So implement MAC control or something similar -- only devices with approved MACs get on. All other devices are either banned or throttled. Yeah, yeah, students can still spoof a MAC, but they can steal a WiFi password too.
They were really awful about cancelling the 6-month trial (setting it to non-renewal). Are you sure? Y/N Are you double sure? You'll lose blah-blah-blah benefits and free shipping. Y/N. Are you really, trebly sure? Y/N.
This was a pest control expert, not an IT engineer. Of course, IT is its own form of pest control...
Yeah, the video is cringeworthy -- the jury wasn't allowed to know that he had "You're Fucked" engraved on his gun. Not to mention that he looks like an angry amer-kid who brought his first-person shooting into real life.
Ah well, the court has acquitted him, but he might still be T-boned by a drunk driver on New Year's Eve. Karma's a bitch.
Here's the interesting thing about Prime. As a grad student, I have a university account, which entitled me to 6 months of "student Prime" for free. I put in the email -- they never verified it, just "turned on" Prime for 6 months (I set it to auto-cancel after the free trial was up immediately).
Meaning that someone could just make up plausible-sounding.edu addresses and get free Prime for life.
No, they would not have -- the guest would have to do so, as the party being harmed. AirBNB has no interest in reporting something like that and creating bad publicity around their service.
The issue is to preserve choice and privacy even for the minority. Thus, laws protecting privacy should exist. The rules shouldn't be only made by and for the low-information majority.
If you allow people to rent places with disclosed cameras or microphones, every host will install them for safety. "Don't like it: sleep on the street." Also, the disclosures could take a form (buried in a bunch of legalese) that's usually ignored.
(1) If you're a coward, don't rent the house out. (2) Don't rent it to people whom you don't trust. Use Craigslist, talk on the phone, meet them in person, get references. AirBNB is too impersonal to weed out the bad actors. (3) If you follow rules (1) and (2), you shouldn't need to invade your tenants' privacy.
Cameras should be banned in all private spaces, not only bathrooms and bedrooms -- if you're renting the entire apartment on AirBNB, they should be banned in the living room, dining room, kitchen too. If it's not a shared space, people could be intimate or naked anywhere in it.
Also, if there's audio recording, there's a risk of picking up conversations intended to be private, which almost certainly violates the law even in states that have one-party consent laws.
The "hosts" installing the cameras shouldn't only be banned from AirBNB. They should be jailed and fined. Or just have their asses whupped by someone who rented from them. Violating people's privacy is a serious crime, and should be treated as such.
Apple struck a good balance in the 80s. Apple IIc for people who wanted things to "just work." Soldered RAM, sealed case, even semi-portable -- you could get an LCD and a car power adapter.
Apple IIe and GS for power users, with many expansion slots in the case, memory expansion, etc - but the basic architecture of the IIc and IIe were similar (the IIGS essentially expanded on the IIe concept but added a 16-bit processor and snazzy graphics and sound).
Or, I could have hardware that's not crippled by design. Being able to swap drives also had other advantages to some people -- like being able to insert a "clean" drive when traveling internationally (ever heard of US border data searches?)
Why sell crippled hardware for want of a connector that costs a buck or two?
Here's the thing. I've had laptop (both Mac and PC) motherboards fail more than oncde.
If I didn't have a very current backup, I could still pop the hard drive or SSD out and retrieve my data with a $5 USB to SATA cable. With Apple, I'd have to beg an Apple store to retrieve my data, pay them if I was out of AppleDontCare, and have no guarantee that they even could.
All for a savings of, what, $5? on a connector.
Ah yes. The man responsible for Macbooks with non-replaceable storage (nice if the motherboard fails), soldered RAM, irremovable (glued!) batteries. And iMacs with screens stuck with strong sticky tape over the vital parts (needs a pizza roller to remove).
Oh wait! And Apple's Time Capsule. Nice little router with storage built in. Should be easy enough to remove the hard drive when it fails, right? Wrong.
You can get to the drive by popping off the bottom cover, but Apple routed wires under the drive. Disconnecting some of the wires is virtually guaranteed to break their connectors. Apple saved 50 cents and made the thing extremely hard to fix.
All hail Jony Ive, the king of user-hostile design.
"Recycle" them by sending them to 3rd-world countries to be dumped or taken apart by kids.
Also, the lowest-energy, cleanest form of recycling is reuse.
Can those bags use battery types other than Li-Ion? A few alkaline AA batteries should be enough to power a transmitter that takes a GPS reading and "squawks" location over the cell network every hour or so.
Costs of living/housing in real cities (not overheated suburban hells like Vegas, Orlando, or Phoenix) in most of non-UK Europe are also lower than in the US. And health insurance/care costs are also much better controlled.
(a) FB HQ is not in San Francisco, it's in Menlo Park, closer to San Jose. (b) California's residents are fairly centrist. There's just less religious nutbaggery as far as wanting to control what science people learn in school (birth control, sex ed, etc). (c) California would do well as the world's (7th?) largest economy if Calexit happens (don't Conservatives want CA out, already?). They'd probably even make a free-trade pact with Mexico just to annoy the Trumpites.
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So implement MAC control or something similar -- only devices with approved MACs get on. All other devices are either banned or throttled. Yeah, yeah, students can still spoof a MAC, but they can steal a WiFi password too.
They were really awful about cancelling the 6-month trial (setting it to non-renewal). Are you sure? Y/N Are you double sure? You'll lose blah-blah-blah benefits and free shipping. Y/N. Are you really, trebly sure? Y/N.
He should have put a sign. "Packages not intended for $ADDRESS will be discarded."
This was a pest control expert, not an IT engineer. Of course, IT is its own form of pest control...
Yeah, the video is cringeworthy -- the jury wasn't allowed to know that he had "You're Fucked" engraved on his gun. Not to mention that he looks like an angry amer-kid who brought his first-person shooting into real life.
Ah well, the court has acquitted him, but he might still be T-boned by a drunk driver on New Year's Eve. Karma's a bitch.
Here's the interesting thing about Prime. As a grad student, I have a university account, which entitled me to 6 months of "student Prime" for free. I put in the email -- they never verified it, just "turned on" Prime for 6 months (I set it to auto-cancel after the free trial was up immediately). Meaning that someone could just make up plausible-sounding .edu addresses and get free Prime for life.
Unless they saw the camera in person and determined it was on, they had no real evidence that a crime occurred. Up to the victim to make a report.
No, they would not have -- the guest would have to do so, as the party being harmed. AirBNB has no interest in reporting something like that and creating bad publicity around their service.
And their hidden camera would catch you planting yours. Stalemate.
The issue is to preserve choice and privacy even for the minority. Thus, laws protecting privacy should exist. The rules shouldn't be only made by and for the low-information majority.
No. Banned in private living spaces. Period.
If you allow people to rent places with disclosed cameras or microphones, every host will install them for safety. "Don't like it: sleep on the street." Also, the disclosures could take a form (buried in a bunch of legalese) that's usually ignored.
(1) If you're a coward, don't rent the house out.
(2) Don't rent it to people whom you don't trust. Use Craigslist, talk on the phone, meet them in person, get references. AirBNB is too impersonal to weed out the bad actors.
(3) If you follow rules (1) and (2), you shouldn't need to invade your tenants' privacy.
Cameras should be banned in all private spaces, not only bathrooms and bedrooms -- if you're renting the entire apartment on AirBNB, they should be banned in the living room, dining room, kitchen too. If it's not a shared space, people could be intimate or naked anywhere in it.
Also, if there's audio recording, there's a risk of picking up conversations intended to be private, which almost certainly violates the law even in states that have one-party consent laws.
The "hosts" installing the cameras shouldn't only be banned from AirBNB. They should be jailed and fined. Or just have their asses whupped by someone who rented from them. Violating people's privacy is a serious crime, and should be treated as such.
Say I'm traveling (easiest to break a machine) and haven't been on the same network at the Time Capsule for a week.
Apple struck a good balance in the 80s. Apple IIc for people who wanted things to "just work." Soldered RAM, sealed case, even semi-portable -- you could get an LCD and a car power adapter.
Apple IIe and GS for power users, with many expansion slots in the case, memory expansion, etc - but the basic architecture of the IIc and IIe were similar (the IIGS essentially expanded on the IIe concept but added a 16-bit processor and snazzy graphics and sound).
Or, I could have hardware that's not crippled by design. Being able to swap drives also had other advantages to some people -- like being able to insert a "clean" drive when traveling internationally (ever heard of US border data searches?)
Why sell crippled hardware for want of a connector that costs a buck or two?
I'm not going to stick an always-on mic in my home just to save 30 seconds in the kitchen.
Here's the thing. I've had laptop (both Mac and PC) motherboards fail more than oncde. If I didn't have a very current backup, I could still pop the hard drive or SSD out and retrieve my data with a $5 USB to SATA cable. With Apple, I'd have to beg an Apple store to retrieve my data, pay them if I was out of AppleDontCare, and have no guarantee that they even could. All for a savings of, what, $5? on a connector.
Jony Ive has only been out for 1-2 years -- you can blame him for Apple's watered-down hardware.
Did Apple ever stop doing that? The current product line is pretty terrible as far as repairability, Ive or not.
Ah yes. The man responsible for Macbooks with non-replaceable storage (nice if the motherboard fails), soldered RAM, irremovable (glued!) batteries. And iMacs with screens stuck with strong sticky tape over the vital parts (needs a pizza roller to remove).
Oh wait! And Apple's Time Capsule. Nice little router with storage built in. Should be easy enough to remove the hard drive when it fails, right? Wrong.
You can get to the drive by popping off the bottom cover, but Apple routed wires under the drive. Disconnecting some of the wires is virtually guaranteed to break their connectors. Apple saved 50 cents and made the thing extremely hard to fix.
All hail Jony Ive, the king of user-hostile design.
"Recycle" them by sending them to 3rd-world countries to be dumped or taken apart by kids. Also, the lowest-energy, cleanest form of recycling is reuse.
Can those bags use battery types other than Li-Ion? A few alkaline AA batteries should be enough to power a transmitter that takes a GPS reading and "squawks" location over the cell network every hour or so.
Nuclear or solar desalination. Heard of it?
Costs of living/housing in real cities (not overheated suburban hells like Vegas, Orlando, or Phoenix) in most of non-UK Europe are also lower than in the US. And health insurance/care costs are also much better controlled.
(a) FB HQ is not in San Francisco, it's in Menlo Park, closer to San Jose.
(b) California's residents are fairly centrist. There's just less religious nutbaggery as far as wanting to control what science people learn in school (birth control, sex ed, etc).
(c) California would do well as the world's (7th?) largest economy if Calexit happens (don't Conservatives want CA out, already?). They'd probably even make a free-trade pact with Mexico just to annoy the Trumpites.