Same, 42" 1080p - but it's a monitor - not a TV, it cannot receive broadcast signals. In my country if you have a TV in the house you have to pay a TV license fee, since I don't watch broadcast TV at all I gave my 720p TV away and bought the monitor. To be honest it gathers dust, we rarely watch anything on it, my wife and I both have PC's with multiple monitors, and we tend to watch stuffs on them. Perhaps it will change when we have kids, but at the moment it's simply there in case we need it.
viperidaenz - said it perfectly in the post below.
An NSA contractor stole highly classified documents, but before he could sell them, they got stolen.
Because he had no other reason to take home classified documents.
I've worked in banks, you cannot remove data from a PC without the drive being encrypted first. That drive can only be read by the banks PC's, and there are layers of security etc around that as well. Who can actually take data, who can read that data, etc. etc.
Most of the banks data is personal, not fucking classified. I would expect a much higher level of security at a holding facility for classified data.
If this contractor got classified stuff out of there and onto his home PC he was...
a) An idot
b) Wanting to sell the documents.
No, they're just wise enough to see through the media hype and the crap. Something has to fuel the war machine my friend, and if it's not a war, then the fear of a war will do. I am particularly concerned about North Korea at this time, Syria is winding down thanks to Russia's help (who were invited), Afghanistan is a lost cause and America needs to start another war. Gere is an interesting stat, America has been at peace (not fighting a war) for 20 years since it was formed. 93%. You want to know who really runs America? Those people who profit from the wars.
I can see being able to power on a night light or mobile without mom or day entering the room might be positive thing too
Fair enough, and I actually like the idea, I might build one for my child (when I have one).
I don't however, think the AI part is a good idea, in fact I think it's horrible! With all the hacks happening all over the place and data leaking like a sieve I would not want my child's data being traded on some underground marketplace, thank you very much. How long do you think it will take security researchers to crack that sucker?
This is/. - I thought SOMEONE would have thought to write a "bot" to add comments FOR net neutrality, although considering it's got a fucken API I doubt the program could be called a "bot". Really starting to hate that word btw. Personally in my country net neutrality was never in place, you can surf netflix and facebook even when all other websites are reduced to a crawl, which is great for netflix but I fucken hate facebook (but it does stop the wife bitching, so can't really complain).
Johannesburg, and it was a LONG time ago, at least 10 years, probably more, if you require and exact date I can drop her a mail, I am sure she would remember the date better than I.
Erm, I think all the banks and insurance and other financial companies running on IBM mainframes with a gadjillion lines of robust, thoroughly tested COBOL code care a great deal. The reason IBM has so many people in India is that they are pretty much the only country still teaching people COBOL. My sister was in the last class to teach COBOL before they stopped the classes.
I don't know why COBOL gets so much hate from other programmers, for what it was created to do it does a damn good job. I don't know of any other languages that can take a string and split it up as easily as COBOL does.
It's easy to say "rewrite it in XYZ language" but you need to understand the amount of testing that goes into banking software (generally of course, there are exceptions). Yes, you can rewrite it relatively inexpensively, but after all the testing and crap it turns into a lot of man hours, and man hours means money, and the people who you want testing need to know the business backwards, so they are expensive man hours. And that is why there is still a gadjillion lines of COBOL doing your banking instead of a java applet.
Erm, actually I did (showing my age here) and my parents never upgraded it, eventually all I could do was code on it. Which looking back might have been a good thing. But it did have a reset button. The 286 came out shortly afterwards which was annoying.
South Africa - here is an article about it, but to summarize, politicians and a politically well connected family were facing increasing media attention about controversial contracts and hired a British PR firm to attempt to distract everyone from it. They were fueling the already high tensions regarding race and wealth distribution.
Since we haven't seen the ads nor the evidence that they were Russian in origin, I can't offer a definitive opinion, and neither can you
I wasn't, because they can't prove it and never will be able to, either for or against. But the allegations and rumours will persist for years, same as the shit that Bell Pottinger got up to. The problem is the racial tensions in my country end up killing people. The Russian rumour mongering will only lead to World War 3, which is not that bad:-)
In other words, they looked for the issues causing division in America, and hammered on them.
This same shit happened in my country, but the real reason was to divert public attention from politicians looting the treasury. It's not always the dasterdly Russians at the door. What I love the most is that there is actually no proof.
The site believes the ads were probably purchased by Russian entities
Go into any court in the world and say "probably" and you are going to be shown the door, but in the court of public opinion it's proof enough.
There is no proof, and there probably never will be, just a bunch of people who are unhappy with Trump as president and heaping shit on the fire.
Considering the reaction when you say "I would have voted for Trump instead of Hillary" from people I bet a LOT of people who voted Trump are keeping it to themselves, and I am not even in the USA. But considering that he IS your president, enough people wanted change and voted for him. Whats really fucked up is that the USA is supposed to be the shining light of democracy, yet so many of your people reject your own democratically elected leader.
Their core business is not protecting data, it's gathering data. Which they seem pretty good at. The fact that it's sensitive data and *should* be protected, seems to have escaped them.
I disagree, computers did, and still do, have a reset button. Control-alt-delete is a SOFTWARE reset. Not a hardware reset which is what the reset button is for. If you were doing some type of low level coding that froze the underlying operating system so control-alt-delete was not working, your last resort was resetting the hardware. Its only in todays modern operating systems that it has become a method to login.
So fucking true, bank i worked for hired a mathematician to help with creating some complex algorithms, and to be honest, we did need him for that. At first we let him implement them, but after a while we just told him to give us the algorithm and we would do the coding around it. Which worked well for a while, until he decided to go to a year long prayer thing in the US? Never did figure out how someone like that got stuck on religion?
Sigh, the reason they slap computers into everything is that it has become more cost effective to do so. It's cheaper to take a generic 8 bit CPU and program it to be a calculator, a memory stick, a microwave or dishwasher than it is to build custom circuits for each. It's that fucken simple. It's not going to go away, in fact it's going to get a lot "worse", if you consider that a bad thing. What's annoying me about it is the whole IOT part which is getting shoved down our throats, whether we want it or not. I don't mind the general concept of IOT, I have an issue with proprietary devices circumventing my firewall to "phone home" and how inherently insecure they are proving to be, on top of the lack of updates (blueborne is but a recent example). Hence my not so newfound hobby - electronics! Will roll my own IOT devices, thank you very much.
Wahahahahahaha, thank you, it's been a long day and I needed some comic relief.
Not sure what world / universe you live in, but (most) humans don't work like that.
My *best* friend and I still get into arguments about NVidia vs ATI, when the conversation starts getting a bit heated (yet again) I have to remind him that we agreed to disagree and to talk about something else. It might be a crap example, but I am just trying to point out that humans will find *something* to disagree about.
Well in my country we have regulations governing the storage of sensitive data, even before you can start storing it the software has to be certified that it meets (or exceeds) the given criteria for the type of data you want to store. Banking details is right up there next to top level security as far as the regulations are concerned. Worked on sports betting software and was handed the compliance document and told to go through it and make the software compliant where ever it was missing stuffs. This was BEFORE we even tried to get it certified of course, so to stress test it while we waited for them to get around to certifying it (took a year, and a LOT of money) they sent a team to Zimbabwe and they ran it there, since Zimbabwe's got fuck all regulations (or if they do it's not enforced).
To me this should be SOP for all software storing sensitive information.
Well Robert Jordan dropped dead before he finished The Wheel of Time, and it got finished anyway (and IMHO the last couple of books are better, but then I like Brandon Sanderson's writing). What annoyed me the most is that while he was still alive (and with WOT unfinished) he started writing prequels! Very annoying, but then I don't think he knew how to finish off his own series, if that is the case then even bigger kudos to Sanderson.
He's also not thinking about bandwidth, the Southern Hemisphere in general has pretty shitty internet (although I am sure there are exceptions, as with anything).
Agreed, was using it for some code I was messing around with and the fucking thing kept changing the extensions, probably because it was trying to keep me "safe" from my own fucking code. Which considering some of the stuff I've written is not always a bad thing, but it was bloody annoying.
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Yeah, like they did in the Korean war, the very war which caused the whole "North Korea" and "South Korea" instead of just "Korea".
Same, 42" 1080p - but it's a monitor - not a TV, it cannot receive broadcast signals. In my country if you have a TV in the house you have to pay a TV license fee, since I don't watch broadcast TV at all I gave my 720p TV away and bought the monitor. To be honest it gathers dust, we rarely watch anything on it, my wife and I both have PC's with multiple monitors, and we tend to watch stuffs on them. Perhaps it will change when we have kids, but at the moment it's simply there in case we need it.
I've worked in banks, you cannot remove data from a PC without the drive being encrypted first. That drive can only be read by the banks PC's, and there are layers of security etc around that as well. Who can actually take data, who can read that data, etc. etc.
Most of the banks data is personal, not fucking classified. I would expect a much higher level of security at a holding facility for classified data.
If this contractor got classified stuff out of there and onto his home PC he was...
a) An idot
b) Wanting to sell the documents.
No, they're just wise enough to see through the media hype and the crap. Something has to fuel the war machine my friend, and if it's not a war, then the fear of a war will do. I am particularly concerned about North Korea at this time, Syria is winding down thanks to Russia's help (who were invited), Afghanistan is a lost cause and America needs to start another war. Gere is an interesting stat, America has been at peace (not fighting a war) for 20 years since it was formed. 93%. You want to know who really runs America? Those people who profit from the wars.
Fair enough, and I actually like the idea, I might build one for my child (when I have one).
I don't however, think the AI part is a good idea, in fact I think it's horrible! With all the hacks happening all over the place and data leaking like a sieve I would not want my child's data being traded on some underground marketplace, thank you very much. How long do you think it will take security researchers to crack that sucker?
This is /. - I thought SOMEONE would have thought to write a "bot" to add comments FOR net neutrality, although considering it's got a fucken API I doubt the program could be called a "bot". Really starting to hate that word btw. Personally in my country net neutrality was never in place, you can surf netflix and facebook even when all other websites are reduced to a crawl, which is great for netflix but I fucken hate facebook (but it does stop the wife bitching, so can't really complain).
That will never happen, it's the second oldest profession in the world.
Johannesburg, and it was a LONG time ago, at least 10 years, probably more, if you require and exact date I can drop her a mail, I am sure she would remember the date better than I.
Erm, I think all the banks and insurance and other financial companies running on IBM mainframes with a gadjillion lines of robust, thoroughly tested COBOL code care a great deal. The reason IBM has so many people in India is that they are pretty much the only country still teaching people COBOL. My sister was in the last class to teach COBOL before they stopped the classes.
I don't know why COBOL gets so much hate from other programmers, for what it was created to do it does a damn good job. I don't know of any other languages that can take a string and split it up as easily as COBOL does.
It's easy to say "rewrite it in XYZ language" but you need to understand the amount of testing that goes into banking software (generally of course, there are exceptions). Yes, you can rewrite it relatively inexpensively, but after all the testing and crap it turns into a lot of man hours, and man hours means money, and the people who you want testing need to know the business backwards, so they are expensive man hours. And that is why there is still a gadjillion lines of COBOL doing your banking instead of a java applet.
Sounds like facebook.
Fucksake learn to spell! It's their network, which is over there in that country.
Erm, actually I did (showing my age here) and my parents never upgraded it, eventually all I could do was code on it. Which looking back might have been a good thing. But it did have a reset button. The 286 came out shortly afterwards which was annoying.
South Africa - here is an article about it, but to summarize, politicians and a politically well connected family were facing increasing media attention about controversial contracts and hired a British PR firm to attempt to distract everyone from it. They were fueling the already high tensions regarding race and wealth distribution.
I wasn't, because they can't prove it and never will be able to, either for or against. But the allegations and rumours will persist for years, same as the shit that Bell Pottinger got up to. The problem is the racial tensions in my country end up killing people. The Russian rumour mongering will only lead to World War 3, which is not that bad :-)
This same shit happened in my country, but the real reason was to divert public attention from politicians looting the treasury. It's not always the dasterdly Russians at the door. What I love the most is that there is actually no proof.
Go into any court in the world and say "probably" and you are going to be shown the door, but in the court of public opinion it's proof enough.
There is no proof, and there probably never will be, just a bunch of people who are unhappy with Trump as president and heaping shit on the fire.
Considering the reaction when you say "I would have voted for Trump instead of Hillary" from people I bet a LOT of people who voted Trump are keeping it to themselves, and I am not even in the USA. But considering that he IS your president, enough people wanted change and voted for him. Whats really fucked up is that the USA is supposed to be the shining light of democracy, yet so many of your people reject your own democratically elected leader.
Their core business is not protecting data, it's gathering data. Which they seem pretty good at. The fact that it's sensitive data and *should* be protected, seems to have escaped them.
I disagree, computers did, and still do, have a reset button. Control-alt-delete is a SOFTWARE reset. Not a hardware reset which is what the reset button is for. If you were doing some type of low level coding that froze the underlying operating system so control-alt-delete was not working, your last resort was resetting the hardware. Its only in todays modern operating systems that it has become a method to login.
So fucking true, bank i worked for hired a mathematician to help with creating some complex algorithms, and to be honest, we did need him for that. At first we let him implement them, but after a while we just told him to give us the algorithm and we would do the coding around it. Which worked well for a while, until he decided to go to a year long prayer thing in the US? Never did figure out how someone like that got stuck on religion?
Sigh, the reason they slap computers into everything is that it has become more cost effective to do so. It's cheaper to take a generic 8 bit CPU and program it to be a calculator, a memory stick, a microwave or dishwasher than it is to build custom circuits for each. It's that fucken simple. It's not going to go away, in fact it's going to get a lot "worse", if you consider that a bad thing. What's annoying me about it is the whole IOT part which is getting shoved down our throats, whether we want it or not. I don't mind the general concept of IOT, I have an issue with proprietary devices circumventing my firewall to "phone home" and how inherently insecure they are proving to be, on top of the lack of updates (blueborne is but a recent example). Hence my not so newfound hobby - electronics! Will roll my own IOT devices, thank you very much.
Wahahahahahaha, thank you, it's been a long day and I needed some comic relief.
Not sure what world / universe you live in, but (most) humans don't work like that.
My *best* friend and I still get into arguments about NVidia vs ATI, when the conversation starts getting a bit heated (yet again) I have to remind him that we agreed to disagree and to talk about something else. It might be a crap example, but I am just trying to point out that humans will find *something* to disagree about.
Well in my country we have regulations governing the storage of sensitive data, even before you can start storing it the software has to be certified that it meets (or exceeds) the given criteria for the type of data you want to store. Banking details is right up there next to top level security as far as the regulations are concerned. Worked on sports betting software and was handed the compliance document and told to go through it and make the software compliant where ever it was missing stuffs. This was BEFORE we even tried to get it certified of course, so to stress test it while we waited for them to get around to certifying it (took a year, and a LOT of money) they sent a team to Zimbabwe and they ran it there, since Zimbabwe's got fuck all regulations (or if they do it's not enforced).
To me this should be SOP for all software storing sensitive information.
Well Robert Jordan dropped dead before he finished The Wheel of Time, and it got finished anyway (and IMHO the last couple of books are better, but then I like Brandon Sanderson's writing). What annoyed me the most is that while he was still alive (and with WOT unfinished) he started writing prequels! Very annoying, but then I don't think he knew how to finish off his own series, if that is the case then even bigger kudos to Sanderson.
Well, by your definition Apple is a startup.
He's also not thinking about bandwidth, the Southern Hemisphere in general has pretty shitty internet (although I am sure there are exceptions, as with anything).
Maybe not quite there yet, but it's coming
Agreed, was using it for some code I was messing around with and the fucking thing kept changing the extensions, probably because it was trying to keep me "safe" from my own fucking code. Which considering some of the stuff I've written is not always a bad thing, but it was bloody annoying.