The story seems to suggest that exactly 2,315 incidents happened between June 2011 and December 2015. Wrong: this is the number that were discovered. I would be highly surprised if there were more incidents that no one picked up on. How many more I will not speculate.
That's about at the bottom of the list of things one should give a flying fig about.
It depends on who you are. If you live in the USA and ignore the rest of the world, then don't bother; otherwise just do it. Anyway: unicode is not hard to do.
Forget 2020. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate it if you don't start paying a monthly fee, starting around August or so.
This might be Nadella's wet dream but he won't get away with it, in Europe at least: the EU would come down on them like a ton of bricks.
They might make it very hard to install something that is not in the MS App store; this would make it hard enough to install something like libreOffice that many will just buy an Office365 subscription.
They would do this by hiding the ability away such that you need obscure registry settings, or something.
“In our role as a global payments provider we must look at the full details of a service’s operations and compliance, including how the company addresses the laws and regulations related to the sharing or dissemination of illegal content as well as the policies of PayPal’s processing banks and card networks,” it said.
My emphasis. Paypal do not say who's laws they are enforcing, I suspect that they are talking about the laws of the USA; they are not interested that their (Paypal's) customers might have to obey different laws. Paypal might even be obliged to demand that their customer obey laws of the USA regardless of which jurisdiction their customer is subject to. For all we know Paypal might have received a NSL (National Security Letter) as the FBI/NSA/... is interested in some of Seafile's customers -- we will never know.
All that the (prospective) tenant needs to do is to submit a Subject access request (possibly paying £10) and they have to give all of the information within 40 days. Certainly for people in England (and it is a British company), I don't know what happens if someone from the USA would try it.
Trouble is that many people will just hand over their passwords and forget about it.
after some period. As I understand it the whole point of keeping the existence of a NSL secret is to stop the crook/whoever from being alerted to the police/whatever investigation into him. So: once the crook is locked up there is little reason to keep it secret. There is also an argument that the NSLs should be disclosed at the crook's trial.
I do understand that matters are more complex, a crook could be part of a gang and investigations into other gangsters could be hampered by disclosure that is too early.
There should be an assumption in law that all NSLs should be disclosed after some time, eg 10 or 30 years. It would be up to the police to argue that disclosure should be delayed in particular cases.
Above I talk of crooks, much the same arguments apply about terrorists, paedophiles, etc. Ditto: police to be FBI, NSA, etc
I had to install it this morning by typing ''yum update'', it told me that it was going to install 855 MB and prompted me ''Is this ok [y/N]'' -- notice a default answer of no.
This is yet more evidence that RedHat/CentOS is behind the time and not following recent industry practice of bamboozling their users into installing the latest version of the OS whether they want to or not. Should I downgrade to Microsoft Windows so that I can become as exasperated as some of my friends ?
True, apparently most users think this is the "we will NOW upgrade your PC" dialogue box and just close it to cancel the upgrade. But instead, this is the " We have SCHEDULED your upgrade, and here you can change some options about the schedule or start the upgrade right now" box. And closing the dialogue does nothing about the schedule.
Microsoft have done enormous research into UI (User Interfaces) so it is inconceivable that they did not know that this is how many people would understand what was happening -- and then be surprised when the upgrade happened. What they have done breaks all good practice in good user interaction.
It is OK to push hard an update that does something like fixing a security hole, the fix basically does nothing except fix the bug. It is something completely different to push hard something that makes drastic changes to the machine and potentially leaves some parts of it not working (eg 3rd party software or drivers) and, in some cases leaves the machine unable to boot. In every case when upgrading a machine to a new version of the operating system the first instruction is ''back up all data''. Microsoft does not even give users a chance, it just does it.
The other thing that Microsoft have done is to change the status of the upgrade, so that people with increasingly conservative update policies slowly get caught by this. They have put what they want as more important than what their customers might want.
Windows 10 never auto-installs. If you're too illiterate to read what the screen says then that's not Microsoft's fault.
Really ? MS advertises Windows as something that is good for non technical users; it does what people reasonably expect. But the whole way that the prompt is laid out is to misdirect the user, it pushes them to accept the default and obscures what will happen until it is too late. In short: it is deceptive.
Get it fixed professionally and send MS the bill - it was upgraded at their request.
BTW: good luck at getting any money, they will spend more on lawyers fighting you than the value of the bill, the last thing that they want is to admit/accept any liability for their actions.
why don't they plug into the local electricity supply ? Yes: this would need connection standards & infrastructure at the ports, but there is already lot of port side building needed to be able to accommodate these monsters. The ship can still use it's own generators when it is at ports that do not supply electricity. So: ports that don't like the smoke just provide a big electric plug.
Youtube should recognise that Fox is not exercising due diligence before making use of its automated take down system. Thus Fox should no longer be allowed to use automatic take down. I believe that the DMCA process involves some statement of truth; Fox is abusing the courts should take note.
Some apps that you really want demand all sorts of capabilities that you do not want to give to them. Some will not install or behave badly if you do not grant what they want. What is needed is a 3 way grant of permissions: yes (allow), no (do not allow), lie (use a contact list of: mickey mouse, the queen, pres obama,...; location: North Pole;....) like that they are happy and just report to their masters junk information.
This was tried 200 years ago, it did not stop the rise of the machines, the mill owners became very wealthy. However: I do agree that increasing automation will cause large social problems, I don't know how to deal with them, but we need to go into this with our eyes open not shut.
If MS knew that it would screw some machines, then those machines' owners should sue MS for their time lost (+ consequential losses) for fixing this problem - for some people that will be a lot of money. Trying to shift the blame elsewhere is the sort of line that you get from a 2 bit fly by night outfit. However: I expect that they will hide behind their EULA or lawyers or similar.
and other non-electric writing devices. These enabled records and information to be reliably kept for many years and sent great distances.
In too many surveys like this people only think about what is new/revolutionary in their lifetime and completely forget about what came before. Myopic!
What is being attacked by Judge Marcel Montalvao is not a centralised communication mechanism but encryption. His target was Whatsapp since that had provided the means for private messaging. A peer-to-peer messaging system would be nice but it still needs: (a) a software/app provider (or several); (b) a means of directory lookup and; (c) perhaps a store and forward mechanism. Each of these points can be attacked by a judge or government.
Techies (or those employing them) may be able to do some themselves, but most users will not -- which is why all of these attacks are really to the detriment of the common man while not touching the real targets (terrorists/paedos/master-crims/...) who can pay/organise round the attacks.
The trouble with most stories of government attempts at grabbing data and hindering those who try to protect the individual is that it is generally seen as "someone else's problem". This means that politicians can ignore those who it affects and continue eroding freedoms. If it affects a large proportion of the population then some aspiring politicos will see it as one way of getting up the electoral greasy pole; if (and a big "if") they keep their promises when elected we could see legislation to curtail the likes of Judge Marcel Montalvao. I certainly hope that this happens, it might make politicians in the USA and Europe think twice before they grab more privacy from us.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." Supposedly Thomas Jefferson
as a result of one of these stupid popups stopping a PC doing what it is supposed to be doing ? This happens even in a nicely controlled environment where nothing is going wrong... so why stop the machine doing what it should ?
This would be major popcorn time: watching the lawyers from the deceased duke it out with the MS lawyers. MS would, of course, claim that it was not their fault and that the user was doing something wrong, or anything to divert the blame from themselves. Only possible conclusion: MS Windows is not fit for purpose for any mission critical use.
from the night before, or have drugs (legal or otherwise) in my system ? How does it perform ? It probably does not matter in the instance of allowing people into a sensitive area - might even be a benefit: do you want someone with a sore head near the big red buttons of a nuclear missile ?
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maybe they ought to block/censor religious web sites.
The story seems to suggest that exactly 2,315 incidents happened between June 2011 and December 2015. Wrong: this is the number that were discovered. I would be highly surprised if there were more incidents that no one picked up on. How many more I will not speculate.
That's about at the bottom of the list of things one should give a flying fig about.
It depends on who you are. If you live in the USA and ignore the rest of the world, then don't bother; otherwise just do it. Anyway: unicode is not hard to do.
What happens when you leave your TV on near your unattended echo and the advert script runs like ...
Not entirely improbable - the ad showing the gullible how easy it is to buy their stuff
It arrives and you dispute that you ordered it
Forget 2020. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate it if you don't start paying a monthly fee, starting around August or so.
This might be Nadella's wet dream but he won't get away with it, in Europe at least: the EU would come down on them like a ton of bricks. They might make it very hard to install something that is not in the MS App store; this would make it hard enough to install something like libreOffice that many will just buy an Office365 subscription. They would do this by hiding the ability away such that you need obscure registry settings, or something.
My emphasis. Paypal do not say who's laws they are enforcing, I suspect that they are talking about the laws of the USA; they are not interested that their (Paypal's) customers might have to obey different laws. Paypal might even be obliged to demand that their customer obey laws of the USA regardless of which jurisdiction their customer is subject to. For all we know Paypal might have received a NSL (National Security Letter) as the FBI/NSA/... is interested in some of Seafile's customers -- we will never know.
All that the (prospective) tenant needs to do is to submit a Subject access request (possibly paying £10) and they have to give all of the information within 40 days. Certainly for people in England (and it is a British company), I don't know what happens if someone from the USA would try it.
Trouble is that many people will just hand over their passwords and forget about it.
Most people do not care; if something goes wrong they will find someone else to blame. Neither do they care that their information is being sold.
If you do not have a trial, how do you know if they are guilty or not ?
after some period. As I understand it the whole point of keeping the existence of a NSL secret is to stop the crook/whoever from being alerted to the police/whatever investigation into him. So: once the crook is locked up there is little reason to keep it secret. There is also an argument that the NSLs should be disclosed at the crook's trial.
I do understand that matters are more complex, a crook could be part of a gang and investigations into other gangsters could be hampered by disclosure that is too early.
There should be an assumption in law that all NSLs should be disclosed after some time, eg 10 or 30 years. It would be up to the police to argue that disclosure should be delayed in particular cases.
Above I talk of crooks, much the same arguments apply about terrorists, paedophiles, etc. Ditto: police to be FBI, NSA, etc
I had to install it this morning by typing ''yum update'', it told me that it was going to install 855 MB and prompted me ''Is this ok [y/N]'' -- notice a default answer of no.
This is yet more evidence that RedHat/CentOS is behind the time and not following recent industry practice of bamboozling their users into installing the latest version of the OS whether they want to or not. Should I downgrade to Microsoft Windows so that I can become as exasperated as some of my friends ?
True, apparently most users think this is the "we will NOW upgrade your PC" dialogue box and just close it to cancel the upgrade. But instead, this is the " We have SCHEDULED your upgrade, and here you can change some options about the schedule or start the upgrade right now" box. And closing the dialogue does nothing about the schedule.
Microsoft have done enormous research into UI (User Interfaces) so it is inconceivable that they did not know that this is how many people would understand what was happening -- and then be surprised when the upgrade happened. What they have done breaks all good practice in good user interaction.
It is OK to push hard an update that does something like fixing a security hole, the fix basically does nothing except fix the bug. It is something completely different to push hard something that makes drastic changes to the machine and potentially leaves some parts of it not working (eg 3rd party software or drivers) and, in some cases leaves the machine unable to boot. In every case when upgrading a machine to a new version of the operating system the first instruction is ''back up all data''. Microsoft does not even give users a chance, it just does it.
The other thing that Microsoft have done is to change the status of the upgrade, so that people with increasingly conservative update policies slowly get caught by this. They have put what they want as more important than what their customers might want.
Windows 10 never auto-installs. If you're too illiterate to read what the screen says then that's not Microsoft's fault.
Really ? MS advertises Windows as something that is good for non technical users; it does what people reasonably expect. But the whole way that the prompt is laid out is to misdirect the user, it pushes them to accept the default and obscures what will happen until it is too late. In short: it is deceptive.
Get it fixed professionally and send MS the bill - it was upgraded at their request.
BTW: good luck at getting any money, they will spend more on lawyers fighting you than the value of the bill, the last thing that they want is to admit/accept any liability for their actions.
why don't they plug into the local electricity supply ? Yes: this would need connection standards & infrastructure at the ports, but there is already lot of port side building needed to be able to accommodate these monsters. The ship can still use it's own generators when it is at ports that do not supply electricity. So: ports that don't like the smoke just provide a big electric plug.
Youtube should recognise that Fox is not exercising due diligence before making use of its automated take down system. Thus Fox should no longer be allowed to use automatic take down. I believe that the DMCA process involves some statement of truth; Fox is abusing the courts should take note.
Some apps that you really want demand all sorts of capabilities that you do not want to give to them. Some will not install or behave badly if you do not grant what they want. What is needed is a 3 way grant of permissions: yes (allow), no (do not allow), lie (use a contact list of: mickey mouse, the queen, pres obama, ...; location: North Pole; ....) like that they are happy and just report to their masters junk information.
A revolution is brewing.
This was tried 200 years ago, it did not stop the rise of the machines, the mill owners became very wealthy. However: I do agree that increasing automation will cause large social problems, I don't know how to deal with them, but we need to go into this with our eyes open not shut.
If MS knew that it would screw some machines, then those machines' owners should sue MS for their time lost (+ consequential losses) for fixing this problem - for some people that will be a lot of money. Trying to shift the blame elsewhere is the sort of line that you get from a 2 bit fly by night outfit. However: I expect that they will hide behind their EULA or lawyers or similar.
Could someone do a Freedom of Information request on what the police put into court. Either the cop or the judge should lose his job./p?
and other non-electric writing devices. These enabled records and information to be reliably kept for many years and sent great distances.
In too many surveys like this people only think about what is new/revolutionary in their lifetime and completely forget about what came before. Myopic!
What is being attacked by Judge Marcel Montalvao is not a centralised communication mechanism but encryption. His target was Whatsapp since that had provided the means for private messaging. A peer-to-peer messaging system would be nice but it still needs: (a) a software/app provider (or several); (b) a means of directory lookup and; (c) perhaps a store and forward mechanism. Each of these points can be attacked by a judge or government.
Techies (or those employing them) may be able to do some themselves, but most users will not -- which is why all of these attacks are really to the detriment of the common man while not touching the real targets (terrorists/paedos/master-crims/...) who can pay/organise round the attacks.
The trouble with most stories of government attempts at grabbing data and hindering those who try to protect the individual is that it is generally seen as "someone else's problem". This means that politicians can ignore those who it affects and continue eroding freedoms. If it affects a large proportion of the population then some aspiring politicos will see it as one way of getting up the electoral greasy pole; if (and a big "if") they keep their promises when elected we could see legislation to curtail the likes of Judge Marcel Montalvao. I certainly hope that this happens, it might make politicians in the USA and Europe think twice before they grab more privacy from us.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." Supposedly Thomas Jefferson
as a result of one of these stupid popups stopping a PC doing what it is supposed to be doing ? This happens even in a nicely controlled environment where nothing is going wrong ... so why stop the machine doing what it should ?
This would be major popcorn time: watching the lawyers from the deceased duke it out with the MS lawyers. MS would, of course, claim that it was not their fault and that the user was doing something wrong, or anything to divert the blame from themselves. Only possible conclusion: MS Windows is not fit for purpose for any mission critical use.
from the night before, or have drugs (legal or otherwise) in my system ? How does it perform ? It probably does not matter in the instance of allowing people into a sensitive area - might even be a benefit: do you want someone with a sore head near the big red buttons of a nuclear missile ?