That could happen. If the U.S. mandates backdoors, the market (and some of the companies) will shift to countries where the policies are different. Of course we don't know the contents of TTIP which could have an effect on the ability of Finland to be one of those countries.
Actually, their lies go far deeper than that. The terrorist group involved have a glossy color magazine called Dabiq. Apparently that magazine carried an interview with the leader of the Brussels / Paris cell where he announced that he was planning to hit Paris. Several months before the attacks. I wonder if any of the secret services read the thing, it is in English.
Local knowledge gives me a context, I can recognise idiotic suggestions. 3 weeks ago I took a "local knowledge" route and saved 2/3 of the estimated travel time. No, there were no restricted-usage roads involved, Google Maps was simply being very very stupid. Having said that, normally I don't even bother looking at a mapping app if I know how to get there anyway.
I looked at Google Maps recently - wanting to know how to get to someone's house, and then on to where we were going. The first part worked well. When I saw the suggested route for the second part I looked up the city's website to see if the obvious way was closed. It was not. It took us around 5 minutes to get from her place to our destination which was 10 minutes quicker that what Google thought we would need.
I was telling someone how to get to another city. Follow this motorway to the junction with the (motorway designator) and then turn South towards your destination which should be signposted. I went that way a couple of days later and their destination was *not* signposted, other random cities were.
Yes I know how to get there, but "knowing the way" does not mean I can second-guess what information is going to be on various signposts.
I wonder if the sun was even vaguely visible, an "experienced hill walker" should be able to work out from the position of the sun which way is north and which is south. My old mobile phone was good at telling me which way I was facing, the newer one (same manufacturer) is good about telling me that it does not have a clue about directions.
I have seen just such a sign while out on a walk. It was reinforced by a horizontal metal pipe at about 10' (3m) high making sure that nothing really large could even attempt it. Some friends of mine were involved in another case: They were in a bus being driven to a Ski resort in Switzerland. The bus driver turned onto another motorway at Bern. At around this point some passengers came forward to inform him that he could not get to where they were going that way. "I know what I am doing". An hour later even he realised that he had screwed up - there were signs up clearly stating the maximum size of vehicles which could be taken on the "Autoverladung", the train which took cars through a tunnel. His Sat-Nav system was set up for cars and was totally inappropriate for a large bus. That cost them 3 hours total (including another mandatory break for the bus driver) and meant they missed another connection later.
This matches up to a/. story from earlier this week - the Firefox developers cut a perfectly good feature which some people based their browsing habits around because they could. Apparently it caused the occasional abort. The FF developers have too much time and neither enough clue nor oversight, Australis was another product of that mindset. What does one do under these circumstances? I know someone who has now started his own private fork over this, Firefox ESR is another short-term solution.
No, its the "FUCK YOU! we know how to use our browser better than you" philosophy.
Hey, they maintain the browser, I'd assume they know how to use it better than I do. That is not really the point - I have a way that works and they have just killed it. I do not want to spend a couple of days looking for alternatives when this problem was caused by maintainers breaking something because they felt like it. The maintainers are maintaining for their own enjoyment and the lusers are out of luck. If the solution is something which also works under another browser, I'll look at adopting the other browser.
I am in Europe and was getting up to 10-15 calls a week from Italian numbers 2-6 years ago. The numbers seemed to change pretty much with every call although I seem to remember it was only the last 4-6 digits which would vary. I would have cheerfully blacklisted the entire country but could not find a way to do this. As it was I would turn the telephone off when I was away for more than a day, really "off" - "The number you are dialing is currently unavailable".
In the end (after years of this) they put me on their own blacklist.
These people are the ultimate REMF. They are obviously *waay* to the rear and - I suppose owing to faulty or outdated intelligence - quite a few of their targets turned out to be families. Some will have been families of terrorists, others not even that. From what I read, drone attacks have a similar effect in radicalising people in the surrounding areas as suicide bombers do. That includes the 911 crew.
Do REMFs normally get medals above and beyond those for "I was involved in that campaign"?
That is only relevant up to a point. My home PC has no Flash, I only use Outlook for my work emails (vpn) and it is fully patched. The PC provided by the company has Flash - and I do not have the rights to uninstall it - and the latest set of updates have not propagated down to us yet. Microsoft Update is specifically disabled. Maybe the Flash version we have is new enough, maybe the company's mail scanner can keep this thing out. Maybe not.
I know a lot of people who use Webmail, who have their address-books stored on their email providers servers. Every now and then a receive a rash of spam or scam mails from someone who operates this was and whose email was hacked. I have not noticed any such mails from private addresses where they use a "proper" email client. Someone sent a Trojan mail to everyone in the company's Outlook address-book at work this week, a somewhat different case.
Anyone know of any news about what a Thunderbird end of life means for the Seamonkey project? Following the forums, the developers and the users are worried. At the moment people are simply watching developments.
Which is about to enter public domain. I visited a house which had belonged to a rich (doh!) industrialist a few years back, it was somewhere in the immediate vicinity of Duluth and was overlooking Lake Superior. There was a first edition of Mein Kampf in the man's library. I can't remember if it was a translation or in German, probably a translation. A lot of the rich and famous were interested in little Adolf back then, including the British King's wife, brother and his wife - oh, and Lord Rothermere - the owner of the Daily Mail. Most of them dropped this fascination when war was declared.
I also thought it was too insane to be true and looked up the local rag. Jane Mann really does come across as being utterly demented, her husband only marginally less so.
Is there a name for an activity that earns you money, but less than the value of the damage you cause, making your activity a net negative for society? Any example of well-respected professions that would qualify?
What internet browser did they use? What basic security measures did they use? What does "Exposure" mean? Did the malware actually infect the computers exposed or did their security catch it? What sites did they test?
I note things like how this very article LIES: 55% are user-initiated downloads, only 45% are drive-by downloads! Or how, while it is true that you're 28 times more likely to be "exposed" to malware on the piracy sites. ..it's a rise from 1 in 333 to 1 in 12. And again. ..Did those computers exposed actually get infected by the malware, or do basic security measures stop it?
what operating system? Flash or Java vulnerabilities?
He is saying "separate", I'm understanding "cast adrift". I quite like Thunderbird and I don't particularly see a need for infinite fragmentation wrt open source projects. Without Thunderbird, Firefox is just another browser.
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That could happen. If the U.S. mandates backdoors, the market (and some of the companies) will shift to countries where the policies are different. Of course we don't know the contents of TTIP which could have an effect on the ability of Finland to be one of those countries.
Actually, their lies go far deeper than that. The terrorist group involved have a glossy color magazine called Dabiq. Apparently that magazine carried an interview with the leader of the Brussels / Paris cell where he announced that he was planning to hit Paris. Several months before the attacks. I wonder if any of the secret services read the thing, it is in English.
Local knowledge gives me a context, I can recognise idiotic suggestions. 3 weeks ago I took a "local knowledge" route and saved 2/3 of the estimated travel time. No, there were no restricted-usage roads involved, Google Maps was simply being very very stupid.
Having said that, normally I don't even bother looking at a mapping app if I know how to get there anyway.
I looked at Google Maps recently - wanting to know how to get to someone's house, and then on to where we were going.
The first part worked well.
When I saw the suggested route for the second part I looked up the city's website to see if the obvious way was closed. It was not. It took us around 5 minutes to get from her place to our destination which was 10 minutes quicker that what Google thought we would need.
I was telling someone how to get to another city. Follow this motorway to the junction with the (motorway designator) and then turn South towards your destination which should be signposted. I went that way a couple of days later and their destination was *not* signposted, other random cities were.
Yes I know how to get there, but "knowing the way" does not mean I can second-guess what information is going to be on various signposts.
I wonder if the sun was even vaguely visible, an "experienced hill walker" should be able to work out from the position of the sun which way is north and which is south. My old mobile phone was good at telling me which way I was facing, the newer one (same manufacturer) is good about telling me that it does not have a clue about directions.
I have seen just such a sign while out on a walk. It was reinforced by a horizontal metal pipe at about 10' (3m) high making sure that nothing really large could even attempt it.
Some friends of mine were involved in another case: They were in a bus being driven to a Ski resort in Switzerland. The bus driver turned onto another motorway at Bern. At around this point some passengers came forward to inform him that he could not get to where they were going that way. "I know what I am doing". An hour later even he realised that he had screwed up - there were signs up clearly stating the maximum size of vehicles which could be taken on the "Autoverladung", the train which took cars through a tunnel. His Sat-Nav system was set up for cars and was totally inappropriate for a large bus. That cost them 3 hours total (including another mandatory break for the bus driver) and meant they missed another connection later.
This matches up to a /. story from earlier this week - the Firefox developers cut a perfectly good feature which some people based their browsing habits around because they could. Apparently it caused the occasional abort.
The FF developers have too much time and neither enough clue nor oversight, Australis was another product of that mindset. What does one do under these circumstances? I know someone who has now started his own private fork over this, Firefox ESR is another short-term solution.
If 4000 people leech a movie via bittorrent, meaning you lose $1,600,000 in lost sales in stores
That makes it $400 a copy.
Which brings us back to "speculative accounting".
No, its the "FUCK YOU! we know how to use our browser better than you" philosophy.
Hey, they maintain the browser, I'd assume they know how to use it better than I do.
That is not really the point - I have a way that works and they have just killed it. I do not want to spend a couple of days looking for alternatives when this problem was caused by maintainers breaking something because they felt like it. The maintainers are maintaining for their own enjoyment and the lusers are out of luck.
If the solution is something which also works under another browser, I'll look at adopting the other browser.
I am in Europe and was getting up to 10-15 calls a week from Italian numbers 2-6 years ago. The numbers seemed to change pretty much with every call although I seem to remember it was only the last 4-6 digits which would vary. I would have cheerfully blacklisted the entire country but could not find a way to do this.
As it was I would turn the telephone off when I was away for more than a day, really "off" - "The number you are dialing is currently unavailable".
In the end (after years of this) they put me on their own blacklist.
No, the content was in the subject line. "Caller ID Blocker".
Your tax dollars at work.
Drooling idiocy.
These people are the ultimate REMF.
They are obviously *waay* to the rear and - I suppose owing to faulty or outdated intelligence - quite a few of their targets turned out to be families. Some will have been families of terrorists, others not even that. From what I read, drone attacks have a similar effect in radicalising people in the surrounding areas as suicide bombers do. That includes the 911 crew.
Do REMFs normally get medals above and beyond those for "I was involved in that campaign"?
In other words: you don't agree with them.
That is only relevant up to a point.
My home PC has no Flash, I only use Outlook for my work emails (vpn) and it is fully patched.
The PC provided by the company has Flash - and I do not have the rights to uninstall it - and the latest set of updates have not propagated down to us yet. Microsoft Update is specifically disabled. Maybe the Flash version we have is new enough, maybe the company's mail scanner can keep this thing out. Maybe not.
I know a lot of people who use Webmail, who have their address-books stored on their email providers servers.
Every now and then a receive a rash of spam or scam mails from someone who operates this was and whose email was hacked. I have not noticed any such mails from private addresses where they use a "proper" email client. Someone sent a Trojan mail to everyone in the company's Outlook address-book at work this week, a somewhat different case.
Anyone know of any news about what a Thunderbird end of life means for the Seamonkey project?
Following the forums, the developers and the users are worried. At the moment people are simply watching developments.
Which is about to enter public domain.
I visited a house which had belonged to a rich (doh!) industrialist a few years back, it was somewhere in the immediate vicinity of Duluth and was overlooking Lake Superior. There was a first edition of Mein Kampf in the man's library. I can't remember if it was a translation or in German, probably a translation.
A lot of the rich and famous were interested in little Adolf back then, including the British King's wife, brother and his wife - oh, and Lord Rothermere - the owner of the Daily Mail. Most of them dropped this fascination when war was declared.
he was previously a widely respected University of Chicago faculty member . . .
here - fixed that for you.
Social Science?
I also thought it was too insane to be true and looked up the local rag. Jane Mann really does come across as being utterly demented, her husband only marginally less so.
Is there a name for an activity that earns you money, but less than the value of the damage you cause, making your activity a net negative for society? Any example of well-respected professions that would qualify?
Lawyer?
Oh, you said "well-respected". My bad.
Details like:
What internet browser did they use?
What basic security measures did they use?
What does "Exposure" mean? Did the malware actually infect the computers exposed or did their security catch it?
What sites did they test?
I note things like how this very article LIES: 55% are user-initiated downloads, only 45% are drive-by downloads! Or how, while it is true that you're 28 times more likely to be "exposed" to malware on the piracy sites. . .it's a rise from 1 in 333 to 1 in 12. And again. . .Did those computers exposed actually get infected by the malware, or do basic security measures stop it?
what operating system?
Flash or Java vulnerabilities?
nuthin useable.
He is saying "separate", I'm understanding "cast adrift". I quite like Thunderbird and I don't particularly see a need for infinite fragmentation wrt open source projects. Without Thunderbird, Firefox is just another browser.