I'm sure the NSA et al have shell corporations in order to fund all the stuff they won't admit to doing.
And I'm sure the dragnet of surveillance allows them to do some pretty lucrative insider trading.
The shadow government will be well funded, and will just go further underground and it will be business as usual, and the politicians get to keep acting like they're in charge.
You know, it's pretty sad when you more or less have to assume all of the tropes from movies are actually happening. Increasingly it feels like you couldn't possibly be paranoid enough.
before we got a call that they were chasing cows around in the pasture bare ass naked
Wait, we're not supposed to do that?:-P
My biggest concern is if someone is getting a little into the area where they're going to start exhibiting some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, remembering to bring their phone with them isn't going to be a priority.
And then I question if this only really helps well funded/supported, well insured people or not. Not everybody who suffers from schizophrenia has really great access to such programs.
the world's most blase cows. You can imagine new cows to the herd
I have it on the authority of several friends who have been involved in the raising of cows... cows are far too damned stupid for what you're ascribing to them.
I believe the entire cow decision tree comes down to: Does it look like it will eat me? Are the other cows moving and do they seem scared? Can I eat it? Can I poop on it? Is it time for a nap?
Everything else, apparently, is mostly random chance and blind luck.
Yes. And an Android customer. And a Microsoft customer. And a VMWare customer. I've also been a Solaris customer in the past. I've also got Linux and FreeBSD boxes.
And I have a really awesome collection of tin-foil hats.
LOL, you expect that, in a story about malware on Android that I'm going to trust a link to install software on Android from outside of the Play store?
Google also allows Android to be set to allow installation from 3rd parties.
So, if you explicitly enabled that, and downloaded something from a shady source... well, you may have shot yourself in the foot.
If this came from the Google Play store, then Google has a problem. If this came from a 3rd party store, then the user has a problem. And if this came from a vendor's proprietary store the vendor has a problem.
I think it comes down to "where did this package come from, and what did you need to do to install it?"
Because Google values their ability to sell advertising over user security would be my guess.
Remember, it's their phone, you're only using it under license -- because Google has long since given up any pretense of the whole "do no evil" thing.
I see so many things list their permissions and think "WTF would you need these permissions for, and why on Earth would I give them to you?" And then I cancel the download.
So I R'd TFA, and I can't see anything which says *how* you get this. Or if it's in there I can't find it.
I assume it either piggy backs on something else downloaded from the app store, or comes in from someone enabling apps to come from other places.
The fact that an application can even disable the uninstall feature is pathetic.
And, sadly, Google has removed even more permissions control, so this will only get worse.
I still maintain I should be able to go in at any time and remove permissions from apps -- because, quite frankly, why something like a Flashlight needs access to my messages and contacts has always been a mystery.
Because, if they launch their own video streaming service for their clients, for instance, they wouldn't be able to give it preferential treatment to their packets over those of Netflix.
If there was net neutrality, the ISPs wouldn't be able to push their own services to compete with others, and they'd have to do it on merit.
Same goes for music, TV shows, and possibly even app stores.
If they serve the interwebs to people equally, they have less of a way to make sure it's easier for the consumer to use their products, and instead they might use those of someone else... and then executive bonuses might suffer as their offerings flop.
Because, don't forget, China is rattling their sabre at Vietnam, the Phillippines, and Japan... possibly others.
China merely doesn't want them to have the capability because it means they'd have a much harder time bullying Japan over things like the Senkaku islands.
Exactly. For China to be saying this is mostly just trying to mask the crap they're pulling and make it sound like they're only defending themselves, when what they're actually doing is a land grab.
When they issue public statements, one does wonder if they believe these things, or just figure they might as well say something to make it sound good.
And, yet, China seems to be the one annexing islands and redefining boundaries.
By some standards, China is more or less invading both Japan and Vietnam now.
Who is the bigger threat? The closed communist government whose every public statement is a deluded fit of lies gets my vote. Have you ever read a press release out of China? It reads like bad fiction written by a delusional psychotic.
Maybe if China is 'worried' about Japan, they need to look at their own actions and understand why Japan might be feeling the need to be able to protect themselves.
Ummm... in the "Allowed HTML" below the entry box for comments, there is a list of, well, allowed HTML. All not allowed HTML is going to fail.
Armed with that, and the very powerful preview button you mention, you too can avoid broken tags.
Or do you expect some pre-preview to give you a preview before the preview so you'd know what would have been in the preview if you actually used preview instead of just pressing submit?
You know, I've actually heard people championing cloud stuff saying "we don't need to keep backups, it's in the cloud".
People act like the cloud is full of unicorns and rainbows, and makes all problems go away, and then they do really stupid things like this and realize that isn't the case.
The problem, is that people buy into it, and then when they realize they've made poor decisions, it's too damned late.
It sounds like Codespace more or less created their own mess, but it's their clients who are really getting screwed.
Blaming cloud computing for this is completely idiotic
Now now, do try not be be such an ass.
To me cloud computing has offered more hype than actual benefits. It allows certain kinds of risks to be turned into mere abstractions you can gloss over.
You lose control of your data, and can give yourself the illusion of safety when there is none.
about what I expect on the dumbed down Slashdot these days.
Funny, smarmy assholes with 7 digit IDs and a Google+ login ID is what I expect from the dumbed down Slashdot these days.
Freedom was a good experiment while it lasted, but if the goal of 9/11 was to shake our entire society... it succeeded brilliantly.
Pretty much any time the US claims to be the champions of freedom and democracy, you can either start laughing, or start crying. Because they've more or less destroyed it.
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I'm sure the NSA et al have shell corporations in order to fund all the stuff they won't admit to doing.
And I'm sure the dragnet of surveillance allows them to do some pretty lucrative insider trading.
The shadow government will be well funded, and will just go further underground and it will be business as usual, and the politicians get to keep acting like they're in charge.
You know, it's pretty sad when you more or less have to assume all of the tropes from movies are actually happening. Increasingly it feels like you couldn't possibly be paranoid enough.
Wait, we're not supposed to do that? :-P
My biggest concern is if someone is getting a little into the area where they're going to start exhibiting some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, remembering to bring their phone with them isn't going to be a priority.
And then I question if this only really helps well funded/supported, well insured people or not. Not everybody who suffers from schizophrenia has really great access to such programs.
That's because nobody actually reads the articles anymore. :-P
In my experience, that's what it means to be a CEO.
As a rider, no. But around horses and people who do, quite a bit.
I know for a fact you can train a horse. I've seen it.
I have never seen a trained cow.
For the record, if Gary Larson wishes to use that to create a Far Side cartoon, he may use it free of charge. ;-)
More Far Side would be awesome.
Well, you don't fly a rocket in reverse ... you fly it less forward than usual. ;-)
I have it on the authority of several friends who have been involved in the raising of cows ... cows are far too damned stupid for what you're ascribing to them.
I believe the entire cow decision tree comes down to: Does it look like it will eat me? Are the other cows moving and do they seem scared? Can I eat it? Can I poop on it? Is it time for a nap?
Everything else, apparently, is mostly random chance and blind luck.
Yes. And an Android customer. And a Microsoft customer. And a VMWare customer. I've also been a Solaris customer in the past. I've also got Linux and FreeBSD boxes.
And I have a really awesome collection of tin-foil hats.
Did you have some kind of point?
LOL, you expect that, in a story about malware on Android that I'm going to trust a link to install software on Android from outside of the Play store?
I think not.
Google also allows Android to be set to allow installation from 3rd parties.
So, if you explicitly enabled that, and downloaded something from a shady source ... well, you may have shot yourself in the foot.
If this came from the Google Play store, then Google has a problem. If this came from a 3rd party store, then the user has a problem. And if this came from a vendor's proprietary store the vendor has a problem.
I think it comes down to "where did this package come from, and what did you need to do to install it?"
Because Google values their ability to sell advertising over user security would be my guess.
Remember, it's their phone, you're only using it under license -- because Google has long since given up any pretense of the whole "do no evil" thing.
I see so many things list their permissions and think "WTF would you need these permissions for, and why on Earth would I give them to you?" And then I cancel the download.
So I R'd TFA, and I can't see anything which says *how* you get this. Or if it's in there I can't find it.
I assume it either piggy backs on something else downloaded from the app store, or comes in from someone enabling apps to come from other places.
The fact that an application can even disable the uninstall feature is pathetic.
And, sadly, Google has removed even more permissions control, so this will only get worse.
I still maintain I should be able to go in at any time and remove permissions from apps -- because, quite frankly, why something like a Flashlight needs access to my messages and contacts has always been a mystery.
Because, if they launch their own video streaming service for their clients, for instance, they wouldn't be able to give it preferential treatment to their packets over those of Netflix.
If there was net neutrality, the ISPs wouldn't be able to push their own services to compete with others, and they'd have to do it on merit.
Same goes for music, TV shows, and possibly even app stores.
If they serve the interwebs to people equally, they have less of a way to make sure it's easier for the consumer to use their products, and instead they might use those of someone else ... and then executive bonuses might suffer as their offerings flop.
Won't someone think about the executive bonuses?
Of course AT&T is going to say that.
They're one of the entities who stands to profit from no net neutrality, and they're one of the companies who are actually ruining the internet.
Net neutrality is an assault on the business model of gouging successful ventures, because it prevents the extra rent-seeking they like to do.
I've never understood how ISPs aren't common carriers.
There is a warning, it's the preview button.
Do you want something which gives you annoying warning messages as you type?
Because, quite frankly, that would suck as bad as Beta.
It gets silently dropped because of, well, Little Bobby Drop Tables. :-P
It's a vaccine. It allegedly cures autism.
Holding those two thoughts simultaneously could cause all of the air to leak out of her head.
Wouldn't you?
When that happened I suspect it was a big giant moment of "oh, crap, we're all gonna die".
A nuke is a pretty compelling argument when nobody has ever used one before.
Of course it's FUD.
Because, don't forget, China is rattling their sabre at Vietnam, the Phillippines, and Japan ... possibly others.
Exactly. For China to be saying this is mostly just trying to mask the crap they're pulling and make it sound like they're only defending themselves, when what they're actually doing is a land grab.
When they issue public statements, one does wonder if they believe these things, or just figure they might as well say something to make it sound good.
And, yet, China seems to be the one annexing islands and redefining boundaries.
By some standards, China is more or less invading both Japan and Vietnam now.
Who is the bigger threat? The closed communist government whose every public statement is a deluded fit of lies gets my vote. Have you ever read a press release out of China? It reads like bad fiction written by a delusional psychotic.
Maybe if China is 'worried' about Japan, they need to look at their own actions and understand why Japan might be feeling the need to be able to protect themselves.
Ummm ... in the "Allowed HTML" below the entry box for comments, there is a list of, well, allowed HTML. All not allowed HTML is going to fail.
Armed with that, and the very powerful preview button you mention, you too can avoid broken tags.
Or do you expect some pre-preview to give you a preview before the preview so you'd know what would have been in the preview if you actually used preview instead of just pressing submit?
You know, I've actually heard people championing cloud stuff saying "we don't need to keep backups, it's in the cloud".
People act like the cloud is full of unicorns and rainbows, and makes all problems go away, and then they do really stupid things like this and realize that isn't the case.
The problem, is that people buy into it, and then when they realize they've made poor decisions, it's too damned late.
It sounds like Codespace more or less created their own mess, but it's their clients who are really getting screwed.
Now now, do try not be be such an ass.
To me cloud computing has offered more hype than actual benefits. It allows certain kinds of risks to be turned into mere abstractions you can gloss over.
You lose control of your data, and can give yourself the illusion of safety when there is none.
Funny, smarmy assholes with 7 digit IDs and a Google+ login ID is what I expect from the dumbed down Slashdot these days.
So it's all good.
No, really? Wow, aren't you a clever guy. That was kind of the point.
The rule itself is absurd, and, as I said, I predict it will be useless and largely ignored.
Well, they're pretty much fucked too.
Freedom was a good experiment while it lasted, but if the goal of 9/11 was to shake our entire society ... it succeeded brilliantly.
Pretty much any time the US claims to be the champions of freedom and democracy, you can either start laughing, or start crying. Because they've more or less destroyed it.