A library without books is... pointless. Why not just build a Starbucks or a McDonalds. Or, actually, an empty room. What a waste.
Not at all. The books are there, available to be "checked out" and read, just as in a library filled with dead-tree books. If you'd read TFA, you'd know that, and you'd also realize that this setup is almost entirely different from your "Starbucks or...McDonalds" vision. Try getting an ebook (and a reader) at your local Starbucks with just your library card, dumbass.
Java is a much safer language than say C because of the built in checks. It's the proprietary crappy browser plugins that make this kind of attacks possible.
For 99% of the users out there, that is an absolutely pointless distinction.
One would have to be more than a little clueless to expect any privacy at all when it comes to Facebook. Sadly, it is clear that the clueless are legion.
Many christian denominations accept scientific discoveries and find no conflict with faith. This includes cosmology and evolution. Matter of fact the physics professor who put forth the big bang theory was a roman catholic priest.
These denominations do not interpret the bible literally, they consider it figurative language.
Well, yes, until the subject of same-sex marriage comes up. Then they're citing Leviticus like it was, ahem..., the word of god. The entire notion that a collection of folk tales from as far back as the Bronze Age, should be an authority on anything is stunning in itself. It makes no sense, and yet most of people in the world believe their chosen collection of books to be just that, the word of god, even if only in a metaphorical form. I guess that Yawheh likes a good riddle as much as the next deity.
Based on the level of fraud in scientific papers that have been found for new drugs it seems that very very few actually can do it to those thresholds...
Nah... This is one of those cases where malice (or more precisely, greed) trumps simple incompetence.
...the signal strength of WiFi is tiny. That AM station or even the ham down the road keying up on his 1,500 watt HF rig, produces far higher levels of RF. So STFU about the "dangers" of WiFi. Oh, and get your kids vaccinated too, you moron.
When programming that celebrates anti-intellectualism is the hottest thing on teevee (I'm looking at you, Duck Dynasty fans), it should come as no surprise at all that quality journalism is not something that sponsors are interested in buying. Bread and circuses...
This is just yet another big government project gone awry.
Jeezuz, another by-gawd, all-gubbamint-is-bad, Rand fan boy...
Straw man much?
Your assertion might have merit, if the actual development of healthcare.gov was a "government project". The fact of the matter is that it's construction and deployment were the responsibility of firms operating in the private sector, where everything is, to hear you fan boys tell it, rosy and oh-so-efficient. And yes, there are a lot of folks talking about testing. Did you even read TFA?
So some people with (arguably) too much time on their hands have come up with an "algorithm" that will place me in one of several arbitrarily defined groups. BFD.
So someone managed to turn off three alarm systems, but didn't think to make sure that the contents of the apartment were all left in the same position that they found them?
Only if your aim was to hide the fact that you were ever there.
You'd think people would figure out not to attach everything to the internet. Why the card readers needed to be connected to anything but an internal network (with no internet connection to that) is a bad security model to begin with.
Will they ever learn?
Guess maybe i'm not thinking. They do need to verify that cards are correct, so they do need some internet access, though they could do it over the phone.
Well, i guess they will still need to rethink the security of this.
Seems to me they readers only need to communicate with a computer in the store, then that computer could do the verifying. Might be a little slower, but would probably be a lot more secure.
First of all, to GP, what makes you think that the PoS terminals are attached to the Internet? Nothing in TFA even hits at such a thing. To parent, GP is right. The Internet is not required for the things we're talking about. Private networks, including VPN's (running through the Internet) are a much better choice. That said, if properly secured, credit card transactions can be safely processed across the Internet. An entire industry has been built around just that.
No. I think we're going to find that this skimming operation was operated from within Target's private network.
You are free to choose: that's what the ballot box is for.
Capitalistic "freedom of choice" is weighted by the size of your wallet.
Really, and when was the incadescent ban put to a vote of the people? No, the ballot box is only effective on things that those in power (or the people who control them) want it to be effective for.
You live in a democratic republic, dipshit. You should have learned that in school. We don't get to vote directly on national issues, only on those who (corporate American has chose to) represent us.
Exactly.
"Oh, we don't actually listen to your calls. We only track the meta data (on all calls). You know, who you called and when. Who called you and when."
Like that's supposed to make me feel so much better?
Do you understand the lock on your house's front door? Have you inspected every mechanical element to ensure it cannot be compromised? Do you routinely check it for tampering?
Yes. No. And No. It's a dopey comparison, really, but alright, let's play along. A common lockset works on centuries old, well-known principles. It's easy to understand. I know exactly how it can be compromised while appearing to function normally. I don't bother to take it apart and see if it's had it's been set up for a second key (commonly called a master key) because the risk is not worth the hassle. Now, if I had something that I wanted to hide from those who would like to see it, copy it, whatever, without my knowledge, it would a different story. Especially if the lock was the thing protecting my stuff from such a compromise. Hint: your front door lock is not the weak link. But let's say I don't have the skill and ability to examine my own lock. My only recourse is to "trust a locksmith", but not just any locksmith. That industry guards it's integrity and reputation with a unique zeal, and for good reason. That's rather like the open source community that has more than a few bright minds who love nothing better than the challenge of finding weak links in things like encryption technology.
In other words, I wouldn't let Microsoft test my locks either because they have not done what they need to do to earn the trust of their peers in the locksmith trade.
Until they do care. Sorry, no. Unless you have a reason, as in a reason good enough to get a warrant, stay the fuck out of my personal communications, Uncle Sam.
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A library without books is... pointless. Why not just build a Starbucks or a McDonalds. Or, actually, an empty room. What a waste.
Not at all. The books are there, available to be "checked out" and read, just as in a library filled with dead-tree books. If you'd read TFA, you'd know that, and you'd also realize that this setup is almost entirely different from your "Starbucks or...McDonalds" vision. Try getting an ebook (and a reader) at your local Starbucks with just your library card, dumbass.
Java is a much safer language than say C because of the built in checks. It's the proprietary crappy browser plugins that make this kind of attacks possible.
For 99% of the users out there, that is an absolutely pointless distinction.
...the contractors "saving face". Reliability and performance are secondary considerations, at best. Color me unsurprised.
One would have to be more than a little clueless to expect any privacy at all when it comes to Facebook. Sadly, it is clear that the clueless are legion.
Many christian denominations accept scientific discoveries and find no conflict with faith. This includes cosmology and evolution. Matter of fact the physics professor who put forth the big bang theory was a roman catholic priest. These denominations do not interpret the bible literally, they consider it figurative language.
Well, yes, until the subject of same-sex marriage comes up. Then they're citing Leviticus like it was, ahem..., the word of god. The entire notion that a collection of folk tales from as far back as the Bronze Age, should be an authority on anything is stunning in itself. It makes no sense, and yet most of people in the world believe their chosen collection of books to be just that, the word of god, even if only in a metaphorical form. I guess that Yawheh likes a good riddle as much as the next deity.
Based on the level of fraud in scientific papers that have been found for new drugs it seems that very very few actually can do it to those thresholds...
Nah... This is one of those cases where malice (or more precisely, greed) trumps simple incompetence.
...the signal strength of WiFi is tiny. That AM station or even the ham down the road keying up on his 1,500 watt HF rig, produces far higher levels of RF. So STFU about the "dangers" of WiFi. Oh, and get your kids vaccinated too, you moron.
When programming that celebrates anti-intellectualism is the hottest thing on teevee (I'm looking at you, Duck Dynasty fans), it should come as no surprise at all that quality journalism is not something that sponsors are interested in buying. Bread and circuses...
Why would you print out the whole thing?
That's because, even put together, they still don't add up to anything worthwhile, or hard to say in one breath.
This is just yet another big government project gone awry.
Jeezuz, another by-gawd, all-gubbamint-is-bad, Rand fan boy...
Straw man much?
Your assertion might have merit, if the actual development of healthcare.gov was a "government project". The fact of the matter is that it's construction and deployment were the responsibility of firms operating in the private sector, where everything is, to hear you fan boys tell it, rosy and oh-so-efficient. And yes, there are a lot of folks talking about testing. Did you even read TFA?
Spending on govt handout programs is dramatically up across the board in the last 7 years.
Not as much as is corporate welfare. So WTF is your point, exacly?
So some people with (arguably) too much time on their hands have come up with an "algorithm" that will place me in one of several arbitrarily defined groups. BFD.
So someone managed to turn off three alarm systems, but didn't think to make sure that the contents of the apartment were all left in the same position that they found them?
Only if your aim was to hide the fact that you were ever there.
You'd think people would figure out not to attach everything to the internet. Why the card readers needed to be connected to anything but an internal network (with no internet connection to that) is a bad security model to begin with.
Will they ever learn?
Guess maybe i'm not thinking. They do need to verify that cards are correct, so they do need some internet access, though they could do it over the phone.
Well, i guess they will still need to rethink the security of this.
Seems to me they readers only need to communicate with a computer in the store, then that computer could do the verifying. Might be a little slower, but would probably be a lot more secure.
First of all, to GP, what makes you think that the PoS terminals are attached to the Internet? Nothing in TFA even hits at such a thing. To parent, GP is right. The Internet is not required for the things we're talking about. Private networks, including VPN's (running through the Internet) are a much better choice. That said, if properly secured, credit card transactions can be safely processed across the Internet. An entire industry has been built around just that.
No. I think we're going to find that this skimming operation was operated from within Target's private network.
...worthwhile BitCoin post on /. , ever.
...you are most definitely not "out in the woods". Yawn...
If they were able to stop my PC from being bricked, giving up my Constitutional rights was totally worth it. Right?
You are free to choose: that's what the ballot box is for.
Capitalistic "freedom of choice" is weighted by the size of your wallet.
Really, and when was the incadescent ban put to a vote of the people? No, the ballot box is only effective on things that those in power (or the people who control them) want it to be effective for.
You live in a democratic republic, dipshit. You should have learned that in school. We don't get to vote directly on national issues, only on those who (corporate American has chose to) represent us.
Exactly.
"Oh, we don't actually listen to your calls. We only track the meta data (on all calls). You know, who you called and when. Who called you and when."
Like that's supposed to make me feel so much better?
There are 18,126 words in the patent application. 'Bitcoin' is not one of them."
So /. could take a lesson from JPMorgan's patent lawyers, then, and STFU about bitcoin already.
...that the emperor has no clothes? And that the whole drone thing is just holiday publicity stunt? Not Amazon, surely. /sarcasm
Do you understand the lock on your house's front door? Have you inspected every mechanical element to ensure it cannot be compromised? Do you routinely check it for tampering?
Yes. No. And No. It's a dopey comparison, really, but alright, let's play along. A common lockset works on centuries old, well-known principles. It's easy to understand. I know exactly how it can be compromised while appearing to function normally. I don't bother to take it apart and see if it's had it's been set up for a second key (commonly called a master key) because the risk is not worth the hassle. Now, if I had something that I wanted to hide from those who would like to see it, copy it, whatever, without my knowledge, it would a different story. Especially if the lock was the thing protecting my stuff from such a compromise. Hint: your front door lock is not the weak link. But let's say I don't have the skill and ability to examine my own lock. My only recourse is to "trust a locksmith", but not just any locksmith. That industry guards it's integrity and reputation with a unique zeal, and for good reason. That's rather like the open source community that has more than a few bright minds who love nothing better than the challenge of finding weak links in things like encryption technology. In other words, I wouldn't let Microsoft test my locks either because they have not done what they need to do to earn the trust of their peers in the locksmith trade.
They will only care after the metadata makes them think you're a terrorist...
...or something else that is now "dangerous".
The terrorists have won as long as idiots like you and AC think this is OK.
They don't care about your average texts...
Until they do care. Sorry, no. Unless you have a reason, as in a reason good enough to get a warrant, stay the fuck out of my personal communications, Uncle Sam.