The more credit bureaus there are, the more difficult it is to find negative credit information, and the more costly it is to find negative information on a potential customer.
The customer wins when the cost of finding negative credit related info costs more than it is worth to find. Supposedly because that negative info does not exist.
A business wins when they separate enough negligent customers from paying customers to avoid losing money.
Having information spread out across multiple credit bureaus raises the cost of tracking down that negative credit info, raising the cost of business to either subscribe to more credit bureaus, or to cover the risk of not knowing if the customer is trustworthy.
iPhones are provided by employers. Sufficient wealth to buy land is not.
The difference between land and an iPhone is night and say.
An iPhone contributes to an employee's productivity. The ability of an employee to buy land offers little benefit to the employer.
An iPhone costs a little under $1,000, and being company owned can be reallocated if the employee leaves before the phone's useful life ends.
A piece of land costs at least twice as much as an iPhone, plus the cost of developing the land. Developed land costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, multiple years wages. Financed, and including taxes and upkeep, the house will often cost at least as much as a rental. The only advantage is that the employee will hopefully have the home paid off by the time they retire, to reduce their retirement expenses.
Uhm, not sure why anybody needs Red Hat to officially support a distribution. We only pay $365 per year to get security updates.
Kind of a strong arm between a vendor that only supports Red Hat, and RedHat charging for what Microsoft provides for "free". I doubt we are paying $365 per year per server for Windows Server licensing.
Otherwise I would have run Ubuntu or CentOS. I prefer Ubuntu, more familiar with it.
The science does seem to be better, and when characters are stupid, the show acknowledges it.
Seems like about a third of what I've watched so far has been me saying "that was stupid", followed by another character on the show saying it was stupid.
Amazon mixes 1-year trials into their "free tier" page. They may have even used up their free trial for another site. Hard to know what is free, and what might end up costing the University more money.
I imagine there is a sizeable database of non-time sensitive content. Meaning outside of a rare case such as this, the server doesn't need much to operate, and might be more useful to the education facility itself, and so is more cost effective to host in house.
Make Raspberry Pi's easy to deploy with Windows 10, and you might just solve your IoT problem. Depending on the W10 implementation. Maybe go with Azure AD?
No its not all IoT. IoT devices just are less likely to be maintained by the manufacturer.
With a NAS or router, the response has been to blame the user. They should either patch the firmware, or switch to a manufacturer which supports the product after the sale.
With IoT devices, there is little to do but pine for the good old days when nerds wrote their own firmware, and the commoners new nothing of technology. And wait for the IoT zombie botnets to attack a high enough value target so as to get something done about the issue.
Either we charge fines for devices connected to the internet with outdated firmware, operating systems, or security software, or we fine manufacturers who fail to deploy fixes in a specified amount of time regardless of lost functionality to the device.
Perhaps not the fire alarm. Such critical devices as a fire alarm should be isolated and simple, but effective. An IoT fire alarm is the worst thing ever.
The thermostat is a great asset. I've been considering something like that myself, once I get a central AC unit installed.
Also, its one step closer to the USS Enterprise D and voice activated everything. Which is both cool and scary at the same
time. Star Trek TNG: Contagion is a good IoT episode,...
Otherwise, are we going to put a stop to innovation? These IoT things are experiments, up-starts, looking for something we didn't know we needed which will improve productivity and efficiency exponentially. They typically don't have the budgets in their projects to do IoT the right way.
Vulnerabilities in IoT is a big problem, but is it a big enough problem to allocate resources to fix?
The device made it beyond the 15 day return period before being exploited. And who is going to notice this problem before the 1-year warranty runs out that would buy such a device and run it on an unsecured network anyway.
Weight gain or loss, and aging, affects most other biometrics. I wouldn't want to rely on a system which I where I couldn't retain, or might have difficulty maintaining, the authentication "credential".
By it does work, I assume yoi mean that Linux is installed and boots on whatever device was hacked.
In this instance I'm more referring to support of whatever hardware the device has. Its one thing if you can get an iPhone to run Linux. Its another for the experience to equal or best Android on a Samsung Galaxy phone.
In the case of a Surface device "hacking" shouldn't be required given it is a PC device. Its probably just a matter of "Zero Day" driver support for the device.
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The more credit bureaus there are, the more difficult it is to find negative credit information, and the more costly it is to find negative information on a potential customer.
The customer wins when the cost of finding negative credit related info costs more than it is worth to find. Supposedly because that negative info does not exist.
A business wins when they separate enough negligent customers from paying customers to avoid losing money.
Having information spread out across multiple credit bureaus raises the cost of tracking down that negative credit info, raising the cost of business to either subscribe to more credit bureaus, or to cover the risk of not knowing if the customer is trustworthy.
The sources of information are all the businesses which do business with Equifax.
The more credit bureaus, the fewer sources of information each has.
Fewer credit bureaus means that each has much more information. And Equifax's popularity means it usually has all the information available.
Employers do consider it, to a certain extent, but then let the free market figure it out and wash their hands of it.
Owning land, and renting are two different things, but both fulfill the needs of the employer by providing a place for the employee(s) to live.
iPhones are provided by employers. Sufficient wealth to buy land is not.
The difference between land and an iPhone is night and say.
An iPhone contributes to an employee's productivity. The ability of an employee to buy land offers little benefit to the employer.
An iPhone costs a little under $1,000, and being company owned can be reallocated if the employee leaves before the phone's useful life ends.
A piece of land costs at least twice as much as an iPhone, plus the cost of developing the land. Developed land costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, multiple years wages. Financed, and including taxes and upkeep, the house will often cost at least as much as a rental. The only advantage is that the employee will hopefully have the home paid off by the time they retire, to reduce their retirement expenses.
I just figured "rude" meant "cocky", "belligerent", "arrogant", "prideful", "confident", "narcissistic", "boasting".
So I figured it meant they "rub it in your face", rather than being humble and discreet about their own health.
Uhm, not sure why anybody needs Red Hat to officially support a distribution. We only pay $365 per year to get security updates.
Kind of a strong arm between a vendor that only supports Red Hat, and RedHat charging for what Microsoft provides for "free". I doubt we are paying $365 per year per server for Windows Server licensing.
Otherwise I would have run Ubuntu or CentOS. I prefer Ubuntu, more familiar with it.
Imagine if Microsoft focused on one GUI that was *ahem* "very good".
Instead of having a seperate UI and platform for say, Windows Phone, Zune, tablets, and desktops.
They might actually create a UI everyone loves!
Oh. Wait,... Nevermind,...
The science does seem to be better, and when characters are stupid, the show acknowledges it.
Seems like about a third of what I've watched so far has been me saying "that was stupid", followed by another character on the show saying it was stupid.
I pay $60 for broadband, and $9.99 for Netflix. Who in their right mind pays $308 for TV?
With iTunes you typically pay for a higher quality experience, local 1080p vs 720p streaming, and no ads.
The ads are supposed to offset the $1.50 per episode, and are expected to eliminate it entirely.
I think there was too much super advanced tech post TNG to make much of a series about.
Time travel devices on Klingon shuttles, Anti-Borg weapons. Holographic life forms. Sentient Starships.
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda would probably be the next logical step for Trek after the 24th century.
Either that or a time travel centric series starring the USS Relativity, and/or Daniels of ENT.
Its also got a little Bond, shaken, not stirred. "Tell me James, do you still sleep with a Phaser under your pillow?
Amazon mixes 1-year trials into their "free tier" page. They may have even used up their free trial for another site. Hard to know what is free, and what might end up costing the University more money. I imagine there is a sizeable database of non-time sensitive content. Meaning outside of a rare case such as this, the server doesn't need much to operate, and might be more useful to the education facility itself, and so is more cost effective to host in house.
I pay the device manufacturer, Maytag for instance, to not be ignorant for me. Its called delegation.
Time is money. If I'm buying an IoT device, I'm buying it to reduce the amount of time I'm having to spend micromanaging it.
Tomaeto, Tomahtoe.
Make Raspberry Pi's easy to deploy with Windows 10, and you might just solve your IoT problem. Depending on the W10 implementation. Maybe go with Azure AD?
No its not all IoT. IoT devices just are less likely to be maintained by the manufacturer.
With a NAS or router, the response has been to blame the user. They should either patch the firmware, or switch to a manufacturer which supports the product after the sale.
With IoT devices, there is little to do but pine for the good old days when nerds wrote their own firmware, and the commoners new nothing of technology. And wait for the IoT zombie botnets to attack a high enough value target so as to get something done about the issue.
Either we charge fines for devices connected to the internet with outdated firmware, operating systems, or security software, or we fine manufacturers who fail to deploy fixes in a specified amount of time regardless of lost functionality to the device.
Actually, under the circumstances, regarding what the discussion is about, yeah, that is a true statement.
At leadt in the USA.
Perhaps not the fire alarm. Such critical devices as a fire alarm should be isolated and simple, but effective. An IoT fire alarm is the worst thing ever.
The thermostat is a great asset. I've been considering something like that myself, once I get a central AC unit installed.
Also, its one step closer to the USS Enterprise D and voice activated everything. Which is both cool and scary at the same time. Star Trek TNG: Contagion is a good IoT episode,...
The price of progress.
Otherwise, are we going to put a stop to innovation? These IoT things are experiments, up-starts, looking for something we didn't know we needed which will improve productivity and efficiency exponentially. They typically don't have the budgets in their projects to do IoT the right way.
Vulnerabilities in IoT is a big problem, but is it a big enough problem to allocate resources to fix?
The device made it beyond the 15 day return period before being exploited. And who is going to notice this problem before the 1-year warranty runs out that would buy such a device and run it on an unsecured network anyway.
P2P is good for smaller games, and unranked matches. Especially when it is friends chillin'.
Dedicated servers are superior for larger games, especially MMOs. As well as ranked games where cheating actually "matters".
Can we get this guy a +1 Insightful?
That keychain is usually a part of a 2-factor authentication system for a website continuing high value or high risk information.
Many sites have apps for a smart phone which do the same thing. Otherwise you need a keychain for every site.
Weight gain or loss, and aging, affects most other biometrics. I wouldn't want to rely on a system which I where I couldn't retain, or might have difficulty maintaining, the authentication "credential".
By it does work, I assume yoi mean that Linux is installed and boots on whatever device was hacked.
In this instance I'm more referring to support of whatever hardware the device has. Its one thing if you can get an iPhone to run Linux. Its another for the experience to equal or best Android on a Samsung Galaxy phone.
In the case of a Surface device "hacking" shouldn't be required given it is a PC device. Its probably just a matter of "Zero Day" driver support for the device.