Reminds of many Science Fiction/Fantasy shorts I listen to on Clarkesworld Magazine like this one.
It's funny how our imaginations aren't that far off from potential planetary catastrophe in any humanly direction we chose. Put your tinfoil hats on and jump into your bunker with your MRE's, it's gonna be a wild ride!
In our world of shiny app and UI obfuscation...hardly surprised at all. I have no shock value points left to dole out, or as the new kids these days F's to give.
You are the 'product', and thats why it's free in beer, but priceless in data mining. That location data has little to do with Google Maps you use for navigation to get to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving; where you stopped in between, the gas station you went to, the isle you were in debating which candied yams to get in Walmart, the route you took, why you took that route, getting focused advertisement to everything 'in between' is worth collecting it under the table. That's what keeps Google's lights (and datacenters) running: that data.
THANK. YOU. That's been my experience, too. I will say 99% of branded info-sec analysts in any organization I've been at are just certified, expensive turn-key Big brother security scanner stack, banner grabbing phrase repeaters who say a lot of buzzwords (Blue Team, Read Team, FISMA, go-go-go) like we're playing Halo charades. I'm not knocking them --- that's why I don't have or want their job, but I know it's hard to exercise security when the expertise, competency, skill and where-with-all of a developer, or sys-admin/engineer hat caring about matching CVE numbers to package releases or the developer who can code OO-Python, C++ or PHP like a mad-man but is absolutely nebulous about any sort of vector attacks, how exploiting or overflows generally work, or in-memory attacks, all that BS that exists today.
I don't blame the people in those positions though, it's the churn of an organization and the management: whatever you're working on makes the business, and more times than none, it's bottom line get-it-out-the-door or get-it-released 100% of the time. And I feel like there also a lot less expertise and well-rounded computer-science and highly technical people these days in positions. Everyone just wants it to 'work' and never look back. Unless you're in a relatively respected position or valued enough for someone to listen to, "That's great, but we really need to focus on security here, there, over there and right here" AND actually set up a foundation for people applying, implementing and caring for security in their respective roles, this is how it will always be.
It doesn't matter how many leaks, hacks or compromises of millions of accounts at this place or that place will be in the future, thinking and priorities to security as a whole have to change first and be just as high on the list as that new feature in you're working on in that 2-week Agile sprint.
That's all I really needed to read. I'd love to write any lengthy rant here to entertain any/.'ers, but I think that says it all. Far cry from cooking up some experimental code that isn't production worthy at all, or SaaS where it's built to drive, function, and fund a business model, no way is your experiment anything more than that.
I'm sure some one has a rank of OSS software against vulnerabilities and/or exploits in their code-base, introduced their "bug" idea into a fork of the application and saw how it went over a period of time. Skipping their academic paper, I saw nothing of that and more of a tip to promote their LAVA system, plus a but of academic accommodating and citing of peers papers.
Sounds cool in academia world as a proof-of-concept to put a paper out and get more grant money, but that's all I'll promote. Anyone who's written a bit of code, maintained anything software related at all knows this is absolutely not realistic.
Be 20 steps ahead, everyone. We have no rights anymore if law enforcement wants to push the envelope on anything, exacerbate any ticket-and-on-your-way situation into something else by profiling, all the while with 100% plausible deniability and/or probable cause on their side.
I just got pulled over last week for being a dope and not putting my new registrations tags on by the end of the month, no one asked to check my phone, thankfully...
The OP's argument is that netlink sockets are more efficient in theory so we should abandon anything that uses a pseudo-proc, re-invent the wheel and move even farther from the UNIX tradition and POSIX compliance? And it may be slower on larger systems? Define that for me because I've never experienced that. I've worked on single stove-pipe x86 systems, to the 'SPARC archteciture' generation where everyone thought Sun/Solaris was the way to go with single entire systems in a 42U rack, IRIX systems, all the way on hundreds of RPM-base linux distro that are physical, hypervised and containered nodes in an HPC which are LARGE compute systems (fat and compute nodes). That's a total shit comment with zero facts to back it up. This is like Good Will Hunting 'the bar scene' revisited...
OP, if you're an old hat like me, I'd fucking LOVE to know how old? You sound like you've got about 5 days soaking wet under your belt with a Milkshake IPA in your hand. You sound like a millennial developer-turned-sysadmin-for-a-day who's got all but cloud-framework-administration under your belt and are being a complete poser. Any true sys-admin is going to flip-their-shit just like we ALL did with systemd, and that shit still needs to die. There, I got that off my chest.
I'd say you got two things right, but are completely off on one of them:
* Your description of inefficient is what you got right: you sound like my mother or grandmother describing their computing experiences to look at Pintrest on a web brower at times. You mind as well just said slow without any bearing, education guess or reason. Sigh...
* I would agree that some of these tools need to change, but only to handle deeper kernel containerization being built into Linux. One example that comes to mind is 'hostnamectl' where it's more dev-ops centric in terms of 'what' slice or provision you're referencing. A lot of those tools like ifconfig, route and alike still do work in any Linux environment, containerized or not --- fuck, they work today.
Anymore, I'm just a disgruntled and I'm sure soon-to-be-modded-down voice on/. that should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm not happy with the way the movements of Linux have gone, and if this doesn't sound old hat I don't know what is: At the end of the day, you have to embrace change. I'd say 0.0001% of any of us are in control of those types of changes, no matter how we feel about is as end-user administrators of those tools we've grown to be complacent about. I got about 15y left and this thing called Linux that I've made a good living on will be the-next-guys steaming pile to deal with.
So for nearly a decade, there has been aerial dumping of poison in excess of 300 tons to kill rats, who ingest it and burrow in the ground and die? Ok, so when the SGHT is done with their High-Five tail pipe party about seagulls picking at a few carcasses, I'd be curious to know when they perform their next study of the impacts of millions of rodents that ate all that poison (or didn't) and it leeched back into the ocean? That can't be good. Talk about trying to solve one problem and causing a domino effect of others.
I can appreciate this service for the Switch; I think it would be a bit sacrilegious I guess if Nintendo didn't somehow offer the nostalgic NES platform ROMs (at a minimum). But I'll tell you what --- really sick-and-tired of re-re-re-re-re-re-annoucement and re-purchasing of NES roms on the new Nintendo gaming console every time.
I have working original NES consoles (that my wife and I both had in the late 80's, early 90's) that I've bought new cartridge socket replacements for every once in a while, clean my games up one a year or so, and I will say, it's a superior experience to play the original carts on the platform, I think partly because of the original controller 'feel' in your hands. However, with that out of the way, out of pure convenience, laziness or wanting to blow some meek amount of disposable income, I've also bought Nintendo's legitly NES offered ROMs on whatever shopping front-end service they've had for the Wii, Wii U, or any of the anniversary editions.
But it goes to say: For whatever casual excuse, I've re-bought them every. damn. time. I really wish my purchases would 'carry' over to the 'next' thing Nintendo decides to push out. Because they don't and that's kind of an ass ache, albeit a first world one.
I can see a ton of real value especially in recognizing someone who is supposed to be on a plane in fifteen minutes is not near the gate and not headed that way. They could even have staff drive a cart over and help especially slow or confused people, it could actually end up being really friendly and helpful unlike the dystopian scenario that always comes to mind when we imagine complete monitoring.
First I'll start out by saying: If you're argument is people weren't at the gate 15 minutes prior to boarding, then don't fly and be more responsible next time. Fuck, I can't tell you how many times I've had my plane held up because someone was late eating at the Chili's Bar and Grill down 100'. Now if you're legitimately late because you're running from one plane to the next, absolutely.
All I can say is, we can justify anything with that a long list with thousands of other optimistic use cases to death. I agree that there is a ton of real benefits for that. But we always ignore the fact that everyone and everything is done for the best interest to improve quality of life. Data minding, collection, capture, surveillance is huge. Have you been blind to the news at all?
Also, I feel pretty damn seasoned air traveler and have flown for decades. At times, I even feel a bit confused with a odd ball gate change at the last minute, hopping terminals via train or bus, even with all the signage, TSA and airport staff or picking that one seemingly confident looking fellow out of the bunch to ask a Hey, excuse me question. But guess what? I and everyone else figures it the fuck out. Even if you miss your flight, can't find your way, I haven't seen one airline go tell you to kick rocks, ever, even when it's your fault. You may not get totally catered to in some cases, but for the few who are confused in an airport, the solution is 'facial recognition system'? That's like needing a match, so you went and bought a 50lb propane tank and a blow torch.
Facial recognition is just a tool, while we should be mindful of uses that are creepy or dangerous, we should also not categorically dismiss truly useful real world uses just because there are also mis-uses possible.
True but how can you not? It's easy to become desensitized, grow wool over your eyes and develop amnesia. Technology always will, has been and ever will get abused for the wrong reasons it was intended. How many tech giants have misused, abused, all your data, pillaged your 'cloud' picture account of family photos, scraped your 'cloud' storage account, string data mine the shit out of your email with.
That's a simple propaganda like stunt and excuse to implement something to appear helpful to 0.00001% of the flying population at this airport. We all know privacy is gone at airports, it's not pre-911 anymore. But don't make shitty all-for-the-end-user claims so you don't feel guilty at the end of the day with your half-truth.
Thanks not only being the first poster, but also for the math refresher to figure out a monthly cost. All of our heads were spinning trying to break that down. Anyway...
Yes depending on where you live, it's still phenominal, but let's not oversell this and what Amazon Prime has become: not as advertised anymore.
I'll say Amazon Prime is a bloaty service and no where near the '2-day shipping' it used to be (when it was just exclusively a membership for S&H discounts). I live but 3 hours from a distribution 'hub' in the Midwest. Up until 2-3 years ago, I could consistently order anything marked prime worthy, even if I ordered in the evening past 5:00pm in my timezone, I would get it two days after. And yes, like others have said, even Sunday deliveries.Now? Shit, if I order Monday with 2-day Prime, I'm lucky to get it Thursday. If I order any time past Wednesday evening, I'm lucky to get it Saturday night, or it's out until Monday. Any more, I've paid extra for the '1-day shipping' just to get to my residence in 2-days like it's advertised.
I'm not going to pretend I know a single lick of putting together a successful Big Machine we call 'Amazon Prime' for product shipping together. I have no idea. I just know from a pure consumerism point of view, it's not close to what it used to. It's more expensive, so even harder to justify. And all the shit I still don't use (Amazon Prime Streaming for instance) and all the media shit that's now 'a part' of Prime when it was just a really nice quasi-membership for discounted shipping is now a squeeze.
I'll always applaud any engineering feat to develop, calibrate and make that robot do that 'one' thing, like put that single IKEA chair model together. But this is just hot air escaping from a cold window at a tail pipe party. Robotics tasks are and have been quintessential in manufacturing and a gaggle of other industries. Kind of reminds me of shit like this.
Now if there was some machine learning/AI image processing component where learning from video watching the humans put it together 50 seconds faster, it improved each time from it's own data points from before, then I'd be impressed and absolutely creeped out that Jeff Bezos has been right all along.
This is just typical snake oil salesman bullshit mixed with spy operative how-to-beat-a-lie-detector-test by saying a truth about something when hearing something else entirely.
I'm so tired of theater politics anymore. Anyone wanting to go look at my previous comments on other FB stories; feel free, I've said this numerous times: this changes nothing. When people you are in bed with are asking the questions (and pretty fucking formulated and ambiguous, btw) coupled with Zuckerberg preparing his ass off to say exactly the right things that can't confirm nor deny anything, why in the HELL was this done anyway? And why is anyone slurping this up as truth being disseminated?
This is about preserving national security in a degree we, as public citizens, have an idea that the Big Machines give our government hooks into this; jeezis, how could it go any better for them? We all willingly carry around our own surveillance system (e.g. phone) with us at all times; it's the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing you look at before you go to bed. Then secondly, it's about preserving stock, shares and company who doesn't not want to see MySpace level abandonment, because I remember that and that was fucking staggering the drop-off. Because if FB doesn't have you, they don't have a business model what-so-ever.
Both parties know that this is nothing more than damage control and it's better to get wish-washy facts out, then have a leak, right? See, the government DID actually learn something from Snowdon: Don't let the know-all grunt share the real news, have a dog-and-pony show with the CEO who's so far removed from his own empire tell you how it's not like that at all... but it is.
ABSOLUTELY correct. Some things look really 'good' on resumes for an amount of time, and some things are going to appear sour. How do you think some employees during the 90's Enron felt? "Oh, you worked... there? Um, we'll call you in a few weeks!" even if they worked in the damn mail room. I know I'd be doing the same exact move if I was in that situation, especially when there's going to be a stigma attached. This isn't the era your Grandpa or Dad worked in; there is no work and employment loyalty. People do not have 40-year employment stints anymore, except in state/federal government or small, cushy companies. And anyone who does software engineering or development, sys-admin, DBA, network engineer role on a serious and professional level knows that all your experience works against you --- and you get too expensive and at the end of the day, most places just won't pay that and take the 2nd or 3rd level person unless you have someone really gunning for your talent.
How is this any different than leaving your job on par-for-the-course reasons and taking a new job? Everyone leaves for a reason. Maybe you were tired of the grind, the work culture, the work itself, who the fuck knows. You never tell them (your employer that) because there are bridges to be preserved (if you're smart) but we all have our reasons, and all have an employment livelihood and that nice-to-us paycheck and living to preserve too.
No one is naive in all of this; people are going to say what they need to say to detatch themselves from this to get a new job or appear to be the stifled do-gooder who was opposed to it but had food to put on the table and squatter box rent to pay for in Silicon Valley. Anyone working at Facebook knows very well what the business model was/is and will be, even in light of all this fake congress BS with Zuckerberg: you
All this shiny, neato, star-struck internet-as-a-service shit finally caught up to the lot of people who now want to be presumably caught off guard and ass hurt because of data collection? Just stop all of this, from Facebook to Google and everyone else in between or at the frays.
I agree with the majority of first posters on here (and a parent of myself): Be a parent, not the service/gadget doing your parenting. Most breathing-and-should-be-breeding assholes I see pushing out kids didn't have a problem coughing up their cell phone to shut their kid up to watch a copyrighted show on Youtube in Walmart, but now your kid got older, less needy, has a mind of their own, starting to think for themselves, and now it's Google's problem and you want them to do something about it because you just can't control anything? Sounds like we all built a digital addiction and now how to we possibly turn it off?
All parents need to educate their kids in all of this and just how you prepare them for other future decisions in their life, they also need to know if all of that (e.g. social media and the internet of today) you let them is justified or not and to what level?
Just read this and it's essentially case closed, is it not?
Everyone is painting Zuckerberg as the incredible mind that he is, and rightfully so he is. I will say then that when you're that incredible, then you're not naive, either, and you're going to make sure you're uber prepared and 20 steps ahead. You don't become Zuckerberg of the world by being naive and clueless, ladies and gentlemen.
It's all meaningless when you've paid the same people who are questioning you. This is just dog-and-pony public show to make sure we, as a democratic for-the-people country, are doing all the right steps through vision to make it look like they give a shit. Facebook isn't going away and neither is Zuckerberg and the empire of surveillance he created, nor is his entire fucking body of think-tanks he has on puppet strings to keep carrying it out. Notice how prepared Facebook is at all times at any backlash? "Oh we are pissed about this", and less than 24 hours later there's an already baked up, engineered and software developed solution to 'deal with it how 'you think' it's being dealt with. 20 steps ahead. That's all you need to know.
I can't imagine the absolute fucking distraction in class that goes on with either SMS, social media, watching kids make a goofy damn face 'snapchatting', etc. As much as I want to dismiss it as back in the day when I'd doodle or sketch nonsense in a notebook while a teacher was droning on, passing notes, counting ceiling tiles or what-the-hell-ever all of us non-millennials did as being just as non-productive, it's a complete different type of blatant disrespect and lack of dedication without being able to 'disconnect' and focus on something other than _you_.
Think public/private school issues are bad, anymore, I wish workplaces would eliminate phone usage from the damn work force, except for under extreme circumstances, where you actually need to use it. I can't even get away from it in meetings or presentations I do at work anymore; there is guaranteed at least one mega-douche with his face buried in his phone not even paying attention (but in a title and position to absolutely the fuck pay attention), then is always the person who has to have things repeated, or burning up questions that were already covered, or whatever waste presented on, the opposite (or nothing) gets done.
Just like most teachers already get paid shit, assuming they are par to upper quality educators and care, it's flat out an extreme waste of their time, expertise, educational background and breath when you can't even get someone to put down a device for 1/16th of their entire day they are awake for that one hour class to be dedicated and open to being taught and educated. We all know, the 15 other slivers of time are 'on that thing' anyway.
Absolutely. I'm just as taken back as the rest of the sane-minded folk who aren't in shock-and-awe of this quick movement to say we're more secure and less intrusive than the other platform over there. It's simply narrow minded that everything was done in your best interest as an end-user in social media platform situations.
You can't stop the Big Machine. Heck, you can't even hope to contain it anymore (God bless you, Dan Patrick). This is all just smoke-and-mirrors to save investor stock and dividends, people. As long as you keep using this shit, it only gets worse.
All of us we-knew-better ranters and tinfoil-hat-wearing evangelists just got the smoking gun that was needed. There it is for everyone to see and read.
We give all these Big Machine's a free pass every damn time we think they mistakenly screwed up and didn't know any better like a 3 year old child left momentarily unattended in a shallow bathtub with 10 shampoo bottles, bubble bath suds and a squirt gun. "Oh they made a huge mistake." In what? Cleverly and with a flawed, broken moral compass exploited.
Our biggest flaw as a consumer of this bullshit is: Thinking that the think-tanks don't think. These developers, engineers, managers, CIO/CFO/CTO what-the-hell-ever are some of the smartest, clever, brilliant mathematical, analytical and big-problem-solver-and-idea talent of their immediate time figuring out and putting together what they've done for a fucking planet to consume. Did you think that anything was NOT calculated or thought through 50 steps ahead, backwards, forwards, side-wards and whatever-Willy-Wonka-way-wards with absolutely every conceivable outcome laid out before them? That's OUR flaw as a consumer. Assumption that everyone is done in our best interest any time money is on the table and to be made.
I gotta give it to the EU parliament for GDPR, I mean, it may not be the cage shaking of epic proportion, but it's something. That shit was never going to happen in the United States, ever.
This still changes little to none --- ok, it makes us now aware of shit we always knew anyway, but decided to turn a consumer blind eye too because was saw something fucking 'shiny'. I hold myself accountable and gullible just as anyone else. It is not like eating that last Krispy Kreme doughnut in the break room when you know you didn't ever fucking need it? And doing it over and over again with each new social media platform you just had to be a part of, knowing full well that 'free' means a loosening the belt every time you sit back down at your desk until you gotta go buy new Dockers at Macy's?
I see this as little more than altered perception comfort-food icon eye candy for all of us to say, "See look, this isn't as intrusive as this one!". It's just another dangly, shiny piece to distract you. It's just implied compliance to exactly to what was said, nothing more, nothing less, to make you feel better. There's still zero disclosure and whatever was given up, there's already a new, unknown backdoor way of just doing it under our noses again.
This is garbage, calculated PR absolute-minimum-change-we-can-do to not loose any more stock or a user base. I love this "We give a shit now" moment by Facebook, and with Zuckerberg going 'on the record' with Congress to 'make a change'.
This stunt is like having a legitimately bad restaurant experience, and after you decide to walk out, the manager comes tripping over half the tables and chains from across the restaurant to come tell you how sorry they are just so you don't go throw a huge 0-star rant on Yelp. They really don't care, they just want to stop the damage with the one person and the handful of patrons eyes that witnessed it, and not go any farther to continue business-as-usual.
It's not shit on this too much. Anyone who's had to work in any science related field, you're as good as your model and training data. To even make ancillary matches that maybe cause a bit of a 'concern' but later turn out to be benign or a false positive, um, sign me the fuck up? Especially if you're not in the health and welfare camp of "You don't know what you don't want to know". Time is on our side in improvement; of course we will, but I hope it's better for my children and not an ultimate target-on-the-back for pre-healthcare screening (which is already really is) and any future healthcare you plan to get. If accuracy is improved for the right reasons, absolutely, but humanity and greed tell me otherwise.
TFA is making it sound like we have world of mega hypochondriacs --- which probably isn't entirely out of the question with today's social media platform of "Oh everybody, on my way to another dicey check-up, fingers crossed " --- but by any measure, if there are genetic health concerns that run in my blood line, why not entertain it, especially if you want to be proactive and curb or neutralize it, if it's in your immediate control to change it? At least you had some concrete information as opposed to none.
Absolutely agree. I have noticed this for YEARS when we've talked about something, then we went to our devices, we will see targeted ads minutes and hours to follow, but more importantly, there was a topic we wanted to use some internet search resource to validate something in our conversation, and even your default search engine shows that very F topic as the auto-fill suggestion as you type.
I feel a bit too tin-foil-hatted all the time, but seriously why shouldn't I? And how F helpless is everyone now? This is just confirmation that whatever technical fantasy or fairy-tail idea is well beyond what we think is done. Tech that's publicly available is already old-hat to what's being cooked on privately funded or black dollar defense contracts. And it's become such a fabric of our world to be connected, as the ball continues to roll.
The more I see of this over my 20+ year career and going, just reminds me of the thinning (and dying) crowd of truly experienced, intelligent, well-rounded and top-shelf skilled folks who call or hold a position of sys/network admin. I've always tried to come to some sane conclusion that it was just another configuration mistake, oversight and being in an overwhelming/demanding position, over pressured in getting something done now vs right, being purely lazy, or any other myriad of workplace excuses I want to try to explain shit like this and it really comes down to: most people are NOT good at a job like that and having an absolute polished computing and work experience background to do a good job.
Just kind of like going to a national chain restaurant, coffee shop or what-the-fuck ever in some other side of town, city or state: They all have the same ingredients, recipes and tools to make it the same, but don't the intellect, care, skill, tenacity and drive that my Applebee's burger or Starbucks Cafe Misto tasted way fucking better over here than it did over there?
Making the argument that I didn't know how to run the grill, espresso machine or cash register isn't any different than fake-victimizing yourself about configuring user-land tools or services, reading a fucking 'man' page (yes they skill exist and are maintained, kids), thinking about something before you do it and relying on intuition or experience, reading a book/manual/whitepaper, doing shit the 'right' way vs googling or stack-overflowing your way through it IMHO.
Boo hoo, RIAA. So, it hasn't been even this high since 2008? And streaming/downloads only makes up $1.3B of that? Unreal. It's a mere 1/8th of your total revenue stream. That's not news, it's just bragging that your portfolio shifted around and you're making more, but in different areas. If I had to guess, I'd fall into the same thought processes as others and say it's the Amazon-like approach of selling an 'pre-ripped' album that also comes with the tangible CD/Vinyl, too, albeit for a slight markup more --- and it makes sense for some because you get it encoded for none of your time and it's instant use. Then your second surprise shows up in the mail a few days later you never open and shelf as a nostalgic backup.
This is like the NFL complaining about how 'viewership' is down this here for baseless excuses and is really impacting their product, but still manage to increase their entire network every year.
I'm surprised to see that "CD/Vinyl" is the excuse vs. pirating. Never see a witch-hunt for that as long as it's making you something.
Absolutely. I think this is going to be the classic phrase with a twist of you _now_ know what you _didn't_ know vs you _dont_ know what you _dont_ know and I think it's going to hit that home run a lot of people need to think about: are these free services where we-are-the-customer worth it?
We loosely throw around the idea that we, as consumers, all know our 'data' is 'shared', but to what level and to whom? There's going to be a small movement of douche-bags who are going to manufacture being 'offended' by screaming about on the same platform(s) they are now trying to fact-shame into oblivion about 'this isn't what I signed up for when I wanted to use your whatever AND it was free".
I'm with you, I'm waiting for more of this disclosure to happen and see all the heat-maps and correlations as well. It's going to get really interesting over the summer as the compliance to this EU GDPR makes it's rounds.
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Reminds of many Science Fiction/Fantasy shorts I listen to on Clarkesworld Magazine like this one.
It's funny how our imaginations aren't that far off from potential planetary catastrophe in any humanly direction we chose. Put your tinfoil hats on and jump into your bunker with your MRE's, it's gonna be a wild ride!
In our world of shiny app and UI obfuscation ...hardly surprised at all. I have no shock value points left to dole out, or as the new kids these days F's to give.
You are the 'product', and thats why it's free in beer, but priceless in data mining. That location data has little to do with Google Maps you use for navigation to get to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving; where you stopped in between, the gas station you went to, the isle you were in debating which candied yams to get in Walmart, the route you took, why you took that route, getting focused advertisement to everything 'in between' is worth collecting it under the table. That's what keeps Google's lights (and datacenters) running: that data.
THANK. YOU. That's been my experience, too. I will say 99% of branded info-sec analysts in any organization I've been at are just certified, expensive turn-key Big brother security scanner stack, banner grabbing phrase repeaters who say a lot of buzzwords (Blue Team, Read Team, FISMA, go-go-go) like we're playing Halo charades. I'm not knocking them --- that's why I don't have or want their job, but I know it's hard to exercise security when the expertise, competency, skill and where-with-all of a developer, or sys-admin/engineer hat caring about matching CVE numbers to package releases or the developer who can code OO-Python, C++ or PHP like a mad-man but is absolutely nebulous about any sort of vector attacks, how exploiting or overflows generally work, or in-memory attacks, all that BS that exists today.
I don't blame the people in those positions though, it's the churn of an organization and the management: whatever you're working on makes the business, and more times than none, it's bottom line get-it-out-the-door or get-it-released 100% of the time. And I feel like there also a lot less expertise and well-rounded computer-science and highly technical people these days in positions. Everyone just wants it to 'work' and never look back. Unless you're in a relatively respected position or valued enough for someone to listen to, "That's great, but we really need to focus on security here, there, over there and right here" AND actually set up a foundation for people applying, implementing and caring for security in their respective roles, this is how it will always be.
It doesn't matter how many leaks, hacks or compromises of millions of accounts at this place or that place will be in the future, thinking and priorities to security as a whole have to change first and be just as high on the list as that new feature in you're working on in that 2-week Agile sprint.
That's all I really needed to read. I'd love to write any lengthy rant here to entertain any /.'ers, but I think that says it all. Far cry from cooking up some experimental code that isn't production worthy at all, or SaaS where it's built to drive, function, and fund a business model, no way is your experiment anything more than that.
I'm sure some one has a rank of OSS software against vulnerabilities and/or exploits in their code-base, introduced their "bug" idea into a fork of the application and saw how it went over a period of time. Skipping their academic paper, I saw nothing of that and more of a tip to promote their LAVA system, plus a but of academic accommodating and citing of peers papers.
Sounds cool in academia world as a proof-of-concept to put a paper out and get more grant money, but that's all I'll promote. Anyone who's written a bit of code, maintained anything software related at all knows this is absolutely not realistic.
Be 20 steps ahead, everyone. We have no rights anymore if law enforcement wants to push the envelope on anything, exacerbate any ticket-and-on-your-way situation into something else by profiling, all the while with 100% plausible deniability and/or probable cause on their side.
I just got pulled over last week for being a dope and not putting my new registrations tags on by the end of the month, no one asked to check my phone, thankfully...
The OP's argument is that netlink sockets are more efficient in theory so we should abandon anything that uses a pseudo-proc, re-invent the wheel and move even farther from the UNIX tradition and POSIX compliance? And it may be slower on larger systems? Define that for me because I've never experienced that. I've worked on single stove-pipe x86 systems, to the 'SPARC archteciture' generation where everyone thought Sun/Solaris was the way to go with single entire systems in a 42U rack, IRIX systems, all the way on hundreds of RPM-base linux distro that are physical, hypervised and containered nodes in an HPC which are LARGE compute systems (fat and compute nodes). That's a total shit comment with zero facts to back it up. This is like Good Will Hunting 'the bar scene' revisited...
OP, if you're an old hat like me, I'd fucking LOVE to know how old? You sound like you've got about 5 days soaking wet under your belt with a Milkshake IPA in your hand. You sound like a millennial developer-turned-sysadmin-for-a-day who's got all but cloud-framework-administration under your belt and are being a complete poser. Any true sys-admin is going to flip-their-shit just like we ALL did with systemd, and that shit still needs to die. There, I got that off my chest.
I'd say you got two things right, but are completely off on one of them:
* Your description of inefficient is what you got right: you sound like my mother or grandmother describing their computing experiences to look at Pintrest on a web brower at times. You mind as well just said slow without any bearing, education guess or reason. Sigh...
* I would agree that some of these tools need to change, but only to handle deeper kernel containerization being built into Linux. One example that comes to mind is 'hostnamectl' where it's more dev-ops centric in terms of 'what' slice or provision you're referencing. A lot of those tools like ifconfig, route and alike still do work in any Linux environment, containerized or not --- fuck, they work today.
Anymore, I'm just a disgruntled and I'm sure soon-to-be-modded-down voice on /. that should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm not happy with the way the movements of Linux have gone, and if this doesn't sound old hat I don't know what is: At the end of the day, you have to embrace change. I'd say 0.0001% of any of us are in control of those types of changes, no matter how we feel about is as end-user administrators of those tools we've grown to be complacent about. I got about 15y left and this thing called Linux that I've made a good living on will be the-next-guys steaming pile to deal with.
So for nearly a decade, there has been aerial dumping of poison in excess of 300 tons to kill rats, who ingest it and burrow in the ground and die? Ok, so when the SGHT is done with their High-Five tail pipe party about seagulls picking at a few carcasses, I'd be curious to know when they perform their next study of the impacts of millions of rodents that ate all that poison (or didn't) and it leeched back into the ocean? That can't be good. Talk about trying to solve one problem and causing a domino effect of others.
...that's oxymoronic as HELL.
I can appreciate this service for the Switch; I think it would be a bit sacrilegious I guess if Nintendo didn't somehow offer the nostalgic NES platform ROMs (at a minimum). But I'll tell you what --- really sick-and-tired of re-re-re-re-re-re-annoucement and re-purchasing of NES roms on the new Nintendo gaming console every time.
I have working original NES consoles (that my wife and I both had in the late 80's, early 90's) that I've bought new cartridge socket replacements for every once in a while, clean my games up one a year or so, and I will say, it's a superior experience to play the original carts on the platform, I think partly because of the original controller 'feel' in your hands. However, with that out of the way, out of pure convenience, laziness or wanting to blow some meek amount of disposable income, I've also bought Nintendo's legitly NES offered ROMs on whatever shopping front-end service they've had for the Wii, Wii U, or any of the anniversary editions.
But it goes to say: For whatever casual excuse, I've re-bought them every. damn. time. I really wish my purchases would 'carry' over to the 'next' thing Nintendo decides to push out. Because they don't and that's kind of an ass ache, albeit a first world one.
I can see a ton of real value especially in recognizing someone who is supposed to be on a plane in fifteen minutes is not near the gate and not headed that way. They could even have staff drive a cart over and help especially slow or confused people, it could actually end up being really friendly and helpful unlike the dystopian scenario that always comes to mind when we imagine complete monitoring.
First I'll start out by saying: If you're argument is people weren't at the gate 15 minutes prior to boarding, then don't fly and be more responsible next time. Fuck, I can't tell you how many times I've had my plane held up because someone was late eating at the Chili's Bar and Grill down 100'. Now if you're legitimately late because you're running from one plane to the next, absolutely.
All I can say is, we can justify anything with that a long list with thousands of other optimistic use cases to death. I agree that there is a ton of real benefits for that. But we always ignore the fact that everyone and everything is done for the best interest to improve quality of life. Data minding, collection, capture, surveillance is huge. Have you been blind to the news at all?
Also, I feel pretty damn seasoned air traveler and have flown for decades. At times, I even feel a bit confused with a odd ball gate change at the last minute, hopping terminals via train or bus, even with all the signage, TSA and airport staff or picking that one seemingly confident looking fellow out of the bunch to ask a Hey, excuse me question. But guess what? I and everyone else figures it the fuck out. Even if you miss your flight, can't find your way, I haven't seen one airline go tell you to kick rocks, ever, even when it's your fault. You may not get totally catered to in some cases, but for the few who are confused in an airport, the solution is 'facial recognition system'? That's like needing a match, so you went and bought a 50lb propane tank and a blow torch.
Facial recognition is just a tool, while we should be mindful of uses that are creepy or dangerous, we should also not categorically dismiss truly useful real world uses just because there are also mis-uses possible.
True but how can you not? It's easy to become desensitized, grow wool over your eyes and develop amnesia. Technology always will, has been and ever will get abused for the wrong reasons it was intended. How many tech giants have misused, abused, all your data, pillaged your 'cloud' picture account of family photos, scraped your 'cloud' storage account, string data mine the shit out of your email with.
That's a simple propaganda like stunt and excuse to implement something to appear helpful to 0.00001% of the flying population at this airport. We all know privacy is gone at airports, it's not pre-911 anymore. But don't make shitty all-for-the-end-user claims so you don't feel guilty at the end of the day with your half-truth.
Thanks not only being the first poster, but also for the math refresher to figure out a monthly cost. All of our heads were spinning trying to break that down. Anyway...
Yes depending on where you live, it's still phenominal, but let's not oversell this and what Amazon Prime has become: not as advertised anymore.
I'll say Amazon Prime is a bloaty service and no where near the '2-day shipping' it used to be (when it was just exclusively a membership for S&H discounts). I live but 3 hours from a distribution 'hub' in the Midwest. Up until 2-3 years ago, I could consistently order anything marked prime worthy, even if I ordered in the evening past 5:00pm in my timezone, I would get it two days after. And yes, like others have said, even Sunday deliveries.Now? Shit, if I order Monday with 2-day Prime, I'm lucky to get it Thursday. If I order any time past Wednesday evening, I'm lucky to get it Saturday night, or it's out until Monday. Any more, I've paid extra for the '1-day shipping' just to get to my residence in 2-days like it's advertised.
I'm not going to pretend I know a single lick of putting together a successful Big Machine we call 'Amazon Prime' for product shipping together. I have no idea. I just know from a pure consumerism point of view, it's not close to what it used to. It's more expensive, so even harder to justify. And all the shit I still don't use (Amazon Prime Streaming for instance) and all the media shit that's now 'a part' of Prime when it was just a really nice quasi-membership for discounted shipping is now a squeeze.
I'll always applaud any engineering feat to develop, calibrate and make that robot do that 'one' thing, like put that single IKEA chair model together. But this is just hot air escaping from a cold window at a tail pipe party. Robotics tasks are and have been quintessential in manufacturing and a gaggle of other industries. Kind of reminds me of shit like this.
Now if there was some machine learning/AI image processing component where learning from video watching the humans put it together 50 seconds faster, it improved each time from it's own data points from before, then I'd be impressed and absolutely creeped out that Jeff Bezos has been right all along.
This is just typical snake oil salesman bullshit mixed with spy operative how-to-beat-a-lie-detector-test by saying a truth about something when hearing something else entirely.
I'm so tired of theater politics anymore. Anyone wanting to go look at my previous comments on other FB stories; feel free, I've said this numerous times: this changes nothing. When people you are in bed with are asking the questions (and pretty fucking formulated and ambiguous, btw) coupled with Zuckerberg preparing his ass off to say exactly the right things that can't confirm nor deny anything, why in the HELL was this done anyway? And why is anyone slurping this up as truth being disseminated?
This is about preserving national security in a degree we, as public citizens, have an idea that the Big Machines give our government hooks into this; jeezis, how could it go any better for them? We all willingly carry around our own surveillance system (e.g. phone) with us at all times; it's the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing you look at before you go to bed. Then secondly, it's about preserving stock, shares and company who doesn't not want to see MySpace level abandonment, because I remember that and that was fucking staggering the drop-off. Because if FB doesn't have you, they don't have a business model what-so-ever.
Both parties know that this is nothing more than damage control and it's better to get wish-washy facts out, then have a leak, right? See, the government DID actually learn something from Snowdon: Don't let the know-all grunt share the real news, have a dog-and-pony show with the CEO who's so far removed from his own empire tell you how it's not like that at all... but it is.
ABSOLUTELY correct. Some things look really 'good' on resumes for an amount of time, and some things are going to appear sour. How do you think some employees during the 90's Enron felt? "Oh, you worked... there? Um, we'll call you in a few weeks!" even if they worked in the damn mail room. I know I'd be doing the same exact move if I was in that situation, especially when there's going to be a stigma attached. This isn't the era your Grandpa or Dad worked in; there is no work and employment loyalty. People do not have 40-year employment stints anymore, except in state/federal government or small, cushy companies. And anyone who does software engineering or development, sys-admin, DBA, network engineer role on a serious and professional level knows that all your experience works against you --- and you get too expensive and at the end of the day, most places just won't pay that and take the 2nd or 3rd level person unless you have someone really gunning for your talent.
How is this any different than leaving your job on par-for-the-course reasons and taking a new job? Everyone leaves for a reason. Maybe you were tired of the grind, the work culture, the work itself, who the fuck knows. You never tell them (your employer that) because there are bridges to be preserved (if you're smart) but we all have our reasons, and all have an employment livelihood and that nice-to-us paycheck and living to preserve too.
No one is naive in all of this; people are going to say what they need to say to detatch themselves from this to get a new job or appear to be the stifled do-gooder who was opposed to it but had food to put on the table and squatter box rent to pay for in Silicon Valley. Anyone working at Facebook knows very well what the business model was/is and will be, even in light of all this fake congress BS with Zuckerberg: you
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All this shiny, neato, star-struck internet-as-a-service shit finally caught up to the lot of people who now want to be presumably caught off guard and ass hurt because of data collection? Just stop all of this, from Facebook to Google and everyone else in between or at the frays.
I agree with the majority of first posters on here (and a parent of myself): Be a parent, not the service/gadget doing your parenting. Most breathing-and-should-be-breeding assholes I see pushing out kids didn't have a problem coughing up their cell phone to shut their kid up to watch a copyrighted show on Youtube in Walmart, but now your kid got older, less needy, has a mind of their own, starting to think for themselves, and now it's Google's problem and you want them to do something about it because you just can't control anything? Sounds like we all built a digital addiction and now how to we possibly turn it off?
All parents need to educate their kids in all of this and just how you prepare them for other future decisions in their life, they also need to know if all of that (e.g. social media and the internet of today) you let them is justified or not and to what level?
Just read this and it's essentially case closed, is it not?
Everyone is painting Zuckerberg as the incredible mind that he is, and rightfully so he is. I will say then that when you're that incredible, then you're not naive, either, and you're going to make sure you're uber prepared and 20 steps ahead. You don't become Zuckerberg of the world by being naive and clueless, ladies and gentlemen.
It's all meaningless when you've paid the same people who are questioning you. This is just dog-and-pony public show to make sure we, as a democratic for-the-people country, are doing all the right steps through vision to make it look like they give a shit. Facebook isn't going away and neither is Zuckerberg and the empire of surveillance he created, nor is his entire fucking body of think-tanks he has on puppet strings to keep carrying it out. Notice how prepared Facebook is at all times at any backlash? "Oh we are pissed about this", and less than 24 hours later there's an already baked up, engineered and software developed solution to 'deal with it how 'you think' it's being dealt with. 20 steps ahead. That's all you need to know.
This changes nothing.
I can't imagine the absolute fucking distraction in class that goes on with either SMS, social media, watching kids make a goofy damn face 'snapchatting', etc. As much as I want to dismiss it as back in the day when I'd doodle or sketch nonsense in a notebook while a teacher was droning on, passing notes, counting ceiling tiles or what-the-hell-ever all of us non-millennials did as being just as non-productive, it's a complete different type of blatant disrespect and lack of dedication without being able to 'disconnect' and focus on something other than _you_.
Think public/private school issues are bad, anymore, I wish workplaces would eliminate phone usage from the damn work force, except for under extreme circumstances, where you actually need to use it. I can't even get away from it in meetings or presentations I do at work anymore; there is guaranteed at least one mega-douche with his face buried in his phone not even paying attention (but in a title and position to absolutely the fuck pay attention), then is always the person who has to have things repeated, or burning up questions that were already covered, or whatever waste presented on, the opposite (or nothing) gets done.
Just like most teachers already get paid shit, assuming they are par to upper quality educators and care, it's flat out an extreme waste of their time, expertise, educational background and breath when you can't even get someone to put down a device for 1/16th of their entire day they are awake for that one hour class to be dedicated and open to being taught and educated. We all know, the 15 other slivers of time are 'on that thing' anyway.
Absolutely. I'm just as taken back as the rest of the sane-minded folk who aren't in shock-and-awe of this quick movement to say we're more secure and less intrusive than the other platform over there. It's simply narrow minded that everything was done in your best interest as an end-user in social media platform situations.
You can't stop the Big Machine. Heck, you can't even hope to contain it anymore (God bless you, Dan Patrick). This is all just smoke-and-mirrors to save investor stock and dividends, people. As long as you keep using this shit, it only gets worse.
All of us we-knew-better ranters and tinfoil-hat-wearing evangelists just got the smoking gun that was needed. There it is for everyone to see and read.
We give all these Big Machine's a free pass every damn time we think they mistakenly screwed up and didn't know any better like a 3 year old child left momentarily unattended in a shallow bathtub with 10 shampoo bottles, bubble bath suds and a squirt gun. "Oh they made a huge mistake." In what? Cleverly and with a flawed, broken moral compass exploited.
Our biggest flaw as a consumer of this bullshit is: Thinking that the think-tanks don't think. These developers, engineers, managers, CIO/CFO/CTO what-the-hell-ever are some of the smartest, clever, brilliant mathematical, analytical and big-problem-solver-and-idea talent of their immediate time figuring out and putting together what they've done for a fucking planet to consume. Did you think that anything was NOT calculated or thought through 50 steps ahead, backwards, forwards, side-wards and whatever-Willy-Wonka-way-wards with absolutely every conceivable outcome laid out before them? That's OUR flaw as a consumer. Assumption that everyone is done in our best interest any time money is on the table and to be made.
I gotta give it to the EU parliament for GDPR, I mean, it may not be the cage shaking of epic proportion, but it's something. That shit was never going to happen in the United States, ever.
This still changes little to none --- ok, it makes us now aware of shit we always knew anyway, but decided to turn a consumer blind eye too because was saw something fucking 'shiny'. I hold myself accountable and gullible just as anyone else. It is not like eating that last Krispy Kreme doughnut in the break room when you know you didn't ever fucking need it? And doing it over and over again with each new social media platform you just had to be a part of, knowing full well that 'free' means a loosening the belt every time you sit back down at your desk until you gotta go buy new Dockers at Macy's?
I see this as little more than altered perception comfort-food icon eye candy for all of us to say, "See look, this isn't as intrusive as this one!". It's just another dangly, shiny piece to distract you. It's just implied compliance to exactly to what was said, nothing more, nothing less, to make you feel better. There's still zero disclosure and whatever was given up, there's already a new, unknown backdoor way of just doing it under our noses again.
... that was a horrible pun. FML.
This is garbage, calculated PR absolute-minimum-change-we-can-do to not loose any more stock or a user base. I love this "We give a shit now" moment by Facebook, and with Zuckerberg going 'on the record' with Congress to 'make a change'.
This stunt is like having a legitimately bad restaurant experience, and after you decide to walk out, the manager comes tripping over half the tables and chains from across the restaurant to come tell you how sorry they are just so you don't go throw a huge 0-star rant on Yelp. They really don't care, they just want to stop the damage with the one person and the handful of patrons eyes that witnessed it, and not go any farther to continue business-as-usual.
It's not shit on this too much. Anyone who's had to work in any science related field, you're as good as your model and training data. To even make ancillary matches that maybe cause a bit of a 'concern' but later turn out to be benign or a false positive, um, sign me the fuck up? Especially if you're not in the health and welfare camp of "You don't know what you don't want to know". Time is on our side in improvement; of course we will, but I hope it's better for my children and not an ultimate target-on-the-back for pre-healthcare screening (which is already really is) and any future healthcare you plan to get. If accuracy is improved for the right reasons, absolutely, but humanity and greed tell me otherwise.
TFA is making it sound like we have world of mega hypochondriacs --- which probably isn't entirely out of the question with today's social media platform of "Oh everybody, on my way to another dicey check-up, fingers crossed " --- but by any measure, if there are genetic health concerns that run in my blood line, why not entertain it, especially if you want to be proactive and curb or neutralize it, if it's in your immediate control to change it? At least you had some concrete information as opposed to none.
Absolutely agree. I have noticed this for YEARS when we've talked about something, then we went to our devices, we will see targeted ads minutes and hours to follow, but more importantly, there was a topic we wanted to use some internet search resource to validate something in our conversation, and even your default search engine shows that very F topic as the auto-fill suggestion as you type.
I feel a bit too tin-foil-hatted all the time, but seriously why shouldn't I? And how F helpless is everyone now? This is just confirmation that whatever technical fantasy or fairy-tail idea is well beyond what we think is done. Tech that's publicly available is already old-hat to what's being cooked on privately funded or black dollar defense contracts. And it's become such a fabric of our world to be connected, as the ball continues to roll.
The more I see of this over my 20+ year career and going, just reminds me of the thinning (and dying) crowd of truly experienced, intelligent, well-rounded and top-shelf skilled folks who call or hold a position of sys/network admin. I've always tried to come to some sane conclusion that it was just another configuration mistake, oversight and being in an overwhelming/demanding position, over pressured in getting something done now vs right, being purely lazy, or any other myriad of workplace excuses I want to try to explain shit like this and it really comes down to: most people are NOT good at a job like that and having an absolute polished computing and work experience background to do a good job.
Just kind of like going to a national chain restaurant, coffee shop or what-the-fuck ever in some other side of town, city or state: They all have the same ingredients, recipes and tools to make it the same, but don't the intellect, care, skill, tenacity and drive that my Applebee's burger or Starbucks Cafe Misto tasted way fucking better over here than it did over there?
Making the argument that I didn't know how to run the grill, espresso machine or cash register isn't any different than fake-victimizing yourself about configuring user-land tools or services, reading a fucking 'man' page (yes they skill exist and are maintained, kids), thinking about something before you do it and relying on intuition or experience, reading a book/manual/whitepaper, doing shit the 'right' way vs googling or stack-overflowing your way through it IMHO.
Boo hoo, RIAA. So, it hasn't been even this high since 2008? And streaming/downloads only makes up $1.3B of that? Unreal. It's a mere 1/8th of your total revenue stream. That's not news, it's just bragging that your portfolio shifted around and you're making more, but in different areas. If I had to guess, I'd fall into the same thought processes as others and say it's the Amazon-like approach of selling an 'pre-ripped' album that also comes with the tangible CD/Vinyl, too, albeit for a slight markup more --- and it makes sense for some because you get it encoded for none of your time and it's instant use. Then your second surprise shows up in the mail a few days later you never open and shelf as a nostalgic backup.
This is like the NFL complaining about how 'viewership' is down this here for baseless excuses and is really impacting their product, but still manage to increase their entire network every year.
I'm surprised to see that "CD/Vinyl" is the excuse vs. pirating. Never see a witch-hunt for that as long as it's making you something.
Absolutely. I think this is going to be the classic phrase with a twist of you _now_ know what you _didn't_ know vs you _dont_ know what you _dont_ know and I think it's going to hit that home run a lot of people need to think about: are these free services where we-are-the-customer worth it?
We loosely throw around the idea that we, as consumers, all know our 'data' is 'shared', but to what level and to whom? There's going to be a small movement of douche-bags who are going to manufacture being 'offended' by screaming about on the same platform(s) they are now trying to fact-shame into oblivion about 'this isn't what I signed up for when I wanted to use your whatever AND it was free".
I'm with you, I'm waiting for more of this disclosure to happen and see all the heat-maps and correlations as well. It's going to get really interesting over the summer as the compliance to this EU GDPR makes it's rounds.