Once inside the portal, the researchers found they could view the names of more than 100 Equifax employees in Argentina, as well as their employee ID and email address. (...) However, all one needed to do in order to view said password was to right-click on the employee’s profile page and select “view source,” a function that displays the raw HTML code which makes up the Web site. Buried in that HTML code was the employee’s password in plain text.
A review of those accounts shows all employee passwords were the same as each user’s username. Worse still, each employee’s username appears to be nothing more than their last name, or a combination of their first initial and last name
But wait, it gets worse. From the main page of the Equifax.com.ar employee portal was a listing of some 715 pages worth of complaints and disputes filed by Argentinians who had at one point over the past decade contacted Equifax via fax, phone or email to dispute issues with their credit reports. The site also lists each person’s DNI — the Argentinian equivalent of the Social Security number — again, in plain text. All told, this section of the employee portal included more than 14,000 such records.
The death of radio has been predicted every decade over the last century. It was supposed to have died when the first talking pictures appeared in the 1920s, then it was the rise of television in the 1950s.. MTV and cable tv was supposed to have killed radio in the 1980s. Than it was the CDs and music sharing sites like napster in the 1990s that was to be radio's demise.
None of these new technologies have managed to disrupt radio, which has proven incredibly resilient to change. I wouldn't bet against the death of radio, given its resilience over the last century. If anything, I think radio as a medium has more to teach other mediums of communication how to survive technological disruption than the other way around.
Cubans are known for their DIY, improvised repairs that has kept together their infrastructure even during decades of economic hardship and an embargo. Could this just be a poorly done local electronic repair job on a power transformer, for example? The locals may well be suffering from the same issue health issues, but given the communist mindset, no one had the courage to complain. I'd wager more on poorly done electronic repair job than cloak and dagger spy tricks.
This image of the muslim society as a conservatively and sexually repressed one is a very recent one that does not find historical evidence. Up until very recently, the words most likely to come to mind when mentioning "muslim women" was harem, belly-dancing or dance of the seven veils. When arabs were portrayed on film, it was as the seductive foreign lover, such as in Rudolph Valentino's "The Sheikh".
Writers like Gustave Flaubert were travelling to the Ottoman Empire to engage in illicit sexual behaviour, such as engaging with male prostitutes, which were forbidden in their home countries, as Flaubert writes from his travels to Egypt, Beirut and Instanbul. While the US was engaged in prohibition in the 1920s, American writers were travelling to Morocco where not only alcohol, but hash and weed were (and still are) freely available. William S. Burroughs settled in Tangiers to write the "Naked Lunch" in the 1950s because he found it to be a libertine paradise where hash and homosexuality were tolerated.
I find it quite astonishing how the West's view of the Arab world has gone from moral and sexual decadence to puritan religious conservativism in such a short period of time.
The unsold inventory being held for 3rd party vendors will eventually be sold and transformed into cash for their bottom line. The expectation is that the inventory is as closely matched to demand as possible to minimize unsold items.
With this model, on the other hand, consumers are buying into it with the expectation of trying and returning items they don't like it. A substantial percentage of the inventory will be locked in try-ons and returns at any point in time. Even if the returned item is sold to another buyer, that new buyer will likely have returns of their own, thus ensuring the cycle continues.
Stop calling it 3d-printing. This is just a variation of sintering techniques that have been used for decades in the aerospace industry. While this particular method of laser sintering may be novel and require the FAA to study it before approving, sintering is a well understood metallurgical process. Given the high heat required for the process, no one is going to be home printing machine parts in their basement any time soon.
If the minimum order is 3 pieces of clothing, and assuming that the average consumer only buys 1, that means Amazon needs to hold 2 piece of unsold inventory for every 1 piece they sell. That's a substantial amount of inventory that needs to be held to justify each sale. The only way I can see this working is if they price their items higher to account for the costs of the clothing that is returned without being purchased. How does this model make business sense?
Except that the blasphemy law in Pakistan was originally introduced by the British in 1927 during their colonial rule, and retained by Pakistan post-independence. The British motivation was to maintain religious harmony in British India by prosecuting actions that might inflame any religious community. Islamic fundamentalism had little to do with the implementation of the law.
The concept of Basic Income as originally proposed is that it would substitute all other government support programs - social security, old age pension, child support, unemployment insurance - with a single streamlined service. It is not supposed to increase government expenses - it should in fact reduce them by eliminating administrative costs, which is why the idea appealed to those on both the left and the right of the political spectrum. It is the conceptual equivalent of the flat tax, except applied to government spending instead of government taxation.
The problem is that as I've seen it applied in various test programs, it has been applied as an additional program on top of existing services. It would be simply unsustainable for any government to pay for both existing programs and a new Basic Income program, so the idea is financially unsustainable. And because of concerns of various groups - from the elderly, the poor and others - that they require additional support, and the political optics of providing financial support to very rich people, the same level of selective support depending on one's personal condition is being applied to these so-called "Basic Income" programs. In short, they appear to be duplicating existing social services, with the same level of bureaucracy required. That is simply unsustainable in any national stage.
Sure, if you can handle the debilitating PTSD brought on by watching traumatic videos. My good health is worth more than any money they can throw at me.
So, yes, watching a traumatic video is definitely unsafe. And I sincerely help that Facebook provides psychological help to their workers who will be screening for these disturbing videos.
Eleven years later, Bing is a small minority player in search, with less than 10 percent market share on the desktop and less than 1 percent in mobile.
The summary appears to imply that Bing went from being a major player to a small player in the search engine market. Bing has always been a minority player. The reality is that the 10 percent market share represents growth, considering that Bing was a non-existent presence in the market 11 years ago, so the analogy is fatally flawed.
One of the simplest forms of automation in a car, the automatic transmission, has been around for over 80 years. Despite this, only 20% of cars in Europe and Japan are sold with automatic transmissions. Given that the most often cited reasons are cost and a desire for control, and that a self driving cars will necessarily be more expensive, with less driver control, I find it doubtful that a self driving car will even approach 20% of the market.
A computer doesn't give a shit if the runway is straight or curved, because it can handle a little more left (or whatever) while it's managing dozens of other things.
An autoland system in aircraft depends on the local airport navigation system - either Instrument Landing System (ILS) cat III or Microwave Landing System (MLS).. An ILS or MLS installation cannot be easily moved, and is usually tuned and adjusted for a specific runway.
For this to be viable, it would have to be implemented in conjunction with a Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS), an augmentation to GPS navigation which could provide guidance from any runway direction. However, GBAS does not currently provided the required accuracy for autoland systems. I think if they want this concept to work, they need to focus on the navigation system challenges first, including air traffic management.
If this ban had been in place in place when a Samsung Note 7 caught fire in an airplane cabin the result would have been more serious. Instead of being quickly caught and dealt with as the phone battery overheated in his hand while still on ground, it is possible that it would have smoldered undetected in the middle of the cargo hold until turning into a serious conflagration in-flight. A ban like this will increase the risk of in-flight battery fires and make flying less safe.
But how much time do you save nowadays though. 20 years ago when the Concord ran, you got to the airport 45 min ahead of time with plenty of time to spare.
Today, international travel takes about 3 hours at the airport alone. Let alone the flight. So if we're taking 9 vs 6 hours spent, is it really that big of a difference?
The Boom jet is a business jet, not a commercial aircraft. Passengers in a business jet typically drive directly to the tarmac and board the plane, bypassing the usual delays. I've had the opportunity to fly business jet once for work, and it only required me to arrive 15min ahead of takeoff, with the additional benefit of not having to do any layovers.
And as TFA says, the UK tried a similar ban in 2006, and the result was that theft of electronic devices skyrocketed. The risk of in-flight fire also increases, as it is easier to detect a battery fire in the passenger compartment while the fire is restricted to the device and easy to contain , than in the cargo hold. If anything, this ban will make flying less safe.
It seems premature. According to Google's last disengagement report, humans had to take control of the wheel at a rate of 0.2 per 1,000 miles, or 1 per 5,000 miles. While this is significant improvement from their previous report, which showed human intervention once every 1,000 miles, it would not give me confidence that the cars are ready to be in public streets without a driver present. They should be aiming for a rate of human intervention of no more than once per the lifetime of the vehicle (1 per 200,000 miles) before allowing the cars without a human driver.
The linked report provides their criteria for classifying bridges as structurally deficient, based on FHWA guidelines:
According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a bridge is classified as structurally deficient if the condition rating for the deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert and retaining walls is rated 4 or below or if the bridge receives an appraisal rating of 2 or less for structural condition or waterway adequacy.
They're rating the bridge based on whether one or more of the bridge key structural elements are in poor condition or not. The need to widen the bridge is secondary to their assessment.
While true that the differences may be demographic in nature, these claims point to a bigger problem with e-voting machines: there is no paper trail to allow the results to be audited and scrutinized. The integrity of the results cannot be verified. With a paper ballot, a careful manual recount would've been possible, with multiple observers to confirm the count. This is simply not possible with electronic ballots
Having a cloud of suspicion over the results benefits no one, most of all Trump himself. Any election system that does not have an auditable paper trail will become a breeding ground for conspiracy theories and a focus for electoral challenges. This is bad not just for the losing candidate, but for democracy in general, as it risks deligitimizing the results.
For an airliner, what matters is the flight time+aircraft turnaround time. Currently a trip from New York to London takes 6h30, and London to New York averages around 8hrs, due to prevailing winds. When aircraft turnaround time is included, usually around 1hr in average, this means an aircraft can be used to fly one round-trip fly a day.
With a flight time of 3-4hrs, this new supersonic aircraft will be able to fly 2 round trip flights a day, and possibly 3 if turnaround is quick. For an airliner, this means they need half the number of aircraft to maintain the same flight frequency, which reduces costs. This is where airliners can see substantial savings.
When people use the expression "he's on autopilot" they tend to mean someone who's just going through the motions without being mentally engaged. In a popular sense, autopilot is used for any task that is running without active engagement. E.g. a business running on autopilot, to mean a business functioning without active engagement. What matters is how the term is popularly used, not how it is used in a particular technical context.
I suspect the real reason Tesla wants to hang on to "Autopilot" term, is that it allows them to subtly market this function as a self-driving vehicle without explicitly saying so by playing on the misunderstanding of the term by laypeople. This allows them to have it regulated as a cruise control device, instead of the more stringent safety and reliability standards that a self-driving car would have to meet.
That she's being held to a different standard is established. Anyone else applying for a high-level, sensitive job in the government with her track record would never, ever be hired (presuming they were out of jail and able to apply in the first place).
There should be a different standard. In most european countries, elected officials are given broad immunity from crimes commited while in office. This avoids politically based prosecutions, while still leaving the option of the ballot box to remove politicans accused of serious mismanagement. While broad parliamentary immunity can allow some corrupt elected officials to go unpunished, most europeans recognize the benefits to democracy of avoiding political show trials far outweigh any risk of a few bad apples going unpunished.
Clinton isn't just anyone else applying for a goverment job. She is the front running candidate for the top political office in the country. Having even an administrative sanction against her would be a damaging and corrosive interference in the political process. She can and will still be judged by a jury of her peers - the american electorate.
If it's good enough to drive at all, it's good enough to be put to use for the purpose I bought it.
The problem is there's likely regulatory issues involved. In states where legislation to regulate self-driving cars has been introduced, they've largely been treated as experimental vehicles where their usage is restricted. Using it for commercial purposes would likely violate the limited scope under which these vehicles have been allowed in the road.
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The death of radio has been predicted every decade over the last century. It was supposed to have died when the first talking pictures appeared in the 1920s, then it was the rise of television in the 1950s.. MTV and cable tv was supposed to have killed radio in the 1980s. Than it was the CDs and music sharing sites like napster in the 1990s that was to be radio's demise.
None of these new technologies have managed to disrupt radio, which has proven incredibly resilient to change. I wouldn't bet against the death of radio, given its resilience over the last century. If anything, I think radio as a medium has more to teach other mediums of communication how to survive technological disruption than the other way around.
Cubans are known for their DIY, improvised repairs that has kept together their infrastructure even during decades of economic hardship and an embargo. Could this just be a poorly done local electronic repair job on a power transformer, for example? The locals may well be suffering from the same issue health issues, but given the communist mindset, no one had the courage to complain. I'd wager more on poorly done electronic repair job than cloak and dagger spy tricks.
This image of the muslim society as a conservatively and sexually repressed one is a very recent one that does not find historical evidence. Up until very recently, the words most likely to come to mind when mentioning "muslim women" was harem, belly-dancing or dance of the seven veils. When arabs were portrayed on film, it was as the seductive foreign lover, such as in Rudolph Valentino's "The Sheikh".
Writers like Gustave Flaubert were travelling to the Ottoman Empire to engage in illicit sexual behaviour, such as engaging with male prostitutes, which were forbidden in their home countries, as Flaubert writes from his travels to Egypt, Beirut and Instanbul. While the US was engaged in prohibition in the 1920s, American writers were travelling to Morocco where not only alcohol, but hash and weed were (and still are) freely available. William S. Burroughs settled in Tangiers to write the "Naked Lunch" in the 1950s because he found it to be a libertine paradise where hash and homosexuality were tolerated.
I find it quite astonishing how the West's view of the Arab world has gone from moral and sexual decadence to puritan religious conservativism in such a short period of time.
The unsold inventory being held for 3rd party vendors will eventually be sold and transformed into cash for their bottom line. The expectation is that the inventory is as closely matched to demand as possible to minimize unsold items.
With this model, on the other hand, consumers are buying into it with the expectation of trying and returning items they don't like it. A substantial percentage of the inventory will be locked in try-ons and returns at any point in time. Even if the returned item is sold to another buyer, that new buyer will likely have returns of their own, thus ensuring the cycle continues.
Stop calling it 3d-printing. This is just a variation of sintering techniques that have been used for decades in the aerospace industry. While this particular method of laser sintering may be novel and require the FAA to study it before approving, sintering is a well understood metallurgical process. Given the high heat required for the process, no one is going to be home printing machine parts in their basement any time soon.
If the minimum order is 3 pieces of clothing, and assuming that the average consumer only buys 1, that means Amazon needs to hold 2 piece of unsold inventory for every 1 piece they sell. That's a substantial amount of inventory that needs to be held to justify each sale. The only way I can see this working is if they price their items higher to account for the costs of the clothing that is returned without being purchased. How does this model make business sense?
Except that the blasphemy law in Pakistan was originally introduced by the British in 1927 during their colonial rule, and retained by Pakistan post-independence. The British motivation was to maintain religious harmony in British India by prosecuting actions that might inflame any religious community. Islamic fundamentalism had little to do with the implementation of the law.
The concept of Basic Income as originally proposed is that it would substitute all other government support programs - social security, old age pension, child support, unemployment insurance - with a single streamlined service. It is not supposed to increase government expenses - it should in fact reduce them by eliminating administrative costs, which is why the idea appealed to those on both the left and the right of the political spectrum. It is the conceptual equivalent of the flat tax, except applied to government spending instead of government taxation.
The problem is that as I've seen it applied in various test programs, it has been applied as an additional program on top of existing services. It would be simply unsustainable for any government to pay for both existing programs and a new Basic Income program, so the idea is financially unsustainable. And because of concerns of various groups - from the elderly, the poor and others - that they require additional support, and the political optics of providing financial support to very rich people, the same level of selective support depending on one's personal condition is being applied to these so-called "Basic Income" programs. In short, they appear to be duplicating existing social services, with the same level of bureaucracy required. That is simply unsustainable in any national stage.
Sure, if you can handle the debilitating PTSD brought on by watching traumatic videos. My good health is worth more than any money they can throw at me.
Watching a violent video online can lead to PTSD, inducing nightmares, anxiety and panic attacks. One study study found that people who watched traumatic events on video were more traumatized than those who watched it in real life.
So, yes, watching a traumatic video is definitely unsafe. And I sincerely help that Facebook provides psychological help to their workers who will be screening for these disturbing videos.
Eleven years later, Bing is a small minority player in search, with less than 10 percent market share on the desktop and less than 1 percent in mobile.
The summary appears to imply that Bing went from being a major player to a small player in the search engine market. Bing has always been a minority player. The reality is that the 10 percent market share represents growth, considering that Bing was a non-existent presence in the market 11 years ago, so the analogy is fatally flawed.
One of the simplest forms of automation in a car, the automatic transmission, has been around for over 80 years. Despite this, only 20% of cars in Europe and Japan are sold with automatic transmissions. Given that the most often cited reasons are cost and a desire for control, and that a self driving cars will necessarily be more expensive, with less driver control, I find it doubtful that a self driving car will even approach 20% of the market.
They listed the rent per week, not per month, so that is more like $2000 per month.
A computer doesn't give a shit if the runway is straight or curved, because it can handle a little more left (or whatever) while it's managing dozens of other things.
An autoland system in aircraft depends on the local airport navigation system - either Instrument Landing System (ILS) cat III or Microwave Landing System (MLS).. An ILS or MLS installation cannot be easily moved, and is usually tuned and adjusted for a specific runway.
For this to be viable, it would have to be implemented in conjunction with a Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS), an augmentation to GPS navigation which could provide guidance from any runway direction. However, GBAS does not currently provided the required accuracy for autoland systems. I think if they want this concept to work, they need to focus on the navigation system challenges first, including air traffic management.
If this ban had been in place in place when a Samsung Note 7 caught fire in an airplane cabin the result would have been more serious. Instead of being quickly caught and dealt with as the phone battery overheated in his hand while still on ground, it is possible that it would have smoldered undetected in the middle of the cargo hold until turning into a serious conflagration in-flight. A ban like this will increase the risk of in-flight battery fires and make flying less safe.
But how much time do you save nowadays though. 20 years ago when the Concord ran, you got to the airport 45 min ahead of time with plenty of time to spare.
Today, international travel takes about 3 hours at the airport alone. Let alone the flight. So if we're taking 9 vs 6 hours spent, is it really that big of a difference?
The Boom jet is a business jet, not a commercial aircraft. Passengers in a business jet typically drive directly to the tarmac and board the plane, bypassing the usual delays. I've had the opportunity to fly business jet once for work, and it only required me to arrive 15min ahead of takeoff, with the additional benefit of not having to do any layovers.
And as TFA says, the UK tried a similar ban in 2006, and the result was that theft of electronic devices skyrocketed. The risk of in-flight fire also increases, as it is easier to detect a battery fire in the passenger compartment while the fire is restricted to the device and easy to contain , than in the cargo hold. If anything, this ban will make flying less safe.
It seems premature. According to Google's last disengagement report, humans had to take control of the wheel at a rate of 0.2 per 1,000 miles, or 1 per 5,000 miles. While this is significant improvement from their previous report, which showed human intervention once every 1,000 miles, it would not give me confidence that the cars are ready to be in public streets without a driver present. They should be aiming for a rate of human intervention of no more than once per the lifetime of the vehicle (1 per 200,000 miles) before allowing the cars without a human driver.
According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a bridge is classified as structurally deficient if the condition rating for the deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert and retaining walls is rated 4 or below or if the bridge receives an appraisal rating of 2 or less for structural condition or waterway adequacy.
They're rating the bridge based on whether one or more of the bridge key structural elements are in poor condition or not. The need to widen the bridge is secondary to their assessment.
While true that the differences may be demographic in nature, these claims point to a bigger problem with e-voting machines: there is no paper trail to allow the results to be audited and scrutinized. The integrity of the results cannot be verified. With a paper ballot, a careful manual recount would've been possible, with multiple observers to confirm the count. This is simply not possible with electronic ballots
Having a cloud of suspicion over the results benefits no one, most of all Trump himself. Any election system that does not have an auditable paper trail will become a breeding ground for conspiracy theories and a focus for electoral challenges. This is bad not just for the losing candidate, but for democracy in general, as it risks deligitimizing the results.
For an airliner, what matters is the flight time+aircraft turnaround time. Currently a trip from New York to London takes 6h30, and London to New York averages around 8hrs, due to prevailing winds. When aircraft turnaround time is included, usually around 1hr in average, this means an aircraft can be used to fly one round-trip fly a day.
With a flight time of 3-4hrs, this new supersonic aircraft will be able to fly 2 round trip flights a day, and possibly 3 if turnaround is quick. For an airliner, this means they need half the number of aircraft to maintain the same flight frequency, which reduces costs. This is where airliners can see substantial savings.
When people use the expression "he's on autopilot" they tend to mean someone who's just going through the motions without being mentally engaged. In a popular sense, autopilot is used for any task that is running without active engagement. E.g. a business running on autopilot, to mean a business functioning without active engagement. What matters is how the term is popularly used, not how it is used in a particular technical context.
I suspect the real reason Tesla wants to hang on to "Autopilot" term, is that it allows them to subtly market this function as a self-driving vehicle without explicitly saying so by playing on the misunderstanding of the term by laypeople. This allows them to have it regulated as a cruise control device, instead of the more stringent safety and reliability standards that a self-driving car would have to meet.
That she's being held to a different standard is established. Anyone else applying for a high-level, sensitive job in the government with her track record would never, ever be hired (presuming they were out of jail and able to apply in the first place).
There should be a different standard. In most european countries, elected officials are given broad immunity from crimes commited while in office. This avoids politically based prosecutions, while still leaving the option of the ballot box to remove politicans accused of serious mismanagement. While broad parliamentary immunity can allow some corrupt elected officials to go unpunished, most europeans recognize the benefits to democracy of avoiding political show trials far outweigh any risk of a few bad apples going unpunished.
Clinton isn't just anyone else applying for a goverment job. She is the front running candidate for the top political office in the country. Having even an administrative sanction against her would be a damaging and corrosive interference in the political process. She can and will still be judged by a jury of her peers - the american electorate.
If it's good enough to drive at all, it's good enough to be put to use for the purpose I bought it.
The problem is there's likely regulatory issues involved. In states where legislation to regulate self-driving cars has been introduced, they've largely been treated as experimental vehicles where their usage is restricted. Using it for commercial purposes would likely violate the limited scope under which these vehicles have been allowed in the road.