Politicians will say anything to get your vote. This is nothing new. They will say it in words so they are not actually lying. Recently we have seen this with the UK politicians who were shocked themselves they won Brexit and have no idea how to get out of the shit. We have seen it with the 'closing' of Gunatanamo bay. We have seen it with any and all politicians. And I mean all of them. Right, left, communist,...
As long as they are not accountable for their lies, nothing will change and to do that a serious reform would be needed. How to get to that reform? Vote for me, I will do it. I guarantee that these lies will stop.
Because of money. People want to sell items they no longer need in exchange of money. Others would want to pay money for items they want.
The risk that items are defective is also a reason why they are cheaper and worth the risk to some people. The fact they sell them with personal data is because they were not aware. Otherwise they would have either removed it, or adjusted the price.
Yes, you pay for the warrenty. I used to work for an electronics company and we had details on what broke and when and how often.
we also sold extended warrenties. At the moment I started working there it was 1 year and the law changed to two years, As they knew exactely when people called and how often, it was pretty easy to calculate the price increase that would cover the loss.
In the end it is a sort of (cheap) insurance that will make sure you do not walk out the store with a dead device. Forgot the numbers, but the increase in price was pretty small. Well below the 1% where an extended warrenty would be around 10% or more,
Why 10% or more? Because people are abusing it. During the X-mas period a lot of these came back as suddenly broken where you could clearly see it was not 'dropped' but abused with a hammer or the like. You should hear the people on the phone when they received an identical system back (that we still had in stock) from 2 years ago and not the latest hardware.
Can I give you the number of my grandmother and her friends and could you explain it to them?
Yesterday they knew almost how to not go via Google to go to a website. Only took me 40 minutes to explain where to type the address. Why almost? She was tired and it was tea time in the home she is and if you is not in time, that bitch from next door will take the nice cookies.
People only use (and pirate) Windows because billions of dollars of legacy x86 apps that were written when Microsoft had a monopoly on the OS market due to their lucky deal with IBM
The fact that so much software was written for it was a result. The reason really is pre-installation.
People just has happily buy Apple or Android stuff now. Sure, some people will be installing Windows because they need a specific software to work (and I even include games here). The majority of people will not need that. They will need to be able to use the Google and Facebook. They might need sometimes need to print out a letter. And they need to listen to music and watch films and the pictures of their grand children.
That is the majority of people. So why don't they use Linux? Because it did not come with the PC.
Just like car radios, there are way better radios available, yet people just go with what is already in there.
I know there are some PCs you can buy with Linux, but people who are interested in that will already know what distro they want and will install it themselves anyway. I am talking about the PCs at Amazon and Best Buy and the like where your neighbours grandpa gets his PC from.
Fun thing is that when I went to the US I had NO idea where I would be staying or going. That is how I travel. I arrive and then I will see where I go and where I will stay. I know roughly what I want to see, but that changes a lot.
If I like a place I stay longer, If I don't I drive on and that will depend on the mood I am in.
And there is no option for 'I have no idea' for any of it, so I had to book a hotel so I had some sort of info. I also bought a throw away SIM card, because fuck them. I did a fresh image on my PC and left it without password, so they could not find anything there. Download was then later done with all the info via ssh.
And all this to travel to "Home of the free". You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
I did it online for the US Visa. However that was no easy task. I lkive in a EU country I was not born in and do not have the nationality of. They asked the Social Security number of the country I was born in. As I have never worked there, I do not have one. To get one I would need to travel to said country and get it sorted out. That would take a while. The ambassy of said country are assholes and don't do anything. So I called the US one. They told me they thought it might be ok if I would put in 'unknown'. Obviously no guarantee if I would be allowed into the country when I arrived. It was clear they were just guessing here and had no idea what the procedure was.
Arriving in JFK reminded me of when I traveld to Berlin by car when the wall still existed. Basically incompetent people put in a uniform to annoy people and put on a show. And all the time saying they are their for your safety and they are just following orders.
The IP changing is not an issue. Logs will tell the provider what household was connected to that specific IP at that specific time.
I am assuming that they will at least provide not only an IP, but also a time and date of when the assumed copyright violation took place.
Now I hope they did took summer/winter time into account. Yes, I know of cases where they got t his wrong. This was during dialup and it became clear pretty fast they made a stupid mistake.
Also they did not get far anyway, as it was not a court order, so we told them to fuck off and come back with a court order. The court told them to fuck off and come back when people started making money of copyright infringement and not bother them if Aunt Emma is sharing her music.
Not in those words and I feel stupid not to have kept a copy of that last letter. Country? Belgium.
The thing is not that you think that others have only 1/10th of the potential. The problem is that you think you have 10* the potential.
And don't forget they a paying into the whole package and perhaps they don't like you as a person or they like you but you are too nice or are percieved too nice or not nice enough or whatever.
You also have no idea how hard the others worked to get where they are.
I have a backup of my backup. With the prices of HDs that is not really an issue anymore. The reason? During a system upgrade where I reformatted my HDs in my PC (not an issue as I have backups) and at that moment my NAS decided to die. So now I have backups of my backups. And yes, they are incremential backups.
Just go with 'it tracks you all the time'. Much easier for you and even if not true right now, it soon will be. No, it does not matter if you have FB or not. There is no need to feel paranoia, because you ARE being followed.
What they posses daily? Their phone. You could even use different things for different people. There are even RFID stickers. They slap that on their phone and done. Or if they are required to have a badge, slap the sticker on that. On Ebay you can find then from 30cents to 1USD.
EU is a bunch of national politicians patronizing their voters first, by introducing unpopular laws and measures they couldn't possibly introduce directly.
This is also the reason why people hate the EU and Brussels. Because their local politicians keep using it as an excuse that "well, we tried, but, you know, Brussels said so." That is obviously easier tan to say that you are actualy in favour of a decision that you know will be not well received withing your voting system.
It is as if they aresaying that we should stop hitting ourselves while they hold our arm and blame Brussels when they ae caught.
So no The EU is not the only option, but as of now it is a whole lot better than without it. Competing as separate enteties, none of them means anything.
Football analogy. You can have 11 outstanding players, but they are nothing if they are all individuals and you can play them one by one. Even an average team will win. And that would mean we hand ourselves over to either the US or the Russians and I am not sure wich is worse in the long term.
And the fact that the Highway toll gates accept t hem is the reason you do not need to enter a PIN. Advantage: it is fast Disadvantage : It is not secure
And now we are getting the great idea of wireless cards. Idiots.
I remember when we went to the Euro. People all said it would be worse and we would loose money and what not. The Euroa was apparently a very bad idea.
Not sure in other countries, but in Belgium prices did not jump besides the standard increases. And what is more important, the money they used WAS already a Euro. It was just named differently in each and every country.
A bit like the Imperial system that uses the Inch, but is actually SI where it is fixed how long an inch is comaperd to cm. So if the cm changes, the inch changes.
Same with the euro, before it was real monies. You Franc, Guilder or Mark where fixed to the EUR.
And then that first trip from living in Belgium, visiting friends in The Netherlands, to my sister in Germany and then a trip to my parents in Spain, all within a week and no need to change money. Delightfull.
Living in Belgium, working in Brussels.Many I know are also not mourning at all, but for different reasons. The UK was never a full member of the EU as we see it. Not signing Schengen, not joining the EURO. Those are the major ones. So we say: good riddance and we will welcome Scotland and Northern-Ireland. The last as an independent country or as a part of the Republic of Ireland. We have expereience with these situations.
You know why people blame the EU for all these new laws and burocracy? Bceuase it is easier for your local politician to say "I tried, but, you know, Brussels..." than it is to say that it might be something unfavourable, but better in the end.
Is it 100% perfect? Obviously not, but it is better than having all these countries compete with each other. I live in Belgium. My sister lives in Germany, my parents in Spain and this since before the EURO, so I know what it is without all these advantages.
Roaming cost will be something of the past very soon. I can go to any country and buy something wiithout paying extra taxes or import things (some exceptions apply) and I can work anywhere I like.
So yes, for me the EU has more advantages than it has disadvantages and loosing a nagging UK will only benefit that. Will it hurt? A little bit perhaps as the markets panick. For the EU this will even out. For the UK? Probably not. They will be worse off, but who cares?
In Belgium it is handled with the combination of you (obligatory) ID card that has a chip, a reader and a PIN you select yourself.
So all people need to do is get a card reader and install the software. It runs under Windos, Mac and Linux. If you are paranoid, you could even compile it yourself as it is open source. http://eid.belgium.be/en
This is a social problem and IT tries to solve it with a technical solution. Enforcing this technical solution will not solve anything. At least not in the long run.
The issue is that everybody looks at the problem as a problem with THEIR system and forget that security is not a technical issue. It is a social issue. It is a process and humans are the most important part of that process as well the reason it exists.
I have some hundred websites with passwords. At mu job I can not even select my login, so that is an added bonus. Not all are maintained systems by our IT department. I am not an IT person, so I have no way of installing some password reminder program on my work PC (OK, I could and get fired for installing software on the system)
I have one system the rquires me to change the password EVERY FUCKING WEEK! So yes, I make use of simpeler passwords. I write down the one that I need to change each week.
I have asked and not often gotten an answer why I must change my password every 30 days. If I need to change it every 30 days, why not 29, or 7 or every day? If I would need to replace my lock at home every month, I would doubt the security standard of said lock.
Unfortunately I do not have a solution. I just know what we have now is not workable anymore.
Perhaps a method where you use an RFID in combination with a PIN or even Bluetooth in combination with a PIN might work. Forgot your RFID? The procedure to get a backup should be pretty easy to implement. There should also perhaps be a need for an 'override' procedure.
Whatever the solution is, you need to work with the people you want it to use.
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Politicians will say anything to get your vote. This is nothing new. They will say it in words so they are not actually lying. ...
Recently we have seen this with the UK politicians who were shocked themselves they won Brexit and have no idea how to get out of the shit. We have seen it with the 'closing' of Gunatanamo bay. We have seen it with any and all politicians. And I mean all of them. Right, left, communist,
As long as they are not accountable for their lies, nothing will change and to do that a serious reform would be needed. How to get to that reform? Vote for me, I will do it. I guarantee that these lies will stop.
Because of money. People want to sell items they no longer need in exchange of money.
Others would want to pay money for items they want.
The risk that items are defective is also a reason why they are cheaper and worth the risk to some people. The fact they sell them with personal data is because they were not aware. Otherwise they would have either removed it, or adjusted the price.
Yes, you pay for the warrenty. I used to work for an electronics company and we had details on what broke and when and how often.
we also sold extended warrenties. At the moment I started working there it was 1 year and the law changed to two years, As they knew exactely when people called and how often, it was pretty easy to calculate the price increase that would cover the loss.
In the end it is a sort of (cheap) insurance that will make sure you do not walk out the store with a dead device. Forgot the numbers, but the increase in price was pretty small. Well below the 1% where an extended warrenty would be around 10% or more,
Why 10% or more? Because people are abusing it. During the X-mas period a lot of these came back as suddenly broken where you could clearly see it was not 'dropped' but abused with a hammer or the like. You should hear the people on the phone when they received an identical system back (that we still had in stock) from 2 years ago and not the latest hardware.
Can I give you the number of my grandmother and her friends and could you explain it to them?
Yesterday they knew almost how to not go via Google to go to a website. Only took me 40 minutes to explain where to type the address.
Why almost? She was tired and it was tea time in the home she is and if you is not in time, that bitch from next door will take the nice cookies.
The fact that so much software was written for it was a result. The reason really is pre-installation.
People just has happily buy Apple or Android stuff now. Sure, some people will be installing Windows because they need a specific software to work (and I even include games here). The majority of people will not need that. They will need to be able to use the Google and Facebook. They might need sometimes need to print out a letter. And they need to listen to music and watch films and the pictures of their grand children.
That is the majority of people. So why don't they use Linux? Because it did not come with the PC.
Just like car radios, there are way better radios available, yet people just go with what is already in there.
I know there are some PCs you can buy with Linux, but people who are interested in that will already know what distro they want and will install it themselves anyway. I am talking about the PCs at Amazon and Best Buy and the like where your neighbours grandpa gets his PC from.
Fun thing is that when I went to the US I had NO idea where I would be staying or going. That is how I travel. I arrive and then I will see where I go and where I will stay. I know roughly what I want to see, but that changes a lot.
If I like a place I stay longer, If I don't I drive on and that will depend on the mood I am in.
And there is no option for 'I have no idea' for any of it, so I had to book a hotel so I had some sort of info. I also bought a throw away SIM card, because fuck them. I did a fresh image on my PC and left it without password, so they could not find anything there.
Download was then later done with all the info via ssh.
And all this to travel to "Home of the free". You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
I did it online for the US Visa. However that was no easy task. I lkive in a EU country I was not born in and do not have the nationality of.
They asked the Social Security number of the country I was born in. As I have never worked there, I do not have one.
To get one I would need to travel to said country and get it sorted out. That would take a while.
The ambassy of said country are assholes and don't do anything. So I called the US one. They told me they thought it might be ok if I would put in 'unknown'. Obviously no guarantee if I would be allowed into the country when I arrived.
It was clear they were just guessing here and had no idea what the procedure was.
Arriving in JFK reminded me of when I traveld to Berlin by car when the wall still existed. Basically incompetent people put in a uniform to annoy people and put on a show. And all the time saying they are their for your safety and they are just following orders.
It is even in the 'related links'. I have never seen a driverless car do a repost within a week. Just saying.
So the best solution for the car is to hit as many people and perhaps hit one of the reposters. Even if the odds are low, it is worth it.
The IP changing is not an issue. Logs will tell the provider what household was connected to that specific IP at that specific time.
I am assuming that they will at least provide not only an IP, but also a time and date of when the assumed copyright violation took place.
Now I hope they did took summer/winter time into account. Yes, I know of cases where they got t his wrong. This was during dialup and it became clear pretty fast they made a stupid mistake.
Also they did not get far anyway, as it was not a court order, so we told them to fuck off and come back with a court order. The court told them to fuck off and come back when people started making money of copyright infringement and not bother them if Aunt Emma is sharing her music.
Not in those words and I feel stupid not to have kept a copy of that last letter. Country? Belgium.
And that is why you don't download a car.
So we are talking about piracy and IP addresses and such and then we get to talk about DRM on Oculus?
Is this like adding a law to another law to get it pushed through. Although legal, it is pretty immoral.
To be fair, it would be a relieve to see something this original. Better than the prequals and sequals and remakes we are seeing now.
The thing is not that you think that others have only 1/10th of the potential. The problem is that you think you have 10* the potential.
And don't forget they a paying into the whole package and perhaps they don't like you as a person or they like you but you are too nice or are percieved too nice or not nice enough or whatever.
You also have no idea how hard the others worked to get where they are.
DVR hours should count much less since they presumably represent someone sitting down and skipping the ads.
I have a backup of my backup. With the prices of HDs that is not really an issue anymore. The reason? During a system upgrade where I reformatted my HDs in my PC (not an issue as I have backups) and at that moment my NAS decided to die.
So now I have backups of my backups. And yes, they are incremential backups.
Just go with 'it tracks you all the time'. Much easier for you and even if not true right now, it soon will be.
No, it does not matter if you have FB or not. There is no need to feel paranoia, because you ARE being followed.
What they posses daily? Their phone. You could even use different things for different people. There are even RFID stickers. They slap that on their phone and done.
Or if they are required to have a badge, slap the sticker on that. On Ebay you can find then from 30cents to 1USD.
This is also the reason why people hate the EU and Brussels. Because their local politicians keep using it as an excuse that "well, we tried, but, you know, Brussels said so." That is obviously easier tan to say that you are actualy in favour of a decision that you know will be not well received withing your voting system.
It is as if they aresaying that we should stop hitting ourselves while they hold our arm and blame Brussels when they ae caught.
So no The EU is not the only option, but as of now it is a whole lot better than without it. Competing as separate enteties, none of them means anything.
Football analogy. You can have 11 outstanding players, but they are nothing if they are all individuals and you can play them one by one. Even an average team will win. And that would mean we hand ourselves over to either the US or the Russians and I am not sure wich is worse in the long term.
And the fact that the Highway toll gates accept t hem is the reason you do not need to enter a PIN.
Advantage: it is fast
Disadvantage : It is not secure
And now we are getting the great idea of wireless cards. Idiots.
I remember when we went to the Euro. People all said it would be worse and we would loose money and what not. The Euroa was apparently a very bad idea.
Not sure in other countries, but in Belgium prices did not jump besides the standard increases. And what is more important, the money they used WAS already a Euro. It was just named differently in each and every country.
A bit like the Imperial system that uses the Inch, but is actually SI where it is fixed how long an inch is comaperd to cm. So if the cm changes, the inch changes.
Same with the euro, before it was real monies. You Franc, Guilder or Mark where fixed to the EUR.
And then that first trip from living in Belgium, visiting friends in The Netherlands, to my sister in Germany and then a trip to my parents in Spain, all within a week and no need to change money. Delightfull.
Living in Belgium, working in Brussels.Many I know are also not mourning at all, but for different reasons.
The UK was never a full member of the EU as we see it. Not signing Schengen, not joining the EURO. Those are the major ones.
So we say: good riddance and we will welcome Scotland and Northern-Ireland. The last as an independent country or as a part of the Republic of Ireland. We have expereience with these situations.
You know why people blame the EU for all these new laws and burocracy? Bceuase it is easier for your local politician to say "I tried, but, you know, Brussels ..." than it is to say that it might be something unfavourable, but better in the end.
Is it 100% perfect? Obviously not, but it is better than having all these countries compete with each other. I live in Belgium. My sister lives in Germany, my parents in Spain and this since before the EURO, so I know what it is without all these advantages.
Roaming cost will be something of the past very soon. I can go to any country and buy something wiithout paying extra taxes or import things (some exceptions apply) and I can work anywhere I like.
So yes, for me the EU has more advantages than it has disadvantages and loosing a nagging UK will only benefit that. Will it hurt? A little bit perhaps as the markets panick. For the EU this will even out. For the UK? Probably not. They will be worse off, but who cares?
In Belgium it is handled with the combination of you (obligatory) ID card that has a chip, a reader and a PIN you select yourself.
So all people need to do is get a card reader and install the software. It runs under Windos, Mac and Linux.
If you are paranoid, you could even compile it yourself as it is open source. http://eid.belgium.be/en
Since when is it a problem to solve a social issue with a technical solution? Oh, right. Since forever.
She is so high up, perhaps she know that sending it encrypted would not make any difference as it will be read anyway.
This is a social problem and IT tries to solve it with a technical solution. Enforcing this technical solution will not solve anything. At least not in the long run.
The issue is that everybody looks at the problem as a problem with THEIR system and forget that security is not a technical issue. It is a social issue. It is a process and humans are the most important part of that process as well the reason it exists.
I have some hundred websites with passwords. At mu job I can not even select my login, so that is an added bonus. Not all are maintained systems by our IT department. I am not an IT person, so I have no way of installing some password reminder program on my work PC (OK, I could and get fired for installing software on the system)
I have one system the rquires me to change the password EVERY FUCKING WEEK!
So yes, I make use of simpeler passwords. I write down the one that I need to change each week.
I have asked and not often gotten an answer why I must change my password every 30 days. If I need to change it every 30 days, why not 29, or 7 or every day? If I would need to replace my lock at home every month, I would doubt the security standard of said lock.
Unfortunately I do not have a solution. I just know what we have now is not workable anymore.
Perhaps a method where you use an RFID in combination with a PIN or even Bluetooth in combination with a PIN might work. Forgot your RFID? The procedure to get a backup should be pretty easy to implement.
There should also perhaps be a need for an 'override' procedure.
Whatever the solution is, you need to work with the people you want it to use.