You don't need to give then your phone number, you can use the Google Authenticator app to generate the one time pass on your device.
Yeah! This! You don' t need to give them your phone number, you can let their app do it for you. Easy peasy.
The summary comments on only 12% of people "securing" their accounts with a password manager. A password manager doesn't secure your account. It stores passwords. If you have one account and can remember your password, you don' t need a password manager.
A password manager is actually a one-point-of-failure way for a bad guy to get all your passwords.
No, "Reality" has a criminal conviction for release of classified documents. One of those documents was a classified report from the NSA talking about ATTEMPTED Russian hacking of a voting software company.
1. Attempted is not "actually tampered".
2. Hacking a software company is not "tampered with the balloting process."
"The report suggested that Russian hackers attacked a U.S. voting software supplier." That's not proof that they succeeded. It can mean that someone that someone thinks was "them damn Russkies" sent phishing email to a voting software company employee. That's what the hysteria over Russian attacks on state voting offices was -- a phishing email.
Maybe you ought to read the citations you provide?
Actually, the quote is from Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google.
What is more concerning is this: "His work centers on how technology can ethically steer the thoughts and actions of the masses on social media". Peachy -- Facebook is wanting to "steer the thoughts and actions" of its users, and do it "ethically". I'm pretty sure that they can't do it ethically, if they stick to their purpose for existing.
To be clear, are you one of those self-centred people who live directly opposite a Dominos and still orders takeaway?
He's probably one of those self-centered people who figures if he's paying delivery prices he deserves actual delivery and not "pretty close". He probably also thinks that if he's got to get presentable to go out in the weather to get his pizza, he might as well go someplace good.
Personally I'd rather get my slob ass down to the curb with zero social interaction than greet the pizza delivery guy like that,
It's nice that you live in a place with no neighbors at all. Otherwise, you cannot guarantee "zero social interaction". You're going to the curb, and there are people driving by in cars -- some of them you might know. All of them will see you at your, umm, best? If you are in an apartment building, you could run into any of your neighbors, even the cute girl you're trying to hit on.
With to-the-door delivery, you know the social interaction you will have. One person, who you are paying, and unless your friends are losers who have to delivery pizzas for a living, you won't know.
Of course, if you're still living in your parent's basement, they've seen you naked before, and you probably don't care what their neighbors think.
particularly not if I know there's a warm tasty pizza at the end of it.
Then always use encryption so you don't have to think about whether you "need" it or not.
I've already thought about it. For the websites I run, it isn't needed. It isn't worth my time managing certificates for them.
It's not a huge pain in the ass anymore
So it is still a pain in the ass, just not a huge one. See above.
The problem I see here is my router and cable modem web interfaces don't support https.
I connected to the embedded web server in my HP printer for the first time just last night. It did HTTP just fine. Then it demanded to switch to HTTPS because I was going to enter a password. The first thing Firefox did was bitch about the certificate and make me go through the "add exception" process, after puking up the warning about being a bad site. That was possible only because I have an old FF on my system.
On our production frontend machines,... Adam Langley, Google
So, if you have a huge compute infrastructure like Google does, SSL isn't much of a problem. Isn't it wonderful that all the websites in the world are run using massive parallel redundant servers like Google does it?
The LAN issue is an interesting one, maybe Firefox should make an exception for the private IP addresses ranges.
You do realize, I hope, that "private IP address ranges" are in the eye of the beholder. Yes, there is a standard set, but if I want to treat 123.123.0.0/16 as "private" there is nothing you can do to stop me.
On the other hand, I am all for HTTPS for everything else
Then you are free to run all your websites using HTTPS only. I run several websites, and not a single one of them needs HTTPS for anything. One of those is for one of those awful universities that gets grant money to do research and then keeps the data secret -- by publishing it on an open website for anyone who wants to look at it. I don't get paid to do this, so I don't get paid to manage certificates because someone gets a bug about how insecure it is to come look at my public data using an unencrypted protocol. OMG, a MITM might substitute fake data! How awful!
The Senate, supposed to be a bulwark of public passion, is in effect the same as the House with longer terms.
A lack of civics education in the free public schools has led to a confusion in the masses. It has become what you say, but was not intended to be that way. Had the states remained firm in appointing senators instead of making them popularity contests, I think things would be different today.
No, it is not. The voters of a particular state are the constituency, not the government of that state.
No. The Senate was designed and is supposed to function as representatives of the state. That's why every state gets two senators. Every state has the same representation in the Senate. This has not been changed since the Constitution was enacted.
The fact that states have chosen to make the selection through a popular vote does not change that fact.
1. It's a robot that is being monitored.
2. The operator is working remotely.
I think there must be something novel here. I noted the two you did, but I also noted that it mentioned problems that cannot be solved remotely. "If you put a tray out in front of your door, for instance, he can't get to you."
If the robot cannot get around the tray, and cannot simply move it, then what good is a remote operator? Do the remote operators have a transporter so they can transport the errant tray out of the way? That would be novel and new.
AI home help service robots which were actually being tele-operated by ex-DACA kids
Oh, yeah, this is a good idea. Rich white people kicked their butts out of the country, and we're letting them teleoperate robots in the homes of rich white people.
Yeah. That's what every telemarketer says. Especially the ones with the recorded sales spiels that say "press 1 to connect to an agent, press 2 to be removed." And they also say "consider this your final notice." Every time.
I'm still getting calls from a hotel chain I stayed in once five years ago. That's how easy it is to "opt out".
If you're telling me how easy it is to opt-out, you must be a telemarketer.
A lot of people care, that's why comprehensive insurance is so popular, if your car is totaled because you hit a deer
Topic: buying insurance for autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles won't have accidents, thus you won't hit a deer. You don't need collision insurance. Try again.
Umm the Dominos Tracker that has existed 10+ years?
I don't wear a "Dominos Tracker", and even if I did I wouldn't order from Dominos. We're talking generic issues here.
It relies on the employees to not lie by pressing the button until the order is done.
It's cold out. I don't care when the order is done. I care when it arrives. I'm not waiting outside for ten minutes while it is carried from store to somewhere out on the street. When I order delivery, I expect delivery. To me. Not to someplace on a nearby street.
They've been set up to text customers for a long time too.
Getting a text requires giving them my phone number. Why the hell would I give my phone number to someone who I know would use it to telemarket me relentlessly? "Hi, this is your local Dominos. Todays special deals are... and... Press 1 to hear this all again, press 2 to order... yada yada... or press 95286 to be removed." Sure. Ok.
You'll still need comprehensive insurance, even if you don't have any liability because deer are never insured
Who cares if deer are insured? They aren't driving cars to run into you with, and your AV won't hit one because it's an AV and won't have accidents. Why should you have insurance?
and you'll need to keep paying GM to keep this service active.
There's the magic. If you think automobiles have planned obsolescence now based on warrantees, imagine when your AV stops working because you didn't pay your software license fee.
Stop worrying. AV proponents don't care. If you can't use your AV when it snows, well, you shouldn't have bought an AV or you should move to where it never snows. AV are da bomb and da future, man.
I imagine there will need to be a shift in the way construction/road closures are handled. A route may need to be "taken offline" in a central database,
Government database. I see the fun now. Hacker takes all roads in a city offline. All autonomous vehicles stop, wait, frozen in place. All non-autonomous drivers get blocked by autonomous traffic. Hilarity ensues.
This is a people/resource/procedure problem, not a technical issue.
A secure, highly-available, high-volume massive database of all roads and their status, maintained on an hourly basis and how a few million cars access it isn't a technical problem?
The limiting factor that will make this a niche market for a long time yet is not who would use them, but where they can be used, and when.
"Within a city that still allows automobile traffic (or where automobile traffic is still reasonable) when the roads are not obscured by snow or other covering" is the niche.
BAH. Obviously the proper response is " I love you ".
"Oh, I love you for making me put on a coat and shoes (and pants) so I can go outside in the cold to pick up my DELIVERY pizza. I live in a fourth floor walk-up and I just adore you for making me walk eight flights of stairs to get this. That's why I phoned it in and paid a delivery fee -- so I could essentially pick it up myself."
Now, just how does this self-driving car (that has a driver) ring the doorbell to let you know it is parked outside?
I hope Comcast loses. They have thousands of more patents that they abuse every day compared to TiVo.
Citation required. I did a google search for "comcast sues for patent infringement" and the only results in the first two pages were Comcast BEING sued by TiVo. Does Comcast sue a lot of others for patent infringement? And are the patents they sue over as patently obvious as the ones TiVo is suing for?
They knew they were violating the patents but they didn't care
They were doing things that were obvious things to do, that other people have been doing all along. I looked at the patents, and they're hardly innovative, non-obvious things. "Hey, let's allow users to PAUSE a stream..." "Hey, let's allow users to look up content using just a word or two..." "Hey, let's split content into chapters so users can start watching someplace other than the beginning of every program..."
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You don't need to give then your phone number, you can use the Google Authenticator app to generate the one time pass on your device.
Yeah! This! You don' t need to give them your phone number, you can let their app do it for you. Easy peasy.
The summary comments on only 12% of people "securing" their accounts with a password manager. A password manager doesn't secure your account. It stores passwords. If you have one account and can remember your password, you don' t need a password manager.
A password manager is actually a one-point-of-failure way for a bad guy to get all your passwords.
Reality has evidence.
No, "Reality" has a criminal conviction for release of classified documents. One of those documents was a classified report from the NSA talking about ATTEMPTED Russian hacking of a voting software company.
1. Attempted is not "actually tampered".
2. Hacking a software company is not "tampered with the balloting process."
"The report suggested that Russian hackers attacked a U.S. voting software supplier." That's not proof that they succeeded. It can mean that someone that someone thinks was "them damn Russkies" sent phishing email to a voting software company employee. That's what the hysteria over Russian attacks on state voting offices was -- a phishing email.
Maybe you ought to read the citations you provide?
1) What crime, exactly, was committed?
Trump won.
2) Is Sandy Parakilas, the manager in question,
Actually, the quote is from Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google.
What is more concerning is this: "His work centers on how technology can ethically steer the thoughts and actions of the masses on social media". Peachy -- Facebook is wanting to "steer the thoughts and actions" of its users, and do it "ethically". I'm pretty sure that they can't do it ethically, if they stick to their purpose for existing.
And when your routing table has a hiccup,
Gee, yeah, if I misconfigure my network it won't do what I want it to do. I'm shocked to learn that. Shocked.
I know that block is owned by someone else. That's the point.
To be clear, are you one of those self-centred people who live directly opposite a Dominos and still orders takeaway?
He's probably one of those self-centered people who figures if he's paying delivery prices he deserves actual delivery and not "pretty close". He probably also thinks that if he's got to get presentable to go out in the weather to get his pizza, he might as well go someplace good.
Personally I'd rather get my slob ass down to the curb with zero social interaction than greet the pizza delivery guy like that,
It's nice that you live in a place with no neighbors at all. Otherwise, you cannot guarantee "zero social interaction". You're going to the curb, and there are people driving by in cars -- some of them you might know. All of them will see you at your, umm, best? If you are in an apartment building, you could run into any of your neighbors, even the cute girl you're trying to hit on.
With to-the-door delivery, you know the social interaction you will have. One person, who you are paying, and unless your friends are losers who have to delivery pizzas for a living, you won't know.
Of course, if you're still living in your parent's basement, they've seen you naked before, and you probably don't care what their neighbors think.
particularly not if I know there's a warm tasty pizza at the end of it.
We're talking Dominos here.
Then always use encryption so you don't have to think about whether you "need" it or not.
I've already thought about it. For the websites I run, it isn't needed. It isn't worth my time managing certificates for them.
It's not a huge pain in the ass anymore
So it is still a pain in the ass, just not a huge one. See above.
The problem I see here is my router and cable modem web interfaces don't support https.
I connected to the embedded web server in my HP printer for the first time just last night. It did HTTP just fine. Then it demanded to switch to HTTPS because I was going to enter a password. The first thing Firefox did was bitch about the certificate and make me go through the "add exception" process, after puking up the warning about being a bad site. That was possible only because I have an old FF on my system.
On our production frontend machines, ... Adam Langley, Google
So, if you have a huge compute infrastructure like Google does, SSL isn't much of a problem. Isn't it wonderful that all the websites in the world are run using massive parallel redundant servers like Google does it?
The LAN issue is an interesting one, maybe Firefox should make an exception for the private IP addresses ranges.
You do realize, I hope, that "private IP address ranges" are in the eye of the beholder. Yes, there is a standard set, but if I want to treat 123.123.0.0/16 as "private" there is nothing you can do to stop me.
On the other hand, I am all for HTTPS for everything else
Then you are free to run all your websites using HTTPS only. I run several websites, and not a single one of them needs HTTPS for anything. One of those is for one of those awful universities that gets grant money to do research and then keeps the data secret -- by publishing it on an open website for anyone who wants to look at it. I don't get paid to do this, so I don't get paid to manage certificates because someone gets a bug about how insecure it is to come look at my public data using an unencrypted protocol. OMG, a MITM might substitute fake data! How awful!
The Senate, supposed to be a bulwark of public passion, is in effect the same as the House with longer terms.
A lack of civics education in the free public schools has led to a confusion in the masses. It has become what you say, but was not intended to be that way. Had the states remained firm in appointing senators instead of making them popularity contests, I think things would be different today.
This headline is simple untrue.
So is the summary, and I assume TFA itself:
"It would also prevent the agency from passing a similar measure in the future, all but guaranteeing Net Neutrality is permanently preserved."
All it takes is another senate next year to undo all of this. And you could probably include an executive-order-writing President.
No, it is not. The voters of a particular state are the constituency, not the government of that state.
No. The Senate was designed and is supposed to function as representatives of the state. That's why every state gets two senators. Every state has the same representation in the Senate. This has not been changed since the Constitution was enacted.
The fact that states have chosen to make the selection through a popular vote does not change that fact.
1. It's a robot that is being monitored. 2. The operator is working remotely.
I think there must be something novel here. I noted the two you did, but I also noted that it mentioned problems that cannot be solved remotely. "If you put a tray out in front of your door, for instance, he can't get to you."
If the robot cannot get around the tray, and cannot simply move it, then what good is a remote operator? Do the remote operators have a transporter so they can transport the errant tray out of the way? That would be novel and new.
AI home help service robots which were actually being tele-operated by ex-DACA kids
Oh, yeah, this is a good idea. Rich white people kicked their butts out of the country, and we're letting them teleoperate robots in the homes of rich white people.
Whoosh
You can opt out of any promo texts/calls easily.
Yeah. That's what every telemarketer says. Especially the ones with the recorded sales spiels that say "press 1 to connect to an agent, press 2 to be removed." And they also say "consider this your final notice." Every time.
I'm still getting calls from a hotel chain I stayed in once five years ago. That's how easy it is to "opt out".
If you're telling me how easy it is to opt-out, you must be a telemarketer.
A lot of people care, that's why comprehensive insurance is so popular, if your car is totaled because you hit a deer
Topic: buying insurance for autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles won't have accidents, thus you won't hit a deer. You don't need collision insurance. Try again.
Umm the Dominos Tracker that has existed 10+ years?
I don't wear a "Dominos Tracker", and even if I did I wouldn't order from Dominos. We're talking generic issues here.
It relies on the employees to not lie by pressing the button until the order is done.
It's cold out. I don't care when the order is done. I care when it arrives. I'm not waiting outside for ten minutes while it is carried from store to somewhere out on the street. When I order delivery, I expect delivery. To me. Not to someplace on a nearby street.
They've been set up to text customers for a long time too.
Getting a text requires giving them my phone number. Why the hell would I give my phone number to someone who I know would use it to telemarket me relentlessly? "Hi, this is your local Dominos. Todays special deals are ... and ... Press 1 to hear this all again, press 2 to order ... yada yada ... or press 95286 to be removed." Sure. Ok.
You'll still need comprehensive insurance, even if you don't have any liability because deer are never insured
Who cares if deer are insured? They aren't driving cars to run into you with, and your AV won't hit one because it's an AV and won't have accidents. Why should you have insurance?
and you'll need to keep paying GM to keep this service active.
There's the magic. If you think automobiles have planned obsolescence now based on warrantees, imagine when your AV stops working because you didn't pay your software license fee.
Stop worrying. AV proponents don't care. If you can't use your AV when it snows, well, you shouldn't have bought an AV or you should move to where it never snows. AV are da bomb and da future, man.
Steering wheels are dangerous,
Steering wheels are only dangerous when they break during an accident and the driver is impaled on one.
Autonomous vehicles won't be in accidents, so steering wheels won't be dangerous anymore.
As to the argument that they "add weight", oh my god. Don't stop at the drive through for dinner, you'll "add weight" to the vehicle.
I imagine there will need to be a shift in the way construction/road closures are handled. A route may need to be "taken offline" in a central database,
Government database. I see the fun now. Hacker takes all roads in a city offline. All autonomous vehicles stop, wait, frozen in place. All non-autonomous drivers get blocked by autonomous traffic. Hilarity ensues.
This is a people/resource/procedure problem, not a technical issue.
A secure, highly-available, high-volume massive database of all roads and their status, maintained on an hourly basis and how a few million cars access it isn't a technical problem?
When you add all these niches, you have a market.
The limiting factor that will make this a niche market for a long time yet is not who would use them, but where they can be used, and when.
"Within a city that still allows automobile traffic (or where automobile traffic is still reasonable) when the roads are not obscured by snow or other covering" is the niche.
BAH. Obviously the proper response is " I love you ".
"Oh, I love you for making me put on a coat and shoes (and pants) so I can go outside in the cold to pick up my DELIVERY pizza. I live in a fourth floor walk-up and I just adore you for making me walk eight flights of stairs to get this. That's why I phoned it in and paid a delivery fee -- so I could essentially pick it up myself."
Now, just how does this self-driving car (that has a driver) ring the doorbell to let you know it is parked outside?
TiVo actually has created products that use their patents.
ATI created products that use the patents, before they were TiVo patents. There's a name for that, I just can't recall what it is.
I hope Comcast loses. They have thousands of more patents that they abuse every day compared to TiVo.
Citation required. I did a google search for "comcast sues for patent infringement" and the only results in the first two pages were Comcast BEING sued by TiVo. Does Comcast sue a lot of others for patent infringement? And are the patents they sue over as patently obvious as the ones TiVo is suing for?
They knew they were violating the patents but they didn't care
They were doing things that were obvious things to do, that other people have been doing all along. I looked at the patents, and they're hardly innovative, non-obvious things. "Hey, let's allow users to PAUSE a stream..." "Hey, let's allow users to look up content using just a word or two..." "Hey, let's split content into chapters so users can start watching someplace other than the beginning of every program..."