Why have televisions, something that should be nothing but a passive interface for signals to be made visible with, get turned into weird hybrids that have operating systems, computer parts, and memory?
Because at some point the world got sick of 10 boxes, with 12 remotes, connected with cable spaghetti sitting in the living room.
Sure thing buddy. That's why ransomware hackers asked for bitcoin instead of cash money, because it's so easily tracked to who it's going to compared to bank transactions.
You're being facetious, yet many of these people of who you think so highly get caught doing utterly stupid shit like using their own private email address attached to their names and linked in profiles. Just because someone is able to write malware using an off the shelf bought exploit doesn't mean they understand the intricacies of anonymity.
You want to know how traceable it is? Those high and mighty NotPetya randsomwarers have so far netted $10076.55 as a result of the randsome ware. They moved all the money to a second wallet. Then they proceeded to signup for a Pastebin lifetime Pro account and a DeepPaste premium account. So far the remainder of the cash has been unable to be cashed out, what with the world watching exactly where every last Satoshi is going in realtime.
Bitcoin by design is the single most public and tracable monetary system designed, and the only thing dumber than running a shady business using bitcoin is being a customer of a shady business. Prosecutors called out the exact dollar amount that Silk Road processed and exactly how it was divided among the site owners during the trial. Remember how the FBI ran a child porn site to help collect evidence of the site's users? Well no need to do that for Silk Road. They have a complete and very detailed financial record of every transaction.
The biggest problem with using bitcoin illegally is that as soon as you cash out, you're fucked.
We fouled up the transition if you only care about speed, and not security.
Claiming the USA has some lead in security is laughable and bordering on absurd. Here, let me secure against all this fraud with a little squiggle. That ought to do it.
In most of the world, pin+chip is recorded, and then the transaction gets balanced at a later time.
Balancing at a later time happens within seconds.
It's possible to clone a thousand cards once you know the pin
It's possible to do a lot of nefarious things when you know someone's pin code. That's why we keep it a secret. Mind you it's possible to do a lot if you're able to make a squiggle too, something far easier in the USA.
Since the switch, I've had 0 fraud on my card.
You do realise that fraud rates have plummeted in the rest of the world as a result of the move to Chip+Pin, and added security was the main driver right? Most of the world shares you lack of fraud on their card example, and without completely ballsing up the checkout process.
The system has worked and the problem is rendered safe. Many developers would not have known what this code does as it is part of a 3rd party SDK. There's as much sense in identifying this malware as there is posting the names of people who's computers were hit by Petya
I'm skeptical that *any* space suit is a part of a mass market space travel future..
The market is already there, the only question is price. You can already pre-order a flight on Virgin Galactic, and from what I call a few rich people already have.
Would you trust any government with a complete profile of your every move or transaction?
Here, FTFY.
Yes I would. There are plenty of governments out there which are ruled by the people rather than the other way around. There are plenty that don't have incredible sizeable armies. There are plenty that haven't degenerated into a 2 party fuck the voters systems. There are plenty that still aim to please the people.
We ( the US ) "upgraded" to chip technology, and now a transaction which took 2 seconds before takes almost a minute now.
You the US fouled up the transition quite royally. Transactions still take less than 2 seconds with chip+pin in the rest of the world, and it's even faster with paywave. Hell my mobile takes less than 2 seconds to pay on a bog standard payment terminal.
Not really. You're talking about the infrastructure for an entire country, here they are talking about specifically targeted transactions. It is very much possible to do that. Heck my work is sitting at 100% right now, far higher than the rest of the country. They simply don't accept cash at the canteen.
Also part of the USA's failure is that the system is stuck in the stone age of electronic transactions. Unsafe credit card practices (signature) combined without outdated payment methods (no simple wireless), add in some stupid bank related market forces that add high costs associated to supporting the platform and you have a recipe for low adoption.
On saturday here there are markets selling bootlegged shit on the side of the street. Even they accept electronic payment including paying with my phone. You won't see that in the USA very frequently.
Given the accuracy of their weather predictions, wouldn't that make more sense for a completely deceptive and false Privacy Policy which is likely to change at any time?
that's a great too for criminals to hide their illegal transactions, I'd be nuts to get involved in something like that
That's one of the reasons I don't use USD or cash. So much criminality. I also don't use the internet. I'm dictating this to someone else who is doing all this illegal stuff for me.
At least with bitcoin there's a public ledger of all the criminal transactions. Good luck knowing if that $100 bill was last used to snort coke off a dead prostitute.
Bitcoin suffers from it's own design. It's decentralized, and unregulated. Criminals have flocked to the 'currency' for these very reasons.
It just goes to show, regulation does have a place.
That entire comment is non sequitur. None of what you said suffers from the design. Criminals flocking to it doesn't have anything to do with regulation (USD in cash are still the preferred currency for criminals). And regulation wouldn't solve the criminality nor have anything to do with the design.
It's very design is the problem. It can't be regulated. Oversight is impossible.
You obviously have no clue. You're talking about a system where the conversation to any useful form of currency is regulated in many countries. You're also talking about a system that fundamentally works by providing a public record of every transaction. In terms of oversight it pretty much doesn't get any better than this.
In the age of scams, fraud and identity theft, we simply cannot have a deregulated decentralized
Again non sequitur. Fraud and identity theft are not solved by regulation and centralisation. Quite the opposite. The regulation and centralisation actually lead to identity theft as an enabler of scams and fraud. What is your preferred method of dealing with this? Untracable cash, or a public ledger?
It just causes way too many problems
Like? And before you mention silk road it's worth remembering that the combined value of goods traded on Silkroad were less than some of the USD cash hauls that have been discovered in the traditional drug market place.
I personally can't get behind something that facilitates criminality to the degree bitcoin does.
You really shouldn't be on the internet then.
ultimately doesn't solve any problems legitimate government issued currency has.
The part it was set out to solve was the fact that government had to issue a currency in the first place. Me? I pay for things in crates of beer.
The economy is also key to stability. The US dollar may be more useful because of infrastructure but it is also more useful because of stability. An unstable currency is quickly abandoned, just like what is happening in Venezuela right now.
Stability comes from volume. If there are 5 coins in the world and I sell one of them, the chance of that sale dramatically effecting the value of the remaining coins is quite large. Bitcoin suffers from this problem due to the lack of trading of coins against some other fixed item: e.g. products or other currencies.
This implies they have the leadership and intelligence to do so. That unfortunately left with its founder. The Microsoft we are left with today is the Microsoft that thinks it's a good idea to change the name of Windows Photos to "Stories Remix"
There is nothing left by incompetence. Certainly no visionaries or strategic thinkers capable of executing the last two Es in the EEE strategy.
Why does Chrome allow extensions that can hijack proxy settings?
Every browser allows plugins that can change proxy settings. This is kind of fundamental to changing networks automatically e.g. joining a VPN. A proxy is a network setting that is often set dynamically.
I'd say the cloud backup service is more reliable.
In general I'd agree with you, but it's an interesting assertion to make given the story we're commenting on:-) But at least they are getting warning.
In the real world, thousands of people *would* bet it all, some *would* lose it all, and then be adamant it wasn't their fault they were completely ruined because they did their due diligence and the odds were very solidly in their favor.
And it wouldn't be their "fault". 100% certainty doesn't exist. Given those odds I would literally bet it all as well. Being bankrupt is not the same as being dead. And you look at the rich list it's amazing the number of them who at one point didn't have a penny to their name. Failure is part of success.*
I forgot one infuriating feature in Picasa Viewer. There's no sort functionality. It will run through the pictures by last modified time. If the modification times of images are screwed (e.g. I downloaded a comic book in image format from a torrent), then again I revert to ACDSee, though I have on occasion used the touch command to change the last modified times.
"Story Remix" sounds like they're letting kindergarteners steer development. WTF??
It gets better it's now called Photos and Videos in the latest build. There's also an app called Movies and TV. Now which one should you use to play video files...
Not sure if that's an Android 6 thing or an Android Vanilla thing but those settings control the access to Samsung's version of this service. I can't see anywhere to control Google's, and disabling it didn't prevent me from using the where is my phone function of Google.
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And the modern world is why that will be your last dumb TV too. Good luck buying one now.
Why have televisions, something that should be nothing but a passive interface for signals to be made visible with, get turned into weird hybrids that have operating systems, computer parts, and memory?
Because at some point the world got sick of 10 boxes, with 12 remotes, connected with cable spaghetti sitting in the living room.
Sure thing buddy. That's why ransomware hackers asked for bitcoin instead of cash money, because it's so easily tracked to who it's going to compared to bank transactions.
You're being facetious, yet many of these people of who you think so highly get caught doing utterly stupid shit like using their own private email address attached to their names and linked in profiles. Just because someone is able to write malware using an off the shelf bought exploit doesn't mean they understand the intricacies of anonymity.
You want to know how traceable it is? Those high and mighty NotPetya randsomwarers have so far netted $10076.55 as a result of the randsome ware. They moved all the money to a second wallet. Then they proceeded to signup for a Pastebin lifetime Pro account and a DeepPaste premium account. So far the remainder of the cash has been unable to be cashed out, what with the world watching exactly where every last Satoshi is going in realtime.
Bitcoin by design is the single most public and tracable monetary system designed, and the only thing dumber than running a shady business using bitcoin is being a customer of a shady business. Prosecutors called out the exact dollar amount that Silk Road processed and exactly how it was divided among the site owners during the trial. Remember how the FBI ran a child porn site to help collect evidence of the site's users? Well no need to do that for Silk Road. They have a complete and very detailed financial record of every transaction.
The biggest problem with using bitcoin illegally is that as soon as you cash out, you're fucked.
We fouled up the transition if you only care about speed, and not security.
Claiming the USA has some lead in security is laughable and bordering on absurd. Here, let me secure against all this fraud with a little squiggle. That ought to do it.
In most of the world, pin+chip is recorded, and then the transaction gets balanced at a later time.
Balancing at a later time happens within seconds.
It's possible to clone a thousand cards once you know the pin
It's possible to do a lot of nefarious things when you know someone's pin code. That's why we keep it a secret. Mind you it's possible to do a lot if you're able to make a squiggle too, something far easier in the USA.
Since the switch, I've had 0 fraud on my card.
You do realise that fraud rates have plummeted in the rest of the world as a result of the move to Chip+Pin, and added security was the main driver right? Most of the world shares you lack of fraud on their card example, and without completely ballsing up the checkout process.
iMessage? Based on the first character alone it drops off the top 10 list even if 100% of users with it pre-installed actually use it.
The system has worked and the problem is rendered safe. Many developers would not have known what this code does as it is part of a 3rd party SDK. There's as much sense in identifying this malware as there is posting the names of people who's computers were hit by Petya
I'm skeptical that *any* space suit is a part of a mass market space travel future..
The market is already there, the only question is price. You can already pre-order a flight on Virgin Galactic, and from what I call a few rich people already have.
Because people who have the cool millions laying around to enjoy a brief trip into space typically care about aesthetics.
Right there you can tell they haven't got a clue. Aesthetics are completely irrelevant
They are intending to bring space travel to the ultra rich. They understand their market far better than you do.
Depends on how you define large. The Australian courts have made a few rulings regarding the use and collection of meta-data over the past 2 years.
Would you trust any government with a complete profile of your every move or transaction?
Here, FTFY.
Yes I would. There are plenty of governments out there which are ruled by the people rather than the other way around. There are plenty that don't have incredible sizeable armies. There are plenty that haven't degenerated into a 2 party fuck the voters systems. There are plenty that still aim to please the people.
We ( the US ) "upgraded" to chip technology, and now a transaction which took 2 seconds before takes almost a minute now.
You the US fouled up the transition quite royally. Transactions still take less than 2 seconds with chip+pin in the rest of the world, and it's even faster with paywave. Hell my mobile takes less than 2 seconds to pay on a bog standard payment terminal.
Not really. You're talking about the infrastructure for an entire country, here they are talking about specifically targeted transactions. It is very much possible to do that. Heck my work is sitting at 100% right now, far higher than the rest of the country. They simply don't accept cash at the canteen.
Also part of the USA's failure is that the system is stuck in the stone age of electronic transactions. Unsafe credit card practices (signature) combined without outdated payment methods (no simple wireless), add in some stupid bank related market forces that add high costs associated to supporting the platform and you have a recipe for low adoption.
On saturday here there are markets selling bootlegged shit on the side of the street. Even they accept electronic payment including paying with my phone. You won't see that in the USA very frequently.
Your IP, easily obtainable by anyone you are communicating with
My IP is assigned by carrier grade NAT and is narrowed down to "somewhere in the country".
Given the accuracy of their weather predictions, wouldn't that make more sense for a completely deceptive and false Privacy Policy which is likely to change at any time?
that's a great too for criminals to hide their illegal transactions, I'd be nuts to get involved in something like that
That's one of the reasons I don't use USD or cash. So much criminality.
I also don't use the internet. I'm dictating this to someone else who is doing all this illegal stuff for me.
At least with bitcoin there's a public ledger of all the criminal transactions. Good luck knowing if that $100 bill was last used to snort coke off a dead prostitute.
Bitcoin suffers from it's own design. It's decentralized, and unregulated. Criminals have flocked to the 'currency' for these very reasons.
It just goes to show, regulation does have a place.
That entire comment is non sequitur. None of what you said suffers from the design. Criminals flocking to it doesn't have anything to do with regulation (USD in cash are still the preferred currency for criminals). And regulation wouldn't solve the criminality nor have anything to do with the design.
It's very design is the problem. It can't be regulated. Oversight is impossible.
You obviously have no clue. You're talking about a system where the conversation to any useful form of currency is regulated in many countries. You're also talking about a system that fundamentally works by providing a public record of every transaction. In terms of oversight it pretty much doesn't get any better than this.
In the age of scams, fraud and identity theft, we simply cannot have a deregulated decentralized
Again non sequitur. Fraud and identity theft are not solved by regulation and centralisation. Quite the opposite. The regulation and centralisation actually lead to identity theft as an enabler of scams and fraud. What is your preferred method of dealing with this? Untracable cash, or a public ledger?
It just causes way too many problems
Like? And before you mention silk road it's worth remembering that the combined value of goods traded on Silkroad were less than some of the USD cash hauls that have been discovered in the traditional drug market place.
I personally can't get behind something that facilitates criminality to the degree bitcoin does.
You really shouldn't be on the internet then.
ultimately doesn't solve any problems legitimate government issued currency has.
The part it was set out to solve was the fact that government had to issue a currency in the first place. Me? I pay for things in crates of beer.
The economy is also key to stability. The US dollar may be more useful because of infrastructure but it is also more useful because of stability. An unstable currency is quickly abandoned, just like what is happening in Venezuela right now.
Stability comes from volume. If there are 5 coins in the world and I sell one of them, the chance of that sale dramatically effecting the value of the remaining coins is quite large. Bitcoin suffers from this problem due to the lack of trading of coins against some other fixed item: e.g. products or other currencies.
All that is left is extend and extinguish.
This implies they have the leadership and intelligence to do so. That unfortunately left with its founder. The Microsoft we are left with today is the Microsoft that thinks it's a good idea to change the name of Windows Photos to "Stories Remix"
There is nothing left by incompetence. Certainly no visionaries or strategic thinkers capable of executing the last two Es in the EEE strategy.
Why does Chrome allow extensions that can hijack proxy settings?
Every browser allows plugins that can change proxy settings. This is kind of fundamental to changing networks automatically e.g. joining a VPN. A proxy is a network setting that is often set dynamically.
I'm sorry, but this is something that should be default-off.
Yeah tell me about it. The audacity of these people daring to ship a mobile device with a wireless radio turned on. What are they thinking.
I'd say the cloud backup service is more reliable.
In general I'd agree with you, but it's an interesting assertion to make given the story we're commenting on :-) But at least they are getting warning.
In the real world, thousands of people *would* bet it all, some *would* lose it all, and then be adamant it wasn't their fault they were completely ruined because they did their due diligence and the odds were very solidly in their favor.
And it wouldn't be their "fault". 100% certainty doesn't exist. Given those odds I would literally bet it all as well. Being bankrupt is not the same as being dead. And you look at the rich list it's amazing the number of them who at one point didn't have a penny to their name. Failure is part of success.*
*Do not apply this to your valuable data :-)
I forgot one infuriating feature in Picasa Viewer. There's no sort functionality. It will run through the pictures by last modified time. If the modification times of images are screwed (e.g. I downloaded a comic book in image format from a torrent), then again I revert to ACDSee, though I have on occasion used the touch command to change the last modified times.
"Story Remix" sounds like they're letting kindergarteners steer development. WTF??
It gets better it's now called Photos and Videos in the latest build. There's also an app called Movies and TV. Now which one should you use to play video files...
it's a distinction without a difference.
No it's not. Remote brick implies someone has remote access to your device. Putting them in the same category is utterly asinine.
Not sure if that's an Android 6 thing or an Android Vanilla thing but those settings control the access to Samsung's version of this service. I can't see anywhere to control Google's, and disabling it didn't prevent me from using the where is my phone function of Google.