There was at least one major dump recently. I don't know when the breaches behind that dump occurred or how many of them were. Initial reports were that it was all Linked In's fault. But as far as I know Linked In still denies this. Several sites are resetting passwords for users, issuing alerts, etc. based on the presence of user names in the dumps.
So it's now gotten to a point where 1 site failing will result in other sites forcing you to change your password as well, because they force you to use an email address as a username and they assume you are reusing passwords. Terrible. Don't make me use an email address as a username, and don't make me reset my unique password because you assume all your users are idiots. ESPECIALLY when you're doing this as a reaction to a suspected third-party breach, where the user's accounts across other sites tied to their email address have been potentially compromised. (Hint: your "I forgot my password" tool sends link or temporary password to the registered email account, which is just as potentially compromised as the account your are trying to protect by forcing a reset.)
Coffee is to be served hot. There's no problem with serving it hotter than other restaurants do. I'd see that as a good thing. Unless you can point to standards and regulations that require coffee to be served below a certain temperature, your "McFact No. 1" is a failure.
Hot coffee can cause burns. McDonalds settling cases is no different than a super market settling cases when idiots slip and fall despite the wet floor signs. it does not indicate a problem with the coffee, it indicates problems with the customers (they're idiots) and the legal system (it's easier to pay idiots to go away than it is to fight them in court and hope the idiots on the jury side with you against a fellow idiot). "McFact No. 2 is a failure.
I don't care how serious the woman's injuries were. They were caused by HER spilling the coffee she knew to be hot. If you buy a knife and cut yourself like an idiot, can you sue for the knife being too sharp? But what if you like, cut yourself really badly? Does that somehow change who is culpable? (I wouldn't be surprised if you could trot out cases where exactly this happened. That doesn't make the reasoning any less ludicrous, however.). "McFact No. 3" is a failure.
Yes, the little old lady said she was a nice little old lady and only wanted her medical bills paid. Is she also selling a used car that she only ever drove on Sundays, to and from church? "McFact No. 4" is a failure because it has nothing to do with anything.
A rando (no typo here) McDonald's employee claimed McDonald's was aware of the risk? Of course they're aware. They're also aware of the risk of operating a drive through window. People could incorrectly drive their cars and hit things! Further, the rando employee cannot speak to whether or not "most customers wouldn't think it was possible". If such testimony as admitted, McDonald's lawyers failed. "McFact No. 5" is a failure. A rando employee's comments about McDonald's awareness that coffee is hot doesn't mean McDonald's is at fault for someone spilling coffee on themselves. Coffee being hot, and hot things causing burns, is common sense. You'd be hard pressed to find an animal that doesn't know this, let alone a human.
Careful deliberation? You know nothing of what went on in that room. The verdict was absurd, as was the reward. Comparing it to McDonald's revenue has no bearing on anything. "McFact No. 6" is a failure.
Lowering the award? Who cares? It's still the wrong fucking decision. "McFact No. 7" is a failure. It doesn't change how wrong the decision was.
Hot coffee still burns? WHAT A SHOCK! "McFact No. 8" is the biggest failure of all. What are you trying to prove with that? It's meaningless!
The hot coffee fiasco is a groundbreaking case because the decision was 100% wrong and it exemplifies just how fucked up the legal system is, and how fucking stupid juries are. I don't give a shit about McDonald's, and they can easily pay ridiculous awards in these cases (and let's be clear, they're fucking awards - prizes for being an idiot). But if you fail to see that this isn't about a little old lady fighting an evil mega corp you're just as dumb as she was. Lawsuits are fucking out of control in this country, and shit like this is why companies have resorted to binding arbitration clauses for everything from cell phones to medical care. It's harder and harder to recoup damages from real injury caused by malicious or negligent corporations, but it's easier than ever to sue for hollow, illegitimate shit.
I disagree. I enjoyed the first 2 seasons of Better Call Saul, but it's not really innovative. (Has it been 2 seasons? Or 1 and a half? AMC and other cable networks love to break seasons into parts, so I can't even tell anymore.)
Breaking Bad wasn't very innovative either, it just had a few amazing actors and a lot of tense moments. That tension works when a show isn't afraid to kill off characters and isn't afraid to end the story when it's appropriate. Because Better Cal Saul is a prequel spin off, there hasn't really been any meaningful tension. Mike and Saul are the only characters people really care about, and we know what happens to them. It means I can watch it for the characters, but not the overall story.
On The Walking Dead, characters have plot armor. Carl gets shot in the eye, slaps on an eye patch, and everything is hunky-dory. Glen dies, but wait, that was a fake out, the other guy we wrote for everyone to hate dies, and Glen lives! Deaths of major characters aren't done when they make sense, they're done for shock and ratings, and the laziest writing possible is trotted out to tell us how they died. How fucking absurd was Dale's death? Or any of the dozens of times they've suddenly found themselves surrounded by hundreds of zombies in the middle of an open field or on the highway, while they had lookouts? I can't watch it for the story because it's tripe, and I can't watch it for the characters because I hate them all.
So take your 50 MB file and break it up into 400 blocks of 128 KB each, then compress each block?
I can't imagine getting much useful compression over the kind of data that takes up the bulk of user/corporate storage space these days. And that's using your "up to 128 KB". Smaller blocks will result in worse compression. I wouldn't want the CPU/performance penalty, either. (Server primary storage is 4 high-end SSDs in RAID 10.)
And please, stop trying to make "KiB" happen. It's not going to happen.
And yeah, it's Glenn. And nobody cares. TWD jumped the shark 2 or 3 seasons ago. I hate-watched the last two seasons hoping they'd kill off Carl. I won't bother with the next season. It's boring, the plot is nonsensical, and the characters are insufferable. AMC is going to drag the show on for eons, so you can count out any meaningful developments. They're so audacious they created a separate series (Fear the Walking Dead) to double-milk the franchise.
AMD tried to do the same with Breaking Bad by splitting the 5th season out into 2 parts while they tried desperately to convince the creator to keep going. Thankfully, they failed. They wrangled up a spinoff though (Better Call Saul).
Lets just ignore the fact that his entire campaign is based on a conspiracy theory.
Project Bluebird, MKUltra, etc. Tuskegee Airmen Gulf War Syndrome Tracking via Cell Phones TSA body scanners Secret Courts, laws, watch lists, no fly lists Deflected asteroid attack on Buenos Aires Roswell Kennedy assassination AIDS Aurora Project Bay of Pigs Iran Contra Robot Al Gore Recording all cell phone meta data Monitoring all cell phone calls Recording every packet crossing over any pipe an American ISP owns Distributing crack to blacks 9/11 Operation Gunrunner / Fast and Furious How there's only ever one person working at the post office Watergate The DMV Steve Irwin Assassination Philadelphia Experiment Operation Northwood Project Grey Box Clipper chips / Palladium Terminator 3 Operation Rainfall Pan Am 103 Assassination of Lady Diana Fluoride Reptilian overlords Chem trails The red menace / McCarthyism Breaking Bad Season 6 Global warming Phantom time etc. etc.
Considering how many "crackpot" conspiracy theories turn out to be true, and often far worse than theorized, paranoia should be the default state.
I'm modded troll, yet this clown is modded insightful? Fuck you, Shitdot. As LynnwoodRooster pointed out, I'm correct. iOS is dying and Android is consuming everything in sight. (And no, I don't particularly like Android or the direction it's going in.)
You don't get to lie about your cargo. The manifest has to be correct. Otherwise you're a smuggler, and the response to smugglers is to throw them off the boat/plane while in transit.
iOS is dying. They need to disrupt the market with a new shiny and convince the derpuses that their new shiny is the only shiny worth buying, and that it's worth $$$$$.
The real fix in my opinion is to get rid of the goddamn built in PDF viewers that now bloat browsers like Chrome and Firefox. Clearly they can be abused, like in this case. But in addition to that they just piss me off to no end. In the rare cases when I have to view a PDF, I typically want to use a real PDF viewer. I don't want to use the ones built into the browsers because they usually misrender the PDF in some way! Yeah, I probably could find some way to disable it, but I shouldn't have to. A web browser shouldn't come with a fucking PDF viewer built in!
Your argument rings pretty hollow considering that the vulnerability has nothing to do with the PDF format itself, or the fact that browsers can render them. The bug was with the PDF viewer's interaction with a third-party JPEG viewer library. In either case, you have to get a user to open the PDF file.... it wouldn't have mattered whether it's baked into a browser or a standalone program.
The logical continuation of your argument would be to assert that browsers also shouldn't include audio/video codecs because they're also "bloat" that could compromise the system. If you don't want PDF in your browser, you shouldn't want VP9 or MP3 either.
That logical continuation of the argument is CORRECT. Browsers should defer to the OS for non web data. Put shit in <media> and let the browser call upon the OS to DO SOMETHING with the media, and fail back to a simple download link.
If the Neo releases this Fall, that's a full 3 years after the original. Hardly on par with cell phones. And it likely will cost less than a new high-end cell phone.
The recent node shrink and AMD's new architectures are likely the impetus behind this revision. We've been waiting for anode shrink for a long time, and it's bringing massive benefits. I wouldn't expect this to become a pattern, but if Sony/MS try to force it, future revisions won't be anywhere as significant as this one looks to be.
Looks like you can't think. "Support the high-end PS4" means to have a code path for it to enable better graphics, enhanced features, or whatnot. Games that do not "support the high-end PS4" will simply run on the Neo in the same way they do on an original PS4. The only exception I could think of would be if there's a title that has some bizarre licensing agreement that only allows it to be sold for the original PS4. Considering the past decade of having a digital platform, I doubt this would be the case. Even Nintendo has gotten this right after a few fuckups with the Wii and DSi. (Certain early titles were locked to that exact platform/system and couldn't be transferred. Thankfully, those systems were hacked and not tied into online accounts, so I didn't lose anything.)
It's marketing doublespeak meant to placate the current PS4 owners.
It means the PS4 Neo will be $499 or more and the original PS4 will be $299 until production contracts and stock run out. At this point, owners of the original PS4 will be at the mercy of the install base of the PS4 Neo. As more people buy the Neo, Sony will relax restrictions on developers, allowing them to shit out games that run like ass, don't have all the features enabled, or simply don't work at all on the PS4.
The PS4 is dead, long live the PS4. (I'm glad I haven't purchased one yet. My main use would be as a UHD BluRay player, and I expect the Neo to boast all the 4K, 10-bit, HDR, etc. features as an Ultra HD BluRay player.)
"2x More Range"? "4x Better Speed"? Is English your first language?
"Three Times the Range" and "Five Times the Speed", or "3x Range" and "5x Speed" would be better. Of course, I'm betting it's really just doubling the range and quadrupling the speed, not tripling and quintupling them. (When a marketer says "2x More!!" they mean "1x More".)
A semicolon would have been inappropriate there; "they're fundamental" shouldn't be separated from the rest of the sentence that way. The hyphen was used correctly, though I could have also used parentheses. I chose not to because the formatting of my sentence was specifically crafted to use a hyphen (in order to highlight the errors the AC committed).
Networks connected to the internet work just fine through NAT, internet connection sharing, or similar. Even servers work fine with static port mapping, unless you need 2 servers listening on the same port (you'd need 2 IPs). This is how the internet was designed. The idea that every host needs a public IP is a joke.
IPv4 + NAT can prevent you from being routed publicly while still doing all the things you want to do, and all your existing hardware, with all your existing software, while watching Netflix. IPv6 can't.
The internet was not designed to be publicly routable. It was designed for certain hosts, called servers and routers, to be routable. The design of the internet was such that a large number of private networks were interconnected through specific, controlled paths, with communication between networks being routed via dedicated, managed hardware. The idea of everyone having their own public IP address is dumb and pointless and a security nightmare in today's world where EVERYONE is connected via EVERY device imaginable, with holes everywhere and security nowhere.
Yes, they work. Yes, they're suitable for their purpose. Not everyone needs a publicly-routable address. In fact, it's probably better to NOT have one, if possible. Only a server or router listening to requests on the publicly-routable internet needs one. We have plenty of IPv4 addresses for that.
Cell phones typically use IPv6. On weekends, most people are more mobile. But during the week, people are chained to a desk or sitting at home, and they use a landline for internet access.
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There was at least one major dump recently. I don't know when the breaches behind that dump occurred or how many of them were. Initial reports were that it was all Linked In's fault. But as far as I know Linked In still denies this. Several sites are resetting passwords for users, issuing alerts, etc. based on the presence of user names in the dumps.
So it's now gotten to a point where 1 site failing will result in other sites forcing you to change your password as well, because they force you to use an email address as a username and they assume you are reusing passwords. Terrible. Don't make me use an email address as a username, and don't make me reset my unique password because you assume all your users are idiots. ESPECIALLY when you're doing this as a reaction to a suspected third-party breach, where the user's accounts across other sites tied to their email address have been potentially compromised. (Hint: your "I forgot my password" tool sends link or temporary password to the registered email account, which is just as potentially compromised as the account your are trying to protect by forcing a reset.)
Fuck you.
Coffee is to be served hot. There's no problem with serving it hotter than other restaurants do. I'd see that as a good thing. Unless you can point to standards and regulations that require coffee to be served below a certain temperature, your "McFact No. 1" is a failure.
Hot coffee can cause burns. McDonalds settling cases is no different than a super market settling cases when idiots slip and fall despite the wet floor signs. it does not indicate a problem with the coffee, it indicates problems with the customers (they're idiots) and the legal system (it's easier to pay idiots to go away than it is to fight them in court and hope the idiots on the jury side with you against a fellow idiot). "McFact No. 2 is a failure.
I don't care how serious the woman's injuries were. They were caused by HER spilling the coffee she knew to be hot. If you buy a knife and cut yourself like an idiot, can you sue for the knife being too sharp? But what if you like, cut yourself really badly? Does that somehow change who is culpable? (I wouldn't be surprised if you could trot out cases where exactly this happened. That doesn't make the reasoning any less ludicrous, however.). "McFact No. 3" is a failure.
Yes, the little old lady said she was a nice little old lady and only wanted her medical bills paid. Is she also selling a used car that she only ever drove on Sundays, to and from church? "McFact No. 4" is a failure because it has nothing to do with anything.
A rando (no typo here) McDonald's employee claimed McDonald's was aware of the risk? Of course they're aware. They're also aware of the risk of operating a drive through window. People could incorrectly drive their cars and hit things! Further, the rando employee cannot speak to whether or not "most customers wouldn't think it was possible". If such testimony as admitted, McDonald's lawyers failed. "McFact No. 5" is a failure. A rando employee's comments about McDonald's awareness that coffee is hot doesn't mean McDonald's is at fault for someone spilling coffee on themselves. Coffee being hot, and hot things causing burns, is common sense. You'd be hard pressed to find an animal that doesn't know this, let alone a human.
Careful deliberation? You know nothing of what went on in that room. The verdict was absurd, as was the reward. Comparing it to McDonald's revenue has no bearing on anything. "McFact No. 6" is a failure.
Lowering the award? Who cares? It's still the wrong fucking decision. "McFact No. 7" is a failure. It doesn't change how wrong the decision was.
Hot coffee still burns? WHAT A SHOCK! "McFact No. 8" is the biggest failure of all. What are you trying to prove with that? It's meaningless!
The hot coffee fiasco is a groundbreaking case because the decision was 100% wrong and it exemplifies just how fucked up the legal system is, and how fucking stupid juries are. I don't give a shit about McDonald's, and they can easily pay ridiculous awards in these cases (and let's be clear, they're fucking awards - prizes for being an idiot). But if you fail to see that this isn't about a little old lady fighting an evil mega corp you're just as dumb as she was. Lawsuits are fucking out of control in this country, and shit like this is why companies have resorted to binding arbitration clauses for everything from cell phones to medical care. It's harder and harder to recoup damages from real injury caused by malicious or negligent corporations, but it's easier than ever to sue for hollow, illegitimate shit.
I disagree. I enjoyed the first 2 seasons of Better Call Saul, but it's not really innovative. (Has it been 2 seasons? Or 1 and a half? AMC and other cable networks love to break seasons into parts, so I can't even tell anymore.)
Breaking Bad wasn't very innovative either, it just had a few amazing actors and a lot of tense moments. That tension works when a show isn't afraid to kill off characters and isn't afraid to end the story when it's appropriate. Because Better Cal Saul is a prequel spin off, there hasn't really been any meaningful tension. Mike and Saul are the only characters people really care about, and we know what happens to them. It means I can watch it for the characters, but not the overall story.
On The Walking Dead, characters have plot armor. Carl gets shot in the eye, slaps on an eye patch, and everything is hunky-dory. Glen dies, but wait, that was a fake out, the other guy we wrote for everyone to hate dies, and Glen lives! Deaths of major characters aren't done when they make sense, they're done for shock and ratings, and the laziest writing possible is trotted out to tell us how they died. How fucking absurd was Dale's death? Or any of the dozens of times they've suddenly found themselves surrounded by hundreds of zombies in the middle of an open field or on the highway, while they had lookouts? I can't watch it for the story because it's tripe, and I can't watch it for the characters because I hate them all.
So take your 50 MB file and break it up into 400 blocks of 128 KB each, then compress each block?
I can't imagine getting much useful compression over the kind of data that takes up the bulk of user/corporate storage space these days. And that's using your "up to 128 KB". Smaller blocks will result in worse compression. I wouldn't want the CPU/performance penalty, either. (Server primary storage is 4 high-end SSDs in RAID 10.)
And please, stop trying to make "KiB" happen. It's not going to happen.
They did get off the island.
And yeah, it's Glenn. And nobody cares. TWD jumped the shark 2 or 3 seasons ago. I hate-watched the last two seasons hoping they'd kill off Carl. I won't bother with the next season. It's boring, the plot is nonsensical, and the characters are insufferable. AMC is going to drag the show on for eons, so you can count out any meaningful developments. They're so audacious they created a separate series (Fear the Walking Dead) to double-milk the franchise.
AMD tried to do the same with Breaking Bad by splitting the 5th season out into 2 parts while they tried desperately to convince the creator to keep going. Thankfully, they failed. They wrangled up a spinoff though (Better Call Saul).
A 50 MB file is compressed to 12 MB, spanning 96 blocks of 128 KB each. How do I seek to 37.5 MB in the file?
Hint: You cannot assume equal compression across the full length of the file.
Lets just ignore the fact that his entire campaign is based on a conspiracy theory.
Project Bluebird, MKUltra, etc.
Tuskegee Airmen
Gulf War Syndrome
Tracking via Cell Phones
TSA body scanners
Secret Courts, laws, watch lists, no fly lists
Deflected asteroid attack on Buenos Aires
Roswell
Kennedy assassination
AIDS
Aurora Project
Bay of Pigs
Iran Contra
Robot Al Gore
Recording all cell phone meta data
Monitoring all cell phone calls
Recording every packet crossing over any pipe an American ISP owns
Distributing crack to blacks
9/11
Operation Gunrunner / Fast and Furious
How there's only ever one person working at the post office
Watergate
The DMV
Steve Irwin Assassination
Philadelphia Experiment
Operation Northwood
Project Grey Box
Clipper chips / Palladium
Terminator 3
Operation Rainfall
Pan Am 103
Assassination of Lady Diana
Fluoride
Reptilian overlords
Chem trails
The red menace / McCarthyism
Breaking Bad Season 6
Global warming
Phantom time
etc.
etc.
Considering how many "crackpot" conspiracy theories turn out to be true, and often far worse than theorized, paranoia should be the default state.
I'm modded troll, yet this clown is modded insightful?
Fuck you, Shitdot. As LynnwoodRooster pointed out, I'm correct. iOS is dying and Android is consuming everything in sight. (And no, I don't particularly like Android or the direction it's going in.)
You don't get to lie about your cargo. The manifest has to be correct. Otherwise you're a smuggler, and the response to smugglers is to throw them off the boat/plane while in transit.
iOS is dying. They need to disrupt the market with a new shiny and convince the derpuses that their new shiny is the only shiny worth buying, and that it's worth $$$$$.
China and Russia don't trust kit coming out of a Western company.
Further, the Chinese will be selling it for cheap.
The real fix in my opinion is to get rid of the goddamn built in PDF viewers that now bloat browsers like Chrome and Firefox. Clearly they can be abused, like in this case. But in addition to that they just piss me off to no end. In the rare cases when I have to view a PDF, I typically want to use a real PDF viewer. I don't want to use the ones built into the browsers because they usually misrender the PDF in some way! Yeah, I probably could find some way to disable it, but I shouldn't have to. A web browser shouldn't come with a fucking PDF viewer built in!
Your argument rings pretty hollow considering that the vulnerability has nothing to do with the PDF format itself, or the fact that browsers can render them. The bug was with the PDF viewer's interaction with a third-party JPEG viewer library. In either case, you have to get a user to open the PDF file.... it wouldn't have mattered whether it's baked into a browser or a standalone program.
The logical continuation of your argument would be to assert that browsers also shouldn't include audio/video codecs because they're also "bloat" that could compromise the system. If you don't want PDF in your browser, you shouldn't want VP9 or MP3 either.
That logical continuation of the argument is CORRECT.
Browsers should defer to the OS for non web data. Put shit in <media> and let the browser call upon the OS to DO SOMETHING with the media, and fail back to a simple download link.
Then why didn't they write "en route"?
If the Neo releases this Fall, that's a full 3 years after the original. Hardly on par with cell phones. And it likely will cost less than a new high-end cell phone.
The recent node shrink and AMD's new architectures are likely the impetus behind this revision. We've been waiting for anode shrink for a long time, and it's bringing massive benefits. I wouldn't expect this to become a pattern, but if Sony/MS try to force it, future revisions won't be anywhere as significant as this one looks to be.
Looks like you can't think. "Support the high-end PS4" means to have a code path for it to enable better graphics, enhanced features, or whatnot. Games that do not "support the high-end PS4" will simply run on the Neo in the same way they do on an original PS4. The only exception I could think of would be if there's a title that has some bizarre licensing agreement that only allows it to be sold for the original PS4. Considering the past decade of having a digital platform, I doubt this would be the case. Even Nintendo has gotten this right after a few fuckups with the Wii and DSi. (Certain early titles were locked to that exact platform/system and couldn't be transferred. Thankfully, those systems were hacked and not tied into online accounts, so I didn't lose anything.)
It's marketing doublespeak meant to placate the current PS4 owners.
It means the PS4 Neo will be $499 or more and the original PS4 will be $299 until production contracts and stock run out. At this point, owners of the original PS4 will be at the mercy of the install base of the PS4 Neo. As more people buy the Neo, Sony will relax restrictions on developers, allowing them to shit out games that run like ass, don't have all the features enabled, or simply don't work at all on the PS4.
The PS4 is dead, long live the PS4. (I'm glad I haven't purchased one yet. My main use would be as a UHD BluRay player, and I expect the Neo to boast all the 4K, 10-bit, HDR, etc. features as an Ultra HD BluRay player.)
Try editing. WTF does "in route" mean?
"2x More Range"? "4x Better Speed"? Is English your first language?
"Three Times the Range" and "Five Times the Speed", or "3x Range" and "5x Speed" would be better.
Of course, I'm betting it's really just doubling the range and quadrupling the speed, not tripling and quintupling them. (When a marketer says "2x More!!" they mean "1x More".)
No it isn't you fucking shitclown. Read the Bill of Rights. (HINT: #4)
A semicolon would have been inappropriate there; "they're fundamental" shouldn't be separated from the rest of the sentence that way. The hyphen was used correctly, though I could have also used parentheses. I chose not to because the formatting of my sentence was specifically crafted to use a hyphen (in order to highlight the errors the AC committed).
Please brush up on your grammar and syntax - they're fundamental.
Networks connected to the internet work just fine through NAT, internet connection sharing, or similar. Even servers work fine with static port mapping, unless you need 2 servers listening on the same port (you'd need 2 IPs). This is how the internet was designed. The idea that every host needs a public IP is a joke.
IPv4 + NAT can prevent you from being routed publicly while still doing all the things you want to do, and all your existing hardware, with all your existing software, while watching Netflix.
IPv6 can't.
The internet was not designed to be publicly routable. It was designed for certain hosts, called servers and routers, to be routable. The design of the internet was such that a large number of private networks were interconnected through specific, controlled paths, with communication between networks being routed via dedicated, managed hardware. The idea of everyone having their own public IP address is dumb and pointless and a security nightmare in today's world where EVERYONE is connected via EVERY device imaginable, with holes everywhere and security nowhere.
Get with reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, they work. Yes, they're suitable for their purpose.
Not everyone needs a publicly-routable address. In fact, it's probably better to NOT have one, if possible. Only a server or router listening to requests on the publicly-routable internet needs one. We have plenty of IPv4 addresses for that.
Cell phones typically use IPv6. On weekends, most people are more mobile. But during the week, people are chained to a desk or sitting at home, and they use a landline for internet access.