As unprofessional as your answer. You obviously don't run your own business.
Part of running your business is getting your name out - and depending on your business that includes plastering it all over the Internet, listing yourself on as many trade related sites as possible, providing a forum for potential customers to contact you, etc. The more you become known, the better it is.
The web site owner's pov is not always the same as the web site user's pov. So not too hard a decision for a webmaster to use Facebook or Google for login, especially if those sites make it easy to use.
Exactly. I have to admit I haven't looked into it, but I'm really worried about the security implications. Many sites offer logging in by Open Id, Yahoo, Facebook, Google, and some more. On top of their own account. I'll always register a new account (usually easy enough) if I really want - too worried about such sites snooping my passwords. Plus of course the fact that Facebook has more than enough info about me already, no need to provide them even more.
Now I wouldn't call my Facebook account my kingdom - it's just one of the many web site accounts that I have in that respect, and I'm not about to use the login credentials of one site to login to another site.
5. Photography and Videography as a profession are pretty well toast. When a fucking phone takes better video than a $100,000 camera did 30 years ago, the Gig Is Up. Content creation is trivial and a short ride to the poor house, unless you move to LA and suck enough dick to get into the film industry.
Content creation is trivial; good content creation just as hard as it was 50 years ago.
6. If you will notice most of the most famous and popular photographs of the past year were taken by amateurs on crap gear.
Many of which are lucky shots. And with a million amateur shots to every professional shot, the amateurs do have an advantage to get lucky and catch that unique moment just because they happen to be there.
I think he was expecting physical violence the moment he decided to take out that tazer. Which means that that is a good moment to take out the tazer, as physical violence is about to escalate.
Some protester is sitting on the ground, blocking traffic, and police demand him to get up and leave. Protester refuses, and simply sits there, doing nothing. Police decide to taze him, hoping it'll get him to stand up and leave.
Mmm... something doesn't seem right there. I thought tazing was meant to make people passive actually.
As far as I know, mainland police do not carry around tazers. They are likely to be armed, like most police are, but I've never heard anything about people being tazed. What I have heard about is them using the good old baton. And, if they want to make an impression, one of their favourite weapons is power by numbers. Put enough police around a person and they won't even think about doing anything to upset them.
Also, the number of shooting incidents involving police on the mainland (at least those that reach the news) is really low, considering the fairly high crime level over there, and the high level of corruption. Not having all civilians carry around guns is probably a major reason for that.
Police are now so badly trained and so out of shape they can't even handle a 44 year-old, 80 pound Chinese woman, they have to resort to high tech weaponry.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that using 'pain compliance' tools on people weaker than they are, with minimal chances of any significant personal consequences, is something that cops are trying to avoid...
That you can not make such assumptions only goes to show on how badly those cops are out of shape.
.I mean tasering an illegal exporter is totally justified, right?
Of course it is totally justified. The problem that remains is that the woman wasn't trying to export them. And no idea whether that was her intention to begin with.
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell.
Sounds like a case of pre-crime to me.
If they suspect her from trying to do so, the proper course of action would have been to monitor her and see what she's actually doing with those phones. Not going for an immediate arrest.
My phone is doing just that already. When I key in either '112' or '911' it displays 'emergency call' (just tried; of course without making the actual call). Interestingly '999' (the actual emergency call number here) is not recognised. Probably because I'm using a UK-origin Android version on my phone.
Actually I wonder: why is there a number for emergency calls from mobiles? Why can't the mobile phone just tell the network "this is an emergency call, please put me through to the local emergency call centre". Then the phone can link one or more numbers to that. It is already so that if there is no SIM in the phone or you're out of reach of your network, as long as there is any network available you can use it for emergency calls.
That's a cool story, but it really has nothing to do with the article.
You deserve "insightful" points for that much more than I deserve to be modded "informative" because of course it's a coincidence. Yet it's one of those jaw-dropping, how-could-this-be kind of coincidences, that actually are pretty funny if they happen.
The war would be short, yep. Over in a few days, a week or so tops.
Okay, so now you have an impoverished third world country where the single biggest employer, the military, has been utterly destroyed, full of fanatically loyal people who hate you and will do everything to kill you even at the expense of their own lives.
Sure you'll end up with a huge mess.
However, I wonder how loyal the North Koreans really are to their leaders. They are forced to be loyal: people that didn't cry hard enough over the late leader's death were punished, harshly. Not being loyal is not an option. And they don't know better with the total lack of any access to independent information, all information is controlled by the state.
Saddam Hussein had a huge standing army, loyal to him. However when the US invaded Iraq, that army disappeared almost overnight - soldiers dropping their uniforms and going back to farming or whatever. After the invasion there were little to no Saddam-loyalist insurgents.
Germany in the 1930s was seriously loyal to Adolf Hitler, yet when Hitler was defeated, this loyalty very quickly disappeared with it.
And so there are many more examples. Likely the people from North Korea will feel liberated - yet you end up with a land in tatters, with people totally unable to take care of themselves, no attitude to work hard to improve their lives. That was part of the problem Germany had after the reunion, and North Korea is likely to be far worse in that respect.
The reconstruction and modernisation of the country is going to be a huge issue - and in that way the sooner Kim's regime falls, the better, as the longer it lasts, the worse the problem is going to be. Unless he manages to modernise the country himself in a way China has managed without going through a revolution, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Part of the problem is that we equate accounts to users.
That is simply wrong. Someone who has not logged in for a long time, say half a year, should not be considered a user.
Many people have two or more accounts, counting a single user multiple times. Hard to filter out those.
Then there are people that died. The longer a site exists, the more that is an issue. For sites like Facebook it is a real issue as the numbers are so huge, though the overall percentage of accounts of dead people should be low.
Also sometimes people forget their password, and simply register a new account, abandoning the old one.
So it is really hard to get to the actual number of Facebook users. So that 1% that voted, may very well be 30% of the actual number of active users. Or maybe just 1.5%. We don't know, because for Facebook, every account counts as a user, and they wouldn't want it any different.
They have my e-mail address, I get notifications of comments all the time, so that's not the problem. More likely I deleted it as spam without reading. Together with all the rest of the junk pretending to be from Facebook.
A few years ago, I got my hands on a vegetable that I didn't know. And I was curious what it was, but how to search for something you don't know the name of? That's something that's really tricky.
So I grabbed the vegetable, put it next to my computer, opened google.com, and typed in "what vegetable is this?", for not having any better ideas.
Lo and behold, the search results came back, including some image results, and the first images were of a fennel - exactly the vegetable that I had on the table next to me. Perfect result, couldn't be better.
It's also a lot of work compared to other attack vectors.
After finding the obvious exploit and crafting your site (for whatever attack you plan), sending out lots of spam or placing compromised ads will allow you to reach millions of potential victims in a very short time, with limited effort.
Those QR codes mean you have to go out, find suitable places to physically stick them to, and then hope someone will actually scan them. Sounds like a lot more work, with far less results, than the more traditional routes.
You're behind the times. The cloud storage, that's the "next" part. Those are all taxed already (depending on the country - and not just in Europe, Canada for example is not far behind).
Easy: when a cloud storage provider sells their service in Austria (can see that on customer's billing/mailing address or credit card or whatever), then tax has to be paid over that amount of storage. Just like blank media sold within Austria are taxed already. The customer for such services is normally known - no need for ID or whatever - because somehow the service has to be paid for.
The government doesn't know how much storage you have. They don't care. All they care about is that when Google sells 1 TB of cloud service storage to Austrian customers, that they get paid the tax on that 1 TB of storage. You buy 100 GB and use 5 GB, you still pay tax for 100 GB. Just like you now have to pay tax for the full 500 GB of that 500 GB hard drive you use only 20 GB of.
Free cloud storage may be history under this proposal.
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My passwords are randomly generated and stored in LastPass - which appears to be rather trustworthy in that.
For the "login with Facebook": how to tell that really validates towards Facebook, and is not yet another fishing operation?
As unprofessional as your answer. You obviously don't run your own business.
Part of running your business is getting your name out - and depending on your business that includes plastering it all over the Internet, listing yourself on as many trade related sites as possible, providing a forum for potential customers to contact you, etc. The more you become known, the better it is.
The web site owner's pov is not always the same as the web site user's pov. So not too hard a decision for a webmaster to use Facebook or Google for login, especially if those sites make it easy to use.
Exactly. I have to admit I haven't looked into it, but I'm really worried about the security implications. Many sites offer logging in by Open Id, Yahoo, Facebook, Google, and some more. On top of their own account. I'll always register a new account (usually easy enough) if I really want - too worried about such sites snooping my passwords. Plus of course the fact that Facebook has more than enough info about me already, no need to provide them even more.
Now I wouldn't call my Facebook account my kingdom - it's just one of the many web site accounts that I have in that respect, and I'm not about to use the login credentials of one site to login to another site.
5. Photography and Videography as a profession are pretty well toast. When a fucking phone takes better video than a $100,000 camera did 30 years ago, the Gig Is Up. Content creation is trivial and a short ride to the poor house, unless you move to LA and suck enough dick to get into the film industry.
Content creation is trivial; good content creation just as hard as it was 50 years ago.
6. If you will notice most of the most famous and popular photographs of the past year were taken by amateurs on crap gear.
Many of which are lucky shots. And with a million amateur shots to every professional shot, the amateurs do have an advantage to get lucky and catch that unique moment just because they happen to be there.
I thought it was quite clear that this was sarcasm indeed.
I think he was expecting physical violence the moment he decided to take out that tazer. Which means that that is a good moment to take out the tazer, as physical violence is about to escalate.
So... let me get this straight.
Some protester is sitting on the ground, blocking traffic, and police demand him to get up and leave. Protester refuses, and simply sits there, doing nothing. Police decide to taze him, hoping it'll get him to stand up and leave.
Mmm... something doesn't seem right there. I thought tazing was meant to make people passive actually.
Wearing something conductive should work too, as it shorts the tazer and diverts the current away from your body.
As far as I know, mainland police do not carry around tazers. They are likely to be armed, like most police are, but I've never heard anything about people being tazed. What I have heard about is them using the good old baton. And, if they want to make an impression, one of their favourite weapons is power by numbers. Put enough police around a person and they won't even think about doing anything to upset them.
Also, the number of shooting incidents involving police on the mainland (at least those that reach the news) is really low, considering the fairly high crime level over there, and the high level of corruption. Not having all civilians carry around guns is probably a major reason for that.
Police are now so badly trained and so out of shape they can't even handle a 44 year-old, 80 pound Chinese woman, they have to resort to high tech weaponry.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that using 'pain compliance' tools on people weaker than they are, with minimal chances of any significant personal consequences, is something that cops are trying to avoid...
That you can not make such assumptions only goes to show on how badly those cops are out of shape.
.I mean tasering an illegal exporter is totally justified, right?
Of course it is totally justified. The problem that remains is that the woman wasn't trying to export them. And no idea whether that was her intention to begin with.
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell.
Sounds like a case of pre-crime to me.
If they suspect her from trying to do so, the proper course of action would have been to monitor her and see what she's actually doing with those phones. Not going for an immediate arrest.
My phone is doing just that already. When I key in either '112' or '911' it displays 'emergency call' (just tried; of course without making the actual call). Interestingly '999' (the actual emergency call number here) is not recognised. Probably because I'm using a UK-origin Android version on my phone.
Actually I wonder: why is there a number for emergency calls from mobiles? Why can't the mobile phone just tell the network "this is an emergency call, please put me through to the local emergency call centre". Then the phone can link one or more numbers to that. It is already so that if there is no SIM in the phone or you're out of reach of your network, as long as there is any network available you can use it for emergency calls.
That's a cool story, but it really has nothing to do with the article.
You deserve "insightful" points for that much more than I deserve to be modded "informative" because of course it's a coincidence. Yet it's one of those jaw-dropping, how-could-this-be kind of coincidences, that actually are pretty funny if they happen.
The war would be short, yep. Over in a few days, a week or so tops.
Okay, so now you have an impoverished third world country where the single biggest employer, the military, has been utterly destroyed, full of fanatically loyal people who hate you and will do everything to kill you even at the expense of their own lives.
Sure you'll end up with a huge mess.
However, I wonder how loyal the North Koreans really are to their leaders. They are forced to be loyal: people that didn't cry hard enough over the late leader's death were punished, harshly. Not being loyal is not an option. And they don't know better with the total lack of any access to independent information, all information is controlled by the state.
Saddam Hussein had a huge standing army, loyal to him. However when the US invaded Iraq, that army disappeared almost overnight - soldiers dropping their uniforms and going back to farming or whatever. After the invasion there were little to no Saddam-loyalist insurgents.
Germany in the 1930s was seriously loyal to Adolf Hitler, yet when Hitler was defeated, this loyalty very quickly disappeared with it.
And so there are many more examples. Likely the people from North Korea will feel liberated - yet you end up with a land in tatters, with people totally unable to take care of themselves, no attitude to work hard to improve their lives. That was part of the problem Germany had after the reunion, and North Korea is likely to be far worse in that respect.
The reconstruction and modernisation of the country is going to be a huge issue - and in that way the sooner Kim's regime falls, the better, as the longer it lasts, the worse the problem is going to be. Unless he manages to modernise the country himself in a way China has managed without going through a revolution, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Part of the problem is that we equate accounts to users.
That is simply wrong. Someone who has not logged in for a long time, say half a year, should not be considered a user.
Many people have two or more accounts, counting a single user multiple times. Hard to filter out those.
Then there are people that died. The longer a site exists, the more that is an issue. For sites like Facebook it is a real issue as the numbers are so huge, though the overall percentage of accounts of dead people should be low.
Also sometimes people forget their password, and simply register a new account, abandoning the old one.
So it is really hard to get to the actual number of Facebook users. So that 1% that voted, may very well be 30% of the actual number of active users. Or maybe just 1.5%. We don't know, because for Facebook, every account counts as a user, and they wouldn't want it any different.
I do not recall having received that e-mail.
They have my e-mail address, I get notifications of comments all the time, so that's not the problem. More likely I deleted it as spam without reading. Together with all the rest of the junk pretending to be from Facebook.
A few years ago, I got my hands on a vegetable that I didn't know. And I was curious what it was, but how to search for something you don't know the name of? That's something that's really tricky.
So I grabbed the vegetable, put it next to my computer, opened google.com, and typed in "what vegetable is this?", for not having any better ideas.
Lo and behold, the search results came back, including some image results, and the first images were of a fennel - exactly the vegetable that I had on the table next to me. Perfect result, couldn't be better.
Unlimited.
It's also a lot of work compared to other attack vectors.
After finding the obvious exploit and crafting your site (for whatever attack you plan), sending out lots of spam or placing compromised ads will allow you to reach millions of potential victims in a very short time, with limited effort.
Those QR codes mean you have to go out, find suitable places to physically stick them to, and then hope someone will actually scan them. Sounds like a lot more work, with far less results, than the more traditional routes.
It's not a percentage. It's a fixed amount.
It's simply based on media size (in bytes) and type (phone, HD/SDD, CD, tape, USB drive). Very simple.
You're behind the times. The cloud storage, that's the "next" part. Those are all taxed already (depending on the country - and not just in Europe, Canada for example is not far behind).
Easy: when a cloud storage provider sells their service in Austria (can see that on customer's billing/mailing address or credit card or whatever), then tax has to be paid over that amount of storage. Just like blank media sold within Austria are taxed already. The customer for such services is normally known - no need for ID or whatever - because somehow the service has to be paid for.
The government doesn't know how much storage you have. They don't care. All they care about is that when Google sells 1 TB of cloud service storage to Austrian customers, that they get paid the tax on that 1 TB of storage. You buy 100 GB and use 5 GB, you still pay tax for 100 GB. Just like you now have to pay tax for the full 500 GB of that 500 GB hard drive you use only 20 GB of.
Free cloud storage may be history under this proposal.