but if that's true and the Navy did the rollout w/o paying for the licences to back it then it's still a problem.
It sounds like: Navy bought 38 licences with a licence manager to test SW Navy liked SW and told vendor they wanted to roll it to fleet but wouldn't pay unless the enforcement mech was removed. vendor removed mech, expecting payday Navy rolled out and went with the "we already paid (for 38) licence fee". - this step is fraud
I have *shit* OTA reception. Still no cable. I do pay for (ugh) AT&T internet, but not for phone or video. Comcast would get my business (simply based on speed/$), but they refused to use the existing wiring in the house (All RG6) and insist on running their own wire through the wall (not gonna happen, 8" of hardened concrete and cinderblock with rebar).
We had one of these with a list of about 7K people. Legitimate list, legitimate e-mail, but not germane to each other. Total shitstorm that lasted 4 or 5 days. I finally had enough and did a re-all with a meme I made with the Dos Equis guy:
I don't always ReAll to liststorms (pic) but when I do it's to post a new meme
I got spoken to about that... I also got about 20 (not reAll) replies saying how awesome that was. -nB
It was more complex than that. Nearly was at civil war levels. I subsequently left the company and my previous boss, and his boss lost their managerial duties, the team broken up.
Because sometimes you change positions and should no longer be on a mailing list that had something to do with your old role, but the list administrator (who *might* not be IT, in fact likely isn't) hasn't taken you off it.
I had this happen when I transferred to an entirely different team, and over 5 months later was still getting e-mail from a list that the manager of the team refused to take me off of (it was retaliation for leaving his team). Finally with the [written] consent of my current boss I started openly replying to the list's questions with bogus info that looked correct. Nothing earth shattering, but also not quite right. Hilarity ensued.
I should add this list produced at least 50 emails a day!
I know I *don't* know everything they've gleaned from me. Doesn't matter. I am with OP in that it's a severe difference between giving me a service for my data (effectively paying me for my data) and then monetizing it, versus hoovering up my data for using a service I'm *PAYING FOR* and trying to monetize that as well. -nB
As a rebuttal to the specific example, yes. As a rebuttal to the emotion and gut feeling, not so much...
I'm with the GP post... I simply don't trust her. Trump will be held in check by a congress that will refuse to pass whatever hair brained idea he proposes, Clinton will go "House of Cards" and make it happen. They *both* terrify me. No I won't move if $foo gets elected, nor will I go buy a ton of ammo and guns if $bar gets elected. I am preparing to weather the coming storm as best I can for myself, my kids, and my closest friend and her kid.
I voted for the less adept but MostlyHarmless(tm) Johnson FWIW. -nB
Adding to this, I think India may have been a bad example... I have had more junk code from India than any other site I've worked with in my former employer. We had sites *everywhere*. China, Japan, India, Philippines, Israel, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Germany, USA, Costa Rica, Canada, etc...
Code quality was *not* India's strong suit. That their pay was lower is more a function of this than anything else IMHO.
My Israeli counterparts were paid as well as or higher than me. My Polish counterparts were paid on-par. Code from both was organized differently, but was functionally sound.
My most memorable snip of code from the Indian team was a line of perl: if(uc($string) eq "warning"){...} now, that will *NEVER* eval to true, so the code will never be executed. As a result their test case didn't catch the window that popped up saying "warning". Their tests said *PASS* while the code they were testing was actually horribly broken.
Actually, in my old company, yes. Every single patch from every single vendor was tested in-house before deployment to end systems. Legal reviewed every single release note.
I'll bite: Because Pacemakers (and the related implanted defibrillators) are something that independent security research on is a good thing. Up till now, however, anyone hacking these for research could be sued under DMCA.
Another good effect: Voting machines! (Assuming you manage to legally acquire one).
The fact is there is a law on the books about this topic and through the self service portal you can violate it. I'm not sure that's FB's fault. The advertiser is the one selecting the exclusions. There are other ad campaigns where this targeting is perfectly valid and legal. I think the expectation from FBs devs is that you are responsible for not doing something illegal with their service.
Same issue: If I post hate content on FB and cause someone to kill themselves is FB blamed for it? no. I am. (rightly so). This advertising issue should be no different.
the difference is if you take the cash out by simply not printing it then the supply is hard limited. If you ban gold ownership that doesn't change that the BadGuys(tm) can continue to use it for untraceable wealth transfer.
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but if that's true and the Navy did the rollout w/o paying for the licences to back it then it's still a problem.
It sounds like:
Navy bought 38 licences with a licence manager to test SW
Navy liked SW and told vendor they wanted to roll it to fleet but wouldn't pay unless the enforcement mech was removed.
vendor removed mech, expecting payday
Navy rolled out and went with the "we already paid (for 38) licence fee". - this step is fraud
I have *shit* OTA reception.
Still no cable.
I do pay for (ugh) AT&T internet, but not for phone or video.
Comcast would get my business (simply based on speed/$), but they refused to use the existing wiring in the house (All RG6) and insist on running their own wire through the wall (not gonna happen, 8" of hardened concrete and cinderblock with rebar).
This year I think is beyond "Jitter" and into "outlier" territory... :)
But yes, part of the problem is the amount of jitter in the executive office is increasing term over term.
But then it comes down to: Did this software have such a license? If so was the license server configured for only allowing 38 uses at once?
Yes.
I was inspired by him as well, that I could do nearly anything I wanted... but also to apply substantially more caution to my endeavors.
FWIW he's only a year younger than me and I easily could have been him, except I was busy with tesla coils and such instead...
A reactor was seriously on my todo list, but generally more the farnsworth fusor design.
-nB
We had one of these with a list of about 7K people. Legitimate list, legitimate e-mail, but not germane to each other.
Total shitstorm that lasted 4 or 5 days. I finally had enough and did a re-all with a meme I made with the Dos Equis guy:
I don't always ReAll to liststorms
(pic)
but when I do it's to post a new meme
I got spoken to about that...
I also got about 20 (not reAll) replies saying how awesome that was.
-nB
I'll make sure you get a copy of the memo.
It extends beyond that.
Even if your child blocks the bully, the bully may be friends of friends and use that position as a (ahem) bully pulpit.
-nB
and this is why I so closely proctor my children's use of social media.
It was more complex than that.
Nearly was at civil war levels. I subsequently left the company and my previous boss, and his boss lost their managerial duties, the team broken up.
-nB
Did you get a copy of the memo about the new TPS report coversheets?
That's a *bad* server config!
Because sometimes you change positions and should no longer be on a mailing list that had something to do with your old role, but the list administrator (who *might* not be IT, in fact likely isn't) hasn't taken you off it.
I had this happen when I transferred to an entirely different team, and over 5 months later was still getting e-mail from a list that the manager of the team refused to take me off of (it was retaliation for leaving his team). Finally with the [written] consent of my current boss I started openly replying to the list's questions with bogus info that looked correct. Nothing earth shattering, but also not quite right. Hilarity ensued.
I should add this list produced at least 50 emails a day!
Re: Re: Re: TestEmail
It's people like you that are making this chain keep going! Just stop replying!
I know I *don't* know everything they've gleaned from me.
Doesn't matter.
I am with OP in that it's a severe difference between giving me a service for my data (effectively paying me for my data) and then monetizing it, versus hoovering up my data for using a service I'm *PAYING FOR* and trying to monetize that as well.
-nB
As a rebuttal to the specific example, yes. As a rebuttal to the emotion and gut feeling, not so much...
I'm with the GP post... I simply don't trust her. Trump will be held in check by a congress that will refuse to pass whatever hair brained idea he proposes, Clinton will go "House of Cards" and make it happen. They *both* terrify me.
No I won't move if $foo gets elected, nor will I go buy a ton of ammo and guns if $bar gets elected. I am preparing to weather the coming storm as best I can for myself, my kids, and my closest friend and her kid.
I voted for the less adept but MostlyHarmless(tm) Johnson FWIW.
-nB
Adding to this, I think India may have been a bad example...
I have had more junk code from India than any other site I've worked with in my former employer.
We had sites *everywhere*.
China, Japan, India, Philippines, Israel, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Germany, USA, Costa Rica, Canada, etc...
Code quality was *not* India's strong suit.
That their pay was lower is more a function of this than anything else IMHO.
My Israeli counterparts were paid as well as or higher than me. My Polish counterparts were paid on-par. Code from both was organized differently, but was functionally sound.
My most memorable snip of code from the Indian team was a line of perl:
if(uc($string) eq "warning"){...}
now, that will *NEVER* eval to true, so the code will never be executed.
As a result their test case didn't catch the window that popped up saying "warning".
Their tests said *PASS* while the code they were testing was actually horribly broken.
-nB
And then noticed what was happening, so stopped putting them on the web archive and said nothing hoping that it goes away.
Kinda does explain the insta-stop
Actually, in my old company, yes.
Every single patch from every single vendor was tested in-house before deployment to end systems.
Legal reviewed every single release note.
Lawyer's job is to be conservative.
Telemetry is new.
Telemetry may be exploitable.
Telemetry can't be turned off.
Result: Do not use.
Simple really.
I'll bite:
Because Pacemakers (and the related implanted defibrillators) are something that independent security research on is a good thing.
Up till now, however, anyone hacking these for research could be sued under DMCA.
Another good effect:
Voting machines! (Assuming you manage to legally acquire one).
AFAIK that has not been tested...
but if you had hacked the Tesla it is a much more obvious conclusion.
I tend to lump them in the "some people will find a reason to be offended no matter what you do" bucket.
The fact is there is a law on the books about this topic and through the self service portal you can violate it.
I'm not sure that's FB's fault. The advertiser is the one selecting the exclusions.
There are other ad campaigns where this targeting is perfectly valid and legal. I think the expectation from FBs devs is that you are responsible for not doing something illegal with their service.
Same issue:
If I post hate content on FB and cause someone to kill themselves is FB blamed for it? no. I am. (rightly so).
This advertising issue should be no different.
-nB
the difference is if you take the cash out by simply not printing it then the supply is hard limited.
If you ban gold ownership that doesn't change that the BadGuys(tm) can continue to use it for untraceable wealth transfer.