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Comment Re:Why would anyone want a console? (Score 1) 126

by Dan541 (#60127808) Attached to: Your next gaming console is?

Because I don't have to manage it and wait for it to update.

Every time I play a game on PS4 I have to update PS4. Then I have to update the game. Even if I just bought the game, I have to update the game. And the update servers are slow.

I'm not having this one, at all.

I miss the pre-internet connected console era. Consoles used to be much better before they followed the PC fad of waiting for updates.

Submission + - NASA Hacked Because of Unauthorized Raspberry Pi Connected to Its Network (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A report published this week by the NASA Office of Inspector General reveals that in April 2018 hackers breached the agency's network and stole approximately 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. The point of entry was a Raspberry Pi device that was connected to the IT network of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) without authorization or going through the proper security review. NASA described the hackers as an "advanced persistent threat," a term generally used for nation-state hacking groups.

Submission + - Russian Hackers Allegedly Attempted To Breach the DNC After the 2018 Midterms (fortune.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Russian hackers attempted to breach Democratic National Committee email addresses in a spear-phishing campaign just after the 2018 midterms, according to a DNC court document filed Thursday night. “The content of these emails and their timestamps were consistent with a spear-phishing campaign that leading cybersecurity experts have tied to Russian intelligence,” reads the complaint. “Therefore, it is probable that Russian intelligence again attempted to unlawfully infiltrate DNC computers in November 2018.” The complaint [...] said there is no evidence that the attempted hack in Nov. 2018 was successful.

Spear-phishing campaigns involve sending emails that appear to be from a trusted source in order to gain confidential information. According to CNN, the emails in question appeared to have been sent from a State Department official and contained a PDF attachment that, if opened, would allow the hacker access to the recipient’s computer. The timing and content of these emails were consistent with the practices of the Russian hacking group known as Cozy Bear, one of the two groups that hacked the DNC prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. According to the cybersecurity firm FireEye, Cozy Bear attempted to hack over 20 entities in Nov. 2018, including clients in local government, transportation, defense, law enforcement, and military.

Submission + - How U.S. surveillance technology is propping up authoritarian regimes (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: From facial recognition software to GPS trackers to computer hacking tools to systems that monitor and redirect flows of Internet traffic, contemporary surveillance technologies enable “high levels of social control at a reasonable cost,” as Nicholas Wright puts it in Foreign Affairs. But these technologies don’t just aid and enable what Wright and other policy analysts have called “digital authoritarianism.” They also promote a sovereign and controlled model of the Internet, one characterized by frequent censorship, pervasive surveillance and tight control by the state. The United States could be a world leader in preventing the spread of this Internet model, but to do so, we must reevaluate the role U.S. companies play in contributing to it.

One way to address the spread of these tools head on is the use of export controls. Such policies have been in the news more than usual recently, not least because the Trump administration has pushed to tighten regulations on American export of emerging technologies such as the chips used in supercomputers that develop artificial intelligence. The administration’s proposed controls would place new limits on what kinds of technology can be sold and to whom. But when it comes to preventing export of surveillance technology to human rights abusers, the United States lags behind, particularly when it comes to Internet-based surveillance equipment.

Submission + - World's Oldest Periodic Table Chart Found In St Andrews (phys.org)

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An anonymous reader writes: A periodic table chart discovered at the University of St Andrews is thought to be the oldest in the world. The chart of elements, dating from 1885, was discovered in the University's School of Chemistry in 2014 by Dr. Alan Aitken during a clear out. The storage area was full of chemicals, equipment and laboratory paraphernalia that had accumulated since the opening of the chemistry department at its current location in 1968. Following months of clearing and sorting the various materials a stash of rolled up teaching charts was discovered. Within the collection was a large, extremely fragile periodic table that flaked upon handling. Suggestions that the discovery may be the earliest surviving example of a classroom periodic table in the world meant the document required urgent attention to be authenticated, repaired and restored.

Mendeleev made his famous disclosure on periodicity in 1869, the newly unearthed table was rather similar, but not identical to Mendeleev's second table of 1871. However, the St Andrews table was clearly an early specimen. The table is annotated in German, and an inscription at the bottom left – 'Verlag v. Lenoir & Forster, Wien'– identifies a scientific printer who operated in Vienna between 1875 and 1888. Another inscription – 'Lith. von Ant. Hartinger & Sohn, Wien' – identifies the chart's lithographer, who died in 1890. Working with the University's Special Collections team, the University sought advice from a series of international experts. Following further investigations, no earlier lecture chart of the table appears to exist. Professor Eric Scerri, an expert on the history of the periodic table based at the University of California, Los Angeles, dated the table to between 1879 and 1886 based on the represented elements. For example, both gallium and scandium, discovered in 1875 and 1879 respectively, are present, while germanium, discovered in 1886, is not.

Comment Re:U.S. only country really fighting climate chang (Score 1, Troll) 333

by Dan541 (#57332154) Attached to: US Congress Passes Bill To Help Advanced Nuclear Power

It's ironic that Trump is derided for leaving the Paris accord, when he's the only one taking actions to significantly improve the climate.

The end game for truly low emissions is solar + nuclear. No way you can get there with solar alone - and Trump's government is helping to push nuclear in ways that Obama (being of that old green school) simply would not allow, no matter how much of the planet dies as a result.

What makes you think environmentalism has anything to do with saving the environment?

Its all anti-corporatism pretending to care about a just cause.

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