And now a company will patent her genes, and every insurance company will call this a pre-existing condition and deny treatment for anything related to this or its treatment.
Medical technology is growing FAR faster than either medical ethics, or the laws surrounding what can be done with this information.
In 20 years when she has issues related to the high-fat diet they'll tell her they can't insure her, and some asshole corporation will claim to own the genes and therefore any possible treatment.
These days you have to ask yourself... just who is going to profit from this, and in how many ways is this girl going to be denied services?
Every time I see something like "explosion proof" I think of how the Titanic was "unsinkable".
It can be explosion resistant, but, really, a sufficiently determined person (or Seamus from Harry Potter) can always cause an explosion in the right situation.
What is the motivation for having this banned in the first place?
Rampant fear, paranoia, and hysteria.
The (bogey man|abductor|brown person|alien|athiest|drug fiend|communist|hippie) might snatch them on their way to school.
Stranger danger, danger danger, unfounded fear and paranoia, danger Will Robinson.
From what I can tell, that seems to be how the US works -- whip people up into the frenzy du jour to keep them panicked and compliant.
As someone who walked to school starting from almost the beginning, I read that and think... wow, really, it was illegal for kids to walk to school??
And I increasingly look at America as a country of scared, irrational people who are jumping at shadows. It's pretty pathetic that they need to pass a law to make it legal for kids to walk to school.
Except this is likely using the accelerometer, and has nothing at all to do with if you cover the PIN pad with your other hand. This has nothing at all to do with someone LOOKING at you entering your PIN, but figuring out what your PIN is based on how your hand moves.
What you've just said is the solution to someone being able to pick your lock is to wear a blindfold and wear a condom.
Of course, that has nothing at all to do with the problem at hand.
So, while I see some good points about which hand you're going to type your PIN with... as I see it, smart watches and so many other products are pretty much insecure by design.
Some company rushes a product to market because it sounds cool, they build in some features which also sound cool, and they make it so it can communicate with everything.
In the process someone glosses over that it wants to talk to everything, or that they forgot to add any security, or that is leaks personal information all over the place by uploading information to several different sites... ads, analytics, telemetry, the company who sold it so they have your personal information.
You walk into a store, it connects to their wifi, the store's app detects you, updates information about you, sends you a custom sale flyer based on your previous purchases... it keeps track of the fact that you spend a lot of time in the pain aisle. It updates more of your information. They sell that information to 5 other places.
You go home, it tells your thermostat you're home. Your hacked nanny cam records what you do. Google connects your last purchase with your ad profile, and when you sit down at your computer you see fresh ads for paint.
All of these gadgets and doo-dads, I just don't see the point. I don't need to be tracked wherever I go so I can sign into Facebook or tweet that I'm in McDonalds.
At the end of the day, between the fact that the companies you give the information to are lazy and terrible at security your information gets out, between what they share with their 15 ad partners your information gets out and you probably get served malware, and your connected whatsit probably gets hacked because it's got crap security.
I don't trust the makers of these products, and quite frankly I can't make myself get excited about an internet connected roll of toilet paper. I don't need my fridge to tweet me that I'm low on butter. My oven doesn't need to be pre-heated from my phone. My front door doesn't need to be able to recognize my friends. My kitchen table doesn't need to update my Facebook status.
It's insecure, or it's untrustworthy. And in an awful lot of cases it's pointless.
Korea, both north and south, has succeeded in creating the worlds only 160 mile long insufferable asian shouting contest
Which, arguably, is better than a shooting contest.
Don't forget, North and South Korea are still technically at war with one another.
Frankly, I'd rather the pissing contest... because all of the stuff you say would happen even more so as a result of them resuming open warfare. But, hey, they could go back to killing one another by the thousands if you somehow think that's better.
LOL... Oh, I don't know if you need that much in the way of advances... my brother used to have a car I could hear coming when it was still well over a mile away because of the god-awful crazy stereo in it... our dog could hear it from much further and came out of his house to wait.
I'm pretty sure most rock bands have probably solved the problem of maximum range of a speaker.
Big pharma are greedy, lying bastards who would climb over us to make a buck and not think twice.
The anti-vaxxers are a bunch of loonies who can't look at scientific evidence or recognize the initial claims were fabrications by a discredited scientist.
Both of them aren't trustworthy entities... one lies about its science and the other doesn't understand it.
I fear as long as we can still point to how the pharmacy companies have lied or manipulated their findings, people will be willing to believe they're just evil corporations out to make a buck. But then you just let a bunch of drooling idiots take over the conversation.
Well, the problem with this is that the idiots refusing vaccines aren't just putting themselves at risk.
If it was just they and their offspring would become ill? Hey, run wild. You've taken yourselves out of the gene pool and we don't care. That's your damned problem for a choice you made.
But that isn't what happens. Someone else gets sick.
Which means if you refuse to get vaccinated and then help to spread disease you should be liable for that. Like criminally liable.
If it was as simple as the herd doing without the ones who wouldn't get vaccinated, it would be an easy choice. What they really end up doing is endangering other people.
Which means they aren't solely the ones in danger by their own stupidity, and they should be refused access to places like schools and jobs so they don't make others ill due to their own stupid.
Windows 7 and 8.1 will try to reinstall it if the system's setting is "Install updates automatically
Well, that is fundamentally the problem.
You simply cannot trust Microsoft here. If you allow them to alter your system as they see fit, they're going to.... and in the process they'll eventually take away your ability to stop them.
They've also started lying about/concealing what updates do. They just say "this addresses issues with Windows", when what it's really doing it adding telemetry and other shit designed to benefit only themselves.
With Windows 10, Microsoft have become malware, and the will keep trying to shove this up your ass until they succeed or you forcibly stop them. All they'll do it re-issue it with a different number and keep trying.
I wonder if Microsoft understands (or cares) the extent to which they are pissing people off, and forcing people to start rejecting updates on the assumption they can't be trusted.
It just seems like they have decided it is their computer, and you don't get a vote. This seems to me like it's a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act or whatever it is.. but apparently assholes with EULAs can do anything they want to.
Lobbyists. You really want to ensure no bullshit is happening, track every single registered lobbyist.
Those guys are doing FAR more to undermine your government by ensuring that corporate interests take precedence over everything else.
The ones writing checks are also writing policy.
The Copyright cartel (which is mostly multinational corporations) practically write laws and trade agreements for the US government these days, and the government is largely on the payroll of corporate interests.
22GB are about 8 hours of Netflix in HD, that is like 3.5 movies this days.
And there's the rub... because now everybody is starting to lie to us about how awesome 4K video is going to be.
They can't even keep up with streaming current video without giving you an absurdly crippled usage amount. WTF do they think will happen with the 4K video they want to tell us they can do?
Internet and mobile companies have been lying to us about just how awesome their data plans will be for years. They love to say how we'll be able to watch all this stuff, but if we ever actually did they'd immediately change the terms as they get reminded of just how badly they're selling more than they actually have.
So, yawn, mobile data is never going to live up to the claims. Film at 11. That never stops them from telling us how their network is going to be the best for whatever new thing comes along.
This is why I still buy DVDs, and still watch them on my home system... because I don't need some asshole's permission to watch it over again, and my DVD player which isn't connected to the internet doesn't need to ask permission to do so.
Stream everything from the cloud to a tiny little screen? Why the hell would I want to do that?
AT&T Cannot possibly go out with a underdefined caveat such as "peak network traffic periods" for a bloody $100/mo contract.
So, which of naive, delusional, or insane would you fall into?
Unless someone passes a law which defines in what precise ways AT&T can fuck over their customers, what on Earth makes you think they can't just make shit up as they go?
Cannot possibly? Sorry, but you have nothing to back that up. Certainly not reality.
No, not really.. malware was one of many pieces which enabled this to happen, but the malware did not directly do the attack. The malware was used to get a foothold, and to cover their tracks. But the actual attacks were more targeted and used other things.
This is more like someone exploiting an issue with your security system to gain access to your home so they could target your wall safe.
The malware itself wasn't the core of the attack, but it was an enabling and contributing aspect of the actual attack.
Assante wrote that KillDisk wouldn't have been compatible with the type of SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems used by utilities. But it may have been employed to wipe other files that would have helped to restore systems.
No, but I will still maintain that a new protocol, coupled with the lazy bastards writing IoT products, is pretty much 100% guaranteed to create new security holes.
Because every time we get a new protocol we get companies who do a lousy job of adhering to it, and every single company making consumer electronics demonstrates time and time again they're lazy/incompetent/cheap/indifferent to properly implementing security.
I refuse to believe the companies making IoT things won't fuck up and create new security issues... because they've been doing it for quite a long time already.
The newsfeed here on Slashdot tells me pretty much constantly these people cannot be trusted with security. Short of new reasons to think that will change, I'm going to assume nothing will.
We know damned well that the people who write the protocols in both the devices as well as the routers will do it in a lazy half-assed manner which is guaranteed to have gaping security holes in it. History tells us there is no "if", "might", "maybe", or "could".
Over and over we pretty much see that this is almost guaranteed to happen.
IoT is marketing hype, and as such this is being pushed to market by a bunch of people who don't value security, and bear no penalty for being lazy or incompetent. Which pretty much means they will be lazy or incompetent.
I refuse to buy any of this IoT crap, or let it into my home. Because like every other bit of consumer electronics, I have zero confidence that until companies have legal and financial liability for doing a shitty job, they will have any reason to stop doing a shitty job.
As long as some pointy haired boss can cut corners, or some marketing guy can insist on shipping to make it to market first... the security holes are pretty much a given.
And the last decade or more is pretty much what we see happening when these companies don't have any liability.
If you don't think the IoT is going to be a gong-show of bad security, you haven't been paying attention, and naively believe the underlying problem will magically fix itself.
Companies aren't going to change how they write security, because they have neither incentive to do it, nor penalties for not doing it.
Which means if you think you'll magically get secure products you are delusional.
Before Windows, was window a common term in software?
Do you mean there were windowing systems, which pre-dated Microsoft Windows, and which were doing "windows" before Microsoft? Xerox invented "windowing" systems, Microsoft did what they always do.. come to the table late and mimic what other people have invented and then act like they originated it.
Basically Microsoft took a term which had already been used by the people who had invented windowing systems, and trademarked it.
As far as "Word" goes, we all had "word processors" for years before Microsoft.
But you can bet your ass that "windows" was a term in computing which described windowing systems and which existed before MIcrosoft.
The X Windows System and several other things were doing "windows" and "windowing" long before Microsoft. And many of us have LONG contended that their trademarks are bullshit, because they co-opted terms which had already been in use... by the people they stole the idea from in the first place.
There is no scenario in which Microsoft can claim the invention of the concept of "windows" and "windowing systems". The words had been in use long before Microsoft did it. And they'd already been in fairly common use by people in the industry.
Yeah, with my service tag and NO other authorization Dell gave me my Express Service code.
From there it was a captcha away from being able to log into the warranty page, which I didn't bother doing.
This tells me there is probably VERY little authentication around something which is a relatively short and formulaic looking identifier.
If you need no real authentication and a captcha to get this information, then this service should be shut down. Because it basically would suggest they'll provide a tremendous amount of information for pretty much anybody who can come up with a single number.
If all it takes is auto-generating a bunch of possible service tags and brute forcing it, then Dell are fucking idiots who are just handing out your information like candy.
This is a system which is just begging to be exploited, because it's almost wide open.
and his solution to every problem you throw at him is to perform a complete reinstall of your Windows installation.
Funny, I've met IT staff like that. Only they weren't courteous.
I've also had the misfortune of dealing with outsourced IBM helpdesk people. They too seem to have no troubleshooting skills and suggest a complete reinstall.
Your joke would be much funnier if there weren't already massive amounts of people whose suggestion for most problems is a complete reinstall.
Rebooting and then reinstalling seems to be the standard Windows troubleshooting sequence, unfortunately.
It's the same bloody call center they use for support in the first place.
If they have information that specific either Dell has been hacked, or these guys for the information directly from Dell for a supposedly legitimate purpose.
When will people get it through their heads: incoming phone calls are inherently not trustworthy because the lobbyists for telemarketing companies have ensured caller ID spoofing is legal.
If someone calls you claiming to be from an entity you have a relationship with, tell them you'll only talk to them if you can call them on a number you can get from the official company web page.
I no longer give callers the benefit of being polite to them; I start out fairly hostile and either climb down or rapidly escalate from there. Because 90% or more of the incoming calls I've received in the last few years are fraudulent.
Between "the Microsoft support", or the "Air Duct cleaning" assholes, or that twat from cardholder services who wants to get me a lower rate... it's all lies.
Best thing I ever did was get a Panasonic cordless phone which will drop all calls from "Unknown", "Unavailable", and "Private Caller". And for the rest, well, caller ID is a lie anyway, so I don't trust that.
Hell, a few times I've phoned myself to try to scam myself.
Wow, that is a monumentally stupid bug. I mean, really YYYY-MM-DD is the only thing which results in any sensible lexical ordering of dates, and remove the most ambiguity.
This tells me shiny is taking precedence over useful.
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And now a company will patent her genes, and every insurance company will call this a pre-existing condition and deny treatment for anything related to this or its treatment.
Medical technology is growing FAR faster than either medical ethics, or the laws surrounding what can be done with this information.
In 20 years when she has issues related to the high-fat diet they'll tell her they can't insure her, and some asshole corporation will claim to own the genes and therefore any possible treatment.
These days you have to ask yourself ... just who is going to profit from this, and in how many ways is this girl going to be denied services?
Every time I see something like "explosion proof" I think of how the Titanic was "unsinkable".
It can be explosion resistant, but, really, a sufficiently determined person (or Seamus from Harry Potter) can always cause an explosion in the right situation.
Uh, wha? Pedantry? Get off my lawn.
Rampant fear, paranoia, and hysteria.
The (bogey man|abductor|brown person|alien|athiest|drug fiend|communist|hippie) might snatch them on their way to school.
Stranger danger, danger danger, unfounded fear and paranoia, danger Will Robinson.
From what I can tell, that seems to be how the US works -- whip people up into the frenzy du jour to keep them panicked and compliant.
As someone who walked to school starting from almost the beginning, I read that and think ... wow, really, it was illegal for kids to walk to school??
And I increasingly look at America as a country of scared, irrational people who are jumping at shadows. It's pretty pathetic that they need to pass a law to make it legal for kids to walk to school.
Except this is likely using the accelerometer, and has nothing at all to do with if you cover the PIN pad with your other hand. This has nothing at all to do with someone LOOKING at you entering your PIN, but figuring out what your PIN is based on how your hand moves.
What you've just said is the solution to someone being able to pick your lock is to wear a blindfold and wear a condom.
Of course, that has nothing at all to do with the problem at hand.
So, while I see some good points about which hand you're going to type your PIN with ... as I see it, smart watches and so many other products are pretty much insecure by design.
Some company rushes a product to market because it sounds cool, they build in some features which also sound cool, and they make it so it can communicate with everything.
In the process someone glosses over that it wants to talk to everything, or that they forgot to add any security, or that is leaks personal information all over the place by uploading information to several different sites ... ads, analytics, telemetry, the company who sold it so they have your personal information.
You walk into a store, it connects to their wifi, the store's app detects you, updates information about you, sends you a custom sale flyer based on your previous purchases ... it keeps track of the fact that you spend a lot of time in the pain aisle. It updates more of your information. They sell that information to 5 other places.
You go home, it tells your thermostat you're home. Your hacked nanny cam records what you do. Google connects your last purchase with your ad profile, and when you sit down at your computer you see fresh ads for paint.
All of these gadgets and doo-dads, I just don't see the point. I don't need to be tracked wherever I go so I can sign into Facebook or tweet that I'm in McDonalds.
At the end of the day, between the fact that the companies you give the information to are lazy and terrible at security your information gets out, between what they share with their 15 ad partners your information gets out and you probably get served malware, and your connected whatsit probably gets hacked because it's got crap security.
I don't trust the makers of these products, and quite frankly I can't make myself get excited about an internet connected roll of toilet paper. I don't need my fridge to tweet me that I'm low on butter. My oven doesn't need to be pre-heated from my phone. My front door doesn't need to be able to recognize my friends. My kitchen table doesn't need to update my Facebook status.
It's insecure, or it's untrustworthy. And in an awful lot of cases it's pointless.
Which, arguably, is better than a shooting contest.
Don't forget, North and South Korea are still technically at war with one another.
Frankly, I'd rather the pissing contest ... because all of the stuff you say would happen even more so as a result of them resuming open warfare. But, hey, they could go back to killing one another by the thousands if you somehow think that's better.
Hmmmm ... if it's purely decibel rating, then I assume their artillery is going to be far louder.
LOL ... Oh, I don't know if you need that much in the way of advances ... my brother used to have a car I could hear coming when it was still well over a mile away because of the god-awful crazy stereo in it ... our dog could hear it from much further and came out of his house to wait.
I'm pretty sure most rock bands have probably solved the problem of maximum range of a speaker.
More loudly. That's it.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Laziness to the point of making up non-existent rights? That's pretty much malice.
This is part of the problem.
Big pharma are greedy, lying bastards who would climb over us to make a buck and not think twice.
The anti-vaxxers are a bunch of loonies who can't look at scientific evidence or recognize the initial claims were fabrications by a discredited scientist.
Both of them aren't trustworthy entities ... one lies about its science and the other doesn't understand it.
I fear as long as we can still point to how the pharmacy companies have lied or manipulated their findings, people will be willing to believe they're just evil corporations out to make a buck. But then you just let a bunch of drooling idiots take over the conversation.
Well, the problem with this is that the idiots refusing vaccines aren't just putting themselves at risk.
If it was just they and their offspring would become ill? Hey, run wild. You've taken yourselves out of the gene pool and we don't care. That's your damned problem for a choice you made.
But that isn't what happens. Someone else gets sick.
Which means if you refuse to get vaccinated and then help to spread disease you should be liable for that. Like criminally liable.
If it was as simple as the herd doing without the ones who wouldn't get vaccinated, it would be an easy choice. What they really end up doing is endangering other people.
Which means they aren't solely the ones in danger by their own stupidity, and they should be refused access to places like schools and jobs so they don't make others ill due to their own stupid.
Well, that is fundamentally the problem.
You simply cannot trust Microsoft here. If you allow them to alter your system as they see fit, they're going to .... and in the process they'll eventually take away your ability to stop them.
They've also started lying about/concealing what updates do. They just say "this addresses issues with Windows", when what it's really doing it adding telemetry and other shit designed to benefit only themselves.
With Windows 10, Microsoft have become malware, and the will keep trying to shove this up your ass until they succeed or you forcibly stop them. All they'll do it re-issue it with a different number and keep trying.
I wonder if Microsoft understands (or cares) the extent to which they are pissing people off, and forcing people to start rejecting updates on the assumption they can't be trusted.
It just seems like they have decided it is their computer, and you don't get a vote. This seems to me like it's a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act or whatever it is .. but apparently assholes with EULAs can do anything they want to.
Lobbyists. You really want to ensure no bullshit is happening, track every single registered lobbyist.
Those guys are doing FAR more to undermine your government by ensuring that corporate interests take precedence over everything else.
The ones writing checks are also writing policy.
The Copyright cartel (which is mostly multinational corporations) practically write laws and trade agreements for the US government these days, and the government is largely on the payroll of corporate interests.
And there's the rub ... because now everybody is starting to lie to us about how awesome 4K video is going to be.
They can't even keep up with streaming current video without giving you an absurdly crippled usage amount. WTF do they think will happen with the 4K video they want to tell us they can do?
Internet and mobile companies have been lying to us about just how awesome their data plans will be for years. They love to say how we'll be able to watch all this stuff, but if we ever actually did they'd immediately change the terms as they get reminded of just how badly they're selling more than they actually have.
So, yawn, mobile data is never going to live up to the claims. Film at 11. That never stops them from telling us how their network is going to be the best for whatever new thing comes along.
This is why I still buy DVDs, and still watch them on my home system ... because I don't need some asshole's permission to watch it over again, and my DVD player which isn't connected to the internet doesn't need to ask permission to do so.
Stream everything from the cloud to a tiny little screen? Why the hell would I want to do that?
So, which of naive, delusional, or insane would you fall into?
Unless someone passes a law which defines in what precise ways AT&T can fuck over their customers, what on Earth makes you think they can't just make shit up as they go?
Cannot possibly? Sorry, but you have nothing to back that up. Certainly not reality.
No, not really .. malware was one of many pieces which enabled this to happen, but the malware did not directly do the attack. The malware was used to get a foothold, and to cover their tracks. But the actual attacks were more targeted and used other things.
This is more like someone exploiting an issue with your security system to gain access to your home so they could target your wall safe.
The malware itself wasn't the core of the attack, but it was an enabling and contributing aspect of the actual attack.
Your knife analogy is wrong.
No, but I will still maintain that a new protocol, coupled with the lazy bastards writing IoT products, is pretty much 100% guaranteed to create new security holes.
Because every time we get a new protocol we get companies who do a lousy job of adhering to it, and every single company making consumer electronics demonstrates time and time again they're lazy/incompetent/cheap/indifferent to properly implementing security.
I refuse to believe the companies making IoT things won't fuck up and create new security issues ... because they've been doing it for quite a long time already.
The newsfeed here on Slashdot tells me pretty much constantly these people cannot be trusted with security. Short of new reasons to think that will change, I'm going to assume nothing will.
OK, then let's be more certain:
We know damned well that the people who write the protocols in both the devices as well as the routers will do it in a lazy half-assed manner which is guaranteed to have gaping security holes in it. History tells us there is no "if", "might", "maybe", or "could".
Over and over we pretty much see that this is almost guaranteed to happen.
IoT is marketing hype, and as such this is being pushed to market by a bunch of people who don't value security, and bear no penalty for being lazy or incompetent. Which pretty much means they will be lazy or incompetent.
I refuse to buy any of this IoT crap, or let it into my home. Because like every other bit of consumer electronics, I have zero confidence that until companies have legal and financial liability for doing a shitty job, they will have any reason to stop doing a shitty job.
As long as some pointy haired boss can cut corners, or some marketing guy can insist on shipping to make it to market first ... the security holes are pretty much a given.
And the last decade or more is pretty much what we see happening when these companies don't have any liability.
If you don't think the IoT is going to be a gong-show of bad security, you haven't been paying attention, and naively believe the underlying problem will magically fix itself.
Companies aren't going to change how they write security, because they have neither incentive to do it, nor penalties for not doing it.
Which means if you think you'll magically get secure products you are delusional.
Do you mean there were windowing systems, which pre-dated Microsoft Windows, and which were doing "windows" before Microsoft? Xerox invented "windowing" systems, Microsoft did what they always do .. come to the table late and mimic what other people have invented and then act like they originated it.
Basically Microsoft took a term which had already been used by the people who had invented windowing systems, and trademarked it.
As far as "Word" goes, we all had "word processors" for years before Microsoft.
But you can bet your ass that "windows" was a term in computing which described windowing systems and which existed before MIcrosoft.
The X Windows System and several other things were doing "windows" and "windowing" long before Microsoft. And many of us have LONG contended that their trademarks are bullshit, because they co-opted terms which had already been in use ... by the people they stole the idea from in the first place.
There is no scenario in which Microsoft can claim the invention of the concept of "windows" and "windowing systems". The words had been in use long before Microsoft did it. And they'd already been in fairly common use by people in the industry.
Everything else is bullshit revisionist history.
Well, it was that or touching Suzy Lou's boob in third grade ... but in the end I had to go with the phone thing. ;-)
I'm glad to see that the level of smart-ass around here in unchanged, though. I was beginning to think Slashdot had lost its sense of humor.
Yeah, with my service tag and NO other authorization Dell gave me my Express Service code.
From there it was a captcha away from being able to log into the warranty page, which I didn't bother doing.
This tells me there is probably VERY little authentication around something which is a relatively short and formulaic looking identifier.
If you need no real authentication and a captcha to get this information, then this service should be shut down. Because it basically would suggest they'll provide a tremendous amount of information for pretty much anybody who can come up with a single number.
If all it takes is auto-generating a bunch of possible service tags and brute forcing it, then Dell are fucking idiots who are just handing out your information like candy.
This is a system which is just begging to be exploited, because it's almost wide open.
Funny, I've met IT staff like that. Only they weren't courteous.
I've also had the misfortune of dealing with outsourced IBM helpdesk people. They too seem to have no troubleshooting skills and suggest a complete reinstall.
Your joke would be much funnier if there weren't already massive amounts of people whose suggestion for most problems is a complete reinstall.
Rebooting and then reinstalling seems to be the standard Windows troubleshooting sequence, unfortunately.
It's the same bloody call center they use for support in the first place.
If they have information that specific either Dell has been hacked, or these guys for the information directly from Dell for a supposedly legitimate purpose.
When will people get it through their heads: incoming phone calls are inherently not trustworthy because the lobbyists for telemarketing companies have ensured caller ID spoofing is legal.
If someone calls you claiming to be from an entity you have a relationship with, tell them you'll only talk to them if you can call them on a number you can get from the official company web page.
I no longer give callers the benefit of being polite to them; I start out fairly hostile and either climb down or rapidly escalate from there. Because 90% or more of the incoming calls I've received in the last few years are fraudulent.
Between "the Microsoft support", or the "Air Duct cleaning" assholes, or that twat from cardholder services who wants to get me a lower rate ... it's all lies.
Best thing I ever did was get a Panasonic cordless phone which will drop all calls from "Unknown", "Unavailable", and "Private Caller". And for the rest, well, caller ID is a lie anyway, so I don't trust that.
Hell, a few times I've phoned myself to try to scam myself.
The topic is the FAA, and people going to churches etc to fly drones.
Anything that isn't the USA, for once, is pretty much irrelevant to the story.
Unless of course you think an FAA rule is going to affect where you fly a drone in Whereeverthefuckistan.
Wow, that is a monumentally stupid bug. I mean, really YYYY-MM-DD is the only thing which results in any sensible lexical ordering of dates, and remove the most ambiguity.
This tells me shiny is taking precedence over useful.
That's insane.