If the database includes both usernames and passwords, it is practically guaranteed that it was stolen from the user's computer by keylogging viruses, etc.. No large email provider would be stupid enough to store actual passwords on their side.
We are on a relatively tech-savvy site, right? Why is there a link explaining what an audiophile is (as if I couldn't have guessed from the context even if I didn't know), but there is no link explaining how the exploit actually works? (It's not mt_rand that's the problem, it's how you seed it) Why do I have to google after reading the summary? What's the point of having editors here at all?!
So, they are not actually robots, but basically remote controlled contraptions? As in, they are not completely autonomous, but remotely driven by humans? Why are they called "robots"?
Something doesn't quite add up in this story. So, the FBI has this black box that they don't know what it does and how it works. All they know is that you put an iPhone into it, and it produces supposedly decrypted data from the said iPhone? How can they verify that it actually does a complete and accurate job? That it doesn't introduce some random files, or hides some information? Either FBI is lying again, or they bought something that's completely useless, as I don't see how any judge would accept the results of what this black box produced as legitimate. Especially considering the box was made in a foreign country (Israel?).
Cable industry? What cable industry? Every year I do this dance with Comcast, where they raise the prices on my cable bill by 50% or more, and I have to call their "customer retention department" to get a better deal. LPT: say "cancel service" into the phone to get a live agent on the line almost immediately. To get the better deal, they ask me what shows I watch, to figure out which channels I need, to get the cheapest package possible with fewest channels. And every year I realize that I watch less and less shows. This year, with the Mythbusters gone, and a few other shows I used to watch on cable, I think I'm down to network TV, so I might as well cancel the thing and get a TV antenna. I still have Netflix and it's been pretty great. I'm sure I'm not the only one going in that direction. It does seem that the "cable industry" is really trying its best to kill itself as fast as possible. Now I just wish I could as easily do the same with the medical insurance ever increasing premiums...
They get to be 1% because they use their brain, and if you can't be amongst the 1%, hey, don't blame them, blame yourself for being too lazy to use YOUR brain
Now that's pure unadulterated bullshit. 1% made their money because they had plenty of starting capital and because they are all connected to each other. So they can influence a lot of things in their favor, they get a lot of information that the rest of the public either never gets, or gets too late, and they can quickly accomplish a lot of things via their connections with a simple phone call. Yes, you have to be smart to get even near the top 1%, but brains by far is not the only requirement.
As far as the "free market", that even more laughable. Watch "The Big Short" for a few examples of how people with real brains struggled against the 1% and the supposedly "free market", and what happened in the end (spoiler alert, the same 1% are still there even though they were the direct cause of the crash and should have been the most exposed to it).
I don't understand how the board, or whoever decides on these ridiculous amounts of money to compensate worthless CEOs for their incompetence, how are they all not sued into oblivion yet? Don't all public companies have fiduciary duty (whatever that means) to do everything in the best interest of the shareholders? How's $36 million to walk away from your job after a year is in the best interest of shareholders, when the company is firmly in the red? Or all *EO's and the board are somehow shielded, because it's an LLC/Inc.?
Sure, let's give more programming power to non-programmers. As if the regular router config options are not already complicated enough for an average person to completely screw things up if they don't know what they are doing. Now you can shoot yourself in the foot in one line or less! Also, I can't wait for IFTTT worms.
Not quite. If I desire a new Bentley, but cannot obtain legally because I don't have the money, I'm not going to go and steal it. If I cannot get the latest episode of my favorite show because the stupid Comcast DVR failed to recorded it once again, and there are no upcoming reruns, I'm going to torrent it without thinking twice, even though technically it's also illegal. The difference here is that in the first case, if I steal the car, there will be one less car in the previous owner's garage. If I pirate the movie/TV show, the only difference is that I enjoy watching it (hopefully). Since I cannot get it any other way, nobody lost anything, including potential revenue. Repeat after me, kids: copyright infringement is not always stealing.
Repeat after me: correlation does not imply causation. It could simply be because smart people prefer to study science, and you have also to be somewhat smart to become "prominent leaders" in any group of people, including jihadists.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. What breakdowns in math?! All of the physics glitches you see in computer games are either bugs, that didn't get fixed, or due to the fact that you have finite computational resources. You always have to trade off simulation precision against consuming too much CPU and memory resources. And you also have to take care of graphics, sound, AI, gameplay, animation and more graphics, which tend to get priority over physics, unless you games is Kerbal Space Program. There are no breakdowns in math. Given enough computational power, we can simulate physical world perfectly down to atoms. It gets fuzzy from there.
Removing all human interaction is one of the worst things you can do to a human
Really?! I can easily think of a few hundred things you can do to a human that would be much worse than solitary confinement. Starting with shoving a sharp stick up any of the orifices of your choosing. Unless you enjoy that sort of thing, then it'll be less than a few hundred things that are worse.
How's this not a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment? The one that says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Don't forget, Panama Papers is just a subset of data that was released. Heavily edited. Conveniently, not a single US politician mentioned in the released data. Also, Putin's name isn't there either, just his "childhood friend". Yet in all the newspapers it was reported that Putin was directly implicated. So, what else would you expect him to claim? Also, he actually wasn't the first to come to the same conclusion: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
So much for the $35,000 price tag. $14B / 325,000 = $43,000. Even if we assume that half the sales will be for the basic configuration at the bottom price, then the other half would have to sell for $51,000 to make the average price they are projecting. Sounds to me like the $35K version will be completely bare-bones, and you'll have to pay a *lot* for things that come standard in other cars (the Porsche way). Personally, I was excited to get a nicely equipped electric car for $35K. $51K? Not so much.
thus ends the idiotic myth that "hackers" are always smart. here's proof that at least one of them is a complete fucking cretin.
There are plenty of examples of antisemitic/racist people who are technically considered "smart". Bobby Fischer comes to mind, who was also a (former) Jew, but wildly antisemitic in later life. Unfortunately being rational and smart are not the same thing.
Cable store? I don't understand, what's there to shop? You either have Comcast, or you have some other cable provider. Is there such a place anywhere in US where you can choose from more than one cable provider? What's the point of this? Does Amazon offer something that you can't get through Crapcast?... I mean, Comcrap.
Didn't Mythbusters test roundabouts vs 4-way stops? I don't remember the exact throughput advantage of a roundabout, I think it depended on the amount of traffic and was around 50-100% increase. But roundabouts also require quite a bit more real estate, and are more expensive. They didn't test it vs a traffic light though.
Technically, you don't need soil to grow something. It's called hydroponics. In an emergency situation (The Martian), yes, it's easier to use soil, as you don't need as much water, no pumps, timers, etc. But if you are planning for it, why not go for pure hydroponics?
"If you go back a couple of years ago, we were heavily involved in the storage business. Now I can buy unlimited storage from the cloud. I don't need a lot of people doing storage. In fact, I may only need one."
After seeing "I can buy unlimited storage from the cloud" somehow I'm having a hard time taking the rest of the article seriously.
So once again, I'm curious (and skeptical) enough to go read the linked story. And once again there is not a single link to any source to substantiate the claims in the summary (or the title of the article). All it has is a picture of a tweet by some unknown "news outlet" with the old fake satellite image and a crudely drawn border and an arrow pointing to it that says "border". Did someone confuse March 1st with April 1st? I mean, it's something a kid would draw, doesn't look even remotely like anything official. There are no links to the source in the article, no references to where this picture is from, nothing. It's not even explained in what possible way the Ministry of Defense is involved, just that it was somehow "duped". Am I suppose to go google the truth now? Why are all these bullshit political stories on Slashdot lately?!
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If the database includes both usernames and passwords, it is practically guaranteed that it was stolen from the user's computer by keylogging viruses, etc.. No large email provider would be stupid enough to store actual passwords on their side.
We are on a relatively tech-savvy site, right? Why is there a link explaining what an audiophile is (as if I couldn't have guessed from the context even if I didn't know), but there is no link explaining how the exploit actually works? (It's not mt_rand that's the problem, it's how you seed it) Why do I have to google after reading the summary? What's the point of having editors here at all?!
So, they are not actually robots, but basically remote controlled contraptions? As in, they are not completely autonomous, but remotely driven by humans? Why are they called "robots"?
Why is there a sneaky link to install Firefox included in the article summary? WTF? Does slashdot do paid text links now?
Something doesn't quite add up in this story. So, the FBI has this black box that they don't know what it does and how it works. All they know is that you put an iPhone into it, and it produces supposedly decrypted data from the said iPhone? How can they verify that it actually does a complete and accurate job? That it doesn't introduce some random files, or hides some information? Either FBI is lying again, or they bought something that's completely useless, as I don't see how any judge would accept the results of what this black box produced as legitimate. Especially considering the box was made in a foreign country (Israel?).
Cable industry? What cable industry? Every year I do this dance with Comcast, where they raise the prices on my cable bill by 50% or more, and I have to call their "customer retention department" to get a better deal. LPT: say "cancel service" into the phone to get a live agent on the line almost immediately. To get the better deal, they ask me what shows I watch, to figure out which channels I need, to get the cheapest package possible with fewest channels. And every year I realize that I watch less and less shows. This year, with the Mythbusters gone, and a few other shows I used to watch on cable, I think I'm down to network TV, so I might as well cancel the thing and get a TV antenna. I still have Netflix and it's been pretty great. I'm sure I'm not the only one going in that direction. It does seem that the "cable industry" is really trying its best to kill itself as fast as possible. Now I just wish I could as easily do the same with the medical insurance ever increasing premiums...
They get to be 1% because they use their brain, and if you can't be amongst the 1%, hey, don't blame them, blame yourself for being too lazy to use YOUR brain
Now that's pure unadulterated bullshit. 1% made their money because they had plenty of starting capital and because they are all connected to each other. So they can influence a lot of things in their favor, they get a lot of information that the rest of the public either never gets, or gets too late, and they can quickly accomplish a lot of things via their connections with a simple phone call. Yes, you have to be smart to get even near the top 1%, but brains by far is not the only requirement.
As far as the "free market", that even more laughable. Watch "The Big Short" for a few examples of how people with real brains struggled against the 1% and the supposedly "free market", and what happened in the end (spoiler alert, the same 1% are still there even though they were the direct cause of the crash and should have been the most exposed to it).
I don't understand how the board, or whoever decides on these ridiculous amounts of money to compensate worthless CEOs for their incompetence, how are they all not sued into oblivion yet? Don't all public companies have fiduciary duty (whatever that means) to do everything in the best interest of the shareholders? How's $36 million to walk away from your job after a year is in the best interest of shareholders, when the company is firmly in the red? Or all *EO's and the board are somehow shielded, because it's an LLC/Inc.?
Sure, let's give more programming power to non-programmers. As if the regular router config options are not already complicated enough for an average person to completely screw things up if they don't know what they are doing. Now you can shoot yourself in the foot in one line or less! Also, I can't wait for IFTTT worms.
Not quite. If I desire a new Bentley, but cannot obtain legally because I don't have the money, I'm not going to go and steal it. If I cannot get the latest episode of my favorite show because the stupid Comcast DVR failed to recorded it once again, and there are no upcoming reruns, I'm going to torrent it without thinking twice, even though technically it's also illegal. The difference here is that in the first case, if I steal the car, there will be one less car in the previous owner's garage. If I pirate the movie/TV show, the only difference is that I enjoy watching it (hopefully). Since I cannot get it any other way, nobody lost anything, including potential revenue. Repeat after me, kids: copyright infringement is not always stealing.
They had me at sucks.
Repeat after me: correlation does not imply causation. It could simply be because smart people prefer to study science, and you have also to be somewhat smart to become "prominent leaders" in any group of people, including jihadists.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. What breakdowns in math?! All of the physics glitches you see in computer games are either bugs, that didn't get fixed, or due to the fact that you have finite computational resources. You always have to trade off simulation precision against consuming too much CPU and memory resources. And you also have to take care of graphics, sound, AI, gameplay, animation and more graphics, which tend to get priority over physics, unless you games is Kerbal Space Program. There are no breakdowns in math. Given enough computational power, we can simulate physical world perfectly down to atoms. It gets fuzzy from there.
Removing all human interaction is one of the worst things you can do to a human
Really?! I can easily think of a few hundred things you can do to a human that would be much worse than solitary confinement. Starting with shoving a sharp stick up any of the orifices of your choosing. Unless you enjoy that sort of thing, then it'll be less than a few hundred things that are worse.
How's this not a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment? The one that says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Don't forget, Panama Papers is just a subset of data that was released. Heavily edited. Conveniently, not a single US politician mentioned in the released data. Also, Putin's name isn't there either, just his "childhood friend". Yet in all the newspapers it was reported that Putin was directly implicated. So, what else would you expect him to claim? Also, he actually wasn't the first to come to the same conclusion:
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
So much for the $35,000 price tag. $14B / 325,000 = $43,000. Even if we assume that half the sales will be for the basic configuration at the bottom price, then the other half would have to sell for $51,000 to make the average price they are projecting. Sounds to me like the $35K version will be completely bare-bones, and you'll have to pay a *lot* for things that come standard in other cars (the Porsche way). Personally, I was excited to get a nicely equipped electric car for $35K. $51K? Not so much.
Easy. Require entering a "captcha" when a new unrecognized input device is plugged it. Shouldn't be to inconvenient.
Yeah, I can totally picture Bernie Sanders having an offshore account. That's a good one!
thus ends the idiotic myth that "hackers" are always smart. here's proof that at least one of them is a complete fucking cretin.
There are plenty of examples of antisemitic/racist people who are technically considered "smart". Bobby Fischer comes to mind, who was also a (former) Jew, but wildly antisemitic in later life. Unfortunately being rational and smart are not the same thing.
Cable store? I don't understand, what's there to shop? You either have Comcast, or you have some other cable provider. Is there such a place anywhere in US where you can choose from more than one cable provider? What's the point of this? Does Amazon offer something that you can't get through Crapcast?... I mean, Comcrap.
Didn't Mythbusters test roundabouts vs 4-way stops? I don't remember the exact throughput advantage of a roundabout, I think it depended on the amount of traffic and was around 50-100% increase. But roundabouts also require quite a bit more real estate, and are more expensive. They didn't test it vs a traffic light though.
Technically, you don't need soil to grow something. It's called hydroponics. In an emergency situation (The Martian), yes, it's easier to use soil, as you don't need as much water, no pumps, timers, etc. But if you are planning for it, why not go for pure hydroponics?
"If you go back a couple of years ago, we were heavily involved in the storage business. Now I can buy unlimited storage from the cloud. I don't need a lot of people doing storage. In fact, I may only need one."
After seeing "I can buy unlimited storage from the cloud" somehow I'm having a hard time taking the rest of the article seriously.
So once again, I'm curious (and skeptical) enough to go read the linked story. And once again there is not a single link to any source to substantiate the claims in the summary (or the title of the article). All it has is a picture of a tweet by some unknown "news outlet" with the old fake satellite image and a crudely drawn border and an arrow pointing to it that says "border". Did someone confuse March 1st with April 1st? I mean, it's something a kid would draw, doesn't look even remotely like anything official. There are no links to the source in the article, no references to where this picture is from, nothing. It's not even explained in what possible way the Ministry of Defense is involved, just that it was somehow "duped". Am I suppose to go google the truth now? Why are all these bullshit political stories on Slashdot lately?!