I was in Germany and couldn't buy content because my Kindle was "in Canada" so the title "wasn't available". I changed my Kindle to reside in Germany, and found that when I eventually returned to Canada, all my content from magazines had quietly erased itself (I think it helpfully removed old magazines... some retention setting I didn't know about). Searched through my German account, and couldn't find the old magazines to re-add them. Makes no sense.
The content is no cheaper in digital form, but it vanishes like nothing, you can't even give it away or share it (aside from their lame 3 weeks one time only thing)
These arbitrary restrictions make me prefer DRM-free sources. But the lousy PDF reading on the e-ink displays means... I barely use my Kindle at all.
Maybe the new Kindle will be one that doesn't suck.
We can call it "the international internet network as governed by IETF, ICANN, ARIN etc." or "the AP doesn't know what they're talking about space", or "the Internet" for short.
I think maybe they just don't know that there is a concept of governance and organization which goes in to creating the Internet, and they think it's some vague ungoverned medium for communication, like sound through the air.
Although "internet" is not common, I strongly disagree that the common use is not as a proper noun. The Internet is a place, much like Europe, Mars, Rome, or whatever.
When speaking of multiple linked networks, I speak of intranets or private networks, but if something is on the Internet, it's addressable in one, clear, named, identifiable space, and that space is called the Internet.
Playing around with Android TV the other day, I couldn't figure out how zoom worked without a touchscreen. I already tried the mousewheel, dragging various corners, double-clicking, triple clicking.... punching it into a search engine found the answer...
Double-click-drag.
Might be the most unintuitive action I can think of.
"Also even at 15 if they pull a knife and threaten my life they are no longer a child. If they want to continue to live then don't pull a knife."
It's not because they're children, it's because they've had little to no control over their circumstances in life.
Odd thing about what you say regarding pulling a gun. You won't believe me, but that's ok. At the police station, I met another guy in the same spot who was robbed 30 minutes later. He and two other guys, big guys, his friends ran in one direction, he ran in the other.
They knelt him in the sand execution style, and held a machete to his back.. not an actual machete, it was more like a cross between a hatchet, a sickle, and a machete, a really evil tool used to sever limbs from trees. He showed me one in the marketplace when we were trying to find shoes. These weren't the 15 year olds, but two older men in their 40s. The police suspect that there was some kind of initiation thing and opportunism going on. When they saw me, they sent out the kids. When they saw three guys, they went out themselves.
So the question is... if the kids had an ally watching, did the ally have a gun? We both got away unharmed, he lost some cash and camera equipment, I lost some cash and my shoes.
For war and God and country and all that, it's a totally different situation.
All three situations have in common that the criminals wanted money. Having a gun while a group of 15 year olds surround you with knives would be useless. If you seriously want to kill a kid who's had no chance in life... there's something wrong with you. Trying to use a gun while surrounded by mobsters would be suicide.
Never even thought of carrying a gun.
Many places in South America have a shoot-first-take money later, kind of crime, which is scary. But I don't see how your gun being discovered on your body would help you in that situation either.
Don't you find it creepy that they're not allowed to ignore you?
I don't understand how this can be fun. Bring some real women, mix it up with the teaching, accounting or nursing conference. Fuck this bullshit paid dancer stuff.
Sex is a charged topic. This whole thread illustrates that point.
There are other charged topics, like religion and politics.
Nobody would think to hold prayers in the conference, nor would they think to promote political agendas at the conference. It's something that even if you turned the other way, it would make many people very uncomfortable. The easiest thing to do? leave it out and focus on the common interest... technology.
I'd walk out of your sex conference as quickly as I would walk out of your prayer conference or Trump rally. And the sex conference? it's so fucking tedious and overdone, I don't want to hear about you and your fucking boner, how you want to ram that girl, that your wife isn't here and other bullshit. It's embarassing, awkward and a total waste of my time.
"I'm not defending the government or making any claims regarding the need or validity of their actions. But ultimately he lost his business because he didn't set it up right in the first place."
You are defending the government and making claims about the validity of their actions. You're saying that he should have been mindful to support government surveillance when he created the company.
He didn't have access to the email btw. He set it up as properly as you could. The government wanted access to the servers so as to modify the code to allow them to surveil Snowden... when he logged in.
Web-based PGP crypto sites are a shortcut to PGP. If you have a method to do this "properly" and avoid this weakness, I'd love to hear it.
The PDA capabilities were hardened from the phone, and the phone has encrypted voice communications (not GSM crypto... actual crypto). Notice the "trusted display" and the classified and non-classified sides of the phone... even multiple USB ports.
How *did* she handle secret and top-secret classified information without it?
Search engines in the late 1990s were being trashed by SEO companies. Yahoo's manual curating of the Internet (haha) couldn't keep up. The standard crawler/keyword search tools were generating page after page of useless results.
Google exists because they had a different algorithm. The fact that they managed their ads carefully is one of the very many reasons they're still relevant... but their existence is entirely because of their search engine.
"TL;DR: BB doesn't react fast enough to customer needs, BB isn't willing to put out a shitty initial product and hope users like it, then fix it later."
I have a box of Blackberrys which can attest to this. BB put out a shitty initial product and hope users like it, then promise to fix it in the next hardware, but only well enough to realize that even with the fix it's still shit because something else is broken.
This goes to one of Apple's greatest innovations in the Smartphone area. Telcos never release the software updates. Apple strongarmed the telcos with user demand, even introducing an "app store" (remember paying to transfer photos from your phone? remember that even the USB cable was locked out because the telco bought that feature from the manufacturer?), This changed the customer in the relationship.
OTOH, BB's greatest business accomplishment was being able to tack a $5 charge per customer on to each phone to get on the BBN. The high turnover in phones meant that whitecolar kids all got last-year's BB, and the telco's greed on SMS charges meant that BBM was flat-fee all-you-can-text for the kids. The network effect created a secondary locked-in market... which BB clung to for years until their immense suckage meant people went to the iPhone.
Nobody should shed a tear for BB.
Still wish I could have reprogrammed a convenience key to do a "battery pull"
If I have a Radware product in my organization, I would subscribe to their security and support mailing lists, which is where this seems to be posted. There are thousands or more of different products from different vendors, probably tens or hundreds of thousands if you include the crazy knockoffs, FOSS assemblages, and fly-by-night companies.
There are far fewer genuinely unique bits of software which most of these products are made from. E.g., only so many IP stacks are out there, only so many web servers, etc. Even this vulnerability mentions that it is in a "third party library"
I had a longer reply, but if you follow the links, the guy who reported it expressly asked for discretion...
"(And currently I'd apprechiate if you don't make a big buzz out of this
issue, because we're preparing a paper on it by the end of march where
we'll disclose a bunch of similar issues)"
Ooops.
Sucky security researchers are in my mind, the guys who self-aggrandize. This may very well be an issue where the guy's discovered something much bigger and wants one of those quiet reserved CVEs for his release of the vulnerability in the underlying library. There are lots of details in this specific case.
If there's a problem at all, I would wager it's all the crappy "security researchers" trying to make a name for themselves by claiming the sky is falling and getting a CVE on their blog to make themselves look important.
"This ensures maximum flexibility for our department in generating value from the money we invest in our IT hardware."
That's a big fat loophole. Microsoft and Apple create special deals with universities to "create value". When administrators argue with academics in front of people with budgets and motivated salespeople, it will not go well.
"We leased 1000, Ipad ++ Desktop Education edition machines for the physics lab. All students now require Apple IDs and must agree to EULAs as part of their academic requirements. In return, Apple gives free iCloud accounts to children in need."
I'd scrap the financial considerations. The principle of 'walled gardens' probably run counter to the university's mission statement. Something much stronger is needed:
"General purpose computing being necessary to the academic and creative freedom, privacy, intellectual autonomy and security required of an educated people, the right of the student body to learn without the oversight of a EULA, walled garden or similar restrictions shall not be infringed."
I disagree about the innovation. They're making great strides in "global resourcing", learning systems like Watson and still have amazing private physics research. As a physicist, it might be one of the better non-military places to work.
Otherwise, you're spot-on. I worked there longer than I should have. I know almost nobody working there anymore. They were all fired... I mean layed off. Their jobs went to Brazil.
The corporate bloat always made me wonder why anyone would chose to do business with them.... but having worked for similar giant companies, it seems they expect a similar management style in their vendors. Having a second-line manager to complain to when your sales rep's backup failed you and their boss can't help, seems to be some kind of expectatoin. You won't get that in a mom-and-pop shop.
The company varies by division. 2 years and leave is reasonable for most areas, but if you're in physics, or you're in big data and learning systems, or managing global resourcing projects, you might not find a more interesting place to work.
I hate it, but he's stretching the language and speaking to his audience... who are insiders who understand the references.
Much of what we talk about casually is full of references. Given we're in tech, our references are pretty obscure too. We're all asked "why can't you just explain it to me?"
These are just a different kind of obscure.
The way I understood the lyrics was a bit more cynical:
"Sipping a chardonnay with my compatriots, when an officer visits us and questions us for being so unfashionable. We express some concern over such criticism, but the young officer takes this the wrong way and we're challenged to a duel. Some of my friends, though gentlemen, really do enjoy the sport of dueling. The officer however, was not practicing good etiquette, and surprised upon his would-be challenger a grievous injury. It will never be clear to me how officers can be so immune from the rules of civilized culture. After that, we had unfortunately lost our composure and things became most unsporting."
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I was in Germany and couldn't buy content because my Kindle was "in Canada" so the title "wasn't available". I changed my Kindle to reside in Germany, and found that when I eventually returned to Canada, all my content from magazines had quietly erased itself (I think it helpfully removed old magazines... some retention setting I didn't know about). Searched through my German account, and couldn't find the old magazines to re-add them. Makes no sense.
The content is no cheaper in digital form, but it vanishes like nothing, you can't even give it away or share it (aside from their lame 3 weeks one time only thing)
These arbitrary restrictions make me prefer DRM-free sources. But the lousy PDF reading on the e-ink displays means... I barely use my Kindle at all.
Maybe the new Kindle will be one that doesn't suck.
Are you suggesting that the Internet comprises all networks everywhere?
We can call it "the international internet network as governed by IETF, ICANN, ARIN etc." or "the AP doesn't know what they're talking about space", or "the Internet" for short.
I think maybe they just don't know that there is a concept of governance and organization which goes in to creating the Internet, and they think it's some vague ungoverned medium for communication, like sound through the air.
Although "internet" is not common, I strongly disagree that the common use is not as a proper noun. The Internet is a place, much like Europe, Mars, Rome, or whatever.
When speaking of multiple linked networks, I speak of intranets or private networks, but if something is on the Internet, it's addressable in one, clear, named, identifiable space, and that space is called the Internet.
Playing around with Android TV the other day, I couldn't figure out how zoom worked without a touchscreen. I already tried the mousewheel, dragging various corners, double-clicking, triple clicking.... punching it into a search engine found the answer...
Double-click-drag.
Might be the most unintuitive action I can think of.
"Also even at 15 if they pull a knife and threaten my life they are no longer a child. If they want to continue to live then don't pull a knife."
It's not because they're children, it's because they've had little to no control over their circumstances in life.
Odd thing about what you say regarding pulling a gun. You won't believe me, but that's ok. At the police station, I met another guy in the same spot who was robbed 30 minutes later. He and two other guys, big guys, his friends ran in one direction, he ran in the other.
They knelt him in the sand execution style, and held a machete to his back.. not an actual machete, it was more like a cross between a hatchet, a sickle, and a machete, a really evil tool used to sever limbs from trees. He showed me one in the marketplace when we were trying to find shoes. These weren't the 15 year olds, but two older men in their 40s. The police suspect that there was some kind of initiation thing and opportunism going on. When they saw me, they sent out the kids. When they saw three guys, they went out themselves.
So the question is... if the kids had an ally watching, did the ally have a gun? We both got away unharmed, he lost some cash and camera equipment, I lost some cash and my shoes.
For war and God and country and all that, it's a totally different situation.
I prefer the outcome I lived through... my total combined losses in these three cases are about the price of a good handgun.
I was robbed in Thailand, Canada and in Cambodia.
All three situations have in common that the criminals wanted money. Having a gun while a group of 15 year olds surround you with knives would be useless. If you seriously want to kill a kid who's had no chance in life... there's something wrong with you. Trying to use a gun while surrounded by mobsters would be suicide.
Never even thought of carrying a gun.
Many places in South America have a shoot-first-take money later, kind of crime, which is scary. But I don't see how your gun being discovered on your body would help you in that situation either.
Would be interesting to see how karma would influence her decisions.
Don't you find it creepy that they're not allowed to ignore you?
I don't understand how this can be fun. Bring some real women, mix it up with the teaching, accounting or nursing conference. Fuck this bullshit paid dancer stuff.
Sex is a charged topic. This whole thread illustrates that point.
There are other charged topics, like religion and politics.
Nobody would think to hold prayers in the conference, nor would they think to promote political agendas at the conference. It's something that even if you turned the other way, it would make many people very uncomfortable. The easiest thing to do? leave it out and focus on the common interest... technology.
I'd walk out of your sex conference as quickly as I would walk out of your prayer conference or Trump rally. And the sex conference? it's so fucking tedious and overdone, I don't want to hear about you and your fucking boner, how you want to ram that girl, that your wife isn't here and other bullshit. It's embarassing, awkward and a total waste of my time.
"I'm not defending the government or making any claims regarding the need or validity of their actions. But ultimately he lost his business because he didn't set it up right in the first place."
You are defending the government and making claims about the validity of their actions. You're saying that he should have been mindful to support government surveillance when he created the company.
He didn't have access to the email btw. He set it up as properly as you could. The government wanted access to the servers so as to modify the code to allow them to surveil Snowden... when he logged in.
Web-based PGP crypto sites are a shortcut to PGP. If you have a method to do this "properly" and avoid this weakness, I'd love to hear it.
That phone is a very special phone.
The PDA capabilities were hardened from the phone, and the phone has encrypted voice communications (not GSM crypto... actual crypto). Notice the "trusted display" and the classified and non-classified sides of the phone... even multiple USB ports.
How *did* she handle secret and top-secret classified information without it?
http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_handhelds_gd_sectera_edge.html
Search engines in the late 1990s were being trashed by SEO companies. Yahoo's manual curating of the Internet (haha) couldn't keep up. The standard crawler/keyword search tools were generating page after page of useless results.
Google exists because they had a different algorithm. The fact that they managed their ads carefully is one of the very many reasons they're still relevant... but their existence is entirely because of their search engine.
"TL;DR: BB doesn't react fast enough to customer needs, BB isn't willing to put out a shitty initial product and hope users like it, then fix it later."
I have a box of Blackberrys which can attest to this. BB put out a shitty initial product and hope users like it, then promise to fix it in the next hardware, but only well enough to realize that even with the fix it's still shit because something else is broken.
This goes to one of Apple's greatest innovations in the Smartphone area. Telcos never release the software updates. Apple strongarmed the telcos with user demand, even introducing an "app store" (remember paying to transfer photos from your phone? remember that even the USB cable was locked out because the telco bought that feature from the manufacturer?), This changed the customer in the relationship.
OTOH, BB's greatest business accomplishment was being able to tack a $5 charge per customer on to each phone to get on the BBN. The high turnover in phones meant that whitecolar kids all got last-year's BB, and the telco's greed on SMS charges meant that BBM was flat-fee all-you-can-text for the kids. The network effect created a secondary locked-in market... which BB clung to for years until their immense suckage meant people went to the iPhone.
Nobody should shed a tear for BB.
Still wish I could have reprogrammed a convenience key to do a "battery pull"
If I have a Radware product in my organization, I would subscribe to their security and support mailing lists, which is where this seems to be posted. There are thousands or more of different products from different vendors, probably tens or hundreds of thousands if you include the crazy knockoffs, FOSS assemblages, and fly-by-night companies.
There are far fewer genuinely unique bits of software which most of these products are made from. E.g., only so many IP stacks are out there, only so many web servers, etc. Even this vulnerability mentions that it is in a "third party library"
I had a longer reply, but if you follow the links, the guy who reported it expressly asked for discretion...
"(And currently I'd apprechiate if you don't make a big buzz out of this issue, because we're preparing a paper on it by the end of march where we'll disclose a bunch of similar issues)"
Ooops.
Sucky security researchers are in my mind, the guys who self-aggrandize. This may very well be an issue where the guy's discovered something much bigger and wants one of those quiet reserved CVEs for his release of the vulnerability in the underlying library. There are lots of details in this specific case.
I guess we'll find out.
1 is a number. There are lots of numbers.
If there's a problem at all, I would wager it's all the crappy "security researchers" trying to make a name for themselves by claiming the sky is falling and getting a CVE on their blog to make themselves look important.
They hit the passenger assistance alarm?
To: François Hollande
Subject: Your Silkroad Bitcoins
==== Begin PGP Encrypted Message ====
"This ensures maximum flexibility for our department in generating value from the money we invest in our IT hardware."
That's a big fat loophole. Microsoft and Apple create special deals with universities to "create value". When administrators argue with academics in front of people with budgets and motivated salespeople, it will not go well.
"We leased 1000, Ipad ++ Desktop Education edition machines for the physics lab. All students now require Apple IDs and must agree to EULAs as part of their academic requirements. In return, Apple gives free iCloud accounts to children in need."
I'd scrap the financial considerations. The principle of 'walled gardens' probably run counter to the university's mission statement. Something much stronger is needed:
"General purpose computing being necessary to the academic and creative freedom, privacy, intellectual autonomy and security required of an educated people, the right of the student body to learn without the oversight of a EULA, walled garden or similar restrictions shall not be infringed."
There. Completely unambiguous.
It's not even off-shoring, IBM has offices on all shores involved and can play governments off of one another to get better deals on workers.
I disagree about the innovation. They're making great strides in "global resourcing", learning systems like Watson and still have amazing private physics research. As a physicist, it might be one of the better non-military places to work.
Otherwise, you're spot-on. I worked there longer than I should have. I know almost nobody working there anymore. They were all fired... I mean layed off. Their jobs went to Brazil.
The corporate bloat always made me wonder why anyone would chose to do business with them.... but having worked for similar giant companies, it seems they expect a similar management style in their vendors. Having a second-line manager to complain to when your sales rep's backup failed you and their boss can't help, seems to be some kind of expectatoin. You won't get that in a mom-and-pop shop.
The company varies by division. 2 years and leave is reasonable for most areas, but if you're in physics, or you're in big data and learning systems, or managing global resourcing projects, you might not find a more interesting place to work.
"Workforce rebalancing" means sending jobs to India and Brazil.
It's not "outsourcing" because they're going to IBM India and IBM Brazil.
"wasn't he a contractor working for the CIA?"
OMG, they'll get all his secrets!
I hate it, but he's stretching the language and speaking to his audience... who are insiders who understand the references.
Much of what we talk about casually is full of references. Given we're in tech, our references are pretty obscure too. We're all asked "why can't you just explain it to me?"
These are just a different kind of obscure.
The way I understood the lyrics was a bit more cynical:
"Sipping a chardonnay with my compatriots, when an officer visits us and questions us for being so unfashionable. We express some concern over such criticism, but the young officer takes this the wrong way and we're challenged to a duel. Some of my friends, though gentlemen, really do enjoy the sport of dueling. The officer however, was not practicing good etiquette, and surprised upon his would-be challenger a grievous injury. It will never be clear to me how officers can be so immune from the rules of civilized culture. After that, we had unfortunately lost our composure and things became most unsporting."