TV spots are actually very cheap on small town channels. Here’s some math for you:
200,000 / 100 = 2000
200,000 / 50 = 4000
200,000 / 25 = 8000
I’m thinking more like the latter. I read that ads in a local market on some cable channels cane even less. 8000 TV spots in a small town is a bit more than jack shit.
Since Comcast is the local cable company they get a couple of minutes on every show on every cable channel. Wonder how much they pay for that time?
Growing up in 1960 and living less than 5 miles from the Pentagon, I knew as a child that I wouldn't live to be 35,
because we (at least ground zero) would be nuked before then. Duck and cover had just gone out of fashion,
but we still had the weekly air raid siren -- it just signaled that you had only a few minutes to live.
Yup. I grew up right next door to Vandenberg AFB. They tested all of the new missiles there. We had Titan and Minuteman missile launches monthly, sometimes weekly. One day they launched two Minuteman missiles simultaneously from adjoining pads. Just to show everyone that we could do a salvo.
We were warned that we were a top target of the Soviets. I remember the speculation that there were at least half a dozen warheads assigned to our locale.
Great fun.
I grew up in the late 70s and 80s, the constant tone of movies and tv and news from that era is depressing, a lot about the cold war and nuclear mutually assured destruction.
I really hoped my children would get to grow up without these threats hanging over their heads.
In my opinion, the only acceptable outcome between any two states with brandishing weapons, is a diplomatic one. No amount of chest thumping or insults are worth killing 10s of millions of people. It's immoral and unconscionable.
The late 70’s and 80’s. Oh please. Try the late 50’s and 60’s. Now those were some scary cold war times to have grown up. They were still showing us educational films in grade school teaching us how to recognize the signs of nukes falling and how we needed to take shelter. The “duck and cover” jingle was a real thing. They were still testing the air raid sirens in my home town on a weekly basis back then.
Unfortunately I suspect it is a matter of when, not if, we have nuclear, biologic and cyber attacks. There are just too many weapons running around and more actors developing or acquiring them every year.
More likely than not your kids are not going to notice any of this, what with Justin Bieber’s new full torso tats taking the twitter-verse by storm, and more selfies to take and post to Snapchat.
You sure there aren't any other deranged, paranoid, irrelevant talking points you'd like to work in there? Surely Russia is involved in this *somehow*.
>President Draft Dodger
Because Clinton didn't and Obama (or you) wouldn't have, right?
Big difference between someone who did and others who might have done.
As much as I would like to disagree with you (as nukes are disagreeable), the fact remains that combat deaths, and the number of conflicts worldwide, has dropped dramatically since nuclear weapons were invented.
I’d like to see the stats to back up that claim. Since WWII there hasn’t been one single year without armed conflict somewhere in the world. Casualties have been in the thousand to tens of thousands each year.
The OP wasn’t very clear but I get what he’s trying to say. Basically he’s trying to tell you an attacker is intercepting the traffic of an authorized poster to a Wordpress site, altering the poster’s submission as it is being submitted. As a result, the site content is being altered.
So, short of gaining the ability to read my mind...
And why do you suppose this would be forever technologically impossible?
Oh, I don’t. I am sure that mind to computer interfaces will happen. I am sure that we’ll have computers augmenting our brains right in our heads. I am not sure that any of this will replace keyboards in the next 25 years. Keyboards are incredibly efficient (for those who’ve bothered to learn to type) and very inexpensive. Most of the tech I’m reading about seems faddish or far-fetched or many decades off. When I see Siri or Alexa working a couple of orders of magnitude better I might be willing to believe in that direct mind to machine interface.
Can you imagine the opportunity for data-mining the mind reading computer interface will create...
No, not really. There are times when we want to talk to people. There are times when we want to text them. There are times when we will need to write them a letter. The point is I don't always want to say something out loud. I won't want to speak to my computer. So, short of gaining the ability to read my mind, I am going to need to enter commands or data in some other non-verbal fashion.
Let me know what you think that non-verbal keyboard replacement might be.
You are clueless. These days people apply for loans and credit cards without ever seeing anyone face to face. Exactly how do you think they verify my ID? I tell them my SSN, Drivers License #, address and date of birth. Bamm, I get my loan, paid into the bank account I handily provide.
Equifax has kindly provided all of this information and more to the criminals that accessed their unpatched web servers. Anyone with decent credit is at risk for Identity Theft going forward, forever.
Read the post again. It didn’t say 4 socket machines. It said this new version of Windows would be required for any computer running a Xeon. I’m selling Xeon based desktop workstations for well under $2000.
Perhaps it would be simpler to just start a list of everyone not affected by this data breach? It might sound like it would still be a long list, but after another year of revelations I think it will top out to a few dozen, maybe 50, people at most.
The White House and EquiFax have two different reasons for wanting to do away with Social Security numbers. EquiFax wants to diminish the damage done by their handing over of our SSNs to hackers. The White House just wants to do away with Social Security. Oh, and Medicare and Medicaid.
You know of course that “The Moderators” are other SlashDot readers? I get “Mod Points” several times a month. I generally use mine to mod up insightful or truly funny posts. Occasionally, I’ll mod down someone who is really out of line.
Is the alt-right active here? I’ve no proof but it would surprise me. I think that anonymity of most forums does bring out the angry and mean spirited without an organized conspiracy required.
Oooh. It’s horribles. A notch for sensors at the top of the screen. A black slice at the top of the phone would be so much better. Apple will collapse. Doom! Doom I say.
The post made some good points right up until the bleating about the notch.
Well that web server has to get the data its showing you from the back-end server, which means an exploited web server running a rouge process can get that same data.
One may argue that us people don't need quite that much data to be on the web site to view in the first place, but I'm assuming at least someone argued that they do want to, and the companies thus did so.
What you are referring to is "security in layers"
Web server makes API requests to another server, that makes API requests to another server or database. The communications are completely restricted to nothing but that API, and the APIs are restricted to only be able to get at certain things.
But sadly that requires actually making those layers, and ideally each layer managed by a separate person or team, meaning hiring enough people to fill all those separate spots.
It also requires a management team that doesn't act like security in layers is "restricting them" or "an assault on their authority" and simply threatens everyone to allow everything so he or she won't be potentially inconvenienced in any way or perceive that someone is telling him no as an affront to his or her "I am a god!" mentality.
It can be done right if someone at the top demands it is done right and tells everyone below to fuck off and deal with it or they''re fired, including all lines of management. It's just rare to find such companies structured that way with enough people that care about it to actually do the work needed.
Thanks for the informative post. I honestly believe there are a ton of corporate data servers with direct to the Internet connections, well, a firewall maybe, but then probably a Cisco, so...
Yes. The bank's server has to be connected to their webpage in order for you to manipulate your account. Hopefully the security on that connection is pretty good, but it can't be perfect.
Deloitte e-mails, same thing. E-mail isn't much use if it's not connected to the Internet.
My question was if the bank's bank-end data servers could be on an internal only LAN with a very restrictive connection allowed from the public web servers, something that could only get a single record at a time and only with customer credentials then.
Android devices are cheap enough that's not really a big deal. For the prices Apple charges, you better be getting 10 years of updates.
Oh, just wave away any facts you don't like. There are plenty of several hundred dollar Android devices that are not getting updates after just a couple of years. That is a big deal to my wallet. I started out as an Android user. Samsung dropped support for my phone at about 1.5 years. You can bet I didn't replace it with another Android.
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TV spots are actually very cheap on small town channels. Here’s some math for you: 200,000 / 100 = 2000 200,000 / 50 = 4000 200,000 / 25 = 8000 I’m thinking more like the latter. I read that ads in a local market on some cable channels cane even less. 8000 TV spots in a small town is a bit more than jack shit. Since Comcast is the local cable company they get a couple of minutes on every show on every cable channel. Wonder how much they pay for that time?
This won’t be over until Samsung and Apple’s legal bills exceed the amount of the damages at issue.
Growing up in 1960 and living less than 5 miles from the Pentagon, I knew as a child that I wouldn't live to be 35, because we (at least ground zero) would be nuked before then. Duck and cover had just gone out of fashion, but we still had the weekly air raid siren -- it just signaled that you had only a few minutes to live.
Yup. I grew up right next door to Vandenberg AFB. They tested all of the new missiles there. We had Titan and Minuteman missile launches monthly, sometimes weekly. One day they launched two Minuteman missiles simultaneously from adjoining pads. Just to show everyone that we could do a salvo.
We were warned that we were a top target of the Soviets. I remember the speculation that there were at least half a dozen warheads assigned to our locale. Great fun.
I grew up in the late 70s and 80s, the constant tone of movies and tv and news from that era is depressing, a lot about the cold war and nuclear mutually assured destruction.
I really hoped my children would get to grow up without these threats hanging over their heads.
In my opinion, the only acceptable outcome between any two states with brandishing weapons, is a diplomatic one. No amount of chest thumping or insults are worth killing 10s of millions of people. It's immoral and unconscionable.
The late 70’s and 80’s. Oh please. Try the late 50’s and 60’s. Now those were some scary cold war times to have grown up. They were still showing us educational films in grade school teaching us how to recognize the signs of nukes falling and how we needed to take shelter. The “duck and cover” jingle was a real thing. They were still testing the air raid sirens in my home town on a weekly basis back then.
Unfortunately I suspect it is a matter of when, not if, we have nuclear, biologic and cyber attacks. There are just too many weapons running around and more actors developing or acquiring them every year.
More likely than not your kids are not going to notice any of this, what with Justin Bieber’s new full torso tats taking the twitter-verse by storm, and more selfies to take and post to Snapchat.
You sure there aren't any other deranged, paranoid, irrelevant talking points you'd like to work in there? Surely Russia is involved in this *somehow*.
>President Draft Dodger Because Clinton didn't and Obama (or you) wouldn't have, right?
Big difference between someone who did and others who might have done.
As much as I would like to disagree with you (as nukes are disagreeable), the fact remains that combat deaths, and the number of conflicts worldwide, has dropped dramatically since nuclear weapons were invented.
I’d like to see the stats to back up that claim. Since WWII there hasn’t been one single year without armed conflict somewhere in the world. Casualties have been in the thousand to tens of thousands each year.
The OP wasn’t very clear but I get what he’s trying to say. Basically he’s trying to tell you an attacker is intercepting the traffic of an authorized poster to a Wordpress site, altering the poster’s submission as it is being submitted. As a result, the site content is being altered.
And why do you suppose this would be forever technologically impossible?
Oh, I don’t. I am sure that mind to computer interfaces will happen. I am sure that we’ll have computers augmenting our brains right in our heads. I am not sure that any of this will replace keyboards in the next 25 years. Keyboards are incredibly efficient (for those who’ve bothered to learn to type) and very inexpensive. Most of the tech I’m reading about seems faddish or far-fetched or many decades off. When I see Siri or Alexa working a couple of orders of magnitude better I might be willing to believe in that direct mind to machine interface.
Can you imagine the opportunity for data-mining the mind reading computer interface will create...
No, not really. There are times when we want to talk to people. There are times when we want to text them. There are times when we will need to write them a letter. The point is I don't always want to say something out loud. I won't want to speak to my computer. So, short of gaining the ability to read my mind, I am going to need to enter commands or data in some other non-verbal fashion. Let me know what you think that non-verbal keyboard replacement might be.
You are clueless. These days people apply for loans and credit cards without ever seeing anyone face to face. Exactly how do you think they verify my ID? I tell them my SSN, Drivers License #, address and date of birth. Bamm, I get my loan, paid into the bank account I handily provide. Equifax has kindly provided all of this information and more to the criminals that accessed their unpatched web servers. Anyone with decent credit is at risk for Identity Theft going forward, forever.
Read the post again. It didn’t say 4 socket machines. It said this new version of Windows would be required for any computer running a Xeon. I’m selling Xeon based desktop workstations for well under $2000.
Perhaps it would be simpler to just start a list of everyone not affected by this data breach? It might sound like it would still be a long list, but after another year of revelations I think it will top out to a few dozen, maybe 50, people at most.
That many people in Equifax’ upper management?
He usually has some wise words.
Ahem, His Royal Highness has recently retired from public life, so, no.
Because Killary would have been so much better...
Yes, Hillary would have been better without doubt.
I don’t care where DuckDuckGo gets results from as long as they don’t track my searches or sell my data.
The White House and EquiFax have two different reasons for wanting to do away with Social Security numbers. EquiFax wants to diminish the damage done by their handing over of our SSNs to hackers. The White House just wants to do away with Social Security. Oh, and Medicare and Medicaid.
You know of course that “The Moderators” are other SlashDot readers? I get “Mod Points” several times a month. I generally use mine to mod up insightful or truly funny posts. Occasionally, I’ll mod down someone who is really out of line. Is the alt-right active here? I’ve no proof but it would surprise me. I think that anonymity of most forums does bring out the angry and mean spirited without an organized conspiracy required.
DuckDuckGo!
Hey! That's Trump country. They don't need no broadband. Ajit Pai said so last week.
Oooh. It’s horribles. A notch for sensors at the top of the screen. A black slice at the top of the phone would be so much better. Apple will collapse. Doom! Doom I say.
The post made some good points right up until the bleating about the notch.
Well that web server has to get the data its showing you from the back-end server, which means an exploited web server running a rouge process can get that same data.
One may argue that us people don't need quite that much data to be on the web site to view in the first place, but I'm assuming at least someone argued that they do want to, and the companies thus did so.
What you are referring to is "security in layers" Web server makes API requests to another server, that makes API requests to another server or database. The communications are completely restricted to nothing but that API, and the APIs are restricted to only be able to get at certain things.
But sadly that requires actually making those layers, and ideally each layer managed by a separate person or team, meaning hiring enough people to fill all those separate spots. It also requires a management team that doesn't act like security in layers is "restricting them" or "an assault on their authority" and simply threatens everyone to allow everything so he or she won't be potentially inconvenienced in any way or perceive that someone is telling him no as an affront to his or her "I am a god!" mentality.
It can be done right if someone at the top demands it is done right and tells everyone below to fuck off and deal with it or they''re fired, including all lines of management. It's just rare to find such companies structured that way with enough people that care about it to actually do the work needed.
Thanks for the informative post. I honestly believe there are a ton of corporate data servers with direct to the Internet connections, well, a firewall maybe, but then probably a Cisco, so...
Yes. The bank's server has to be connected to their webpage in order for you to manipulate your account. Hopefully the security on that connection is pretty good, but it can't be perfect.
Deloitte e-mails, same thing. E-mail isn't much use if it's not connected to the Internet.
My question was if the bank's bank-end data servers could be on an internal only LAN with a very restrictive connection allowed from the public web servers, something that could only get a single record at a time and only with customer credentials then.
Android devices are cheap enough that's not really a big deal. For the prices Apple charges, you better be getting 10 years of updates.
Oh, just wave away any facts you don't like. There are plenty of several hundred dollar Android devices that are not getting updates after just a couple of years. That is a big deal to my wallet. I started out as an Android user. Samsung dropped support for my phone at about 1.5 years. You can bet I didn't replace it with another Android.
They told me I need 8MB of RAM to upgrade my Windows 3.11 machine to Windows 95. I got it to go with only 4MB. Lucky I guess.
I just wish the UI designers would wise up to this fact.
Oh, SNAP! I'd +10 you if I could.