So when the US Navy and other government agencies are publicly looking to develop exploits... I think they've pretty much said "go ahead and hack us".
"Because we're the Navy and therefore allowed" suggests you now have a giant target on you.
So I sincerely hope the black hats of the world take up the challenge. You can't piss and moan when other entities do it, and not all of your stuff will be properly hardened.
Time to make popcorn, and settle in and wait for someone to decide to burn the Navy's computers to the ground.
This shit is precisely why consumer devices need to have solid, robust crypto which hasn't been crippled so that assholes like this can spy on us. Time to stop pretending we trust them.
Honestly, I might be a little off on the count.. a few gig here, a few gig there...
but my wife works in storage, and I once paid $700 for 16MB of RAM... and the two of us were in the express lane at WalMart absolutely gobsmacked that what used to cost huge amounts of money for storage was suddenly in a blister pack of 4 brightly colored units for under $10.
I can't say for sure if it was 4x8, 4x16, or 4x32.. but I was just standing there going "you have to be f-ing kidding me".
None of the immediacy, but none of the ads either.
In terms of not treating the internet as a life and death thing requiring you access the latest thing on NetFlix NOW... meh.
As someone who still watches movies on little plastic discs through a player and TV which aren't connected to the intertubes, I say never underestimate the value of offline data.
And in a country where the average person is really poor and trying to eke out enough to eat, I'd say good for them.
Honestly, these days you can (literally) buy a 4 pack of 32GB memory stick in the express checkout at Wal Mart for under $10.
The first time I saw a PC with a 1GB hard drive, we stared at it in awe... it was about 98% free space, and nobody had any idea of what you'd put on it.
And you can buy a 1TB hard drive for under $100 without even trying that hard.
Now, take a teenager, and try to explain punching holes in a 360K 5.25" floppy so you could flip it and get 720K. They might not even believe you.
Increasingly I'm coming to the conclusion that for most mobile stuff you're better off using the website and get the desktop view.
The website can't constantly track you. The website can't access your contacts. The website can't access your location information, unless it's by IP address.
Mobile websites are crap, but most mobile browsers allow you to request the desktop site.
And then you can send a big "fuck you" to corporations who feel entitled to all of your personal data.
Apps were supposed to give us native things which work better. What they've really give us is an endless stream of privacy issues as the people who make them have decided they can do anything they want.
So, how about "no, piss off, go away, and drop dead"?
I've started uninstalling apps which don't offer specific functionality I can't get from their webpage. It seems like most apps exist to push ads, and to invade your privacy. So stop giving it to them.
Skype is one of Microsoft's flagship products and it has been available as a desktop Win32 app and as a Modern/Metro/WinRT app for some time. You would think that Skype would support Universal Apps, there are few enough of them â" but no. According to the Skype blog: 'Starting on July 7, we're updating PC users of the Windows modern application to the Windows desktop application, and retiring the modern application.'
So, basically one of Microsoft's "flagship" products is yet again a product they didn't create, and which even they can't make one of their universal (cr)app things work in a manner which is useful.
And, once again, Microsoft buys where it can't build, and utterly fails to push it in the direction they've decreed is the future.
I wonder if Microsoft understands how idiotic they look when they can't make their own dog food, or make changes to products they bought without fucking it up.
If they "flagship" product is saying they can't/won't support the universal (cr)app, do they realistically think anybody wants to use this?
My Windows 8.1 desktop has a bunch of these native apps, and they're garbage completely not suitable for a desktop, because they all want to be full screen with the big stupid romper room buttons.
Maybe this stuff makes sense on a tablet, but on a 23" monitor with no touch screen capability, they look like they were designed by an idiot.
It seems like Microsoft goes on the inertia of what they can buy, but the stuff they try to "innovate" (by which I mean copy from successful products) they fall flat on their faces.
Has Microsoft actually innovated any features of a desktop/mobile OS in the last years which had any value? Because if the Metro interface I had to work so hard to get rid of, they really haven't.
But by the time you have this carefully planned, mission impossible style ex-filtration of data in some massively coordinated ballet spanning a huge amount of servers...
You've probably built a massive infrastructure and an overly complicated control structure and gone to herculean efforts to conceal your efforts.
My bet? Even out of a supposedly secure facility, just metaphorically walk it out the door like you belonged there.
Because there's quite possible a lot of traffic, and unless people are really dialed in, it would just get lost.
I'm betting the whole sneaking around and hiding behind mailboxes, so to speak, is as likely to attract attention. Because building that would mean you'd so thoroughly infiltrated them you'd cover your tracks as you finish.
Then again, I've never tried to do it. For all I know, the big elaborate espionage might actually work, it just seems like a lot of needless effort.
Well, let's be honest, they'd need to admit that it isn't a narcotic according to any meaningful definition of the word.
The politicians who are fiercely against it will never be honest about it, will never allow testing of it, and will always overhype it and "teh evil killer narcotic".
as PayPal fell under the banking regulations and played by a different set of rules than eBay. If you were employed on the PayPal side, your credit record had to be in excellent shape or have your employment terminated. Just like working at a bank.
Then how is it that PayPal staunchly says "we're not a bank", and has never operated under any banking regulations?
What you're saying doesn't in any way match what they've been saying publicly.
I'm having a hard time believing that internally PayPal even admits it's like a bank considering how loudly that they say outside of the company that they're not.
Suddenly one wonders if they've not been subject to banking regulations all along and have been lying about it.
Yes, but PayPal is making the bullshit argument that continuing to use the service is opt-in.
Because PayPal is, and has always been, ran by assholes who don't give a shit about their users.
And when it can come down to "let us spam you or lose access to our service", they're just doing more of the same.
For some reason we've accepted that corporations can change the terms any time they want to, and claim to have implied consent because you didn't stop using it.
Which when you're talking about entity which might have your money or impact your livelihood, is a pretty douchebag move.
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LOL ... well played!
*facepalm* Preview button.
Nobody expects gold to be sinister, that's just misdirection.
The real evil is in the golf.
So when the US Navy and other government agencies are publicly looking to develop exploits ... I think they've pretty much said "go ahead and hack us".
"Because we're the Navy and therefore allowed" suggests you now have a giant target on you.
So I sincerely hope the black hats of the world take up the challenge. You can't piss and moan when other entities do it, and not all of your stuff will be properly hardened.
Time to make popcorn, and settle in and wait for someone to decide to burn the Navy's computers to the ground.
This shit is precisely why consumer devices need to have solid, robust crypto which hasn't been crippled so that assholes like this can spy on us. Time to stop pretending we trust them.
Lawyers ... will they blend.
Honestly, I might be a little off on the count .. a few gig here, a few gig there ...
but my wife works in storage, and I once paid $700 for 16MB of RAM ... and the two of us were in the express lane at WalMart absolutely gobsmacked that what used to cost huge amounts of money for storage was suddenly in a blister pack of 4 brightly colored units for under $10.
I can't say for sure if it was 4x8, 4x16, or 4x32 .. but I was just standing there going "you have to be f-ing kidding me".
None of the immediacy, but none of the ads either.
In terms of not treating the internet as a life and death thing requiring you access the latest thing on NetFlix NOW ... meh.
As someone who still watches movies on little plastic discs through a player and TV which aren't connected to the intertubes, I say never underestimate the value of offline data.
And in a country where the average person is really poor and trying to eke out enough to eat, I'd say good for them.
Honestly, these days you can (literally) buy a 4 pack of 32GB memory stick in the express checkout at Wal Mart for under $10.
The first time I saw a PC with a 1GB hard drive, we stared at it in awe ... it was about 98% free space, and nobody had any idea of what you'd put on it.
And you can buy a 1TB hard drive for under $100 without even trying that hard.
Now, take a teenager, and try to explain punching holes in a 360K 5.25" floppy so you could flip it and get 720K. They might not even believe you.
Which means anyone from that planet visiting elsewhere would have a voice lower than Michael Clark Duncan, and would therefore be a total badass.
All of their singers would immediately make Barry White sound like a squeaky teenager.
The swooning would be incalculable. Knickers would be removed from several star systems away.
You could actually discover the brown note.
So ... in a hyper loop, nobody can hear you scream?
Cue movie trailer voice!!
In a tube, in a world ...
We should totally avoid testing on humans ... so I propose lawyers and sales people for the full acceleration/deceleration tests.
Because I'm betting this has the potential to liquefy the humans inside it.
You're trying to create a VM with all of the tools for your development environment which will last 25 years.
Why start worrying about being overly complicated now?
Increasingly I'm coming to the conclusion that for most mobile stuff you're better off using the website and get the desktop view.
The website can't constantly track you. The website can't access your contacts. The website can't access your location information, unless it's by IP address.
Mobile websites are crap, but most mobile browsers allow you to request the desktop site.
And then you can send a big "fuck you" to corporations who feel entitled to all of your personal data.
Apps were supposed to give us native things which work better. What they've really give us is an endless stream of privacy issues as the people who make them have decided they can do anything they want.
So, how about "no, piss off, go away, and drop dead"?
I've started uninstalling apps which don't offer specific functionality I can't get from their webpage. It seems like most apps exist to push ads, and to invade your privacy. So stop giving it to them.
So, basically one of Microsoft's "flagship" products is yet again a product they didn't create, and which even they can't make one of their universal (cr)app things work in a manner which is useful.
And, once again, Microsoft buys where it can't build, and utterly fails to push it in the direction they've decreed is the future.
I wonder if Microsoft understands how idiotic they look when they can't make their own dog food, or make changes to products they bought without fucking it up.
If they "flagship" product is saying they can't/won't support the universal (cr)app, do they realistically think anybody wants to use this?
My Windows 8.1 desktop has a bunch of these native apps, and they're garbage completely not suitable for a desktop, because they all want to be full screen with the big stupid romper room buttons.
Maybe this stuff makes sense on a tablet, but on a 23" monitor with no touch screen capability, they look like they were designed by an idiot.
It seems like Microsoft goes on the inertia of what they can buy, but the stuff they try to "innovate" (by which I mean copy from successful products) they fall flat on their faces.
Has Microsoft actually innovated any features of a desktop/mobile OS in the last years which had any value? Because if the Metro interface I had to work so hard to get rid of, they really haven't.
Oh, come now, who fucking wouldn't come to Slashdot for our insightful, helpful, utterly fucking hilarious, and family-friendly parenting advice?
We be experts at being all growed up and shit.
Good god, man, go ask a sales guy to teach a course in ethics while you're at it.
But by the time you have this carefully planned, mission impossible style ex-filtration of data in some massively coordinated ballet spanning a huge amount of servers ...
You've probably built a massive infrastructure and an overly complicated control structure and gone to herculean efforts to conceal your efforts.
My bet? Even out of a supposedly secure facility, just metaphorically walk it out the door like you belonged there.
Because there's quite possible a lot of traffic, and unless people are really dialed in, it would just get lost.
I'm betting the whole sneaking around and hiding behind mailboxes, so to speak, is as likely to attract attention. Because building that would mean you'd so thoroughly infiltrated them you'd cover your tracks as you finish.
Then again, I've never tried to do it. For all I know, the big elaborate espionage might actually work, it just seems like a lot of needless effort.
Well, let's be honest, they'd need to admit that it isn't a narcotic according to any meaningful definition of the word.
The politicians who are fiercely against it will never be honest about it, will never allow testing of it, and will always overhype it and "teh evil killer narcotic".
Then how is it that PayPal staunchly says "we're not a bank", and has never operated under any banking regulations?
What you're saying doesn't in any way match what they've been saying publicly.
I'm having a hard time believing that internally PayPal even admits it's like a bank considering how loudly that they say outside of the company that they're not.
Suddenly one wonders if they've not been subject to banking regulations all along and have been lying about it.
Well, that used to be true.
Now you're a country of corporations, profits, and lawyers.
Since you can't afford to bribe the politicians as much as the corporations do, what you want doesn't matter.
Welcome to the dystopian future, now fully equipped with an oligarchy to ensure you get fucked in the process.
Yes, but PayPal is making the bullshit argument that continuing to use the service is opt-in.
Because PayPal is, and has always been, ran by assholes who don't give a shit about their users.
And when it can come down to "let us spam you or lose access to our service", they're just doing more of the same.
For some reason we've accepted that corporations can change the terms any time they want to, and claim to have implied consent because you didn't stop using it.
Which when you're talking about entity which might have your money or impact your livelihood, is a pretty douchebag move.
Which is exactly why I'll never deal with PayPal.
I'm sorry, but since when are those mutually exclusive? ;-)
Sorry, that was me. ;-)
Yeah, no kidding. Bill of lading or customs form.
Passport, not so much.
If Microsoft thinks that's going to happen, Microsoft can shove a ferret up their clacker.
If they're going to the extortion pricing model in Windows, they'll quickly realize people don't want that.
Fuck Microsoft if they're looking to do bullshit like that.
Well, don't forget they've given themselves permission to access your data, spam you and your contacts, and track your location constantly.
I'm sure that was always part of the end-game for profits.
Because tracking, analytics, and ads are always part of the end-game.