Modifications to wearable tech wont be restricted to victims' PCs, it will be able to effect them in their Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Will a computer be even necessary? Or will people who don't even own PCs, like cookie-baking Mrs. Field's get a letter some day asking her to send a MoneyPak to some obscure location, lest her pacemaker start having "issues" one Tuesday Morning. Security has been through obscurity for so long with these devices, perhaps now that attacks are imminent we can stop blurring the lines between PCs and prosthetics and get a Sharper Image of where the division should be for devices that can be remotely administered and which ones should need an in-person assist for security reasons. Internet connectivity shouldn't be one of the Staples of the features on implants just because we can make the tech small and low power enough.
Restricting who can take directly from another person's bank account makes sense, but restricting who I can mail a physical money order to?
Please quote where money orders are mentioned in the summary or TFA. The article mentions payment orders, and MoneyGram, neither of which are the same thing as money orders.
You mean 2001? Yet another example of a government using a tragedy as an excuse to grab overreaching powers with little judicial oversight or feedback from citizens?
I thought ISIS's whole thing was recruiting people through social media. Kinda hard to reach the public when you take your propaganda machine into part of the Internet most people don't know even exists.
It's not like GIJoe was any better at inflicting casualties, or even holding onto prisoners.
If anything, it was a huge military-industrial scam, two evenly matched sides, using incredibly expensive weapons, yet completely unable to even kill a few enemy soldiers.
I bet G.I.Joe's defense contractor is also selling weapons to COBRA under the table. All they have to do is change laser color.
What this certainly isn't is an alternative to providing sufficient quantities of decent quality new housing suitable for long-term occupation and family life.
Bingo. That's what this really is about. Building these units will create yet another excuse for employers to not pay salaries high enough for workers to really be able to afford local housing, or for a legal confrontation over building permits (being denied in areas that are short on housing to allow existing property owners to gouge renters). This way, when people complain they can point to these new common arrangements and say "there's an affordable living situation right there -- you guys are just being greedy thinking you deserve to have a place all to yourself".
Sounds horrible...you can't walk out your door a couple blocks, hit up a bar to socialize with other people in your neighborhood, maybe head next door for a pizza, head back to the bar, then stumble home safe and sound without ever having to think about driving a car.
Not to mention the fastest Internet service he can get is probably satellite-based with a low usage cap.
Know what doesn't help anyone? Letting the lying bastards keep being lying bastards without any penalty.
Then the message to the other lying bastards is "it's OK to be a lying bastard, nothing will happen".
This spills over into other things as well. With no penalty, the executives and sales people make lying a way of life for their professions to maintain a level of performance in their jobs. This means it becomes necessary to remain competitive with their peers. So now people who might have been more honest are being forced to join in to keep from being disadvantaged in their careers.
With the new corporate trend that everyone should generating revenue for the company, people who are in non-sales related positions are being pressured into that role (ex: the support staff that now has to try and up-sell customers when they see them) you now have people being forced into lying to meet the performance metrics set by the executives for jobs they never signed up for to begin with.
OTOH many people where I work refer to the E as "The Internet", so not that surprising.
I don't think it's a lack of creativity that caused Microsoft to use an identical looking icon for their new Edge browser. They know there are a lot of illiterate people out there who don't know what "Internet Explorer" is and just double-click the blue E to go online.
I don't update iTunes because the interface from version 11 and up is crap. I can't avoid having to use the newer version on my Macbook unless I want to stop updating OSX, too, since iTunes is a bundled app it gets new versions installed with new versions of OSX. But I'm running Windows 8.1 on my desktop machine and it still runs the much older iTunes 10.7 just fine.
Beretta has publicly complained that the government never formally requested efforts to improve its M9, which the company said is a standard procedure for upgrading platforms. "If you look at the history for a variety of weapons, you'll find all along we'll have used spiral development, product improvement. Where was the requirement they notify prime contractor with an opportunity to fix the problem?" says Howard Yellen, a military adviser for Beretta.
Translation: Why did the army have to open this up for bidding to a new contractor? They should have just called us an let us make a new gun. Wah! Competition!
She's not looking at it that way exactly -- he's graduated college and has a good job, so naturally his mom wants him to immediately get married and start having kids.
...plagued by four vulnerabilities that allow attackers to spoof phone numbers, overbill clients, create DoS (Denial of Service) states on the phone and network, and even obtain free data transfers without being charged.
OH NOES! You can hear those carriers leaping into action when they found out that last part.
Yahoo Mail has been my throwaway email since about forever, and I have no desire for it to be anything other than that.
That's probably half their thinking here -- find a way to get rid of the users who are just using them for a spam account so they have more network resources for the "real" users with email coming in that's worth data-mining.
From what I can tell, most website operators are at the mercy of advertising agencies.
They're only at the mercy of the adverting agencies if their site's primary focus is financial and they create a site that requires that kind of revenue to operate. Remember when people used to host websites because they wanted to?
Attention whore Facebookers caught between their desire to show off their special snowflake with their paranoia that everyone they don't know is a pedophile interested in their kids.
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Modifications to wearable tech wont be restricted to victims' PCs, it will be able to effect them in their Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Will a computer be even necessary? Or will people who don't even own PCs, like cookie-baking Mrs. Field's get a letter some day asking her to send a MoneyPak to some obscure location, lest her pacemaker start having "issues" one Tuesday Morning. Security has been through obscurity for so long with these devices, perhaps now that attacks are imminent we can stop blurring the lines between PCs and prosthetics and get a Sharper Image of where the division should be for devices that can be remotely administered and which ones should need an in-person assist for security reasons. Internet connectivity shouldn't be one of the Staples of the features on implants just because we can make the tech small and low power enough.
1) Companies want the personal data to use for their own marketing and to resell to others, authentication is their excuse to get it now.
2) No one will want to pay a license fee to IBM on top of the loss of revenue from (1).
Restricting who can take directly from another person's bank account makes sense, but restricting who I can mail a physical money order to?
Please quote where money orders are mentioned in the summary or TFA.
The article mentions payment orders, and MoneyGram, neither of which are the same thing as money orders.
You mean 2001? Yet another example of a government using a tragedy as an excuse to grab overreaching powers with little judicial oversight or feedback from citizens?
I thought ISIS's whole thing was recruiting people through social media.
Kinda hard to reach the public when you take your propaganda machine into part of the Internet most people don't know even exists.
It's not like GIJoe was any better at inflicting casualties, or even holding onto prisoners.
If anything, it was a huge military-industrial scam, two evenly matched sides, using incredibly expensive weapons, yet completely unable to even kill a few enemy soldiers.
I bet G.I.Joe's defense contractor is also selling weapons to COBRA under the table. All they have to do is change laser color.
Would you like a review?
What this certainly isn't is an alternative to providing sufficient quantities of decent quality new housing suitable for long-term occupation and family life.
Bingo. That's what this really is about. Building these units will create yet another excuse for employers to not pay salaries high enough for workers to really be able to afford local housing, or for a legal confrontation over building permits (being denied in areas that are short on housing to allow existing property owners to gouge renters). This way, when people complain they can point to these new common arrangements and say "there's an affordable living situation right there -- you guys are just being greedy thinking you deserve to have a place all to yourself".
Sounds horrible...you can't walk out your door a couple blocks, hit up a bar to socialize with other people in your neighborhood, maybe head next door for a pizza, head back to the bar, then stumble home safe and sound without ever having to think about driving a car.
Not to mention the fastest Internet service he can get is probably satellite-based with a low usage cap.
Know what doesn't help anyone? Letting the lying bastards keep being lying bastards without any penalty.
Then the message to the other lying bastards is "it's OK to be a lying bastard, nothing will happen".
This spills over into other things as well. With no penalty, the executives and sales people make lying a way of life for their professions to maintain a level of performance in their jobs. This means it becomes necessary to remain competitive with their peers. So now people who might have been more honest are being forced to join in to keep from being disadvantaged in their careers.
With the new corporate trend that everyone should generating revenue for the company, people who are in non-sales related positions are being pressured into that role (ex: the support staff that now has to try and up-sell customers when they see them) you now have people being forced into lying to meet the performance metrics set by the executives for jobs they never signed up for to begin with.
Another sign Idiocracy is the way we are going: the government feels using cutsy pictograms is an alternative to real sentences.
Just skimmed the paper -- and it's talking about the "10 most common top-level domains" -- not websites.
OTOH many people where I work refer to the E as "The Internet", so not that surprising.
I don't think it's a lack of creativity that caused Microsoft to use an identical looking icon for their new Edge browser. They know there are a lot of illiterate people out there who don't know what "Internet Explorer" is and just double-click the blue E to go online.
I don't update iTunes because the interface from version 11 and up is crap. I can't avoid having to use the newer version on my Macbook unless I want to stop updating OSX, too, since iTunes is a bundled app it gets new versions installed with new versions of OSX. But I'm running Windows 8.1 on my desktop machine and it still runs the much older iTunes 10.7 just fine.
I guess the only thing more obvious than a U.S. politician is a Mexican politician.
How is the Mexican more apparent?
Or are you just oblivious spelling?
One thing that's obvious: You posted this comment on the wrong story.
Everyone already knows that. Look at how people but up with invasive security/safety procedures under the threat of being placed on a No-Fly list.
Translation: Why did the army have to open this up for bidding to a new contractor? They should have just called us an let us make a new gun. Wah! Competition!
I'm sure we can find a person in another country to make comments as an AC for cheaper than you, too.
She's not looking at it that way exactly -- he's graduated college and has a good job, so naturally his mom wants him to immediately get married and start having kids.
...plagued by four vulnerabilities that allow attackers to spoof phone numbers, overbill clients, create DoS (Denial of Service) states on the phone and network, and even obtain free data transfers without being charged.
OH NOES! You can hear those carriers leaping into action when they found out that last part.
Yahoo Mail has been my throwaway email since about forever, and I have no desire for it to be anything other than that.
That's probably half their thinking here -- find a way to get rid of the users who are just using them for a spam account so they have more network resources for the "real" users with email coming in that's worth data-mining.
You haven't had a reason to visit Yahoo for awhile if you can set up an IMAP client.
You can switch to a new phone number by answering the security questions.
You'd be surprised how many people can't answer the security questions they set up themselves.
From what I can tell, most website operators are at the mercy of advertising agencies.
They're only at the mercy of the adverting agencies if their site's primary focus is financial and they create a site that requires that kind of revenue to operate.
Remember when people used to host websites because they wanted to?
This should be fun.
Attention whore Facebookers caught between their desire to show off their special snowflake with their paranoia that everyone they don't know is a pedophile interested in their kids.