It doesn't say what the format was, but I suspect it was data stored on some medium like a hard drive. It does say they were "in possession of trade secrets," so they probably weren't charged for the 'contents of their brains.'
Not trying to be overly pedantic here, but wtf does OP mean in the first place by "I've been hacked twice"? Someone accessed one of his machines (the Commodore?) on the inside of his firewall through a regular ISP connection? Did someone "hack" into his Nest thermostat? If you don't understand basic equipment and security, I'm guessing you didn't find out you were "hacked" through a routine audit.
I know all the./ goons like to act like they're above it all, but Facebook (or any other "service") can only take what you hand over. I have a facebook account that I use because it's less complicated for my parents (who are ~70) than other 'sharing' services. If I go on vacation or they want to see pics of some event or something, it's way easier to send to them via facebook or instagram. You don't have to live your life on there, you don't have to give all of your intimate secrets to it, you don't have to respond to any ads or anything else. If FB is vacuuming up every detail of your life, it's because you're providing every detail of your life.
How do you figure? If that were the case, there'd be a lot bigger race for these companies to move there. Apparently some of these items are missing, or all of these Googles and Amazons would be moving to Mississippi. Apparently some of these states aren't very attractive, can't make moving to their state very attractive or something. I won't claim to know what these factors are, but there are clearly some advantages or all of these businesses wouldn't concentrate in specific locations.
If that's how they think they can win votes, by holding useless votes, then power to them.
Well, the house voted 50+ times (and failed) to repeal the ACA during the last administration. Now we've got Trump and the GOP owns both houses. Maybe it works?
The difference is facebook is (ostensibly) limited to the people with whom you are *friends*. With reddit, anyone can up/downvote you. Facebook doesn't have the anonymity. I doubt the impact would be remotely comparable.
It's a publicity stunt. Any real/profitable company already issues bonuses to their employees (and they don't issue press releases about it). Also, $2,500 is pretty sad. Didn't fucking WalMart do their big press release last week about issuing $1k bonuses? It's better than nothing, but it's pretty pathetic and definitely only for optics. I'd actually be embarrassed if my friends thought I had some awesome job at Apple and then they found out I got a shitty $2500 bonus (well, probably $1500 after taxes...and employees don't get to stash their cash overseas until the government cuts them a sweet deal to tax it at a dramatically lower rate).
You do know that broadband providers are entering new markets all the time, right? You may not have had as many choices 10, 5 or 3 years ago, but you will have more as time goes on. That's simply the trend.
I moved into my current apartment in Los Angeles (90025) less than six months ago (but checked again just now to see if anything had changed). No (serious) choice here. I can go with TWC ("Spectrum" now) or DSL/satellite ("Up to 25Mbs!"). You could technically say there's competition, but 6Mbs-25Mbs is not going to work for us.
Where is this competition you speak of? I didn't have a choice when I lived in Chicago, I don't have any choice in Los Angeles (TWC) or Boulder (Comcast). I guess I could get a DSL line or satellite if you consider that competition, but neither of those are acceptable for my needs. I had hoped fiber might some day come to the rescue, but it has never been an option in any building I've lived in. My only hope is if Boulder pushes out municipal fiber. If we really had any competition, I'd believe in the possibility of the market to resolve these issues, but I've yet to see any competition in this space.
Investments are regulated so that people are protected from the Bernie Madoffs of the world and it's necessary to do so.
So, you're using a real-world example of some shit that actually recently happened to say that "investments are regulated" so said thing can't happen? I think I'm lost.
I use Nova Launcher on my Pixel XL and you can do something very similar -- I have mine set so if I double-tap the screen at any time it instantly locks the screen and switches from print-unlock to PIN. Not sure if it works with a specific 'panic print' -- I set it a long time ago and haven't revisited the settings.
I'm surprised it's actually that cheap. I live on the west side of Los Angeles, and we couldn't find a (livable) 2br for less than $3500/mo. I've always thought of the bay area as being dramatically more expensive than here. And if you actually mean "house rental" rather than apartment or townhome, you'd probably pay double just to be in a single-family home.
Well, I'm director of IT, so I have to be reachable if I'm needed. I'm not on call, per se, but they'd be calling me on *some phone* no matter what if they needed to get in touch with me. Plus, I bought the phone myself and then expensed it, so there's no question who owns the phone and data.
That said, you raise valid points. I've had jobs in the past where neither the phone nor the data belonged to me.
Changing cell phones is a pain in the ass, and the benefit of getting a new one has to outweigh that cost.
Where does that pain come from? Do you have a CDMA carrier? It takes literally less than a minute to switch phones if you have a GSM carrier. I suppose the pain could come from the hassle of setting everything back up the way you like it, but android's backup/restore function takes care of all of that in the background (should you want it). (I've never had an iPhone, but I assume they probably have a similar feature.)
I kind of like setting it up fresh each time, though, as it gives me a chance to sweep away the cruft and only install things as I need them. It's a bit like how I tend to do a format and fresh install on my desktop every year or two.
I'm surprised by how many commenters here are saying they're fine using a several year-old phone. I get a new one every year (currently Pixel XL), but my employer pays for it. I would have thought many (if not most) of the tech workers at/. would be in the same boat.
Our shop was going the route of 'calculated risk.' We actually had annual security audits by the MPAA and a couple other certification organizations and they would lie and cheat their way through it. For example, every workstation had to have an 'email machine' which had internet access, but could not access internal resources. The other was their 'work machine' that was supposed to have access to the SAN, but *not* the internet. On the day of the audit, they'd just put a bogus proxy address in Safari (was mostly a Mac shop) so web pages wouldn't load. The machines also were supposed to have USB/Firewire ports locked down so employees couldn't copy content, but that would be enabled only for the day the days of the audits. As soon as the auditor left, the big stack of external drives would come back out of the closet and everyone would go back to sloppy practices. I hated it and eventually got to the point where I told them I would no longer be involved in audits (ethical reasons aside, I'm a terrible liar and I'd be sweating bullets the whole time). I guess they just figured complying with the rules was too cumbersome.
Worked at a post-production facility in LA until last year. There's SO much specialized software still currently in use that just can't handle certain operating systems (or the company who made it has since disappeared and is no longer updating the software). We had several NT 4 machines still in use (again, this was in 2016). It wasn't about patching the OS -- there was no way to do it and keep certain necessary software working. Some of it was niche (mastering DVD images [yes, they're still making them]), but if it brings in a few hundred thousand a year, they're going to keep using it until the machines die and can't be resuscitated.
What is the actual price though; the article didn't mention this.
$21.85 per square foot.
If they are as expensive as regular tiles, the good news is that you might as well cover the whole roof in these things for a uniform look, not just the side that faces the sun.
I can't find the price right now, but there is a dramatically cheaper price for the non-solar tiles. i.e., They're anticipating that you cover your entire roof with their tiles (re: uniform look), but the entire roof will not be solar-collecting.
These posts are always about individuals and families, but fail to mention small businesses. I live in Boulder, CO, and a lot of new small and medium businesses are opting to move ten miles North to Longmont because they have municipal fiber. (It's certainly cheaper to live or operate a business in Longmont, but many have pointed to the availability of high-speed synchronous fiber as the driving factor.)
"We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability."
I don't even know what we legally define as a scam anymore when companies that project running in the red forever file for IPOs.
A scam is when you try to hoodwink someone. This is more like the Pet Rock. It's very clear what you're buying if you decide to take that leap. It's actually a little refreshing to have someone say, "we have absolutely zero chance of ever turning a profit. Can we have some money, please?"
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It doesn't say what the format was, but I suspect it was data stored on some medium like a hard drive. It does say they were "in possession of trade secrets," so they probably weren't charged for the 'contents of their brains.'
Not trying to be overly pedantic here, but wtf does OP mean in the first place by "I've been hacked twice"? Someone accessed one of his machines (the Commodore?) on the inside of his firewall through a regular ISP connection? Did someone "hack" into his Nest thermostat? If you don't understand basic equipment and security, I'm guessing you didn't find out you were "hacked" through a routine audit.
I know all the ./ goons like to act like they're above it all, but Facebook (or any other "service") can only take what you hand over. I have a facebook account that I use because it's less complicated for my parents (who are ~70) than other 'sharing' services. If I go on vacation or they want to see pics of some event or something, it's way easier to send to them via facebook or instagram. You don't have to live your life on there, you don't have to give all of your intimate secrets to it, you don't have to respond to any ads or anything else. If FB is vacuuming up every detail of your life, it's because you're providing every detail of your life.
How do you figure? If that were the case, there'd be a lot bigger race for these companies to move there. Apparently some of these items are missing, or all of these Googles and Amazons would be moving to Mississippi. Apparently some of these states aren't very attractive, can't make moving to their state very attractive or something. I won't claim to know what these factors are, but there are clearly some advantages or all of these businesses wouldn't concentrate in specific locations.
If that's how they think they can win votes, by holding useless votes, then power to them.
Well, the house voted 50+ times (and failed) to repeal the ACA during the last administration. Now we've got Trump and the GOP owns both houses. Maybe it works?
The difference is facebook is (ostensibly) limited to the people with whom you are *friends*. With reddit, anyone can up/downvote you. Facebook doesn't have the anonymity. I doubt the impact would be remotely comparable.
Well, no one predicted all of the graphics cards being produced would be snatched up to mine *coin rather than for entertainment/graphics usage.
It's a publicity stunt. Any real/profitable company already issues bonuses to their employees (and they don't issue press releases about it). Also, $2,500 is pretty sad. Didn't fucking WalMart do their big press release last week about issuing $1k bonuses? It's better than nothing, but it's pretty pathetic and definitely only for optics. I'd actually be embarrassed if my friends thought I had some awesome job at Apple and then they found out I got a shitty $2500 bonus (well, probably $1500 after taxes...and employees don't get to stash their cash overseas until the government cuts them a sweet deal to tax it at a dramatically lower rate).
You do know that broadband providers are entering new markets all the time, right? You may not have had as many choices 10, 5 or 3 years ago, but you will have more as time goes on. That's simply the trend.
I moved into my current apartment in Los Angeles (90025) less than six months ago (but checked again just now to see if anything had changed). No (serious) choice here. I can go with TWC ("Spectrum" now) or DSL/satellite ("Up to 25Mbs!"). You could technically say there's competition, but 6Mbs-25Mbs is not going to work for us.
Where is this competition you speak of? I didn't have a choice when I lived in Chicago, I don't have any choice in Los Angeles (TWC) or Boulder (Comcast). I guess I could get a DSL line or satellite if you consider that competition, but neither of those are acceptable for my needs. I had hoped fiber might some day come to the rescue, but it has never been an option in any building I've lived in. My only hope is if Boulder pushes out municipal fiber. If we really had any competition, I'd believe in the possibility of the market to resolve these issues, but I've yet to see any competition in this space.
Investments are regulated so that people are protected from the Bernie Madoffs of the world and it's necessary to do so.
So, you're using a real-world example of some shit that actually recently happened to say that "investments are regulated" so said thing can't happen? I think I'm lost.
I use Nova Launcher on my Pixel XL and you can do something very similar -- I have mine set so if I double-tap the screen at any time it instantly locks the screen and switches from print-unlock to PIN. Not sure if it works with a specific 'panic print' -- I set it a long time ago and haven't revisited the settings.
Qi charging
That's cute. I remember when I got my first phone with wireless Qi charging (Nexus 4) five years ago
I'm surprised it's actually that cheap. I live on the west side of Los Angeles, and we couldn't find a (livable) 2br for less than $3500/mo. I've always thought of the bay area as being dramatically more expensive than here. And if you actually mean "house rental" rather than apartment or townhome, you'd probably pay double just to be in a single-family home.
Well, I'm director of IT, so I have to be reachable if I'm needed. I'm not on call, per se, but they'd be calling me on *some phone* no matter what if they needed to get in touch with me. Plus, I bought the phone myself and then expensed it, so there's no question who owns the phone and data.
That said, you raise valid points. I've had jobs in the past where neither the phone nor the data belonged to me.
Changing cell phones is a pain in the ass, and the benefit of getting a new one has to outweigh that cost.
Where does that pain come from? Do you have a CDMA carrier? It takes literally less than a minute to switch phones if you have a GSM carrier. I suppose the pain could come from the hassle of setting everything back up the way you like it, but android's backup/restore function takes care of all of that in the background (should you want it). (I've never had an iPhone, but I assume they probably have a similar feature.)
I kind of like setting it up fresh each time, though, as it gives me a chance to sweep away the cruft and only install things as I need them. It's a bit like how I tend to do a format and fresh install on my desktop every year or two.
I'm surprised by how many commenters here are saying they're fine using a several year-old phone. I get a new one every year (currently Pixel XL), but my employer pays for it. I would have thought many (if not most) of the tech workers at /. would be in the same boat.
So it's just an interesting idea and a grab for investor funds right now.
So, the same model as half of the companies in the bay area? Seems to be working for (some of) them.
it will hurt the poor more than the wealthy
Doesn't...everything?
Our shop was going the route of 'calculated risk.' We actually had annual security audits by the MPAA and a couple other certification organizations and they would lie and cheat their way through it. For example, every workstation had to have an 'email machine' which had internet access, but could not access internal resources. The other was their 'work machine' that was supposed to have access to the SAN, but *not* the internet. On the day of the audit, they'd just put a bogus proxy address in Safari (was mostly a Mac shop) so web pages wouldn't load. The machines also were supposed to have USB/Firewire ports locked down so employees couldn't copy content, but that would be enabled only for the day the days of the audits. As soon as the auditor left, the big stack of external drives would come back out of the closet and everyone would go back to sloppy practices. I hated it and eventually got to the point where I told them I would no longer be involved in audits (ethical reasons aside, I'm a terrible liar and I'd be sweating bullets the whole time). I guess they just figured complying with the rules was too cumbersome.
Worked at a post-production facility in LA until last year. There's SO much specialized software still currently in use that just can't handle certain operating systems (or the company who made it has since disappeared and is no longer updating the software). We had several NT 4 machines still in use (again, this was in 2016). It wasn't about patching the OS -- there was no way to do it and keep certain necessary software working. Some of it was niche (mastering DVD images [yes, they're still making them]), but if it brings in a few hundred thousand a year, they're going to keep using it until the machines die and can't be resuscitated.
What is the actual price though; the article didn't mention this.
$21.85 per square foot.
If they are as expensive as regular tiles, the good news is that you might as well cover the whole roof in these things for a uniform look, not just the side that faces the sun.
I can't find the price right now, but there is a dramatically cheaper price for the non-solar tiles. i.e., They're anticipating that you cover your entire roof with their tiles (re: uniform look), but the entire roof will not be solar-collecting.
These posts are always about individuals and families, but fail to mention small businesses. I live in Boulder, CO, and a lot of new small and medium businesses are opting to move ten miles North to Longmont because they have municipal fiber. (It's certainly cheaper to live or operate a business in Longmont, but many have pointed to the availability of high-speed synchronous fiber as the driving factor.)
...there's a person out there who forewent benefits for approximately as long as it's been since the Cubs last won the world series.
Since November 2016?
"We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability."
I don't even know what we legally define as a scam anymore when companies that project running in the red forever file for IPOs.
A scam is when you try to hoodwink someone. This is more like the Pet Rock. It's very clear what you're buying if you decide to take that leap. It's actually a little refreshing to have someone say, "we have absolutely zero chance of ever turning a profit. Can we have some money, please?"