Not only that, in many cases the drug testing companies are owned by politicians or their families. They pass laws mandating drug testing, then award the contracts to a testing company they personally profit from. Florida's Gov. Rick Scott is probably the best example.
It just means it's the first new nuclear plant in the United States in a long time. The NIMBY attitude generally prevents new reactors from being built in the US.
Heh - I remember "the weather channel". My grandparents used to watch that.
It isn't your grandparents' Weather Channel anymore, gone is the 5 minute loop of local conditions playing over cheesy music all day. They have some interesting shows on now. Three Scientists Walk Into a Bar, Extreme Weather, Storm Riders, Weather Gone Viral, Hurricanes 360. I think they're all a bit informative and entertaining, good enough to have on while I'm winding down at night, even if I'm not exactly glued to the screen. My only complaint is there aren't more episodes, they're all from last year and they haven't come out with new seasons yet.
Do some Googling for the make and model of your modem, and of the router if it's a separate piece of equipment. There are exploits going around for some CPE, cable modems in particular, that allow a remote attacker to change the configured name servers among other things. If rebooting the modem or router fixed the problem, it's more likely that's what was compromised, not a NetBIOS tunnel in Windows.
We don't need any more lists, lists invariably lead to scope creep. The sex offender registry was created to keep tabs on violent rapists and predators; now teenagers get added to the list for texting pictures to each other. The no-fly list was created to keep terrorists off airplanes; terrorists have still gotten onto airplanes while that faulty list has caught up innumerable innocent citizens (e.g. Ted Kennedy), now they want to use it to deny people their 2nd amendment rights. Or the most egregious example, social security numbers were created to track who was due how much in social security payments; now that list is used for everything under the sun.
In this day and age, a computer or phone with internet access is a necessity for almost every job. Even jobs you don't think of as being remotely related to technology still require employees to be "connected." Truck drivers, retail cashiers, the trades, construction... If you aren't legally permitted to use a computer or phone with an internet connection, you are fucked in terms of finding a job. And in some places, even filing for unemployment can only be done online!
No, creating a cyber offender list is not a path we need to go down.
Yes, correct. But he also called 911 prior to shooting up joint pledging his allegiance to ISIS.
Yes, and he had also claimed to be a member of Hezbollah, which is an arch-enemy of ISIS, and previously claimed allegiance to al Qaeda, which doesn't get on with either ISIS or Hezbollah. The guy was off his rocker.
Suppose an old grandmother ships something to someone and doesn't properly fill out the form declaring hazardous materials and similar damage was done. Would you suggest UPS go after her for damages to the aircraft?
That depends. Is the grandmother incorporated? Does she make decisions at the behest of her shareholders' best interests ($$)? Is it likely that her decision to disregard regulations was driven by a profit motive? Is shipping packages a substantial portion of her daily activity? Does she have, or have a legal obligation to have, employees or consultants who are familiar with shipping regulations?
Double standards shouldn't apply just because a party is wealthy.
Perhaps not, but it's long been established that double standards do apply when you're running a business, whether it's wealthy or not. I can refuse to let people with seeing eye dogs into my home, but I can't refuse to let them into my business. I can get in my personal car with state minimum insurance and drive for 30 straight hours, but a Wal-Mart tractor trailer driver must carry a much larger insurance policy and is federally limited as to how many hours he can be on the road. When you set up shop and hang out your shingle to the public, you accept a different standard of risk and regulation than a private individual like the old grandmother.
If you received an email from Let's Encrypt yesterday that had other peoples' email addresses prepended to the message, you were affected. If you didn't get such an email, your address wasn't leaked.
The last thing I want is for that process to be fully automated.
I agree, but there's nothing about Let's Encrypt that forces you to do everything in an automated manner. The certbot client offers various levels of automation; there are other clients that probably have similar options. I choose to automate issuance/retrieval of the certificates only, and then install them into Apache manually. I also run the renewal process manually instead of having cron do it. There's a --dry-run option when using the command line that will identify potential problems. If for some reason a rollback is necessary, I'm already in the shell and the old certs are sitting in/etc/letsencrypt/archive/.
Yes, permanently; once a site is excluded there's apparently no way to get it back in the archive. I let a domain lapse a few years ago and someone else parked it for a year. I've had it back for several years with a permissive robots.txt but Wayback still says the site is excluded.
Maybe a Construction Industrial Complex. Fix all these roads, bridges, subways, water and sewer lines, etc. that are crumbling apart all over our own country instead of dropping a trillion dollars worth of bombs on someone else's country.
It seriously calls into question the legitimacy of their surveillance. Phrased another way: if the police aren't doing anything wrong, why are they trying to hide it?
I'm used to the occasional glitch where, even as a non-subscriber, I sometimes see stories in advance and highlighted in red. But this was something different, it's like the story itself got caught inside the advertisement. There was no way to click into the story and the "X" didn't do anything. Using Firefox on Windows. Sunspots!
I don't think the official AIM client ever offered secure end-to-end encryption. Pidgin+OTR does, though, and that's a common way to use the AIM network.
I'm not sure whether you're being facetious, but there was a time when Slashdot would give you a URI that logged you in. You could bookmark it and bypass having to enter your userid and password, as your credentials were stored in the URI itself. I just quickly checked "Options" and "Account" and I don't see it anymore, maybe they got rid of that feature after slashleak 2000.
By the time anyone had figured out the information was low quality, the scammers had cashed the checks and their tent was folded up and on the way to the next scheme.
Except MaxMind is still very much in business and still selling the data, I run into their name fairly often. They've agreed to relocate the ZIP code centers of Powtin KS and Ashburn VA within their dataset to be in the middle of local lakes, but that doesn't help the other 40,000+ ZIP codes out there.
What's more troubling to me is that police, the FBI, and the US Marshals are apparently using this data to get search warrants and to raid peoples' homes! Shouldn't they be subpoenaing the ISP?
I watched several of his pulse jet videos yesterday when I caught this story. It doesn't look like they really do much of anything propulsion wise, they just generate a lot of heat and are noisy as fuck... And that's precisely the kind of project that gets people interested in building stuff. Playing around with metal and fire, being loud, this is awesome! It doesn't need to do anything else! It got me to look up pulse jets on Wikipedia and I learned some things.
While I was watching the videos I kept thinking, if I built something like that, even if I took it way out into the country I'd probably wind up getting a visit from the Homeland Nanny Department. And heaven forbid anyone tries to mess around with a chemistry set like we used to do. Kids these days are missing out on a lot of stuff. This "thermite gun" is a bit of a misnomer but if it gets some kids interested in science, more power to this guy.
I hate to confirm the bias, but I'll readily admit that I'm contributing to the problem. I don't know about "obese," but I could stand to lose 10 pounds, by which I really mean 20 pounds, and only at losing 30 pounds would I approach unhealthily skinny. I keep up some active hobbies like fishing and vegetable gardening (and eating fish and vegetables), but my work and my play tend to keep me seated in front of computers most of the day. As a result I weigh more than I'd like.
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Drug testing is a racket.
Not only that, in many cases the drug testing companies are owned by politicians or their families. They pass laws mandating drug testing, then award the contracts to a testing company they personally profit from. Florida's Gov. Rick Scott is probably the best example.
It just means it's the first new nuclear plant in the United States in a long time. The NIMBY attitude generally prevents new reactors from being built in the US.
Heh - I remember "the weather channel". My grandparents used to watch that.
It isn't your grandparents' Weather Channel anymore, gone is the 5 minute loop of local conditions playing over cheesy music all day. They have some interesting shows on now. Three Scientists Walk Into a Bar, Extreme Weather, Storm Riders, Weather Gone Viral, Hurricanes 360. I think they're all a bit informative and entertaining, good enough to have on while I'm winding down at night, even if I'm not exactly glued to the screen. My only complaint is there aren't more episodes, they're all from last year and they haven't come out with new seasons yet.
Do some Googling for the make and model of your modem, and of the router if it's a separate piece of equipment. There are exploits going around for some CPE, cable modems in particular, that allow a remote attacker to change the configured name servers among other things. If rebooting the modem or router fixed the problem, it's more likely that's what was compromised, not a NetBIOS tunnel in Windows.
We don't need any more lists, lists invariably lead to scope creep. The sex offender registry was created to keep tabs on violent rapists and predators; now teenagers get added to the list for texting pictures to each other. The no-fly list was created to keep terrorists off airplanes; terrorists have still gotten onto airplanes while that faulty list has caught up innumerable innocent citizens (e.g. Ted Kennedy), now they want to use it to deny people their 2nd amendment rights. Or the most egregious example, social security numbers were created to track who was due how much in social security payments; now that list is used for everything under the sun.
In this day and age, a computer or phone with internet access is a necessity for almost every job. Even jobs you don't think of as being remotely related to technology still require employees to be "connected." Truck drivers, retail cashiers, the trades, construction... If you aren't legally permitted to use a computer or phone with an internet connection, you are fucked in terms of finding a job. And in some places, even filing for unemployment can only be done online!
No, creating a cyber offender list is not a path we need to go down.
Yes, correct. But he also called 911 prior to shooting up joint pledging his allegiance to ISIS.
Yes, and he had also claimed to be a member of Hezbollah, which is an arch-enemy of ISIS, and previously claimed allegiance to al Qaeda, which doesn't get on with either ISIS or Hezbollah. The guy was off his rocker.
Suppose an old grandmother ships something to someone and doesn't properly fill out the form declaring hazardous materials and similar damage was done. Would you suggest UPS go after her for damages to the aircraft?
That depends. Is the grandmother incorporated? Does she make decisions at the behest of her shareholders' best interests ($$)? Is it likely that her decision to disregard regulations was driven by a profit motive? Is shipping packages a substantial portion of her daily activity? Does she have, or have a legal obligation to have, employees or consultants who are familiar with shipping regulations?
Double standards shouldn't apply just because a party is wealthy.
Perhaps not, but it's long been established that double standards do apply when you're running a business, whether it's wealthy or not. I can refuse to let people with seeing eye dogs into my home, but I can't refuse to let them into my business. I can get in my personal car with state minimum insurance and drive for 30 straight hours, but a Wal-Mart tractor trailer driver must carry a much larger insurance policy and is federally limited as to how many hours he can be on the road. When you set up shop and hang out your shingle to the public, you accept a different standard of risk and regulation than a private individual like the old grandmother.
If you received an email from Let's Encrypt yesterday that had other peoples' email addresses prepended to the message, you were affected. If you didn't get such an email, your address wasn't leaked.
The last thing I want is for that process to be fully automated.
I agree, but there's nothing about Let's Encrypt that forces you to do everything in an automated manner. The certbot client offers various levels of automation; there are other clients that probably have similar options. I choose to automate issuance/retrieval of the certificates only, and then install them into Apache manually. I also run the renewal process manually instead of having cron do it. There's a --dry-run option when using the command line that will identify potential problems. If for some reason a rollback is necessary, I'm already in the shell and the old certs are sitting in /etc/letsencrypt/archive/.
1. Z's given up any expectation of privacy.
Except for the part where he bought up all of his neighbors' houses to keep anyone from being able to see into his.
Remember a month ago when people were saying that there was no way you could accidently consent to installing Windows 10?
They're still here, still parroting that line, in this very discussion thread. It boggles the mind.
It will respect that retroactively?!
Yes, permanently; once a site is excluded there's apparently no way to get it back in the archive. I let a domain lapse a few years ago and someone else parked it for a year. I've had it back for several years with a permissive robots.txt but Wayback still says the site is excluded.
The Slashdot effect doesn't work so well on sites deployed to Akamai.
What will they be replaced with?
Maybe a Construction Industrial Complex. Fix all these roads, bridges, subways, water and sewer lines, etc. that are crumbling apart all over our own country instead of dropping a trillion dollars worth of bombs on someone else's country.
You get the Win 10 prevention apps this won't be a problem.
Sure, and if you send me a hundred bucks, I won't burn down your house next month!
It seriously calls into question the legitimacy of their surveillance. Phrased another way: if the police aren't doing anything wrong, why are they trying to hide it?
Did anyone else see this story looking muted for awhile?
I'm used to the occasional glitch where, even as a non-subscriber, I sometimes see stories in advance and highlighted in red. But this was something different, it's like the story itself got caught inside the advertisement. There was no way to click into the story and the "X" didn't do anything. Using Firefox on Windows. Sunspots!
I don't think the official AIM client ever offered secure end-to-end encryption. Pidgin+OTR does, though, and that's a common way to use the AIM network.
I'm not sure whether you're being facetious, but there was a time when Slashdot would give you a URI that logged you in. You could bookmark it and bypass having to enter your userid and password, as your credentials were stored in the URI itself. I just quickly checked "Options" and "Account" and I don't see it anymore, maybe they got rid of that feature after slashleak 2000.
By the time anyone had figured out the information was low quality, the scammers had cashed the checks and their tent was folded up and on the way to the next scheme.
Except MaxMind is still very much in business and still selling the data, I run into their name fairly often. They've agreed to relocate the ZIP code centers of Powtin KS and Ashburn VA within their dataset to be in the middle of local lakes, but that doesn't help the other 40,000+ ZIP codes out there.
What's more troubling to me is that police, the FBI, and the US Marshals are apparently using this data to get search warrants and to raid peoples' homes! Shouldn't they be subpoenaing the ISP?
And by the government. Though maybe Uncle Sam is who they meant by "distant relatives" in the summary...
Ireland, obviously. True Capitalists don't bother with Panama.
I watched several of his pulse jet videos yesterday when I caught this story. It doesn't look like they really do much of anything propulsion wise, they just generate a lot of heat and are noisy as fuck... And that's precisely the kind of project that gets people interested in building stuff. Playing around with metal and fire, being loud, this is awesome! It doesn't need to do anything else! It got me to look up pulse jets on Wikipedia and I learned some things.
While I was watching the videos I kept thinking, if I built something like that, even if I took it way out into the country I'd probably wind up getting a visit from the Homeland Nanny Department. And heaven forbid anyone tries to mess around with a chemistry set like we used to do. Kids these days are missing out on a lot of stuff. This "thermite gun" is a bit of a misnomer but if it gets some kids interested in science, more power to this guy.
I hate to confirm the bias, but I'll readily admit that I'm contributing to the problem. I don't know about "obese," but I could stand to lose 10 pounds, by which I really mean 20 pounds, and only at losing 30 pounds would I approach unhealthily skinny. I keep up some active hobbies like fishing and vegetable gardening (and eating fish and vegetables), but my work and my play tend to keep me seated in front of computers most of the day. As a result I weigh more than I'd like.
I "could of" been a nice guy all this time...