Have there been any serious repercussions from HIPAA violations? Medical data get shared around so widely with various medical specialists, claims specialists, coders and re-coders, government agencies, research teams, etc. that 'secret' is no way to describe it. It is generally not in the forefront of news outlets since it is a bit harder to monetize, but there is plenty of medical fraud already going on with leaked health records.
This appears to be the same person behind the "Collection #1" releases circa Jan 18th. it was just a collection of a bunch of older dumps i.e. data aggregated from other breaches. I didn't see any reason to think this person was behind all of the hacks, I got the sense he might also brag he could hack into any porn site on the Internet by putting in his mom's credit card number.
I can't blame Alex Stamos (former CISO of Facebook) for getting out. Their job looks like it will be just more and more hand holding and babysitting, who wants to do that for years on end. It reminds me of the occasional request for reports on "how much time X is spending on the internet" from managers. We usually reply with something like, we don't do that, you have to talk to HR. Honestly, if X isn't doing their job, document it and fire them.
I couldn't find any response from Google, though there could very well be. But this just seems like a shortcut for something Google and others have done for a long time, which is just use an intermediate link as the tracker, which just does a redirect to the ultimate destination. A site admin could just replace any links on the site with intermediate links to the tracker/redirector.
This reminds me a bit of the Baen Books approach to ebooks. They found that giving away some or all of the books in a series as ebooks actually increased the sales of the paper copies. Not the exact same situation but perhaps a common phenomenon at work. I will say that recently I have been streaming more and actually went to the theater a few times after avoiding them for years. It helps that the competition pushed the theaters into substantially improving the experience with reserved seats, better chairs, cleaner floors, etc.
Spot on. Trying to get a Chinese IME working in Linux put me off using Linux as primary for another decade. It was absolutely ridiculous trying to get that to work. On Windows it took me less than a minute to get it up and running. I had flashback to the days when you had to know the monitor's refresh rate to get X Windows working. GNU/Linux based systems have a lot of great features, but in the end most people don't want to spend hours jiggering around trying to get audio to work.
It's important to remember that the crappy stuff is what we tend to hear about. Meanwhile 3+ nines of usage of these platforms is perfectly bland, uninteresting, and useful. Facebook has been a great tool for keeping in touch with my dispersed sisters. No one is forcing me to read a bunch of empty shitposts, and I don't. I used to avoid Twitter until a colleague demonstrated how it could be very useful as an information source for our job. The majority of usage on these platforms is all like this, not very interesting. But the shitposts get all the attention. It's much like when I used to work in a bookstore. Co-workers used to complain all day about how these 'stupid customers' could not put books back in the right place. I admit, I made that mistake too, until one day a mentor told me to look at how many people came in and out of that store every day (I date myself, this was pre-Amazon) and think about how few actually put the book back wrong or some other annoying thing. Come to think of it, that little piece of advice may have turned my life around..anyway, stop being such a negative nellie.
I'll grant you I'm not the best communicator. In the Boeing example, I used the word "easy" which gives me a little wiggle room. According to the reports, the MCAS system applies a lot of mechanical pressure to the stick in order to help the pilot counteract a stall. manually overcoming that pressure is something of a challenge. Sure, there was a cut out procedure if the pilots realized in time that the MCAS was behind the issue. That's a problematic "if" as the recent disasters demonstrated. How much time did they spend trying to pull the stick back before realizing there was a different sort of issue? Did they have that time in that situation? What if there was some other system at fault and the pilots wasted time cutting out the MCAS? As for self driving cars, the issue in the article is just one of many already found, and no doubt more lie in the future. My point is, as long as we have to have a human trying to stay alert on the wheel (which was Tesla's response) there is no point he may as well just drive the car. An actual sufficiently trustworthy self-driving setup for cars is a long way away as findings like this illustrate. I doubt people would accept an autonomous car which is only slightly safer than a human driver, it would just take one accident with some kids and the things will get pulled.
Things like this lead me to believe we are many decades away from effective self-driving cars. Just look at the Boeing issues recently, which among other things demonstrated the need for easy human override. I don't see much value in a self-steering car where the driver has to keep watching and correct the autopilot on a moment's notice. That's not a realistic expectation.
If their streaming service is anything like the search portal it is so full of ads it is almost impossible to use. Probably ads overlaid on the screen while the show is on, based on what I have seen, not just commercial interruptions like we are used to in the US.
I was just talking to a floor repair specialist, he said he works 80+ hour weeks sometimes because he never knows when a zero hour week will come along. I wondered at the time if I could ever handle that sort of uncertainty.
Exactly, that is what I meant by "special privileges". It's a somewhat tangled history, but a lot of the privileges were negotiated with the government in exchange for making more student loans available. Prior, loans to major in Art History were pretty sparse since that study path doesn't scream 'ability to repay in the future.' it wouldn't surprise anyone to hear that these universities would seek to have their financing options filed under the same sort of debt slavery rubric rather than pursue some sort of career counseling program like the parent suggested.
I'm not so sure. Current student debt issuers would have the same incentive after all, and they aren't especially helpful. Instead they look to the government to uphold special privileges for them when it comes to collection.
Headlines are usually full of crap. There's nothing in TFA about this being any kind of a secret. Now, maybe they didn't call up Business Insider ahead of time to tell them about it, that's not the same thing as a secret.
Who said jump when? The report talks about a process working with Huawei going back many years to mitigate various concerns they have about the underlying architecture. There is no discussion of incidents or any specific vulnerability. It is mainly about Huawei's use of a third party realtime OS that is out of general support (Huawei purchased a separate long term support agreement) and their continued use of single user space on different set of devices.
If the customer's interest ALWAYS comes first, the company will soon fail and we will all go back to subsistence gathering. It is very much in the customer's interest to pay nothing and receive everything.
I can't read the submitted link, but there is no mention of this in the alternate sources added by the editor. I had the same reaction, I never heard any policy maker espouse this claim. Now what they might be secretly thinking is anybody's guess.
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Have there been any serious repercussions from HIPAA violations? Medical data get shared around so widely with various medical specialists, claims specialists, coders and re-coders, government agencies, research teams, etc. that 'secret' is no way to describe it. It is generally not in the forefront of news outlets since it is a bit harder to monetize, but there is plenty of medical fraud already going on with leaked health records.
This appears to be the same person behind the "Collection #1" releases circa Jan 18th. it was just a collection of a bunch of older dumps i.e. data aggregated from other breaches. I didn't see any reason to think this person was behind all of the hacks, I got the sense he might also brag he could hack into any porn site on the Internet by putting in his mom's credit card number.
I can't blame Alex Stamos (former CISO of Facebook) for getting out. Their job looks like it will be just more and more hand holding and babysitting, who wants to do that for years on end. It reminds me of the occasional request for reports on "how much time X is spending on the internet" from managers. We usually reply with something like, we don't do that, you have to talk to HR. Honestly, if X isn't doing their job, document it and fire them.
I couldn't find any response from Google, though there could very well be. But this just seems like a shortcut for something Google and others have done for a long time, which is just use an intermediate link as the tracker, which just does a redirect to the ultimate destination. A site admin could just replace any links on the site with intermediate links to the tracker/redirector.
Just upload the picture of the thief to Facebook, which will auto tag it for easy public shaming.
This reminds me a bit of the Baen Books approach to ebooks. They found that giving away some or all of the books in a series as ebooks actually increased the sales of the paper copies. Not the exact same situation but perhaps a common phenomenon at work. I will say that recently I have been streaming more and actually went to the theater a few times after avoiding them for years. It helps that the competition pushed the theaters into substantially improving the experience with reserved seats, better chairs, cleaner floors, etc.
From selling browsers and self driving cars
I just tried Linux on my laptop and the trackpad didn't work. So there :) You are right though, the various Linux distributions have come a long way.
Spot on. Trying to get a Chinese IME working in Linux put me off using Linux as primary for another decade. It was absolutely ridiculous trying to get that to work. On Windows it took me less than a minute to get it up and running. I had flashback to the days when you had to know the monitor's refresh rate to get X Windows working. GNU/Linux based systems have a lot of great features, but in the end most people don't want to spend hours jiggering around trying to get audio to work.
Are users of Photoshop and AutoCAD anything other than an extremely small percentage of Windows users? I don't know anyone who uses either.
It's important to remember that the crappy stuff is what we tend to hear about. Meanwhile 3+ nines of usage of these platforms is perfectly bland, uninteresting, and useful. Facebook has been a great tool for keeping in touch with my dispersed sisters. No one is forcing me to read a bunch of empty shitposts, and I don't. I used to avoid Twitter until a colleague demonstrated how it could be very useful as an information source for our job. The majority of usage on these platforms is all like this, not very interesting. But the shitposts get all the attention. It's much like when I used to work in a bookstore. Co-workers used to complain all day about how these 'stupid customers' could not put books back in the right place. I admit, I made that mistake too, until one day a mentor told me to look at how many people came in and out of that store every day (I date myself, this was pre-Amazon) and think about how few actually put the book back wrong or some other annoying thing. Come to think of it, that little piece of advice may have turned my life around..anyway, stop being such a negative nellie.
I'll grant you I'm not the best communicator. In the Boeing example, I used the word "easy" which gives me a little wiggle room. According to the reports, the MCAS system applies a lot of mechanical pressure to the stick in order to help the pilot counteract a stall. manually overcoming that pressure is something of a challenge. Sure, there was a cut out procedure if the pilots realized in time that the MCAS was behind the issue. That's a problematic "if" as the recent disasters demonstrated. How much time did they spend trying to pull the stick back before realizing there was a different sort of issue? Did they have that time in that situation? What if there was some other system at fault and the pilots wasted time cutting out the MCAS? As for self driving cars, the issue in the article is just one of many already found, and no doubt more lie in the future. My point is, as long as we have to have a human trying to stay alert on the wheel (which was Tesla's response) there is no point he may as well just drive the car. An actual sufficiently trustworthy self-driving setup for cars is a long way away as findings like this illustrate. I doubt people would accept an autonomous car which is only slightly safer than a human driver, it would just take one accident with some kids and the things will get pulled.
Things like this lead me to believe we are many decades away from effective self-driving cars. Just look at the Boeing issues recently, which among other things demonstrated the need for easy human override. I don't see much value in a self-steering car where the driver has to keep watching and correct the autopilot on a moment's notice. That's not a realistic expectation.
If their streaming service is anything like the search portal it is so full of ads it is almost impossible to use. Probably ads overlaid on the screen while the show is on, based on what I have seen, not just commercial interruptions like we are used to in the US.
I was just talking to a floor repair specialist, he said he works 80+ hour weeks sometimes because he never knows when a zero hour week will come along. I wondered at the time if I could ever handle that sort of uncertainty.
Clippy has been reborn and thanks to the magic of marketing is now considered "smart"
Exactly, that is what I meant by "special privileges". It's a somewhat tangled history, but a lot of the privileges were negotiated with the government in exchange for making more student loans available. Prior, loans to major in Art History were pretty sparse since that study path doesn't scream 'ability to repay in the future.' it wouldn't surprise anyone to hear that these universities would seek to have their financing options filed under the same sort of debt slavery rubric rather than pursue some sort of career counseling program like the parent suggested.
I'm not so sure. Current student debt issuers would have the same incentive after all, and they aren't especially helpful. Instead they look to the government to uphold special privileges for them when it comes to collection.
*how many more* of these are we going to have to have before people start to wake up?
At least one more.
Headlines are usually full of crap. There's nothing in TFA about this being any kind of a secret. Now, maybe they didn't call up Business Insider ahead of time to tell them about it, that's not the same thing as a secret.
Who said jump when? The report talks about a process working with Huawei going back many years to mitigate various concerns they have about the underlying architecture. There is no discussion of incidents or any specific vulnerability. It is mainly about Huawei's use of a third party realtime OS that is out of general support (Huawei purchased a separate long term support agreement) and their continued use of single user space on different set of devices.
If the customer's interest ALWAYS comes first, the company will soon fail and we will all go back to subsistence gathering. It is very much in the customer's interest to pay nothing and receive everything.
Interesting. Were- apparently also persists in the etymology of "world".
I can't read the submitted link, but there is no mention of this in the alternate sources added by the editor. I had the same reaction, I never heard any policy maker espouse this claim. Now what they might be secretly thinking is anybody's guess.
So what exactly was the masculine prefix?