Re: Hacking ?
> Social engineering is hacking.
No. Social engineering is Social engineering.
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Ayn Rand was a neo-fascist
Downvoted from the incursion from the left-winger's pigpen.
Ayn Rand was not a good writer and crazy radical, but had all the normative ethics written down for analysis. She detested socialist leechers and failures, in particular the socialist failures resorting to violence, so how can she be "neo-fascist"? What does that even mean?
Hold on, are you trolling?
Correct. But it will also mean that more mechanisms for "plausible denability" will be put in place internally.
Of course, there are laws coming down the pipe (actually there already are) mandating full control & surveillance of all modifications to and consultations of data by company personnel or unwanted guests ... HOWEVER! While the employer must generate and keep the logs, he is not allowed to look at them, because that would be surveillance of the employee, which is a no-no. What do? Lawyers start to say that it is now impossible to be compliant to the law, so you have to take a risk approach even here ... reduce the risk of running afoul too hard and having to go to jail as opposed to handing over some cash from time to time.
The time of the small ICT company is coming quickly to an end I fear. Time to read books on how to make and sell sammich.
Well-meaning discussions, furrowing of brows and exhortations by the bureacracy, as well as new laws, shall improve data security, deter criminals and fend off Chinese hackers?
This is like believing that monetizing debt is a good idea or that printing money will make us wealthy and ease the depression in a jiffy. Who would believe that? Oh wait...
"During a 30-minute press conference, Euro bigwigs were grilled on what they were doing to end corporate espionage"
Yeah, with that kind of attitude we are on the right track. What *can* they do, Einsteins?
Yeah well, that STRONGLY depends on the SLA.
Does it stipulate that in case of wind-down operations, customers may have to pay to defray any running costs plus VAT, may have to wait weeks to exfil their data from servers that belong to HP and to which they have no physical access and generally be up shit creek without a paddle unless they have a second cloud on retainer? (An even then they will probably want to nuke their first cloud by wiping disks etc. but that is another matter still)
Can anyone verify?
Yes, the rules would be different.
If it were called "Space Marines ®"
If it's "Space Marines™" or just "Space Marines", it will just be "Fooock Ouuufff!".
A quick look.see at the USPTO (is there something like that for the UK)?
"SPACE MARINE" registered for "video computer games; computer software for playing games"
and
"SPACE MARINE" registered for " board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith."
both registered to
"GAMES WORKSHOP LIMITED CORPORATION UNITED KINGDOM Willow Road, Lenton Eastwood Nottingham NG7 2W5 UNITED KINGDOM"
as a TRADEMARK
Possibly.
The "U.N. Spacy" is of course the armed space of the UN in Macross.
Can't remember whether the grunts were called Spacies...
> photosynthesise through red light
Physically impossible due to Quantum Mechanics, it should.
But there are organisms that use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phycobilisome
in order to harvest bluish light that penetrates water and re-emit it a lower but more interesting frequencies, it seems. Any specialists?
Actually, I found this:
"However, purple bacteria perform photosynthesis with NIR radiation and produce no oxygen, and lichens do not have a strong red edge. Scientists still puzzle over why plants are green, because it seems this wastes the light where our Sun produces the most energy."
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kiang_01/
So it might work.
> I often wonder how effective and value for money all these BAe jobs are.
They just bring negative value to the economy.
> How much against that is the taxpayer subsidising that wage?
130% of course. The other 30% are for expensive swimming pools and mansions for the well-connected ones. Where do you think the money comes from. And you get for this... some unusable boondoggle. Not anything that would bring in the bacon in the future.
There are some really cool things in that regulation.
I also know for a fact that there was a kerfuffle about some section that would have made it hard for the US to hoover up stuff with a wink and nod. It was quietly dropped under the table at some point. Muah.
Anyway... I think I shall take up a law degree.... because:
Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority
"In the case of a personal data breach, the controller shall without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 24 hours after having become aware of it, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority. The notification to the supervisory authority shall be accompanied by a reasoned justification in cases where it is not made within 24 hours."
You have to have the lawyers all lined and on retainer PERMANENTLY for this to be even possible.
"The controller and the processor shall designate a data protection officer in any case where:
(a) the processing is carried out by a public authority or body; or
(b) the processing is carried out by an enterprise employing 250 persons or more; or
(c) the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing operations which, by virtue of their nature, their scope and/or their purposes, require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects.
The controller or processor shall designate the data protection officer on the basis of professional qualities and, in particular, expert knowledge of data protection law and practices and ability to fulfil the tasks referred to in Article 37. The necessary level of expert knowledge shall be determined in particular according to the data processing carried out and the protection required for the personal data processed by the controller or the processor."
Hehehehe.
Hmm. Node.js presumably works just great on big data for quick development and testing, right up until you actually have real big data coming in.
Node.js seems to follow where Erlang was a long time ago:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2206933/how-to-write-a-simple-webserver-in-erlang
Now, Erlang is a language that has no mutable datastructures and is thus a very long way away from the fears, trepidations and buggery engendered by C and their associated "spiky" { } - adorned offspring.
Webservers in Erlang run pretty well
So a good JavaScript framework and compiler might well succeed too. If you throw enough time and money at it.
P.S. There is not even a meme description for the Garma Zabi utterance "Don't laugh so laxatively". WTF?
Yes, yes,
But can we PULEASE absolutely INTERDICT the use of the ugly "Turing-complete" marketadjective.
It sounds more retarded than "cyber" and means even less. Once you have a WHILE loop and string concatenation (plus substringing and length maybe), you have an Universal Turing Machine. Great, so what.
I can only imagine this ... expression ... was born by people who initially thought that HTML was a "programming language".
IMHO, people typing that ... thing ... into textareas should automatically be presented with a strobing screen so that they get epilepsy and drop under the table. Maybe on can get the browser developers to integrate this idea.