They have fewer customers than MIcrosoft but are much, much more profitable. You can do just fine thank you selling a $2000 PC instead of a $500 one.
And the ruling calss don't need customers when they can claim everything for themselves. The 99% will fall over themselves backward to get a piece of the scraps. They'll be the new kings, deciding who lives and who dies based on who gets to work for them (and who gets food, shelter, health care, etc). And they'll have an automated military to enforce their will. This isn't a hard thing to grasp. You just have to think like a ruler and not like an employee.
Jeeesh... Methinks it's time for a new version of Godwin's law: As an thread on slashdot grows longer, the probability of some cellar dweller coming up with a comparison involving Apple being the root of all evil approaches 1.
It hates freedom of speech, it hates people, everyday people being involved in politics. It has nothing but contempt for them.
The most powerful influence in the EU are still elected governments and also the people who not only get to elect a EU parliament but also get to influence EU decision making through referendums on important decisions. If anybody doubts that take a look at Brexit where a democratically elected government is in the process of leaving the EU (assuming they ever manage to clear up the slow motion train wreck they have made of Brexit and get on with it). Alt-right pundits keep calling the EU a 'tyranny' but I fail to see how that the EU is so much less democratic than the British parliament with its first past the post system where 37% of the population voted a government into power that enjoys a parliamentary majority, not to mention the UK's famous appointed aristocratic peers, very democratic that. How about the US system where the runner up can become president and the congressional elections are riddled with gerrymandering and voter suppression. I don't think the EU is a poster child for democracy but then neither are many parliaments, governments and even presidencies in Europe and the Americas.
This incredibly rare set of circumstances is exactly why we should happily and unquestioningly give our freedoms and privacy away to corporations and to the government!
Not really that rare, this is just a variation on an old police tactic, bait cars. They have been a great success in Germany/Poland to combat gangs of Russian car thieves, and I'm sure in many other places too. I fail to see why this could not be done more often if the in-car systems has a manufacturer maintenance access point and the owner allows it. All you need is a positive signal from the seat detector used by the seat-belt alarm to makes sure your idiot is in the car, if there is a dash/driver cam, even better. Then you just have to be sure the car isn't moving which is where GPS and speedometer readings come in. Once you have that, you can lock the gopnik in the car until the cops arrive and lock his Russian ass up. If the thought of this makes you uncomfortable you are free to either get a car where the manufacturer only has access after you hand him a cryptographic key or just buy a car that cannot be remoted. My self, I'm not planning to break the law so I don't really care although if my car has have remote access although, being an- computer nerd, I'd obviously want the connection to be encrypted and secure.
The UK masquerades as a democracy, and has for a long time. In reality it's the most hilariously over the top nanny state, The politicians there seem to make up laws for the sake of making up laws. I often wonder if this is just to give the illusion that a politician is doing something because fixing real problems is too hard.
will be for law abiding citizens and low grade criminals/terrorists/... The real bad boys will know how to and will use good encryption. But then I can't see that the food standards agency would be interested in real, hard, nasty people. This is why people are calling Theresa May the Pry Minister.
Oh, I think they are calling her way worse names than that.
These backdoors will be exploited by criminals. Hopefully IT companies won't comply to this madness.
You mean someone other than the people who work in the uk government, like that bunch of criminals isnt enough?
More importantly I suspect this will quite quickly drive many large businesses out of London. Those companies rely on their secrets, the prospect of any bored intern "with their heart in the right place" being able to send their every dirty secret to the daily mail almost certainly will gaurantee those already concerned by brexit relocate their offices sharpish.
Relax boys, it's all being done in the name of freedom.
I found cheapo USB chargers from Amazon have huge inrush currents and make big sparks when plugging in. UL listed power supplies have inrush current limiting which prevents this.
A guy I know who makes charging circuits told me you can get up to 30 volt spikes with some of those cheep-ass chargers off Alibaba. The same goes for USB connectors in cars. I've fried to mobile phones, one by connecting it to one of those cigarette plug to USB adapters, the other one by plugging it into a built in USB charger in my car.
Does a bakery, as a private company, have the right to say "No cakes that we don't like"?
Does a family-owned store, as a privately held corporation, have the right to say "We won't pay for medical services that we believe are morally equivalent to murder"?
Many Americans think the answer to those should be "yes" -- and if you say no to this, but yes to Twitter, then you should think very carefully about how much sense it makes to draw the line where you draw it.
Ok, fair enough but in that case I reserve the right to refuse service to Donald Trump supporters on the grounds that I will not suffer bigots in my establishment. Not that I expect them to take it well. When they are taking stands like this the alt-right tends to see it as their basic human right to refuse service to homosexuals, people they perceive to be of inferior races or women who want to undergo medical procedures these people don't like so but when somebody were to refuse to sell them something they really need for wearing one of Trump's red caps or a t-shirt with a racist slogan on it I'm pretty sure they'd be outraged. Personally I think it is a huge mistake to ban Trump on Twitter, he is his own worst enemy, his undisciplined utterances have already made the United States a laughing stock and they are what will eventually bring Trump down. To quote Napoleon, you should never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake or in this case many, many, mistakes with monotonous regularity. I know the MythBusters successfully polished a turd but it was a small one. The Republicans/Tea-Party/alt-right are trying to polish one of the biggest wettest turds in the known universe and I'm not expecting them to succeed.
Seriously - I want to hear from an avid trump supporter on how this - as well as his other cabinet appointments is draining the swamp (of special interest lobbyists).
I don't think any of them thought that far ahead. Do you expect logic and reason from people who come up with a heckle like 'keep your government hands off my Medicare.'?
And Obama had this power too. Don't remember quite how far back this goes, but pretty sure Bush was able to do it too.
And EVERY president going back to the start of the Emergency Broadcast System, since 1963, has had the ability to commandeer all airwaves as well. It was accidentally set off once, in 1971.
Meh.
Next story.
But Trump is the first one who'll use this to market christmas ornaments.
Just thought I would point that out to any passing FBI operative who thinks that they can go interfering with remote devices without considering international borders.
You may just find yourself falling foul of international treaties initiated by your own government that class this sort of action as cyber-warfare. I just hope the government above the target of your hack is understanding and decides not to retaliate with physical force to your electronic attack.
I for one would find it an interesting exercise in jurisprudence for the FBI to be indicted in a foreign court for cyberwarfare.
I think we can rely upon president Trump to tear up every last one of those treaties.
No, we just got a majority is all. Current politics means there are two and only two positions on every issue, and legislators usually vote in lock step with their party overlords. 50%+1 is all you need. Thus one side wins or the other side wins, always, since a tie means that the side opposed is the winner. If congress did not pass this law then perhaps you could say tthat congress managed to agree to not pass the law?
Your representative democracy is badly broken. Same goes for the entire electoral process.
It's going to have to be in all in french now, right? And, aren't some of their harassment laws much worse? Some of this internet archive certainly offends some minority.
True enough. Apparently some of the Internet Archive's content offends human orangutang hybrids.
Governments have the power to get root certificates in which case they can man-in-the-middle anything that relies on this, which is a hell of a lot of software. Browsers being the most prominent but tons of software depends on X509 certs with globally trusted roots.
Huh??? a certificate signed by a CA contains only the public key so unless your certificate authority generated your private key for you and stored it the root certificate won't do the NSA a damn bit of good.
You don't need to crack the encryption. They have access to the unencrypted endpoints.
That only works for endpoints they have already compromised. What the security services are currently more interested in is something completely different, they are interested in using this data for threat detection and to identify potential assets. If you have ever watched that CBS show 'Persons of interest', that kind of an AI with that kind of access is the wet dream of the NSA, GHQ, FSB and every other security service with a bit of ambition. For that purpose they are monitoring, warehousing and data mining enormous volumes of (currently) unencrypted data. If every byte of traffic on the internet were encrypted as of tomorrow they'd have immense trouble doing this. Even if we assume that they have access to every root certificate every person's primary key and can generally decrypt everything, simply the added computational cost of decryption such enormous amounts of data would make their operation much more expensive and headache inducing because they'd now have to obtain enormous numbers of private keys or crack encryption before the data is even in a state where they can start monitoring, warehousing and data mining it. This would seriously inhibit the ability of security services to detect hidden or emerging threats, actors which the security services had no idea that they even exist and that, if you remember, is one of the primary purposes of all of this monitoring, detecting threats as they emerge. The ability the security services gained to monitor in an Orwellian fashion every move every citizen makes is just gravy, a bonus (albeit a very very useful one) which I'm sure they use with wild abandon to blackmail citizens whenever needed.
You're right. Hillary sells $353,400 dinners to Wall street bankers who can afford it, while Trump sells Chinese trinkets to his ignorant American consumers.
Hillary takes money from the rich... Trump takes money from the poor...
It's going to be a long 4 years watching some people who aren't rich figure out how bad they've got it.
Well the Donald is president and that makes him several orders of magnitude more interesting than Hillary. You can bet your bottom dollar that the fact that he is merchandising the hell out of the venerable office of the President of the United States with cheap Chinese trinkets after running on a platform of protectionism, trade wars, 'Make America great again' and 'Bring American jobs back from China' will attract more attention that Hillary Clinton's dinners. You just got a preview of what every single day in the life of Donald Trump and those who voted for him will look like for the next four years. That's what freedom of speech means, you are allowed to lampoon people for being hypocrites and doing stupid stuff. So suck it up and look on the bright side, the official US presidential ornament for Christmas 2017/18 will be proudly handmade in America and it will cost $299.99 thanks to higher labour costs and the ongoing trade wars that Mr. Trump has promised us will be raging by then.
Why is it not racist to mock Trump on his hair, his skin color, his small hands?
Because "bad spray tan" and "ridiculous hair extensions" is not a race.
And the "small hands" thing is generally just needling him since he's bizarrely insecure about the size of his hands.
Trump, much like many other public figures with an elevated sense of self worth, tends to keep these jokes alive with his reaction to them. I bet Bill Maher never dreamt he would get the mileage he got out of that ridiculous orangutan joke. Trump's attorney even sent Maher Trump's short form birth certificate which allowed Maher to demand, oh irony of ironies, that Trump present his long form birth certificate. That joke would have flown off into the ether and been forgotten 10 seconds after it was made if Trump had not raised a stink about it.
Investigative journalism will also make a big comeback, after an 8 year hibernation.
Even if that were true (and IMHO is not) that would do no more than speak volumes about the poor quality of the right wing press. However, the right wing has always proven to be every bit as adept as their left wing colleagues at digging up dirt on people which belies your statement.
Go to the transition website. Use the feature to submit an idea and tell them about H1B abuse. I did. Probably does nothing. Couldn't hurt. Tell them if your company is doing it. Name names and give numbers. I did. Probably does nothing. Couldn't hurt.
Sure it will do something. It'll annoy them until somebody tells them about/dev/null.
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The burn victims?
Heh... Samsung is never going to live down the S7 is it?
....and this was not caught during testing because?
They have fewer customers than MIcrosoft but are much, much more profitable. You can do just fine thank you selling a $2000 PC instead of a $500 one. And the ruling calss don't need customers when they can claim everything for themselves. The 99% will fall over themselves backward to get a piece of the scraps. They'll be the new kings, deciding who lives and who dies based on who gets to work for them (and who gets food, shelter, health care, etc). And they'll have an automated military to enforce their will. This isn't a hard thing to grasp. You just have to think like a ruler and not like an employee.
Jeeesh... Methinks it's time for a new version of Godwin's law: As an thread on slashdot grows longer, the probability of some cellar dweller coming up with a comparison involving Apple being the root of all evil approaches 1.
It hates freedom of speech, it hates people, everyday people being involved in politics. It has nothing but contempt for them .
The most powerful influence in the EU are still elected governments and also the people who not only get to elect a EU parliament but also get to influence EU decision making through referendums on important decisions. If anybody doubts that take a look at Brexit where a democratically elected government is in the process of leaving the EU (assuming they ever manage to clear up the slow motion train wreck they have made of Brexit and get on with it). Alt-right pundits keep calling the EU a 'tyranny' but I fail to see how that the EU is so much less democratic than the British parliament with its first past the post system where 37% of the population voted a government into power that enjoys a parliamentary majority, not to mention the UK's famous appointed aristocratic peers, very democratic that. How about the US system where the runner up can become president and the congressional elections are riddled with gerrymandering and voter suppression. I don't think the EU is a poster child for democracy but then neither are many parliaments, governments and even presidencies in Europe and the Americas.
This incredibly rare set of circumstances is exactly why we should happily and unquestioningly give our freedoms and privacy away to corporations and to the government!
Not really that rare, this is just a variation on an old police tactic, bait cars. They have been a great success in Germany/Poland to combat gangs of Russian car thieves, and I'm sure in many other places too. I fail to see why this could not be done more often if the in-car systems has a manufacturer maintenance access point and the owner allows it. All you need is a positive signal from the seat detector used by the seat-belt alarm to makes sure your idiot is in the car, if there is a dash/driver cam, even better. Then you just have to be sure the car isn't moving which is where GPS and speedometer readings come in. Once you have that, you can lock the gopnik in the car until the cops arrive and lock his Russian ass up. If the thought of this makes you uncomfortable you are free to either get a car where the manufacturer only has access after you hand him a cryptographic key or just buy a car that cannot be remoted. My self, I'm not planning to break the law so I don't really care although if my car has have remote access although, being an- computer nerd, I'd obviously want the connection to be encrypted and secure.
The UK masquerades as a democracy, and has for a long time. In reality it's the most hilariously over the top nanny state, The politicians there seem to make up laws for the sake of making up laws. I often wonder if this is just to give the illusion that a politician is doing something because fixing real problems is too hard.
Stop wondering ... it is.
Look. If you think your populace is too stupid to discern between a clickbait tabloid and real news...
... it is.
will be for law abiding citizens and low grade criminals/terrorists/... The real bad boys will know how to and will use good encryption. But then I can't see that the food standards agency would be interested in real, hard, nasty people. This is why people are calling Theresa May the Pry Minister.
Oh, I think they are calling her way worse names than that.
These backdoors will be exploited by criminals. Hopefully IT companies won't comply to this madness.
You mean someone other than the people who work in the uk government, like that bunch of criminals isnt enough?
More importantly I suspect this will quite quickly drive many large businesses out of London. Those companies rely on their secrets, the prospect of any bored intern "with their heart in the right place" being able to send their every dirty secret to the daily mail almost certainly will gaurantee those already concerned by brexit relocate their offices sharpish.
Relax boys, it's all being done in the name of freedom.
I found cheapo USB chargers from Amazon have huge inrush currents and make big sparks when plugging in. UL listed power supplies have inrush current limiting which prevents this.
A guy I know who makes charging circuits told me you can get up to 30 volt spikes with some of those cheep-ass chargers off Alibaba. The same goes for USB connectors in cars. I've fried to mobile phones, one by connecting it to one of those cigarette plug to USB adapters, the other one by plugging it into a built in USB charger in my car.
Does a bakery, as a private company, have the right to say "No cakes that we don't like"?
Does a family-owned store, as a privately held corporation, have the right to say "We won't pay for medical services that we believe are morally equivalent to murder"?
Many Americans think the answer to those should be "yes" -- and if you say no to this, but yes to Twitter, then you should think very carefully about how much sense it makes to draw the line where you draw it.
Ok, fair enough but in that case I reserve the right to refuse service to Donald Trump supporters on the grounds that I will not suffer bigots in my establishment. Not that I expect them to take it well. When they are taking stands like this the alt-right tends to see it as their basic human right to refuse service to homosexuals, people they perceive to be of inferior races or women who want to undergo medical procedures these people don't like so but when somebody were to refuse to sell them something they really need for wearing one of Trump's red caps or a t-shirt with a racist slogan on it I'm pretty sure they'd be outraged. Personally I think it is a huge mistake to ban Trump on Twitter, he is his own worst enemy, his undisciplined utterances have already made the United States a laughing stock and they are what will eventually bring Trump down. To quote Napoleon, you should never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake or in this case many, many, mistakes with monotonous regularity. I know the MythBusters successfully polished a turd but it was a small one. The Republicans/Tea-Party/alt-right are trying to polish one of the biggest wettest turds in the known universe and I'm not expecting them to succeed.
Seriously - I want to hear from an avid trump supporter on how this - as well as his other cabinet appointments is draining the swamp (of special interest lobbyists).
I don't think any of them thought that far ahead. Do you expect logic and reason from people who come up with a heckle like 'keep your government hands off my Medicare.'?
And Obama had this power too. Don't remember quite how far back this goes, but pretty sure Bush was able to do it too. And EVERY president going back to the start of the Emergency Broadcast System, since 1963, has had the ability to commandeer all airwaves as well. It was accidentally set off once, in 1971.
Meh.
Next story.
But Trump is the first one who'll use this to market christmas ornaments.
Just thought I would point that out to any passing FBI operative who thinks that they can go interfering with remote devices without considering international borders.
You may just find yourself falling foul of international treaties initiated by your own government that class this sort of action as cyber-warfare. I just hope the government above the target of your hack is understanding and decides not to retaliate with physical force to your electronic attack.
I for one would find it an interesting exercise in jurisprudence for the FBI to be indicted in a foreign court for cyberwarfare.
I think we can rely upon president Trump to tear up every last one of those treaties.
Um, you're whining like a teenager yourself. Clean up your own backyard first.
Donald? Is that you?
No, we just got a majority is all. Current politics means there are two and only two positions on every issue, and legislators usually vote in lock step with their party overlords. 50%+1 is all you need. Thus one side wins or the other side wins, always, since a tie means that the side opposed is the winner. If congress did not pass this law then perhaps you could say tthat congress managed to agree to not pass the law?
Your representative democracy is badly broken. Same goes for the entire electoral process.
Congress has passed a law protecting the right of U.S. consumers to post negative online reviews without fear of retaliation from companies
Congress managed to agree about something? Will wonders ever cease?
It's going to have to be in all in french now, right? And, aren't some of their harassment laws much worse? Some of this internet archive certainly offends some minority.
True enough. Apparently some of the Internet Archive's content offends human orangutang hybrids.
Governments have the power to get root certificates in which case they can man-in-the-middle anything that relies on this, which is a hell of a lot of software. Browsers being the most prominent but tons of software depends on X509 certs with globally trusted roots.
Huh??? a certificate signed by a CA contains only the public key so unless your certificate authority generated your private key for you and stored it the root certificate won't do the NSA a damn bit of good.
You don't need to crack the encryption. They have access to the unencrypted endpoints.
That only works for endpoints they have already compromised. What the security services are currently more interested in is something completely different, they are interested in using this data for threat detection and to identify potential assets. If you have ever watched that CBS show 'Persons of interest', that kind of an AI with that kind of access is the wet dream of the NSA, GHQ, FSB and every other security service with a bit of ambition. For that purpose they are monitoring, warehousing and data mining enormous volumes of (currently) unencrypted data. If every byte of traffic on the internet were encrypted as of tomorrow they'd have immense trouble doing this. Even if we assume that they have access to every root certificate every person's primary key and can generally decrypt everything, simply the added computational cost of decryption such enormous amounts of data would make their operation much more expensive and headache inducing because they'd now have to obtain enormous numbers of private keys or crack encryption before the data is even in a state where they can start monitoring, warehousing and data mining it. This would seriously inhibit the ability of security services to detect hidden or emerging threats, actors which the security services had no idea that they even exist and that, if you remember, is one of the primary purposes of all of this monitoring, detecting threats as they emerge. The ability the security services gained to monitor in an Orwellian fashion every move every citizen makes is just gravy, a bonus (albeit a very very useful one) which I'm sure they use with wild abandon to blackmail citizens whenever needed.
Encrypt everything! ... They may be able to crack the encryption in the end but it will make their lives much, much, much more difficult.
You're right. Hillary sells $353,400 dinners to Wall street bankers who can afford it, while Trump sells Chinese trinkets to his ignorant American consumers.
Hillary takes money from the rich... Trump takes money from the poor...
It's going to be a long 4 years watching some people who aren't rich figure out how bad they've got it.
Well the Donald is president and that makes him several orders of magnitude more interesting than Hillary. You can bet your bottom dollar that the fact that he is merchandising the hell out of the venerable office of the President of the United States with cheap Chinese trinkets after running on a platform of protectionism, trade wars, 'Make America great again' and 'Bring American jobs back from China' will attract more attention that Hillary Clinton's dinners. You just got a preview of what every single day in the life of Donald Trump and those who voted for him will look like for the next four years. That's what freedom of speech means, you are allowed to lampoon people for being hypocrites and doing stupid stuff. So suck it up and look on the bright side, the official US presidential ornament for Christmas 2017/18 will be proudly handmade in America and it will cost $299.99 thanks to higher labour costs and the ongoing trade wars that Mr. Trump has promised us will be raging by then.
Why is it not racist to mock Trump on his hair, his skin color, his small hands?
Because "bad spray tan" and "ridiculous hair extensions" is not a race.
And the "small hands" thing is generally just needling him since he's bizarrely insecure about the size of his hands.
Trump, much like many other public figures with an elevated sense of self worth, tends to keep these jokes alive with his reaction to them. I bet Bill Maher never dreamt he would get the mileage he got out of that ridiculous orangutan joke. Trump's attorney even sent Maher Trump's short form birth certificate which allowed Maher to demand, oh irony of ironies, that Trump present his long form birth certificate. That joke would have flown off into the ether and been forgotten 10 seconds after it was made if Trump had not raised a stink about it.
Investigative journalism will also make a big comeback, after an 8 year hibernation.
Even if that were true (and IMHO is not) that would do no more than speak volumes about the poor quality of the right wing press. However, the right wing has always proven to be every bit as adept as their left wing colleagues at digging up dirt on people which belies your statement.
Go to the transition website. Use the feature to submit an idea and tell them about H1B abuse. I did. Probably does nothing. Couldn't hurt. Tell them if your company is doing it. Name names and give numbers. I did. Probably does nothing. Couldn't hurt.
Sure it will do something. It'll annoy them until somebody tells them about /dev/null.