Red the Equifax annual report on their website - it's all about revenue growth (18%), new markets and reducing expenses... Looking at the people, the CIO has a Bachelors degree in Russian and Masters degree in Business Administration. The other "techie", President of Information Solutions, is a Harvard lawyer. http://www.equifax.com/about-e...
Now it has come out that top management unloaded stock post breach, but before public announcement.
We have a corporation dealing with personal information with zero security core competency at the top, and devoid of moral principal AND willingness to commit crimes for personal gain.
THIS is the exact type of corporation and players that needs to be crushed and go away, like Arthur Anderson, or Daryl McBride.
That would be nice... but, just like the fact that Arthur Anderson was vacated from felony conviction by the US Supreme court from their culpability in the Enron scandal, or only a SINGLE banker was sent to jail for the subprime mortgage crisis that almost collapsed the global economy - nothing will likely happen here either.
Why? Because the US is an Oligarchy. Till "the people" take it back by campaign finance reform, the rich will continue to pillage at will with an occasional wrist slap the the "electeds" can have their theater.
like Uber, Lift and the rest of the "gig" economy pushed by big tech companies, this has gotten swallowed by the race to the bottom. Quartz.com had an article this past week showing that listening is up but revenue is down: https://qz.com/1071783/apple-m...
revenue is down because people are getting subscriptions for which lawyers and tech companies are taking most of the profit leaving those who actually build, create and do work with crumbs....
lather, rinse, repeat industry to industry....
Won't happen. The FCC is too hell bent on killing net neutrality so the communications oligarchy can enrich themselves further.
To even suggest this FCC has any concerns for consumer protections is laughable. The only way to fix this is campaign finance reform. Get real in the oval office and as our elected "representatives" who care about voters and citizens over the current Plutocracy.
Given:
1) The critical importance of voting in Democratic societies,
2) The ease at which eVoting devices appear to be compromised,
3) The effectiveness paper voting as proven over untold millennium
4) The inherent lack of accountability in current eVoting ,
No logs, Insecurely stored, No validation, etc
It begs the question, why even bother with eVoting machines? Just because it’s “new”, “electronic”, can be “web enabled”, seems insufficient to perch the entire construct of Democracy on such weaknesses
Every single individual with Top Secret clearance has already been exposed with the OPM breach (2012-2015). OPM (Office Of Personal Management) suffered a successful spear fishing breach in which the personal information of every single current and past federal worker's (including all military and those who've applied for the Top Secret clearance) stolen. The number of individuals exposed exceed 21 million. The lost information included the 127 page personal questionnaire required for clearance evaluation.
Essentially, every single US spy had their personal information - including secrets that could be used for blackmail - stolen and sold to foreign governments.
The OPM breach makes every other data theft look trivial in comparison. The fact that the main storing house for all Federal information did not keep PIN encrypted at rest is greatly telling and disturbing.
And no they don't.
Programming is not a task. It is a way of viewing the world. It’s a way of thinking that mingles creativity and logic. Almost like physical poetry. Many of us (yes, I’m a coder and have been a long time) have a burning curiosity and always ask “what if, how did that happen, where did that come from..” and a myriad of other questions indicating a need for constant learning. My wife is very successful in medicine. She’s much more “feeling” driven in her decisions whereas mine are logical. At times call me “cold”, and says “who thinks like that?” We balance, in a good way – most of the time – anyway, I digress
As for programmers, not everyone is built that way, and a “boot camp” won’t change you if you don’t.
This mantra “Everyone can and should learn to code” is one of those tag lines that need to finally die.
This isn't murder, and it wasn't 1 company. The emissions fraud was a German country wide practice that included VW, Audi, Mercedes Benz, Daimler - pretty much EVERY German car manufacture that produces diesels. https://www.usatoday.com/story...
To convict a single "engineer" is laughable.
Programming is not a task. It is a way of viewing the world. It’s a way of thinking that mingles creativity and logic. Almost like physical poetry. Many of us (yes, I’m a coder and have been a long time) have a burning curiosity and always ask “what if, how did that happen, where did that come from..” and a myriad of other questions indicating a need for constant learning. My wife is very successful in medicine. She’s much more “feeling” driven in her decisions whereas mine are logical. At times call me “cold”, and says “who thinks like that?” We balance, in a good way – most of the time – anyway, I digress
As for programmers, not everyone is built that way, and a “boot camp” won’t change you if you don’t.
This mantra “Everyone can and should learn to code” is one of those tag lines that need to finally die.
There's several things driving this, not least of which is C'level's have been convinced that hiring on site tech workers is a bad thing and they can hold you hostage. (sky high salaries, HR problems, open positions... etc)
I have literally had different CEO's from different companies in different States say "I don't want to be held hostage by a developers" as a reason not to hire on site programmers. No irony there.....
So shoving your life blood into something that looks like the "internet" that always seems to work and they don't have to hire a 25 year old arrogant prick for $170K, is a huge WIN!
On the other hand, it took them 20 years to figure out the off shoring developers is a recipe for disaster. Maybe they'll get this one too.
Just like Mickey's patent time frame keeps changing, https://artlawjournal.com/mick...
I wouldn't be surprised if some magical last minute patent extension happened.
Again, to even suggest we are in a SIM, assumes some more advanced technology has already happened. Which requires us to be in the past of the entities who created the SIM- since such technology does not exist in our current point in our timeline.
It's like claiming invisible Jesus helps you get a better test score but allows the babies next door to die. It's ludicrous.
On a higher level, it doesn't matter. You still hurt and bleed when you cut your finger. You still need to be a productive member of society or a street urchin. Perception is reality and that is how you live your finite life.
Every “we are living in a sim” argument requires that the future has already happened. IE some futuristic society has AI and we are living in it.
Assuming now isn’t the future then this is base reality because simulations indistinguishable from reality do not exist yet.
Without offering evidence we are in the past, the sim argument is nonsense.
If they actually gave a rats rump about anything other than making a profit, and IF they actually believe the alarmist statements they're making - they would ensure their $.5 Trillion investment portfolio excluded those companies making the problem worse.
Also, like any amount of money will matter if the prediction of 8 degrees is realized. Sorry, but currency will fold long before that point.
Actually, you quite wrong. The airline industry has, till recently, imploded and mostly failed relying on Government subsidy to continue. Richard Branson famously quipped: "The fastest way to become a millionaire is to start a Billionaire and buy and airline."
Pilots, like, stewardesses and mechanics have been forced to accept reduced wages for decades. It's just within the past 4 or 5 years airlines have been profitable, and the pilot unions have demanded some wages returned.
I see no studies that women in math / science do better than men. The ratios in those classes tend to be 80/20 in favor of men.
You're blurring a couple of different points. Text is our written mode of communication. Mathematics uses formulas to represent spacial concepts.
Here's a real life example: My wife is brilliant in medicine, yet struggles with math - she also, non-coincidentally, can not backup a vehicle with a trailer for the life of her.
So what?
The 5 richest people in the US (the Waltons, owners of Walmart), get 17% of every food stamp dollar
Government aid to Farmers will be $23+ billion in 2017
When Dick Cheney, the former CEO of Halliburton, convinced "W" to start a war in Iraq, Halliburton was awarded $8B in no bid contracts
The oligarchy in the country have always enriched themselves with "the peoples money" - how do you think they got there?
Statistical analysis by function, creates groups. It's interesting that we group numbers, genes, animals... however it's somehow evil, in a new century way, to group based on gender
The reality is men tend to process spatially where as women tend to process verbally. that is biology. These are not absolutes, as varying individuals on both sides of the spectrum cross. However, generally it's true... and yes, I'm grouping. Anyone who claims different is a liar or misinformed. There's no debate, men and women are wired differently. https://www.scientificamerican...
I'm sure most people on this forum have seen those ads or politicians stating "everyone needs to learn to program" and smirk to yourself or get upset knowing it's ludicrous as well
This is the same. People have predispositions to specific tendencies and processes that make some professional trades ideal, where as others, not so much. Given that mathematics, and computer programming via extension, tend to favor those who process information spatially, this biologically implies males would be more likely to perform these tasks and drawn to them.
Again, I'm not saying "all", just general tendencies.
But we as reasonable people need to stop going apesh*t when someone suggests that the everyone is not the same or some people can not perform tasks as well as others. .
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Red the Equifax annual report on their website - it's all about revenue growth (18%), new markets and reducing expenses... Looking at the people, the CIO has a Bachelors degree in Russian and Masters degree in Business Administration. The other "techie", President of Information Solutions, is a Harvard lawyer.
http://www.equifax.com/about-e...
Now it has come out that top management unloaded stock post breach, but before public announcement.
We have a corporation dealing with personal information with zero security core competency at the top, and devoid of moral principal AND willingness to commit crimes for personal gain.
THIS is the exact type of corporation and players that needs to be crushed and go away, like Arthur Anderson, or Daryl McBride.
That would be nice... but, just like the fact that Arthur Anderson was vacated from felony conviction by the US Supreme court from their culpability in the Enron scandal, or only a SINGLE banker was sent to jail for the subprime mortgage crisis that almost collapsed the global economy - nothing will likely happen here either.
Why? Because the US is an Oligarchy. Till "the people" take it back by campaign finance reform, the rich will continue to pillage at will with an occasional wrist slap the the "electeds" can have their theater.
So independent contractors are driving people in their own cars, on their own time, free of charge .... and Uber gets the credit?
like Uber, Lift and the rest of the "gig" economy pushed by big tech companies, this has gotten swallowed by the race to the bottom. Quartz.com had an article this past week showing that listening is up but revenue is down:
https://qz.com/1071783/apple-m...
revenue is down because people are getting subscriptions for which lawyers and tech companies are taking most of the profit leaving those who actually build, create and do work with crumbs....
lather, rinse, repeat industry to industry....
Won't happen. The FCC is too hell bent on killing net neutrality so the communications oligarchy can enrich themselves further.
To even suggest this FCC has any concerns for consumer protections is laughable. The only way to fix this is campaign finance reform. Get real in the oval office and as our elected "representatives" who care about voters and citizens over the current Plutocracy.
Given:
1) The critical importance of voting in Democratic societies,
2) The ease at which eVoting devices appear to be compromised,
3) The effectiveness paper voting as proven over untold millennium
4) The inherent lack of accountability in current eVoting ,
No logs, Insecurely stored, No validation, etc
It begs the question, why even bother with eVoting machines? Just because it’s “new”, “electronic”, can be “web enabled”, seems insufficient to perch the entire construct of Democracy on such weaknesses
Trains in India are hyper something; loop is not something I would want to do here:
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/ma...
Since apparently nobody really knows what "AI" is:
https://qz.com/1067123/stop-pr...
saying an undefined quantity will accomplish something is a bit of a stretch.
What writer needs to get dressed? You can write just fine naked - this is proof!
Every single individual with Top Secret clearance has already been exposed with the OPM breach (2012-2015). OPM (Office Of Personal Management) suffered a successful spear fishing breach in which the personal information of every single current and past federal worker's (including all military and those who've applied for the Top Secret clearance) stolen. The number of individuals exposed exceed 21 million. The lost information included the 127 page personal questionnaire required for clearance evaluation.
Essentially, every single US spy had their personal information - including secrets that could be used for blackmail - stolen and sold to foreign governments.
The OPM breach makes every other data theft look trivial in comparison. The fact that the main storing house for all Federal information did not keep PIN encrypted at rest is greatly telling and disturbing.
Come on /. ..... this was here just a week and a have ago....
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
And no they don't.
Programming is not a task. It is a way of viewing the world. It’s a way of thinking that mingles creativity and logic. Almost like physical poetry. Many of us (yes, I’m a coder and have been a long time) have a burning curiosity and always ask “what if, how did that happen, where did that come from..” and a myriad of other questions indicating a need for constant learning. My wife is very successful in medicine. She’s much more “feeling” driven in her decisions whereas mine are logical. At times call me “cold”, and says “who thinks like that?” We balance, in a good way – most of the time – anyway, I digress As for programmers, not everyone is built that way, and a “boot camp” won’t change you if you don’t. This mantra “Everyone can and should learn to code” is one of those tag lines that need to finally die.
All the more incredulous to assert it's a single "engineer"
This isn't murder, and it wasn't 1 company. The emissions fraud was a German country wide practice that included VW, Audi, Mercedes Benz, Daimler - pretty much EVERY German car manufacture that produces diesels.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
To convict a single "engineer" is laughable.
Programming is not a task. It is a way of viewing the world. It’s a way of thinking that mingles creativity and logic. Almost like physical poetry. Many of us (yes, I’m a coder and have been a long time) have a burning curiosity and always ask “what if, how did that happen, where did that come from..” and a myriad of other questions indicating a need for constant learning. My wife is very successful in medicine. She’s much more “feeling” driven in her decisions whereas mine are logical. At times call me “cold”, and says “who thinks like that?” We balance, in a good way – most of the time – anyway, I digress
As for programmers, not everyone is built that way, and a “boot camp” won’t change you if you don’t.
This mantra “Everyone can and should learn to code” is one of those tag lines that need to finally die.
There's several things driving this, not least of which is C'level's have been convinced that hiring on site tech workers is a bad thing and they can hold you hostage. (sky high salaries, HR problems, open positions... etc)
I have literally had different CEO's from different companies in different States say "I don't want to be held hostage by a developers" as a reason not to hire on site programmers. No irony there.....
So shoving your life blood into something that looks like the "internet" that always seems to work and they don't have to hire a 25 year old arrogant prick for $170K, is a huge WIN!
On the other hand, it took them 20 years to figure out the off shoring developers is a recipe for disaster. Maybe they'll get this one too.
Why is this question flamebait? Has the question "does everyone need to learn to program?" been aswered somewhere and it's a resounding yes!
Just like Mickey's patent time frame keeps changing,
https://artlawjournal.com/mick...
I wouldn't be surprised if some magical last minute patent extension happened.
Again, to even suggest we are in a SIM, assumes some more advanced technology has already happened. Which requires us to be in the past of the entities who created the SIM- since such technology does not exist in our current point in our timeline.
It's like claiming invisible Jesus helps you get a better test score but allows the babies next door to die. It's ludicrous.
On a higher level, it doesn't matter. You still hurt and bleed when you cut your finger. You still need to be a productive member of society or a street urchin. Perception is reality and that is how you live your finite life.
However, since the Oligarchy in the US is invested in and profiteers off fossil fuels, this report will be instantly dismissed as “fake news”
Every “we are living in a sim” argument requires that the future has already happened. IE some futuristic society has AI and we are living in it.
Assuming now isn’t the future then this is base reality because simulations indistinguishable from reality do not exist yet. Without offering evidence we are in the past, the sim argument is nonsense.
If they actually gave a rats rump about anything other than making a profit, and IF they actually believe the alarmist statements they're making - they would ensure their $.5 Trillion investment portfolio excluded those companies making the problem worse.
Also, like any amount of money will matter if the prediction of 8 degrees is realized. Sorry, but currency will fold long before that point.
Actually, you quite wrong. The airline industry has, till recently, imploded and mostly failed relying on Government subsidy to continue. Richard Branson famously quipped: "The fastest way to become a millionaire is to start a Billionaire and buy and airline."
Pilots, like, stewardesses and mechanics have been forced to accept reduced wages for decades. It's just within the past 4 or 5 years airlines have been profitable, and the pilot unions have demanded some wages returned.
I see no studies that women in math / science do better than men. The ratios in those classes tend to be 80/20 in favor of men.
You're blurring a couple of different points. Text is our written mode of communication. Mathematics uses formulas to represent spacial concepts.
Here's a real life example: My wife is brilliant in medicine, yet struggles with math - she also, non-coincidentally, can not backup a vehicle with a trailer for the life of her.
So what?
The 5 richest people in the US (the Waltons, owners of Walmart), get 17% of every food stamp dollar
Government aid to Farmers will be $23+ billion in 2017
When Dick Cheney, the former CEO of Halliburton, convinced "W" to start a war in Iraq, Halliburton was awarded $8B in no bid contracts
The oligarchy in the country have always enriched themselves with "the peoples money" - how do you think they got there?
Statistical analysis by function, creates groups. It's interesting that we group numbers, genes, animals... however it's somehow evil, in a new century way, to group based on gender
The reality is men tend to process spatially where as women tend to process verbally. that is biology. These are not absolutes, as varying individuals on both sides of the spectrum cross. However, generally it's true... and yes, I'm grouping. Anyone who claims different is a liar or misinformed. There's no debate, men and women are wired differently.
https://www.scientificamerican...
I'm sure most people on this forum have seen those ads or politicians stating "everyone needs to learn to program" and smirk to yourself or get upset knowing it's ludicrous as well
This is the same. People have predispositions to specific tendencies and processes that make some professional trades ideal, where as others, not so much. Given that mathematics, and computer programming via extension, tend to favor those who process information spatially, this biologically implies males would be more likely to perform these tasks and drawn to them.
Again, I'm not saying "all", just general tendencies.
But we as reasonable people need to stop going apesh*t when someone suggests that the everyone is not the same or some people can not perform tasks as well as others. .