My friend Ghostery tells me this page has 31 different trackers loaded on it. 31 pieces of useless information to be sold by one group of con/ad men to another. And it is the dependence on selling demographic information and the insta-bidding of ad space that keeps clogging the tubes and prompts well meaning but deluded engineers to create solutions like AMP.
Give me back Web 1.0 and HTML 1.1 where content where you were judged on your content, not how well your page looks on a phone.
Just because the email was opened, doesn't mean it was done intentionally by an actual human being.
It can be difficult to distinguish between a human being opening an email and a malware scanning engine opening a email. Modern systems will actually follow links and run executables in sandboxes before releasing the actual email to the end user. What looks like someone opening the email, usually a callback via a pixel image or js include, doesn't involve a human actually opening the email. In fact, just using a preview pane can make it seem like the email has been opened.
Sorry to be a kill joy, but this phishing test proved absolutely nothing.
*sigh* Will MBA schools please start teaching all the C-level wanna be's that while treating all your employees the same is the easy route to follow it is rarely the best route. Sacrificing known productivity increases from remote work for some mystical hoped for innovations seems to be a bad bet. I can actually see it making sense for the highly creative individuals doing marketing campaigns, but I can't see it being of much use to those whose job is to track and squash code bugs.
Here's a theory that should fit most Slashdotter's world view: The real driver is that the bosses are missing the adulation of the crowds and the face to face sucking up denied them by remote work.
Ok, everybody who was effected by this raise your hands! Anybody?
These DDOS attacks are mildly interesting but irrelevant in the grander scheme of things. Given the nature of the attack payloads, it probably would have been effective at less than 100 Gbps so why hype the new high watermark? AFAIK, DDOS isn't a huge money maker so this isn't a threat in the same league as ransomware.
Quit trying to promote vandalism as news and maybe, just maybe it will become less interesting a thing to do.
Yeah right. Google feels fit to declare what sites you may and may not browse, but be assured that they will still crawl those sites and correlate any links, email addresses, phone numbers etc they find there.
Putting the practical aspects of getting there aside, this is no different than what many of our ancestors did at one time. Saying goodbye to everyone and everything that is familiar for the adventure of the unknown. Yes you will die. Quickly or slowly, in anticipated or unexpected ways.
Many people cannot envision a one way journey but others can. My great grandfather came to the US to join his sons. My great grandmother did not.
"That said, I don't think those forces have ever really been allowed to operate to their full extent, for a sufficient amount of time, outside of fictional accounts"
Is the word "monopoly" fictional? That is the end result of non-regulated market forces. Next time you read about a blockbuster M&A just substitute "increased market share" with "reduced competition". And with reduced competition comes less pressure to innovate and improve.
My guess is that Theranos will stop marketing itself as a technologically innovative company. Instead it will try to get funding to compete as a service provider at the national level in hopes of leveraging its name recognition into enough market share to be acquired. The end game of many an entrepreneurial MBA.
Except that now you have to charge two items instead of one. Amplified headphones tend to be a bit more bulky than ear buds to tote around. Ear buds are cheaper to lose. My car stereo has an aux jack but no BT.
If VB were to be open sourced some poor misguided fool might start using it to teach kids how to code in a simple point and click environment when they could be learning how to create responsive web pages! Why bother learning to do it yourself when you can just pull in megabytes of other peoples code to do your left padding!
Unless you're like a grandma who's only electronic device besides a TV is her Kindle that she was gifted.
Damn, where are my mod points when I need them!
A couple of years ago we gifted our aging parents with Kindles and they love them!
And yes, the only other technology they own is their TV. No computers, no smartphones, no WiFi. So what should they do? Find someplace in the sticks with free WiFi and figure out how to connect? Go and side load off a public library computer? Great options for an 83 yro newbie who doesn't drive.
So I guess Amazon's REAL solution for people like them to access their paid for content will be for us to buy them new Kindles! and BTW, the trade in value for the older models is $0.
Guess we know how Bezos is paying for his space toys.
In the US all or most states require you to have liability insurance to pay for any injuries or death, required just like the ACA mandates/requires you to buy health insurance.
Guess what, some people don't. Or they just pay the initial premium to show coverage and then let the policy lapse.
So some states also mandate that you have additional coverage in case the other guy is un-insured or under-insured (i.e. not enough to cover your co-pay).
These APP companies are the un-insured guys. They could be responsible and provide benefits typical of the jobs they provide, but instead they want it to be somebody else's problem.
Did anyone notice that they didn't actually propose anything beyond 1) we shouldn't have to pay and 2) stop suing us.
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My friend Ghostery tells me this page has 31 different trackers loaded on it. 31 pieces of useless information to be sold by one group of con/ad men to another. And it is the dependence on selling demographic information and the insta-bidding of ad space that keeps clogging the tubes and prompts well meaning but deluded engineers to create solutions like AMP.
Give me back Web 1.0 and HTML 1.1 where content where you were judged on your content, not how well your page looks on a phone.
Just because the email was opened, doesn't mean it was done intentionally by an actual human being.
It can be difficult to distinguish between a human being opening an email and a malware scanning engine opening a email. Modern systems will actually follow links and run executables in sandboxes before releasing the actual email to the end user. What looks like someone opening the email, usually a callback via a pixel image or js include, doesn't involve a human actually opening the email. In fact, just using a preview pane can make it seem like the email has been opened.
Sorry to be a kill joy, but this phishing test proved absolutely nothing.
I was always of the opinion that Google Books was a rip off of Project Gutenberg.
*sigh* Will MBA schools please start teaching all the C-level wanna be's that while treating all your employees the same is the easy route to follow it is rarely the best route. Sacrificing known productivity increases from remote work for some mystical hoped for innovations seems to be a bad bet. I can actually see it making sense for the highly creative individuals doing marketing campaigns, but I can't see it being of much use to those whose job is to track and squash code bugs.
Here's a theory that should fit most Slashdotter's world view:
The real driver is that the bosses are missing the adulation of the crowds and the face to face sucking up denied them by remote work.
Ok, everybody who was effected by this raise your hands! Anybody?
These DDOS attacks are mildly interesting but irrelevant in the grander scheme of things. Given the nature of the attack payloads, it probably would have been effective at less than 100 Gbps so why hype the new high watermark? AFAIK, DDOS isn't a huge money maker so this isn't a threat in the same league as ransomware.
Quit trying to promote vandalism as news and maybe, just maybe it will become less interesting a thing to do.
Pretty freaking awesome.
Flying over places like Manhattan, the Fukushima power plant, Gibraltar, et cetera.
Looking up places you lived when you were a kid.
Humming the theme music to the first Superman movie... ...or maybe that was just me.</p></quote>
I think HTC's postbot is stuck.
Yes I do, hence my sig.
For a taste try SDF.org. you won't need a modem or Kermit. Anybody have a Gandalf box?
Yeah right. Google feels fit to declare what sites you may and may not browse, but be assured that they will still crawl those sites and correlate any links, email addresses, phone numbers etc they find there.
Google, the ultimate nanny state.
Wtf?
"Think about how many leaps forward Slack, Dropbox, Zapier and others have made in popular software over the last few decades"
None of these are even a decade old! They are cloudy web x.0 incarnations of old unix utilities!
And Seth should know this! He is as old as I am!
Now get the hell off my lawn!!
Putting the practical aspects of getting there aside, this is no different than what many of our ancestors did at one time. Saying goodbye to everyone and everything that is familiar for the adventure of the unknown. Yes you will die. Quickly or slowly, in anticipated or unexpected ways.
Many people cannot envision a one way journey but others can. My great grandfather came to the US to join his sons. My great grandmother did not.
Hmmm
Firenado and oil covered birds and fish.
Dinner and a show!
Mod up.
It it doesn't tell you why it deactivated the noise cancelling feature, then you are left with guessing why.
"That said, I don't think those forces have ever really been allowed to operate to their full extent, for a sufficient amount of time, outside of fictional accounts"
Is the word "monopoly" fictional? That is the end result of non-regulated market forces. Next time you read about a blockbuster M&A just substitute "increased market share" with "reduced competition". And with reduced competition comes less pressure to innovate and improve.
My guess is that Theranos will stop marketing itself as a technologically innovative company. Instead it will try to get funding to compete as a service provider at the national level in hopes of leveraging its name recognition into enough market share to be acquired. The end game of many an entrepreneurial MBA.
Except that now you have to charge two items instead of one.
Amplified headphones tend to be a bit more bulky than ear buds to tote around.
Ear buds are cheaper to lose.
My car stereo has an aux jack but no BT.
If VB were to be open sourced some poor misguided fool might start using it to teach kids how to code in a simple point and click environment when they could be learning how to create responsive web pages! Why bother learning to do it yourself when you can just pull in megabytes of other peoples code to do your left padding!
Will the rice cookers be Bluetooth enabled?
Weren't all those wonderful free trade agreements supposed to make things a big open market?
Apparently it only applies to sellers, not to buyers.
Unless you're like a grandma who's only electronic device besides a TV is her Kindle that she was gifted.
Damn, where are my mod points when I need them!
A couple of years ago we gifted our aging parents with Kindles and they love them!
And yes, the only other technology they own is their TV. No computers, no smartphones, no WiFi.
So what should they do? Find someplace in the sticks with free WiFi and figure out how to connect? Go and side load off a public library computer?
Great options for an 83 yro newbie who doesn't drive.
So I guess Amazon's REAL solution for people like them to access their paid for content will be for us to buy them new Kindles! and BTW, the trade in value for the older models is $0.
Guess we know how Bezos is paying for his space toys.
Careful there. You are at risk of reinventing the mainframe.
Phffftt. 12MB! Is this thing written in Java? NetCat is only a couple of hundred bytes.
With the big RSA security conference on the horizon, expect to see lots of stories about the latest security solutions, especially from start ups.
If you want good security, work on implementing the SANS Top 20 security controls instead of looking for a silver bullet.
I taught an intro to programming course years ago and having them convert an Arabic number to Roman numerals was one of my favorites.
There are lots of CS constructs that come into play including number and string manipulation, looping constructs, if/then logic, etc.
They also get to see that there is more than one way to solve the problem and that some solutions can be far more elegant than others.
"Now quit your whining, cash in your paycheck, and meet that arbitrary deadline".
FTFY.
In the US all or most states require you to have liability insurance to pay for any injuries or death, required just like the ACA mandates/requires you to buy health insurance.
Guess what, some people don't. Or they just pay the initial premium to show coverage and then let the policy lapse.
So some states also mandate that you have additional coverage in case the other guy is un-insured or under-insured (i.e. not enough to cover your co-pay).
These APP companies are the un-insured guys. They could be responsible and provide benefits typical of the jobs they provide, but instead they want it to be somebody else's problem.
Did anyone notice that they didn't actually propose anything beyond 1) we shouldn't have to pay and 2) stop suing us.