2FA is great unless the company happily agrees to turn it off when a hacker kindly asks them to via web chat or twitter DM: http://www.csoonline.com/artic...
If someone can CALL or CHAT or DM and ask them to turn off 2FA, then the process is broken, the security is an illusion and using 2FA is worthless.
Luckily Paypal isn't trusted with something so important as your online identity - just your funds.
With a Transfer Flow refueling tank, you don’t have to guess! Our refueling tanks are Department of Transportation (DOT) legal to carry and transfer gas
Transfer != vending/dispensing. Transfer means moving of gas from one place to another - single connection. Selling it to many customers at various spot is obviously more dangerous - so it'd likely not be covered by this DOT approval.
Good luck preventing that which already exists, simply because it disrupts existing markets.
Explain to me how the digital economy works if encryption is broken wide open so that even a script kiddie can break public key encryption? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We already have a national disaster waiting to happen.
Millions of untrained laypersons fuel their vehicles, and often other people's vehicles, unlicensed and unregulated.
Hate to disrupt your bubble, but that shit is all regulated to hell. It's on specific property, and those facilities have to get inspected frequently. So yeah, it is regulated... already.
Sure, but with Web 3.0, you don't ask for permission or worry about regulations, and do whatever you want, no matter how harmful. It's the Eric Cartman school of business, and it seems to be very popular these days.
It's the "Uber guide to evading pesky governmental regulation" approach - you just buy "activists" and lobby local governments to keep the hounds at bay until your service gains critical mass and can't be legislated away. http://www.politico.com/story/...
Does corruption by any other name stink as strongly?
It's called "Google Maps"; though, not "Google Driving Instructions". You note yourself that finding the route from A to B is only one possible use of a map. Google Maps is increasingly failing at most of those other uses. perhaps they should rename it to "Google GPS" and leave the actual map field to other companies.
They should just call it the Google Positioning System... you know, GPS!
For the iPhone power up or 48 hours of lock screen requires a 6 digit passcode not a finger print.
Or strong alphanumeric password with possibly many many bits of entropy - like mine. Does their TouchID precedent allow for forcing you to produce your password? I thought at least that was protected under the 5th amendment?
But Tina was never arrested or booked, so they do not have her fingerprints on file, so can not try to fool the phone with a copy of her fingerprints.
That's the difference here.
Has it been proven that your fingerprints on file are adequate for the police to break into your phone? The CCC hack required a very very detailed process and a really good print.
I got a Casio Cosmo Phase since the time and date are always visible, along with the solar system simulation (makes it easy to know which planets are up after sunset and before sunrise to know if you'll take out your C9.25). Battery lasts for several years, it is actually waterproof (can do swimming and snorkeling) not just splash-resistant like the Apple Watch, it has the basics you'd want from a watch like multiple alarms, count-down timer, stopwatch, a very responsive button interface and I can tell you it is resilient as it has been working great for me since 1989!
The fact is, many many people, me included, have swum/showered with their Apple Watch for well over a year [1]. Even swimming in the ocean is totally fine as long as you wash it afterwards.
The reason Apple didn't say it's good for swimming is that the UI simply doesn't function when you swim with it (also not sure if the defined apps are designed to support swim tracking).
I doubt he would care to do that, because Apple's stock probably won't increase any time soon. The reason Apple saw a YoY revenue decline is because of the so called "peak iphone", and presently 65% of Apple's revenue comes from guess what. Unless by some miracle Apple can reproduce the same growth they've had in the last 10 years (smartphone market is now matured and saturated and is now starting to go through what the PC market is going through, so good luck with that) their stock is only going to decline for the foreseeable future. So yeah, it's a good time to get out of Apple.
You realize your call of "peak iphone" has been called before like about a hundred times. Is it going to be a rough quarter for Apple? Sure. But I really really doubt it's the beginning of the end...
Apparently they aren't doing such a good job at that any more.... all this tie in crap is strangling the company. For all we know iTunes could be the largest media distribution hub in the world if they followed an open model.
So they only have a $50B quarter and they're suddenly not "doing such a good job any more"? hahahahha
Why doesn't Apple just develop a rest api for itunes and let 3rd party developers create applications for it? Then you could have it on your ps4 or whatever. For those that aren't familiar with what I am talking about this is exactly how Netflix is implemented.
Whoever is in charge of this business unit should be fired.
Well, this is "fuck the channels" Eddie Cue [1]. Good luck with changing his mind on that. And actually I think it'd be wholesale against how Apple works.
Besides, why the hell would Apple want a PS4 interface? They want to sell more AppleTVs (or iPads or whatever else). They are not a content company, they sell hardware.
And still making Apple more profit than some whole other industries.
Where's the +1, SadButTrue mod? Because as an Apple fan, I must agree wholeheartedly - iTunes could be so much better and just sucks at so many things:/
The individuals listed could personally pony up $250 million from petty cash. Why ask the government for funding?
They're donating collectively $48M. Think of it as a 1,000,000:1 matching donation - you give $1, they each give $1M or more. Source (better article than TFA: https://www.washingtonpost.com... )
Are all car companies trying to look worst than their competitors? "Oh, you think they're bad? Check out what we did!"
I'm just waiting for a car company to come up with a ~$10K electric car now.
Good question, and I think this is because VW management has essentially escaped without criminal charges, now it's a manner of the the CxOs in the car companies getting approval from the board to take the financial hit and put this behind them.
I asked at this earlier, but I think (ie, agree with other/.ers who replied to me) - it's a case where pretty much everyone is complicit - now is a showcase of how and when all the car manufacturers come forward.
Just wish governments would simply mandate remediation as the sale of more electrics or other zero-emissions vehicles (as Elon Musk requested).
Even my more narcissistic FB contacts are posting fewer selfies in exotic locations and strange and unusual foods.
This is what I'm seeing. I used to navigate to FB once in a while to essentially gawk at some of the more, uh, exhibitionist contacts, but recently it's all about spamming for Hillary or the outrage du jour (some of which are pretty depressing) and the occasional "really old woman out-dances young guy" sort of thing. I haven't logged on in months.
Everyone I know is posting less pix online, and less information about themselves. Not just on FB, but G+, LinkedIn, etc.
If Facebook really cared about it's viewership, it'd adopt some of the snapchat like features with timed-archival of photos, etc, and maybe, just maybe, make it really difficult for HR dept. and school investigators and the like to find embarrassing content on workers/students (a high-profile case like where Apple said FU to the FBI would be really nice).
Maybe people are just done being "dumbfucks"? Maybe everyone is realizing that social media is also a problem vector?
I have to say, if it is public posts, what's the problem?
The problem is that SnapTrends passes on the posts to school security, and school security passes on the posts to the police.
The problem is that school security, and the police, can interrogate students under coercion.
Students in a situation like that don't have a right to a lawyer, and they may not even have a right to remain silent.
Police are skilled at manipulating adults, to say nothing of children, into false confessions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the school police have been prosecuting normal childhood behavior as crimes.
Example in point: Lazy "undercover cop" has a secret drug sting and nabs an Autistic student who likely has no idea what's going on: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Shit like this happens all the time - only in extreme cases like this (the school district tried to expel student after he graduated - only to ruin the student's life) where the situation is pretty clear, and the parents are super-engaged to fight does it come out in the light.
All part of the job for corrupt school administrators, cops, and even school district boardmembers who benefit and profit from the prison industry: https://www.aclu.org/fact-shee...
Heat Pollution? In San Francisco? Typical weather in much of the city is low overcast, 60F(16C) with wind and fog or even light drizzle. But how well will solar panels work under the near perpetual marine layer? Badly I should think. Won't that be a problem? Could be..
But that's someone else's problem, not mine.
Well, lets ask around on Google if it's a good idea [1]
Sunny places are often also very hot, but solar panels (like other electronics) work best in cool weather. With an average annual temperature of 57 degrees, solar panels love San Francisco. Solar power output is actually higher in San Francisco than in Sacramento, even though Sacramento gets more sunshine, because of Sacramento’s heat.
What Woz is trying to say is that taxes should be more progressive; a lot of rich people agree with him on this. Probably the first step would be to go to flatter and lower tax rates, but eliminate ANY deductions (even for mortgage interest). For personal income, any income up to the poverty line should be tax free, you only get taxed on the amount your income exceeds the poverty level by. Both conservatives and liberals are right about some things, but conservatives seem to have a better grasp of basic economics, hence flat tax proposals come from the conservative side. "Fair" is a pretty arbitrary standard; what is fair or not tends to get decided by those in a position to finance elections.
Flat taxes are not "more progressive". Removing loopholes (especially corporate ones) would help, but I'd bet millions (ie, how much the FIRE economy [1] lobbyists will spend) that the mortgage interest will never go away.
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Whereas the networks and cable are limited to time locked programming YouTube can serve up MILLIONS of shows immediately. It's not a fair comparison.
It's only "not fair" because those networks choose to limit themselves this way to promote a select few shows.
Elbonian Air?
More like "railgun airways".
2FA is great unless the company happily agrees to turn it off when a hacker kindly asks them to via web chat or twitter DM: http://www.csoonline.com/artic...
If someone can CALL or CHAT or DM and ask them to turn off 2FA, then the process is broken, the security is an illusion and using 2FA is worthless.
Luckily Paypal isn't trusted with something so important as your online identity - just your funds.
With a Transfer Flow refueling tank, you don’t have to guess! Our refueling tanks are Department of Transportation (DOT) legal to carry and transfer gas
Transfer != vending/dispensing. Transfer means moving of gas from one place to another - single connection. Selling it to many customers at various spot is obviously more dangerous - so it'd likely not be covered by this DOT approval.
Good luck preventing that which already exists, simply because it disrupts existing markets.
Nice try. Next time read what you're quoting?
The things he talks about can mostly be done even if the government has a master key.
This is a fallacy. Evidence is that the government tried this before, and failed hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If Key-Escrow were to actually work and be scalable - don't you think the Great Firewall of China would be using it everywhere?
A little OTT me thinks
Explain to me how the digital economy works if encryption is broken wide open so that even a script kiddie can break public key encryption?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
From wikipedia:
We already have a national disaster waiting to happen.
Millions of untrained laypersons fuel their vehicles, and often other people's vehicles, unlicensed and unregulated.
Hate to disrupt your bubble, but that shit is all regulated to hell. It's on specific property, and those facilities have to get inspected frequently.
So yeah, it is regulated... already.
Sure, but with Web 3.0, you don't ask for permission or worry about regulations, and do whatever you want, no matter how harmful.
It's the Eric Cartman school of business, and it seems to be very popular these days.
It's the "Uber guide to evading pesky governmental regulation" approach - you just buy "activists" and lobby local governments to keep the hounds at bay until your service gains critical mass and can't be legislated away.
http://www.politico.com/story/...
Does corruption by any other name stink as strongly?
It's called "Google Maps"; though, not "Google Driving Instructions". You note yourself that finding the route from A to B is only one possible use of a map. Google Maps is increasingly failing at most of those other uses. perhaps they should rename it to "Google GPS" and leave the actual map field to other companies.
They should just call it the Google Positioning System... you know, GPS!
For the iPhone power up or 48 hours of lock screen requires a 6 digit passcode not a finger print.
Or strong alphanumeric password with possibly many many bits of entropy - like mine. Does their TouchID precedent allow for forcing you to produce your password? I thought at least that was protected under the 5th amendment?
But Tina was never arrested or booked, so they do not have her fingerprints on file, so can not try to fool the phone with a copy of her fingerprints.
That's the difference here.
Has it been proven that your fingerprints on file are adequate for the police to break into your phone? The CCC hack required a very very detailed process and a really good print.
I got a Casio Cosmo Phase since the time and date are always visible, along with the solar system simulation (makes it easy to know which planets are up after sunset and before sunrise to know if you'll take out your C9.25). Battery lasts for several years, it is actually waterproof (can do swimming and snorkeling) not just splash-resistant like the Apple Watch, it has the basics you'd want from a watch like multiple alarms, count-down timer, stopwatch, a very responsive button interface and I can tell you it is resilient as it has been working great for me since 1989!
The fact is, many many people, me included, have swum/showered with their Apple Watch for well over a year [1]. Even swimming in the ocean is totally fine as long as you wash it afterwards.
The reason Apple didn't say it's good for swimming is that the UI simply doesn't function when you swim with it (also not sure if the defined apps are designed to support swim tracking).
[1] http://furbo.org/2015/07/14/a-...
I doubt he would care to do that, because Apple's stock probably won't increase any time soon. The reason Apple saw a YoY revenue decline is because of the so called "peak iphone", and presently 65% of Apple's revenue comes from guess what. Unless by some miracle Apple can reproduce the same growth they've had in the last 10 years (smartphone market is now matured and saturated and is now starting to go through what the PC market is going through, so good luck with that) their stock is only going to decline for the foreseeable future. So yeah, it's a good time to get out of Apple.
You realize your call of "peak iphone" has been called before like about a hundred times. Is it going to be a rough quarter for Apple? Sure. But I really really doubt it's the beginning of the end...
Apparently they aren't doing such a good job at that any more.... all this tie in crap is strangling the company. For all we know iTunes could be the largest media distribution hub in the world if they followed an open model.
So they only have a $50B quarter and they're suddenly not "doing such a good job any more"? hahahahha
Why doesn't Apple just develop a rest api for itunes and let 3rd party developers create applications for it? Then you could have it on your ps4 or whatever. For those that aren't familiar with what I am talking about this is exactly how Netflix is implemented.
Whoever is in charge of this business unit should be fired.
Well, this is "fuck the channels" Eddie Cue [1]. Good luck with changing his mind on that. And actually I think it'd be wholesale against how Apple works.
Besides, why the hell would Apple want a PS4 interface? They want to sell more AppleTVs (or iPads or whatever else). They are not a content company, they sell hardware.
[1] http://curi.us/1732-steve-jobs...
http://www.yiddish.co/mishegas...
"Insanity or craziness"
Good thing I'm a neophile linguist (in training).
And still making Apple more profit than some whole other industries.
Where's the +1, SadButTrue mod? Because as an Apple fan, I must agree wholeheartedly - iTunes could be so much better and just sucks at so many things :/
The individuals listed could personally pony up $250 million from petty cash. Why ask the government for funding?
They're donating collectively $48M. Think of it as a 1,000,000:1 matching donation - you give $1, they each give $1M or more.
Source (better article than TFA: https://www.washingtonpost.com... )
... and how that makes it CLEAR that Apple is producing a self-driving car!
Are all car companies trying to look worst than their competitors? "Oh, you think they're bad? Check out what we did!"
I'm just waiting for a car company to come up with a ~$10K electric car now.
Good question, and I think this is because VW management has essentially escaped without criminal charges, now it's a manner of the the CxOs in the car companies getting approval from the board to take the financial hit and put this behind them.
I asked at this earlier, but I think (ie, agree with other /.ers who replied to me) - it's a case where pretty much everyone is complicit - now is a showcase of how and when all the car manufacturers come forward.
Just wish governments would simply mandate remediation as the sale of more electrics or other zero-emissions vehicles (as Elon Musk requested).
Even my more narcissistic FB contacts are posting fewer selfies in exotic locations and strange and unusual foods.
This is what I'm seeing. I used to navigate to FB once in a while to essentially gawk at some of the more, uh, exhibitionist contacts, but recently it's all about spamming for Hillary or the outrage du jour (some of which are pretty depressing) and the occasional "really old woman out-dances young guy" sort of thing.
I haven't logged on in months.
Everyone I know is posting less pix online, and less information about themselves. Not just on FB, but G+, LinkedIn, etc.
If Facebook really cared about it's viewership, it'd adopt some of the snapchat like features with timed-archival of photos, etc, and maybe, just maybe, make it really difficult for HR dept. and school investigators and the like to find embarrassing content on workers/students (a high-profile case like where Apple said FU to the FBI would be really nice).
Maybe people are just done being "dumbfucks"? Maybe everyone is realizing that social media is also a problem vector?
I have to say, if it is public posts, what's the problem?
The problem is that SnapTrends passes on the posts to school security, and school security passes on the posts to the police.
The problem is that school security, and the police, can interrogate students under coercion.
Students in a situation like that don't have a right to a lawyer, and they may not even have a right to remain silent.
Police are skilled at manipulating adults, to say nothing of children, into false confessions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the school police have been prosecuting normal childhood behavior as crimes.
As Slashdot readers could guess, they prosecute minority children disproportionately http://njdc.info/wp-content/up...
Example in point: Lazy "undercover cop" has a secret drug sting and nabs an Autistic student who likely has no idea what's going on: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Shit like this happens all the time - only in extreme cases like this (the school district tried to expel student after he graduated - only to ruin the student's life) where the situation is pretty clear, and the parents are super-engaged to fight does it come out in the light.
All part of the job for corrupt school administrators, cops, and even school district boardmembers who benefit and profit from the prison industry: https://www.aclu.org/fact-shee...
US law says corporations are people. Why should they be taxed lesser than living people?
Corporations: Are people that a) can live forever, b) can't be sent to jail and c) often has far, far more freedom (aka money)
Why it would be such a shame for them to also have the same tax rate as real people...
"What about heat pollution?"
Heat Pollution? In San Francisco? Typical weather in much of the city is low overcast, 60F(16C) with wind and fog or even light drizzle. But how well will solar panels work under the near perpetual marine layer? Badly I should think. Won't that be a problem? Could be..
But that's someone else's problem, not mine.
Well, lets ask around on Google if it's a good idea [1]
Sunny places are often also very hot, but solar panels (like other electronics) work best in cool weather. With an average annual temperature of 57 degrees, solar panels love San Francisco. Solar power output is actually higher in San Francisco than in Sacramento, even though Sacramento gets more sunshine, because of Sacramento’s heat.
[1] https://pureenergies.com/us/ci...
What Woz is trying to say is that taxes should be more progressive; a lot of rich people agree with him on this. Probably the first step would be to go to flatter and lower tax rates, but eliminate ANY deductions (even for mortgage interest). For personal income, any income up to the poverty line should be tax free, you only get taxed on the amount your income exceeds the poverty level by. Both conservatives and liberals are right about some things, but conservatives seem to have a better grasp of basic economics, hence flat tax proposals come from the conservative side. "Fair" is a pretty arbitrary standard; what is fair or not tends to get decided by those in a position to finance elections.
Flat taxes are not "more progressive". Removing loopholes (especially corporate ones) would help, but I'd bet millions (ie, how much the FIRE economy [1] lobbyists will spend) that the mortgage interest will never go away.
[1] Finance, Insurance, Real Estate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...