me too. But I also hear Laurel in the native recording. Maybe I'm mispronouncing Yanny in my head. I think of that musician - so would expect to year "yawn-ee" or even "ye-ann-e" (Like Danny but starting a Yee). Yee - Annie.?! It's an italian name:-)
Nothing has sounded like Yanny yet. I hear what you hear - and requires imagination at that.
But I don't get the "controversy" I've ignored it all week as it didn't seem interesting. This like "are these two colors the same?!" Yes.
I read a different article that made similar but different explanations. Obviously these folks are missing out on the riches of the world around them and "we" will never convince them otherwise. The concerning part is that the internet brings them together. The basis for their alternate belief system though is grounded in the way "we" tell them they are ignorant, stupid, and fail them in mentoring. We Control the belief system and counter opinions are tossed out as ignorant.
Go back a thousand or so years and the Church was pushing Earth as the center of the universe (and flat ?!) - a battle of sorts ensued to move to a sun centric philosophy. It was heresy to believe otherwise. Those in power stuffed Earth-centric down your throat and you had better believe or else. They controlled knowledge & belief. People probably didn't know what to believe and half-truths and pseudoscience was strong. Ultimately Earth-centric lost out.
Fast forward to modern times. AI that routes you to articles you may like, alternate facts, and Global Warming (man is not the center of the universe). You have people like Bernie Sanders making everyone stand up and swear an Oath that Global Warming is real... Or Else. Heresy to say or believe otherwise.
Then a little "alternate voice" comes along and whispers into the ears of these people who aren't sure what to believe and have no strong convictions. "Flat earth - these people will accept you. It is anti-establishment, come be one with us" And the Internet AI helps them along, plus Russian non-collusion but I digress.
But what does all of this say about truth, authority, and future design makers? One journalist suggested that this is the end of the Expert.
"Do your own research" Thoughts and Prayers everyone. Good luck.
Apparently you have no criminal intent. But - where's there's a will there's a way.
First he setup up a business bank account - like all those look alike URL's you've seen. Then deposits checks into his business. Most businesses use a rubber stamp - and nobody Really knows what the stamp looks like. Would you know? Nah - "looks legit."
Or they were really small checks and he made them out to cash. There are money laundering services that will help out. Car Washes in Arizona for example.
anyhow - it isn't difficult to do. But likely you'll get busted. Lots of paper trails.
I don't click links - that's how all spam comes. We've spent years teaching people "don't click Links in email - even if it comes from a friend -- it might be phishing"
Therefore - many people will look at these emails with suspicion and recall "don't click the link" -- thus turning this product feature into Allo. Did anyone click the SMS link when a friend sent you a message?! nope. Dead product.
of course my personal demographic probably won't use this feature anyhow. As Mark Z (sort-of) said, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
Bill Gates would like to send you a message - please click this link to win free money!!
The data was sent out for Destruction. I originally thought, based on the title, that they had accidentally Deleted a bunch of data from the system.
But no. They had sent the backup tapes out for Destruction!! And then they lost chain of control, now somebody somewhere has the backup copy of many years worth of financial records.
So somebody has stolen the backup tapes. Geez. I can't believe they didn't think of this as part of the preparation to ship it. I had to do something similar years ago and we sat down to perform a FMEA-like analysis of things that could go wrong. Our data was on a RAID5 device so we decided to disassemble the drive-shelf and ship the drives in individual boxes and split carriers over several days. This was more than a few years ago and encrypting 2TB of data was not something that would finish in our lifetime. Simply possessing a 2TB "enterprise" RAID5 was costly. Yeah - the old days. Since then we have encrypted USB drives with push-button PINs small enough to fit in our shirt pockets (all the more likely to walk off)
But my point is -- we didn't just drop the thing off at FedEx. We knew what our data was and this wasn't a normal "just ship it" situation.
I'll bet that was an assumption of the plan. Most people don't have time or interest in movies to go "every day" -- so you end up going every other month. And this allows them to make money.
But of course, as with any new toy, we use it like crazy for the first few weeks. And that costs them money and apparently on a losing scale.
Yes - I'll join you. Someone please enlighten us. I don't get it either. Based on other comments it suggests Setv may be streaming material that is / should be in the public domain?
Or not: I've seen friends who stream sports matches from overseas using stolen credentials - all through an app that they download. And there's that Roku box package thing that was shutdown last year.
So are they attempting to provide access to "open" info or pirate content? Either way it sounds like they are taking the $20 and NOT sharing it with the content creators.
Seems like a product without a market. He seems to be taking advantage of the current headlines to bring in investor money - but he doesn't need to produce anything.
When (never) complete he'll dump it and move to the next big headline generator.
The idea that Silicon Valley Tech can solve all of our problems is a meme, a TV show, and also in recent headlines regarding "tech people being out of touch."
usually it's easier than that. He probably doesn't like the reporting by the Washington Post. And while Amazon and the Post aren't directly related - he figured hurting Amazon will hurt Bezos will hurt the Washington Post.
OR
maybe even easier than that. He saw the balance sheet for the Postal Service and thought "nobody is paying enough for the services.... raise Rates !!"
"Oh and I hate the Washington post which is owned by Bezos who is in charge of Amazon so I'll pick on them" (see item 1)
Seems strange that a guy who has claimed previously that he's "The Best" at making good deals, and has suggested that those who fail to make good deals are stupid, would beat up Amazon for making a... good deal !
So while the postal service needs an overhaul in this modern world I have to doubt the motivation. UPS and FedEx are doing terrific due to online orders. So hasn't the postal service benefited as well? Could it be they were last to offer Tracking of packages? Had mandates that conflicted with growth? Didn't invest and see the future?
It is a gov't service. So it runs rain or shine. Where as business can change and decide what markets they want to service.
nope - didn't have to do that one. phew! It's good to have goals so that everyone is on the same page. But I found Actions tended to be based on folks reviewing the Goals as interpretive dance. It's amazing how off track a large company can be. We all hear the same thing but a large number of people still stick to their original plan. Then your manager says, "that's not the plan, ignore that team, don't help them."
I remember a project where the big honcho business leader said "after reviewing the market opportunity, we don't want to enter that market - too little money - too much work, leave it alone" and our director sent out an email "don't worry, I have a plan to make it cheaper to do, I'll get a team together soon." And my manager said, "don't help whatever team that is"
No wonder that company has fallen deep into the gutter.
Ever work for a big company? - did you have to write down your G&O's ? I always thought WTF is the difference and wrote crap down because I knew that the next year nobody read it anyhow.
Maybe I'm getting old - but do people really ask what the difference is between a Strategy and Action plan? Seriously is that somebody people wonder...and more important didn't know? You got'ur play book - make it happen.
For basic isolation -- I use my SmartPhone !! (with tape over the microphone & camera). For even more isolation - I access YOUR PC at the coffee bar table next to me via the credentials I gathered via my pineapple that offered "Free WiFi".
The solution does exist. Due to the expense of having extra hardware to do this (the level of isolation you want) - most people dual boot using an encrypted file system or a local VM. TruCrypt had this feature -- a secret file system within another one hidden and accessible only via which passcode that you type in at boot time. This way if something ran amuck it couldn't access those other files.
I use a VM running on my PC to access external stuff - yeah that's backwards as the data I want to protect is on my main OS (because I use it the most). Convenience. For trippy things I spin up a VM in the cloud and go from there.
and with all due seriousness -- for really encrypted stuff I have an encrypted Folder that contains these files and requires a second password to access them. I mainly use MS-Word/Excel encrypted files, and for lots of files I'll store them in 7Zip password protected archives. Once I even created an encrypted Virtual Disk and spun up a VM to access the files. Turned out to be a pita and haven't done it since.
Yes thank you. Everytime one of my "Friends" uploads their address-book to Facebook/LinkedIn (using those handy Sync features) - those companies learn all about me. Including the info that I DON'T share with them. I don't give out my private cell#, my real birthday, home address, or private email address (I have alias / virtual email/phone# and fake bdays that I use). But a friend may have my actual info. So it isn't about me controlling my info, apparently my friends can choose to share my data too.
I received a post-card advertisement in the mail the other day wishing me happy birthday. They were referencing my fake birthday used on Facebook/LinkedIn. I'll have to login to each site and change the month of my fake bday so that I can see where data comes from. I worked for a company years ago - we all volunteered to fill out a magazine subscription card with different magazines in order to test their advertising reach - we purposely misspelled our names with each one and used this as a Tracer Bullet for the junk mail that would be forthcoming.
Why do this when it's my info I want to protect and the rest of you can jump in the lake?!
Maybe I'll be able to update mine. For whatever reason it's the only smartphone that I kept - box, manual, adapters, and all. I think I still have the water bottle too! And the wireless charging system was fantastic - I bought an extra one for the office. It really was a well designed system - I miss the central email/calendar subscription portal "one-app-to-rule-them-all" design.
It was a great phone. Well, except the GPS never worked. And the keyboard kept writing repeating letters when pressed. And the battery needed to be replaced every year...and....
yeah - yeah - Long live the Palm Pre+ !!!
But it didn't have a Home button. Rather a home-swipe-area. It was cool - it was a step ahead. iOS now has the "card" app system, and the swipe up menu - parts of the webOs are alive in modern phones. The iPhone-X has done away with the home Button too !! Gosh has it really been 8 years? Maybe I should upgrade my iPhone-5 which I bought when the Pre+ went off contract. ha ha.
hmm... you might want to ask Martha Stewart about that definition. She received a tip that the CEO of the company had sold all his shares - and she acted accordingly. But I don't believe she was an officer of the company.
That's what I came here to ask. It seems like market manipulation - similar to the penny stock pump and dump schemes.
So is it? It's hard to believe that the folks at CTS et al aren't aware of SEC rules, esp brazenly including a comment in the disclosure. It's kind of like those YouTube disclaimers "I don't own this content - any Copyrighted material is owned by other entities" -- yeah that makes it all better.
And as somebody else above noted - the security holes aren't really all that concerning requiring too many pre-reqs to the point that "you've been pwned" already.
This is kind of interesting story within a story. Nothing to see here - except fake news and propaganda carried by news orgs that aren't capable to providing analysis, and wrapped in a possible fraud made possible by the Blogger fake news pipeline.
These companies are in business to provide said services. You'd think they would have performed this kind of analysis themselves.
But apparently Testing the product is not all that important. Proper design - maybe. Or are they repackaging something and offering it up with more Marketing than Security. Sure security and animinity are a thin sheet.(where there's a will there's a way).
While I appreciate an independent review to keep everyone honest - you'd think the bugs would be harder to find or more obscure in nature.
I have to go - my virus scanner is out of date and requires updating.
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Those technologies still run on Windows. Just not inside of MS-Word.
I didn't know you could even do this. So it won't be missed by me.
Apparently the hackers knew though !
I wonder if they'll get rid of all DCOM stuff though?!
me too. But I also hear Laurel in the native recording. Maybe I'm mispronouncing Yanny in my head. I think of that musician - so would expect to year "yawn-ee" or even "ye-ann-e" (Like Danny but starting a Yee). Yee - Annie.?! It's an italian name :-)
Nothing has sounded like Yanny yet. I hear what you hear - and requires imagination at that.
But I don't get the "controversy" I've ignored it all week as it didn't seem interesting. This like "are these two colors the same?!" Yes.
I read a different article that made similar but different explanations. Obviously these folks are missing out on the riches of the world around them and "we" will never convince them otherwise. The concerning part is that the internet brings them together. The basis for their alternate belief system though is grounded in the way "we" tell them they are ignorant, stupid, and fail them in mentoring. We Control the belief system and counter opinions are tossed out as ignorant.
Go back a thousand or so years and the Church was pushing Earth as the center of the universe (and flat ?!) - a battle of sorts ensued to move to a sun centric philosophy. It was heresy to believe otherwise. Those in power stuffed Earth-centric down your throat and you had better believe or else. They controlled knowledge & belief. People probably didn't know what to believe and half-truths and pseudoscience was strong. Ultimately Earth-centric lost out.
Fast forward to modern times. AI that routes you to articles you may like, alternate facts, and Global Warming (man is not the center of the universe). You have people like Bernie Sanders making everyone stand up and swear an Oath that Global Warming is real... Or Else. Heresy to say or believe otherwise.
Then a little "alternate voice" comes along and whispers into the ears of these people who aren't sure what to believe and have no strong convictions. "Flat earth - these people will accept you. It is anti-establishment, come be one with us" And the Internet AI helps them along, plus Russian non-collusion but I digress.
But what does all of this say about truth, authority, and future design makers? One journalist suggested that this is the end of the Expert.
"Do your own research" Thoughts and Prayers everyone. Good luck.
Apparently you have no criminal intent. But - where's there's a will there's a way.
First he setup up a business bank account - like all those look alike URL's you've seen.
Then deposits checks into his business. Most businesses use a rubber stamp - and nobody Really knows what the stamp looks like. Would you know? Nah - "looks legit."
Or they were really small checks and he made them out to cash. There are money laundering services that will help out. Car Washes in Arizona for example.
anyhow - it isn't difficult to do. But likely you'll get busted. Lots of paper trails.
I don't click links - that's how all spam comes. We've spent years teaching people "don't click Links in email - even if it comes from a friend -- it might be phishing"
Therefore - many people will look at these emails with suspicion and recall "don't click the link" -- thus turning this product feature into Allo. Did anyone click the SMS link when a friend sent you a message?! nope. Dead product.
of course my personal demographic probably won't use this feature anyhow. As Mark Z (sort-of) said, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
Bill Gates would like to send you a message - please click this link to win free money!!
The data was sent out for Destruction. I originally thought, based on the title, that they had accidentally Deleted a bunch of data from the system.
But no. They had sent the backup tapes out for Destruction!! And then they lost chain of control, now somebody somewhere has the backup copy of many years worth of financial records.
So somebody has stolen the backup tapes. Geez. I can't believe they didn't think of this as part of the preparation to ship it. I had to do something similar years ago and we sat down to perform a FMEA-like analysis of things that could go wrong. Our data was on a RAID5 device so we decided to disassemble the drive-shelf and ship the drives in individual boxes and split carriers over several days. This was more than a few years ago and encrypting 2TB of data was not something that would finish in our lifetime. Simply possessing a 2TB "enterprise" RAID5 was costly. Yeah - the old days. Since then we have encrypted USB drives with push-button PINs small enough to fit in our shirt pockets (all the more likely to walk off)
But my point is -- we didn't just drop the thing off at FedEx. We knew what our data was and this wasn't a normal "just ship it" situation.
I'll bet that was an assumption of the plan. Most people don't have time or interest in movies to go "every day" -- so you end up going every other month. And this allows them to make money.
But of course, as with any new toy, we use it like crazy for the first few weeks. And that costs them money and apparently on a losing scale.
Yes - I'll join you. Someone please enlighten us. I don't get it either. Based on other comments it suggests Setv may be streaming material that is / should be in the public domain?
Or not: I've seen friends who stream sports matches from overseas using stolen credentials - all through an app that they download. And there's that Roku box package thing that was shutdown last year.
So are they attempting to provide access to "open" info or pirate content? Either way it sounds like they are taking the $20 and NOT sharing it with the content creators.
Seems like a product without a market. He seems to be taking advantage of the current headlines to bring in investor money - but he doesn't need to produce anything.
When (never) complete he'll dump it and move to the next big headline generator.
The idea that Silicon Valley Tech can solve all of our problems is a meme, a TV show, and also in recent headlines regarding "tech people being out of touch."
Came here for technical news - left with a grammar lesson. :-P
usually it's easier than that. He probably doesn't like the reporting by the Washington Post. And while Amazon and the Post aren't directly related - he figured hurting Amazon will hurt Bezos will hurt the Washington Post.
OR
maybe even easier than that. He saw the balance sheet for the Postal Service and thought "nobody is paying enough for the services.... raise Rates !!"
"Oh and I hate the Washington post which is owned by Bezos who is in charge of Amazon so I'll pick on them" (see item 1)
Wasn't this the plot of the first season of Mr Robot? Although he snuck in and fiddled with the device to make it accessible.
Rather than upload the data to the cloud - he sought to erase the cloud.
Seems strange that a guy who has claimed previously that he's "The Best" at making good deals, and has suggested that those who fail to make good deals are stupid, would beat up Amazon for making a ... good deal !
So while the postal service needs an overhaul in this modern world I have to doubt the motivation. UPS and FedEx are doing terrific due to online orders. So hasn't the postal service benefited as well? Could it be they were last to offer Tracking of packages? Had mandates that conflicted with growth? Didn't invest and see the future?
It is a gov't service. So it runs rain or shine. Where as business can change and decide what markets they want to service.
Yeah - this will totally work.
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nope - didn't have to do that one. phew! It's good to have goals so that everyone is on the same page. But I found Actions tended to be based on folks reviewing the Goals as interpretive dance. It's amazing how off track a large company can be. We all hear the same thing but a large number of people still stick to their original plan. Then your manager says, "that's not the plan, ignore that team, don't help them."
I remember a project where the big honcho business leader said "after reviewing the market opportunity, we don't want to enter that market - too little money - too much work, leave it alone" and our director sent out an email "don't worry, I have a plan to make it cheaper to do, I'll get a team together soon." And my manager said, "don't help whatever team that is"
No wonder that company has fallen deep into the gutter.
Ever work for a big company? - did you have to write down your G&O's ? I always thought WTF is the difference and wrote crap down because I knew that the next year nobody read it anyhow.
Maybe I'm getting old - but do people really ask what the difference is between a Strategy and Action plan? Seriously is that somebody people wonder...and more important didn't know? You got'ur play book - make it happen.
Make it so.
For basic isolation -- I use my SmartPhone !! (with tape over the microphone & camera).
For even more isolation - I access YOUR PC at the coffee bar table next to me via the credentials I gathered via my pineapple that offered "Free WiFi".
The solution does exist. Due to the expense of having extra hardware to do this (the level of isolation you want) - most people dual boot using an encrypted file system or a local VM. TruCrypt had this feature -- a secret file system within another one hidden and accessible only via which passcode that you type in at boot time. This way if something ran amuck it couldn't access those other files.
I use a VM running on my PC to access external stuff - yeah that's backwards as the data I want to protect is on my main OS (because I use it the most). Convenience. For trippy things I spin up a VM in the cloud and go from there.
and with all due seriousness -- for really encrypted stuff I have an encrypted Folder that contains these files and requires a second password to access them. I mainly use MS-Word/Excel encrypted files, and for lots of files I'll store them in 7Zip password protected archives. Once I even created an encrypted Virtual Disk and spun up a VM to access the files. Turned out to be a pita and haven't done it since.
Yes thank you. Everytime one of my "Friends" uploads their address-book to Facebook/LinkedIn (using those handy Sync features) - those companies learn all about me. Including the info that I DON'T share with them. I don't give out my private cell#, my real birthday, home address, or private email address (I have alias / virtual email/phone# and fake bdays that I use). But a friend may have my actual info. So it isn't about me controlling my info, apparently my friends can choose to share my data too.
I received a post-card advertisement in the mail the other day wishing me happy birthday. They were referencing my fake birthday used on Facebook/LinkedIn. I'll have to login to each site and change the month of my fake bday so that I can see where data comes from. I worked for a company years ago - we all volunteered to fill out a magazine subscription card with different magazines in order to test their advertising reach - we purposely misspelled our names with each one and used this as a Tracer Bullet for the junk mail that would be forthcoming.
Why do this when it's my info I want to protect and the rest of you can jump in the lake?!
geez -- feels like a tennis match. This case is still going on?!?!
Fair use, not fair, Out of bounds. Lob. Love.
call me when it's over.
Maybe I'll be able to update mine. For whatever reason it's the only smartphone that I kept - box, manual, adapters, and all. I think I still have the water bottle too! And the wireless charging system was fantastic - I bought an extra one for the office. It really was a well designed system - I miss the central email/calendar subscription portal "one-app-to-rule-them-all" design.
It was a great phone. Well, except the GPS never worked. And the keyboard kept writing repeating letters when pressed. And the battery needed to be replaced every year. ..and....
yeah - yeah - Long live the Palm Pre+ !!!
But it didn't have a Home button. Rather a home-swipe-area. It was cool - it was a step ahead. iOS now has the "card" app system, and the swipe up menu - parts of the webOs are alive in modern phones. The iPhone-X has done away with the home Button too !! Gosh has it really been 8 years? Maybe I should upgrade my iPhone-5 which I bought when the Pre+ went off contract. ha ha.
ah ha - answered my own question
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This might be considered "Short and Distort"
hmm... you might want to ask Martha Stewart about that definition. She received a tip that the CEO of the company had sold all his shares - and she acted accordingly. But I don't believe she was an officer of the company.
Pump and Dump schemes are illegal too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Actually this CTS instance might be considered "Short and Distort"
That's what I came here to ask. It seems like market manipulation - similar to the penny stock pump and dump schemes.
So is it? It's hard to believe that the folks at CTS et al aren't aware of SEC rules, esp brazenly including a comment in the disclosure. It's kind of like those YouTube disclaimers "I don't own this content - any Copyrighted material is owned by other entities" -- yeah that makes it all better.
And as somebody else above noted - the security holes aren't really all that concerning requiring too many pre-reqs to the point that "you've been pwned" already.
This is kind of interesting story within a story. Nothing to see here - except fake news and propaganda carried by news orgs that aren't capable to providing analysis, and wrapped in a possible fraud made possible by the Blogger fake news pipeline.
These companies are in business to provide said services. You'd think they would have performed this kind of analysis themselves.
But apparently Testing the product is not all that important. Proper design - maybe. Or are they repackaging something and offering it up with more Marketing than Security. Sure security and animinity are a thin sheet.(where there's a will there's a way).
While I appreciate an independent review to keep everyone honest - you'd think the bugs would be harder to find or more obscure in nature.
I have to go - my virus scanner is out of date and requires updating.