The work shows how easy it is to track the movement of large numbers of people with current technology--assuming they are willing to allow their data to be used in this way.
And the ones who aren't? Well, we'll track them, too! One way or another.
The advertising features will be stripped out, much like the Social plug crap was removed. If Firefox dies because of "righteous indignation" then why does that mean Pale Moon has to go? It's open source. Pale Moon will simply become a fork/continuation of Firefox, much like Firefox was originally a continuation of the end of Netscape Navigator.
I'm pretty sure ISPs can't hijack people's copyrights just because they transmit the data.
Yeah, that would be like a photo sharing site saying they have permission to use your copyrighted photos for their own promotional purposes since you agreed to the TOS for their site.
Notice they add the new advertising features yesterday and then make the things people want (official 64-bit support, better performance) a future version feature. Gotta take your medicine before you get candy.
The problem is that even if the IT people are competent they have to be MORE competent than everyone who can attack them. Why does everything have to be connected to the Internet?
Because there is always someone who thinks they need to be able to access the system from wherever they are in the world. Either a big-wig who wants access to data, or an IT person who wants to be able to work on system issues from his home when things happen in the middle of the night.
Security suffers at the hands of the human penchant for laziness.
Why are government employees web surfing. Don't the have anything better to do?
Don't you love it when people complain about government workers/contractors doing non-work related activities, but then they turn around and complain about their own boss treating them like a machine and expecting them to be productive every minute they're on the clock?
Everyone who wants A La Carte, well, this is what happens when channels have to compete for your attention rather than being able to specialize because they were included as part of a bundle.
I don't understand how you can hold up Discovery/TLC as an example of the problem with A La Carte programming, instead of being part of a bundle, because... that's exactly how the system is now. TLC and Discovery are both "basic cable" channels, and are bundled, along with MTV, Comedy Central, Food Network, etc. Yet, despite being in this bundling where they should be able to continue their educational lineup, subsidized by other more popular stations, they too are being changed in content and degrading in quality.
How does this show that the bundling method is better than a la carte?
All it shows is the continuation of the same scam they pulled with ESPN. 1. Take a root channel (ESPN) 2. Dumb down/degrade the content to the point customers are not satisified with it anymore (showing lots of reruns is a good way to do this). 3. Offer a new channel of the same genre (or multiples: ESPN Classic, ESPN2, etc) with the type of content the customer does want (and likely used to get on the original station) as a new higher-tier service. 4. Make the original station a prerequisite to get the new channel(s). 5. Profit. You now have the customer paying more for what they used to get with the old channel.
Is the code is not open to independent review (as few of them are), is there any reason to trust the other listings? After all, we're trusting that when the maker says the software does not send messages in a way were they can intercept them, it's true, but we don't really know that to be the case.
Apple taught everyone that it's much more profitable to included cheap, on-board memory at a premium price.
That's a lesson that none of the manufacturers appear to have learned, seeing as there are no flagship Android devices that are even sold with more than 32GB of onboard storage.
You almost phrase that like it's a bad thing. If anything needs to change, it's that Apple needs to just add a damn SD card slot on the device so people can upgrade their own storage.
I can only hope this is actually implemented transparently. Having to choose (and pay for) all the memory you'll ever use the day you buy your phone is ridiculous...
Our basic premise is that the current "industrial" model of IT hiring/management -- treating IT engineers like cogs or components -- is fundamentally flawed, and that a model based on professional sports teams would likely work much better.
That's nice. Let me know when you start getting a large number of companies agreeing with you. Part of the whole "keeping down the rank and file" in the wage category is making them believe they are easily replaceable cogs.
With an active CPU behind it, certainly this system can be more secure than the current card system.
Which means little unless they disable the old system. Much like changing the design of currency to thwart counterfeiters is worthless unless you devalue bills with the old design. The chain of security is only as strong as its weakest link.
I agree, it is a bit silly. The problem is freeze128 is under the impression the police are after financial history information when they do civil forfeiture. They aren't. They only take cash because they assume you'd only carry such a large sum for use in something illegal, making the money itself evidence. But the cash can't really tell them what it was used for (unless it's marked, or logged in a ledger in evidence already in a very precise amount that matches what they find).
What happens for me is the video seems to hang on loading, then I get the fake-analog-static with "an error has occurred" message. Refreshing the page allows the video to play normally, but I think I have to wait a short period of time (like the length of time an ad would take to play) before I refresh. This doesn't happen on every video but it has started happening more and more often the last six months.
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The shooter will just go to a different school.
The parents of the kids in the original school think that's a fine result.
At which point you're saying your kids have zero right to privacy, and are expected to be monitored the entire time they're in school.
Why would you expect to have privacy at a public school building?
The work shows how easy it is to track the movement of large numbers of people with current technology--assuming they are willing to allow their data to be used in this way.
And the ones who aren't? Well, we'll track them, too! One way or another.
The advertising features will be stripped out, much like the Social plug crap was removed.
If Firefox dies because of "righteous indignation" then why does that mean Pale Moon has to go? It's open source. Pale Moon will simply become a fork/continuation of Firefox, much like Firefox was originally a continuation of the end of Netscape Navigator.
Do the producers of Cops get releases from all the people they film?
That's 100% for commercial purposes.
I'm pretty sure ISPs can't hijack people's copyrights just because they transmit the data.
Yeah, that would be like a photo sharing site saying they have permission to use your copyrighted photos for their own promotional purposes since you agreed to the TOS for their site.
Oh, wait...
Notice they add the new advertising features yesterday and then make the things people want (official 64-bit support, better performance) a future version feature.
Gotta take your medicine before you get candy.
...and stay with Pale Moon.
At the very least I'm disabling automatic updates on Firefox.
The problem is that even if the IT people are competent they have to be MORE competent than everyone who can attack them. Why does everything have to be connected to the Internet?
Because there is always someone who thinks they need to be able to access the system from wherever they are in the world. Either a big-wig who wants access to data, or an IT person who wants to be able to work on system issues from his home when things happen in the middle of the night.
Security suffers at the hands of the human penchant for laziness.
Why are government employees web surfing. Don't the have anything better to do?
Don't you love it when people complain about government workers/contractors doing non-work related activities, but then they turn around and complain about their own boss treating them like a machine and expecting them to be productive every minute they're on the clock?
Everyone who wants A La Carte, well, this is what happens when channels have to compete for your attention rather than being able to specialize because they were included as part of a bundle.
I don't understand how you can hold up Discovery/TLC as an example of the problem with A La Carte programming, instead of being part of a bundle, because... that's exactly how the system is now. TLC and Discovery are both "basic cable" channels, and are bundled, along with MTV, Comedy Central, Food Network, etc. Yet, despite being in this bundling where they should be able to continue their educational lineup, subsidized by other more popular stations, they too are being changed in content and degrading in quality.
How does this show that the bundling method is better than a la carte?
All it shows is the continuation of the same scam they pulled with ESPN.
1. Take a root channel (ESPN)
2. Dumb down/degrade the content to the point customers are not satisified with it anymore (showing lots of reruns is a good way to do this).
3. Offer a new channel of the same genre (or multiples: ESPN Classic, ESPN2, etc) with the type of content the customer does want (and likely used to get on the original station) as a new higher-tier service.
4. Make the original station a prerequisite to get the new channel(s).
5. Profit. You now have the customer paying more for what they used to get with the old channel.
You are aware the measurements of that wood are in inches right?
We milk the cash cow...oh, and Force Force something.
That's the next movie's title.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Force is Forced
I'm not entirely sure, but one of them just pooped on your lawn and then told five of his friends about it.
But you can stop them with this one weird trick...
than watching Slashdot get devoured by BETA.
Well it certainly lured us in.
Is the code is not open to independent review (as few of them are), is there any reason to trust the other listings? After all, we're trusting that when the maker says the software does not send messages in a way were they can intercept them, it's true, but we don't really know that to be the case.
Apple taught everyone that it's much more profitable to included cheap, on-board memory at a premium price.
That's a lesson that none of the manufacturers appear to have learned, seeing as there are no flagship Android devices that are even sold with more than 32GB of onboard storage.
You almost phrase that like it's a bad thing. If anything needs to change, it's that Apple needs to just add a damn SD card slot on the device so people can upgrade their own storage.
I can only hope this is actually implemented transparently. Having to choose (and pay for) all the memory you'll ever use the day you buy your phone is ridiculous...
Yes, it will be like owning an iPhone.
Our basic premise is that the current "industrial" model of IT hiring/management -- treating IT engineers like cogs or components -- is fundamentally flawed, and that a model based on professional sports teams would likely work much better.
That's nice. Let me know when you start getting a large number of companies agreeing with you. Part of the whole "keeping down the rank and file" in the wage category is making them believe they are easily replaceable cogs.
With an active CPU behind it, certainly this system can be more secure than the current card system.
Which means little unless they disable the old system. Much like changing the design of currency to thwart counterfeiters is worthless unless you devalue bills with the old design. The chain of security is only as strong as its weakest link.
Seriously. I'd be shocked if most fast food workers were women at all, let alone a subset of them.
This discussion is kind of silly.
I agree, it is a bit silly. The problem is freeze128 is under the impression the police are after financial history information when they do civil forfeiture. They aren't. They only take cash because they assume you'd only carry such a large sum for use in something illegal, making the money itself evidence. But the cash can't really tell them what it was used for (unless it's marked, or logged in a ledger in evidence already in a very precise amount that matches what they find).
What happens for me is the video seems to hang on loading, then I get the fake-analog-static with "an error has occurred" message. Refreshing the page allows the video to play normally, but I think I have to wait a short period of time (like the length of time an ad would take to play) before I refresh. This doesn't happen on every video but it has started happening more and more often the last six months.
Any hacker group that relies on the same malware code on their hacking, for 6 year straight, deserves no respect
Aren't they just being efficient. If it ain't broke, don't fix it?