If it means I don't have to fight traffic for an hour to get to work (even if I'm in a bus), I'd be happy to take that salary and live in the cheap housing.
You'll keep coming up with excuses not to pay for it. Because you are ultimately a thief who steals shit.
Me? No, I don't steal anything. The last time I torrented a movie was when I bought a brand new blu-ray and couldn't play it because my blu-ray player's firmware was out of date and it was already on the latest firmware.
So who is stealing from who in this case? I bought the movie, it's a blu-ray, I have a blu-ray player, yet could not play the movie.
It took less time to find a torrent and start the download than it did to buy the movie in the first place, the torrent was done in 90 minutes (no need to wait on shipping) and now I have a digital file I can play on any of my devices. What a great customer experience.
Want to stop piracy? Then make all content available everywhere. Don't make me sign up for Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO Now, Hulu, and a half dozen streaming providers just to watch the content I want to see.
If you make it easier to pirate content than to purchase it legally, you're going to lose the battle.
And don't nickel and dime me, don't make me pay $3.99/episode for a show that will cost $20 when all 20 episodes come out on DVD, stuff like that is what make people decide to click on the torrent instead of the "Purchase" link.
Being +/- 5mm Hg on a measurement of 140 mm is +/- 3.5%, but how accurate are the thresholds for treatment? A guideline may say that 140mm Hg needs treatment, but what is the error bar in that value? I bet it far exceeds 3.5% because of individual variation.
And more than accuracy, I'd think that being precise would be more useful to a home user -- knowing that your BP increased by 7mm over a year sounds more useful than knowing that it's close to some arbitrary value.
I hate when they do this stuff. Forging a wire transfer is NOT 'tricking you into working for free'. Instead it is tricking people into thinking they were paid.
And since they were not paid for work that they did (presumably because the company told them they would be getting paid), they were tricked into working for free.
If you can find a software vulnerability and hack into one of their switches/routers, you can use this technique to extract data from their network without tripping any IDS sensors
I'm curious to learn about this IDS that can catch traffic from compromised network hardware but can't catch the act of compromising network hardware. This is an impractical POC for anything but the most outlandish spy movies. There are far easier ways to exfiltrate data.
"Hey guys, we just had a huge DoS traffic flood - overwhelmed our IDS for a few minutes, but everything looks good now. Looks like it made one of our core switches reboot. Weird. But everything is back online now, IDS isn't reporting anything unusual so at least we can be certain there's no data leak!"
So, you own a router enough to send data via its lights to some other dude who can interpret your signals. Why the fuck don't u just tap it at that point? This is an overly complicated exfiltration method that has zero chance of ever mattering. I'm glad some money somewhere got spent for this idiocy
Because the owner of the data is watching for unusual network activity, but not for unusual blinky lights.
If your routers are insecure enough that someone can sneak in, reprogram them to flash their LEDs and install sensors to pick up the flashing LEDs you have bigger issues.
Lots of companies colocate in "secure" datacenters where their equipment cages are walled off by nothing more than chain link fences with equipment stacked in bare racks, plainly visible to anyone walking by.
If you can find a software vulnerability and hack into one of their switches/routers, you can use this technique to extract data from their network without tripping any IDS sensors -- all you need to do is rent a neighboring cage and point a camera at the switches.
The company across the courtyard from us has a bit stack of network switches facing the window. Same problem - get someone to infect their network from within (through, say, a compromised USB key) and you can send data all day long over the lights without anyone noticing any unusual outbound traffic.
Nothing, the President of the United States has the authority to declassify anything at any time.
And thousands of government workers have the *ability* to declassify anything at any time... and most of the time they won't even get caught, so those in power should not disillusion those that work for them.
I wonder if the autopilot requires any calibration to align all of the various sensors?
If I owned a body shop, I would not feel comfortable repairing, and putting my a$$ on the line saying that all the complicated systems on that car were properly repaired without specialized training, equipment, and certification, and I highly doubt there's enough of them around to make it worth the investment.
Let the Tesla service center deal with it!
If a repair shop doesn't know what liability insurance is, then he probably shouldn't be in the repair business anyway.
Lots of independent garages make safety critical repairs every day (many of which require specialized training, equipment and certification), and they'll continue to do so when it makes sense financially. Though it may not make sense to invest in the tooling to service cars from a manufacturer that has only sold about 500,000 of them in total, versus, say, servicing a Toyota where millions of them are sold each year with 10's of millions still on the road.
So how do you account for the fact that, in the protections against unreasonable search and seizure enshrined in the 4th amendment, the authors of the Constitution had no concept of an unbreakable lock? The 4th provides a mechanism to balance privacy rights with the government's obligation to enforce law and prosecute based on evidence procured through a probable cause based search. At that time, it was understood that no lock or container, no matter how stout, could not be defeated to execute a warranted search. Today, though, encryption technology has created personal, unbreakable locks in virtually everyone's possession. Law enforcement still has the same obligation to search these devices if there is probably cause to believe they contain evidence of a crime, but they can't break the lock. A court order to provide the passcode is not a violation of the 5th, because providing a key to your unbreakable lock is not an admission or statement of guilt. It is merely providing the key to your unbreakable lock that the 4th amendment allows the government to search based on probable cause.
How is it any different than a defendant refusing to reveal where he hid the tools of his crime? The police suspect that he killed Colonel Mustard in the LIbrary with a lead pipe, but without the pipe, they are unable to prove it. The police could spend millions of dollars combing through many square miles of land looking for the weapon (just like they could spend millions of dollars trying to hack into the device), but can they compel the defendant to reveal exactly where he buried it, even if the defendant claims he forgot?
If the cell phone owner was separated from his phone for any length of time, I can believe that he forgot the code - when I lost my tablet for a month and I got it back again, I couldn't remember my passphrase and had to wipe it and reset it.
They have a point, the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic score is "31%" for Pirates of the Carribean with an average critic score of 4.7/10, while the audience score (percentage of users that rated it 3.5 or higher) is 71% with an average rating of 3.8/5 (equivalent to 7.6/10)
Since most people aren't critics, it seems that they'd be better served by the Audience Score rather than the more critical Tomatometer which is the score that's more heavily promoted on the site.
Without further details, we can't know whether the doctor is guilty or not. The hard drive could have been purchased refurbished, from a friend, found in the guts of an old computer at Goodwill... who knows? The important part is, if we're going to gather information, it should be through the proper channels. Bribing near-minimum-wage workers with a month's wages to violate the same laws that protect us all is closer to organized crime than any legitimate government. They know better, and the EFF is one of the few organizations that calls bullshit when they see it.
You forgot to mention another possibility -- when you pay someone a big bounty to find something, you're giving them incentive to put it there themselves.
Before the Anatomy Act 1832, executed criminals were the only legal source of bodies for hospitals to use for surgeon training. Due to high demand from chronic shortage of legal cadavers, "resurrection men" resorted to illegal means to obtain bodies, such as digging up corpses from graveyards or even murder. In 1828, William Burke and William Hare murdered 16 people and sold the bodies. Thomas Williams and John Bishop, part of a group of body snatchers known as the London Burkers, committed murder for the purpose of selling the victim's body in 1831.
I can't consider your statement relevant until you've completely documented the micro optimization of your life
I don't want to waste 5 minutes at an ATM every week, I'm certainly not going to write a detailed thesis on my life's micro optimizations so an Anonymous Coward too lazy to create or log in to a Slashdot account will consider my statement relevant. But I'll tell you another of my micro optimizations - I don't waste 10 - 15 minutes every week driving to the gas station to buy gas.
My wife complains that I'm always carrying cash so my wallet is always bulky and I'm missing out on credit card rewards.
You carry around a bulky wallet full of cash all of the time because you don't want the mild inconvenience of having a credit card number stolen?
I've had 2 CC numbers stolen -- with one, I didn't realize it until I got a fedex envelope from the bank with a replacement card, with the other, it took 10 minutes online to complete a fraud report and flag fraudulent transactions, then I had to sign and return a paper that I received with the replacement card.
100% of them since Chipotle in 2015 announced that they were not upgrading their POS systems to use EMV since they claimed that magnetic swipe is faster and would speed up their lines.
All they'd have to do to speed up Chip transactions is program their systems so while one customer is waiting for the chip transaction to complete, the next customer in line can be placing his order. Most small CC transactions don't even require a signature.
Yeah ATMs are really crowded and they take forever to give you cash. Like I mean you might have to wait up to five minutes in your air conditioned or heated car while inserting a card, punching a few numbers, and grabbing that dough. And those fees! $3 just to get cash once a week. Really terrible. It's almost like it's nothing but it feels like thousands of dollars in fees.
$150/year is "nothing" to you? Yet you also consider that your time has no value either since you don't mind spending an extra 5 - 10 minutes/week driving to the bank to retrieve cash (that's 4 - 8 hours/year).
Yes that's right a coupon is more persuasive to me than a human cashier blatantly attempting to manipulate me, and you know why that is? Because I am a nerd. I am a real nerd, not one of you social networking fake nerds who yearn for insincere social interaction.
When I shop, I don't want to talk to people. I want to walk into a store, pick items off a shelf, pay cash into a machine, and walk out.
I. do. NOT. want. to. talk. to. people.
But you go right ahead and wish cashiers would give you suggestions and compliments and handjobs.
Go social yourself, asshole.
Yes that's right a coupon is more persuasive to me than a human cashier blatantly attempting to manipulate me, and you know why that is?
Yet you seem unaware of the datamining and processing that goes on behind those coupons that are algorithmically designed to manipulate you... Even more so than the human cashier that just knows that she'll get a bonus for each scarf she sells. She doesn't analyze the last decade of your purchases across multiple brands in real-time to predict than you'll probably buy sensitive teeth toothpaste to go with the soft bristled toothbrush you bought last week
Because nerd. I am a real nerd, not one of you social networking fake nerds who yearn for insincere social interaction.
When I shop, I don't want to talk to people. I want to walk into a store, pick items off a shelf, pay cash into a machine, and walk out.
I. do. NOT. want. to. talk. to. people.
But you go right ahead and wish cashiers would give you suggestions and compliments and handjobs.
Go social yourself, asshole.
I don't see why you would shop at a store at all? I do all of my own shopping online.... The only time I go to a physical store at all is with my wife. You don't seem like the kind of shopper stores are trying to hold on to.
> A good cashier adds value to the company by upselling at the time of purchase
A bad cashier does so badly, and ruins the whole sale. I've recently had this happen several times in the last year. A sales clerk tried to force me to take a store credit card, and another described a "sale" that involved buying more goods at a discount, thus insisting that I would "save money" by buying extra goods at a discount. That is not saving any money on the original purchase, it's buying goods I don't need and _spending_ extra money.
Yes, bad cashiers are bad, selling credit cards, bad deals, and extended warranties is not a value-add for the customer. But there are *good* cashiers out there, often so good at their job that they entice you to buy more without you even realizing it.
Checkout kiosks upsell your purchase by printing coupons with your receipt. Every time I buy yogurt, the machine prints a coupon for more yogurt. And it works. I use the coupon to buy more yogurt.
You actually look at those coupons? I ball them up and toss them in the bag, then toss them in the trash, unseen.
You're the first person I know that says that actually look at them.
But in any case, getting a coupon for a scarf doesn't seem as persuasive as an actual human telling me why that scarf would look good on me. Many websites offer last-minute deals during checkout but that seems less persuasive than an actual human complimenting me and telling me why a particular purchase would be perfect for me.
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Earn $200K a year, live in a trailer!
If it means I don't have to fight traffic for an hour to get to work (even if I'm in a bus), I'd be happy to take that salary and live in the cheap housing.
You'll keep coming up with excuses not to pay for it. Because you are ultimately a thief who steals shit.
Me? No, I don't steal anything. The last time I torrented a movie was when I bought a brand new blu-ray and couldn't play it because my blu-ray player's firmware was out of date and it was already on the latest firmware.
So who is stealing from who in this case? I bought the movie, it's a blu-ray, I have a blu-ray player, yet could not play the movie.
It took less time to find a torrent and start the download than it did to buy the movie in the first place, the torrent was done in 90 minutes (no need to wait on shipping) and now I have a digital file I can play on any of my devices. What a great customer experience.
Want to stop piracy? Then make all content available everywhere. Don't make me sign up for Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO Now, Hulu, and a half dozen streaming providers just to watch the content I want to see.
If you make it easier to pirate content than to purchase it legally, you're going to lose the battle.
And don't nickel and dime me, don't make me pay $3.99/episode for a show that will cost $20 when all 20 episodes come out on DVD, stuff like that is what make people decide to click on the torrent instead of the "Purchase" link.
When he is no longer president, Donald J. Trump can have a library where his words of wisdom are recorded 140 characters at a time.
If they only include the words of wisdom, it shouldn't take more than a single post-it note. Probably not even that.
Being +/- 5mm Hg on a measurement of 140 mm is +/- 3.5%, but how accurate are the thresholds for treatment? A guideline may say that 140mm Hg needs treatment, but what is the error bar in that value? I bet it far exceeds 3.5% because of individual variation.
And more than accuracy, I'd think that being precise would be more useful to a home user -- knowing that your BP increased by 7mm over a year sounds more useful than knowing that it's close to some arbitrary value.
I hate when they do this stuff. Forging a wire transfer is NOT 'tricking you into working for free'. Instead it is tricking people into thinking they were paid.
And since they were not paid for work that they did (presumably because the company told them they would be getting paid), they were tricked into working for free.
What passwords? I don't remember anything since I got a pink slip.
If laid off Lowes staff hold any "secret" passwords needed to run the company, whoever let that happen should be laid off too.
Every secret password here is shared in a team password vault.
"All laid off IT workers will be given lifetime employment in my coal mines." - King Donald
Fortunately, it'll be a short lifetime - a win-win.
If you can find a software vulnerability and hack into one of their switches/routers, you can use this technique to extract data from their network without tripping any IDS sensors
I'm curious to learn about this IDS that can catch traffic from compromised network hardware but can't catch the act of compromising network hardware. This is an impractical POC for anything but the most outlandish spy movies. There are far easier ways to exfiltrate data.
"Hey guys, we just had a huge DoS traffic flood - overwhelmed our IDS for a few minutes, but everything looks good now. Looks like it made one of our core switches reboot. Weird. But everything is back online now, IDS isn't reporting anything unusual so at least we can be certain there's no data leak!"
So, you own a router enough to send data via its lights to some other dude who can interpret your signals. Why the fuck don't u just tap it at that point? This is an overly complicated exfiltration method that has zero chance of ever mattering. I'm glad some money somewhere got spent for this idiocy
Because the owner of the data is watching for unusual network activity, but not for unusual blinky lights.
If your routers are insecure enough that someone can sneak in, reprogram them to flash their LEDs and install sensors to pick up the flashing LEDs you have bigger issues.
Lots of companies colocate in "secure" datacenters where their equipment cages are walled off by nothing more than chain link fences with equipment stacked in bare racks, plainly visible to anyone walking by.
If you can find a software vulnerability and hack into one of their switches/routers, you can use this technique to extract data from their network without tripping any IDS sensors -- all you need to do is rent a neighboring cage and point a camera at the switches.
The company across the courtyard from us has a bit stack of network switches facing the window. Same problem - get someone to infect their network from within (through, say, a compromised USB key) and you can send data all day long over the lights without anyone noticing any unusual outbound traffic.
Nothing, the President of the United States has the authority to declassify anything at any time.
And thousands of government workers have the *ability* to declassify anything at any time... and most of the time they won't even get caught, so those in power should not disillusion those that work for them.
If you're going to leak documents, take a photo and crank up the jpeg compression level to help hide the watermarks.
I wonder if the autopilot requires any calibration to align all of the various sensors?
If I owned a body shop, I would not feel comfortable repairing, and putting my a$$ on the line saying that all the complicated systems on that car were properly repaired without specialized training, equipment, and certification, and I highly doubt there's enough of them around to make it worth the investment.
Let the Tesla service center deal with it!
If a repair shop doesn't know what liability insurance is, then he probably shouldn't be in the repair business anyway.
Lots of independent garages make safety critical repairs every day (many of which require specialized training, equipment and certification), and they'll continue to do so when it makes sense financially. Though it may not make sense to invest in the tooling to service cars from a manufacturer that has only sold about 500,000 of them in total, versus, say, servicing a Toyota where millions of them are sold each year with 10's of millions still on the road.
So how do you account for the fact that, in the protections against unreasonable search and seizure enshrined in the 4th amendment, the authors of the Constitution had no concept of an unbreakable lock? The 4th provides a mechanism to balance privacy rights with the government's obligation to enforce law and prosecute based on evidence procured through a probable cause based search. At that time, it was understood that no lock or container, no matter how stout, could not be defeated to execute a warranted search. Today, though, encryption technology has created personal, unbreakable locks in virtually everyone's possession. Law enforcement still has the same obligation to search these devices if there is probably cause to believe they contain evidence of a crime, but they can't break the lock. A court order to provide the passcode is not a violation of the 5th, because providing a key to your unbreakable lock is not an admission or statement of guilt. It is merely providing the key to your unbreakable lock that the 4th amendment allows the government to search based on probable cause.
How is it any different than a defendant refusing to reveal where he hid the tools of his crime? The police suspect that he killed Colonel Mustard in the LIbrary with a lead pipe, but without the pipe, they are unable to prove it. The police could spend millions of dollars combing through many square miles of land looking for the weapon (just like they could spend millions of dollars trying to hack into the device), but can they compel the defendant to reveal exactly where he buried it, even if the defendant claims he forgot?
If the cell phone owner was separated from his phone for any length of time, I can believe that he forgot the code - when I lost my tablet for a month and I got it back again, I couldn't remember my passphrase and had to wipe it and reset it.
They have a point, the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic score is "31%" for Pirates of the Carribean with an average critic score of 4.7/10, while the audience score (percentage of users that rated it 3.5 or higher) is 71% with an average rating of 3.8/5 (equivalent to 7.6/10)
Since most people aren't critics, it seems that they'd be better served by the Audience Score rather than the more critical Tomatometer which is the score that's more heavily promoted on the site.
Without further details, we can't know whether the doctor is guilty or not. The hard drive could have been purchased refurbished, from a friend, found in the guts of an old computer at Goodwill... who knows? The important part is, if we're going to gather information, it should be through the proper channels. Bribing near-minimum-wage workers with a month's wages to violate the same laws that protect us all is closer to organized crime than any legitimate government. They know better, and the EFF is one of the few organizations that calls bullshit when they see it.
You forgot to mention another possibility -- when you pay someone a big bounty to find something, you're giving them incentive to put it there themselves.
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Before the Anatomy Act 1832, executed criminals were the only legal source of bodies for hospitals to use for surgeon training. Due to high demand from chronic shortage of legal cadavers, "resurrection men" resorted to illegal means to obtain bodies, such as digging up corpses from graveyards or even murder. In 1828, William Burke and William Hare murdered 16 people and sold the bodies. Thomas Williams and John Bishop, part of a group of body snatchers known as the London Burkers, committed murder for the purpose of selling the victim's body in 1831.
$150/year is "nothing" to you?
Yep. I make a decent living.
Maybe you should go back to school?
Then why would you pay hundreds of dollars to spend hours in line at the bank each year? Did you learn that in school?
I can't consider your statement relevant until you've completely documented the micro optimization of your life
I don't want to waste 5 minutes at an ATM every week, I'm certainly not going to write a detailed thesis on my life's micro optimizations so an Anonymous Coward too lazy to create or log in to a Slashdot account will consider my statement relevant. But I'll tell you another of my micro optimizations - I don't waste 10 - 15 minutes every week driving to the gas station to buy gas.
My wife complains that I'm always carrying cash so my wallet is always bulky and I'm missing out on credit card rewards.
You carry around a bulky wallet full of cash all of the time because you don't want the mild inconvenience of having a credit card number stolen?
I've had 2 CC numbers stolen -- with one, I didn't realize it until I got a fedex envelope from the bank with a replacement card, with the other, it took 10 minutes online to complete a fraud report and flag fraudulent transactions, then I had to sign and return a paper that I received with the replacement card.
100% of them since Chipotle in 2015 announced that they were not upgrading their POS systems to use EMV since they claimed that magnetic swipe is faster and would speed up their lines.
All they'd have to do to speed up Chip transactions is program their systems so while one customer is waiting for the chip transaction to complete, the next customer in line can be placing his order. Most small CC transactions don't even require a signature.
Yeah ATMs are really crowded and they take forever to give you cash. Like I mean you might have to wait up to five minutes in your air conditioned or heated car while inserting a card, punching a few numbers, and grabbing that dough. And those fees! $3 just to get cash once a week. Really terrible. It's almost like it's nothing but it feels like thousands of dollars in fees.
$150/year is "nothing" to you? Yet you also consider that your time has no value either since you don't mind spending an extra 5 - 10 minutes/week driving to the bank to retrieve cash (that's 4 - 8 hours/year).
Yes that's right a coupon is more persuasive to me than a human cashier blatantly attempting to manipulate me, and you know why that is? Because I am a nerd. I am a real nerd, not one of you social networking fake nerds who yearn for insincere social interaction.
When I shop, I don't want to talk to people. I want to walk into a store, pick items off a shelf, pay cash into a machine, and walk out.
I. do. NOT. want. to. talk. to. people.
But you go right ahead and wish cashiers would give you suggestions and compliments and handjobs.
Go social yourself, asshole.
Yes that's right a coupon is more persuasive to me than a human cashier blatantly attempting to manipulate me, and you know why that is?
Yet you seem unaware of the datamining and processing that goes on behind those coupons that are algorithmically designed to manipulate you... Even more so than the human cashier that just knows that she'll get a bonus for each scarf she sells. She doesn't analyze the last decade of your purchases across multiple brands in real-time to predict than you'll probably buy sensitive teeth toothpaste to go with the soft bristled toothbrush you bought last week
Because nerd. I am a real nerd, not one of you social networking fake nerds who yearn for insincere social interaction.
When I shop, I don't want to talk to people. I want to walk into a store, pick items off a shelf, pay cash into a machine, and walk out.
I. do. NOT. want. to. talk. to. people.
But you go right ahead and wish cashiers would give you suggestions and compliments and handjobs.
Go social yourself, asshole.
I don't see why you would shop at a store at all? I do all of my own shopping online.... The only time I go to a physical store at all is with my wife. You don't seem like the kind of shopper stores are trying to hold on to.
> A good cashier adds value to the company by upselling at the time of purchase
A bad cashier does so badly, and ruins the whole sale. I've recently had this happen several times in the last year. A sales clerk tried to force me to take a store credit card, and another described a "sale" that involved buying more goods at a discount, thus insisting that I would "save money" by buying extra goods at a discount. That is not saving any money on the original purchase, it's buying goods I don't need and _spending_ extra money.
Yes, bad cashiers are bad, selling credit cards, bad deals, and extended warranties is not a value-add for the customer. But there are *good* cashiers out there, often so good at their job that they entice you to buy more without you even realizing it.
Checkout kiosks upsell your purchase by printing coupons with your receipt. Every time I buy yogurt, the machine prints a coupon for more yogurt. And it works. I use the coupon to buy more yogurt.
You actually look at those coupons? I ball them up and toss them in the bag, then toss them in the trash, unseen.
You're the first person I know that says that actually look at them.
But in any case, getting a coupon for a scarf doesn't seem as persuasive as an actual human telling me why that scarf would look good on me. Many websites offer last-minute deals during checkout but that seems less persuasive than an actual human complimenting me and telling me why a particular purchase would be perfect for me.