Forgive me for assuming everyone here was technically literate. I chose the word "absolute" when what I meant was "competent". I was referring to the current state of the art in security. Yes I know that some breaches are unavoidable. Having said that, I stand by my previous post. Here's 2 recent articles to help you rethink your position:
Defend shitty companies like this all you want, but without stronger regulations and FINES THAT ACTUALLY PENALIZE, this shit will just get worse.
As for your "Give them the benefit of the doubt" plea, sorry, I've seen far too much of large corporations screwing citizens in my lifetime to have ANY doubt left to give. Call me cynical.
I think what you are referring to as "incompetent" financial institutions are actually just apathetic. They simply don't care about good security because it is more cost effective for them to do as little as possible because the fines don't affect their bottom line as much as providing actual security would.
We have regulations in place to try to make sure these financial institutions are NOT incompetent. They choose to not worry about the regulations because the fines don't affect them enough. We need stronger regulations.
In the financial sector, proper security is THE most important thing. If you are offering services and you cannot secure your customer's data absolutely, then you shouldn't be offering services.
If proper security is "too expensive" for your profit margin, then you have a failed business model, and shouldn't be offering services.
Financial institutions KNOW this. This is the business they choose to be in, it has a high operating cost and they get paid VERY well to perform these services. They shouldn't be let off the hook for taking the cheap way out, and they certainly shouldn't be allowed to profit from these tactics. They only understand money. The only way to punish these institutions when they do stupid shit like this is to hit them hard in the purse.
Android has had the ability to turn on/off any permission for any app since at least Marshmallow. Go to Settings->Apps then click on an app and then click on 'Permissions'. Don't want it using WiFi? Turn off WiFi. Don't want an app to track your location? Turn off Location. Simple and you don't need to be rooted at all as it's part of the OS
"Oh GOD! I have to DO SOMETHING to prevent all these annoying things that happen on MY phone that I (mostly) have CONTROL over? How DARE THEY require me to take an active role managing my mobile device!"/s
Thanks for explaining that. Sounds like the system needs to be changed for sure. Our social security numbers here in the US are used in a similar manner, as an identifier for the purpose of keeping a credit history, but ours aren't so easy to guess. Part of the number used to be based on geographic region, but I'm not sure that's the case anymore. Also not sure if our bankruptcy filing procedures require any more scrutiny than your do.
I get that his identity was stolen, and the thief applied for a loan, and then declared bankruptcy in his name. What I don't get is how that led to the court actually declaring him bankrupt. The article doesn't mention details, but I would assume there are still some qualifications to be met before someone is declared bankrupt. Qualifications like actually having no money, and debt collectors knocking down your door.
Did the court not consult with him to find out what his financial situation was like before just declaring him bankrupt? Do they just accept people's bankruptcy claims at face value without checking?
Just seems like it was way too easy for this to happen and the process easy to abuse.
Just because your PC doesn't use their DNS service to look up an IP address doesn't mean that you are bypassing their pipes to get there. They still see where you are going. Changing your DNS server doesn't magically shift all your traffic to some other ISP.
The article mentions that on older 32bit iOS devices, games don't run because they can't count that high. Understandable. One would presume that this is also the case on *any* 32bit system, not just iOS.
And what's with the lede?
Apple's decision to go all in on 64bit-capable devices, OS and apps has caused some trouble for Chess.com
What?!? Moving to 64bit means newer devices *won't* have that problem on chess.com or any other site or app that uses very large integers, so I fail to see how this is Apple's doing, or is even related to Apple at all (aside from the problem first being discovered on an old iPad). Just another way to get Apple into the headlines?
I'm no Trump fan or supporter of any kind, but isn't calling this a "blow" to the rollback wrong? I thought this was exactly what they stated the rollback was for, to put the power to regulate this in the hands of the states.
If you recently upgraded your TV, that could be why. Seems that dogs couldn't really perceive motion on older TVs because the framerate and resolution were too low. Modern TV's with higher refresh rates and resolution makes it much easier for dogs to perceive it as real, and so they're paying more attention to TV on the whole. There's even a new TV channel FOR dogs.
http://www.foxnews.com/science...
"Internet access" is the part of the connection that happens between YOU (the user) and the Internet, not the part that happens between the Internet and some destination site you think you should have access to.
Blocking the Pirate Bay does not, in any way, prevent anyone from accessing the internet.
I think this probably has more to do with dj/dance culture than streaming. DJ's mix songs of the same/similar tempo to create long sets where kids can dance continuously for extended periods of time. Songs with long or off-tempo intros and outros are not conducive to that, and even if they are, will often have the intro and outro cut to get to the "good stuff", ie. the beat they can mix into their set. Even if the DJ/Dance culture isn't directly influencing artists to shorten their intros, the DJ remixes then enter the pop music ecosystem, and skew the data directly.
How quaint that you actually trust government employees. Even those you elect. It's especially quaint given the historically ongoing reality that they've not shown themselves worthy of said trust.
Don't mistake my apparent trust of government employees for naivete. Your condescending tone (and apparent paranoia) not withstanding, there is very little evidence of actual actionable corruption in most government agencies. WE put these people in place. If you don't like them, too bad. Organize an effort to remove them. The fact that you don't trust them has little bearing on whether we need to be looking over their shoulder every second of the day.
No, it is exactly the point.
Let me get this straight: A government agency put forth allegations that Google doesn't pay their female employees as well as their male employees, and you're concerned that they're not looking into the gender pay gap? If they're not looking into it, why do you suppose they brought it up in the first place?
How, pray tell, are we citizens supposed to oversee our representatives if we're not allowed to view the data (throwing a sans in the direction of national security issues) they're making their decisions on?
In this particular instance, that falls on the OIG of the Department of Labor, and carries no requirement that the general public be part of any potential investigation.
Government representatives are the people we hire to specifically deal with this sort of shit so we don't have to.
If you want to look at every little detail like that, then you go be a representative. The rest of us don't really need to know what every employee at Google makes. All we need to know is that there is someone we hired looking out for us*.
(*How well those representatives are actually looking out for us is outside the scope of this discussion)
Actually, opt-out is all that is required, and both Firefox and Homebrew have it and since they're both open source, if you don't like having to opt out, you can edit the code and remove the data gathering completely. You know who doesn't allow you to opt out? You who what doesn't allow you to edit the code? Microsoft.
The issue I have with Windows 10 is that it no longer treats you like you are the OWNER. It treats you like a library card holder, lucky to be able to use their 10 year old machine.
I believe if any *one* thing killed flash, it was HTML 5. You can do virtually anything in HTML 5 that you could in Flash, you didn't require a proprietary application to create it, and you didn't require your users to have a proprietary plugin to run it.
As a web developer myself, that's what killed it for me.
I never said priests/clergy didn't contribute to science, just that it was disingenuous to attribute things like the Scientific Method to the church. The Big Bang Theory isn't sacred, it just happens to be the theory that best fits our observations. If something came along tomorrow that fit BETTER, guess what would happen to the Big Bang Theory? Buh-bye!
Another thing about that: The Big Bang Theory (Any theory, really) isn't mine or "ours" (Hell, I'm not even a professional scientist). It belongs to the world and is currently our best explanation of the formation of the universe. Theories don't require blind faith. If someone doesn't believe in a theory, it doesn't make it any less true, only evidence can do that. Religion, on the other hand, does require faith. That's why nobody still practices Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek or any of the countless other dead religions that have existed through the years.
Your assertion that religion isn't afraid of science, hasn't always been the case, and in fact is only a very recent development out of need. Science has slowly been eroding god's domain over time, and so Christianity has had to adjust it's worldview to fit with society. Before that, when they actually had authority, the Christian church had a long history of persecuting, torturing and killing people who introduced ideas that were contrary to their all-knowing all-powerful scriptures. You have THAT kind of history with science, and then ask WHY science was afraid?
Christianity is LUCKY that the scientific community is rational and wouldn't think of treating Christians the same way that scientists have been treated at the hands of the Christian church, and would do well to remember that.
Except that religion DOESN'T actually explain ANYTHING, least of all the "why". Religion puts forth ideas (often blatantly wrong), not supported by any kind of evidence, and then chastises/persecutes you when you question those ideas.
As for the Scientific Method coming from the church, that is a stretch at best. Francis Bacon formalized what we know as the Scientific Method, inspired by the work of Roger Bacon and others (Copernicus and Galileo). Just because Roger Bacon was a friar doesn't mean that the Scientific Method came from the church, and considering the treatment that Galileo received from the church over heliocentrism, claiming that the Scientific Method has it's origins in the church is intellectually dishonest.
Ideas about separation of church and state have been around since before Christianity, so saying that it is a Christian thing is just plain wrong. I'll give you the University system though.
I believe you are referring to the Geforce Experience software. It's optional, though it's installed by default.
My biggest complaint is that that software doesn't even let you check for updated drivers without requiring you to register and be logged in. After installation when I built my new computer, I went to check for updates and was hit with the login screen, I immediately uninstalled it. The Nvidia Control Panel is all I need.
The AMD Radeon Crimson software is the same type of crap. Advertising and telemetry wrapper masquerading as a... I'm not even sure what they're supposed to be. Gaming news?
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I think you missed the "...that care about technology..." qualifier.
Forgive me for assuming everyone here was technically literate. I chose the word "absolute" when what I meant was "competent". I was referring to the current state of the art in security. Yes I know that some breaches are unavoidable. Having said that, I stand by my previous post. Here's 2 recent articles to help you rethink your position:
1. https://politics.slashdot.org/story/17/09/12/1339211/equifax-lobbied-for-easier-regulation-before-data-breach
This tells me they absolutely DO NOT CARE about customer security. They were pushing back on regulations that governed legal liability for credit reporting firms.
2. https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/09/13/1840258/equifax-had-admin-as-login-and-password-in-argentina
This was just posted today. Equifax was using admin/admin as username and password! Apathy or incompetence, take your pick.
Defend shitty companies like this all you want, but without stronger regulations and FINES THAT ACTUALLY PENALIZE, this shit will just get worse.
As for your "Give them the benefit of the doubt" plea, sorry, I've seen far too much of large corporations screwing citizens in my lifetime to have ANY doubt left to give. Call me cynical.
I think what you are referring to as "incompetent" financial institutions are actually just apathetic. They simply don't care about good security because it is more cost effective for them to do as little as possible because the fines don't affect their bottom line as much as providing actual security would.
We have regulations in place to try to make sure these financial institutions are NOT incompetent. They choose to not worry about the regulations because the fines don't affect them enough. We need stronger regulations.
In the financial sector, proper security is THE most important thing. If you are offering services and you cannot secure your customer's data absolutely, then you shouldn't be offering services.
If proper security is "too expensive" for your profit margin, then you have a failed business model, and shouldn't be offering services.
Financial institutions KNOW this. This is the business they choose to be in, it has a high operating cost and they get paid VERY well to perform these services. They shouldn't be let off the hook for taking the cheap way out, and they certainly shouldn't be allowed to profit from these tactics. They only understand money. The only way to punish these institutions when they do stupid shit like this is to hit them hard in the purse.
I see what you didn't do there...
Are you in the right place? This is about Monsanto, not the fired google employee.
Android has had the ability to turn on/off any permission for any app since at least Marshmallow. Go to Settings->Apps then click on an app and then click on 'Permissions'. Don't want it using WiFi? Turn off WiFi. Don't want an app to track your location? Turn off Location. Simple and you don't need to be rooted at all as it's part of the OS
"Oh GOD! I have to DO SOMETHING to prevent all these annoying things that happen on MY phone that I (mostly) have CONTROL over? How DARE THEY require me to take an active role managing my mobile device!" /s
Thanks for explaining that. Sounds like the system needs to be changed for sure. Our social security numbers here in the US are used in a similar manner, as an identifier for the purpose of keeping a credit history, but ours aren't so easy to guess. Part of the number used to be based on geographic region, but I'm not sure that's the case anymore. Also not sure if our bankruptcy filing procedures require any more scrutiny than your do.
I get that his identity was stolen, and the thief applied for a loan, and then declared bankruptcy in his name. What I don't get is how that led to the court actually declaring him bankrupt. The article doesn't mention details, but I would assume there are still some qualifications to be met before someone is declared bankrupt. Qualifications like actually having no money, and debt collectors knocking down your door.
Did the court not consult with him to find out what his financial situation was like before just declaring him bankrupt? Do they just accept people's bankruptcy claims at face value without checking?
Just seems like it was way too easy for this to happen and the process easy to abuse.
That's because they are usually missing the whole "regulated" part, and a bunch of rednecks or cult followers stockpiling weapons is not a "militia".
Just because your PC doesn't use their DNS service to look up an IP address doesn't mean that you are bypassing their pipes to get there. They still see where you are going. Changing your DNS server doesn't magically shift all your traffic to some other ISP.
The article mentions that on older 32bit iOS devices, games don't run because they can't count that high. Understandable. One would presume that this is also the case on *any* 32bit system, not just iOS.
And what's with the lede?
What?!? Moving to 64bit means newer devices *won't* have that problem on chess.com or any other site or app that uses very large integers, so I fail to see how this is Apple's doing, or is even related to Apple at all (aside from the problem first being discovered on an old iPad). Just another way to get Apple into the headlines?
I'm no Trump fan or supporter of any kind, but isn't calling this a "blow" to the rollback wrong? I thought this was exactly what they stated the rollback was for, to put the power to regulate this in the hands of the states.
If you recently upgraded your TV, that could be why. Seems that dogs couldn't really perceive motion on older TVs because the framerate and resolution were too low. Modern TV's with higher refresh rates and resolution makes it much easier for dogs to perceive it as real, and so they're paying more attention to TV on the whole. There's even a new TV channel FOR dogs.
http://www.foxnews.com/science...
"Internet access" is the part of the connection that happens between YOU (the user) and the Internet, not the part that happens between the Internet and some destination site you think you should have access to.
Blocking the Pirate Bay does not, in any way, prevent anyone from accessing the internet.
I think this probably has more to do with dj/dance culture than streaming. DJ's mix songs of the same/similar tempo to create long sets where kids can dance continuously for extended periods of time. Songs with long or off-tempo intros and outros are not conducive to that, and even if they are, will often have the intro and outro cut to get to the "good stuff", ie. the beat they can mix into their set. Even if the DJ/Dance culture isn't directly influencing artists to shorten their intros, the DJ remixes then enter the pop music ecosystem, and skew the data directly.
LOL, "what an idiot you are" is not an argument
Don't mistake my apparent trust of government employees for naivete. Your condescending tone (and apparent paranoia) not withstanding, there is very little evidence of actual actionable corruption in most government agencies. WE put these people in place. If you don't like them, too bad. Organize an effort to remove them. The fact that you don't trust them has little bearing on whether we need to be looking over their shoulder every second of the day.
Let me get this straight: A government agency put forth allegations that Google doesn't pay their female employees as well as their male employees, and you're concerned that they're not looking into the gender pay gap? If they're not looking into it, why do you suppose they brought it up in the first place?
In this particular instance, that falls on the OIG of the Department of Labor, and carries no requirement that the general public be part of any potential investigation.
Government representatives are the people we hire to specifically deal with this sort of shit so we don't have to.
If you want to look at every little detail like that, then you go be a representative. The rest of us don't really need to know what every employee at Google makes. All we need to know is that there is someone we hired looking out for us*.
(*How well those representatives are actually looking out for us is outside the scope of this discussion)
Actually, opt-out is all that is required, and both Firefox and Homebrew have it and since they're both open source, if you don't like having to opt out, you can edit the code and remove the data gathering completely. You know who doesn't allow you to opt out? You who what doesn't allow you to edit the code? Microsoft.
The issue I have with Windows 10 is that it no longer treats you like you are the OWNER. It treats you like a library card holder, lucky to be able to use their 10 year old machine.
I believe if any *one* thing killed flash, it was HTML 5. You can do virtually anything in HTML 5 that you could in Flash, you didn't require a proprietary application to create it, and you didn't require your users to have a proprietary plugin to run it.
As a web developer myself, that's what killed it for me.
I never said priests/clergy didn't contribute to science, just that it was disingenuous to attribute things like the Scientific Method to the church. The Big Bang Theory isn't sacred, it just happens to be the theory that best fits our observations. If something came along tomorrow that fit BETTER, guess what would happen to the Big Bang Theory? Buh-bye!
Another thing about that: The Big Bang Theory (Any theory, really) isn't mine or "ours" (Hell, I'm not even a professional scientist). It belongs to the world and is currently our best explanation of the formation of the universe. Theories don't require blind faith. If someone doesn't believe in a theory, it doesn't make it any less true, only evidence can do that. Religion, on the other hand, does require faith. That's why nobody still practices Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek or any of the countless other dead religions that have existed through the years.
Your assertion that religion isn't afraid of science, hasn't always been the case, and in fact is only a very recent development out of need. Science has slowly been eroding god's domain over time, and so Christianity has had to adjust it's worldview to fit with society. Before that, when they actually had authority, the Christian church had a long history of persecuting, torturing and killing people who introduced ideas that were contrary to their all-knowing all-powerful scriptures. You have THAT kind of history with science, and then ask WHY science was afraid?
Christianity is LUCKY that the scientific community is rational and wouldn't think of treating Christians the same way that scientists have been treated at the hands of the Christian church, and would do well to remember that.
Except that religion DOESN'T actually explain ANYTHING, least of all the "why". Religion puts forth ideas (often blatantly wrong), not supported by any kind of evidence, and then chastises/persecutes you when you question those ideas.
As for the Scientific Method coming from the church, that is a stretch at best. Francis Bacon formalized what we know as the Scientific Method, inspired by the work of Roger Bacon and others (Copernicus and Galileo). Just because Roger Bacon was a friar doesn't mean that the Scientific Method came from the church, and considering the treatment that Galileo received from the church over heliocentrism, claiming that the Scientific Method has it's origins in the church is intellectually dishonest.
Ideas about separation of church and state have been around since before Christianity, so saying that it is a Christian thing is just plain wrong. I'll give you the University system though.
I believe you are referring to the Geforce Experience software. It's optional, though it's installed by default.
My biggest complaint is that that software doesn't even let you check for updated drivers without requiring you to register and be logged in. After installation when I built my new computer, I went to check for updates and was hit with the login screen, I immediately uninstalled it. The Nvidia Control Panel is all I need.
The AMD Radeon Crimson software is the same type of crap. Advertising and telemetry wrapper masquerading as a... I'm not even sure what they're supposed to be. Gaming news?