Pledge $20 to candidate X if s/he gets elected president you win an iPhone 7 limit 1000000 customers
This sort of thing is why, in Mongolia on voting day, alcohol sales are banned; anyone walking around with a bottle of vodka probably sold their vote for it...
Will it be a truck like the Model X is an SUV (aka, not really one -- can't beat it up offroad like you can a 4Runner, Highlander, etc)? If it's a real truck that can go offroad, then that would be great. But that's a big step versus where they are now with the X...
Actually I assumed he was talking about actual trucks not gigantic cars with very small back seats and huge open-air trunks.
I think this is a calculated ploy by Apple to gander pity after all the bad press at the Billions of $$ that they have hiding from US tax collectors.
Maybe they just don't want to contribute so much to the massive amount of tax money the US government spend on the military? Hell, if I were a US citizen I'd see it as my moral duty to avoid paying taxes to feed the war machine.
No actually people don't. Many people aren't in fact sociopaths and are happy to simply earn a normal living and pay taxes in the normal way without attempting to jump through vast hoops with offshore accounts and etc to avoid contributing to society.
Many people actually understand that civilsation is built on taxes and can think beyond MINE MINE MINE MINE.
Are you kidding? My priority is looking after my childrens future, not paying for the governments hookers and blow. Tax money is almost entirely wasted and mis-spent.
We have way to many systems dependent on it. Most of our big applications are JSP based, but we have quite a few java applications browser and even desktop based.
There are just so many systems out there that depend on Java, many of which are embedded in hardware. This was a bit short sighted of the hardware vendors.
They have a monopoly on every children's book character ever created. Mickey is only an example, and a poor one as unlike others it actually was created by Disney.
The mouse is like the representative or ambassador of Disney.
International Law is a joke, you and everybody else should have figured that one out by now.
There's nothing, and I mean NOTHING binding any government to adhere to it. Sanctions just make you look at it in a 'how much can I afford to get away with' way.
Thats pretty much how it works in the USA anyway (emphasis added).
I want to think I really like the Disney company, perhaps that's why it feels so egregious when they've done something like this.
Mentioning 'Disney' and 'egregious' in the same sentence...
They are one of the top evil companies in the world with their continuous extension of copyright and flagrant manipulation of childrens minds.
You know what I'd like to see happen to Disney?
I'd like to see Mickey Mouse become the new Pedobear; Mickey as a symbol of pedophiles and child abusers. They want to continually extend copyright so they can keep the mouse? Fucking let 'em but make it worthless; make Mickey something they WANT to get rid of.
Last week, the company said that the problem was not an intentional backdoor, but the result of a management feature which relied on an undocumented account with a hard-coded password
Dear god, this company makes security products???
This is so crazy stupid it isn't even funny.
It's backdoor, no matter what you call it. An undocumented account with a hard-coded password is the very definition of a backdoor.
This is just PR spin. It's a backdoor, and pretending otherwise if bullshit.
The funny thing about their excuse is that the hard coded password was disguised so as to be hard to detect when looking at a dump of the code; its disguised as a piece of debugging code.
Its not just a hard coded password, its deliberately concealed and obfuscated; someone put some thought and attention to detail into this.
Between lack of a useful setup routine, centralized management, etc.. it's a royal PITA to actually work with on an Enterprise level.. It's nice though.. I'll give them that.. onboard VNC for BIOS level control like a DRAC/BMC/ORA/iLO, etc and ability to send WOL to PC level hardware is nice for those pesky users that have totally messed things up.. It's also useful for remote rebuilding of machines since you can remote redirect ISOs and such..
But.. again.. royal PITA to setup and the documentation is scattered and horrible to read through.
Very painful to work with. Two apparently identical laptops had ME that worked quite differently.
You mean any prepaid bought-in-a-pharmacy card? Those allow any physical US address to be used as a "billing" address. Though I suppose they could try to block prepaid cards in their billing system
Or a Netflix "gift" balance (one of those "Buy Galaxy S6 phone, get free Netflix for a year")
I presume primary way to beat VPNs are "is this a retail ISP block" and "are there more than N streaming connection request for distinct users coming from the same IP address". If both are "true" - voila, you have a VPN that is masking Netflix users. And while VPN could theoretically get an IP address for each user, it would be quite expensive for them (for IPv6 this would also work, as you have one routable block exhibiting requests from a bunch of random users with vastly different billing addresses)
They could easily get an IP per user. IPv6
The 'VPN' provider could just act as an IPv6 tunnel broker.
I just checked the list! I'm safe for now, but it's only a matter of time before my server, desktop, router, phone, thermostat, and fridge get pwnd my the latest Linux vulnerability.....
At least my Surface 4 and iPad are safe so I can order some replacements for that crap!
Yeah, its not like OSX and iOS had more vulnerabilities last year than Flash!
Until I just recently changed it, "password" has been my password for this account on Slashdot for over fifteen years. Not only is it a fine password for accounts of little consequence, but it actually works well for accounts where nobody ever even bothers to try to break in.
You might not care about your slashdot account but someone who wants to 'hack' into your slashdot account so they can swear allegiance to ISIS and threaten the life of the President of the United States of 'Murica might care. Of course the'd be behind 7 proxies, but you weren't behind 7 proxies last time you logged into it. Sucker!
Yes, it's especially annoying having to reduce the security of the strong passwords I generate using a password manager because a major organisation has employed a coder who thinks that "between 6 and 8 characters, including a digit and a special character" is a stronger password than "MXxFrmyx6pUCbyBvNx3zerBb06DABs" ("Must contain a special character").
I love the ones that say things like "Must contain ONE number, ONE upper case character and ONE special character. And must be 8 characters exactly." Boy that simplifies things a lot. I had a fucking BANK that demanded this kind of 'secure' password...
License plates really just show that the basic road tax has been paid, so that vehicle is allowed to use the public road that is built and maintained using (among other taxes) that registration tax. As an "identifier" it only points to the owner of the vehicle, who presumably paid that tax. That is good enough for many things in terms of tracking down violations of one law or another, but not everything. Much like an IP address is a pretty good indicator of activity coming from a general location, or at least an ISP, but doesn't point (absent registration with the ISP of a static IP address tied to a particular computer owned and used by a single person at a single location) unequivocally to an individual.
And then theres carrier NAT...
I was once in a certain 3rd world country and wondered why I couldn't stay logged in to a bunch of sites. I set up a web server and started clicking stuff and watching the logs; no two consecutive clicks came from the same IP address. In fact the IP's that I 'came from' seemed random across a couple of blocks!
Slashdot Mirror
*citation needed*
Pro-tip: Almost entirely is far above 50%.
I call spending on a war machine mis-spent money. In the USA thats a lot more than 50%
Program bots to do things like mining in Eve Online.
Vote buying? Im sure this is illegal but...
Pledge $20 to candidate X if s/he gets elected president you win an iPhone 7 limit 1000000 customers
This sort of thing is why, in Mongolia on voting day, alcohol sales are banned; anyone walking around with a bottle of vodka probably sold their vote for it...
Will it be a truck like the Model X is an SUV (aka, not really one -- can't beat it up offroad like you can a 4Runner, Highlander, etc)? If it's a real truck that can go offroad, then that would be great. But that's a big step versus where they are now with the X...
Actually I assumed he was talking about actual trucks not gigantic cars with very small back seats and huge open-air trunks.
He's probably deepthroating a nigger *right now*.
That image gets you hard. Admit it.
I think this is a calculated ploy by Apple to gander pity after all the bad press at the Billions of $$ that they have hiding from US tax collectors.
Maybe they just don't want to contribute so much to the massive amount of tax money the US government spend on the military? Hell, if I were a US citizen I'd see it as my moral duty to avoid paying taxes to feed the war machine.
I don't think the xServe and xSan sold very well.
Apple should have called them iServe and iSan. Then they'd have sold well.
just like people do.
No actually people don't. Many people aren't in fact sociopaths and are happy to simply earn a normal living and pay taxes in the normal way without attempting to jump through vast hoops with offshore accounts and etc to avoid contributing to society.
Many people actually understand that civilsation is built on taxes and can think beyond MINE MINE MINE MINE.
Are you kidding? My priority is looking after my childrens future, not paying for the governments hookers and blow. Tax money is almost entirely wasted and mis-spent.
We have way to many systems dependent on it. Most of our big applications are JSP based, but we have quite a few java applications browser and even desktop based.
There are just so many systems out there that depend on Java, many of which are embedded in hardware. This was a bit short sighted of the hardware vendors.
They have a monopoly on every children's book character ever created. Mickey is only an example, and a poor one as unlike others it actually was created by Disney.
The mouse is like the representative or ambassador of Disney.
International Law is a joke, you and everybody else should have figured that one out by now.
There's nothing, and I mean NOTHING binding any government to adhere to it. Sanctions just make you look at it in a 'how much can I afford to get away with' way.
Thats pretty much how it works in the USA anyway (emphasis added).
I want to think I really like the Disney company, perhaps that's why it feels so egregious when they've done something like this.
Mentioning 'Disney' and 'egregious' in the same sentence...
They are one of the top evil companies in the world with their continuous extension of copyright and flagrant manipulation of childrens minds.
You know what I'd like to see happen to Disney?
I'd like to see Mickey Mouse become the new Pedobear; Mickey as a symbol of pedophiles and child abusers. They want to continually extend copyright so they can keep the mouse? Fucking let 'em but make it worthless; make Mickey something they WANT to get rid of.
Dear god, this company makes security products???
This is so crazy stupid it isn't even funny.
It's backdoor, no matter what you call it. An undocumented account with a hard-coded password is the very definition of a backdoor.
This is just PR spin. It's a backdoor, and pretending otherwise if bullshit.
The funny thing about their excuse is that the hard coded password was disguised so as to be hard to detect when looking at a dump of the code; its disguised as a piece of debugging code.
Its not just a hard coded password, its deliberately concealed and obfuscated; someone put some thought and attention to detail into this.
why would anyone NOT want to report it?
In the UK it could be photos of their kids at the beach and still be CP
Between lack of a useful setup routine, centralized management, etc.. it's a royal PITA to actually work with on an Enterprise level.. It's nice though.. I'll give them that.. onboard VNC for BIOS level control like a DRAC/BMC/ORA/iLO, etc and ability to send WOL to PC level hardware is nice for those pesky users that have totally messed things up.. It's also useful for remote rebuilding of machines since you can remote redirect ISOs and such..
But.. again.. royal PITA to setup and the documentation is scattered and horrible to read through.
Very painful to work with. Two apparently identical laptops had ME that worked quite differently.
You mean any prepaid bought-in-a-pharmacy card?
Those allow any physical US address to be used as a "billing" address.
Though I suppose they could try to block prepaid cards in their billing system
Or a Netflix "gift" balance (one of those "Buy Galaxy S6 phone, get free Netflix for a year")
I presume primary way to beat VPNs are "is this a retail ISP block" and "are there more than N streaming connection request for distinct users coming from the same IP address". If both are "true" - voila, you have a VPN that is masking Netflix users.
And while VPN could theoretically get an IP address for each user, it would be quite expensive for them (for IPv6 this would also work, as you have one routable block exhibiting requests from a bunch of random users with vastly different billing addresses)
They could easily get an IP per user. IPv6
The 'VPN' provider could just act as an IPv6 tunnel broker.
Most people use a paid VPN service. Those services will be the ones to go around the problem.
I imagine there'd be less risk using your own VPN service, ie renting a cheap VPS somewhere in your target country and setting up your own VPN.
Hey you fucking idiot.
Enemies are different than citizens.
You clearly don't work for a government
"a properly motivated terrorist group"
As opposed to what, a lazy one? Do they have motivational away days for the team to get them all fired up?
Thats what sting operations are for!
answer is:
VERY at risk.
Like all infrastructure, management and budgeting is done on a by crisis basis.
The rest of the time it is ignored to make the numbers look good and keep the bonuses flowing.
The correct answer, depending on your perspective, might be:
NOT ENOUGH!
but that'd be foolish. Its already plenty at risk.
I just checked the list! I'm safe for now, but it's only a matter of time before my server, desktop, router, phone, thermostat, and fridge get pwnd my the latest Linux vulnerability.....
At least my Surface 4 and iPad are safe so I can order some replacements for that crap!
Yeah, its not like OSX and iOS had more vulnerabilities last year than Flash!
Until I just recently changed it, "password" has been my password for this account on Slashdot for over fifteen years. Not only is it a fine password for accounts of little consequence, but it actually works well for accounts where nobody ever even bothers to try to break in.
You might not care about your slashdot account but someone who wants to 'hack' into your slashdot account so they can swear allegiance to ISIS and threaten the life of the President of the United States of 'Murica might care. Of course the'd be behind 7 proxies, but you weren't behind 7 proxies last time you logged into it. Sucker!
Yes, it's especially annoying having to reduce the security of the strong passwords I generate using a password manager because a major organisation has employed a coder who thinks that "between 6 and 8 characters, including a digit and a special character" is a stronger password than "MXxFrmyx6pUCbyBvNx3zerBb06DABs" ("Must contain a special character").
And I know I'm not the only one frustrated by this.
I love the ones that say things like "Must contain ONE number, ONE upper case character and ONE special character. And must be 8 characters exactly." Boy that simplifies things a lot. I had a fucking BANK that demanded this kind of 'secure' password...
License plates really just show that the basic road tax has been paid, so that vehicle is allowed to use the public road that is built and maintained using (among other taxes) that registration tax. As an "identifier" it only points to the owner of the vehicle, who presumably paid that tax. That is good enough for many things in terms of tracking down violations of one law or another, but not everything. Much like an IP address is a pretty good indicator of activity coming from a general location, or at least an ISP, but doesn't point (absent registration with the ISP of a static IP address tied to a particular computer owned and used by a single person at a single location) unequivocally to an individual.
And then theres carrier NAT...
I was once in a certain 3rd world country and wondered why I couldn't stay logged in to a bunch of sites. I set up a web server and started clicking stuff and watching the logs; no two consecutive clicks came from the same IP address. In fact the IP's that I 'came from' seemed random across a couple of blocks!
"When a person drives a car on a highway, he or she agrees to display a license plate,"
That's because cars maim and kill thousands upon thousands a year.
> 100 years of anonymous phone calls and blackmail and ransom notes via snail mail didn't ruin the planet either.
Cars don't maim and kill people! *People* maim and kill people.
Thats why license plates on cars are absurd. People should have barcodes tattooed on their foreheads at birth!