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12121.
by api 10y ago
No conspiracy is needed. The whole thing is very unlikely, but if true I'd say the most probable actor would be a lone disgruntled employee or other nutbar with a gun. It would fall in alongside the epidemic of lone nut shootings over
12122.
by api 10y ago
I smell media sensationalism and click bait. I'm sure the possibility of sabotage or terrorism is being looked at as part of a larger failure tree, but I see no evidence it's a leading contender.
12123.
by api 10y ago
In my experience security is often not as good as people think it is in general, especially when large orgs are involved. Look into all the cases of anti nuke activists sneaking into nuke plants for example, or the endless cyber security co
12124.
by api 10y ago
Science is nuanced, complex, and always in progress. That does not and never has translated into the kind of simple dumbed down slogans and "war on ..." objectives that work in politics and public opinion influencing. Huge impedan
12125.
by api 10y ago
Why is this news? Any protocol can (usually trivially) be tunneled over http(s).
12126.
by api 10y ago
I wonder if someone should grey hat this and scan and kill vulnerable hardware.
12127.
by api 10y ago
I didn't say it was easy. I just have the impression that nobody is even really trying to do anything about it Internet-wide. Instead we just have protection as a service (Cloudflare, etc.) which provide protection but do not actually
12128.
by api 10y ago
The unfortunate and dangerous thing here is that nobody really has an incentive to fix this. The Internet doesn't belong to anyone. This really needs to be fixed at the national or international (IANA?) level by mandating the deploymen
12129.
by api 10y ago
We run a distributed network of PoPs in the cloud and get easily many times this, as well as massive ssh brute force attempts and other more bizarre forms of scan/attack. I sometimes look up the IPs and check them out and they are anci
12130.
by api 10y ago
IoT = Internet of Targets Something needs to be done about DDOS at the backbone and tier-1 level of the Internet or we are going to lose the public Internet.
12131.
by api 10y ago
I've seen American university CS grads wash out on FizzBuzz level questions at alarming levels as well so this is not exclusively a phenomenon with these backgrounds. How in the world are people making it through schools (with a MS!) w
12132.
by api 10y ago
What do they use for SDN or is it proprietary? My impression is that this is a major part of each large cloud provider's secret sauce.
12133.
by api 10y ago
Booting Windows 98 in Firefox on a smart phone is a real tangible reminder of how far things have come in my lifetime.
12134.
by api 10y ago
A major unanswered question I have is why this happened. Where did this collective insanity come from?
12135.
by api 10y ago
The really insane thing is this: we have never in all of human history been safer. Crime is at a 50 year low, and nearly everyone has health care. Not only that but more than two thirds of the population carries a location aware communicati
12136.
by api 10y ago
Nit: the contention that the world's leaders are shape shifting alien reptiles is an absurd conspiracy theory. This one is just extremely unlikely in the absence of direct evidence.
12137.
by api 10y ago
I found that puzzling too... doesn't this mean it was the same component , though perhaps failing in a different way? Sounds like that pressurization system needs to be taken out back and shot.
12138.
by api 10y ago
Is there actually any nation on Earth where powerful and/or connected people can't screw you over if they really want to and if you have no other powerful or connected people on your side? (and no money, etc.) The thing about th
12139.
by api 10y ago
I bet that hurt real bad.
12140.
by api 10y ago
Imagine walking around and conversing with a friend and a salesman is hanging just behind you, listening to everything you say, and interjecting carefully crafted comments and "advice" designed to modify your buying behavior in re
12141.
by api 10y ago
I don't see "second fiddle to iOS" as necessarily a terrible thing. OSX is a fine operating system. It's stable, strikes a great compromise between power, security, and ease of use, and is useful for pretty much anythi
12142.
by api 10y ago
I remember doing AI work in 2005-2007 (genetic programming and similar things) and one of the hardest thing back then was that good quality training data sets were really hard to come by. I can second the idea that data makes a huge diffe
12143.
by api 10y ago
"Freedom" and personal responsibility in America is largely a shibboleth-- an idea to which only empty homage is paid. In reality the USA is a highly regulated, conformist, and centrally planned society and has been since the days
12144.
by api 10y ago
That still happens.
12145.
by api 10y ago
Mortality rates in places like Africa are also much higher, and life spans are lower. The two seem inversely proportional.
12146.
by api 10y ago
That actually was done toward the tail end of the 1980s PC wars. The Commodore Amiga and several other machines could sport x86 add on boards that would let them run DOS apps natively. It would not be good for a laptop though, and that is a
12147.
by api 10y ago
A middle ground? No way! Heresy! Either we utterly demolish all social norms and structures and create a top-down designed society, or we enshrine all traditions as immutable for all eternity. Anything else is just a wishy-washy half measur
12148.
by api 10y ago
Once upon a time Facebook had less than 100 users.
12149.
by api 10y ago
Maybe he's just pandering to what he thinks is a 'base' he can mobilize. But that counts against him as far as I'm concerned.
12150.
by api 10y ago
That's precisely why he is "disruptive." I'm not personally a supporter (for unrelated reasons) but I think he still has a chance in the election. IMHO if Trump were to openly and directly attack the culture war (and dit

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