I think there were 400M reasons why they could not do this...
Exactly.
I also like Microsoft's PR spin on this:
It included quotes from NFL quarterbacks -- for example, ". . . having Microsoft Surface technology on sidelines allows players and coaches to analyze what our opponents are trying to do in almost real time."
I can guarantee you that no football player anywhere has ever said that.
in general most of the American public outside of hardcore supports of Mr. Trump quite frankly don't give two shits about Hillary Clinton's emails. Really. Most people are just going..yeah yeah politics is dirty and shrug it off.
Which is exactly why we are now in the current situation where we have the two worst candidates in modern history. Lying to congress and destroying evidence are more than just dirty politics, it's serious crimes that would land anyone else in prison.
If the GOP had nominated ANYBODY else, Mrs. Clinton would be losing this election.
( 2) this only prevents attacks where the address actually is spoofed. If a large number of compromised devices are running malware they can just make an overwhelming number of legitimate service requests en masse...
Why would an ISP allow me to make "an overwhelming number of legitimate service requests"? Oh, that's right, you answered that question in point #1 -- most ISPs don't give a shit.
In the same vein, no comedy has every won an Oscar for best film. Because the people who make that decision are pretentious, pseudo-intelectual snobs who think that comedy is beneath them.
People who are well-motivated and self-driven can work without someone continuously breathing over their shoulder.
People who are slackers can slack off just as well in the middle of a crowded office. Dilbert's fellow-employee Wally is alive and well and I've had the questionable honor of working in offices with many of his clones over the years.
In my first real job, there was this one guy who would go into the restroom every morning with at least 2 newspapers.
Speaking of what matters, would financial numbers matter to them after they discover productivity is in the toilet due to them driving their best talent out the door?
Apparently, losing good people doesn't bother anyone, because they keep doing it and I have yet to see anyone ever admit that they're doing something wrong and need to change.
So the government will pass a law and all IoT will be secure... that would be the US gouv I assume? All companies in the world will be complying to the new law?
I would not count that for sure.
99% of all those IOT devices are made in China. If the U.S. created tougher regulations regarding security, it seems unlikely that Chinese manufacturers would make one set of devices for the U.S. and one for everyone else. So the rest of the world would end up getting more secure devices also.
People who are in good shape didn't get that way because of a fitness tracker. Like the vast majority of exercise equipment, this is just another gadget bought primarily by lazy slobs who think it will somehow magically make them "fit".
And, that 2 million miles has mostly been on the same few miles of carefully mapped roads. Autonomous cars are a great idea, but, they need to demonstrate that they can handle more that the occasional stray pedestrian. They need to demonstrate the ability to drive on unfamiliar roads and roads with unexpected barriers (road construction that wasn't there yesterday) as well as other vehicles that behave in unexpected (and often illegal) ways.
Man or woman... who in their right mind would've looked at a company like Yahoo (especially with mega corporations like microgoogleface running the show) and think "yeah I can compete with them!"
It was more like:
Yahoo: Hey, come work for us and we'll pay you $120 Million Marissa: Sure, why not. It will go nicely with my $300 Million in Google stock.
I used to use Firefox for it's customizability. Then along the Assholio release that wiped out many of the things that made Firefox attractive in the first place. So I switched to the Palemoon fork.
[T]his sort of thing is just going to get worse when crappy / non-existant IoT security devices exposed themselves to the web via large-capacity fiber and cable connections. [I]t's already bad enough with compromised routers and computers. Most people won't get protected. [T]hey'll just get knocked off the web at will by people like this.
As noted in the article: "the situation is exacerbated by the failure of many ISPs to implement the BCP38 security standard to filter spoofed traffic"
There is something of an inverse relationship -- at least in the U.S. The bigger an ISP is, the less likely they are to give a shit.
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It's a product placement
Too bad most of the broadcasters covering the games refer to them as iPads.
I think there were 400M reasons why they could not do this...
Exactly.
I also like Microsoft's PR spin on this:
I can guarantee you that no football player anywhere has ever said that.
in general most of the American public outside of hardcore supports of Mr. Trump quite frankly don't give two shits about Hillary Clinton's emails. Really. Most people are just going..yeah yeah politics is dirty and shrug it off.
Which is exactly why we are now in the current situation where we have the two worst candidates in modern history. Lying to congress and destroying evidence are more than just dirty politics, it's serious crimes that would land anyone else in prison.
If the GOP had nominated ANYBODY else, Mrs. Clinton would be losing this election.
Tell that to John McCain and Mittens Romney.
Please remind me . . . . why is anything this assclown says worth listening to?
( 2) this only prevents attacks where the address actually is spoofed. If a large number of compromised devices are running malware they can just make an overwhelming number of legitimate service requests en masse...
Why would an ISP allow me to make "an overwhelming number of legitimate service requests"? Oh, that's right, you answered that question in point #1 -- most ISPs don't give a shit.
Because of the highly successful Mars Rover missions, many people have forgotten (or don't know) that about 60% of all missions to Mars have failed.
Hey, everyone "jettisons too early" once in a while.
A Mac is a Unix machine that is only good for buying things from the Apple Store and iTunes
Fixed that for you.
"what has she done"
She married a billionaire.
In the same vein, no comedy has every won an Oscar for best film. Because the people who make that decision are pretentious, pseudo-intelectual snobs who think that comedy is beneath them.
Elbonia is probably pissed that they missed out on this opportunity.
Sorry. That's shit, too.
People who are well-motivated and self-driven can work without someone continuously breathing over their shoulder.
People who are slackers can slack off just as well in the middle of a crowded office. Dilbert's fellow-employee Wally is alive and well and I've had the questionable honor of working in offices with many of his clones over the years.
In my first real job, there was this one guy who would go into the restroom every morning with at least 2 newspapers.
Speaking of what matters, would financial numbers matter to them after they discover productivity is in the toilet due to them driving their best talent out the door?
Apparently, losing good people doesn't bother anyone, because they keep doing it and I have yet to see anyone ever admit that they're doing something wrong and need to change.
So the government will pass a law and all IoT will be secure... that would be the US gouv I assume? All companies in the world will be complying to the new law?
I would not count that for sure.
99% of all those IOT devices are made in China. If the U.S. created tougher regulations regarding security, it seems unlikely that Chinese manufacturers would make one set of devices for the U.S. and one for everyone else. So the rest of the world would end up getting more secure devices also.
Building a coalation of toxic brands liket Yahoo and AOL seems like a pretty poor business strategy,
Is it too late for Verizon to buy Radio Shack?
"Verizon had been planning to couple Yahoo with its AOL unit "
Yahoo plus AOL. Lolz guaranteed.
but these caps seem reasonable for now.
Oh please.
I'm on a 25Mbps DSL and I can easily hit 2TB in a month. Thank goodness Comcast doesn't operate in this area.
People who are in good shape didn't get that way because of a fitness tracker. Like the vast majority of exercise equipment, this is just another gadget bought primarily by lazy slobs who think it will somehow magically make them "fit".
And, that 2 million miles has mostly been on the same few miles of carefully mapped roads. Autonomous cars are a great idea, but, they need to demonstrate that they can handle more that the occasional stray pedestrian. They need to demonstrate the ability to drive on unfamiliar roads and roads with unexpected barriers (road construction that wasn't there yesterday) as well as other vehicles that behave in unexpected (and often illegal) ways.
Man or woman... who in their right mind would've looked at a company like Yahoo (especially with mega corporations like microgoogleface running the show) and think "yeah I can compete with them!"
It was more like:
Yahoo: Hey, come work for us and we'll pay you $120 Million
Marissa: Sure, why not. It will go nicely with my $300 Million in Google stock.
I was ignoring 4chan before it was cool.
and been around for 2 years and doesn't require root access??
If this happened on Windows, I & many others would be scornful of it.
Apparently you haven't noticed all the posts here that have been hating on systemd since it was first introduced.
I still use Firefox simply for its hackability.
I used to use Firefox for it's customizability. Then along the Assholio release that wiped out many of the things that made Firefox attractive in the first place. So I switched to the Palemoon fork.
The good thing about private industry is that there are laws penalizing them for this kind of behavior
And how often has anyone received a meaningful punishment for this sort of thing? That would be somewhere close to . . . never.
and they can also be sued.
And how often has anyone been successfully sued over this sort of thing? See the answer to the question above.
[T]his sort of thing is just going to get worse when crappy / non-existant IoT security devices exposed themselves to the web via large-capacity fiber and cable connections. [I]t's already bad enough with compromised routers and computers. Most people won't get protected. [T]hey'll just get knocked off the web at will by people like this.
As noted in the article: "the situation is exacerbated by the failure of many ISPs to implement the BCP38 security standard to filter spoofed traffic"
There is something of an inverse relationship -- at least in the U.S. The bigger an ISP is, the less likely they are to give a shit.