It was a few years ago... but when we adopted my youngest son, I had to get him a ticket to get back to the states after we completed the adoption in Africa. Our tickets were $3600 each round trip. The price was insane, but that was at the hight of gas prices and we were landing in the middle of no-where... and the flight back was literally on Christmas day. The perfect storm of airline gouging. Then I went to buy by kids 1 way ticket... $4500!!! He was flying back with us, on the same plane and it was almost $1000 more for his kids ticket. So I started taking up a collection from the family... the plane fair was going to be about 1/3rd of the total adoption and we hadn't planned on it being that insane. Then a relative of mine said the obvious... buy the kid a round trip ticket to... he'd just not be on the plane on the way there. I called the airline and sure enough that was a legitimate plan. How stupid is that?
'So when you go to a physical business and use Apple Pay, Apple doesn't know what you bought, where you bought it, or how much you paid for it. The transaction is between you, the merchant, and your bank.'"
But... Apple does know: your Apple Pay ID. your iPhones ID. the location of the phone at the time (or any time for that matter) The amount Apple collected for a fee in the transaction. The percentage of the total purchase that fee was. The price of every item in the store.
So yes, "...when you go to a physical business and use Apple Pay, Apple doesn't know what you bought, where you bought it, or how much you paid for it." but about 30 seconds later, after doing some trivial SQL queries, they do know all of that.
In my lifetime I've planted over 80,000 trees. How's that for a carbon sink?:-p A relative of mine bought some land that had a huge open farm field out front and back in the 80's he decided to build a house there and didn't want to see the road. So we rented a tree planter (a terrifying, arm severing device, if you ever see one) and we filled quite a few acres with trees. It's now basically a small forest.
I've continued planting them all over the place... at every house and even apartments I've lived at. It's funny, if you plant a tree, put an orange flag next to it and surround it with chicken wire... everyone leaves it alone and even the property owners don't bother it.
Anyways... if you'd like to plant trees to. Go here: http://www.arborday.org/index.... The Arbor Day foundation membership is $10, and you get 10 free trees with the membership. Then you can buy trees for between $1 and $10 delivered to your door. Pines are easy and grow fast... Arborvitas grow at Insane rates, but if you really want to sequester CO2, pines are not a good choice. They have a high mortality rate. Plant hardwoods like Walnut and Oaks (depending on your Zone) 2 full sized Oaks would likely be enough to sequester all the CO2 you produce in your lifetime. So pick a place you know they wont get messed with. Public parks, etc...
Also, before you get the wrong idea... I'm not a big Carbon credit nut. I doubt all of us planting lots of trees will make much of a difference. I just like trees and they take a while to grow. So get planting.
They searched through Sonys files, found a layoff... and that's a surprise? And then they found that there were some with "Technical background" that were laid off at the same time? Then they found that one of those had access to one of the first servers that got penetrated? Oh no! They were in a "hacking IRC channel"!!! That's like all... of the IRC channels. And he used his real name in the channel? I doubt that...
In summary, they found out that Sony had a layoff that affected at least 1 sysadmin and that sysadmin had access to some gateway server... So they're guilty? As with any company Sony's size, I suspect they have layoffs every 6 months or more. And I suspect that those layoffs frequently include people with a "Technical background" and often even "Sysadmins" And it's a surprise that such a person would have access to some random piece of hardware?!? It was his job to have access to ALL of the hardware.
Unless they have more evidence, this is nothing more than a PR stunt, and whomever this individual is, he's probably already looking for a Lawyer.
No, the AC that posted that is just an idiot. The minimum wage in China is different from region to region, even city to city. In most of the factory regions it's around $200/month.
Obviously you haven't shopped at best buy or toys r us lately. They kill Amazon on price and selection
So Best Buys Book section is better than Amazons? And their Jewelry? Cutlery? Clothing? Oh wait, they don't have any of that stuff... I'd better go check Toys R Us... lol
And on price? Yes, I have been to Best Buy lately... I went to get a network cable to replace a broken one. It was $29.99 for a single cable. They had much cheaper ones on their website but they're not available locally. And the cables they had at the store weren't listed on the website.
So I suspect you're comparing their websites... ok... but that's basically the same service. The store has entirely different products and different prices and it's worthless.
There's no reason to shop at a retailer unless you're desperate and need something now. Even the more overpriced online retailers kill brick and mortar on price. Local retailers are closing left and right near me. The mall, which had a 3 lane exit built for it just a few years ago because lines to the parking lot would block the interstate around the holidays, is now a ghost town. Back in the 1990's they kicked out any retailer that wasn't trendy like The Gap or Banana republic, so the stores that made the mall interesting are gone. Radioshack is nothing more than a cellphone kiosk now. Now those interesting retailers have moved to our long vacant downtown (ironically killed off by the mall!) Those unique boutique shops are the only way retail will survive the next 5 to 10yrs and you can guarantee location tracking is the last thing on their minds.
Retailed killed itself, and this "Surveillance" is just a further example of how they just don't get it.
Yea, but this story is so lame I think even degrades the site. What's next? A new recipe program is released and partially funded by Martha Stewart so it's news?
All recording mediums, even Tapes and records are digital if you look close enough. There is a limit to how fine a change you can have even in a record groove. So the fact of the matter is, eventually digital will be able to surpass any conceivable analog source in sampling rate.
But what will be the reaction of the "activists" when these cameras capture indisputable footage of, say, somebody like Michael Brown launching an unprovoked physical attack against a police officer?
They'd probably ask why he tried to apprehend someone twice his size without any backup. Then ask, why after he'd already shot the guy 4 times he had to put 2 more bullets in his head.
Cops should be able to defend themselves, but they seem to be throwing themselves into needless danger over and over again. He was a moron to try and wrestle with this guy over a pack of cigars. If he got away, so what? Then, I don't think I've ever heard one of these police shootings that didn't involve the cop emptying a 16rnd clip. This isn't a western. That, again, is stupid. How many bystanders had bullets whizzing past them? What if the guys friend then turns on the cop? He's out of ammo! And worst of all, you just shot someone to death over a box of cigars. That's not ok. Maybe we should instal missile launchers in their headlights to? There's a jay walker! Lets nuke the intersection, he might be armed!
Slashdots just as guilty of this as anywhere else...
A month or two ago I was getting modded troll left and right for suggesting that Ebola wasn't about to ravage North America and kill millions of people.
What? Grown men find a movie written for boys ages 6 to 12 shallow? You don't say...
I took my son to it yesterday.... he spent the rest of the afternoon riding our Dog around like a warg and chopping at lego dwarves. I think the movie had the effect it intended.
But then the question just becomes "where can I buy a vernier caliper?". It's not like they had amazon.com either, and I doubt it was in the Sears & Roebuck catalog.
In the time period in question the answer was: Sears or True Value. Today I'd say harbor freight.
I have a micrometer literally sitting next to me on my desk at all times, and I also carry one in my glovebox. They're that useful.
Not just no aircraft in the US, no aircraft in the world has had anything more than a pissed off pilot at landing.
You seem to be arguing like I'm saying people should target aircraft at landing with lasers, its no big deal. Re-read what I said... I mentioned at least twice that you shouldn't do this. Stupid kids do this sort of thing. But this is heading in a very predictable direction. They are trying to ban consumer lasers with this lame excuse. Is there a possibility that the right laser, hits the right pilot, and distracts him enough that it really does cause some sort of problem? Yes it's remotely possible... but the chances are so remote that I feel safe in saying it will never happen.
But like I said, if you want to be ultra-super safe... install polarized plastic lenses over the windscreens. Remember we used to stick them on laptop screens? They cost about $5 each. But they haven't done that yet... why? Because the risk is so remote it's not even worth spending $5 to protect against. Do you think the owners of multi-million dollar jet liners would risk their aircraft when the fix was so simple if it were really a threat?
The difference is that the Internet the Cuban government wants (no doubt censored and highly regulated like in China, Russia etc) is totally different to the internet that the old guy was trying to set up (which wouldn't have had the censorship and regulations)
I can't imagine they aren't aware of the goal of these relations. Fidel can say communism isn't dead all he wants... but the reality is, as soon as US money starts flowing in his regime is doomed.
It's never happened, it never will happen. I can't even focus my pen laser on my cat that's 10 feet away from me for more than a split second. Hitting the windshield of an aircraft that's at least 1000 yards away and traveling at at least 200mph?!?! At worst, you have a 1 in a billion chance of nailing the pilot directly in the retina, so yes, you shouldn't do it because that might annoy him. But it's not going crash the plane even if that happened.
Now, for all of you that are going to tell me I'm dumb and don't know what I'm talking about... Please provide evidence. Has any plane ever had an accident as a result of a laser? Any? I've heard from some irritated pilots, and I can understand that... I'd be irritated to. But to claim there was any chance of an accident and we need to limit consumer freedom to harmless technology, just so we don't annoy pilots? That's a joke.
And, I'm willing to offer evidence myself: 2013 Egyptian protests. Snipers on buildings and in helicopters we targeting opposition leaders. As a result, protesters started buying cheap green laser pointers in the market and using them to highlight Sniper and helicopter positions. Eventually, so many lasers would be focused on passing helicopters they looked like this: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/sta... and here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This went on every night for months. Dozens of aircraft, thousands of lasers focused on them continually... but not one single crash. None.
There's absolutely no way these laser pointers could cause a crash... and if they could, the NTSB should immediately require all aircraft to be retrofitted with polarized sheets on the inside of the pilots window. It'd cost a couple of dollars per aircraft and wouldn't infringe on the personal freedoms of the general population.
I'm sorry, but as much as North Korea sucks, this hack just gets better and better...
Google’s effort to position itself as a defender of free speech is shameful. Freedom of speech should never be used as a shield for unlawful activities and the Internet is not a license to steal,” said Kate Bedingfield, an M.P.A.A. spokeswoman, in an emailed statement.
That statements so unbelievably ironic... Sony and the MPAA are trying to squash these very document releases with the same tactics they use to try and stop file sharing... but this time it's to hide their own collusion, racketeering, bribery and likely other violations of federal law. I wonder if the other inmates will appreciate her opinion that piracy is stealing when she's in the state pen...
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It was a few years ago... but when we adopted my youngest son, I had to get him a ticket to get back to the states after we completed the adoption in Africa. Our tickets were $3600 each round trip. The price was insane, but that was at the hight of gas prices and we were landing in the middle of no-where... and the flight back was literally on Christmas day. The perfect storm of airline gouging. Then I went to buy by kids 1 way ticket... $4500!!! He was flying back with us, on the same plane and it was almost $1000 more for his kids ticket. So I started taking up a collection from the family... the plane fair was going to be about 1/3rd of the total adoption and we hadn't planned on it being that insane. Then a relative of mine said the obvious... buy the kid a round trip ticket to... he'd just not be on the plane on the way there. I called the airline and sure enough that was a legitimate plan. How stupid is that?
Next time I'm taking a boat.
'So when you go to a physical business and use Apple Pay, Apple doesn't know what you bought, where you bought it, or how much you paid for it. The transaction is between you, the merchant, and your bank.'"
But... Apple does know:
your Apple Pay ID.
your iPhones ID.
the location of the phone at the time (or any time for that matter)
The amount Apple collected for a fee in the transaction.
The percentage of the total purchase that fee was.
The price of every item in the store.
So yes, "...when you go to a physical business and use Apple Pay, Apple doesn't know what you bought, where you bought it, or how much you paid for it."
but about 30 seconds later, after doing some trivial SQL queries, they do know all of that.
Newton was quite religious and thought the mechanistic universe an expression of rather than rebuke to god’s design.
I agree with Newton. :-)
In my lifetime I've planted over 80,000 trees. How's that for a carbon sink? :-p
A relative of mine bought some land that had a huge open farm field out front and back in the 80's he decided to build a house there and didn't want to see the road. So we rented a tree planter (a terrifying, arm severing device, if you ever see one) and we filled quite a few acres with trees. It's now basically a small forest.
I've continued planting them all over the place... at every house and even apartments I've lived at. It's funny, if you plant a tree, put an orange flag next to it and surround it with chicken wire... everyone leaves it alone and even the property owners don't bother it.
Anyways... if you'd like to plant trees to. Go here: http://www.arborday.org/index....
The Arbor Day foundation membership is $10, and you get 10 free trees with the membership. Then you can buy trees for between $1 and $10 delivered to your door. Pines are easy and grow fast... Arborvitas grow at Insane rates, but if you really want to sequester CO2, pines are not a good choice. They have a high mortality rate. Plant hardwoods like Walnut and Oaks (depending on your Zone) 2 full sized Oaks would likely be enough to sequester all the CO2 you produce in your lifetime. So pick a place you know they wont get messed with. Public parks, etc...
Also, before you get the wrong idea... I'm not a big Carbon credit nut. I doubt all of us planting lots of trees will make much of a difference. I just like trees and they take a while to grow. So get planting.
Wait what?
They searched through Sonys files, found a layoff... and that's a surprise?
And then they found that there were some with "Technical background" that were laid off at the same time?
Then they found that one of those had access to one of the first servers that got penetrated?
Oh no! They were in a "hacking IRC channel"!!! That's like all... of the IRC channels. And he used his real name in the channel? I doubt that...
In summary, they found out that Sony had a layoff that affected at least 1 sysadmin and that sysadmin had access to some gateway server... So they're guilty? As with any company Sony's size, I suspect they have layoffs every 6 months or more. And I suspect that those layoffs frequently include people with a "Technical background" and often even "Sysadmins" And it's a surprise that such a person would have access to some random piece of hardware?!? It was his job to have access to ALL of the hardware.
Unless they have more evidence, this is nothing more than a PR stunt, and whomever this individual is, he's probably already looking for a Lawyer.
EOM
...ironically you post this on Slashdot...
If it brakes causality, doesn't that disprove it right there?
Lets just air-gap those systems -- unless someone can explain why we need to make a nuclear reactor accessible from the Internet.
Most are airgapped. But with cellphones and cell enabled laptops you suddenly have new weak points you didn't used to have to worry about.
No, the AC that posted that is just an idiot. The minimum wage in China is different from region to region, even city to city. In most of the factory regions it's around $200/month.
Obviously you haven't shopped at best buy or toys r us lately. They kill Amazon on price and selection
So Best Buys Book section is better than Amazons? And their Jewelry? Cutlery? Clothing?
Oh wait, they don't have any of that stuff... I'd better go check Toys R Us... lol
And on price? Yes, I have been to Best Buy lately... I went to get a network cable to replace a broken one. It was $29.99 for a single cable. They had much cheaper ones on their website but they're not available locally. And the cables they had at the store weren't listed on the website.
So I suspect you're comparing their websites... ok... but that's basically the same service. The store has entirely different products and different prices and it's worthless.
There's no reason to shop at a retailer unless you're desperate and need something now. Even the more overpriced online retailers kill brick and mortar on price. Local retailers are closing left and right near me. The mall, which had a 3 lane exit built for it just a few years ago because lines to the parking lot would block the interstate around the holidays, is now a ghost town. Back in the 1990's they kicked out any retailer that wasn't trendy like The Gap or Banana republic, so the stores that made the mall interesting are gone. Radioshack is nothing more than a cellphone kiosk now. Now those interesting retailers have moved to our long vacant downtown (ironically killed off by the mall!) Those unique boutique shops are the only way retail will survive the next 5 to 10yrs and you can guarantee location tracking is the last thing on their minds.
Retailed killed itself, and this "Surveillance" is just a further example of how they just don't get it.
Yea, but this story is so lame I think even degrades the site. What's next? A new recipe program is released and partially funded by Martha Stewart so it's news?
All recording mediums, even Tapes and records are digital if you look close enough. There is a limit to how fine a change you can have even in a record groove. So the fact of the matter is, eventually digital will be able to surpass any conceivable analog source in sampling rate.
But what will be the reaction of the "activists" when these cameras capture indisputable footage of, say, somebody like Michael Brown launching an unprovoked physical attack against a police officer?
They'd probably ask why he tried to apprehend someone twice his size without any backup. Then ask, why after he'd already shot the guy 4 times he had to put 2 more bullets in his head.
Cops should be able to defend themselves, but they seem to be throwing themselves into needless danger over and over again. He was a moron to try and wrestle with this guy over a pack of cigars. If he got away, so what? Then, I don't think I've ever heard one of these police shootings that didn't involve the cop emptying a 16rnd clip. This isn't a western. That, again, is stupid. How many bystanders had bullets whizzing past them? What if the guys friend then turns on the cop? He's out of ammo! And worst of all, you just shot someone to death over a box of cigars. That's not ok. Maybe we should instal missile launchers in their headlights to? There's a jay walker! Lets nuke the intersection, he might be armed!
Then why should the police care about violence against you?
The police in question... already don't care. So it's kind of a moot point.
Slashdots just as guilty of this as anywhere else...
A month or two ago I was getting modded troll left and right for suggesting that Ebola wasn't about to ravage North America and kill millions of people.
Can someone explain to me what "7,000 documents" is? Or 31,000 even? are they 1kb sized documents? 1mb? Spreadsheets? Scanned pages?
I'm baffled by this use of measurement that has absolutely no meaning to the modern world.
What? Grown men find a movie written for boys ages 6 to 12 shallow? You don't say...
I took my son to it yesterday.... he spent the rest of the afternoon riding our Dog around like a warg and chopping at lego dwarves. I think the movie had the effect it intended.
What does it mean when you dream of being chased by an elephant?
That you're Hillary Clinton running for President in 2016.
ok, that was clever. /applaud
But then the question just becomes "where can I buy a vernier caliper?". It's not like they had amazon.com either, and I doubt it was in the Sears & Roebuck catalog.
In the time period in question the answer was: Sears or True Value.
Today I'd say harbor freight.
I have a micrometer literally sitting next to me on my desk at all times, and I also carry one in my glovebox. They're that useful.
Not just no aircraft in the US, no aircraft in the world has had anything more than a pissed off pilot at landing.
You seem to be arguing like I'm saying people should target aircraft at landing with lasers, its no big deal. Re-read what I said... I mentioned at least twice that you shouldn't do this. Stupid kids do this sort of thing. But this is heading in a very predictable direction. They are trying to ban consumer lasers with this lame excuse. Is there a possibility that the right laser, hits the right pilot, and distracts him enough that it really does cause some sort of problem? Yes it's remotely possible... but the chances are so remote that I feel safe in saying it will never happen.
But like I said, if you want to be ultra-super safe... install polarized plastic lenses over the windscreens. Remember we used to stick them on laptop screens? They cost about $5 each. But they haven't done that yet... why? Because the risk is so remote it's not even worth spending $5 to protect against. Do you think the owners of multi-million dollar jet liners would risk their aircraft when the fix was so simple if it were really a threat?
An FAA preliminary incident report described the pilot's injury as minor but did not provide details.
Yea, sounds like it burned his eye right out.
The difference is that the Internet the Cuban government wants (no doubt censored and highly regulated like in China, Russia etc) is totally different to the internet that the old guy was trying to set up (which wouldn't have had the censorship and regulations)
I can't imagine they aren't aware of the goal of these relations. Fidel can say communism isn't dead all he wants... but the reality is, as soon as US money starts flowing in his regime is doomed.
I'm sick of this bullshit myth.
Lasers do not cause Aircraft to crash.
It's never happened, it never will happen. I can't even focus my pen laser on my cat that's 10 feet away from me for more than a split second. Hitting the windshield of an aircraft that's at least 1000 yards away and traveling at at least 200mph?!?! At worst, you have a 1 in a billion chance of nailing the pilot directly in the retina, so yes, you shouldn't do it because that might annoy him. But it's not going crash the plane even if that happened.
Now, for all of you that are going to tell me I'm dumb and don't know what I'm talking about... Please provide evidence. Has any plane ever had an accident as a result of a laser? Any? I've heard from some irritated pilots, and I can understand that... I'd be irritated to. But to claim there was any chance of an accident and we need to limit consumer freedom to harmless technology, just so we don't annoy pilots? That's a joke.
And, I'm willing to offer evidence myself:
2013 Egyptian protests. Snipers on buildings and in helicopters we targeting opposition leaders. As a result, protesters started buying cheap green laser pointers in the market and using them to highlight Sniper and helicopter positions. Eventually, so many lasers would be focused on passing helicopters they looked like this:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/sta...
and here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This went on every night for months. Dozens of aircraft, thousands of lasers focused on them continually... but not one single crash. None.
There's absolutely no way these laser pointers could cause a crash... and if they could, the NTSB should immediately require all aircraft to be retrofitted with polarized sheets on the inside of the pilots window. It'd cost a couple of dollars per aircraft and wouldn't infringe on the personal freedoms of the general population.
I'm sorry, but as much as North Korea sucks, this hack just gets better and better...
Google’s effort to position itself as a defender of free speech is shameful. Freedom of speech should never be used as a shield for unlawful activities and the Internet is not a license to steal,” said Kate Bedingfield, an M.P.A.A. spokeswoman, in an emailed statement.
That statements so unbelievably ironic... Sony and the MPAA are trying to squash these very document releases with the same tactics they use to try and stop file sharing... but this time it's to hide their own collusion, racketeering, bribery and likely other violations of federal law. I wonder if the other inmates will appreciate her opinion that piracy is stealing when she's in the state pen...