This is a cute post that implies governments will use influence over CAs to sign fake websites that are accepted by default by browsers.
Given any such forgery would:
- leave immediate and permanent evidence
- be a known attack vector that people are actively seeking evidence of
- be of high interest to slashdot and browser makers
Then I would recommend the naive null hypothesis that governments do not do this on a large scale has a high bar to be rejected.
OTOH, targeted attacks against individual people are a different story.
If you have problems with your local internet (or cable) service provider, there is only one correct audience for your complaint. Competition is regulated LOCALLY, just like wars are handled NATIONALLY and family budgeting is a DOMESTIC issue. The FCC advises at https://www.fcc.gov/guides/cab... to direct complaints to local franchising authorities.
For example, with Comcast, they are required to plainly put this contact information on your bill. See for example this bill http://comcastbills.com/Compar... The franchise authority is on the bottom right. If you have unrequested upcharges on your bill and then the ISP fixes it, that is fine -- but you should also make a report to the LFA so they can see the pattern. You can also call the LFA first.
Talk of boycotts are not effective. Talking about Obama is not effective. Talking to your ISP is not effective. This is because you are not the customer. Your local regulatory commission is the customer. And they are not helping us because they do not understand the issues. They do not use pipe analogies and don't read slashdot. They worry about school funding, local taxes, AARP, and baking brownies. If you've read this far you already know what to do.
If you have problems with your local internet (or cable) service provider, there is only one correct audience for your complaint. Competition is regulated LOCALLY, just like wars are handled NATIONALLY and family budgeting is a DOMESTIC issue. The FCC advises at https://www.fcc.gov/guides/cab... to direct complaints to local franchising authorities.
For example, with Comcast, they are required to plainly put this contact information on your bill. See for example this bill http://comcastbills.com/Compar... The franchise authority is on the bottom right. If you have unrequested upcharges on your bill and then the ISP fixes it, that is fine -- but you should also make a report to the LFA so they can see the pattern. You can also call the LFA first.
Talk of boycotts are not effective. Talking about Obama is not effective. Talking to your ISP is not effective. This is because you are not the customer. Your local regulatory commission is the customer. And they are not helping us because they do not understand the issues. They do not use pipe analogies and don't read slashdot. They worry about school funding, local taxes, AARP, and baking brownies. If you've read this far you already know what to do.
Why even let the users choose passwords? Just have the system run UUID() and give them the result. That is their password. Can't remember it? Click here to have it sent to your email address again.
As someone who has done research on banks and disclosed security holes (plug -- live exploits posted to http://privacylog.blogspot.com... not always obvious, not always interesting) I can tell you NOBODY cares.
I am still working up the balls or requesting legal advice to tell me I am in the clear so I can tell you the details. But to summarize, there are still **egregious** security failures out there and they can be found by just one person. If you find one of these things you will see too that it is possible to get the federal and industry agencies on the phone that you would expect to be interested in this stuff. But it is purely a courtesy. As soon as you hang up, they will go back to focusing on botnets or revenue-impacting issues.
What if DPR offered a $10 million bounty for someone at the NSA to leak proof of illegal collection / parallel construction -- the proceeds coming from the return of his money.
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If you had access to this proof would you take the offer?
"In an effort to reduce data costs, if you have an Airtel SIM card, you’ll get these software updates for free for the first six months. As part of this same Airtel offer, you’ll also be able to download up to 200MB per month worth of your favorite apps (that’s about 50 apps overall) from Google Play—all without counting toward your mobile data usage."
This is directly against the principles of network neutrality.
Google has found the solution for people that can't afford data plans, or expensive smartphones with too many cameras and big screens and contributing to e-waste:
Data plans, expensive smartphones with too many cameras and big screens contributing to e-waste! And tiered network access!
That's right, just like the aftermath of the financial crisis, Google has found another solution that is identical to the problem!
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Of course the better solution is: eBay.
iPhone 2g is available for $50 shipped. Androids and shittier phones are cheaper.
Reduced e-waste, lower price, can still "connect with family through a live video chat", "use mapping apps to find the closest hospital" and "simply search the web".
Please look closer. The reason why states are discounting their "prices" is because the prices are higher than the economic cost and value. There is zero economic cost to the state of a corporation generating income in a specific location. The solution is to eliminate corporate income taxes.
Slashdot Mirror
Am I the first to point out iOS8 fixes this.
http://appleinsider.com/articl...
This is a cute post that implies governments will use influence over CAs to sign fake websites that are accepted by default by browsers.
Given any such forgery would:
- leave immediate and permanent evidence
- be a known attack vector that people are actively seeking evidence of
- be of high interest to slashdot and browser makers
Then I would recommend the naive null hypothesis that governments do not do this on a large scale has a high bar to be rejected.
OTOH, targeted attacks against individual people are a different story.
+5 "User mentions Public Utility Commission when posting grievances about local utility"
It's a new option for mods
Last I checked, Facebook has brought some heavy charges against people using the site against their terms.
If you have problems with your local internet (or cable) service provider, there is only one correct audience for your complaint. Competition is regulated LOCALLY, just like wars are handled NATIONALLY and family budgeting is a DOMESTIC issue. The FCC advises at https://www.fcc.gov/guides/cab... to direct complaints to local franchising authorities.
For example, with Comcast, they are required to plainly put this contact information on your bill. See for example this bill http://comcastbills.com/Compar... The franchise authority is on the bottom right. If you have unrequested upcharges on your bill and then the ISP fixes it, that is fine -- but you should also make a report to the LFA so they can see the pattern. You can also call the LFA first.
Talk of boycotts are not effective. Talking about Obama is not effective. Talking to your ISP is not effective. This is because you are not the customer. Your local regulatory commission is the customer. And they are not helping us because they do not understand the issues. They do not use pipe analogies and don't read slashdot. They worry about school funding, local taxes, AARP, and baking brownies. If you've read this far you already know what to do.
If you have problems with your local internet (or cable) service provider, there is only one correct audience for your complaint. Competition is regulated LOCALLY, just like wars are handled NATIONALLY and family budgeting is a DOMESTIC issue. The FCC advises at https://www.fcc.gov/guides/cab... to direct complaints to local franchising authorities.
For example, with Comcast, they are required to plainly put this contact information on your bill. See for example this bill http://comcastbills.com/Compar... The franchise authority is on the bottom right. If you have unrequested upcharges on your bill and then the ISP fixes it, that is fine -- but you should also make a report to the LFA so they can see the pattern. You can also call the LFA first.
Talk of boycotts are not effective. Talking about Obama is not effective. Talking to your ISP is not effective. This is because you are not the customer. Your local regulatory commission is the customer. And they are not helping us because they do not understand the issues. They do not use pipe analogies and don't read slashdot. They worry about school funding, local taxes, AARP, and baking brownies. If you've read this far you already know what to do.
Why even let the users choose passwords? Just have the system run UUID() and give them the result. That is their password. Can't remember it? Click here to have it sent to your email address again.
I cant vote in Utah
Clearly, the solution is to send the fully unredacted report to every Twitter employee, and tell them not to leak the document.
As someone who has done research on banks and disclosed security holes (plug -- live exploits posted to http://privacylog.blogspot.com... not always obvious, not always interesting) I can tell you NOBODY cares.
I am still working up the balls or requesting legal advice to tell me I am in the clear so I can tell you the details. But to summarize, there are still **egregious** security failures out there and they can be found by just one person. If you find one of these things you will see too that it is possible to get the federal and industry agencies on the phone that you would expect to be interested in this stuff. But it is purely a courtesy. As soon as you hang up, they will go back to focusing on botnets or revenue-impacting issues.
What if DPR offered a $10 million bounty for someone at the NSA to leak proof of illegal collection / parallel construction -- the proceeds coming from the return of his money.
------------
If you had access to this proof would you take the offer?
2015 will be the year of Windows on the desktop... finally!
> But really, is it a good idea for the masses to be purchasing vehicles from Amazon?
The Amazon star system has effectively solved the post-product support problem for big brands.
I'd didn't see anyone looking for negotiation as an accepted outcome of this process.
TCP allows for congestion control and windows. This is a two-way communication in which either side can slow down the connection.
Otherwise, accessing a website over 33.6k would have the server send data at the same 50mb/s like FIOS and bits spilling all over the floor.
So long as the bags are sealed in the pharmacy and the contents are not noted on the outside, it should be fine.
Famous last words
It is good to see this topical announcement from Google today in which they are directly supporting application-specific unmetered internet:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com...
"In an effort to reduce data costs, if you have an Airtel SIM card, you’ll get these software updates for free for the first six months. As part of this same Airtel offer, you’ll also be able to download up to 200MB per month worth of your favorite apps (that’s about 50 apps overall) from Google Play—all without counting toward your mobile data usage."
This is directly against the principles of network neutrality.
> ENTIRE DRIVER SET FOR ALL SUPPORTED DEVICES
Cliff hanger! How big is it?
(Mac users are used to the bloated CUPS version that includes all the graphics)
Google has found the solution for people that can't afford data plans, or expensive smartphones with too many cameras and big screens and contributing to e-waste:
Data plans, expensive smartphones with too many cameras and big screens contributing to e-waste! And tiered network access!
That's right, just like the aftermath of the financial crisis, Google has found another solution that is identical to the problem!
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Of course the better solution is: eBay.
iPhone 2g is available for $50 shipped. Androids and shittier phones are cheaper.
Reduced e-waste, lower price, can still "connect with family through a live video chat", "use mapping apps to find the closest hospital" and "simply search the web".
The solution is not to cancel your Comcast service (assuming you live in the United States in many of the places with no legitimate competition).
The solution is to record your phone calls (when legal). For Android, my dad uses https://play.google.com/store/...
Then post your calls online (instead of transcripts).
Lastly, and this is the important part: call your local utility regulation board.
Don't forget: you are not the customer, the utility regulation board is the customer, you are just the one paying.
Please look closer. The reason why states are discounting their "prices" is because the prices are higher than the economic cost and value. There is zero economic cost to the state of a corporation generating income in a specific location. The solution is to eliminate corporate income taxes.
And you know what would have been 1000x better? If that runtime ran iOS 8.
3 miles ahead is already reported via GPS phone home to Google/online navigation.
I have a better algorithm... written in one line of perl:
Accuracy: 73%
Source http://www.scotusblog.com/stat...
Now that server time has reduced in cost, you can add continuous integration to a project and make full documentation a requirement.
For example, here is a CI tool for KDE which tracks missing documentation at English Breakfast Network http://ebn.kde.org/