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  1. Re:Majors don't mean shit on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    False.

    3. InfoSec - Ok, CEO, sign here that you carry the risk. You find a memo that I informed you about the risk, its likelyhood and impact in your mail inbox, I have a hardcopy just in case our servers suddenly get selective amnesia.

    At least if the CISO has balls and brains.

  2. Re:"Education doesn't matter," say turdbros. on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    Education does not determine qualification, right.

    But it is a pretty good indicator. When someone majored in IT security, I won't question his qualification as a CISO. If someone majored in music, I do want to know what he can show me to justify that position.

  3. Re:Found this interview on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    And even if they find it, it still takes someone capable of interpreting the findings.

    Not everything Nessus will report comes with a hot-red "WARNING, DANGER" sticker. Many of the things Nessus will find are not something it could actually determine to be a problem. Is an open port a problem? Not if you're running a server behind it. But it's a severe one if you have no idea what's running on that port and there shouldn't be anything. Likewise, how should Nessus determine whether a configuration that can be valid is a problem?

    Nessus is a tool, it ain't a silver bullet. It still needs a capable security officer to read its output, understand it and make sensible decisions based on it.

  4. Translation on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    We hired the cheapest idiot that can at least say they have some kind of degree for the ejector seat.

  5. Re:Could we find a legitimate use for this idea? on First Ever Malvertising Campaign Uses JavaScript To Mine Cryptocurrencies In Your Browser (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if you could get people to install an app...

    Oh no, I said the word!

  6. But that were cycles I wanted to waste on cat videos!

  7. You can't change neither Obama nor Trump.

    You can only change yourself.

    So why not start there?

  8. Re:The drug industry chasing $$... on Researchers Find Antidepressants Increase Risk of Death (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd guess that most of the time it IS family that is the root cause of a person's depression. Giving him more thereof is probably not going to be the cure.

  9. Re:Sure on Researchers Find Antidepressants Increase Risk of Death (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that those antidepressants may well make you throw yourself off a bridge.

    The key problem with antidepressants is that they usually increase your drive and enable you to "act" before they improve your mood. Now ponder: What happens when you give a deeply depressed, suicidal person whose main reason to NOT kill himself is that he didn't even have the drive to do this a motivational boost?

  10. Re: Anti-whites mean-while are just fine on Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    If BLM proponents have any brains left, the very LAST thing they want is the police to take a step back and drop their guns.

    Because who will be left with guns? Well, those who own it illegally and NRA members.

    And now let's ponder what history and recent events tell us how either of them views black people. I leave the answer to this to BLM proponents.

  11. Re:Ever noticed how on Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    So it's yet another -ism? In this case the Al-Gore-ism?

    Is that when you start talking nonsense and produce mostly hot air?

    And I know there's some AGW joke in there somewhere, too, but I'm in AlGoreism mode now. Someone else is gonna take care of it, I already pointed it out. Now I think I should write a book about it.

  12. Re: In other words on Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually, no, they didn't. Not even according to their own origin fable. Even if you want to go back to literally biblical times, it was not their country, they took it from someone with force (sorry, "the lord" did to give it to them. Odd that an omnipotent being required humans to do his dirty work, though).

  13. ISPs get money from their customers to connect them. Hosters get money from their customers to host content. What else do you need?

  14. Re: most are adults. on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Only because today you get to see the seedy underbelly of Capitalism in all its glory.

    People looked at me like I have 2 heads when I said, back when the Berlin Wall fell and the East Bloc dissipated, that we just lost what guaranteed our freedom and liberty. For as long as the Commies were a real threat, our politicians had to act as if they're the good guys.

  15. Me? Yes.

    Millions of people using Facebook? Well...

  16. Re:1.2 Million Euros? on Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Facebook would probably rather pay than fight a sum like that. And who said that we can't repeat that whenever we like it?

  17. Re:warming models wrong on Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Put it on the pile.

  18. You fill out a form and send it. No need to justify anything.

  19. Re:ORLY? on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You would need to look at their performance and career path within the company.

    That's pretty much what I'd do in this case, too.

    I guess everyone here has noticed that some people get promoted faster than others, for various reasons. Sometimes it's playing favorites, but usually it has more to do with someone's performance and ability.

    And somehow I can't help but wonder if that's the reason here, too.

  20. Re: Settles in for Reasoned Debate on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, is "whitewash" racist?

  21. Re: Settles in for Reasoned Debate on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Nazi is to SJWs what SJW is to Nazis.

  22. Re:Enjoy looking at paywall notices on FTP Resources Will Be Marked Not Secure in Chrome Starting Later This Year (google.com) · · Score: 1

    (close window)
    (choose next result in google)
    (add the page to my "-site:..." search string list)

    Another addon I'd like: Something that automatically adds "-site:..." to every google search string to weed out clickbaiters.

  23. The benefit of more obnoxious ads is more people blocking them.

    And yes, people start doing that. "Normal" people. Not geeks. The same people that dutifully close 20 popups and error messages every time they launch a browser. The same people that do the same every time they start their machines. The same people that have a 5 by 4 inch browser window because the rest is occupied by "free" search bars.

    Can you imagine just how much you have to piss people like THAT off to make them install something? And they do! Provided the ads are bugging them enough.

    We need more obnoxious ads. To convince the hardcore error message close clickers. You and me, we won't be affected by them. We already use adblockers.

  24. Oh c'mon, people, it's obvious where to build it on Hyperloop One Reveals 10 Strongest Potential Hyperloop Routes In the World (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.

  25. Oh my god! on ISPs Claim a Privacy Law Would Weaken Online Security, Increase Pop-Ups (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I had no idea what saint my ISP is. Just think how many ads and how much spam you'd get if they did NOT sell your personal information to advertisers and spammers.