No, it isn't incumbent on *everyone*. However, it is part of the basic job description of a TSA agent to recognize what is a threat and what is not. If you can't recognize basic electronics, maybe this career isn't for you.
In any case - why would it be against any form of regulations to travel on an airplane with a bomb timer? The timer itself is completely harmless; TSA should be looking for explosive substances, not other random components that could possibly be assocated with a bomb. If you watch TV, it seems that most bombs nowadays are triggered by an attached cell phone; is TSA going to be banning anyone with one of those now?
He's from the generation where 'experimenting with computers' involved building and tinkering with them, not ordering prebuilt parts from NewEgg and plugging them together.
PCI sets many standards; very, very few businesses obey them all, and there is essentially zero penalty for non-compliance. For instance: while Christmas shopping, did every store you visited require the use of a card with a chip? The cutoff date for requiring that at any retailer was back in October.
Except that I'm not "using" Ubuntu just because a server happens to run it.
Ubuntu is just a packaging of the Debian kernel, the Gnome UI, and various support bits. The main point of its existence is the desktop and Gnome; what exactly is "Ubuntu server"? Isn't that fundamentally just Debian? How many lines of actual written-by-Canonical code are in use at Walmart?
Food choices on a Martian colony are going to be extremely limited. Any 'real' food - as opposed to dehydrated reconstituted engineered powders - is going to be welcome.
Sweet potatoes are also more nutritionally beneficial than white potatoes.
All they've done is change from "something you know" to "something you have".
Theyve switched from "something that can be extracted by torture or extortion" to "something commonly lost and easily stolen". Great.
Now when you lose your phone, instead of being out $500 and minor hassles, you're out all your bank accounts, your entire online existence and major hassles.
That's not how the moderation system is normally used. If you agree with a post, give it a +1. If you disagree with a post, give it a -1. The category does not matter.
So if I break my little toe, have a top fuel dragster surgically attached, and then win the 100m dash, is that "better"?
Faster, further, higher - all human achievement is easily surpassed by machines. Just because a human is a part of the machine doesn't mean that it should qualify for any Olympic event.
What language is the agreement written in? Sure, it can be translated; but there must be one language which is the 'officlal' version. If you have more than one you run into problems because the two never precisely agree.
And how does a government of a country agree to an agreement written in a foreign language?
Have we reached the point where "phone" refers to a cell phone? Or do we presume that terrorists don't have access to secure radio-free telephone technology?
Yahoo has the luxury of not being critical software. If there's a bug, people either work around it or use something else; when your product is given away for free, expectations are low.
I wouldn't expect the same plan to work for things like banking software, or medical imaging software, where the consequences of a bug are much more serious.
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No, it isn't incumbent on *everyone*. However, it is part of the basic job description of a TSA agent to recognize what is a threat and what is not. If you can't recognize basic electronics, maybe this career isn't for you.
In any case - why would it be against any form of regulations to travel on an airplane with a bomb timer? The timer itself is completely harmless; TSA should be looking for explosive substances, not other random components that could possibly be assocated with a bomb. If you watch TV, it seems that most bombs nowadays are triggered by an attached cell phone; is TSA going to be banning anyone with one of those now?
He's from the generation where 'experimenting with computers' involved building and tinkering with them, not ordering prebuilt parts from NewEgg and plugging them together.
These are not losses. They are unrealized potential profit. Nobody is actually losing anything.
(Well, other than /dev/null, which is going to go insane very soon after being forced to listen to Gnars Barkley).
Welcome to the difference between "Left" and "Stage Left".
PCI sets many standards; very, very few businesses obey them all, and there is essentially zero penalty for non-compliance. For instance: while Christmas shopping, did every store you visited require the use of a card with a chip? The cutoff date for requiring that at any retailer was back in October.
Except that I'm not "using" Ubuntu just because a server happens to run it.
Ubuntu is just a packaging of the Debian kernel, the Gnome UI, and various support bits. The main point of its existence is the desktop and Gnome; what exactly is "Ubuntu server"? Isn't that fundamentally just Debian? How many lines of actual written-by-Canonical code are in use at Walmart?
Food choices on a Martian colony are going to be extremely limited. Any 'real' food - as opposed to dehydrated reconstituted engineered powders - is going to be welcome.
Sweet potatoes are also more nutritionally beneficial than white potatoes.
the exact same reason why we all still vote with pieces of paper
I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
There probably wasn't some asshat intentionally inserting bogus facts into the book.
Bruce Schneier is 52. Is that too old to understand technology?
WhatsApp is just a messaging application. Messaging is hardly new; both SMS on cell phones and text messaging on computers are over 25 years old.
All they've done is change from "something you know" to "something you have".
Theyve switched from "something that can be extracted by torture or extortion" to "something commonly lost and easily stolen". Great.
Now when you lose your phone, instead of being out $500 and minor hassles, you're out all your bank accounts, your entire online existence and major hassles.
This is merely a packaging tool. This is not porting; the images are created from already ported code.
Sure, the tool may be useful; but call a spade a spade, not an automatic garden restructuring device.
Stating the obvious? Yes, but not a mod option.
That's not how the moderation system is normally used. If you agree with a post, give it a +1. If you disagree with a post, give it a -1. The category does not matter.
Presumably the self-driving car will have a built-in computer and cellular data connectivity, so that it can call it's own tow truck.
So if I break my little toe, have a top fuel dragster surgically attached, and then win the 100m dash, is that "better"?
Faster, further, higher - all human achievement is easily surpassed by machines. Just because a human is a part of the machine doesn't mean that it should qualify for any Olympic event.
I know the budget is tight, but exactly how much robot development will a measly $37 million buy?
What if I use my sock for, uh, other purposes? Does Netflix automatically add what I'm watching to my favorites list?
I dunno, I bet there are a LOT more people that didn't understand all of the failings of Windows Vista.
So, having dismally crashed and burned in the phone marketplace, Microsoft now allows you to get to a Windows box *from* a phone?
What language is the agreement written in? Sure, it can be translated; but there must be one language which is the 'officlal' version. If you have more than one you run into problems because the two never precisely agree.
And how does a government of a country agree to an agreement written in a foreign language?
Have we reached the point where "phone" refers to a cell phone? Or do we presume that terrorists don't have access to secure radio-free telephone technology?
It's a cool idea, but not at all a NEW idea. Silicon Graphics IRIS 4D series, circa 1990.
Pain for Yahoo? Or pain for their customers?
Yahoo has the luxury of not being critical software. If there's a bug, people either work around it or use something else; when your product is given away for free, expectations are low.
I wouldn't expect the same plan to work for things like banking software, or medical imaging software, where the consequences of a bug are much more serious.
Both Smith & Wesson and Glock make excellent anti-bark devices.
A year ago Yahoo eliminated its test and quality assurance team
Several years ago Yahoo eliminated it's customer base. That had a larger impact on their net worth than QA.