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>>96109
Do you really believe in Russia's innocence at this point or do you just want us to believe in it? An alignment with Russia will never happen.

gentle reminder that liberals are angry that Russia "rigged the election" by exposing how liberals rigged their elections

>>96122
Hmm, so you feel that an attack orchestrated by a hostile foreign nation is permissible because it hurts liberals? Be honest, are you an American citizen or are you a russophile living elsewhere?

>>95272
No one cares. They should try harder.

>>95281
>"Try harder"
I would love to see you as a cheetah trying to survive humanity's greediness.

>>95297
>animal can't adapt to other animal in the eco system
>"humans are especially bad tho :("

Kill yourself if we're so terrible then.

>While an outright repeal of the Volcker rule may not be possible, small but meaningful changes tucked into other legislation would still be a big win, they said.

>"I don't think there will be a big, ambitious rollback," said one big-bank lobbyist who was not authorized to discuss strategy publicly. "There will be four years of regulatory evolution."

>Proponents of the Volcker rule say lenders that benefit from government support like deposit insurance should not be gambling with their balance sheets. They also argue such proprietary bets worsened the crisis and drove greedy, unethical behavior across Wall Street.

>Bankers intend to counter that proprietary trading had little to do with the root causes of the crisis. They say Volcker is inherently flawed because it can be challenging to tell whether a trader is speculating or filling customer demand.

>As the industry begins a fresh lobbying push, watchdogs say they are worried about big banks going back to a casino-like past.

>"Wall Street is salivating at their reversal of fortune,” said Dennis Kelleher, CEO of Better Markets, which pushes for tighter financial regulation. “If you get to keep profits and stick taxpayers with the losses, why not?"

>Changing the rule through Congress would require 60 votes in the Senate, including support from at least eight Democrats. Lobbyists say they intend to court business-friendly Democrats like Joe Manchin in West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota, Joe Donnelly in Indiana, Jon Tester in Montana, and possibly Angus King in Maine.
...

>However, Senators on the left like Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders in Vermont, loud and frequent critics of Wall Street, could pressure anyone who supports a law that helps big banks.

>“It's dangerous to consider any effort to modify or repeal Volcker in isolation of a larger package of banking reforms,” said Mark Chorazak, who specializes in financial regulation at law firm Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP. “Even if there is strong support to amend, it may take a lot of time to play out.”

>In particular, banks want to reverse language in the final Volcker rule that assumes all trades are proprietary unless banks can prove otherwise, lobbying sources said.

>Banks also want to clarify language that instructs them to hold only enough securities to satisfy "reasonably expected near-term demand" from customers.

>In making arguments to roll back the rule, bankers and lobbyists plan to avoid talk of industry profits. Instead, they intend to lean on the idea that Volcker is reducing market liquidity, thereby hurting companies, investors and the economy.

>As Tom Quaadman, executive vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, put it in an interview, Volcker needs to change "so businesses can get started, grow, and create well-paying jobs."

why don't we have one bank that makes wild speculations and another that makes sensible investments and people can choose who to make a deposit with

related
http://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-calls-for-return-to-ecu-style-currency-after-frexit/

Thing about France is that a Frexit would probably make France's economic policy end up *more* leftist, which is opposite what Le Pen would want were she to somehow win election.

The EU is honestly the best hope France has for guaranteeing it won't just go full-out Marx-style socialist in the next 50 years. Remember just 5 years ago they were promising 90% taxes on the top income bracket in the final days of the presidential election?

That said, I don't think we know what Le Pen's economic rhetoric will ultimately be. She may learn from the other far-right parties and eschew principle for populism, promising 90% income taxes AND to deport all Muslims.

>>96951
>which is opposite what Le Pen would want were she to somehow win election

Economically the FN are on the left.

Some might argue that a DDoS attack is no more a hack than kicking a door down is picking a lock.

DDoS refers to “distributed denial of service.” It overwhelms a site (or network node) with traffic from multiple sources. So much traffic that the site becomes unavailable to legitimate visitors, but a DDoS attack does nothing to the site itself (besides potentially running through its hosting budget). Once a DDoS attack is over, the site is there, same as ever, undamaged.

Bruce Schneier described a DDoS attack in real world terms this way: imagine a bunch of people called every delivery service in town at once and asked them all to deliver something to your house. Your house is fine, but no one can get to it because the roads around it are clogged.

In that sense, DDoS attacks don’t really “hack” the target site. There’s a lot of ways to construct a DDoS system, though, and that’s where the cleverness comes into play.

These days, DDoS systems do rely on hacking their weapons, which are compromised devices connected to the internet (such as routers, printers, TVs and etc). Ironically, security cameras are probably the most dangerous. Consumers buy smart home gadgets, never change the factory username and password and that leaves them vulnerable to remote access by criminal software.

The software finds these devices, puts some code on them and then directs them to send requests to specific IP addresses when an attack is on. The user of the device probably won’t notice. A request from any one device wouldn’t be enough to impact a site, either, but when it gets multiplied into the hundreds of thousands it can be enough to shut a site down.

This method is called a “botnet.” Your baby monitor or smart refrigerator could be contributing to botnet attacks and you would have no idea.

We previously reported on three strategies for beating botnets.

Who hit the Drudge Report?

This is basically an impossible question to answer, such is the aggravating nature of a distributed attack. Hackers make attributing the attacker more difficult by open sourcing their software. The Mirai botnet, for example, which took the internet infrastructure service Dyn offline in October, is open source. Setting up a botnet is not trivial, but the code’s availability means there is more than a few adversaries out there who can use the software.

The attack on the site appears to have been short based on the reporting. IB Times wrote that it started around 7 PM. The Washington Times checked at 8:30 PM and it was back up, so it couldn’t have been longer than 90 minutes.

“There are DDoS for hire sites that will launch hundreds of gigabits of attack traffic at a site and charge on a per-minute basis,” Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, a company that helps sites mitigate against DDoS attacks, wrote in an email. “The cost of these services is relatively low, likely well less than $1,000 for a 90-minute attack.” The Drudge Report is not a Cloudflare customer.

If we did know more about the nature of the attack, the sophistication of the adversary could indicate something about its identity.

“The number of actors who can perpetrate the most advanced attacks are still fairly limited,” Andy Yen, co-founder of Protonmail, told the Observer in an email. “Generally, the sophistication of the attack is a good indicator, for example, what are the attack vectors, how many networking points are being hit simultaneously, and how quickly the attackers are able to counteract defensive measures.”

Protonmail provides encrypted email services. It’s unspyable communication system has put a target on its back. In 2015, it got hit by a two-for-one DDoS attack, as the Observer reported. Yen explained that the company knew the larger of the two hits was bad when it became clear that its attackers were hitting multiple

European nodes in order to make it more difficult for the service to route traffic around it. That kind of sophistication indicated that it was attributable to something more sophisticated than a cyber gang, perhaps even a nation-state.

Will DDoS attacks get worse?

It looks that way, but not everyone agrees.

Verisign just released a report that said that the number of attacks have been going down, even as their size had increased. Verisign customers saw vastly larger attacks this year over last, but the attacks have also shrunk as the year went on. The report only goes through the third quarter of last year, falling just short of the time period that included the epic attacks on Krebs and Dyn; however, Verisign did observe a record setting attack on one of its customers during that time period.

There’s little market incentive to fix the problem, as Schneier explained on his blog. A consumer buys a connected nanny cam. He checks it on his phone every now and then. It seems to work. He’s happy. Its manufacturer has already been paid. It’s happy. Meanwhile, it’s sending out one of millions of pings to some site under attack. The victim of the attack was not involved in this transaction at all.

More cybercriminals get into the DDoS as a Service business every day, while governments and hardware makers dawdle. The Merkle reports that the line of business is only becoming more profitable. In fact, veterans are making money not by running attacks but by getting paid by other attackers to help them get started, as The Merkle reported.

With the Mirai source code open sourced and its effectiveness proven, more people looking for a quick buck are getting into it. With more players in the market, the price will go down. Pros will start modifying the Mirai and other code bases and it will evolve. In fact, Imperva has already detected a new 650Gbps botnet cannon whose signature differs from Mirai.

Is this article made up or did this lady seriously call the news because her kid ordered some shit off Amazon?

>>96745
You'd be surprised what people contact the news over. This is just harmless fluff. Nothing bad about it, and nothing that good.

>>96745
>Parents don't realise new technology is incompatible with children, because it's not obvious
>Learn a lesson the hard way. Not too hard for them luckily
>Turn parental control on. Now will check for parental options whenever available
Now the important step :
>Maybe this could help other parents realise there are fucking parental control options on everything that connects to the internet for a fucking obvious reason
>Call fauxnews, the only channel that THINK ABOUT OUR CHILDREN, tell them to tell parents everywhere that screaming "the internet is dangerous" is pretty much useless since all it did since the 90's is making parental control available. Now parents have to turn it on.

There is yet another step, useless this one :
>Sharing it on 4chan, a site that, by its mere existence, is a reason for parental control.

The work also indicates that 9 to 10 percent of the world population may be underfat. "While we think of the condition of underfat as being due to starvation, those worldwide numbers are dropping rapidly. However, an aging population, an increase in chronic disease and a rising number of excessive exercisers or those with anorexia athletica, are adding to the number of non-starving underfat individuals," he explains.

This leaves as little as 14 percent of the world's population with normal body-fat percentage, shows the analysis.

"This is a global concern because of its strong association with rising chronic disease and climbing healthcare costs, affecting people of all ages and incomes," concludes Maffetone.

The study brings to light that new terminology—overfat—is important to replace the old notions of 'overweight' and 'obese'. While it is estimated that up to 49 percent of the world's population, or 3.5 billion people, are obese or overweight, the well-documented obesity epidemic may merely be the tip of the overfat iceberg, state the authors.

The term overfat, as opposed to obesity and overweight, may be more helpful moving forward in addressing this global health problem. "Better, more descriptive terminology tends to have downstream positive effects on

Summary major points of the work:

The distinction between 'overweight' and 'overfat.'
This is the first effort to globally quantify those who are overfat versus overweight or obese.
The traditional body-mass index (BMI) measures weight and height, but is not a direct measure of body fat.
Waist circumference may be a more practical solution than the bathroom scale for clinical identification of metabolic health issues.
Better terminology may lead to better awareness of overfat risks, and help healthcare professionals, public health officials and the public more easily address these problems.

It's ok, the international famines caused by global warming will cancel it out.

>>96653
Genetically modified food will cancel out the famine only hippies who insist on non GMO "Organic" foods will suffer.

The team then trained the machine learning algorithm with around 15,000 bat calls from seven adult females, each categorised using information gleaned from the video footage, before testing the system’s accuracy.

The results revealed that, based only on the frequencies within the bats’ calls, the algorithm correctly identified the bat making the call around 71% of the time, and what the animals were squabbling about around 61% of the time. The system was also able to identify, although with less accuracy, who the call was aimed at and predict the fallout of the disagreement, revealing whether the bats would part or not, and if so, which bat would leave.

The differences between the calls were nuanced. “What we find is there are certain pitch differences that characterise the different categories - but it is not as if you can say mating [calls] are high vocalisations and eating are low,” said Yovel.

The results, he says, reveals that even everyday calls are rich in information. “We have shown that a big bulk of bat vocalisations that previously were thought to all mean the same thing, something like ‘get out of here!’ actually contain a lot of information,” said Yovel, adding that analysing further aspects of the bats’ calls, such as their patterns and stresses, could reveal even more detail encoded in the squeaks.

Kate Jones, professor of ecology and biodiversity at University College, London described the findings as exciting. “It is like a Rosetta stone to getting into [the bats’] social behaviours,” she said of the team’s approach. “I really like the fact that they have managed to decode some of this vocalisation and there is much more information in these signals than we thought.”

With the approach based on the social sounds made between bats, Jones says the technique could be used to shed light on how other species of animals communicate.

“It could be that you could apply the same type of techniques to other species to figure out what they mean when they are interacting with each other,” she said. “So it could be that it opens up a different world of understanding what these communications are.”

To think that I learned of this on 4chan. Thanks, anon.

Finland is doing this too
>>96777

Till sometime back only 1% of Indians paid taxe's,
with demonitization there are many more Indians paying taxes now.
But this is still a long shot.
Digital economy which the govt is planning for should be higher in priority imho.

>The fur of a sable, a small, minklike mammal native to Siberia and other cold places, fetches high prices, Mr. Basso said, adding, “It’s very lightweight and very warm and extremely luxurious, and that’s really the key.”

>Mr. Georgiades said he did not recognize the men in the video, but he was sure of one thing: “They know a lot about furs.”

>Detectives from the 19th Precinct on the Upper East Side are leading the investigation, a police spokesman said.

>More than 20 pieces were stolen, Mr. Georgiades said. The store is still tallying its losses.

>Mr. Basso, 62, who has been a furrier to the famous for decades, said he had never been burglarized before. He moved his operation to its current four-story location in 2013 after diversifying into other merchandise, but fur remains his claim to fame.

>Mr. Basso told The New York Post the theft “could be the largest fur heist in the City of New York.” While there was no way to confirm that, it certainly seems to be one of the bigger ones.

>In 1991, charges were filed against a four-member team in the gunpoint robbery of hundreds of furs, worth at least $1 million, over the course of months. The thefts forced some underinsured Manhattan furriers out of business.

>In 1950, when there was a fur-manufacturing section of the garment district, two fur-company executives and a driver for another company were charged in a scheme that diverted more than $1 million in furs, worth $10 million in today’s dollars, to the executives’ company.

>At the Basso store, Mr. Georgiades said he had seen a suspicious character not too long ago and now wondered if the man had been looking over the store.

>“I have an idea of a guy who came in and scoped the place,” he said.

bump for furries

>“I have an idea of a guy who came in and scoped the place,” he said.

inb4 He picks out the first black man to visit his shop since Jay-Z was in town

>>94567
>Wolves feed mostly on game. Roe deer account for just over half of the wolf’s diet, followed by red deer and wild boar.
Interesting article, OP. Today you were not a faggot. I wonder what positive effects the wolves have had on the populations of these wild boar mentioned, which can be pests.

>>94567

Gas the wolves, species war NOW

>>94567
On one hand, it's kinda neat that wolves are comning back to europe.
On the other hand, I walk/bike through kilometers of forest most mornings and evenings, wouldn't really want to meet a pack of wolves during that, only meet deer and rabbits atm.

>>96397

It's because the Israeli investigators are anti-Semitic.
**OY VEY, RIGHT IN THE SHEKELS**

Netanyahu strongly believes in upholding jewish traditions.

Isn't it cute how /pol/cucks LOVE Jewsreal now?? Even though all their theories fall apart without AIPAC..

It's a shade disconcerting that Trump's tweet was "it's not the right time for this" rather than "this is a terrible idea".

>>96755

There's already a thread for this: >>96447

>>96735
He's alive and well and giving Sean Hannity material for his talking points.

>>96735
he's holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy and his only significant hope for freedom is Trump granting him a presidential pardon.

>>96739
Nice to know Trump has that power.

Do you think he will pardon Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning too?

>>95426
We need to get rid of minimum wage. The market will give these "people" the wages they deserve.

Come to think of it, get rid of welfare, medicaid, and any other program the government uses to prop up failures and then let natural selection take care of the rest.

If you can't afford to pay your employees, you can't afford to run a business.

>>96024
Providing a product cheaper than your competitors is the name of the game.
I just can't figure out why raising the min wage affects this.

It seems that the only thing it affects is bottom line growth, and what the highest paid employees make.

On one hand, I don't want to pay 2.75 for a bottle of coke. On the other hand, I would like to make more. Unfortunately for my wage increase, I don't make minimum wage, so guess which side this puts me on?

In fact, I make 16 an hour. If the min wage gets raised, my wage stays the same, but I still have to pay increased prices. Once again, I'm getting fucked for doing better than a large portion of Americans.