IT landscape is pain in the ass if you are seeking for a motivating programming job. Usually, large companies buy products to do almost everything. What is left is customization to your particular business or enterprise. In this arena, the software vendors are making huge efforts to make the interface as boring as they can since "easy to customize" is a major selling point. They want to tell your boss your work can be done by a monkey, so they make it that way. Some are having graphical interfaces which at the end of the day happen to be more time consuming than an standard API in any language a good programmer can take advantage of.
A fool with a tool is still a fool. So, they hire monkeys to play with the graphical programming interface and they produce shitty code because it is so easy to add layers and layers of shit over shit. Then they wonder why that beast they paid many hundred thousand dollars is working so slow and so bad.
This is not restricted to IoT devices and firmware updates. I have seen enterprise software with security holes and outdated components the manufacturer just refuses to make current and is asking us to pay for him to update these OSS components its software is relying upon. Even in cases where the OSS components in question are not longer supported by the community for a few years. There is a lot of lazy people out there with this mentality, if it ain't broken don't fix it. When in fact it is broken, it's just it hasn't been reported yet and it is insecure because it doesn't accept new encryption algorithms and still accept unsecure protocols and encryption. Then you pay many hundred thousand dollars yearly licenses to these lazy bastards plus 15% maintenance fee.
Well, if advertising auto-security updates is not a selling point. Being hacked worldwide once is surely a not buying point for a customer. You don't always need to advertise everything to sell a gizmo. Just make it secure and reliable without giving all the details the customer didn't ask for on how you keep it secure.
I guess some people here will advocate contrary just like it is evil for Microsoft to force customers to update Windows to keep it secure and current. Just like this bunch of people who refuses to upgrade from Windows 7, 8, 8.1 for no other reason they don't want to be spied on by Microsoft.
Security doesn't mean protection from govt. So, the statement still hold. The BB phones Priv and DTEKs are much better than anything else in the market on that aspect. I have a DTEK and the OS is regularily patched as soon as security bugs are made public.
For some, surveillance that just collects metadata might seem less alarming, but in Snowden's view, "That metadata is in many cases much more dangerous and much more intrusive, because it can be understood at scale." He added that we currently face unprecedented perils because of all the data that's now available -- in the past, there was no way for the government to get a list of all the magazines you'd read, or every book you'd checked out from the library. "[In the past,] your beliefs, your future, your hopes, your dreams belonged to you," Snowden said. "Increasingly, these things belong to companies, and these companies can share them however they want, without a lot of oversight." He wasn't arguing that companies shouldn't collect user data at all, but rather that "the people who need to be in control of that are the users." "This is the central problem of the future, is how do we return control of our identities to the people themselves?" Snowden said.
How collecting metadata can be more dangerous than collecting data that lead to metadata in first place? Snowden speaks nonesense here. Then all the examples he is giving are related to data collection and not metadata collection. Your beliefs, your future, your hopes and your dreams are not lying in the metadata.
Frankly, Snowden is overrated on these topics. I am a bit tired he is given the microphone by fucking journalists which have no clue about what they intend to talk about.
Who? The Federal Reserve? It's not its money. The transfer order was legit. The Federal Reserve cannot refuse to transfer funds it is not actually owning. The Bangladesh bank can transfer it where ever it wants. It is not the Federal Reserve business to refuse or set any other conditions. They have no authority to rollback anything. In fact, a Swift transaction cannot be rolled back. You make another transaction to transfer funds from to original destination back to the original source if it is still at the destination. There was many destinations btw. They probably transferred multiple times the money from many accounts until the bank has no more authority to get it back or it becomes too hairy giving some time to people to actually withdraw in cash the money.
They were transfering funds from their own account. There was nothing else to check for. They were authorized to make the transfer with their own (well, not their own, but the bank) money. I guess they believed they could held the Federal Reserve in New York responsible for a security hole or they believed they could vanish in the sky with the money before being catched. But in either case, it wasn't an insufficient funds or illegal instruments case. They were perfectly legit to make the transfer since they were accessing their own Swift account and network to transfer funds from their own accounts.
That was obvious from the beginning there was some kind of in side collaboration to crack the Swift network. This is not possible otherwise and it was surely not a security problem with the router as many said in February that may have open the door. Everything is encrypted from the beginning, there is nothing gain from a router hack if you don't already have the encryption keys.
What's your point? Everyone is free to subscribe to what he wishes to. You assume he only subscribes or is being subscribed to by people in perfect agreement with all what he is thinking. I don't see on what basis you can assume this. His point is not he believes he is reaching thousands or millions, he is just reaching more people than the traditional way and he is being reached by more people than the traditional way. He is not in competition with that racist idiot shouting on the street to reach more people than him. He is just saying there is no real difference between both communities as the author of the article seems to think.
If you think Canada can match USA science budget you are surely dreaming or smoking or both. Canada has always lagged behind in science funding. Even behind countries like Portugal when you scale the funding to the size of its economy. The size of the USA economy is much larger than canadian economy and the percentage dedicated to science funding is higher in USA than in Canada. Don't be fooled by some green patches in the pastures and conclude the pastures are greener in Canada.
I would not give you an informative rating since your comment is incomplete. You should have linked the article with the picture and not only the picture. Also, where did you get the information about bipolar disorder? Any reference?
The annual average effective dose from natural background is 2.4 mSv. However, when the article claim 1000 times normal background radiation, it doesn't say anything about the radiation type which is an important criteria to determine the effective dose. You need to qualifies the radiation, how much X-, gamma or beta radiation vs alpha, fission fragments and heavy particles vs neutrons vs high-energy protons. Doing a comparison in sievert is not appropriate. Where did you get this 1000 number?
I remember Ronald Reagan was once a friend of Mikhail Gorbatchev and the outcome was the fall of a wall. It took some time because Brejnev wasted a year of Reagan's time before he dies, Andropov did the same and Cherenko didn't want to be a deception and got the good idea to follow his two predecessors after a year as well. Then came Gorbatchev and the fall of the wall.
The escalation Clinton seems to be a big fan of isn't necessarily the way to go.
The fact Tesla has repaid their loans doesn't mean anything. You compare a small niche car enterprise with a volatile market with large car manufacturers with steady business with strong competition, which means profit margins are lower, and much larger loans. This is unfair and it is made up just to deserve your argument.
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IT landscape is pain in the ass if you are seeking for a motivating programming job. Usually, large companies buy products to do almost everything. What is left is customization to your particular business or enterprise. In this arena, the software vendors are making huge efforts to make the interface as boring as they can since "easy to customize" is a major selling point. They want to tell your boss your work can be done by a monkey, so they make it that way. Some are having graphical interfaces which at the end of the day happen to be more time consuming than an standard API in any language a good programmer can take advantage of.
A fool with a tool is still a fool. So, they hire monkeys to play with the graphical programming interface and they produce shitty code because it is so easy to add layers and layers of shit over shit. Then they wonder why that beast they paid many hundred thousand dollars is working so slow and so bad.
All the fun is at home.
This is not restricted to IoT devices and firmware updates. I have seen enterprise software with security holes and outdated components the manufacturer just refuses to make current and is asking us to pay for him to update these OSS components its software is relying upon. Even in cases where the OSS components in question are not longer supported by the community for a few years. There is a lot of lazy people out there with this mentality, if it ain't broken don't fix it. When in fact it is broken, it's just it hasn't been reported yet and it is insecure because it doesn't accept new encryption algorithms and still accept unsecure protocols and encryption. Then you pay many hundred thousand dollars yearly licenses to these lazy bastards plus 15% maintenance fee.
Well, if advertising auto-security updates is not a selling point. Being hacked worldwide once is surely a not buying point for a customer. You don't always need to advertise everything to sell a gizmo. Just make it secure and reliable without giving all the details the customer didn't ask for on how you keep it secure.
I guess some people here will advocate contrary just like it is evil for Microsoft to force customers to update Windows to keep it secure and current. Just like this bunch of people who refuses to upgrade from Windows 7, 8, 8.1 for no other reason they don't want to be spied on by Microsoft.
Security doesn't mean protection from govt. So, the statement still hold. The BB phones Priv and DTEKs are much better than anything else in the market on that aspect. I have a DTEK and the OS is regularily patched as soon as security bugs are made public.
Dumbest comment so far. I suppose you believe a Trump reference automagically makes it clever?
For some, surveillance that just collects metadata might seem less alarming, but in Snowden's view, "That metadata is in many cases much more dangerous and much more intrusive, because it can be understood at scale." He added that we currently face unprecedented perils because of all the data that's now available -- in the past, there was no way for the government to get a list of all the magazines you'd read, or every book you'd checked out from the library. "[In the past,] your beliefs, your future, your hopes, your dreams belonged to you," Snowden said. "Increasingly, these things belong to companies, and these companies can share them however they want, without a lot of oversight." He wasn't arguing that companies shouldn't collect user data at all, but rather that "the people who need to be in control of that are the users." "This is the central problem of the future, is how do we return control of our identities to the people themselves?" Snowden said.
How collecting metadata can be more dangerous than collecting data that lead to metadata in first place? Snowden speaks nonesense here. Then all the examples he is giving are related to data collection and not metadata collection. Your beliefs, your future, your hopes and your dreams are not lying in the metadata.
Frankly, Snowden is overrated on these topics. I am a bit tired he is given the microphone by fucking journalists which have no clue about what they intend to talk about.
Who? The Federal Reserve? It's not its money. The transfer order was legit. The Federal Reserve cannot refuse to transfer funds it is not actually owning. The Bangladesh bank can transfer it where ever it wants. It is not the Federal Reserve business to refuse or set any other conditions. They have no authority to rollback anything. In fact, a Swift transaction cannot be rolled back. You make another transaction to transfer funds from to original destination back to the original source if it is still at the destination. There was many destinations btw. They probably transferred multiple times the money from many accounts until the bank has no more authority to get it back or it becomes too hairy giving some time to people to actually withdraw in cash the money.
They were transfering funds from their own account. There was nothing else to check for. They were authorized to make the transfer with their own (well, not their own, but the bank) money. I guess they believed they could held the Federal Reserve in New York responsible for a security hole or they believed they could vanish in the sky with the money before being catched. But in either case, it wasn't an insufficient funds or illegal instruments case. They were perfectly legit to make the transfer since they were accessing their own Swift account and network to transfer funds from their own accounts.
That was obvious from the beginning there was some kind of in side collaboration to crack the Swift network. This is not possible otherwise and it was surely not a security problem with the router as many said in February that may have open the door. Everything is encrypted from the beginning, there is nothing gain from a router hack if you don't already have the encryption keys.
What's your point? Everyone is free to subscribe to what he wishes to. You assume he only subscribes or is being subscribed to by people in perfect agreement with all what he is thinking. I don't see on what basis you can assume this. His point is not he believes he is reaching thousands or millions, he is just reaching more people than the traditional way and he is being reached by more people than the traditional way. He is not in competition with that racist idiot shouting on the street to reach more people than him. He is just saying there is no real difference between both communities as the author of the article seems to think.
The new Pisa tower.
Hence the name: WashPooh.
If you think Canada can match USA science budget you are surely dreaming or smoking or both. Canada has always lagged behind in science funding. Even behind countries like Portugal when you scale the funding to the size of its economy. The size of the USA economy is much larger than canadian economy and the percentage dedicated to science funding is higher in USA than in Canada. Don't be fooled by some green patches in the pastures and conclude the pastures are greener in Canada.
I would not give you an informative rating since your comment is incomplete. You should have linked the article with the picture and not only the picture. Also, where did you get the information about bipolar disorder? Any reference?
'Police say that Hahn's face was covered with open sores, possibly from constant exposure to radioactive materials.'
The annual average effective dose from natural background is 2.4 mSv. However, when the article claim 1000 times normal background radiation, it doesn't say anything about the radiation type which is an important criteria to determine the effective dose. You need to qualifies the radiation, how much X-, gamma or beta radiation vs alpha, fission fragments and heavy particles vs neutrons vs high-energy protons. Doing a comparison in sievert is not appropriate. Where did you get this 1000 number?
And background radiation is already well below the maximum recommended dose per year.
The list is too long. They even may don't have a complete list anyway.
From undisclosed Russian sources, they tracked back the origin of the attack to a private email server owned by Hillary Clinton.
And to be honest, when it comes to California - I can't see how that is much different from Brexit.
Then you need an history course if you can't see the difference.
The escalation Clinton seems to be a big fan of isn't necessarily the way to go.
Yep, 62% is not impressive neither per see. How does this forecasting system is better than the Old Farmer's Almanac ? It is unclear to me.
Smart guns are stupid!
The fact Tesla has repaid their loans doesn't mean anything. You compare a small niche car enterprise with a volatile market with large car manufacturers with steady business with strong competition, which means profit margins are lower, and much larger loans. This is unfair and it is made up just to deserve your argument.