Comment Re:Scary Stuff (Score 3, Informative) 106
Is this state actor level or just real good bad guys?
Yes.
Comment Re:Dominion Voting deleted SolarWinds reference (Score 2) 58
Christopher Krebs, first director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), was fired for failing to look. You couldn't have picked a better example of gov't not looking.
Not at all. He was dismissed because they looked, looked and looked but found no evidence of widespread fraud. He then reported as much. That report was inconsistent with what the POTUS wanted to hear.
Comment Re:Not sure "slaughterbots" would be worse (Score 1) 99
Theoretically, slaughterbots could be made to kill all men, or all women, or all children, or all people with a certain hair colour, or all people who posted disapproval of great leader X in a social network feed, or all people who pirated the latest release of TV-series Y, or everyone with a Slashdot ID over a million, and so on and so forth.
There's no end to what could trigger a cell/organisation/nation/whatever to strike with drones in that fashion.
That is one of the points the video tries to make.
The barrier to entry is soon so low and the tech is getting so advanced yet widely available that domestic drone strikes can soon be just another terrifying part part of our daily life.
There's no end to what could trigger a cell/organisation/nation/whatever to strike with drones in that fashion.
That is one of the points the video tries to make.
The barrier to entry is soon so low and the tech is getting so advanced yet widely available that domestic drone strikes can soon be just another terrifying part part of our daily life.
Comment The solution (Score 2) 73
Excerpt from an interview with a dev who knows how to deal with this problem:
Neo: Do you always look at it encoded?
Cypher: Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there’s way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. II don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you uh want a drink?
Neo: Do you always look at it encoded?
Cypher: Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there’s way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. II don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you uh want a drink?
Patent Troll Lawyer Sanctioned Over Extortion Tactics 147
An anonymous reader writes "For all the stories of patent trolls and copyright trolls, there haven't been too many stories of either being sanctioned for abusive or extortion-like practices... until now. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (one level below the Supreme Court) has approved over $600,000 in sanctions against a lawyer for a patent troll, saying that filing over a hundred lawsuits, each of which was followed up almost immediately with offers to settle at fees much cheaper than it would cost to fight, has the 'indicia of extortion.' Now if only judges started doing that more often."
Comment What about the US? (Score 4, Insightful) 1088
What about investigations into the crimes that US troops (among others) and people higher up in the chain of command have conducted?
Why do they never get put on trial and punished?
Naive to think that they ever will be perhaps, but still...
Why do they never get put on trial and punished?
Naive to think that they ever will be perhaps, but still...
Comment Re:Welcome to Obama's America (Score 1) 637
Instead, we just need to reestablish the base level of intelligence that we held for many years. From the 50s to 70s, things were pretty clear overall.
You want to go back to the type of society you had back in the days of, for example, Truman and Nixon? That almost got us a third world war.
Get a grip.
Comment Re:This is an excellent quiz. (Score 1) 618
That's not what this is about. I'm not american either, but I scored 100% correct by simply looking at the source:
If this was legitimate, why would they lie about the url?
Simple, they wouldn't.
See how the displayed url is different from the one it claims to be? That's how your can see it.onClick="MM_popupMsg('For the Phishing IQ Test, the Link has been disabled.')"
onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('ht tp://www.pmf.sc.gov.br/sadm/.USBank/');return document.MM_returnValue">https://www4.usbank.com/i nternetBanking/RequestRouter?requestCmdId=DisplayL oginPage</a></font></p>
If this was legitimate, why would they lie about the url?
Simple, they wouldn't.
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