place? Sheesh, let's see, our government uses closed source SECURITY software from a company located in a (hostile?) foreign country and everyone in the US doesn't automatically think it's a Bad Idea?
I agree with you, but let's not get distracted from the real issue here. First of all, any organization is free to audit the Kaspersky software. This was even true before this incident.
The real issue here is that an idiot NSA developer took his work home with him and put it on his personal laptop.
According to Kaspersky, its security package running on the PC detected Pho's copies of the NSA exploits as new malicious software, and uploaded the powerful spyware to its cloud for further analysis by its researchers.
[...]
Kaspersky Lab has denied any wrongdoing in the matter or illicit ties to Russian intelligence. The security vendor also pointed out Pho's machine was infected with loads of malware, meaning any miscreant could have stolen Uncle Sam's cyber-weapons. source
In other words, the NSA seems incapable of keeping its top secret information secret. That employee should never have been able to download source code from the NSA.
He was a developer, not a system administrator. There is a reason you keep people's functions separated. It's because each position has its own set of incentives. As a developer, your job security depends on finishing projects. But as a sysadmin, your job security is based on securing the systems developers use.
Furthermore, if the NSA can't keep its own most important information secure, there is no way in hell that any other organization or government agency will be able to do the same with a large database of manufacturers' backdoors.
We are on the cusp of a world where companies track everyone's driving. Arguably telecom companies already do that, but it's rapidly expanding in car companies, with GM Onstar, the Tesla system above, etc.
And don't forget license plate scanning by third-party aggregators and law enforcement agencies.
In other words, it's not the just large telecoms and large companies that have access to this information. If you're a stalker, you can just hire a Private Investigator. That Private Investigator just to needs to have a paid subscription to a license plate scanning database and he'll be able to tell you where exactly you park your car when you're at home, when you go to work, when you go shopping, when you visit friends, etc. Plus, if you require even more real-time information, you can just buy a small GPS tracker from Amazon and stick it on your target's car.
None of the "fakeness" came from the article, only by people repeating the information and adding hyperbole.
Or it could be the other way around, the article isn't fake because it's actually repeating accurately the fake hyperboles and the tenuous associations made by others.
For instance, take a look at this paragraph:
Some are even linking the spirit cooking revelation to claims that the Podesta emails contain “code for child sex trafficking” that is hidden behind mentions of types of food.
Is it false? Probably not. No doubt, some anonymous wacko on some right-wing bulletin board does believe this.
Or what about this?
Reports that FBI agents see Hillary Clinton as “the antichrist personified” now make a lot more sense.
But when you dig into that second article, the sources are:
Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record...
Which isn't to say that anonymous sources can't be used sometimes. Anonymous sources certainly do have a place.
But usually, anonymous sources are used to confirm a statement of fact, not a personal opinion. Also, anonymous sources limit themselves to few select senior officials, or to people very close to those senior officials. After all, the FBI only has ~35,000 current employees (and who knows how many former employees). The way that quote is written, it could have been taken from any one of those former and current FBI people.
And after a certain point, you have to admit that the article is just repeating gossip. And gossip is fine on page six of Gossip Girl, and it is fine on those papers you find at the supermarket checkout counter, but those papers aren't exactly delivering the news.
And you don't have to take my word for it. Alex Jones himself, the official face for Infowars, admitted in his divorce proceedings that he was just playing a character on TV and that he didn't actually believe many of the things he was saying on InfoWars.
I realize it's a popular opinion to assume Pai has been bought and sold but it continually surprises me no one in gov't has launched an investigation into his ties yet.
Why would we? It's mostly legal to buy politicians in the US with political contributions. Besides, Pai is just an appointee. He's only doing Trump's bidding. If he doesn't do this, he'll just be replaced with someone who will.
I'm not sure how much more useful, since the magnetic terminals are supposed to be phased out already (IIRC).
The ATM magnetic terminals are supposed to be phased out, not the credit card magnetic terminals.
It's weird that you say something is lightyears ahead of something else because it is backwards compatible.
It's not just the backward compatibility. Samsung Pay could be used on Gear S3 (both the NFC and the magnetic) at least one year before the Apple Watch even had the Apple Pay NFC functionality on it.
And by the way, I didn't mean to belittle Apple. There are thousands of things that Apple does better than Samsung. For one thing, the Gear S3 has some the worst fitness tracking sensors according to Consumer Reports, out of all the other major competitors (including Apple's). So if the fitness readings are important to you, do not get a Samsung Gear watch! You'll just collect incorrect exaggerated health data. I just felt I needed to bring up the Samsung Pay functionality on the Gear S3, because I feel that's one of the coolest features it has going for it (other than its long battery life).
Yeah, except that Apple Pay "nabs 90% of all mobile contactless transactions where active":
Two points:
"Where active" is a huge qualifier! Imagine if I told you that the Diners Club Card is the bomb because it nabs 90% all transactions where active. If you were a restaurant owner, that would be an argument for getting a Diners Club Card terminal at your restaurant, not for getting a Diners Club Card as a consumer.
Also, Samsung Pay wouldn't necessarily register as a contactless transaction since it can also mimic the magnetic stripe (in addition to doing the NFC).
It's all very well to supposedly be "better" technically, but if people don't use the technology, then what's the point of having it?
You just moved the goal post.
I was replying to a thread that talked about using a smartwatch for yourself, not what kind of equipment you should use for your restaurant. I personally like my Samsung Pay because it's a bit like Visa, it works almost everywhere.
On the other hand, if I have to think about being in the right coffee shop with the right payment system before I can get a cup coffee, then I might as well still carry my wallet with me. Either that, or I would actively need to seek out a place I know for sure has that payment system, and of course, that's going to drive up the business of that Apple Pay compatible place if people have to actively go to it so they can use Apple Pay (so again, that's good news for the place of business, but not necessarily for the Apple Watch consumer).
PS: By the way, thanks for downvoting my previous post Apple users, that's really classy!
Otherwise the answer is the Apple Watch. It's clearly far beyond the competition.
Except in the case of Samsung Pay.
Samsung Pay is light years ahead of Apple Pay right now.
Samsung Pay not only works with NFC, but it can also work at older magnetic terminals that don't have NFC yet. I used my Gear S3 watch to pay at Safeway just the other night and the cashier was absolutely shocked.
Beyond that, as has already been pointed out multiple times, "fitness trackers" are worthless. They give people a false sense of how "active" they are, which causes them to be less active than without the tracker.
No, you're completely misrepresenting the results of the study. The comparison studied wasn't "fitness tracker" vs. "no fitness tracker".
It's just that the approach that required people to take their own measurements, enter them into a website themselves, and then receive intervention phone calls from the staff members, was much more successful than using the fitness tracker alone. But even though that's the case, both approaches were successful in losing weight. It's just that the second approach had participants lose more weight than the fitness tracker approach.
Also, keep in mind that the study was started in 2010, so the fitness trackers used in question were probably not that advanced to begin with.
To that end, we've actually designed the facility to make sexual harassment more difficult (like glass doors to all non-rest rooms so that nobody thinks they can make a move on someone without possibly being seen).
You mean I can stare at my female co-workers all day from the comfort of my own desk? And there is no way for them to use blinds or curtains to block my view? That sounds neat. Where do I sign up?
Maybe Bangladesh is just trying to recover its money.
After all, even if they arrest the officers of the bank, give them a trial, convict them, etc., it's possible that they may never be able to recover the full amount. It's likely that there were other partners involved in receiving the money.
Second, call the school and complain that it's mega-stupid that they disallow iPads when their own online library app allows you to check out books in the iPad-supported format.
Venting to the school staff is not going to change anything. Besides, the kid is messing with his dad a little.
Interestingly, my boy seems OK with playing old video games on the Wayback Machine...
This is not a contradiction.
Most kids understand the spirit of rules and that rules can have many layers to them.
To explore this point, the dad just needs to give his kid the choice and tell him that since he doesn't want to bring the perfectly legally purchased format-shifted pdf ebook to school, he'll just have to read the entire book at home before it's covered in class. Then, the dad just needs to have him sit at the kitchen table and make him start reading it right then.
That's it. I guarantee you that the kid will change his mind real fast. At that point, when the kid changes his mind, the dad needs to play the devil's advocate and say "Are you sure? I wouldn't want you to compromise your morals because you find it inconvenient. Why do you think you're allowed to bring that PDF on your Kindle to school? "
Then, if the kid is old enough, the dad could even reinforce the lesson a little. "Are you sure? I don't find your argument convincing. Can you go on Google and find some sources for backing up what you're saying. "
For all they knew, the tattoo could have been an artifact of previous poor life choices, and nothing more than a joke.
If it was a joke, he could have just crossed it out with another tattoo.
Plus based on your reasoning, if you consider a very clear unambiguous DNR tattoo plus a tattooed signature a potential joke, I suppose you would be crazy enough to consider a DNR written on a piece of paper to be a joke as well.
A tattoo is not a legal document.
Not only this is circular reasoning, but it's completely false. Here is the example of a will engraved on a tractor fender that a guy wrote as he was dying or a tractor accident. That will was legally valid. That is what is taught in law schools still today.
Furthermore, it's common practice before an amputation or a serious surgery to mark the body part that is about to be worked on with a black marker which says "CUT HERE" while the patient is fully awake to ensure that the surgeon works on the correct area when the patient is unconscious. So in essence, this black marker fail-safe protocol becomes an extension of the wishes of the unconscious patient.
So it's no wonder that the patient borrowed that similar idea and chose to use a tattoo as a DNR fail-safe in case his paperwork wouldn't be immediately found by first responders or ER doctors.
Normally, this kind of information can be included in a medical bracelet or a medical pendant, if the guy had a family member that didn't want him to die. Getting the DNR tattooed on himself would at least insure that the family member in question couldn't dispose of the DNR by ripping off the bracelet or ripping off the pendant before first-responders arrived.
Imagine if it HAD been a joke, and the family sued the pants off the hospital for denying treatment to their family member without a formal DNR request?
Imagine the reverse actually.
Like I said earlier since the fender on the tractor was considered a valid legal document more than 65+ years ago, and that this is what is currently taught in law school, that legal documents can look like anything, it stands to reason that the DNR tattoo would be considered legally valid as well (unless a conflicting DNR paper could be found instead).
So if that tattoo directive had been ignored, I really do believe that the family would have had good grounds to sue the hospital. Plus, had the family been a bunch of Jehova's witnesses, they would have had good grounds for suing the hospital for religious discrimination as well.
Now if you try to redeem your tokens for US dollars, Tether can just claim that they were stolen instead of redeeming them to you instead of admitting that those tokens were never worth those amounts it claimed they were worth in the first place.
...and the 'investors' moving on to get fleeced by the next crypto scam.
Speaking of which, how do I get in touch the new owners of those supposedly "stolen" 31 million crypto-dollars? Since those 31 million dollars have been disabled and are worth nothing now, is there a private auction where one could possibly bid on those worthless crypto-dollars?
The attacker is holding funds in the following address: 16tg2RJuEPtZooy18Wxn2me2RhUdC94N7r. If you receive any USDT tokens from the above address, or from any downstream address that receives these tokens, do not accept them, as they have been flagged and will not be redeemable by Tether for USD.
Under what authority does Tether think it has the right to siphon away $31 million dollars? How are we supposed to know that Tether is not lying? Is that how crypto-currencies are supposed to work? Are we supposed to reward the most insecure entities with the most authority? Also, do you think a government should be allowed to do the same? If an entity can't keep its crypto-wallet secure, then maybe that entity should just get out of the business while it still can.
Not to mention whom to hit in a pinch. The child crossing the street, the ambulance, a lamp post, or the school bus?
How about you hit no one. The areas they've deployed to already limit their speed at 25 MPH. If something goes wrong at 25 MPH, you stop. That's not rocket science.
Plus, you speak like it knows the difference between a child, a raccoon, or a lamp post. Computer vision (disconnected from the cloud) is nowhere near that advanced yet. For a car to drive itself, it needs to know where the road is and if there is an obstacle. That's basically it
What you're speaking about may come into play 10 or 20 years from now, but by then, many problems will have been figured out already by just analyzing accidents that occurred in the past.
But if anyone wants to investigate, that name sounds Dutch or white South African. And if you're going to make up a name, you might as well pick one that would already fit your family history.
Are you talking about his use of the word 'hysteria'? That's a technical term used in the Meyers Briggs types. He did not come up with that term on his own. Granted, he could have been a lot more careful at introducing his ideas, but he wasn't sharing that paper with thousands of people, he wasn't twitting it out like some people we know, he was just sharing it with seven other Googlers.
Those seven other Googlers should have discussed that paper with him, helped him refine it, not send it out to the World. I don't know about that guy's cognitive abilities, but he certainly wasn't hired for his ability to write papers, nor was he hired for his social intelligence either. But anybody who thinks there isn't a kernel of truth into what he was trying to say is lying to themselves and to the entire world.
And yes, Marie Sue magazine, you can find high functioning women with autism, you can even find women who are colorblind and who stutter, I can even dig up some statistics for you if you like, like you said, they do exist, but women with autism are much rarer than men with autism, and they do have the same issues with expressing themselves well in writing and pissing off others (both males and females). I've seen it first-hand.
Now, you may not have met any of those women at your magazine, in fact, your magazine probably wouldn't hire any of them, but in my field, which is technology, there are definitely a number of them, and they tend to thrive in my field even if they occasionally piss off their colleagues once in a while.
Why was DJI unwilling to offer the guy a deal that said "if you agree to destroy all our data (credentials, keys, customer data etc), not use it for any purpose and not talk publicly about it, we will agree not to take you to court over it".
A better agreement would have been:
"if you agree to destroy all our data (credentials, keys, customer data etc), not use it for any purpose and not talk publicly about it for a period of one year ending on Nov 1st, 2018, we will agree to credit you publicly and pay you the bounty."
Threatening someone you already gave permission to, and someone who has been acting in good faith all this time, is really a bad idea. It turns what is supposed to be a collaborative relationship into a confrontational one.
Furthermore, a bug bounty program can't expect to silence a white hacker from a foreign country forever. Hackers are very ego-driven. Also, they make money and recruit new clients from recounting their exploit stories to others.
No need to go the analogy route, just take a look at what happened to the local FM radio market. I don't think anyone can argue that the entire thing hasn't gone to shit since the FCC allowed those radio stations to consolidate.
And yes, I understand there is Satellite radio (which is super expensive) and internet radio (which cell carriers are throttling/capping because they want to get paid from both the consumer and the internet radio providers at the same time).
So at this point, if you spend a lot of time on the road and if you don't have much money, your remaining option is shit radio that plays itself in a loop each day.
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Which ones? It's true that they keep on shuffling features around, but overall, I think that both Google Maps and Google Waze have been improving.
It's like Policeman Go, but for criminals.
The Blue alert keeps track of your score and how many cops are locked into your car trunk.
Why are companies allowed to prevent their employees from going to the court?
Not just employees, but customers too.
place? Sheesh, let's see, our government uses closed source SECURITY software from a company located in a (hostile?) foreign country and everyone in the US doesn't automatically think it's a Bad Idea?
I agree with you, but let's not get distracted from the real issue here. First of all, any organization is free to audit the Kaspersky software. This was even true before this incident.
The real issue here is that an idiot NSA developer took his work home with him and put it on his personal laptop.
According to Kaspersky, its security package running on the PC detected Pho's copies of the NSA exploits as new malicious software, and uploaded the powerful spyware to its cloud for further analysis by its researchers.
[...]
Kaspersky Lab has denied any wrongdoing in the matter or illicit ties to Russian intelligence. The security vendor also pointed out Pho's machine was infected with loads of malware, meaning any miscreant could have stolen Uncle Sam's cyber-weapons.
source
In other words, the NSA seems incapable of keeping its top secret information secret. That employee should never have been able to download source code from the NSA.
He was a developer, not a system administrator. There is a reason you keep people's functions separated. It's because each position has its own set of incentives. As a developer, your job security depends on finishing projects. But as a sysadmin, your job security is based on securing the systems developers use.
Furthermore, if the NSA can't keep its own most important information secure, there is no way in hell that any other organization or government agency will be able to do the same with a large database of manufacturers' backdoors.
We are on the cusp of a world where companies track everyone's driving. Arguably telecom companies already do that, but it's rapidly expanding in car companies, with GM Onstar, the Tesla system above, etc.
And don't forget license plate scanning by third-party aggregators and law enforcement agencies.
In other words, it's not the just large telecoms and large companies that have access to this information. If you're a stalker, you can just hire a Private Investigator. That Private Investigator just to needs to have a paid subscription to a license plate scanning database and he'll be able to tell you where exactly you park your car when you're at home, when you go to work, when you go shopping, when you visit friends, etc. Plus, if you require even more real-time information, you can just buy a small GPS tracker from Amazon and stick it on your target's car.
None of the "fakeness" came from the article, only by people repeating the information and adding hyperbole.
Or it could be the other way around, the article isn't fake because it's actually repeating accurately the fake hyperboles and the tenuous associations made by others.
For instance, take a look at this paragraph:
Some are even linking the spirit cooking revelation to claims that the Podesta emails contain “code for child sex trafficking” that is hidden behind mentions of types of food.
Is it false? Probably not. No doubt, some anonymous wacko on some right-wing bulletin board does believe this.
Or what about this?
Reports that FBI agents see Hillary Clinton as “the antichrist personified” now make a lot more sense.
It even links to another article here: https://www.theguardian.com/us...
But when you dig into that second article, the sources are:
Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record...
Which isn't to say that anonymous sources can't be used sometimes. Anonymous sources certainly do have a place.
But usually, anonymous sources are used to confirm a statement of fact, not a personal opinion. Also, anonymous sources limit themselves to few select senior officials, or to people very close to those senior officials. After all, the FBI only has ~35,000 current employees (and who knows how many former employees). The way that quote is written, it could have been taken from any one of those former and current FBI people.
And after a certain point, you have to admit that the article is just repeating gossip. And gossip is fine on page six of Gossip Girl, and it is fine on those papers you find at the supermarket checkout counter, but those papers aren't exactly delivering the news.
And you don't have to take my word for it. Alex Jones himself, the official face for Infowars, admitted in his divorce proceedings that he was just playing a character on TV and that he didn't actually believe many of the things he was saying on InfoWars.
I realize it's a popular opinion to assume Pai has been bought and sold but it continually surprises me no one in gov't has launched an investigation into his ties yet.
Why would we? It's mostly legal to buy politicians in the US with political contributions. Besides, Pai is just an appointee. He's only doing Trump's bidding. If he doesn't do this, he'll just be replaced with someone who will.
I'm not sure how much more useful, since the magnetic terminals are supposed to be phased out already (IIRC).
The ATM magnetic terminals are supposed to be phased out, not the credit card magnetic terminals.
It's weird that you say something is lightyears ahead of something else because it is backwards compatible.
It's not just the backward compatibility. Samsung Pay could be used on Gear S3 (both the NFC and the magnetic) at least one year before the Apple Watch even had the Apple Pay NFC functionality on it.
And by the way, I didn't mean to belittle Apple. There are thousands of things that Apple does better than Samsung. For one thing, the Gear S3 has some the worst fitness tracking sensors according to Consumer Reports, out of all the other major competitors (including Apple's). So if the fitness readings are important to you, do not get a Samsung Gear watch! You'll just collect incorrect exaggerated health data. I just felt I needed to bring up the Samsung Pay functionality on the Gear S3, because I feel that's one of the coolest features it has going for it (other than its long battery life).
Yeah, except that Apple Pay "nabs 90% of all mobile contactless transactions where active":
Two points:
"Where active" is a huge qualifier! Imagine if I told you that the Diners Club Card is the bomb because it nabs 90% all transactions where active. If you were a restaurant owner, that would be an argument for getting a Diners Club Card terminal at your restaurant, not for getting a Diners Club Card as a consumer.
Also, Samsung Pay wouldn't necessarily register as a contactless transaction since it can also mimic the magnetic stripe (in addition to doing the NFC).
It's all very well to supposedly be "better" technically, but if people don't use the technology, then what's the point of having it?
You just moved the goal post.
I was replying to a thread that talked about using a smartwatch for yourself, not what kind of equipment you should use for your restaurant. I personally like my Samsung Pay because it's a bit like Visa, it works almost everywhere.
On the other hand, if I have to think about being in the right coffee shop with the right payment system before I can get a cup coffee, then I might as well still carry my wallet with me. Either that, or I would actively need to seek out a place I know for sure has that payment system, and of course, that's going to drive up the business of that Apple Pay compatible place if people have to actively go to it so they can use Apple Pay (so again, that's good news for the place of business, but not necessarily for the Apple Watch consumer).
PS: By the way, thanks for downvoting my previous post Apple users, that's really classy!
Otherwise the answer is the Apple Watch. It's clearly far beyond the competition.
Except in the case of Samsung Pay.
Samsung Pay is light years ahead of Apple Pay right now.
Samsung Pay not only works with NFC, but it can also work at older magnetic terminals that don't have NFC yet. I used my Gear S3 watch to pay at Safeway just the other night and the cashier was absolutely shocked.
Beyond that, as has already been pointed out multiple times, "fitness trackers" are worthless. They give people a false sense of how "active" they are, which causes them to be less active than without the tracker.
No, you're completely misrepresenting the results of the study. The comparison studied wasn't "fitness tracker" vs. "no fitness tracker".
It's just that the approach that required people to take their own measurements, enter them into a website themselves, and then receive intervention phone calls from the staff members, was much more successful than using the fitness tracker alone. But even though that's the case, both approaches were successful in losing weight. It's just that the second approach had participants lose more weight than the fitness tracker approach.
Also, keep in mind that the study was started in 2010, so the fitness trackers used in question were probably not that advanced to begin with.
http://skeptics.stackexchange....
No, that's not what the study said.
https://skeptics.stackexchange...
To that end, we've actually designed the facility to make sexual harassment more difficult (like glass doors to all non-rest rooms so that nobody thinks they can make a move on someone without possibly being seen).
You mean I can stare at my female co-workers all day from the comfort of my own desk? And there is no way for them to use blinds or curtains to block my view? That sounds neat. Where do I sign up?
I have one, but I forgot the master password.
Maybe Bangladesh is just trying to recover its money.
After all, even if they arrest the officers of the bank, give them a trial, convict them, etc., it's possible that they may never be able to recover the full amount. It's likely that there were other partners involved in receiving the money.
Second, call the school and complain that it's mega-stupid that they disallow iPads when their own online library app allows you to check out books in the iPad-supported format.
Venting to the school staff is not going to change anything. Besides, the kid is messing with his dad a little.
Interestingly, my boy seems OK with playing old video games on the Wayback Machine...
This is not a contradiction.
Most kids understand the spirit of rules and that rules can have many layers to them.
To explore this point, the dad just needs to give his kid the choice and tell him that since he doesn't want to bring the perfectly legally purchased format-shifted pdf ebook to school, he'll just have to read the entire book at home before it's covered in class. Then, the dad just needs to have him sit at the kitchen table and make him start reading it right then.
That's it. I guarantee you that the kid will change his mind real fast. At that point, when the kid changes his mind, the dad needs to play the devil's advocate and say "Are you sure? I wouldn't want you to compromise your morals because you find it inconvenient. Why do you think you're allowed to bring that PDF on your Kindle to school? "
Then, if the kid is old enough, the dad could even reinforce the lesson a little. "Are you sure? I don't find your argument convincing. Can you go on Google and find some sources for backing up what you're saying. "
For all they knew, the tattoo could have been an artifact of previous poor life choices, and nothing more than a joke.
If it was a joke, he could have just crossed it out with another tattoo.
Plus based on your reasoning, if you consider a very clear unambiguous DNR tattoo plus a tattooed signature a potential joke, I suppose you would be crazy enough to consider a DNR written on a piece of paper to be a joke as well.
A tattoo is not a legal document.
Not only this is circular reasoning, but it's completely false. Here is the example of a will engraved on a tractor fender that a guy wrote as he was dying or a tractor accident. That will was legally valid. That is what is taught in law schools still today.
Furthermore, it's common practice before an amputation or a serious surgery to mark the body part that is about to be worked on with a black marker which says "CUT HERE" while the patient is fully awake to ensure that the surgeon works on the correct area when the patient is unconscious. So in essence, this black marker fail-safe protocol becomes an extension of the wishes of the unconscious patient.
So it's no wonder that the patient borrowed that similar idea and chose to use a tattoo as a DNR fail-safe in case his paperwork wouldn't be immediately found by first responders or ER doctors.
Normally, this kind of information can be included in a medical bracelet or a medical pendant, if the guy had a family member that didn't want him to die. Getting the DNR tattooed on himself would at least insure that the family member in question couldn't dispose of the DNR by ripping off the bracelet or ripping off the pendant before first-responders arrived.
Imagine if it HAD been a joke, and the family sued the pants off the hospital for denying treatment to their family member without a formal DNR request?
Imagine the reverse actually.
Like I said earlier since the fender on the tractor was considered a valid legal document more than 65+ years ago, and that this is what is currently taught in law school, that legal documents can look like anything, it stands to reason that the DNR tattoo would be considered legally valid as well (unless a conflicting DNR paper could be found instead).
So if that tattoo directive had been ignored, I really do believe that the family would have had good grounds to sue the hospital. Plus, had the family been a bunch of Jehova's witnesses, they would have had good grounds for suing the hospital for religious discrimination as well.
This does not instill confidence.
It's not supposed to.
Now if you try to redeem your tokens for US dollars, Tether can just claim that they were stolen instead of redeeming them to you instead of admitting that those tokens were never worth those amounts it claimed they were worth in the first place.
...and the 'investors' moving on to get fleeced by the next crypto scam.
Speaking of which, how do I get in touch the new owners of those supposedly "stolen" 31 million crypto-dollars? Since those 31 million dollars have been disabled and are worth nothing now, is there a private auction where one could possibly bid on those worthless crypto-dollars?
The attacker is holding funds in the following address: 16tg2RJuEPtZooy18Wxn2me2RhUdC94N7r. If you receive any USDT tokens from the above address, or from any downstream address that receives these tokens, do not accept them, as they have been flagged and will not be redeemable by Tether for USD.
Under what authority does Tether think it has the right to siphon away $31 million dollars? How are we supposed to know that Tether is not lying? Is that how crypto-currencies are supposed to work? Are we supposed to reward the most insecure entities with the most authority? Also, do you think a government should be allowed to do the same? If an entity can't keep its crypto-wallet secure, then maybe that entity should just get out of the business while it still can.
Not to mention whom to hit in a pinch. The child crossing the street, the ambulance, a lamp post, or the school bus?
How about you hit no one. The areas they've deployed to already limit their speed at 25 MPH. If something goes wrong at 25 MPH, you stop. That's not rocket science.
Plus, you speak like it knows the difference between a child, a raccoon, or a lamp post. Computer vision (disconnected from the cloud) is nowhere near that advanced yet. For a car to drive itself, it needs to know where the road is and if there is an obstacle. That's basically it
What you're speaking about may come into play 10 or 20 years from now, but by then, many problems will have been figured out already by just analyzing accidents that occurred in the past.
If your exit strategy is an IPO, then that strategy makes perfect sense.
The grander the promise, the more money you'll need for your IPO.
Yeah, "Joost van Doorn" doesn't exist.
I agree. It's probably a made-up name.
But if anyone wants to investigate, that name sounds Dutch or white South African. And if you're going to make up a name, you might as well pick one that would already fit your family history.
Are you talking about his use of the word 'hysteria'? That's a technical term used in the Meyers Briggs types. He did not come up with that term on his own. Granted, he could have been a lot more careful at introducing his ideas, but he wasn't sharing that paper with thousands of people, he wasn't twitting it out like some people we know, he was just sharing it with seven other Googlers.
Those seven other Googlers should have discussed that paper with him, helped him refine it, not send it out to the World. I don't know about that guy's cognitive abilities, but he certainly wasn't hired for his ability to write papers, nor was he hired for his social intelligence either. But anybody who thinks there isn't a kernel of truth into what he was trying to say is lying to themselves and to the entire world.
And yes, Marie Sue magazine, you can find high functioning women with autism, you can even find women who are colorblind and who stutter, I can even dig up some statistics for you if you like, like you said, they do exist, but women with autism are much rarer than men with autism, and they do have the same issues with expressing themselves well in writing and pissing off others (both males and females). I've seen it first-hand.
Now, you may not have met any of those women at your magazine, in fact, your magazine probably wouldn't hire any of them, but in my field, which is technology, there are definitely a number of them, and they tend to thrive in my field even if they occasionally piss off their colleagues once in a while.
Why was DJI unwilling to offer the guy a deal that said "if you agree to destroy all our data (credentials, keys, customer data etc), not use it for any purpose and not talk publicly about it, we will agree not to take you to court over it".
A better agreement would have been:
"if you agree to destroy all our data (credentials, keys, customer data etc), not use it for any purpose and not talk publicly about it for a period of one year ending on Nov 1st, 2018, we will agree to credit you publicly and pay you the bounty."
Threatening someone you already gave permission to, and someone who has been acting in good faith all this time, is really a bad idea. It turns what is supposed to be a collaborative relationship into a confrontational one.
Furthermore, a bug bounty program can't expect to silence a white hacker from a foreign country forever. Hackers are very ego-driven. Also, they make money and recruit new clients from recounting their exploit stories to others.
No need to go the analogy route, just take a look at what happened to the local FM radio market. I don't think anyone can argue that the entire thing hasn't gone to shit since the FCC allowed those radio stations to consolidate.
And yes, I understand there is Satellite radio (which is super expensive) and internet radio (which cell carriers are throttling/capping because they want to get paid from both the consumer and the internet radio providers at the same time).
So at this point, if you spend a lot of time on the road and if you don't have much money, your remaining option is shit radio that plays itself in a loop each day.