hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
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hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
The US emits some strange message of equality, privacy, rights, freedom, justice, a shining beacon of hope...mixed in with secret police forces that operate with impunity. I think that is an incompatibility that will eventually need to be worked out.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
Eroding confidence in banking systems shouldn't be an American goal. Instead, protecting and securing those systems should be the goal.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on supported Windows platforms
It's unlikely the NSA would illegally infiltrate only one multinational corporate entity given the exposed operational success.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Shadow Brokers exploits are patched or inactive on supported Windows platforms
How absurd was Room 641A? Congress had to step in and grant retroactive immunity.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Why the Dow is a useless market index
I guess all the Dow futures and options traders should just pack up and go home? Dow trading is as useful as any index with volume in analyzing herd behavior. It's a far better prospect than analyzing any of it's individual components in isolation.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons
Regardless of the source, full disclosure works. Whomever is responsible for releasing this material is also improving computer security for everyone. Thank you.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons
I can assure you, practicality and job security have no place in the same sentence when discussing government work.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons
Obviously, Perl is the NSA top language choice due to it's built in support for obfuscation and job security.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
It used to be called mail merge. Now that there are so many abstractions layers, it's apparently best performance wise if you add a VM running inside a VM running inside a VM.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Why Were Economists as a Group as Useless Over 2010-2014 as Over 1929-1935?
Federal nutritional programs weren't available until 1932. Social Security Act passed in 1935. It's these programs that eliminated the starvation headlines in the US.
I agree it's not comparable -- many billions more people are negatively affected by the Great Recession simply because world population has grown so much since 1929.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Why Were Economists as a Group as Useless Over 2010-2014 as Over 1929-1935?
Poltifact's description of an environment where all students and retirees don't need to work is not only unlikely but unrealistic.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Why Were Economists as a Group as Useless Over 2010-2014 as Over 1929-1935?
I see your 42 million unemployed people in 1929 and raise you 100 million people not currently looking for work in 2017.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Why Were Economists as a Group as Useless Over 2010-2014 as Over 1929-1935?
A minor blip where millions lost their jobs, houses, and businesses...
The hard part about economic analysis is you can never know all the variables in a dynamic system. It's a common error to summarize based on variables convenient to the theme you choose to present only to later realize your analysis should have included some fairly obvious factors.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Nevertheless, She Coded
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Nevertheless, She Coded
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Nevertheless, She Coded
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Optane Memory – A bridge between DRAM and storage
I think it could extend battery time for large format tablets and car computers.
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Nevertheless, She Coded
hl5 | 9 years ago | on: Virtual machine escape fetches $100k at Pwn2Own hacking contest
I don't think I'd want to take credit for a hack like this. I imagine a few interesting phone calls are heading the researchers way.
The Swiss Banking Act of 1934 is an indicator of the magnitude of change that can occur when banking privacy is not respected.