Were members of Fort Collins' Chamber of Commerce paid off by Comcast? I ask because they're against the idea and are pushing for a "No" vote.
Their statement: "While supporting the concept of a connected community, the Chamber is opposing this ballot issue while encouraging the City to come back with a stronger plan that favors public private partnerships"
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has temporarily suspended a contract worth more than $7 million it recently awarded to Equifax Inc following a security issue with the beleaguered credit reporting agency’s website on Thursday.
Verizon should have done their due diligence on this. They probably could have gotten their $1 billion discount instead of paying $4.48 billion for Yahoo!
Equifax Inc. was lobbying lawmakers and federal agencies to ease up on regulation of credit-reporting companies in the months before its massive data breach.
Equifax spent at least $500,000 on lobbying Congress and federal regulators in the first half of 2017, according to its congressional lobbying-disclosure reports. Among the issues on which it lobbied was limiting the legal liability of credit-reporting companies.
The amount Equifax spent in the first half of this year appears to be in line with previous spending. In 2016 and 2015, the company’s reports show it spent $1.1 million and $1.02 million, respectively, on lobbying activities. While the company had broadly similar lobbying issues in those years, the liability matter was new in 2017.
Equifax’s political-action committee made contributions to 13 members of the Financial Services Committee during the 2016 election cycle, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Among the recipients was Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R., Texas), who received $1,000. Last Friday, he called for his committee’s hearing into the breach.
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R., Mo.), chairman of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit subcommittee that directly handles matters relating to the reporting companies, received $2,000. Also receiving $2,000 was Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R., Ga.), sponsor of the bill that would place a $500,000 cap on the statutory damages consumers could win in a lawsuit against the credit-reporting companies, as well as eliminate punitive damages against them entirely.
The Equifax PAC also gave two additional $1,000 donations to Rep. Luetkemeyer this year, in April and June, according to Federal Election Commission records. The April donation was eight days before Rep. Loudermilk’s bill was introduced.
At last week’s hearing into the liability limits bill and other regulatory overhaul measures, Chi Chi Wu, a staff attorney for the National Consumer Law Center, said the proposed legislation “drastically decreases the consequences for credit bureaus” when they violate the law.
Equifax has also lobbied on changes to rules governing companies that promise to “repair” consumers’ credit. A separate bill pending before the Financial Services Committee would allow credit-reporting companies to offer credit-education and identity-protection services without being subject to rules governing credit-repair companies.
Looks like Equifax's Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin is unqualified for her position. She doesn't seem to have the necessary education or experience.
You could go to her LinkedIn profile to check yourself. Only problem is she deleted it.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-mauldin-93069a
Thankfully, someone did a screen capture: http://i.imgur.com/QiXX3it.jpg
I'm really curious to see the benchmark comparisons between the previous MacBook Air with the 1.8GHz dual core i5-3427U (Turbo Boost up to 2.8GHz) and the new MBA with a 1.3GHz dual core i5-4250U (Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz).
When my oldest needed a laptop right that minute for class after the old Dell gave up the ghost he went to two local stores, the Staples and Best buy. The Staples were doing nothing but bait and switch, every model he would look at on the floor was magically out of stock but they could get him 'something similar' for a $300 markup
I doubt Staples was trying to pull a bait and switch. This is probably what happened. Your "oldest" was only going to buy the laptop and nothing else, right? Well, since the profit margin on PCs is so slim, Staples has a program in place where each store is expected to average at least $200 in attachment sales with each PC sold otherwise the store gets in trouble with the district manager. They call this attachment sale total their "Market Basket" and it can consist of anything sold in the store (e.g. MS Office, antivirus software, extended warranty, laptop bag, printer, printer ink, paper, a pen, a candy bar, a soda,... etc.).
If the sales person sees that the customer isn't going to buy anything else with the PC (called a "dry sale"), then it's not uncommon for them to pretend that they don't have the PC (or other similarly priced PCs) in stock, especially if it's going to drop their weekly "Market Basket" average below $200 or drop their warranty sales percentage below 6 percent.
To avoid making the customer suspicious of anything, they'll sometimes tell the customer that a higher priced model (usually something not on sale) is available, but it's also a model that is more than what the customer is willing or planning to spend. The customer will then leave and go somewhere else. Yes, they lose a sale, but they also save their "Market Basket" and warranty sales numbers which can sometimes be more important if they don't want to get in trouble with the district or regional manager.
What I want to know is if I can resell the digital textbook once I'm done with it like with a paper-based textbook. It's one way to help offset the price of the next textbook I might buy, but knowing Apple probably not.
What happens to all the files that were stored on the servers? If you don't have a backup yourself, then you're SOL.
That's one reason why I refused to depend on cloud storage and keep a NAS. I keep telling friends who use their smartphones as their main PC, digital camera, etc to back the stuff up and not just to the cloud. If you don't, you might find yourself F'ed one day. But do they listen? Nope.
Slashdot Mirror
Were members of Fort Collins' Chamber of Commerce paid off by Comcast? I ask because they're against the idea and are pushing for a "No" vote.
Their statement: "While supporting the concept of a connected community, the Chamber is opposing this ballot issue while encouraging the City to come back with a stronger plan that favors public private partnerships"
Here's a screen capture of Chips and Dips
What Slashdot looked like from 1998 to 2014
https://i.imgur.com/efMLCxJ.gif
Blackberry KEYone
FUD... It was given BEFORE and revoked AFTER.
It hasn't been revoked. It's been temporarily suspended.
IRS puts Equifax contract on hold during security review
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has temporarily suspended a contract worth more than $7 million it recently awarded to Equifax Inc following a security issue with the beleaguered credit reporting agency’s website on Thursday.
Some of the remarkable new features the company is shipping with Fall Creators Update include a major design tweak called Fluent Design System.
Will this update still have the remarkable feature where it will FUBAR my wireless and ethernet connections and require a roll back to 1607?
Can't wait until Adobe kills Flash in 2020 and everyone moves away from that piece of garbage.
Everything we do is selfish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DowJfUmlzeI
The company has poured a quarter of a billion dollars into cybersecurity in the last three years and today boasts a 225 person team.
Spending $225 million over 3 years isn't really that much when you consider the type and amount of personal data Equifax has on us.
JP Morgan Chase spent $500 million in 2016 alone, Bank of America spent $400 million on cyber security in 2016 although they have an unlimited cyber security budget, Citibank's cyber security budget topped $400 million and Wells Fargo spends roughly $250 million per year.
Verizon should have done their due diligence on this. They probably could have gotten their $1 billion discount instead of paying $4.48 billion for Yahoo!
Got. Ripped. Off.
Covfefe is from Latin?
There is now an updated story that says Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin has quit (retired from) her position.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/2-top-equifax-execs-retire-in-wake-of-massive-data-breach-2017-09-15
Apple made access to and searches of iPhone X easier with FaceID.
Law enforcement can just hold your iPhone X in front of your face and it's unlocked.
You mean you paid for a 2 year warranty since Apple factored in the EU warranty requirement in their prices.
and it's guaranteed to last 2 years (because that's how long it will be warrantied for).
Frankly they have alot of friends in Washington (both parties) that they pay alot of money to - to buy off.
This is so true.
Equifax Lobbied for Easier Regulation Before Data Breach
Sept. 11, 2017
Equifax Inc. was lobbying lawmakers and federal agencies to ease up on regulation of credit-reporting companies in the months before its massive data breach.
Equifax spent at least $500,000 on lobbying Congress and federal regulators in the first half of 2017, according to its congressional lobbying-disclosure reports. Among the issues on which it lobbied was limiting the legal liability of credit-reporting companies.
The amount Equifax spent in the first half of this year appears to be in line with previous spending. In 2016 and 2015, the company’s reports show it spent $1.1 million and $1.02 million, respectively, on lobbying activities. While the company had broadly similar lobbying issues in those years, the liability matter was new in 2017.
Equifax’s political-action committee made contributions to 13 members of the Financial Services Committee during the 2016 election cycle, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Among the recipients was Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R., Texas), who received $1,000. Last Friday, he called for his committee’s hearing into the breach.
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R., Mo.), chairman of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit subcommittee that directly handles matters relating to the reporting companies, received $2,000. Also receiving $2,000 was Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R., Ga.), sponsor of the bill that would place a $500,000 cap on the statutory damages consumers could win in a lawsuit against the credit-reporting companies, as well as eliminate punitive damages against them entirely.
The Equifax PAC also gave two additional $1,000 donations to Rep. Luetkemeyer this year, in April and June, according to Federal Election Commission records. The April donation was eight days before Rep. Loudermilk’s bill was introduced.
At last week’s hearing into the liability limits bill and other regulatory overhaul measures, Chi Chi Wu, a staff attorney for the National Consumer Law Center, said the proposed legislation “drastically decreases the consequences for credit bureaus” when they violate the law.
Equifax has also lobbied on changes to rules governing companies that promise to “repair” consumers’ credit. A separate bill pending before the Financial Services Committee would allow credit-reporting companies to offer credit-education and identity-protection services without being subject to rules governing credit-repair companies.
Looks like Equifax's Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin is unqualified for her position. She doesn't seem to have the necessary education or experience.
You could go to her LinkedIn profile to check yourself. Only problem is she deleted it.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-mauldin-93069a
Thankfully, someone did a screen capture: http://i.imgur.com/QiXX3it.jpg
Seriously. Why would anyone ever download Xcode from the Apple Developer web site or the Mac App Store?
So they can get a clean version of Xcode?
I'm really curious to see the benchmark comparisons between the previous MacBook Air with the 1.8GHz dual core i5-3427U (Turbo Boost up to 2.8GHz) and the new MBA with a 1.3GHz dual core i5-4250U (Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz).
who would have thought something could be too gay for apple?
Could explain why the original rainbow-colored Apple stickers were redesigned and are now solid white.
I came up short.
That's what she said.
When my oldest needed a laptop right that minute for class after the old Dell gave up the ghost he went to two local stores, the Staples and Best buy. The Staples were doing nothing but bait and switch, every model he would look at on the floor was magically out of stock but they could get him 'something similar' for a $300 markup
I doubt Staples was trying to pull a bait and switch. This is probably what happened. Your "oldest" was only going to buy the laptop and nothing else, right? Well, since the profit margin on PCs is so slim, Staples has a program in place where each store is expected to average at least $200 in attachment sales with each PC sold otherwise the store gets in trouble with the district manager. They call this attachment sale total their "Market Basket" and it can consist of anything sold in the store (e.g. MS Office, antivirus software, extended warranty, laptop bag, printer, printer ink, paper, a pen, a candy bar, a soda,... etc.).
If the sales person sees that the customer isn't going to buy anything else with the PC (called a "dry sale"), then it's not uncommon for them to pretend that they don't have the PC (or other similarly priced PCs) in stock, especially if it's going to drop their weekly "Market Basket" average below $200 or drop their warranty sales percentage below 6 percent.
To avoid making the customer suspicious of anything, they'll sometimes tell the customer that a higher priced model (usually something not on sale) is available, but it's also a model that is more than what the customer is willing or planning to spend. The customer will then leave and go somewhere else. Yes, they lose a sale, but they also save their "Market Basket" and warranty sales numbers which can sometimes be more important if they don't want to get in trouble with the district or regional manager.
What I want to know is if I can resell the digital textbook once I'm done with it like with a paper-based textbook. It's one way to help offset the price of the next textbook I might buy, but knowing Apple probably not.
What happens to all the files that were stored on the servers? If you don't have a backup yourself, then you're SOL.
That's one reason why I refused to depend on cloud storage and keep a NAS. I keep telling friends who use their smartphones as their main PC, digital camera, etc to back the stuff up and not just to the cloud. If you don't, you might find yourself F'ed one day. But do they listen? Nope.
Lesson learned: host your sites on Amazon's servers. They couldn't bring Amazon down last time.