Google's tasks and reminders are seemingly two separate DBs.
Google Assistant, Keep, Inbox, and Calendar use the reminders DB. The new Gmail and Tasks use the other. Why in the holy hell these two are separate is maddening but as long they remain so it severely gimps both. Whatever Assistant defaults to should be what everything does.
Why the hell should a fish tank thermometer have any sort of network access to where customer data is stored? Their IT staff should be re-vetted for competence.
I have clients who struggle filling positions. When I inquire, I find it's never that there aren't applicants, just not applicants of sufficient quality. And in those cases, when I ask how much more they're offering for the position above market rates, they all look at me with bewilderment.
I remember a militaristic superpower lying to its own citizens about hidden weapons, metal tubes, babies being pulled from incubators, etc all to start a $1T+ war. Same guys.
This isn't messing with your thermostat, it's interfering with remote access back to it when you're gone. Something I'm pretty sure 99% of us can't do now anyway and for the 1% who do, lack a substantial need.
- deploy OS updates w/root bug - release 20017-01 security patch that fixes root bug but introduces Kerberos authentication bug...root issue not fixed until machine is rebooted, which is neither documented or forced by the update - release KB that provides instructions for manually fixing Kerberos bug by entering terminal command - patch the 2017-01 security patch to not introduce Kerberos bug...no documentation or version upgrading of the patch to denote changes
And now......updating to 10.13.1 if previously on 10.13.0 would re-instance root bug...2017-01 security patch applied automatically but again it doesn't force a reboot...users who update to 10.13.1 left unprotected until patch applied & Mac manually rebooted
Anyone who thinks differently is deluding themselves into thinking this world is something it's not. In war, it's the winner who gets to write the rules, and in war for survival, any country is going to use every resource humanly possible to do so.
The only way an RDP session is being successfully initiated from outside your WLAN is if there's port forwarding setup on your router or you have a static IP direct to your computer. In nearly every other case, you're behind a NAT, which would allow you to initiate a RDP connection but not receive. On the router or firewall, remove any forwards and/or disable any sort of DMZ, and you're OK.
"Sophos security experts" aren't cited as saying anything about this, because of course, the recommended method of mediation is purchase and installation of their Sophos XG Firewall product. If whoever is responsible for your company doesn't already know this and can explain it to you, hire someone who does.
"I want to see a complete list of software and devices that become completely unusable without a live internet connection."
And I want a pony. The entire list of this would be longer than the OP ever imagined or cared to know. The internet runs on a hierarchy of interrelated software platforms and applications we never even see.
Yahoo! is a product of being in the right place at the right time with their originally hand-curated lists of things to check out on the internet. After search engines became a thing, Yahoo! was in a constant state of catch-up.
126 million accounts != 126 million individual users.
Considering over 90 million eligible voters never bothered to, in fact the US experienced voter turnout @ 20 year low, (even if) 126 million individual users != 126 million voters.
And considering those 18 and otherwise ineligible to vote, (even if) 126 million voters != 126 million votes.
I didn't sign a binding contract and page-view EULAs are unenforceable. Yes, I may have actively engaged my browser to visit your webpage, but as far as my legal consent in whatever your code is doing on my machine is -- as far as I understand this -- doubtful unless I was presented with a UX where I had to actively consent to something you're doing that's accurately described so I can understand it.
If your JS just turned my browser into a DDoS bot, I didn't consent. Unless you truthfully explain what you want me to consent to in a way I can be reasonably expected to understand and then give ACTIVE consent to, you're the one who's being ignorant.
If you don't have JavaScript disabled, your browser is already running code from websites that you never consented to or know what it's doing. So that argument seems ignorant.
The amount of electricity used even if you sat there and kept that browser tab open and active for hours, would be less than a penny. So nix that one too.
Unlike ads, it doesn't target or track users. It doesn't exfiltrate data. It doesn't distract from page content (ads do this by design).
It's egalitarian in that the longer you're on the page, the more the site operator can potentially earn, and the less, less. Thus, it incentivizes site operators to produce engaging content vs clickbait crap.
Oh, and it can be disabled entirely with an adblocker.
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Google's tasks and reminders are seemingly two separate DBs.
Google Assistant, Keep, Inbox, and Calendar use the reminders DB. The new Gmail and Tasks use the other. Why in the holy hell these two are separate is maddening but as long they remain so it severely gimps both. Whatever Assistant defaults to should be what everything does.
Why the hell should a fish tank thermometer have any sort of network access to where customer data is stored? Their IT staff should be re-vetted for competence.
I know I know, it may sound really out there: don't form your voting decisions based on what you see on Facebook? It's an ad platform, not journalism.
First: Qubes OS. https://www.qubes-os.org/
Second: Regardless of IT staffs' intention, management makes the final decision to let the systems be locked down. In many cases, they don't.
I have clients who struggle filling positions. When I inquire, I find it's never that there aren't applicants, just not applicants of sufficient quality. And in those cases, when I ask how much more they're offering for the position above market rates, they all look at me with bewilderment.
Also that unemployment rate? Manufactured horesehit. http://www.shadowstats.com/alt...
If someone is smarter/stronger/faster/etc they are your superior by definition. Egalitarianism is a myth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Using words to convey one's thoughts and emotions has become too challenging.
Outsourcing data storage is innovation? Client/server architectures are novel?
What could possibly go wrong?
I remember a militaristic superpower lying to its own citizens about hidden weapons, metal tubes, babies being pulled from incubators, etc all to start a $1T+ war. Same guys.
Show me proof or fuck off.
This isn't messing with your thermostat, it's interfering with remote access back to it when you're gone. Something I'm pretty sure 99% of us can't do now anyway and for the 1% who do, lack a substantial need.
We want companies to secure our data and face significant hardship when they fail.
No, this is still a huge fuckup.
- deploy OS updates w/root bug ...root issue not fixed until machine is rebooted, which is neither documented or forced by the update ...no documentation or version upgrading of the patch to denote changes
- release 20017-01 security patch that fixes root bug but introduces Kerberos authentication bug
- release KB that provides instructions for manually fixing Kerberos bug by entering terminal command
- patch the 2017-01 security patch to not introduce Kerberos bug
And now... ...updating to 10.13.1 if previously on 10.13.0 would re-instance root bug ...2017-01 security patch applied automatically but again it doesn't force a reboot ...users who update to 10.13.1 left unprotected until patch applied & Mac manually rebooted
A shit show.
And then within 24 hours Security Update 2017-001 is auto applied if not manually done so earlier.
I immediately came to the same conclusions as CustomSolvers2. It's called having an active bullshit detector.
You realize that "mil-spec" is nothing more than a marketing term?
Anyone who thinks differently is deluding themselves into thinking this world is something it's not. In war, it's the winner who gets to write the rules, and in war for survival, any country is going to use every resource humanly possible to do so.
The only way an RDP session is being successfully initiated from outside your WLAN is if there's port forwarding setup on your router or you have a static IP direct to your computer. In nearly every other case, you're behind a NAT, which would allow you to initiate a RDP connection but not receive. On the router or firewall, remove any forwards and/or disable any sort of DMZ, and you're OK.
"Sophos security experts" aren't cited as saying anything about this, because of course, the recommended method of mediation is purchase and installation of their Sophos XG Firewall product. If whoever is responsible for your company doesn't already know this and can explain it to you, hire someone who does.
"I want to see a complete list of software and devices that become completely unusable without a live internet connection."
And I want a pony. The entire list of this would be longer than the OP ever imagined or cared to know. The internet runs on a hierarchy of interrelated software platforms and applications we never even see.
Yahoo! is a product of being in the right place at the right time with their originally hand-curated lists of things to check out on the internet. After search engines became a thing, Yahoo! was in a constant state of catch-up.
Someone should let DisplayMate know that VR is a thing.
126 million accounts != 126 million individual users.
Considering over 90 million eligible voters never bothered to,
in fact the US experienced voter turnout @ 20 year low,
(even if) 126 million individual users != 126 million voters.
And considering those 18 and otherwise ineligible to vote,
(even if) 126 million voters != 126 million votes.
So this # of accounts seems rather meaningless.
I didn't sign a binding contract and page-view EULAs are unenforceable. Yes, I may have actively engaged my browser to visit your webpage, but as far as my legal consent in whatever your code is doing on my machine is -- as far as I understand this -- doubtful unless I was presented with a UX where I had to actively consent to something you're doing that's accurately described so I can understand it.
If your JS just turned my browser into a DDoS bot, I didn't consent. Unless you truthfully explain what you want me to consent to in a way I can be reasonably expected to understand and then give ACTIVE consent to, you're the one who's being ignorant.
If you don't have JavaScript disabled, your browser is already running code from websites that you never consented to or know what it's doing. So that argument seems ignorant.
The amount of electricity used even if you sat there and kept that browser tab open and active for hours, would be less than a penny. So nix that one too.
Unlike ads, it doesn't target or track users. It doesn't exfiltrate data. It doesn't distract from page content (ads do this by design).
It's egalitarian in that the longer you're on the page, the more the site operator can potentially earn, and the less, less. Thus, it incentivizes site operators to produce engaging content vs clickbait crap.
Oh, and it can be disabled entirely with an adblocker.
Little downside to it, IMO.