It is a world-wide problem. Granted that there are some nations that don't enforce pollution laws and likely some that don't even have any. But the EU, Canada and others are very interested in this.
The real irony is that after being caught in a huge lie about their diesel engines they think that they can focus on electric cars and the public will believe all the lies they tell about their electric cars.
He wants $35,000 for a reserved space in one of his luxury shelters? Heck, for only $24,999 I'll reserve a space for you in one of my four star luxury shelters. We don't even tell anyone where they are until the complete breakdown of civilization, so that the armed thugs don't come and impose their selves on you. But we'll somehow contact you after the complete fall of civilization and take you to your closest luxury four star shelter to sit out the fall of mankind. Note: Minor local inconveniences do not qualify as end of civilization events You can only claim your reserved space in our deluxe four start shelters after the complete collapse of the court system. Send your money now.
If LastPass was only a place that you stored an encrypted file that you created yourself and could only give it back to you in encrypted form, then what you say could be argued. The argument might or might not hold up, but it could be argued.
But if you are using LastPass software on your own machine to do the encrypting and the decryption of the passwords and then logging in to sites that you want to be secure, then you have given up control.
If you are too trusting to understand this, replace "LastPass" with "Chinese" or "N.S.A." in the above and read it again.
Resources are not infinite. In this country we are graduating people who are illiterate, both because of school politics (If people don't pass I'm rated as a poor teacher) and because the teachers simply want those kids out of their classroom and moved on to be someone else's problem. The finite resources would be better used to offer coding skills to those interested in learning it (and not overcrowd their classrooms with idiots and disruptives to the point were very little can be taught) and to provide more attention for the bottom dwellers to actually learn to read and do simple math. I doubt that that goal can even be reached, but if it could I can suggest several other basic life skills that should be taught before embarking on "everyone should learn to program a computer".
I actually looked at the report that a link was supplied to (sorry, I know that isn't usually done around here). All I can take from it is that everyone reported on is trying to play nice. If I were to believe it, even Microsoft. It is interesting to see the names that are not mentioned (such as Cisco and Google). But I was expected a much more open and honest report from EFF. Both to name the bad actors and to point out where companies who make blanket statements about their embracing of user privacy may not be living up to those statements. Just quoting what nice things some companies want to say about themselves is not a "report".
Without you giving LastPass your master password and access to your two-factor authentication (you are using two-factor, right?), they couldn't tell you even one of your passwords if their lives depended on it.
That hardly matters. Consider what a password is, it is a way to get into an account. What you really care about is that others can't access your accounts, not that they can't unscramble all of the hashes and find out the perverted strings that you used to create your passwords. So if LastPass can be sold to LogMeIn or to the Chinese or to the N.S.A. then they have bought a way to get into your "protected" accounts. It really doesn't matter if they can retrieve the silly little strings that you think protect you or not.
What a nice story about how all the passwords that were entrusted to LastPass are being sold to LogMeIn. Of course, there will be less fanfare when the story is "NSA To Acquire LogMeIn For $200 Million ". Or maybe that already happened.
The above poster hit the nail on the head. It might be good to have all schools offer coding classes to HS students. It is pointless to require it. No one who hires coders should be thinking "I'll just get someone fresh out of of high school to code this". Many people in our American educational system are headed for jobs as short order cooks, garbage men or NFL players and would never use such training and would be much better off focusing their limited abilities on learning to read. Coding should be for those motivated to learn it, not a course where the same thing has to be presented ten different times in ten different way do as not to leave behind those dedicated to disrupting teaching.
I tried to get a story up here on that, I don't know why they rejected it.
I suspect I know why it was rejected. I've had posts moderated up to "5" and then flagged as "Flame bait" or "Troll" and moderated back down. When they get modded back up they get flagged as "Troll" or "Flame bait" again and moderated down. Does anyone really believe that a "Flame bait" post is repeatedly being modded up to "5" or is it more likely that someone who believes differently than me just wants to silence me? (And has no valid opposite view to contribute to the discussion.) I think you hit the same thing, a Slashdot staff member who simply didn't want to see that viewpoint discussed.
Carly Fiorina pretty much seemed to be doing all she could to destroy HP. When she bought Compaq she was already thought to be ready to be pushed out the door and many even suggested her main motive in doing so was to get the board to wait and see how that purchase worked out before showing her the door, buying her some more time. And it is worth remembering that the purchase of ailing Compaq brought little or nothing to HP that they didn't already have, and was at a higher price than even what the Chinese bought the IBM PC business for and renamed it Lenovo.
So the deal with Apple was bad for HP? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!
Not that I would consider her malicious. Beyond putting her personal income beyond the needs of HP and all the employees that got laid off, I would say most of what happened under her reign was just due to incompetence.
I want my books the most when I'm away from an Internet connection. When I'm somewhere that I have a good Internet connection I have plenty to read or watch or listen to.
that, and there is no such thing as a cloud. It is just Amazon usurping that name and trying to confuse what it really is.
I didn't ask what your religion was, and I'm sure whatever app anyone uses they will claim to be the one true religion. I asked why, and if it can read from the SD card, and if it supports epub. Sorry, my fault for thinking that anyone here could give any useful information in a response.
It isn't the tablet exactly, it is a flawed app in the tablet. Still, really a completely bullshit job on Amazon's part.
This isn't the first time I've seen this though. When I got a new Android tablet I couldn't find any ebook app that I really liked. I previously had one that came with an older tablet that worked great, read epub files and did a good job of sorting and indexing things and letting you sort what you had as you wanted. Couldn't move that to the new tablet and couldn't find a copy of it on-line in any of the app stores that I use. I did find one that looked a lot like it (maybe the same product but a newer version and with a company name change), but it could only see the books on the Internal storage. I contacted the publisher and after some hemming and hawing they acknowledged there was no support for the external memory card and they claimed they were "working on that". It is now over a year later and as far as I know there is still no support for it.
It would be useful to me and perhaps to others if readers here would state what app they like for Android for reading ebooks, why they like it, if it supports books stored on the external card, what formats it supports (in my case particularly epub) and so on.
True - but still worth it for the vast majority of things, especially with free two day shipping.
Beyond the free trial, the claim of free two day shipping is Bullshit. It is Prepaid Shipping, or shipping that you already paid good money for, not free shipping.
conspiracy-addled mind? You must have me confused with Hillary Clinton, who used the "vast right wing conspiracy" to discount all of the Monica Lewinsky stories against her husband. It is amazing, but if we believe her, this supposed smartest woman in the world was absolutely the last one to know that the stories about her and Monica were true. And even after she explained her view of morality to the American people as "If I don't care who my husband is sleeping with then you shouldn't either".
Wouldn't it be simpler and less confusing if you just reported the truth in simple terms: The U.S. telecom industry has decided to continue to screw up standards and make sure that their next generation equipment does not work with the rest of the world and likely not work with each other. Sprint has picked three different incompatible standards and will deploy all three and challenges its customers to guess which will still be supported the following year (while locking them into two year contracts but.phasing out their supported type of supposed 5G in much less time in their area). Prices will go up.
The only real way to protect yourself is external to Microsoft software, such as at the router. The router will not know if it is a security update or a simple "lets beta test the next release on the non-commercial chumps" software release. But the real issue is who are you concerned about security protection from? The only evil doers who have ever done me real harm are Microsoft themselves, back in XP SP1 days they rewrote my NIC EEPROM during a "security update" so that it would come up in an illegal default state and not work properly in Linux (and temporarily reset the NIC state to ordinary defaults when Windows was booted). I have to question who I'm trying to protect my system from, and the biggest evil out there seems to be Microsoft. So I no longer accept any Microsoft "security updates".
It isn't Libel when you state the truth. I know Slashdot would give up my ID in a second, but I'm not worried. But just in case I haven't made it easy enough for her to go after me, here's more:
In the Tyson case there were numerous securities violations as Tyson funneled money to the Clintons through her and their common broker, with a supposedly magical ability to profit in the futures market. Yea, I know it was investigated by a Democrat controlled congress and they said that they didn't find anything, but others did.
I don't know of anyone who knows the basic facts who believes that Vince Foster was a suicide, much less that Park Police should have been the principle investigators in the case. All things in this murder lead back to her.
Direct involvement in the Ron Brown murder is certainly harder to prove, but the amazing coincidences surrounding it including how many other people in the "Clinton Body Count" were swept out of the way by Airplane Fatalities make it clear to me that the Clintons were involved. If not her then Bill, but most likely both.
The laws only apply to the little people, not the Clintons. If Whitewater, the Tyson payoff through bogus "futures investing", the Vince Foster murder, the Ron Brown murder and all the rest didn't even touch her, then a little thing like breaking a bunch of national security laws and lying about it isn't going to affect here either.
Adding insult to injury, most of the drugs in question were developed, at least in part, at public universities in the USA with taxpayer money. And then the drug companies are allowed to sell them to Canada cheaper than they sell then in the USA and use legal abuse like in the summary to keep the lower cost same product from coming back into the USA.
And this isn't just rare drugs like mentioned in the article that are being gouged, last year the supply of a long generic drug allopurinol dried up and when it reappeared it was 5 to 10 times the previous price. Allopurinol is also used for prevention of gout and is listed by the the World Health Organization as one of the ten most important drugs in the world.
That sounds somewhat bogus. Didn't the "scientists" who built the first experiment know what the noise issues were and that the first equipment couldn't find anything? Or to put it another way, would they have known if they were building it with their own money rather than grant money?
And how would this new experiment establish that it was really seeing gravity waves from distant sources rather than much closer sources, such as ocean waves or birds flying nearby or any heavy equipment moving around on the same continent? (Or does that even matter if all we are trying to do is confirm the existence of the gravity waves?)
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It is a world-wide problem. Granted that there are some nations that don't enforce pollution laws and likely some that don't even have any. But the EU, Canada and others are very interested in this.
The real irony is that after being caught in a huge lie about their diesel engines they think that they can focus on electric cars and the public will believe all the lies they tell about their electric cars.
It is nice to know that self proclaimed "Trekies" are taking the intellectual property that once belonged to Paramount Pictures.
He wants $35,000 for a reserved space in one of his luxury shelters? Heck, for only $24,999 I'll reserve a space for you in one of my four star luxury shelters. We don't even tell anyone where they are until the complete breakdown of civilization, so that the armed thugs don't come and impose their selves on you. But we'll somehow contact you after the complete fall of civilization and take you to your closest luxury four star shelter to sit out the fall of mankind. Note: Minor local inconveniences do not qualify as end of civilization events You can only claim your reserved space in our deluxe four start shelters after the complete collapse of the court system. Send your money now.
My school isn't struggling with it at all, they are doing it extremely well.
If LastPass was only a place that you stored an encrypted file that you created yourself and could only give it back to you in encrypted form, then what you say could be argued. The argument might or might not hold up, but it could be argued.
But if you are using LastPass software on your own machine to do the encrypting and the decryption of the passwords and then logging in to sites that you want to be secure, then you have given up control.
If you are too trusting to understand this, replace "LastPass" with "Chinese" or "N.S.A." in the above and read it again.
Resources are not infinite. In this country we are graduating people who are illiterate, both because of school politics (If people don't pass I'm rated as a poor teacher) and because the teachers simply want those kids out of their classroom and moved on to be someone else's problem. The finite resources would be better used to offer coding skills to those interested in learning it (and not overcrowd their classrooms with idiots and disruptives to the point were very little can be taught) and to provide more attention for the bottom dwellers to actually learn to read and do simple math. I doubt that that goal can even be reached, but if it could I can suggest several other basic life skills that should be taught before embarking on "everyone should learn to program a computer".
I actually looked at the report that a link was supplied to (sorry, I know that isn't usually done around here). All I can take from it is that everyone reported on is trying to play nice. If I were to believe it, even Microsoft. It is interesting to see the names that are not mentioned (such as Cisco and Google). But I was expected a much more open and honest report from EFF. Both to name the bad actors and to point out where companies who make blanket statements about their embracing of user privacy may not be living up to those statements. Just quoting what nice things some companies want to say about themselves is not a "report".
That is shocking, particularly since many people expected them to be about 100%.
Without you giving LastPass your master password and access to your two-factor authentication (you are using two-factor, right?), they couldn't tell you even one of your passwords if their lives depended on it.
That hardly matters. Consider what a password is, it is a way to get into an account. What you really care about is that others can't access your accounts, not that they can't unscramble all of the hashes and find out the perverted strings that you used to create your passwords. So if LastPass can be sold to LogMeIn or to the Chinese or to the N.S.A. then they have bought a way to get into your "protected" accounts. It really doesn't matter if they can retrieve the silly little strings that you think protect you or not.
What a nice story about how all the passwords that were entrusted to LastPass are being sold to LogMeIn. Of course, there will be less fanfare when the story is " NSA To Acquire LogMeIn For $200 Million ". Or maybe that already happened.
The above poster hit the nail on the head. It might be good to have all schools offer coding classes to HS students. It is pointless to require it. No one who hires coders should be thinking "I'll just get someone fresh out of of high school to code this". Many people in our American educational system are headed for jobs as short order cooks, garbage men or NFL players and would never use such training and would be much better off focusing their limited abilities on learning to read. Coding should be for those motivated to learn it, not a course where the same thing has to be presented ten different times in ten different way do as not to leave behind those dedicated to disrupting teaching.
I tried to get a story up here on that, I don't know why they rejected it.
I suspect I know why it was rejected. I've had posts moderated up to "5" and then flagged as "Flame bait" or "Troll" and moderated back down. When they get modded back up they get flagged as "Troll" or "Flame bait" again and moderated down. Does anyone really believe that a "Flame bait" post is repeatedly being modded up to "5" or is it more likely that someone who believes differently than me just wants to silence me? (And has no valid opposite view to contribute to the discussion.) I think you hit the same thing, a Slashdot staff member who simply didn't want to see that viewpoint discussed.
Carly Fiorina pretty much seemed to be doing all she could to destroy HP. When she bought Compaq she was already thought to be ready to be pushed out the door and many even suggested her main motive in doing so was to get the board to wait and see how that purchase worked out before showing her the door, buying her some more time. And it is worth remembering that the purchase of ailing Compaq brought little or nothing to HP that they didn't already have, and was at a higher price than even what the Chinese bought the IBM PC business for and renamed it Lenovo.
So the deal with Apple was bad for HP? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!
Not that I would consider her malicious. Beyond putting her personal income beyond the needs of HP and all the employees that got laid off, I would say most of what happened under her reign was just due to incompetence.
I want my books the most when I'm away from an Internet connection. When I'm somewhere that I have a good Internet connection I have plenty to read or watch or listen to.
that, and there is no such thing as a cloud. It is just Amazon usurping that name and trying to confuse what it really is.
I didn't ask what your religion was, and I'm sure whatever app anyone uses they will claim to be the one true religion. I asked why, and if it can read from the SD card, and if it supports epub. Sorry, my fault for thinking that anyone here could give any useful information in a response.
It isn't the tablet exactly, it is a flawed app in the tablet. Still, really a completely bullshit job on Amazon's part.
This isn't the first time I've seen this though. When I got a new Android tablet I couldn't find any ebook app that I really liked. I previously had one that came with an older tablet that worked great, read epub files and did a good job of sorting and indexing things and letting you sort what you had as you wanted. Couldn't move that to the new tablet and couldn't find a copy of it on-line in any of the app stores that I use. I did find one that looked a lot like it (maybe the same product but a newer version and with a company name change), but it could only see the books on the Internal storage. I contacted the publisher and after some hemming and hawing they acknowledged there was no support for the external memory card and they claimed they were "working on that". It is now over a year later and as far as I know there is still no support for it.
It would be useful to me and perhaps to others if readers here would state what app they like for Android for reading ebooks, why they like it, if it supports books stored on the external card, what formats it supports (in my case particularly epub) and so on.
True - but still worth it for the vast majority of things, especially with free two day shipping.
Beyond the free trial, the claim of free two day shipping is Bullshit. It is Prepaid Shipping, or shipping that you already paid good money for, not free shipping.
conspiracy-addled mind? You must have me confused with Hillary Clinton, who used the "vast right wing conspiracy" to discount all of the Monica Lewinsky stories against her husband. It is amazing, but if we believe her, this supposed smartest woman in the world was absolutely the last one to know that the stories about her and Monica were true. And even after she explained her view of morality to the American people as "If I don't care who my husband is sleeping with then you shouldn't either".
Wouldn't it be simpler and less confusing if you just reported the truth in simple terms: The U.S. telecom industry has decided to continue to screw up standards and make sure that their next generation equipment does not work with the rest of the world and likely not work with each other. Sprint has picked three different incompatible standards and will deploy all three and challenges its customers to guess which will still be supported the following year (while locking them into two year contracts but .phasing out their supported type of supposed 5G in much less time in their area). Prices will go up.
The only real way to protect yourself is external to Microsoft software, such as at the router. The router will not know if it is a security update or a simple "lets beta test the next release on the non-commercial chumps" software release. But the real issue is who are you concerned about security protection from? The only evil doers who have ever done me real harm are Microsoft themselves, back in XP SP1 days they rewrote my NIC EEPROM during a "security update" so that it would come up in an illegal default state and not work properly in Linux (and temporarily reset the NIC state to ordinary defaults when Windows was booted). I have to question who I'm trying to protect my system from, and the biggest evil out there seems to be Microsoft. So I no longer accept any Microsoft "security updates".
It isn't Libel when you state the truth. I know Slashdot would give up my ID in a second, but I'm not worried. But just in case I haven't made it easy enough for her to go after me, here's more:
In the Tyson case there were numerous securities violations as Tyson funneled money to the Clintons through her and their common broker, with a supposedly magical ability to profit in the futures market. Yea, I know it was investigated by a Democrat controlled congress and they said that they didn't find anything, but others did.
I don't know of anyone who knows the basic facts who believes that Vince Foster was a suicide, much less that Park Police should have been the principle investigators in the case. All things in this murder lead back to her.
Direct involvement in the Ron Brown murder is certainly harder to prove, but the amazing coincidences surrounding it including how many other people in the " Clinton Body Count " were swept out of the way by Airplane Fatalities make it clear to me that the Clintons were involved. If not her then Bill, but most likely both.
The laws only apply to the little people, not the Clintons. If Whitewater, the Tyson payoff through bogus "futures investing", the Vince Foster murder, the Ron Brown murder and all the rest didn't even touch her, then a little thing like breaking a bunch of national security laws and lying about it isn't going to affect here either.
It is a good day.
Adding insult to injury, most of the drugs in question were developed, at least in part, at public universities in the USA with taxpayer money. And then the drug companies are allowed to sell them to Canada cheaper than they sell then in the USA and use legal abuse like in the summary to keep the lower cost same product from coming back into the USA.
And this isn't just rare drugs like mentioned in the article that are being gouged, last year the supply of a long generic drug allopurinol dried up and when it reappeared it was 5 to 10 times the previous price. Allopurinol is also used for prevention of gout and is listed by the the World Health Organization as one of the ten most important drugs in the world.
That sounds somewhat bogus. Didn't the "scientists" who built the first experiment know what the noise issues were and that the first equipment couldn't find anything? Or to put it another way, would they have known if they were building it with their own money rather than grant money?
And how would this new experiment establish that it was really seeing gravity waves from distant sources rather than much closer sources, such as ocean waves or birds flying nearby or any heavy equipment moving around on the same continent? (Or does that even matter if all we are trying to do is confirm the existence of the gravity waves?)