This changes nothing for most people (just like with the previous FBI 'bombshell').
That's because the vast majority of people pick a candidate early on and don't change their pick no matter what happens.
All this bullshit about the polls going back and forth is nonsense. The media ALWAYS try to portray it as a neck-and-neck horse race when it almost never is.
I mean, hello? Remember McCain-Obama and Romney-Obama? Each time the media played it up as a "virtual dead heat OMG!!1!", and each time it was a fucking landslide. It's the same this time around.
But I digress. Only the genuinely brain-damaged "undecided" voters would change their vote at this late stage, and frankly if you're still undecided at this point you're really too stupid to be entrusted with voting.
Whatever side you pick, how could anyone be moronic as not to see the difference between the two candidates or to not have made a choice months ago?
It's not like the candidates are similar or have even slightly overlapping views. Whatever choice you make, that choice should have been clear to you early on.
The "undecided" voters don't mean shit. They've never swayed an election and they never will. There just aren't enough of them to matter.
That's not so much that cash isn't anonymous, but that the store was under surveillance.
That's the thing, though- for at least the last ten years every store I've been in has had surveillance cams, every one of them. Mini mart, big box store, whatever- they all have cameras these days. So if they can determine where the phone was sold (which is apparently not that difficult to do) then it's just a matter of going there and pulling the video.
Maybe one way to get around this is to buy a phone and let it sit in a drawer for a year before using it. Hopefully any video of the sale is probably gone by then...but who knows?
"The company captures all the content you've looked at and stores it on its servers."
Oh, I bet it does, and it'll be 100% secure with absolutely no chance of being hacked, spied on, or modified.
Because no one would ever want to use this for malicious purposes, like planting faked evidence of child porn, bomb-making, death threats, or extramarital affairs.
I recently flew back from SE Asia and the airline basically ordered people who might be carrying a Note 7 to declare it before they boarded the plane.
I'm not sure if the people who had one were prohibited from flying with it or if it was put in some kind of secure container for the trip, but they called the Note 7 out by name specifically. I believe there were some stiff penalties for not declaring it before boarding (aside from the plane possibly catching fire and crashing, that is).
Some ISPs and access points have been doing realtime traffic modification and inserting ads into websites. Since it's well known that some ads are malicious, then yes, it's very much beneficial for a recipe site run on SSL, because it makes it impossible to hijack the trusted and harmless site for nefarious purposes, such as serving you some kind of trojan via an ad.
I'll agree that this is one scenario where SSL would help.
All of the responses to the OP miss his point. Not every website needs to pay the cost of encryption for no real reason. Yes it is a trivial cost on your recipe site, but not so much when you have a thousand hits a minute.
That's a good point.
There's also the expense and upkeep of maintaining current certificates. I have 100+ sites currently, which means I could be renewing a cert every few days or have to do 100 of them all at once every year. Yes, there are some free certificate services out there, but for some sites it just doesn't seem worth it.
Finally, with the many, many certificate exploits that have occurred, adding HTTPS doesn't really mean you're secure....it just means that the browser thinks everything is secure. But if you compromise the site to serve up malware, an HTTPS connection does nothing to hamper that. It just means you'll get your malware over a secure connection.
Yes, HTTPS is fine for anything sensitive, but does my recipe site really need to provide HTTPS pages?
Seriously, there is no need for every site to output HTTPS pages. If you're really afraid that someone might eavesdrop and see you looking at Banana Bread recipes, you have bigger problems than an HTTPS connection can fix.
Seriously, how hard is it to make a washing machine that doesn't accidentally kill or injure you during normal use?
I own a Samsung dishwasher and except for the fact that it doesn't clean dishes worth a shit, it's really sleek and spiffy. It's loaded with LEDs and displays and it makes beeping noises and has like 20 different washing cycles, but fuck all if it will actually clean a goddamn dish like our old Sears Kenmore dishwasher did.
So no, it does not surprise me that using a Samsung washing machine could actually put you at risk of injury or death.
Lol, no way will this ever be abused or used for nefarious purposes. *cough*
It's getting to the point where no amount of "evidence" will be able to "prove" or "disprove" anything.
I have incontrovertible photos, video, and audio that show you killed Bob Smith, and you have incontrovertible photos, video, and audio that show you didn't. As for 3rd party witnesses, maybe their audio/video data was hacked and modified, and maybe it wasn't. Who can say?
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This changes nothing for most people (just like with the previous FBI 'bombshell').
That's because the vast majority of people pick a candidate early on and don't change their pick no matter what happens.
All this bullshit about the polls going back and forth is nonsense. The media ALWAYS try to portray it as a neck-and-neck horse race when it almost never is.
I mean, hello? Remember McCain-Obama and Romney-Obama? Each time the media played it up as a "virtual dead heat OMG!!1!", and each time it was a fucking landslide. It's the same this time around.
But I digress. Only the genuinely brain-damaged "undecided" voters would change their vote at this late stage, and frankly if you're still undecided at this point you're really too stupid to be entrusted with voting.
Whatever side you pick, how could anyone be moronic as not to see the difference between the two candidates or to not have made a choice months ago?
It's not like the candidates are similar or have even slightly overlapping views. Whatever choice you make, that choice should have been clear to you early on.
The "undecided" voters don't mean shit. They've never swayed an election and they never will. There just aren't enough of them to matter.
Okay, now that there's some gawddamn innovation from Redmond!!
Microsoft: "Want to play a game? FUCK YOU, YOU CAN'T HA H A HA HA!"
COD User: "But...why?"
Microsoft: "Because FUCK YOU, THAT'S WHY!!"
You would vote for Trump if not for your apparent felony conviction, which you don't deny.
Gotta give this guy credit for doing some serious detective and reverse-engineering work. Good job.
Now as long as those lazy bastards at FileZilla don't sue him, maybe this will be a nice step forward.
As for you fucking clowns at FileZilla storing passwords in plain text files, what the fuck? Did you just teleport in from 1992 or something??
That's not so much that cash isn't anonymous, but that the store was under surveillance.
That's the thing, though- for at least the last ten years every store I've been in has had surveillance cams, every one of them. Mini mart, big box store, whatever- they all have cameras these days. So if they can determine where the phone was sold (which is apparently not that difficult to do) then it's just a matter of going there and pulling the video.
Maybe one way to get around this is to buy a phone and let it sit in a drawer for a year before using it. Hopefully any video of the sale is probably gone by then...but who knows?
I just call the server admin from a burner phone and ask him what's on the screen.
juuust a bit beyond your reach it seems.
Like reason and logic are for you?
Don't feel bad, most Trump voters like you are kinda impaired in the reality department.
Who cares what Fat Skeletor has to say?
... why on Earth would I want this?
So someone could plant faked evidence of child porn or extramarital affairs into your browsing history.
(Seriously though, I'm with you. This would be the last and I mean last kind of thing I'd ever willingly install on my PC.)
How can they ever index it if they cannot read the data itself?
Dude, stop harshing my buzz by getting all "facty" on us. Just swallow the marketing hype and all the contradictory statements and install it.
"The company captures all the content you've looked at and stores it on its servers."
Oh, I bet it does, and it'll be 100% secure with absolutely no chance of being hacked, spied on, or modified.
Because no one would ever want to use this for malicious purposes, like planting faked evidence of child porn, bomb-making, death threats, or extramarital affairs.
No, no one would ever want to do that!
you will not be able to lord a Hillary win over me.
What's your point?
if he loses are you going to lord it over me in the inevitable thread here?
No, I'm not a dick like you.
I like how you ask inane questions then ignore any answers you don't like.
It's the best way to deal with Trump supporters like you since they're divorced from reality anyway.
Does that mean I should rename my wifi SSID from "Homeland Monitoring Station 325" to something more innocuous?
(Seriously, that's what it's named, so if you see it you're in my neighborhood!)
I recently flew back from SE Asia and the airline basically ordered people who might be carrying a Note 7 to declare it before they boarded the plane.
I'm not sure if the people who had one were prohibited from flying with it or if it was put in some kind of secure container for the trip, but they called the Note 7 out by name specifically. I believe there were some stiff penalties for not declaring it before boarding (aside from the plane possibly catching fire and crashing, that is).
Some ISPs and access points have been doing realtime traffic modification and inserting ads into websites. Since it's well known that some ads are malicious, then yes, it's very much beneficial for a recipe site run on SSL, because it makes it impossible to hijack the trusted and harmless site for nefarious purposes, such as serving you some kind of trojan via an ad.
I'll agree that this is one scenario where SSL would help.
All of the responses to the OP miss his point. Not every website needs to pay the cost of encryption for no real reason. Yes it is a trivial cost on your recipe site, but not so much when you have a thousand hits a minute.
That's a good point.
There's also the expense and upkeep of maintaining current certificates. I have 100+ sites currently, which means I could be renewing a cert every few days or have to do 100 of them all at once every year. Yes, there are some free certificate services out there, but for some sites it just doesn't seem worth it.
Finally, with the many, many certificate exploits that have occurred, adding HTTPS doesn't really mean you're secure....it just means that the browser thinks everything is secure. But if you compromise the site to serve up malware, an HTTPS connection does nothing to hamper that. It just means you'll get your malware over a secure connection.
Out of interest if Domald Tromp loses on the 28th
I don't know who that person is. Do you?
Yes, HTTPS is fine for anything sensitive, but does my recipe site really need to provide HTTPS pages?
Seriously, there is no need for every site to output HTTPS pages. If you're really afraid that someone might eavesdrop and see you looking at Banana Bread recipes, you have bigger problems than an HTTPS connection can fix.
Seriously, how hard is it to make a washing machine that doesn't accidentally kill or injure you during normal use?
I own a Samsung dishwasher and except for the fact that it doesn't clean dishes worth a shit, it's really sleek and spiffy. It's loaded with LEDs and displays and it makes beeping noises and has like 20 different washing cycles, but fuck all if it will actually clean a goddamn dish like our old Sears Kenmore dishwasher did.
So no, it does not surprise me that using a Samsung washing machine could actually put you at risk of injury or death.
Then comes the rolling pogo stick......you're joking right. :-(
Exactly. If you go back and read some of the PR hype you'd suspect that they'd invented time travel or teleportation or mind transference.
But then it's unveiled, and it's just as you said: a fucking pogo stick with wheels. Seriously?
Lol, no way will this ever be abused or used for nefarious purposes. *cough*
It's getting to the point where no amount of "evidence" will be able to "prove" or "disprove" anything.
I have incontrovertible photos, video, and audio that show you killed Bob Smith, and you have incontrovertible photos, video, and audio that show you didn't. As for 3rd party witnesses, maybe their audio/video data was hacked and modified, and maybe it wasn't. Who can say?
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