People don't care about privacy, not until it's the "creepy" guy staring at them instead of the average guy.
Lots of things are subjective like that when they shouldn't be. Like how sexual harassment is only a problem at work when it's the janitor or some geeky engineer, but women are okay with it when it's some hunky co-worker. It's inappropriate regardless of who's doing it, though.
That's the next thing that will happen. Hobbyists and schools unable to experiment with those micro-satellites because suddenly you're required to get insurance for your satellite -- in case it goes off-orbit or otherwise and ends up damaging some expensive telecom satellite.
There was a Glad trash bag advertisement back in the 80's where astronauts were spacewalking to bag up floating space junk. I remember one part where the voiceover goes "...and even the neighbors' bulky junk" while the astronaut puts a comically-oversize bolt with the hammer & sickle stamped on the end into the Glad bag.
Whenever these stories appear I'm reminded of that commercial. Even moreso when two of the three examples of collisions are caused by Russian debris. I've been unsuccessful in locating it on YouTube despite all the (old, not-famous) ads people have uploaded there.
That's why business plans are more expensive than residential plans; you are effectively funding the ISP to provide you with guaranteed capacity.
Having worked for several ISPs you'll be surprised how often "business" internet service has no real guarantees, either. Generally the only difference between it and the residential service are...
1) some ports are not longer blocked, 2) you're no longer prohibited from running a server, and 3) you're not consider in violation of the TOS for "reselling" the connection if you let your business patrons use it.
And it's more expensive than residential service too, of course. But speed and uptime are still "best effort" affairs. You might get a higher priority on service issues with some, but there will be no guarantee on repair timeframe still.
Also some of them have restrictions on what kind of service you can purchase based on your address (i.e.: This is a commercial property, you can only buy business plans for this location regardless of your intended usage).
My point is they're using ballistics testing to claim the 3D printable gun should be banned -- like they're doing it as a safety concern, when there's plenty of other items that can make a deadly "gun" if used improperly.
You don't need to go 17 cm deep to kill someone. In fact, that's enough to go through some people completely. A lower-powered 3D printable gun could be deadly, too. And why stop at guns when there are items that don't require a license to buy if this is really about safety.
The two guns were test fired into a block of resin designed to simulate human muscle, and the first bullet penetrated the resin block up to 17 centimeters. NSW Police Ballistics division confirm that it would be a fatal wound if pointed at someone.
I wonder how far a nailgun can shoot a nail into the resin...
When do the NSW police plan to start their backgound checks on construction workers and require a license to visit a hardware store?
...You're dealing with human beings, and human beings make mistakes.
That's why.
Let's not assign to incompetence that which may simply be apathy. For personally identifiable information that is non-sensitive, is there any reason they should care about taking measures to secure it (especially when it's not their own)?
"...as they create a contact bridge between two points when they get electrocuted they release an alarm pheromone," says UT research assistant Edward LeBrun. "The other ants are attracted to the chemicals that other ants give off," he adds.
What kind of survival mechanism is that? "Oh! There's danger over there. Let's all go check it out..."
Because they want to catch all those people who weren't tricked into getting Microsoft accounts by the original Windows 8 installer and saw that they could in fact just choose a "local account" and not have something quite so easy for Microsoft to datamine.
i see this story as being a GOOD thing, generally speaking. the feds are stumped by my iphone. now the only people we need to cockblock are in cupertino...
No, I'd say this is a bad thing. A back log of getting these requests fulfilled will only be used as justification for there to be a regular law-enforcement back door built into a later version of iOS. "This process is taking too long and Apple is being burdened with fulfilling these requests, if only we had a way of accessing an iPhone ourselves without needing their assistance it would make things easier for all parties when investigating terrorism and child pornography..."
Hopefully it's not a password you have used anywhere else.
These people definitely have a copy of the old database, and thus salted password hashes. Anyone logging in right now is also providing their clear-text password and confirmation if it is the correct password, as well as their IP.
As it was pointed out in the TorrentFreak article comments, you could always choose to pretend you've forgotten your password and have Demonoid reset it. That provides no confirmation the password they had was correct. The password they have would only be useful on other sites that also use one's email address for username, and honestly anyone not using a spam or otherwise not-their-normal email address for registration for this kind of thing deserves to get hacked for their stupidity.
So the Demonoid that was distributing malware was not a fake... so the admins really were sending malicious code to people in an effort to "bring a community back to together"?
imagine Microsoft started going around to every business running Windows/Exchange, saying, "Hey, we deserve some of your profits. You're using our products to make money, and it's totally unfair that we don't get a cut." That'd be ridiculous,right? Microsoft offered a product, and you bought it according to their terms. If you think they deserve a percentage simply because you use their product to make money, then where does it end? Why can't 3M come after you for a percentage because you use post-its.
Well they did do something analogous to this when they were doing site licensing. I don't know if they still get away with the practice but at one time they charged a per desktop license fee. Not a per installed copy mind you...they quite literally charged per machine on the premises and it did not matter if it was running a MS product or not.
That's not the same as it only references in-business usage. This would be like Microsoft asking for a percentage of quarterly revenue from your company simply because everyone is using Outlook/Exchange justifying it as the email service helped facilitate business.
Or how about the Ford company asking a taxi fleet for a cut of the per-mile rate because the vehicles are all Ford made, ignoring that the vehicles were all purchased paid in full by the company already.
Yes, and like any product when demand exceeds supply you would then invest in your company to increase your ability to fulfill it. It's called "business is going well -- we're expanding".
Honestly, Windows 8 is pretty snazzy once you put a start menu on there like Start8 or something. I personally don't like the Classic Shell free ones, but for $5 Start8 is pretty awesome.
What's the difference between the Start8's Start menu and Classic Shell's? Classic Shell can imitate different Windows Start menu styles and you can go in and add/remove/change items individually from the menu.
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So here's a video on the Internet of WeVideo editing videos you upload to the Internet, so you can edit your videos and upload your upload.
People don't care about privacy, not until it's the "creepy" guy staring at them instead of the average guy.
Lots of things are subjective like that when they shouldn't be. Like how sexual harassment is only a problem at work when it's the janitor or some geeky engineer, but women are okay with it when it's some hunky co-worker. It's inappropriate regardless of who's doing it, though.
Educated people wouldn't use GoDaddy anyway.
Wrong form of "its".
At least they didn't try to add an apostrophe after the U in "APUs".
Shhhhhh! Don't give them any ideas.
That's the next thing that will happen. Hobbyists and schools unable to experiment with those micro-satellites because suddenly you're required to get insurance for your satellite -- in case it goes off-orbit or otherwise and ends up damaging some expensive telecom satellite.
There was a Glad trash bag advertisement back in the 80's where astronauts were spacewalking to bag up floating space junk. I remember one part where the voiceover goes "...and even the neighbors' bulky junk" while the astronaut puts a comically-oversize bolt with the hammer & sickle stamped on the end into the Glad bag.
Whenever these stories appear I'm reminded of that commercial. Even moreso when two of the three examples of collisions are caused by Russian debris. I've been unsuccessful in locating it on YouTube despite all the (old, not-famous) ads people have uploaded there.
That's why business plans are more expensive than residential plans; you are effectively funding the ISP to provide you with guaranteed capacity.
Having worked for several ISPs you'll be surprised how often "business" internet service has no real guarantees, either. Generally the only difference between it and the residential service are...
1) some ports are not longer blocked,
2) you're no longer prohibited from running a server, and
3) you're not consider in violation of the TOS for "reselling" the connection if you let your business patrons use it.
And it's more expensive than residential service too, of course. But speed and uptime are still "best effort" affairs. You might get a higher priority on service issues with some, but there will be no guarantee on repair timeframe still.
Also some of them have restrictions on what kind of service you can purchase based on your address (i.e.: This is a commercial property, you can only buy business plans for this location regardless of your intended usage).
Muscle is a bit softer than wood boards.
My point is they're using ballistics testing to claim the 3D printable gun should be banned -- like they're doing it as a safety concern, when there's plenty of other items that can make a deadly "gun" if used improperly.
You don't need to go 17 cm deep to kill someone. In fact, that's enough to go through some people completely.
A lower-powered 3D printable gun could be deadly, too. And why stop at guns when there are items that don't require a license to buy if this is really about safety.
I wonder how far a nailgun can shoot a nail into the resin...
When do the NSW police plan to start their backgound checks on construction workers and require a license to visit a hardware store?
...You're dealing with human beings, and human beings make mistakes.
That's why.
Let's not assign to incompetence that which may simply be apathy.
For personally identifiable information that is non-sensitive, is there any reason they should care about taking measures to secure it (especially when it's not their own)?
"...as they create a contact bridge between two points when they get electrocuted they release an alarm pheromone," says UT research assistant Edward LeBrun. "The other ants are attracted to the chemicals that other ants give off," he adds.
What kind of survival mechanism is that? "Oh! There's danger over there. Let's all go check it out..."
Do you know what a CEO is?
Now consider that this site has a heavy IT focus...
>that sounds like a big enterprise trun off to need a MS account to get all your updates.
You're right. Maybe we'll get an actual separate download that doesn't require a Microsoft Account for Win8 Pro then (which is what I'm running).
Because they want to catch all those people who weren't tricked into getting Microsoft accounts by the original Windows 8 installer and saw that they could in fact just choose a "local account" and not have something quite so easy for Microsoft to datamine.
I think you're confusing 1700 mhz with 700 mhz .
i see this story as being a GOOD thing, generally speaking. the feds are stumped by my iphone. now the only people we need to cockblock are in cupertino...
No, I'd say this is a bad thing. A back log of getting these requests fulfilled will only be used as justification for there to be a regular law-enforcement back door built into a later version of iOS. "This process is taking too long and Apple is being burdened with fulfilling these requests, if only we had a way of accessing an iPhone ourselves without needing their assistance it would make things easier for all parties when investigating terrorism and child pornography..."
What about our right to bear ARMs?
Unfortunately, on the street bear ARMs lead to bear hugs from shady people now.
Hopefully it's not a password you have used anywhere else.
These people definitely have a copy of the old database, and thus salted password hashes.
Anyone logging in right now is also providing their clear-text password and confirmation if it is the correct password, as well as their IP.
As it was pointed out in the TorrentFreak article comments, you could always choose to pretend you've forgotten your password and have Demonoid reset it. That provides no confirmation the password they had was correct. The password they have would only be useful on other sites that also use one's email address for username, and honestly anyone not using a spam or otherwise not-their-normal email address for registration for this kind of thing deserves to get hacked for their stupidity.
So the Demonoid that was distributing malware was not a fake... so the admins really were sending malicious code to people in an effort to "bring a community back to together"?
And now they want people to trust them?
Bah, the tempo on that performance is weird. Try this.
imagine Microsoft started going around to every business running Windows/Exchange, saying, "Hey, we deserve some of your profits. You're using our products to make money, and it's totally unfair that we don't get a cut." That'd be ridiculous,right? Microsoft offered a product, and you bought it according to their terms. If you think they deserve a percentage simply because you use their product to make money, then where does it end? Why can't 3M come after you for a percentage because you use post-its.
Well they did do something analogous to this when they were doing site licensing. I don't know if they still get away with the practice but at one time they charged a per desktop license fee. Not a per installed copy mind you...they quite literally charged per machine on the premises and it did not matter if it was running a MS product or not.
That's not the same as it only references in-business usage. This would be like Microsoft asking for a percentage of quarterly revenue from your company simply because everyone is using Outlook/Exchange justifying it as the email service helped facilitate business.
Or how about the Ford company asking a taxi fleet for a cut of the per-mile rate because the vehicles are all Ford made, ignoring that the vehicles were all purchased paid in full by the company already.
ISPs only have so much capacity to sell though.
Yes, and like any product when demand exceeds supply you would then invest in your company to increase your ability to fulfill it. It's called "business is going well -- we're expanding".
I can whistle and get a sandwich, now that I'm married.
Sometimes I have to added "sudo" before it, though.
Honestly, Windows 8 is pretty snazzy once you put a start menu on there like Start8 or something. I personally don't like the Classic Shell free ones, but for $5 Start8 is pretty awesome.
What's the difference between the Start8's Start menu and Classic Shell's? Classic Shell can imitate different Windows Start menu styles and you can go in and add/remove/change items individually from the menu.