In before/. shoots out bricks to complain about leftist/sjws/feminist and combinations of all those with nazis even though actual nazis are the polar opposite.
The #MeToo movement is about real girls so it doesn't really apply as much to video game characters. I mean it would apply to female players. But the treatment of female characters is a different topic all together, but it does need to be address so... good on Sony for trying something?
that's how sponsored malware happens. Oh this one was compiled by google do you know it has the google search bar built in regardless of how annoying that is.
Nice FUD you've got there. Google doesn't need to build the search bar into your app, because they already have it built into their OS. If anything, the fear should be that they would include telemetry, but it would make more sense to build that into their OS, too. They could already be recording your activity and sending it home if they wanted to, but then they would probably get caught, so even if they want to they probably won't do that.
I wasn't literally talking about a search bar. That would make no sense both for a mobile program and for android/google. I was using it to reference the way apps often com bundled with things like a search bar. my point was that when you force an organization to compile it themselves what tends to happen is that eventually they start injecting their own stuff in there.
The level of scrutiny you want would lead to no third party apps ever being published.
It would probably require that full sources be sent to the app store vendor, and the software compiled by them for distribution. You know, like with an Ubuntu PPA. Of course, you then have to trust the vendor not to rip off your sources — but if you don't trust Google, you're already not selling through their app store, right?
One way to handle that trust issue would be to offer verification as an optional feature, with the caveat that users would be able to search for only verified apps. Since Android users are not forced to install only apps from the app store, those who would be unwilling to download non-source-verified apps from the Play Store could still get apps from popular, trusted vendors such as Autodesk or [amusingly] Adobe, and sideload them. Developers who didn't want to provide sources to Google could choose between competing with source-verified apps in the Google Play Store, and competing with the Play Store itself by hosting the apps on their own sites.
that's how sponsored malware happens. Oh this one was compiled by google do you know it has the google search bar built in regardless of how annoying that is.
I once told a teacher I was going to cheat. He stll did not catch me. I had a blazer on and a paper with an elastic band that I could pull out and would shoot back when I released it.
I actually cheated, even though I did not needed to, as I had put more time in making the paper smaller and smaller, so that I learned it anyway. Stupid brain!
yep that's the problem with cheating. to do it well enough to be maximized efficient you end up having to know the material to the point where it doesn't make as much sense.
to an extent it wouldn't matter right. if he's been using the spoofed address all over his villain base then seeing that spoofed address in your logs could indicate that he was nearby.
But another point is that if he stole someone else's mac address (not "stole" but ya know) then he could basically hide in their wake. But i mean that's the sort of math I'd like to see on basic cable cop procedural. They have a mac address but they have to figure out which locations were the innocent person and which were him. that's an episode of CSI:Cyber or Numb3rs what I would enjoy watching. (I'm pretty sure both of those are cancelled now)
ugh.. oh man but I prefer the uTorrent UI so much. I've tried so many alternative BT applications and they all suck at having a tight UI except for utorrent even with the bloody ads that for whatever reason pimp my utorrent isn't removing anymore.
I see the qBittorrent UI about two seconds every time I add a torrent file and five seconds when I launch a finished file. Why do you spend enough time with it to care?
because I do things like actually USE my bittorrent client. I sometimes download mega packs and priorotize or deprioritize. I use the pop up download viewer so I can keep track of what's going on with a download when I'm not live on the client. Yeah maybe if you torrent once a month it might not matter to you but most of us need more interaction than that. Honestly if you need so little interaction you might be better off with something like Transmission which has a poorish user interface when you're working with a lot of torrents but it's perfect for light use
same. and my email is everywhere. I sign up for a LOT of (imo trustworthy) mailers and a handful of semi-sketch ones I get a LOT of junk email (and google sucks and keeping my non junk out of junk still btw)
"The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to ÂTorrent"
Works better for me. Ignore currency miner appplications wearing the skin of well known products, and use community-focued open source tools wherever you can.
ugh.. oh man but I prefer the uTorrent UI so much. I've tried so many alternative BT applications and they all suck at having a tight UI except for utorrent even with the bloody ads that for whatever reason pimp my utorrent isn't removing anymore.
Ok so only your email name and password hints were lost. All the bad guys need to send out a barrage of very convincing targeted phishing emails asking users to update their master passwords. As soon as they fall for this all their accounts are toast.
honestly having a password hint compromised is a fairly big deal. a) people suck a hints "Password is my name backwards with a 3" and b) yeah you can use those hints to create more realistic phishing sites.
Did you even read your own quote? It seems to imply that the real sensitive data is unencrypted!
No i think the point was they only have access to the encrypted username and passwords and that they don't have access to the unencrypted usernames and passwords. So it's oddly written but it might be implying the opposite.
The original appeal of Facebook for me is how easy it was to stay connected. Search for a long-lost friend and BOOM you are connected forever. If you are old enough to remember manually keeping an address book up to date, then you are old enough to remember how freeing it felt to be relieved of this responsibility. For frequent contacts? Sure, enter the contact into your phone (if it isn't already synced with Facebook). But for everyone else, it's a great way to stay in touch. Or maybe not a great way, but it's a way and it requires no effort.
Now I like it because I can stay plugged in to local events - local papers are either closed or worthless now, so for good or bad social media == local news.
I don't really post much on there, but I do share a lot of photos - it has replaced Flickr for me in that regard... but that was as simple as changing the plugin that I use in Lightroom.
true there are good things facebook does. Why not keep those features and throw out the personal stuff. There's no reason it can't be both. And besides if Facebook dies the market for what facebook does doesn't die. People might take back their data but connectedness could still work just not centralized under the control of a silicon valley nerd who doesn't consider how life works for people who aren't him.
If you want to make a go of being a "somebody" on the internet, then yes, you should build your own brand, host your own content and stop running ads that point to a megacorp's platform.
... or you could pay a few bucks a month to a responsible ISP and let them deal with the hassles of hosting. My personal web sites costs be about $3/year.
Or I could pay Facebook $0 and not have to mess with a website at all.
but we're talking about $3 to not have your information sold without your consent. $3 to be able to control access to your information. People waste far more money on far less. Might be the best $3 you've ever spent.
Because I'm going to spend all day going from one friend's site to another to another..... rather than a single site to find out what's going on with all my friends and family.
sounds like a job for a protocol. A way to label a friend's site once and be able to access it easily from there. The idea isn't that everyone should have their own personal website customized like a tumblr page. But that everyone should create their own facebook using whatever template becomes popular. Presumably like a mastadon ID you can give someone a URI or a customized handle that lets you incorporate into whatever dashboard you'll have and you can get the updates there.
The real issue is that no one is doing anything about package theft. I've seen "surprise packages" done before and better and simpler. But none of this goes to tracking down the people who stole the package? Just about "punishing" package thiefs but that's not the way it works. Any basic psychology course could explain that. If one time you went to a vending machine and instead of a kit kat you got a rotten eggs you'd be grossed out and disgusted but the next weeek you'd be at the vending machine again. Ideally these surprise packages might scare them off your house but even that isn't so sure. I'd rather see something more geared to identifying the people involved and getting the police to DO something. Police waste their time doing so much nonsense I'd much rather them spend less money on tanks and whatever excess military gear they buy and more on tracking down package thieves.
A lot of the solutions seem to involve giving Amazon drivers access to your home (shudder), or a heavy metal dropbox with keys and the like... I find myself wondering if you'd solve 90% or more of the problem by simply having a box to dump things in without any sort of smarts or security. These people come by and see a package, and then are in-and-out quickly. They presumably aren't as interested in walking up and digging around on your porch three times a day just in case there's a package.
Of course, delivery people ain't got time to put a package in a box, so most likely they'd just leave the package on top of or in front of the box.
interestingly enough I DO have such a hidden package area. to the left of my door along the wall is the mail slot but the entire wall is actually a door that opens up so it's a cubby for large packages. The problem is I still get packages left between my screen door and my front door. Not sure how to train my mailmen to leave it in the cubby without leaving large obvious notes that would be seen by any one walking by.
Unfortunately with the legal fallout probably no one would do this, but I think the entertainment value and the satisfaction would b worth it...
There are videos where people do this. Long before him this other guy made a video where he used shotgun shells to make bangs when people lift up the package. It wasn't as over engineered as this one but it was very satisfactory. He even sold packages so you could do it yourself if I recall.
Uh, just pay someone $50 and they will willingly cover their car in glitter. Completely fake.
yeah.... no. Glitter gets everywhere and you cant get rid of it. Most people know this. It's why glitter bombs are even a thing because of how universally annoying it is to everyone who isn't a 12 year old girl. No adult would let you glitter bomb their car for $50. I'm not even sure I or most people would let you do it for a full month's payment. Glitter is just terrible.
Why do people find it acceptable that valuable packages are just left on the doorstep ? Where I live, the delivery guys ring the door bell, hands over the package, and takes my name and signature as proof of delivery.
What happens if the package gets stolen ? Does UPS pay you back ?
and if you're not home? most people don't want to wait for redlivery considering they usually work during mail delivery. this "leaving the package by the front door" thing isn't new by any means. and it's certainly not offensively unacceptable as you seem to imply it is. Maybe we need to rethink it but people find it acceptable because this is how mail works.
Yesh it was supposed to be the text paring with Duo. Allo and Duo were supposed to replace hangouts. Which was mostly working fine the way it was. I miss being able to watch YouTube videos as a group on Hangouts that was a great feature.
Nah. It's just good old fashioned greed. Gotta make your factory look injury free by not reporting injuries.
When a worker gets smashed by a car part on Tesla’s factory floor, medical staff are forbidden from calling 911 without permission.
The electric carmaker’s contract doctors rarely grant it, instead often insisting that seriously injured workers – including one who severed the top of a finger – be sent to the emergency room in a Lyft.
“The goal of the clinic was to keep as many patients off of the books as possible,” said Anna Watson, a physician assistant who worked at Tesla’s medical clinic for three weeks in August.
Watson has nearly 20 years of experience as a medical professional, examining patients, diagnosing ailments and prescribing medications. She’s treated patients at a petroleum refinery, a steel plant, emergency rooms and a trauma center. But she said she’s never seen anything like what’s happening at Tesla.
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In before /. shoots out bricks to complain about leftist/sjws/feminist and combinations of all those with nazis even though actual nazis are the polar opposite.
The #MeToo movement is about real girls so it doesn't really apply as much to video game characters. I mean it would apply to female players. But the treatment of female characters is a different topic all together, but it does need to be address so... good on Sony for trying something?
that's how sponsored malware happens. Oh this one was compiled by google do you know it has the google search bar built in regardless of how annoying that is.
Nice FUD you've got there. Google doesn't need to build the search bar into your app, because they already have it built into their OS. If anything, the fear should be that they would include telemetry, but it would make more sense to build that into their OS, too. They could already be recording your activity and sending it home if they wanted to, but then they would probably get caught, so even if they want to they probably won't do that.
I wasn't literally talking about a search bar. That would make no sense both for a mobile program and for android/google. I was using it to reference the way apps often com bundled with things like a search bar. my point was that when you force an organization to compile it themselves what tends to happen is that eventually they start injecting their own stuff in there.
The level of scrutiny you want would lead to no third party apps ever being published.
It would probably require that full sources be sent to the app store vendor, and the software compiled by them for distribution. You know, like with an Ubuntu PPA. Of course, you then have to trust the vendor not to rip off your sources — but if you don't trust Google, you're already not selling through their app store, right?
One way to handle that trust issue would be to offer verification as an optional feature, with the caveat that users would be able to search for only verified apps. Since Android users are not forced to install only apps from the app store, those who would be unwilling to download non-source-verified apps from the Play Store could still get apps from popular, trusted vendors such as Autodesk or [amusingly] Adobe, and sideload them. Developers who didn't want to provide sources to Google could choose between competing with source-verified apps in the Google Play Store, and competing with the Play Store itself by hosting the apps on their own sites.
that's how sponsored malware happens. Oh this one was compiled by google do you know it has the google search bar built in regardless of how annoying that is.
Play Protect wouldn't exist if the Play Store was curated, dumbass.
just because youpick a good looking app doesn't mean you don't test it to make sure nothing's wrong.
I once told a teacher I was going to cheat. He stll did not catch me. I had a blazer on and a paper with an elastic band that I could pull out and would shoot back when I released it.
I actually cheated, even though I did not needed to, as I had put more time in making the paper smaller and smaller, so that I learned it anyway. Stupid brain!
yep that's the problem with cheating. to do it well enough to be maximized efficient you end up having to know the material to the point where it doesn't make as much sense.
ehh the watch can be less circumspect. MUCH less circumspect.
So how do they know the address is not spoofed?
to an extent it wouldn't matter right. if he's been using the spoofed address all over his villain base then seeing that spoofed address in your logs could indicate that he was nearby.
But another point is that if he stole someone else's mac address (not "stole" but ya know) then he could basically hide in their wake. But i mean that's the sort of math I'd like to see on basic cable cop procedural. They have a mac address but they have to figure out which locations were the innocent person and which were him. that's an episode of CSI:Cyber or Numb3rs what I would enjoy watching. (I'm pretty sure both of those are cancelled now)
ugh.. oh man but I prefer the uTorrent UI so much. I've tried so many alternative BT applications and they all suck at having a tight UI except for utorrent even with the bloody ads that for whatever reason pimp my utorrent isn't removing anymore.
I see the qBittorrent UI about two seconds every time I add a torrent file and five seconds when I launch a finished file. Why do you spend enough time with it to care?
because I do things like actually USE my bittorrent client. I sometimes download mega packs and priorotize or deprioritize. I use the pop up download viewer so I can keep track of what's going on with a download when I'm not live on the client. Yeah maybe if you torrent once a month it might not matter to you but most of us need more interaction than that. Honestly if you need so little interaction you might be better off with something like Transmission which has a poorish user interface when you're working with a lot of torrents but it's perfect for light use
same. and my email is everywhere. I sign up for a LOT of (imo trustworthy) mailers and a handful of semi-sketch ones I get a LOT of junk email (and google sucks and keeping my non junk out of junk still btw)
https://www.qbittorrent.org/
"The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to ÂTorrent"
Works better for me. Ignore currency miner appplications wearing the skin of well known products, and use community-focued open source tools wherever you can.
ugh.. oh man but I prefer the uTorrent UI so much. I've tried so many alternative BT applications and they all suck at having a tight UI except for utorrent even with the bloody ads that for whatever reason pimp my utorrent isn't removing anymore.
Ok so only your email name and password hints were lost. All the bad guys need to send out a barrage of very convincing targeted phishing emails asking users to update their master passwords. As soon as they fall for this all their accounts are toast.
honestly having a password hint compromised is a fairly big deal. a) people suck a hints "Password is my name backwards with a 3" and b) yeah you can use those hints to create more realistic phishing sites.
Did you even read your own quote? It seems to imply that the real sensitive data is unencrypted!
No i think the point was they only have access to the encrypted username and passwords and that they don't have access to the unencrypted usernames and passwords. So it's oddly written but it might be implying the opposite.
In my government IT job in Palo Alto, we don't use passwords anymore. We have moved to USB-C authentication with certificates. -- Rocketman - Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan - William Shatner Trailer
And in that context it makes sense. It makes less sense for say an average user.
The original appeal of Facebook for me is how easy it was to stay connected. Search for a long-lost friend and BOOM you are connected forever. If you are old enough to remember manually keeping an address book up to date, then you are old enough to remember how freeing it felt to be relieved of this responsibility. For frequent contacts? Sure, enter the contact into your phone (if it isn't already synced with Facebook). But for everyone else, it's a great way to stay in touch. Or maybe not a great way, but it's a way and it requires no effort.
Now I like it because I can stay plugged in to local events - local papers are either closed or worthless now, so for good or bad social media == local news.
I don't really post much on there, but I do share a lot of photos - it has replaced Flickr for me in that regard... but that was as simple as changing the plugin that I use in Lightroom.
true there are good things facebook does. Why not keep those features and throw out the personal stuff. There's no reason it can't be both. And besides if Facebook dies the market for what facebook does doesn't die. People might take back their data but connectedness could still work just not centralized under the control of a silicon valley nerd who doesn't consider how life works for people who aren't him.
If you want to make a go of being a "somebody" on the internet, then yes, you should build your own brand, host your own content and stop running ads that point to a megacorp's platform.
... or you could pay a few bucks a month to a responsible ISP and let them deal with the hassles of hosting. My personal web sites costs be about $3/year.
Or I could pay Facebook $0 and not have to mess with a website at all.
but we're talking about $3 to not have your information sold without your consent. $3 to be able to control access to your information. People waste far more money on far less. Might be the best $3 you've ever spent.
oh snap HGF is in the public domain.. I could watch that again.
Because I'm going to spend all day going from one friend's site to another to another..... rather than a single site to find out what's going on with all my friends and family.
sounds like a job for a protocol. A way to label a friend's site once and be able to access it easily from there. The idea isn't that everyone should have their own personal website customized like a tumblr page. But that everyone should create their own facebook using whatever template becomes popular. Presumably like a mastadon ID you can give someone a URI or a customized handle that lets you incorporate into whatever dashboard you'll have and you can get the updates there.
The real issue is that no one is doing anything about package theft. I've seen "surprise packages" done before and better and simpler. But none of this goes to tracking down the people who stole the package? Just about "punishing" package thiefs but that's not the way it works. Any basic psychology course could explain that. If one time you went to a vending machine and instead of a kit kat you got a rotten eggs you'd be grossed out and disgusted but the next weeek you'd be at the vending machine again. Ideally these surprise packages might scare them off your house but even that isn't so sure. I'd rather see something more geared to identifying the people involved and getting the police to DO something. Police waste their time doing so much nonsense I'd much rather them spend less money on tanks and whatever excess military gear they buy and more on tracking down package thieves.
A lot of the solutions seem to involve giving Amazon drivers access to your home (shudder), or a heavy metal dropbox with keys and the like ... I find myself wondering if you'd solve 90% or more of the problem by simply having a box to dump things in without any sort of smarts or security. These people come by and see a package, and then are in-and-out quickly. They presumably aren't as interested in walking up and digging around on your porch three times a day just in case there's a package.
Of course, delivery people ain't got time to put a package in a box, so most likely they'd just leave the package on top of or in front of the box.
interestingly enough I DO have such a hidden package area. to the left of my door along the wall is the mail slot but the entire wall is actually a door that opens up so it's a cubby for large packages. The problem is I still get packages left between my screen door and my front door. Not sure how to train my mailmen to leave it in the cubby without leaving large obvious notes that would be seen by any one walking by.
That would certainly cut down on package theft.
Unfortunately with the legal fallout probably no one would do this, but I think the entertainment value and the satisfaction would b worth it...
There are videos where people do this. Long before him this other guy made a video where he used shotgun shells to make bangs when people lift up the package. It wasn't as over engineered as this one but it was very satisfactory. He even sold packages so you could do it yourself if I recall.
Uh, just pay someone $50 and they will willingly cover their car in glitter. Completely fake.
yeah.... no. Glitter gets everywhere and you cant get rid of it. Most people know this. It's why glitter bombs are even a thing because of how universally annoying it is to everyone who isn't a 12 year old girl. No adult would let you glitter bomb their car for $50. I'm not even sure I or most people would let you do it for a full month's payment. Glitter is just terrible.
Why do people find it acceptable that valuable packages are just left on the doorstep ? Where I live, the delivery guys ring the door bell, hands over the package, and takes my name and signature as proof of delivery.
What happens if the package gets stolen ? Does UPS pay you back ?
and if you're not home? most people don't want to wait for redlivery considering they usually work during mail delivery. this "leaving the package by the front door" thing isn't new by any means. and it's certainly not offensively unacceptable as you seem to imply it is. Maybe we need to rethink it but people find it acceptable because this is how mail works.
Never heard of it. Did anyone?
Yesh it was supposed to be the text paring with Duo. Allo and Duo were supposed to replace hangouts. Which was mostly working fine the way it was. I miss being able to watch YouTube videos as a group on Hangouts that was a great feature.
When a worker gets smashed by a car part on Tesla’s factory floor, medical staff are forbidden from calling 911 without permission.
The electric carmaker’s contract doctors rarely grant it, instead often insisting that seriously injured workers – including one who severed the top of a finger – be sent to the emergency room in a Lyft.
“The goal of the clinic was to keep as many patients off of the books as possible,” said Anna Watson, a physician assistant who worked at Tesla’s medical clinic for three weeks in August.
Watson has nearly 20 years of experience as a medical professional, examining patients, diagnosing ailments and prescribing medications. She’s treated patients at a petroleum refinery, a steel plant, emergency rooms and a trauma center. But she said she’s never seen anything like what’s happening at Tesla.
Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers