Can't we just call it GGlass for short or something equally unimposing? Somehow the very repetitive nature of "Google Glass" this and "Google Glass" seems that quite disturbing. Gmail, Android, Chrome - people don't refer to these things with the longer moniker anymore. The product is already so ubiquitous it's time to shorten our references to it.
You have done an excellent job of revealing the very loose fabric of the internet, especially those that would not set their own security properly. However, under current law, you have violated so many laws, with so many more to come, that your best way out is to stand on the last iceberg in the Arctic and hope it does not melt anytime soon. Just to clarify, here's a few of the things you've clearly done, and I don't even have to prove them.
Access and distribution of pornography (surely one of those buckets was full of porn, a felony in 20 countries)
Access and distribution of child pornography (well at least one of those buckets has it, or did, or will one day)
Failure to report a bucket full of child pornography
Conspiracy to distribute
Hacking every country in the world... let me explain, no wait let me sum up. Amazon has storage in 193 countries
By accessing one you have violated the statutes of every country attacked
This is basically punishable by the rest of your life in prison in every country, except the Vatican, which will send you to hell.
So now you are going to hell, after spending the rest of your life kissing bubba's pants
Unauthorized access (fines from Amazon, billions $$$$ ($100,000 per bucket per country, ouch!)
Future crimes (as the future is soon you are already guilty of:
Discussing a hacking attempt
Intent to hack
Intent to exploit, list exploits, financially gain from exploits
I can't type anymore, and there's no doubt as far as most governments are concerned I'm as guilty as you are by now.
Second time around, better results?
This was originally the Verizon Building. In 2007 Taconic purchased this building for resale. You might remember them from such deals as Google buys building for 2 billion.
Taconic walked away from 375 Pearl in 2008 as the logistics failed. Not sure how a commercial concept on this building is suddenly going to work for someone else.
Thanks for your test of the internet devices. Although I do not know what this means we have been able to determine that you have committed several criminal acts, and should expect at least a few years of jail time. Don't worry though, it's all for the greater good.
...we’ve got a LOT of work to do, certainly more than our current team of 14 can handle... Enter Dropbox, the team from San Francisco who helps over 100M people bring their photos, docs, and videos with them anywhere...
14 lazy people helping 100 million users. They're probably sleeping all day!
Once, about 20 years ago, I went to a newly opened H&R branch. There I met a nice gentleman who took all my tax info (and my check), and told me to come back in April to sign everything and get it sent off. Having completely forgotten about everything, I showed up April 14th, and to my surprise not only did the nice fellow vanish, but all the paperwork I had put together was missing (apparently there was no record of me in the computer). I was forced to file late and pay a cute fine.
I figured if they couldn't figure out who their clients where, they weren't likely to do much better. Looks like they have the same poor computer support to blame.
People are people, so why should it be, you and I should know everything about each other? Good fences make good neighbors? Corporations however, are either breaking your heart, or shaking your confidence daily, so you need to have loads of info on them. Or was that my pretend girlfriend Cecilia that I was stalking? Either way, you totally understand what I am saying.
There's an implied trust with your own domain and email service, but people who have their domains forwarded to gmail accounts aren't quite as transparent. So if some business thinks "hey this is secure because it's to joe@xyzcompany.com" they would have no clue that it's a free account hosted by google, which is scanning the content via gmail. So any implied trust of one email service or another is absolutely bunk at this point for the end user. Only a tech would be able to decipher whether you have a real email server or third party hosted account.
This is covered in the simulations as well. Is there something in particular preventing you from reading it?
Although I am not the poster you asked this question of, I have to admit not ever reading xkcd, having more important things on my Kindle.
Having left my e-ink display in the car, I read through what-if and if nothing else, the penny exercise had me laughing out loud. Tough to force on a rocket scientist with humor less moist than a block of dry ice, but it happens.
Thanks to / for not posting a slashvertisement and giving me the giggles.
You have to smile while you're on the phone (uhm really?), follow the cubicle dress code (but I just answer the phone), not allowed to hang up on abusive customers no matter what they do. The week's vacation you earned and got approved 3 months in advance was just re-allocated as forced time off due to the business being slow. World's worst health insurance if you get any at all.
Fluorescent lighting from hell, vending machines for lunch, 19" square monitors from the 1980's, computers running Windows XP, no service pack.
"I'm sure some people find that kind of thing fun, but the simple fact is that the damage is greater than getting many STDs."
Not really. The only possible damage is a little embarrassment. We shouldn't be sending someone to prison over violating someone's sense of modesty and embarrassing them. There is an offense there but an action that does no more harm than potentially stirring up an emotion shouldn't result in effectively permanently destroying the life of the person doing it (which prison time does regardless of duration).
Nude photo: Embarrassing for victim. 20 years in a federal penitentiary for the felon.
Breaking and Entering with Assault: Mental Anguish, Nightmares, Lost property or broken bones for victim. Probation for the perp.
Nice system.
I have to agree. I was hoping there would be a new BB with some type of innovative full pull-out keyboard (not the old thumbing below-screen style). Now I know I will be sticking to Android OS on LG/Samsung/Motorola. I really prefer BB but just can't get into these full-touch screen devices with all the long technical emails/texts I send.
I actually thought of that when I posted, but it's really quite a different thing to take policing action at a violent, arson-fueled riot than it would be to invade Denver with tanks, as had been suggested in a post above. Would there be a few hotheads in fear of their lives claiming self defense, like at Kent? Sure, probably... but a planned "invasion" against Americans? Not gonna happen. Cooler heads would prevail.
The cooler heads didn't prevail for Aaron Swartz did they? Nor at the invasion of Iraq, nor at the congressional level to spy on Americans. What makes you think these people won't authorize the full use of force against the population of Detroit because of a few bad apples protesting? What did the US Government collect on the Occupy protesters and why won't they tell us? Why let police in riot gear pepper spray protesters who are sitting still? Did you forget all these things already? You did because we (all of us), have collectively moved onto the latest new thing. Why would you trample on the rights of Americans?
Because you can. Only later do you actually have some court "review" it if it ever gets there. Dead Americans is a guarantee. When, where and how much is the only unknown.
Slashdot Mirror
I think you mean "Eggcellent" in regards to the man driving an egg with a clear shell helmet.
Will also plant bombs for passport apparently. Tamerlan Tsarnaev seeks US Passport for "Olympics"
We better get the hell out of this damn quadrant!
Google's webmaster tools can limit issues like this.
As can wary domain buyers who know to look at a domain's history as part of the valuation.
Unicorns would stampede the astronaut as he enters the event horizon.
I think we can all agree the astronaut would die.
Can't we just call it GGlass for short or something equally unimposing? Somehow the very repetitive nature of "Google Glass" this and "Google Glass" seems that quite disturbing. Gmail, Android, Chrome - people don't refer to these things with the longer moniker anymore. The product is already so ubiquitous it's time to shorten our references to it.
My father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 to 60 skinjobs to fetch tomatoes. You know it takes two people to fetch the same tomatoes now.
1:11 PM - We own the planet!
3:45 PM - Oh, crashed again...
You have done an excellent job of revealing the very loose fabric of the internet, especially those that would not set their own security properly. However, under current law, you have violated so many laws, with so many more to come, that your best way out is to stand on the last iceberg in the Arctic and hope it does not melt anytime soon. Just to clarify, here's a few of the things you've clearly done, and I don't even have to prove them.
Access and distribution of pornography (surely one of those buckets was full of porn, a felony in 20 countries)
Access and distribution of child pornography (well at least one of those buckets has it, or did, or will one day)
Failure to report a bucket full of child pornography
Conspiracy to distribute
Hacking every country in the world... let me explain, no wait let me sum up.
Amazon has storage in 193 countries
By accessing one you have violated the statutes of every country attacked
This is basically punishable by the rest of your life in prison in every country, except the Vatican, which will send you to hell.
So now you are going to hell, after spending the rest of your life kissing bubba's pants
Unauthorized access (fines from Amazon, billions $$$$ ($100,000 per bucket per country, ouch!)
Future crimes (as the future is soon you are already guilty of:
Discussing a hacking attempt
Intent to hack
Intent to exploit, list exploits, financially gain from exploits
I can't type anymore, and there's no doubt as far as most governments are concerned I'm as guilty as you are by now.
Second time around, better results?
This was originally the Verizon Building. In 2007 Taconic purchased this building for resale. You might remember them from such deals as Google buys building for 2 billion.
Taconic walked away from 375 Pearl in 2008 as the logistics failed. Not sure how a commercial concept on this building is suddenly going to work for someone else.
MiTM=prison4u
Thanks for your test of the internet devices. Although I do not know what this means we have been able to determine that you have committed several criminal acts, and should expect at least a few years of jail time. Don't worry though, it's all for the greater good.
Why is it these tech companies are always in favor of anything that helps their profits in the guise of helping others?
...we’ve got a LOT of work to do, certainly more than our current team of 14 can handle... Enter Dropbox, the team from San Francisco who helps over 100M people bring their photos, docs, and videos with them anywhere...
14 lazy people helping 100 million users. They're probably sleeping all day!
Once, about 20 years ago, I went to a newly opened H&R branch. There I met a nice gentleman who took all my tax info (and my check), and told me to come back in April to sign everything and get it sent off. Having completely forgotten about everything, I showed up April 14th, and to my surprise not only did the nice fellow vanish, but all the paperwork I had put together was missing (apparently there was no record of me in the computer). I was forced to file late and pay a cute fine.
I figured if they couldn't figure out who their clients where, they weren't likely to do much better. Looks like they have the same poor computer support to blame.
The more you think about it, the more it costs you...
Arguably the best patent comment ever.
fracking / fræk*ing /
1. The number two contributor to global warming in the U.S.
2. The leading cause of throw-downs on Battlestar Galactica.
People are people, so why should it be, you and I should know everything about each other? Good fences make good neighbors?
Corporations however, are either breaking your heart, or shaking your confidence daily, so you need to have loads of info on them.
Or was that my pretend girlfriend Cecilia that I was stalking? Either way, you totally understand what I am saying.
There's an implied trust with your own domain and email service, but people who have their domains forwarded to gmail accounts aren't quite as transparent. So if some business thinks "hey this is secure because it's to joe@xyzcompany.com" they would have no clue that it's a free account hosted by google, which is scanning the content via gmail. So any implied trust of one email service or another is absolutely bunk at this point for the end user. Only a tech would be able to decipher whether you have a real email server or third party hosted account.
This is covered in the simulations as well. Is there something in particular preventing you from reading it?
Although I am not the poster you asked this question of, I have to admit not ever reading xkcd, having more important things on my Kindle.
Having left my e-ink display in the car, I read through what-if and if nothing else, the penny exercise had me laughing out loud. Tough to force on a rocket scientist with humor less moist than a block of dry ice, but it happens.
Thanks to / for not posting a slashvertisement and giving me the giggles.
You have to smile while you're on the phone (uhm really?), follow the cubicle dress code (but I just answer the phone), not allowed to hang up on abusive customers no matter what they do. The week's vacation you earned and got approved 3 months in advance was just re-allocated as forced time off due to the business being slow. World's worst health insurance if you get any at all.
Fluorescent lighting from hell, vending machines for lunch, 19" square monitors from the 1980's, computers running Windows XP, no service pack.
We live this job every day.
"I'm sure some people find that kind of thing fun, but the simple fact is that the damage is greater than getting many STDs." Not really. The only possible damage is a little embarrassment. We shouldn't be sending someone to prison over violating someone's sense of modesty and embarrassing them. There is an offense there but an action that does no more harm than potentially stirring up an emotion shouldn't result in effectively permanently destroying the life of the person doing it (which prison time does regardless of duration).
Nude photo: Embarrassing for victim. 20 years in a federal penitentiary for the felon.
Breaking and Entering with Assault: Mental Anguish, Nightmares, Lost property or broken bones for victim. Probation for the perp.
Nice system.
I have to agree. I was hoping there would be a new BB with some type of innovative full pull-out keyboard (not the old thumbing below-screen style). Now I know I will be sticking to Android OS on LG/Samsung/Motorola. I really prefer BB but just can't get into these full-touch screen devices with all the long technical emails/texts I send.
Only 1/1,000,000th of what the fines range in the US.
I actually thought of that when I posted, but it's really quite a different thing to take policing action at a violent, arson-fueled riot than it would be to invade Denver with tanks, as had been suggested in a post above. Would there be a few hotheads in fear of their lives claiming self defense, like at Kent? Sure, probably... but a planned "invasion" against Americans? Not gonna happen. Cooler heads would prevail.
The cooler heads didn't prevail for Aaron Swartz did they? Nor at the invasion of Iraq, nor at the congressional level to spy on Americans. What makes you think these people won't authorize the full use of force against the population of Detroit because of a few bad apples protesting? What did the US Government collect on the Occupy protesters and why won't they tell us? Why let police in riot gear pepper spray protesters who are sitting still? Did you forget all these things already? You did because we (all of us), have collectively moved onto the latest new thing. Why would you trample on the rights of Americans?
Because you can. Only later do you actually have some court "review" it if it ever gets there. Dead Americans is a guarantee. When, where and how much is the only unknown.