Old and degraded! Starting too soon to a country near you!
It's the horror comedy mystery western movie "Forward into the Past" starring #PresidentTweety as Jason the 13th pushing America down the rabbit hole to meet Puppetmaker Pinocchio Putin on the quiet eastern front! You'll laugh yourself sick, as you watch the Fabulous Four Oranges of Wrath dancing in the monsoon while they sing their worst hit "The Winter, Fall, Summer, and Autumn of our Discontent." Winner of the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony bloody red badges of avarice for supremely hackneyed cultural references in 8 dimensions!
Don't you wish you could wait for it to never begin?
My allergic Trumpitis is highly acute and inflamed this morning!
Welcome to the age of Fake News Nation, where #PresidentTweety McTrumpy is president-for-life for all the winners in the clash of civilizations.
You know? The one where civilization lost.
A couple of predictions:
(1) He will provoke China, hoping for them to invade North Korea. Won't he be surprised when they take South Korea and Taiwan, too? Make China GREAT again!
(2) If he isn't Bill-Cosby-ed out of office RSN, then he'll dump Pence for VP Ivanka! All in the Family, you know. Putin has already endorsed this one, though he's planning to marry Trump's other daughter.
(3) Iran will continue growing into the power vacuum in the Middle East. Look for YUGE deals with Russia and China!
Here's a simple trick. Search for some popular show on YouTube, such as "Bill Maher Real Time" and then select the filter for "Upload date". Your results will include lots of pseudo-pirate computer-pwning hits.
These accounts are created constantly on YouTube and this has been going on for many years. A typical account will have lots of videos that are supposed to be the popular shows, but each video just says YouTube blocked the video and promises the suckers that they can get the actual videos by following the links and installing the software to pwn their computers into zombie networks. Generally annoying, but it especially bothers me that a lot of these videos are popular with children, and targeting innocent children strikes me as a higher level of EVIL, even for the monster that the google has become.
There are some obvious countermeasures, but rather than implement any of them, YouTube has chosen to tolerate, perhaps even encourage, this situation for some years. My conclusion is that YouTube believes they are deriving profits from supporting these criminals. (Perhaps they're selling them bandwidth?) I don't think google employees are naive and innocent as the children who are getting victimized, and it would make me a bad person to hope that their own kids click on the links.
Just reading Googled, another history of the google with emphasis on the "Don't be evil" thing. I think that google needs to hire a chief exorcist.
Just watching another news program and sort of disappointed it didn't get any coverage. The last few days had quite a bit of coverage about a new and quite small orbit-capable rocket, though the payload is quite small, on the order of 3 kg. There were several stories before the launch, and then some reports of the failure. (The early reports suggest a telemetry failure?)
It's already seriously out of date. It appears there were 9 of the 12 moonwalkers alive around 2010 and we're now down to 6. Just reviewed the Wikipedia page, and the two youngest are 81 and the two oldest are now 86. The middle prediction of 2030 is looking quite optimistic at this time.
I quite agree with your opening, though I would go farther. I would even say that good ideas are plentiful, practically an inexhaustible resource.
The rest of your reply shows a highly fractured interpretation of what I wrote, but I'm getting quite accustomed to people twisting things to their own mental convenience (and on my interpretation I've largely discounted your reply as unrelated to what I actually think, even if I wrote unclearly (which I doubt)). On Slashdot that twisting often involves burning straw men arguments. I certainly don't think "complete" is equivalent to "perfect". Or perhaps I should just agree with you that there is no "perfect", even in project proposals. No skin off my nose since it has no relation to my suggestion. Well, on second thought I admit it would be nice if the project proposals were perfect, but I certainly have no such expectation. I think the metric of sufficient goodness would be that enough people want to support the project. (One obvious response to a proven lack of funding is to improve the proposal and try again.)
Perhaps it would be better to suggest that my presentation could be taken as a constructive suggestion to improve some of the flaws in crowd funding? At least all of the crowdfunding websites I've investigated suffer from problems that might be addressed by this approach to adding accountability. The problem I have with that suggestion is that I'm approaching the problem from the perspectives of modular software design and cost recovery, with various tweaks such as the metric of a successful architect or lawyer applied to programmers who choose to adopt it. There is quite a bit of research that supports the claim that people enjoy their work more when they have more control over it, and even though some people claim they care only about the salary. (There's also a chronological problem in that most of my suggestion predates my first encounter with Kickstarter.)
Or maybe you are upset that I reject the purist (and non-monetary) philosophy of Stallman? Sorry, but I don't think a pledge of poverty is the only way to be a better person. (Amusingly enough, one part of my suggestion was strongly influenced by a constructive email exchange with rms himself, but so far there is no credit to be shared. Actually, based on that exchange, he'd probably reject it.)
As I see it, the real problem is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, but only in the literal sense. The idiomatic interpretation is quite misleading. These days I have become so casual I just find it amusing to watch the world spin along its increasingly crazy course. #PresidentTweety, for example.
Not sure if you regarded it as a constructive suggestion about hiring contractors, but if you are so wealthy, then I'm glad to send you my congratulations. Even more so if the congratulations would get some money donated to some cause that might make the world better.
That's a broken financial model. The intersection of people with the capabilities, ideas, enthusiasm, and available time is extremely small. Actually, the highly skilled people are least likely to be available because they are most likely to be working already.
My apparently crazy idea is that we need better financial models first. My favorite pipe dream is a kind of a crowd-funding model around clear project proposals. The proposals could be hammered out in group discussions, but the projects should be complete in terms of resources (such as people), budget, schedule, test plans, and, to my way of thinking most importantly, success criteria. At that point people who are interested in using the software would be able to buy "charity shares", and if enough people agree to make the budget, then the project would get the money and charge forward. The donors would get to use the software and even be listed as donors (if they want to be).
Why would programmers want to do it that way? For more control over their own work, either in helping to prepare project proposals they want to work on or in picking projects they want to join.
In case it isn't obvious, I think the same approach could even be used for such websites as Slashdot, though you need to add more project types. Not just feature development, but also ongoing costs and support projects are needed. The system should be designed so that an unfunded feature is only partly disabled, but without breaking the entire system.
Snowden embarrassed the Obama administration. As much as I think he should be pardoned and let back onto US soil, Obama won't do it. Trump certainly won't either.
Lets live in reality people.
After reviewing all of the "insightful" moderated posts, I was saddened that this tidbit was one of the best. Talk about shallow insight. *sigh* The lack of "funny" posts was also evidence of the departure of the wits of yore.
Also did a bunch of searches for rational argument for or against the pardon, using a bunch of keywords. Only one feint anywhere near the actual topic. Yeah, I admit Nixon's pardon really broke the mold and invalidated any notion of rules or precedents limiting presidential pardons. Still, that isn't too important as regards Snowden.
I'm convinced Snowden is a sincere whistle-blower and a patsy who was spotted and manipulated by relying on his high principles. On that basis, he did not release (to the journalists) any information that the NSA hadn't decided to release. Watching out for moles is really HIGH on the list of priorities, and if they didn't spot Snowden as a potential risk LONG before he did anything, then there is NO competence within the NSA, and I can't believe that.
I'm convinced they keep track of suspicious employees, where "suspicious" in this context basically means "highly principled". As soon as any such employee starts doing anything like collecting information, they switch the universe to "reveal" exactly what they want to reveal. Some of it is legit, some of it is disinformation, but NONE of it is anywhere near the really dark parts of the NSA. Everything Snowden saw was stuff they were quite willing to reveal, largely for the intimidation value. I'm not saying Snowden is stupid, but in this case he was played as a special kind of useful idiot.
Now there was one more step involved. They wanted to make a major example of Snowden, but Putin interfered. Not for the benefit of the USA. For Putin's own purposes.
By the way, I have a little prediction. I think Snowden is about to be arrested and delivered to #PresidentTweety as a little inauguration present. He's outlived his usefulness and even become something of an embarrassment. The spin is about to tear your head off.
Disclaimer: I must be nuts. I even think that China may decide to take advantage of the apprentice to seize Taiwan. Talk about a golden shower of opportunity.
Been here (and away and now back) for a few years and never noticed. I do sometimes comment on the TFS, but never wanted to quote it, basically taking it for granted that everyone participating in the conversation had to start by seeing it.
Usually when I see an apparently floating quote, it comes from an AC comment. Years ago my settings were "gentle" so I could see them, but these years I stopped wasting time with ACs. If the comment is sufficiently interesting, then I might look for the AC, and in this case I was trying to assess if there was some basis for an "insightful" mod. As the joke goes, there was no "there" there, nor was there any prior AC comment to be found.
Maybe you can explain the basis for regarding that top-level comment as insightful? I still don't see it. His [770223's] opinion is that the price was too high, but his surprise seems lacking in insight. Perhaps more importantly, it isn't his large amount of money. Actually I'm surprised, too, but I'd try to articulate the surprise in terms of the potential value of the email addresses and the reduction of that value due to spammers (though his "insightful" comment didn't even reference the breach that may produce more spam). I don't even see where my 'articulation' of surprise in relation to the value of the email addresses would have risen to the level of "insight".
Then you introduced the new issue of paid membership. Sore topic. I have NEVER felt that Slashdot offered much value, but I have FREQUENTLY constructively suggested ways to make it more valuable. I would be delighted if Slashdot was so valuable that I eagerly wanted to send some of my money. Judging by the responses, it would appear that most of the members of Slashdot must be so independently wealthy that money is no concern of theirs. I can only regret my relative poverty.
Fingerprints are not used for authentication, right?
Not sure about the States, but in Japan many of the banks have biometric devices on the ATMs to read fingerprints. From the placement of the devices, I would say the thumb is unlikely to be used, and I would suppose that most people use their index finger.
Also there are a lot of smartphones with fingerprint recognition, and I have two computers with it (though I'm not using it because I don't regard it as secure).
Read it, but didn't make the connection (and can't even recall ever wanting to directly quote the summary).
I'd apologize for my ignorance, but you're such a rude person I won't bother. I can only hope you've never been asked to teach anyone anything. EVER.
Speaking from experience, walking dicks make lousy teachers, and I was just lucky to encounter relatively few of them while in academia. The sad part was that the dicks tended to rise into administrative positions of minor power. An improvement insofar as I'm rather confident that they never liked being in the classroom in the first place?
According to the regulatory filing, the changes will take place after the sale of its core business is completed with Verizon for roughly $4.8 billion.
I'm genuinely surprised it's worth that much.
Eh, what is supposed to be funny about that, and where is the quoted comment you [770223] are apparently replying to? Maybe it's funny in context, but the first reply actually deserved a "funny" mod.
Best way to report security issues and problems? Are you daft?
1. They don't want to be bothered 2. They want to "look good" as cheaply as possibly 3. No liability
Is it worth the expansion? Here on Slashdot? I must be daft, but I'll say a bit more:
As regards #1 and many years of attempting to report problems, I can assure you that they [various organizations who, in theory, might be responsible for protecting your security as customers and users] are NOT grateful. These days the trend has become pigeonholing incoming reports to conveniently shaped holes, and it must be the fault of the black-hat hackers and scammers that they keep violating the RULES and keep failing to fit in the proper holes!
As regards #2 the main goal is to do as little as possible while claiming as much credit as possible. Control the costs and regard it as a marketing issue, but (just in case you haven't noticed) the marketing people don't know much and care even less about security.
As regards #3, I think the primary blame goes to Microsoft. They didn't invent liability evasion, but I think they perfected it with the EULA and related licenses. If the companies selling you software had any real liability for bugs (and especially for contagiously and outrageously harmful security flaws), then you can be assured they would stop selling so much pretty garbage.
Ah, a rational response that actually noticed the logical gap. Not a deliberate omission, but I also noticed it after I posted.
Yes, but... If you were a Russian spy seeking to leave disinformation on WikiLeaks, why wouldn't you use such a system if it were available? The largest risk of the propaganda campaign would be that it gets traced back to such a source, and you're going to have a really hard time convincing me that anyone, let along the Russians, should trust Assange that much.
However, my main reaction to the activity on this topic is to regard it as evidence of Russian trolls hard at work. Can't decide whether or not to be suspicious of you on the basis of your comment... I've seen some comments that led me to suspect old and dormant Slashdot accounts had been targeted for acquisition and abuse by the trolls.
Oh dear. I hadn't thought of something as obvious as cracking his password. We can only hope that he has been strongly persuaded to use REALLY hard passwords.
Oh fer sure. Since he knows so much about "the cyber" I'm sure it's nothing guessable like "IdLoveToBangMyDaughter" or "password" or "1234".
They strongly persuaded him to include a number and punctuation. It's "IdLoveToBangMy2Daughters!".
Obviously a bad joke, but I seriously hope that his saved passwords are complicated because he doesn't have to enter them very often. Still, if I were a hostile country I would give a high priority to getting two minutes alone with Trump's Twitter device.
Good joke, but the punchline is deeper than it seems. Bad economic models on the Linux side are why most people are still using inferior OSes (AKA Windows). I don't want to make a goodness call on macOS, but Apple's economic models are obviously much better than anything Linux has.
I'm such a lightweight Linux user I didn't even realize that they were all (save one) Ubuntu based, but I've just been using the main Ubuntu stream for some years now on a few of my boxen... I wish one of the categories had been international support because the flaky Japanese support in Ubuntu has become my biggest problem with using that OS for my minimal needs.
(I only have two 'pure' Ubuntu boxen, one multi-booter and a couple of VMs. Most of the time I'm using Windows 10, Android, or macOS.)
Oh dear. I hadn't thought of something as obvious as cracking his password. We can only hope that he has been strongly persuaded to use REALLY hard passwords.
I was actually thinking along the lines of someone pwning his Twitter device and watching him in the process of composing tweets. The smart someone would consider the obvious economic ramifications and prepare a response pending the "Tweet" button. In the example I cited, someone would prepare to short the Japanese auto makers as soon as the focus of the tweet became clear, and then commit the money as soon as Trump committed the tweet. If you had bought the appropriate shorts more quickly than anyone else could react, you would make LOTS of money. Such a safe bet that the only limit on your profits would be how much money you had to play with. (Multiply by the number of the Donald's tweets with economic links.)
At the time I wrote my comment I didn't even realize how bad it was. Apparently Toyota's market cap fell by a BILLION dollars in the first five minutes after the tweet. I was commenting based on the NHK news story that evening, which was reporting the percentage drops in the stock prices for each of the makers. I remember that Toyota lost the most and Nissan was the last and smallest one, so I just took the lowest drop (Nissan) against the total market cap of the companies I could remember and came up with the $4-billion value. I thought it was amusing or ironic that the tweet's effects were larger than Trump's actual value (before the election as estimated by Forbes).
Hear, hear. I'd give you the second "insightful" if I ever saw a mod point to give.
(If I understand the [broken] moderation system, the first mod point has an advantage in setting the direction, but the mod doesn't really become visible until you get a second mod. Ergo, I only saw your legitimately insightful comment as a reply to my comment (since I normally search for "funny" and "insightful").)
Interestingly enough, in the book I read about WikiLeaks, it said that at that time they were working on infrastructure to make it possible to submit documents to WikiLeaks in total anonymity, without knowing who is submitting them in any traceable way. I do not know whether or not WikiLeaks finished implementing that system or if the documents in question were submitted via that mechanism. I do know that such systems are in use elsewhere by actual journalists.
However, if WikiLeaks does have it, then Assange cannot know the truth of his assertion.
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Old and degraded! Starting too soon to a country near you!
It's the horror comedy mystery western movie "Forward into the Past" starring #PresidentTweety as Jason the 13th pushing America down the rabbit hole to meet Puppetmaker Pinocchio Putin on the quiet eastern front! You'll laugh yourself sick, as you watch the Fabulous Four Oranges of Wrath dancing in the monsoon while they sing their worst hit "The Winter, Fall, Summer, and Autumn of our Discontent." Winner of the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony bloody red badges of avarice for supremely hackneyed cultural references in 8 dimensions!
Don't you wish you could wait for it to never begin?
My allergic Trumpitis is highly acute and inflamed this morning!
Welcome to the age of Fake News Nation, where #PresidentTweety McTrumpy is president-for-life for all the winners in the clash of civilizations.
You know? The one where civilization lost.
A couple of predictions:
(1) He will provoke China, hoping for them to invade North Korea. Won't he be surprised when they take South Korea and Taiwan, too? Make China GREAT again!
(2) If he isn't Bill-Cosby-ed out of office RSN, then he'll dump Pence for VP Ivanka! All in the Family, you know. Putin has already endorsed this one, though he's planning to marry Trump's other daughter.
(3) Iran will continue growing into the power vacuum in the Middle East. Look for YUGE deals with Russia and China!
Here's a simple trick. Search for some popular show on YouTube, such as "Bill Maher Real Time" and then select the filter for "Upload date". Your results will include lots of pseudo-pirate computer-pwning hits.
These accounts are created constantly on YouTube and this has been going on for many years. A typical account will have lots of videos that are supposed to be the popular shows, but each video just says YouTube blocked the video and promises the suckers that they can get the actual videos by following the links and installing the software to pwn their computers into zombie networks. Generally annoying, but it especially bothers me that a lot of these videos are popular with children, and targeting innocent children strikes me as a higher level of EVIL, even for the monster that the google has become.
There are some obvious countermeasures, but rather than implement any of them, YouTube has chosen to tolerate, perhaps even encourage, this situation for some years. My conclusion is that YouTube believes they are deriving profits from supporting these criminals. (Perhaps they're selling them bandwidth?) I don't think google employees are naive and innocent as the children who are getting victimized, and it would make me a bad person to hope that their own kids click on the links.
Just reading Googled , another history of the google with emphasis on the "Don't be evil" thing. I think that google needs to hire a chief exorcist.
Just watching another news program and sort of disappointed it didn't get any coverage. The last few days had quite a bit of coverage about a new and quite small orbit-capable rocket, though the payload is quite small, on the order of 3 kg. There were several stories before the launch, and then some reports of the failure. (The early reports suggest a telemetry failure?)
It's already seriously out of date. It appears there were 9 of the 12 moonwalkers alive around 2010 and we're now down to 6. Just reviewed the Wikipedia page, and the two youngest are 81 and the two oldest are now 86. The middle prediction of 2030 is looking quite optimistic at this time.
I quite agree with your opening, though I would go farther. I would even say that good ideas are plentiful, practically an inexhaustible resource.
The rest of your reply shows a highly fractured interpretation of what I wrote, but I'm getting quite accustomed to people twisting things to their own mental convenience (and on my interpretation I've largely discounted your reply as unrelated to what I actually think, even if I wrote unclearly (which I doubt)). On Slashdot that twisting often involves burning straw men arguments. I certainly don't think "complete" is equivalent to "perfect". Or perhaps I should just agree with you that there is no "perfect", even in project proposals. No skin off my nose since it has no relation to my suggestion. Well, on second thought I admit it would be nice if the project proposals were perfect, but I certainly have no such expectation. I think the metric of sufficient goodness would be that enough people want to support the project. (One obvious response to a proven lack of funding is to improve the proposal and try again.)
Perhaps it would be better to suggest that my presentation could be taken as a constructive suggestion to improve some of the flaws in crowd funding? At least all of the crowdfunding websites I've investigated suffer from problems that might be addressed by this approach to adding accountability. The problem I have with that suggestion is that I'm approaching the problem from the perspectives of modular software design and cost recovery, with various tweaks such as the metric of a successful architect or lawyer applied to programmers who choose to adopt it. There is quite a bit of research that supports the claim that people enjoy their work more when they have more control over it, and even though some people claim they care only about the salary. (There's also a chronological problem in that most of my suggestion predates my first encounter with Kickstarter.)
Or maybe you are upset that I reject the purist (and non-monetary) philosophy of Stallman? Sorry, but I don't think a pledge of poverty is the only way to be a better person. (Amusingly enough, one part of my suggestion was strongly influenced by a constructive email exchange with rms himself, but so far there is no credit to be shared. Actually, based on that exchange, he'd probably reject it.)
As I see it, the real problem is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, but only in the literal sense. The idiomatic interpretation is quite misleading. These days I have become so casual I just find it amusing to watch the world spin along its increasingly crazy course. #PresidentTweety, for example.
Not sure if you regarded it as a constructive suggestion about hiring contractors, but if you are so wealthy, then I'm glad to send you my congratulations. Even more so if the congratulations would get some money donated to some cause that might make the world better.
Z^3
That's a broken financial model. The intersection of people with the capabilities, ideas, enthusiasm, and available time is extremely small. Actually, the highly skilled people are least likely to be available because they are most likely to be working already.
My apparently crazy idea is that we need better financial models first. My favorite pipe dream is a kind of a crowd-funding model around clear project proposals. The proposals could be hammered out in group discussions, but the projects should be complete in terms of resources (such as people), budget, schedule, test plans, and, to my way of thinking most importantly, success criteria. At that point people who are interested in using the software would be able to buy "charity shares", and if enough people agree to make the budget, then the project would get the money and charge forward. The donors would get to use the software and even be listed as donors (if they want to be).
Why would programmers want to do it that way? For more control over their own work, either in helping to prepare project proposals they want to work on or in picking projects they want to join.
In case it isn't obvious, I think the same approach could even be used for such websites as Slashdot, though you need to add more project types. Not just feature development, but also ongoing costs and support projects are needed. The system should be designed so that an unfunded feature is only partly disabled, but without breaking the entire system.
Snowden embarrassed the Obama administration. As much as I think he should be pardoned and let back onto US soil, Obama won't do it. Trump certainly won't either.
Lets live in reality people.
After reviewing all of the "insightful" moderated posts, I was saddened that this tidbit was one of the best. Talk about shallow insight. *sigh* The lack of "funny" posts was also evidence of the departure of the wits of yore.
Also did a bunch of searches for rational argument for or against the pardon, using a bunch of keywords. Only one feint anywhere near the actual topic. Yeah, I admit Nixon's pardon really broke the mold and invalidated any notion of rules or precedents limiting presidential pardons. Still, that isn't too important as regards Snowden.
I'm convinced Snowden is a sincere whistle-blower and a patsy who was spotted and manipulated by relying on his high principles. On that basis, he did not release (to the journalists) any information that the NSA hadn't decided to release. Watching out for moles is really HIGH on the list of priorities, and if they didn't spot Snowden as a potential risk LONG before he did anything, then there is NO competence within the NSA, and I can't believe that.
I'm convinced they keep track of suspicious employees, where "suspicious" in this context basically means "highly principled". As soon as any such employee starts doing anything like collecting information, they switch the universe to "reveal" exactly what they want to reveal. Some of it is legit, some of it is disinformation, but NONE of it is anywhere near the really dark parts of the NSA. Everything Snowden saw was stuff they were quite willing to reveal, largely for the intimidation value. I'm not saying Snowden is stupid, but in this case he was played as a special kind of useful idiot.
Now there was one more step involved. They wanted to make a major example of Snowden, but Putin interfered. Not for the benefit of the USA. For Putin's own purposes.
By the way, I have a little prediction. I think Snowden is about to be arrested and delivered to #PresidentTweety as a little inauguration present. He's outlived his usefulness and even become something of an embarrassment. The spin is about to tear your head off.
Disclaimer: I must be nuts. I even think that China may decide to take advantage of the apprentice to seize Taiwan. Talk about a golden shower of opportunity.
Been here (and away and now back) for a few years and never noticed. I do sometimes comment on the TFS, but never wanted to quote it, basically taking it for granted that everyone participating in the conversation had to start by seeing it.
Usually when I see an apparently floating quote, it comes from an AC comment. Years ago my settings were "gentle" so I could see them, but these years I stopped wasting time with ACs. If the comment is sufficiently interesting, then I might look for the AC, and in this case I was trying to assess if there was some basis for an "insightful" mod. As the joke goes, there was no "there" there, nor was there any prior AC comment to be found.
Maybe you can explain the basis for regarding that top-level comment as insightful? I still don't see it. His [770223's] opinion is that the price was too high, but his surprise seems lacking in insight. Perhaps more importantly, it isn't his large amount of money. Actually I'm surprised, too, but I'd try to articulate the surprise in terms of the potential value of the email addresses and the reduction of that value due to spammers (though his "insightful" comment didn't even reference the breach that may produce more spam). I don't even see where my 'articulation' of surprise in relation to the value of the email addresses would have risen to the level of "insight".
Then you introduced the new issue of paid membership. Sore topic. I have NEVER felt that Slashdot offered much value, but I have FREQUENTLY constructively suggested ways to make it more valuable. I would be delighted if Slashdot was so valuable that I eagerly wanted to send some of my money. Judging by the responses, it would appear that most of the members of Slashdot must be so independently wealthy that money is no concern of theirs. I can only regret my relative poverty.
ZZ
Fingerprints are not used for authentication, right?
Not sure about the States, but in Japan many of the banks have biometric devices on the ATMs to read fingerprints. From the placement of the devices, I would say the thumb is unlikely to be used, and I would suppose that most people use their index finger.
Also there are a lot of smartphones with fingerprint recognition, and I have two computers with it (though I'm not using it because I don't regard it as secure).
Damn, I only wish you were a company so I could sell your shares short.
If you weren't a walking dick, then I might have thanked you for calling it to my attention.
Oh well, another pointless and closed "discussion" on today's humorous Slashdot.
Read it, but didn't make the connection (and can't even recall ever wanting to directly quote the summary).
I'd apologize for my ignorance, but you're such a rude person I won't bother. I can only hope you've never been asked to teach anyone anything. EVER.
Speaking from experience, walking dicks make lousy teachers, and I was just lucky to encounter relatively few of them while in academia. The sad part was that the dicks tended to rise into administrative positions of minor power. An improvement insofar as I'm rather confident that they never liked being in the classroom in the first place?
According to the regulatory filing, the changes will take place after the sale of its core business is completed with Verizon for roughly $4.8 billion.
I'm genuinely surprised it's worth that much.
Eh, what is supposed to be funny about that, and where is the quoted comment you [770223] are apparently replying to? Maybe it's funny in context, but the first reply actually deserved a "funny" mod.
Moot to me. Never get mod points.
Best way to report security issues and problems? Are you daft?
1. They don't want to be bothered
2. They want to "look good" as cheaply as possibly
3. No liability
Is it worth the expansion? Here on Slashdot? I must be daft, but I'll say a bit more:
As regards #1 and many years of attempting to report problems, I can assure you that they [various organizations who, in theory, might be responsible for protecting your security as customers and users] are NOT grateful. These days the trend has become pigeonholing incoming reports to conveniently shaped holes, and it must be the fault of the black-hat hackers and scammers that they keep violating the RULES and keep failing to fit in the proper holes!
As regards #2 the main goal is to do as little as possible while claiming as much credit as possible. Control the costs and regard it as a marketing issue, but (just in case you haven't noticed) the marketing people don't know much and care even less about security.
As regards #3, I think the primary blame goes to Microsoft. They didn't invent liability evasion, but I think they perfected it with the EULA and related licenses. If the companies selling you software had any real liability for bugs (and especially for contagiously and outrageously harmful security flaws), then you can be assured they would stop selling so much pretty garbage.
Ah, a rational response that actually noticed the logical gap. Not a deliberate omission, but I also noticed it after I posted.
Yes, but... If you were a Russian spy seeking to leave disinformation on WikiLeaks, why wouldn't you use such a system if it were available? The largest risk of the propaganda campaign would be that it gets traced back to such a source, and you're going to have a really hard time convincing me that anyone, let along the Russians, should trust Assange that much.
However, my main reaction to the activity on this topic is to regard it as evidence of Russian trolls hard at work. Can't decide whether or not to be suspicious of you on the basis of your comment... I've seen some comments that led me to suspect old and dormant Slashdot accounts had been targeted for acquisition and abuse by the trolls.
Oh dear. I hadn't thought of something as obvious as cracking his password. We can only hope that he has been strongly persuaded to use REALLY hard passwords.
Oh fer sure. Since he knows so much about "the cyber" I'm sure it's nothing guessable like "IdLoveToBangMyDaughter" or "password" or "1234".
They strongly persuaded him to include a number and punctuation. It's "IdLoveToBangMy2Daughters!".
Obviously a bad joke, but I seriously hope that his saved passwords are complicated because he doesn't have to enter them very often. Still, if I were a hostile country I would give a high priority to getting two minutes alone with Trump's Twitter device.
Good joke, but the punchline is deeper than it seems. Bad economic models on the Linux side are why most people are still using inferior OSes (AKA Windows). I don't want to make a goodness call on macOS, but Apple's economic models are obviously much better than anything Linux has.
I'm such a lightweight Linux user I didn't even realize that they were all (save one) Ubuntu based, but I've just been using the main Ubuntu stream for some years now on a few of my boxen... I wish one of the categories had been international support because the flaky Japanese support in Ubuntu has become my biggest problem with using that OS for my minimal needs.
(I only have two 'pure' Ubuntu boxen, one multi-booter and a couple of VMs. Most of the time I'm using Windows 10, Android, or macOS.)
I'd give you a positive mod if I ever saw one to give. I forgot to mention the puppet effect. So easily manipulated.
Oh dear. I hadn't thought of something as obvious as cracking his password. We can only hope that he has been strongly persuaded to use REALLY hard passwords.
I was actually thinking along the lines of someone pwning his Twitter device and watching him in the process of composing tweets. The smart someone would consider the obvious economic ramifications and prepare a response pending the "Tweet" button. In the example I cited, someone would prepare to short the Japanese auto makers as soon as the focus of the tweet became clear, and then commit the money as soon as Trump committed the tweet. If you had bought the appropriate shorts more quickly than anyone else could react, you would make LOTS of money. Such a safe bet that the only limit on your profits would be how much money you had to play with. (Multiply by the number of the Donald's tweets with economic links.)
At the time I wrote my comment I didn't even realize how bad it was. Apparently Toyota's market cap fell by a BILLION dollars in the first five minutes after the tweet. I was commenting based on the NHK news story that evening, which was reporting the percentage drops in the stock prices for each of the makers. I remember that Toyota lost the most and Nissan was the last and smallest one, so I just took the lowest drop (Nissan) against the total market cap of the companies I could remember and came up with the $4-billion value. I thought it was amusing or ironic that the tweet's effects were larger than Trump's actual value (before the election as estimated by Forbes).
Hear, hear. I'd give you the second "insightful" if I ever saw a mod point to give.
(If I understand the [broken] moderation system, the first mod point has an advantage in setting the direction, but the mod doesn't really become visible until you get a second mod. Ergo, I only saw your legitimately insightful comment as a reply to my comment (since I normally search for "funny" and "insightful").)
Thanks, and if I ever got a mod point, I might give such a comment a "funny" (in the absence of a more precise mod).
Interestingly enough, in the book I read about WikiLeaks, it said that at that time they were working on infrastructure to make it possible to submit documents to WikiLeaks in total anonymity, without knowing who is submitting them in any traceable way. I do not know whether or not WikiLeaks finished implementing that system or if the documents in question were submitted via that mechanism. I do know that such systems are in use elsewhere by actual journalists.
However, if WikiLeaks does have it, then Assange cannot know the truth of his assertion.