It appears that Equifax's primary response to the breach wasn't centered around the consumers whose information they gave up - it was an attempt to cover their butts and try to somehow distance themselves from the damage, if possible. Note that their initial statement didn't apologize for losing people's data to thieves... it apologized for the "anxiety" people might be feeling.
So from their viewpoint, it would make sense for them to shuffle all of this over to a completely different domain, keeping it off equifax.com as much as possible.
I would argue there's a different and fundamental reason VR hasn't taken off - for most people, it's interesting for a grand total of maybe 10-15 minutes. After that, the novelty factor is gone and they don't see a reason to try it again.
I suspect, though it is not spelled out in the article that this is likely not much of a problem in the US or Europe, but in other regions of the world where there is less funding and more pressure on scientists to produce results, and less penalty for stealing other people's research.
You suspect it is Chinese scientists, in other words. But the article itself is specifically pointing at a couple Australian gentlemen.
Indeed, most Harvard students do not pay tuition at all, because they are minorities or minority women.
Well, that is a load of crap. Roughly 50% of the Harvard student population is white. An additional 22% are Asian-American, who generally don't get classified as underpriviliged minority.
So the website which lets you pretend to be "friends" with a bunch of people you haven't seen in years is trying to develop a specific service where you use the website to see if they want to meet up in real life? Like you wouldn't have thought of that yourself, already?
What is this actually adding to the equation, other than maybe some level of plausible deniability?
There are enough people just in my circle who prefer the 4" iPhone SE over the larger iPhone models... I'd expect someone on the Android side of things will eventually go after that market as well. I'm kind of surprised Samsung hasn't done it.
I had the 5.5" 6 Plus for a couple years, but like you said - the size was a bit much. I eventually replaced it with the 4.7" version, which I like because I can one-hand my phone again now.
First we had the story of fish eating plastic; and now there's this one about humans drinking plastic. Plus we've still got three more days for the climactic ending - I can't wait!
When Siri first came out, anyone could trigger "Hey Siri" if it was enabled. But starting with a later version of iOS (I don't remember exactly which one), you would train Siri to recognize your voice - and it seemed to work. I now can trigger my phone but not my wife's, for example. So I'm curious how this particular exploit could work on a reasonably current version of Siri.
Now the Apple Watch is another matter... and I don't recall if macOS Sierra does the voice pairing. But I'm somewhat skeptical about this working on an up-to-date iPhone.
This has no advantages other than making it hard for users to install ROMs or to revert to a previous official ROM to restore missing functionality.
No advantages - except enforcing security, whether you want it or not. And the story link provided even says Rollback Protection can be disabled.
Now you may not want it - you may think you're smart enough to not need it - but let's not pretend there's no reason for this.
The summary's proffered example of "no easy rollback from windows 10 to 7" is technically true, but overstating things quite a bit for dramatic purposes. More relevant analogs would be "no easy removal of Windows security patches you've previously applied" and "no easy rollback from your current Linux kernel to the previous one which contained a remote root exploit".
Exactly this. As far as I can tell, they're not measuring "enjoyment" at all!
And given they're actually measuring retention, then of course binge-watching lowers retention levels. Duh! But I suppose that's so obvious that it wouldn't get funding... so they had to pretend they were measuring something else.
Finally won't have to drag the "free copy" that gets pooped onto my doorstep directly into the recycle bin anymore.
Sorry to tell you this, but - this is a story from the U.K. Here in America, various companies intend to continue bombarding us with useless, printed, ad-filled volumes (which indeed just go straight into the recycle bin).
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"el niño" and "la niña".
Actually, ENSO is generally how the scientists refer to this single phenomenon - El Niño Southern Oscillation.
Maybe they're getting interference from a gay weather balloon.
It appears that Equifax's primary response to the breach wasn't centered around the consumers whose information they gave up - it was an attempt to cover their butts and try to somehow distance themselves from the damage, if possible. Note that their initial statement didn't apologize for losing people's data to thieves... it apologized for the "anxiety" people might be feeling.
So from their viewpoint, it would make sense for them to shuffle all of this over to a completely different domain, keeping it off equifax.com as much as possible.
I would argue there's a different and fundamental reason VR hasn't taken off - for most people, it's interesting for a grand total of maybe 10-15 minutes. After that, the novelty factor is gone and they don't see a reason to try it again.
I suspect, though it is not spelled out in the article that this is likely not much of a problem in the US or Europe, but in other regions of the world where there is less funding and more pressure on scientists to produce results, and less penalty for stealing other people's research.
You suspect it is Chinese scientists, in other words. But the article itself is specifically pointing at a couple Australian gentlemen.
One bad taxonomist don't spoil the whole bunch, girl.
Indeed, most Harvard students do not pay tuition at all, because they are minorities or minority women.
Well, that is a load of crap. Roughly 50% of the Harvard student population is white. An additional 22% are Asian-American, who generally don't get classified as underpriviliged minority.
https://college.harvard.edu/ad...
Also, "minorities or minority women"?! Like the latter group magically doesn't get included in the former?
So the website which lets you pretend to be "friends" with a bunch of people you haven't seen in years is trying to develop a specific service where you use the website to see if they want to meet up in real life? Like you wouldn't have thought of that yourself, already?
What is this actually adding to the equation, other than maybe some level of plausible deniability?
But what does this have to do with women in tech, or even technology? Why is this crap on Slashdot?
The suit was settled By uploading hundreds of thousands of dollars into Elizabeth Scott's bank account.
Baloney. I just did a search for "Anonymous Coward" and got millions of results. Your info is all over the place.
There are enough people just in my circle who prefer the 4" iPhone SE over the larger iPhone models... I'd expect someone on the Android side of things will eventually go after that market as well. I'm kind of surprised Samsung hasn't done it.
I had the 5.5" 6 Plus for a couple years, but like you said - the size was a bit much. I eventually replaced it with the 4.7" version, which I like because I can one-hand my phone again now.
First we had the story of fish eating plastic; and now there's this one about humans drinking plastic. Plus we've still got three more days for the climactic ending - I can't wait!
When Siri first came out, anyone could trigger "Hey Siri" if it was enabled. But starting with a later version of iOS (I don't remember exactly which one), you would train Siri to recognize your voice - and it seemed to work. I now can trigger my phone but not my wife's, for example. So I'm curious how this particular exploit could work on a reasonably current version of Siri.
Now the Apple Watch is another matter... and I don't recall if macOS Sierra does the voice pairing. But I'm somewhat skeptical about this working on an up-to-date iPhone.
This has no advantages other than making it hard for users to install ROMs or to revert to a previous official ROM to restore missing functionality.
No advantages - except enforcing security, whether you want it or not. And the story link provided even says Rollback Protection can be disabled.
Now you may not want it - you may think you're smart enough to not need it - but let's not pretend there's no reason for this.
The summary's proffered example of "no easy rollback from windows 10 to 7" is technically true, but overstating things quite a bit for dramatic purposes. More relevant analogs would be "no easy removal of Windows security patches you've previously applied" and "no easy rollback from your current Linux kernel to the previous one which contained a remote root exploit".
Facebook has over a billion users - it's not just Americans who are "perfectly okay" with being tracked for profit.
I'm thinking the Facebook numbers are closer to reality. After all, there are a LOT of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. at this point,
Gee, if only someone had ever tried to quantify the number of illegal immigrants in the US...
I actually wasn't joking... I wasted a lot of time playing Microsoft Pinball, back when I was a Windows user.
That's simply how many folks are worried about it. There's nothing stating that people are thinking intelligently about the subject.
And Pinball!
Exactly this. As far as I can tell, they're not measuring "enjoyment" at all!
And given they're actually measuring retention, then of course binge-watching lowers retention levels. Duh! But I suppose that's so obvious that it wouldn't get funding... so they had to pretend they were measuring something else.
It's common Corporate-Speak.
Simple fix, let's just eat all the cannibals.
I really hate to do that. After all, they're such fine young cannibals!
On the face of it, it sounds like you guys had a bunch of freelancers who weren't declaring at least some of their income.
This is troubling because these substances could further bioaccumulate in people who consume fish that have eaten plastic.
This could be a disaster for the cannibals!
Finally won't have to drag the "free copy" that gets pooped onto my doorstep directly into the recycle bin anymore.
Sorry to tell you this, but - this is a story from the U.K. Here in America, various companies intend to continue bombarding us with useless, printed, ad-filled volumes (which indeed just go straight into the recycle bin).