What sensationalist tripe.
What are they going to do, strand millions of lower-income people who can't afford to replace their $2000 clunker with a $30,000 new car?
It's actually quite worse than that. You would force them to buy a $30K commuter car, and then force them to rent some kind of long range electric every time they wanted to go see Yosemite.
The biggest problem of all is the limited range of electrics. People always say "The average person travels under 100 miles a day", and that's true. However, many of us have loved ones we visit on the weekend, and taking a 10 hour round trip weekend to visit the in-laws just became impossible when we have to stop every few hours for a few hours of recharge.
Many people just can't afford another car for long range only, so they buy the compromise. Drive the mini-van to work with it's 22mpg because it's still cheaper then getting an econocar and a minivan. Personal experience talking.
Isn't this the same guy who's pushing Solar Power and electric cars to save the environment?
Wouldn't those rockets create an awful lot of poisonous gasses?
No sir! Just take your time and sail there on a solar/wind powered boat!
The only way I would pay $1200 for an iPhone was if it came with $1100 of easily removable gold plating. That way I could conceivably get my money's worth out of it.
The "taxpayer" did not directly fund the Telco networks, anymore than the taxpayers directly funded your employer's IT upgrade last year.
Pure semantics! When the govt. forces you to pay extra so that said money can go where they want it to go, it's a tax! If they renamed the Income Tax deducted from you paycheck every week to Employee Usage Fee, would you fell any better?
All my data is stored on a CPM machine with no networking capability. I hand code all binaries in Assembly Language. Never had a breach. This machine is used for Internet surfing only, and I re-load the OS every day from a secure thumb drive. I also sell bridges in Brooklyn, if you're interested!
Was on a team that did a security assessment in Puerto Rico several years ago. The IT team had a contract w HP for some of the system. Could never get questions answered, never got the same guy in to fix their messes, and it under-preformed for excessive costs.
Seems sad the govt assumes everyone has one or more of these accounts.
Just 8 short years ago, I was doing computer security inspections/reviews for US govt. agencies. We were told NOT to have such accounts as they are possible security holes. After all, if the bad guys know everything about you, you're easier to hack and or manipulate.
In some ways this is more honest, it's been demonstrated that the OS will talk to 107 domains whether or not some switches are toggled in the Control Panel to give the illusion of privacy.
Any list of those so I can set them to 127.0.0.1 in my Hosts file?
I never saw the fascination with a device that had so little storage I can't even run off the whole contents of my camera onto if I'm not connected to the web.
Cheap? Not really. Given that for another $100 I can get better specs, a real storage device, and an operating system that's $100 to buy (I realize some don't want Windows), the cost of a Chromebook is really expensive. Not to mention Google spying on you!
Depends on where you live. In some places, a squatter is simply removed by law enforcement. In others, a squatter may be removed in a body bag as the homeowner comes back to find someone "burglarizing" their home. Don't try that in Stand Your Ground states!
And yet I have Sears Craftsman tools that I bought 25 years ago, and return for a new one when it breaks. Some companies honor their lifetime warranties.
>So why is someone plugging a USB drive with FIREFOX into an "air gapped" computer?
>Looks like they've re-invented "sneakernet".
>Seriously. If security is that important that you air-gap a system, why aren't you locking down the USB ports?
You confuse security with idiocy. Just because there is a secure system, doesn't mean that an idiot can't screw it up!
Heck NO! I pay for the best slippers, so my wife's feet are comfortable -- she won't wear shoes in the house. Sadly, it looks like childbearing is no longer possible - we were trying for another - but now we foster. And while she cooks a fine meal, she too busy homeschooling, babysitting, gardening and taking care of the animals to stay in the kitchen too long.
My wife just called, and told me we're out of milk. Why do I need a smart fridge? Not only that, but I don't want to program a menu into it so that it will tell me what I need to buy for next weeks meals. That's what the wife is for.
The things I need they don't make, like a smart tackle box to tell me if I have enough lures and leaders for the weekend trip to the fishing hole, or the smart gun safe to tell me if I have enough turkey shells for Turkey Season, deer loads for Dear Season, etc. Those are things I don't trust my wife to get right.
Of course, this being Slashdot, many of the nerds never got far enough away from the computer to get a girlfriend, much less land her (i.e., get her to marry you). For those, who cares, your life is too boring anyway, no-one wants to spy on you, but lots of companies want to sell you crap to fill up your lonely hours. Maybe one of those lifelike companion robots...
Me, I'm going home to a good home cooked meal and and an enjoyable nighttime activity most slashdotters just dream about!
Don't you people understand? Rules are for the little people, not the govt bureaucrats. If Hill can't get what she wants under the rules, then screw the rules!
It's different in that it's information are set to those horrible Chinese people, instead of those wonderful people at Google who have that sweet "Do no evil" motto.
Denier? No! I'm old enough to have been indoctrinated into the "proven science" that we're heading for the next Ice Age. So I'm sticking to my guns and calling all of the Global Warmist the New Ice Age Deniers!
It's just funny how a lot of them are the same group of paid researchers.
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This is why I love the Cloud so much! Let put everything in the Cloud, and nothing in safe private networks behind good firewalls.
What sensationalist tripe. What are they going to do, strand millions of lower-income people who can't afford to replace their $2000 clunker with a $30,000 new car?
It's actually quite worse than that. You would force them to buy a $30K commuter car, and then force them to rent some kind of long range electric every time they wanted to go see Yosemite.
The biggest problem of all is the limited range of electrics. People always say "The average person travels under 100 miles a day", and that's true. However, many of us have loved ones we visit on the weekend, and taking a 10 hour round trip weekend to visit the in-laws just became impossible when we have to stop every few hours for a few hours of recharge.
Many people just can't afford another car for long range only, so they buy the compromise. Drive the mini-van to work with it's 22mpg because it's still cheaper then getting an econocar and a minivan. Personal experience talking.
Isn't this the same guy who's pushing Solar Power and electric cars to save the environment? Wouldn't those rockets create an awful lot of poisonous gasses? No sir! Just take your time and sail there on a solar/wind powered boat!
Actually, if we got rid of all bureaucrats and politicians, the resulting decrease in hot air would lower global temperatures by 2 degrees.
The only way I would pay $1200 for an iPhone was if it came with $1100 of easily removable gold plating. That way I could conceivably get my money's worth out of it.
The "taxpayer" did not directly fund the Telco networks, anymore than the taxpayers directly funded your employer's IT upgrade last year.
Pure semantics! When the govt. forces you to pay extra so that said money can go where they want it to go, it's a tax! If they renamed the Income Tax deducted from you paycheck every week to Employee Usage Fee, would you fell any better?
All my data is stored on a CPM machine with no networking capability. I hand code all binaries in Assembly Language. Never had a breach.
This machine is used for Internet surfing only, and I re-load the OS every day from a secure thumb drive.
I
also sell bridges in Brooklyn, if you're interested!
Was on a team that did a security assessment in Puerto Rico several years ago. The IT team had a contract w HP for some of the system. Could never get questions answered, never got the same guy in to fix their messes, and it under-preformed for excessive costs.
Seems sad the govt assumes everyone has one or more of these accounts.
Just 8 short years ago, I was doing computer security inspections/reviews for US govt. agencies. We were told NOT to have such accounts as they are possible security holes. After all, if the bad guys know everything about you, you're easier to hack and or manipulate.
In some ways this is more honest, it's been demonstrated that the OS will talk to 107 domains whether or not some switches are toggled in the Control Panel to give the illusion of privacy.
Any list of those so I can set them to 127.0.0.1 in my Hosts file?
Facebook is in the tank for the DNC and Hillary. Just look at who all the big-wigs their support with their contribution dollars.
I never saw the fascination with a device that had so little storage I can't even run off the whole contents of my camera onto if I'm not connected to the web.
Cheap? Not really. Given that for another $100 I can get better specs, a real storage device, and an operating system that's $100 to buy (I realize some don't want Windows), the cost of a Chromebook is really expensive. Not to mention Google spying on you!
Depends on where you live. In some places, a squatter is simply removed by law enforcement. In others, a squatter may be removed in a body bag as the homeowner comes back to find someone "burglarizing" their home. Don't try that in Stand Your Ground states!
If you trust them, they suddenly shut down and brick your devices. And this is just one of their own networks - Nest.
And yet I have Sears Craftsman tools that I bought 25 years ago, and return for a new one when it breaks. Some companies honor their lifetime warranties.
>So why is someone plugging a USB drive with FIREFOX into an "air gapped" computer?
>Looks like they've re-invented "sneakernet".
>Seriously. If security is that important that you air-gap a system, why aren't you locking down the USB ports?
You confuse security with idiocy. Just because there is a secure system, doesn't mean that an idiot can't screw it up!
Heck NO! I pay for the best slippers, so my wife's feet are comfortable -- she won't wear shoes in the house. Sadly, it looks like childbearing is no longer possible - we were trying for another - but now we foster. And while she cooks a fine meal, she too busy homeschooling, babysitting, gardening and taking care of the animals to stay in the kitchen too long.
My wife just called, and told me we're out of milk. Why do I need a smart fridge? Not only that, but I don't want to program a menu into it so that it will tell me what I need to buy for next weeks meals. That's what the wife is for.
The things I need they don't make, like a smart tackle box to tell me if I have enough lures and leaders for the weekend trip to the fishing hole, or the smart gun safe to tell me if I have enough turkey shells for Turkey Season, deer loads for Dear Season, etc. Those are things I don't trust my wife to get right.
Of course, this being Slashdot, many of the nerds never got far enough away from the computer to get a girlfriend, much less land her (i.e., get her to marry you). For those, who cares, your life is too boring anyway, no-one wants to spy on you, but lots of companies want to sell you crap to fill up your lonely hours. Maybe one of those lifelike companion robots...
Me, I'm going home to a good home cooked meal and and an enjoyable nighttime activity most slashdotters just dream about!
Why waste my time alone in my house facebooking on netflixing when I can go out to a bar or a cinema with a date?
I almost believed you until that last line. You're not a real Slashdoter! They don't have dates!
Don't you people understand? Rules are for the little people, not the govt bureaucrats. If Hill can't get what she wants under the rules, then screw the rules!
So... If you're using Libre Office, you won't get pawn3d, right? Maybe they'll have a new rash of downloads now.
That's not a bug, it's a feature!
No, Redmond knows much more about your computer already. The Chinese are just trying to catch up!
It's different in that it's information are set to those horrible Chinese people, instead of those wonderful people at Google who have that sweet "Do no evil" motto.
Denier? No! I'm old enough to have been indoctrinated into the "proven science" that we're heading for the next Ice Age. So I'm sticking to my guns and calling all of the Global Warmist the New Ice Age Deniers!
It's just funny how a lot of them are the same group of paid researchers.