Trump likes digging up dirt on people and threatened to put his political rival in jail (let's see if he was lying). This is exactly what people were warning about.
Come on now folks. This too shall pass. If we look at Germany, they had a few rough years from the late 30's to mid 40's. But today Germany is a pretty darn nice place.
If you want to keep data secure, keep it in house and hire people who know how to protect it.
One of the best reasons to keep it in house is that the peeps keeping it secure are working for you.
The cloud? You are just another customer, and how's all that customer support going, cloud peeps? Someone in Bangalore saying "Have you tried rebooting your computer?"
The cloud providers are not police men. They have no responsibility to make sure their customers are following their policies.
Congratulations for tshowing exactly why the cloud shouldn't be used.
If your cloud isn't protecting you, or they just give the "It's not our responsibility" bullshit, you just have to put up with whatever they serve you. You are just another customer
If the cloud is so bad, why is it that virtually all companies are looking to move to it, ditching all enterprise-grade hardware on premises is their edge router to the Internet and AWS? Like it or not, it is the way of the future.
The suits have been sold on how inexpensive it is, and how they can get rid of a lot of employees. This leads to bigger bonuses.
And just like every insourcing versus outsourcing battle, it will be cyclical.
Let me get this straight. the ultimate destruction of the net is to be accellerated by giving the Internet of Things top priority? I realize that the world has gone batshit insane, but this is like giving Pedophiles guaranteed and first access to your children. Sorry honey, but Jerry Sandusky need to see little Timmy for personal hygeine lessons before we can give him breakfast.
I've just spent 40 minutes watching shuttle and apollo launch footage. Got to stop followng launch video links.
I too, get completely stuck on rocket launches and space stuff.
But isn't the Saturn V a freakin' monster? And the Soyuz is just pretty as a rocket can get.
Hardly ever. Enjoy your new Windows 10 machine. I'm certain it will serve you well.
Don't confuse me with an Apple fanboy. Since I use all the major OS's on a daily basis, I know how a Mac works compared to a Windows compared to a Linux compared to a ChromeOS.
I'm just gonna pull up a lawn chair, enjoy some nice fresh popcorn and watch. These are historic times, and fortunately, I'm fairly old, had a good life, and don't care if I die. Bring it on, Entertain me!
Or, they could just take the data out of the phone, put it into a special OS shell that doesn't have the lockout feature, and rip through all 10000 four digit codes in the time wasted between keystrokes in this reply.
Or, or, and or. I'd be the last person to argue for or against any so called security features on a phone. I do not consider anything about a phone to be secure at all ever. So if I were to be doing something illegal, I sure as hell wouldn't put it on my phone.
The whole thing is people demanding an inherently non-secure device to be secure. It's like buying a billboard, putting something classified on it, or kiddie porn, and demanding that people not see what is on it because you demand your right to privacy.
um, maybe you should read the article you linked to? He adopted Conservative ideals (fiscal responsibility, for one) to fix some of the problems.
The problem such as it is, is that those who call themselves conservatives these days do not practice fiscal responsibility. You are talking to a Goldwater conservative, who understands the difference between old school conservative principles and the state of the party now.
How ironic, when Jerry Brown is a better conservative than the people who call him a liberal.
4 digit phone codes are also obviously a waste of time in the first place. So are six digit codes. Or eight digit codes. Eight CHARACTER keys on strong encryption is a weak opener -- maybe the feeb can't crack that with in-house resources, but I wouldn't bet against the NSA, and in principle the feeb can call on the NSA in any circumstances that would warrant it.
We see this sort of thing with old school locks. They are secure in minutes, so to speak. An accomplished cracker can break into a certain lock in a certain amount of time.
So its kind of like a two factor authentification. You have the device that delays entry, and you have the person checking on it every so often. Yeah, someone is going to be able to crack a four digit code without too much trouble. But given that the phone locks after X number of failed inputs and they have to wait a while before trying again, I'm probably going to find them long before they break in.
I think most people have forgotten the presentation / keynote where Touch ID was introduced:
In that segment Jobs pulled out a statistic that something like over 70% of people don't put a PIN on their iPhone, Why didn't they? Because it was a pain in the ass. Touch ID allows you to conveniently unlock your phone, but to activate it, you need to enter a PIN. Now, with newer iPhones, probably something like 100% of people have PINs.
A person who finds entering a 4 digit passcode (now 6) is going to really have issues with setting up touch ID.
But you are right, peeps be lazy.
My wife doesn't even want a passcode or TouchID. I told her in that case, no ApplePay or any purchases with it until you do.
Seems a bit OTT. Why not just have a passcode or swipe pattern as the standard lock?
You have a choice. If you don't want to use fingerprints, you don't have to. I use fingerprint access on my iPhone and it's about as opt-in a feature as you could want. They changed from 4 letter passcode to 6 now.
Can it be spoofed? Sure. But they'll have to know which finger or body part I used to set up, and there is so little of interest on my phone that it would be a waste of time to even try. I mean I texted the word "poop" once. But that's about it.
We already know this. That's what the whole story in late September was about: Yahoo was hacked and that information was kept from its customers for 2 years. Of course someone inside Yahoo knew about it.
The very odd thing that I'm having a problem with is I knew of the breach. At the time, I belonged to several Yahoo groups. A lot of spam and spoofed posts started showing up. Then Yahoo sent out posts telling people to change their passwords. While no one mentioned "State actors", it was pretty obvious that a big hack had just happened.
Fortunately, I only used my Yahoo email to access the groups, not for anything else. Kinda like there was nothing but the one program I needed Windows for on my W10 machine. So even if hacked in the case of Yahoo, or purposefully telemetered, like Windows 10, there would be as little damage as possible.
But two years later, its hard to figure out what was supposedly kept secret from us.
Yea, they have become somewhat intolerant for all this SJW BS and PC that is being pushed now days.
So why not leave them secede? You can go back to living life as you like it, no doubt without all of the problems that are caused by them
Because it is no longer about Social Justice Warriors or whatever version of political correctness that gets your panties in a bunch. Pretty much everyone laughs at them. Its about putting up or shutting up.
You have the country now. But the black truth is that you need these progressives, liberals, and Social Justice warriors badly. gotta have someone to blame.
Is there a relationship between the California being the 6th largest economy in the world, and Oklahoma being an economic mess? I dunno. Tell me how it is all the liberals fault, and make yourself feel better.
Problem is, MS Office isn't all that compatible between the two.
If you read my post, you'd see that you don't just transfer MS Office from Windows to OSX without making changes. Often a lot of changes. We've spent thousands of hours with that problem. With AO, my documents can be done on a Windows, Linux or OSX machine and look the same on each.
6th, actually. We surpassed France earlier this year.:-)
A few months ago, shortly before we knocked off France, Governor Brown had an awesome comeback when Rick Scott, Florida's governor, got a bit lippy with his misconceptions about our economy: "Rick, a fact you'd like to ignore: California is the 7th largest economic power in the world. We're competing with nations like Brazil and France, not states like Florida."
I think some folks need to read more or something. Cali's money problems are so 15 years ago. And in large part caused by some manipulation by a certain Texas based company. The idea of a progressive state that is doing well just doesn't sit easy in the minds of some people.
So why not allow the red states to follow their dream, without having the liberals being a thorn in their side and dragging them down? Only makes sense. As well, the conservative policies should take full root, and soon Oklahoma will be a bigger economy than California. I've listened to talk radio and Fox News, and its obvious what is the cause of all problems - Liberals, and if the liberals go away, so will the problems. Who could be against all the problems being solved?
It wouldn't be easy of course, water would be an issue - although I could see Colorado siding with Cali, probably Washington and Oregon as well, so there might be a new diversion project from the Columbia instead of the Colorado river.
Really, I think it was a mistake to stop the south from leaving in the first place. Sure, the bar should be set pretty high... like a 3/4ths or so supermajority vote with multiple affirmative referenda over a few years... to prevent secession at a whim. But it's pretty damn hypocritical to revere the text of the Declaration of Independence so and to go on with statements about the rights of self-determination in the rest of the world; but to deny the people of California or Texas or whatever other state to go their own way when the citizens decide that Washington DC isn't working for them.
Yeah - it's weird. The most vociferous ultra righties I know want to do horrible things to "Libtards" which at this point is anyone not ultra far right. But they don't want this. Perhaps they realize that they won't have anyone to blame. But more likely because there is a pretty fair proportion of humanity that has a strong need to hate. And after their favorite scapegoats leave, they'll turn on themselves.
Then again, if Cali was a separate nation, it would be the 7th largest in the world. It would have to hurt a bit losing that.
And then the boss wants a.doc file, or the info brought into a spreadsheet.... in five minutes.
Libreoffice does that perfectly well.
Yes it does - which is why I use it on all my different computers, and any I am involved with, and only put MS office on computers where they demand the non-standard application.
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OK, I hate SJWs who use Windows 10. They are the worst, not only do they kill kittens but they eat them too. Is that OK?
A Beowulf cluster of whining! Netcraft confiirms it! Moo?
Trump likes digging up dirt on people and threatened to put his political rival in jail (let's see if he was lying). This is exactly what people were warning about.
Come on now folks. This too shall pass. If we look at Germany, they had a few rough years from the late 30's to mid 40's. But today Germany is a pretty darn nice place.
Water is wet.
If you want to keep data secure, keep it in house and hire people who know how to protect it.
One of the best reasons to keep it in house is that the peeps keeping it secure are working for you.
The cloud? You are just another customer, and how's all that customer support going, cloud peeps? Someone in Bangalore saying "Have you tried rebooting your computer?"
Anyone's free to ask my sources in the security community where my data comes from
So you kinda have to tell us exactly who your sources in the security community are if we are to ask them, AC.
The cloud providers are not police men. They have no responsibility to make sure their customers are following their policies.
Congratulations for tshowing exactly why the cloud shouldn't be used.
If your cloud isn't protecting you, or they just give the "It's not our responsibility" bullshit, you just have to put up with whatever they serve you. You are just another customer
If the cloud is so bad, why is it that virtually all companies are looking to move to it, ditching all enterprise-grade hardware on premises is their edge router to the Internet and AWS? Like it or not, it is the way of the future.
The suits have been sold on how inexpensive it is, and how they can get rid of a lot of employees. This leads to bigger bonuses.
And just like every insourcing versus outsourcing battle, it will be cyclical.
Let me get this straight. the ultimate destruction of the net is to be accellerated by giving the Internet of Things top priority? I realize that the world has gone batshit insane, but this is like giving Pedophiles guaranteed and first access to your children. Sorry honey, but Jerry Sandusky need to see little Timmy for personal hygeine lessons before we can give him breakfast.
I've just spent 40 minutes watching shuttle and apollo launch footage. Got to stop followng launch video links.
I too, get completely stuck on rocket launches and space stuff. But isn't the Saturn V a freakin' monster? And the Soyuz is just pretty as a rocket can get.
Check out Amy Shira Teitel's stuff on Youtube. Vintage Space https://www.youtube.com/channe... is a good place to start.
I thought wires were good.
Hmm, Anti-Microsoft zealots have many more incompatibility problems with Windows.... or so they claim.
Hmm, making a lot of assumptions.
Maybe it's more than just a talking point.
Hardly ever. Enjoy your new Windows 10 machine. I'm certain it will serve you well.
Don't confuse me with an Apple fanboy. Since I use all the major OS's on a daily basis, I know how a Mac works compared to a Windows compared to a Linux compared to a ChromeOS.
That's the problem. I don't want to have to buy a bag full of adapters.
Talking point outrage. Its for people who wouldn't buy anything made by Apple. Its funny as well.
I'm just gonna pull up a lawn chair, enjoy some nice fresh popcorn and watch. These are historic times, and fortunately, I'm fairly old, had a good life, and don't care if I die. Bring it on, Entertain me!
Or, they could just take the data out of the phone, put it into a special OS shell that doesn't have the lockout feature, and rip through all 10000 four digit codes in the time wasted between keystrokes in this reply.
Or, or, and or. I'd be the last person to argue for or against any so called security features on a phone. I do not consider anything about a phone to be secure at all ever. So if I were to be doing something illegal, I sure as hell wouldn't put it on my phone.
The whole thing is people demanding an inherently non-secure device to be secure. It's like buying a billboard, putting something classified on it, or kiddie porn, and demanding that people not see what is on it because you demand your right to privacy.
It simply is not secure.
Even nerdy liberals know better than to laugh at armed cowboys.
There's a meme for ya. You'd be surprised at how many people who aren't Republicans own firearms and know how to use them very effectively.
um, maybe you should read the article you linked to? He adopted Conservative ideals (fiscal responsibility, for one) to fix some of the problems.
The problem such as it is, is that those who call themselves conservatives these days do not practice fiscal responsibility. You are talking to a Goldwater conservative, who understands the difference between old school conservative principles and the state of the party now.
How ironic, when Jerry Brown is a better conservative than the people who call him a liberal.
4 digit phone codes are also obviously a waste of time in the first place. So are six digit codes. Or eight digit codes. Eight CHARACTER keys on strong encryption is a weak opener -- maybe the feeb can't crack that with in-house resources, but I wouldn't bet against the NSA, and in principle the feeb can call on the NSA in any circumstances that would warrant it.
We see this sort of thing with old school locks. They are secure in minutes, so to speak. An accomplished cracker can break into a certain lock in a certain amount of time.
So its kind of like a two factor authentification. You have the device that delays entry, and you have the person checking on it every so often. Yeah, someone is going to be able to crack a four digit code without too much trouble. But given that the phone locks after X number of failed inputs and they have to wait a while before trying again, I'm probably going to find them long before they break in.
I think most people have forgotten the presentation / keynote where Touch ID was introduced:
In that segment Jobs pulled out a statistic that something like over 70% of people don't put a PIN on their iPhone, Why didn't they? Because it was a pain in the ass. Touch ID allows you to conveniently unlock your phone, but to activate it, you need to enter a PIN. Now, with newer iPhones, probably something like 100% of people have PINs.
A person who finds entering a 4 digit passcode (now 6) is going to really have issues with setting up touch ID.
But you are right, peeps be lazy.
My wife doesn't even want a passcode or TouchID. I told her in that case, no ApplePay or any purchases with it until you do.
Seems a bit OTT. Why not just have a passcode or swipe pattern as the standard lock?
You have a choice. If you don't want to use fingerprints, you don't have to. I use fingerprint access on my iPhone and it's about as opt-in a feature as you could want. They changed from 4 letter passcode to 6 now.
Can it be spoofed? Sure. But they'll have to know which finger or body part I used to set up, and there is so little of interest on my phone that it would be a waste of time to even try. I mean I texted the word "poop" once. But that's about it.
We already know this. That's what the whole story in late September was about: Yahoo was hacked and that information was kept from its customers for 2 years. Of course someone inside Yahoo knew about it.
The very odd thing that I'm having a problem with is I knew of the breach. At the time, I belonged to several Yahoo groups. A lot of spam and spoofed posts started showing up. Then Yahoo sent out posts telling people to change their passwords. While no one mentioned "State actors", it was pretty obvious that a big hack had just happened.
Fortunately, I only used my Yahoo email to access the groups, not for anything else. Kinda like there was nothing but the one program I needed Windows for on my W10 machine. So even if hacked in the case of Yahoo, or purposefully telemetered, like Windows 10, there would be as little damage as possible.
But two years later, its hard to figure out what was supposedly kept secret from us.
Yea, they have become somewhat intolerant for all this SJW BS and PC that is being pushed now days.
So why not leave them secede? You can go back to living life as you like it, no doubt without all of the problems that are caused by them
Because it is no longer about Social Justice Warriors or whatever version of political correctness that gets your panties in a bunch. Pretty much everyone laughs at them. Its about putting up or shutting up.
You have the country now. But the black truth is that you need these progressives, liberals, and Social Justice warriors badly. gotta have someone to blame.
Is there a relationship between the California being the 6th largest economy in the world, and Oklahoma being an economic mess? I dunno. Tell me how it is all the liberals fault, and make yourself feel better.
Um, Office is available on OS X too...
Problem is, MS Office isn't all that compatible between the two.
If you read my post, you'd see that you don't just transfer MS Office from Windows to OSX without making changes. Often a lot of changes. We've spent thousands of hours with that problem. With AO, my documents can be done on a Windows, Linux or OSX machine and look the same on each.
6th, actually. We surpassed France earlier this year. :-)
A few months ago, shortly before we knocked off France, Governor Brown had an awesome comeback when Rick Scott, Florida's governor, got a bit lippy with his misconceptions about our economy: "Rick, a fact you'd like to ignore: California is the 7th largest economic power in the world. We're competing with nations like Brazil and France, not states like Florida."
I think some folks need to read more or something. Cali's money problems are so 15 years ago. And in large part caused by some manipulation by a certain Texas based company. The idea of a progressive state that is doing well just doesn't sit easy in the minds of some people.
So why not allow the red states to follow their dream, without having the liberals being a thorn in their side and dragging them down? Only makes sense. As well, the conservative policies should take full root, and soon Oklahoma will be a bigger economy than California. I've listened to talk radio and Fox News, and its obvious what is the cause of all problems - Liberals, and if the liberals go away, so will the problems. Who could be against all the problems being solved?
It wouldn't be easy of course, water would be an issue - although I could see Colorado siding with Cali, probably Washington and Oregon as well, so there might be a new diversion project from the Columbia instead of the Colorado river.
Really, I think it was a mistake to stop the south from leaving in the first place. Sure, the bar should be set pretty high... like a 3/4ths or so supermajority vote with multiple affirmative referenda over a few years... to prevent secession at a whim. But it's pretty damn hypocritical to revere the text of the Declaration of Independence so and to go on with statements about the rights of self-determination in the rest of the world; but to deny the people of California or Texas or whatever other state to go their own way when the citizens decide that Washington DC isn't working for them.
Yeah - it's weird. The most vociferous ultra righties I know want to do horrible things to "Libtards" which at this point is anyone not ultra far right. But they don't want this. Perhaps they realize that they won't have anyone to blame. But more likely because there is a pretty fair proportion of humanity that has a strong need to hate. And after their favorite scapegoats leave, they'll turn on themselves.
Then again, if Cali was a separate nation, it would be the 7th largest in the world. It would have to hurt a bit losing that.
And then the boss wants a .doc file, or the info brought into a spreadsheet.... in five minutes.
Libreoffice does that perfectly well.
Yes it does - which is why I use it on all my different computers, and any I am involved with, and only put MS office on computers where they demand the non-standard application.