Well - you might have noticed that the EU isn't in great shape at the moment, and getting 27 countries to accept another member, even if that's an existing member split up, is still going to be controversial and take a long time. We don't even know what the independent Scotland would look like, or how it would get there, before you can start talking about joining the EU.
I don't think it'll be all that controversial, but in a few months the UK exercises their exit clause from the EU long before any independence which means the current membership is done. Even if you could rush a process of independence and membership application so that they in practice could continue as back-to-back EU members, the deal would almost certainly be to fully join all EU institutions like the Euro, Schengen etc. with a transition period, they'll never get back the current UK membership. Only historical members have ever been given permanent exceptions and I'm sure the EU won't change the rules here. And that might swing the pendulum back, after all it's not like a massive majority wanted to leave. If joining back in also comes with a cost, well...
Agreed, it was Greece that mismanaged its finances. But Germany did screw up Greece by imposing more and more austerity measures just when the country needed a boost from fiscal spending. Austerity does no good in the short term. Remember, when Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns et al went down, if US govt prescribed austerity where do you think US economy and unemployment would have been?
There's a huge difference between the US saving the US economy and the EU saving the Greek economy. This is more like Rhode Island spending money like a drunken sailor, then expect federal funds to bail them out when they go bankrupt. Germany would be the equivalent of California saying hell no, you caused it you get to suffer for it. That Greece started acting like Germany was the problem and not Greece didn't exactly help matters. If they'd approached it with some humility, maybe Germany would want to help instead it sounded like a demand and a threat.
So yeah, Germany essentially said fuck you. We're going to do just enough that the creditors don't shut you down and no more. And if you don't take the deal we'll kick you to the curb and you can go live under a bridge or something. They could have made a quick fix, but then the Greek attitude wouldn't have changed and they'd soon be back for more. Are they overdoing it? Maybe. I think the point has been driven home now, if you fuck up your economy it's going to be fucked for a long time and nobody's going to fix it for you so don't do it. It's time to get a real recovery started, at least.
I wouldn't bet on it. Most people 18-24 don't have any major responsibilities except taking care of themselves and the EU provides opportunities for studies, travel and meeting people from other cultures. In the 25-49 segment you have people who care about jobs and what kind of country their kids will grow up in. You see it for example in the age distribution in cities, people go to the big cities to live, work and party there but when it comes to raising a family they often move somewhere else. I think it will be the same with the attitude to EU, what membership gives depends on your phase in life.
Even we uncouth Americans recognize the UK for what it isâ"a country that liked to be in the EU whenever it suited them, to the extent that they wanted to be, but also pretended that none of the rules applied to them. (...) And as everyone predicted, the pound is tanking without the strength of the EU to prop it up. If the EU really wanted to have fun, they could probably make the UK economy collapse completely by refusing to trade with them. (...) Some of the EU member nations might well decide to do that just out of spite.
Yes, Britain was in a relationship with the EU but didn't want to commit as the EU was going more and more in the direction of the United States of Europe, one border, one currency, one everything. And now they finally said "I think we've grown apart, I'm breaking up with you" and you want them to go into full psycho ex-girlfriend mode? I'm surprised it actually came to this, but I think retaliation from the EU would only hurt their reputation and strengthen the UK resolve to go their own way.
I think this is a good opprtunity to show that this is not the US, we're not going to start a civil war if you want to secede. This is not the Soviet Union where tanks will roll in your streets to occupy you. If you don't want to be a part of the EU, nobody's forcing you. I'm from Norway, a country that has rejected the EU twice in 1972 and 1994 and one of the reasons has been the feeling that this loss of sovereignty is permanent, you can join but if we find out this was a bad idea we can in practice never leave. Well now we'll see.
This was then followed by a search warrant for the residence, during which the computers were confiscated and their contents searched. That search was covered under the residential search warrant, so no additional warrant was needed to search the contents of the machine that was confiscated.
Yeah, which is why the court didn't have to go there. But by saying they wouldn't even need a warrant, he just went one over the top.
Microsoft has no obligation to follow the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals against intrusion by the state. An exception arises if Microsoft is acting as an agent for the state. Some other laws may occasionally protect your privacy against companies; the Fourth Amendment does not.
I don't think you understand how the third party doctrine works. Basically if you've shared information with a third party, you've shared it with the world as far as the law is concerned. Like in this case, your ISP knows your IP so you have no expectation of privacy so if the cops post some exploit code to reveal it to them that's all right. So if you've given Microsoft access to all your data, you've given the law warrantless access to all your data. Microsoft doesn't have to participate in it.
To be sure, "the appropriate [Fourth Amendment] inquiry [is] whether the individual had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the area searched, not merely in the items found." Thus, the Court will address whether Defendant possessed a reasonable expectation ofprivacy not only inhis IP address but also in his computer, the "place to be searched." The Court FINDS that Defendant did not possess a reasonable expectation of privacy in his computer.
Examining the search of computers in the Fourth Amendment context, in 2007, the Ninth Circuit held that a defendant had both a subjective expectation of privacy and an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in his personal computer, even though the defendant had connected that computer to a network.
In Trulock v. Freeh, the Fourth Circuit held that "password-protected files [on a computer] are analogous to [a] locked footlocker inside the bedroom;" thus, the defendant "had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the password protected computer files."
In other words, plenty good precedent but fuck that because:
For example, hacking is much more prevalent now than it was even nine years ago, and the rise of computer hacking viathe Internet has changed the public's reasonable expectations of privacy. (...) Now, it seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is immune from invasion. Indeed, the opposite holds true: in today's digital world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that computers accessing the Internet can - and eventually will - be hacked.
Cases identifying a reasonable expectation of privacy in personal computer files protected with only a password, can be distinguished, because in 2016 it now appears unreasonable to expect that simply utilizing a password provides any practical protection.
Thus, in today's world, the locked footlocker referenced in Trulock. 275 F.3d at 403, would be more akin to a bag carried on an airplane as the owner travels the world with his private information on display.
First of all the logic is appalling, because there are burglars you shouldn't have privacy in your own home? And from "locked footlocker" to "travelling the world with the naughty bits hanging out", even if you bought the argument that the lock is weaker than before it's certainly on the inside of the bag, not the outside so "secure in your papers" is out the window too. This judge is ready to fuck over the constitution, screw the fourth amendment to catch the bad guys. Or in his own words:
The Government's efforts to contain child pomographers, terrorists and the like cannot remain frozen in time; the Government must be allowed to utilize its own advanced technology to keep pace with our world's ever-advancing technology and novel criminal methods.
DO YOU understand how they work, cause you clearly don't since you're trying to make a snarky comment. ITS THEORETICAL. THERES YOUR SIGN.
Not sure why I bother to reply but: n => f(n) 1 => 2 2 => 4 3 => 8 4 => 16 5 => 32 6 => 64 7 => 128 8 => 256
Find the function. I'm sure you could argue that you could make many other silly functions that'd also work, but 2^n seems like a good guess. That's what theoretical physicists do in a nutshell, look at observations and try to come up with formulas that fit. If you get new observations that don't fit, you try again. The more complicated it is and the less you can decompose forces, the harder it gets. Try for example to observe objects falling and decompose gravity from air resistance without putting anything in a vacuum. It's hard and you'd probably have to tweak the formula quite a bit. But if it works when you're done, what's the problem? Eventually you find something that's right most of the time like Newton, until somebody discovers relativity and then it's back to tweaking the formula with the Lorentz factor. But I'm sure you think shysters like Einstein were just fudging Newton's formulas too.
You should care because Fuckerberg knows a thing or two about invading people's privacy. If he himself is worried about his, you should be about yours.
I would imagine most Zuckerberg hackers wouldn't give a shit about him the person, unless he's got some really, really juicy secrets to blackmail. Listening in on some boardroom conversation to know what company Facebook will acquire next to cash in on the stock market, on the other hand...
Well if you got a TLA (three letter agency) after you maybe not. But they're hardly the only threat agent and you can't retrofit a hardware off switch with a hack... so depends?
Shouldn't some blame be placed on the review sites, for not purchasing cards at retail? That's SOP for reviewing products in many industries.
Not if you want the review available at launch, which is when people want reviews. So unless they have a time machine to go with that money, it doesn't help.
It's why the Here is a $100,000 check, can you cash it and send me the change.... I'll let you have an extra $1,000 for your trouble, obvious as hell scam works. Most people brains shut off when the greed center in their brain is triggered.
The main problem here is that people think the bank has verified the authenticity of the check when they've "cleared" it and given you access to the money, and that any failure to spot a fake check is now their problem. Like if I go deposit some cash I got from a yard sale I expect the bank to either accept it or reject it. Not accept it now and two weeks later say "Hey, those bills you gave us a few weeks ago were counterfeit we're deducting $200 from your account". And you never get a second "real" confirmation that your bank got their money from the intra-bank system you only know when they don't. The system is pretty rigged against the somewhat clueless and gullible person who goes to a professional money handler that appears to say everything is okay.
Well apart from fees and administration they're just back to zero. The more interesting part is what follows:
* tinybuild are too dumb to link chargebacks to game keys * tinybuild doesn't deactivate any keys * G2A customers happy, G2A happy, tinybuild unhappy
Instead of: * tinybuild links transaction id and game key on sale * tinybuild invalidates game keys with chargeback * G2A customers go mental * tinybuild says too bad, take it up with seller * G2A customers chargeback their purchase * G2A ends up in trouble
They're complaining because they're too dumb to solve their own problem, particularly if this happens on a mass scale.
But, interesting, seems like the Linux version is missing some features.
Well, I do hope they'll get all the core services - SSIS, SSAS, SSRS to run not just the SQL database. I don't care about the administration/development tools, if you need a Windows box to work with it that's fine but if you can't run your import/export jobs, cubes and reports it's a bit of a lame duck, if all your data goes in/out via SQL queries and that's the only part you use there are many perfectly good replacements.
This is what passes for innovation when you run out of actual innovation.
Macs have been notorious for using weird new ports, kicking legacy technology to the curb and using non-standard parts and form factors for decades. Sometimes it eventually becomes standard like UEFI or dropping the floppy drive, most of the time it remains an Apple niche like Firewire, Thunderbolt or MagSafe. Heck, the guy famously wouldn't even use ordinary screws on the Apple. Selling proprietary dongles and accessories is not some new thing they started with after Jobs died, maybe that's what they have left but this would be right up Jobs' alley. And YMMV, but I'm not disappointed by the innovation on my iPhone SE. The contrast to an iPhone 4 (I had an Android phone inbetween) is rather stunning. And I expect it to get updates longer...
If someone pays for a service, they will not want to see commercials. No need for focus groups, surveys, marketing research, or high priced consultants. Frame my first sentence and hang it in your lobby Netflix.
Well duh, users don't want to see ads when they don't pay either. If you take a survey of people using ad blockers you can get a lot of other fringe reasons but mainly it's because they don't like watching ads. Faster load times, less bandwidth consumption, less chance of getting hacked by malware ads and so on are just gravy. All other things being equal, users never want to see ads. So the question is, what are you getting in return?
The question is very negatively laden for the customer, if Netflix wants to raise revenue how can they milk you for more money. A more reasonable and pro-consumer question would be how much cheaper an ad-supported tier would have to be. Like $2 off, $5 off, free, "not even if it's free". I'm sure you have both extremes, those who'll never pay a premium or subscription for ad free anything and those who'll pay any amount to opt out of ads. And I'm sure there's some stuck in the middle who'd like to do the latter but can only go part of the way and would settle for some kind of hybrid tier.
As long as people are offered more choices, I'm cool with that. Nothing keeps Netflix from doing all the models. It's a bit more annoying when you don't have choices like ads at the cinema, there is no premium tier without them so they can effectively choose to have it their way no matter what. And if Netflix did the same, yeah I'm sure many would cancel, though people usually bring out the hyperbole in surveys. But if they did an either-or and let people choose, users could decide for themselves.
The Chinese ability to reverse engineer being a superpower is a hoax. They can't even design jet engines and still have to buy them from Russia, because in the very high tech it's about understanding the basis, not just copying a layout.
Russia: 143 million US: 319 million China: 1357 million
China armed with Russia's tech is a 10x greater threat than Russia. They don't need the best anything to be a superpower, they just need to be able to drag you into a battle of numbers either in manpower, simultaneous threats or manufacturing capacity. Like the Russians fighting the Nazis, they were dying by the millions but Stalin kept sending more and more men to the front. Or Custer's last stand for example. Technology is far from everything in warfare.
Security fence and what not as mentioned some articles. Looks like the drive sloped down away from the mailbox when rotating around using google earth 3D.
The article is slightly wrong and the brick pillar is the one on the other side, without the mailbox. If you look at it from this angle: https://www.google.com/maps/@3...
There's a different story here where you can tell it's the corner towards the house. It slopes down in both directions, fence on two sides, brick pillar in the corner, car comes rolling down the driveway, seems like a tough spot to get out of because you got nowhere to go.
RIP and if anything can come of this, hopefully the rest of us can learn to take one extra moment to make sure that what we think of as a mundane, simple thing is not overlooked.
Thanks, but no thanks. That I might get a costly dent and paint job is plenty to make me remember the parking brake, if you genuinely worry it might kill you then you'll end up a basket case. Freak accidents happen but if I was worried that every car might be a drunk driver that'll ram me or that every person I pass by might be a recently released mental patient off their medication I'd be a nervous wreck before I got to work.
At some point you have to realize that living to see tomorrow is not 100% certain but I just checked, 70/100000 in my age group will die in a year. Divide by 365 and with 99.999998% probability I'll survive tomorrow. And that includes suicides and various other not entirely unexpected deaths, the odds of dying in a freak accident would be even less. If I win the reverse lottery tomorrow, so be it. Not going to go around worrying about it.
It really doesn't. If you're (for example) Tesla - there is no way in hell you're paying someone to insure for liabilities up to a few million per incident. You carry that risk yourself - with perhaps a small policy for exceptional circumstances (say you're found culpably negligent for a hacker attack that kills 10000)
Yeah insurance companies usually have this kind of re-insurance too, if a huge hurricane/earthquake/flood damages a ton of property they're covered by an even bigger insurance company or union. That said, people probably want insurance for all the reasons you have house insurance, you need people to process claims, assess damages and whatnot. So I'm guessing Tesla will just act like a car manufacturer, if there's a defect they'll deal with your insurance company about it, doesn't matter if it's faulty autopilot or faulty brakes.
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You say it like "what's in your head" is some small insignificant function of source code. There's a reason it's not in binary like a computer would prefer, it's so we humans can work on it. Whenever you're given a problem like "solve for x" everybody in western countries ends up with "x = [value]" not "[value] = x". Sure you could learn to read backwards too, like the text above but it's extremely annoying unless you force yourself to learn it. Personally I'd rather have banned the "=" operator and made it ":=" for assignment, "==" for comparison. You could keep the complex operators like "+=" etc. but not just the equal sign. That we don't use for equality, I mean it should be obvious something's not all that smart here.
A known but unfixed bug (in this case not an exploit, but it could be) is far worse than a completely unknown bug.
In what universe is that? A known bug has a known severity - no, just because something doesn't work right doesn't mean it could be an exploit. Say I make a calculator to solve 2 + 2 * 2. Well shit my program is stupid and doesn't do operator precedence so it says the answer is (2+2)*2 = 8 instead of 2+(2*2) = 6. That's a bug and nothing more, it has a well defined outcome that is wrong. A known bug can be fixed if only someone cares enough to fix it. If the scope is known you could probably pay someone to fix it, if you don't want to do it yourself. And if there's bugs, there might be workarounds like applying the correct parentheses yourself.
If it's an unknown bug you don't know how it exists and even if you know there's something wrong you don't know where and you don't know how hard it'd be to find or to fix. Even if you start working on it, there's no guarantee you can find a fix. If you hire someone, there's no guarantee they can find a fix. Of course you could put up a bounty, but it just shifts the risk - they have no guarantee they can make a fix. A low priority bug might be one of many you look at when trying to do a module cleanup, unknown bugs never do. Quite frankly if something goes unfixed it's probably a reason nobody cares enough, compared to you know the other, more important stuff.
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Well - you might have noticed that the EU isn't in great shape at the moment, and getting 27 countries to accept another member, even if that's an existing member split up, is still going to be controversial and take a long time. We don't even know what the independent Scotland would look like, or how it would get there, before you can start talking about joining the EU.
I don't think it'll be all that controversial, but in a few months the UK exercises their exit clause from the EU long before any independence which means the current membership is done. Even if you could rush a process of independence and membership application so that they in practice could continue as back-to-back EU members, the deal would almost certainly be to fully join all EU institutions like the Euro, Schengen etc. with a transition period, they'll never get back the current UK membership. Only historical members have ever been given permanent exceptions and I'm sure the EU won't change the rules here. And that might swing the pendulum back, after all it's not like a massive majority wanted to leave. If joining back in also comes with a cost, well...
Agreed, it was Greece that mismanaged its finances. But Germany did screw up Greece by imposing more and more austerity measures just when the country needed a boost from fiscal spending. Austerity does no good in the short term. Remember, when Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns et al went down, if US govt prescribed austerity where do you think US economy and unemployment would have been?
There's a huge difference between the US saving the US economy and the EU saving the Greek economy. This is more like Rhode Island spending money like a drunken sailor, then expect federal funds to bail them out when they go bankrupt. Germany would be the equivalent of California saying hell no, you caused it you get to suffer for it. That Greece started acting like Germany was the problem and not Greece didn't exactly help matters. If they'd approached it with some humility, maybe Germany would want to help instead it sounded like a demand and a threat.
So yeah, Germany essentially said fuck you. We're going to do just enough that the creditors don't shut you down and no more. And if you don't take the deal we'll kick you to the curb and you can go live under a bridge or something. They could have made a quick fix, but then the Greek attitude wouldn't have changed and they'd soon be back for more. Are they overdoing it? Maybe. I think the point has been driven home now, if you fuck up your economy it's going to be fucked for a long time and nobody's going to fix it for you so don't do it. It's time to get a real recovery started, at least.
Huh what? GDP from 1960s until today, please do tell when we had a "decade long recession".
I wouldn't bet on it. Most people 18-24 don't have any major responsibilities except taking care of themselves and the EU provides opportunities for studies, travel and meeting people from other cultures. In the 25-49 segment you have people who care about jobs and what kind of country their kids will grow up in. You see it for example in the age distribution in cities, people go to the big cities to live, work and party there but when it comes to raising a family they often move somewhere else. I think it will be the same with the attitude to EU, what membership gives depends on your phase in life.
Even we uncouth Americans recognize the UK for what it isâ"a country that liked to be in the EU whenever it suited them, to the extent that they wanted to be, but also pretended that none of the rules applied to them.
(...)
And as everyone predicted, the pound is tanking without the strength of the EU to prop it up. If the EU really wanted to have fun, they could probably make the UK economy collapse completely by refusing to trade with them. (...) Some of the EU member nations might well decide to do that just out of spite.
Yes, Britain was in a relationship with the EU but didn't want to commit as the EU was going more and more in the direction of the United States of Europe, one border, one currency, one everything. And now they finally said "I think we've grown apart, I'm breaking up with you" and you want them to go into full psycho ex-girlfriend mode? I'm surprised it actually came to this, but I think retaliation from the EU would only hurt their reputation and strengthen the UK resolve to go their own way.
I think this is a good opprtunity to show that this is not the US, we're not going to start a civil war if you want to secede. This is not the Soviet Union where tanks will roll in your streets to occupy you. If you don't want to be a part of the EU, nobody's forcing you. I'm from Norway, a country that has rejected the EU twice in 1972 and 1994 and one of the reasons has been the feeling that this loss of sovereignty is permanent, you can join but if we find out this was a bad idea we can in practice never leave. Well now we'll see.
This was then followed by a search warrant for the residence, during which the computers were confiscated and their contents searched. That search was covered under the residential search warrant, so no additional warrant was needed to search the contents of the machine that was confiscated.
Yeah, which is why the court didn't have to go there. But by saying they wouldn't even need a warrant, he just went one over the top.
The real problem, I think, is that a lot of older judges just don't understand technology.
Reading the case, he seems to understand technology well enough. Civil liberties, not so much.
Microsoft has no obligation to follow the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals against intrusion by the state. An exception arises if Microsoft is acting as an agent for the state. Some other laws may occasionally protect your privacy against companies; the Fourth Amendment does not.
I don't think you understand how the third party doctrine works. Basically if you've shared information with a third party, you've shared it with the world as far as the law is concerned. Like in this case, your ISP knows your IP so you have no expectation of privacy so if the cops post some exploit code to reveal it to them that's all right. So if you've given Microsoft access to all your data, you've given the law warrantless access to all your data. Microsoft doesn't have to participate in it.
To be sure, "the appropriate [Fourth Amendment] inquiry [is] whether the individual had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the area searched, not merely in the items found." Thus, the Court will address whether Defendant possessed a reasonable expectation ofprivacy not only inhis IP address but also in his computer, the "place to be searched." The Court FINDS that Defendant did not possess a reasonable expectation of privacy in his computer.
Examining the search of computers in the Fourth Amendment context, in 2007, the Ninth Circuit held that a defendant had both a subjective expectation of privacy and an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in his personal computer, even though the defendant had connected that computer to a network.
In Trulock v. Freeh, the Fourth Circuit held that "password-protected files [on a computer] are analogous to [a] locked footlocker inside the bedroom;" thus, the defendant "had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the password protected computer files."
In other words, plenty good precedent but fuck that because:
For example, hacking is much more prevalent now than it was even nine years ago, and the rise of computer hacking viathe Internet has changed the public's reasonable expectations of privacy. (...) Now, it seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is immune from invasion. Indeed, the opposite holds true: in today's digital world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that computers accessing the Internet can - and eventually will - be hacked.
Cases identifying a reasonable expectation of privacy in personal computer files protected with only a password, can be distinguished, because in 2016 it now appears unreasonable to expect that simply utilizing a password provides any practical protection.
Thus, in today's world, the locked footlocker referenced in Trulock. 275 F.3d at 403, would be more akin to a bag carried on an airplane as the owner travels the world with his private information on display.
First of all the logic is appalling, because there are burglars you shouldn't have privacy in your own home? And from "locked footlocker" to "travelling the world with the naughty bits hanging out", even if you bought the argument that the lock is weaker than before it's certainly on the inside of the bag, not the outside so "secure in your papers" is out the window too. This judge is ready to fuck over the constitution, screw the fourth amendment to catch the bad guys. Or in his own words:
The Government's efforts to contain child pomographers, terrorists and the like cannot remain frozen in time; the Government must be allowed to utilize its own advanced technology to keep pace with our world's ever-advancing technology and novel criminal methods.
DO YOU understand how they work, cause you clearly don't since you're trying to make a snarky comment. ITS THEORETICAL. THERES YOUR SIGN.
Not sure why I bother to reply but:
n => f(n)
1 => 2
2 => 4
3 => 8
4 => 16
5 => 32
6 => 64
7 => 128
8 => 256
Find the function. I'm sure you could argue that you could make many other silly functions that'd also work, but 2^n seems like a good guess. That's what theoretical physicists do in a nutshell, look at observations and try to come up with formulas that fit. If you get new observations that don't fit, you try again. The more complicated it is and the less you can decompose forces, the harder it gets. Try for example to observe objects falling and decompose gravity from air resistance without putting anything in a vacuum. It's hard and you'd probably have to tweak the formula quite a bit. But if it works when you're done, what's the problem? Eventually you find something that's right most of the time like Newton, until somebody discovers relativity and then it's back to tweaking the formula with the Lorentz factor. But I'm sure you think shysters like Einstein were just fudging Newton's formulas too.
You should care because Fuckerberg knows a thing or two about invading people's privacy. If he himself is worried about his, you should be about yours.
I would imagine most Zuckerberg hackers wouldn't give a shit about him the person, unless he's got some really, really juicy secrets to blackmail. Listening in on some boardroom conversation to know what company Facebook will acquire next to cash in on the stock market, on the other hand...
Well if you got a TLA (three letter agency) after you maybe not. But they're hardly the only threat agent and you can't retrofit a hardware off switch with a hack... so depends?
Shouldn't some blame be placed on the review sites, for not purchasing cards at retail? That's SOP for reviewing products in many industries.
Not if you want the review available at launch, which is when people want reviews. So unless they have a time machine to go with that money, it doesn't help.
It's why the Here is a $100,000 check, can you cash it and send me the change.... I'll let you have an extra $1,000 for your trouble, obvious as hell scam works. Most people brains shut off when the greed center in their brain is triggered.
The main problem here is that people think the bank has verified the authenticity of the check when they've "cleared" it and given you access to the money, and that any failure to spot a fake check is now their problem. Like if I go deposit some cash I got from a yard sale I expect the bank to either accept it or reject it. Not accept it now and two weeks later say "Hey, those bills you gave us a few weeks ago were counterfeit we're deducting $200 from your account". And you never get a second "real" confirmation that your bank got their money from the intra-bank system you only know when they don't. The system is pretty rigged against the somewhat clueless and gullible person who goes to a professional money handler that appears to say everything is okay.
* tinybuild out money and a cd key.
Well apart from fees and administration they're just back to zero. The more interesting part is what follows:
* tinybuild are too dumb to link chargebacks to game keys
* tinybuild doesn't deactivate any keys
* G2A customers happy, G2A happy, tinybuild unhappy
Instead of:
* tinybuild links transaction id and game key on sale
* tinybuild invalidates game keys with chargeback
* G2A customers go mental
* tinybuild says too bad, take it up with seller
* G2A customers chargeback their purchase
* G2A ends up in trouble
They're complaining because they're too dumb to solve their own problem, particularly if this happens on a mass scale.
But, interesting, seems like the Linux version is missing some features.
Well, I do hope they'll get all the core services - SSIS, SSAS, SSRS to run not just the SQL database. I don't care about the administration/development tools, if you need a Windows box to work with it that's fine but if you can't run your import/export jobs, cubes and reports it's a bit of a lame duck, if all your data goes in/out via SQL queries and that's the only part you use there are many perfectly good replacements.
This is what passes for innovation when you run out of actual innovation.
Macs have been notorious for using weird new ports, kicking legacy technology to the curb and using non-standard parts and form factors for decades. Sometimes it eventually becomes standard like UEFI or dropping the floppy drive, most of the time it remains an Apple niche like Firewire, Thunderbolt or MagSafe. Heck, the guy famously wouldn't even use ordinary screws on the Apple. Selling proprietary dongles and accessories is not some new thing they started with after Jobs died, maybe that's what they have left but this would be right up Jobs' alley. And YMMV, but I'm not disappointed by the innovation on my iPhone SE. The contrast to an iPhone 4 (I had an Android phone inbetween) is rather stunning. And I expect it to get updates longer...
If someone pays for a service, they will not want to see commercials. No need for focus groups, surveys, marketing research, or high priced consultants. Frame my first sentence and hang it in your lobby Netflix.
Well duh, users don't want to see ads when they don't pay either. If you take a survey of people using ad blockers you can get a lot of other fringe reasons but mainly it's because they don't like watching ads. Faster load times, less bandwidth consumption, less chance of getting hacked by malware ads and so on are just gravy. All other things being equal, users never want to see ads. So the question is, what are you getting in return?
The question is very negatively laden for the customer, if Netflix wants to raise revenue how can they milk you for more money. A more reasonable and pro-consumer question would be how much cheaper an ad-supported tier would have to be. Like $2 off, $5 off, free, "not even if it's free". I'm sure you have both extremes, those who'll never pay a premium or subscription for ad free anything and those who'll pay any amount to opt out of ads. And I'm sure there's some stuck in the middle who'd like to do the latter but can only go part of the way and would settle for some kind of hybrid tier.
As long as people are offered more choices, I'm cool with that. Nothing keeps Netflix from doing all the models. It's a bit more annoying when you don't have choices like ads at the cinema, there is no premium tier without them so they can effectively choose to have it their way no matter what. And if Netflix did the same, yeah I'm sure many would cancel, though people usually bring out the hyperbole in surveys. But if they did an either-or and let people choose, users could decide for themselves.
The Chinese ability to reverse engineer being a superpower is a hoax. They can't even design jet engines and still have to buy them from Russia, because in the very high tech it's about understanding the basis, not just copying a layout.
Russia: 143 million
US: 319 million
China: 1357 million
China armed with Russia's tech is a 10x greater threat than Russia. They don't need the best anything to be a superpower, they just need to be able to drag you into a battle of numbers either in manpower, simultaneous threats or manufacturing capacity. Like the Russians fighting the Nazis, they were dying by the millions but Stalin kept sending more and more men to the front. Or Custer's last stand for example. Technology is far from everything in warfare.
Wey hey! since everyone's doing it... Shut up you donkey-raping shit eating mung filled muff cabbage.
I'm pretty sure you can watch that porn without needing TOR.
Depends on jurisdiction, here in Norway I think bestiality porn is illegal. Then again, so is cartoons and 18+ yos pretending to be underage.
I'm guessing this is the place:
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Security fence and what not as mentioned some articles. Looks like the drive sloped down away from the mailbox when rotating around using google earth 3D.
The article is slightly wrong and the brick pillar is the one on the other side, without the mailbox. If you look at it from this angle:
https://www.google.com/maps/@3...
There's a different story here where you can tell it's the corner towards the house. It slopes down in both directions, fence on two sides, brick pillar in the corner, car comes rolling down the driveway, seems like a tough spot to get out of because you got nowhere to go.
RIP and if anything can come of this, hopefully the rest of us can learn to take one extra moment to make sure that what we think of as a mundane, simple thing is not overlooked.
Thanks, but no thanks. That I might get a costly dent and paint job is plenty to make me remember the parking brake, if you genuinely worry it might kill you then you'll end up a basket case. Freak accidents happen but if I was worried that every car might be a drunk driver that'll ram me or that every person I pass by might be a recently released mental patient off their medication I'd be a nervous wreck before I got to work.
At some point you have to realize that living to see tomorrow is not 100% certain but I just checked, 70/100000 in my age group will die in a year. Divide by 365 and with 99.999998% probability I'll survive tomorrow. And that includes suicides and various other not entirely unexpected deaths, the odds of dying in a freak accident would be even less. If I win the reverse lottery tomorrow, so be it. Not going to go around worrying about it.
It really doesn't. If you're (for example) Tesla - there is no way in hell you're paying someone to insure for liabilities up to a few million per incident. You carry that risk yourself - with perhaps a small policy for exceptional circumstances (say you're found culpably negligent for a hacker attack that kills 10000)
Yeah insurance companies usually have this kind of re-insurance too, if a huge hurricane/earthquake/flood damages a ton of property they're covered by an even bigger insurance company or union. That said, people probably want insurance for all the reasons you have house insurance, you need people to process claims, assess damages and whatnot. So I'm guessing Tesla will just act like a car manufacturer, if there's a defect they'll deal with your insurance company about it, doesn't matter if it's faulty autopilot or faulty brakes.
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You say it like "what's in your head" is some small insignificant function of source code. There's a reason it's not in binary like a computer would prefer, it's so we humans can work on it. Whenever you're given a problem like "solve for x" everybody in western countries ends up with "x = [value]" not "[value] = x". Sure you could learn to read backwards too, like the text above but it's extremely annoying unless you force yourself to learn it. Personally I'd rather have banned the "=" operator and made it ":=" for assignment, "==" for comparison. You could keep the complex operators like "+=" etc. but not just the equal sign. That we don't use for equality, I mean it should be obvious something's not all that smart here.
A known but unfixed bug (in this case not an exploit, but it could be) is far worse than a completely unknown bug.
In what universe is that? A known bug has a known severity - no, just because something doesn't work right doesn't mean it could be an exploit. Say I make a calculator to solve 2 + 2 * 2. Well shit my program is stupid and doesn't do operator precedence so it says the answer is (2+2)*2 = 8 instead of 2+(2*2) = 6. That's a bug and nothing more, it has a well defined outcome that is wrong. A known bug can be fixed if only someone cares enough to fix it. If the scope is known you could probably pay someone to fix it, if you don't want to do it yourself. And if there's bugs, there might be workarounds like applying the correct parentheses yourself.
If it's an unknown bug you don't know how it exists and even if you know there's something wrong you don't know where and you don't know how hard it'd be to find or to fix. Even if you start working on it, there's no guarantee you can find a fix. If you hire someone, there's no guarantee they can find a fix. Of course you could put up a bounty, but it just shifts the risk - they have no guarantee they can make a fix. A low priority bug might be one of many you look at when trying to do a module cleanup, unknown bugs never do. Quite frankly if something goes unfixed it's probably a reason nobody cares enough, compared to you know the other, more important stuff.