I don't need to 'think through' the fact that you're still basing your shitty opinion on basically nothing. Good thing that everything you say is meaningless and bears no weight upon the actual issue for anyone actually involved. You're certainly not suited to adjudicate anything, you're full of bias.
Not sure how you come to this conclusion, so now some hacker knows I bought a burger at xyz, how does that expose me more?
Because you used it AT ALL. They hack the payment system anywhere along the data stream, they get your payment information. Functionally similar to credit card skimmers installed anywhere that takes a debit or credit card. When Chipotle got hit that was the tipping point for me, they breached the locations I ate at. Therefore the more you use plastic (or any other electronic funds transfer) the greater your risk some system security breach will put your payment information in some criminals' hands. Use cash for everything you can and you reduce your risk. I've yet to come up with a reloadable debit card I can use for online purchases (which would only ever hold the value needed for various immediate transactions) but when I find one that'll take care of the other side of the equation, because if that gets compromised somehow I can ditch it and get a different one. Sadly my credit union does not offer one-time-use VISA account numbers like some do, that would likely work also. I'm not some whack conspiracy theorist I'm being as practical as I can about this without just throwing up my hands and giving up like pretty much everyone else does. It's bad enough that at least 50% of us (if not more) are potentially screwed because of Equifax, I'm not going to just throw in the towel and accept getting my bank account drained and identity stolen if I can reduce or eliminate the risk. If I have to go back to having my paychecks physically mailed to me, cashing them, and paying all my bills in person with cash, then I'll do that if things get bad enough, but in the meantime I'll do what I can to reduce my risk and exposure to data security breaches ruining me.
Yeah sure you read the entire article and not just what's on/., sure you did. Regardless you're still making a judgement out of your ass, knowing essentially nothing. Knock that shit off.
Outside influences into our elections, likely still from Russia, have one main goal: to foment chaos, discord, and divisiveness within the United States, which weakens us all AS AN ENTIRE NATION. If you had even half a brain you could see that.
What makes you think that one paragraph is a god's-eye view, completely omniscient, leaving out nothing? You're making a judgement on someone you've never met and never will meet, about a situation you did not and will not ever witness with your own eyes, based on a single account. Tell us, do you work for Amazon? If you do then we have a better idea what some of the problems there are.
it's just way more convenient and safer to work with plastic
You know, I'm really getting sick and tired of hearing this scared-rabbit nonsense from people. Sure, if you're walking around with thousands of dollars in your pocket then you're stupid, but I pull $100 at a time, unless I need more immediately, and I have ZERO WORRIES about carrying the money around with me. People carried cash around for hudreds of years and they didn't all get robbed constantly. You people and you sky-is-falling crap should STFU already. Especially right now, the more you use plastic, the more you are EXPOSED to risk from some data breach, as well as not having every damned purchase you make tracked by someone (or several someones). Carrying a modest amount of cash for in-person purchases is actually SAFER than plastic for those reasons.
They need to get on the phone with Elon Musk or at least someone who can provide them with energy storage to cover the surplus they'll generate during peak daylight hours.
I just can't wait for the fun and frivolity when someone figures out some flaw or hack in their 'banking robots' that allows someone to scam a bank out of millions.
Honestly anyone who takes any news source, no matter how credible, 100% without applying some critical thinking and a good-sized dollop of skepticism isn't doing it right anyway.
I actually have a fair amount of respect for the NPR news department, but how is it that this old, busted well-known fact is has eluded them this long? Paid shills have been a Thing for a long time now, and if you read online reviews at all you learn to look for the negative reviews from people, not just the positive ones, and apply some critical thinking to all the above.
To begin to solve the 'fake news' problem (and it is a problem) people should dump 'social media', or at least limit it to people the actually know. Fake 'friends' on social media are at the core of the problem; why would anyone believe what someone you've never met or even spoken to tells you? Using 'social media' as a news source is just plain dumb and people need to learn to not do it anymore.
Consider this: Monsanto created GMO seeds that were protected Intellectual Property, then had to sue some farmers, in adjacent fields, who weren't purchasing them because cross polination had migrated the GMO genes into their crops. Also consider this: corporations spend many many millions of dollars developing GMO versions of plants, and since they aren't non-profits, they (and more to the point their investors and stockholders) expect timely return-on-investment -- therefore they'll rush things to market, much as Monsanto did, regardless of possible consequences. Pharmaceutical companies do this every day, having their legal departments weigh possible lawsuits due to bad reactions or death resulting from use of a drug against overall profitability. The difference here is that GMO crops are literally (as described above) the genie released from the bottle; once it's out in the wild, you're not getting it back, it's out there for good. So considering all the above, what makes you think that a profit-oriented company, armed with a device and method to allow them to modify the genes of pretty much anything, aren't going to rush something to market that may have unintended and disasterous long-term effects once it's out in Earth's biosphere? I personally used to worry about all the GMO crops that were being introduced but I don't waste the energy anymore because it's too late now, they're out there, and if in another 20 or 30 years we see some terrible unintended side-effect of the gene editing that causes a major disaster, then what are we to do? Meanwhile the EU is being smarter about it than our own legislators here in the U.S. have been (or less corrupted by corporate influences?) and are thinking about the possible long-term effects, and doing what they can to make it as safe as possible without totally stifling innovation. The fact that some bad actors in non-EU countries may do reckless things with the technology is irrelevant, and at best we can hope that there aren't scientists out there who are willing to be totally irresponsible and reckless with the technology themselves. It may all be for nothing but I applaud the EU for being careful where it counts.
I'm beginning to think that we're reaching the limits of what we can do with the laser lithography method of silicon IC creation. For instance look at the problems Intel is having with 10nm fabrication right now. Perhaps the way forward is straight out of science fiction: a matter compiler/3D printer-like approach, where an integrated circuit is built up an atom or a molecule at a time? Pure imagination on my part, but is it really out of our reach?
Buddy, I'm amazed that I'm at +5 when I brought the subject up, I usually get crucified as a tinfoil-hat-wearing nutjob for bringing it up. Makes me think people are starting to wise up finally.
With the current state of data security everywhere in the world, the world being 'cashless', where everything is paid electronically even if it's a small-change purchase, is roughly equivalent to just walking around bad neighborhoods with $100 bills hanging out of your back pocket, it's not a matter of if you'll get robbed, it's a matter of when you'll get robbed. Fight against this 'cashless' bullshit, it's a bad idea.
Only us plebian nobody Poor could possibly be affected, so why should The Rich give a flying fuck about us? We can all go bankrupt and get our identities stolen so far as those cocksucking bastards are concerned, they don't have to care because all their shit was protected to the Nth degree. So rather than spank their other Rich buddies that run Equifax they just ignore the whole thing. Fuck them, sideways with a rusty chainsaw. It almost makes me wish Russian and Chinese hackers would crash the whole thing and destroy it, then while chaos ensues we can find these Equifax bastards and cut their gods-be-damned heads off.
Well, they may well have had a gun in the house for all we know, but the cops certainly had guns, and they didn't shoot the kid -- so while he's a minor therefore they're not releasing his name or other details, we do know one thing for sure: he wasn't black, otherwise he'd be dead now.
The solution is just to wait it out. Give our species another 10,000 years and we might just evolve past racial bias -- assuming we don't destroy the planet one way or another before then, or cause our own extinction-level event.
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Nice to see some people in this country aren't so dependent on high technology that they can still operate without it.
I don't need to 'think through' the fact that you're still basing your shitty opinion on basically nothing. Good thing that everything you say is meaningless and bears no weight upon the actual issue for anyone actually involved. You're certainly not suited to adjudicate anything, you're full of bias.
Not sure how you come to this conclusion, so now some hacker knows I bought a burger at xyz, how does that expose me more?
Because you used it AT ALL. They hack the payment system anywhere along the data stream, they get your payment information. Functionally similar to credit card skimmers installed anywhere that takes a debit or credit card. When Chipotle got hit that was the tipping point for me, they breached the locations I ate at. Therefore the more you use plastic (or any other electronic funds transfer) the greater your risk some system security breach will put your payment information in some criminals' hands. Use cash for everything you can and you reduce your risk. I've yet to come up with a reloadable debit card I can use for online purchases (which would only ever hold the value needed for various immediate transactions) but when I find one that'll take care of the other side of the equation, because if that gets compromised somehow I can ditch it and get a different one. Sadly my credit union does not offer one-time-use VISA account numbers like some do, that would likely work also. I'm not some whack conspiracy theorist I'm being as practical as I can about this without just throwing up my hands and giving up like pretty much everyone else does. It's bad enough that at least 50% of us (if not more) are potentially screwed because of Equifax, I'm not going to just throw in the towel and accept getting my bank account drained and identity stolen if I can reduce or eliminate the risk. If I have to go back to having my paychecks physically mailed to me, cashing them, and paying all my bills in person with cash, then I'll do that if things get bad enough, but in the meantime I'll do what I can to reduce my risk and exposure to data security breaches ruining me.
Yeah sure you read the entire article and not just what's on /., sure you did. Regardless you're still making a judgement out of your ass, knowing essentially nothing. Knock that shit off.
'nuff said.
Outside influences into our elections, likely still from Russia, have one main goal: to foment chaos, discord, and divisiveness within the United States, which weakens us all AS AN ENTIRE NATION. If you had even half a brain you could see that.
What makes you think that one paragraph is a god's-eye view, completely omniscient, leaving out nothing? You're making a judgement on someone you've never met and never will meet, about a situation you did not and will not ever witness with your own eyes, based on a single account. Tell us, do you work for Amazon? If you do then we have a better idea what some of the problems there are.
nuclear is finished
Oh well since YOU say so.. STFU. We need to get over the whole nuclear boogieman thing and embrace it.
it's just way more convenient and safer to work with plastic
You know, I'm really getting sick and tired of hearing this scared-rabbit nonsense from people. Sure, if you're walking around with thousands of dollars in your pocket then you're stupid, but I pull $100 at a time, unless I need more immediately, and I have ZERO WORRIES about carrying the money around with me. People carried cash around for hudreds of years and they didn't all get robbed constantly. You people and you sky-is-falling crap should STFU already. Especially right now, the more you use plastic, the more you are EXPOSED to risk from some data breach, as well as not having every damned purchase you make tracked by someone (or several someones). Carrying a modest amount of cash for in-person purchases is actually SAFER than plastic for those reasons.
They need to get on the phone with Elon Musk or at least someone who can provide them with energy storage to cover the surplus they'll generate during peak daylight hours.
"whatever can be automated will be automated."
I just can't wait for the fun and frivolity when someone figures out some flaw or hack in their 'banking robots' that allows someone to scam a bank out of millions.
Honestly anyone who takes any news source, no matter how credible, 100% without applying some critical thinking and a good-sized dollop of skepticism isn't doing it right anyway.
I actually have a fair amount of respect for the NPR news department, but how is it that this old, busted well-known fact is has eluded them this long? Paid shills have been a Thing for a long time now, and if you read online reviews at all you learn to look for the negative reviews from people, not just the positive ones, and apply some critical thinking to all the above.
To begin to solve the 'fake news' problem (and it is a problem) people should dump 'social media', or at least limit it to people the actually know. Fake 'friends' on social media are at the core of the problem; why would anyone believe what someone you've never met or even spoken to tells you? Using 'social media' as a news source is just plain dumb and people need to learn to not do it anymore.
Consider this: Monsanto created GMO seeds that were protected Intellectual Property, then had to sue some farmers, in adjacent fields, who weren't purchasing them because cross polination had migrated the GMO genes into their crops. Also consider this: corporations spend many many millions of dollars developing GMO versions of plants, and since they aren't non-profits, they (and more to the point their investors and stockholders) expect timely return-on-investment -- therefore they'll rush things to market, much as Monsanto did, regardless of possible consequences. Pharmaceutical companies do this every day, having their legal departments weigh possible lawsuits due to bad reactions or death resulting from use of a drug against overall profitability. The difference here is that GMO crops are literally (as described above) the genie released from the bottle; once it's out in the wild, you're not getting it back, it's out there for good. So considering all the above, what makes you think that a profit-oriented company, armed with a device and method to allow them to modify the genes of pretty much anything, aren't going to rush something to market that may have unintended and disasterous long-term effects once it's out in Earth's biosphere? I personally used to worry about all the GMO crops that were being introduced but I don't waste the energy anymore because it's too late now, they're out there, and if in another 20 or 30 years we see some terrible unintended side-effect of the gene editing that causes a major disaster, then what are we to do? Meanwhile the EU is being smarter about it than our own legislators here in the U.S. have been (or less corrupted by corporate influences?) and are thinking about the possible long-term effects, and doing what they can to make it as safe as possible without totally stifling innovation. The fact that some bad actors in non-EU countries may do reckless things with the technology is irrelevant, and at best we can hope that there aren't scientists out there who are willing to be totally irresponsible and reckless with the technology themselves. It may all be for nothing but I applaud the EU for being careful where it counts.
I'm beginning to think that we're reaching the limits of what we can do with the laser lithography method of silicon IC creation. For instance look at the problems Intel is having with 10nm fabrication right now. Perhaps the way forward is straight out of science fiction: a matter compiler/3D printer-like approach, where an integrated circuit is built up an atom or a molecule at a time? Pure imagination on my part, but is it really out of our reach?
Buddy, I'm amazed that I'm at +5 when I brought the subject up, I usually get crucified as a tinfoil-hat-wearing nutjob for bringing it up. Makes me think people are starting to wise up finally.
With the current state of data security everywhere in the world, the world being 'cashless', where everything is paid electronically even if it's a small-change purchase, is roughly equivalent to just walking around bad neighborhoods with $100 bills hanging out of your back pocket, it's not a matter of if you'll get robbed, it's a matter of when you'll get robbed. Fight against this 'cashless' bullshit, it's a bad idea.
Only us plebian nobody Poor could possibly be affected, so why should The Rich give a flying fuck about us? We can all go bankrupt and get our identities stolen so far as those cocksucking bastards are concerned, they don't have to care because all their shit was protected to the Nth degree. So rather than spank their other Rich buddies that run Equifax they just ignore the whole thing. Fuck them, sideways with a rusty chainsaw. It almost makes me wish Russian and Chinese hackers would crash the whole thing and destroy it, then while chaos ensues we can find these Equifax bastards and cut their gods-be-damned heads off.
Go look up 'Dominionism' and 'Dominionists', but don't yell at me when you get sick to your stomach. That's what, in part, is driving this bullshit.
I might also entertain the idea of them being licensed/registered so everyone knows who owns it.
Of course the real problem is how are you going to enforce any of this when you can't really detect it?
Well, they may well have had a gun in the house for all we know, but the cops certainly had guns, and they didn't shoot the kid -- so while he's a minor therefore they're not releasing his name or other details, we do know one thing for sure: he wasn't black, otherwise he'd be dead now.
The year 1018 called, they want their Signs and Portents back.
'Our species' == homo sapiens. Prove me wrong; I see clear evidence of it every single day in the news.
..but Rick, not all humans are racist!
Sure. But it's far from being stamped out now isn't it?
The solution is just to wait it out. Give our species another 10,000 years and we might just evolve past racial bias -- assuming we don't destroy the planet one way or another before then, or cause our own extinction-level event.