The thing with the two parties is that one is a party where the people who have a voice shouldn't and the other is where the people should have a voice but don't.
It would be funny if it would not fuck up the rest of the world as well. When Rome fell, it was not just Rome that was hurt.
I have not seen it, but all I see here is people who 'obviously' see that this was written by AI, while others say it is similar to what humans would produce.
So what about people who do NOT know it was written by a bot? Would they pick up on it and leave with 'Why did they force me to watch something written by a computer?" or would they just say "That was a good/bad movie."
This is talking about a humanoid alien, nothing about an intelligent alien. I could see an inteligent octopus that has the ability to make and use tools in a world without any land.
And as long as we do not find it (or it find us) we can only guess what the rules are. For all I knew, we are the least inteligent BECAUSE of all of this.
And why would they leave? The oceans are 3D, on land we only have 2D, the surface of said land. Sure there are some animals that can use the air, but nothing does it all the time.
So life gets all this space. The surface is already several times larger than what we have on land, never,ind that life here could go from the depth to the surface. But noooo, let's go on land where there is less space.
As a person who lives in Belgium and who has to have an ID with him at all times that has a chip in it Like this I am in favour of this. I am able to do my takes by using it and I do not understand why more stores do not use it. I do not understand why banks do not use it.
I would not want to use it with e.g./., but there are plenty of places I would applaud it as they already have my personal details.
And to be clear, I trust the European Government more with my privacy than I trust private companies.
As long as they implement something like the eID from Belgium (http://eid.belgium.be/en) which is open source and already not that hard to implement, please do. Yes, it runs under Linux.
Why would I be in favour? Because I could use 1 identification for everything that I want it to be. Again for things that already have my real information, like my phone operator, electricity company, bank, insurance company, city, state, Amazon, Credit Card, Provider,...
Things I would not want it would be things similar to/. DNS hosting and other pure Online things where I do not need offline representation.
Where I work this is standard. Whitelisting for the PCs. And you can ask for sites to be added. This will depend on your department, function and what not.
However there are plenty of PCs available throughout the company that DO have internet access. They are on a separate network and separate Internet connection. So we do have two networks and two internet connections.
So if you do need to do search for your work, you are still able to do so. However not at your desk. If you need it all the time, you will have access all the time.
The majority of the people does NOT need Internet access all the time. Want to check your email? Do that before you start, during your lunch break, you 10 minute break in the morning or the afternoon or after work.
This is not even about wasting time, because you can do that reading a newspaper. This is about people clicking on a file and unwilling let a trojan in and we become another company on/. who was hacked, We know we are being targeted. Nothing serious till now.
And that are also the reasons it isn't all over the place. With IPv4 providers can ask for money for a fixed IP. Having a fixed or non-fixed IP will cost the same for a provider. Even the smallest provider in Belgium pays the same as the largest for its IP adresses and those prices are not that high.
With IPv6 they can claim they are rare and thus need extra money. Bullshit, because if I use the same all the time or a different one all the time, no more will be available.
So why would a provider change to IPv6? 1) It will cost them money to change things, both hard and software. 2) It will cost money to train people and inform customers 3) It will try up the excuse that you need to pay for someting that is rare, even if it isn't really
As a provider I would LOVE to have NAT for everything. That way I get and EXTRA layer of making money. 1) NAT 2) Dynamic IP 3) Fixed IP
Was it possible to retract payment at the last moment after saying you were going to pay? If so, they should honour that, no matter how much of a dick move it is. If they do not like their own policy, they should change it.
So to me they were very much in the wrong, no matter that I despise the people who were trolling. I also know you are not paid, until you have the money. People tell me where I work 'I have paid' and even send me proof all the time. I only believe them when we get the monies.
I do not use PayPal BECAUSE they are not a bank. I dislike banks just as much as anybody, but at least they have some rules and I do not have enough money for them to make stealing it worthwhile.
So for payment I use either my credit card or, well, nothing. If I were to somehow need to pay an individual, I will transfer the money to him via my bank. That is free for me in Europe. Only people I have done that to is to friends when I did not have enough cash with me in a restaurant.
I do not like companies who say 'we are not a.." and I do not use them. The rules are there for a reason.
Uber : We are not a taxi company PayPal : We are not a bank.
Apparently if you have enough money you can be NOT anything. See what happens if I open a place where I serve food and claim not to be a restaurant. I should be able to sell food for a much lower price, because the meat is green. (Human or just rotten? Doesn't matter, I am not a restaurant.)
It is, I think, just how humans function as a human under stress. They want to slow down and in an automatic that means pushing down on a pedal. If you have the wrong pedal, you will accelerate. That means your brain says:push harder on that pedal to slow down and you go even faster till you either hit something or you realize you are pushing the wrong pedal.
In a shift car, slowing down means taking your foot OFF the pedal and shift down and back on the pedal. That means you will correct the handing of the wong pedal. Also as shifting alread mean taking the foot off the accelerator, it means you will go a little bit slower, not a liittle bit faster.
Note that I am talking about slowing down, not about breaking. In short: In an automatic you push down to go slower, in a shit car, you pull up and then push down.
OK. Enough cars, a computer comparison. The difference in typing 'rm -rf/'ENTER or 'rm / -rf'ENTER. In the second you have just a bit more time to realize you type / and not/tmp. That time is the second it take to type "-rf". In the first you have hit ENTER and it is too late. Same happens with the car. In a shift car you have just a bit more time to realize what is going on and correct that behaviour.
Why does no one object when I place a camera on the floor of a factory for safety reasons?
Depends where the camera points to, for example. Because there are places and countries where they very much will object if you e.g. point it to where people are working. You better have a damn good reason that you need to monitor that place and a damn good reason why you can't do that without filming your employees.
People accuse others of rape when they become pregnant while it was not rape but sex without a condom. Stupid for BOTH, but not rape. Somebody claims to have fallen asleep when they tatood her face because her dad was angry with the tattoo. People claim somebody else ate the cookies while their face is full of crumbles (ok, not so much people, but toddlers)
We see cars accelerate a lot of the times and as far as I know it always is an automatic (hence it happens more in the US). So it does not seem unreasonable.
Few years ago a girl I knew n Germany was parking daddies mercedes and wanted to brake. Instead she pushed the accelorator a little bit. In panick she wanted to sslow down and that means push down you foot. You go faster? Push harder. As the foot was still on the accelerator, 10 cars were damaged.
In a car with shift, to go slower means to downshift as well at some point and that means moving your foot up and thus releasing the brake or in this case the accelerator.
To go from what you do as instinct to realize what is going on and correct that will take 2-3 seconds? And that is not even from the moment you start accelerating. So I can imagine this going like: Press the wrong pedal. -Oh, I need to slow don- Press the wrong pedal harder -I seriously need to slow dow--SPLAT-- If there is enough space it would go on with Wait, I am not slowing down --notices mistake-- OK, Now I have the correct pedal, SIGH. Luckily nobody will EVER know about this. So what I can see here is a normal automated reaction of a human that had the wrong result.
Passphrase, yes. I use several different passwords. 5 depending on what it is for. e.g banking, email, work, trusted online stores and the rest (like/.) The issue I have with password managers is that I do not always have access to them. e.g. at work I can not install anything and no access to my phone, but still access to some sites that are whitelisted.
In addition to the rules, I would also like to add the fact that changing a password every 30 days doe not really make it any safer. If anything it makes it weaker as people will start to use easier passwords as they are unable to remember the several hundred passwords they have and password managers is not a real option for many people.
What I see is that IT department do not factor in the weakest link (i.e. the human beings) and instead use it as a shield to say 'well, we did our best, so it is not our problem anymore.' So instead of solving security issue, they just pass it on. The above looks as if it is trying to acknowledge that end-users are part of the process as well.
"Use a Password Manager" sounds to me very similar to "You are holding it wrong."
Situation I am in: I use 1) Linux, Windows, Mac, Android phone 2) I am unable to install anything on some machines, like anything at all 3) I have limited access to the internet at several places I am during the working day. 4) I have no access to my own machines all of the time, so I am forced to use other machines
Yet I still need to have access under all these to e.g. Slashdot or many similar sites. So what should I do?
Password Manager is not possible as I am not allowed to install on many PCs. Password manager is not possible as I am not always on my own machine (obviously nor for things like ermail or banking, but for sites like Slashdot and others) Password manager online is not possible as I will not always have access to certain sites and I do need passwords at work as well where I am not allowed to install anything and passwords and logins are not from my company, but rather from third parties. And no, it is not possible to change to company policy so I can install a password manager and no, quiting over the installation of a password manager is not an option.
So please if you have a solution, I would love to hear what it is.
1) Severance pay is countged in months not weeks, so there is more on the line. Standard minimal is 6 weeks I personaly have left companies due to reorganisation and have gotten 5 months for 1 year working there, 7 months for working 2 years and another 5 months for 1.5 years. Understand that this is pay. So if you get a job, great, double pay, but if you don't, that period you do not get any unemployment benefits.
2) All companies with more than 50 employees are by law required to have a union rep (or more than one)
3) People can select to get in a union or not get in a union. Nobody really cares and there are several to select from. What you have in the US is more a guild than a union.
4) If a certain amount of people are to be fired (certain percentage or number of people within a certain period) it needs to be brought up to the unions. A best way how o handle things will be looked at. This needs to be done 6 months in advance. Most companies look what the minmal severance pay is by law and add one or two months. That way if you do not agree, you can loose those extra months.
5) I know of people who got 12 months pay and had a job the next day. I know of people who are getting money till the end of days (or till they pension).
6) This does not mean companies won't outsource. It just means people won't left helpless and will not be terrified (still scared)
The place I got 7 months asked me to saty till day X and I did. I had a job lined up and they asked me if I could start sooner. I said I could if they would pay me 7 months. For some reason they were ok with me starting two weeks later.
Not sure, but it might be related to healthcare. People going later to the doctor when they are sick. This will add up and on a large enough scale it will have an influence. Is the amount of doctors visits the same or has that declined as well? Going to the doctor often is also prevention, not just trying to get a cure.
e.g. you do not feel well and you do not go till you are really sick. That might mean the difference between a cold and pneumonia. The latter will be a little bit more deadly than a cold on a long term.
Uhm, no. When my Uncle fobids me to tell the family he slept with the neighbour, that is censorship. When a company tells me not to talk about anything, but leave it to the PR department, that is censorship. Me telling my mom to 'shuuut uuuuup' when she tells everybody how cute I was as a baby? Censorship!
Just because it is allowed, logical, legal and even morally right does not mean it has a different name.
So yes, if/. deletes my postings, it is called censorship.
Because it works, so why should they NOT do it? This is just another "If it is stupid and it works, it is not stupid." Enough people either do not care or buy into it and that is all that matters. Looking at their bank account, I don't think they are doing that bad.
And talking about the marketing droid equivalent of boilerplate legal disclaimers, what about that company that said customers held their phone wrong. I am sure people left THAT company by the millions never to return and they are now broke, right?
I am glad that 15 years ago I decided to seperate my real and my internet identity. The short time I was on FB I did not even use my real name in the profile.
That does not mean people (or computers) won't be able to figure out my real identity. It is not even that hard. It just needs 2 extra steps to get to the conclusion and till now that is enough.
Anybody remember how Big Brother got his power? It was given to him. He never took it.
Slashdot Mirror
If what you did had the results you where going for it is not called "malicious intent". Oh, you mean in general, yeah, well, awkward.
The thing with the two parties is that one is a party where the people who have a voice shouldn't and the other is where the people should have a voice but don't.
It would be funny if it would not fuck up the rest of the world as well. When Rome fell, it was not just Rome that was hurt.
I have not seen it, but all I see here is people who 'obviously' see that this was written by AI, while others say it is similar to what humans would produce.
So what about people who do NOT know it was written by a bot? Would they pick up on it and leave with 'Why did they force me to watch something written by a computer?" or would they just say "That was a good/bad movie."
This is talking about a humanoid alien, nothing about an intelligent alien. I could see an inteligent octopus that has the ability to make and use tools in a world without any land.
And as long as we do not find it (or it find us) we can only guess what the rules are. For all I knew, we are the least inteligent BECAUSE of all of this.
And why would they leave? The oceans are 3D, on land we only have 2D, the surface of said land. Sure there are some animals that can use the air, but nothing does it all the time.
So life gets all this space. The surface is already several times larger than what we have on land, never ,ind that life here could go from the depth to the surface. But noooo, let's go on land where there is less space.
Got it. Alumni it is.
And in other cases if you do not reply or contest, they go along with assuming you are guilty.
Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.
And no, I am not a lawyer, so I will not understand the difference between these two when they send them to me.
As a person who lives in Belgium and who has to have an ID with him at all times that has a chip in it Like this I am in favour of this. I am able to do my takes by using it and I do not understand why more stores do not use it. I do not understand why banks do not use it.
I would not want to use it with e.g. /., but there are plenty of places I would applaud it as they already have my personal details.
And to be clear, I trust the European Government more with my privacy than I trust private companies.
As long as they implement something like the eID from Belgium (http://eid.belgium.be/en) which is open source and already not that hard to implement, please do. Yes, it runs under Linux.
Why would I be in favour? Because I could use 1 identification for everything that I want it to be. Again for things that already have my real information, like my phone operator, electricity company, bank, insurance company, city, state, Amazon, Credit Card, Provider,...
Things I would not want it would be things similar to /. DNS hosting and other pure Online things where I do not need offline representation.
Where I work this is standard. Whitelisting for the PCs. And you can ask for sites to be added. This will depend on your department, function and what not.
However there are plenty of PCs available throughout the company that DO have internet access. They are on a separate network and separate Internet connection. So we do have two networks and two internet connections.
So if you do need to do search for your work, you are still able to do so. However not at your desk. If you need it all the time, you will have access all the time.
The majority of the people does NOT need Internet access all the time. Want to check your email? Do that before you start, during your lunch break, you 10 minute break in the morning or the afternoon or after work.
This is not even about wasting time, because you can do that reading a newspaper. This is about people clicking on a file and unwilling let a trojan in and we become another company on /. who was hacked, We know we are being targeted. Nothing serious till now.
And that are also the reasons it isn't all over the place. With IPv4 providers can ask for money for a fixed IP. Having a fixed or non-fixed IP will cost the same for a provider. Even the smallest provider in Belgium pays the same as the largest for its IP adresses and those prices are not that high.
With IPv6 they can claim they are rare and thus need extra money. Bullshit, because if I use the same all the time or a different one all the time, no more will be available.
So why would a provider change to IPv6?
1) It will cost them money to change things, both hard and software.
2) It will cost money to train people and inform customers
3) It will try up the excuse that you need to pay for someting that is rare, even if it isn't really
As a provider I would LOVE to have NAT for everything. That way I get and EXTRA layer of making money.
1) NAT
2) Dynamic IP
3) Fixed IP
Was it possible to retract payment at the last moment after saying you were going to pay? If so, they should honour that, no matter how much of a dick move it is.
If they do not like their own policy, they should change it.
So to me they were very much in the wrong, no matter that I despise the people who were trolling. I also know you are not paid, until you have the money. People tell me where I work 'I have paid' and even send me proof all the time. I only believe them when we get the monies.
I do not use PayPal BECAUSE they are not a bank. I dislike banks just as much as anybody, but at least they have some rules and I do not have enough money for them to make stealing it worthwhile.
So for payment I use either my credit card or, well, nothing. If I were to somehow need to pay an individual, I will transfer the money to him via my bank. That is free for me in Europe. Only people I have done that to is to friends when I did not have enough cash with me in a restaurant.
I do not like companies who say 'we are not a .." and I do not use them. The rules are there for a reason.
Uber : We are not a taxi company
PayPal : We are not a bank.
Apparently if you have enough money you can be NOT anything. See what happens if I open a place where I serve food and claim not to be a restaurant. I should be able to sell food for a much lower price, because the meat is green. (Human or just rotten? Doesn't matter, I am not a restaurant.)
It is, I think, just how humans function as a human under stress. They want to slow down and in an automatic that means pushing down on a pedal. If you have the wrong pedal, you will accelerate. That means your brain says :push harder on that pedal to slow down and you go even faster till you either hit something or you realize you are pushing the wrong pedal.
In a shift car, slowing down means taking your foot OFF the pedal and shift down and back on the pedal. That means you will correct the handing of the wong pedal. Also as shifting alread mean taking the foot off the accelerator, it means you will go a little bit slower, not a liittle bit faster.
Note that I am talking about slowing down, not about breaking. In short: In an automatic you push down to go slower, in a shit car, you pull up and then push down.
OK. Enough cars, a computer comparison. /'ENTER or 'rm / -rf'ENTER. In the second you have just a bit more time to realize you type / and not /tmp. That time is the second it take to type "-rf". In the first you have hit ENTER and it is too late.
The difference in typing 'rm -rf
Same happens with the car. In a shift car you have just a bit more time to realize what is going on and correct that behaviour.
Depends where the camera points to, for example. Because there are places and countries where they very much will object if you e.g. point it to where people are working. You better have a damn good reason that you need to monitor that place and a damn good reason why you can't do that without filming your employees.
People accuse others of rape when they become pregnant while it was not rape but sex without a condom. Stupid for BOTH, but not rape.
Somebody claims to have fallen asleep when they tatood her face because her dad was angry with the tattoo.
People claim somebody else ate the cookies while their face is full of crumbles (ok, not so much people, but toddlers)
We see cars accelerate a lot of the times and as far as I know it always is an automatic (hence it happens more in the US). So it does not seem unreasonable.
Few years ago a girl I knew n Germany was parking daddies mercedes and wanted to brake. Instead she pushed the accelorator a little bit. In panick she wanted to sslow down and that means push down you foot. You go faster? Push harder. As the foot was still on the accelerator, 10 cars were damaged.
In a car with shift, to go slower means to downshift as well at some point and that means moving your foot up and thus releasing the brake or in this case the accelerator.
To go from what you do as instinct to realize what is going on and correct that will take 2-3 seconds? And that is not even from the moment you start accelerating. So I can imagine this going like:
Press the wrong pedal. -Oh, I need to slow don-
Press the wrong pedal harder -I seriously need to slow dow--SPLAT--
If there is enough space it would go on with
Wait, I am not slowing down --notices mistake--
OK, Now I have the correct pedal, SIGH. Luckily nobody will EVER know about this.
So what I can see here is a normal automated reaction of a human that had the wrong result.
Passphrase, yes. I use several different passwords. 5 depending on what it is for. e.g banking, email, work, trusted online stores and the rest (like /.)
The issue I have with password managers is that I do not always have access to them. e.g. at work I can not install anything and no access to my phone, but still access to some sites that are whitelisted.
In addition to the rules, I would also like to add the fact that changing a password every 30 days doe not really make it any safer. If anything it makes it weaker as people will start to use easier passwords as they are unable to remember the several hundred passwords they have and password managers is not a real option for many people.
What I see is that IT department do not factor in the weakest link (i.e. the human beings) and instead use it as a shield to say 'well, we did our best, so it is not our problem anymore.' So instead of solving security issue, they just pass it on.
The above looks as if it is trying to acknowledge that end-users are part of the process as well.
"Use a Password Manager" sounds to me very similar to "You are holding it wrong."
Situation I am in: I use
1) Linux, Windows, Mac, Android phone
2) I am unable to install anything on some machines, like anything at all
3) I have limited access to the internet at several places I am during the working day.
4) I have no access to my own machines all of the time, so I am forced to use other machines
Yet I still need to have access under all these to e.g. Slashdot or many similar sites. So what should I do?
Password Manager is not possible as I am not allowed to install on many PCs.
Password manager is not possible as I am not always on my own machine (obviously nor for things like ermail or banking, but for sites like Slashdot and others)
Password manager online is not possible as I will not always have access to certain sites and I do need passwords at work as well where I am not allowed to install anything and passwords and logins are not from my company, but rather from third parties. And no, it is not possible to change to company policy so I can install a password manager and no, quiting over the installation of a password manager is not an option.
So please if you have a solution, I would love to hear what it is.
This is about it. All the rest is marketing bullshit. I have something like that in my MasterCard. Most insecure thing you can imagine.
It is for smaller payments, Wave the card and you paid. All you need now is a portable reader and get all the monies.
Reminds me that I need to figure out how to disable it, because it is sooo insecure.
How this works in Belgium is the following.
1) Severance pay is countged in months not weeks, so there is more on the line. Standard minimal is 6 weeks I personaly have left companies due to reorganisation and have gotten 5 months for 1 year working there, 7 months for working 2 years and another 5 months for 1.5 years. Understand that this is pay. So if you get a job, great, double pay, but if you don't, that period you do not get any unemployment benefits.
2) All companies with more than 50 employees are by law required to have a union rep (or more than one)
3) People can select to get in a union or not get in a union. Nobody really cares and there are several to select from. What you have in the US is more a guild than a union.
4) If a certain amount of people are to be fired (certain percentage or number of people within a certain period) it needs to be brought up to the unions. A best way how o handle things will be looked at. This needs to be done 6 months in advance. Most companies look what the minmal severance pay is by law and add one or two months. That way if you do not agree, you can loose those extra months.
5) I know of people who got 12 months pay and had a job the next day. I know of people who are getting money till the end of days (or till they pension).
6) This does not mean companies won't outsource. It just means people won't left helpless and will not be terrified (still scared)
The place I got 7 months asked me to saty till day X and I did. I had a job lined up and they asked me if I could start sooner. I said I could if they would pay me 7 months. For some reason they were ok with me starting two weeks later.
I could go back a bit further https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
1637.
The only thing that has been added in true dot com fashion "on the Intertubes". The question remains if we are real or not and what is real.
Not sure, but it might be related to healthcare. People going later to the doctor when they are sick. This will add up and on a large enough scale it will have an influence.
Is the amount of doctors visits the same or has that declined as well? Going to the doctor often is also prevention, not just trying to get a cure.
e.g. you do not feel well and you do not go till you are really sick. That might mean the difference between a cold and pneumonia. The latter will be a little bit more deadly than a cold on a long term.
... yet.
Uhm, no. When my Uncle fobids me to tell the family he slept with the neighbour, that is censorship.
When a company tells me not to talk about anything, but leave it to the PR department, that is censorship.
Me telling my mom to 'shuuut uuuuup' when she tells everybody how cute I was as a baby? Censorship!
Just because it is allowed, logical, legal and even morally right does not mean it has a different name.
So yes, if /. deletes my postings, it is called censorship.
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
http://www.dictionary.com/brow... and many more places.
Because it works, so why should they NOT do it? This is just another "If it is stupid and it works, it is not stupid." Enough people either do not care or buy into it and that is all that matters.
Looking at their bank account, I don't think they are doing that bad.
And talking about the marketing droid equivalent of boilerplate legal disclaimers, what about that company that said customers held their phone wrong. I am sure people left THAT company by the millions never to return and they are now broke, right?
They do it, because it works.
I am glad that 15 years ago I decided to seperate my real and my internet identity. The short time I was on FB I did not even use my real name in the profile.
That does not mean people (or computers) won't be able to figure out my real identity. It is not even that hard. It just needs 2 extra steps to get to the conclusion and till now that is enough.
Anybody remember how Big Brother got his power? It was given to him. He never took it.