Its out of the box, there is no putting Music back on old platforms like radio and TV and controlling the releases like they used to.
Seems odd the music industry is fighting it.
Perhaps it shouldn't seem odd that the music industry is fighting this.
Back in the day, they didn't exactly sit around and do nothing when someone would let new music "out of the box" by ripping a CD or DVD and putting it out there for the masses to download for free...
Where is that space ship you came to planet Earth on?
NO ONE believes that kind of nonsense you are pushing. Indulging in expensive home improvements won't do squat for your home value. You will NEVER get that money back. So don't even go there and pretend you ever will.
You better personally enjoy what overpriced nonsense you put into your house because you aint getting that money back.
Having the most expensive house on the block is financial suicide if you view your house as an investment.
Speaking of overpriced nonsense, I don't personally enjoy paying Greed for my electricity. Costs are going to continue to rise for that utility, especially as improvements in efficient design drives consumption down. Greed has never been known to be kind or fair.
And when treating real estate wisely as a long-term investment (20+ years) instead of some kind of get-rich-quick scheme, it's usually never financial suicide no matter what you do to improve your home.
I don't understand how these people have money to spend on Amazon purchases in the first place. They're always whining about how they can't get jobs and have huge student loans to pay off their useless, private liberal arts college degrees. How are they doing all of this Amazon shopping? These days, I tend to order things once every 1-2 months at the most. I just don't get it.
(The US banking industry): "Well, they're already $50 - 75K in debt from college loans...what's another $5 - 10K? Sure, approve them for a credit card. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?"
Wait, you mean the app that allows Millennials to be as lazy as possible and have everything they ever want or need delivered right to their door in two (Prime) days or less is the most popular app?
...AFAICT, the threats are now ahead of the defenses and that's a real problem we don't have a solution for.
Common F. Sense has a solution; don't fucking use insecure shit you don't need.
I know this may come as a shock to gadget-addicted Millennials, but humans used to use these things called light switches to control a light bulb. They're pretty damn secure. Yes, I know this requires people to move more than a smartphone finger (and thus qualifies as hard labor for the do-it-for-me generation), but your doctor does recommend physical movement from time to time in order to maintain good health.
The site quoted me 33K for the roof and 7K for the battery, with 18K worth of electricity generated over 30 years and a 9K tax credit for a net cost of about 13K over thirty years.
I'm actually in the market for a roof replacement in the next two years, and I'm interested in solar. I have a small house. An asphalt roof replacement is less than four grand.
This offer is a complete non-starter for me.
Your $4K asphalt roof would likely last around 20 years before needing to be replaced, and add little value to your home.
The $13K net cost solar roof (which actually is far more comparable to tile vs. asphalt in longevity) is warrantied for 30 years, but would actually likely last around 50 years or more. Given increased costs to put a new asphalt roof every 20 years, you would likely be spending about the same on asphalt in a 60-year timeframe.
That's not including the additional value you would add to your home by having a solar roof, and also not calculating increases in electrical costs over the next half-century, and not including any tax credits you may qualify for.
Perhaps you should think about your "non-starter" a bit more. Costs for this tech are likely to decrease, but it's damn near justifying the cost today.
Oh, well then, I guess I'll just drop my pants, roll over onto my back, and invite them to violate my anus...or, instead, maybe I'll keep fighting, and encourage others to keep fighting, rather than being an abject coward like some people, who do just roll over and play dead? Know anyone like that, Geekmux??? If you do you really should tell them to show some backbone and fight for what's right. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Let's not allow evil to triumph, shall we?
Sometimes you have to fight for something for the sake of everyone, even if they don't understand what it is you're fighting for or why you're doing it.
I would agree 110% with you. Bot or not, the statement that was being repeated on the site was not false. Perhaps the frustrating part was the bot-writer realizing the only way the FCC site was going to get enough feedback to be forced to address was to automate it. Sadly, if we were to remove all of the automated bot-driven content, there is likely a pathetic amount of feedback being posted from actual citizens who care enough.
I suppose it's possible that someone is trying to invalidate any legitimate responses from the public on this subject by doing this.
I also suppose it's possible that some well-meaning idiot is doing it thinking they're helping the cause of Net Neutrality.
Either way they need to knock it the hell off. Stop attempting to subvert the will of the people.
In case you hadn't noticed, the will of the people is dead. The average citizen doesn't have a fucking clue what Net Neutrality is, nor do they give a shit enough to care.
It's the entire reason why it will ultimately be defeated by those who maintain Control.
I thought the idea was to detain people if they had already committed a crime, so I'm a little disturbed at the idea of holding them because you think they are likely to offend in future. If we are going to change the way we do these things, we will need to revamp our entire legal system (which I think would be a terrible mistake).
The terrible mistake would be assume we still have a legal system.
We don't. We have a justice system. BIG difference.
...and motorcycles, and baby strollers, and delivery people moving boxes, and letter carriers, and dogs, and cats, and children playing...
...which damn near all of these "issues" can be resolved with an under or overpass.
Also, there's a valid reason you don't find most of these issues near a freeway, because we're already smart enough to understand that certain thoroughfares are not well-suited and downright dangerous for such activity.
...is way to make drivers drive at the mandated speeds. Which, of course, humans won't do; you only have to look at how speed limits are obeyed to know that.
FTFY, to clarify that this solution is likely only achievable with autonomous solutions.
And once that happens, humans won't give a shit. They'll be too busy watching Netflix or sleeping in the backseat to care.
"The average user would use "123456"
Implying that the system administrator has no control over password content, which is utterly untrue. I would HOPE that any company removing or extending password resets would be doing that, if they aren't already. Where I work, passwords have to follow specific formatting and content rules and can't match old passwords (going back what I consider to be a ridiculous amount of time).
Sure, I'd prefer multi-factor authentication with dedicated security tokens as a fix to all of this, but short of that, employing users smart enough to remember a decent passphrase, and not write the damn thing down every time they are forced to change it would be a more valid solution than the shit NIST is now recommending, all because users are incapable of the burden of good security practice.
And password security settings are only as good as the management team that supports it. Years ago, I worked for a company where the CEO demanded he have no password (as in blank) when "authenticating", which essentially removed the ability to mandate minimum character lengths or complexity. He too, saw password requirements as "ridiculous."
When a user sees that someone wrote a nasty email to his boss on his behalf, he will *WANT* to change his password!
Give me a break. People that have had their fucking identity stolen don't even want to change their password, because "tinkerbell" has been the same password [special snowflake] has had since grade school.
We read about how bad passwords are often the root cause of many security issues today, and yet the "top 10" list of bad passwords hasn't really changed in decades.
This tends to highlight just how much the average user doesn't give a shit about practicing good security.
How about we make sure people have access to a basic level of education. Or take a more revolutionary step and realize that our education system does nothing to prepare citzens to function in the economy and needs a rethink.
Or perhaps we rethink what actually needs to be taught to a human in the future. Which may be not much in order to survive in a world thriving with AI and automation performing a lot of what humans used to do.
Teach a man to fish I believe is the old adage.
Teach a machine to fish, and watch it perform 24 hours a day to feed a man. Fish wheels have been around for over 100 years, and are still in use by Alaskans today. Work smarter, not harder I believe is the old adage.
Marketing fashion over function to the ignorant masses who love that shit.
So much for common sense design.
Sounds fine to me, what do the masses need a bunch of function for?
I keep asking myself that same question every time a new smartphone model is released, and we find the manufacturing marketeers decided that 4K capability was absolutely necessary on a 6" screen, along with 200 other battery-draining, privacy-sucking "functions" consumers never asked for.
Most of Kaspersky labs work out if the U.K. Anyway.
And 99% of Apple's business is apparently in Ireland, and manufactures out of China. Anyway.
But OMGZ DA RUSSIANS
Yes, perhaps you're right. I mean, why would we ever think the country that was one half of the Cold War for almost half a century would ever be capable of doing such a thing? (again) Sheesh, we're acting like Russian businesses are controlled and manipulated by some kind of communist dictator who uses murder as a form of manipulation. We should lighten up. I'm sure there's nothing to see here...
Either Kapersky labs is trustable or it is not. Is Russia a trusted player or we should assume all 'apps'/ programs of Russian origin are to be considered malware. So which is it?
If the world is not black and white, care to tell me why you want to treat this problem that way?
A single company being corrupt within a country isn't exactly some shit we've never heard of.
I would welcome management that was actually in tune with our password insanity. Some logins are 3 months, some never, and most have different sets of rules as to min or max length, characters, etc.
I have different logins/passwords for:
Windows
Linux
Travel
Payroll
Proxy
Training (forgot)
IM (forgot)
Our internal Facebook clone (forgot)
VPN
Internal cloud storage (forgot)
Building entry code
Laptop encryption
and a couple more (counted 14 total a while back, but now I forgot some).
Guess how many of those are good and strong and not following a clear pattern?
Sounds like what you should actually welcome is a password manager. I couldn't tell you any of my own passwords even under duress because I use a system where I don't have to remember any of my passwords (and could never do so, since they're obscenely complex and well beyond any recommended length). Two-factor protection is in front of that system, with a single complex passphrase to remember.
My previous position was in a company that had a 45 day password expiry policy. My password was only as complex as it had to be to fit the rule but wasn't very good.
My current position has a 6 month expiry. I use a much stronger password.
This is common sense to me.
LK
You use a much stronger password. The average user would use "123456" and never change it unless a system forced them to.
Understanding the behavior of the average user is common sense, especially when considering adapting this "new-and-improved" suggestion.
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Its out of the box, there is no putting Music back on old platforms like radio and TV and controlling the releases like they used to. Seems odd the music industry is fighting it.
Perhaps it shouldn't seem odd that the music industry is fighting this.
Back in the day, they didn't exactly sit around and do nothing when someone would let new music "out of the box" by ripping a CD or DVD and putting it out there for the masses to download for free...
Where is that space ship you came to planet Earth on?
NO ONE believes that kind of nonsense you are pushing. Indulging in expensive home improvements won't do squat for your home value. You will NEVER get that money back. So don't even go there and pretend you ever will.
You better personally enjoy what overpriced nonsense you put into your house because you aint getting that money back.
Having the most expensive house on the block is financial suicide if you view your house as an investment.
Speaking of overpriced nonsense, I don't personally enjoy paying Greed for my electricity. Costs are going to continue to rise for that utility, especially as improvements in efficient design drives consumption down. Greed has never been known to be kind or fair.
And when treating real estate wisely as a long-term investment (20+ years) instead of some kind of get-rich-quick scheme, it's usually never financial suicide no matter what you do to improve your home.
To each their own.
I don't understand how these people have money to spend on Amazon purchases in the first place. They're always whining about how they can't get jobs and have huge student loans to pay off their useless, private liberal arts college degrees. How are they doing all of this Amazon shopping? These days, I tend to order things once every 1-2 months at the most. I just don't get it.
(The US banking industry): "Well, they're already $50 - 75K in debt from college loans...what's another $5 - 10K? Sure, approve them for a credit card. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?"
Wait, you mean the app that allows Millennials to be as lazy as possible and have everything they ever want or need delivered right to their door in two (Prime) days or less is the most popular app?
Fucking color me surprised...
Since nobody is naming the affected cameras, and the researcher inexplicably folded and removed his list on March 16, 2017, here's is a list...
You know, perhaps it would have been easier to make a list of the devices not affected next time. Just sayin'...
...AFAICT, the threats are now ahead of the defenses and that's a real problem we don't have a solution for.
Common F. Sense has a solution; don't fucking use insecure shit you don't need.
I know this may come as a shock to gadget-addicted Millennials, but humans used to use these things called light switches to control a light bulb. They're pretty damn secure. Yes, I know this requires people to move more than a smartphone finger (and thus qualifies as hard labor for the do-it-for-me generation), but your doctor does recommend physical movement from time to time in order to maintain good health.
The site quoted me 33K for the roof and 7K for the battery, with 18K worth of electricity generated over 30 years and a 9K tax credit for a net cost of about 13K over thirty years.
I'm actually in the market for a roof replacement in the next two years, and I'm interested in solar. I have a small house. An asphalt roof replacement is less than four grand.
This offer is a complete non-starter for me.
Your $4K asphalt roof would likely last around 20 years before needing to be replaced, and add little value to your home.
The $13K net cost solar roof (which actually is far more comparable to tile vs. asphalt in longevity) is warrantied for 30 years, but would actually likely last around 50 years or more. Given increased costs to put a new asphalt roof every 20 years, you would likely be spending about the same on asphalt in a 60-year timeframe.
That's not including the additional value you would add to your home by having a solar roof, and also not calculating increases in electrical costs over the next half-century, and not including any tax credits you may qualify for.
Perhaps you should think about your "non-starter" a bit more. Costs for this tech are likely to decrease, but it's damn near justifying the cost today.
NASA to Buzz Aldrin: Whatever. You won't be going on it, Mr Did-it-second.
Out of a population of over seven billion humans, a total of twelve of them have walked on the moon.
First, second, or last, it's one of the most exclusive clubs in the history of mankind.
Oh, well then, I guess I'll just drop my pants, roll over onto my back, and invite them to violate my anus. ..or, instead, maybe I'll keep fighting, and encourage others to keep fighting, rather than being an abject coward like some people, who do just roll over and play dead? Know anyone like that, Geekmux??? If you do you really should tell them to show some backbone and fight for what's right. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Let's not allow evil to triumph, shall we?
Sometimes you have to fight for something for the sake of everyone, even if they don't understand what it is you're fighting for or why you're doing it.
I would agree 110% with you. Bot or not, the statement that was being repeated on the site was not false. Perhaps the frustrating part was the bot-writer realizing the only way the FCC site was going to get enough feedback to be forced to address was to automate it. Sadly, if we were to remove all of the automated bot-driven content, there is likely a pathetic amount of feedback being posted from actual citizens who care enough.
I suppose it's possible that someone is trying to invalidate any legitimate responses from the public on this subject by doing this. I also suppose it's possible that some well-meaning idiot is doing it thinking they're helping the cause of Net Neutrality. Either way they need to knock it the hell off. Stop attempting to subvert the will of the people.
In case you hadn't noticed, the will of the people is dead. The average citizen doesn't have a fucking clue what Net Neutrality is, nor do they give a shit enough to care.
It's the entire reason why it will ultimately be defeated by those who maintain Control.
I thought the idea was to detain people if they had already committed a crime, so I'm a little disturbed at the idea of holding them because you think they are likely to offend in future. If we are going to change the way we do these things, we will need to revamp our entire legal system (which I think would be a terrible mistake).
The terrible mistake would be assume we still have a legal system.
We don't. We have a justice system. BIG difference.
...which damn near all of these "issues" can be resolved with an under or overpass.
Also, there's a valid reason you don't find most of these issues near a freeway, because we're already smart enough to understand that certain thoroughfares are not well-suited and downright dangerous for such activity.
...is way to make drivers drive at the mandated speeds. Which, of course, humans won't do; you only have to look at how speed limits are obeyed to know that.
FTFY, to clarify that this solution is likely only achievable with autonomous solutions.
And once that happens, humans won't give a shit. They'll be too busy watching Netflix or sleeping in the backseat to care.
How is that not retarded?
Take a look at their bank accounts and other holdings.
Nothing like using religion to validate that Greed is Good.
Gee, isn't that refreshing...
"The average user would use "123456" Implying that the system administrator has no control over password content, which is utterly untrue. I would HOPE that any company removing or extending password resets would be doing that, if they aren't already. Where I work, passwords have to follow specific formatting and content rules and can't match old passwords (going back what I consider to be a ridiculous amount of time).
Sure, I'd prefer multi-factor authentication with dedicated security tokens as a fix to all of this, but short of that, employing users smart enough to remember a decent passphrase, and not write the damn thing down every time they are forced to change it would be a more valid solution than the shit NIST is now recommending, all because users are incapable of the burden of good security practice.
And password security settings are only as good as the management team that supports it. Years ago, I worked for a company where the CEO demanded he have no password (as in blank) when "authenticating", which essentially removed the ability to mandate minimum character lengths or complexity. He too, saw password requirements as "ridiculous."
When a user sees that someone wrote a nasty email to his boss on his behalf, he will *WANT* to change his password!
Give me a break. People that have had their fucking identity stolen don't even want to change their password, because "tinkerbell" has been the same password [special snowflake] has had since grade school.
We read about how bad passwords are often the root cause of many security issues today, and yet the "top 10" list of bad passwords hasn't really changed in decades.
This tends to highlight just how much the average user doesn't give a shit about practicing good security.
How about we make sure people have access to a basic level of education. Or take a more revolutionary step and realize that our education system does nothing to prepare citzens to function in the economy and needs a rethink.
Or perhaps we rethink what actually needs to be taught to a human in the future. Which may be not much in order to survive in a world thriving with AI and automation performing a lot of what humans used to do.
Teach a man to fish I believe is the old adage.
Teach a machine to fish, and watch it perform 24 hours a day to feed a man. Fish wheels have been around for over 100 years, and are still in use by Alaskans today. Work smarter, not harder I believe is the old adage.
Marketing fashion over function to the ignorant masses who love that shit.
So much for common sense design.
Sounds fine to me, what do the masses need a bunch of function for?
I keep asking myself that same question every time a new smartphone model is released, and we find the manufacturing marketeers decided that 4K capability was absolutely necessary on a 6" screen, along with 200 other battery-draining, privacy-sucking "functions" consumers never asked for.
Most of Kaspersky labs work out if the U.K. Anyway.
And 99% of Apple's business is apparently in Ireland, and manufactures out of China. Anyway.
But OMGZ DA RUSSIANS
Yes, perhaps you're right. I mean, why would we ever think the country that was one half of the Cold War for almost half a century would ever be capable of doing such a thing? (again) Sheesh, we're acting like Russian businesses are controlled and manipulated by some kind of communist dictator who uses murder as a form of manipulation. We should lighten up. I'm sure there's nothing to see here...
Anything less is a subversion of our democracy.
No, it's not. Democracy doesn't give a shit about comment forms on a website.
If Democracy doesn't give a shit, then perhaps they should stop hosting comment forms on their websites.
Either Kapersky labs is trustable or it is not. Is Russia a trusted player or we should assume all 'apps'/ programs of Russian origin are to be considered malware. So which is it?
If the world is not black and white, care to tell me why you want to treat this problem that way?
A single company being corrupt within a country isn't exactly some shit we've never heard of.
"The S8 is made almost entirely of glass, and has barely any top or bottom bezel, which is why the phone is marketed as having an "infinity screen."
An infinity screen.
You know what else goes to infinity these days? Marketing fashion over function to the ignorant masses who love that shit.
So much for common sense design.
I would welcome management that was actually in tune with our password insanity. Some logins are 3 months, some never, and most have different sets of rules as to min or max length, characters, etc.
I have different logins/passwords for: Windows Linux Travel Payroll Proxy Training (forgot) IM (forgot) Our internal Facebook clone (forgot) VPN Internal cloud storage (forgot) Building entry code Laptop encryption and a couple more (counted 14 total a while back, but now I forgot some).
Guess how many of those are good and strong and not following a clear pattern?
Sounds like what you should actually welcome is a password manager. I couldn't tell you any of my own passwords even under duress because I use a system where I don't have to remember any of my passwords (and could never do so, since they're obscenely complex and well beyond any recommended length). Two-factor protection is in front of that system, with a single complex passphrase to remember.
Makes life a hell of a lot easier.
My previous position was in a company that had a 45 day password expiry policy. My password was only as complex as it had to be to fit the rule but wasn't very good.
My current position has a 6 month expiry. I use a much stronger password.
This is common sense to me.
LK
You use a much stronger password. The average user would use "123456" and never change it unless a system forced them to.
Understanding the behavior of the average user is common sense, especially when considering adapting this "new-and-improved" suggestion.
"... this guideline was suggested because passwords should be changed when a user wants to change it...
Here let me tell you how often a user wants to change their password.
Never.
Oh wait, that's not quite right.
Fucking Never.
Perhaps NIST should learn to factor the security impact when they ASS-U-ME what users want to do.