He works in the movie industry. There aren't enough electronic in the universe to post a list of the weirdness that is his life. Or himself. I seriously doubt the admonition is metaphorical.
The problem, Mr. Zuckerberg, isn't that you want to connect everyone in the world. It's that you want to connect everyone in the world whether they want to be connected or not.
Facebook is the real world human centipede, and Zuckerberg is the made doctor who wants to create it.
As long as the people who run the company are subject to the laws of China, they will do what the government of China tells them to. This includes updates that spy on users, and lying about it.
If it takes "hours and hours" for their self driving car to go 13 miles (the distance between the driver having to do something) there are far bigger problems than identifying a pedestrian pushing a bicycle.
And advertising company - and that's what Facebook is - makes money from selling ads, and makes more money from selling demographic information to its advertisers. And grass is green, the sky is blue and water is wet.
Anybody who is in any way surprised by Facebook doing exactly what they were obviously created to do is a moron.
My thought exactly. The only names most people are going to come up with are people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who aren't famous for being tech leaders so much as for being billionaires, and famous for being famous.
And it's nothing new. In fact, it's as old as the news media is. What the article describes is exactly how newspapers and TV news work (or fail to). The only difference is that the barriers to entry are marginally cheaper. Very marginally.
Actually, California elected someone who knows exactly how companies make money, and isn't having any of it.
You cannot possibly underestimate how much the California legislature hates business in all forms. My employer has state inspectors dig through their trash cans looking for burnt out light bulbs.
They need possession of the phone. Which still requires the same probably cause or warrant it always has. This is no different than calling in a locksmith open a wall safe.
An increasing number of stores are refusing to swipe when the chip isn't working. (My employer does.)
The reason is that thieves will deliberately damage the chip and reprogram the mag strip with a different number than is on the card (if there is one, these days), which is the old fashioned form of credit card fraud all over again.
You really need to call your bank and tell them to replace the card. Otherwise, eventually, you won't be able to use it at all.
Never seen a gas pump where that's actually possible. You put the chip card into the same slot as you put the mag strip card, and you shove it in exactly as far - all the way.
I've never seen a chip reader that didn't also have a mag strip reader as well. When I was in Iceland a year and a half ago, the card I used for nearly everything didn't have a chip. The only place I had trouble with it was buying fuel, and that wasn't because it didn't have a chip, but because it didn't have a PIN (which it could have, if I'd known to set it up in advance).
"Mandatory" is a very flexible term. Merchants can, in theory, still imprint cards with a knuckle buster and deposit those in the bank like checks.
The actual rule is that if you don't use a chip card reader, and there's a dispute, the merchant pretty much automatically loses. For merchants who don't have problems with fraud to begin with, it's an expense they can easily do without.
That's why the 59% that have adopted the new technology have produced such a disproportionate reduction in fraud: They're the ones who have the most fraud to begin with.
The more automated cars get, the more insane it is to not keep the firmware up to date with security patches. Especially now that even base model cars are starting to get self driving features (my cheap-ass Toyota has lane departure warnings - with steering correction - and radar controlled cruise control).
And insurance companies can most certainly charge you more of you don't have a system that monitors your driving. They're been offering discounts on that for years now. The only questions is how much more.
And most states have an assigned risk program. That's where the state says "If you want to sell insurance in this state, you will accept high risk drivers that we assign to you."
Nothing illegal about that, either.
(The prices are controlled, generally, too, by the state, but are much higher than most people pay.)
The price of satellite phone equipment will come down dramatically if there is demand for 60 million more units a year (one for every car manufactured). Cars cost so much now another few hundred for that won't even be noticeable.
Or just design the ignition system to require a connection before the car will start. (They may need to use a satellite phone system to do it, but cars are so expensive these days that's actually not that big a bump in price.)
Not entirely true. There are already techniques that can detect most of the fakes, like electric network frequency analysis.. There are ways around it, but they require more planning an organization that the average Cheetos stained loser in Mommy's basement can manage.
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He works in the movie industry. There aren't enough electronic in the universe to post a list of the weirdness that is his life. Or himself. I seriously doubt the admonition is metaphorical.
I know a guy who used to (and maybe still does) always answer all security questions with "never give guns to ducks."
That was one of the least weird things about him.
The problem, Mr. Zuckerberg, isn't that you want to connect everyone in the world. It's that you want to connect everyone in the world whether they want to be connected or not.
Facebook is the real world human centipede, and Zuckerberg is the made doctor who wants to create it.
As long as the people who run the company are subject to the laws of China, they will do what the government of China tells them to. This includes updates that spy on users, and lying about it.
And the government of China cannot be trusted.
If it takes "hours and hours" for their self driving car to go 13 miles (the distance between the driver having to do something) there are far bigger problems than identifying a pedestrian pushing a bicycle.
And advertising company - and that's what Facebook is - makes money from selling ads, and makes more money from selling demographic information to its advertisers. And grass is green, the sky is blue and water is wet.
Anybody who is in any way surprised by Facebook doing exactly what they were obviously created to do is a moron.
Cars more a lot = more time to get out of the way = far less serious injury when you get hit anyway.
My thought exactly. The only names most people are going to come up with are people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who aren't famous for being tech leaders so much as for being billionaires, and famous for being famous.
And it's nothing new. In fact, it's as old as the news media is. What the article describes is exactly how newspapers and TV news work (or fail to). The only difference is that the barriers to entry are marginally cheaper. Very marginally.
You've clearly never run a business in California. (And almost certainly would fail if you tried, here or anywhere.)
Actually, California elected someone who knows exactly how companies make money, and isn't having any of it.
You cannot possibly underestimate how much the California legislature hates business in all forms. My employer has state inspectors dig through their trash cans looking for burnt out light bulbs.
They need possession of the phone. Which still requires the same probably cause or warrant it always has. This is no different than calling in a locksmith open a wall safe.
Yawn.
An increasing number of stores are refusing to swipe when the chip isn't working. (My employer does.)
The reason is that thieves will deliberately damage the chip and reprogram the mag strip with a different number than is on the card (if there is one, these days), which is the old fashioned form of credit card fraud all over again.
You really need to call your bank and tell them to replace the card. Otherwise, eventually, you won't be able to use it at all.
Never seen a gas pump where that's actually possible. You put the chip card into the same slot as you put the mag strip card, and you shove it in exactly as far - all the way.
I've seen gas pumps with NFC. More than once. Not universal yet, but it's getting more common.
(I suspect it's because California is so oppressive to gas stations anyway that the pumps get replaced a lot more often than most places anyway.)
I've never seen a chip reader that didn't also have a mag strip reader as well. When I was in Iceland a year and a half ago, the card I used for nearly everything didn't have a chip. The only place I had trouble with it was buying fuel, and that wasn't because it didn't have a chip, but because it didn't have a PIN (which it could have, if I'd known to set it up in advance).
"Mandatory" is a very flexible term. Merchants can, in theory, still imprint cards with a knuckle buster and deposit those in the bank like checks.
The actual rule is that if you don't use a chip card reader, and there's a dispute, the merchant pretty much automatically loses. For merchants who don't have problems with fraud to begin with, it's an expense they can easily do without.
That's why the 59% that have adopted the new technology have produced such a disproportionate reduction in fraud: They're the ones who have the most fraud to begin with.
I tend to take the more annoying ads as as example of who NOT to do business with.
I keep a list.
The more automated cars get, the more insane it is to not keep the firmware up to date with security patches. Especially now that even base model cars are starting to get self driving features (my cheap-ass Toyota has lane departure warnings - with steering correction - and radar controlled cruise control).
And insurance companies can most certainly charge you more of you don't have a system that monitors your driving. They're been offering discounts on that for years now. The only questions is how much more.
And most states have an assigned risk program. That's where the state says "If you want to sell insurance in this state, you will accept high risk drivers that we assign to you."
Nothing illegal about that, either.
(The prices are controlled, generally, too, by the state, but are much higher than most people pay.)
Two doors down from where I work is a store that sells car radios, with installation. Their business seems to be thriving.
You've certainly never bought a new car without signing multiple contracts. Did you read every word of the hundred or so pages?
The price of satellite phone equipment will come down dramatically if there is demand for 60 million more units a year (one for every car manufactured). Cars cost so much now another few hundred for that won't even be noticeable.
Or just design the ignition system to require a connection before the car will start. (They may need to use a satellite phone system to do it, but cars are so expensive these days that's actually not that big a bump in price.)
Not entirely true. There are already techniques that can detect most of the fakes, like electric network frequency analysis.. There are ways around it, but they require more planning an organization that the average Cheetos stained loser in Mommy's basement can manage.