That sucks, clearly a well planned theft by someone in the know. Did you not have 2FA enabled on your Gmail? I personally use their Authenticator app.
Having at one point in my life having done customer service for World of Warcraft, I cannot recommend enough that everyone use Authenticator options wherever available for online accounts, especially high value ones such as Gmail. While in your case it was clearly someone based at the school, in general there is a enormous industry in the business of compromising accounts of all types.
If Mondelez had simply kept reasonably upto date with Windows Updates, the damage would have been highly limited, or possibly non-existent. The fact that they claimed damages of $100M means that countless computers were not upto allowing the malware to infect them over their network.
I hope Zurich wins, because in the same way that insurance companies are not expected to pay out for accidents as a result of a clearly unroadworthy automobile, insurance companies should not be expected to pay out for damages due to grossly negligent IT practices.
Your average large merchant doesn't "pay" for the fraud, instead they pass the cost onto their honest customers. Rather than big merchants paying out their profits, they instead charge every honest customer a few cents extra to cover the fraud costs and maintain their same profits.
The little independent merchants do unfortunately suffer, as they're not the ones with the clout to improve the situation or the market share to have their honest customers cover the cost.
Newer versions of Microsoft's RDP protocols are very advanced and performant. On my iPhone 6S running Microsoft's RDP client and connecting to my Windows 10 Pro computer over LTE, I get almost completely smooth video experience watching YouTube on Chrome.
As someone who worked as a Blizzard Europe Customer Service Agent many years ago, I can believe this.
On some Swedish forum some "clever" kid posted a "hack" which would let you get anything you wanted on your WoW account for free, the advertised process was something like:
- Change your account's country to a particular EU state.
- Change your billing type to some direct debit system.
- Enter bullshit details.
- Buy what you want, and it works.
Except what they didn't realize is that when the end of month batch would run in a few weeks, the system automatically suspended any service with "invalid" details. If you purchased game time, your account would be frozen, if you purchased something like a realm or faction change, that particular character would be "locked" from play, all until the "bounced" payments were reimbursed to Blizzard.
Now, any intelligent person would instantly avoid this due to it literally being fraud. However, due to the weeks delay due to the nature of this billing system, many naive kids racked up a significant amount of "bounced" transactions which largely locked them out of most of their characters which had realm changes even after they fixed their game time.
This made for a very difficult couple of months for support staff with many kids literally crying that Blizzard "set them up", lulling them into a false sense of security. The truth of the matter is that this is just the nature of that payment method, legitimate users of it never knowingly let anything ever bounce because it was common practice for merchants to blacklist that payment method to anyone whose payment bounces, Blizzard being no exception. It's a really crappy system from the point of view of the merchants, but it was (probably still is) a very popular system in those countries and presumably works very well overall for subscription services.
Due to this, Blizzard locked customers from being able to change their account's countries after this except through customer service with documentation proving your new physical address.
Moral of the story, if you're stupid enough to commit fraud in the first place, don't do it for services where you have something to lose.
You're right about the exclusivity issue, but what you quoted from the parent post was highly inaccurate in their quoted prices, see my comment here: https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
As someone actually living in South Africa, why on earth would you mention a specific country in your argument to make yourself not only factually wrong in this case, but also appearing highly misinformed?
Cost of movies in South Africa (Logan as an example, as per https://www.takealot.com/all?q...):
USD 10,08 (incl tax) - DVD (at supposed 18% discount, converted from ZAR 129)
USD 13,20 (incl tax) - BluRay (at supposed 22% discount, converted from ZAR 169)
USD 27,26 (incl tax) - 4k (at supposed 18% discount, converted from ZAR 349)
The only $2 price I have ever seen are maybe bargain bins for older movies, or dodgy pirated DVDs sold by street vendors (which I haven't seen in a few years now actually).
Netflix (now offered here), is charged in USD, at exact same rate as in the US, however, thanks to exclusivity bullshit by local network here, some shows like House of Cards are not available on it.
Based on comments I see on Slashdot, it seems that many people assume that regionalisation and geoblocking of online services is just so that the same thing can be sold "cheaper" in certain markets. Sometimes that's true, for example, I used to work for Blizzard EU CS, and they deliberately isolated Russian servers as they paid lower monthly subs. However, in most non-third world countries, like Australia/NZ, Western Europe and South Africa (not technically 1st world, but for a lot of consumers here, it kind of is), the reason for regionalisation is a legacy of before the internet, where companies got exclusivity arrangements on media from the overseas publishers.
Before the internet, there was value to having these middlemen who made their money by importing media and making it available. With the advent of legal media distribution over the internet they realised they were becoming obsolete, so they used their pre-existing legal arrangements to prevent publishers from selling direct to consumers in their markets, forcing those markets to still pay them a cut. To summarise, these days consumers in all markets outside of the original publisher's, are essentially paying a kind of "tax" to shmucks from these "distribution" companies for essentially doing nothing.
As you can see above, we here do not really pay less, but also annoyingly, we also get less content available as local distributors often can't be arsed to make some content available here, or the content we get is delayed. Hence people use geoblocking circumvention services such as VPNs to to get around this complete bullshit.
As a final comment, when us South Africans see comments like yours, it reinforces our belief that most Americans don't really know anything outside of their own country.
What a poor comparison, 640K maximum was a software limitation, and then as hardware evolved over about 10 years, the software started to hold back capabilities of newer hardware, the old hardware from the time the software was built, would still worked have worked fine. And also be aware that what you're quoting is made up.
At one point 640K was "enough", then quite a while later it wasn't. While undoubtedly 50Mb/s will at some point be "too slow", in the meantime for almost all of today's smartphone needs, and almost certainly for the typical lifetime any 2017 smartphone, it's plenty.
This. Unless you're using your phone as a modem on your computer, the current 50Mb/s speed plus is more than adequate, especially with many networks having stupidly expensive data costs.
I just posted the same question. I have been using Pro version at home since Win10's release and also on my work laptop for about 6 months now. I have never seen these adverts. At home it did auto install a little crap from the store, but after uninstalling those particular apps, they never came back. I purposefully bought Windows 7 Pro for my home machine as I make good use of the remote desktop feature.
I run Windows 10 Professional on both my personal machine at home (I use remote desktop pretty often) and work machine, and I have never seen these adverts. Is it a home edition "feature" only?
You should check out Git LFS (large file storage). It's an extension which only stores references in the Git repo, and then fetches the actual large file off a web server on checkout. It was built for games with large amounts of assets. https://git-lfs.github.com/
Stupid mobile website, was too easy to submit by mistake, but you get the idea. I was just going to add that having an extra device is inconvenient and battery inefficient.
Here in South Africa, (most, if not all) the networks offer very cost effective cost per GB SIM cards, but they can't be used for voice or SMSes. So as an iPhone user, I can't get decent data rates unless I am willing to carry around a separate device with one of these SIM cards which shares its data over a wifi. Which is inco
It's called "Find My Friends" on iOS, you can share your location temporarily which is great for when you are travelling with friends. I have it permanently enabled with my brothers, easier than having to phone/message them to find out how far away they are when we meet up.
Otherwise, while I wouldn't enable it until a relationship becomes serious, my girlfriend (of 3 years now) and I have had it permanently enabled with each other since we moved in together. It's very good for peace of mind and was especially useful when she was unfortunately involved in a serious car accident as I was able to locate her very quickly.
Considering that iOS has a reputation for generally lagging behind Android in features, I'm quite surprised this has only now arrived on Android when Apple has had it for years.
Of course if you value your privacy greatly, steer clear, I'm not worried, but each to their own I guess.
I found it very useful about 8 years ago, before smartphones with messaging apps became so ubiquitous. I lived in France for a bit, then Ireland a little later and had a long distance relationship with a girl in Turkey. Using Skype to send the SMSes to her phone was considerably cheaper. Once I moved to Ireland, I got a cellphone contract which included "free skype to skype" and I could call her for free, just using my Skype credit. It was just a cheap feature phone, but the phone software somehow instructed the cellphone network to "call me" and then route the call over Skype from their network.
I haven't needed Skype credit in quite while now, I met a different girl ultimately who was local, but still have a little credit on my account.
I get the feeling from SyFy in the last few years, particularly with 12 Monkeys, that they seem to focus on using "safe" formulas for their shows, they try appeal to science fiction fans with the core premise of the show, but also try to keep the show appealing enough for more mainstream viewers.
10 years ago when we had the Stargate franchise and Battelstar Galactica, things were pretty cool on SciFi, but they followed those up with Warehouse 13 and then later 12 Monkeys which are entertaining enough, but not the same kind of cool science fiction in my opinion.
I haven't read the book (which I now plan to rectify soon), but my gut feeling based on how things have been recently, is that the SyFy TV show will likely just be "okay", but watchable enough.
Most people are looking for "facts" that validate their preconceived opinions. They tend to selectively read articles which have headlines for topics they already have an opinion on, if the article is in conflict with that opinion, they dismiss the article as rubbish, or perhaps comment on it to that effect. If the article is in line with their opinion, they share it proudly with all their social media friends as a proclamation on how "right" their opinions are, regardless of the factual accuracy of the article. It's particularly amusing when it's apparent they have only skimmed the article looking for a choice quote to validate their opinion, while the article on the whole is actually in disagreement with their opinion.
You may be an excellent and perfectly competent developer in your day to day job, but by not knowing (at least certain) terminology for your field, you are lacking a certain degree of professionalism and are certainly restricting yourself in the broader field as you are lacking the ability to effectively converse with others in it.
All different fields have their own set of terminology and at some level it is arbitrary as to what things are called, but when it comes to communicating with others, it is absolutely essential that you all use the same terms for things. When people aren't familiar with standardised terminology for their field, at best they battle a bit when it comes to communication, at worst it leads to a misunderstanding and the wrong thing being done.
Even if your methodologies are exemplary, it is for nought if you are applying the wrong ones simply due to a misunderstanding of what was asked.
My girlfriend is in the process of acquiring a project management certification (PRINCE2) and while part of the certification covers methodologies, an arguably more important aspect of it is the terminology, in particular, the names of different roles that people are assigned to on projects. This is important because she works in a consulting firm and all their big clients expect the consultants to be familiar with these names of roles so that in client meetings, the client could just mention a role name, and everyone in the room will already be on the same page as to the responsibilities and expectations of any person with that role.
At one of my previous jobs, developers were given training on and are expected to at least know the following above and beyond "knowing how to program in general":
- GOF Design Patterns (at least their intent and how they conceptually solve a given problem)
- OO Terminology
- Data Structure Names and what kinds of problems they are appropriate for
And other stuff of course. It of course helped us day to day solving problems, but I imagine that it also helped all of us more readily absorb information at conferences too.
Along with CPanel, I enabled HTTPS on my little website in seconds, it was truly painless. While my website stores nothing of significant value (Minecraft schematic files), it does have a login form and I sleep better knowing login credentials cannot be intercepted anymore.
Since you don't actually know me, you can be forgiven for your complete ignorance into the irony of your assertions.
I started off my career as a computer technician but self taught myself to become the professional software developer that I am today.
Believe it or not it, it was in no small part thanks to Slashdot and by my doing research on technologies mentioned in articles featured here.
So while some people like to sit and moan as AC on Slashdot, I use it as one of many sources to keep a pulse on what is happening in my industry. If I read about something I haven't heard of before, I research it to at least understand the problem it's trying to solve and to be able to keep it in mind for the future in case I encounter a problem for which it may be an appropriate solution.
Perhaps I was a bit harsh, or fed a troll, but the comment I replied to was either genuinely trolling or otherwise deserves to be called out on its apathetic nature.
As a side note, I do not generally work on web front ends and haven't really worked with Angular, I just know of it as it's immensely popular.
Any half competent person in front end web development knows what it is, if you're not in that segment of the software development industry, then it is likely that it is of absolutely no interest to you, in which case feel free to move onto the next story.
If you're interested in making yourself more generally knowledgeable and finding out more about Angular, Google it, assuming you know what Google is.
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That sucks, clearly a well planned theft by someone in the know. Did you not have 2FA enabled on your Gmail? I personally use their Authenticator app.
Having at one point in my life having done customer service for World of Warcraft, I cannot recommend enough that everyone use Authenticator options wherever available for online accounts, especially high value ones such as Gmail. While in your case it was clearly someone based at the school, in general there is a enormous industry in the business of compromising accounts of all types.
Thank you for the clarity on the grounds of denial, knowing this I now have the same feelings as you on the matter.
NotPetya largely used EternalBlue to exploit unpatched Windows computers.
If Mondelez had simply kept reasonably upto date with Windows Updates, the damage would have been highly limited, or possibly non-existent. The fact that they claimed damages of $100M means that countless computers were not upto allowing the malware to infect them over their network.
I hope Zurich wins, because in the same way that insurance companies are not expected to pay out for accidents as a result of a clearly unroadworthy automobile, insurance companies should not be expected to pay out for damages due to grossly negligent IT practices.
Your average large merchant doesn't "pay" for the fraud, instead they pass the cost onto their honest customers. Rather than big merchants paying out their profits, they instead charge every honest customer a few cents extra to cover the fraud costs and maintain their same profits.
The little independent merchants do unfortunately suffer, as they're not the ones with the clout to improve the situation or the market share to have their honest customers cover the cost.
Newer versions of Microsoft's RDP protocols are very advanced and performant. On my iPhone 6S running Microsoft's RDP client and connecting to my Windows 10 Pro computer over LTE, I get almost completely smooth video experience watching YouTube on Chrome.
See below for more insight into their more recent improvements:
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/01/11/remote-desktop-protocol-rdp-10-avch-264-improvements-in-windows-10-and-windows-server-2016-technical-preview/
OpenBSD's De Raadt Pans 'Incredibly Bad' Disclsoure of Intel CPU Bug
"Disclosure" in the headline has been incorrectly typed out is "disclsoure".
As someone who worked as a Blizzard Europe Customer Service Agent many years ago, I can believe this.
On some Swedish forum some "clever" kid posted a "hack" which would let you get anything you wanted on your WoW account for free, the advertised process was something like:
- Change your account's country to a particular EU state.
- Change your billing type to some direct debit system.
- Enter bullshit details.
- Buy what you want, and it works.
Except what they didn't realize is that when the end of month batch would run in a few weeks, the system automatically suspended any service with "invalid" details. If you purchased game time, your account would be frozen, if you purchased something like a realm or faction change, that particular character would be "locked" from play, all until the "bounced" payments were reimbursed to Blizzard.
Now, any intelligent person would instantly avoid this due to it literally being fraud. However, due to the weeks delay due to the nature of this billing system, many naive kids racked up a significant amount of "bounced" transactions which largely locked them out of most of their characters which had realm changes even after they fixed their game time.
This made for a very difficult couple of months for support staff with many kids literally crying that Blizzard "set them up", lulling them into a false sense of security. The truth of the matter is that this is just the nature of that payment method, legitimate users of it never knowingly let anything ever bounce because it was common practice for merchants to blacklist that payment method to anyone whose payment bounces, Blizzard being no exception. It's a really crappy system from the point of view of the merchants, but it was (probably still is) a very popular system in those countries and presumably works very well overall for subscription services.
Due to this, Blizzard locked customers from being able to change their account's countries after this except through customer service with documentation proving your new physical address.
Moral of the story, if you're stupid enough to commit fraud in the first place, don't do it for services where you have something to lose.
As much as I love the idea of an ansible, and while I'm no physicist, I have seen it stated time and time again that quantum entanglement doesn't get you instantaneous communication.
You're right about the exclusivity issue, but what you quoted from the parent post was highly inaccurate in their quoted prices, see my comment here: https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
As someone actually living in South Africa, why on earth would you mention a specific country in your argument to make yourself not only factually wrong in this case, but also appearing highly misinformed?
Cost of movies in South Africa (Logan as an example, as per https://www.takealot.com/all?q...):
USD 10,08 (incl tax) - DVD (at supposed 18% discount, converted from ZAR 129)
USD 13,20 (incl tax) - BluRay (at supposed 22% discount, converted from ZAR 169)
USD 27,26 (incl tax) - 4k (at supposed 18% discount, converted from ZAR 349)
Amazon US:
USD 14.99 (incl tax?) - DVD
USD 11.99 (incl tax?) - BluRay
USD 19.99 (incl tax?) - 4K
The only $2 price I have ever seen are maybe bargain bins for older movies, or dodgy pirated DVDs sold by street vendors (which I haven't seen in a few years now actually).
Netflix (now offered here), is charged in USD, at exact same rate as in the US, however, thanks to exclusivity bullshit by local network here, some shows like House of Cards are not available on it.
Based on comments I see on Slashdot, it seems that many people assume that regionalisation and geoblocking of online services is just so that the same thing can be sold "cheaper" in certain markets. Sometimes that's true, for example, I used to work for Blizzard EU CS, and they deliberately isolated Russian servers as they paid lower monthly subs. However, in most non-third world countries, like Australia/NZ, Western Europe and South Africa (not technically 1st world, but for a lot of consumers here, it kind of is), the reason for regionalisation is a legacy of before the internet, where companies got exclusivity arrangements on media from the overseas publishers.
Before the internet, there was value to having these middlemen who made their money by importing media and making it available. With the advent of legal media distribution over the internet they realised they were becoming obsolete, so they used their pre-existing legal arrangements to prevent publishers from selling direct to consumers in their markets, forcing those markets to still pay them a cut. To summarise, these days consumers in all markets outside of the original publisher's, are essentially paying a kind of "tax" to shmucks from these "distribution" companies for essentially doing nothing.
As you can see above, we here do not really pay less, but also annoyingly, we also get less content available as local distributors often can't be arsed to make some content available here, or the content we get is delayed. Hence people use geoblocking circumvention services such as VPNs to to get around this complete bullshit.
As a final comment, when us South Africans see comments like yours, it reinforces our belief that most Americans don't really know anything outside of their own country.
"640K should be good enough...."
What a poor comparison, 640K maximum was a software limitation, and then as hardware evolved over about 10 years, the software started to hold back capabilities of newer hardware, the old hardware from the time the software was built, would still worked have worked fine. And also be aware that what you're quoting is made up.
At one point 640K was "enough", then quite a while later it wasn't. While undoubtedly 50Mb/s will at some point be "too slow", in the meantime for almost all of today's smartphone needs, and almost certainly for the typical lifetime any 2017 smartphone, it's plenty.
This. Unless you're using your phone as a modem on your computer, the current 50Mb/s speed plus is more than adequate, especially with many networks having stupidly expensive data costs.
I just posted the same question. I have been using Pro version at home since Win10's release and also on my work laptop for about 6 months now. I have never seen these adverts. At home it did auto install a little crap from the store, but after uninstalling those particular apps, they never came back. I purposefully bought Windows 7 Pro for my home machine as I make good use of the remote desktop feature.
I run Windows 10 Professional on both my personal machine at home (I use remote desktop pretty often) and work machine, and I have never seen these adverts. Is it a home edition "feature" only?
You should check out Git LFS (large file storage). It's an extension which only stores references in the Git repo, and then fetches the actual large file off a web server on checkout. It was built for games with large amounts of assets. https://git-lfs.github.com/
Stupid mobile website, was too easy to submit by mistake, but you get the idea. I was just going to add that having an extra device is inconvenient and battery inefficient.
Here in South Africa, (most, if not all) the networks offer very cost effective cost per GB SIM cards, but they can't be used for voice or SMSes. So as an iPhone user, I can't get decent data rates unless I am willing to carry around a separate device with one of these SIM cards which shares its data over a wifi. Which is inco
It's called "Find My Friends" on iOS, you can share your location temporarily which is great for when you are travelling with friends. I have it permanently enabled with my brothers, easier than having to phone/message them to find out how far away they are when we meet up.
Otherwise, while I wouldn't enable it until a relationship becomes serious, my girlfriend (of 3 years now) and I have had it permanently enabled with each other since we moved in together. It's very good for peace of mind and was especially useful when she was unfortunately involved in a serious car accident as I was able to locate her very quickly.
Considering that iOS has a reputation for generally lagging behind Android in features, I'm quite surprised this has only now arrived on Android when Apple has had it for years.
Of course if you value your privacy greatly, steer clear, I'm not worried, but each to their own I guess.
I found it very useful about 8 years ago, before smartphones with messaging apps became so ubiquitous. I lived in France for a bit, then Ireland a little later and had a long distance relationship with a girl in Turkey. Using Skype to send the SMSes to her phone was considerably cheaper. Once I moved to Ireland, I got a cellphone contract which included "free skype to skype" and I could call her for free, just using my Skype credit. It was just a cheap feature phone, but the phone software somehow instructed the cellphone network to "call me" and then route the call over Skype from their network.
I haven't needed Skype credit in quite while now, I met a different girl ultimately who was local, but still have a little credit on my account.
These days I use iMessage and WhatsApp.
I get the feeling from SyFy in the last few years, particularly with 12 Monkeys, that they seem to focus on using "safe" formulas for their shows, they try appeal to science fiction fans with the core premise of the show, but also try to keep the show appealing enough for more mainstream viewers.
10 years ago when we had the Stargate franchise and Battelstar Galactica, things were pretty cool on SciFi, but they followed those up with Warehouse 13 and then later 12 Monkeys which are entertaining enough, but not the same kind of cool science fiction in my opinion.
I haven't read the book (which I now plan to rectify soon), but my gut feeling based on how things have been recently, is that the SyFy TV show will likely just be "okay", but watchable enough.
Most people are looking for "facts" that validate their preconceived opinions. They tend to selectively read articles which have headlines for topics they already have an opinion on, if the article is in conflict with that opinion, they dismiss the article as rubbish, or perhaps comment on it to that effect. If the article is in line with their opinion, they share it proudly with all their social media friends as a proclamation on how "right" their opinions are, regardless of the factual accuracy of the article. It's particularly amusing when it's apparent they have only skimmed the article looking for a choice quote to validate their opinion, while the article on the whole is actually in disagreement with their opinion.
All different fields have their own set of terminology and at some level it is arbitrary as to what things are called, but when it comes to communicating with others, it is absolutely essential that you all use the same terms for things. When people aren't familiar with standardised terminology for their field, at best they battle a bit when it comes to communication, at worst it leads to a misunderstanding and the wrong thing being done.
Even if your methodologies are exemplary, it is for nought if you are applying the wrong ones simply due to a misunderstanding of what was asked.
My girlfriend is in the process of acquiring a project management certification (PRINCE2) and while part of the certification covers methodologies, an arguably more important aspect of it is the terminology, in particular, the names of different roles that people are assigned to on projects. This is important because she works in a consulting firm and all their big clients expect the consultants to be familiar with these names of roles so that in client meetings, the client could just mention a role name, and everyone in the room will already be on the same page as to the responsibilities and expectations of any person with that role.
At one of my previous jobs, developers were given training on and are expected to at least know the following above and beyond "knowing how to program in general":
And other stuff of course. It of course helped us day to day solving problems, but I imagine that it also helped all of us more readily absorb information at conferences too.
Along with CPanel, I enabled HTTPS on my little website in seconds, it was truly painless. While my website stores nothing of significant value (Minecraft schematic files), it does have a login form and I sleep better knowing login credentials cannot be intercepted anymore.
Since you don't actually know me, you can be forgiven for your complete ignorance into the irony of your assertions.
I started off my career as a computer technician but self taught myself to become the professional software developer that I am today.
Believe it or not it, it was in no small part thanks to Slashdot and by my doing research on technologies mentioned in articles featured here.
So while some people like to sit and moan as AC on Slashdot, I use it as one of many sources to keep a pulse on what is happening in my industry. If I read about something I haven't heard of before, I research it to at least understand the problem it's trying to solve and to be able to keep it in mind for the future in case I encounter a problem for which it may be an appropriate solution.
Perhaps I was a bit harsh, or fed a troll, but the comment I replied to was either genuinely trolling or otherwise deserves to be called out on its apathetic nature.
As a side note, I do not generally work on web front ends and haven't really worked with Angular, I just know of it as it's immensely popular.
A mistype of the word "Angular"?
Any half competent person in front end web development knows what it is, if you're not in that segment of the software development industry, then it is likely that it is of absolutely no interest to you, in which case feel free to move onto the next story.
If you're interested in making yourself more generally knowledgeable and finding out more about Angular, Google it, assuming you know what Google is.