Every day, you hear about security flaws, viruses, and evil hacker gangs that could leave you destitute — or, worse, bring your country to its knees. But what's the truth about these digital dangers? We asked computer security experts to separate the myths from the facts. Here's what they said.
Kingofthesofasmost peoples reaction after I start explaining our multiple CA chains we have at work that I helped build http://i.imgur.com/cb4Wx.gif
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Kingofthesofasfor Dan Jones, Riding used to always mess up my shoes.
KingofthesofasI have like three of these, best 10 dollar amazon knife ever. It is probably the sharpest best knife I have ever owned.
KingofthesofasI think that people don't realize how big a deal this is, literally with malware embedded in hard drive firmware there is no way to clean it off a computer. Heck the computer I am using right now could have it on it and I would never know and even if I did I could not clean it off without replacing the hard ware or running an open source hard drive firmware. I am building a secure VM on a flash drive that will run open source firmware and be fully encrypted to run my cryptocurrency and other activities I do for research.
Kingofthesofasnow baby food packets for adults!
Kingofthesofasindeed what he said, also that Sony owns the rights to the Beatles songs and the person that wrote them has to pay Sony a licensing fee if he wants to record his own songs.
KingofthesofasThe amount of information like this in my head right now is just staggering, it pretty much is my life.
Kingofthesofas10/10 going to buy this book, I cannot wait to start smoking some meats in the new house.
Kingofthesofasthis is not really surprising.... in other news I need to start hacking more hackers...
Somebody hacked the Lizard Squad's super stupid DDoS-for-hire service last week, and guess what? The Lizard Squad sucks at cybersecurity. Not only did the hackers leave their so-called LizardStresser service vulnerable, the money-hungry kids left all their customers' data in plain text and $11,000 in bitcoin on the table.
KingofthesofasRussians are buying as many BTC as they can because even as crazy as it is the Ruble is still 10 times worse right now.
You'd think that a collapsing rouble, plunging oil prices and with trade sanctions at every turn, Russia would have more important things to deal with than Bitcoin. That's why it's such a surprise to see the nation's equivalent of the FCC banning fiv...
Kingofthesofaswe shall call this child the chosen one who saved star wars
They say kids change everything. In George Lucas‘ case, his new child changed the fate of Star Wars.
Lucas is promoting his latest film, Strange Magic, and in the first interview about it the creator of A Galaxy Far, Far Away admitted his original plan was to make Star Wars Episode VII for May 2015, then sell the company. But when he and his eventual wife made plans to have a child, he knew making a new trilogy was too much. He sold the company, got married, and had a new child instead. Now, Lucas is excited because he can experience Star Wars in a way we all take for granted. Read the George Lucas Episode 7 quotes below.
The story came from USA Today. In their article, Lucas admitted he was developing the new trilogy, a fact backed up by interviews with Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher who said Lucas asked them about returning in the summer before Lucasfilm was sold to Disney. However, he realized three films meant probably ten years and decided he wanted to be a father. Disney just so happened to get in touch around that time and that was that:
It’s better for me to get out at the beginning of a new thing and I can just remove myself. The time is more important to me than the money.
Lucas sold the company in October 2012, got married in June 2013, and had a baby girl, Everest, in August 2014. Now he has plenty of time to spent with his family. One thing in particular he’s looking forward to is watching Star Wars like the fans do, something he’d never been able to do. Lucas said this to USA Today:
The only thing I really regret about Star Wars is the fact I never got to see it — I never got to be blown out of my seat when the ship came over the screen. The next one, I’ll be able to enjoy it like anybody else.
And, in case you don’t remember, Lucas wouldn’t even admit to seeing the trailer for The Force Awakens. So he’s really going all in on the theatrical experience.
Do you think things worked out for the best here?
The post George Lucas Wanted To Release ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Before Selling Lucasfilm appeared first on /Film.
Kingofthesofasthis makes me excited again
Kingofthesofasbecause... star wars
KingofthesofasGood Job American companies at encouraging them to do this again whenever they want.
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KingofthesofasChina has got some serious problems right now
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The Guardian's Oliver Wainwright reports on the miasmal atmosphere enveloping Beijing. Read the rest
Kingofthesofasseriously the delete from disk in vmware is a little too easy to click for a VM, I get a little scared everytime I use it. It is right next to the open in a new window which I use all the time haha.
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Kingofthesofasmore like the last 4 years
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Kingofthesofascool
This September, Airbus took to the skies to capture photos of five of its massive test and development A350–900s. The photo shoot was meant to celebrate the certification of the company’s latest twin-engine, wide-body jetliner.
It was also probably one of the most expensive photo shoots we’ve ever come across.
At a cool $300 million for each of the five A350–900s, the cost of the subjects alone totals $1.5 billion dollars. Initial capital aside though, the cost to actually perform the shoot is equally nauseating for us plebs.
According to information we dug up in the A350–900 specifications, just one of these flagship jetliners is capable of consuming 3,500 gallons of fuel per hour of flight time. Multiply that by $3.00 (the going price of jet fuel) and you have a price tag of just over $11,000.
That’s for only one plane though. There were five of them in this shoot, bringing the bill up to $55,000. Include the cost of preparation, pilots, the cost to fuel and operate the two chase planes, and you’re well on your way to a photo shoot that cost around $75,000 for operation alone.
These numbers are skewed a bit, considering the airliners aren’t full of passengers and we can’t know for sure how much the pilots and staff are being paid, but they’re probably not far off in a back-of-the-napkin math sort of way.
Don’t take our tallying the price tag as a sign of criticism though. The result… well… it speaks for itself.
Watching these quarter of a million-pound beasts effortlessly maneuver so close to one another and in such synchronization is mesmerizing. Throughout the six and a half minute BTS video, we see them pull off a handful of impressive formations, complete with the pilots’ reactions.
They might not be as agile as the Blue Angels, but we’d be wrong to say they aren’t as graceful. Press play and enjoy as over a billion dollars in machinery pulls off one heck of a photo shoot.
(via Fstoppers)
Kingofthesofasthis is pretty much what happens all the time with me and the software eng people
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Kingofthesofasmaybe we need to try this for little charlotte too
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Kingofthesofasliterally this happened last friday at 4:30 when the CSO kicked off a scan and brought the whole network down.
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Kingofthesofaspretty much sums why I was up till 3 am last night
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Kingofthesofasseriously Ted Cruz just when I thought you could not be any more corrupt and ignorant you go and do something like this.
KingofthesofasI need one of these also I thought "any anatomically possible pose" was funny
It's 40' long from nose to tail, is composed of 190 bones, is billed as "museum grade" and comes with an assembly crew that will stage it in any "anatomically possible" pose. His name is Stan.
KingofthesofasI kept wondering if people would sue over this.
KingofthesofasThey are going to have to have a......fire sale..... (•_•)
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Amazon’s financial results for the third financial quarter of 2014 didn’t do the company any favors when they were announced late last week; the retail giant posted a quarterly net loss of $437 million, up dramatically from last year’s 3Q loss of $41 million. The biggest single contributor to the bad news? Amazon’s Fire Phone.
We had mostly positive things to say about the Fire Phone when we reviewed it a few months back. We were especially impressed with the device’s "Firefly" feature, which quickly and (mostly) accurately recognizes things you point the phone at (and links you to the item's Amazon product page). However, in spite of this and other bits of whiz-bang wizardry, consumer adoption of the Fire Phone has lagged behind Amazon’s production of the device, and the company is now sitting on $83 million worth of unsold Fire Phone inventory.
Further, Amazon’s 3Q results included a $170 million write-down due to "Fire Phone inventory valuation and supplier commitment costs."
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