>> Donald Trump has used Twitter to badger and humiliate those who have dared cross him
Er, I suppose, but when's the last time anyone actually read their Twitter feed? Or is this story about people dumb enough to read and react to what this guy says?
Roughly half the marketing departments at companies I've worked for have used half-baked surveys to gather statistics so the company name and the statistic get repeated in the industry over and over again.
This often happens like this: "At (industry conference) this year, let's pass out a survey asking whether or not someone has every heard of a coworker getting hacked by (whatever threat our product purports to mitigate). Survey goes out to already half-paranoid people walking by, and the entire marketing and sales department fills one out that says 'yes I have'. A week later a press release goes out that says "(company) surveyed (# of people) IT managers and other attendees at (conference) and found that (high percentage) had direct knowledge of a coworker getting hacked by (threat)." Very often this stuff gets picked up by the press, bloggers and even other competitors, and the essentially made-up stat gets repeated and repeated until some people even think its true.
>> Xamarin's approach enables developers to take advantage of the productivity and power of Visual Studio to build mobile apps
FTFY. When we were building our last set of apps, we were happy that our developers could reuse their Visual Studio / C# skills; we purchased Xamarin so we wouldn't have to care (as much) about what the compiled code ran on, and specifically so we could avoid hiring more than a handful of dedicated Android or iOS developers (to perform touch-up work if necessary).
Well that's a bad example, since I'm pretty sure I could walk out of my office and find dozens of people who would trade any amount of bullion for a single Snickers bar. A better example would be "try to buy something from Amazon with bullion"...but the statement "try to buy something from Amazon with crumpled dollar bills" would be as equally ludicrous.
Are we at least agreed that only digital currencies (whether Bitcoin or dollars) are the only real/complete currencies today (due to fungibility)?
>> focus on the devices and other technology rather than the content...Content, too, actually would benefit -- considering that proprietary formats and DRM can imperil the future readability of e-books
This was and is still a dumb idea. Concentrate on exporting the content in an open format and f*** the devices, proprietary and otherwise. It's not like many mere mortals can physically get to DC anyway to use a bunch of archaic devices, so the end goal should be "open format content accessible from anywhere".
Unfortunately, it seems you can't ever have enough evidence. Right now, there's a show on Netflix called "Making of a Murderer" about a guy who stalked a photographer, lured her to his house, raped her, killed her, then dumped her possessions and her body in a barrel and burned it all. The local law authorities collected mounds of evidence, even bringing in outside law enforcement to make sure they did it right, arrested the killer, and easily convicted him of murder in a court of law. However, ten years later a couple of random guys put together a ten-hour show that still finds a lot of holes in the process and casts doubt on the evidence, leading thousands of simple minds to sign petitions asking for this guy to be set free. With that (and the chance that this or that is declared inadmissible in court) in mind, if was in law enforcement, I'd always err on the side of all-the-evidence-I-could-possibly-collect.
It's more that pre-paid phones can be obtained with cash or pre-loaded cash cards. Regular phone plans are typically tied to a bank account (often a credit card account), which ties a specific phone to a person (that can be ID'ed through a bank), so drug dealers would prefer the "burner" route.
In other words, arrested drug dealers don't care as much about a "ha ha you can't encrypt my data" defense as they do about "hey - that's not my phone!" defense. If anything, it should be the drug BUYERS would should vet the IT security of their dealers, as in "hey, how do I know that the cops can't find me in your contact list if they bust you"...but then again no one ever said users were smart.:)
You must be new here. (The nod to 'net makes me think you woke up from a nap started in 1995.)
>> Code is speech and the government is requiring Apple to create the code and the means to do this.
Remember that thousands of US-based governments (fed, state, county, city...) already requires thousands of companies to develop code (or "speech" if you want) and the means to do X, Y and Z (e.g., "calculate tax withholding on..." or "use GPS fencing to avoid...") on those companies' dimes. Whether its through regulation, legislation or court order, the legal precedent for government A to require company B to develop code C is almost certainly well established.
I'm not sure you understand the concern then. The feature in question is, "ability to remotely update code on a device automatically, without user intervention"
Windows allows you to disable automatic updates (even on Windows 10). Linux famously allows you to only put the specific code you want into your OS. (Google "compile kernel", etc.) If iPhones require automated updates or they will stop functioning, I'd say that concern is still fairly unique to the iPhone platform.
>> Is there anyone here who even uses their Twitter account if they have one?
As a "write only" dump of scheduled thoughts, as part of my job, yes. In the past I've also used it when I'm at a conference to meet up with other people who I want to hang out with for a night, but don't really want to keep in touch with when the conference is over.
>> For you people who hate Facebook, do you hate Twitter or Facebook more?
Twitter, probably. My wife still reads Facebook and communicates with some other moms that way. Every once a while someone's husband will invite me to run a race, have some beers or clean them out in poker via some Facebook communication via the wives, so I can't hate it that much.
Slashdot Mirror
>> Donald Trump has used Twitter to badger and humiliate those who have dared cross him
Er, I suppose, but when's the last time anyone actually read their Twitter feed? Or is this story about people dumb enough to read and react to what this guy says?
>> making the life of Tor users a living hell: enter CAPTCHAs multiple times, tracking their Web sessions, and sharing data with other companies
Are you sure they're not just anonymous SlashDot users?
In any case, you have an odd definition of a "living hell" even from a first-world perspective.
>> compromised database stolen from a national police server (in Turkey)
Gee, it's a swell thing that America doesn't have a national police database!
>> http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
F***
>> We discontinued videos
Exactly. :)
>> 25-minute propaganda video
Anyone seen SlashDot's video editor lately? A 25-minute rambling screed sounds like the kind of thing that's typically posted here.
Roughly half the marketing departments at companies I've worked for have used half-baked surveys to gather statistics so the company name and the statistic get repeated in the industry over and over again.
This often happens like this: "At (industry conference) this year, let's pass out a survey asking whether or not someone has every heard of a coworker getting hacked by (whatever threat our product purports to mitigate). Survey goes out to already half-paranoid people walking by, and the entire marketing and sales department fills one out that says 'yes I have'. A week later a press release goes out that says "(company) surveyed (# of people) IT managers and other attendees at (conference) and found that (high percentage) had direct knowledge of a coworker getting hacked by (threat)." Very often this stuff gets picked up by the press, bloggers and even other competitors, and the essentially made-up stat gets repeated and repeated until some people even think its true.
Examples:
- http://www.tripwire.com/compan...
- http://www.prnewswire.com/news...
- https://www.voltage.com/breach...
>> Xamarin's approach enables developers to take advantage of the productivity and power of Visual Studio to build mobile apps
FTFY. When we were building our last set of apps, we were happy that our developers could reuse their Visual Studio / C# skills; we purchased Xamarin so we wouldn't have to care (as much) about what the compiled code ran on, and specifically so we could avoid hiring more than a handful of dedicated Android or iOS developers (to perform touch-up work if necessary).
I thought so too. No one is surprised, of course. Even the Express editions of Visual Studio targeted Xamarin.
>> I will never again eat at Burger King in large part because of their tax inversion
Oddly enough, I stopped eating there because of intestinal inversion.
>> try buying a Snickers bar with gold buillon
Well that's a bad example, since I'm pretty sure I could walk out of my office and find dozens of people who would trade any amount of bullion for a single Snickers bar. A better example would be "try to buy something from Amazon with bullion"...but the statement "try to buy something from Amazon with crumpled dollar bills" would be as equally ludicrous.
Are we at least agreed that only digital currencies (whether Bitcoin or dollars) are the only real/complete currencies today (due to fungibility)?
>> like gold, makes a terrible currency
You lost me there. For most of recorded history, gold has made a terrific currency - the kind you can power regional empires on.
Wasn't the whole point of digital currencies to avoid the need for a government to bless (and therefore control) a particularly unit of money?
>> consumers will be able to purchase goods and services using bitcoin and other digital currencies
I believe this is already possible - no government blessing necessary, thank you.
>> focus on the devices and other technology rather than the content...Content, too, actually would benefit -- considering that proprietary formats and DRM can imperil the future readability of e-books
This was and is still a dumb idea. Concentrate on exporting the content in an open format and f*** the devices, proprietary and otherwise. It's not like many mere mortals can physically get to DC anyway to use a bunch of archaic devices, so the end goal should be "open format content accessible from anywhere".
>> ("lay-zers") may well be the technology that takes us to the stars in the coming centuries
I, for one, welcome our new shark overlords.
>> (lots of other evidence)
Unfortunately, it seems you can't ever have enough evidence. Right now, there's a show on Netflix called "Making of a Murderer" about a guy who stalked a photographer, lured her to his house, raped her, killed her, then dumped her possessions and her body in a barrel and burned it all. The local law authorities collected mounds of evidence, even bringing in outside law enforcement to make sure they did it right, arrested the killer, and easily convicted him of murder in a court of law. However, ten years later a couple of random guys put together a ten-hour show that still finds a lot of holes in the process and casts doubt on the evidence, leading thousands of simple minds to sign petitions asking for this guy to be set free. With that (and the chance that this or that is declared inadmissible in court) in mind, if was in law enforcement, I'd always err on the side of all-the-evidence-I-could-possibly-collect.
seems like avast missed the point when google, gmail, and youtube went 100% https
the bit about "detecting" devices is also retarded: just serve up a page to new connectors and log the agent and you should get stats on browsers/oses
>> Why is Israel allowed to swipe land but not Russia?
So Russia was pushed out of Crimea then?
Nah, I've been doing this at my farmer's market for years. Four mushroom stamps = fifth one free.
>> why drug dealers buy lots of pre-paid phones
It's more that pre-paid phones can be obtained with cash or pre-loaded cash cards. Regular phone plans are typically tied to a bank account (often a credit card account), which ties a specific phone to a person (that can be ID'ed through a bank), so drug dealers would prefer the "burner" route.
In other words, arrested drug dealers don't care as much about a "ha ha you can't encrypt my data" defense as they do about "hey - that's not my phone!" defense. If anything, it should be the drug BUYERS would should vet the IT security of their dealers, as in "hey, how do I know that the cops can't find me in your contact list if they bust you"...but then again no one ever said users were smart. :)
>> this will come up under free speech violations
You must be new here. (The nod to 'net makes me think you woke up from a nap started in 1995.)
>> Code is speech and the government is requiring Apple to create the code and the means to do this.
Remember that thousands of US-based governments (fed, state, county, city...) already requires thousands of companies to develop code (or "speech" if you want) and the means to do X, Y and Z (e.g., "calculate tax withholding on..." or "use GPS fencing to avoid...") on those companies' dimes. Whether its through regulation, legislation or court order, the legal precedent for government A to require company B to develop code C is almost certainly well established.
>> Literally EVERY OS has this concern
I'm not sure you understand the concern then. The feature in question is, "ability to remotely update code on a device automatically, without user intervention"
Windows allows you to disable automatic updates (even on Windows 10). Linux famously allows you to only put the specific code you want into your OS. (Google "compile kernel", etc.) If iPhones require automated updates or they will stop functioning, I'd say that concern is still fairly unique to the iPhone platform.
WHY Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption?
FTFY. (Where "stand on" = "prevent people from getting")
>> He'll do it using mostly social engineering
"No problem. Just gimme the phone number, the address and the bank of the guy who owns the phone. I'll have him giving up the code by Sunday."
>> He's dead.
"F***!"
>> the hospital has paid a 40-bitcoin ransom (about $17,000)
That's about 340 tablets of hospital aspirin or 680 hospital bandaids for those counting at home.
>> Is there anyone here who even uses their Twitter account if they have one?
As a "write only" dump of scheduled thoughts, as part of my job, yes. In the past I've also used it when I'm at a conference to meet up with other people who I want to hang out with for a night, but don't really want to keep in touch with when the conference is over.
>> For you people who hate Facebook, do you hate Twitter or Facebook more?
Twitter, probably. My wife still reads Facebook and communicates with some other moms that way. Every once a while someone's husband will invite me to run a race, have some beers or clean them out in poker via some Facebook communication via the wives, so I can't hate it that much.