If the Aliens have any intelligence at all, they won't open any attachments from folks from another planet.
If the Aliens want to conquer us, all they need to do, is to send us nasty stuff in attachments. Some idiot here on Earth will open it, and we will all be turned into a Alien Earthling Burger Botnet.
Analyst Avril Wu said, "Notebook shipments in the third quarter fall short of what is expected for a traditional peak season mainly because Windows 10 with its free upgrade plan negatively impacted replaced sales of notebooks to some extent rather than driving the demand for these products."
Um . . . maybe folks are just buying Apple and Android critters, instead of Notebooks. Did any "analyst" think of that . . . ?
I'll be cynical, and guess that Google wants the data so they can sell it to insurance companies. This would be of extreme value, if, for example, a Hollywood star died in a car crash in a Porsche, doing 100mph in a 40mph zone, and someone tries to sue Porsche for a design defect.
On the other hand . . . maybe if Volkswagen diesels were equipped with something that collect the real emissions data . . . the fudge in Volkswagen diesels might have been found earlier.
I don't have any problems with the US spooks asking an EU spook for the data from a specific suspected Muslim terrorist. The EU spook would probably comply, due to sharing agreements that are already in place.
However, what the NSA does, is to simply harvest anything they want from anyone. I am not comfortable with that. And I don't believe an EU spook would set up a system enabling such universal access. If the EU spook can say the data was harvested outside the EU by the NSA, the EU spook has no problems. If the EU spook enables harvesting . . . we will see the EU spook in court.
Note that Snowden's revelations did not result in any legal action in the US, despite that the NSA is clearly violating the law. This decision by the EU court is the only legal action that I know of.
If you look at how this law case started, it was initiated by a private citizen. Not by the EU executive branch. The EU justice branch made a decision that the EU justice branch is visibly not comfortable with, because it places a lot of companies in legal limbo. Read more here:
Because the EU executive branch did nothing about it themselves . . . well, it shows that they were in cahoots with the USA/NSA folks.
So in this case, it is not a shakedown by the EU. The EU governments and Executive branch were perfectly happy with the way things were. It was a private citizen who appealed to the EU highest court that caused this.
"The display function only works when the car is parked. In drive mode, all the driver can see are the various meters and controls necessary to drive the car and any maps that might be needed . . . "
. . . until you pay a local teenage hacker $20 to re-flash the firmware to enable the display all the time.
What's wrong with kids and their parents talking with each other, and sharing experiences when out on a drive . . . ?
Probably because of IP violations or cultural reasons: They're afraid of lawsuits by Eskimos over the right to build an Igloo without licensing the IP for the design of and Igloo, or that they are calling it an Igloo, but not building it to the proper cultural design.
I'll take a wild guess here: the French chefs pay more attention to cooking their vegetables. I've been served broccoli in the US and Germany that had just been tossed into a vat of water, and boiled until it had the consistency of mushy peas. No seasoning at all. Then I once was served broccoli in France, where it had been steamed, but didn't fall apart, it had been very lightly seasoned, and served with some Hollandaise sauce, in a separate tiny tub, so that I could just use a wee bit of it.
I'm guessing that French cooks take pride in what they do . . . even if they just work in a school cafeteria, they will cook vegetables that children and adults enjoy eating.
Just wrap the broccoli in bacon, and top it off with barbecue sauce. Everything tastes better with bacon and barbecue sauce.
Alternatively . . . leave out the bacon and barbecue sauce, and just give them ketchup. For those of you that are too young to remember or know this, the US government declared ketchup as a vegetable for school lunches, back in the 80's.
Except if the server were hacked, we would have read the emails months ago.
When kiddies hack the server . . . they brag about it on Facebook. When professionals hack a server . . . they don't say anything, so they can keep getting intelligence from the server.
I find it the most stupidest thing in the world, that when people say, "Hey, Hillary's mail server was safe . . . otherwise we would have heard about it!"
Idiots.
The best spies in the world . . . you have never heard of . . . because they didn't get caught. If you rob the Bank of America of 10 million dollars . . . you don't brag about it it online in Facebook.
Do you think the Secret Squirrels in Russia or China would brag about hacking Hillary's emai? No, they will rather keep reading it.
Lots of folks here on Slashdot are serious IT professionals. We deal with things like security policies and instances every day. A private email server in a basement somewhere, managed by a what the fuck yahoo, and totally not being able to be audited . . . that's grounds for firing in most companies is this world. If you ask your security folks, "What is the biggest security threat to your company?" They will answer, "The loose nuts behind the keyboard!"
Hilary Clinton is like Leona Helmsley, if anyone here is old enough to know who she was. She and her husband cheated left and right on their taxes, and then gave as an explanation, "Taxes are for little people!". Security policies are for little people. Yeah, but not for folks with sensitive knowledge of our foreign policy.
That is more or less what Hilliary said: "Yes, the government of the USA has security policies for employees, but they do not apply to me, because I am Hillary Clinton, and I am important!"
Sorry Hillary, if you are sending and receiving email on my server, you will abide by the rules, like everyone else, whoever you are. If you want to do government business on an unsecured email server . . . why don't you send your mail direct to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un . . . ?
Slashdot had an article a while back, about how humans have a thin layer of bacteria living on them, producing an an assorted amount of smells. Well, the Earth has a thin layer of humans, producing all kinds of shit, from, well, shit, to radioactive stuff. That's just the way it is. Just the very existence of human beings is going to change the planet, for better or for worse. What do you want to do? Tell everyone in China or India to hold their breath for a few minutes each day? Hell, we could nuke China and India, and get rid of a bunch of greenhouse gases producing folks.
Will the Seychelles eventually be flooded over with water? Hell, yeah. But where did you think the story of Noah came about? Places are always get flooded over, buried by volcanoes, etc., etc. Some of them happen because of Mother Nature, some of them happen because of the humans, who are the bacteria living on the skin of the Earth.
"Oh, but the baby polar bears will die!"
Hey, shove it up your hairy ass, Al Gore, the Mammoths died out, with or without the help of humans. That's just the way the world works. We can pollute this Earth until the cows come home . . . maybe humans will survive . . . maybe we won't.
If you ever managed to mine that platinum, it wouldn't be worth $5 trillion any more. It's a commodity. The market would collapse.
Not if de Beers was mining it. Wives will be demanding platinum engagement and wedding rings, because, "Platinum is Forever".
In a Schrödinger's Cat type situation, there will be simultaneous be a glut of platinum . . . but at the same time a shortage, which will make those platinum rings very expensive.
In a Coke sponsored study, Coke Scientists concluded that calories don't make people fat. Marriage makes people fat. The Coke Scientists simply measured the waistlines of married and single people, and came to this obvious conclusion.
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Well, at least, I hope they inform their employees of their firing with a tweet.
. . . and was the premature birthrate higher anyway, before fracking started . . . ?
send disks to Amazon
Oh, and those disks make a detour to the NSA on their way to Amazon. Very convenient, indeed.
Just attach it to a word document
If the Aliens have any intelligence at all, they won't open any attachments from folks from another planet.
If the Aliens want to conquer us, all they need to do, is to send us nasty stuff in attachments. Some idiot here on Earth will open it, and we will all be turned into a Alien Earthling Burger Botnet.
Yum, yum.
FTFS:
Analyst Avril Wu said, "Notebook shipments in the third quarter fall short of what is expected for a traditional peak season mainly because Windows 10 with its free upgrade plan negatively impacted replaced sales of notebooks to some extent rather than driving the demand for these products."
Um . . . maybe folks are just buying Apple and Android critters, instead of Notebooks. Did any "analyst" think of that . . . ?
Apple Dashboard: The car is moving.
If the dashboard says that the car is moving, but it is not moving . . . you are not holding the steering wheel correctly.
I'll be cynical, and guess that Google wants the data so they can sell it to insurance companies. This would be of extreme value, if, for example, a Hollywood star died in a car crash in a Porsche, doing 100mph in a 40mph zone, and someone tries to sue Porsche for a design defect.
On the other hand . . . maybe if Volkswagen diesels were equipped with something that collect the real emissions data . . . the fudge in Volkswagen diesels might have been found earlier.
Maybe we should call them Fudgewagen . . . ?
I don't have any problems with the US spooks asking an EU spook for the data from a specific suspected Muslim terrorist. The EU spook would probably comply, due to sharing agreements that are already in place.
However, what the NSA does, is to simply harvest anything they want from anyone. I am not comfortable with that. And I don't believe an EU spook would set up a system enabling such universal access. If the EU spook can say the data was harvested outside the EU by the NSA, the EU spook has no problems. If the EU spook enables harvesting . . . we will see the EU spook in court.
Note that Snowden's revelations did not result in any legal action in the US, despite that the NSA is clearly violating the law. This decision by the EU court is the only legal action that I know of.
If you look at how this law case started, it was initiated by a private citizen. Not by the EU executive branch. The EU justice branch made a decision that the EU justice branch is visibly not comfortable with, because it places a lot of companies in legal limbo. Read more here:
http://www.economist.com/news/...
Because the EU executive branch did nothing about it themselves . . . well, it shows that they were in cahoots with the USA/NSA folks.
So in this case, it is not a shakedown by the EU. The EU governments and Executive branch were perfectly happy with the way things were. It was a private citizen who appealed to the EU highest court that caused this.
"The display function only works when the car is parked. In drive mode, all the driver can see are the various meters and controls necessary to drive the car and any maps that might be needed . . . "
. . . until you pay a local teenage hacker $20 to re-flash the firmware to enable the display all the time.
What's wrong with kids and their parents talking with each other, and sharing experiences when out on a drive . . . ?
Probably because of IP violations or cultural reasons: They're afraid of lawsuits by Eskimos over the right to build an Igloo without licensing the IP for the design of and Igloo, or that they are calling it an Igloo, but not building it to the proper cultural design.
Nobody reads TFA.
Some folks don't even bother to read the summary.
. . . And it seems to me, that some don't read the post that they are replying to.
I'll take a wild guess here: the French chefs pay more attention to cooking their vegetables. I've been served broccoli in the US and Germany that had just been tossed into a vat of water, and boiled until it had the consistency of mushy peas. No seasoning at all. Then I once was served broccoli in France, where it had been steamed, but didn't fall apart, it had been very lightly seasoned, and served with some Hollandaise sauce, in a separate tiny tub, so that I could just use a wee bit of it.
I'm guessing that French cooks take pride in what they do . . . even if they just work in a school cafeteria, they will cook vegetables that children and adults enjoy eating.
Just wrap the broccoli in bacon, and top it off with barbecue sauce. Everything tastes better with bacon and barbecue sauce.
Alternatively . . . leave out the bacon and barbecue sauce, and just give them ketchup. For those of you that are too young to remember or know this, the US government declared ketchup as a vegetable for school lunches, back in the 80's.
It doesn't take nearly as much fuel getting off a mun as it does a planet.
I think you meant to write:
"It doesn't take nearly as much fuel getting off a nun as it does a planet."
But I am not certain.
Now, who else makes diesel cars: I doubt that VW is the only firm to do this ...
Hmmm . . . how about . . . Mercedes-Benz . . . ? They make Turbo Diesel Injection cars . . . .
You can bet that they have already started an internal investigation . . . not to be surprised by anything that pops up in the news.
For that, they must first have a suspect.
. . . So the FBI just declares everyone in the US to be suspects . . . so they can spy on everyone . . . that's more or less how it works these days.
Some can go up to eleven, but most should stop at 10.
Except if the server were hacked, we would have read the emails months ago.
When kiddies hack the server . . . they brag about it on Facebook. When professionals hack a server . . . they don't say anything, so they can keep getting intelligence from the server.
I find it the most stupidest thing in the world, that when people say, "Hey, Hillary's mail server was safe . . . otherwise we would have heard about it!"
Idiots.
The best spies in the world . . . you have never heard of . . . because they didn't get caught. If you rob the Bank of America of 10 million dollars . . . you don't brag about it it online in Facebook.
Do you think the Secret Squirrels in Russia or China would brag about hacking Hillary's emai? No, they will rather keep reading it.
'twould be a sad, sad day were she to win the election.
Almost as sad as it would be to see Trump prevail.
It is a sad day for America, when we are not voting for the best candidate, but for the "least worst".
I have a houseplant that is starting to look good, compared to the rest of the folks in the field . . .
Lots of folks here on Slashdot are serious IT professionals. We deal with things like security policies and instances every day. A private email server in a basement somewhere, managed by a what the fuck yahoo, and totally not being able to be audited . . . that's grounds for firing in most companies is this world. If you ask your security folks, "What is the biggest security threat to your company?" They will answer, "The loose nuts behind the keyboard!"
Hilary Clinton is like Leona Helmsley, if anyone here is old enough to know who she was. She and her husband cheated left and right on their taxes, and then gave as an explanation, "Taxes are for little people!". Security policies are for little people. Yeah, but not for folks with sensitive knowledge of our foreign policy.
That is more or less what Hilliary said: "Yes, the government of the USA has security policies for employees, but they do not apply to me, because I am Hillary Clinton, and I am important!"
Sorry Hillary, if you are sending and receiving email on my server, you will abide by the rules, like everyone else, whoever you are. If you want to do government business on an unsecured email server . . . why don't you send your mail direct to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un . . . ?
Slashdot had an article a while back, about how humans have a thin layer of bacteria living on them, producing an an assorted amount of smells. Well, the Earth has a thin layer of humans, producing all kinds of shit, from, well, shit, to radioactive stuff. That's just the way it is. Just the very existence of human beings is going to change the planet, for better or for worse. What do you want to do? Tell everyone in China or India to hold their breath for a few minutes each day? Hell, we could nuke China and India, and get rid of a bunch of greenhouse gases producing folks.
Will the Seychelles eventually be flooded over with water? Hell, yeah. But where did you think the story of Noah came about? Places are always get flooded over, buried by volcanoes, etc., etc. Some of them happen because of Mother Nature, some of them happen because of the humans, who are the bacteria living on the skin of the Earth.
"Oh, but the baby polar bears will die!"
Hey, shove it up your hairy ass, Al Gore, the Mammoths died out, with or without the help of humans. That's just the way the world works. We can pollute this Earth until the cows come home . . . maybe humans will survive . . . maybe we won't.
May cockroaches dance on my grave :-)
If you ever managed to mine that platinum, it wouldn't be worth $5 trillion any more. It's a commodity. The market would collapse.
Not if de Beers was mining it. Wives will be demanding platinum engagement and wedding rings, because, "Platinum is Forever".
In a Schrödinger's Cat type situation, there will be simultaneous be a glut of platinum . . . but at the same time a shortage, which will make those platinum rings very expensive.
It's the calories stupid.
In a Coke sponsored study, Coke Scientists concluded that calories don't make people fat. Marriage makes people fat. The Coke Scientists simply measured the waistlines of married and single people, and came to this obvious conclusion.
"But I'm not dead yet! I don't want to go on the cart!
"I'm sorry, Sir, our detector says you will be stone cold in a minute. Up you go, get on the cart."