Gun registration is the first step that enables the government to enact later confiscation (a pattern seen in other countries). That is why the push back against it is so strong.
Since you mention the Constitution, there are lots of things NOT protected by the Constitution that don't require registration- knives, bear traps, fertilizer, chainsaws, etc. Drones fly around and are recovered/intercepted remotely and registration could be used to trace back to the owner. There are already methods in place for doing so with [legal] guns that are recovered. With probable cause and the appropriate approvals, law enforcement can query all the registered sellers' databases. This method allows supervised, individual, and reasonable tracing but without the government having direct access to the databases, which could be (and likely would be) severely abused.
I am not in favor of registration of drones (nor guns, nor most legal things), but if it is to be done, perhaps there are ways to do it that do not give too much power to the government.
>"This is the best way to thwart a government. Non-violent, meaningful action works very well against tyrannical governments."
The summary looks like it is just a bunch of Socialists whining, to me. The main problem with government, especially the Fed, is that it is way, way, way too big.
As now typical, it seems almost every day there has to be some kind of political article on Slashdot that has little or nothing to do with technology or "news for nerds."
>"Who told you that? They're a small fraction of the cost of the unibody."
I honestly don't remember where that information was in my head... and now that I research it some, it is dated. I just looked around again and the pricing is more like $8,000 to $12,000 depending on the model, year, and the capacity.
But if you look at a low-end model electric car but with a larger battery, a $40K car might be worth only $25K in 5 years (???), and if the battery was near needing replacement, $12K is still a lot of dolla. I suppose blue-book will eventually take into account the battery state (like we do with miles on an ICE). Warranty is key in the discussion, especially transferability.
One main problem with understanding battery life is just how complex the issue can become. They degrade at very different rates depending not just how often they are used, but how often they are charged, how they were charged, and the environmental conditions of both use and charging.
>"Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study"
Is that INCLUDING replacing a $20,0000+ battery pack when it gives out after warranty? What exactly is the "trade-in" value of an electric car at that point? Is the 5-year-old car essentially "totaled"? Will it disposable like phones now seem to be?
I love electric cars, and want one. They have far fewer things to replace and "maintain" compared to ICE cars, and electricity as a fuel is cheap compared to gasoline. But massive, complex battery packs are VERY expensive.
>"TFA says FB will hash an image and then delete the original."
Does anyone really believe that? It is like thinking that if you are fingerprinted for some stupid reason it ISN'T going to end up in every local, state, and national database out there and be searched and compared to every time they have suspect print to run.
>"I get closer and closer to deleting Facebook permanently every day."
I never even created one in the first place. I know, seems almost impossible, almost incredible. But it is true. I knew it would be like this, even when they first started Facebook. No Instagram, no Google+, no Twitter, no Myspace, etc. And when someone complains that I won't be able to keep in touch with them, I say "Sorry, it has nothing to do with you, I simply will not subject myself to what Facebook requires. Here is my home address, my home phone number, my work number, my cell number for texting, and a few Email addresses. Communicating with me is actually very fast and easy."
>"Because they want to build a comprehensive and, more importantly, up to date image of what you look like for their facial recognition software."
+1
This has NOTHING to do with security and EVERYTHING to do with gathering yet more information about their users. Hopefully people will take a clue and revolt against such crap.
And you do not have to drive a car. And you do not have to use Email. And you do not have to use a credit card. And you do not have to browse the web. And you do not have to use electricity. And you do not have to use a DVR. And you do not have to work at X, Y, or Z. And you do not have to have a bank account.
I think you totally missed the point of my post. At what point are such "normal" activities no longer "optional" in a modern society?
>"End of the argument. Goodbye."
It isn't dismissed quite that easily, I am afraid.
>"slippery slope" my ass. This is the worst possible point you can stress when defending your position.
Quite the opposite. The "slippery slope" is exactly the type of thing that gets society in trouble time after time. Justifying each small surrender for supposedly the "greater good", step by step walking down the slope into a future where we suddenly wake up and realize the path somewhere along the way was wrong and yet those stairs are now a greased slide.
>"Generalization and out of context statements or phrases are the social warriors main ammunition."
Trust me, I am no social [justice] warrior. I am, however, very interested in LIMITING the power of government.... exactly the principles this country [USA] were founded upon. Social warriors are those who want ever increasing [especially Federal] government powers to control everyone's behaviors because supposedly everyone is a victim that needs daddy government to run everyone's lives. Or perhaps we are all just "unsafe" and need to surrender "just a little more" privacy and freedom in the name of safety and security? "If you have nothing to hide" and all that.
>"There are bad people roaming all over the world. Some of these people are dangerous. You can't take away all the tools used by law enforcement and national security agencies."
These are "tools" they never had in the past, so nothing is being "taken away" it is just not allowing them the new-found power to track everyone both now and in the past.
>"Law enforcement and the security agencies don't have the resources to waste on the inconsequential."
Right. Because such powers are never and will never be abused. I think you need to study history more...
>"In its brief to the high court, filed in September, the justice department argued that when Carpenter signed onto his cell-phone provider's service, he agreed that his call records weren't private information belonging to him, but rather business records belonging to the company. Therefore, he should have "no reasonable expectation of privacy"
And THAT, my friends, is the slippery slope of how privacy and freedom is lost in the modern world of technology. That exact argument has been used over and over again to strip one thing after another. You will have no "reasonable" expectation of privacy wherever you go with your almost absolutely necessary cell-phone. No expectation in your car. No expectation at work. No expectation on a sidewalk. No expectation in your yard. No expectation using your private Email at home. None watching your DVR. Want to work here or just about anywhere? Sign this agreement. Want to get any type of insurance? Sign this agreement. Want to open a bank account? Sign this agreement. Want to own a car, credit card, house, software, whatever, sign this agreement. At some point we are talking about things we can't live without in the modern world and yet things in which private companies apparently conspire to all require the same often questionable and frequently unreasonable terms. And those private companies then allow all this data to flow right to any 3-letter government agency with little or zero resistance, or just "lose" it by being hacked or doing stupid crap.
>"Ubuntu would work just fine for what you are describing."
And so will Mageia; easy to install, very friendly, rapid updates, good quality, long-term support. There are lots of choices. What they have in common is that they are all Linux distros and not MS-Windows. Linux might not be right for everyone, but it wins, hands-down, in so many ways, if you can get away with using it.
Supposedly, a "fresh" "generic" install of MS-Windows on a machine is still going to go right back to sucking in all kinds of crapware updates (even vendor-related ones), is huge, still has lots of backdoors and "spyware" (telemetry) baked right in, and still requires aggressive and continuous malware protection that steals a significant amount of resources. Certainly better than whatever setup comes out of the box from a Best-buy HP or whatever, but far from overall ideal.
>"TFA clearly states that this will be an optional feature."
Until it isn't...
Kinda like the "optional" tabs-on-top in Firefox, which then became the default but you could easily switch it back with a simple/visible setting, which they then hid the control reversion in about:config, which they then later completely disabled, which we could work around with an add-on, which was then broken in 57, which we could then use a mess of external config files to get back..... whew. I know we are talking about Microsoft and not Mozilla, but the point is the same with the "UI Nazis" they get an idea in their head and despite HUGE opposition (like the stupid phone interface in MS-Windows 8) they keep on trying to force it down our throats, year after year, making it harder and harder. Most people finally give up.
>"They don't have to care about the conservation of resources, and yet, they do."
In this particular example, however, there is nothing altruistic about it- using waste heat just makes economic sense. Unless, of course, there is so little heat that paying for the infrastructure to reuse it doesn't make sense. Doing the "right" thing often is right for many reasons. It is the best kind of right.
Just like what primarily drives solar, wind, and other renewables. We can believe it is for some "save the earth" type concept, or we can know for a fact that it points the way to national energy independence, reduces dependence on a fragile grid, lessens foreign violence, and is actually a good investment as it never runs out and won't see ever increasing costs.
>"But here's the most interesting part. GeekWire reports: Amazon is moving ahead with a unique plan to use heat generated from data centers in the nearby Westin Building to warm some of its new buildings downtown. The system transfers the heat from the data centers via water piped underground to the Amazon buildings"
Factories and businesses that generate waste heat have been doing that for at least two centuries now, all over the world. Where I work, some 80 years ago they ran waste heat steam lines from the laundry building to other places on the campus, including 1/4 mile away for some residences. Data centers have also been doing it in many places for many years both on and off capus. http://www.datacenterknowledge...
>2) Disc has best picture quality. >- 4K streams are a thing outperforming a great many Bluray titles.
That is just resolution. From my experience, the bit rate is far more important. Most streaming and cable is a much lower bitrate than on disc. Plus, 4K bluray is now available.
>4) Disc requires no internet access (which is important to many who have no, limited, slow, or capped Internet) >- They most definitely do in order to continue the cat and mouse game that is bluray encryption. If your bluray player isn't connected to the internet the chances are it will stop playing new discs periodically.
See my previous posting on the thread. From what I heard, that protection scheme failed and never became a thing. I have never connected mine to the Internet and it plays everything.
>The rest of it is pretty much spot on. The thing is also the price of a disk is recurringly cheap as it doesn't typically expire.
I think that is what hurt disc sales more than anything- greed. They just cost too much and were kept, artificially, too high for way too long. Had new releases started at something like $15 and worked down to $10, they probably would have sold orders of magnitude more discs. But, who knows. One thing for sure- patience pays off. Instead of running out and getting new releases, wait a while and wham, the price is much lower.
I just did that with my new mobile phone. $300+ when new, 9 months later I bought it for $170! 9 months wasn't that long and it works just as well as it would have 9 months ago:)
>"True of DVD. But don't players require occasional firmware updates to play new titles on Blu-ray Disc?"
I have never, neither has one of my friends, connected my player to the Internet. It is true that newer discs can contain revocation lists to invalidate certain players, but I think in practice, this never really happened because that protection scheme failed so miserably. Instead of effectively fighting piracy, it would have just lead to mass-chaos as consumers had things they paid for suddenly stop working. The industry knew if they used that "weapon", they would have imploded the whole legit market.
I hear you and I cringed the instant I read the headline. "There's" means "There is" and that cannot be used with a plural object. Is it so difficult to say "There are"? These are not typos; such errors represent a lack of understanding and writing basic English.
I still rent and buy discs, in addition to cable/DVR and also streaming. I consider it a perfectly valid content format for a variety of reasons:
1) A disc never stops working (when treated right) 2) Disc has best picture quality. 3) Disc has 3D capability (which I like, so shove it:) ) 4) Disc requires no internet access (which is important to many who have no, limited, slow, or capped Internet) 5) Disc rentals cover almost ALL movies out there, not just a sub-set available through streaming. 6) Purchased discs gives me the option to save it in varies different formats, resolutions, etc, and use it on any device I like, immediately, with no outside connection. 7) High-quality video on disc with no impact on network quotas. 8) Purchased discs give me the option to sell it later, or lend it to family/friends. 9) Discs have extra content- some of which is very interesting. 10) If you wait a while, prices on discs can be surprisingly, even shockingly cheap.
Of course, there are a some issues with discs:
* "Unskippable" content on discs I buy, which is infuriating (and they are shooting themselves in the foot. * And discs CAN be damaged when not treated correctly- but I have never had that issue (except on some rentals, not discs I own). * Rental discs often do not contain the "extra" content and sometimes have limited audio choices. * Some [even natively shot] 3D titles are not being released on 3D discs, which is a shame. * Having to physically store them... although this is hardly a big deal if you are willing to depart with the large, stock cases.
>"Two attackers accessed a private GitHub coding site used by Uber software engineers and then used login credentials they obtained there to access data stored on an Amazon Web Services account that handled computing tasks for the company."
Translation:
The Uber employees used the SAME logins/passwords on a GITHub site that was on the Internet as their credentials on ANOTHER site that handles their production data which was also on the Internet!
Huge no-no!!! #1 rule- keep passwords private and secure/undisclosed. #2 rule- never use the same credentials on multiple sites (especially critical sites... most especially anything accessible on the Internet). This is like security 101...
>"AMD is working on greater disclosure and I am prodding them as hard as I can. Internally they seem to be doing the right things, or at least trying to."
Unfortunately, there is only one real acceptable solution to many of us, and that is the owner of the computer needs to have the ability to turn it all OFF. Anything short of that is really an automatic "fail." If they are worried about how THAT might be accessed, then make it a jumper or physical switch on the motherboard. Done.
You are just a troll. I guess you feel like you are doing something useful tolling as an Anonymous Coward, but really not. Perhaps if you grow up and post as a real person- or are you afraid that people will stalk you like seem you seem to be doing now?
But keep picking on point #3 of *6*. Had you been polite and a real person, then maybe I would have discussed it even further, but it is a waste of time.
I would never read the NYT, but everything, and I mean EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE I have gone with Firefox 57 is noticeably faster than 56 or prior, under an older Linux machine. And that is with 2 addons. I have been very impressed.
Perhaps the Mac build has some issue on your machine? I don't know...
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Gun registration is the first step that enables the government to enact later confiscation (a pattern seen in other countries). That is why the push back against it is so strong.
Since you mention the Constitution, there are lots of things NOT protected by the Constitution that don't require registration- knives, bear traps, fertilizer, chainsaws, etc. Drones fly around and are recovered/intercepted remotely and registration could be used to trace back to the owner. There are already methods in place for doing so with [legal] guns that are recovered. With probable cause and the appropriate approvals, law enforcement can query all the registered sellers' databases. This method allows supervised, individual, and reasonable tracing but without the government having direct access to the databases, which could be (and likely would be) severely abused.
I am not in favor of registration of drones (nor guns, nor most legal things), but if it is to be done, perhaps there are ways to do it that do not give too much power to the government.
>"This is the best way to thwart a government. Non-violent, meaningful action works very well against tyrannical governments."
The summary looks like it is just a bunch of Socialists whining, to me. The main problem with government, especially the Fed, is that it is way, way, way too big.
As now typical, it seems almost every day there has to be some kind of political article on Slashdot that has little or nothing to do with technology or "news for nerds."
>"Who told you that? They're a small fraction of the cost of the unibody."
I honestly don't remember where that information was in my head... and now that I research it some, it is dated. I just looked around again and the pricing is more like $8,000 to $12,000 depending on the model, year, and the capacity.
But if you look at a low-end model electric car but with a larger battery, a $40K car might be worth only $25K in 5 years (???), and if the battery was near needing replacement, $12K is still a lot of dolla. I suppose blue-book will eventually take into account the battery state (like we do with miles on an ICE). Warranty is key in the discussion, especially transferability.
One main problem with understanding battery life is just how complex the issue can become. They degrade at very different rates depending not just how often they are used, but how often they are charged, how they were charged, and the environmental conditions of both use and charging.
>"Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study"
Is that INCLUDING replacing a $20,0000+ battery pack when it gives out after warranty? What exactly is the "trade-in" value of an electric car at that point? Is the 5-year-old car essentially "totaled"? Will it disposable like phones now seem to be?
I love electric cars, and want one. They have far fewer things to replace and "maintain" compared to ICE cars, and electricity as a fuel is cheap compared to gasoline. But massive, complex battery packs are VERY expensive.
>"TFA says FB will hash an image and then delete the original."
Does anyone really believe that? It is like thinking that if you are fingerprinted for some stupid reason it ISN'T going to end up in every local, state, and national database out there and be searched and compared to every time they have suspect print to run.
>"I get closer and closer to deleting Facebook permanently every day."
I never even created one in the first place. I know, seems almost impossible, almost incredible. But it is true. I knew it would be like this, even when they first started Facebook. No Instagram, no Google+, no Twitter, no Myspace, etc. And when someone complains that I won't be able to keep in touch with them, I say "Sorry, it has nothing to do with you, I simply will not subject myself to what Facebook requires. Here is my home address, my home phone number, my work number, my cell number for texting, and a few Email addresses. Communicating with me is actually very fast and easy."
>"Because they want to build a comprehensive and, more importantly, up to date image of what you look like for their facial recognition software."
+1
This has NOTHING to do with security and EVERYTHING to do with gathering yet more information about their users. Hopefully people will take a clue and revolt against such crap.
>"You do not have to use a cell phone"
And you do not have to drive a car.
And you do not have to use Email.
And you do not have to use a credit card.
And you do not have to browse the web.
And you do not have to use electricity.
And you do not have to use a DVR.
And you do not have to work at X, Y, or Z.
And you do not have to have a bank account.
I think you totally missed the point of my post. At what point are such "normal" activities no longer "optional" in a modern society?
>"End of the argument. Goodbye."
It isn't dismissed quite that easily, I am afraid.
>"slippery slope" my ass. This is the worst possible point you can stress when defending your position.
Quite the opposite. The "slippery slope" is exactly the type of thing that gets society in trouble time after time. Justifying each small surrender for supposedly the "greater good", step by step walking down the slope into a future where we suddenly wake up and realize the path somewhere along the way was wrong and yet those stairs are now a greased slide.
>"Generalization and out of context statements or phrases are the social warriors main ammunition."
Trust me, I am no social [justice] warrior. I am, however, very interested in LIMITING the power of government.... exactly the principles this country [USA] were founded upon. Social warriors are those who want ever increasing [especially Federal] government powers to control everyone's behaviors because supposedly everyone is a victim that needs daddy government to run everyone's lives. Or perhaps we are all just "unsafe" and need to surrender "just a little more" privacy and freedom in the name of safety and security? "If you have nothing to hide" and all that.
>"There are bad people roaming all over the world. Some of these people are dangerous. You can't take away all the tools used by law enforcement and national security agencies."
These are "tools" they never had in the past, so nothing is being "taken away" it is just not allowing them the new-found power to track everyone both now and in the past.
>"Law enforcement and the security agencies don't have the resources to waste on the inconsequential."
Right. Because such powers are never and will never be abused. I think you need to study history more...
>"In its brief to the high court, filed in September, the justice department argued that when Carpenter signed onto his cell-phone provider's service, he agreed that his call records weren't private information belonging to him, but rather business records belonging to the company. Therefore, he should have "no reasonable expectation of privacy"
And THAT, my friends, is the slippery slope of how privacy and freedom is lost in the modern world of technology. That exact argument has been used over and over again to strip one thing after another. You will have no "reasonable" expectation of privacy wherever you go with your almost absolutely necessary cell-phone. No expectation in your car. No expectation at work. No expectation on a sidewalk. No expectation in your yard. No expectation using your private Email at home. None watching your DVR. Want to work here or just about anywhere? Sign this agreement. Want to get any type of insurance? Sign this agreement. Want to open a bank account? Sign this agreement. Want to own a car, credit card, house, software, whatever, sign this agreement. At some point we are talking about things we can't live without in the modern world and yet things in which private companies apparently conspire to all require the same often questionable and frequently unreasonable terms. And those private companies then allow all this data to flow right to any 3-letter government agency with little or zero resistance, or just "lose" it by being hacked or doing stupid crap.
>"Ubuntu would work just fine for what you are describing."
And so will Mageia; easy to install, very friendly, rapid updates, good quality, long-term support. There are lots of choices. What they have in common is that they are all Linux distros and not MS-Windows. Linux might not be right for everyone, but it wins, hands-down, in so many ways, if you can get away with using it.
Supposedly, a "fresh" "generic" install of MS-Windows on a machine is still going to go right back to sucking in all kinds of crapware updates (even vendor-related ones), is huge, still has lots of backdoors and "spyware" (telemetry) baked right in, and still requires aggressive and continuous malware protection that steals a significant amount of resources. Certainly better than whatever setup comes out of the box from a Best-buy HP or whatever, but far from overall ideal.
>"TFA clearly states that this will be an optional feature."
Until it isn't...
Kinda like the "optional" tabs-on-top in Firefox, which then became the default but you could easily switch it back with a simple/visible setting, which they then hid the control reversion in about:config, which they then later completely disabled, which we could work around with an add-on, which was then broken in 57, which we could then use a mess of external config files to get back..... whew. I know we are talking about Microsoft and not Mozilla, but the point is the same with the "UI Nazis" they get an idea in their head and despite HUGE opposition (like the stupid phone interface in MS-Windows 8) they keep on trying to force it down our throats, year after year, making it harder and harder. Most people finally give up.
Or like the concepts of updates being optional...
>"They don't have to care about the conservation of resources, and yet, they do."
In this particular example, however, there is nothing altruistic about it- using waste heat just makes economic sense. Unless, of course, there is so little heat that paying for the infrastructure to reuse it doesn't make sense. Doing the "right" thing often is right for many reasons. It is the best kind of right.
Just like what primarily drives solar, wind, and other renewables. We can believe it is for some "save the earth" type concept, or we can know for a fact that it points the way to national energy independence, reduces dependence on a fragile grid, lessens foreign violence, and is actually a good investment as it never runs out and won't see ever increasing costs.
>"But here's the most interesting part. GeekWire reports: Amazon is moving ahead with a unique plan to use heat generated from data centers in the nearby Westin Building to warm some of its new buildings downtown. The system transfers the heat from the data centers via water piped underground to the Amazon buildings"
Factories and businesses that generate waste heat have been doing that for at least two centuries now, all over the world. Where I work, some 80 years ago they ran waste heat steam lines from the laundry building to other places on the campus, including 1/4 mile away for some residences. Data centers have also been doing it in many places for many years both on and off capus. http://www.datacenterknowledge...
It is great to hear, but really nothing new.
>"forced self-taught rocket scientist "Mad" Mike "
"scientist", really? Seems like a very odd word to use in a summary explaining he seriously [??] thinks the earth is flat?
Perhaps self-taught mechanic, or self-taught assembler or something.
>2) Disc has best picture quality.
>- 4K streams are a thing outperforming a great many Bluray titles.
That is just resolution. From my experience, the bit rate is far more important. Most streaming and cable is a much lower bitrate than on disc. Plus, 4K bluray is now available.
>4) Disc requires no internet access (which is important to many who have no, limited, slow, or capped Internet)
>- They most definitely do in order to continue the cat and mouse game that is bluray encryption. If your bluray player isn't connected to the internet the chances are it will stop playing new discs periodically.
See my previous posting on the thread. From what I heard, that protection scheme failed and never became a thing. I have never connected mine to the Internet and it plays everything.
>The rest of it is pretty much spot on. The thing is also the price of a disk is recurringly cheap as it doesn't typically expire.
I think that is what hurt disc sales more than anything- greed. They just cost too much and were kept, artificially, too high for way too long. Had new releases started at something like $15 and worked down to $10, they probably would have sold orders of magnitude more discs. But, who knows. One thing for sure- patience pays off. Instead of running out and getting new releases, wait a while and wham, the price is much lower.
I just did that with my new mobile phone. $300+ when new, 9 months later I bought it for $170! 9 months wasn't that long and it works just as well as it would have 9 months ago :)
>"True of DVD. But don't players require occasional firmware updates to play new titles on Blu-ray Disc?"
I have never, neither has one of my friends, connected my player to the Internet. It is true that newer discs can contain revocation lists to invalidate certain players, but I think in practice, this never really happened because that protection scheme failed so miserably. Instead of effectively fighting piracy, it would have just lead to mass-chaos as consumers had things they paid for suddenly stop working. The industry knew if they used that "weapon", they would have imploded the whole legit market.
I hear you and I cringed the instant I read the headline. "There's" means "There is" and that cannot be used with a plural object. Is it so difficult to say "There are"? These are not typos; such errors represent a lack of understanding and writing basic English.
I still rent and buy discs, in addition to cable/DVR and also streaming. I consider it a perfectly valid content format for a variety of reasons:
1) A disc never stops working (when treated right) :) )
2) Disc has best picture quality.
3) Disc has 3D capability (which I like, so shove it
4) Disc requires no internet access (which is important to many who have no, limited, slow, or capped Internet)
5) Disc rentals cover almost ALL movies out there, not just a sub-set available through streaming.
6) Purchased discs gives me the option to save it in varies different formats, resolutions, etc, and use it on any device I like, immediately, with no outside connection.
7) High-quality video on disc with no impact on network quotas.
8) Purchased discs give me the option to sell it later, or lend it to family/friends.
9) Discs have extra content- some of which is very interesting.
10) If you wait a while, prices on discs can be surprisingly, even shockingly cheap.
Of course, there are a some issues with discs:
* "Unskippable" content on discs I buy, which is infuriating (and they are shooting themselves in the foot.
* And discs CAN be damaged when not treated correctly- but I have never had that issue (except on some rentals, not discs I own).
* Rental discs often do not contain the "extra" content and sometimes have limited audio choices.
* Some [even natively shot] 3D titles are not being released on 3D discs, which is a shame.
* Having to physically store them... although this is hardly a big deal if you are willing to depart with the large, stock cases.
Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. Quite possible, and even more stupid!
>"Two attackers accessed a private GitHub coding site used by Uber software engineers and then used login credentials they obtained there to access data stored on an Amazon Web Services account that handled computing tasks for the company."
Translation:
The Uber employees used the SAME logins/passwords on a GITHub site that was on the Internet as their credentials on ANOTHER site that handles their production data which was also on the Internet!
Huge no-no!!! #1 rule- keep passwords private and secure/undisclosed. #2 rule- never use the same credentials on multiple sites (especially critical sites... most especially anything accessible on the Internet). This is like security 101...
>"AMD is working on greater disclosure and I am prodding them as hard as I can. Internally they seem to be doing the right things, or at least trying to."
Unfortunately, there is only one real acceptable solution to many of us, and that is the owner of the computer needs to have the ability to turn it all OFF. Anything short of that is really an automatic "fail." If they are worried about how THAT might be accessed, then make it a jumper or physical switch on the motherboard. Done.
You are just a troll. I guess you feel like you are doing something useful tolling as an Anonymous Coward, but really not. Perhaps if you grow up and post as a real person- or are you afraid that people will stalk you like seem you seem to be doing now?
But keep picking on point #3 of *6*. Had you been polite and a real person, then maybe I would have discussed it even further, but it is a waste of time.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
I would never read the NYT, but everything, and I mean EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE I have gone with Firefox 57 is noticeably faster than 56 or prior, under an older Linux machine. And that is with 2 addons. I have been very impressed.
Perhaps the Mac build has some issue on your machine? I don't know...
>"autism or not, reason should override "feelings" "
Common issue nowadays. These two videos explain it better than I can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...