. yet.
Money has never been wasted on hookers and blow. Spent, yes, but not wasted.
I can confidently say no NASA money was wasted on hookers and blow, in space. yet.
Money has never been wasted on hookers and blow. Spent, yes, but not wasted.
I say we take those rights away and let United Nations handle TLD's like...
The problem is that 'we' usually means 'somebody else'. And since the US isn't going to give that right away anytime soon, 'we' will need to have some teeth.
That, and if you think it's screwed up now, wait until the UN gets it. That'll be hilarious.
Who says they'd find out? All they'd know is that you used their software to open up a port.
They had pretty good control over that bad boy, and if activity happened that wasn't theirs I'd think they'd know.
If you can get someone else to do your dirty work without them realizing they're doing it, it's harder to trace back to you.
I get the deniability angle, but you can always deflect even if you did the dirty work.
For one, because if you're engaging in a "cyber attack" you wouldn't want someone else to have that much insight into what you're doing. Do you want the Eastern European thugs knowing how your stuff works? Worse, do you want to be dependent on their vector?
It makes more sense here to do it right than to piggyback. I'd also like to think that the agency that might have created these things can out-do a rag-tag bunch of European criminals.
50k to develop an app? How is that high, again?
Sounds like someone is unfamiliar with developing real budgets for real companies.
They let the market sort it out. I might not have been the best approach from a technical point of view, but from a capitalistic point of view it was fine.
Why? I'm all about the free-market love story where supply meets demand and they live happily ever after, but that doesn't describe the cell carrier industry. You have a market where there are at most...5 participants? In a mature market where the margins are about 2%, and the barrier to market entry is measured in many billions? The 'market' doesn't solve problems under those conditions because no new entrant can jump in.
I don't tend to be a huge fan of centrally planned economies either, but I think it's important to recognize situations where the 'free' market doesn't exist and won't solve your problems. In those cases, we might benefit from some sane regulations.
I just bought four SanDisk USB drives, in original packaging, at Costco. I had to clean them of junk before using them. They even had autorun files and some kind of installer. Send the guy an empty drive that's really empty. That's a real gift today.
That's an especially fun gift for computer security professional. Since they'll never believe the drive is actually *empty*, you've given them a fun game where they try to figure out how you hid the malware. Everybody wins.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.