Psovke sludele superkompjuter

Tehičari IBM-a morali su nedavno da obrišu deo memorije superkompjutera Watson jer nisu znali kako da zaustave njegovo psovanje.

Iako je pobeđivao ljude u kvizovima, pristojnost mu nije jača vrlina. Inženjeri su Watsona učili brojnim informacijama, koristeći za to Wikipediju, ali i druge enciklopedije. Uz to, zapamtio je i ceo rečnik sa Urban Dictionary stranice, koja predstavlja veliku baza modernog žargona engleskog jezika, sa brojnim psovkama i uvredama, neprimerenim pristojnom robotu.

Ali Watson nije mogao da savlada finese pristojnog razgovora pa je počeo da koristi psovke, a na pitanja je odgovarao sa “sra*e”. Na kraju su tehničari odlučili da obrišu deo podataka u vezi sa pogrdnim rečima.

Zanimljivo je da je moćnog superkompjutera svojevremeno zbunila i Srbija. Kada se nadmetao sa takmičarima u jednom kvizu znanja, na pitanje koja je jedina država nastala raspadom Jugoslavije već članica EU, Watson je odgovorio – Srbija!

Detropia

A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.

Prejak dokumentarac, no dežurnim katastrofičarima ne bih preporučio da na osnovu njega izvlače zaključke o propasti Amerike, jer dok je Detroit bio na vrhuncu, jedan Palo Alto ili Cupertino bješe komadić pustinje.

Jednostavno pregledajte ovo kao priču o jednom gradu.

Petnaestogodišnji dečak koji je osumnjičen da je u subotu uveče u američkoj državi Novi Meksiko vatrenim oružjem ubio svoje roditelje, dve sestre i brata je u pritvoru i policija pokušava da utvrdi šta je bio motiv tog petostrukog ubistva, saopšteno je danas.

Osumnjičeni za ubistvo i zlostavljanje dece sa smrtnim ishodom je uhapšen juče zbog pucnjave u centru grada Albukerki, kada je ubijeno pet osoba, čiji je identitet utvrđen kasno sinoć.

Prema saopštenju policije, žrtve su Greg Griego (51), njegova žena Sara (40), njihov devetogodošnji sin Zefanija, i ćerke Žael i Angelina stare pet tj. dve godine.

Pošto je osumnjičeni maloletan, policija nije navela njegovo ime, ali je saopšteno da je on sin Grega i Sare Griego.

Utvrđeno je da je na svaku žrtvu ispaljeno više metaka, a u kući u kojoj su ubijeni nađeno je nekoliko komada oružja, uključujući poluautomatsku pušku, čiji će vlasnik biti utvrđen istragom.

Detalji o istrazi biće saopšteni na konferenciji za novinare koja je zakazana za utorak ujutru.

Do petostukog ubistva došlo je tri dana pošto je američki predsednik Barak Obama najavio paket mera za veću kontrolu oružja.

Prije 60 godina oružje se ostavljalo na stražnjem sjedalu nezaključanog automobila. Nije bilo nikakvih ubojstava i klincima nije palo na pamet da ubijaju.

Software developer 'Bob' outsources own job to China and whiles away shifts on cat videos



Verizon's hunt for a mysterious hacker exposes 'top worker' at firm who let Chinese consultants log on to do his daily work.

When a routine security check by a US-based company showed someone was repeatedly logging on to their computer system from China, it naturally sent alarm bells ringing. Hackers were suspected and telecoms experts were called in.

The VPN logs showed him logged in from China, yet the employee is right there, sitting at his desk.

It was only after a thorough investigation that it was revealed that the culprit was not a hacker, but "Bob" (not his real name), an "inoffensive and quiet" family man and the company's top-performing programmer, who could be seen toiling at his desk day after day and staring diligently at his monitor.

When the company checked the web-browsing history, a typical ‘work day’ for Bob was: 9am, arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours, then watch cat videos.

For Bob had come up with the idea of outsourcing his own job — to China. So, while a Chinese consulting firm got on with the job he was paid to do, on less than one-fifth of his salary, he whiled away his working day surfing Reddit, eBay and Facebook.

The extraordinary story has been revealed by Andrew Valentine, senior investigator at US telecoms firm Verizon.

Verizon's risk team was called by the unnamed critical infrastructure company last year, "asking for our help in understanding some anomalous activity that they were witnessing in their VPN logs", wrote Valentine.

The company had begun to allow its software developers to occasionally work from home and so had set up "a fairly standard VPN [virtual private network] concentrator" to facilitate remote access. When its IT security department started actively monitoring logs being generated at the VPN in May 2012, "What they found startled and surprised them: an open and active VPN connection from Shenyang, China! As in, this connection was live when they discovered it," wrote Valentine.

What was more, the developer whose credentials were being used was sitting at his desk in the office.

"Plainly stated, the VPN logs showed him logged in from China, yet the employee is right there, sitting at his desk, staring into his monitor."

Verizon's investigators discovered "almost daily connections from Shenyang, and occasionally these connections spanned the entire workday".

The employee, whom Valentine calls Bob, was in his mid-40s, a "family man, inoffensive and quiet. Someone you wouldn't look twice at in an elevator."

But an examination of his workstation revealed hundreds of PDF invoices from a third party contractor/developer in Shenyang.

"As it turns out, Bob had simply outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm. Bob spent less than one-fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him."

When the company checked his web-browsing history, a typical "work day" for Bob was:

• 9am: Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours, watch cat videos
• 11.30am: Take lunch
• 1pm: eBay
• 2pm-ish: Facebook updates, LinkedIn
• 4.40pm-end of day: Update email to management
• 5pm: Go home.

The evidence, said Valentine, even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area.

"Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building," wrote Valentine.

Bob no longer works for the company.