Perhaps it will finally force a needed change. Once a suit is filed, but before the defendant gets involved, a judge should determine if the suit has any merit on it's face. If not, the suit is squashed and the would-be defendant just gets a letter telling them who tried to sue them and for what.
China fucking with the supply chain in such a ham fisted way and at the same time confining it to only one brand of motherboard is a bit odd to say the least.
I would expect something harder to detect, harder to prove, nearly impossible to trace back, and affecting every single brand of motherboard.
I would also expect that once it came out, a zillion tweets and blogs of OMG, I found one and a zillion me-to articles from every news outlet saying OMG these people found one. Complete with pictures.
If it was just the companies or the consumers being harmed, your argument might hold water. But their right to throw a punch ends where my nose begins. See my comment about their bad dogs crapping in my yard.
That aside, I suspect that most consumers don't even think about the security. Making up a password once wouldn't mean much to them either way. I doubt any consumer has ever chosen A over B because B makes you set a password.
Further, in cases like Cisco, customers already were setting their own passwords and when word of the hard-coded backdoor passwords got out, they were not at all amused.
So you're all for a policy of privatize the profits and socialize the losses?
Of to put a finer point on it, if an Uber driver runs a red light and T-bones you, you're totally cool with receiving whatever the sale value of a totaled car and half a donut is as compensation since he doesn't have commercial liability coverage, Uber claims he's a contractor, and let's face it if he drives for Uber, he isn't wealthy?
There have been cases of eco protesters not cleaning up, but the part that doesn't get told is that it's because they were driven away with concussion grenades, firehoses, and rubber bullets before they could clean up.
If libertarians want their platform to be respected, they should respect it themselves and demand the revocation of all corporate charters immediately.
Some mistrust of government is healthy for a society. It is too much trust that is dangerous.
Sure, but too much mistrust and society turns into a bunch of smallish gangs with government being seen as just another gang. An early sign of that is when regular citizens start seeing police as a danger to be avoided.
It IS undamaged. The shredder functioned just like it was built to function. The paper is shredded just as the artist intended for it to be shredded. Sometimes, art is surprising. It is supposed to provoke thought and make us question what we know. As such, this piece has proven fit for purpose.
Interestingly, the more legal action the new owner might take, the more he proves that the work functioned as intended.
You cannot apply utilitarian criteria to something that is not utilitarian in nature.
Was it lost? They sold a work of art from Banksey. That is, a work of art as Banksey intended for it to be. They just didn't know Banksey intended for it to be shredded. Nevertheless, it is still what it was represented to be.
According to at least some in the art world, it is worth MORE now than it was, so the buyer can't claim lost value.
The buyer wanted a piece of art depicting a child losing a balloon. The work turned out to be evocative enough that he actually feels at a visceral level like a child that has just lost a balloon.
Because they're already spending more than it would cost in the form of lost productivity as all those other people waste way too much of their time wrestling with Excel.
Deterministic passwords based on MAC aren't great, but they're a step up.
Personally, I would prefer forced setting of a password and a physical button that needs to be pressed to clear it (which will again force the owner to set a new password).
That is an approach, but it doesn't allow a proactive approach.
But note that should damages occur, if the manufacturer did something that contributed (such as a default password), the fact that it was actually illegal to do that goes a LONG way to winning a civil suit.
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Perhaps it will finally force a needed change. Once a suit is filed, but before the defendant gets involved, a judge should determine if the suit has any merit on it's face. If not, the suit is squashed and the would-be defendant just gets a letter telling them who tried to sue them and for what.
China fucking with the supply chain in such a ham fisted way and at the same time confining it to only one brand of motherboard is a bit odd to say the least.
I would expect something harder to detect, harder to prove, nearly impossible to trace back, and affecting every single brand of motherboard.
I would also expect that once it came out, a zillion tweets and blogs of OMG, I found one and a zillion me-to articles from every news outlet saying OMG these people found one. Complete with pictures.
If it was just the companies or the consumers being harmed, your argument might hold water. But their right to throw a punch ends where my nose begins. See my comment about their bad dogs crapping in my yard.
That aside, I suspect that most consumers don't even think about the security. Making up a password once wouldn't mean much to them either way. I doubt any consumer has ever chosen A over B because B makes you set a password.
Further, in cases like Cisco, customers already were setting their own passwords and when word of the hard-coded backdoor passwords got out, they were not at all amused.
If they are independent contractors, they are only insured if they have personally bought commercial insurance.
Ca. has different rules. Ca law applies in this case.
Consumer protection in the U.S. is weak at best, even when fully enforced (which doesn't happen).
In Ca. Item B of the ABC test seems to be
(B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business;
Note that the ABC is three statements that must ALL be true for a person to be a contractor rather than an employee.
So unless driving people from point to point is NOT part of Uber's usual business, Uber drivers are employees.
So you're all for a policy of privatize the profits and socialize the losses?
Of to put a finer point on it, if an Uber driver runs a red light and T-bones you, you're totally cool with receiving whatever the sale value of a totaled car and half a donut is as compensation since he doesn't have commercial liability coverage, Uber claims he's a contractor, and let's face it if he drives for Uber, he isn't wealthy?
There have been cases of eco protesters not cleaning up, but the part that doesn't get told is that it's because they were driven away with concussion grenades, firehoses, and rubber bullets before they could clean up.
If libertarians want their platform to be respected, they should respect it themselves and demand the revocation of all corporate charters immediately.
Politics turned ugly(er) and Godwin himself called a moratorium on Godwin's law since the Nazi comparisons were increasingly valid.
Parents used to advise kids to find a cop if they get lost. Now they tell them to find a woman with kids and avoid the cops.
Some mistrust of government is healthy for a society. It is too much trust that is dangerous.
Sure, but too much mistrust and society turns into a bunch of smallish gangs with government being seen as just another gang. An early sign of that is when regular citizens start seeing police as a danger to be avoided.
Wouldn't accidentally including user files in a restore point just accidentally make a backup of the file rather than deleting it?
It IS undamaged. The shredder functioned just like it was built to function. The paper is shredded just as the artist intended for it to be shredded. Sometimes, art is surprising. It is supposed to provoke thought and make us question what we know. As such, this piece has proven fit for purpose.
Interestingly, the more legal action the new owner might take, the more he proves that the work functioned as intended.
You cannot apply utilitarian criteria to something that is not utilitarian in nature.
Or you just whooshed.
It hasn't been destroyed. It is now exactly what the artist intended, just like any other work of art that hasn't been damaged.
Had rough handling damaged the shredder such that the work didn't self shred, it would then be damaged and so, the subject of a lawsuit.
Was it lost? They sold a work of art from Banksey. That is, a work of art as Banksey intended for it to be. They just didn't know Banksey intended for it to be shredded. Nevertheless, it is still what it was represented to be.
According to at least some in the art world, it is worth MORE now than it was, so the buyer can't claim lost value.
The buyer wanted a piece of art depicting a child losing a balloon. The work turned out to be evocative enough that he actually feels at a visceral level like a child that has just lost a balloon.
Because they're already spending more than it would cost in the form of lost productivity as all those other people waste way too much of their time wrestling with Excel.
That's why default passwords are such a problem.
Deterministic passwords based on MAC aren't great, but they're a step up.
Personally, I would prefer forced setting of a password and a physical button that needs to be pressed to clear it (which will again force the owner to set a new password).
That's the really sad part, it isn't at all expensive to give adequate security to a thermostat. It just requires competence and giving a damn.
Mostly it's not done since in the corporation's view, once it is tied to their good will forever by needing to phone home, job is done.
Nonsense. That's worth a fine at most. And in very many places, it is!
Perhaps not as much worse as you might think. Sea water plus lead acid batteries produces chlorine gas.
That is an approach, but it doesn't allow a proactive approach.
But note that should damages occur, if the manufacturer did something that contributed (such as a default password), the fact that it was actually illegal to do that goes a LONG way to winning a civil suit.