Today folks *pay* for this kind of equipment *out of their own purses*, and the spooks are not the only ones listening in.
You mean like a combination microphone/speaker/gps/internet traffic monitor you carry around with you all day long every day? Like that kind of equipment? The echo is tame in comparison.
People born today will be too old to be part of the astronaut class that goes anywhere other than LEO.
Yeah, so many of us chose more exciting jobs because we'd be stuck in LEO if we decided to be astronauts instead. boooorrrrriiinngg. I mean, I guess I could do it, but I'd probably just end up changing careers in a few years anyway.
If your IOT devices actually have spare processing power, and it will have no impact on their primary function or more importantly, their power usage, then they are poorly designed. You know what kinds of tasks IOT devices would be great for? DDOSing someone. That's about it.
Given the dozens and dozens of reported hacks against large orgs over the last 2 year, I can only conclude there is a large disregard for properly addressing security that starts right at the top of the C suite in big companies.
That is at least as troubling for smaller companies, who likely have less resources to deal with security.
I think they're doing their jobs right and it's the consumers that are failing by not holding their companies accountable.
I really don't care....until you want to shape the lives of others with rules or demands originated from your beliefs, at that point, kindly shut the fuck up and go back to whatever hole you crawled out of.
If your beliefs require anyone else to change their behavior in public, your beliefs are broken.
I think your beliefs might be broken. When's the last time you had them looked at?
Can someone translate "1.4x faster?"
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Can someone translate "1.4x faster?" Is that 240% the speed of Yosemite, or is that 140% the speed of Yosemite?
I sincerely hope he didn't test it in a densely populated neighborhood. I imagine garage doors around the block opening and closing as he's standing there with his test unit, "Nope, let's try this... Nope, let's try this..."
I doubt AC could tell the difference by looking at it, but I think he was actually asking for just the 13th line, not every 13th line. So you could replace "( (($i++) % 13) -eq 0)" with the simpler "($i -eq 12)"
That's funny. I find PS slow and lacking basic functionality in a few areas, but "complex" is one of the last criticisms I would make. Compared to DOS or Bash, it's very straightforward and intuitive.
Or Windows still won't be able to run Power Shell scripts by default?
It takes 15 seconds to change this setting. If you don't know how to google the correct cmdlet, you probably didn't have anything useful to do in PS anyway. If you're in an enterprise environment, use GPO. Besides, there are plenty of things to do on the fly in the shell that do not require script execution.
After posting I realized I used the wrong term. It was a bad analogy. The point is that attribution is really, really difficult and The Boy Who Cried Wolf and all that.
Seriously, if someone is running around breaking windows (pun intended) in your neighborhood, they're outed in the local crime report.
Actually, blotters don't publish the identities of the suspects because they're suspects. In the same way, I'm sure these companies are sharing more information with law enforcement than with the general public.
I prefer it this way to having a bunch of scripting vigilantes on Reddit doxing the wrong the guy.
I just mean that to me it looks like diminishing returns have kicked in for phones. Twice the specs doesn't mean twice the user experience. It's not a gaming machine, it's not my primary work machine, I don't need cutting edge performance to use Yelp, Youtube, and check my email from time to time. My wife has a Galaxy s5 and here at work I've been able to play around with the s6 Edge. There's nothing that made me think, "Gee, I really wish my phone could do that."
I'll second that one. My first Android phone was really bad. It was slow, buggy, full of crapware, and a pain to use.
On the other hand... my very first smartphone is a $100 LG Transpyre. It has only 8GB of internal storage, Android 4.4, and doesn't have some of the more premium features like an ultra high resolution screen or NFC. I don't think it's in any way "crappy." You guys keep your cutting edge phones and I'll keep my $400.
Just imagine that a common simple search phrase referring to Christ had as it's first result a Satanist site?
It would be a major national news story. There would be editorials in news outlets large and small. Fox News and the right wing press would call it a terrorist act. There would be hearings in Congress, and calls for laws protecting religion. It would be a three ring media circus.
And apparently you'd be right there to keep shouting about how stupid the attention was. Creating more attention. Much like we're all doing here over something as stupid and as mundane as marketing.
I generally oppose the death penalty for two reasons: 1) I've come to distrust the government in general 2) I've been in jury deliberations twice. This was far more damaging to my faith in our justice system.
We still paid. It's horribly difficult to prove something like that in court. But I have a hunch that they are having a hard time getting more contracts. You see, word travels...
Again, see OP. Scrub the word "security" out and you could have this problem with any consultant. You win some, you lose some, you typically pay either way.
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Today folks *pay* for this kind of equipment *out of their own purses*, and the spooks are not the only ones listening in.
You mean like a combination microphone/speaker/gps/internet traffic monitor you carry around with you all day long every day? Like that kind of equipment? The echo is tame in comparison.
People born today will be too old to be part of the astronaut class that goes anywhere other than LEO.
Yeah, so many of us chose more exciting jobs because we'd be stuck in LEO if we decided to be astronauts instead. boooorrrrriiinngg. I mean, I guess I could do it, but I'd probably just end up changing careers in a few years anyway.
If your IOT devices actually have spare processing power, and it will have no impact on their primary function or more importantly, their power usage, then they are poorly designed. You know what kinds of tasks IOT devices would be great for? DDOSing someone. That's about it.
Given the dozens and dozens of reported hacks against large orgs over the last 2 year, I can only conclude there is a large disregard for properly addressing security that starts right at the top of the C suite in big companies.
That is at least as troubling for smaller companies, who likely have less resources to deal with security.
I think they're doing their jobs right and it's the consumers that are failing by not holding their companies accountable.
None of these are new.
Probably why neither the headline nor the summary suggested as much.
I understand this controller isn't meant for casual players, but I think this is an example of choosing complexity over usability
Something can be complex and usable. See: keyboard.
Let's get Formula E working right before we move to the next step, shall we?
Good point. They seem too similar to be developing in tandem.
The US mortgage industry single-handedly is keeping facsimile alive and well.
Plenty of help from healthcare and related industries.
I really don't care. ...until you want to shape the lives of others with rules or demands originated from your beliefs, at that point, kindly shut the fuck up and go back to whatever hole you crawled out of.
If your beliefs require anyone else to change their behavior in public, your beliefs are broken.
I think your beliefs might be broken. When's the last time you had them looked at?
Can someone translate "1.4x faster?" Is that 240% the speed of Yosemite, or is that 140% the speed of Yosemite?
I sincerely hope he didn't test it in a densely populated neighborhood. I imagine garage doors around the block opening and closing as he's standing there with his test unit, "Nope, let's try this... Nope, let's try this..."
I doubt AC could tell the difference by looking at it, but I think he was actually asking for just the 13th line, not every 13th line. So you could replace "( (($i++) % 13) -eq 0)" with the simpler "($i -eq 12)"
It's really powerful and a lot better than trying to use sed or perl to parse the output of programs in shell scripts.
Exactly! It's so much better to have to pipe the output to something just to print to the console! Hurrah for objects! /s
You're misinformed. PowerShell defaults to the console.
complex abomination
That's funny. I find PS slow and lacking basic functionality in a few areas, but "complex" is one of the last criticisms I would make. Compared to DOS or Bash, it's very straightforward and intuitive.
Or Windows still won't be able to run Power Shell scripts by default?
It takes 15 seconds to change this setting. If you don't know how to google the correct cmdlet, you probably didn't have anything useful to do in PS anyway. If you're in an enterprise environment, use GPO. Besides, there are plenty of things to do on the fly in the shell that do not require script execution.
After posting I realized I used the wrong term. It was a bad analogy. The point is that attribution is really, really difficult and The Boy Who Cried Wolf and all that.
Seriously, if someone is running around breaking windows (pun intended) in your neighborhood, they're outed in the local crime report.
Actually, blotters don't publish the identities of the suspects because they're suspects. In the same way, I'm sure these companies are sharing more information with law enforcement than with the general public.
I prefer it this way to having a bunch of scripting vigilantes on Reddit doxing the wrong the guy.
I just mean that to me it looks like diminishing returns have kicked in for phones. Twice the specs doesn't mean twice the user experience. It's not a gaming machine, it's not my primary work machine, I don't need cutting edge performance to use Yelp, Youtube, and check my email from time to time. My wife has a Galaxy s5 and here at work I've been able to play around with the s6 Edge. There's nothing that made me think, "Gee, I really wish my phone could do that."
I'll second that one. My first Android phone was really bad. It was slow, buggy, full of crapware, and a pain to use.
On the other hand... my very first smartphone is a $100 LG Transpyre. It has only 8GB of internal storage, Android 4.4, and doesn't have some of the more premium features like an ultra high resolution screen or NFC. I don't think it's in any way "crappy." You guys keep your cutting edge phones and I'll keep my $400.
Just imagine that a common simple search phrase referring to Christ had as it's first result a Satanist site?
It would be a major national news story. There would be editorials in news outlets large and small. Fox News and the right wing press would call it a terrorist act. There would be hearings in Congress, and calls for laws protecting religion. It would be a three ring media circus.
All truths are not created equal. Some points of view are more equal then others.
And apparently you'd be right there to keep shouting about how stupid the attention was. Creating more attention. Much like we're all doing here over something as stupid and as mundane as marketing.
I'm sure the publishers of tainted versions of PuTTY also have MD5s I can download and verify against.
Do you know what the purpose of a checksum is? What you said doesn't really make sense.
Publish the damn checksums at a minimum, or GPG signing key ideallly.
They are published:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.htm
Your average Windows user and his average admin don't know what to do with a checksum, however.
I generally oppose the death penalty for two reasons:
1) I've come to distrust the government in general
2) I've been in jury deliberations twice. This was far more damaging to my faith in our justice system.
But I'm not going to lose sleep over this one.
Does the summary consist entirely of real words?
We still paid. It's horribly difficult to prove something like that in court. But I have a hunch that they are having a hard time getting more contracts. You see, word travels...
Again, see OP. Scrub the word "security" out and you could have this problem with any consultant. You win some, you lose some, you typically pay either way.