The lack of disclosed vulnerabilities does not mean vulnerabilities do not exist. To think "no news is good news" is not that far from "Security through Obscurity".
Would it matter if they did? These random numbers have no real effect on what services you can or cannot get. They're just speeds the government says you have to provide to use a specific marketing term in your advertisement. There's plenty of alternative terms that are not being regulated the same way.
Litmus test to tell whether or not Linux is a viable desktop OS:
Me, on phone: "Hey wife, can you log into my laptop and email me a file?" Wife: Mmmm...:/
I can understand, I mean the process in Linux would be:
1. Turn on computer. 2. Enter password at login prompt. 3. Open mail client. 4. Open new email compose window. 5. Add attachment. 6. Address email. 7. Click Send
Meanwhile, it's so much different in macOS. You have to:
1. Turn on computer. 2. Enter password at login prompt. 3. Open mail client. 4. Open new email compose window. 5. Add attachment. 6. Address email. 7. Click Send
Bonus: You can have the exact same email client on both platforms -- Thunderbird. Making the process identical even in detailed "here's how you move a mouse" level directions.
Why do they need an SSN in the first place? If I'm completely honest, we have to bear some of the responsibility for these breaches of security by idly allowing any and all personal information to be collected by any old munchkin. An ISP does not need your SSN, date of birth or anything else beyond your address and payment details.
They need your SSN for checking your credit, which is used to determine if you will be required to pay a deposit on your service. Remember that Comcast isn't just an Internet provider, they also sell phone and pay TV service. Service people can run up a pretty penny in post-paid charges on.
If you're about to say "they can't force you to give them your SSN". You're right. But you also can't force them to give you service. They could also agree to give you service only if you pay a huge deposit (which will be held on your account and refunded after a certain number of billing cycles or cancel service, depending on their policies. It's not a legal requirement, it's a de facto one.
Google engineers are reportedly sampling those search queries in order to develop a list of thousands of blocked websites it should hide on its upcoming search engine in China. Blacklisted results, which include topics like the Tiananmen Square massacre, will result in users seeing a blank page, The Intercept reports. On Baidu, if you search for something less specific, like Taiwan or Xinjiang, you'll get a partial blackout where you can only see tourist information and not politically sensitive news reports. It could be possible that Google is taking a similar tack [sic]
I almost think this is better. Allow the search to run, but just show a blank page. Baidu's results give the impression "this is all there is to see, everything is fine". Google giving a blank page says essentially "we can't show you this" (without getting them in hot water by, like, displaying a message stating that). Google isn't breaking any laws because they are not showing any "politically sensitive" pages, but they are making it very obvious something is missing.
"George is one of four states in the U.S. that continues to use voting machines with no ability to provide voters a paper record so that they can verify the machine counted their vote correctly," the report adds.
Good thing the article isn't paywalled, because I can't imagine people paying Consumer Reports a subscription fee to be told something so damn obvious.
NEC's system is built around an AI engine called NeoFace, which is part of the company's overarching Bio-IDiom line of biometric authentication technology.
Will this system help them verify they have found the One?
Currently, Verizon offers fiber internet with no phone for $40 a month plus $10 for a modem, plus unspecified fees and taxes, so let's say $60, but that's only for 1 year, after which they won't tell you what it costs even in the fine print!
I think my first question would be what a "modem" is in fiber optic service. Terminate to Ethernet and get out of my way.
What the heck do you think representative government is, man?
Something we don't really have -- when the representative is voted in through interference by foreign governments and legitimate citizens denied their right to vote with administrative/clerical tricks.
He is supposed to be making sure we don't let industry ruin our country's land and turn us into a cesspool like certain other areas. Greenhouse gasses and the pollution of the air by automobiles is a very real thing. Reducing efforts to improve the environmental impact of automobiles is contrary to the mission of his department and his reasoning boils down do "Ye-haw! Trucks are awesome!"
With no financial incentive, I guess we'll be seeing a lot fewer of those "best app" apps (yeah, that's not a typo, I mean those apps on the store whose only function is to help the user find more apps they're too lazy to research themselves). Also maybe fewer "Best Apps of 20xx" fluff piece "news" articles on tech sites.
"Cars and trucks are just part of the basic fiber of the American economy and the American experience, so we take what we're doing very, very seriously," Bill Wehrum, EPA assistant administrator, told reporters on Thursday
What does that have to do with your job at the EPA, Wehrum? You're not a cultural ambassador. This is just "we don't want to have to change, whaaaa!" wrapped in a flag.
Yeah, because I'm sure Microsoft doesn't have their own second CA list built into Windows you can't alter. Kinda like how you can just block Microsoft's servers in your HOSTS file and it wont just ignore it. Oh wait, they've been doing that since XP.
>The Xperia Compact phones are a bit overpriced for what you get, but they are otherwise very high quality and nice to use. Every other phone I have seen with a ~4.5 inch display is rubbish (assuming you can even find a current year model, as that is getting to be more difficult), and every other decent phone nowadays is ~5.5 or larger.
They're already screwing that up. Did you see the current-year's model? Increasing the screen size in a way nobody wants, increasing the weight, and removing the headphone jack.
Lawmakers in the state Senate have proposed a bill (S2160) that would create an "internet service provider registry" to track whether broadband and wireless providers adhere to policies that keep the internet open and neutral.
Why do they need a registry for a list you can count on one hand?
The problem is that California has so much renewable energy available now, thanks in large measure to aggressive state mandated policies, that much of it is "constrained." That's utility industry speak for having to give it away or simply let it go to waste. In some cases, utilities in California actually pay other utility companies to take the excess electricity off their hands.
Remember when people used to talk about how nuclear would bring about a future where power was "too cheap to meter"?
Windows 7 gets free security updates until some time in 2020, according to the linked article. The 2015 date is for desktop support. Plus the Windows 7 embedded manufacturers get 10 years of support after the end-of-lifetime for the OS (not sure when that was).
Operative word here being "manufacturers". The equipment buyers have no direct access to those updates, so if the manufacturer decides they don't want to release the updates to the user, say, because they would rather you buy new equipment every 3-5 years than use the same product for a decade, you wont see those patches.
When the customer asks something that the AI can't do, it will automatically forward the call to a human.
People will hate that, because they feel they will have to start over again from the beginning with explaining why they're calling (even if their long meandering story does not really have a bearing on their situation).
I have the iPhone X, and I stopped using the Ookla app months ago after I discovered that it was giving me incorrectly slow results. When I use the dslreports speed test, I consistently get the speeds I expect to see on any given wifi network; however, the Ookla app shows a much slower speed (consistently) on those same networks.
The app needs to be put out to pasture. It's unnecessary with today's HTML5 browsers. Some ISPs use a carrier-branded Speedtest.net portal for a customer speed test site. These testing sites are nothing more than the speedtest.net site skinned with an ISP logo and color scheme and testing from specific servers. These sites work just fine on mobile browsers while going to speedtest.net will get you blocked and referred to download the app.
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Maybe they should see about relocating their state farther from Alabama.
The lack of disclosed vulnerabilities does not mean vulnerabilities do not exist.
To think "no news is good news" is not that far from "Security through Obscurity".
at least they didn't drop it.
Would it matter if they did? These random numbers have no real effect on what services you can or cannot get. They're just speeds the government says you have to provide to use a specific marketing term in your advertisement. There's plenty of alternative terms that are not being regulated the same way.
Litmus test to tell whether or not Linux is a viable desktop OS:
Me, on phone: "Hey wife, can you log into my laptop and email me a file?" ... :/
Wife: Mmmm
I can understand, I mean the process in Linux would be:
1. Turn on computer.
2. Enter password at login prompt.
3. Open mail client.
4. Open new email compose window.
5. Add attachment.
6. Address email.
7. Click Send
Meanwhile, it's so much different in macOS. You have to:
1. Turn on computer.
2. Enter password at login prompt.
3. Open mail client.
4. Open new email compose window.
5. Add attachment.
6. Address email.
7. Click Send
Bonus: You can have the exact same email client on both platforms -- Thunderbird. Making the process identical even in detailed "here's how you move a mouse" level directions.
Why do they need an SSN in the first place? If I'm completely honest, we have to bear some of the responsibility for these breaches of security by idly allowing any and all personal information to be collected by any old munchkin. An ISP does not need your SSN, date of birth or anything else beyond your address and payment details.
They need your SSN for checking your credit, which is used to determine if you will be required to pay a deposit on your service. Remember that Comcast isn't just an Internet provider, they also sell phone and pay TV service. Service people can run up a pretty penny in post-paid charges on.
If you're about to say "they can't force you to give them your SSN". You're right. But you also can't force them to give you service. They could also agree to give you service only if you pay a huge deposit (which will be held on your account and refunded after a certain number of billing cycles or cancel service, depending on their policies. It's not a legal requirement, it's a de facto one.
I almost think this is better. Allow the search to run, but just show a blank page. Baidu's results give the impression "this is all there is to see, everything is fine". Google giving a blank page says essentially "we can't show you this" (without getting them in hot water by, like, displaying a message stating that). Google isn't breaking any laws because they are not showing any "politically sensitive" pages, but they are making it very obvious something is missing.
I'm curious where this state of "George" is?
Good thing the article isn't paywalled, because I can't imagine people paying Consumer Reports a subscription fee to be told something so damn obvious.
NEC's system is built around an AI engine called NeoFace, which is part of the company's overarching Bio-IDiom line of biometric authentication technology.
Will this system help them verify they have found the One?
Currently, Verizon offers fiber internet with no phone for $40 a month plus $10 for a modem, plus unspecified fees and taxes, so let's say $60, but that's only for 1 year, after which they won't tell you what it costs even in the fine print!
I think my first question would be what a "modem" is in fiber optic service. Terminate to Ethernet and get out of my way.
What the heck do you think representative government is, man?
Something we don't really have -- when the representative is voted in through interference by foreign governments and legitimate citizens denied their right to vote with administrative/clerical tricks.
He is supposed to be making sure we don't let industry ruin our country's land and turn us into a cesspool like certain other areas. Greenhouse gasses and the pollution of the air by automobiles is a very real thing. Reducing efforts to improve the environmental impact of automobiles is contrary to the mission of his department and his reasoning boils down do "Ye-haw! Trucks are awesome!"
With no financial incentive, I guess we'll be seeing a lot fewer of those "best app" apps (yeah, that's not a typo, I mean those apps on the store whose only function is to help the user find more apps they're too lazy to research themselves). Also maybe fewer "Best Apps of 20xx" fluff piece "news" articles on tech sites.
"Cars and trucks are just part of the basic fiber of the American economy and the American experience, so we take what we're doing very, very seriously," Bill Wehrum, EPA assistant administrator, told reporters on Thursday
What does that have to do with your job at the EPA, Wehrum? You're not a cultural ambassador.
This is just "we don't want to have to change, whaaaa!" wrapped in a flag.
Yeah, because I'm sure Microsoft doesn't have their own second CA list built into Windows you can't alter.
Kinda like how you can just block Microsoft's servers in your HOSTS file and it wont just ignore it. Oh wait, they've been doing that since XP.
>The Xperia Compact phones are a bit overpriced for what you get, but they are otherwise very high quality and nice to use. Every other phone I have seen with a ~4.5 inch display is rubbish (assuming you can even find a current year model, as that is getting to be more difficult), and every other decent phone nowadays is ~5.5 or larger.
They're already screwing that up. Did you see the current-year's model? Increasing the screen size in a way nobody wants, increasing the weight, and removing the headphone jack.
Lawmakers in the state Senate have proposed a bill (S2160) that would create an "internet service provider registry" to track whether broadband and wireless providers adhere to policies that keep the internet open and neutral.
Why do they need a registry for a list you can count on one hand?
Remember when people used to talk about how nuclear would bring about a future where power was "too cheap to meter"?
...it's sure to be only a matter of time before the product goes down the drain...
Really? You had the golden opportunity here for an opera pun, and you didn't take it.
R for "Replicant"?
Windows 7 gets free security updates until some time in 2020, according to the linked article. The 2015 date is for desktop support. Plus the Windows 7 embedded manufacturers get 10 years of support after the end-of-lifetime for the OS (not sure when that was).
Operative word here being "manufacturers". The equipment buyers have no direct access to those updates, so if the manufacturer decides they don't want to release the updates to the user, say, because they would rather you buy new equipment every 3-5 years than use the same product for a decade, you wont see those patches.
Probably the same people who named the Large Hadron Collider.
Apple didn't think any of their users would put a heavy workload on their computer, what does that tell you?
That "Pro" is just a dickwaving nameplate, not an indicator of intended market.
People will hate that, because they feel they will have to start over again from the beginning with explaining why they're calling (even if their long meandering story does not really have a bearing on their situation).
The latest Time Capsules were terrible designs anyway -- it was basically impossible to upgrade the HDD.
Being able to easily upgrade your products yourself? That hasn't been the Apple way in years.
I have the iPhone X, and I stopped using the Ookla app months ago after I discovered that it was giving me incorrectly slow results. When I use the dslreports speed test, I consistently get the speeds I expect to see on any given wifi network; however, the Ookla app shows a much slower speed (consistently) on those same networks.
The app needs to be put out to pasture. It's unnecessary with today's HTML5 browsers. Some ISPs use a carrier-branded Speedtest.net portal for a customer speed test site. These testing sites are nothing more than the speedtest.net site skinned with an ISP logo and color scheme and testing from specific servers. These sites work just fine on mobile browsers while going to speedtest.net will get you blocked and referred to download the app.