Seriously, IoT devices should come with goddamn warning labels. This device in known to the surgeon-general of cyberspace to pose a serous risk to your personal privacy, and the personal privacy of those around you. This device may also cause undesired network traffic, communicate with unauthorized systems, and promote the spread of malware to other network connected devices.
This is the exact sort of thing that I would to expect to come out of a big white building full of executive level upper management morons with big bank accounts.
I'll be damn surprised if there's not an on premise IT grunt at the White-house getting his pink slip right now.
In fact, where does one apply for the position? (asking for a friend)
1. Use Craigslist/census data/google to browse the employment/job market in a cheaper town/county/city/state/country. 2. Choose an ideal location based off of the information gathered in step (1) and apply online for the jobs with resume tailored to the position applied, with a nice cover letter explaining your commitment and willingness to move. 3. Sell any possession you have that is not worth humping on your back. 4. Move.
I've used this formula multiple times. While I don't have a drug addiction, or mental problems, I do have dependents, and high expectations.
I have zero sympathy for people who make the very personal choice to live in extremely high cost of living areas without the requisite employment. If your willing to put up with the hardship in return for whatever it is that's keeping you there, then society is not obligated to float you.
These problems would mostly solve themselves if people had a little damn common sense.
Drug addiction and mental issues are a different matter.
This is not some secret formula, and if it was, it's out now.
But maybe 4 years later, maybe a decade... maybe more, the tables will again turn. Vengeance will swing the other way again.
How about a real law instead? Like, the way it's supposed to be done. The reason we are in this mess in the first place is because the net neutrality rules had been put in place the wrong way. Screwing around with punishments and/or creating more "regulations" leads to the same place.
Needs to be real law, worded strongly, enforceable, and done right. Not another stack of papers at the whim of whatever agency takes the torch.
Anything less is just another stupid band-aid waiting for the next telecom lawyer.
The ability to be critical of government power in public is pretty important in the this country, and has been so since 11/15/1791. So important in fact, that we wrote it down just the the right of the number one.
You might be the first if the regular secret service doesn't get around to giving you an interview before Trump's unaccountable network of mercenary spies is in place!
Just the sort of thing I would expect a private government goon to say. I don't expect the secret service would be very interested in my constitutionally protected criticisms unless I start printing money.
I'm no frothing 2nd amendment screamer, and I suppose my above post may come off like that, so maybe yours is the typical media conditioned knee-jerk reaction, and not the threat of government retribution that it reads as?
I do flex my rights as written pretty often, including my right to free speech, and have sworn an oath to defend the constitution, which kind of makes it my duty to speak up on things like this.
Comments like yours are the very definition of "FUD" Please find some perspective from outside your moms basement. You may find some things are worth speaking up for, and others are worth fighting for.
When you stop seeing uncomfortable discussions and comments following such scary and repugnant news, it's really time to start looking over your shoulder.
No way in hell will something like this fly in the USA.
I imagine trump sits in his bed at night, under the covers with his smartphone, and dreams up things just like this as ways to troll the media, so he can point fingers and cry fake news later.
But then again, the more I think about it, the more it seems like this might have been the plan all along. Suddenly all the bananas bullshit of the past year and half starts to make sense when viewed through a "spin up the secret police" filter.
Seriously, if this comes to pass, it's time to start looking at the 2nd amendment solution.... and I don't say this lightly. Once something like this is a thing, people start falling into unmarked vans and black bags.
My girlfriend had a 3x/day Starbucks habit 7 days a week when we met. It blew me away, $12/15 dollars a day. Worse than smoking. I've still never seen coffee addiction like that since.
Our first Christmas together I bought her a nice espresso machine, a big giant box of Starbucks beans, grinder, the shitty paper cups, tiny little ceramic coffee mugs, a hipster jazz CD... everything she needed to replicate the experience if she just did it herself. It cost me a pretty penny, but way less than she was spending, and it was a damn impressive gift.
In the card I explained that this gift was not only a fancy coffee maker with all the fixings, but was also at least a $4000 savings over the year. She read it aloud and I could see our relatives running the numbers in their heads. It was beautiful. Perfect mix of shame and realization moved throughout the room as she unboxed all the paraphernalia .
We still use the machine, but I understand its a PITA to clean. Who knew? Anyway, she stopped buying coffee every day and started doing it herself with grocery store beans instead of Starbucks. I became addicted to the espresso beans through my simple drip machine, and I feel like we're a few shmeckles richer every Christmas.
And for the record, I don't know how Starbucks fucks it up so bad in the store. That dark espresso roast makes a damn fine cuppa joe in my kitchen.
The drip coffee at work is fucking terrible. The end.
After 45 days, your account will be billed the full charge of $89.95, with a 2 year contract and 400.00 cancellation fee.
Seriously, every damn thing in 2017 has been some kind of underhanded anti consumer one sided deal, or a scam. Is anybody surprised nobody jumps at "Free" anymore? It's lost it's meaning. This is what happens when you fool an entire generation by redefining the meaning of words.
"Free for 45 days" means You can borrow it for a month and a half and all you pay is the processing fee, box rental fee, America fee, local fee, internal, and external fee, media tax, box tax, local and state tax and federal tax. The free 45 days also has a value of cash value 700 dollars (because we said so) and that's also going to count a income... so more tax.... and if you don't return the box and cancel service by 2AM on sunday (we're closed) you will be liable for the whole 700 dollars, btw Wendy the service cancel specialist and box processor will be out of the office that week so sorry in advance for that minor inconvenience. What a deal. Tell your friends and your welcome.
All this study proves is that bit-torrent is the most honest about the cost of the media, is reliable, less annoying, less conniving and underhanded, and has a better media selection.
If you wan't people to respect your laws, you need respectable laws. Artists death+70 year copyright owned by some corporation or media titan aint respectable even a little bit. Suck less big media. Nobody buys your bullshit anymore.
As of right now, I've walked MANY through getting google voice going on mobiles and ditching the monthly bill. Works good until they catch on and force you re-verify the number you setup, at which point it seems your no longer able to make calls (originating from that number) but you can still receive voice mail. The privacy trade-off is obvious when working with any google product, but for quick and dirty free wifi phone it worked great (last time i set it up for somebody)
It sounds like this is pretty damn close to the same thing, only without all the snoopy big tech middle man garbage. I'm going to try it.
These phone numbers are generated by Sopranica's Voice Over IP (VOIP) provider which provides talk and text services over the internet.
Regarding the encryption, where does it take place? Is this privacy-centric un-named VOIP provider/DIY network subject to NSLs?
How will all of the big blue media companies control the (growing) population of have-nots who can't afford the nickel? They are still going to vote....
Or cure themselves without the 500k+ of medical debt, and change the way society looks at healthcare.
Seriously, the risk assessment goes something like this=
I can't afford experimental treatment. If I try it myself I might live, I might find a better cheaper way to administer/manufacture a drug, and I will maybe face fines. If I do nothing...... I die anyway.
Kind of a no brainier.... but I suppose they may need a...... bladerunner.
Not-really-free-2-day-shipping. It's a little extra on the upfront base cost, but it beats the 2 day shipping costs of the competition every time.
My prime membership pays for itself every gift-giving holiday on a single big gift shipping cost (which they giftwrap for me), the 12 year old likes amazon prime video, and the firestick upstairs is a perfect platform for kodi, hulu, netflix, local news, and plex.... better service compatibility than even the various raspberry pis I've tried for that specific job.
I buy a lot of small electronic components- Digikey, Sparkfun, and Adafruit all want to charge me 10$+ to ship a 10 pack of diodes that cost 2 bucks and the shipping takes a week and a half to a month and half. If it's the wrong thing it's a epic battle to return, and I pay the return shipping.
Some suppliers will ship direct from Europe, if I'm willing to wait, but have also partnered with Amazon, this means I can get that emergency replacement E3Dv6 hotend tomorrow for extra 5 bucks from Amazon instead of the extra 55 from Europe.
I can't always group components into large shipments to save on shipping, and Radioshack aint around to save my deadlines anymore. Amazon prime wants an *extra buck-fifty for the diodes, shipping is *free, and in my mailbox within 2 days MAX, often next day and sometimes same day. If they get the order wrong, I can open a rapport with the seller right away, or if it's amazon, a return is a single mouse click at no cost to me, with a replacement expected within 48 hours or less.
I'm not the Amazon cheerleader I sound like, I think they are growing far to powerful, but the answer to your question is the value added stuff I've outlined above.... at least for me. YMMV.
Can you imagine the trauma stories that would come out of that office? Have you ever actually sat and watched legit children's programming? I doubt the smut-porn police would last more than a week.
Seriously though, if you replace the babysitter with a computer, your gonna get trolled. EVERY. TIME.
You gain nothing from connecting your smart TV while you've already got your consoles and media boxes in the stack.
Don't even bother with fancy routing and shit. Trade it straight across for the same size set from a few years ago, before they made it nearly mandatory to connect the damn things.
Funny story, when the ps4 first came out, I had to update the firmware on my then 3 year old 54'' SONY TV to support it.
It was done through USB, and the TV to this day has never seen the inside of a network. It never nags at me, and has no problems playing content from the plex server served via connected PC. It works perfectly, and is just as sexy as the new ones without all the smart-shit.
I see what your saying, but I think your missing my point.
I'm blaming the cable companies for CHARGING so much for the commercials. Not the commercials themselves. There is not enough value in the product they are selling (re-transmitting?) for the price they are charging.
The garbage:media ratio is out of their control, so be it. The price on the other hand... is not. I see cable companies complaining about losing their customer base to alternatives, but at the end of the day, SOMEBODY is charging far to much for the media they provide.
Google claims Cox commands 2.6 million eyeballs, Comcast 22.3 million, DirectTV 21 million. Nearly 50 million viewers- between the three I've heard of.
I'd say the negotiation power is there. It's the will that's lacking.
Somebody aught to find the difference between traditional TV sub cancellations, and streaming service subs, over the last 5 years.
I bet the numbers will show a pretty clear market shift towards the new and better business model.
Got to give it to Comcast though, it takes some balls to complain about ONLY having 22.3M*$50.00/month in revenue from a single service......
Slashdot Mirror
Be a shame if something was to happen to it....
Who made this asshole "surgeon-general of cyberspace" and gave him the authority to destroy people's devices, dickface?
Provide an answer to that which doesn't make you look like an arrogant piece of shit.
He was unanimously approved for the position by the same voters that overwhelmingly support the repeal of net-neutrality. Try to keep up.
Give this man a fucking prize.
Seriously, IoT devices should come with goddamn warning labels.
This device in known to the surgeon-general of cyberspace to pose a serous risk to your personal privacy, and the personal privacy of those around you. This device may also cause undesired network traffic, communicate with unauthorized systems, and promote the spread of malware to other network connected devices.
This is the exact sort of thing that I would to expect to come out of a big white building full of executive level upper management morons with big bank accounts.
I'll be damn surprised if there's not an on premise IT grunt at the White-house getting his pink slip right now.
In fact, where does one apply for the position? (asking for a friend)
Moving to cheaper location
1. Use Craigslist/census data/google to browse the employment/job market in a cheaper town/county/city/state/country.
2. Choose an ideal location based off of the information gathered in step (1) and apply online for the jobs with resume tailored to the position applied, with a nice cover letter explaining your commitment and willingness to move.
3. Sell any possession you have that is not worth humping on your back.
4. Move.
I've used this formula multiple times. While I don't have a drug addiction, or mental problems, I do have dependents, and high expectations.
I have zero sympathy for people who make the very personal choice to live in extremely high cost of living areas without the requisite employment. If your willing to put up with the hardship in return for whatever it is that's keeping you there, then society is not obligated to float you.
These problems would mostly solve themselves if people had a little damn common sense.
Drug addiction and mental issues are a different matter.
This is not some secret formula, and if it was, it's out now.
Your welcome.
Sounds great, feels good.
But maybe 4 years later, maybe a decade... maybe more, the tables will again turn. Vengeance will swing the other way again.
How about a real law instead? Like, the way it's supposed to be done. The reason we are in this mess in the first place is because the net neutrality rules had been put in place the wrong way. Screwing around with punishments and/or creating more "regulations" leads to the same place.
Needs to be real law, worded strongly, enforceable, and done right. Not another stack of papers at the whim of whatever agency takes the torch.
Anything less is just another stupid band-aid waiting for the next telecom lawyer.
These gardens wont segregate themselves.
______________ for our children!
______________ is bad for the children.
Only ______________ can save the children.
The ability to be critical of government power in public is pretty important in the this country, and has been so since 11/15/1791. So important in fact, that we wrote it down just the the right of the number one.
You might be the first if the regular secret service doesn't get around to giving you an interview before Trump's unaccountable network of mercenary spies is in place!
Just the sort of thing I would expect a private government goon to say. I don't expect the secret service would be very interested in my constitutionally protected criticisms unless I start printing money.
I'm no frothing 2nd amendment screamer, and I suppose my above post may come off like that, so maybe yours is the typical media conditioned knee-jerk reaction, and not the threat of government retribution that it reads as?
I do flex my rights as written pretty often, including my right to free speech, and have sworn an oath to defend the constitution, which kind of makes it my duty to speak up on things like this.
Comments like yours are the very definition of "FUD" Please find some perspective from outside your moms basement. You may find some things are worth speaking up for, and others are worth fighting for.
When you stop seeing uncomfortable discussions and comments following such scary and repugnant news, it's really time to start looking over your shoulder.
No way in hell will something like this fly in the USA.
I imagine trump sits in his bed at night, under the covers with his smartphone, and dreams up things just like this as ways to troll the media, so he can point fingers and cry fake news later.
But then again, the more I think about it, the more it seems like this might have been the plan all along. Suddenly all the bananas bullshit of the past year and half starts to make sense when viewed through a "spin up the secret police" filter.
Seriously, if this comes to pass, it's time to start looking at the 2nd amendment solution.... and I don't say this lightly. Once something like this is a thing, people start falling into unmarked vans and black bags.
How far we have fallen.
My girlfriend had a 3x/day Starbucks habit 7 days a week when we met. It blew me away, $12/15 dollars a day. Worse than smoking. I've still never seen coffee addiction like that since.
Our first Christmas together I bought her a nice espresso machine, a big giant box of Starbucks beans, grinder, the shitty paper cups, tiny little ceramic coffee mugs, a hipster jazz CD... everything she needed to replicate the experience if she just did it herself. It cost me a pretty penny, but way less than she was spending, and it was a damn impressive gift.
In the card I explained that this gift was not only a fancy coffee maker with all the fixings, but was also at least a $4000 savings over the year. She read it aloud and I could see our relatives running the numbers in their heads. It was beautiful. Perfect mix of shame and realization moved throughout the room as she unboxed all the paraphernalia .
We still use the machine, but I understand its a PITA to clean. Who knew? Anyway, she stopped buying coffee every day and started doing it herself with grocery store beans instead of Starbucks. I became addicted to the espresso beans through my simple drip machine, and I feel like we're a few shmeckles richer every Christmas.
And for the record, I don't know how Starbucks fucks it up so bad in the store. That dark espresso roast makes a damn fine cuppa joe in my kitchen.
The drip coffee at work is fucking terrible. The end.
After 45 days, your account will be billed the full charge of $89.95, with a 2 year contract and 400.00 cancellation fee.
Seriously, every damn thing in 2017 has been some kind of underhanded anti consumer one sided deal, or a scam. Is anybody surprised nobody jumps at "Free" anymore? It's lost it's meaning. This is what happens when you fool an entire generation by redefining the meaning of words.
"Free for 45 days" means You can borrow it for a month and a half and all you pay is the processing fee, box rental fee, America fee, local fee, internal, and external fee, media tax, box tax, local and state tax and federal tax. The free 45 days also has a value of cash value 700 dollars (because we said so) and that's also going to count a income... so more tax.... and if you don't return the box and cancel service by 2AM on sunday (we're closed) you will be liable for the whole 700 dollars, btw Wendy the service cancel specialist and box processor will be out of the office that week so sorry in advance for that minor inconvenience. What a deal. Tell your friends and your welcome.
All this study proves is that bit-torrent is the most honest about the cost of the media, is reliable, less annoying, less conniving and underhanded, and has a better media selection.
If you wan't people to respect your laws, you need respectable laws. Artists death+70 year copyright owned by some corporation or media titan aint respectable even a little bit. Suck less big media. Nobody buys your bullshit anymore.
As of right now, I've walked MANY through getting google voice going on mobiles and ditching the monthly bill. Works good until they catch on and force you re-verify the number you setup, at which point it seems your no longer able to make calls (originating from that number) but you can still receive voice mail. The privacy trade-off is obvious when working with any google product, but for quick and dirty free wifi phone it worked great (last time i set it up for somebody)
It sounds like this is pretty damn close to the same thing, only without all the snoopy big tech middle man garbage. I'm going to try it.
These phone numbers are generated by Sopranica's Voice Over IP (VOIP) provider which provides talk and text services over the internet.
Regarding the encryption, where does it take place? Is this privacy-centric un-named VOIP provider/DIY network subject to NSLs?
I suppose I should RTFA....
This is Disney, so even if Redbox wins this, they will lose anyway when ol Steamboat Willy rewrites the copyright laws again.
How will all of the big blue media companies control the (growing) population of have-nots who can't afford the nickel? They are still going to vote....
Never been to Redmond eh?
Yeah! It's nice to finally put a face to the name eh??
An "Am I stupid and/or gullible?" button!
Damn genius. This should be standard. Like new years day every user gets to see how many paid-for-posts they peddled for free!
Or cure themselves without the 500k+ of medical debt, and change the way society looks at healthcare.
Seriously, the risk assessment goes something like this=
I can't afford experimental treatment. If I try it myself I might live, I might find a better cheaper way to administer/manufacture a drug, and I will maybe face fines. If I do nothing...... I die anyway.
Kind of a no brainier.... but I suppose they may need a...... bladerunner.
Got to read between the lines on this one.
US GOVERNMENT, Looking completely inept, while at the same time being incredibly clever just out of sight.
Not-really-free-2-day-shipping. It's a little extra on the upfront base cost, but it beats the 2 day shipping costs of the competition every time.
My prime membership pays for itself every gift-giving holiday on a single big gift shipping cost (which they giftwrap for me), the 12 year old likes amazon prime video, and the firestick upstairs is a perfect platform for kodi, hulu, netflix, local news, and plex.... better service compatibility than even the various raspberry pis I've tried for that specific job.
I buy a lot of small electronic components- Digikey, Sparkfun, and Adafruit all want to charge me 10$+ to ship a 10 pack of diodes that cost 2 bucks and the shipping takes a week and a half to a month and half. If it's the wrong thing it's a epic battle to return, and I pay the return shipping.
Some suppliers will ship direct from Europe, if I'm willing to wait, but have also partnered with Amazon, this means I can get that emergency replacement E3Dv6 hotend tomorrow for extra 5 bucks from Amazon instead of the extra 55 from Europe.
I can't always group components into large shipments to save on shipping, and Radioshack aint around to save my deadlines anymore. Amazon prime wants an *extra buck-fifty for the diodes, shipping is *free, and in my mailbox within 2 days MAX, often next day and sometimes same day.
If they get the order wrong, I can open a rapport with the seller right away, or if it's amazon, a return is a single mouse click at no cost to me, with a replacement expected within 48 hours or less.
I'm not the Amazon cheerleader I sound like, I think they are growing far to powerful, but the answer to your question is the value added stuff I've outlined above.... at least for me. YMMV.
Same unannounced outages have been happening with Centurylink here in Auburn, WA for about 3 months... exact same times.
Can you imagine the trauma stories that would come out of that office? Have you ever actually sat and watched legit children's programming? I doubt the smut-porn police would last more than a week.
Seriously though, if you replace the babysitter with a computer, your gonna get trolled. EVERY. TIME.
You gain nothing from connecting your smart TV while you've already got your consoles and media boxes in the stack.
Don't even bother with fancy routing and shit. Trade it straight across for the same size set from a few years ago, before they made it nearly mandatory to connect the damn things.
Funny story, when the ps4 first came out, I had to update the firmware on my then 3 year old 54'' SONY TV to support it.
It was done through USB, and the TV to this day has never seen the inside of a network. It never nags at me, and has no problems playing content from the plex server served via connected PC. It works perfectly, and is just as sexy as the new ones without all the smart-shit.
I see what your saying, but I think your missing my point.
I'm blaming the cable companies for CHARGING so much for the commercials. Not the commercials themselves. There is not enough value in the product they are selling (re-transmitting?) for the price they are charging.
The garbage:media ratio is out of their control, so be it. The price on the other hand... is not. I see cable companies complaining about losing their customer base to alternatives, but at the end of the day, SOMEBODY is charging far to much for the media they provide.
Google claims Cox commands 2.6 million eyeballs, Comcast 22.3 million, DirectTV 21 million. Nearly 50 million viewers- between the three I've heard of.
I'd say the negotiation power is there. It's the will that's lacking.
Somebody aught to find the difference between traditional TV sub cancellations, and streaming service subs, over the last 5 years.
I bet the numbers will show a pretty clear market shift towards the new and better business model.
Got to give it to Comcast though, it takes some balls to complain about ONLY having 22.3M*$50.00/month in revenue from a single service......