Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Richard F. Smith said in a statement: "This is clearly a disappointing event for our company.”
So it’s all about his company. What about the havoc his company will wreak on millions of consumers via this data breach? These a**holes collect all manner of sensitive personal data, without our permission I might add, and let it get away from them because the lot of it is on an Internet facing server connected to a web app. I think it rises to criminal negligence.
Speaking of crimes, I expect to see criminal insider trading charges and jail time for those executives who scurried off to sell their shares when the breach was discovered but left us vulnerable for weeks.
Have you paid attention to the response? There's no "Lets secure our devices and processes." Instead it's all "Get rid of Trump." No one complaining about Russia actually cares about increasing security, they only care about removing Trump. Those countries might not be our friends, but neither are any of the political parties. Those guys are even worse.
I, for one, care very much about locking down our infrastructure like the power grid, water supply, etc. Securing public information systems, including voting systems, is also very important. My original post did not mention Trump at all.
How few people give a crap about a foreign power invading our country by stealth. Sowing dissension, stealing sensitive political and commercial data, and yes, doing their damnedest to influence an election, if not to alter the outcome then to cause as much suspicion as to undermine the results.
So many of you making snarky or pithy comments, oh how smart you sound to everyone. +1s for the lot of you. Russia and China are not our friends. They have said as much many times. They have bragged about how cheap and easy it is for them to hack our open society compared to the billions we spend.
From some of the comments I read here, mission accomplished for our enemies.
Are you on crack? If not, you may want to seek medical attention.
Macbooks in particular are notoriously poorly-made. They use adhesives for everything rather than fasteners "because reasons."
I work on laptops every single day. I have done for more than 10 years. Mostly they are plastic snap tabs, "scotch" tape and even masking tape inside. Even the circuit boards are fabricated on the cheap. I get that you object to industrial adhesives because they make repair-ability more difficult for the end user, or even small shops, but year in and year out Macs are top-rated for reliability because they are well built.
Not my Klan. I’m as much a socialist as anything else. You probably misread me. You can be sure when real fascists present themselves they’ll be calling liberals the fascists, and so they are, daily in various forums around the net. There is a reason their nickname is the Cons.
No there aren’t. Smoking is way down in the US and pretty much all “developed” countries. Africa, The Mid-East and parts of Asia are a different case. So there’s that.
Well, the other downside is that you paid Apple way, way too much for what you received in return. Other than that, yeah rock on!
Yeah I keep hearing that myth about Apple devices being so expensive and then I see Samsung and Microsoft charging pretty much the same for their premium devices, with Google not being far behind these days. Meanwhile, the resale value on my iPhones and iPads has been phenomenal. So, I never pay all that much for my new devices.
I look at it this way: Apple gives you a 2 year, 0% loan on a phone.
How sweetly naive. They're not giving you a 0% loan, silly, the interest is incorporated into the exorbitant price in order to make you think that you're getting a free loan.
And yet I paid the exactly the same price as a cash customer. So, my 0% interest is incorporated into the cost of everyone's iPhone, credit, cash or lease paying customer alike. So, score 1 for me.
Unfortunately, the economy is being managed by incompetent morons that want everybody to be in debt up to their eyeballs and keep the inflation rate arbitrarily high to discourage saving in the way that poor people actually have access to.
Well, I don't know how incompetent the morons managing the economy are. I do know that the U.S. economy tanked a while ago. Think 70s not 00s. We've been running on fumes ever since. Lots of debt, public and private helps to keep things going. Inflation depreciates that debt so that we can afford to service it and take on more. The morons know all of this. They made a political decision to keep things going instead of allowing a full on crash. They've simply left the bill for the next generation to pay.
Houston votes (D). It's half black and hispanic and a lot of the whites that live in the city are properly guilt ridden professional class, government and academic types that mindlessly support every tenet of the progressive world view.
No, you're just a hate filled liberal sperging out on the interwebs. Please don't stop; the more visible you people are the better.
Sounds like you've got your diatribe well expressed too. Let he who is without sin and all that...
Beyond being attractive, which is more important in many households than you'd believe, they are pure tech porn when you open them up. They are so well laid out and so well fabricated. Perhaps that is why they have such a high resale value. Go check eBay for yourself. It is amazing what a 5 year old MacBook goes for.
Gee, it seems that our current president, constantly berating fake news and attacking his critics personally, not to mention inciting members of his base to ‘action’ is the one who really wants to silence the opposition and instill fear in the populace.
You know it is a whole lot more likely that we get to where the chinese, and many other countries, are through the back door, of lawsuits, liability judgements and insurance companies. Western societies are often more constrained by such than by actual law and government regulation.
If we lived in China and could arbitrarily decide to change our infrastructure on a large scale, yes, that might be a better idea. Otherwise, no, it would not be safer, and it makes little or no sense to implement this technology before it can deal with complicated hazards. If today you want an autonomous vehicle with a dedicated lane, build light rail. Preferably on the model of Portland, not SF.
I'm thinking you must be a software engineer.
Yeah, we certainly couldn’t do a large scale change in infrastructure. Nothing like switching from analog SD to HDTV or building out a cellular telephone system. What’s this Internet thingy I’ve been hearing about? Carpool lanes all across the country come to mind.
We’ve done a ton of things over the years with a combination of government subsidy and regulation and private commercial investment.
You are quite right. New rech seems to get a pass every time. Everyone pooh-poohed rational concerns about the security of IOT devices. Now we have billions of them, compromised, being used in massive DDOS attacks.
People will die. I guaranty it. If you can count on anything it is that as the technology is commercialized, on a wide scale basis, corners will be cut in pursuit of profits. While the Googles, Teslas and other well heeled pioneers in the field will do years of testing, you know that won’t last, as 2nd and 3rd tier companies enter the field, or should I say hit the streets.
Except if I want to do any settings on a Vizio. You have to use a cell / tablet app to set the damn thing up. So, I guess I can connect to the network long enough for making changes to settings, then disconnect it again. They claim that you can turn off all smart functions with a single setting. I think I'll keep disconnecting the network.
Wrong. Considering the market share of Amiga versus the amount of people that have told me about it, I'd say I've heard from almost every Amiga owner on the planet.
Well just to validate you, now you've heard from me...Oh wait.
Slashdot Mirror
Two Words:
Torches, pitchforks...
I agree with yor assessment. Capitalism at its finest. Lowest bidder, outsource as much as possible and cut any corner to save a few pence.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Richard F. Smith said in a statement: "This is clearly a disappointing event for our company.”
So it’s all about his company. What about the havoc his company will wreak on millions of consumers via this data breach? These a**holes collect all manner of sensitive personal data, without our permission I might add, and let it get away from them because the lot of it is on an Internet facing server connected to a web app. I think it rises to criminal negligence.
Speaking of crimes, I expect to see criminal insider trading charges and jail time for those executives who scurried off to sell their shares when the breach was discovered but left us vulnerable for weeks.
Have you paid attention to the response? There's no "Lets secure our devices and processes." Instead it's all "Get rid of Trump." No one complaining about Russia actually cares about increasing security, they only care about removing Trump. Those countries might not be our friends, but neither are any of the political parties. Those guys are even worse.
I, for one, care very much about locking down our infrastructure like the power grid, water supply, etc. Securing public information systems, including voting systems, is also very important. My original post did not mention Trump at all.
How few people give a crap about a foreign power invading our country by stealth. Sowing dissension, stealing sensitive political and commercial data, and yes, doing their damnedest to influence an election, if not to alter the outcome then to cause as much suspicion as to undermine the results. So many of you making snarky or pithy comments, oh how smart you sound to everyone. +1s for the lot of you. Russia and China are not our friends. They have said as much many times. They have bragged about how cheap and easy it is for them to hack our open society compared to the billions we spend. From some of the comments I read here, mission accomplished for our enemies.
Why do something original when a big company can steal your idea and beat you in court?
Pardon if I am mistaken but isn’t Chrome itself a fork off Apple’s WebKit project?
Pray to a 10.000.000.000 â fine for Google, from EU
Rich, very good. But seriously, what’s up with Google these days?
Are you on crack? If not, you may want to seek medical attention.
Macbooks in particular are notoriously poorly-made. They use adhesives for everything rather than fasteners "because reasons."
I work on laptops every single day. I have done for more than 10 years. Mostly they are plastic snap tabs, "scotch" tape and even masking tape inside. Even the circuit boards are fabricated on the cheap. I get that you object to industrial adhesives because they make repair-ability more difficult for the end user, or even small shops, but year in and year out Macs are top-rated for reliability because they are well built.
Not my Klan. I’m as much a socialist as anything else. You probably misread me. You can be sure when real fascists present themselves they’ll be calling liberals the fascists, and so they are, daily in various forums around the net. There is a reason their nickname is the Cons.
And yet there are more smokers than ever.
No there aren’t. Smoking is way down in the US and pretty much all “developed” countries. Africa, The Mid-East and parts of Asia are a different case. So there’s that.
If SocialMedia like '%conservative%' Audit;
- When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism.
+1 for the comment, you beat me to it.
+1 for the signature, their usual tactic, already in play.
Well, the other downside is that you paid Apple way, way too much for what you received in return. Other than that, yeah rock on!
Yeah I keep hearing that myth about Apple devices being so expensive and then I see Samsung and Microsoft charging pretty much the same for their premium devices, with Google not being far behind these days. Meanwhile, the resale value on my iPhones and iPads has been phenomenal. So, I never pay all that much for my new devices.
How sweetly naive. They're not giving you a 0% loan, silly, the interest is incorporated into the exorbitant price in order to make you think that you're getting a free loan.
And yet I paid the exactly the same price as a cash customer. So, my 0% interest is incorporated into the cost of everyone's iPhone, credit, cash or lease paying customer alike. So, score 1 for me.
Unfortunately, the economy is being managed by incompetent morons that want everybody to be in debt up to their eyeballs and keep the inflation rate arbitrarily high to discourage saving in the way that poor people actually have access to.
Well, I don't know how incompetent the morons managing the economy are. I do know that the U.S. economy tanked a while ago. Think 70s not 00s. We've been running on fumes ever since. Lots of debt, public and private helps to keep things going. Inflation depreciates that debt so that we can afford to service it and take on more. The morons know all of this. They made a political decision to keep things going instead of allowing a full on crash. They've simply left the bill for the next generation to pay.
Fuck what this AC just said.
Give us our Turbo-Pascal Income.
Oh, choice, I’d plus you up, if I had any to give.
Another day, another Android security mess. Oh, and look, it comes straight from the Google Play store, again.
Houston votes (D). It's half black and hispanic and a lot of the whites that live in the city are properly guilt ridden professional class, government and academic types that mindlessly support every tenet of the progressive world view.
No, you're just a hate filled liberal sperging out on the interwebs. Please don't stop; the more visible you people are the better.
Sounds like you've got your diatribe well expressed too. Let he who is without sin and all that...
Beyond being attractive, which is more important in many households than you'd believe, they are pure tech porn when you open them up. They are so well laid out and so well fabricated. Perhaps that is why they have such a high resale value. Go check eBay for yourself. It is amazing what a 5 year old MacBook goes for.
Gee, it seems that our current president, constantly berating fake news and attacking his critics personally, not to mention inciting members of his base to ‘action’ is the one who really wants to silence the opposition and instill fear in the populace.
You know it is a whole lot more likely that we get to where the chinese, and many other countries, are through the back door, of lawsuits, liability judgements and insurance companies. Western societies are often more constrained by such than by actual law and government regulation.
If we lived in China and could arbitrarily decide to change our infrastructure on a large scale, yes, that might be a better idea. Otherwise, no, it would not be safer, and it makes little or no sense to implement this technology before it can deal with complicated hazards. If today you want an autonomous vehicle with a dedicated lane, build light rail. Preferably on the model of Portland, not SF.
I'm thinking you must be a software engineer.
Yeah, we certainly couldn’t do a large scale change in infrastructure. Nothing like switching from analog SD to HDTV or building out a cellular telephone system. What’s this Internet thingy I’ve been hearing about? Carpool lanes all across the country come to mind.
We’ve done a ton of things over the years with a combination of government subsidy and regulation and private commercial investment.
You are quite right. New rech seems to get a pass every time. Everyone pooh-poohed rational concerns about the security of IOT devices. Now we have billions of them, compromised, being used in massive DDOS attacks.
People will die. I guaranty it. If you can count on anything it is that as the technology is commercialized, on a wide scale basis, corners will be cut in pursuit of profits. While the Googles, Teslas and other well heeled pioneers in the field will do years of testing, you know that won’t last, as 2nd and 3rd tier companies enter the field, or should I say hit the streets.
Except if I want to do any settings on a Vizio. You have to use a cell / tablet app to set the damn thing up. So, I guess I can connect to the network long enough for making changes to settings, then disconnect it again. They claim that you can turn off all smart functions with a single setting. I think I'll keep disconnecting the network.
Wrong. Considering the market share of Amiga versus the amount of people that have told me about it, I'd say I've heard from almost every Amiga owner on the planet.
Well just to validate you, now you've heard from me...Oh wait.
It would be like an army of gurus, all meditating at the same time!
A true Amiga fan gets that ;P