A truly neutral network would not give firefighter traffic ANY priority over other traffic. To ask for such priority is to be a hypocrite. This request by the fire fighters, at best, is an COUNTER example of what "Network Neutrality" means.
Oh, and the issue of exceeding a data cap on your network plan is not the same as network neutrality.
The Pentagon contract involved adding AI to analyze photographs. People who want to make it seem worse than the same tech being applied to their Facebook pages to find friends made up the story about "AI to control drones", and continue to propagate it.
Last week I tried v8. And was relieved that there was still some place to download v7. What remained of the user interface was a bad attempt to map a screen-limited smart phone app onto a desktop.
... "outside influence", rather than election fraud, then fixing the voting machines is not addressing the problem.
According to many people who are fighting efforts to stop efforts like requiring picture ID to vote, there is no election fraud going on. So what is the $250M supposed to fix, other than contracts for people who sell insecure voting equipment?
As the transit system collapses from maintenance issues, and walk/ride options become more dangerous due to crime, that people are turning to alternatives?
My wallet only contains a limited amount of "financial information" (aka "cash"), and does not have access to any other funds. The photo IDs contained within it do not have information on my backing accounts, so they'd first have to determine where I bank to make use of them to do transactions. And I do not carry checks with me. So, while a wallet COULD hold financial information, mine doesn't, for EXACTLY the same reason my phone doesn't.
"Personal banker" is in quotes because people who used to be called "personal banker" were assigned to work with you on all of your accounts, for anything you needed to discuss, beyond teller services. That position no longer exists, at least for people below the $250K deposit level.
The person in question had the title, but was really a "specialist in non-business accounts". Which makes some sense, in a world where "your bank" is not a place, but a distributed collection of branches.
Of course, if someone's "personal banker" has always been a smart phone app from the bank, this is a "whoosh" moment.
Device encryption (yes, it's enabled) is a mere speed bump for those sufficiently motivated. It seems that only the FBI has trouble with it.
I recently pulled up to a drive through of a nationwide bank chain to find that it had closed just a week before; I had to go into the lobby and stand in line.
While in line, a "personal banker" approached and asked if she could help me with anything. I commented about having to get out of my car and walk across the parking lot to come inside while it was raining.She explained that the bank was removing DT tellers at most locations, because so many people use digital payments.with their phones, so no one was using the DTs anymore.
I explained that I know just how secure phones are, and that I would never trust financial stuff to a device that is so easily stolen. "If they get your phone, they can get just about anything else."
She assured me that that was not true, and even if it were, I would only have to use their APP to track what was going on, and to report the bogus transactions.
"You mean the APP on my stolen phone, where your website sends the confirmation text for your two-factor authentication?"
One for the people cool enough to be worth tracking their every movement and utterance, and one for the people that might interact with those people, so they can keep in practice?
"Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in the Cortana smart assistant that ALLOWS an attacker with access to a locked computer to use the smart assistant and access data on the device, execute malicious code, or even change the PC's password to access the device in its entirety."
The patch was released 1 day ago. This vulnerability still exists for every Cortana-equipped computer that has not yet been updated.
And how many people refuse to update because updates have a history of breaking things?
I can get IPv6 at home if I have a non-business account. I can't order it for my Comcast Business fiber at the office, or for my Comcast Business account at the house, because Comcast doesn't "do" IPv6 for BUSINESS accounts yet.
Difference between "business" and "residential"? Primarily fixed IPs. My Comcast drop here at the house is fixed IP, my neighbors are dynamic, changing regularly. But they can have dynamic, changing regularly IPv6.
Many stores deal with the "no credit card" part in their self-check-out lanes by taking cash and giving change...
But, again, dealing with someone that does not have, or may not WANT, a credit/debit card may also involve dealing with someone who isn't "computer savvy" enough to deal with a kiosk. I know people who would rather walk away than deal with a kiosk, which is why Wendys still has order takers, even when they install order kiosks.
that many of these people are so against any PRIVATE business having a "monopoly" because the competition didn't do as well, but would have no issue with a government-run "monopoly" doing the same thing.
> We're talking about AI being used to control drones.
No, we're talking about AI being used for analysis of the data provided by those drones. To weed through the thousands of hours of pictures to make it easier for humans to make decisions. At least, that was the original story that caused these people to promise to resign if it happened.
It's stuff these people were already developing AI to do - just a different user base. Rather than delivery targeted advertising, it might be something else targeting them.
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... if they submitted samples of the CPUs to researchers to find these kind of flaws BEFORE they commit to making the first 100 million of them?
A truly neutral network would not give firefighter traffic ANY priority over other traffic. To ask for such priority is to be a hypocrite. This request by the fire fighters, at best, is an COUNTER example of what "Network Neutrality" means.
Oh, and the issue of exceeding a data cap on your network plan is not the same as network neutrality.
The Pentagon contract involved adding AI to analyze photographs. People who want to make it seem worse than the same tech being applied to their Facebook pages to find friends made up the story about "AI to control drones", and continue to propagate it.
... that studies cause problems.
Last week we had the story that said Uber was keeping people off the subways.
Now a new ordinance that blames people's increasing frustration with subway problems with the rise of Uber.
So it is imperative to force people back onto the subways they're frustrated with...
THAT will fix it!
Type "download skype classic" in to the evil Google search box, and several non-Microsoft sites, including Bleeping Computer, come up.
... when they shut off 7, I'll be off skype.
Last week I tried v8. And was relieved that there was still some place to download v7. What remained of the user interface was a bad attempt to map a screen-limited smart phone app onto a desktop.
In a truly "neutral" network, the contents of the packets does not matter to the carrier. Attempting to force censorship is a violation of that idea.
... "outside influence", rather than election fraud, then fixing the voting machines is not addressing the problem.
According to many people who are fighting efforts to stop efforts like requiring picture ID to vote, there is no election fraud going on. So what is the $250M supposed to fix, other than contracts for people who sell insecure voting equipment?
As the transit system collapses from maintenance issues, and walk/ride options become more dangerous due to crime, that people are turning to alternatives?
Publicity for an academic paper, on the other hand, can lead to funding.
My wallet only contains a limited amount of "financial information" (aka "cash"), and does not have access to any other funds. The photo IDs contained within it do not have information on my backing accounts, so they'd first have to determine where I bank to make use of them to do transactions. And I do not carry checks with me. So, while a wallet COULD hold financial information, mine doesn't, for EXACTLY the same reason my phone doesn't.
"Personal banker" is in quotes because people who used to be called "personal banker" were assigned to work with you on all of your accounts, for anything you needed to discuss, beyond teller services. That position no longer exists, at least for people below the $250K deposit level.
The person in question had the title, but was really a "specialist in non-business accounts". Which makes some sense, in a world where "your bank" is not a place, but a distributed collection of branches.
Of course, if someone's "personal banker" has always been a smart phone app from the bank, this is a "whoosh" moment.
Device encryption (yes, it's enabled) is a mere speed bump for those sufficiently motivated. It seems that only the FBI has trouble with it.
I recently pulled up to a drive through of a nationwide bank chain to find that it had closed just a week before; I had to go into the lobby and stand in line.
While in line, a "personal banker" approached and asked if she could help me with anything. I commented about having to get out of my car and walk across the parking lot to come inside while it was raining.She explained that the bank was removing DT tellers at most locations, because so many people use digital payments.with their phones, so no one was using the DTs anymore.
I explained that I know just how secure phones are, and that I would never trust financial stuff to a device that is so easily stolen. "If they get your phone, they can get just about anything else."
She assured me that that was not true, and even if it were, I would only have to use their APP to track what was going on, and to report the bogus transactions.
"You mean the APP on my stolen phone, where your website sends the confirmation text for your two-factor authentication?"
She didn't appreciate the irony...
Yes! Everyone knows that cute cat videos will save the world!
One for the people cool enough to be worth tracking their every movement and utterance, and one for the people that might interact with those people, so they can keep in practice?
But I wasn't being sarcastic...
The FCC under Obama imposed the rules without legal justification. The FCC under Trump removed them.
If the rule is important, THERE SHOULD BE LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR IT.
Don't work to pass a "put it back" resolution.
WORK TO MAKE A LAW TO JUSTIFY IT.
... that not even all the Democrats want in on it...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
"Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in the Cortana smart assistant that ALLOWS an attacker with access to a locked computer to use the smart assistant and access data on the device, execute malicious code, or even change the PC's password to access the device in its entirety."
The patch was released 1 day ago. This vulnerability still exists for every Cortana-equipped computer that has not yet been updated.
And how many people refuse to update because updates have a history of breaking things?
I can get IPv6 at home if I have a non-business account. I can't order it for my Comcast Business fiber at the office, or for my Comcast Business account at the house, because Comcast doesn't "do" IPv6 for BUSINESS accounts yet.
Difference between "business" and "residential"? Primarily fixed IPs. My Comcast drop here at the house is fixed IP, my neighbors are dynamic, changing regularly. But they can have dynamic, changing regularly IPv6.
Many stores deal with the "no credit card" part in their self-check-out lanes by taking cash and giving change...
But, again, dealing with someone that does not have, or may not WANT, a credit/debit card may also involve dealing with someone who isn't "computer savvy" enough to deal with a kiosk. I know people who would rather walk away than deal with a kiosk, which is why Wendys still has order takers, even when they install order kiosks.
If it's going to be off-shore, it should be far enough off-shore to be in open ocean, free of territorial waters.
Sink it far enough below the surface to minimize the effects of storms and to not affect surface navigation, attached to the sea floor by cables.
It should not affect the wild life, and even could be made big enough to support a crew.
that many of these people are so against any PRIVATE business having a "monopoly" because the competition didn't do as well, but would have no issue with a government-run "monopoly" doing the same thing.
... suck worse at spelling than students, though.
It was a policy change that a lot of us applaud, and a few people did not like.
They've changed a lot of other policies that break things, and haven't relented. Those weren't "bugs". Apparently the criteria is if it breaks a game.
> We're talking about AI being used to control drones.
No, we're talking about AI being used for analysis of the data provided by those drones. To weed through the thousands of hours of pictures to make it easier for humans to make decisions. At least, that was the original story that caused these people to promise to resign if it happened.
It's stuff these people were already developing AI to do - just a different user base. Rather than delivery targeted advertising, it might be something else targeting them.