You don't seem bright enough to read what the guy fucking wrote. He said the clerks aren't allowed to buy tickets. The clerks have a fucking camera pointed at them all the time. It's not very bright to break a rule like "don't buy lotto tickets" when you're being recorded for your entire shift, on every shift.
No, he figured out that the singletons on the eight tic-tac-toe boards had a high frequency of showing up in the list of numbers scratched off. He would buy a ticket if the singletons showed up in a winning combination on the tic-tac-toe boards. The system had nothing to do with the frequency of the singletons and everything to do with the placement of the singletons.
No, each data point is basically worthless on its own. However, Facebook's data is worth a fortune because they own data points on hundreds of millions of customers.
No, personal information is very different from money. If I have $5, I can spend it and have the buying power equal to 1/20th of $100. I have my own personal information and nobody gives a shit about which demographic groups I fall in by myself. However, if I have the personal information of a suitably large portion of the population, that data suddenly becomes very valuable. Each data point on its own is worthless, but the collected dataset is worth a fortune. This is fundamentally different from currency because each piece of tender is theoretically tied to the overall purchasing power of an economy and $1 should be very close to one millionth of the value of $1,000,000 (though I would agree that as a person accumulates wealth their increase in buying power isn't a strictly linear function).
Also, if you have $1,000 stolen from your bank account, you've suffered a real, measurable loss. The same can't be said for a compromised Facebook account.
Did she open her lessons with statements like "You are free to retain your religious beliefs. I don't care whether or not you agree with this theory. I am just going to grade you on how well you understand it."?
A little upfront disarming can go a long way.
I'm from a small town in Arkansas and that's exactly what my biology teacher said before he began covering evolution. He could also show evidence for selective breeding because he raised the best looking, healthiest herd of cattle I've ever seen.
Just because things are 'possible' for the poor doesn't mean we don't have a class system.
Actually, the possibility to rise out of poverty through hard work means that a society doesn't have a class system. It's not institutionalized by the government that poor people must marry other poor people, can only work certain jobs, aren't allowed to go to school, etc. Of course, I'm not arguing that we live in a class free society. You seem to not understand the difference.
Repairing the front or back glass on an iPhone is actually pretty simple and way, way cheaper than paying Apple to do it. Cracked iPhone screens are pretty common. I've repaired several for my friends, and one for myself. I prefer to be able to pay $40 for the kit from ifixit to take care of the problem. Now it looks like I'll have to shell out yet another $10 for the special screwdriver, for no good reason at all.
Well, if the child is being murdered and the parent has the means and ability to intervene, then yes. They certainly should always intervene. There's a huge difference between letting Junior touch the hot stove after you've warned him and not trying to help him if he's being murdered.
I thought Linux fixed stupid by being impossible to install... *ducks*
(I know, I know, most modern distros are easier to install than Windows, and you can surf the web while they're installing as well. It's just a joke, people.)
In what sane universe does it take six months to return a cell phone?
Not that I'm arguing we live in a sane universe, but the one we live in generally requires long term contracts with early termination fees for cell phones in the US. If the state has to pay for them until the contract is up in June, the employees might as well use them. The phones can be handed in one business day after the contract expires.
I'm betting this just gets worse for a while. These attacks are all being carried out for attention, and they've been generating tons of it. They even get extra credit with the several "Are the attacks over???" articles I've seen over the past two days or so. These articles are adding fuel to the fire.
If he's British he does. The BBC is funded by British taxpayers. Also, I wish the BBC would give us Yanks the option of paying some portion of the TV tax to get access to the BBC One player...
It's legal to jailbreak your own "used" phone. This guy was jailbreaking phones by the thousands and selling them. It's still legal to jailbreak the phone you own and use, it's just illegal to unlock and sell in bulk.
Only a very, very small subset of geeks use Windows "because they have to." Most of the population believes that Windows == "computer." So, they see Windows Phone 7 and will probably think "I bet this will hook up to my computer easily since it's the same thing as my computer."
Please don't think I'm a shill for MS. I use OS X, Windows, and Linux for different tasks and I realize all three are tools that have pros and cons. However, I think denying that the Windows brand is extremely powerful to the general population is delusional.
Furthermore, the people they collected the data from were BROADCASTING IT INTO THE PUBLIC STREETS. It's been beaten to death here, but just to say it one more time, if I stood naked in my front yard yelling my banking details I wouldn't expect privacy. If I set up a loudspeaker to play a recorded message with my banking details, I wouldn't be surprised if someone overheard. Why would I be surprised if someone read my plain text intarweb packets that I willfully throw into public space? Ignorance of the technology is not an excuse. If you don't understand a WiFi router well enough to know you need at least basic encryption and refuse to seek out the help of a professional when you set up a network, you shouldn't have the right to bitch when someone reads the packets you broadcast into public.
But will that go far enough? The turrists tried to bomb cargo planes, after all. I agree that we should ban people from planes, but I say we also need to make sure cargo isn't allowed on planes either.
Like you pointed out, Netflix is seen by Comcast as the enemy. You say you'd be a happy customer if Comcast dedicated 4MB of your connection to Netflix while you're streaming. How will you feel when Comcast decides to throttle Netflix to 1 bit per second while injecting advertisements for their cable TV service over that episode of Dexter you're not able to watch? Given the behavior of ISPs in the past, that's a lot more likely than striking deals with other companies that are good for customers, IMHO.
Or a cross reference to the public data available for name changes. It's not like someone can get a legal name change that isn't a matter of public record. Even if the databases aren't already electronic, if the act of changing a person's name to avoid their digital record becomes popular, companies will digitize the public records and sell access to a database containing references between names.
A right absolutely isn't a well established social norm. At least, it's not supposed to be. A right is supposed to be something that is illegal for the government to take away from you because all humans deserve it. Consider segregated schools. The well-established social norm at the time was to send the black kids to the crappy backwoods school and the white kids to the best mommy and daddy could afford. The norm of "seperate but equal" was established by the courts. Then the Supreme Court finally squashed the nonsense and said that those black kids had equal rights to educational access as the white kids because they're all human beings.
Please don't confuse rights and social norms. Otherwise the slightest majority will get to decide what the rights are for everyone. What Apple violated was an expectation, not a right.
I absolutely agree. Every now and again I'll devote several hours to complete a long game, but I just don't have the time on my hands that I did when I was in college or before. Hell, I haven't even gotten around to beating New Super Mario Bros Wii and I got it about a week after release. That game isn't technically challenging. I'm just not in the mood to play it very often. I'll eventually get around to beating it, but I'm just not obsessed with beating every game and then going back and finding every secret like I was when I was a younger.
I agree completely. I've had classes with brilliant lecturers or discussion moderators where making it to class meant I was going to be exposed to great information from outside of the assigned text, a cogent argument tying texts together, or a lively debate. Those were classes I never skipped. I've also had drones that just spout whatever is on the powerpoint slides issued by a book's manufacturer where the class doesn't add any information beyond what's in the text. There's no sense in wasting an hour of my life in a lecture where I'm not going to learn anything that I didn't already read and understand from the text.
Oddly enough, most of the classes I wouldn't think of skipping didn't take attendance, but the classes that were a waste of time would. From my experience, if a professor requires attendance, they probably aren't a great teacher.
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You don't seem bright enough to read what the guy fucking wrote. He said the clerks aren't allowed to buy tickets. The clerks have a fucking camera pointed at them all the time. It's not very bright to break a rule like "don't buy lotto tickets" when you're being recorded for your entire shift, on every shift.
No, he figured out that the singletons on the eight tic-tac-toe boards had a high frequency of showing up in the list of numbers scratched off. He would buy a ticket if the singletons showed up in a winning combination on the tic-tac-toe boards. The system had nothing to do with the frequency of the singletons and everything to do with the placement of the singletons.
No, each data point is basically worthless on its own. However, Facebook's data is worth a fortune because they own data points on hundreds of millions of customers.
No, personal information is very different from money. If I have $5, I can spend it and have the buying power equal to 1/20th of $100. I have my own personal information and nobody gives a shit about which demographic groups I fall in by myself. However, if I have the personal information of a suitably large portion of the population, that data suddenly becomes very valuable. Each data point on its own is worthless, but the collected dataset is worth a fortune. This is fundamentally different from currency because each piece of tender is theoretically tied to the overall purchasing power of an economy and $1 should be very close to one millionth of the value of $1,000,000 (though I would agree that as a person accumulates wealth their increase in buying power isn't a strictly linear function).
Also, if you have $1,000 stolen from your bank account, you've suffered a real, measurable loss. The same can't be said for a compromised Facebook account.
Did she open her lessons with statements like "You are free to retain your religious beliefs. I don't care whether or not you agree with this theory. I am just going to grade you on how well you understand it."?
A little upfront disarming can go a long way.
I'm from a small town in Arkansas and that's exactly what my biology teacher said before he began covering evolution. He could also show evidence for selective breeding because he raised the best looking, healthiest herd of cattle I've ever seen.
No I don't. And it certainly wouldn't be a measly million dollars,
By admitting that your price is higher than a million dollars, you're pointing out that it exists.
Just because things are 'possible' for the poor doesn't mean we don't have a class system.
Actually, the possibility to rise out of poverty through hard work means that a society doesn't have a class system. It's not institutionalized by the government that poor people must marry other poor people, can only work certain jobs, aren't allowed to go to school, etc. Of course, I'm not arguing that we live in a class free society. You seem to not understand the difference.
Repairing the front or back glass on an iPhone is actually pretty simple and way, way cheaper than paying Apple to do it. Cracked iPhone screens are pretty common. I've repaired several for my friends, and one for myself. I prefer to be able to pay $40 for the kit from ifixit to take care of the problem. Now it looks like I'll have to shell out yet another $10 for the special screwdriver, for no good reason at all.
Well, if the child is being murdered and the parent has the means and ability to intervene, then yes. They certainly should always intervene. There's a huge difference between letting Junior touch the hot stove after you've warned him and not trying to help him if he's being murdered.
I thought Linux fixed stupid by being impossible to install... *ducks*
(I know, I know, most modern distros are easier to install than Windows, and you can surf the web while they're installing as well. It's just a joke, people.)
In what sane universe does it take six months to return a cell phone?
Not that I'm arguing we live in a sane universe, but the one we live in generally requires long term contracts with early termination fees for cell phones in the US. If the state has to pay for them until the contract is up in June, the employees might as well use them. The phones can be handed in one business day after the contract expires.
I'm betting this just gets worse for a while. These attacks are all being carried out for attention, and they've been generating tons of it. They even get extra credit with the several "Are the attacks over???" articles I've seen over the past two days or so. These articles are adding fuel to the fire.
If he's British he does. The BBC is funded by British taxpayers. Also, I wish the BBC would give us Yanks the option of paying some portion of the TV tax to get access to the BBC One player...
It's legal to jailbreak your own "used" phone. This guy was jailbreaking phones by the thousands and selling them. It's still legal to jailbreak the phone you own and use, it's just illegal to unlock and sell in bulk.
Only a very, very small subset of geeks use Windows "because they have to." Most of the population believes that Windows == "computer." So, they see Windows Phone 7 and will probably think "I bet this will hook up to my computer easily since it's the same thing as my computer."
Please don't think I'm a shill for MS. I use OS X, Windows, and Linux for different tasks and I realize all three are tools that have pros and cons. However, I think denying that the Windows brand is extremely powerful to the general population is delusional.
Furthermore, the people they collected the data from were BROADCASTING IT INTO THE PUBLIC STREETS. It's been beaten to death here, but just to say it one more time, if I stood naked in my front yard yelling my banking details I wouldn't expect privacy. If I set up a loudspeaker to play a recorded message with my banking details, I wouldn't be surprised if someone overheard. Why would I be surprised if someone read my plain text intarweb packets that I willfully throw into public space? Ignorance of the technology is not an excuse. If you don't understand a WiFi router well enough to know you need at least basic encryption and refuse to seek out the help of a professional when you set up a network, you shouldn't have the right to bitch when someone reads the packets you broadcast into public.
But will that go far enough? The turrists tried to bomb cargo planes, after all. I agree that we should ban people from planes, but I say we also need to make sure cargo isn't allowed on planes either.
Like you pointed out, Netflix is seen by Comcast as the enemy. You say you'd be a happy customer if Comcast dedicated 4MB of your connection to Netflix while you're streaming. How will you feel when Comcast decides to throttle Netflix to 1 bit per second while injecting advertisements for their cable TV service over that episode of Dexter you're not able to watch? Given the behavior of ISPs in the past, that's a lot more likely than striking deals with other companies that are good for customers, IMHO.
OB/GYNs and midwives have seen vaginas IRL. How do you expect Slashdot readers to confirm anything they know?
Or a cross reference to the public data available for name changes. It's not like someone can get a legal name change that isn't a matter of public record. Even if the databases aren't already electronic, if the act of changing a person's name to avoid their digital record becomes popular, companies will digitize the public records and sell access to a database containing references between names.
Can't it be both?
How can an Australian commit treason against a country he's not a citizen of?
A right absolutely isn't a well established social norm. At least, it's not supposed to be. A right is supposed to be something that is illegal for the government to take away from you because all humans deserve it. Consider segregated schools. The well-established social norm at the time was to send the black kids to the crappy backwoods school and the white kids to the best mommy and daddy could afford. The norm of "seperate but equal" was established by the courts. Then the Supreme Court finally squashed the nonsense and said that those black kids had equal rights to educational access as the white kids because they're all human beings.
Please don't confuse rights and social norms. Otherwise the slightest majority will get to decide what the rights are for everyone. What Apple violated was an expectation, not a right.
I absolutely agree. Every now and again I'll devote several hours to complete a long game, but I just don't have the time on my hands that I did when I was in college or before. Hell, I haven't even gotten around to beating New Super Mario Bros Wii and I got it about a week after release. That game isn't technically challenging. I'm just not in the mood to play it very often. I'll eventually get around to beating it, but I'm just not obsessed with beating every game and then going back and finding every secret like I was when I was a younger.
I agree completely. I've had classes with brilliant lecturers or discussion moderators where making it to class meant I was going to be exposed to great information from outside of the assigned text, a cogent argument tying texts together, or a lively debate. Those were classes I never skipped. I've also had drones that just spout whatever is on the powerpoint slides issued by a book's manufacturer where the class doesn't add any information beyond what's in the text. There's no sense in wasting an hour of my life in a lecture where I'm not going to learn anything that I didn't already read and understand from the text.
Oddly enough, most of the classes I wouldn't think of skipping didn't take attendance, but the classes that were a waste of time would. From my experience, if a professor requires attendance, they probably aren't a great teacher.