We have had enough of self proclaimed "experts" telling us blatant lies. We still like experts at the helm of stuff that actually affects us. Well, obviously not in politics, but at least where it actually matters.
Yeah, and if you don't have any in your Cessna I don't give a fuck if you stall and crash.
In a commercial airliner I, as a customer, have to depend on the safety of the vehicle because I cannot audit it beforehand. Hell, 9 out of 10 times you don't even get to know for sure what kind of airplane, let alone what specific plane, you'll be flying on.
Really? They have Overwatch from a different company than Blizzard? Where I don't have to shell out ridiculous amounts of money for every other gun skin and different way the character farts?
As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems.
Some? Hundreds of millions is some? Talk about understatement. But when you don't take security of your users, pardon, products serious, why worry?
This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution we will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were stored in this way.
Maybe give spamhouse a heads-up, a mass mail that large might trigger a response otherwise...
To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them.
So nobody but your couple thousands employees saw them and they have all been asked whether they abused them which they responded to with a resounding "no". Sounds legit.
We estimate that we will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users. Facebook Lite is a version of Facebook predominantly used by people in regions with lower connectivity.
In other words, the blunder mostly affects products we give even less a shit about than the rest of you because they don't generate enough data points to be profitable anyway.
In the course of our review, we have been looking at the ways we store certain other categories of information — like access tokens — and have fixed problems as we’ve discovered them.
So... there are even worse security holes that we didn't even hear about yet? Admitting it proactively just in case someone stumbles upon them in the next couple days so you don't have to issue another "whoopsie, we fucked up" statement?
There is nothing more important to us than protecting people’s information, and we will continue making improvements as part of our ongoing security efforts at Facebook.
Because how are we supposed to sell data that anyone can access without paying for it?
The problem is that its dangers are a little bit like with the anti-vaxxers. Just saying "don't be stupid" doesn't cut it when the stupid can affect you with their actions. All it takes is one idiot friend in your circle of acquaintances who feels that urge to tell the whole world who he's hanging out with.
And this is why we don't make good politicians. Politics need easy answers. They needn't be correct or even solve anything, but they have to be easy to understand.
Mostly, they don't understand that the world isn't black and white.
People want answers. That's a given. And they used to turn to science for this. I say used to, because more and more people think that woo has better answers for their questions. The reason is less that science does not have answers, but that the answers science has require thinking and understanding. They are rarely YES or NO. There's a lot of ifs and buts attached, but people don't want that. They want easy answers.
And reality has rarely easy answers.
"Statistically significant" doesn't mean "resoundingly YES". But that was what was read into it, and of course that expected YES cannot be delivered.
Yes, reading statistics requires some effort by those trying to understand them. Unfortunately that's not what people want to do when they're looking for answers.
Well, no, but if someone that I know is a crook calls someone that I suspect to be a crook a crook... well, ok, takes one to know one, I guess you're right.
A country where people seriously discuss teaching creationism as if it had any scientific merit IS backwards.
Ya know, when I was young, the US was the country. It was the future. You wanted to know what's gonna happen in 10 years, take a look at the US, because there, the future is already now.
Today, the US is essentially the schoolyard bully of international politics. Strong, but incredibly stupid, so you suck up to him while he's looking but laugh about his blunders and utter stupidity whenever he's not looking.
I know it's very en vogue to spout random bullshit and hope it sticks, I am an old fashioned guy, though, and as long as a claim isn't supported by evidence, I ignore it.
In other words, you just posted an empty statement.
"Cutting off intelligence sharing" essentially means that the US agrees to stop siphoning our secret service's information while they keep providing us with the same level of information they already do.
The difference is that you won't own that car. You can lease them, and there will never be oldtimers because GM and Ford get to decide which cars run, and for how long they do.
You can mod without letting cheating take a hold, it's very doable. And, let's face it, the only thing that's actually going to be different is that the game studio will sell that faster reloading gun as a DLC instead that you must buy so you can stay competitive.
With mods, and with user-hosted servers, you can at least escape that arms race.
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We have had enough of self proclaimed "experts" telling us blatant lies. We still like experts at the helm of stuff that actually affects us. Well, obviously not in politics, but at least where it actually matters.
Have they ever in the aerospace industry? When was the last time you saw any airline C-Level fly sardine class?
Could I get one that puts more emphasis on physics than metaphysics?
Can you? Or do you get told by the beancounters downstairs that this flight is cheaper and that you'll take it?
Yeah, and if you don't have any in your Cessna I don't give a fuck if you stall and crash.
In a commercial airliner I, as a customer, have to depend on the safety of the vehicle because I cannot audit it beforehand. Hell, 9 out of 10 times you don't even get to know for sure what kind of airplane, let alone what specific plane, you'll be flying on.
Really? They have Overwatch from a different company than Blizzard? Where I don't have to shell out ridiculous amounts of money for every other gun skin and different way the character farts?
Ya know, a rebuttal that uses the same wording should at the very least make sense...
As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems.
Some? Hundreds of millions is some? Talk about understatement. But when you don't take security of your users, pardon, products serious, why worry?
This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We have fixed these issues and as a precaution we will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were stored in this way.
Maybe give spamhouse a heads-up, a mass mail that large might trigger a response otherwise...
To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them.
So nobody but your couple thousands employees saw them and they have all been asked whether they abused them which they responded to with a resounding "no". Sounds legit.
We estimate that we will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users. Facebook Lite is a version of Facebook predominantly used by people in regions with lower connectivity.
In other words, the blunder mostly affects products we give even less a shit about than the rest of you because they don't generate enough data points to be profitable anyway.
In the course of our review, we have been looking at the ways we store certain other categories of information — like access tokens — and have fixed problems as we’ve discovered them.
So ... there are even worse security holes that we didn't even hear about yet? Admitting it proactively just in case someone stumbles upon them in the next couple days so you don't have to issue another "whoopsie, we fucked up" statement?
There is nothing more important to us than protecting people’s information, and we will continue making improvements as part of our ongoing security efforts at Facebook.
Because how are we supposed to sell data that anyone can access without paying for it?
That doesn't exactly make it better that only one half of The Party got access to it.
The problem is that its dangers are a little bit like with the anti-vaxxers. Just saying "don't be stupid" doesn't cut it when the stupid can affect you with their actions. All it takes is one idiot friend in your circle of acquaintances who feels that urge to tell the whole world who he's hanging out with.
You can have that at any time in my home.
And this is why we don't make good politicians. Politics need easy answers. They needn't be correct or even solve anything, but they have to be easy to understand.
From the onset of our teen years, we strive to reduce friction where it would be leaving a chafing feeling.
Mostly, they don't understand that the world isn't black and white.
People want answers. That's a given. And they used to turn to science for this. I say used to, because more and more people think that woo has better answers for their questions. The reason is less that science does not have answers, but that the answers science has require thinking and understanding. They are rarely YES or NO. There's a lot of ifs and buts attached, but people don't want that. They want easy answers.
And reality has rarely easy answers.
"Statistically significant" doesn't mean "resoundingly YES". But that was what was read into it, and of course that expected YES cannot be delivered.
Yes, reading statistics requires some effort by those trying to understand them. Unfortunately that's not what people want to do when they're looking for answers.
the man is probably the most stable genius in the known universe
Compared to the other animals in the stable, maybe.
Well, no, but if someone that I know is a crook calls someone that I suspect to be a crook a crook... well, ok, takes one to know one, I guess you're right.
A country where people seriously discuss teaching creationism as if it had any scientific merit IS backwards.
Ya know, when I was young, the US was the country. It was the future. You wanted to know what's gonna happen in 10 years, take a look at the US, because there, the future is already now.
Today, the US is essentially the schoolyard bully of international politics. Strong, but incredibly stupid, so you suck up to him while he's looking but laugh about his blunders and utter stupidity whenever he's not looking.
I know it's very en vogue to spout random bullshit and hope it sticks, I am an old fashioned guy, though, and as long as a claim isn't supported by evidence, I ignore it.
In other words, you just posted an empty statement.
In international politics that's still "tomorrow".
"Cutting off intelligence sharing" essentially means that the US agrees to stop siphoning our secret service's information while they keep providing us with the same level of information they already do.
I'm fairly sure that any and all activities of the player will be tracked to the utmost detail.
It's Facebook, after all.
Yeah, that's what the world needs, people who pay even less attention to their surroundings.
You think they'll still be running on the OS you have to use by then?
The difference is that you won't own that car. You can lease them, and there will never be oldtimers because GM and Ford get to decide which cars run, and for how long they do.
You can mod without letting cheating take a hold, it's very doable. And, let's face it, the only thing that's actually going to be different is that the game studio will sell that faster reloading gun as a DLC instead that you must buy so you can stay competitive.
With mods, and with user-hosted servers, you can at least escape that arms race.