Its confusing, and it usually feels hackney because its to close to reality to suspend disbelief your brain therefore is keeps pulling in everything else you know and remember from that time and saying "but this would never have happened because..."
That could be why I wasn't finding it entertaining; it's running into an uncanny valley issue in my head. But instead of with graphics, with the main characters.
Does it matter that the characters are based on real people from the 80's?
Kind of, yes. I know that the show is fictional, and it never says "based off of real experiences," but it gives the vibe that it is at least based off of real peoples experiences. But since I can't think of anyone having similar experiences in that time setting, it bothered me enough that the characters weren't consistent with their setting, such that all of the self inflicted drama never really garnered my interest.
I started watching Halt and Catch Fire, but it never really held my interest. I don't think that I made it past the 5th episode. The portends to be based on 1980's experiences, but I can't think of anyone with whom they could base the main characters off of.
A few years back some of my wife's friends were coming over and she told me to go to the store to get a Redbox DVD. I said no, we'll just stream the movie from Vudu. She said that Redbox was cheaper. I rebutted with the fact that the difference between streaming and Redbox was not worth my time to go to the store, stand in a queue, get the DVD, and then repeat the next day.
There have been enough times when I've gone into a store, seen a queue of people standing at the Redbox, I make my purchases, and the same queue of people are standing at the Redbox when I leave; that I'm pretty sure that Redbox will never be worth my time.
When iTunes first came out, nearly all of the music was DRM'd. And then to compete with Amazon Music, they killed it. Why do these people fear that Apple is trying really hard to reintroduce it?
Really? I've never had it recognize the key I hit to turn off the screen saver as the first key of the password. I'd love it if it did. Try using Num Lock to wake your machine.
The point of the comic is that almost all malware runs without admin privileges
That certainly wasn't true a few years ago. In my experience it always tries to do something which requires admin perms. That's how my family has caught onto the fact that something is a miss. They're not doing anything which should require admin perms, but would keep getting UAC prompts, which they would then deny.
If the submitter is proposing that the xkcd comic about having your admin account be separate from your user account, is ridiculous, then I'm ridiculous. All of my computers are setup with an admin account which very rarely ever gets logged into, and every family member gets their own account. That comic is not ridiculous, it's how your supposed to be setting up your computer (at least since Vista).
I've gotten my extended family to set up their computers like that, and have had some conversations about how it's saved their bacon.
It shouldn't take upwards of a minute to process the transaction where before it took seconds.
It takes the same amount of time, the difference is that you now are more aware of the amount of time to do the handshakes back and forth with the banks system. With swipe, the card reader reads your data, and then holds onto your data while doing the back and forth communication with the bank. While the reader was doing this, you were putting your card back in your wallet. But with PIN, the reader doesn't ever hold your data; it's a pass through device. It will only see encrypted data. But while this is going on, you can't put your card back in your wallet.
One of the things which turned me off to Steam was how they overwrote secure directory perms, to make it so that all users could modify folder, which only Administrators should be able to modify. Sorry Steam, you're insecure.
Are there a bunch of people for whom the 3D polarized glasses are specifically an issue?
It's been my experience, that the movie is fuzzier with 3D glasses. Both my wife and I had experience where we'd see a movie with her family in 3D, then go see it later on our own in 2D and were blown away the second time by how nice the film looked. Now we have kids and certainly don't have the time to see a movie multiple times in the theater, but because of our previous experience we always opt for 2D.
If you forecast that it's going to be sunny, and it rains, everyone is mad at you. If you forecast it'll rain, but it turns out sunny, people might be bothered, but aren't angry. So you over forecast rain predictions.
And then if you're running a free email service, and can recover some deleted items, but don't want to make promises about whatever internal garbage collection process you're using (and want the freedom to change it whenever you want), you say that you can never recover deleted items. That way if you legitimately can't recover it you can say that you never promised that you could. But then when one is recoverable, you can claim it good luck.
For all we know, a regression was introduced at just the right time, and items weren't getting garbage collected like they were supposed to, and Yahoo! was able to take advantage of that accident in this case.
the difference is that the psychological influence is more subtle in a sting - but it's still possible that the guy would never have done anything without FBI prodding.
The FBI didn't prod. He proposed, and they answered.
I have always found the American acceptance of entrapment to be perplexing.
We have very specifically crafted rules around what makes up entrapment, and what makes a sting. The FBI is very careful to follow these rules, because they don't want all of their hard work to get thrown up. Plus, I suspect, that they would rather be spending their effort on someone wanting to commit the crimes, not someone who isn't.
So these agents, paid with my tax dollars, recruited, trained, encouraged, and entrapped a teenager in a make believe crime when he would have otherwise been studying for his midterms.
I doubt he would have been studying for his midterms. He would have just looked for another source of a way to attach infidels.
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They're the character which exist for indentation.
I actually have yet to see a report on a hack for any websites that I use.
Its confusing, and it usually feels hackney because its to close to reality to suspend disbelief your brain therefore is keeps pulling in everything else you know and remember from that time and saying "but this would never have happened because..."
That could be why I wasn't finding it entertaining; it's running into an uncanny valley issue in my head. But instead of with graphics, with the main characters.
Does it matter that the characters are based on real people from the 80's?
Kind of, yes. I know that the show is fictional, and it never says "based off of real experiences," but it gives the vibe that it is at least based off of real peoples experiences. But since I can't think of anyone having similar experiences in that time setting, it bothered me enough that the characters weren't consistent with their setting, such that all of the self inflicted drama never really garnered my interest.
I started watching Halt and Catch Fire, but it never really held my interest. I don't think that I made it past the 5th episode. The portends to be based on 1980's experiences, but I can't think of anyone with whom they could base the main characters off of.
Slashdot is an antisocial media site.
Public assurances, do not a legal action make.
A few years back some of my wife's friends were coming over and she told me to go to the store to get a Redbox DVD. I said no, we'll just stream the movie from Vudu. She said that Redbox was cheaper. I rebutted with the fact that the difference between streaming and Redbox was not worth my time to go to the store, stand in a queue, get the DVD, and then repeat the next day.
There have been enough times when I've gone into a store, seen a queue of people standing at the Redbox, I make my purchases, and the same queue of people are standing at the Redbox when I leave; that I'm pretty sure that Redbox will never be worth my time.
If your current user isn't an Administrator, this doesn't provide the attacker any additional privileges.
When iTunes first came out, nearly all of the music was DRM'd. And then to compete with Amazon Music, they killed it. Why do these people fear that Apple is trying really hard to reintroduce it?
Yes, it's an option. I just have had the files for about 10 years now, and this is the first time it's been an issue.
Here's the source: Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Loss of music and video.
Really? I've never had it recognize the key I hit to turn off the screen saver as the first key of the password. I'd love it if it did. Try using Num Lock to wake your machine.
The only issues I've had with Windows 10 is that the Anniversary update won't install because I have some DRM licensed wma files.
The point of the comic is that almost all malware runs without admin privileges
That certainly wasn't true a few years ago. In my experience it always tries to do something which requires admin perms. That's how my family has caught onto the fact that something is a miss. They're not doing anything which should require admin perms, but would keep getting UAC prompts, which they would then deny.
If the submitter is proposing that the xkcd comic about having your admin account be separate from your user account, is ridiculous, then I'm ridiculous. All of my computers are setup with an admin account which very rarely ever gets logged into, and every family member gets their own account. That comic is not ridiculous, it's how your supposed to be setting up your computer (at least since Vista).
I've gotten my extended family to set up their computers like that, and have had some conversations about how it's saved their bacon.
It shouldn't take upwards of a minute to process the transaction where before it took seconds.
It takes the same amount of time, the difference is that you now are more aware of the amount of time to do the handshakes back and forth with the banks system. With swipe, the card reader reads your data, and then holds onto your data while doing the back and forth communication with the bank. While the reader was doing this, you were putting your card back in your wallet. But with PIN, the reader doesn't ever hold your data; it's a pass through device. It will only see encrypted data. But while this is going on, you can't put your card back in your wallet.
I've heard multiple podcasts on this, and given the number of threads on this page alone, I'd say that everyone loves to talk about it.
One of the things which turned me off to Steam was how they overwrote secure directory perms, to make it so that all users could modify folder, which only Administrators should be able to modify. Sorry Steam, you're insecure.
Are there a bunch of people for whom the 3D polarized glasses are specifically an issue?
It's been my experience, that the movie is fuzzier with 3D glasses. Both my wife and I had experience where we'd see a movie with her family in 3D, then go see it later on our own in 2D and were blown away the second time by how nice the film looked. Now we have kids and certainly don't have the time to see a movie multiple times in the theater, but because of our previous experience we always opt for 2D.
If you forecast that it's going to be sunny, and it rains, everyone is mad at you. If you forecast it'll rain, but it turns out sunny, people might be bothered, but aren't angry. So you over forecast rain predictions.
And then if you're running a free email service, and can recover some deleted items, but don't want to make promises about whatever internal garbage collection process you're using (and want the freedom to change it whenever you want), you say that you can never recover deleted items. That way if you legitimately can't recover it you can say that you never promised that you could. But then when one is recoverable, you can claim it good luck.
For all we know, a regression was introduced at just the right time, and items weren't getting garbage collected like they were supposed to, and Yahoo! was able to take advantage of that accident in this case.
the difference is that the psychological influence is more subtle in a sting - but it's still possible that the guy would never have done anything without FBI prodding.
The FBI didn't prod. He proposed, and they answered.
I have always found the American acceptance of entrapment to be perplexing.
We have very specifically crafted rules around what makes up entrapment, and what makes a sting. The FBI is very careful to follow these rules, because they don't want all of their hard work to get thrown up. Plus, I suspect, that they would rather be spending their effort on someone wanting to commit the crimes, not someone who isn't.
So these agents, paid with my tax dollars, recruited, trained, encouraged, and entrapped a teenager in a make believe crime when he would have otherwise been studying for his midterms.
I doubt he would have been studying for his midterms. He would have just looked for another source of a way to attach infidels.
I prefer compile time, type safe checked languages.