It is not good when you are demoing to a customer and they login with a test account and are greeted with the message, "Welcome back, Big Asshole."
Ah yes, like the time a previous developer decided to have the database connection error display "Fuck! Can't connect to database!". Of course the database didn't fail until well after he left. Fun times when the client called about that one...
My father, who programmed back in the days of COBOL, would get up and leave a meeting if it went longer than an hour. He knew nothing productive happened after that point anyway, and his company didn't have the stones to fire him.
2. Make sure that any personal information like passport number, name, credit card details, travel plans etc. is obscured.
Of course. There's no excuse for exposing sensitive information like this.
1. Get explicit, opt-in permission from the user.
I disagree with this point. It's my app/website/whatever. If I want to use information that your browser or operating system sends to my server, I don't have to tell you what I'm collecting or how I'm using that information. This "right to absolute privacy" argument is a bit silly in this day and age.
This is the mindset that has taken over conversation on the internet. "My thoughts on the matter are correct, therefore there can be no discussion. Furthermore, anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot!"
Maybe someone else has a differing view. Maybe they even have some good points. Of course, you'll never know because you don't want a discussion. You just want to be right.
As much as I hate it, you know families with kids are going to jump all over this. Park the kids in front of the TV, fire up Disney+, and grab yourself a bottle of wine!
Is this the argument that the fans are using? I agree that given the letter of the law, investing in esports seems a bit risky. However, I have to imagine that the clubs have some sort of agreement with the video game publishers.
The article really doesn't get into what sort of investment the clubs are making, other than the fact that FC Basel has a "FIFA team"... Whatever that entails.
Obviously I have no data to back this up, but in theory you're able to reach out to a larger audience by including the video-game playing segment. In theory again, some of the kids who grow up playing FIFA on their XBox might get interested in watching the real thing. It might even encourage them to go out and play the sport itself. So while I can see the argument of diverting funds, it's not as black and white as all that.
Now, I just need a government grant to go out and test my hypothesis...
The article is pretty light on details. Why exactly is an "increased investment in esports" a bad thing for these teams? I don't really care what my club invests in, as long as it makes money and helps the organization.
I know there are still sites out there that run on PHP 5.6 (and earlier!) that should really be moved on, either updated for PHP 7.2 or if the code is unmaintainable due to years of abuse by developers, simply rebuilt in a modern framework.
Sure, let me just go back to the hundreds of small businesses we've built websites for over the past 10 years and tell them their sites need to be "simply rebuilt". I promise you that 95% of them will see no problem with leaving their PHP 5.6, 5.4, 5.2, etc... websites alone because "they still work fine". Why would they pay us money to rebuild them?
The older websites probably have horrible looking admin interfaces making work flow slow and cumbersome...
Maybe, but the site owners know how to use that admin interface, and getting them to that point was like pulling teeth. Now you want to train them on a brand new interface? Good luck.
I'm not saying this guy doesn't have some points, just that he doesn't seem to live in the real world.
And furthermore, this article isn't even about the technology being insecure. It's about people abusing their already-granted access to exert power and control over their partner in an abusive relationship.
I feel like the commenters here just see the term "IoT Devices" and see it as an excuse to get on their holier-than-thou anti-Google/Amazon/Nest/etc soapbox. Guess what? No one gives a crap that you still use a flip-phone and "refuse to have an always-listening microphone" in your house. You're not special, and you're not smarter than the rest of us.
While I agree that roundabouts are better for the flow of traffic, they do take up much more space. I wish we could replace a lot of the 4-way stops around here, but sadly there are houses and trees in the way.
Just because you don't consider $2 "risky" doesn't make it not gambling. Where do you draw your imaginary line? $10? $500? A million? I'm sorry, but if you're trying to come up with a "definition" for gambling, your arbitrary limits don't make a lot of sense.
If you could just order a car directly from Ford, what's to stop you from visiting a dealership, taking a test-drive, wasting the sales clerk's time, then leaving and buying your car on ford.com? I'm sure this isn't exactly what lawmakers had in mind originally, but I can see this being some kind of protection for the dealerships.
Semi-related, my local camera store has had this exact problem since the advent of the internet. I'm amazed they're still around.
Then these clearly are not products targeted at you. All the best functionality of these devices relies on communication back to the "mother ships". Asking for the latest news, weather, sports scores, streaming music, etc... Explain to me how something firewalled on your local network would be able to do any of that.
It's just wearisome to hear these same comments trotted out every time a smart speaker is discussed on the site.
What is the point of a password that is out in the open like this? Are passwords that hard to remember?
Actually, yes. When your password must contain upper and lower-case letters, at least one number, a special character, must be at least 12 characters long, must be changed every 3 months, and cannot be a variation of or contain any previous password. That's when you get yellow sticky notes on the monitor.
Even if you remove the privacy argument, it's an awful gift. You're imposing your choice in technology on someone else. It's akin to an Android user getting an iPhone dock as a gift... it's going right in the trash.
I'd put it up on the list of bad gifts along with lottery tickets.
... "smart locks" where they send a signal from their iPhone app to the server of the manufacturer of the lock who then in turn sends a signal to their lock...
And what happens when a deer decides to bolt out from the woods in front of your vehicle? Are you going to trust that the car can detect a deer?
Actually, yes. I trust a computer system that can handle thousands of computations every second much more than I trust a startled, panicky human in that scenario. I don't know if you've ever hit a deer with your car, but they don't exactly give you much warning, regardless of how much you're paying attention to the road.
Newer cars solve this problem with integrated Apple Car Play and Android Auto. Your "infotainment" console becomes essentially a mirror of your phone. Except for Toyota, who seems to be doubling-down on their shitty homebrew system.
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It is not good when you are demoing to a customer and they login with a test account and are greeted with the message, "Welcome back, Big Asshole."
Ah yes, like the time a previous developer decided to have the database connection error display "Fuck! Can't connect to database!". Of course the database didn't fail until well after he left. Fun times when the client called about that one...
My father, who programmed back in the days of COBOL, would get up and leave a meeting if it went longer than an hour. He knew nothing productive happened after that point anyway, and his company didn't have the stones to fire him.
2. Make sure that any personal information like passport number, name, credit card details, travel plans etc. is obscured.
Of course. There's no excuse for exposing sensitive information like this.
1. Get explicit, opt-in permission from the user.
I disagree with this point. It's my app/website/whatever. If I want to use information that your browser or operating system sends to my server, I don't have to tell you what I'm collecting or how I'm using that information. This "right to absolute privacy" argument is a bit silly in this day and age.
Never get tired of these comments on every single smart speaker article.
This is the mindset that has taken over conversation on the internet. "My thoughts on the matter are correct, therefore there can be no discussion. Furthermore, anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot!"
Maybe someone else has a differing view. Maybe they even have some good points. Of course, you'll never know because you don't want a discussion. You just want to be right.
Anecdotally, the majority of people are not in high school. Also, the majority of people are not you (I fact checked that one myself).
And obviously I'm not trying to prove anything with my anecdote, because that would be silly.
I'm just asking if DarenN has any stats on his spending estimates.
Before streaming, the majority of people did not spend $120 a year on albums, which would be roughly 12 albums a year.
Do you have actual numbers on that? Anecdotally, in high school I spent way more than $120 a year on CDs. I doubt that was uncommon back then.
As much as I hate it, you know families with kids are going to jump all over this. Park the kids in front of the TV, fire up Disney+, and grab yourself a bottle of wine!
And anyone can code their own video game if they really want to. What's your point?
Is this the argument that the fans are using? I agree that given the letter of the law, investing in esports seems a bit risky. However, I have to imagine that the clubs have some sort of agreement with the video game publishers.
The article really doesn't get into what sort of investment the clubs are making, other than the fact that FC Basel has a "FIFA team"... Whatever that entails.
Obviously I have no data to back this up, but in theory you're able to reach out to a larger audience by including the video-game playing segment. In theory again, some of the kids who grow up playing FIFA on their XBox might get interested in watching the real thing. It might even encourage them to go out and play the sport itself. So while I can see the argument of diverting funds, it's not as black and white as all that.
Now, I just need a government grant to go out and test my hypothesis...
The article is pretty light on details. Why exactly is an "increased investment in esports" a bad thing for these teams? I don't really care what my club invests in, as long as it makes money and helps the organization.
Sure, let me just go back to the hundreds of small businesses we've built websites for over the past 10 years and tell them their sites need to be "simply rebuilt". I promise you that 95% of them will see no problem with leaving their PHP 5.6, 5.4, 5.2, etc... websites alone because "they still work fine". Why would they pay us money to rebuild them?
Maybe, but the site owners know how to use that admin interface, and getting them to that point was like pulling teeth. Now you want to train them on a brand new interface? Good luck.
I'm not saying this guy doesn't have some points, just that he doesn't seem to live in the real world.
And furthermore, this article isn't even about the technology being insecure. It's about people abusing their already-granted access to exert power and control over their partner in an abusive relationship.
I feel like the commenters here just see the term "IoT Devices" and see it as an excuse to get on their holier-than-thou anti-Google/Amazon/Nest/etc soapbox. Guess what? No one gives a crap that you still use a flip-phone and "refuse to have an always-listening microphone" in your house. You're not special, and you're not smarter than the rest of us.
I like how this comment immediately gets voted +5 Informative. Clearly there are enough people on /. that care about your spending habits.
While I agree that roundabouts are better for the flow of traffic, they do take up much more space. I wish we could replace a lot of the 4-way stops around here, but sadly there are houses and trees in the way.
$2 > $0
Just because you don't consider $2 "risky" doesn't make it not gambling. Where do you draw your imaginary line? $10? $500? A million? I'm sorry, but if you're trying to come up with a "definition" for gambling, your arbitrary limits don't make a lot of sense.
If you could just order a car directly from Ford, what's to stop you from visiting a dealership, taking a test-drive, wasting the sales clerk's time, then leaving and buying your car on ford.com? I'm sure this isn't exactly what lawmakers had in mind originally, but I can see this being some kind of protection for the dealerships.
Semi-related, my local camera store has had this exact problem since the advent of the internet. I'm amazed they're still around.
Then these clearly are not products targeted at you. All the best functionality of these devices relies on communication back to the "mother ships". Asking for the latest news, weather, sports scores, streaming music, etc... Explain to me how something firewalled on your local network would be able to do any of that.
It's just wearisome to hear these same comments trotted out every time a smart speaker is discussed on the site.
What is the point of a password that is out in the open like this? Are passwords that hard to remember?
Actually, yes. When your password must contain upper and lower-case letters, at least one number, a special character, must be at least 12 characters long, must be changed every 3 months, and cannot be a variation of or contain any previous password. That's when you get yellow sticky notes on the monitor.
I don't use paper unless I'm starting a fire...
And there's always plenty of junk mail for that...
Even if you remove the privacy argument, it's an awful gift. You're imposing your choice in technology on someone else. It's akin to an Android user getting an iPhone dock as a gift... it's going right in the trash.
I'd put it up on the list of bad gifts along with lottery tickets.
... "smart locks" where they send a signal from their iPhone app to the server of the manufacturer of the lock who then in turn sends a signal to their lock...
Okay, except that's not how smart locks work...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Wave
And what happens when a deer decides to bolt out from the woods in front of your vehicle? Are you going to trust that the car can detect a deer?
Actually, yes. I trust a computer system that can handle thousands of computations every second much more than I trust a startled, panicky human in that scenario. I don't know if you've ever hit a deer with your car, but they don't exactly give you much warning, regardless of how much you're paying attention to the road.
Source: Lives in Pennsylvania
Newer cars solve this problem with integrated Apple Car Play and Android Auto. Your "infotainment" console becomes essentially a mirror of your phone. Except for Toyota, who seems to be doubling-down on their shitty homebrew system.