Here in Argentina my terminal (swipe, obviously card-present) always asks for CVV when using credit, and for some cards, it also asks for the last 4 digits on the front.
Maestro debit only requires a PIN. Visa debit requires nothing.
Chip cards haven't really been implemented even though for the last few years all terminals i've seen have a smartcard slot. Only a handful of clients (people with Platinum or Black cards) have cards with chip. My bank says this is because the only issue those cards upon request (indirectly: they ask if you travel abroad often, and if you do, they give you one of those cards. Gotta pinch those cents!)
What I find amusing by this is that the Caribbean and Latin America was supposed to switch to chip based transactions only about 2-3 years ago. I don't know of any gateway in the region that actually uses chip, though.
When you read the card, you get the card number and expiry date. It's not good enough to actually do a chip/contact payment, but the information is enough to do a swipe transaction. If you can print a card, and have an old enough store that still uses a mechanical imprinter (the big thing that you put the card in, a slip and slide the slider back and forth that imprints the slip).
Yep, this would work if you found a store that did this, still. Or a store that runs its swipe transactions offline. In this day and age you'd be hard pressed to find someone who does offline auths. You could use it to buy free beer on a plane but it would get denied by the issuer once the auth is ran. EMV Capable contactless cards use a token for the card number and it would be obvious that the data was from a contactless interface.
Or of course, you use it for online shopping.
Nope. You cannot use it for online shopping. The track 2 equivalent data that comes across in a contactless transaction contains a CVV2 value but it is computed dynamically based on the unpredictable number used for that transaction as well as the card data. It is NOT the same CVV2 value that is printed on the back of the card and is unique per read. You must use the CVV2 value from the back of the card in order to get an auth as a Card Not Present transaction. This has been the case for all cards issued in the last 4 years and probably longer. Even the older contactless cards that return magnetic stripe data do not use the same CVV2 for contactless as they use for card not present.
What happens then is up to the merchant and hits bank - if the bank is smart, they will realize the card used supports chip or contactless, and the terminal supports it, and rejects the transation wanting a chip or contactless.
EMVCo certification requires you to use the chip (which is used in contactless as well, mind you, it just sends different data) when possible. The service code (again in the track 2 equivalent data) indicates whether or not the card supports EMV. If the service code indicates chip is available then the terminal cannot authorize a magnetic stripe transaction without attempting a chip transaction first. Of course, this assumes the terminal is EMV capable. The issuer knows what service code they set on the track so, again, modifying this would result in the issuer denying an authorization request. If you have a chip capable terminal and the card data comes from magnetic stripe, again the issuer will deny the transaction unless technical fallback is allowed in your region or the card application is unsupported by the acquiring bank network.
Online stores and even in-person transactions often require the CVV if you swipe them, as well. (The CVV value is not stored on chip or in the magstripe - it's designed to verify that you have physical access to the card).
That is incorrect. The card can provide the CVV in track 2 for swipe, contact and contactless. As I mentioned before, the CVV2 is dynamic in chip based (contact and contactless) transactions. A properly encrypted terminal should never return a CVV2 without encryption. I expect that most card issuers have stopped supplying the CVV2 in the magnetic track 2 data, just as they no longer supply an encrypted PIN or PVV. But the data can be included. There is a space for it.
Actual payments require a challenge-response - the chip contains a secret only known to it and the bank which never leaves the card.
So you likely can use it for a few transactions which still do swipes and don't check CVVs, but that's about it.
Again if you can find a store that allows offline transactions, you may be able to use a cloned card. The card brands do not allow offline transactions in the North America region (perhaps excluding the Caribbean and Latin America). Offline trans
I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm saying it's far more convenient to be able to transfer PDFs, photos, and other files rather than copy and paste. There are very few times that copy/paste between a phone/iPad and a computer is useful. Most of the time I want to send concert tickets, a boarding pass, train ticket or whatever to my phone. Right now the only way to do that on the iPhone is email, webdav, dropbox, or airdrop.
I don't know. I have tons of emails that I have sent myself with content that I wanted to share from one device to another. Anything that cuts down on that is good IMHO.
And how often has that been something out of a PDF or photo and you just didn't have a useful file manager (read any file manager) on iOS?
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
TeamViewer works, is easy to use, and from all accounts other than Reddit, secure. People who complain about losing money on paypal are probably not security experts as security experts wouldn't put their own money in paypal.
Why do security experts use TeamViewer when there are free and better ways to provide the same service yourself?
Are there any free (libre) alternatives to Team viewer?
Yes. I am really surprised that anyone uses these services. You could try OpenVPN and Remote Desktop Protocol or VNC. You can also use SSH port forwarding to use RDP or VNC through an SSH connection. It's all trivial.
I buy a TON of things from Amazon, I'm a heavy Prime customer...
That being said, my last three price adjustment requests in the past two weeks have all been denied, which is very odd.
I do it manually, just when I notice things... I buy at least a half a dozen items a week from Amazon.
This change will make me think twice before buying as much.
You're doing this manually but noticed three price adjustments in a two week period? Are you unemployed? I buy something on Amazon because I don't have the time to go to the store and pick it up. The last thing I am going to do is keep my eye out for price adjustments. If it's something like a TV that will deflate in value over the next year then I just watch the price myself until it's time to pull the trigger - or better yet - use a website to watch the price for me. If I needed it so badly that I couldn't wait for a price I was happy with, well what's a few dollars, then?
The lack of a conservative article being posted on a particular website is NOT the same as inciting panic in a crowded room.
My point is that you cannot just post anything you want without the potential for consequence. I'm not saying that Facebook did or did not do anything illegal though it certainly sounds like they have been unethical. Congress is free to investigate all they want and to subpoena anyone they want from Facebook. Whether or not Facebook chooses to participate is up to them. Whether this is a proper use of congressional time and money is, of course, a different question all together.
Facebook can place on their website whatever the hell they like. They are not a monopoly subject to government oversight. Facebook will not be testifying before a committee on this manner.
Just like you're allowed to yell "Fire!!" in a crowded movie theater.
WHY DO I NEED a voice controlled speaker to integrate with my thermostat and fire alarm... two things that I NEVER touch. You set the temp and you leave it, it heats or cools the house as needed, if you have a good thermostat (note, the Nest devices are actually pretty shitty as far as 'smart devices' go.) it has sensors in each room that detects occupancy and temp and adjusts the temp based on the rooms people are in.
If your thermostat can detect when you're home, great. It would meet my needs. I travel a lot. On occasion I am gone for 2 or 3 weeks straight. Sometimes I forget to adjust the thermostat while I am gone. I love being able to tell my thermostat I'm away after I've already left. I don't always get home at the same time, either. So I don't really have a schedule for adjusting the temperature when I get home. I typically just kick the thing on when I am walking out of my office and it starts cooling as I commute. Since I live in a hot and humid area, it's nice to come in to a house that is already starting to cool off. Is it essential? No, but it's nice.
Ok, so I opened LibreOffice 5 (which comes with Ubuntu 16.04LTS), created a new document, went to Format/Page, selected the radio-button "Landscape" on the "Page" tab, clicked "Ok". Then I went to www.lipsum.com, generated 5 paragraphs of "Lorem ipsum" and copy/pasted that in my newly created document.
At this point, I hit Control-P, followed by Enter, which gave me a totally fine landscape printed "Lorem ipsum" text, as it was displayed on screen.
So, uhm... what's wrong?
Obviously LO printing ONLY works with Latin. Try doing it in Cyrillic and see what you get.
Within 5 miles of my house, gas prices vary by 40 cents per gallon (Chevron is the highest, Rotten Robbie is the lowest). So there is no way that the retail margin is only 1 cent.
That fluctuation in price may very well have to do with the cost of the location. If you're across the street from a very busy mall then your real estate prices will be higher. The margin is so razor thin that many mom and pop gas stations in California offer a cash discount because the 1-2% credit card fees really eat into their margins.
The guy had taken one of the attendants mobile phones. They were tracking that in order to pinpoint his location.
That part I did not catch when I read the real news story.
Obviously though where I would draw the line and you would are different. I guess I don't see a lot of difference between a stingray and directly accessing the information held by a telco.
The difference is scope. The telco would have a hard time giving them the position on so many people all at once whereas the Stingray lets them see everyone that is within its broadcast area. Since Annapolis is relatively small and not along a major interstate, it may not have resulted in a very large privacy breach. However, it's the county seat for a very populous county (over 2.5M I believe), and also has a large US Naval college there. So who knows how many people drove through the affected areas?
Do they not realize that iOS devices don't have as much RAM as even Android phones? (iOS is more efficient with memory usage yes, but it does suffer from RAM limits on certain operations).
I mean, the latest have 2GB of RAM, but iOS also limits how much RAM an app can use...
You won't be storing the all the DB info in RAM. i worked with SAP on this years ago and have no idea what the current state is but we did find that you could handle about 10M records on SQLite3 on iOS if you were careful with your SQL. The real problem with DB storage on iOS is that the flash is typically slow to write and incredibly fast to read. Anyway, about that time is when they started transitioning to the HANA stuff and I left for another job.
The guy stuck a gun in someone's face and demanded items from them on the implied threat that if they didn't cooperate he would shoot them. If someone is willing to do that for a couple of chicken wings and a sandwich they are clearly desperate and the next step to shooting a person is not a great leap.
As such I would suggest he does present a clear and present danger to the community.
I also think this is an interesting snapshot of life in America. Here people are concerned about the use of stinray to catch an armed criminal. If this has occurred in Australia the streets around would have been in lock down, a chopper would have been in the air and people would be inviting police to do a door to door search. And it's not because Australians are under the thumb, we just see firearms crime as really really really really serious and we don't hate our police force. I mean genuinely, our police force will have random dance offs with nightclub goers. Sure no one likes being pulled over by the cops, and there are plenty who hate them and call them pigs, but it doesn't appear to be the same as in the US.
Okay there is a huge difference between a door to door search and a helicopter orbiting the city versus spying on the communications and location of everyone who are within the man's suspected location. For one thing, you have to have personnel on the ground (or in the air) the entire length of the search. The other just requires the city to put up a fake cell phone tower and you have no idea that you're being spied upon. How long until cities just start putting up fake cell phone towers everywhere? Could he have killed someone? Yes! Is that terrible? Absolutely! But where do you draw the line on how far you're willing to go to catch a negative actor in the community? At what point does the law enforcement effort cause you to transition into a police state? And since they failed to apprehend the suspect it is clear that what they did was fruitless. It is also clear, since they were able to attempt to track him with a stingray device, that they already knew who he was!
But the question of whether he was a violent robber is central to your question. Somebody going around committing robbery might actually be enough threat. The value of the actual stuff taken isn't the most relevant part of the crime (if anything, a lower value robbery increases how dangerous a robber he is, because apparently he'll do violence over nothing).
Somebody who nicked a few sandwiches and chicken wings, however? Bad guy, we should catch him, but not a serious societal threat. My guess is the guy fits this category but I'm waiting for more info before getting too charged up.
The guy committed the crime at gun point. But he's not exactly a mass murderer, either. They obviously knew who he was or they wouldn't have been able to even use a Stingray against him. Furthermore, they failed to catch the guy. All of this leads me to believe it was excessive use.
One person pulls out in front of another, ILLEGALLY (the car sueing was ticketed for pulling out wrongly),
In addition, we have an 18 y.o driver (2 years of experience), WITH A FRIEND, driving over 100 MPH in a 55, while using a phone illegally, and the car goes after snapchat.
What our fascists does not destroy, lawyers will.
Do you have a reference that the driver who was hit was cited for failing to yield? I would be absolutely surprised if the police assigned any fault to someone who was hit by a driver going twice the speed limit.
The summary says he was a "chicken wing thief", but the story says he "robbed" the employee. Theft and robbery are different, for good reason. Stealing property is nonviolent. Robbing someone of property (i.e. taking it from a person by force or threat of force) is a violent crime. When someone sticks gun in your face and demands that you hand over the goods, it doesn't make much difference if the goods are chicken wings or jewelry, does it? Without more information about what this guy actually did to forcibly acquire those chicken wings, it's not very reasonable to conclude that this should have been a low priority case and the cops went overboard. Was he armed? Did he really threaten force? Did he assault the guy? TFA does not answer the real questions.
The issue at hand is that the Stingray device allows the police to spy on all cell phones in the geographic region it covers. It's not a question of whether or not the guy committed a forcible felony versus just a felony or misdemeanor but whether or not this guy is a huge enough threat to society as a whole to violate the right to privacy of the other 200,000 people running around Annapolis who may have had their lawful communications intercepted by the police.
> Also, how can Cupertino be broke, I would imagine
> property taxes there would be through the roof,
> housing prices certainly are.
Prop 13.
The baby boomers decided a long time ago that they would rather take a few extra vacations every year than fund the schools and infrastructure that would enable the following generations to enjoy the same level of wealth that they were handed by the WW2 generation.
Oh please. Prop 13 encourages people to stay in the same place a long time. You don't get to transfer your prop 13 tax rate unless you qualify for social security. How many people stay in the same house for 30+ years? If you want to upgrade, your property tax goes up just like everyone else. Prop 13 keeps people who have lived in California (and especially the Bay Area) a long time from having to relocate because people seem to think they've got money to burn in the bay area these days. I don't think it's unreasonable to protect the elderly from skyrocketing property tax. And yes I used to own a house in California and was on the negative end of prop 13 myself.
There is no evidence that Snapchat has a "speed" trophy. There is a site that tracks them.
Snapchat does not keep a list of the trophies publicly available. Read the comments on your link and you will see people claiming to have found trophies not in the list.
There are also harsh criminal penalties for unauthorized transmission of data from a secured network designed for classified data to a public network. So even if the material was not classified and never would be classified, she may have run afoul of those rules.
Apparently it was common practice at State to not use the secure network for transmission and to backchannel information. I'm not surprised, given how much I saw that done as well as the sometimes problematic access to a secure network.
Both of your points are true which is why she should have left the data security up to the experts instead of taking matters into her own hands. Had she just used a state department email address and server then it would not have been so easy to blame her for her handling of classified material or whether or not the material was sent on the correct network. She would have at least kept it in the correct channel. Once she supposedly decided her need for a Blackberry was more crucial than her need to follow the rules she opened a can of worms. But I seriously doubt that she's so addicted to the Crackberry that she bypassed the rules. She has assistants that can track down all the emails and classified documents she wants. I believe it was all an effort to avoid the FOIA.
It continues to amaze me that people keep repeating this easily proven false talking point. The date/time something is stamped 'classified' is irrelevant!
The constitution has this little clause called ex post facto. Look it up.
Ex post facto does not apply in this case. The rules are explicit. You're granted certain access and you're obligated to take certain responsibility and make certain judgement calls. The laws have existed for years, long before she became secretary of state. Have you ever had to handle classified info? You have to make a judgement call and treat all material appropriately. It's part of your responsibility when you accept the clearance. If it bears no marking and you determine it should have had a marking, then you must treat it as if it were classified. If you should have known that it was classified but failed to make that judgement call? You're still in trouble. Not to mention the fact that just moving the data from the State Department network to a public network without authorization can be a violation of the law. Skirting FOIA laws should be also be carry criminal punishment including the revocation of your civil rights. In fact, I think I would rather have a drug dealer voting than a public servant who clearly trying to hide something.
Email addresses on servers they did not control. The difference, which people like yourself want to minimize is that it was HER server (not AOL, Not Hotmail, not Yahoo!, and not Google. It was her private email server. And it was clearly designed to get around the Open Records requirements that were passed because of Republican versions of private email addresses that happened previously.
And, you're functionally saying "Two wrongs make it okay", rather than addressing the real concerns.
The big concern the Republicans keep raising is "classified" material, which makes whose non-governmental server it resides on irrelevant since any server would be open to compromise; although it appears none of the material was classified at the time it was sent but has been deemed classified later. Given she turned over the emails and much of the traffic would have been available anyway since it originated from a government server the whole issue is nothing but a cheap political attack.
As someone who has had to deal with such material and has been constantly briefed on it by the FBI and the DIA I can tell you right now that it does not matter WHAT classification the material bears. If you look at it and know, or should know that the material is classified then you must treat it as such. There are also harsh criminal penalties for unauthorized transmission of data from a secured network designed for classified data to a public network. So even if the material was not classified and never would be classified, she may have run afoul of those rules. She also deleted a large chunk of the email that was on the server before handing it over. The reason that the FBI investigation has taken so long is that they've had to try and reconstruct the data that was on the server. Further more, there is evidence that there were emails on the server that did not originate inside of the State Department. It seems to me that the whole purpose of this ploy on Clinton's part was to avoid oversight and FOIA requests on her communications during her tenure at the State Department. Were there other people who tried to avoid FOIA using the same tricks? Yes. All of them should be in jail just on those grounds, if you ask me.
When the alternative is federal prison, yeah, that is my assertion.
Leaking Top Secret information gets you in federal prison. It doesn't matter if it makes you look good.
Petraeus is the exception to this rule, I am not sure how he avoided federal prison, but just look at history for the many examples of people going to federal prison despite having good intentions.
Correction. It would land you or me in jail. Otherwise Hillary Clinton would already be indicted for violating rules just as Petraeus should have been.
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Here in Argentina my terminal (swipe, obviously card-present) always asks for CVV when using credit, and for some cards, it also asks for the last 4 digits on the front.
Maestro debit only requires a PIN. Visa debit requires nothing.
Chip cards haven't really been implemented even though for the last few years all terminals i've seen have a smartcard slot. Only a handful of clients (people with Platinum or Black cards) have cards with chip. My bank says this is because the only issue those cards upon request (indirectly: they ask if you travel abroad often, and if you do, they give you one of those cards. Gotta pinch those cents!)
What I find amusing by this is that the Caribbean and Latin America was supposed to switch to chip based transactions only about 2-3 years ago. I don't know of any gateway in the region that actually uses chip, though.
Well, what really happens is this.
When you read the card, you get the card number and expiry date. It's not good enough to actually do a chip/contact payment, but the information is enough to do a swipe transaction. If you can print a card, and have an old enough store that still uses a mechanical imprinter (the big thing that you put the card in, a slip and slide the slider back and forth that imprints the slip).
Yep, this would work if you found a store that did this, still. Or a store that runs its swipe transactions offline. In this day and age you'd be hard pressed to find someone who does offline auths. You could use it to buy free beer on a plane but it would get denied by the issuer once the auth is ran. EMV Capable contactless cards use a token for the card number and it would be obvious that the data was from a contactless interface.
Or of course, you use it for online shopping.
Nope. You cannot use it for online shopping. The track 2 equivalent data that comes across in a contactless transaction contains a CVV2 value but it is computed dynamically based on the unpredictable number used for that transaction as well as the card data. It is NOT the same CVV2 value that is printed on the back of the card and is unique per read. You must use the CVV2 value from the back of the card in order to get an auth as a Card Not Present transaction. This has been the case for all cards issued in the last 4 years and probably longer. Even the older contactless cards that return magnetic stripe data do not use the same CVV2 for contactless as they use for card not present.
What happens then is up to the merchant and hits bank - if the bank is smart, they will realize the card used supports chip or contactless, and the terminal supports it, and rejects the transation wanting a chip or contactless.
EMVCo certification requires you to use the chip (which is used in contactless as well, mind you, it just sends different data) when possible. The service code (again in the track 2 equivalent data) indicates whether or not the card supports EMV. If the service code indicates chip is available then the terminal cannot authorize a magnetic stripe transaction without attempting a chip transaction first. Of course, this assumes the terminal is EMV capable. The issuer knows what service code they set on the track so, again, modifying this would result in the issuer denying an authorization request. If you have a chip capable terminal and the card data comes from magnetic stripe, again the issuer will deny the transaction unless technical fallback is allowed in your region or the card application is unsupported by the acquiring bank network.
Online stores and even in-person transactions often require the CVV if you swipe them, as well. (The CVV value is not stored on chip or in the magstripe - it's designed to verify that you have physical access to the card).
That is incorrect. The card can provide the CVV in track 2 for swipe, contact and contactless. As I mentioned before, the CVV2 is dynamic in chip based (contact and contactless) transactions. A properly encrypted terminal should never return a CVV2 without encryption. I expect that most card issuers have stopped supplying the CVV2 in the magnetic track 2 data, just as they no longer supply an encrypted PIN or PVV. But the data can be included. There is a space for it.
Actual payments require a challenge-response - the chip contains a secret only known to it and the bank which never leaves the card.
So you likely can use it for a few transactions which still do swipes and don't check CVVs, but that's about it.
Again if you can find a store that allows offline transactions, you may be able to use a cloned card. The card brands do not allow offline transactions in the North America region (perhaps excluding the Caribbean and Latin America). Offline trans
I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm saying it's far more convenient to be able to transfer PDFs, photos, and other files rather than copy and paste. There are very few times that copy/paste between a phone/iPad and a computer is useful. Most of the time I want to send concert tickets, a boarding pass, train ticket or whatever to my phone. Right now the only way to do that on the iPhone is email, webdav, dropbox, or airdrop.
I don't know. I have tons of emails that I have sent myself with content that I wanted to share from one device to another. Anything that cuts down on that is good IMHO.
And how often has that been something out of a PDF or photo and you just didn't have a useful file manager (read any file manager) on iOS?
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
TeamViewer works, is easy to use, and from all accounts other than Reddit, secure. People who complain about losing money on paypal are probably not security experts as security experts wouldn't put their own money in paypal.
Why do security experts use TeamViewer when there are free and better ways to provide the same service yourself?
Are there any free (libre) alternatives to Team viewer?
Yes. I am really surprised that anyone uses these services. You could try OpenVPN and Remote Desktop Protocol or VNC. You can also use SSH port forwarding to use RDP or VNC through an SSH connection. It's all trivial.
I buy a TON of things from Amazon, I'm a heavy Prime customer...
That being said, my last three price adjustment requests in the past two weeks have all been denied, which is very odd.
I do it manually, just when I notice things... I buy at least a half a dozen items a week from Amazon.
This change will make me think twice before buying as much.
You're doing this manually but noticed three price adjustments in a two week period? Are you unemployed? I buy something on Amazon because I don't have the time to go to the store and pick it up. The last thing I am going to do is keep my eye out for price adjustments. If it's something like a TV that will deflate in value over the next year then I just watch the price myself until it's time to pull the trigger - or better yet - use a website to watch the price for me. If I needed it so badly that I couldn't wait for a price I was happy with, well what's a few dollars, then?
The lack of a conservative article being posted on a particular website is NOT the same as inciting panic in a crowded room.
My point is that you cannot just post anything you want without the potential for consequence. I'm not saying that Facebook did or did not do anything illegal though it certainly sounds like they have been unethical. Congress is free to investigate all they want and to subpoena anyone they want from Facebook. Whether or not Facebook chooses to participate is up to them. Whether this is a proper use of congressional time and money is, of course, a different question all together.
Facebook can place on their website whatever the hell they like. They are not a monopoly subject to government oversight. Facebook will not be testifying before a committee on this manner.
Just like you're allowed to yell "Fire!!" in a crowded movie theater.
WHY DO I NEED a voice controlled speaker to integrate with my thermostat and fire alarm ... two things that I NEVER touch. You set the temp and you leave it, it heats or cools the house as needed, if you have a good thermostat (note, the Nest devices are actually pretty shitty as far as 'smart devices' go.) it has sensors in each room that detects occupancy and temp and adjusts the temp based on the rooms people are in.
If your thermostat can detect when you're home, great. It would meet my needs. I travel a lot. On occasion I am gone for 2 or 3 weeks straight. Sometimes I forget to adjust the thermostat while I am gone. I love being able to tell my thermostat I'm away after I've already left. I don't always get home at the same time, either. So I don't really have a schedule for adjusting the temperature when I get home. I typically just kick the thing on when I am walking out of my office and it starts cooling as I commute. Since I live in a hot and humid area, it's nice to come in to a house that is already starting to cool off. Is it essential? No, but it's nice.
Ok, so I opened LibreOffice 5 (which comes with Ubuntu 16.04LTS), created a new document, went to Format/Page, selected the radio-button "Landscape" on the "Page" tab, clicked "Ok". Then I went to www.lipsum.com, generated 5 paragraphs of "Lorem ipsum" and copy/pasted that in my newly created document.
At this point, I hit Control-P, followed by Enter, which gave me a totally fine landscape printed "Lorem ipsum" text, as it was displayed on screen.
So, uhm... what's wrong?
Obviously LO printing ONLY works with Latin. Try doing it in Cyrillic and see what you get.
Gasoline Retailer $.01 cents per gallon
Within 5 miles of my house, gas prices vary by 40 cents per gallon (Chevron is the highest, Rotten Robbie is the lowest). So there is no way that the retail margin is only 1 cent.
That fluctuation in price may very well have to do with the cost of the location. If you're across the street from a very busy mall then your real estate prices will be higher. The margin is so razor thin that many mom and pop gas stations in California offer a cash discount because the 1-2% credit card fees really eat into their margins.
The guy had taken one of the attendants mobile phones. They were tracking that in order to pinpoint his location.
That part I did not catch when I read the real news story.
Obviously though where I would draw the line and you would are different. I guess I don't see a lot of difference between a stingray and directly accessing the information held by a telco.
The difference is scope. The telco would have a hard time giving them the position on so many people all at once whereas the Stingray lets them see everyone that is within its broadcast area. Since Annapolis is relatively small and not along a major interstate, it may not have resulted in a very large privacy breach. However, it's the county seat for a very populous county (over 2.5M I believe), and also has a large US Naval college there. So who knows how many people drove through the affected areas?
Do they not realize that iOS devices don't have as much RAM as even Android phones? (iOS is more efficient with memory usage yes, but it does suffer from RAM limits on certain operations).
I mean, the latest have 2GB of RAM, but iOS also limits how much RAM an app can use...
You won't be storing the all the DB info in RAM. i worked with SAP on this years ago and have no idea what the current state is but we did find that you could handle about 10M records on SQLite3 on iOS if you were careful with your SQL. The real problem with DB storage on iOS is that the flash is typically slow to write and incredibly fast to read. Anyway, about that time is when they started transitioning to the HANA stuff and I left for another job.
The guy stuck a gun in someone's face and demanded items from them on the implied threat that if they didn't cooperate he would shoot them. If someone is willing to do that for a couple of chicken wings and a sandwich they are clearly desperate and the next step to shooting a person is not a great leap.
As such I would suggest he does present a clear and present danger to the community.
I also think this is an interesting snapshot of life in America. Here people are concerned about the use of stinray to catch an armed criminal. If this has occurred in Australia the streets around would have been in lock down, a chopper would have been in the air and people would be inviting police to do a door to door search. And it's not because Australians are under the thumb, we just see firearms crime as really really really really serious and we don't hate our police force. I mean genuinely, our police force will have random dance offs with nightclub goers. Sure no one likes being pulled over by the cops, and there are plenty who hate them and call them pigs, but it doesn't appear to be the same as in the US.
Okay there is a huge difference between a door to door search and a helicopter orbiting the city versus spying on the communications and location of everyone who are within the man's suspected location. For one thing, you have to have personnel on the ground (or in the air) the entire length of the search. The other just requires the city to put up a fake cell phone tower and you have no idea that you're being spied upon. How long until cities just start putting up fake cell phone towers everywhere? Could he have killed someone? Yes! Is that terrible? Absolutely! But where do you draw the line on how far you're willing to go to catch a negative actor in the community? At what point does the law enforcement effort cause you to transition into a police state? And since they failed to apprehend the suspect it is clear that what they did was fruitless. It is also clear, since they were able to attempt to track him with a stingray device, that they already knew who he was!
But the question of whether he was a violent robber is central to your question. Somebody going around committing robbery might actually be enough threat. The value of the actual stuff taken isn't the most relevant part of the crime (if anything, a lower value robbery increases how dangerous a robber he is, because apparently he'll do violence over nothing).
Somebody who nicked a few sandwiches and chicken wings, however? Bad guy, we should catch him, but not a serious societal threat. My guess is the guy fits this category but I'm waiting for more info before getting too charged up.
The guy committed the crime at gun point. But he's not exactly a mass murderer, either. They obviously knew who he was or they wouldn't have been able to even use a Stingray against him. Furthermore, they failed to catch the guy. All of this leads me to believe it was excessive use.
One person pulls out in front of another, ILLEGALLY (the car sueing was ticketed for pulling out wrongly), In addition, we have an 18 y.o driver (2 years of experience), WITH A FRIEND, driving over 100 MPH in a 55, while using a phone illegally, and the car goes after snapchat. What our fascists does not destroy, lawyers will.
Do you have a reference that the driver who was hit was cited for failing to yield? I would be absolutely surprised if the police assigned any fault to someone who was hit by a driver going twice the speed limit.
The summary says he was a "chicken wing thief", but the story says he "robbed" the employee. Theft and robbery are different, for good reason. Stealing property is nonviolent. Robbing someone of property (i.e. taking it from a person by force or threat of force) is a violent crime. When someone sticks gun in your face and demands that you hand over the goods, it doesn't make much difference if the goods are chicken wings or jewelry, does it? Without more information about what this guy actually did to forcibly acquire those chicken wings, it's not very reasonable to conclude that this should have been a low priority case and the cops went overboard. Was he armed? Did he really threaten force? Did he assault the guy? TFA does not answer the real questions.
The issue at hand is that the Stingray device allows the police to spy on all cell phones in the geographic region it covers. It's not a question of whether or not the guy committed a forcible felony versus just a felony or misdemeanor but whether or not this guy is a huge enough threat to society as a whole to violate the right to privacy of the other 200,000 people running around Annapolis who may have had their lawful communications intercepted by the police.
> Also, how can Cupertino be broke, I would imagine > property taxes there would be through the roof, > housing prices certainly are.
Prop 13.
The baby boomers decided a long time ago that they would rather take a few extra vacations every year than fund the schools and infrastructure that would enable the following generations to enjoy the same level of wealth that they were handed by the WW2 generation.
Oh please. Prop 13 encourages people to stay in the same place a long time. You don't get to transfer your prop 13 tax rate unless you qualify for social security. How many people stay in the same house for 30+ years? If you want to upgrade, your property tax goes up just like everyone else. Prop 13 keeps people who have lived in California (and especially the Bay Area) a long time from having to relocate because people seem to think they've got money to burn in the bay area these days. I don't think it's unreasonable to protect the elderly from skyrocketing property tax. And yes I used to own a house in California and was on the negative end of prop 13 myself.
There is no evidence that Snapchat has a "speed" trophy. There is a site that tracks them.
Snapchat does not keep a list of the trophies publicly available. Read the comments on your link and you will see people claiming to have found trophies not in the list.
There are also harsh criminal penalties for unauthorized transmission of data from a secured network designed for classified data to a public network. So even if the material was not classified and never would be classified, she may have run afoul of those rules.
Apparently it was common practice at State to not use the secure network for transmission and to backchannel information. I'm not surprised, given how much I saw that done as well as the sometimes problematic access to a secure network.
Both of your points are true which is why she should have left the data security up to the experts instead of taking matters into her own hands. Had she just used a state department email address and server then it would not have been so easy to blame her for her handling of classified material or whether or not the material was sent on the correct network. She would have at least kept it in the correct channel. Once she supposedly decided her need for a Blackberry was more crucial than her need to follow the rules she opened a can of worms. But I seriously doubt that she's so addicted to the Crackberry that she bypassed the rules. She has assistants that can track down all the emails and classified documents she wants. I believe it was all an effort to avoid the FOIA.
The constitution has this little clause called ex post facto. Look it up.
Ex post facto does not apply in this case. The rules are explicit. You're granted certain access and you're obligated to take certain responsibility and make certain judgement calls. The laws have existed for years, long before she became secretary of state. Have you ever had to handle classified info? You have to make a judgement call and treat all material appropriately. It's part of your responsibility when you accept the clearance. If it bears no marking and you determine it should have had a marking, then you must treat it as if it were classified. If you should have known that it was classified but failed to make that judgement call? You're still in trouble. Not to mention the fact that just moving the data from the State Department network to a public network without authorization can be a violation of the law. Skirting FOIA laws should be also be carry criminal punishment including the revocation of your civil rights. In fact, I think I would rather have a drug dealer voting than a public servant who clearly trying to hide something.
Email addresses on servers they did not control. The difference, which people like yourself want to minimize is that it was HER server (not AOL, Not Hotmail, not Yahoo!, and not Google. It was her private email server. And it was clearly designed to get around the Open Records requirements that were passed because of Republican versions of private email addresses that happened previously.
And, you're functionally saying "Two wrongs make it okay", rather than addressing the real concerns.
The big concern the Republicans keep raising is "classified" material, which makes whose non-governmental server it resides on irrelevant since any server would be open to compromise; although it appears none of the material was classified at the time it was sent but has been deemed classified later. Given she turned over the emails and much of the traffic would have been available anyway since it originated from a government server the whole issue is nothing but a cheap political attack.
As someone who has had to deal with such material and has been constantly briefed on it by the FBI and the DIA I can tell you right now that it does not matter WHAT classification the material bears. If you look at it and know, or should know that the material is classified then you must treat it as such. There are also harsh criminal penalties for unauthorized transmission of data from a secured network designed for classified data to a public network. So even if the material was not classified and never would be classified, she may have run afoul of those rules. She also deleted a large chunk of the email that was on the server before handing it over. The reason that the FBI investigation has taken so long is that they've had to try and reconstruct the data that was on the server. Further more, there is evidence that there were emails on the server that did not originate inside of the State Department. It seems to me that the whole purpose of this ploy on Clinton's part was to avoid oversight and FOIA requests on her communications during her tenure at the State Department. Were there other people who tried to avoid FOIA using the same tricks? Yes. All of them should be in jail just on those grounds, if you ask me.
When the alternative is federal prison, yeah, that is my assertion.
Leaking Top Secret information gets you in federal prison. It doesn't matter if it makes you look good.
Petraeus is the exception to this rule, I am not sure how he avoided federal prison, but just look at history for the many examples of people going to federal prison despite having good intentions.
Correction. It would land you or me in jail. Otherwise Hillary Clinton would already be indicted for violating rules just as Petraeus should have been.