Just last week we had the half billion accounts from Yahoo! leaked and now this website, after being notified it has a problem, leaves things in place to continue leaking credentials.
Yeah, private industry is so great compared to government.
People having contradictory opinions are rampant on here. Look at those who say they should be paid X dollars for their work because they have Y years of experience, who then turn around and steal music and movies.
Because the artists who made those works don't need to be paid for their years of experience.
"would in essence keep track of everything you type and interact with in the OS and stockpile it in real-time to data-dump into Bing."
Just what we need. A private company storing everything we type on their servers without our approval.
You know what I don't need? Someone telling me what they think I'm thinking. It's bad enough Microsoft has gotten people into the nastily bad habit of thinking they have to search for everything on their own system or network* rather than going to the source, now they want us to believe we're incapable of asking the questions we want.
Guess it's a good thing I won't be using W10 except at work where we can turn this crap off.
* Even after we show them how to use the command line to connect to a print server, people are still insistent on "searching" the network to find a printer then complain when they can't locate it. Stop searching! Go to the source.
the situation is exacerbated by the failure of many ISPs to implement the BCP38 security standard to filter spoofed traffic,
Nothing like sticking your finger in the eyes of those who keep claiming they need to restrict bandwidth to their paying users while at the same time delivering slow speeds for exorbitant prices.
Apparently those hundreds of millions of free dollars generated every month by Comcast/Verizon/et al can't be used for anything useful such as implementing security filtering to slow/prevent this situation.
but there is nothing intrinsically different about police officers that makes them honest.
You mean other than their training? Compare what an officer is trained to see to a recent shooting in my area. The call came into 911 that a person, the son, had a knife to his mother's throat, had locked her in a bedroom and said he was going to kill her.
When the police arrived they found, oddly, the son with a knife to his mother's throat. After repeated commands to drop the knife an officer fired a single shot at the criminal who later died.
After all that, not only is the mother defending the son who just tried to kill her, claiming her son had no knife and complaining the police didn't have to shoot him, but the girl who called 911 saying her uncle had a knife to his mother's throat later said there was no knife.
As we all saw, Russia interfered with the free and open elections in Eastern Ukraine after the Putin lapdog Yanukovych fled into the arms of Putin when the people of Ukraine wanted closer, more open ties with the West.
Considering the amount of groveling Trump is doing at Putin's feet for his own personal gain and has openly asked for the same foreign government to commit espionage on a U.S. citizen, it would be surprising if Russia wasn't trying to game the system. So long as Putin has been in power that has been the name of game in Russia: only those Putin approves are allowed to run for office.
That Russia is now trying to electronically influence U.S. elections only shows how desperate Putin is to have the sanctions lifted which are dragging his country down each day they are in place. As reported a week ago, Russia will literally run out of money by the middle of next year if sanctions aren't lifted. Supporting the terrorists in Eastern Ukraine and the Syrian regime is costing Russia money it can ill-afford to lose yet from all appearances, Putin is vowed and determined to drag Russia down with him. That is why they are attempting to interfere in U.S. elections.
Since Putin is working on reconstituting the former Soviet Union by invading and attacking his neighbors and stealing their internationally recognized land, it would appear Putin is the one pining for the nostalgia of the Cold War.
This doesn't include his and his lackeys repeated comments about ready to use nuclear weapons or taking over the Baltic States since they were never "granted" their independence.
Don't stop the propaganda, comrade. You need to earn your daily vodka allotment since your economy is a wreck, the ruble is rubble and Putin and his oligarchs are stealing everything they can.
when you're honest. Krebs doesn't pull his punches and the whiners of the world (i.e. those he lambasted for having low quality products or game play) don't like it and now they're being petulant two year olds.
Just goes to show the mentality of supposed adults. Especially the cowards who sit behind a keyboard and try to destroy the work of others because they didn't get their lollipop.
Same thing with Israel. They believe that by having Google blur images of their Dimona nuclear plant or where their nuclear weapons are stored that somehow no one will be able to find them.
Criminals steal music and movies which cost $1 by claiming they cost too much.
People think everything should be free and this study shows it. No one wants to pay for anything except when it comes to their work then they expect to be paid for their effort.
The same should be done for everything. Obviously threatening people with jail hasn't stopped murder so we should offer legal alternatives to the criminals.
Theft is still ongoing so we should do the same.
Yes, let's continue to coddle criminals instead of making punishment so harsh, and following through, that common sense and civility is tossed aside in favor of allowing criminals to continue with their ways.
It's like watching someone demand every online service for free, and then watch them bitch and moan about a lack of privacy, failing to understand that they sold their privacy soul in order to avoid any material cost.
Or people demanding software and music be free then bitch and moan when the people who produced the items go after them for not paying for the product because of a failure to understand the material costs involved in producing the items.
because it was 'recording voters' opinions on [a] variety of topics for further processing and analysis by the candidate's team'.
How horrible that people in Russia express their own opinions rather than those of Putin's. This plague of free thought must be shut down. The Russian people must not be allowed freedom to speak as evidenced by Putin making it a crime for mothers whose sons died while invading Ukraine from speaking out about their son's deaths.
Imagine what would happen if the Russian people spoke freely about the corruption of Putin and his oligarch friends. How would Putin ever live with himself if freedom of speech were allowed? The horror.
Kind of ridiculous for drivers who are scraping by
Then perhaps the Uber Cab Company should be paying their drivers more so they're not scraping by. That's what many on here say about other companies so why not this cab company?
suing the developers directly for the actions of the company owners will make software engineering (as a whole) dangerous
Funny, that situation exists in the car industry and yet they have no problem with it since it encourages people not to make mistakes. Although, in the case of Volkswagen, an Audi software engineer has been sued because he developed the software which allowed VW to cheat on emissions.
forcing developers across the industry to buy legal defense insurance
And yet doctors have to buy malpractice insurance because they can and do make mistakes so why not developers? Why shouldn't someone who makes software for autonomous vehicles be held liable if that software is the cause of someone's injury or death? What about the medical community where software is used in operations, to check for medication conflicts and other matters? If your software screws up, why shouldn't you be held liable?
Every other industry, down to plumbing, is held responsible for their actions. Why shouldn't software developers be held to the same standard?
The excuse, as it always is, will be it's not the developers but the suits who require this information.
Which is odd considering how many times on here people claiming to be developers proudly state how they walked out of an interview for such or such reason regarding THEIR personal life when asked, yet these same developers apparently have no prohibition about creating software which asks about YOUR privacy.
It's like when people on here say they want to be able to do what they want with the hardware they have purchased with their own money whereas I am told I must hand over my money to a private company regardless of whether I want to or not.
Funny how when one's privacy or money is at stake it's a national tragedy if it's compromised but forcing others to compromise their privacy or financial resources is no big deal.
It should have been obvious to anyone with less than a high school education if someone is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to NOT reveal how something is done, that is a red flag.
But nope, the VCs were more than willing to hand over money to an unknown person offering an unknown procedure without having to show how said product works.
From the day I heard about Theranos I knew it was a fraud for the simple fact they never revealed how their tests worked, never submitted to any government-approved testing and never allowed anyone else to try and replicate their work.
If that doesn't scream fraud, nothing does. With any luck Holmes will have to personally repay all the money she swindled from people, then go to jail.
To use an old D&D quote: Apparently they're letting anyone into the thieves guild these days.
The Russians are laughing all right, but this is way down the list.
True, but that's because Russia has a serious cash flow problem. At the current burn rate, which includes supporting the Syrian regime both militarily and financially, as well as the terrorists in East Ukraine, again both militarily and financially, Russia will run out of cash roughly by the middle of next year.
This presumes oil stays below $50/barrel and Putin doesn't decide to tell the terrorists he's pulling out his Russian troops and will only send in ammunition and equipment, not troops, the reason being the cost of paying out death benefits to family members and even worse, the monthly costs of paying for those troops and auxiliaries who have been wounded.
With the recent capture of another Russian who provided information that Russian troops are now in complete control of some of the terrorist battle groups, the costs to Russia for the invasion are rapidly become unsustainable.
There's a reason Russian women advertise so heavily for a Western male. Russian men have some of the shortest lifespans outside of third world countries. Right now the typical Russian male can expect to live to 58 thanks in large part to their drunken habits. Even less so if they're inclined to "vacation" in Ukraine where over 2,000 of their countrymen have died already while on "vacation".
Telling people to go meet someone in real life in a country with a high drunkenness rate combined with the normally abusive nature of Russian men does not bode well for trying to get Russia's population to breed.
First, the words are you're and they're. Learn them.
Second, I'm talking about those people who, having lost their job to automation, believe the only acceptable route is to become criminals. That is when they become target practice. The police and citizens will use whatever means to protect society (police) and themselves and their property (citizens).
If you think it's acceptable for criminals to be allowed to roam free, stealing people's property, destroying people's property, attacking people, raping people and all other such criminal acts, time after time, society will be far better off if those people aren't around.
It has nothing to do with poor people. It has to do with criminals and last time I looked, criminals weren't all poor.
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Just last week we had the half billion accounts from Yahoo! leaked and now this website, after being notified it has a problem, leaves things in place to continue leaking credentials.
Yeah, private industry is so great compared to government.
People having contradictory opinions are rampant on here. Look at those who say they should be paid X dollars for their work because they have Y years of experience, who then turn around and steal music and movies.
Because the artists who made those works don't need to be paid for their years of experience.
"would in essence keep track of everything you type and interact with in the OS and stockpile it in real-time to data-dump into Bing."
Just what we need. A private company storing everything we type on their servers without our approval.
You know what I don't need? Someone telling me what they think I'm thinking. It's bad enough Microsoft has gotten people into the nastily bad habit of thinking they have to search for everything on their own system or network* rather than going to the source, now they want us to believe we're incapable of asking the questions we want.
Guess it's a good thing I won't be using W10 except at work where we can turn this crap off.
* Even after we show them how to use the command line to connect to a print server, people are still insistent on "searching" the network to find a printer then complain when they can't locate it. Stop searching! Go to the source.
the situation is exacerbated by the failure of many ISPs to implement the BCP38 security standard to filter spoofed traffic,
Nothing like sticking your finger in the eyes of those who keep claiming they need to restrict bandwidth to their paying users while at the same time delivering slow speeds for exorbitant prices.
Apparently those hundreds of millions of free dollars generated every month by Comcast/Verizon/et al can't be used for anything useful such as implementing security filtering to slow/prevent this situation.
but there is nothing intrinsically different about police officers that makes them honest.
You mean other than their training? Compare what an officer is trained to see to a recent shooting in my area. The call came into 911 that a person, the son, had a knife to his mother's throat, had locked her in a bedroom and said he was going to kill her.
When the police arrived they found, oddly, the son with a knife to his mother's throat. After repeated commands to drop the knife an officer fired a single shot at the criminal who later died.
After all that, not only is the mother defending the son who just tried to kill her, claiming her son had no knife and complaining the police didn't have to shoot him, but the girl who called 911 saying her uncle had a knife to his mother's throat later said there was no knife.
Interestingly, the mother also said: "We had a little fight, argument like families have arguments." Apparently in their world pulling out knives and threatening to kill one's mother is what happens in every family during arguments.
Yup, just another day in the city where the police are always wrong even when they witness the crime.
As we all saw, Russia interfered with the free and open elections in Eastern Ukraine after the Putin lapdog Yanukovych fled into the arms of Putin when the people of Ukraine wanted closer, more open ties with the West.
Russia sent in its troops and armed its terrorist proxies who burned polling places, burned ballots, threatened anyone who tried to vote, tried to rig votes, and even bragged about doing all of the above by recording their goings on.
Considering the amount of groveling Trump is doing at Putin's feet for his own personal gain and has openly asked for the same foreign government to commit espionage on a U.S. citizen, it would be surprising if Russia wasn't trying to game the system. So long as Putin has been in power that has been the name of game in Russia: only those Putin approves are allowed to run for office.
That Russia is now trying to electronically influence U.S. elections only shows how desperate Putin is to have the sanctions lifted which are dragging his country down each day they are in place. As reported a week ago, Russia will literally run out of money by the middle of next year if sanctions aren't lifted. Supporting the terrorists in Eastern Ukraine and the Syrian regime is costing Russia money it can ill-afford to lose yet from all appearances, Putin is vowed and determined to drag Russia down with him. That is why they are attempting to interfere in U.S. elections.
particularly Cold War nostalgia.
Since Putin is working on reconstituting the former Soviet Union by invading and attacking his neighbors and stealing their internationally recognized land, it would appear Putin is the one pining for the nostalgia of the Cold War.
This doesn't include his and his lackeys repeated comments about ready to use nuclear weapons or taking over the Baltic States since they were never "granted" their independence.
Don't stop the propaganda, comrade. You need to earn your daily vodka allotment since your economy is a wreck, the ruble is rubble and Putin and his oligarchs are stealing everything they can.
when you're honest. Krebs doesn't pull his punches and the whiners of the world (i.e. those he lambasted for having low quality products or game play) don't like it and now they're being petulant two year olds.
Just goes to show the mentality of supposed adults. Especially the cowards who sit behind a keyboard and try to destroy the work of others because they didn't get their lollipop.
Problem: The idiots are voting because they think they DO know that.
No, the real issue is this:
The vast majority of people are idiots. The problem is they're too stupid to realize it.
Same thing with Israel. They believe that by having Google blur images of their Dimona nuclear plant or where their nuclear weapons are stored that somehow no one will be able to find them.
traveling 16 light years to catch some squirrels seems pretty expensive.
Maybe, as we humans have done on numerous occasions, they've eaten all the squirrels in their immediate area and have to search further afield.
Also, if they do have FTL, 16 light years might be the same as you or I taking a short trip to the grocery store.
Criminals steal music and movies which cost $1 by claiming they cost too much.
People think everything should be free and this study shows it. No one wants to pay for anything except when it comes to their work then they expect to be paid for their effort.
They're hypocrites, pure and simple.
The same should be done for everything. Obviously threatening people with jail hasn't stopped murder so we should offer legal alternatives to the criminals.
Theft is still ongoing so we should do the same.
Yes, let's continue to coddle criminals instead of making punishment so harsh, and following through, that common sense and civility is tossed aside in favor of allowing criminals to continue with their ways.
It's like watching someone demand every online service for free, and then watch them bitch and moan about a lack of privacy, failing to understand that they sold their privacy soul in order to avoid any material cost.
Or people demanding software and music be free then bitch and moan when the people who produced the items go after them for not paying for the product because of a failure to understand the material costs involved in producing the items.
because it was 'recording voters' opinions on [a] variety of topics for further processing and analysis by the candidate's team'.
How horrible that people in Russia express their own opinions rather than those of Putin's. This plague of free thought must be shut down. The Russian people must not be allowed freedom to speak as evidenced by Putin making it a crime for mothers whose sons died while invading Ukraine from speaking out about their son's deaths.
Imagine what would happen if the Russian people spoke freely about the corruption of Putin and his oligarch friends. How would Putin ever live with himself if freedom of speech were allowed? The horror.
Kind of ridiculous for drivers who are scraping by
Then perhaps the Uber Cab Company should be paying their drivers more so they're not scraping by. That's what many on here say about other companies so why not this cab company?
suing the developers directly for the actions of the company owners will make software engineering (as a whole) dangerous
Funny, that situation exists in the car industry and yet they have no problem with it since it encourages people not to make mistakes. Although, in the case of Volkswagen, an Audi software engineer has been sued because he developed the software which allowed VW to cheat on emissions.
forcing developers across the industry to buy legal defense insurance
And yet doctors have to buy malpractice insurance because they can and do make mistakes so why not developers? Why shouldn't someone who makes software for autonomous vehicles be held liable if that software is the cause of someone's injury or death? What about the medical community where software is used in operations, to check for medication conflicts and other matters? If your software screws up, why shouldn't you be held liable?
Every other industry, down to plumbing, is held responsible for their actions. Why shouldn't software developers be held to the same standard?
The excuse, as it always is, will be it's not the developers but the suits who require this information.
Which is odd considering how many times on here people claiming to be developers proudly state how they walked out of an interview for such or such reason regarding THEIR personal life when asked, yet these same developers apparently have no prohibition about creating software which asks about YOUR privacy.
It's like when people on here say they want to be able to do what they want with the hardware they have purchased with their own money whereas I am told I must hand over my money to a private company regardless of whether I want to or not.
Funny how when one's privacy or money is at stake it's a national tragedy if it's compromised but forcing others to compromise their privacy or financial resources is no big deal.
It should have been obvious to anyone with less than a high school education if someone is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to NOT reveal how something is done, that is a red flag.
But nope, the VCs were more than willing to hand over money to an unknown person offering an unknown procedure without having to show how said product works.
From the day I heard about Theranos I knew it was a fraud for the simple fact they never revealed how their tests worked, never submitted to any government-approved testing and never allowed anyone else to try and replicate their work.
If that doesn't scream fraud, nothing does. With any luck Holmes will have to personally repay all the money she swindled from people, then go to jail.
To use an old D&D quote: Apparently they're letting anyone into the thieves guild these days.
The Russians are laughing all right, but this is way down the list.
True, but that's because Russia has a serious cash flow problem. At the current burn rate, which includes supporting the Syrian regime both militarily and financially, as well as the terrorists in East Ukraine, again both militarily and financially, Russia will run out of cash roughly by the middle of next year.
This presumes oil stays below $50/barrel and Putin doesn't decide to tell the terrorists he's pulling out his Russian troops and will only send in ammunition and equipment, not troops, the reason being the cost of paying out death benefits to family members and even worse, the monthly costs of paying for those troops and auxiliaries who have been wounded.
With the recent capture of another Russian who provided information that Russian troops are now in complete control of some of the terrorist battle groups, the costs to Russia for the invasion are rapidly become unsustainable.
than Windows 10.
Because running nude will get ones picture posted to the net in 30 seconds, that's the sole reason to abandon the entire race?
What's sad is you thinking not being able to run nude is a loss to the younger generation rather than the entire race not being run.
There's a reason Russian women advertise so heavily for a Western male. Russian men have some of the shortest lifespans outside of third world countries. Right now the typical Russian male can expect to live to 58 thanks in large part to their drunken habits. Even less so if they're inclined to "vacation" in Ukraine where over 2,000 of their countrymen have died already while on "vacation".
Telling people to go meet someone in real life in a country with a high drunkenness rate combined with the normally abusive nature of Russian men does not bode well for trying to get Russia's population to breed.
First, the words are you're and they're. Learn them.
Second, I'm talking about those people who, having lost their job to automation, believe the only acceptable route is to become criminals. That is when they become target practice. The police and citizens will use whatever means to protect society (police) and themselves and their property (citizens).
If you think it's acceptable for criminals to be allowed to roam free, stealing people's property, destroying people's property, attacking people, raping people and all other such criminal acts, time after time, society will be far better off if those people aren't around.
It has nothing to do with poor people. It has to do with criminals and last time I looked, criminals weren't all poor.
Those who are against this should ask themselves what a large group of people do when they have nothing to lose.
Become target practice for the police or citizens when these people think becoming a criminal is the only way to move on?