We don't have most other animals pissing and shitting in the same house as humans though.
Even dogs aren't usually treated as intimately as most cats.
You wash your hands. You cook your food. This isn't rocket surgery. And if you have your cat or dog in the house you are even less likely to have a problem.
There are, just as an aside, a fair number of people who use pee-pads for their dogs, and even after they go outside, that's when they can pick the bad stuff up. Some dogs are actually coprophagic, which is a hellava direct route for toxoplamasmosis. Eat an unburied cat turd outside, come in and lick your face? Yummy.
This is so simply avoidable by simple basic hygiene.
This might be a good opportunity to review your device and let us know which browser, search engine and phone you've used that caused the email. My biggest assumption is you've used google chrome app while signed in.
Here's what worked for me. A non-google browser app with ad block option/ script off option/ cookie off option/ private option, duckduckgo search engine, and a regular smartphone. You could get the Tor app too if you want and turn off gmail's personalized ads option.
I used Safari stock on the iPhone. The search was google. At home, I use either Safari or Firefox, with a fair number of blocking extensions (I'm not naming them so as not to resurrect the APK. But blocking scripts and ads and a few miscellaneous things - normal stuff. I also use DDG for search.
It pretty much reinforces my notion that the web is about unusable without computer condoms. I do a lot of research on teh internet, and gawd knows what I'd be bombarded with if I didn't have protection.
I have thought of pranking a friend with borrowing his phone and doing a google search for adult diapers....
If I wanted to keep close tabs on the ultra right, I would make certain that there is a very good App for them to use. Same for the ultra left. Such a strange world. Let them have all the free speech they need to hang themselves.
Being politically adroit is an essential job skill for a high level executive.
It does not negate the fact that you should have some technical skills. A politically adroit person who knows nothing about the executive position can probably gut their area, eliminate all but a small group of employees, and look like a genius for a while, running their organization like a real boss, with miraculous low payroll.
But they can shmooze and make small chat at the parties and network with the best of them at the company retreat and team building, and make certain to contribute to the CEO's favorite charity - and make certain he or she knows. And as I learned a long time ago, if there is something I don't know about, I find someone I can trust to tell me what I need to know while I learn. The politics is playground easy to learn.
Well, I'm a bit dyslexic, so while I noticed it, I didn't jump on it the way you did.
This is Slashdot, and a misplaced comma will somehow render your point null and void. Or not. If the only criticism a person can whine about is spelling or punctuation, you either have a good argument or they have none.
You do know that diversity hiring doesn't mean we just hire anybody? The qualifications for the job don't just become "A woman" or "A person of color". That is not how it works in the real world, even if you for a second honestly naively believe that devoid of diversity hiring policies, employers hire the person with the best qualifications or most experience in the first place.
Actually, there is a whole real world that does not conform to yours. We went far out of our way to hire women who were qualified, but not remotely the best candidates for the job. Entry level qualifications were beatng out 15 year veterans. I lost out on several promotions because we had to promote the women as fast as possible, including one promotion where the woman did not meet the minimum qualifications of time in grade.
Sorry, but in academia at least, men are being marginalized in favor of women. But don't worry, it will work out just fine.
Yes nothing says she (or anyone with a liberal arts degree) can't be a good security officer. But it is suspicious that all of her background is now hidden. It might have been she was CSO for political reasons as one would find in big companies that the person who plays politics is promoted over people who have experience or skill.
And the extra really super suspicious thing is that she oversaw the biggest data breach we know of.
If you are going to be a CSO, you really need to be a little paranoid, and you need to run a hellava lot of penetration testing, install some honeypots, and know some stuff. I'd wager that most music majors will not have the mental outlook to do that.
But Equifax promises that their next CSO will be a Women's study major, which should fix everything
Toxoplamosis gondii infects virtually all warm blooded Animals. So all you Slashdotters eating cheetos and living in your mom's basement should be safe.
If this is remotely true, we are well and truly fucked, because it isn't just cats, it's damn near everything.
On the serious side, cook yer gadamned food properly and wash your hands after doing shit like taking a crap, or petting pigs, and then all you'll have to worry about is everything else.
Gold has at least been around for a long time, and has investment value because it is so easily recognizable and assayable, and has established value in every culture.
In Roman times, an ounce of gold traded for the best suit of clothes. After two thousand years of inflation, deflation and manipulation - it still does.
Yet many people have lost life investments by buying gold at the wrong time. It is way too volatile.If You buy high and sell low, as so many do, that doesn't do much for you.
I actually have some precious metal investments, made in 1978. If I were to sell them today, I would make about 500 dollars per ounce. That's actually a loss, adjusted for inflation. http://www.macrotrends.net/133... So they sit, I don't even think about them unless in conversations like this.
Anyhow, if you buy low, and sell before you think they've hit their peak, you might do okay. But most people don't think that way. On the way up, they are counting their money, and congratulating themselves for how smart they are. Then after it peaks, they hang on, because it has to go back up, right? Then after it sinks below what they paid for it, they hold on in the forlorn hope it will rebound. Then they sell it at a big loss.
My guess is that if we are taking the apocalyptic fear version the investors trot out, yes, when the wheels fall off, you can buy a loaf of beard and some bullets for some gold. My hope is that I don't survive whatever causes civilization to collapse like that. Just bury those Krugerrands or Englehard gold bars in a concrete box in the back yard, and when the radiation dies down, dig it up and make your way in the brave new world.
A lot of people were 'Hmmm'ing all the way to bankruptcy in 2007 when their house was 300% of the purchase price and -30% a year later. Surely bitcoin couldn't suffer the same fate as that extremely secure, tangible, asset.
Bitcoin is like gold. Every so often, just like gold, it goes up wildly. then just as quickly, it falls wildly, and a bunch of pretend money disappears overnight. People lose their asses, and sell at a loss. Smart move people
The problem is that the advertisers are only tied into the search data.. not the purchase data. They don't know you actually made the purchase already. It's cheap enough for them to take the gamble and blast everybody with their search history.
Some times they are though. When I book a hotel through one of the sites that do this, I keep getting emails about booking in thy same place I already made reservations in.
I bought a motorcycle helmet years ago, I still get ads for the helmet and others I researched. Fucking ads suck.
I don't generally surf much on my phone. I do get gmail on it. And at home I have adblockers, ghostery and noscript. But I was at an event and I noticed some people "vaping". I was curious about it, so looked it up on the phone. I get back home, and am inundated with email and notifications regarding electronic cigarettes and vaping. Rat bastards - I verified the reason I need to lock my browser down at home.
"Europeans are masters of waging war on themselves"
The only reason Europe has not fought amongst themselves is because they have had a powerful babysitter named the US since the end of WW2. Just go back through European history and see the wars that have been raged non-stop across Europe. Europe is supposed to be more socially enlightened than the US but the wave of censorship and wide scale surveillance moving through Europe tells a different story.
It is quite fashionable to bathe America in hatred for our evil ways, and to extol All of Europe as enlightened, sophisticated, and tolerant people who are the very definition of civilization.
And yet even in the 1990's there was a war of genocide in this bastion of good. The Army of the Republika Srpska apparently went around throwing flowers at people until the evil Murricans stopped them. As you note, there is so much more. And who can forget the Armenian genocide? This was kind of like a company picnic, with the Ottoman empire killing perhaps 1 and a half million people from 1914 to 1923. Death marches, concentration camps, mass burnings of people, taking women and children in boats onto the ocean and capsizing the boats in order to drown them. Poisonings and that favorite European gift to the world, mass gassing.
So seriously, too many Europeans are a thin veneer of snootiness that covers up a base desire to kill those they disagree with in as cruel and painful a way as possible. Lit house on the hill my ass - it's a gas chamber.
This is what I find ironic. The US aside (and this is a debate to itself), Europe is pretty much the "lit city on the hill" when it comes to civilization, where every other nation in the world stands in their shadow when it comes to personal freedoms.
Seriously? Are you excluding certain European countries from your city on the hill?
Wars are pretty much the ultimate suppression of speech. To the extent that you want to kill the enemy who is saying those mean things. And Europeans are masters of waging war on themselves.
I wonder if we might be able to concentrate on more than one issue at a time.
Given that the whole point of the "Russia hacked the elections" thing is to distract people from more important things, it seems that the answer is "No."
Well, I can't be certain of course, but I'd wait a few months her for further news before the conspiracies are closed.
This is pretty much why I can't help but snicker every time someone says "But the Russians...". The harm "the Russians" can do to you are minimal compared to what your very own government can.
I wonder if we might be able to concentrate on more than one issue at a time.
They said this data breach took place from May through July. How exactly does one miss terabytes, possibly petabytes of data being transferred to an IP address outside of your network for 3 months? I mean to me this sounds like either the hackers were god like in their ability to hide what they were doing, or the people whose job it was to prevent these things from happening, simply didn't give a shit.
Hiring people to monitor this stuff costs money, and why punish the shareholders with a cost cernter? This will all self correct anyhow, amirite?
Regulations are bad and regressive! Business always self polices itself better, and the invisible hand of the free market is never wrong, and always self correcting.
If there were no regulations, this would never have happened, and we would all enjoy perfect internet security.
You asked the router manufacturer (Arris) to "remove the Symantec from your computer", and then you reimage your PC when someone tries to MitM you? If that actually makes sense to you then I stand by everything I've said.
No, actually I did not. say tha. You might think that you are smarter than me in all ways, but what I wrote, and which for some unknown reason you lied about is:
"Then I tell them that anything that has anything to do with Symantec must be removed from my computer, and removed now!
That is cut and pasted from my post. You can put that in quotes. Not what you did. Because what you put in quotes was untrue.
An unreasonable request? I did not know at the time if "anything" that had anything to do with Symanec was there, but if anything was, it had to go. Not a reasonable demand? As the smart internet guy, was the presence of any Symantec installed software impossible? Explain. Not that I'd believe you now, because you'll just make shit up. That's what happens when you lie. Not much lower in my book than someone who is a liar.
If someone came to you as a security IT guy with those symptoms, you would not inspect the computer to see if anything had been installed on it? Wouldn't even wonder because you knew already that there was none? Just bloviate about how smart you are? Would you bet your job on it? In some places you would lose it. Anyhow, no need to respond, because I don't believe anything proven
I'd use check my router IP settings and then use ping and traceroute to start with, just to see what's going on. If you think not having access to the world wide web is the same as losing internet access you really should stick to something less technical.
So anyhow, you would not have engaged in communications with the people who claimed to have enabled this? Elucidate, and instead of being a slashdot genius, tell me why I should not have.
I wrote two sentences in my first post. Two. Seems to me you have a desperate need to arrogantly assert your talking points, and are incapable of understanding that you've offended someone plus incapable of understanding that fuck off means fuck off and leave me alone.
Well, in the first place, I have no issues offending people like you. Not one. You are a really angry person, and believe me, that isn't good for a person. It takes a special kind of anger to be angry at people hwo are trying to help, like the Republican Governor of Florida, or the various weather services and reporters.
In short, you are not being completely rational, and that's a little disturbing. You are putting sentences together, sure, but when everything is the fault of something you hate, its time to sit back and reflect, because just like Trump can't be the cause of all problems, neither can the media. Or Obama. Or Bush2.
Its a big internet, and telling people to fuck off and leave you alone is better achieved by taking one's own advice.
Regardless, it is pretty clear that rather than be of any help, I am just upsetting you further. So good luck and good day sir. Matwhatever salves your hatred based wounds come to pass, and you regain the happiness that the media has robbed you of.
You don't know how computers work, go play in reddit.
Oh yes, I'm the dumbest asshole on the planet.
Tell me, if you lost internet access, and the only way you could get it back was to click on the only webpage that showed up, would you without hesitation, click on that link? You either have no access, call the people who are presumably the ones who did this to you, or click the link.
If you answer anything other than you contact the people responsible, you have absolutely no place telling me I know nothing, and frankly, you need to stick to surfing shemale midget scat porn and posting on facebook, Chuckugly.
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We don't have most other animals pissing and shitting in the same house as humans though. Even dogs aren't usually treated as intimately as most cats.
You wash your hands. You cook your food. This isn't rocket surgery. And if you have your cat or dog in the house you are even less likely to have a problem.
There are, just as an aside, a fair number of people who use pee-pads for their dogs, and even after they go outside, that's when they can pick the bad stuff up. Some dogs are actually coprophagic, which is a hellava direct route for toxoplamasmosis. Eat an unburied cat turd outside, come in and lick your face? Yummy.
This is so simply avoidable by simple basic hygiene.
Dang you'd have to be really hungry. But at least now we know Richard Stallman won't starve.
Damn autocorrect! But funny as hell sometimes!
This might be a good opportunity to review your device and let us know which browser, search engine and phone you've used that caused the email. My biggest assumption is you've used google chrome app while signed in.
Here's what worked for me. A non-google browser app with ad block option/ script off option/ cookie off option/ private option, duckduckgo search engine, and a regular smartphone. You could get the Tor app too if you want and turn off gmail's personalized ads option.
I used Safari stock on the iPhone. The search was google. At home, I use either Safari or Firefox, with a fair number of blocking extensions (I'm not naming them so as not to resurrect the APK. But blocking scripts and ads and a few miscellaneous things - normal stuff. I also use DDG for search.
It pretty much reinforces my notion that the web is about unusable without computer condoms. I do a lot of research on teh internet, and gawd knows what I'd be bombarded with if I didn't have protection.
I have thought of pranking a friend with borrowing his phone and doing a google search for adult diapers....
If I wanted to keep close tabs on the ultra right, I would make certain that there is a very good App for them to use. Same for the ultra left. Such a strange world. Let them have all the free speech they need to hang themselves.
Being politically adroit is an essential job skill for a high level executive.
It does not negate the fact that you should have some technical skills. A politically adroit person who knows nothing about the executive position can probably gut their area, eliminate all but a small group of employees, and look like a genius for a while, running their organization like a real boss, with miraculous low payroll.
But they can shmooze and make small chat at the parties and network with the best of them at the company retreat and team building, and make certain to contribute to the CEO's favorite charity - and make certain he or she knows. And as I learned a long time ago, if there is something I don't know about, I find someone I can trust to tell me what I need to know while I learn. The politics is playground easy to learn.
Well, I'm a bit dyslexic, so while I noticed it, I didn't jump on it the way you did.
This is Slashdot, and a misplaced comma will somehow render your point null and void. Or not. If the only criticism a person can whine about is spelling or punctuation, you either have a good argument or they have none.
You do know that diversity hiring doesn't mean we just hire anybody? The qualifications for the job don't just become "A woman" or "A person of color". That is not how it works in the real world, even if you for a second honestly naively believe that devoid of diversity hiring policies, employers hire the person with the best qualifications or most experience in the first place.
Actually, there is a whole real world that does not conform to yours. We went far out of our way to hire women who were qualified, but not remotely the best candidates for the job. Entry level qualifications were beatng out 15 year veterans. I lost out on several promotions because we had to promote the women as fast as possible, including one promotion where the woman did not meet the minimum qualifications of time in grade.
Sorry, but in academia at least, men are being marginalized in favor of women. But don't worry, it will work out just fine.
Yes nothing says she (or anyone with a liberal arts degree) can't be a good security officer. But it is suspicious that all of her background is now hidden. It might have been she was CSO for political reasons as one would find in big companies that the person who plays politics is promoted over people who have experience or skill.
And the extra really super suspicious thing is that she oversaw the biggest data breach we know of.
If you are going to be a CSO, you really need to be a little paranoid, and you need to run a hellava lot of penetration testing, install some honeypots, and know some stuff. I'd wager that most music majors will not have the mental outlook to do that.
But Equifax promises that their next CSO will be a Women's study major, which should fix everything
Can somebody chime in if this is unusual for CIO/CSO positions?
Not at all
The fix will have something to do with monitoring pornography.
If this is remotely true, we are well and truly fucked, because it isn't just cats, it's damn near everything.
On the serious side, cook yer gadamned food properly and wash your hands after doing shit like taking a crap, or petting pigs, and then all you'll have to worry about is everything else.
Gold has at least been around for a long time, and has investment value because it is so easily recognizable and assayable, and has established value in every culture.
In Roman times, an ounce of gold traded for the best suit of clothes. After two thousand years of inflation, deflation and manipulation - it still does.
Yet many people have lost life investments by buying gold at the wrong time. It is way too volatile.If You buy high and sell low, as so many do, that doesn't do much for you.
I actually have some precious metal investments, made in 1978. If I were to sell them today, I would make about 500 dollars per ounce. That's actually a loss, adjusted for inflation. http://www.macrotrends.net/133... So they sit, I don't even think about them unless in conversations like this.
Anyhow, if you buy low, and sell before you think they've hit their peak, you might do okay. But most people don't think that way. On the way up, they are counting their money, and congratulating themselves for how smart they are. Then after it peaks, they hang on, because it has to go back up, right? Then after it sinks below what they paid for it, they hold on in the forlorn hope it will rebound. Then they sell it at a big loss.
My guess is that if we are taking the apocalyptic fear version the investors trot out, yes, when the wheels fall off, you can buy a loaf of beard and some bullets for some gold. My hope is that I don't survive whatever causes civilization to collapse like that. Just bury those Krugerrands or Englehard gold bars in a concrete box in the back yard, and when the radiation dies down, dig it up and make your way in the brave new world.
A lot of people were 'Hmmm'ing all the way to bankruptcy in 2007 when their house was 300% of the purchase price and -30% a year later. Surely bitcoin couldn't suffer the same fate as that extremely secure, tangible, asset.
Bitcoin is like gold. Every so often, just like gold, it goes up wildly. then just as quickly, it falls wildly, and a bunch of pretend money disappears overnight. People lose their asses, and sell at a loss. Smart move people
The problem is that the advertisers are only tied into the search data.. not the purchase data. They don't know you actually made the purchase already. It's cheap enough for them to take the gamble and blast everybody with their search history.
Some times they are though. When I book a hotel through one of the sites that do this, I keep getting emails about booking in thy same place I already made reservations in.
I bought a motorcycle helmet years ago, I still get ads for the helmet and others I researched. Fucking ads suck.
I don't generally surf much on my phone. I do get gmail on it. And at home I have adblockers, ghostery and noscript. But I was at an event and I noticed some people "vaping". I was curious about it, so looked it up on the phone. I get back home, and am inundated with email and notifications regarding electronic cigarettes and vaping. Rat bastards - I verified the reason I need to lock my browser down at home.
"Europeans are masters of waging war on themselves" The only reason Europe has not fought amongst themselves is because they have had a powerful babysitter named the US since the end of WW2. Just go back through European history and see the wars that have been raged non-stop across Europe. Europe is supposed to be more socially enlightened than the US but the wave of censorship and wide scale surveillance moving through Europe tells a different story.
It is quite fashionable to bathe America in hatred for our evil ways, and to extol All of Europe as enlightened, sophisticated, and tolerant people who are the very definition of civilization.
And yet even in the 1990's there was a war of genocide in this bastion of good. The Army of the Republika Srpska apparently went around throwing flowers at people until the evil Murricans stopped them. As you note, there is so much more. And who can forget the Armenian genocide? This was kind of like a company picnic, with the Ottoman empire killing perhaps 1 and a half million people from 1914 to 1923. Death marches, concentration camps, mass burnings of people, taking women and children in boats onto the ocean and capsizing the boats in order to drown them. Poisonings and that favorite European gift to the world, mass gassing.
So seriously, too many Europeans are a thin veneer of snootiness that covers up a base desire to kill those they disagree with in as cruel and painful a way as possible. Lit house on the hill my ass - it's a gas chamber.
This is what I find ironic. The US aside (and this is a debate to itself), Europe is pretty much the "lit city on the hill" when it comes to civilization, where every other nation in the world stands in their shadow when it comes to personal freedoms.
Seriously? Are you excluding certain European countries from your city on the hill?
How about these 20th century wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or these 21st century wars? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wars are pretty much the ultimate suppression of speech. To the extent that you want to kill the enemy who is saying those mean things. And Europeans are masters of waging war on themselves.
I wonder if we might be able to concentrate on more than one issue at a time.
Given that the whole point of the "Russia hacked the elections" thing is to distract people from more important things, it seems that the answer is "No."
Well, I can't be certain of course, but I'd wait a few months her for further news before the conspiracies are closed.
This is pretty much why I can't help but snicker every time someone says "But the Russians...". The harm "the Russians" can do to you are minimal compared to what your very own government can.
I wonder if we might be able to concentrate on more than one issue at a time.
They said this data breach took place from May through July. How exactly does one miss terabytes, possibly petabytes of data being transferred to an IP address outside of your network for 3 months? I mean to me this sounds like either the hackers were god like in their ability to hide what they were doing, or the people whose job it was to prevent these things from happening, simply didn't give a shit.
Hiring people to monitor this stuff costs money, and why punish the shareholders with a cost cernter? This will all self correct anyhow, amirite?
If there were no regulations, this would never have happened, and we would all enjoy perfect internet security.
You asked the router manufacturer (Arris) to "remove the Symantec from your computer", and then you reimage your PC when someone tries to MitM you? If that actually makes sense to you then I stand by everything I've said.
No, actually I did not. say tha. You might think that you are smarter than me in all ways, but what I wrote, and which for some unknown reason you lied about is:
"Then I tell them that anything that has anything to do with Symantec must be removed from my computer, and removed now!
That is cut and pasted from my post. You can put that in quotes. Not what you did. Because what you put in quotes was untrue.
An unreasonable request? I did not know at the time if "anything" that had anything to do with Symanec was there, but if anything was, it had to go. Not a reasonable demand? As the smart internet guy, was the presence of any Symantec installed software impossible? Explain. Not that I'd believe you now, because you'll just make shit up. That's what happens when you lie. Not much lower in my book than someone who is a liar.
If someone came to you as a security IT guy with those symptoms, you would not inspect the computer to see if anything had been installed on it? Wouldn't even wonder because you knew already that there was none? Just bloviate about how smart you are? Would you bet your job on it? In some places you would lose it. Anyhow, no need to respond, because I don't believe anything proven
I'd use check my router IP settings and then use ping and traceroute to start with, just to see what's going on. If you think not having access to the world wide web is the same as losing internet access you really should stick to something less technical.
So anyhow, you would not have engaged in communications with the people who claimed to have enabled this? Elucidate, and instead of being a slashdot genius, tell me why I should not have.
I wrote two sentences in my first post. Two. Seems to me you have a desperate need to arrogantly assert your talking points, and are incapable of understanding that you've offended someone plus incapable of understanding that fuck off means fuck off and leave me alone.
Well, in the first place, I have no issues offending people like you. Not one. You are a really angry person, and believe me, that isn't good for a person. It takes a special kind of anger to be angry at people hwo are trying to help, like the Republican Governor of Florida, or the various weather services and reporters.
In short, you are not being completely rational, and that's a little disturbing. You are putting sentences together, sure, but when everything is the fault of something you hate, its time to sit back and reflect, because just like Trump can't be the cause of all problems, neither can the media. Or Obama. Or Bush2.
Its a big internet, and telling people to fuck off and leave you alone is better achieved by taking one's own advice.
Regardless, it is pretty clear that rather than be of any help, I am just upsetting you further. So good luck and good day sir. Matwhatever salves your hatred based wounds come to pass, and you regain the happiness that the media has robbed you of.
You don't know how computers work, go play in reddit.
Oh yes, I'm the dumbest asshole on the planet.
Tell me, if you lost internet access, and the only way you could get it back was to click on the only webpage that showed up, would you without hesitation, click on that link? You either have no access, call the people who are presumably the ones who did this to you, or click the link.
If you answer anything other than you contact the people responsible, you have absolutely no place telling me I know nothing, and frankly, you need to stick to surfing shemale midget scat porn and posting on facebook, Chuckugly.
You are Dunning- Kruger personified.