So... they have anonymous people who are reporting rumors that they won't attach their names to. And there are other insiders saying the complete opposite.
Sounds a lot like Donald Trump to me. "Lots of folks are saying" Hillary is about to die from pneumonia, "some tremendous experts are saying" climate change is a conspiracy by the Chinese, "people are talking about" Obama himself unloading 100 trillion dollars from an airplane in Iran while snorting coke off a hooker's ass, etc. Always anonymously attributed to some nebulous "people," and often when making a statement that nobody was talking about until he brought it up. It's a great way to start a meme.
Lovely. Why don't they put out some actual, hard proof?
Indeed, I'd love it if Trump's Twitter rants were required to be accompanied by citations.
I'm finding more and more places that won't accept mailinator.com when registering, including its various alternate domains (there's a project that keeps an updated list). A lot of sites now completely disallow signing up through Tor, too. In order to make a Bugzilla account to report something anonymously, I had to first create a Github account, which you can do over Tor, and then use that to authenticate to Bugzilla. Fucking annoying.
Proving (yet again) that the claim made by open source advocates of "many eyes make bugs shallow" is bullshit. The reason that the bug went unnoticed for 2 years is that nobody was looking at the source code. Not even the people who wrote it.
Except someone did find it, even if it took awhile. How does that work with a closed-source product like Windows? How many critical vulnerabilities are lurking in there, perhaps bugs or perhaps intentionally introduced at the behest of governments, and simply cannot be discovered because the source isn't available?
I knew a guy who rigged his windshield washer fluid to spray rearward out of a nozzle on the trunk, and kept it filled with water and red food coloring, to much the same effect. People backed off pretty quickly after a squirt or two of red liquid.
Do you know how much gross shit you consume under the guise of an "A" rated restaurant?
I do, and that stuff happens even with the threat of a health inspector randomly showing up at any time. Imagine the shit that would go on if the regulations disappeared.
The difference is that Trump is hated by the same people who expanded the snooping laws.
The FBI seemed pretty hell-bent on getting Trump elected...
If we assume that government corruption is the impetus, then it follows that the long term effects of Trump's term is decreased snooping overall.
Considering Trump's appointees are all coming from the same old places like Goldman Sachs, I'm not sure where you get the idea that corruption will be on the decline.
Only 80 killed in 10 years, sounds like the defense was working for the most part.
I have a rock that keeps tigers away. It's 100% effective; I've never even seen a tiger. If you're interested, I'll sell it to you for the low, low price of $637 billion.
Yik Yak was all the rage for a few months because it was billed as an "anonymous" hyperlocal message board. As soon as the kids figured out that "anonymous" bomb/shooting threats over Yik Yak would still get them arrested, the user base went away. I don't understand how they managed to raise $73.5 million fucking dollars for this; apparently I need an introduction some of these venture capital people...
Of these issues, political corruption is the biggest impediment to rational climate change action. Getting rid of that has to come first, and only then can we expect to make progress on the other issues.
Ah yes, getting rid of political corruption. Draining the swamp. I'm glad to see Trump is making great strides there, appointing Goldman Sachs alum left and right.
You got it. After Microsoft fired all their QA testers, the SDLC concept for Windows 10 seems to be:
* Insiders are the alpha testers, but at least they volunteered for that.
* The general public are unwitting surveillance subjects and beta testers. Microsoft will Do The Needful to your computer whether you want it done or not. These mandatory patches can make your computer stop working, blue screen, lose data, or somehow fuck up previously perfectly working peripherals at any time. You can't decline a patch even if you know in advance it's going to fuck you up!
* Only Enterprise users get the finished product and they have to pay through the teeth for that privilege. Whatever patches didn't fuck up millions of consumer PCs may eventually make their way here.
Add in the telemetry/spying and the only winning move is not to play.
a) there are still hundreds of sites out there that use Flash and have no way to change this easily (homestarrunner.com, for example)
Yeah, this sucks. Most weather radar sites (including a lot of NOAA products) require Flash. It's getting a little better, but very slowly.
b) there are things that you can't even DO with HTML5, but are readily available in flash. Notably, filesystem access.
Thank goodness for that. A widget in a web browser has no business autonomously accessing my filesystem. If I want to intentionally upload or download a file, every browser can do that without a plugin.
So let me get this straight, she licenses the photos for free public use, then a company (rightly) uses those images but (wrongly) "sells" them to people despite not having the right to do so and its OK?
That part is actually OK. It's legal to take something in the public domain and sell it, if you can find someone willing to buy it. I could put NASA's Astronomy Pictures of the Day up at AstronomyPorn.com and charge people $20/month to access it. I probably wouldn't get many takers, but it's legal. Since they're created by the federal government, (most of) those images are public domain, and I can do whatever the heck I want with them, including selling them.
What isn't legal is to demand payment from someone for something in the public domain. I can't send threatening letters to every other website that posts the Astronomy Pictures of the Day, because they aren't doing anything wrong, I don't hold copyright to the images, and they aren't required to license anything from me. That's where Getty was in the wrong; they have no more rights to the images than anyone else, they definitely have no right to make licensing demands, and they misrepresented themselves in both ways.
It's a shame they got away with it without even a slap on the wrist, but I can't say I'm surprised. Corporatocracy is only going to get worse for the next 4 years.
Come on, man, haven't you ever rubbed one out with some aloe vera lotion? This could potentially affect millions of nerds, it's definitely stuff that matters!
"More" regulation will not improve the broken system.
Consider this regulation:
Any product marketed for human consumption, or for application to the human body i) shall clearly and plainly list all constituent ingredients contained therein, and ii) shall be submitted for testing to not fewer than three independent assay laboratories for verification of such constituent ingredients prior to being sold to the public, and iii) shall undergo random quarterly testing by not fewer than three independent assay laboratories for ongoing verification of such constituent ingredients, iv) the sequential failure of any two random tests to verify the constituent ingredients are as advertised shall result in the product being recalled and really big motherfuckin' fines to the manufacturer [...]
You're saying if that was a law, it wouldn't help anything?
Yes, but after how long? How many consumers have spent how many millions of dollars buying something that was not what it claimed to be, because "proving our product contains the ingredients we say it does is burdensome and anti-American?"
Slashdot Mirror
There's nothing quite like a good chat session.
So... they have anonymous people who are reporting rumors that they won't attach their names to. And there are other insiders saying the complete opposite.
Sounds a lot like Donald Trump to me. "Lots of folks are saying" Hillary is about to die from pneumonia, "some tremendous experts are saying" climate change is a conspiracy by the Chinese, "people are talking about" Obama himself unloading 100 trillion dollars from an airplane in Iran while snorting coke off a hooker's ass, etc. Always anonymously attributed to some nebulous "people," and often when making a statement that nobody was talking about until he brought it up. It's a great way to start a meme.
Lovely. Why don't they put out some actual, hard proof?
Indeed, I'd love it if Trump's Twitter rants were required to be accompanied by citations.
I'm finding more and more places that won't accept mailinator.com when registering, including its various alternate domains (there's a project that keeps an updated list). A lot of sites now completely disallow signing up through Tor, too. In order to make a Bugzilla account to report something anonymously, I had to first create a Github account, which you can do over Tor, and then use that to authenticate to Bugzilla. Fucking annoying.
which use a WebRTC request to a Mozilla STUN server to determine the user's local IP address
Yay, more garbage Web 3.0 anti-features! In Firefox, go to about:config and set these preferences:
media.peerconnection.enabled = false
media.peerconnection.video.enabled = false
media.peerconnection.turn.disable = true
media.peerconnection.use_document_iceservers = false
Proving (yet again) that the claim made by open source advocates of "many eyes make bugs shallow" is bullshit. The reason that the bug went unnoticed for 2 years is that nobody was looking at the source code. Not even the people who wrote it.
Except someone did find it, even if it took awhile. How does that work with a closed-source product like Windows? How many critical vulnerabilities are lurking in there, perhaps bugs or perhaps intentionally introduced at the behest of governments, and simply cannot be discovered because the source isn't available?
I knew a guy who rigged his windshield washer fluid to spray rearward out of a nozzle on the trunk, and kept it filled with water and red food coloring, to much the same effect. People backed off pretty quickly after a squirt or two of red liquid.
Seems a large stretch to see how this is associated with interstate commerce
That large stretch started when growing wheat on your own farm for your own use became interstate commerce. The Supremes really fucked us with that one.
There are weather cameras at local bushinesses
Geez, can't even make it rain in the strip club without being on camera these days!
Do you know how much gross shit you consume under the guise of an "A" rated restaurant?
I do, and that stuff happens even with the threat of a health inspector randomly showing up at any time. Imagine the shit that would go on if the regulations disappeared.
The difference is that Trump is hated by the same people who expanded the snooping laws.
The FBI seemed pretty hell-bent on getting Trump elected...
If we assume that government corruption is the impetus, then it follows that the long term effects of Trump's term is decreased snooping overall.
Considering Trump's appointees are all coming from the same old places like Goldman Sachs, I'm not sure where you get the idea that corruption will be on the decline.
What I don't get is why they're willing to sell this to anyone but the police.
Because overly broad government surveillance sucks and they don't want to be a willing participant?
Only 80 killed in 10 years, sounds like the defense was working for the most part.
I have a rock that keeps tigers away. It's 100% effective; I've never even seen a tiger. If you're interested, I'll sell it to you for the low, low price of $637 billion.
It's a bright future.
If you handle snakes, speak in tongues, and still view women as chattel, yeah, Pence is your guy.
Yik Yak was all the rage for a few months because it was billed as an "anonymous" hyperlocal message board. As soon as the kids figured out that "anonymous" bomb/shooting threats over Yik Yak would still get them arrested, the user base went away. I don't understand how they managed to raise $73.5 million fucking dollars for this; apparently I need an introduction some of these venture capital people...
Of these issues, political corruption is the biggest impediment to rational climate change action. Getting rid of that has to come first, and only then can we expect to make progress on the other issues.
Ah yes, getting rid of political corruption. Draining the swamp. I'm glad to see Trump is making great strides there, appointing Goldman Sachs alum left and right.
Scripted vector animations can fuck right off, too.
With AAA batteries it's unlikely to start a fire, and even if it does, the rain will put it out.
You got it. After Microsoft fired all their QA testers, the SDLC concept for Windows 10 seems to be:
Add in the telemetry/spying and the only winning move is not to play.
a) there are still hundreds of sites out there that use Flash and have no way to change this easily (homestarrunner.com, for example)
Yeah, this sucks. Most weather radar sites (including a lot of NOAA products) require Flash. It's getting a little better, but very slowly.
b) there are things that you can't even DO with HTML5, but are readily available in flash. Notably, filesystem access.
Thank goodness for that. A widget in a web browser has no business autonomously accessing my filesystem. If I want to intentionally upload or download a file, every browser can do that without a plugin.
If you're on Win 10 and you care
Those two are mutually exclusive. If you care about your privacy, you aren't on Windows 10.
So let me get this straight, she licenses the photos for free public use, then a company (rightly) uses those images but (wrongly) "sells" them to people despite not having the right to do so and its OK?
That part is actually OK. It's legal to take something in the public domain and sell it, if you can find someone willing to buy it. I could put NASA's Astronomy Pictures of the Day up at AstronomyPorn.com and charge people $20/month to access it. I probably wouldn't get many takers, but it's legal. Since they're created by the federal government, (most of) those images are public domain, and I can do whatever the heck I want with them, including selling them.
What isn't legal is to demand payment from someone for something in the public domain. I can't send threatening letters to every other website that posts the Astronomy Pictures of the Day, because they aren't doing anything wrong, I don't hold copyright to the images, and they aren't required to license anything from me. That's where Getty was in the wrong; they have no more rights to the images than anyone else, they definitely have no right to make licensing demands, and they misrepresented themselves in both ways.
It's a shame they got away with it without even a slap on the wrist, but I can't say I'm surprised. Corporatocracy is only going to get worse for the next 4 years.
That settles it, I'm switching to maple syrup!
WHY IS THIS STORY ON SLASHDOT?
Come on, man, haven't you ever rubbed one out with some aloe vera lotion? This could potentially affect millions of nerds, it's definitely stuff that matters!
"More" regulation will not improve the broken system.
Consider this regulation:
Any product marketed for human consumption, or for application to the human body i) shall clearly and plainly list all constituent ingredients contained therein, and ii) shall be submitted for testing to not fewer than three independent assay laboratories for verification of such constituent ingredients prior to being sold to the public, and iii) shall undergo random quarterly testing by not fewer than three independent assay laboratories for ongoing verification of such constituent ingredients, iv) the sequential failure of any two random tests to verify the constituent ingredients are as advertised shall result in the product being recalled and really big motherfuckin' fines to the manufacturer [...]
You're saying if that was a law, it wouldn't help anything?
Sans regulation, the fraud was discovered.
Yes, but after how long? How many consumers have spent how many millions of dollars buying something that was not what it claimed to be, because "proving our product contains the ingredients we say it does is burdensome and anti-American?"