Obama has done things that I wanted him to do as president. But after Snowden, it became readily apparent that he isn't going to do the things I need him to do as president.
Many of the people simply don't want help and would rather live on the street.
Maybe homeless people don't want to be told what to do.
"Want X? Well, then you have to do Y. You don't want to do Y? Then I get to say that you don't want to cooperate, that I can't help you, and then I can throw my hands in the air in mock exasperation."
When I wanted to cancel my health insurance policy, from a company that was obviously not Comcast, I was told over the phone that I could only cancel by fax. I was to fax a letter stating my desire to cancel, along with a photocopy of my insurance card. I faxed them the letter, and received no response from them. I decided not to pay my previous bill until I had verification that they would cancel my policy. Two months later, having not received any confirmation of my cancellation, I finally received a letter that they were cancelling my policy because of non-payment. Fax is not the answer.
Companies don't make it easy to cancel services. At least with a phone call, it's relatively easy to confirm that the party on the other end understands your intent to cancel, and depending on your state you may even be able to record the call.
I don't understand. There isn't any logic in the cable; it's just one set of pins to another.
No logic in the sense of IC's or gates, yes. However, there is a resistor in line that determines the max current your device can demand. Apparently this is allowing devices hooked up through cheap cables to demand more than can safely be supplied.
Personally, I prefer to have a cable be a cable, and let the two devices determine the limits.
An interesting thing to note about melatonin is that it has a phase response curve. Its effect on sleep depends on where you are in your circadian rhythm.
Maybe, but I see something else: Hackers got 80 million that they can reinvest in training (like learning English) so they can be more effective in the future.
I get that this makes for a great news story and generates a lot of traffic for Sky.
On the other hand, wouldn't it have been a good idea to first give that list to government officials and let them muck around with it for a couple of years, instead of alerting the ISIS members that their cover was blown?
*Anyone* who didn't see this coming 8 years ago is a fool or willfully ignorant.
You make it sound like Obama created this problem.
He did not. However, I did expect him to clean it up, instead of adding fuel to the fire.
It looks like no matter what, it is only going to get worse. You can blame it on Bush, a Clinton, Obama, Jesus, or Santa Claus. It doesn't matter who your scapegoat is. It doesn't change the fact that we are screwed. No candidates are running on a platform of ensuring citizen privacy and constitutional rights. I can vote Trump or Sanders just to stick it to my party, but in the end the outcome will be the same. Neither party is looking out for the citizens at this point.
Automatically pushing out a pdf by email, or posting it on a server, costs pennies and doesn't require nearly as many employees to accomplish.
A large part of the issue for me is that the electronic copy they provide is vastly inferior. The companies I deal with make it convoluted to download statements from their website. They use non-standard formats. They have buggy interfaces that don't function in Firefox. It is difficult to download multiple statements at once. And they rarely offer statements older than 12 months. That print statement will still be file away 18 months from now if I have some sort of computer failure, but may be difficult to replace if I only have an electronic copy. (I know, backups...)
We already have mobile versions of websites. Why not kid versions? Little Billy can go to Samsung.kid and get treated the kid friendly page, instead of blah blah blah about investor relations and global operations etc. If Samsung doesn't want to put in a kid page with cartoons advertising their wares, they can just not have anything at all
Other educational sites can operate at whatever level of maturity the account holder can view.
Don't allow anonymous access. Have registration through the school system. Make it a crime to post content unsuitable for children on it.
I can see this not being ideal when you might start expecting a child to do research into subjects. 11? 12? But younger than that, I can't see why children would need anything close to unfettered web access.
It still has the pitfalls of stolen identities/credentials being used to view or post inappropriate content. And how do you handle children posting bad content? That I do not know.
Just because the USER OPTED to use a 4 digit pass code doesn't mean that Apple is creating a back door to its encryption by allowing the brute force of the login.
In this scenario, if Apple does what the government wants, the encryption is bypassed and the government gets the data. The implementation of the encryption is flawed. How many millions believe their data to be safe? If Apple forced the pass phrase, or made it so their phone cannot possibly be tampered with while locked, then I would agree that it is secure. I never said the encryption was backdoored, the encryption itself is fine, but the way it is being implemented is useless if the government can compel Apple to bypass it.
It's a 4 digit passcode to get past the lock screen. That's what they want to brute force. And once they do, they're inside the encryption because the phone thinks you're a legitimate user. You don't have to decrypt any data, the system is going to do it all for you because it thinks you're supposed to have access to it.
How many times do I have to say "His point is that the crypto isn't worth a god damn thing if all you have to do is load custom firmware."
The implementation of crypto is broken if it can be easily bypassed.
Yes, the crypto they are using is great, but the implementation of it is pointless if it is trivial to get around it.
It's like encrypting your harddrive to keep your data safe, while downloading every piece of malware that every banner ad offers you. Works great in theory, but useless in practice. It's an exercise in splitting hairs to talk about how great your crypto is when your system is compromised in short order.
His point is that the crypto isn't worth a god damn thing if all you have to do is load custom firmware. You can have all the crypto that we will develop in the next 1000 years and it doesn't mean a thing if you're backdoored. Paging Dr. Pedantic, this would suggest that Apple's crypto may as well be considered compromised.
In any case, I didn't even make the argument that it was "technically not illegal", I'm saying that what they did was actually reasonable and perfectly alright.
Right, my point is that suppressing worker wages is never alright.
Do your times support current hardware when your old one breaks?
Seriously? You have to ask this?
Using the magic of the internet, I can buy hardware going back 10+ years.
Using the magic of my operating system, I can install hardware that is 10+ years old.
The only real issues are DX10 and 11, and ram limits, if you can really consider those to be major issues.
Do the times support the old software you run?
Yes, because if I paid someone to make me custom niche software I likely need that software to keep doing what it's doing. Why pay someone to make it again when it isn't necessary?
Are you exposed to any security risks as a result of not being with the times?
You know, I probably am. However, Microsoft is now proving themselves to be another one of the security threats. So I can bend over and take it from Microsoft, or I can roll the dice. I think I'll take my chances.
This is becoming a regular problem on/. Article titles and summaries are increasingly assuming that people have the obscure knowledge of the topic to actually care. In this case, who Linode is, what makes Linode important, why this DDoS merits more attention than other attacks, etc.
It used to be that when I saw a title/summary that I was unfamiliar with, I could follow it and expect to learn something from it. Now I find out that JustAnotherCompany experienced JustAnotherThingThatHappensOnTheInternet.
I googled Linode, so I guess I learned something. Cloud hosting/virtual servers. Are they big fish, little fish, do they host someone big, are they known for something they did in particular? Well, I have better things to do than research it.
Bruce's argument is that the so men with social development issues can't empathize with women, and that the men can empathize with other men enough to get along. Presumably, the women with social development issues can empathize with the women, and aren't part of the issue of integrating non-issue women into software development. So I would say that for the time being, the women with issues probably get a wink and a nod, as they aren't as big a part of the broader issue of integrating women in general.
Women with social development issues may integrate poorly. However, there may be considerably fewer of them. ASD is 4-5 times more likely in men than in women. So while you can point at some women and suggest they are part of the issue, I don't think it really holds weight in the bigger picture. You would need a disproportionate amount of women to have similar amounts of men and women with ASD.
Bruce only used ASD as an example of the spread of social development issues. If these issues primarily affect men, it doesn't make sense to look at women with similar issues as part of the primary problem.
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Obama has done things that I wanted him to do as president. But after Snowden, it became readily apparent that he isn't going to do the things I need him to do as president.
Many of the people simply don't want help and would rather live on the street.
Maybe homeless people don't want to be told what to do.
"Want X? Well, then you have to do Y. You don't want to do Y? Then I get to say that you don't want to cooperate, that I can't help you, and then I can throw my hands in the air in mock exasperation."
I get that you wouldn't want to take a piece of sandpaper to graphene, but what makes you think that it can't stand up to any of those things?
It looks like graphene is at least UV resistant?
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/1...
I can't find any clear information on its reactivity, other than depending on thickness and substrate material.
When I wanted to cancel my health insurance policy, from a company that was obviously not Comcast, I was told over the phone that I could only cancel by fax. I was to fax a letter stating my desire to cancel, along with a photocopy of my insurance card.
I faxed them the letter, and received no response from them. I decided not to pay my previous bill until I had verification that they would cancel my policy. Two months later, having not received any confirmation of my cancellation, I finally received a letter that they were cancelling my policy because of non-payment. Fax is not the answer.
Companies don't make it easy to cancel services. At least with a phone call, it's relatively easy to confirm that the party on the other end understands your intent to cancel, and depending on your state you may even be able to record the call.
I don't understand. There isn't any logic in the cable; it's just one set of pins to another.
No logic in the sense of IC's or gates, yes. However, there is a resistor in line that determines the max current your device can demand. Apparently this is allowing devices hooked up through cheap cables to demand more than can safely be supplied.
Personally, I prefer to have a cable be a cable, and let the two devices determine the limits.
with an E-Ink display.
An interesting thing to note about melatonin is that it has a phase response curve. Its effect on sleep depends on where you are in your circadian rhythm.
Maybe, but I see something else: Hackers got 80 million that they can reinvest in training (like learning English) so they can be more effective in the future.
I get that this makes for a great news story and generates a lot of traffic for Sky.
On the other hand, wouldn't it have been a good idea to first give that list to government officials and let them muck around with it for a couple of years, instead of alerting the ISIS members that their cover was blown?
*Anyone* who didn't see this coming 8 years ago is a fool or willfully ignorant.
You make it sound like Obama created this problem.
He did not. However, I did expect him to clean it up, instead of adding fuel to the fire.
It looks like no matter what, it is only going to get worse. You can blame it on Bush, a Clinton, Obama, Jesus, or Santa Claus. It doesn't matter who your scapegoat is. It doesn't change the fact that we are screwed. No candidates are running on a platform of ensuring citizen privacy and constitutional rights. I can vote Trump or Sanders just to stick it to my party, but in the end the outcome will be the same. Neither party is looking out for the citizens at this point.
Automatically pushing out a pdf by email, or posting it on a server, costs pennies and doesn't require nearly as many employees to accomplish.
A large part of the issue for me is that the electronic copy they provide is vastly inferior. The companies I deal with make it convoluted to download statements from their website. They use non-standard formats. They have buggy interfaces that don't function in Firefox. It is difficult to download multiple statements at once. And they rarely offer statements older than 12 months. That print statement will still be file away 18 months from now if I have some sort of computer failure, but may be difficult to replace if I only have an electronic copy. (I know, backups...)
Make another internet just for kids.
Really.
We already have mobile versions of websites. Why not kid versions? Little Billy can go to Samsung.kid and get treated the kid friendly page, instead of blah blah blah about investor relations and global operations etc. If Samsung doesn't want to put in a kid page with cartoons advertising their wares, they can just not have anything at all
Other educational sites can operate at whatever level of maturity the account holder can view.
Don't allow anonymous access. Have registration through the school system. Make it a crime to post content unsuitable for children on it.
I can see this not being ideal when you might start expecting a child to do research into subjects. 11? 12?
But younger than that, I can't see why children would need anything close to unfettered web access.
It still has the pitfalls of stolen identities/credentials being used to view or post inappropriate content.
And how do you handle children posting bad content? That I do not know.
Just because the USER OPTED to use a 4 digit pass code doesn't mean that Apple is creating a back door to its encryption by allowing the brute force of the login.
In this scenario, if Apple does what the government wants, the encryption is bypassed and the government gets the data. The implementation of the encryption is flawed. How many millions believe their data to be safe? If Apple forced the pass phrase, or made it so their phone cannot possibly be tampered with while locked, then I would agree that it is secure.
I never said the encryption was backdoored, the encryption itself is fine, but the way it is being implemented is useless if the government can compel Apple to bypass it.
It's a 4 digit passcode to get past the lock screen. That's what they want to brute force. And once they do, they're inside the encryption because the phone thinks you're a legitimate user. You don't have to decrypt any data, the system is going to do it all for you because it thinks you're supposed to have access to it.
How many times do I have to say "His point is that the crypto isn't worth a god damn thing if all you have to do is load custom firmware."
The implementation of crypto is broken if it can be easily bypassed.
Yes, the crypto they are using is great, but the implementation of it is pointless if it is trivial to get around it.
It's like encrypting your harddrive to keep your data safe, while downloading every piece of malware that every banner ad offers you. Works great in theory, but useless in practice. It's an exercise in splitting hairs to talk about how great your crypto is when your system is compromised in short order.
His point is that the crypto isn't worth a god damn thing if all you have to do is load custom firmware.
You can have all the crypto that we will develop in the next 1000 years and it doesn't mean a thing if you're backdoored.
Paging Dr. Pedantic, this would suggest that Apple's crypto may as well be considered compromised.
Building up instead of out
The idea that a policy of no cold calling "suppresses worker wages" is absurd.
Nope.
In any case, I didn't even make the argument that it was "technically not illegal", I'm saying that what they did was actually reasonable and perfectly alright.
Right, my point is that suppressing worker wages is never alright.
People who stand on the line of "technically this isn't illegal" enable abusive practices to flourish.
Nukes can generate EMPs. That said, I agree that it is likely shitty construction or shitty engineering.
Theft happened July 29, 2014, way before that post.
Do your times support current hardware when your old one breaks?
Seriously? You have to ask this?
Using the magic of the internet, I can buy hardware going back 10+ years.
Using the magic of my operating system, I can install hardware that is 10+ years old.
The only real issues are DX10 and 11, and ram limits, if you can really consider those to be major issues.
Do the times support the old software you run?
Yes, because if I paid someone to make me custom niche software I likely need that software to keep doing what it's doing. Why pay someone to make it again when it isn't necessary?
Are you exposed to any security risks as a result of not being with the times?
You know, I probably am. However, Microsoft is now proving themselves to be another one of the security threats. So I can bend over and take it from Microsoft, or I can roll the dice. I think I'll take my chances.
This is becoming a regular problem on /. Article titles and summaries are increasingly assuming that people have the obscure knowledge of the topic to actually care. In this case, who Linode is, what makes Linode important, why this DDoS merits more attention than other attacks, etc.
It used to be that when I saw a title/summary that I was unfamiliar with, I could follow it and expect to learn something from it.
Now I find out that JustAnotherCompany experienced JustAnotherThingThatHappensOnTheInternet.
I googled Linode, so I guess I learned something. Cloud hosting/virtual servers. Are they big fish, little fish, do they host someone big, are they known for something they did in particular? Well, I have better things to do than research it.
I'm missing what makes this comment insightful.
Bruce's argument is that the so men with social development issues can't empathize with women, and that the men can empathize with other men enough to get along. Presumably, the women with social development issues can empathize with the women, and aren't part of the issue of integrating non-issue women into software development. So I would say that for the time being, the women with issues probably get a wink and a nod, as they aren't as big a part of the broader issue of integrating women in general.
Women with social development issues may integrate poorly. However, there may be considerably fewer of them. ASD is 4-5 times more likely in men than in women. So while you can point at some women and suggest they are part of the issue, I don't think it really holds weight in the bigger picture. You would need a disproportionate amount of women to have similar amounts of men and women with ASD.
Bruce only used ASD as an example of the spread of social development issues. If these issues primarily affect men, it doesn't make sense to look at women with similar issues as part of the primary problem.