Are you sure? I wouldn't put it beyond some shady site to abuse a loophole in HTML5 to open a video, whether you like it or not.
As long as it is a video run by the default player, it will be media player as I never set VLC as default anything, I just manually open DVDs. I'm not big on auto run anyway, I usually plug in a device or insert a disk, then go do something else for a while and then come back later and use it. I hate windows popping up on me when I'm busy with something else.
I pretty much don't view videos except DVD or streaming, so media player is associated with all the videos I don't watch... Removing Shockwave is probably a good idea, I've never really given the program much thought, assuming it is installed.
As far as I know (feel free to correct my ignorance) Adobe Shockwave is for online games which I don't bother with, I only use VLC for DVDs since Windows refuses a proper media player and I don't use Skype. If these programs are running in a vulnerable manner (excluding VLC, which is not set to auto run), seems like Windows is more responsible since I never asked for them to run...
So which role will Netflix play. I know which one will get me to keep subscribing... (yeah, I know they don't have that kind of control but they are, I think, the biggest streaming service, which wields a fair bit of power)
They lose 100% of my attention when ads are on anyway. Step 1. Mute. Step 2. Look away or look at another device. Step 3. (Optional) Consider how I could acquire the same content with no ads, any means necessary.
And tivo kindly implemented skip the adds feature to many shows (not sure if other DVRs have this). Strangely, I'm buying no less goods from advertisements when using skip.
"In one case, the journey time from Birdsville, on the Queensland border, up to the Western Star Hotel in Windorah, in the centre of the state, was estimated to be close to 11 hours by Google Maps.
After claims the time was inaccurate, Google changed the estimated time to about 7 hours and 45 minutes. But locals say the drive is closer to four hours with no stops."
OK so yes the original and even updated distance are a potentially bit long for a tank of gas while the four hours is not bad (are locals using the speed limit or the speed most people drive?). Still, that is the kind of distance I'd usually travel to a larger location with multiple attractions, not a small town museum (other attractions at location?). Maybe I'm just weird and don't travel enough on vacation...
Nature also doesn't care much beyond a person reproducing and raising their offspring to the point where they can successfully reproduce. There is some value in raising the grandchildren as well, but I wonder how much nature cares about a person past ~50, maybe 60.
Uh Netflix got an offer for a subsidy to offset that increase a long time ago. I think they didnâ(TM)t apply because they figured their customers would just eat it. Oh well
The customers usually eat it one way or another... paying up front is often cheaper than having to pay later to cover funding with interest. Though not sure how the subsidies would be handled with this...
So you assume...hard to say what disabled does to an app thats a read-only part of the system image where the 3rd party has paid for this.
Android is an open platfrom so you *think* you know what its doing, but once it becomes a closed platform like on a Samsung device, assumptions must be made and cannot be validated.
And what do you assume deleting an app where the 3rd party has paid for the app to be on the phone? Just because you *think* the app was deleted, can you truly say it was? If you want to be paranoid (or realistic, all a matter of perspective), it can be applied evenly, not just to a few cases.
Are you retarded? Of course, the risk is different. Human malice vs. random goose...
Good to know that all drones are flown in malice... though given they already shut down the airport for earlier drone flights... the drone pilot is either an complete moron or intentionally trying to shut down the airport. But then is the pilot actually willing to kill someone, or just trying to brag to his friends how he shut down an airport?
I'm thinking they need to invest in the technology to quickly and safely shoot these out of the sky and resume operations. I'm also thinking most of them would cause less damage to a jet than a goose strike would.
Some tests have been made with drone and aircraft collisions https://www.aerospacetestingin... “The bird did more apparent damage to the leading edge of the wing, but the Phantom penetrated deeper into the wing and damaged the main spar, which the bird did not do,”
Not to take away from a test result that is truly concerning about the structural impact to the aircraft, they tested it against a Mooney M20. This aircraft isn't particularly large. I kind of wonder how the wing structure of a larger airline hold up against the same impact?
I would think the greatest concern with an airliner would not be structural damage to the wing but risk of fire of deeper penetration from a metal object into the wing tanks.
whereas a goose probably doesn't have any malice toward a typical airliner.
Have you never heard of the Cobra Chicken? Geese have malice towards everything.
So I've been informed by Ron White and a coworker who decided it would be funny to charge the flock (sorry, just don't like gaggle) of geese that lives on the front lawn at work. You may outweigh a goose but a 20+ goose charge, all bearing their teeth, is something you try not to do twice.
Geese tend to fly away from the big noisy machine. Drone pilots (and I use that term loosely) tend to think "Oh, this'll be a great view!"
While I think you are likely correct (never attribute toward malice what can be attributed toward sheer stupidity and the average goose may be smarter than the average drone operator), historical record does show more airline damage by birds than drones. True drones are a pretty new thing and will just get worse.
"There have been about 194,000 wildlife strikes with civil aircraft in USA between 1990 and 2017 (about 14,400 strikes at 700 U.S. airports in 2017). An additional 4,000 strikes have been reported by U.S. Air Carriers at foreign airports, 1990-2017. From 1988 to 2017, there were 287 human fatalities attributed to wildlife strikes globally."
I see a bunch of geese eating on the lawn of our airport right now, should we shut down the airport? I guess they are making the assumption that a drone flown near an airport is done with malice, whereas a goose probably doesn't have any malice toward a typical airliner. Still, is the risk really any different?
You are just misinformed. Search/. for references to bank thefts and you will find numerous cases where millions were stolen and no one is able to recover anything, even with all the fancy insurance and tracking that you are waving around.
It's cool though, keep your head in the sand and tell yourself that you are safe. I've always found self delusion to be fantastic for your blood pressure.
Most of what you are talking about is an error by the banker, not by the bank itself. That becomes a very grey area but most failures I hear of with crypto currency are with the algorithm itself or with an exchange it seems like. If a bank screws up their security and loses money, they (or likely their insurance) should be held responsible (at least to insured levels), but I haven't heard much about crypto thefts being repaid, though maybe they just don't publish it much.
Regardless, from two of your examples:
"A Banorte spokeswoman declined to answer questions from Reuters on Monday, and pointed to a May 9 statement from the bank that said clients’ deposits were not affected by the “incident.”"
"The bank initially resisted the request to refund their money, but allowed it after a suit was threatened"
My old yahoo e-mail has over 100k unread e-mail that I couldn't care less about. At work I simply read the five or so e-mails I get each day when they come in as it has minimal impact on my job. Any detailed discussions are usually via chat, phone or in person as real time conversations tend to work best.
As to read e-mail, work dictates that we archive all e-mail with our customers in case of contract disputes. With my personal e-mail, none of the providers are telling me I'm running out of space and searching for old e-mails takes far less time than sorting through all of the half legit/spam e-mails each day. Keeping everything is the most efficient use of my time.
When a physical bank is robbed, everyone who has dollars in their pockets still has whole dollars. The theft had zero effect on the value of your pocket or what you can buy. When a crypto-currency exchange gets hacked (aka robbed), the value of what you own can tumble. Plus, add in the shear insecurity of crypto-currency, and you have the reasons why it's a complete failure and nonsense.
These days when a physical bank is robbed, they have insurance backing up their virtual dollars, as well as tracking that can get back stolen (digital) money in many cases (from what I've been told, not an expert). So while the government can track your transactions through banks, the bank also provides more security. All depends on what you value most.
Because it's distributed, so a bad guy would have to have huge computing resources to overwhelm the good guys! That'll be so expensive it won't be worth the cost.
Oh, wait...
And one is also expected to trust at least half of those controlling the computing resources... not sure I trust a fraction of that number. Of course by trust it means you "trust" at least half of the controlling resources to not act to your detriment at the same time, but meh...
Germany never does a good thing with secret side deals. We should all trust what Germany says.
Part of why I'm not calling out anyone specifically. I'm not particularly thrilled with most parties involved in politics these days. Though my present level of annoyance means I'm not keeping up as much as I probably should on political activities if I want to comment clearly on anything.
Slashdot Mirror
... since everyone is in debt.
Are you sure? I wouldn't put it beyond some shady site to abuse a loophole in HTML5 to open a video, whether you like it or not.
As long as it is a video run by the default player, it will be media player as I never set VLC as default anything, I just manually open DVDs. I'm not big on auto run anyway, I usually plug in a device or insert a disk, then go do something else for a while and then come back later and use it. I hate windows popping up on me when I'm busy with something else.
I pretty much don't view videos except DVD or streaming, so media player is associated with all the videos I don't watch... Removing Shockwave is probably a good idea, I've never really given the program much thought, assuming it is installed.
As far as I know (feel free to correct my ignorance) Adobe Shockwave is for online games which I don't bother with, I only use VLC for DVDs since Windows refuses a proper media player and I don't use Skype. If these programs are running in a vulnerable manner (excluding VLC, which is not set to auto run), seems like Windows is more responsible since I never asked for them to run...
So which role will Netflix play. I know which one will get me to keep subscribing... (yeah, I know they don't have that kind of control but they are, I think, the biggest streaming service, which wields a fair bit of power)
They lose 100% of my attention when ads are on anyway.
Step 1. Mute.
Step 2. Look away or look at another device.
Step 3. (Optional) Consider how I could acquire the same content with no ads, any means necessary.
And tivo kindly implemented skip the adds feature to many shows (not sure if other DVRs have this). Strangely, I'm buying no less goods from advertisements when using skip.
What does mobile payments provide to me that cash or card does not?
From the article:
"In one case, the journey time from Birdsville, on the Queensland border, up to the Western Star Hotel in Windorah, in the centre of the state, was estimated to be close to 11 hours by Google Maps.
After claims the time was inaccurate, Google changed the estimated time to about 7 hours and 45 minutes. But locals say the drive is closer to four hours with no stops."
OK so yes the original and even updated distance are a potentially bit long for a tank of gas while the four hours is not bad (are locals using the speed limit or the speed most people drive?). Still, that is the kind of distance I'd usually travel to a larger location with multiple attractions, not a small town museum (other attractions at location?). Maybe I'm just weird and don't travel enough on vacation...
Nature also doesn't care much beyond a person reproducing and raising their offspring to the point where they can successfully reproduce. There is some value in raising the grandchildren as well, but I wonder how much nature cares about a person past ~50, maybe 60.
Uh Netflix got an offer for a subsidy to offset that increase a long time ago. I think they didnâ(TM)t apply because they figured their customers would just eat it. Oh well
The customers usually eat it one way or another... paying up front is often cheaper than having to pay later to cover funding with interest. Though not sure how the subsidies would be handled with this...
This summary does a very good job at making a $2 per month price increase appear very dramatic.
That is like my cable plan's monthly increase... /s
Why do they "need" AI to solve First. World. Problems. ?
Because it makes better news for the stocks?
So you assume...hard to say what disabled does to an app thats a read-only part of the system image where the 3rd party has paid for this.
Android is an open platfrom so you *think* you know what its doing, but once it becomes a closed platform like on a Samsung device, assumptions must be made and cannot be validated.
And what do you assume deleting an app where the 3rd party has paid for the app to be on the phone? Just because you *think* the app was deleted, can you truly say it was? If you want to be paranoid (or realistic, all a matter of perspective), it can be applied evenly, not just to a few cases.
Are you retarded? Of course, the risk is different. Human malice vs. random goose...
Good to know that all drones are flown in malice... though given they already shut down the airport for earlier drone flights... the drone pilot is either an complete moron or intentionally trying to shut down the airport. But then is the pilot actually willing to kill someone, or just trying to brag to his friends how he shut down an airport?
Baring their teeth? That must have been very scary, considering that normal geese don't have teeth.
You don't know just how evil geese are. They can grow teeth just to look more mean!
I'm thinking they need to invest in the technology to quickly and safely shoot these out of the sky and resume operations. I'm also thinking most of them would cause less damage to a jet than a goose strike would.
Some tests have been made with drone and aircraft collisions https://www.aerospacetestingin...
“The bird did more apparent damage to the leading edge of the wing, but the Phantom penetrated deeper into the wing and damaged the main spar, which the bird did not do,”
Not to take away from a test result that is truly concerning about the structural impact to the aircraft, they tested it against a Mooney M20. This aircraft isn't particularly large. I kind of wonder how the wing structure of a larger airline hold up against the same impact?
I would think the greatest concern with an airliner would not be structural damage to the wing but risk of fire of deeper penetration from a metal object into the wing tanks.
whereas a goose probably doesn't have any malice toward a typical airliner.
Have you never heard of the Cobra Chicken? Geese have malice towards everything.
So I've been informed by Ron White and a coworker who decided it would be funny to charge the flock (sorry, just don't like gaggle) of geese that lives on the front lawn at work. You may outweigh a goose but a 20+ goose charge, all bearing their teeth, is something you try not to do twice.
Geese tend to fly away from the big noisy machine. Drone pilots (and I use that term loosely) tend to think "Oh, this'll be a great view!"
While I think you are likely correct (never attribute toward malice what can be attributed toward sheer stupidity and the average goose may be smarter than the average drone operator), historical record does show more airline damage by birds than drones. True drones are a pretty new thing and will just get worse.
"There have been about 194,000 wildlife strikes with civil aircraft in USA between 1990 and 2017 (about 14,400 strikes at 700 U.S. airports in 2017). An additional 4,000 strikes have been reported by U.S. Air Carriers at foreign airports, 1990-2017.
From 1988 to 2017, there were 287 human fatalities attributed to wildlife strikes globally."
A drone sucked into a jet engine is no small problem.
So is multiple 15 pound fleshy objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I see a bunch of geese eating on the lawn of our airport right now, should we shut down the airport? I guess they are making the assumption that a drone flown near an airport is done with malice, whereas a goose probably doesn't have any malice toward a typical airliner. Still, is the risk really any different?
Just my bent $0.02.
You are just misinformed. Search /. for references to bank thefts and you will find numerous cases where millions were stolen and no one is able to recover anything, even with all the fancy insurance and tracking that you are waving around.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/05/15/2032203/hackers-steal-millions-from-mexican-banks-in-transfer-heist
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
And now countries are ruling that losses can be passed to customers if they have any fault in the loss.
https://slashdot.org/story/06/...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
It's cool though, keep your head in the sand and tell yourself that you are safe. I've always found self delusion to be fantastic for your blood pressure.
Most of what you are talking about is an error by the banker, not by the bank itself. That becomes a very grey area but most failures I hear of with crypto currency are with the algorithm itself or with an exchange it seems like. If a bank screws up their security and loses money, they (or likely their insurance) should be held responsible (at least to insured levels), but I haven't heard much about crypto thefts being repaid, though maybe they just don't publish it much.
Regardless, from two of your examples:
"A Banorte spokeswoman declined to answer questions from Reuters on Monday, and pointed to a May 9 statement from the bank that said clients’ deposits were not affected by the “incident.”"
"The bank initially resisted the request to refund their money, but allowed it after a suit was threatened"
My old yahoo e-mail has over 100k unread e-mail that I couldn't care less about. At work I simply read the five or so e-mails I get each day when they come in as it has minimal impact on my job. Any detailed discussions are usually via chat, phone or in person as real time conversations tend to work best.
As to read e-mail, work dictates that we archive all e-mail with our customers in case of contract disputes. With my personal e-mail, none of the providers are telling me I'm running out of space and searching for old e-mails takes far less time than sorting through all of the half legit/spam e-mails each day. Keeping everything is the most efficient use of my time.
When a physical bank is robbed, everyone who has dollars in their pockets still has whole dollars. The theft had zero effect on the value of your pocket or what you can buy. When a crypto-currency exchange gets hacked (aka robbed), the value of what you own can tumble. Plus, add in the shear insecurity of crypto-currency, and you have the reasons why it's a complete failure and nonsense.
These days when a physical bank is robbed, they have insurance backing up their virtual dollars, as well as tracking that can get back stolen (digital) money in many cases (from what I've been told, not an expert). So while the government can track your transactions through banks, the bank also provides more security. All depends on what you value most.
Because it's distributed, so a bad guy would have to have huge computing resources to overwhelm the good guys! That'll be so expensive it won't be worth the cost.
Oh, wait...
And one is also expected to trust at least half of those controlling the computing resources... not sure I trust a fraction of that number. Of course by trust it means you "trust" at least half of the controlling resources to not act to your detriment at the same time, but meh...
Germany never does a good thing with secret side deals. We should all trust what Germany says.
Part of why I'm not calling out anyone specifically. I'm not particularly thrilled with most parties involved in politics these days. Though my present level of annoyance means I'm not keeping up as much as I probably should on political activities if I want to comment clearly on anything.
She deserves to be given all the respect that she has given to the current administration.
You give what you get, at least when you decide on tit for tat, rather than trying to be the better person and helping regardless.