If she really wanted to be cut off from Amazon, or any company for that matter, its pretty simple. Buy a log cabin in the woods with no power, no internet, cell connectivity, at least 30 miles away from any neighbor. Then Amazon will completely disappear from your life. Of course this presents other problems.
Seriously why are you trying so hard to block one company or anything they touch? Afraid you'll get cooties? You want all the modern amenities there are things you'll just have to accept. I'm not saying to swallow the Kool-Aid and just go with it, just realize that at some point you are doing business with a company you may not agree with. You can minimize your contact, but you can't really prevent it. Well, I guess there is that log cabin option, but I'm betting thats not an option for you either.
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen " and so on.
I remember when TechTv started and they ran real time polls. Within minutes it was clear a few people were stacking the poll in absurd ways, often 99% to 1%. After a while the hosts would sarcastically say "lets see what the polls show today!". Then they dropped the polls.
Hacking the polls can also be done by the pollsters as well. For example: Would you be willing to pay a small amount for greater fire protection? Or: Would you be in favor or raising property taxes to hire 5 more fire fighters?
Whenever I see a vaguely worded poll, or one that is clearly slanted, then the results don't matter. The sad part is most polls I see the media run are of these two types which are worthless. Skew away!
I mean Apple, which made I don't know a metric ton of profit last year (don't ask me how much because I'm too lazy to look it up), doesn't want to pay the royalties on parts used in a product that made them tons of money. The supplier then cut them off for non payment of said royalties. Now Apple is all but hurt that they have to go to another vendor who won't have the same type of parts for them for at least another year? Does that about sum it up? If so, go cry me a fricking river Apple.
Open your rusted shut wallet and pay your bills; while your at it why not pay your US tax bill too?
Also, typical Apple. Didn't Jobs do this when he changed the video card in the Cube because the video card company released a few shots of the Cube days before the launch? Jobs seemed to like spiting anyone that dare upstage or damage his ego, usually at the cost of hurting the company. Somehow, this doesn't feel any different.
1. Homeless in San Francisco used those bags to poop in and tossed the waste; now they just poop on the street or are given free bags by the city.
2. People don't wash the re-usable bags, so they built up bacteria and contaminants which cause people to get sick.
3. People forget to bring the bags with them in the store, and instead buy the paper bags. Then they throw those away as well.
4. The re-usable bags do break down. If you keep them in a clean dry place out of the sun, you can get about 5 years of use out of them. If you leave them in the back seat and the sun hits them, maybe 3 months. I used one as a sun shield, after less than 14 days it disintegrated when I touched it.
In the end this ends up being more of a poor/stupid tax on those who can barely afford the prices at the local whole foods, or those who forget to bring a bag into the store with you. When this started in CA I would see people just throwing the items back in the cart and then unloading it all into their trunk.
Sure, it's not like they are taken out of every paycheck. I totally pay my taxes voluntary. Those few times I forgot, they sent me a friendly reminder that they would garnish my wages unless I voluntary paid them asap.
Unless your getting paid under the table, taxes are taken from you. Or how about the next time your at the store you hand the clerk the money for the products minus the taxes. Tell them they can't forcibly take the tax from you. I'm sure they will totally understand and be cool with it.
Looking at the article (and others), did Netflix actually call it that? From their official site https://www.netflix.com/title/80988062 they refer to it as "A mind-bending tale with multiple endings". Sounds like the old movie Clue, or Army of Darkness (if you had the two ending version).
Also, wouldn't almost any modern day video game fall under this? Why aren't they suing the entire game industry?
On another note there already is a movie that promotes itself as a Choose Your Own Adventure movie "The Abominable Snowman", but I suspect the film did horrible so the they didn't want any part of that. When I say part, I mean part of the profit that is.
I'm assuming the only evidence they had was an IP address it was last connected to. With that they were able to secure a warrant to search a house half way around the world. That seems to be the bigger problem. Someone needs to tell them that an IP address does not directly relate to physical address; it also does not directly relate to a single person/computer.
Also how hard would it be to run a query to group common gps coordinates and order them by instances. Then looking at the highest instances first, check if the data was based on a town location. If it was then change that coordinate to the local police station. You would kill two birds with one stone. People would show up at the police station looking for kidnapped people or lost devices. Plus warrants would be issued to local law enforcement to search their own building.
And if that doesn't work, we switch them to the nearest local elected representative.
There are three I might check in on: Time Bandits, Amazing Stories, and what Ronald Moorre comes up with. Most of the shows listed just don't appeal to me though.
Also I wonder about a few of them. Like the Oprah deal. It seems like they are buying rights to programs; which is fine, but they aren't exactly the content creators themselves.
1. Something you know: username, password, pin number, etc.
2. Something you have: token generator, cell phone, computer, etc.
3. Something you are: your fingerprint, eye scan, hand geometry, voice print, etc.
I often hear people say that using CAPTCHA's or having to answer 3 to questions are two factors, but those still fall under the first category, something you know. I also hear people say to use a fingerprint or something, can't fake that. The problem though is you can, and once exposed you can't change it. Cell phones are also a problem where sites will send you a token, often those tokens are sent in plain text.
The issue of course is that all these boil down to some data the computer has to pass along. Your token is just a series of bits, your fingerprint is saved as a series of measurements and sent as bits, etc. These are all sent as part of the authentication request, all vulnerable to snooping.
Your best bet is still a password and some one time token generator. You may be able to intercept it, but once you can no longer snoop on my network I can logout and the token you snooped on won't work again.
Modlishka is what IT professionals call a reverse proxy
A classic man in the middle attack. If you control the network between the client and server; being able to snoop on 2FA is the least of your worries. Using SSL might help, but if your DNS is compromised as well then your out of luck.
As a developer I use a reverse proxy whenever I need to view data being exchanged between different tiers of an application. Using SSL makes it harder, but there are ways of generating fake certs and using dns to mask where they really came from.
Again, if someone is able to inject themselves into your network you have much bigger problems.
I've never understood why Apple wants to be a content producer, rather than just be the best available ecosystem
Simple, Content Producers get paid over and over and over and over again for the same product. Think of that movie you saw at the theater, then rented on dvd, then watched on cable. Hardware products don't have as much churn, and unless you lock in a large market to begin with you never make a second sell to a consumer. If Apple had both they would dominate the market, much like cable providers and cable boxes of the past.
Apple is more on the road to taking a middleman cut, they don't make the content nor do they make the device its consumed on, but they do make a percentage for matching the two up. Hmm, when I put it that way is Apple a pimp?
Bears, Alligators, Cougars, Wolverines, Coyotes, Bobcats, Wolves, Skunks, Eagles, or just the common stray dog. Nature provides many options for entertainment.
If you in the urban jungle, then just strap it to a school bus or random taxi.
I can see the news at 11 footage now. The swat team surrounds a bus of children and takes them off one by one at gun point only to find a cell phone belonging to a criminal strapped to the under carriage. Heck, you might get one of those catholic buses with nuns, or even a bus of hippies.
So if your a criminal, trap a wild animal such as a mountain lion. Tranquilize the animal and attach your phone to it (nice heavy duty leather collar or something). Wait for the animal to wake up and run away.
I was surprised as well, about 40 channels on an average day.
The break down is something like:
2 - NBC (SD and HD)
2 - ABC (SD and HD)
2 - CBS (SD and HD)
2 - Fox (SD and HD)
6 - PBS (Regular, Create, and something else; SD and HD)
2 - CW (SD and HD)
2 - Ion (SD and HD)
1 - MyTv (random old tv shows: Gilligans Island, Hogans Heros, Twilight Zone, etc)
1 - Movie (Odd random movies, usually nothing worth note)
2 - Telemuno (SD and HD)
1 - Analog channel (very fuzzy but old tv shows like Charles in Charge, Growing Pains, The Brady Bunch, etc)
1 - Comet (scifi shows like Babylon 5, Space 1999, Lost in Space, etc)
3 - Music channels (Blues, Rock, Folk)
5+ - Religious channels
1 - Stadium (Sports, not sure if current or even popular as I don't watch sports)
3 - Infomercial
3 - Always blank
3 to 5 - Ones I don't even bother with.
All this and I'm about 90 miles from a major city and I'm picking up stations from there (and I installed a 55 mile certified antenna; outside on the side of the house).
I was only hoping for the major 5 (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and PBS), but surprised I got more.
I have an old "HP 3000 Server" plaque you could use.
At my previous job when I got a new computer I would ask to keep the old case and just move the guts. Anyone that saw my computer felt sorry that I was running something so old. Little did they know.
After the first upgrade IT didn't even bother getting a complete computer, they just gave me a dollar amount I could spend. I then gave them a list of parts, and had the fastest thing in the company, with an old fashion i386 sticker on the front of the yellow faded case. It astounded people that I could have four monitors hooked to something so old.
Take our your cell phone, take pictures of the trucks (and license plates if you can). Then call the police and report that trucks are blocking a public entrance. When the cops finally show up, show them the pictures and file a report.
How hard is that?
Or I guess you could just pull out your guns and have a showdown. Seriously are people this stupid?
The article states that Apple was charging 30% a few years ago, but cut renewal rates to 15%. And yes, the article say the $256 million was a high estimate.
Still $128 million just to funnel funds from one account to another seems a tad bit too much.
A typical credit card processor with that much in sales would take around 2%, or about $17 million.
But wait, AT&T does lie. So does that mean Comcast is right?
No wait that can't be, Comcast must be lying so that means AT&T doesn't lie. But I know AT&T lies!
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If she really wanted to be cut off from Amazon, or any company for that matter, its pretty simple. Buy a log cabin in the woods with no power, no internet, cell connectivity, at least 30 miles away from any neighbor. Then Amazon will completely disappear from your life. Of course this presents other problems.
Seriously why are you trying so hard to block one company or anything they touch? Afraid you'll get cooties? You want all the modern amenities there are things you'll just have to accept. I'm not saying to swallow the Kool-Aid and just go with it, just realize that at some point you are doing business with a company you may not agree with. You can minimize your contact, but you can't really prevent it. Well, I guess there is that log cabin option, but I'm betting thats not an option for you either.
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen " and so on.
Douglas Adams
I remember when TechTv started and they ran real time polls. Within minutes it was clear a few people were stacking the poll in absurd ways, often 99% to 1%. After a while the hosts would sarcastically say "lets see what the polls show today!". Then they dropped the polls.
Hacking the polls can also be done by the pollsters as well. For example: Would you be willing to pay a small amount for greater fire protection? Or: Would you be in favor or raising property taxes to hire 5 more fire fighters?
Whenever I see a vaguely worded poll, or one that is clearly slanted, then the results don't matter. The sad part is most polls I see the media run are of these two types which are worthless. Skew away!
I mean Apple, which made I don't know a metric ton of profit last year (don't ask me how much because I'm too lazy to look it up), doesn't want to pay the royalties on parts used in a product that made them tons of money. The supplier then cut them off for non payment of said royalties. Now Apple is all but hurt that they have to go to another vendor who won't have the same type of parts for them for at least another year? Does that about sum it up? If so, go cry me a fricking river Apple. Open your rusted shut wallet and pay your bills; while your at it why not pay your US tax bill too?
Also, typical Apple. Didn't Jobs do this when he changed the video card in the Cube because the video card company released a few shots of the Cube days before the launch? Jobs seemed to like spiting anyone that dare upstage or damage his ego, usually at the cost of hurting the company. Somehow, this doesn't feel any different.
Except there are a few problems with the bag ban.
1. Homeless in San Francisco used those bags to poop in and tossed the waste; now they just poop on the street or are given free bags by the city.
2. People don't wash the re-usable bags, so they built up bacteria and contaminants which cause people to get sick.
3. People forget to bring the bags with them in the store, and instead buy the paper bags. Then they throw those away as well.
4. The re-usable bags do break down. If you keep them in a clean dry place out of the sun, you can get about 5 years of use out of them. If you leave them in the back seat and the sun hits them, maybe 3 months. I used one as a sun shield, after less than 14 days it disintegrated when I touched it.
In the end this ends up being more of a poor/stupid tax on those who can barely afford the prices at the local whole foods, or those who forget to bring a bag into the store with you. When this started in CA I would see people just throwing the items back in the cart and then unloading it all into their trunk.
Sure, it's not like they are taken out of every paycheck. I totally pay my taxes voluntary. Those few times I forgot, they sent me a friendly reminder that they would garnish my wages unless I voluntary paid them asap.
Unless your getting paid under the table, taxes are taken from you. Or how about the next time your at the store you hand the clerk the money for the products minus the taxes. Tell them they can't forcibly take the tax from you. I'm sure they will totally understand and be cool with it.
But, would we have twinkies 35 feet long and weighing 600 pounds (well 54 tons if you run the math)?
Where are my mod points, I need one!
Looking at the article (and others), did Netflix actually call it that? From their official site https://www.netflix.com/title/80988062 they refer to it as "A mind-bending tale with multiple endings". Sounds like the old movie Clue, or Army of Darkness (if you had the two ending version).
Also, wouldn't almost any modern day video game fall under this? Why aren't they suing the entire game industry?
On another note there already is a movie that promotes itself as a Choose Your Own Adventure movie "The Abominable Snowman", but I suspect the film did horrible so the they didn't want any part of that. When I say part, I mean part of the profit that is.
I'm assuming the only evidence they had was an IP address it was last connected to. With that they were able to secure a warrant to search a house half way around the world. That seems to be the bigger problem. Someone needs to tell them that an IP address does not directly relate to physical address; it also does not directly relate to a single person/computer.
Also how hard would it be to run a query to group common gps coordinates and order them by instances. Then looking at the highest instances first, check if the data was based on a town location. If it was then change that coordinate to the local police station. You would kill two birds with one stone. People would show up at the police station looking for kidnapped people or lost devices. Plus warrants would be issued to local law enforcement to search their own building.
And if that doesn't work, we switch them to the nearest local elected representative.
Thanks for the link.
There are three I might check in on: Time Bandits, Amazing Stories, and what Ronald Moorre comes up with. Most of the shows listed just don't appeal to me though.
Also I wonder about a few of them. Like the Oprah deal. It seems like they are buying rights to programs; which is fine, but they aren't exactly the content creators themselves.
3 Factors relate to the following categories:
1. Something you know: username, password, pin number, etc.
2. Something you have: token generator, cell phone, computer, etc.
3. Something you are: your fingerprint, eye scan, hand geometry, voice print, etc.
I often hear people say that using CAPTCHA's or having to answer 3 to questions are two factors, but those still fall under the first category, something you know. I also hear people say to use a fingerprint or something, can't fake that. The problem though is you can, and once exposed you can't change it. Cell phones are also a problem where sites will send you a token, often those tokens are sent in plain text.
The issue of course is that all these boil down to some data the computer has to pass along. Your token is just a series of bits, your fingerprint is saved as a series of measurements and sent as bits, etc. These are all sent as part of the authentication request, all vulnerable to snooping.
Your best bet is still a password and some one time token generator. You may be able to intercept it, but once you can no longer snoop on my network I can logout and the token you snooped on won't work again.
Modlishka is what IT professionals call a reverse proxy
A classic man in the middle attack. If you control the network between the client and server; being able to snoop on 2FA is the least of your worries. Using SSL might help, but if your DNS is compromised as well then your out of luck.
As a developer I use a reverse proxy whenever I need to view data being exchanged between different tiers of an application. Using SSL makes it harder, but there are ways of generating fake certs and using dns to mask where they really came from.
Again, if someone is able to inject themselves into your network you have much bigger problems.
I've never understood why Apple wants to be a content producer, rather than just be the best available ecosystem
Simple, Content Producers get paid over and over and over and over again for the same product. Think of that movie you saw at the theater, then rented on dvd, then watched on cable. Hardware products don't have as much churn, and unless you lock in a large market to begin with you never make a second sell to a consumer. If Apple had both they would dominate the market, much like cable providers and cable boxes of the past.
Apple is more on the road to taking a middleman cut, they don't make the content nor do they make the device its consumed on, but they do make a percentage for matching the two up. Hmm, when I put it that way is Apple a pimp?
Yep, 9 lines of code. Of course, each line is over 2 million characters.
The next version will be just 8 lines of code (at almost 2.5 million characters per line).
Bears, Alligators, Cougars, Wolverines, Coyotes, Bobcats, Wolves, Skunks, Eagles, or just the common stray dog. Nature provides many options for entertainment.
If you in the urban jungle, then just strap it to a school bus or random taxi.
I can see the news at 11 footage now. The swat team surrounds a bus of children and takes them off one by one at gun point only to find a cell phone belonging to a criminal strapped to the under carriage. Heck, you might get one of those catholic buses with nuns, or even a bus of hippies.
And yes, I want to see the world burn!
So if your a criminal, trap a wild animal such as a mountain lion. Tranquilize the animal and attach your phone to it (nice heavy duty leather collar or something). Wait for the animal to wake up and run away.
Then site back and enjoy the show!
I was surprised as well, about 40 channels on an average day.
The break down is something like:
2 - NBC (SD and HD)
2 - ABC (SD and HD)
2 - CBS (SD and HD)
2 - Fox (SD and HD)
6 - PBS (Regular, Create, and something else; SD and HD)
2 - CW (SD and HD)
2 - Ion (SD and HD)
1 - MyTv (random old tv shows: Gilligans Island, Hogans Heros, Twilight Zone, etc)
1 - Movie (Odd random movies, usually nothing worth note)
2 - Telemuno (SD and HD)
1 - Analog channel (very fuzzy but old tv shows like Charles in Charge, Growing Pains, The Brady Bunch, etc)
1 - Comet (scifi shows like Babylon 5, Space 1999, Lost in Space, etc)
3 - Music channels (Blues, Rock, Folk)
5+ - Religious channels
1 - Stadium (Sports, not sure if current or even popular as I don't watch sports)
3 - Infomercial
3 - Always blank
3 to 5 - Ones I don't even bother with.
All this and I'm about 90 miles from a major city and I'm picking up stations from there (and I installed a 55 mile certified antenna; outside on the side of the house).
I was only hoping for the major 5 (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and PBS), but surprised I got more.
The FCC also has a search feature here: https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/dtvmaps. Take that with a grain of salt though as my zip code only shows 6 stations.
I have an old "HP 3000 Server" plaque you could use.
At my previous job when I got a new computer I would ask to keep the old case and just move the guts. Anyone that saw my computer felt sorry that I was running something so old. Little did they know.
After the first upgrade IT didn't even bother getting a complete computer, they just gave me a dollar amount I could spend. I then gave them a list of parts, and had the fastest thing in the company, with an old fashion i386 sticker on the front of the yellow faded case. It astounded people that I could have four monitors hooked to something so old.
should AT&T squander all their good will with their customers
I laughed so hard soda came out my nose!
I was going to say, "If you have to ask you already know the answer to that question".
Which is usually the same answer I give my manager when he asks if a particular issue is something the offshore team can work on.
Take our your cell phone, take pictures of the trucks (and license plates if you can). Then call the police and report that trucks are blocking a public entrance. When the cops finally show up, show them the pictures and file a report.
How hard is that?
Or I guess you could just pull out your guns and have a showdown. Seriously are people this stupid?
The article states that Apple was charging 30% a few years ago, but cut renewal rates to 15%. And yes, the article say the $256 million was a high estimate.
Still $128 million just to funnel funds from one account to another seems a tad bit too much.
A typical credit card processor with that much in sales would take around 2%, or about $17 million.
This one number doesn't mean much. What means more is how many units did you sell? How many units did you sell around the same time frame last year?
As with most things just because you raked in more cash doesn't mean you sold more, it could just mean you raised your prices and sold less.
But wait, AT&T does lie. So does that mean Comcast is right?
No wait that can't be, Comcast must be lying so that means AT&T doesn't lie. But I know AT&T lies!
Oh. . . my. . . god! Its all lies isn't it!