I'm looking out for the interests of my family and me, and am glad Hillary isn't president.
In all the circus of ridicule and horror at Donald Trump constantly blasted by the media, people forget just much dread there was at the prospect of Hillary Clinton.
Some people are afraid of someone who is unpresidential and a blowhard and unapologetic and probably needs to think more before speaking.
At the polls, more people were afraid of someone who has been trying her hardest to appear presidential for the last 24 years.
The problem, if I understand this correctly, is that the sender is notified after the message has been recrypted and sent to the recipient.
If it alerted and required an accept before the message was sent to the new key, I don't think anyone would have a problem with it.
But it is not a back door. It's a very limited channel to obtaining a few messages that requires you to have some way of verifying the account (SMS interception). If you are going to build a back door to something, this is about the worst way possible.
Why the heck would they retract the truth?
If your threat model includes government spying, WhatsApp is not secure since the government can force WhatsApp to reissue your key and then scoop us the resulting messages.
The editorial spin on this story from slashdot is very disappointing.
There is no back door. The security issue that stemmed all of this is that whatsapp will deliver messages that were sent while a user moves from one device to another. So, if I send it to you while your phone is busted and you reinstall on a new phone, you get the messages. The recepient key changes, and the sender is notified of this.
The security angle is that with SMS verification you could intentionally intercept someone else's messages. Well, message (singular) because as stated, it notifies the sender of a key change.
wait a few hours for it to crash, buy low, and sell it after a week when the price rebounds. Once again, the ultra-wealthy with their high-frequency traders get richer, and normal people's retirement funds get poorer....
People have been saying it for years, but I really feel like this place isn't what it used to be. Here we have a terrible, click-baity headline followed by a terrible, lazily editorialized summary, none of which is "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that Matters."
Really, does this impact us in some way that I'm not seeing? At least with stories about Steve Jobs's megayacht, there was a cool megayacht to be interested in.
Since Trump and Putin are BFFs, then Trump should pardon Snowden for helping both Russia and America deal with the NSA which Trump doesn't trust anyway.
That would certainly complicate a lot of people's opinions of Donald Trump around here.
China's urbanization hasn't even reached 60% yet, and yet it is pushing towards electric vehicles.
China has 64 cities with over 1 million people; the US has 10. China has 1.35 billion total people; the US 320 million. The US is slightly larger than China in land mass.
I do not think your "urbanization" percentage means what you think it means.
And pretty obvious that "Windows 7 increases maintenance and operating costs for businesses" actually means "we'll make less money if you don't upgrade".
Windows 10 is easier to administrate in the Enterprise than 7. It has more administrative hooks, and is more secure, so less malware to worry about. This is from experience.
Make a Windows 7 with the internals of 10 and I'll upgrade.
What are the parts of 7 you want? The telemetry thing is definitely internal, and the UI is far closer to 7 than 8.
Coming from someone who must use windows at work, it's fortunate that they (MS) are doing this at all. This arrogance and public disagreement within the community is uncalled for.
I think it was meant to be cheeky, not mean-spirited.
for example, a *possible* $3B overrun (really less, since this compares against obsolete estimates) does not equal a 50% budget problem for a project of this size
Obsolete estimates?
Let me get this straight. It doesn't represent such a large cost overrun because much of the overrunning has already been done. This is a much smaller cost overrun standing on the shoulders of the brave cost overruns that came before?
Except in America of course where we're decades behind on rail technology and have trains limited to 50-60 mph. Its about time we catch up with the rest of the world.
But you can rest assured that Trump himself will try to claim some credit. That's just how any politician rolls.
Corrected. Show me the politician that runs on a platform, gets elected, and then doesn't look for every possible opportunity to show how they are delivering on those promises. Which I guess is one of the few ways he's like every other politician.
Bottom line: Give me $34 million dollars and I'll ship a working product. FFS, they could have bought COTS gear and added their own special sauce to make it work.
I don't know the first fucking thing about making a drone that follows you around but give me $34 million dollars and I could fucking well make it happen. This is NOT a $34 million dollar problem; this is maybe a $1 million dollar problem, and that includes the hookers and blow.
The bottom line is it's not a problem of designing a $34 million quadcopter. It's a problem of designing a quadcopter and then manufacturing and fulfilling $34 million worth of orders.
Are you ever going to shut up about this? Will you still be whining in 5 years when nobody makes phones with headphone jacks?
It's a fad. Five years is probably long enough for it to become standard again, when people realize that a cord is less of a pain to deal with than an additional device to charge or an additional adapter to carry.
I bet five years ago you were posting as AC, wondering when people will shut up already, 3D is here to stay.
So brick and mortar stores do this ALL THE TIME.... they never cared. But Amazon does it. BAM!
This is also illegal in Canada and stores get fined for it as well up here. Maybe you're in the US, where consumer protections end where corporate rights start. Doesn't work that way up here though. It's the same reason why when you buy something on Steam in Canada, it's considered an owned product not a license.
I get it, they try to operate in CA like they do in US. It's just not that big of a deal in the US because we're acclimated. In the same way that we all know that $4.99 is essentially $5 trying to look like $4.
Slashdot Mirror
You think there's going to be ~less~ fraud and abuse under a Trump presidency?
Than Clinton?
At the polls, more people
*more people in swing states
I'm looking out for the interests of my family and me, and am glad Hillary isn't president.
In all the circus of ridicule and horror at Donald Trump constantly blasted by the media, people forget just much dread there was at the prospect of Hillary Clinton.
Some people are afraid of someone who is unpresidential and a blowhard and unapologetic and probably needs to think more before speaking.
At the polls, more people were afraid of someone who has been trying her hardest to appear presidential for the last 24 years.
The problem, if I understand this correctly, is that the sender is notified after the message has been recrypted and sent to the recipient. If it alerted and required an accept before the message was sent to the new key, I don't think anyone would have a problem with it.
But it is not a back door. It's a very limited channel to obtaining a few messages that requires you to have some way of verifying the account (SMS interception). If you are going to build a back door to something, this is about the worst way possible.
Why the heck would they retract the truth? If your threat model includes government spying, WhatsApp is not secure since the government can force WhatsApp to reissue your key and then scoop us the resulting messages. The editorial spin on this story from slashdot is very disappointing.
There is no back door. The security issue that stemmed all of this is that whatsapp will deliver messages that were sent while a user moves from one device to another. So, if I send it to you while your phone is busted and you reinstall on a new phone, you get the messages. The recepient key changes, and the sender is notified of this.
The security angle is that with SMS verification you could intentionally intercept someone else's messages. Well, message (singular) because as stated, it notifies the sender of a key change.
wait a few hours for it to crash, buy low, and sell it after a week when the price rebounds. Once again, the ultra-wealthy with their high-frequency traders get richer, and normal people's retirement funds get poorer....
Does that require high frequency trading?
People have been saying it for years, but I really feel like this place isn't what it used to be. Here we have a terrible, click-baity headline followed by a terrible, lazily editorialized summary, none of which is "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that Matters."
Really, does this impact us in some way that I'm not seeing? At least with stories about Steve Jobs's megayacht, there was a cool megayacht to be interested in.
Since Trump and Putin are BFFs, then Trump should pardon Snowden for helping both Russia and America deal with the NSA which Trump doesn't trust anyway.
That would certainly complicate a lot of people's opinions of Donald Trump around here.
Does it obey the settings that say "do not send any data to Microsoft whatsoever"?
In the Enterprise, which I was referring to, yes.
but with ICE you pollute 24/7 .
You need to get out of your car more.
China's urbanization hasn't even reached 60% yet, and yet it is pushing towards electric vehicles.
China has 64 cities with over 1 million people; the US has 10. China has 1.35 billion total people; the US 320 million. The US is slightly larger than China in land mass.
I do not think your "urbanization" percentage means what you think it means.
And pretty obvious that "Windows 7 increases maintenance and operating costs for businesses" actually means "we'll make less money if you don't upgrade".
Windows 10 is easier to administrate in the Enterprise than 7. It has more administrative hooks, and is more secure, so less malware to worry about. This is from experience.
Make a Windows 7 with the internals of 10 and I'll upgrade.
What are the parts of 7 you want? The telemetry thing is definitely internal, and the UI is far closer to 7 than 8.
Linux on Windows is part of Microsoft's 3-E strategy.
Microsoft, you: only one of these is still hung up on that 20-year-old phrase.
Coming from someone who must use windows at work, it's fortunate that they (MS) are doing this at all. This arrogance and public disagreement within the community is uncalled for.
I think it was meant to be cheeky, not mean-spirited.
What has been "extinguished" lately that wasn't a) a failed experiment or, b) a product that no longer had a purpose?
for example, a *possible* $3B overrun (really less, since this compares against obsolete estimates) does not equal a 50% budget problem for a project of this size
Obsolete estimates?
Let me get this straight. It doesn't represent such a large cost overrun because much of the overrunning has already been done. This is a much smaller cost overrun standing on the shoulders of the brave cost overruns that came before?
Right now there is no better solution, and nothing realistically likely to come into being this decade.
The LA-SF high speed rail train isn't scheduled to be completed until 2029.
It won't be completed by 2029 without a massive influx of cash and political will.
I'm not sure it will ever be completed, at least not as originally envisioned.
Except in America of course where we're decades behind on rail technology and have trains limited to 50-60 mph. Its about time we catch up with the rest of the world.
The freight rail is perhaps the world's best.
But the trend is definitely, if you don't use creativity or deal with humans in a interpersonal way, your job is on a short runway.
I don't know, I prefer Alexa to some customer service reps I've encountered (but definitely not others).
But you can rest assured that Trump himself will try to claim some credit. That's just how any politician rolls.
Corrected. Show me the politician that runs on a platform, gets elected, and then doesn't look for every possible opportunity to show how they are delivering on those promises. Which I guess is one of the few ways he's like every other politician.
I don't have a lot of cash, and I don't have a lot of sales.
Unit for unit, on small runs, cassette tape is WAY cheaper than any other medium.
Perhaps you'd make more money if your fans didn't need to own a cassette player.
Those rarely worked properly and loved to fuck up the tape loading/eject mechanism.
Always worked fine for me. The only failures I ever encountered were in the too-thin cord.
Bottom line: Give me $34 million dollars and I'll ship a working product. FFS, they could have bought COTS gear and added their own special sauce to make it work.
I don't know the first fucking thing about making a drone that follows you around but give me $34 million dollars and I could fucking well make it happen. This is NOT a $34 million dollar problem; this is maybe a $1 million dollar problem, and that includes the hookers and blow.
The bottom line is it's not a problem of designing a $34 million quadcopter. It's a problem of designing a quadcopter and then manufacturing and fulfilling $34 million worth of orders.
Are you ever going to shut up about this? Will you still be whining in 5 years when nobody makes phones with headphone jacks?
It's a fad. Five years is probably long enough for it to become standard again, when people realize that a cord is less of a pain to deal with than an additional device to charge or an additional adapter to carry.
I bet five years ago you were posting as AC, wondering when people will shut up already, 3D is here to stay.
So brick and mortar stores do this ALL THE TIME.... they never cared. But Amazon does it. BAM!
This is also illegal in Canada and stores get fined for it as well up here. Maybe you're in the US, where consumer protections end where corporate rights start. Doesn't work that way up here though. It's the same reason why when you buy something on Steam in Canada, it's considered an owned product not a license.
I get it, they try to operate in CA like they do in US. It's just not that big of a deal in the US because we're acclimated. In the same way that we all know that $4.99 is essentially $5 trying to look like $4.