Cloud places have their use, but there is always the security question, and there is always the grave concern about data sitting on a remote site where you have zero physical control over it.
There's also the outage question. Microsoft's Azure has had two significant outages in the last 10 days. Companies using Google's Apps For Work suffered a 7+ hour outage of Gmail this week during (US) business hours. When your enterprise is built on one of these services, what do you do when it goes down? You wait. That's all you can do, sit there and wait and hope the services come back up soon. Sure, you'll get a credit against your SLA after the fact, but that doesn't offset the fact that your ability to conduct business was down for hours on end and there was absolutely nothing you could do about it.
At least when you're running services on premise, you have some control over the situation. You can investigate and resolve the problem yourself. Getting your company's service restored is the #1 priority, not priority #1852 among 5,000 other companies all suffering through the cloud outage.
Except you know... your DNS needs to contact remote DNS servers for lookups which are then redirected to the government DNS on the great firewall of...
If I tell my DNS server it's authoritative for wikileaks.org and thepiratebay.se, it doesn't contact any remote servers to resolve those domains, it answers with whatever IPs I configured. Let it forward the rest of the queries happily along. If this "Great DNS Firewall" idea takes off, I suppose free thinkers in the UK will all be trading bootleg zone files, of all things.
The consistency is that every article that goes outside of Slashdot has that little green link next to the title
Unfortunately that's not true on mobile. That interface doesn't have the green parenthesized links at all, so if there isn't a link in the story text itself, there's no way to access the article(s). It looks like they updated this one and added the link.
I must ask, is the problem with the devices or how they are used? If used only after a warrant has been obtained would people still be outraged over these devices?
To me, the root of the problem is the devices. The way the Stingray works is by tricking all cell phones within range to connect to the Stingray instead of the legitimate cell tower. The very nature of this design means innocent peoples' phones, people who are not the subject of any warrant, are going to have their communications illegally intercepted. You might have a warrant to tap Bob's phone, but when you park your nondescript van in Bob's neighborhood and turn on your Stingray, his neighbors' phones are going to connect to it too. Anyone who happens to be driving down the street or walking their dog around the block, their phones will also connect to your Stingray. You don't have a warrant for any of those peoples' communications.
The only justification for a Stingray type device is to go on fishing expeditions. If you have a warrant you don't need the Stingray, you just call the telco and have them tap Bob's line(s).
Last time I checked, AOL Instant Messenger needed a AOL account, at least one on the free tier.
I still have both, but I haven't paid for AOL in 20 years. There are a lot of AIM users who never had an AOL account. Registration at aim.com was free for a long time (maybe it still is?) and I talk to a lot of people via AIM who were never AOL users. Despite the ridicule, AIM/Oscar via the Pidgin client with the OTR plugin remains a relatively secure method of communication.
As for Skype, fuck that entirely, it's been compromised forever. If I want to holler at the NSA, I'll just yell into any phone and hope for the worst.
Those governments and NGOs are going to need something to actually kill the mosquitoes. That's where capitalism is itching to step in. There's no shortage of companies who would just love to have juicy government mosquito-eradication contracts.
It's both spam and scam, really. These people are spamming on behalf of shady supposed "streaming" sites hosted in Russia and various eastern bloc nations. Whether or not those sites will actually show you the movie you're trying to see is unknown but they'll absolutely infect you with adware, malware, and other garbage.
This shit plagued Reddit for months, they finally got on top of it and it looks like the scam spammers have moved elsewhere.
Offtopic I know, but am I the only one getting really tired of this trend in web design where I click through to read an article, but first must scroll down past a giant full-page image? This is what I see when I load the article. That image adds precisely zero information, but bulks up the page load by 702,043 bytes and several seconds even on broadband. Fucking stop already.
The annoying thing is, I'm getting a lot of SASL authentication attempts from Microsoft Azure IPs against the email address I used for LinkedIn. Microsoft's LinkedIn service leaked my email address and an ancient password, and lots of Microsoft Azure cloud instances are now busy attempting to login to that email account.
Aug 15 10:51:04 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: connect from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:07 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: warning: unknown[13.84.216.161]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure Aug 15 10:51:07 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:07 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: disconnect from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:07 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: connect from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:09 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: warning: unknown[13.84.216.161]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure Aug 15 10:51:09 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:09 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: disconnect from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:10 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: connect from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:12 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: warning: unknown[13.84.216.161]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure Aug 15 10:51:12 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:12 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: disconnect from unknown[13.84.216.161] Aug 15 10:51:12 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: connect from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Yadda yadda. I report them all to Microsoft's CERT but despite the "thank you" emails, I wind up getting attacked from the same IPs day in and day out.
Perhaps once mainstream sites realize their articles are practically invisible on Facebook, they'll go back to writing proper headlines. I like Facebook's move here, it's a lot like Google penalizing sites that use black hat SEO tactics.
The ad companies will be the first ones using it, just not for the intended purpose. They won't tone down the ads if your battery is low but they'll definitely build a cross-site fingerprint of you. From the study,
The second script, http://js.ad-score.com/score.m..., queries all properties of the BatteryManager interface, retrieving the current charging status, the charge level, and the time remaining to discharge or recharge. As with the previous script, these features are combined with other identifying features used to fingerprint a device.
Your use of the term "UX" suggests you aren't nearly as "aging" as you lead on
His UID is barely six digits; unless he was about 10 when he found Slashdot, he's "aging" as far as mainstream marketing demographics go. If you aren't 18-35 they don't really care what you want or don't want, most products are being designed for the next generation despite many of them not having any dollars to spend. I'm pushing 40 and I find myself asking the "am I just getting old?" question too, but I'm perfectly capable of using more recent terminology like UX, DevOps, etc.
But she is authorized to use the register. I don't see why she can't take all the money and claim the same defense she used here.
Because it's still aggravated first-degree theft even if you're authorized to use the register. She stole, and was convicted for stealing. There's no need for any more charges to be piled on.
Moreover, most MUAs can be set to ignore the X-Priority, X-MSMail-Priority, etc. headers altogether. Everyone's email looks the same to me, so a few times a year I get to take an angry call from someone asking why I haven't replied to their urgent priority message yet. Sorry, but "Subject: data export for October" isn't as urgent as you think it is, and the guy who sent "Subject: Utility work at Chicago datacenter tomorrow" with a normal priority header is actually going to get attention first. Outlook's return receipt feature is another barrel of fun, my client is set not to honor them, which occasionally sends people into a frenzy.
Speaking of things that have been done well for decades, the @mentions thing doesn't sound like any great shakes either. "Making it easy to identify emails that need your attention, as well as flag actions for others" sounds a lot like CC'ing people to me.
The theater makes next to nothing from the ticket.
I get it, but it isn't my problem, I still had to pay $12 to walk in the door. The theater owners need to unionize or otherwise get better at negotiating. If every theater in America threatened to close down during opening weekend of the next big blockbuster, I imagine Hollywood might be very willing to reconsider how the money is distributed.
I notice there are no references in that definition of autopilot. I wonder who wrote it.
If you're intimating that someone from Tesla put the definition into Wikipedia, I think that's a stretch. Much of it was drafted in this revision by a user who primarily edits aviation-related articles. He added a citation, which has since been removed (making way for yet another "Citation needed" Cessna/Wikipedia joke).
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Cloud places have their use, but there is always the security question, and there is always the grave concern about data sitting on a remote site where you have zero physical control over it.
There's also the outage question. Microsoft's Azure has had two significant outages in the last 10 days. Companies using Google's Apps For Work suffered a 7+ hour outage of Gmail this week during (US) business hours. When your enterprise is built on one of these services, what do you do when it goes down? You wait. That's all you can do, sit there and wait and hope the services come back up soon. Sure, you'll get a credit against your SLA after the fact, but that doesn't offset the fact that your ability to conduct business was down for hours on end and there was absolutely nothing you could do about it.
At least when you're running services on premise, you have some control over the situation. You can investigate and resolve the problem yourself. Getting your company's service restored is the #1 priority, not priority #1852 among 5,000 other companies all suffering through the cloud outage.
While it probably would be challenging to hack a CA or trick one into issuing the necessary certificate for addons.mozilla.org
That depends on the CA, some are more easy to trick than others...
That explains everything, then. Does anyone use Bing to search anything other than porn?
Comments like this are the reason I still read Slashdot every day.
Except you know... your DNS needs to contact remote DNS servers for lookups which are then redirected to the government DNS on the great firewall of ...
If I tell my DNS server it's authoritative for wikileaks.org and thepiratebay.se, it doesn't contact any remote servers to resolve those domains, it answers with whatever IPs I configured. Let it forward the rest of the queries happily along. If this "Great DNS Firewall" idea takes off, I suppose free thinkers in the UK will all be trading bootleg zone files, of all things.
The consistency is that every article that goes outside of Slashdot has that little green link next to the title
Unfortunately that's not true on mobile. That interface doesn't have the green parenthesized links at all, so if there isn't a link in the story text itself, there's no way to access the article(s). It looks like they updated this one and added the link.
I must ask, is the problem with the devices or how they are used? If used only after a warrant has been obtained would people still be outraged over these devices?
To me, the root of the problem is the devices. The way the Stingray works is by tricking all cell phones within range to connect to the Stingray instead of the legitimate cell tower. The very nature of this design means innocent peoples' phones, people who are not the subject of any warrant, are going to have their communications illegally intercepted. You might have a warrant to tap Bob's phone, but when you park your nondescript van in Bob's neighborhood and turn on your Stingray, his neighbors' phones are going to connect to it too. Anyone who happens to be driving down the street or walking their dog around the block, their phones will also connect to your Stingray. You don't have a warrant for any of those peoples' communications.
The only justification for a Stingray type device is to go on fishing expeditions. If you have a warrant you don't need the Stingray, you just call the telco and have them tap Bob's line(s).
Last time I checked, AOL Instant Messenger needed a AOL account, at least one on the free tier.
I still have both, but I haven't paid for AOL in 20 years. There are a lot of AIM users who never had an AOL account. Registration at aim.com was free for a long time (maybe it still is?) and I talk to a lot of people via AIM who were never AOL users. Despite the ridicule, AIM/Oscar via the Pidgin client with the OTR plugin remains a relatively secure method of communication.
As for Skype, fuck that entirely, it's been compromised forever. If I want to holler at the NSA, I'll just yell into any phone and hope for the worst.
Those governments and NGOs are going to need something to actually kill the mosquitoes. That's where capitalism is itching to step in. There's no shortage of companies who would just love to have juicy government mosquito-eradication contracts.
It's both spam and scam, really. These people are spamming on behalf of shady supposed "streaming" sites hosted in Russia and various eastern bloc nations. Whether or not those sites will actually show you the movie you're trying to see is unknown but they'll absolutely infect you with adware, malware, and other garbage.
This shit plagued Reddit for months, they finally got on top of it and it looks like the scam spammers have moved elsewhere.
Offtopic I know, but am I the only one getting really tired of this trend in web design where I click through to read an article, but first must scroll down past a giant full-page image? This is what I see when I load the article. That image adds precisely zero information, but bulks up the page load by 702,043 bytes and several seconds even on broadband. Fucking stop already.
The annoying thing is, I'm getting a lot of SASL authentication attempts from Microsoft Azure IPs against the email address I used for LinkedIn. Microsoft's LinkedIn service leaked my email address and an ancient password, and lots of Microsoft Azure cloud instances are now busy attempting to login to that email account.
Aug 15 10:51:04 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: connect from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:07 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: warning: unknown[13.84.216.161]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Aug 15 10:51:07 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:07 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: disconnect from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:07 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: connect from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:09 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: warning: unknown[13.84.216.161]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Aug 15 10:51:09 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:09 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: disconnect from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:10 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: connect from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:12 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: warning: unknown[13.84.216.161]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Aug 15 10:51:12 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:12 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: disconnect from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Aug 15 10:51:12 mail postfix/smtpd[12561]: connect from unknown[13.84.216.161]
Yadda yadda. I report them all to Microsoft's CERT but despite the "thank you" emails, I wind up getting attacked from the same IPs day in and day out.
What about the fucking rights of the women this guy beat to a pulp?
You should be asking the police that question. If they had obtained their evidence legally, it wouldn't have been thrown out.
block in on <interface_name> from facebook.com to any
You're still passing traffic to facebook.net, fb.com, fb.me, fbcdn.com, fbcdn.net, and probably half a dozen more.
Perhaps once mainstream sites realize their articles are practically invisible on Facebook, they'll go back to writing proper headlines. I like Facebook's move here, it's a lot like Google penalizing sites that use black hat SEO tactics.
The ad companies will be the first ones using it, just not for the intended purpose. They won't tone down the ads if your battery is low but they'll definitely build a cross-site fingerprint of you. From the study,
The second script, http://js.ad-score.com/score.m..., queries all properties of the BatteryManager interface, retrieving the current charging status, the charge level, and the time remaining to discharge or recharge. As with the previous script, these features are combined with other identifying features used to fingerprint a device.
The EULA prohibits users of Windows 10 from suing Microsoft.
That didn't seem to stop this lady from winning $10K or prevent two more suits from being filed last week. Also, the New York State Attorney General's office is soliciting reports from consumers who were damaged by Windows 10 installs.
Because VeriSign is not stupid enough to do that.
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by NSA demands.
Your use of the term "UX" suggests you aren't nearly as "aging" as you lead on
His UID is barely six digits; unless he was about 10 when he found Slashdot, he's "aging" as far as mainstream marketing demographics go. If you aren't 18-35 they don't really care what you want or don't want, most products are being designed for the next generation despite many of them not having any dollars to spend. I'm pushing 40 and I find myself asking the "am I just getting old?" question too, but I'm perfectly capable of using more recent terminology like UX, DevOps, etc.
But she is authorized to use the register. I don't see why she can't take all the money and claim the same defense she used here.
Because it's still aggravated first-degree theft even if you're authorized to use the register. She stole, and was convicted for stealing. There's no need for any more charges to be piled on.
Moreover, most MUAs can be set to ignore the X-Priority, X-MSMail-Priority, etc. headers altogether. Everyone's email looks the same to me, so a few times a year I get to take an angry call from someone asking why I haven't replied to their urgent priority message yet. Sorry, but "Subject: data export for October" isn't as urgent as you think it is, and the guy who sent "Subject: Utility work at Chicago datacenter tomorrow" with a normal priority header is actually going to get attention first. Outlook's return receipt feature is another barrel of fun, my client is set not to honor them, which occasionally sends people into a frenzy.
Speaking of things that have been done well for decades, the @mentions thing doesn't sound like any great shakes either. "Making it easy to identify emails that need your attention, as well as flag actions for others" sounds a lot like CC'ing people to me.
The theater makes next to nothing from the ticket.
I get it, but it isn't my problem, I still had to pay $12 to walk in the door. The theater owners need to unionize or otherwise get better at negotiating. If every theater in America threatened to close down during opening weekend of the next big blockbuster, I imagine Hollywood might be very willing to reconsider how the money is distributed.
Might be time to update your .sig unless it's meant to be facetious.
This wasn't anyone's estimate, the vehicle has a data recorder (a "black box") so they know the exact speed.
I notice there are no references in that definition of autopilot. I wonder who wrote it.
If you're intimating that someone from Tesla put the definition into Wikipedia, I think that's a stretch. Much of it was drafted in this revision by a user who primarily edits aviation-related articles. He added a citation, which has since been removed (making way for yet another "Citation needed" Cessna/Wikipedia joke).