Been a minuet :-)
I love you baby.
I really do honey.
:-).
Random ramblings from an amateur rock-n-roll historian and critic,self-professed bourbon aficionado, blackberry growin', jam makin', sometime tie-die shirt makin', ex hippie wannabe, turned punk rock lovein', blues festival going, middle aged pudgy bald white guy who loves to wear Hawaiian shirts in the summertime and happens to be more Stax than Motown, more Alman Brothers than Skynard, more Stones than Beatles, more NASCAR than Baseball, more freeware than license keys...
Been a minuet :-)
I love you baby.
I really do honey.
If you're interested in this kinda stuff.
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It's theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn't agree.
"We must face reality: the Universe is not symmetric."
"The Universe could have been symmetric, but for some reason, it is not."
(Theism
/ˈTHēˌizəm/
noun
belief in the existence of a god or gods,
especially belief in one god
as creator
of the universe,
intervening in it
and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures.)
(This is the one that gets em right here:
Theism
/ˈTHēˌizəm/
noun
belief in the existence of a god or gods,
especially belief in one god
as creator
of the universe,
intervening in it
and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures.)
"...there are significant problems with adding in additional symmetries that are often glossed-over. For one, each of the new symmetries discussed here leads to the predictions of both new particles and new phenomena, none of which are borne out or validated by experiments."
(You mean you could actually:
"experiment and observe"?
Interesting concept Multiverse fans.)
"It’s easy to argue that these
“hints” of additional symmetries
were put there
by our own hopes,
imaginations, and biases,
not by a physical need for them."
(Hearing that multiverse fans?
Same thing.)
"And you must remember that,
despite what Max Tegmark says,
mathematics is not physics.
Mathematics offers options
to what physics
could
result in,
but only by observing the Universe
can you pick out
which mathematical possibility
has actual, physical relevance."
(One more time Multiverse fans.)
"The Universe is not symmetric,
and
the sooner we let
our measured Universe,
rather than our
theoretical prejudices,
be our guide,
the better off we’ll all be."
(Agreed 100%
You should know by know
what the audience is
that statement
is intended for :-).
And I love
I really do.
I know I have given him a hard time
but I really do like him.
kind of a big deal/
Microsoft says it hasn’t been able
to shake Russian state hackers
"Microsoft said Friday, March 8, 2024 it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data."
"A company spokesman would not characterize what source code was accessed and what capability the hackers gained to further compromise customer and Microsoft systems. Microsoft said Friday that the hackers stole “secrets” from email communications between the company and unspecified customers — cryptographic secrets such as passwords, certificates and authentication keys —and that it was reaching out to them “to assist in taking mitigating measures.”
(Good luck with that)
"Cloud-computing company Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed on Jan. 24 that it, too, was an SVR hacking victim and that it had been informed of the breach — by whom it would not say — two weeks earlier, coinciding with Microsoft’s discovery it had been hacked."
“The threat actor’s ongoing attack is characterized by a sustained, significant commitment of the threat actor’s resources, coordination, and focus,” Microsoft said Friday, adding that it could be using obtained data “to accumulate a picture of areas to attack and enhance its ability to do so.” Cybersecurity experts said Microsoft’s admission that the SVR hack had not been contained exposes the perils of the heavy reliance by government and business on the Redmond, Washington, company’s software monoculture — and the fact that so many of its customers are linked through its global cloud network."
“This has tremendous national security implications,” said Tom Kellermann of the cybersecurity firm Contrast Security. “The Russians can now leverage supply chain attacks against Microsoft’s customers.”
Amit Yoran, the CEO of Tenable, also issued a statement, expressing both alarm and dismay. He is among security professionals who find Microsoft overly secretive about its vulnerabilities and how it handles hacks.
“We should all be furious that this keeps happening,” Yoran said. “These breaches aren’t isolated from each other and Microsoft’s shady security practices and misleading statements purposely obfuscate the whole truth.”
"Microsoft said it had not yet determined whether the incident is likely to materially impact its finances. It also said the intrusion’s stubbornness “reflects what has become more broadly an unprecedented global threat landscape, especially in terms of sophisticated nation-state attacks.”
"The hackers, known as Cozy Bear, are the same hacking team behind the SolarWinds breach."
"When it initially announced the hack, Microsoft said the SVR unit broke into its corporate email system and accessed accounts of some senior executives as well as employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams. It would not say how many accounts were compromised."
"At the time, Microsoft said it was able to remove the hackers’ access from the compromised accounts on or about Jan. 13. But by then, they clearly had a foothold."
"It said they got in by compromising credentials on a “legacy” test account but never elaborated."
"Microsoft’s latest disclosure comes three months after a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule took effect that compels publicly traded companies to disclose breaches that could negatively impact their business."
Ive been saying it for years:
They
2 Turtles
1 Frog1 Crayfish
1 Salamander Tail