Well, it might just be a sign of the government being slow on the uptake of new things. Twitter has been around for what, 6 years now, and in the common lexicon for maybe 3?
But at least Twitter desires at least the appearance of not wanting to kneel to the government's whims on this. Lets see the same numbers for Verizon or Comcast. I am sure we would find those numbers appalling.
Also, it shows that 25% were not granted. Does it show for what reason, were they illegal requests or what? This is why we need to courts to be deciding what is a legal request and not a three letter agency just pulling as much data about anyone they want to abuse for any reason.
Considering no Apple product is made in the US (or quite likely any other phone), I suppose we should be... hell I have no idea where this takes the idea.
Lets change every instance of bitcoin to bacon in your post.
Bacon offers anonymity, but isn't backed by any government
I'm not sure that's a bad thing anymore given what governments around the world are doing to people these days. I wish it was feasible to move all my money to bacon, honestly. Banks and governments can't freeze it at will.
and has seen high-profile hacks and collapses in value.
This is misleading as all hell. Bacon itself has never been hacked. And pretty much every non-electronic currency collapsed in value in 2008. I'm not sure bacon did. It's new, but it's totally usable and stable enough.
Having used bacon personally for several things, I have nothing bad to say about it except that it's a little bit slow for transfers to happen. Still way faster than a bank and it operates 24/365.
... Or maybe they just don't want their customers to feel like HP screwed them.
They both HP hardware, what did they expect?
I am not familiar with high end licensing schemes, but I have a feeling HP would make more money on support contracts for these behemoths than selling them new hardware. Failing that, I am sure a pretty good percentage of customers getting screwed on Itanium would take their support contract money to other vendors when it comes time to buy new hardware.
I wouldn't pin the insanely large amount of crap enterprise software being tied so tight to Oracle as being solely Oracle's fault. Bloated enterprise software will always find terrible platforms to become tied to. Companies like Oracle, IBM, Microsoft live off of vendor lock in and encourage it; but the managers at large software projects seem to want lock in as well.
I could never really understand this effect, even large organizations that moan about how horrible it is to be locked in to Microsoft and Oracle willfully dive right in to it even when starting new projects. Fortunately I now work at a small company with management direction on the best product for the money, including looking forward at being gouged by support contracts long term.
We send rice directly to Haiti. All that did was destroy their rice farms. Meaning more poor people to go on food aid. We destroyed one of the larger parts of their economy with this aid.
Was that before or after all the natural disasters that hit Haiti? If it was post disasters, then it would be hard to claim that it was our aid and not the disasters that destroyed their agricultural economy. I'm seriously asking, not trying to be a smart*ss.
Either way, it brings into question why we are sending them something they apparently have plenty of. Why find out what they really need, and send that instead?
I suppose the answer is because America has lots of cheap wheat and rice and its inexpensive to ship it in bulk. So it makes it look like we are doing a lot of good when we send X tons of an item a country doesn't need.
Isnt salting and hashing a standard practice for passwords even for low security stuff? With something as high profile as Linkedin, how did it get missed? Arent there audits,etc to check for this type of stuff? Isnt it similar to releasing a range of cars, all of which have the same key (or something similar. Analogies are my weak point, as is the English language)
Just because something is standard practice means it is followed. It seems to me like security practices are the first to be thrown out because "well none of the users will notice it anyhow." Best security is to assume you are going to get hacked or suffer data theft and design the system such that nothing critical can be gleaned from looking at a simple dump of the database. The fact that they got caught on something so horrifically basic is inexcusable.
The CTO should probably be updating his resume. Oh sorry it is on LinkedIn and his account was broken in to and his work history was replaced with "I AM A DUMBASS".
And before someone comes in with "nobody expects the CxO level to know this crap"; if you are at that level you don't get to pass the buck. Outside security verification by professionals is crucial for any system of this size.
I think it would help more to go to a criminal justice system where there is only a crime if there is a victim. Then instead of punishment for its own sake the guilty party has to restore the victim. If they are incapable they would become the property ie slave, of the victim. This is allowed by the 13th amendment.
Correct. Unless there's a very strong correlation that one behavior overwhelmingly leads to another that is a crime, then using one's research to attempt to predict a crime will lead to nothing more than the police showing up to essentially ask you if you're going to commit a crime. Even if you were, you simply say, "I'm sorry officer, but I have no legal obligation to speak with you on this or any other matter."
This sounds like a bigger money sink-hole than "the war on drugs". If this ever became law I'll be sure to purposely draw suspicion several times a day. Eventually I'll be able to bleed the entire police budget on these trivial calls... and I hope everyone does the same.
Just think of the increase in parking fines, speeding tickets for going 1 over the limit, etc, etc, required to pay for this garbage. Nothing is free and if this is how you wish to allocate police resources then you are a complete failure.
And then as they collect your info into nice neat reports, "Oops sorry that got leaked to the public."
Suddenly you no longer have a job.
Oh look this politician has looked at porn, suddenly he can no longer be elected. Oh look you went to an online dating site, please deposit $10,000 or the results will be sent to your wife.
There are a lot bigger issues that policemen wasting their time here.
She is also accusing him of hacking into her website because he "... is a hacker and tech expert and knows everything imaginable about computers. He would certainly know how to take down 14 of Atty4kids’ websites..."
From a post on her batshit insane rambling website.
Jay is a hacker and tech expert and knows everything imaginable about computers. He would certainly know how to take down 14 of Atty4kids’ websites with a single accusation. He would also know that images can be purchased through licensing, if he did not truly own the image motivating him to slice her jugular. He undoubtedly knows how to kill a server with a Trojan virus, though I’m not suggesting he did this to a mom of three little boys, one with special needs.
That works unless your credit card company allows no more than two ACH payments per month. I seem to remember some Discover cards issued by GE Capital having that restriction.
A banking organization that doesn't want to be paid, and under some circumstances will not accept payment.
And people wonder why world's economy is fucked.
However, having worked in the US banking industry and seeing what a complete clusterfuck the ACH system is; I can see why they would rather not take lots of little payments in that fashion.
That works unless your credit card company allows no more than two ACH payments per month. I seem to remember some Discover cards issued by GE Capital having that restriction.
A banking organization that doesn't want to be paid, and under some circumstances will not accept payment.
Imagine what that would be like of a successful and safe flight of Dragon carrying people to and from ISS. SpaceX may even beat a crewed Orion (so far they are ahead in terms of actually flying something). There are many critics saying it cannot be done, but reminds me back in usenet days, someone posted a story of a sci-fi author who noted names and home phone numbers of every journalist that denigrated Apollo program during 1960s. Then while really drunk while Neil and Buzz walked the surface of the moon, and in middle of the night he called these journalists on the phone, yelled, "Ya dumb son-of-a-bitch!" and hung up.
Anyone collecting names and phone numbers?
I am pretty sure Neil and Buzz were not drunk while they walked on the moon.
Slashdot Mirror
Or they could just have every sidebar link accompanied by a picture of a mostly naked celebrity.
Well, it might just be a sign of the government being slow on the uptake of new things. Twitter has been around for what, 6 years now, and in the common lexicon for maybe 3?
But at least Twitter desires at least the appearance of not wanting to kneel to the government's whims on this. Lets see the same numbers for Verizon or Comcast. I am sure we would find those numbers appalling.
Also, it shows that 25% were not granted. Does it show for what reason, were they illegal requests or what? This is why we need to courts to be deciding what is a legal request and not a three letter agency just pulling as much data about anyone they want to abuse for any reason.
Considering no Apple product is made in the US (or quite likely any other phone), I suppose we should be... hell I have no idea where this takes the idea.
Lets change every instance of bitcoin to bacon in your post.
I'm not sure that's a bad thing anymore given what governments around the world are doing to people these days. I wish it was feasible to move all my money to bacon, honestly. Banks and governments can't freeze it at will.
This is misleading as all hell. Bacon itself has never been hacked. And pretty much every non-electronic currency collapsed in value in 2008. I'm not sure bacon did. It's new, but it's totally usable and stable enough.
Having used bacon personally for several things, I have nothing bad to say about it except that it's a little bit slow for transfers to happen. Still way faster than a bank and it operates 24/365.
... Or maybe they just don't want their customers to feel like HP screwed them.
They both HP hardware, what did they expect?
I am not familiar with high end licensing schemes, but I have a feeling HP would make more money on support contracts for these behemoths than selling them new hardware. Failing that, I am sure a pretty good percentage of customers getting screwed on Itanium would take their support contract money to other vendors when it comes time to buy new hardware.
I wouldn't pin the insanely large amount of crap enterprise software being tied so tight to Oracle as being solely Oracle's fault. Bloated enterprise software will always find terrible platforms to become tied to. Companies like Oracle, IBM, Microsoft live off of vendor lock in and encourage it; but the managers at large software projects seem to want lock in as well.
I could never really understand this effect, even large organizations that moan about how horrible it is to be locked in to Microsoft and Oracle willfully dive right in to it even when starting new projects. Fortunately I now work at a small company with management direction on the best product for the money, including looking forward at being gouged by support contracts long term.
You forgot to adjust for inflation.
Inflation was not 40% in the last 10 years.
So, what's the functional difference between the two, now?
Strapping on a nice big engine
Such as the one that is a part of the Zvezda module?
Unlike space stations in science fiction, ISS is actually flying at 7km/s.
"By the end of 2012, broadcast televisionâ"
Broadcast what?
It's Spanish for television.
They do this for the same reason why both men's and women's magazines have sexy women on the covers.
I am not exactly sure what this reason is, however. Maybe because men design both?
This is amazing. I mean this is like something from The Onion. Except its real.
Fortunately, onions have sulfur not cyanide.
We send rice directly to Haiti. All that did was destroy their rice farms. Meaning more poor people to go on food aid. We destroyed one of the larger parts of their economy with this aid.
Was that before or after all the natural disasters that hit Haiti? If it was post disasters, then it would be hard to claim that it was our aid and not the disasters that destroyed their agricultural economy. I'm seriously asking, not trying to be a smart*ss.
Either way, it brings into question why we are sending them something they apparently have plenty of. Why find out what they really need, and send that instead?
I suppose the answer is because America has lots of cheap wheat and rice and its inexpensive to ship it in bulk. So it makes it look like we are doing a lot of good when we send X tons of an item a country doesn't need.
It is fitting that the interviewer was Terry Gross. I was thinking "gross" the entire time I read the interview.
Actually Rule 11 is:
11. All your carefully picked arguments can easily be ignored.
Actually this rather applies to the case as well.
Isnt salting and hashing a standard practice for passwords even for low security stuff?
With something as high profile as Linkedin, how did it get missed?
Arent there audits,etc to check for this type of stuff?
Isnt it similar to releasing a range of cars, all of which have the same key (or something similar. Analogies are my weak point, as is the English language)
Just because something is standard practice means it is followed. It seems to me like security practices are the first to be thrown out because "well none of the users will notice it anyhow." Best security is to assume you are going to get hacked or suffer data theft and design the system such that nothing critical can be gleaned from looking at a simple dump of the database. The fact that they got caught on something so horrifically basic is inexcusable.
The CTO should probably be updating his resume. Oh sorry it is on LinkedIn and his account was broken in to and his work history was replaced with "I AM A DUMBASS".
And before someone comes in with "nobody expects the CxO level to know this crap"; if you are at that level you don't get to pass the buck. Outside security verification by professionals is crucial for any system of this size.
I think it would help more to go to a criminal justice system where there is only a crime if there is a victim. Then instead of punishment for its own sake the guilty party has to restore the victim. If they are incapable they would become the property ie slave, of the victim. This is allowed by the 13th amendment.
What. The. Fuck.
Correct. Unless there's a very strong correlation that one behavior overwhelmingly leads to another that is a crime, then using one's research to attempt to predict a crime will lead to nothing more than the police showing up to essentially ask you if you're going to commit a crime. Even if you were, you simply say, "I'm sorry officer, but I have no legal obligation to speak with you on this or any other matter."
This sounds like a bigger money sink-hole than "the war on drugs". If this ever became law I'll be sure to purposely draw suspicion several times a day. Eventually I'll be able to bleed the entire police budget on these trivial calls... and I hope everyone does the same.
Just think of the increase in parking fines, speeding tickets for going 1 over the limit, etc, etc, required to pay for this garbage. Nothing is free and if this is how you wish to allocate police resources then you are a complete failure.
And then as they collect your info into nice neat reports, "Oops sorry that got leaked to the public."
Suddenly you no longer have a job.
Oh look this politician has looked at porn, suddenly he can no longer be elected. Oh look you went to an online dating site, please deposit $10,000 or the results will be sent to your wife.
There are a lot bigger issues that policemen wasting their time here.
Why is this on Slashdot again?
For the same reason there are booth babes at trade tech shows.
How is an IPA going to get people into orbit?
She is also accusing him of hacking into her website because he "... is a hacker and tech expert and knows everything imaginable about computers. He would certainly know how to take down 14 of Atty4kids’ websites..."
From a post on her batshit insane rambling website.
Jay is a hacker and tech expert and knows everything imaginable about computers. He would certainly know how to take down 14 of Atty4kids’ websites with a single accusation. He would also know that images can be purchased through licensing, if he did not truly own the image motivating him to slice her jugular. He undoubtedly knows how to kill a server with a Trojan virus, though I’m not suggesting he did this to a mom of three little boys, one with special needs.
And SHE is suing HIM for libel. Holy shit.
We might as well be calling the other CDC, as in the Center for Disease Control. In this case it is a mental disease.
That works unless your credit card company allows no more than two ACH payments per month. I seem to remember some Discover cards issued by GE Capital having that restriction.
A banking organization that doesn't want to be paid, and under some circumstances will not accept payment.
And people wonder why world's economy is fucked.
However, having worked in the US banking industry and seeing what a complete clusterfuck the ACH system is; I can see why they would rather not take lots of little payments in that fashion.
That works unless your credit card company allows no more than two ACH payments per month. I seem to remember some Discover cards issued by GE Capital having that restriction.
A banking organization that doesn't want to be paid, and under some circumstances will not accept payment.
And people wonder why world's economy is fucked.
Imagine what that would be like of a successful and safe flight of Dragon carrying people to and from ISS. SpaceX may even beat a crewed Orion (so far they are ahead in terms of actually flying something). There are many critics saying it cannot be done, but reminds me back in usenet days, someone posted a story of a sci-fi author who noted names and home phone numbers of every journalist that denigrated Apollo program during 1960s. Then while really drunk while Neil and Buzz walked the surface of the moon, and in middle of the night he called these journalists on the phone, yelled, "Ya dumb son-of-a-bitch!" and hung up.
Anyone collecting names and phone numbers?
I am pretty sure Neil and Buzz were not drunk while they walked on the moon.