The product on our website is for doctors and I seriously doubt Slashdotters want to buy it. You can check my posting history, I rarely talk about work or promote anything other than my open source projects.
I am glad you're engaged to check that out. Yes, this industry (any competitive industry) has lots of scams. And I provided that link so you can see the kind of shady shit that's going on. Of course, Google encourages all this and they make lots of money from this exact situation. As to why my company is the good guy and most others are scams, you can PM me if you want to hear the details about that.
I run a website, it is called acls.net. Lots of people compete with us.
Sometimes we will get a customer on the phone that got our phone number from a friend and they want to login and buy our course. I tell them to type acls.net into the address bar. Just explaining where the address bar was hard enough. One older gentleman finally types it in and guess what... he lands on our competitor's website!
So then we go through this again. Type it in... hit enter... and then same result. So what happened is this guy is getting to the Google search results page and our competitor created an ad with the headline "acls.net". Luckily I figured this out, then just told him to click on acls.net that is green.
Turns out this guy is color blind. After 15-minutes of him patiently and whole-heartedly working with me, I could not get him to navigate to our 8-character URL website. I printed out the page and mailed it to him, and he mailed me a check for about $500 to sign up.
This is a real story, honest. Now think about how much money my competitors want to pay Google to make sure the customer that DIDN'T call me ends up on their site...
The only difference between guard and if ! is that guard requires an exit of some form.
Practically, as a programmer who is maintaining code, it is very expressive to find a guard. You can immediately scroll down to the bottom past the block and you will understand the preconditions of what your eyes are currently looking at.
I never use code folding, however guards would be an attractive case to use them. Because it is truly: guard precondition and then the rest does not matter.
Before the internet you would read high quality content because it was high quality. And they would continue to publish it because you read it.
Now it is too simple to measure "engagement" by counting comments, tweets, etc. Before long, publishers notice that useful articles with minor factual errors, vitriolic and gossip articles get the most engagement. Unfortunately this leads to more articles with that type of content.
This new reactions feature will be extremely useful for content producers.
In other words, this sounds like one of those "credit card counselling" scams which are funded by the credit card companies and advise you to pay back your credit card debt. Or the same exact scam for people thinking about not paying their underwater house mortgages.
The figure "the U.S. healthcare industry writes off $40 billion in bad debt from unpaid medical bills" is disingenuous.
Because healthcare insurance pays all its bills [citation needed], then unpaid bills are only payable by uninsured folk. This represents the retail price, which is orders of magnitude higher than the average selling price (the price health insurance pays).
I do not recognize the authority of the healthcare industry to charge ruinously higher prices to people not having health insurance [legal rationale pending]. Therefore, I cannot support the repayment of unpaid medical bills. Instead, I support paying reasonable fees for services rendered and then using bankruptcy (and "use the law") to escape ruinous healthcare debts.
Yes, the variable cost on Vigilant's collection is zero. So that is called pure profit.
If the entire world adopted this system, they could easily service it probably using a very small number of web servers. (Especially if Paul Tyma was involved.)
Whether Vigilant's variable profit covers its fixed costs is its own problem.
The number of independent variables exceeds the number of data rows. Therefore, it is possible for a set of rules to be created to arbitrarily map each employee to any desired salary. In other words, these "rules" are less effective AND LESS TRANSPARENT than arbitrarily setting each person's salary.
I feel bad for the 10% of callers that are not scams:
Me: He this is [my name] Operator: Hello I am Sally, is this the husband of [my wife]? Me: Maybe Operator: Well you are listed as her emergency contact and I am calling about her doctor's appointment tommorrow Me: OK Operator: Is there a different number we can call her at? Me: Let me take a message for you
Is it sad, but only correct way to talk to unknown numbers is: fuck you, authenticate
One interpretation of this article is that FBI (or contractors) has non-public, zero-day, or old-but-unpatched vulnerabilities which it is using against client machines to collect information. We assume that only misconfigured machines are vulnerable.
A benefit of this knowledge is that it may be possible collect these exploits with a REVERSE honeypot. Simply use a MORE secure browser (Tails in Tails + non-extradition origin + Tor Browser). Then spider the Dark Web but make sure your spider DOES follow post requests and do data fuzzing. This is the most likely to register as an intelligence target.
You could determine a successful exploit occurred if: the outer Tails or the inner Tails (virtualization) sent any traffic to the network. Normal non-exploited behavior would be that all traffic (spidering) would occur only with the innermost Tor Browser connection. So this would require three levels of "wire level" logging. As soon as you detect exploited behavior, stop everything, publish the logs and then act like Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State.
Of course this can all be done without any human interaction with unsavory websites, it can be legal based on origin location and it can arbitrarily secured against detection. Older versions of Tor Browser and known exploits could be used to validate this system. Sorry, this probably belonged as a blog post or a GitHub new repo first commit!
A more cynical and literal interpretation of "Panasonic has said it plans to commercialize the technology for other businesses" might be:
Facebook has been collecting these unused photos for years with the intent of providing them to the CIA (who originally invested in FB, Google it). Then, instead, NSA staffed plant employees and stole the data for free. Panasonic has said it has plans to commercialize the technology (and data) for other businesses. An obvious first customer will be car companies with large advertising budgets. They will be using Facebook's graph of friends to identify influencers in each person's life. Then, with image recognition, they will identify cars in the long history of users' photos. So, for example, if your crush has been driving the latest Audi, and you currently are not driving an Audi, and you have been seen around Audis in the past, then you are a prime candidate for more direct advertising.
This is a very high quality list and I fully recommend it for anyone that is currently working on FLOSS software or is looking to get involved in a high-impact project.
Companies / service providers which maintain access to locked containers may be compelled to unlock them upon government request. In which country is this NOT true?
Of course the state of encryption nowadays is that companies are using the same lock combination for ALL their containers. That is a problem that needs to be fixed (perfect forward secrecy).
Another problem is that companies who carry information often do this by accepting a message from person A and then repackaging it for person B -- which makes them liable for the contents of the message. This is also also fixable (messages sent from person A should be locked only for opening by person B).
I fully support the content of this news article insofar as it has not infringed on The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and as it is bringing more attention to these two existing issues above.
It looks like magnetism. The shit just collects, snaps on and builds up. The twisting and the angles are a result of the geometry that the local sets of molecules want to connect at.
Slashdot Mirror
The product on our website is for doctors and I seriously doubt Slashdotters want to buy it. You can check my posting history, I rarely talk about work or promote anything other than my open source projects.
I am glad you're engaged to check that out. Yes, this industry (any competitive industry) has lots of scams. And I provided that link so you can see the kind of shady shit that's going on. Of course, Google encourages all this and they make lots of money from this exact situation. As to why my company is the good guy and most others are scams, you can PM me if you want to hear the details about that.
I run a website, it is called acls.net. Lots of people compete with us.
Sometimes we will get a customer on the phone that got our phone number from a friend and they want to login and buy our course. I tell them to type acls.net into the address bar. Just explaining where the address bar was hard enough. One older gentleman finally types it in and guess what... he lands on our competitor's website!
So then we go through this again. Type it in... hit enter... and then same result. So what happened is this guy is getting to the Google search results page and our competitor created an ad with the headline "acls.net". Luckily I figured this out, then just told him to click on acls.net that is green.
Turns out this guy is color blind. After 15-minutes of him patiently and whole-heartedly working with me, I could not get him to navigate to our 8-character URL website. I printed out the page and mailed it to him, and he mailed me a check for about $500 to sign up.
This is a real story, honest. Now think about how much money my competitors want to pay Google to make sure the customer that DIDN'T call me ends up on their site...
The only difference between guard and if ! is that guard requires an exit of some form.
Practically, as a programmer who is maintaining code, it is very expressive to find a guard. You can immediately scroll down to the bottom past the block and you will understand the preconditions of what your eyes are currently looking at.
I never use code folding, however guards would be an attractive case to use them. Because it is truly: guard precondition and then the rest does not matter.
I am adding this under the Bird vs. Robot category in my list of versus:
https://docs.google.com/spread...
Before the internet you would read high quality content because it was high quality. And they would continue to publish it because you read it.
Now it is too simple to measure "engagement" by counting comments, tweets, etc. Before long, publishers notice that useful articles with minor factual errors, vitriolic and gossip articles get the most engagement. Unfortunately this leads to more articles with that type of content.
This new reactions feature will be extremely useful for content producers.
In other words, this sounds like one of those "credit card counselling" scams which are funded by the credit card companies and advise you to pay back your credit card debt. Or the same exact scam for people thinking about not paying their underwater house mortgages.
I do not support this project or the idea.
The figure "the U.S. healthcare industry writes off $40 billion in bad debt from unpaid medical bills" is disingenuous.
Because healthcare insurance pays all its bills [citation needed], then unpaid bills are only payable by uninsured folk. This represents the retail price, which is orders of magnitude higher than the average selling price (the price health insurance pays).
I do not recognize the authority of the healthcare industry to charge ruinously higher prices to people not having health insurance [legal rationale pending]. Therefore, I cannot support the repayment of unpaid medical bills. Instead, I support paying reasonable fees for services rendered and then using bankruptcy (and "use the law") to escape ruinous healthcare debts.
Yes, the variable cost on Vigilant's collection is zero. So that is called pure profit.
If the entire world adopted this system, they could easily service it probably using a very small number of web servers. (Especially if Paul Tyma was involved.)
Whether Vigilant's variable profit covers its fixed costs is its own problem.
The number of independent variables exceeds the number of data rows. Therefore, it is possible for a set of rules to be created to arbitrarily map each employee to any desired salary. In other words, these "rules" are less effective AND LESS TRANSPARENT than arbitrarily setting each person's salary.
I feel bad for the 10% of callers that are not scams:
Is it sad, but only correct way to talk to unknown numbers is: fuck you, authenticate
One interpretation of this article is that FBI (or contractors) has non-public, zero-day, or old-but-unpatched vulnerabilities which it is using against client machines to collect information. We assume that only misconfigured machines are vulnerable.
A benefit of this knowledge is that it may be possible collect these exploits with a REVERSE honeypot. Simply use a MORE secure browser (Tails in Tails + non-extradition origin + Tor Browser). Then spider the Dark Web but make sure your spider DOES follow post requests and do data fuzzing. This is the most likely to register as an intelligence target.
You could determine a successful exploit occurred if: the outer Tails or the inner Tails (virtualization) sent any traffic to the network. Normal non-exploited behavior would be that all traffic (spidering) would occur only with the innermost Tor Browser connection. So this would require three levels of "wire level" logging. As soon as you detect exploited behavior, stop everything, publish the logs and then act like Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State.
Of course this can all be done without any human interaction with unsavory websites, it can be legal based on origin location and it can arbitrarily secured against detection. Older versions of Tor Browser and known exploits could be used to validate this system. Sorry, this probably belonged as a blog post or a GitHub new repo first commit!
So, assuredly, non-advanced services education are not provided for free, right?
Because it would discourage a potential doctor from studying medicine if they could also get free education for becoming an artist.
A more cynical and literal interpretation of "Panasonic has said it plans to commercialize the technology for other businesses" might be:
Facebook has been collecting these unused photos for years with the intent of providing them to the CIA (who originally invested in FB, Google it). Then, instead, NSA staffed plant employees and stole the data for free. Panasonic has said it has plans to commercialize the technology (and data) for other businesses. An obvious first customer will be car companies with large advertising budgets. They will be using Facebook's graph of friends to identify influencers in each person's life. Then, with image recognition, they will identify cars in the long history of users' photos. So, for example, if your crush has been driving the latest Audi, and you currently are not driving an Audi, and you have been seen around Audis in the past, then you are a prime candidate for more direct advertising.
Seven cavemen and a modern teenage boy walk into your room.
They leave and then mysteriously, your cell phone's wallpaper was changed to goatse.
Which one of them do you think did it?
This is a very high quality list and I fully recommend it for anyone that is currently working on FLOSS software or is looking to get involved in a high-impact project.
Corporate profits are imaginary. You can imagine they are located anywhere. It makes sense to imagine they are located in low-tax locations.
This contrasts to wages and dividend payments, which are directly attributed to where the recipient works and lives, respectively.
Companies / service providers which maintain access to locked containers may be compelled to unlock them upon government request.
In which country is this NOT true?
Of course the state of encryption nowadays is that companies are using the same lock combination for ALL their containers. That is a problem that needs to be fixed (perfect forward secrecy).
Another problem is that companies who carry information often do this by accepting a message from person A and then repackaging it for person B -- which makes them liable for the contents of the message. This is also also fixable (messages sent from person A should be locked only for opening by person B).
I fully support the content of this news article insofar as it has not infringed on The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and as it is bringing more attention to these two existing issues above.
It is very simple to file a FOIA request.
Will EPIC or any of us be mass-filing FOIA requests or contact to spokespersons to see if law enforcement have been using these pieces of technology?
It looks like magnetism. The shit just collects, snaps on and builds up. The twisting and the angles are a result of the geometry that the local sets of molecules want to connect at.
Related / proof of concept exploit:
How to connect your Roku to Xfinitywifi via MAC spoofing
http://fulldecent.blogspot.com...
Let ISIS on TV to deliver their message directly to the public rather than the way they currently express themselves.
Visa chargeback for any app you paid for that no longer works
"Also the data isn't particularly any more useful than any other medical data"
Let me explain to you how data retention works.
Documentation
Investigating "a loophole for debt collection robocalls had found its way into the budget bill":
I can narrow this down to having been introduced by the House. Commit 2015-10-28 pushed by House shows:
https://www.govtrack.us/congre...
Previous 2015-05-22 revision committed by Senate
https://www.govtrack.us/congre...
Diff places blame on house.
Perhaps an improvement would be
"The United States House of Representatives added a loophole for debt collection robocalls into the budget bill":
This is the limit of my journalism abilities here, but just hoping to make some improvement.
I would glad pay money for Slashdot if somehow the journalism could be improved.