"I already did that by doing 18-21 credit hours a semester instead of the usual 12"
Which you did because apparently you could *afford* to do so. Some people cannot do so because they have other pressing issues on their time - generally work in order to pay for rent/tuition/etc - and were not just "goofing off"
Obviously legality and ethics aren't the same, but they are often similar and hang out in the same bars.
As to hacking (cracking), there's a lot of "ends justifying the means" issues ethically there. It's not really that much different from B&E. If I believe somebody has committed a severe crime on their premises, and break into said premises to reveal said crime but find nothing untoward, was I ethical? How about if I found a crack lab or a bunch of chained up sex-slaves? How about if I suspect something is going on in my neighbourhood but I'm not sure at which house exactly, so I break into a bunch of them before finding evidence of a heinous crime?
In any case, B&E without proper evidence is illegal, but in some it may have been ethical. The same applies to hacking/cracking, but in the computer world. The probably is that some so-called hackers often ignore collateral damage in search of their goals, or operate within realms of half-baked misinformation (for example "outing" people they think are criminals, but turn out to be the wrong person).
As for wikileaks *doing* the hacking. Wikileaks is not a person. Formally, there are people who may belong to the group, but if they say they're "working on something" then they've basically commissioned a particular act. Kinda like if I ask an employee to do something illegal versus farming the illegal act off a contractor or third-party. My hands still wouldn't be clean in either event.
I wonder how this works with a large pool size. Sure, it might be able to spot "Bob Smith" in a crowd if the only data it has is several shots for "Bob Smith" and maybe 10 others. How about when it has to store data on a few thousand or million people. I think at some point accuracy goes out the window as it mistakes "Bob Smith" for any of the other million or so users it has data on.
"there is nothing unethical about revealing information that shows unethical (including criminal) activity. or revealing private information about harmful institutions that engage in criminal activities"
It might not be, but hacking into somebody because you *think* they may have said information IS unethical. Now if you're provided said information (say as a news agency) and then release it, that's necessarily unethical.
apparently finishing what he was eating was more important than a waiting customer
Uh, yeah. Being able to take your scheduled lunch (which is generally on your time, your dime) IS important, actually. If there's a problem with the location not being open when it should be (due to holidays, illness, or just somebody wanting to eat their f***ing lunch), then it's because somebody in management - who gets paid a lot more than this guy I'm sure - didn't make it a priority to ensure that the position was properly staffed.
"had security vulnerabilities that ranged from ridiculously easy to moderately difficult to exploit." and "We contacted 12 vendors. Only one responded, and they said, 'We know it's a problem, but we're not gonna fix it.'"
Soooo... pretty much the same standard as most consumer (non-smart) locks? I agree that it's pretty pathetic, but given that most locks are susceptible to a "bump key" and that even some supposedly secure safes can be easily opened with a magnet, the locks are mostly about keeping honest people honest, and do little to deter thieves.
For the price of smart locks though, perhaps one should expect a slightly better attitude regarding security. General for $100-200 you can get a fairly decent door-lock in the non-smart variety.
I don't understand what the big improvement is? Tiles everywhere - now with more ads - and a general security/privacy nightmare put it on the bad-list of many. In the last week they've started locking out certain features that made it usable, and I'm just waiiiiting for that first run of Candy Crush or whatever app installs pushed down without user interaction/consent...
Well, it could change their lives for the better, but the potential for some of these viruses is that it could also *END* their lives, or at least leave them crippled.
Lung failure, cardiac issues, or brain swelling aren't things to f*** around with. Even if they live through the sickness, it could certainly end their career.
Who isn't complaining? The last concert I went to - even though smoking was prohibited and dope was still illegal - you couldn't go near the floor without getting a nasty cloud of pot smoke. The previous concert was even worse.
Aaaand, nobody who could DO anything about it gave a f***. Bouncers=no care Management=no care
So yeah, no concerts for me now that I've got a little one. I don't need her inhaling lungfuls of smoke because nobody cares to enforce the f***ing rules or even the laws.
It might not even be ego but rather a fairly valid campaign strategy. If everyone is talking about him, then in essential the "other guys" (or "other gal" in this case) is losing attention. It's pretty hard to promote yourself when everyone is ignoring you.
I've often wondered if this strategy is employed somewhat already in various debates.
If you have two groups, and group A wants to silence group B, then one way would be to have a bunch of people with crazy agendas/opinions claim to be part of group B. Then, when everyone is paying attention to the crazy people, they basically take over group B since they're the only ones getting attention. There seems to be a lot of thing in controversies like "gamergate" etc where there were people in both groups with valid opinions, but they were getting overshadows by the crazies who took attention away from the people with serious opinions.
Yeah, I was wondering about that as well. If they're factoring that I spend $0.61/h for an hour of programming, but 15m14s of that programming is advertisements, then realistically you're paying $0.155 of that for the "privilege" of watching tampon and adult diaper commercials. For programming, you're actually then paying $0.61 for 44m46s (74.6% of the hour). For actual programming, that's $0.818/h
People in my company - including the non-geeks - seem to manage OK without writing them down on a postie. This is with a policy requiring passwords be changed every few months and have a certain complexity.
Sometimes you forget and need to get the password reset, but in general most people seem to be smarter than you credit them for.
If you have trouble remembering, go for something based on a phrase or a common variation for different services.
Actually, it oddly makes me feel a little better. While I'd hope he wouldn't sell out to the Russians, improving relations with Russia might not be a bad thing. Given his "my way or the highway" stances in the past I could have seen Trump Vs Putin as being quite a dangerous scenario.
Hmm. I do have a shared NTFS partition and haven't had many issues, but usually I just use it for copying ISO's, large files, or some documents, so maybe it has more to do with the files being used.
I'll add to my comment that I've *NEVER* heard this called a hustle, and it seems like a terrible term to use because classically "hustle" has been a term for a scam, con, or some other way of shady way of making cash.
These have been around for awhile. Usually it's a change to a) Get a little extra cash b) Do something you enjoy a bit more than your day-job c) Build skill/experience/clientele
It's not a bad thing to have, especially in your "day job" goes south. I know some people whose side-jobs became a fledgling business and grew from there.
I don't think it's because they're weak, but more because they already control two platforms (both PC and XBox) so can benefit from sales and play on both.
No, but at least 1080p would be nice. And yes, one can easily tell the difference between 720p or 1080p on a 12" display, given the normal eye-distance between my face and a laptop. It's not just about the clarity either, but about how much space you have for multiple windows etc. Since this is like just a projection of your android OS onto another screen it doesn't really matter though, since the mobile OS doesn't really do multi-window.
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"I already did that by doing 18-21 credit hours a semester instead of the usual 12"
Which you did because apparently you could *afford* to do so. Some people cannot do so because they have other pressing issues on their time - generally work in order to pay for rent/tuition/etc - and were not just "goofing off"
Obviously legality and ethics aren't the same, but they are often similar and hang out in the same bars.
As to hacking (cracking), there's a lot of "ends justifying the means" issues ethically there. It's not really that much different from B&E.
If I believe somebody has committed a severe crime on their premises, and break into said premises to reveal said crime but find nothing untoward, was I ethical? How about if I found a crack lab or a bunch of chained up sex-slaves? How about if I suspect something is going on in my neighbourhood but I'm not sure at which house exactly, so I break into a bunch of them before finding evidence of a heinous crime?
In any case, B&E without proper evidence is illegal, but in some it may have been ethical. The same applies to hacking/cracking, but in the computer world. The probably is that some so-called hackers often ignore collateral damage in search of their goals, or operate within realms of half-baked misinformation (for example "outing" people they think are criminals, but turn out to be the wrong person).
As for wikileaks *doing* the hacking. Wikileaks is not a person. Formally, there are people who may belong to the group, but if they say they're "working on something" then they've basically commissioned a particular act. Kinda like if I ask an employee to do something illegal versus farming the illegal act off a contractor or third-party. My hands still wouldn't be clean in either event.
I wonder how this works with a large pool size.
Sure, it might be able to spot "Bob Smith" in a crowd if the only data it has is several shots for "Bob Smith" and maybe 10 others. How about when it has to store data on a few thousand or million people. I think at some point accuracy goes out the window as it mistakes "Bob Smith" for any of the other million or so users it has data on.
Unfortunately most of the original Canadian programming is also shyte, so it appears the BBC is doing something better there.
"there is nothing unethical about revealing information that shows unethical (including criminal) activity. or revealing private information about harmful institutions that engage in criminal activities"
It might not be, but hacking into somebody because you *think* they may have said information IS unethical. Now if you're provided said information (say as a news agency) and then release it, that's necessarily unethical.
apparently finishing what he was eating was more important than a waiting customer
Uh, yeah. Being able to take your scheduled lunch (which is generally on your time, your dime) IS important, actually. If there's a problem with the location not being open when it should be (due to holidays, illness, or just somebody wanting to eat their f***ing lunch), then it's because somebody in management - who gets paid a lot more than this guy I'm sure - didn't make it a priority to ensure that the position was properly staffed.
Yeah, especially since I actually mentioned them in my post...
Maybe a video would help illustrate how quickly these things work.
"had security vulnerabilities that ranged from ridiculously easy to moderately difficult to exploit."
and
"We contacted 12 vendors. Only one responded, and they said, 'We know it's a problem, but we're not gonna fix it.'"
Soooo... pretty much the same standard as most consumer (non-smart) locks? I agree that it's pretty pathetic, but given that most locks are susceptible to a "bump key" and that even some supposedly secure safes can be easily opened with a magnet, the locks are mostly about keeping honest people honest, and do little to deter thieves.
For the price of smart locks though, perhaps one should expect a slightly better attitude regarding security. General for $100-200 you can get a fairly decent door-lock in the non-smart variety.
I don't understand what the big improvement is?
Tiles everywhere - now with more ads - and a general security/privacy nightmare put it on the bad-list of many. In the last week they've started locking out certain features that made it usable, and I'm just waiiiiting for that first run of Candy Crush or whatever app installs pushed down without user interaction/consent...
Netflix works fine. You just need to install Google Chrome (not Chromium, but actual Chrome as downloaded from Google).
On older distros there was some library you needed too but I've forgotten which it is as it's included on the newer ones.
Well, it could change their lives for the better, but the potential for some of these viruses is that it could also *END* their lives, or at least leave them crippled.
Lung failure, cardiac issues, or brain swelling aren't things to f*** around with. Even if they live through the sickness, it could certainly end their career.
Who isn't complaining? The last concert I went to - even though smoking was prohibited and dope was still illegal - you couldn't go near the floor without getting a nasty cloud of pot smoke. The previous concert was even worse.
Aaaand, nobody who could DO anything about it gave a f***.
Bouncers=no care
Management=no care
So yeah, no concerts for me now that I've got a little one. I don't need her inhaling lungfuls of smoke because nobody cares to enforce the f***ing rules or even the laws.
Actually, thinking on this:
It might not even be ego but rather a fairly valid campaign strategy. If everyone is talking about him, then in essential the "other guys" (or "other gal" in this case) is losing attention. It's pretty hard to promote yourself when everyone is ignoring you.
I've often wondered if this strategy is employed somewhat already in various debates.
If you have two groups, and group A wants to silence group B, then one way would be to have a bunch of people with crazy agendas/opinions claim to be part of group B. Then, when everyone is paying attention to the crazy people, they basically take over group B since they're the only ones getting attention. There seems to be a lot of thing in controversies like "gamergate" etc where there were people in both groups with valid opinions, but they were getting overshadows by the crazies who took attention away from the people with serious opinions.
Yeah, I was wondering about that as well.
If they're factoring that I spend $0.61/h for an hour of programming, but 15m14s of that programming is advertisements, then realistically you're paying $0.155 of that for the "privilege" of watching tampon and adult diaper commercials. For programming, you're actually then paying $0.61 for 44m46s (74.6% of the hour).
For actual programming, that's $0.818/h
People in my company - including the non-geeks - seem to manage OK without writing them down on a postie. This is with a policy requiring passwords be changed every few months and have a certain complexity.
Sometimes you forget and need to get the password reset, but in general most people seem to be smarter than you credit them for.
If you have trouble remembering, go for something based on a phrase or a common variation for different services.
I'm fairly sure that these rely on the "signal that can barely reach my couch let along outside my house" method of "security" :-)
Actually, it oddly makes me feel a little better. While I'd hope he wouldn't sell out to the Russians, improving relations with Russia might not be a bad thing. Given his "my way or the highway" stances in the past I could have seen Trump Vs Putin as being quite a dangerous scenario.
Hmm. I do have a shared NTFS partition and haven't had many issues, but usually I just use it for copying ISO's, large files, or some documents, so maybe it has more to do with the files being used.
Is this a win10 thing? I've *never* had this issue with anything up to the current version of Mint+Win8.1
Hustler is a men's mag, but a male prostitute would be a "gigolo"
I'll add to my comment that I've *NEVER* heard this called a hustle, and it seems like a terrible term to use because classically "hustle" has been a term for a scam, con, or some other way of shady way of making cash.
These have been around for awhile. Usually it's a change to
a) Get a little extra cash
b) Do something you enjoy a bit more than your day-job
c) Build skill/experience/clientele
It's not a bad thing to have, especially in your "day job" goes south. I know some people whose side-jobs became a fledgling business and grew from there.
I don't think it's because they're weak, but more because they already control two platforms (both PC and XBox) so can benefit from sales and play on both.
No, but at least 1080p would be nice.
And yes, one can easily tell the difference between 720p or 1080p on a 12" display, given the normal eye-distance between my face and a laptop. It's not just about the clarity either, but about how much space you have for multiple windows etc. Since this is like just a projection of your android OS onto another screen it doesn't really matter though, since the mobile OS doesn't really do multi-window.
Perverted Solution: order device from outside Japan/Korea...