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Security experts have always assumed that ransomware hackers are in it for the ransom. But a shocking claim made by one ransomware agent suggests there may be another motive: corporate sabotage. 'Burning Chrome' was a documentary?
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If this is true....
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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should have contact to say so. paper proof
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Do you really believe that when they take a "contract" out on someone, they have a lawyer prepare the contract?!
Any corporate employee who was discovered making such arrangements would:
A. Be fired
B. Be liable to a lawsuit for damages on behalf of the victim(s)
C. Be subject to civil and criminal penalties
These days, I doubt anyone has that much loyalty to a corporation!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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there is people call white hacker
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Beginner Luck wrote: there is people call white hacker
True, but that usually means having someone attempt to test your security by attempting to break in. Hiring someone to break your competitor's security (to say nothing of sabotaging him) is illegal everywhere, AFAIK.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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There are some subtle differences between the revisions of the C standard that makes it possible to create programs that behaves differently depending on if they are compiled as C90, C99, or C11. Similarly, C++ is mostly a superset of C, but there are constructs that produce different results for C and C++. Yeah, don't do that.
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Helping out with a drug trafficking case, Yahoo was able to recover emails that had previously been deleted. Now a judge wants to know how this was possible. Backups?
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You would hope so.
And this business that they can retrieve deleted mail is so they don't have to for you and me all the time.
Can you imagine.
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AND (IsDeleted = 1 OR IsDeleted = 'y')
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It is in trash bin stupid
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Researchers at Arizona State University have created a brain-to-machine interface that humans can use to mentally control several robots at once. "My name is Legion, for we are many"
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I wonder how close the robots are to being able to control humans . Time to stock up on tinfoil.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: how close the robots are to being able to control humans
They already do; haven't you seen all those zombies standing around swiping their "smart"phones?
EDIT: Isn't Pokémon Go the next stage? It makes the human go to specific locations.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I am now imagining a scifi book/movie about a child, fitted with such an apparatus at birth, learning to control a flock of microdrones as naturally as his own appendages.
A disturbing thought, to be sure, but how far distant can such an experiment be?
(Of course, Marvel's already been-there-done-that, essentially.)
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Verizon and Yahoo are set to announce that they are striking an acquisition deal, according to sources close to the situation. The news is expected by Monday, although it could come earlier or later. Now we know who's next to be clueless about running Yahoo
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Verizon has been clueless in running a number of things now. That way, one could claim they're experienced enough to take on yahoo.
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What about their fantastic success with the Tumblr acquisition?...
[-- Yahoo posted a loss of $440 million on revenue of a little over $1.3 billion in the second quarter of this year. The large loss was mainly because of a $395 million write-off on account of the microblogging social network Tumblr, which Yahoo acquired in 2013 for over $1 billion. --]
(from computerworld.com article)
People inside the company were raving lunatics about that purchase..."We'll make trillions!!!"
Almost everyone outside the company was like...Tumblr? Really?
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Dan Neely wrote: Hasn't Yahoo's biggest problem for the last decade plus been that it's remained a web 1.0 company even as web 2.0 and mobile web have came and eaten its lunch.
Even worse - they buy up Web 2.0 companies (Flickr, Tumbler) and drag them back into Web 1.0. I had thought only Microsoft was capable of such regression.
TTFN - Kent
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I've seen a lot of diatribes from Flicker users/developers from the years after being acquired; but don't recall any about the latter. Did they actually actively screw anything up with Tumbler? I thought it was just a have-no-idea-how-to-make-money company sold for $$stupid$ (aka the same as 90% of startups at acquisition), and that after buying it Yahoo was never able to figure out how to get money back from their acquisition (aka 90% of former startups after acquisition).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 25-Jul-16 13:36pm.
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Yeah, I think that was most of the problem. There did seem to be some complaints[^] about letting it go stale though.
TTFN - Kent
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$44 bn in 2008 to $4.8 bn now, how bad isn't it?
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Those numbers aren't remotely comparable.
The MS bid was for the entire company including large holdings in yahoo.jp and Alibaba. Yahoo's current holdings in the former two are worth $36bn after cashing out on $9bn of Alibaba after the IPO (would've been worth more today if they held it; but since it could've also cratered cashing out on part of it was a reasonable move at the time). There're also a pile of misc patents that Verizon isn't buying that're expected to be sold separately; but the estimates I've seen for them is only a few hundred million.
On that basis alone even if MS managed to mismanage the rest of Yahoo to the point that it turned the lights off instead of selling it for several billion they'd've broken even on the deal; and since MS hasn't killed Hotmail/Outlook or Bing it's safe to assume that at least some of the classic Yahoo bits would've survived intact even in the otherwise worst case. If anything they'd've probably gotten some benefits from it; one of the reasons becoming a Bing wrapper hurt Yahoo was that while they were comparable in the US, elsewhere on the planet Bing was still badly behind the competition. Assimilating Yahoo.notUSA's search indexes would've given Bing a major boost in parts of the world where they needed it most.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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