If this person has used your e-mail for his sign-ups, it should be possible for you to take over their accounts by doing password reset. Do so. Change the passwords and lock them out. Shut off any functionality that annoys you, or that costs them money, but try to leave the account intact so they can't re-acquire it.
They'll be forced to re-acquire the account with an e-mail they actually control, at which point perhaps they'll stop accidentally hassling you.
Of course, have a talk with your spouse before doing this, you don't want to create drama at home.
Honestly this is hardly the first time a stupid criminal has made it this easy. These dumb ones don't learn crom anything, including the fates of their predecessors.
Re-imagining the Doctor has been kinda the point ever since the first re-generation. The whole idea of the show for N years now has been 'OK, now we've got a new primary, how's this one different'. If that doesn't work for you, I can't see why you'd have watched Eccleston, let alone be commenting on the subject.
Being that Capaldi wasn't that popular Doctor (I actually started to warm up with him this season) People are up for a change, back to a more vibrant Doctor.
Interesting. I have to say I loved Capaldi, and I thought his portrayal was great. Some of the scripts, on the other hand, could have used another go or two round the editor's desk before being OK'd. I'm hopeful the writers will do better by Whittaker.
Even if Kaspersky doesn't want to do anything bad, I can't imagine that Russian intelligence doesn't have someone on the inside. Just as I can't imaging the CIA or NSA doesn't have someone inside MS and Google.
I don't know why this is such a big deal - they are a Russian company, which means they are (whether they like it or not) somewhat under the influence of the Russian government. Just as (again) MS and Google are somewhat under the influence of the US government.
Stop freaking out about it already, and if you consider their products just make sure you think about the ways this could be a problem for you or not.
And frankly if Kaspersky is helping the intelligence guys kick down the doors of DOS script kiddies, more power to them. It's not like the guys who do DOS attacks are generally all that smart or useful, they're just damned annoying to the rest of us.
The thought that Chicago (part of a state that hasn't had a budget in 2 years) will have enough guidance people to make this work is laughable. There is something deeply sinister about holding the diplomas hostage to the state's view of what you should be doing with your life.
Offering the students help with college or job finding? Definitely should be doing. Making them take classes on relevant things like resume writing? Probably a good idea.
Forcing them to go down a path approved by politicians? NOT OK.
I'd love to see a real lawyer's take on this. Given that the government does insist rather firmly on children attending school (Wisconsin v. Yoder ended up in the Supreme Court), I think you've got a bit of a conflict here.
I wonder if lack of guidance assistance (which should be easy to prove - the guidance people will be overwhelmed in short order) could be used to litigate against this stupidity? Though, if you can show that minorities are getting less guidance assistance than whites (a thing that is almost certain to happen), I bet you could get the ACLU involved.
Even if Kaspersky shows the source today and intends to be completely upright in their dealings, they are still susceptible to govt interference. The govt could nully them into doing it's bidding, or could plant it's own people on the team.
Just as I understand China not wanting to take MS at it's word, we should probably not rely on these guys.
what to do. That C&D had NO value for Zillow. Even if the blogger couldn't get help and just went away, what good would it have done? What value would there be in shutting down McMansion hell? NONE. It's not any kind of threat to Zillow. It doesn't infringe on their business any. It makes people who can't afford million dollar homes laugh at the kinda-silly architecture while wishing we could afford to live in a house that stupid.
And now? Zillow, corporate bully, backs down the moment the other side has a lawyer. Making Zillow look EVEN WORSE because it's clear they knew they had nothing to go on, and if they proceeded, they'd get curb-stomped by the EFF.
stupid, Stupid, STUPID. Zillow just pissed away the good will (or at least inattention) of who knows how many people, because either they don't keep their lawyers on a short enough leash, or some exec takes it personally when they get mocked.
According to the stuff they quote, Seattle's doing just fine, thank you very much. With an unemployment rate of only 2.6 percent, I'm inclined to believe them. As mentioned by others, the study excludes workers at businesses that have more than one location, making it pretty damn meaningless in this age of the multi-national corporation and a Starbucks on every corner.
I'm gonna say - making these people whole is a BAD idea. People learn that they've done something stupid by having that stupid thing bite them in the ass, and playing stock market with this kind of currency and not thinking through all the edge conditions of your orders counts as doing something stupid.
There is NO one regulating this kind of exchange. There's no one to impose the use of 'circuit breakers' like the stock exchanges use. Making these people whole will NOT lead them to thinking carefully about their orders - it will lead them to being even more careless in the future.
There's a lot to be gained with virtual currencies, but if people running exchanges try to insulate their customers from the hard facts of the real world, we're going to end up with major problems.
From the article: "It is unknown why Nix changed the ownership of the structures or what benefits would be derived by being able to identify that Aura owned a $12-plus million group of towers."
This seems like a 'Step 2: ???' kinda plan, since the FCC database gets you exactly nothing in terms of money, or ability to transfer ownership of the towers.
Probably because it's a rather small sampling - 85 patients according to the abstract, which means they probably had only a small number of each individual device, and they can't be sure whether the devices are inaccurate due to their design, or whether there's some kind of handling problem that made them become inaccurate over time.
But above all, these motherboards and "light" GPU are also extremely useful for scientific computing, (specially for task which are more GPU than memory-bound, where the PCIe x1 isn't limiting). (Which I think was the primary target market before the marketing department decided to run for it with buzzwords). And the machines can also be used for much more nefarious purpose : that is also a very good hardware platform for comp
Yep. A year or two back my company was contacted by one of the GPU manufacturers to see if we wanted to perhaps demo one of their no-output GPUs. They were giving away a couple for research purposes, and we weren't doing anything worth them giving us hardware.
I just played with one of the mining profit calculators (https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-mining-calculator/), and if you steal the hardware and only have to pay for the electric, then you could make a couple bucks a week, assuming bitcoin prices don't collapse down to something like $1000/BTC.
In other words: Not really, and even WITH custom hardware I'm guessing that you can't easily make a buck if you pay for your own electricity.
I think the best way to make money in Bitcoin mining is to sell stuff to Bitcoin miners.
I doubt they'd be willing to show off even if they thought they were clever. They'll be afraid that someone will point out something stupid that they've done which calls the whole mess into question.
The best thing to do with a naked emperor is to not let him out in public.
Yes, and it's trivially easy to get people to believe the judge might have made a 'bad call' in your case because we all know that people make mistakes.
The problem with the black box algorithm is that in spite of years of things blowing up in their faces, a number that came out of a computer is still imbued with an air of 'rightness' that it most assuredly doesn't deserve. But that air of 'rightness' will make it much harder for a defendant to challenge inappropriately harsh sentencing because people think the computer must know something.
Lower median could also mean that it's so easy that lots of unskilled botnet creators have entered the arena. You'll notice at the same time the largest DDoS attacks continue to grow year over year.
I think that's exactly what it means, but this means that anyone who really is smart is going to have to go after other classes of device when trying to perform a DOS - because all the kiddies are fighting over the stuff that they used to use. They may still be able to do damage, but they'll have to work for it again, instead of just being able to re-use the stuff they had before.
Seriously? LbreOffice runs fine across Linux, Windows, Mac stuff AND it has 'document compatibility' with Office. I presume you tell people not to use Google Docs because of 'document compatibility'. Here's an idea, tell MS to make their shit 'compatible' with other products NOT the other way around.
Ahh, you naive child. LibreOffice for all that it does try VERY hard to be compatible with the M$ products regularly fails on relatively simple documents created by people who have no idea they are doing anything strange. It's not really LO's fault, but you can't run a mixed LO & M$ shop if you care about your documents looking the same all over - the M$ formats are just too arcane and goofy for that to ever work 100%.
If you can go all LO, you're set, but if you have to interact with other companies that want M$ documents, you're hosed.
Unless you have a production environment with a software product that breaks with Windows update turned on. In which case you have to take additional security and maintenance measures and have a team that is tasked with (and funded properly) to do testing and updates on a regular basis.
That's a nice sentiment, but I for one have never been lucky enough to know beforehand that a Windows update was going to break shit. I just have to put them on and hope. So I can hardly blame any company that relies on software for taking a very critical approach to them.
Am I to infer that these are newly minted software people fresh out of college?
What's the comparison - how would a set of grads from US universities, or British, or Ukranian fare? Frankly, lots of people make it through educational systems without being able to do whatever their degree says - I'm not clear that the percentages here are any different than anywhere else in the world.
I'm pretty clear that without more context this is useless. And there's no mention of the report containing that context.
Can keep their e-mail address, Verizon has just pushed the e-mail infrastructure over to AOL. I'm quite sure a lot of customers are confused but my 70 year old mother managed the transition on her own just fine. Apparently Verizon did provide instructions that were not lies.
She did need help re-configuring her Android phone, but she got the rest done without any help.
This is certainly annoying, but Verizon actually appeared to handle it reasonably, for once.
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Ahh, so they half-own the thing and they're trying to cut the other owner out. NOW it makes sense.
If this person has used your e-mail for his sign-ups, it should be possible for you to take over their accounts by doing password reset.
Do so.
Change the passwords and lock them out.
Shut off any functionality that annoys you, or that costs them money, but try to leave the account intact so they can't re-acquire it.
They'll be forced to re-acquire the account with an e-mail they actually control, at which point perhaps they'll stop accidentally hassling you.
Of course, have a talk with your spouse before doing this, you don't want to create drama at home.
Honestly this is hardly the first time a stupid criminal has made it this easy. These dumb ones don't learn crom anything, including the fates of their predecessors.
Re-imagining the Doctor has been kinda the point ever since the first re-generation. The whole idea of the show for N years now has been 'OK, now we've got a new primary, how's this one different'. If that doesn't work for you, I can't see why you'd have watched Eccleston, let alone be commenting on the subject.
Being that Capaldi wasn't that popular Doctor (I actually started to warm up with him this season) People are up for a change, back to a more vibrant Doctor.
Interesting. I have to say I loved Capaldi, and I thought his portrayal was great. Some of the scripts, on the other hand, could have used another go or two round the editor's desk before being OK'd. I'm hopeful the writers will do better by Whittaker.
Yea, this is 'we need to stop doing the SMS thing, you need to switch over' as opposed to 'hey would you like to try a different thing'.
Even if Kaspersky doesn't want to do anything bad, I can't imagine that Russian intelligence doesn't have someone on the inside. Just as I can't imaging the CIA or NSA doesn't have someone inside MS and Google.
I don't know why this is such a big deal - they are a Russian company, which means they are (whether they like it or not) somewhat under the influence of the Russian government. Just as (again) MS and Google are somewhat under the influence of the US government.
Stop freaking out about it already, and if you consider their products just make sure you think about the ways this could be a problem for you or not.
And frankly if Kaspersky is helping the intelligence guys kick down the doors of DOS script kiddies, more power to them. It's not like the guys who do DOS attacks are generally all that smart or useful, they're just damned annoying to the rest of us.
The thought that Chicago (part of a state that hasn't had a budget in 2 years) will have enough guidance people to make this work is laughable. There is something deeply sinister about holding the diplomas hostage to the state's view of what you should be doing with your life.
Offering the students help with college or job finding? Definitely should be doing. Making them take classes on relevant things like resume writing? Probably a good idea.
Forcing them to go down a path approved by politicians? NOT OK.
I'd love to see a real lawyer's take on this. Given that the government does insist rather firmly on children attending school (Wisconsin v. Yoder ended up in the Supreme Court), I think you've got a bit of a conflict here.
I wonder if lack of guidance assistance (which should be easy to prove - the guidance people will be overwhelmed in short order) could be used to litigate against this stupidity? Though, if you can show that minorities are getting less guidance assistance than whites (a thing that is almost certain to happen), I bet you could get the ACLU involved.
Even if Kaspersky shows the source today and intends to be completely upright in their dealings, they are still susceptible to govt interference. The govt could nully them into doing it's bidding, or could plant it's own people on the team.
Just as I understand China not wanting to take MS at it's word, we should probably not rely on these guys.
what to do. That C&D had NO value for Zillow. Even if the blogger couldn't get help and just went away, what good would it have done? What value would there be in shutting down McMansion hell? NONE. It's not any kind of threat to Zillow. It doesn't infringe on their business any. It makes people who can't afford million dollar homes laugh at the kinda-silly architecture while wishing we could afford to live in a house that stupid.
And now? Zillow, corporate bully, backs down the moment the other side has a lawyer. Making Zillow look EVEN WORSE because it's clear they knew they had nothing to go on, and if they proceeded, they'd get curb-stomped by the EFF.
stupid, Stupid, STUPID. Zillow just pissed away the good will (or at least inattention) of who knows how many people, because either they don't keep their lawyers on a short enough leash, or some exec takes it personally when they get mocked.
Either way, Zillow - get your shit together!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/06/27/seattles-higher-minimum-wage-is-actually-working-just-fine
According to the stuff they quote, Seattle's doing just fine, thank you very much. With an unemployment rate of only 2.6 percent, I'm inclined to believe them. As mentioned by others, the study excludes workers at businesses that have more than one location, making it pretty damn meaningless in this age of the multi-national corporation and a Starbucks on every corner.
Perhaps. Without having read the report, I just assume they've taken the data they have and drawn a straight line through it.
I'm gonna say - making these people whole is a BAD idea. People learn that they've done something stupid by having that stupid thing bite them in the ass, and playing stock market with this kind of currency and not thinking through all the edge conditions of your orders counts as doing something stupid.
There is NO one regulating this kind of exchange. There's no one to impose the use of 'circuit breakers' like the stock exchanges use. Making these people whole will NOT lead them to thinking carefully about their orders - it will lead them to being even more careless in the future.
There's a lot to be gained with virtual currencies, but if people running exchanges try to insulate their customers from the hard facts of the real world, we're going to end up with major problems.
From the article: "It is unknown why Nix changed the ownership of the structures or what benefits would be derived by being able to identify that Aura owned a $12-plus million group of towers."
This seems like a 'Step 2: ???' kinda plan, since the FCC database gets you exactly nothing in terms of money, or ability to transfer ownership of the towers.
Weird.
Probably because it's a rather small sampling - 85 patients according to the abstract, which means they probably had only a small number of each individual device, and they can't be sure whether the devices are inaccurate due to their design, or whether there's some kind of handling problem that made them become inaccurate over time.
But above all, these motherboards and "light" GPU are also extremely useful for scientific computing, (specially for task which are more GPU than memory-bound, where the PCIe x1 isn't limiting).
(Which I think was the primary target market before the marketing department decided to run for it with buzzwords).
And the machines can also be used for much more nefarious purpose : that is also a very good hardware platform for comp
Yep. A year or two back my company was contacted by one of the GPU manufacturers to see if we wanted to perhaps demo one of their no-output GPUs. They were giving away a couple for research purposes, and we weren't doing anything worth them giving us hardware.
I just played with one of the mining profit calculators (https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-mining-calculator/), and if you steal the hardware and only have to pay for the electric, then you could make a couple bucks a week, assuming bitcoin prices don't collapse down to something like $1000/BTC.
In other words: Not really, and even WITH custom hardware I'm guessing that you can't easily make a buck if you pay for your own electricity.
I think the best way to make money in Bitcoin mining is to sell stuff to Bitcoin miners.
I doubt they'd be willing to show off even if they thought they were clever. They'll be afraid that someone will point out something stupid that they've done which calls the whole mess into question.
The best thing to do with a naked emperor is to not let him out in public.
Yes, and it's trivially easy to get people to believe the judge might have made a 'bad call' in your case because we all know that people make mistakes.
The problem with the black box algorithm is that in spite of years of things blowing up in their faces, a number that came out of a computer is still imbued with an air of 'rightness' that it most assuredly doesn't deserve. But that air of 'rightness' will make it much harder for a defendant to challenge inappropriately harsh sentencing because people think the computer must know something.
Lower median could also mean that it's so easy that lots of unskilled botnet creators have entered the arena. You'll notice at the same time the largest DDoS attacks continue to grow year over year.
I think that's exactly what it means, but this means that anyone who really is smart is going to have to go after other classes of device when trying to perform a DOS - because all the kiddies are fighting over the stuff that they used to use. They may still be able to do damage, but they'll have to work for it again, instead of just being able to re-use the stuff they had before.
Why not? It could hardly be much worse ... could it?
If you know what's good for you, you'll stop taunting Murphy NOW, while you've still got all your limbs.
Seriously? LbreOffice runs fine across Linux, Windows, Mac stuff AND it has 'document compatibility' with Office. I presume you tell people not to use Google Docs because of 'document compatibility'. Here's an idea, tell MS to make their shit 'compatible' with other products NOT the other way around.
Ahh, you naive child. LibreOffice for all that it does try VERY hard to be compatible with the M$ products regularly fails on relatively simple documents created by people who have no idea they are doing anything strange. It's not really LO's fault, but you can't run a mixed LO & M$ shop if you care about your documents looking the same all over - the M$ formats are just too arcane and goofy for that to ever work 100%.
If you can go all LO, you're set, but if you have to interact with other companies that want M$ documents, you're hosed.
Unless you have a production environment with a software product that breaks with Windows update turned on. In which case you have to take additional security and maintenance measures and have a team that is tasked with (and funded properly) to do testing and updates on a regular basis.
That's a nice sentiment, but I for one have never been lucky enough to know beforehand that a Windows update was going to break shit. I just have to put them on and hope. So I can hardly blame any company that relies on software for taking a very critical approach to them.
Am I to infer that these are newly minted software people fresh out of college?
What's the comparison - how would a set of grads from US universities, or British, or Ukranian fare? Frankly, lots of people make it through educational systems without being able to do whatever their degree says - I'm not clear that the percentages here are any different than anywhere else in the world.
I'm pretty clear that without more context this is useless. And there's no mention of the report containing that context.
Can keep their e-mail address, Verizon has just pushed the e-mail infrastructure over to AOL. I'm quite sure a lot of customers are confused but my 70 year old mother managed the transition on her own just fine. Apparently Verizon did provide instructions that were not lies.
She did need help re-configuring her Android phone, but she got the rest done without any help.
This is certainly annoying, but Verizon actually appeared to handle it reasonably, for once.