Yes, it's your health, but that doesn't mean a novice will be able to understand what the majority of the information means. The details are rabbits that many hypochondriacs will chase until they self-diagnose themselves into oblivion.
I don't need all the details of my medical history at my fingertips. I just need to follow the advice of my doctor. If I don't like their advice, or it's not successfully addressing a particular medical issue, I'll seek the advice of another medical professional (who will request a copy of my records). I know enough to know I'm not qualified to be a doctor (let alone my own doctor).
People will lose them... or they'll be stolen. They are much safer when they're not in the hands of people who have no real use for them. Sure, there will be exceptions, and those people already have their medical records at their disposal.
Why are the building new housing complexes in the Fukishima Death Zone? Build prisons instead.
All they need is one kid with a homemade lab growing guppies in that apartment complex to brew up the first in Godzilla's family tree. Hollywood is that desperate for a blockbuster sequel.
How is this post informative? That site doesn't have anything about the Zappos breach... or anything that's happened in the last six months. It hasn't posted an update since June, 2011 - and that includes their monthly reports.
I applaud datalossdb.org efforts to trying to make this data available in one place, but it needs new 'volunteers' (and probably some more donations).
Like how they display a big fat ad to install Chrome when I visit their home page with IE?
To be fair, MS shows me a big ad for IE when I visit their site with a non-IE browser. They even offer me a newer version of IE if I'm not using the latest one.
Or how they used Android to get themselves on mobile?
MS installs Bing as the default search engine for IE. Hell, MS even allows MS sites to be accessed from a PC behind ISA server even if the proxy settings aren't set (but only MS sites).
Every company tries to leverage their strengths into more market share. MS allows their users to install other browsers or search providers rather than using IE and/or Bing (both of which are free). Google doesn't require Chrome or Google+ (both of which are free) to be able to use their free search engine. Every company tries to take advantage of every set of eyes that visit their pages or use their products.
Two U.S. congressmen have accused Facebook of evading questions about whether it tracks users in order to deliver targeted ads
If they want answers, they should just check Facebook's "Facebook Ad Targeting" group page. I'm sure it's "leaking" all the answers they crave./sarcasm
Did you see the link above that says "Extended Support Releases"? What exactly is wrong with that proposal?
The problem is it starts with version 10. Those of us who have avoided the "version number race" aren't using 4, 5, 6... 10 for a reason. ESR for version 10 really offers us nothing. The ESR roadmap in the article already goes up to version 24 (which should be out by Christmas at this rate). And who knows how long they'll "extend" it for? Their roadmap shows version 10 supported until version 17, which will be a shorter duration than 3.6 was supported.
I'd have to agree. If you go to Walmart.com, you expect it to be Walmart's site. Same with Microsoft.com, Sears.com or Chrysler.com. If a site is against it, you'd expect something more like walmartsucks.com or antiwalmart.com.
Dick's Sporting Goods is not at dicks.com;-)
It'd be sort of like finding some kind of trademark loophole where you could build a store, put Walmart's logo out front but then have the inside be expressly anti-walmart. If nothing else, it's deceptive.
Putting up a store under the walmart.com domain would probably be construed as trademark infringement. Putting up a reasons-not-to-shop-at-walmart site at walmart.com would just get Walmart's legal team to try to crush you like a bug. Putting up a factual page about Newt Gingrich at newtginggrich.com won't make Mr Gingrich happy, but legally they should be OK. As far as the deceptive nature of it, nothing in politics is transparent or honest anymore. It's not a surprise that either side would try something like this.
In this day and age it is the responsibility of a public person (or a company) to protect their name, which includes domain names. The fact that Mr Gingrich has been in politics for a long time and didn't bother to purchase the domain says a lot about his understanding of how some things work in this day and age.
It will enable gamers to play against each other using PlayStation 3 consoles over the Internet-based PlayStation Network
Just like RIM's PlayBook, the Vita requires another expensive manufacture & platform specific product to be able to use its full capabilities. This isn't as bad as RIM's requirement for a BlackBerry just to be able to get email, but this type of forced dependency is never good for the consumer.
The headline merely says the data is stored in plain text, which is true. There is no further implication made.
It should say "Stores Some Card & Transaction Data In Plain Text".
The headline was provocative and misleading because Google Wallet does not store the card number or CCV in plain text, both of which are considered the most important elements of card data.
This type of plain text data storage - even if it is just exp date, transaction dates & amounts, etc - is irresponsible, but TFA also said they needed to root the phone and get past Android security and Google security layers. Of course, if someone targets this data via malware that uses an exploit allowing root access then we're talking a whole different kettle of fish.
I'm curious as to what social engineering technique could be used to find a card number?
The target is not the bank or credit card company - it is the owner of the phone... and remember, it doesn't have to work often (or on/.ers):
- Someone with malicious intent gets your Google Wallet info from your phone (either via malware or acquiring your phone).
- They contact the owner of the phone claiming to be from one of the stores that is listed in the plain text Google Wallet transaction history.
- They tell the owner of the phone that their records show that your Google Wallet was charged <insert excessive amount here by moving the decimal two places to the right> and surely that amount is not correct.
- They blame the error on the new payment technology (e.g., "they still haven't worked all the bugs out", etc).
- The remind the owner of the phone to pay close attention to their next statement just in case this happened with any other retailer.
- They tell the owner of the phone that they need the CC# and CCV to issue the credit because "they don't store that information for security reasons".
- If they've played their role correctly the owner of the phone may provide the requested information.
SCO keeps coming back just like herpes. How is it that they can continue to pay lawyers (or find fools greedy enough) to fund their 'Hail Marry' legal crap?
Yes it was a bold effort, but the first major player in the market often gets to set the standards other vendors must meet. Had MS pushed the Courier to fruition we would be looking at a very different tablet landscape. Obviously they didn't want to push a sub-standard product to market, but in the end I believe the Courier would have been a quality (and interesting) offering.
I'm pretty sure all the URL's we access from our phones & other mobile devices *that are using a wireless carrier* are being stored any analyzed for "marketing purposes" by the wireless carriers. Dolphin doing it is just another glommer sucking at the same teat.
i wonder if it's ok for your body to keep such transmitter so close to it 24/7..?
According to this there is no link between cell phones and cancer. I'm pretty sure strapping either one of those two 'watches' to your wrist 24/7 will decrease the chance of getting laid.
Is it just me, or does the WIMM look like a thick iPod Nano?
Is this dream of a 'Dick Tracy watch' still alive? We can do more with our smartphones than ever imagined, but the screen on a reasonably sized watch is far too small to be useful for most people. The keyboard would be too small so user input would need to be via voice (say goodbye to personal messages via your watch). And the reception? I can just see it now... your watch tells you to turn south... a few degrees more... that's better... now raise your fist in the air to limit transmission interference... your such a well trained monkey, here's a little prize: Duke Nukem 3D on your watch.
Slashdot Mirror
Or a 1 wood.
Only on Slashdot would someone refer to a driver as a "1 wood".
That's because on /. the word driver usually means something completely different.
I'm not sure what you're looking at. Its latest report is January 13, 2012.
I was looking the June 2011 thru Jan 2012 reports on this page and the date of the latest post on the front page.
Yes, it's your health, but that doesn't mean a novice will be able to understand what the majority of the information means. The details are rabbits that many hypochondriacs will chase until they self-diagnose themselves into oblivion.
I don't need all the details of my medical history at my fingertips. I just need to follow the advice of my doctor. If I don't like their advice, or it's not successfully addressing a particular medical issue, I'll seek the advice of another medical professional (who will request a copy of my records). I know enough to know I'm not qualified to be a doctor (let alone my own doctor).
People will lose them ... or they'll be stolen. They are much safer when they're not in the hands of people who have no real use for them. Sure, there will be exceptions, and those people already have their medical records at their disposal.
Why are the building new housing complexes in the Fukishima Death Zone? Build prisons instead.
All they need is one kid with a homemade lab growing guppies in that apartment complex to brew up the first in Godzilla's family tree. Hollywood is that desperate for a blockbuster sequel.
How is this post informative? That site doesn't have anything about the Zappos breach ... or anything that's happened in the last six months. It hasn't posted an update since June, 2011 - and that includes their monthly reports.
I applaud datalossdb.org efforts to trying to make this data available in one place, but it needs new 'volunteers' (and probably some more donations).
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I think it's something like Pray for a man and you save him once. Teach him to pray for himself and you save him for a lifetime.
Like how they display a big fat ad to install Chrome when I visit their home page with IE?
To be fair, MS shows me a big ad for IE when I visit their site with a non-IE browser. They even offer me a newer version of IE if I'm not using the latest one.
Or how they used Android to get themselves on mobile?
MS installs Bing as the default search engine for IE. Hell, MS even allows MS sites to be accessed from a PC behind ISA server even if the proxy settings aren't set (but only MS sites).
Every company tries to leverage their strengths into more market share. MS allows their users to install other browsers or search providers rather than using IE and/or Bing (both of which are free). Google doesn't require Chrome or Google+ (both of which are free) to be able to use their free search engine. Every company tries to take advantage of every set of eyes that visit their pages or use their products.
Two U.S. congressmen have accused Facebook of evading questions about whether it tracks users in order to deliver targeted ads
If they want answers, they should just check Facebook's "Facebook Ad Targeting" group page. I'm sure it's "leaking" all the answers they crave. /sarcasm
Did you see the link above that says "Extended Support Releases"? What exactly is wrong with that proposal?
The problem is it starts with version 10. Those of us who have avoided the "version number race" aren't using 4, 5, 6 ... 10 for a reason. ESR for version 10 really offers us nothing. The ESR roadmap in the article already goes up to version 24 (which should be out by Christmas at this rate). And who knows how long they'll "extend" it for? Their roadmap shows version 10 supported until version 17, which will be a shorter duration than 3.6 was supported.
I'd have to agree. If you go to Walmart.com, you expect it to be Walmart's site. Same with Microsoft.com, Sears.com or Chrysler.com. If a site is against it, you'd expect something more like walmartsucks.com or antiwalmart.com.
Dick's Sporting Goods is not at dicks.com ;-)
It'd be sort of like finding some kind of trademark loophole where you could build a store, put Walmart's logo out front but then have the inside be expressly anti-walmart. If nothing else, it's deceptive.
Putting up a store under the walmart.com domain would probably be construed as trademark infringement. Putting up a reasons-not-to-shop-at-walmart site at walmart.com would just get Walmart's legal team to try to crush you like a bug. Putting up a factual page about Newt Gingrich at newtginggrich.com won't make Mr Gingrich happy, but legally they should be OK. As far as the deceptive nature of it, nothing in politics is transparent or honest anymore. It's not a surprise that either side would try something like this.
In this day and age it is the responsibility of a public person (or a company) to protect their name, which includes domain names. The fact that Mr Gingrich has been in politics for a long time and didn't bother to purchase the domain says a lot about his understanding of how some things work in this day and age.
It will enable gamers to play against each other using PlayStation 3 consoles over the Internet-based PlayStation Network
Just like RIM's PlayBook, the Vita requires another expensive manufacture & platform specific product to be able to use its full capabilities. This isn't as bad as RIM's requirement for a BlackBerry just to be able to get email, but this type of forced dependency is never good for the consumer.
The headline merely says the data is stored in plain text, which is true. There is no further implication made.
It should say "Stores Some Card & Transaction Data In Plain Text".
The headline was provocative and misleading because Google Wallet does not store the card number or CCV in plain text, both of which are considered the most important elements of card data.
This type of plain text data storage - even if it is just exp date, transaction dates & amounts, etc - is irresponsible, but TFA also said they needed to root the phone and get past Android security and Google security layers. Of course, if someone targets this data via malware that uses an exploit allowing root access then we're talking a whole different kettle of fish.
I'm curious as to what social engineering technique could be used to find a card number?
The target is not the bank or credit card company - it is the owner of the phone ... and remember, it doesn't have to work often (or on /.ers):
- Someone with malicious intent gets your Google Wallet info from your phone (either via malware or acquiring your phone).
- They contact the owner of the phone claiming to be from one of the stores that is listed in the plain text Google Wallet transaction history.
- They tell the owner of the phone that their records show that your Google Wallet was charged <insert excessive amount here by moving the decimal two places to the right> and surely that amount is not correct.
- They blame the error on the new payment technology (e.g., "they still haven't worked all the bugs out", etc).
- The remind the owner of the phone to pay close attention to their next statement just in case this happened with any other retailer.
- They tell the owner of the phone that they need the CC# and CCV to issue the credit because "they don't store that information for security reasons".
- If they've played their role correctly the owner of the phone may provide the requested information.
Your obsession with Apple is unhealthy.
You know the old saying: An Apple rant a day ...
SCO keeps coming back just like herpes. How is it that they can continue to pay lawyers (or find fools greedy enough) to fund their 'Hail Marry' legal crap?
Yes it was a bold effort, but the first major player in the market often gets to set the standards other vendors must meet. Had MS pushed the Courier to fruition we would be looking at a very different tablet landscape. Obviously they didn't want to push a sub-standard product to market, but in the end I believe the Courier would have been a quality (and interesting) offering.
between the customers?
UK Metropolitan Police, U.S. Secret Service, the Ministry of Defence and regimes in the Middle East
Their methods of suppressing rebellion and their forthrightness while doing so?
I'm self employed, and even though my boss is jerk he's not going to fire me because I call myself a programmer.
I'm pretty sure all the URL's we access from our phones & other mobile devices *that are using a wireless carrier* are being stored any analyzed for "marketing purposes" by the wireless carriers. Dolphin doing it is just another glommer sucking at the same teat.
Dolphin is available for iOS and offers the same WebZines "feature" ;-)
i wonder if it's ok for your body to keep such transmitter so close to it 24/7..?
According to this there is no link between cell phones and cancer. I'm pretty sure strapping either one of those two 'watches' to your wrist 24/7 will decrease the chance of getting laid.
Is it just me, or does the WIMM look like a thick iPod Nano?
... your watch tells you to turn south ... a few degrees more ... that's better ... now raise your fist in the air to limit transmission interference ... your such a well trained monkey, here's a little prize: Duke Nukem 3D on your watch.
Is this dream of a 'Dick Tracy watch' still alive? We can do more with our smartphones than ever imagined, but the screen on a reasonably sized watch is far too small to be useful for most people. The keyboard would be too small so user input would need to be via voice (say goodbye to personal messages via your watch). And the reception? I can just see it now
open up the shorts
Investors in this venture are going to take it in the shorts.