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Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 36

If you try to find the flaws as a defender, you have already lost.

Non-sense! There are plenty of very well designed software packages built using defensive programming practices that still have security flaws. To claim you have already lost when using those measures is to claim that only code with years of tireless review like NASA's near flawless software is good enough.

Comment Good. (Score 3, Insightful) 36

Just because we lacked the resources to find software flaws didn't mean that there were never massive vulnerabilities just waiting to be discovered, it just means it required dedication to find them. The lack of investment in security is about to be laid bare for all to see. Those that are actually interested in making secure software now have the opportunity to get even closer to that goal. Everyone that has been doing (and continues to do) the bare minimum is about to get a lesson in the importance of investing in real security.

Good security is expensive but having bad security is about to cost a whole lot more.

Comment The problem is businesses. (Score 1) 131

The issue of daylight savings has largely been solved by shifting clocks a minute every day for sixty days. The obvious problem is that we didn't build our electronics based on the concept of variable lengths in the days. However, we could mandate that all new electronics either have a built-in calendar, have NTP capability, use celluar towers for synchronization, or not have a clock at all and at the end of a decade or two we could switch to a much healthier approach. However, it will never happen because of businesses like trains, airlines, financial markets, and international logistics rely on a synchronized timeline which means it would need to more than just a single nation that uses this scheme but the whole world.

TL;DR: it's just not lethal enough of a problem to get solved, especially when the money changers get involved.

Submission + - SGI IRIX Indigo Magic Desktop recreation with AI: Cyanotype Blueprint Desktop (niten.irix.expert)

MIPSPro writes: Someone has re-created the Indigo Magic Desktop for the SGI IRIX operating system as a rather large scale undertaking with dozens of applications and preferences straight out of 2006. It's a BSD licensed affair with an actual IRIX port and several other platforms including Solaris SPARC and x86_64 BSD and Linux systems. It's based on man custom extensions to MOTIF much like SGI's SGM libraries for notebook widgets and non-MOTIF goodies. It runs on many x11 platforms including Xorg and X11Libre as well as forthcoming ports to Tru64 Alpha, and AIX 6.1 on POWER4 or better, and HP-UX 11iv3 Integrity and PA-RISC HP-UX 11.31. There is also a Citrix clone "CyThrough" and a CalDAV desktop calendar, Sunbeam.

Submission + - This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose (sciencedaily.com) 1

fahrbot-bot writes: Science Daily has reported that scientists at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have identified a naturally occurring bacterium from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs (Dryophytes japonicus) that demonstrated remarkable anticancer activity in mice. The findings, published in Gut Microbes, introduce a new approach to cancer treatment that uses living bacteria to directly target tumors rather than simply altering the gut microbiome.

In a mouse model of colorectal cancer, a single intravenous dose of E. americana completely eliminated tumors, producing a 100% complete response (CR) rate. The researchers emphasize that these findings are limited to mice, but they believe the results provide an encouraging proof of concept for developing new bacterial cancer therapies.

First, E. americana directly attacks tumors. As a facultative anaerobic bacterium, it thrives in both oxygen rich and oxygen poor environments, allowing it to multiply inside the oxygen deprived regions commonly found within tumors. Once there, the bacterial population increased by roughly 3,000 fold within 24 hours after treatment, directly damaging cancer cells.

Second, the bacterium stimulates the immune system. Its presence attracted T cells, B cells, and neutrophils into tumors. These immune cells then released inflammatory signaling molecules, including TNF- and IFN-, which strengthened the immune response and promoted cancer cell death.

One of the most striking findings was that E. americana accumulated almost exclusively inside tumors and did not colonize healthy organs.

They found that the bacteria were rapidly cleared from the bloodstream, with a half life of approximately 1.2 hours, and became undetectable within 24 hours. No bacterial colonization was detected in healthy organs, including the liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, or heart.

The treatment caused only mild, temporary inflammation that returned to normal within 72 hours. During a 60 day observation period, the researchers found no evidence of chronic toxicity.

Comment Re:Does not make me like the IT guys (Score 1) 84

Based on what?

Talking to the guy who runs our phishing tests.

How could any rational person expect the individual contributor to get that right?

Sounds to me like a great reason to test, then. How many other bad actors know the Knicks won? Spear Phishing is one of the most effective forms. I bet everyone who failed it now has a healthy obsession with not clicking links. Obviously I don't know all the details, but generally when my company expects us to get emails from new external contacts we are made aware of them beforehand. Re-reading the summary, I have to say that yeah it's a bit of a dick move, though. Dangling something cool in front of employees who would were told they weren't getting it is pretty shitty.

Comment Similar to Elon Musk? (Score 1) 60

No one knows how many offspring Musk has. No one knows if has interacted with them all. It seems he has paid surrogates and IVF so he may have not even met some mothers or children.

Palmer Luckey is a creep just like Musk. It seems at least possible that some of his personal genetic material would make it into his uber-hound. And Kash Patel is good with FBI agents that may have involvement with bestiality.

I started thinking of this as a horrible joke, but I'm so weirded out now I'm wondering if it could end up being true.

Comment Re:Does not make me like the IT guys (Score 4, Insightful) 84

IT guys don't want you to like them, they want you to not click on links that you don't know what the link is. Hence the tests. I hate them too, but they serve a purpose. I don't picture them shouting "Gotcha!", I have to assume it's some variation of "What the actual ****??!?! I can't believe they actually clicked on that.".

Comment Re:Fines forgiven, free transport, $3,000, may ret (Score 1) 144

Trump Admin Faces Row as Unrepresented 1-Year-Old Faces Deportation

A 1-year-old child appeared without legal representation in an Arizona immigration court this week and was told to file an asylum application before the next hearing or risk being ordered deported.

Your pretense that the Trump regime is reasonable shows you are on the side of sadistic monsters. It's already known that many minors have "disappeared" in Border Patrol/ICE detention.

What's happened to them? Some of them have certainly ended up victims of child trafficking in both labor and sex slave situations. Given that Trump likes to fuck 13 year old girls, and Kash Patel is OK with FBI agents having sex with animals, it might be even worse then that.

Are you OK with this stuff? What the fuck is wrong with you? I think you have abandoned being a normal human being.

Comment Re:Fuck I hate how stupid they think we are (Score 2) 102

what did you trade for reliable access to electricity?

The ability to stargaze and an increased probability of burning down my house. How dare they take house burning away from me! It makes me so bad it makes me want to set something one fire... like a house! Wait... OK, so just stargazing.

Comment Re:The cutting edge cuts back. (Score 1) 101

Consoles are usually using out of date hardware by the time of their release.

"usually"? I think you mean post PS3 when they started making x86 based systems. Anyway, designing, testing, and coordinating the construction of millions of these takes time. So sure, "out of date" for children with no grasp of what goes into building hardware, but when the systems are designed, they are cutting edge.

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