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Everywhere needs to install and configure firewalls, maybe one configured to allow data through it for "users" but the firewall for the internal email support and access needs to be configured to block everything except the ports they actually must have to use and the internal network must be isolated from everyone's internet access network.
I doubt that India wants to become a police state, that's "becoming a western" state. I see India as having a religious view of the world, but the Indian attitude is much more complicated and covers far more of the universe than western and middle eastern religions which have "evolved" from world-wide religious views about three thousand years ago.
I believe in God, but I'm confident that God laughs when human opinions are discussed.
I see humanity as learning when it makes mistakes ... five million years ago, "Look at that idiot, he's just walking around on his feet and digging up potatoes, he's going to get eaten by a lion unless he starts to get back up in the tree!"
That's the joke but I'm currently reading a published science paper written about 20 years ago by a very highly respected doctor (deceased nowadays) and I'm seeing a number of errors which I suspect are due to his attempt to get some information from the company selling him the technology that he used to collect the data that the paper describes. The errors are basically just mistakes but unlike Wikipedia they can't be corrected now.
That's what we might think these days but we were just kids, 7 to 9 years old, probably thinking we were making toy cannons that "fired" to the back of the garden. We were being careful not to hold the bangers after they had been lit but it was England, so guns were not common.
As a kid (back in the late 50's) I always loved November 5th, it was so much fun to get a bag of bangers and then stick a pipe in the ground, light the banger and drop it down the pipe with a marble on top of it. I never thought that I might have been making a "gun" but these days? Back then my parents just thought I was smart inventing a way to play with fireworks while potatoes were being roasted in the bonfire so we could all have tasty fun.
Social media misinformation spamming is done for a lot of things that may have political influences but are not specifically political (e.g. Brexit vote) with the aim to disrupt our world now that the "Cold War" is over. Certainly it hasn't been a "win" for the foreign spamming fighters but we're definitely being affected. Spamming is not as bad for us as Bombing but it's not tremendously less effective.
So we are creating computers using lots of different materials and then we eventually have to throw them all away when a new operating system is released, how is this going to work for humanity over the next few thousand years? Where's all the material trash going?
Originally we started just picking up rocks and chipping them to make an axe, then throwing them away when we figured out how to put the little bits on the end of a branch to make a spear ... these days we're digging up tons of materials, using heat and chemicals to start to make new CPU's ... overall heating the planet a little more when the data gets larger and travels faster with a new computer needing more power before we upgrade and throw it away, needing more work and heat to build the new one.
Working around the US I see a lot of these issues in the countryside - certainly a higher speed would be good but I would much rather see a reliable access so that everyone has continuous access rather than fast intermittent access. Driving around with a phone in the countryside currently means you may have data service and then suddenly none until the next valley. When I visit then it's worth noting areas that I can drive into and check my email in case another area has virtually no service.
It's way out in the country so I'm simply working on it, not bitchin' about it - it's wonderful in the evening to see stars and occasionally even meteors ... something you can't ever see in the cities with high-speed access and street lights everywhere.
It was a Crypto payment so maybe Manivel just thought she'd finally made a good deal at the right time and thought that she should have put a couple of dozen more bitcoins in her pocket a few years earlier? A crypto event like this is impossible to diagnose in detail afterwards but it seems likely that she just got fooled - possibly so impressed that she just gave it away thinking, "LOL, I actually made some money - I didn't expect that!"
I'm not a eunuch in a harem; I don't have access to the Tesla code, I don't see Telsa vehicles driving around locally and I would not want to drive one myself. This issue sounds just like a relatively minor sensor data interpretation problem - driving a vehicle that has the Tesla environment is probably OK, but taking your hands off the wheel to munch down on a meal while driving down the road is meaning you assume that the software is perfect - I've been writing all sorts of software for years so it's not something that I would do.
I've never had any vehicle issues (touch wood) because I always drive assuming that every other driver on the road is an idiot - I know that's untrue but it's kept me safe.
Managers would make Engineers skip a test that was scheduled - certainly NASA has had problems but the Engineers have always learned how to fix them so that event like the Challenger have only happened once so far. I was standing outside my office in Florida waiting to see the Challenger rise (we could normally see them shoot up high from the other side of Florida) and I remember being so sad when I went back into the office and heard what had happened on the radio.
This is a typical example of how NASA engineers always do a great job, if they see a problem then they fix it, and then they verify that it's fixed, before just moving on and getting things going. What would the world be like today if NASA had built a phone called Voyager in 1977 that was still working?
"All that data is alleged to have been used during the USA's 2016 Presidential election, campaigners for Brexit, and by Russian misinformation operatives."
But all the politicians involved in these related events are still saying that there was no Russian misinformation because the election and voting was all completely valid choices by citizens in all Facebook influenced countries so will we be told that consumer lawsuits now Remainer lawsuits?
I see spam and malware emails that are sent to my email address but show the address name as being people I work with, friends on social media, and even my mothers name (she's 98 and does nothing with computers these days) ... so it suggests there is a dark database out there which gives people information about me and other people too.
The West was saying that it had won The Cold War and now everything has changed, it's just another side of Climate Change in a way ... effectively in both cases we saw a horrible event and then decided to do nothing, just make more money by playing differently.
We need to care for the entire world, not just a local event.
I am a vegetarian so I don't "Eat Meat" ... but I accept that all meat is basically just recycled vegetables and all vegetables are eventually recycled meat. So I don't eat meat but I accept that eating vegetables is just a little distant (seven feet and a few years) from most animals that walk around the Earth ...
This view has always influenced my diet ever since I was a kid and noticed that once I stopped eating meat, I was much happier walking to school through the farmer's herd of cows every day.
I've worked with Surgeons and the gait surgical environment for years now, I have a tremendous trust for Surgeons. The way things work most fields is that the Physical Therapists, Kinesiologists, and Doctors perform significant evaluation of the patients issues and work together to ask the Surgeon to try and fix the problems that they have documented - the patients are normally anesthetized before the Surgeons sees them much so talking with Surgeons doesn't happen much even if the surgery lasts 8 hours.
Basically everyone is working together to help the patient.
I have always found reading those papers to be very helpful, certainly these days it can be very difficult to get a copy of the paper but I now have a very large collection of papers that discuss fields that I work with. Public research must be public ... reading research papers is always very educational and helpful.
The Drug Cartels could be eliminated by simply applying the Prohibition U-turn that solved all of the problems in the US in 1933.
I think if the US and the UK were to sponsor moving all the chip manufacturing to Mexico then it would have the potential of a very big benefit to everyone involved and be profitable, generating a lot of technical and daily worker jobs - a factor that would boost both the Mexican economy and everyone's technical manufacturing. I wonder if a small U-turn, switching to Mexico (while remaining next-door to the EU) could start to solve the current mess.
We've seen congestion issues for years but the current solution is to privatize the organization, pay big bonuses to the people running the organization and then, when congestion becomes a problem, just flush the untreated issues into a river. Congestion issues are being solved everywhere in the UK nowadays in a very profitable manner but let's not go swimming.
If you believe that nothing is monitoring you then please book an appointment with a psychiatrist to help you avoid problems in the future... is that a joke or is it simply the way everything works these days? I'm not pissed about this, I'll have a beer and then stop in the loo before I leave the pub to eliminate any beer monitoring risks (OK, that's a joke).
Used to be so peaceful in space, now there's hot-rods all over the place. And old Lady Moon, in her silvery grace, now has these words tattooed on her face; Better get ready! It's coming soon! Look out pa! There's monkeys on the moon!
That's a Golden Record by Sopwith Camel ...
Which is not to say they take unnecessary risks, but when they do take them they don't make much of it.
We see the same thing in the USA, it's said to be so much safer in the US when everyone is walking around with a gun in their pocket. The other side is that when you learn to scuba drive you are told it's not dangerous - probably because you taught how to share the air bottle with anyone else with you who runs out.
All that's happening is that the attacks are being blocked, not stopped. So they are just going to become normal in the future - the current Internet design effectively "permits" this sort of thing because the Internet was setup to guarantee communications, not control them. So all we can do is try and block this sort of thing unless we work to replace the Internet with a new form of communication that is much harder to abuse. That would not be easy to do.
Go study the history of the solar system, how it was probably originally created and the events that likely happened, theories based on what we see floating around today, and influenced by what we can see elsewhere in our galaxy. There virtually no evidence that the current view of our solar system life is wrong.
I wonder if there is the potential to dig a deep hole down to allow a controllable amount of heat to to be released from the Earth's core to generate power? But the risk would be that eventually we might chill the core and cancel the magnetic field.
It looks like the wind, sea, and sunlight energy is the most efficient and would work well if we simply became much more efficient in our energy use.
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