There's already a guy scanning political sites for security strengths/weaknesses and publishing the results as "cybersecurity letter grades". How 'bout just writing him a grant? http://cybertical.com
>> $80K...iPhone...were Linux and free software supporters in school
Guess that makes me cheap - I didn't cross the $100 barrier on new phones until I was making more than twice that. And I still spend most of my time in Linux or Linux-ish environments.
>> Hosting big parties has enabled us to meet more talent in the community
Take the Nike party at Defcon recently. Huge nightclub, free swag, pumping music, wall-to-wall geeks. However, there was nowhere in the club you could actually TALK to anyone, so you basically cruised in, grabbed anything you wanted and left with your friends. There may have been a signup - if so, it didn't seem to lead to even a single recruitment contact. So...how does this help recruitment?
I have five Twitter accounts. I post to one or another about once a week. I read Twitter...really only if I'm at a con and there's a bunch of feeds related to that (since that's the best way to find out where some action might be).
>> "Going forward, according to the SEC, companies that are issuing tokens as part of an ICO (if they are considered securities) need to register with the commission..."
I hope they realize that almost a thousand different cryptocurrencies already exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies
>> Officials seized (rioters) cell phones, cracked their passwords, and are now attempting to use the contents to convict them
If you're dumb enough to wear your tracking device to the scene of the crime, then what do you really expect? Cops have been using location, texts and social media posts to pin perps for at least a decade now.
>> was made available to IT workers in Eastern Europe who had not gone through the usual security clearance checks when the agency outsourced its IT maintenance to IBM in 2015.
Um...according to TFA it WAS a corporation (IBM) that coughed up the data.
>> an extra AI processor that analyzes what the user sees and hears right there on the device rather than wasting precious microseconds sending the data back to the cloud
If that's all they needed then they could just move one of those newfangled "cloud processors" into the goggles...since all it would be doing is exactly what they would have been doing in the cloud (with existing chips).
Injecting ads into the free tools doesn't seem any worse to me than "open source" project companies that ship a free but hobbled "trialware" open source edition and then sell a commercial closed-source solution of the same tool. (This is pretty common with companies/projects that reserve "enterprise" features behind a paid model.)
>> Some countries with actual consumer protection requires "before" prices to be a price that had multiple actual sales to unaffiliated entities, not just what it was announced at or sold internally at.
This is also the case in some US states. For example, Los Angeles has figured out how to use California law on advertised discounts to chase down major retailers: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-retailers-lawsuit-20161207-story.html
Given this announcement from FTC, I have to wonder if the 2016 round of unlawful discount litigation was just the preseason; now everything's in place for attorneys to tap directly into Amazon's revenue stream.
Show me a continuous, buildable line between those three cities and I'll show you more governing bodies (not to mention NIMBY NGOs and regulators) than you had kids your high school class.
>> The company hasn't explained, in public or to its Wilsonville employees, why it gave up on domestic manufacturing so quickly
I'm guessing the factory was built to collect an Oregon tax credit or to otherwise mollify some state-level lawmakers. Now that the tax credit has been cashed in (or related legislative/regulatory policy has been created/averted), it's time to pull the plug.
Or maybe this was just the minimum time required to figure out and outsource all manufacturing. There's a June 2015 NYTimes article which pretty much said the same when the factory opened (via acquisition):
"Mr. Hix had a downbeat assessment for what would happen to the manufacturing of the Surface Hub if the product took off and the production process was refined. 'Once they get all the problems out of it, it will go offshore,' he said."
>> doesn't have anything to do with Intel betting on baseball...refining their approach, and baseball is a...cheap...way to do that
However, it does have to do with Intel betting that legacy, large-stadium-based sports (you know, stuff ESPN rose and fell on) will still be a thing in 10-20 years. For the rest of us who watch more eSports than 3-hour meatspace snoozefests the action is going to be more on how video games can be made more interesting for a wider viewing public (i.e., choosing our viewing angles, showing more live stats that are hidden from players, switching from player view to strategic view, etc.) than whether legacy sports will translate into 3D.
And since when was a major US sport cheap to cozy up with? As a business, you can't even say "Superbowl" out loud without writing a check.
You're wasting your time in India unless it's 3D cricket. Never seen an Indian in the parking lot with a baseball bat, and the "out of the park" highlight clips most likely shown in my neck of the woods aren't from US footage.
I'm right with you there - when self-driving is real, I plan on buying my own car.
However, subsidized taxi services for low-income citizens using shared cars/vans are real and (thankfully) growing. Hopefully the bus/trolley trend of the last century is over.
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>> I went to update all my apps the other day when something caught my eye... since when does LinkedIn take up 275MB of space?!
Use the mobile web site instead. (Closed - Solved)
There's already a guy scanning political sites for security strengths/weaknesses and publishing the results as "cybersecurity letter grades". How 'bout just writing him a grant?
http://cybertical.com
>> $80K...iPhone...were Linux and free software supporters in school
Guess that makes me cheap - I didn't cross the $100 barrier on new phones until I was making more than twice that. And I still spend most of my time in Linux or Linux-ish environments.
...or "a fool and his/her money are soon parted." Stupid investments (like the Atlantic) are how many very wealthy individuals lose the "very" part.
>> Poor fellow. Looks like they shorted out his keyboard.
That was just Priebus cracking it in half over his ex-employer's head.
>> Hosting big parties has enabled us to meet more talent in the community
Take the Nike party at Defcon recently. Huge nightclub, free swag, pumping music, wall-to-wall geeks. However, there was nowhere in the club you could actually TALK to anyone, so you basically cruised in, grabbed anything you wanted and left with your friends. There may have been a signup - if so, it didn't seem to lead to even a single recruitment contact. So...how does this help recruitment?
>> XXX and YYY Will Merge To Create ZZZ
As long as we can continue to rip the free streams, do whatever you want.
>> Why five?
1) My real name
2) One of my interests
3) My LLC
4) Another one of my interests
5) Test account for API stuff
I have five Twitter accounts. I post to one or another about once a week. I read Twitter...really only if I'm at a con and there's a bunch of feeds related to that (since that's the best way to find out where some action might be).
>> "Going forward, according to the SEC, companies that are issuing tokens as part of an ICO (if they are considered securities) need to register with the commission..."
I hope they realize that almost a thousand different cryptocurrencies already exist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies
>> Officials seized (rioters) cell phones, cracked their passwords, and are now attempting to use the contents to convict them
If you're dumb enough to wear your tracking device to the scene of the crime, then what do you really expect? Cops have been using location, texts and social media posts to pin perps for at least a decade now.
>> was made available to IT workers in Eastern Europe who had not gone through the usual security clearance checks when the agency outsourced its IT maintenance to IBM in 2015.
Um...according to TFA it WAS a corporation (IBM) that coughed up the data.
>> an extra AI processor that analyzes what the user sees and hears right there on the device rather than wasting precious microseconds sending the data back to the cloud
If that's all they needed then they could just move one of those newfangled "cloud processors" into the goggles...since all it would be doing is exactly what they would have been doing in the cloud (with existing chips).
Injecting ads into the free tools doesn't seem any worse to me than "open source" project companies that ship a free but hobbled "trialware" open source edition and then sell a commercial closed-source solution of the same tool. (This is pretty common with companies/projects that reserve "enterprise" features behind a paid model.)
>> Text Editor...a debate that's long overdue in the *nix community
Winner: most subtle troll on the board today.
>> crowdsource input
Why can't you just say "survey"?
On second thought, why can't you just post this on some crappy survey site and point anyone who cares to it instead of dropping a wall of text here?
>> Some countries with actual consumer protection requires "before" prices to be a price that had multiple actual sales to unaffiliated entities, not just what it was announced at or sold internally at.
This is also the case in some US states. For example, Los Angeles has figured out how to use California law on advertised discounts to chase down major retailers:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-retailers-lawsuit-20161207-story.html
Given this announcement from FTC, I have to wonder if the 2016 round of unlawful discount litigation was just the preseason; now everything's in place for attorneys to tap directly into Amazon's revenue stream.
Then you don't know the history of Nintendo.
^^ This.
Show me a continuous, buildable line between those three cities and I'll show you more governing bodies (not to mention NIMBY NGOs and regulators) than you had kids your high school class.
Er...was it "confidential" or "a white paper sent to members of Congress". Probably not both.
>> The company hasn't explained, in public or to its Wilsonville employees, why it gave up on domestic manufacturing so quickly
I'm guessing the factory was built to collect an Oregon tax credit or to otherwise mollify some state-level lawmakers. Now that the tax credit has been cashed in (or related legislative/regulatory policy has been created/averted), it's time to pull the plug.
Or maybe this was just the minimum time required to figure out and outsource all manufacturing. There's a June 2015 NYTimes article which pretty much said the same when the factory opened (via acquisition):
"Mr. Hix had a downbeat assessment for what would happen to the manufacturing of the Surface Hub if the product took off and the production process was refined. 'Once they get all the problems out of it, it will go offshore,' he said."
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/technology/microsoft-picks-unusual-place-to-make-its-giant-touch-screen-the-us.html
>> doesn't have anything to do with Intel betting on baseball...refining their approach, and baseball is a...cheap...way to do that
However, it does have to do with Intel betting that legacy, large-stadium-based sports (you know, stuff ESPN rose and fell on) will still be a thing in 10-20 years. For the rest of us who watch more eSports than 3-hour meatspace snoozefests the action is going to be more on how video games can be made more interesting for a wider viewing public (i.e., choosing our viewing angles, showing more live stats that are hidden from players, switching from player view to strategic view, etc.) than whether legacy sports will translate into 3D.
And since when was a major US sport cheap to cozy up with? As a business, you can't even say "Superbowl" out loud without writing a check.
You're wasting your time in India unless it's 3D cricket. Never seen an Indian in the parking lot with a baseball bat, and the "out of the park" highlight clips most likely shown in my neck of the woods aren't from US footage.
Yes, that united and educated body.
I'm right with you there - when self-driving is real, I plan on buying my own car.
However, subsidized taxi services for low-income citizens using shared cars/vans are real and (thankfully) growing. Hopefully the bus/trolley trend of the last century is over.