"consumers will get a less relevant and diverse Internet experience"
Oh yeah, it's so much worse of an internet experience when I finally get a big scoop full of get your damn stalker ads out my face served up on a silver platter. Poor me. How will I ever survive looking at lolcats without a flashing banner showing all the crap I just searched for on Tiger Direct?
But how are you going to drive to Goodwill and buy a non-networked light bulb system aka a lamp for $1 if you can't find your keys cuz your house is dark because you're an Apple-tard? Didn't think of that, did you?
Has network connection = can be hacked. That's a law of physics. If you don't want your [insert device here] to get hacked, make sure it doesn't have any form of networking capabilities. If you're still on the fence, go watch Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex.
I'm thinking everyone on the internet is going to stop thinking Obama is a secret muslim and start thinking he's a secret Republican. That's because NOBODY will EVER vote democrat again after like 6 scandals in a row plus this bullshit and then dancing around it. He makes Bush look good by comparison. If you think this NSA nonsense is a nail in the coffin, remember that he didn't do a damn thing about the environment. As soon as that medical care bill takes full effect and everyone's rates triple, there won't be another democrat in office for 5 terms minimum. People don't forget stuff like this. Piles and piles and piles of stuff like this.
Wrooooooong. Ask any analyst or corporate professional if Apple should have done better without Steve Jobs. Hell yes! It's just that Tim Cook is worse. He "Dell and HPed" the company by cutting quality to make more profits, as if they needed more. While Tim Cook doesn't treat his staff like crap or have a suicidally detrimental unreasonable fear of non-passive cooling like Steve Jobs did but he is definitely running the company like a crazy person who has no idea what he's doing.
Apple was doomed to fail without someone who knows what they're doing at the helm simply because of how they got popular. Their target audience is still rich douchebags who want to show off their pretend "top of the line" product that allegedly has some sort of quality reputation but in reality just has a high price. Their "it just works" and "anyone can sit down and use our products" died around the same time as iTunes 8. Their iCloud and iTunes 11 software makes Symantec Backup Exec look user friendly by comparison and it's about as resource efficient too. People are starting to REALLY hate their software. If you look at the iPhone 1, 2, and 3, every one was twice as likely to have the screen break than the one before it according to real insurance and warranty numbers.
Their apple computers were for morons who didn't know how to use the internet or a computer in general but now that they're realizing they're falling for e-mail scams and catching viruses, they're regretting their 4x overpriced Mac they just bought. Their dominance of media editing ended with the invention of Cuda and Europe is about to kick them while they're down about software bundling.
So their products are overpriced, not respected anymore, their software is a joke, their support quality is slipping, and rich people are starting to realize that Samsung is superior in every way. Good luck with that, Apple. THAT is the real reason Apple is doomed.
Just because it isn't "required" doesn't mean it won't spy on you while the console is off (or on). Considering it's build directly in, that actually doesn't mean anything. It will boot up or play a game without recognizing a person? You still have to tape over it then. And "not requiring" is still quite different than "we're not spying on you with it."
"not interfering with land needs because it would essentially follow major highways"
That makes them MUCH easier to blow up with a roadside bomb or car bomb. How convenient. And I thought the terrorists would have to go hiking out into some field to do it.
Anyway, if this lovely idea has the same customer satisfaction rate and successful service rate as Paypal (also Elon's), people are going to be landing on the damn moon the hard way quite often when this thing malfunctions.
Police that have been at their job for years know damn well who commits crimes and who is carrying weapons. Before, their hands were tied to do anything about it. They might get it wrong a small percentage of the time but the reason this program hasn't been instantly crushed is because it works. If you're some sort of outwardly seemingly high-risk anything (age, race, socioeconomic level, clothing style, sleep pattern, etc) then stop living in a high crime area where people specifically just like you are committing crimes. That will stop drawing suspicion to yourself, obviously.
They're already so far beyond stupid for doing it anyway, this is beside the point. If your phone gets stolen or your phone has a hardware failure, your wallet is toast and there goes all your money permanently. Some apps have ways to move your wallet file from a PC to a phone but then it shouldn't have a problem with random number generation since the encrypted wallet came from a PC.
I don't know about that. People stupid enough to drink a 52 oz, 1000+ calorie drink packed with sugar might not have the best brain to begin with and probably have all around terrible health practices as well.
A much younger friend of mine just got mega busted for random Facebook stupidity. Well, random stupidity that was posted about on Facebook but it totally makes me realize what's going on. I'm in my twenties (lol not oversharing) and I'm stuck right between people older than me not using it anyway and people younger than me sharing way the hell too much and not being remotely cautious about privacy. I do still remember in middle school when my first friend got dialup and after 25 minutes, MTV streamed half of a music video WITHOUT PUTTING IN A CD OR DVD! OMG! So I was pretty much there at the beginning but now I can't live without computers or the internet so I think I'm right there in that sweet spot of seeing every internet scam and problem and privacy issue and data leak that there has ever been but I'm not too old to just avoid it all.
This wasn't a story about a dog getting a bad connection because a mountain that google owns was viewing wireless data. So disappointing. Seriously, who wrote that technically correct but stylistically garbage headline?
They both blatantly copied each other constantly, misused patents, misused lawsuits and injunctions, etc. All these individual little patent disputes are really annoying. They should each be barred from suing each other for anything that happened prior to a certain date so we can be done with this. Then, if they want, they can just duke it out in a paintball game or Mario Party 9 or something.
So instead of workers who haven't leaked data for years, they're going to replace them with ohhhh let's say me for example. I'd leak the shit out of everything offensive and wrong except I'd do it completely anonymously and mega stealthy so they'd never catch me. Then there's the other thousand people who would do the same that are applying for jobs there to replace them. Then, to top it all off, a bunch of people who currently have access to basically everything are now really pissed off. Yay, time for more leaks followed soon after by more leaks.
So all data on a gigantic drive is written to one tiny little flash zone first the majority of the time and that flash memory can only take about 2000 write operations. Great idea. It's guaranteed to fry in 6 months of normal use.
The embedded flash plugin was a disaster. Pages still display incorrectly. Scripts still run incorrectly. It's still a privacy catastrophe. Then they store passwords in plaintext and stand by it? I swear, Microsoft's Windows 8 team designed Chrome as one giant troll or something,
Smartphones? I don't think so. Limbs, definitely because that would allow great levels of fine detailed control but really, phones? Do they not hire market research companies or do they just not give a damn? I don't care if it's clear or flexible or has a resolution that they pretend is the same as my retina or is 3D or has a projector. Make is indestructible and waterproof but not a slow, clunky, heavy piece of crap. One giant slate of synthetic sapphire with an OLED, is that to much to ask?
So instead of helping fix the corrupt government, environmental problems, and industrial chain problems we're going to give third world people these so they can run internet scams and probably try to turn it into a bomb. Great idea.
Amen to that. The exact, proper advice in this given circumstance is:
Stop using Firefox version 17 in the tor bundle (which was 6 tor bundles ago), don't turn Javascript back on (since it's off by default), and a quick reminder that Tor isn't very platform-specific at all. The article states word for word that this attack could have affected Linux and OSx just as easily.
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"consumers will get a less relevant and diverse Internet experience"
Oh yeah, it's so much worse of an internet experience when I finally get a big scoop full of get your damn stalker ads out my face served up on a silver platter. Poor me. How will I ever survive looking at lolcats without a flashing banner showing all the crap I just searched for on Tiger Direct?
But how are you going to drive to Goodwill and buy a non-networked light bulb system aka a lamp for $1 if you can't find your keys cuz your house is dark because you're an Apple-tard? Didn't think of that, did you?
Has network connection = can be hacked. That's a law of physics. If you don't want your [insert device here] to get hacked, make sure it doesn't have any form of networking capabilities. If you're still on the fence, go watch Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex.
I'm thinking everyone on the internet is going to stop thinking Obama is a secret muslim and start thinking he's a secret Republican. That's because NOBODY will EVER vote democrat again after like 6 scandals in a row plus this bullshit and then dancing around it. He makes Bush look good by comparison. If you think this NSA nonsense is a nail in the coffin, remember that he didn't do a damn thing about the environment. As soon as that medical care bill takes full effect and everyone's rates triple, there won't be another democrat in office for 5 terms minimum. People don't forget stuff like this. Piles and piles and piles of stuff like this.
Wrooooooong. Ask any analyst or corporate professional if Apple should have done better without Steve Jobs. Hell yes! It's just that Tim Cook is worse. He "Dell and HPed" the company by cutting quality to make more profits, as if they needed more. While Tim Cook doesn't treat his staff like crap or have a suicidally detrimental unreasonable fear of non-passive cooling like Steve Jobs did but he is definitely running the company like a crazy person who has no idea what he's doing.
Apple was doomed to fail without someone who knows what they're doing at the helm simply because of how they got popular. Their target audience is still rich douchebags who want to show off their pretend "top of the line" product that allegedly has some sort of quality reputation but in reality just has a high price. Their "it just works" and "anyone can sit down and use our products" died around the same time as iTunes 8. Their iCloud and iTunes 11 software makes Symantec Backup Exec look user friendly by comparison and it's about as resource efficient too. People are starting to REALLY hate their software. If you look at the iPhone 1, 2, and 3, every one was twice as likely to have the screen break than the one before it according to real insurance and warranty numbers.
Their apple computers were for morons who didn't know how to use the internet or a computer in general but now that they're realizing they're falling for e-mail scams and catching viruses, they're regretting their 4x overpriced Mac they just bought. Their dominance of media editing ended with the invention of Cuda and Europe is about to kick them while they're down about software bundling.
So their products are overpriced, not respected anymore, their software is a joke, their support quality is slipping, and rich people are starting to realize that Samsung is superior in every way. Good luck with that, Apple. THAT is the real reason Apple is doomed.
Just because it isn't "required" doesn't mean it won't spy on you while the console is off (or on). Considering it's build directly in, that actually doesn't mean anything. It will boot up or play a game without recognizing a person? You still have to tape over it then. And "not requiring" is still quite different than "we're not spying on you with it."
"not interfering with land needs because it would essentially follow major highways"
That makes them MUCH easier to blow up with a roadside bomb or car bomb. How convenient. And I thought the terrorists would have to go hiking out into some field to do it.
Anyway, if this lovely idea has the same customer satisfaction rate and successful service rate as Paypal (also Elon's), people are going to be landing on the damn moon the hard way quite often when this thing malfunctions.
Police that have been at their job for years know damn well who commits crimes and who is carrying weapons. Before, their hands were tied to do anything about it. They might get it wrong a small percentage of the time but the reason this program hasn't been instantly crushed is because it works. If you're some sort of outwardly seemingly high-risk anything (age, race, socioeconomic level, clothing style, sleep pattern, etc) then stop living in a high crime area where people specifically just like you are committing crimes. That will stop drawing suspicion to yourself, obviously.
*passing through security* Oh this? It's just my knife of a stick.
Seriously, how did that happen? Morons!
They're already so far beyond stupid for doing it anyway, this is beside the point. If your phone gets stolen or your phone has a hardware failure, your wallet is toast and there goes all your money permanently. Some apps have ways to move your wallet file from a PC to a phone but then it shouldn't have a problem with random number generation since the encrypted wallet came from a PC.
I don't know about that. People stupid enough to drink a 52 oz, 1000+ calorie drink packed with sugar might not have the best brain to begin with and probably have all around terrible health practices as well.
If that's true, that explains why it's so expensive to buy a vowel on wheel of fortune.
A much younger friend of mine just got mega busted for random Facebook stupidity. Well, random stupidity that was posted about on Facebook but it totally makes me realize what's going on. I'm in my twenties (lol not oversharing) and I'm stuck right between people older than me not using it anyway and people younger than me sharing way the hell too much and not being remotely cautious about privacy. I do still remember in middle school when my first friend got dialup and after 25 minutes, MTV streamed half of a music video WITHOUT PUTTING IN A CD OR DVD! OMG! So I was pretty much there at the beginning but now I can't live without computers or the internet so I think I'm right there in that sweet spot of seeing every internet scam and problem and privacy issue and data leak that there has ever been but I'm not too old to just avoid it all.
Tormail! Oh wait...
Yo dawg. I heard you like bad connections so we found you a dog that has a bad connection, dawg.
This wasn't a story about a dog getting a bad connection because a mountain that google owns was viewing wireless data. So disappointing. Seriously, who wrote that technically correct but stylistically garbage headline?
You forgot, they also have to strap it to a blimp.
They both blatantly copied each other constantly, misused patents, misused lawsuits and injunctions, etc. All these individual little patent disputes are really annoying. They should each be barred from suing each other for anything that happened prior to a certain date so we can be done with this. Then, if they want, they can just duke it out in a paintball game or Mario Party 9 or something.
So instead of workers who haven't leaked data for years, they're going to replace them with ohhhh let's say me for example. I'd leak the shit out of everything offensive and wrong except I'd do it completely anonymously and mega stealthy so they'd never catch me. Then there's the other thousand people who would do the same that are applying for jobs there to replace them. Then, to top it all off, a bunch of people who currently have access to basically everything are now really pissed off. Yay, time for more leaks followed soon after by more leaks.
So all data on a gigantic drive is written to one tiny little flash zone first the majority of the time and that flash memory can only take about 2000 write operations. Great idea. It's guaranteed to fry in 6 months of normal use.
The embedded flash plugin was a disaster. Pages still display incorrectly. Scripts still run incorrectly. It's still a privacy catastrophe. Then they store passwords in plaintext and stand by it? I swear, Microsoft's Windows 8 team designed Chrome as one giant troll or something,
Smartphones? I don't think so. Limbs, definitely because that would allow great levels of fine detailed control but really, phones? Do they not hire market research companies or do they just not give a damn? I don't care if it's clear or flexible or has a resolution that they pretend is the same as my retina or is 3D or has a projector. Make is indestructible and waterproof but not a slow, clunky, heavy piece of crap. One giant slate of synthetic sapphire with an OLED, is that to much to ask?
So instead of helping fix the corrupt government, environmental problems, and industrial chain problems we're going to give third world people these so they can run internet scams and probably try to turn it into a bomb. Great idea.
I found them helpful already just reading about them. Now I'm never going with Comcast ever.
Amen to that. The exact, proper advice in this given circumstance is:
Stop using Firefox version 17 in the tor bundle (which was 6 tor bundles ago), don't turn Javascript back on (since it's off by default), and a quick reminder that Tor isn't very platform-specific at all. The article states word for word that this attack could have affected Linux and OSx just as easily.