To be fair, April 15th is the cutoff date for filing return forms and any other appropriate forms along with any taxes owed (besides any you're filing proper forms to defer). It's not like April 15th is a surprise or that there is not adequate time.
I did our taxes a month ago, using the government's "Free Fillable Tax Forms" website. Also using that site, I scheduled our payment to be withdrawn from our bank account today. The return was accepted by the government.
Now as of right now (11:46am PST), the government hasn't pulled the money out of our account. I don't know if this is because of the outage or not - but in the past it's happened early in the day.
But, in any case, I did not wait until the last minute, and I used a 100% IRS-approved-and-managed system... yet this still may affect me. I would argue that I should not face any penalties if my pre-scheduled payment is delayed by a government server outage.
(to be fair, we have no idea whether or not the IRS will apply late penalties related to payment delays caused by this outage).
With Putin cemented in power, it feels like we've been transported back 30 years.
I wonder how much of this is just Putin compensating for his own insecurities about being a little guy (seriously, what is he - like 5'2"?). I mean, they publicize photos of him riding horses without wearing a shirt; they like to talk about him shooting bears and whatnot, and now this overly aggressive state-sponsored hacking - it all seems like macho posturing.
But for some reason, it's hyper-represented on Slashdot in the past few years.
I think you’re still seeing Slashdot as it was when people like you and I joined. Back then, the active membership seemed to be mostly made up of working people in IT-related professions, with a fairly wide range of ages.
Nowadays I see a lot of posts - political or not - which lead me to believe a fair number of our active seven-digit members are young guys in the 16-30 age range who are probably still interested in tech, but may not actually be employed in the field (or at all). It’s a different demographic, and one which coincidentally is more pro-Trump.
Police hold a lot of power. The definition of the boundaries on that power should not be definable by them.
Police (ethical ones) really only care about what they can do within the law to solve crimes. It’s not their job to think about the big questions, and I’m not going to fault them for that (although the top cops should probably try to step outside their box).
But it’s also why I don’t put a lot of weight into their opinions on things like this, or the rights of the accused, or the inviolability of personal property. And it’s one of the many reasons the people who *did* spend time thinking about the big questions gave us a Bill of Rights.
Key escrow does not make you more vulnerable to a 3rd party. Sure, you're at risk from the 2nd party (government).
Yeah, it’s not as if any of the government agencies which would likely be involved in key escrow has ever suffered a serious data breach of extremely sensitive information.
And if the keys were held by the companies themselves - it’s not as if law enforcement has ever requested - and been granted - sweepingly broad subpoenas.
But it’s definitely time people started using it more wisely.
And I’d argue it may very well be time to stop using the truly evil entities like Facebook... of course having left it around 2014, I realize that’s easy for me to say but harder for existing users to do.
They have fewer pests than outdoor agriculture. They don’t have so few to the point they don’t need detailed plans for monitoring and dealing with problems when found.
The entirety of these guys’ thoughts regarding pests seems to be “we’ll buy a bag of ladybugs, it doesn’t even need to be part of the budget”.
Okay, MANY parts of this made me chuckle... but one line made it pretty obvious the people behind this do not have a lot of actual experience with growing things...
”There are virtually no pests in a controlled indoor environment, so Plenty doesn't have to use any pesticides or herbicides; it gets by with a few ladybugs...”
Yeah, good luck with the assumption there aren’t lots of pests which will find their way into your nice high-tech greenhouse and happily establish residence. There are ways to control them - there are even organic ways to control them - but it involves a fair bit of money and/or work.
I use IMAP to read gmail. I'm probably not the only one. They would have to disable IMAP/POP for those messages.
In which case I would either ignore the message, send it to spam, or email the sender back with some variation of "I can't read that message" (possibly with either feigned ignorance or snarky smugness, depending on the sender).
But, one thing works in its favor-- verification. If I have a screenshot of a document there is no way for me to prove its authenticity. Without some kind of verification means, much information loses it's value.
Unless the email trail is 100% through Google's servers (and probably even then), it will contain headers which allow tracking of the email across the servers which have handled it. So I would think you could "Show Original", then save that as a PDF or take a screenshot, and be able to verify the veracity of your copy.
That said - I generally use IMAP (via an application like Apple Mail or Thunderbird) to check my work mail, which is Google apps-based. Should I start getting messages that say something like "you must click on this link to view this email", I will either ignore the message as spam or respond to the sender telling them why I am not going to click on a link which purports to show me an email message. But I can't believe the bright minds at Google would be stupid enough to not see the problems in doing something like that (/snark)...
Quite some years ago, I saw Chinese-American actress Rosalind Chao on The Tonight Show. She shared an anecdote about a family reunion she attended back in China. She said she kept getting introduced to relatives she couldn't tell apart - she thought everyone there looked alike!
Can someone speak to what the exploit is? Does it have to do with bypassing the 10 PIN entry lockout limit?
If we knew what it was, Apple would know too - and would likely have patched it by now. And given we haven't heard anyone grousing about it, the box almost certainly works without triggering the lockout limit.
I fervently hope Apple is doing what they can to acquire one of these boxes through back-channels. It's only a matter of time until one or more Greykey boxes gets stolen and reverse engineered by criminals; I'd just as soon Apple put feelers out now saying "we're willing to pay a whole lot of money for one of these".
You can never predict, from week to week, what his position on something will be. So before we all overreact - either in favor, or against - let's see if this actually is a sign his position is changing, or just another off-the-cuff remark his assistants will be walking back in the next few days.
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I thought maybe you were married to Maria Von Trapp.
To be fair, April 15th is the cutoff date for filing return forms and any other appropriate forms along with any taxes owed (besides any you're filing proper forms to defer). It's not like April 15th is a surprise or that there is not adequate time.
I did our taxes a month ago, using the government's "Free Fillable Tax Forms" website. Also using that site, I scheduled our payment to be withdrawn from our bank account today. The return was accepted by the government.
Now as of right now (11:46am PST), the government hasn't pulled the money out of our account. I don't know if this is because of the outage or not - but in the past it's happened early in the day.
But, in any case, I did not wait until the last minute, and I used a 100% IRS-approved-and-managed system... yet this still may affect me. I would argue that I should not face any penalties if my pre-scheduled payment is delayed by a government server outage.
(to be fair, we have no idea whether or not the IRS will apply late penalties related to payment delays caused by this outage).
My wife knows it's hard to get kids to sing when they are hungry, or don't know where they are sleeping tonight.
What kind of monster parents are you guys, anyway?!
With Putin cemented in power, it feels like we've been transported back 30 years.
I wonder how much of this is just Putin compensating for his own insecurities about being a little guy (seriously, what is he - like 5'2"?). I mean, they publicize photos of him riding horses without wearing a shirt; they like to talk about him shooting bears and whatnot, and now this overly aggressive state-sponsored hacking - it all seems like macho posturing.
Shoot, dude, just buy some lifts and get over it!
3) Semi-automated bots.
But for some reason, it's hyper-represented on Slashdot in the past few years.
I think you’re still seeing Slashdot as it was when people like you and I joined. Back then, the active membership seemed to be mostly made up of working people in IT-related professions, with a fairly wide range of ages.
Nowadays I see a lot of posts - political or not - which lead me to believe a fair number of our active seven-digit members are young guys in the 16-30 age range who are probably still interested in tech, but may not actually be employed in the field (or at all). It’s a different demographic, and one which coincidentally is more pro-Trump.
Who were those who invented the ".99" marketing gimmick? I don't recall...
Even worse, how about how the price of a gallon of gas always ends in .9 cents? They’ve been doing that forever...
Police hold a lot of power. The definition of the boundaries on that power should not be definable by them.
Police (ethical ones) really only care about what they can do within the law to solve crimes. It’s not their job to think about the big questions, and I’m not going to fault them for that (although the top cops should probably try to step outside their box).
But it’s also why I don’t put a lot of weight into their opinions on things like this, or the rights of the accused, or the inviolability of personal property. And it’s one of the many reasons the people who *did* spend time thinking about the big questions gave us a Bill of Rights.
Key escrow does not make you more vulnerable to a 3rd party. Sure, you're at risk from the 2nd party (government).
Yeah, it’s not as if any of the government agencies which would likely be involved in key escrow has ever suffered a serious data breach of extremely sensitive information.
And if the keys were held by the companies themselves - it’s not as if law enforcement has ever requested - and been granted - sweepingly broad subpoenas.
But it’s definitely time people started using it more wisely.
And I’d argue it may very well be time to stop using the truly evil entities like Facebook... of course having left it around 2014, I realize that’s easy for me to say but harder for existing users to do.
You don't make a viral hit by saying "I want to make a viral hit, how do I do it?"
A half-dozen boy bands from the past decade or so would like a word with you.
Also chiming in to disagree is Milli-Vanilli, with the Spice Girls on backup.
That it eventually got shut down, and nobody cared.
They have fewer pests than outdoor agriculture. They don’t have so few to the point they don’t need detailed plans for monitoring and dealing with problems when found.
The entirety of these guys’ thoughts regarding pests seems to be “we’ll buy a bag of ladybugs, it doesn’t even need to be part of the budget”.
Okay, MANY parts of this made me chuckle... but one line made it pretty obvious the people behind this do not have a lot of actual experience with growing things...
”There are virtually no pests in a controlled indoor environment, so Plenty doesn't have to use any pesticides or herbicides; it gets by with a few ladybugs...”
Yeah, good luck with the assumption there aren’t lots of pests which will find their way into your nice high-tech greenhouse and happily establish residence. There are ways to control them - there are even organic ways to control them - but it involves a fair bit of money and/or work.
Good call - I hadn’t thought of that.
You may have forgotten that Netflix had to start paying Comcast a few years ago for the “privilege” of not being throttled...
1) Employ a robot.
2) Instruct the robot to kill the people in the room, one by one, until the target voice is no longer heard.
If you're using Gmail you'll see it.
Otherwise you'll get an email with a link. The link takes you to Google Docs to view the shit.
We've spent the last decade or so training users never to click on links in emails. This seems like a good reason to double down on that practice.
I use IMAP to read gmail. I'm probably not the only one. They would have to disable IMAP/POP for those messages.
In which case I would either ignore the message, send it to spam, or email the sender back with some variation of "I can't read that message" (possibly with either feigned ignorance or snarky smugness, depending on the sender).
But, one thing works in its favor-- verification. If I have a screenshot of a document there is no way for me to prove its authenticity. Without some kind of verification means, much information loses it's value.
Unless the email trail is 100% through Google's servers (and probably even then), it will contain headers which allow tracking of the email across the servers which have handled it. So I would think you could "Show Original", then save that as a PDF or take a screenshot, and be able to verify the veracity of your copy.
That said - I generally use IMAP (via an application like Apple Mail or Thunderbird) to check my work mail, which is Google apps-based. Should I start getting messages that say something like "you must click on this link to view this email", I will either ignore the message as spam or respond to the sender telling them why I am not going to click on a link which purports to show me an email message. But I can't believe the bright minds at Google would be stupid enough to not see the problems in doing something like that (/snark)...
After all, it can't possibly be due to the high price or to Siri's limitations.
But, whenever I see these Hubble deep space images, I am still blown away just looking at all the galaxies in the photo.
Douglas Adams nailed it.
Asians think caucasians all look alike.
Quite some years ago, I saw Chinese-American actress Rosalind Chao on The Tonight Show. She shared an anecdote about a family reunion she attended back in China. She said she kept getting introduced to relatives she couldn't tell apart - she thought everyone there looked alike!
Can someone speak to what the exploit is? Does it have to do with bypassing the 10 PIN entry lockout limit?
If we knew what it was, Apple would know too - and would likely have patched it by now. And given we haven't heard anyone grousing about it, the box almost certainly works without triggering the lockout limit.
I fervently hope Apple is doing what they can to acquire one of these boxes through back-channels. It's only a matter of time until one or more Greykey boxes gets stolen and reverse engineered by criminals; I'd just as soon Apple put feelers out now saying "we're willing to pay a whole lot of money for one of these".
You can never predict, from week to week, what his position on something will be. So before we all overreact - either in favor, or against - let's see if this actually is a sign his position is changing, or just another off-the-cuff remark his assistants will be walking back in the next few days.