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The Actuator – October 11th

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Are you excited about THWACKcamp, yet? It's next week, and I am flying down to Austin to be there for the live broadcast. Go here to register. Do it now!

As always, here are some links from the Intertubz that I hope will hold your interest. Enjoy!

It’s official: Data science proves Mondays are the worst

I like having data to back up what we already knew about Mondays.

The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions

A bit long, but worth the read. Many of these sins apply to predictions in general, as well as Sci-Fi writing.

Who should die when a driverless car crashes? Q&A ponders the future

I've thought and talked a lot about autonomous cars, but I’ve never once pondered what the car should do when faced with a decision about who should die, and who should live.

Traceroute Lies! A Typical Misinterpretation Of Output

Because I learned something new here and you might too: MPLS is as dumb as a stump.

Replacing Social Security Numbers Is Harder Than You Think

And they make for lousy primary keys, too.

Russia reportedly stole NSA secrets with help of Kaspersky—what we know now

I included this story even though it hasn't yet been confirmed because I wanted to remind everyone that there is at least one government agency that listens to the American people: the NSA.

History of the browser user-agent string

And you will read this, and there will be much rejoicing.

Shopping this past weekend I found these socks and now I realize that SolarWinds needs to up our sock game:

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  • There was no need for research to tell you that Mondays are BAD.  The Boomtown Rats told us why Mondays are bad years ago.

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    Sadly, the NSA views all traffic here, too. But at least we knew about that!

  • One big part of the problem you don't hear them talking about is that while installed the software will route a bunch of information across servers in Russia.  The backbone networks which traffic to these servers must traverse are known to be monitored by the FSB:

    Russian law requires telecommunications service providers such as Kaspersky Lab to install communications interception equipment that allows the FSB to monitor all of a company's data transmissions."

    Not that some of the same thing doesn't happen here in America as well with some of our tech companies.

  • I'd be interested in learning any more, if you have something approaching a concise summary, ecklerwr1​.  I realize it's not your responsibility, and that you're correct about there being much not getting publicized.  So don't feel singled out if you haven't more to share.

    It's one of those combinations of politics, security, business, profit/loss, human-frailties on Kaspersky's part, I bet.

  • There's a LOT more going on than you hear in the news I think.  This story has parts the public will never know.

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