1) Pick an area at around 7pm when it is dark outside and see what lights are not on.
2) Rob the place.
This is why people go to jail. If you want to be successful at robbing houses, just picking houses at random isn't the way to go. You need to find your target, study your target, learn the neighborhood (like it doesn't do you any good to hit a house at 7pm if that is when the neighbor might come over to feed the dog) and plan according.
Years ago there would have been nothing but comments full of ideas for amazing things you accomplish using a device like this.
Now it seems like the site is populated almost entirely by pubescent teenagers acting macho and boasting how they'd beat someone up and break their glasses.
Try working in a school.... Staff are forbidden from ever making any sort of physical contact with a student (As this could result in the student making a claim of assault and suing the school),...
hmm, when i was in school, getting "paddled" for bad behavior was the norm. And oddly enough, students didn't arm themselves and go around killing everyone in school back then either. I got thinking about this last sentence and did a google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
People been killing other people at school with guns since guns were around. It's not new, it's human nature.
So i guess spanking students don't work anyways. Wonder, is it too late to sue the elementary, & middle schools i went to? 30+ years later. =)
Though if i was a teacher and I saw kids destroying school property, i'd probably take out my phone and take a picture of them. That way I don't have to remember names and would actually have some proof of what happened. But I wouldn't think of a teacher to think of doing that, it would counter the type of thinking schools teach these days.
But this case is a random unknown stranger offers to make you keys for your house. And while they are at it, sets up a shop of stolen goods inside the front door. How do you know they did not make themselves an extra key?
Just curious, when you put this argument out, did you really think it applied? Explain how a house is like an iPad or iPhone? Explain how your house is locked down like iOS? You can't, because it's not. Banks/realtors do not sell you a house and tell you that the basement is off limits. That you can't park cars in the garage, even though there is room to do so. That you can only use a certain type of glass when you replace the windows. That you can't remodel your house.
You understand how they do not apply with each other?
+1. some people create things, so they have empathy with other people who create things. others are just takers and add no value to society, so they cannot comprehend how their actions hut those that create. like arguing with a rock. good news is, they rooted their own phones and gave them to chinese hackers, in exchange for free angry birds (yes, I bet they download cracked versions of free apps too lol).
Takers & givers. Pitchers & Catchers, Tops & Bottoms. Good & Evil. Left & right. 1's & 0's.
You do realize that most of life is a binary system and you can't generally have one without the other?
In other words, some people give, some people take. It's part of life. If you feel superior because you are one and not the other, then you are missing out on how life really works.
Does that person downloading a pirated app really hurt the developer? No it doesn't. That person most likely doesn't pay for software, so the developer would never get money from him. But oddly enough, there is enough people who have no problem paying for stuff, and that is why developers & producers make money because there is enough people buying to turn profit. It has always been this way. Thinking your superior because you pay for stuff is deluding yourself. Thinking your smarter because you don't pay for stuff is also deluding yourself. We are just all playing our parts in life.
Good software/music/movies sell and make money. Crappy software/music/movies don't sell and they blame it on people pirating the stuff then the fact they made some crappy software/music/movies.
Seeing as you are going to have to prove how you got that much money worth of bitcoins, without tying your self to the criminal activity that went on thru Silk Road.
I don't see him getting his bitcoins back, but I guess if he figures he's probably going to jail for Silk Road, there isn't any harm in trying to get his bitcoins back.
They don't need direct access. Actually, your CC data is suppose to be kept away from the Internet. That's what private circuits are for. In the case of a major retailer like Target, they should be doing all financial transfers over private circuits, with no Internet access.
Someone may have decided it would be cheaper to share the circuit with Internet access. That was *very* dumb of them.
I game with someone who works for a major financial firm, and they get info about this sort of stuff.
From what he said, and I can't verify this is true, but some of the CC readers have a "rogue" chip inside them that calls the info to whomever has the backdoor access. Apparently someone added the chips to some of them when they were being manufactured.
Not sure anyone is going to see this post or care, since it's now sunday, but that is the info I got about this.
My desktop computer moves when I make hardware changes. The dust is medium and consistent. Someone moving the computer to clone a drive or plug something in the back will make it so I can tell, unless they can also clean it and age the dust 8 months. You don't have to be OCD to notice changes. It just helps.
I use the same excuse as a reason not cleaning my apartment.
So someone managed to turn off three alarm systems, but didn't think to make sure that the contents of the apartment were all left in the same position that they found them?
Going to point out since they missed the 4th alarm system, it's not surprising that didn't put everything back in the same place.
So far, I have not identified any benefits for me from using 7 compared to using XP. But I have trouble with a few pieces of software that refuse to run. Now, please explain to me again why I would possibly WANT Windows7?
Since I am a big PC gamer and I have to run Windows to play the games I want to play, I run Windows 7 because it's supports my DX11 video card. Windows XP only supports up to DX9.
But that being said I don't pay MS anything for their OS's. I never will.
They can't afford the capitol to upgrade their systems, but they can afford to stockpile machines in closets.
Considering how cheap computer hardware is compared to the price for software, I can understand this.
You bought some special software for your company, it cost you a bunch. It works great on XP, but doesn't work on Windows Vista or Windows 7. So you have a choice. You buy a new version of that software (providing there is a new version) that works with Windows 7, or you hire someone to program the software to work with Windows 7.
Guess what is cheaper? Stocking up on a bunch of $200-$400 computers to insure you can keep running the software for years still.
Not the smart solution in the long run, but when the bottom line counts, it's the move people make.
Microsoft should extend support for XP...but only on a cash-for-patch basis. Sell patches at $5 a pop for XP user's, or a one Year Security Update Subscription for $20.
It's a win-win situation....
Not sure it's a win-win situation.
While maybe business with legacy programs or hardware that can't upgrade would be cool with that, users, ie the poor people, who can't afford to buy OS's, let alone a computer that could run Windows 7, that are stuck using Windows XP aren't going to be paying for updates. Thus that makes a lot of vulnerable OS's that are not patched, that will be exploited by botnets, which then causes problems for the rest of the internet.
I guess it's a choice of bottom line or responsibility to it's consumers on which sort of path MS will go.
You'd think people would figure out not to attach everything to the internet. Why the card readers needed to be connected to anything but an internal network (with no internet connection to that) is a bad security model to begin with.
Will they ever learn?
Guess maybe i'm not thinking. They do need to verify that cards are correct, so they do need some internet access, though they could do it over the phone.
Well, i guess they will still need to rethink the security of this.
Seems to me they readers only need to communicate with a computer in the store, then that computer could do the verifying. Might be a little slower, but would probably be a lot more secure.
You'd think people would figure out not to attach everything to the internet. Why the card readers needed to be connected to anything but an internal network (with no internet connection to that) is a bad security model to begin with.
Yes, because of course people will do hundreds of hours of work for free. Personally, I'm looking forward to the trend where random people send me enough money that I can retire.
Funny you'd say that at slashdot, where I'm sure quite a few programmers do open source projects for free.
The bottom line is "the tech industry" mines and sells your data (i.e., "every little thing you do"), so in order to keep their bottom line growing "the tech industry" must get the NSA's ability to mine for terrorist activity stopped before the American people force their (not "their" as in "the American people's", but "their" as in "the tech industry's") Representatives and Senators to again prioritize their Constitutional responsibilities above their bought-and-paid-for promises and outlaw all data mining as the invasion of privacy that it is.
Wow, shill huh?
Did you know the tech industry isn't google or yahoo? That companies like Amazon and Microsoft actually sell products? Netflix, it delivers streaming music. I could go on about how most the tech companies don't make money from spying on you, but you know that already don't you?
Obama thought he has become the KING of the Americans.
Obama is but one of the civil servants whose salaries are being paid by the American taxpayers.
Although I am no great fan of President Obama, generally, and wish it was someone else, you nonetheless have that quite wrong. He isn't a "civil servant." Civil servants are hired help of the Executive branch of government.
President Obama is the President of the United States of America, leader of the country, a position long known as leader of the Free World, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, the man empowered to authorize the launch of nuclear weapons, the head of the executive branch of the United States, the man who appoints the heads of the executive departments with the advice and consent of the Senate, the man who appoints Ambassadors, and the highest elected official in the country - one of only two national offices. His signature or acquiescence is generally required for bills passed by Congress to become law, otherwise he can block them unless the Congress musters 2/3 majority vote to override him, which rarely happens.
He isn't king, but as President he wields the highest authority of the executive branch. When backed by Congress he has enormous power.
You aren't his boss, he isn't a shoeshine boy that you can bark at. If you voted, you helped elect him, but that is past now. He has the office, and there is no recall. He can only be removed before his term expires for high crimes and misdemeanors as charged in the House and tried in the Senate. Although the Constitution and the courts are a key check on his power, the Congress is key. So far the country seems content on maintaining a Democratic Senate, which ensures he will have plenty of leverage to enact the unwise policies of his party.
It would be great if you started getting this sort of stuff right, you sound like you are howling at the moon.
No actually. Voting him in doesn't make him God, it makes him even more responsible to the American People. And currently our whole government is failing the American People badly. For example, how long did our government take to "balance" the budget? It's taken over 1600 days, since like the first year of Obama's presidency. Obama is in charge, according to you, but he's letting the people he's really in charge of, Congress be the laziest bunch of fucking slackers this country has ever scene. On his watch. Obama is in charge, right? Yet he doesn't have any control of his congress or senate, he has no control of the NSA and doesn't according to him, know that this stuff is going on. So that makes him either a liar, or the crappiest president we've ever had.
I'm not american, lived and visited several parts of the world. Love to talk and fit in with the locals and socialize.
Of course it's all anecdotal, but I'm pretty sure that something odd is going on in American culture. The times i've been there I couldn't help but finding amazing how such large parts of the population take behavioral related medication. I mean, even most TV commercials I saw were for anti depressants, or even complenents to them.
But it's not the medication itself what caught my attention but how people itself claims to be unwell, not feeling like what people should feel or not behaving as people should behave. It's as if there was some sort of strong "need to be normal" or "need to be well" (whathever tha means), and that not being like that is not fitting in society.
It's not that where I am from (South America) people won't get depressed or have panic attacks, but you see such symptoms by far much, much less often. It's not misdiagnose either or that people chooses to put up with it instead of taking medication , I mean, it's very clear when someone is going through depression. In contrast, people here are more "unpolite", intimate,cares less about rules and socialize a lot more. I'm sure there has to be a relationship somehow, but I am no expert on the matter. As I said, it's just what I see, but I can't connect the dots.
So, I think that even if pharmaceutical companies capitalize on this stuff, I'm not that sure they created the situation, I believe it's more akin to a side-effect.
Being a depressed person and having to take medication, I find that my life is way better taking the anti-depression meds then not. Of course, it took 10 or so years to find the meds that work best for me and i've spent most my life not on them, but in the last 5 or so years I've been the most mentally level I have ever been in my life.
Sure, drug companies make money by selling drugs and they want to sell as much drugs as they can, if needed or not. But that doesn't change the fact that most of the drugs they sell do have problems they address & help.
I also have ADHD, which didn't get diagnosed until later in my life (also), and no one seemed to care growing up. But I'm not really down with taking speed for it, and really giving speed to kids is really stupid. I mean, they made laws against selling drugs around schools, yet they prescribed them a class a speed that is way better then any meth they could get.
Stuff like this is why there is no such things as a "free market" and why there needs to regulations. Mainly drug reps paying doctors to prescribe their drugs.
I feel like the NSA and the rest of the intelligence apparatuses have gotten to a point where the security of this nation trumps any man made law. If this nation is of and for the people, who the hell is the NSA working for?
Slashdot Mirror
Why?
Far easier to:
1) Pick an area at around 7pm when it is dark outside and see what lights are not on.
2) Rob the place.
This is why people go to jail. If you want to be successful at robbing houses, just picking houses at random isn't the way to go. You need to find your target, study your target, learn the neighborhood (like it doesn't do you any good to hit a house at 7pm if that is when the neighbor might come over to feed the dog) and plan according.
When did Slashdot become so full of luddites?
Years ago there would have been nothing but comments full of ideas for amazing things you accomplish using a device like this.
Now it seems like the site is populated almost entirely by pubescent teenagers acting macho and boasting how they'd beat someone up and break their glasses.
Paid shills for other companies?
The authors intend to allow people to opt-out of the recognition database.
Like Facebook lets you "opt out" of stuff?
Fair warning to Google Glass wearers in near future: people will sucker-punch you and destroy your toy.
I certainly won't guarantee your safety if I see you with one pointing in my direction.
Google Glasses brings out the Internet Tough Guys.
Try working in a school. ... Staff are forbidden from ever making any sort of physical contact with a student (As this could result in the student making a claim of assault and suing the school),...
hmm, when i was in school, getting "paddled" for bad behavior was the norm. And oddly enough, students didn't arm themselves and go around killing everyone in school back then either. I got thinking about this last sentence and did a google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
People been killing other people at school with guns since guns were around. It's not new, it's human nature.
So i guess spanking students don't work anyways. Wonder, is it too late to sue the elementary, & middle schools i went to? 30+ years later. =)
Though if i was a teacher and I saw kids destroying school property, i'd probably take out my phone and take a picture of them. That way I don't have to remember names and would actually have some proof of what happened. But I wouldn't think of a teacher to think of doing that, it would counter the type of thinking schools teach these days.
But this case is a random unknown stranger offers to make you keys for your house. And while they are at it, sets up a shop of stolen goods inside the front door.
How do you know they did not make themselves an extra key?
Just curious, when you put this argument out, did you really think it applied? Explain how a house is like an iPad or iPhone? Explain how your house is locked down like iOS? You can't, because it's not. Banks/realtors do not sell you a house and tell you that the basement is off limits. That you can't park cars in the garage, even though there is room to do so. That you can only use a certain type of glass when you replace the windows. That you can't remodel your house.
You understand how they do not apply with each other?
You're a taker, not a giver.
+1. some people create things, so they have empathy with other people who create things. others are just takers and add no value to society, so they cannot comprehend how their actions hut those that create. like arguing with a rock. good news is, they rooted their own phones and gave them to chinese hackers, in exchange for free angry birds (yes, I bet they download cracked versions of free apps too lol).
Takers & givers. Pitchers & Catchers, Tops & Bottoms. Good & Evil. Left & right. 1's & 0's.
You do realize that most of life is a binary system and you can't generally have one without the other?
In other words, some people give, some people take. It's part of life. If you feel superior because you are one and not the other, then you are missing out on how life really works.
Does that person downloading a pirated app really hurt the developer? No it doesn't. That person most likely doesn't pay for software, so the developer would never get money from him. But oddly enough, there is enough people who have no problem paying for stuff, and that is why developers & producers make money because there is enough people buying to turn profit. It has always been this way. Thinking your superior because you pay for stuff is deluding yourself. Thinking your smarter because you don't pay for stuff is also deluding yourself. We are just all playing our parts in life.
Good software/music/movies sell and make money. Crappy software/music/movies don't sell and they blame it on people pirating the stuff then the fact they made some crappy software/music/movies.
It's more a case of regaining entry after being locked out of your own house, rather than someone else breaking in.
Except that the burglar could use the same route.
Or the police, or the NSA or the FBI, etc....
Seeing as you are going to have to prove how you got that much money worth of bitcoins, without tying your self to the criminal activity that went on thru Silk Road.
I don't see him getting his bitcoins back, but I guess if he figures he's probably going to jail for Silk Road, there isn't any harm in trying to get his bitcoins back.
... you know your doing something wrong.
They don't need direct access. Actually, your CC data is suppose to be kept away from the Internet. That's what private circuits are for. In the case of a major retailer like Target, they should be doing all financial transfers over private circuits, with no Internet access.
Someone may have decided it would be cheaper to share the circuit with Internet access. That was *very* dumb of them.
I game with someone who works for a major financial firm, and they get info about this sort of stuff.
From what he said, and I can't verify this is true, but some of the CC readers have a "rogue" chip inside them that calls the info to whomever has the backdoor access. Apparently someone added the chips to some of them when they were being manufactured.
Not sure anyone is going to see this post or care, since it's now sunday, but that is the info I got about this.
My desktop computer moves when I make hardware changes. The dust is medium and consistent. Someone moving the computer to clone a drive or plug something in the back will make it so I can tell, unless they can also clean it and age the dust 8 months. You don't have to be OCD to notice changes. It just helps.
I use the same excuse as a reason not cleaning my apartment.
So someone managed to turn off three alarm systems, but didn't think to make sure that the contents of the apartment were all left in the same position that they found them?
Going to point out since they missed the 4th alarm system, it's not surprising that didn't put everything back in the same place.
For varying definitions of "upgrade".
So far, I have not identified any benefits for me from using 7 compared to using XP. But I have trouble with a few pieces of software that refuse to run. Now, please explain to me again why I would possibly WANT Windows7?
Since I am a big PC gamer and I have to run Windows to play the games I want to play, I run Windows 7 because it's supports my DX11 video card. Windows XP only supports up to DX9.
But that being said I don't pay MS anything for their OS's. I never will.
They can't afford the capitol to upgrade their systems, but they can afford to stockpile machines in closets.
Considering how cheap computer hardware is compared to the price for software, I can understand this.
You bought some special software for your company, it cost you a bunch. It works great on XP, but doesn't work on Windows Vista or Windows 7. So you have a choice. You buy a new version of that software (providing there is a new version) that works with Windows 7, or you hire someone to program the software to work with Windows 7.
Guess what is cheaper? Stocking up on a bunch of $200-$400 computers to insure you can keep running the software for years still.
Not the smart solution in the long run, but when the bottom line counts, it's the move people make.
Microsoft should extend support for XP...but only on a cash-for-patch basis. Sell patches at $5 a pop for XP user's, or a one Year Security Update Subscription for $20.
It's a win-win situation....
Not sure it's a win-win situation.
While maybe business with legacy programs or hardware that can't upgrade would be cool with that, users, ie the poor people, who can't afford to buy OS's, let alone a computer that could run Windows 7, that are stuck using Windows XP aren't going to be paying for updates. Thus that makes a lot of vulnerable OS's that are not patched, that will be exploited by botnets, which then causes problems for the rest of the internet.
I guess it's a choice of bottom line or responsibility to it's consumers on which sort of path MS will go.
You'd think people would figure out not to attach everything to the internet. Why the card readers needed to be connected to anything but an internal network (with no internet connection to that) is a bad security model to begin with.
Will they ever learn?
Guess maybe i'm not thinking. They do need to verify that cards are correct, so they do need some internet access, though they could do it over the phone.
Well, i guess they will still need to rethink the security of this.
Seems to me they readers only need to communicate with a computer in the store, then that computer could do the verifying. Might be a little slower, but would probably be a lot more secure.
You'd think people would figure out not to attach everything to the internet. Why the card readers needed to be connected to anything but an internal network (with no internet connection to that) is a bad security model to begin with.
Will they ever learn?
" The reason? Money."
FTFY
No, that's a Pink Floyd song.
Yes, because of course people will do hundreds of hours of work for free. Personally, I'm looking forward to the trend where random people send me enough money that I can retire.
Funny you'd say that at slashdot, where I'm sure quite a few programmers do open source projects for free.
The bottom line is "the tech industry" mines and sells your data (i.e., "every little thing you do"), so in order to keep their bottom line growing "the tech industry" must get the NSA's ability to mine for terrorist activity stopped before the American people force their (not "their" as in "the American people's", but "their" as in "the tech industry's") Representatives and Senators to again prioritize their Constitutional responsibilities above their bought-and-paid-for promises and outlaw all data mining as the invasion of privacy that it is.
Wow, shill huh?
Did you know the tech industry isn't google or yahoo? That companies like Amazon and Microsoft actually sell products? Netflix, it delivers streaming music. I could go on about how most the tech companies don't make money from spying on you, but you know that already don't you?
How much do you get paid to shill?
Obama forgot who his bosses are.
Obama thought he has become the KING of the Americans.
Obama is but one of the civil servants whose salaries are being paid by the American taxpayers.
Although I am no great fan of President Obama, generally, and wish it was someone else, you nonetheless have that quite wrong. He isn't a "civil servant." Civil servants are hired help of the Executive branch of government.
President Obama is the President of the United States of America, leader of the country, a position long known as leader of the Free World, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, the man empowered to authorize the launch of nuclear weapons, the head of the executive branch of the United States, the man who appoints the heads of the executive departments with the advice and consent of the Senate, the man who appoints Ambassadors, and the highest elected official in the country - one of only two national offices. His signature or acquiescence is generally required for bills passed by Congress to become law, otherwise he can block them unless the Congress musters 2/3 majority vote to override him, which rarely happens.
He isn't king, but as President he wields the highest authority of the executive branch. When backed by Congress he has enormous power.
You aren't his boss, he isn't a shoeshine boy that you can bark at. If you voted, you helped elect him, but that is past now. He has the office, and there is no recall. He can only be removed before his term expires for high crimes and misdemeanors as charged in the House and tried in the Senate. Although the Constitution and the courts are a key check on his power, the Congress is key. So far the country seems content on maintaining a Democratic Senate, which ensures he will have plenty of leverage to enact the unwise policies of his party.
It would be great if you started getting this sort of stuff right, you sound like you are howling at the moon.
No actually. Voting him in doesn't make him God, it makes him even more responsible to the American People. And currently our whole government is failing the American People badly. For example, how long did our government take to "balance" the budget? It's taken over 1600 days, since like the first year of Obama's presidency. Obama is in charge, according to you, but he's letting the people he's really in charge of, Congress be the laziest bunch of fucking slackers this country has ever scene. On his watch. Obama is in charge, right? Yet he doesn't have any control of his congress or senate, he has no control of the NSA and doesn't according to him, know that this stuff is going on. So that makes him either a liar, or the crappiest president we've ever had.
He did not hijack your meeting. It was always his. Get over yourself.
Wrong, the President is to serve the people. It's not about what he wants, it's about what the people want.
The President might be in charge, but it's only because he was voted in. His responsibility is to the citizens of the USA, not to himself.
I'm not american, lived and visited several parts of the world. Love to talk and fit in with the locals and socialize.
Of course it's all anecdotal, but I'm pretty sure that something odd is going on in American culture. The times i've been there I couldn't help but finding amazing how such large parts of the population take behavioral related medication. I mean, even most TV commercials I saw were for anti depressants, or even complenents to them.
But it's not the medication itself what caught my attention but how people itself claims to be unwell, not feeling like what people should feel or not behaving as people should behave. It's as if there was some sort of strong "need to be normal" or "need to be well" (whathever tha means), and that not being like that is not fitting in society.
It's not that where I am from (South America) people won't get depressed or have panic attacks, but you see such symptoms by far much, much less often. It's not misdiagnose either or that people chooses to put up with it instead of taking medication , I mean, it's very clear when someone is going through depression. In contrast, people here are more "unpolite", intimate,cares less about rules and socialize a lot more. I'm sure there has to be a relationship somehow, but I am no expert on the matter. As I said, it's just what I see, but I can't connect the dots.
So, I think that even if pharmaceutical companies capitalize on this stuff, I'm not that sure they created the situation, I believe it's more akin to a side-effect.
Being a depressed person and having to take medication, I find that my life is way better taking the anti-depression meds then not. Of course, it took 10 or so years to find the meds that work best for me and i've spent most my life not on them, but in the last 5 or so years I've been the most mentally level I have ever been in my life.
Sure, drug companies make money by selling drugs and they want to sell as much drugs as they can, if needed or not. But that doesn't change the fact that most of the drugs they sell do have problems they address & help.
I also have ADHD, which didn't get diagnosed until later in my life (also), and no one seemed to care growing up. But I'm not really down with taking speed for it, and really giving speed to kids is really stupid. I mean, they made laws against selling drugs around schools, yet they prescribed them a class a speed that is way better then any meth they could get.
Stuff like this is why there is no such things as a "free market" and why there needs to regulations. Mainly drug reps paying doctors to prescribe their drugs.
You voted for Bush. Bush Signed it. What is the problem?
I did not vote for Bush.
I feel like the NSA and the rest of the intelligence apparatuses have gotten to a point where the security of this nation trumps any man made law. If this nation is of and for the people, who the hell is the NSA working for?
The 1%ers