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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
SOP usually begins with blacklisting the command and control servers these things attempt to communicate with. Once there's no control, the mitigation is practically half done. Boom, I'm smarter than three years of professionals hacking away at this.
That line explicitly says detecting attacks. Not mitigating them 6 months later after they've already leaked all your data. And there's a billion ways to establish hard to block P2P networks or exploit well known legitimate servers to relay any sort information you want. Someone who can make a chip like that certainly has the knowledge to implement them.
Step one: buy compromised server.
Step next: isolate server in analytics environment
Step then: capture all data emitted while under artificial.
Step ???: compare against identical test from server that's not compromised.
Step queue: do this for a while.
Step final: profit.You can't tell me nobody in the world can black-box reverse engineer a fucking chip.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Hot take: The goal of this is to get people political refugee status so they can flee legally to the US.
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Now, this is what I call an artistic :
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Canvas of Girl With Balloon passes through shredder in frame shortly after £1m sale
“The auction result will only propel this further and given the media attention this stunt has received, the lucky buyer would see a great return on the £1.02m they paid last night.
“This is now part of art history in its shredded state and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50% to its value, possibly as high as being worth £2m plus.”
I have some AudioQuest cables this lot could buy if they want...
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Doctors using group consultations said they had proved far more efficient at dealing with a host of heath complaints, including arthritis, diabetes, obesity and even treatment of erectile dysfunction.
Doctors at the Royal College of GPs’ annual conference yesterday said the groups were a “fun and efficient” way to carry out consultations with patients who shared the same conditions.
But patients’ groups said people would feel “incredibly uncomfortable” discussing personal matters with large groups of strangers, with one saying “you might as well tell the town crier”.
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Burlesque goes trans:
CRUISE passengers were stunned to find themselves joined by more than 1,300 men on a work trip who threw parties onboard with Playboy bunnies and burliest dancers, intimidating other guests.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Checks his calendar
Looks like 1 April is late this year.
Rather, due to the (in)efficiency in their processes, they're late.
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So, this is, of course, largely a cost-cutting measure as it will be recommended as the default. I get the distinct feeling that efficiency (as in, for the patient) was secondary goal and privacy a distant third place.
Plus, the examples they named were ... interesting. They state that this is intended for people suffering from the same conditions.
And then they name fricking rheuma - an illness so diverse it has 200 to 400 different variations which can lead to being diagnosed with it (if you don't know exactly what is ailing you, just say "rheuma" and call it a day). And even if you have two people with the exact same sub-diagnosis, the progression can be wildly different.
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@Rhywden Yeah, and then they name erectile dysfunction.
Also, by 4 posts
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@pie_flavor
You put the guy with ED in a shared session with 14 ladies suffering from nymphomania, and bam!
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor
You put the guy with ED in a shared session with 14 ladies suffering from nymphomania, and bam!*gets camera ready*
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
It's not an asteroid.
It's a death comet.
I hope that makes it slightly less dramatic for you.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor
You put the guy with ED in a shared session with 14 ladies suffering from nymphomania, and bam!*gets camera-ready*
You've missed an hyphen.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor
You put the guy with ED in a shared session with 14 ladies suffering from nymphomania, and bam!*gets camera-ready*
You've missed an hyphen.
Removing clothes is already part of the process the camera captures, camera must be ready first!
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
It's a death comet.
You could have described it as a flying death mountain.
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[A] software vulnerability gave outside developers access to private Google+ user data between 2015 and 2018. And an internal memo noted that while there wasn't any evidence of misuse on behalf of developers, there wasn't a way to know for sure whether any misuse took place.
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Sure, now there's a sign....
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Sure, now there's a sign....
Gosh, that sounds familiar... ah yes,
'd by...no, different story, different state.
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@ChaosTheEternal said in In other news today...:
[A] software vulnerability gave outside developers access to private Google+ user data between 2015 and 2018. And an internal memo noted that while there wasn't any evidence of misuse on behalf of developers, there wasn't a way to know for sure whether any misuse took place.
And:
The WSJ quoted an internal Google memo that said doing so would draw "immediate regulatory interest".
Regulatory interest is bad, mmmkay?
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@loopback0
So, she hired the unicorn for the purpose of bragging about how good of a mom and how much she spends on birthdays for her kid on facebook, as per the last bit of the article. I say she got what she deserved there. The kids birthday is for the kid, not for you to show off your money spending skillz to all your detractors on exhibitionistbook.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
Reading the article, they simulated a neural net that represented 1% of a brain. So simulating one second of human brain activity of a whole brain would take 100 times longer (assuming that it scaled linearly, which it probably wouldn't since the number of interconnecting neurons probably doesn't scale linearly).
And the brain also uses chemical signals, not just electrical. Apart from NNs being a pretty shitty representation of the brain.
So, the headline is pretty much wrong. A supercomputer was running a known invalid simplification of a brain for 40 minutes. Though, I guess some AI spin doctor is doing his job properly.
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@Carnage That's old news.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And the brain also uses chemical signals, not just electrical.
They're modelled as extra inputs with extremely long decay time constants. The numerics are a little tricky, but otherwise it's not hard at all to do.
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@pie_flavor That would be better with The Scream
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Dutch military intelligence service prevents cyber attack against OPCW. Four spies were sent home.
They're pretty decent at that. They caught some of the 2016 bullshit early.
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We haven't even had Halloween or Guy Fawkes, but it's apparently Christmas season already:
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@PJH the flavors sound more like April Fool's Day.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PJH the flavors sound more like April Fool's Day.
They're perfectly cromulent (UK) flavours for Christmas.
Just not for tea.
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@PJH My local Wal-Mart has had Christmas displays out for a few weeks already...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
It was a cow (or more likely a steer); it was never sentient. Alive, yes. Intelligent, somewhat. Sentient, no
Sentient, yes. Sapient, no
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Duct tape and threads keeping Götaälv-bridge safe
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Number 465,243 in our series of #FirstWorldProblems:
So if they won't accept a box, is there a law which requires the island to be on the map at all?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
AFAIK porn reigns supreme as the single largest use of bandwidth overall, so even being mentioned in the same breath as it is an achievement.
You can get porn on Netflix now?
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
You can get porn on Netflix now?
Rule 34(b) of the Internet: Everything you can find online, no matter how innocent or strange, is porn to somebody out there.
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@mott555 I know Orange Is The New Black has quite a lot of tits in it, especially in the first series
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Number 465,243 in our series of #FirstWorldProblems:
So if they won't accept a box, is there a law which requires the island to be on the map at all?
Madagascar and/or Tasmania are also missing from some of those.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
You can get porn on Netflix now?
That depends on your definition of porn.
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@anotherusername I know it when I see it
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Or maybe this should be in the Internet of Shit thread...
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Some NSFW content at the link.