They try to make everyone think it is easy to impeach a president. Obviously, the Russians do not want to be found out because that would blow their cover. Putin is throwing everything he has at foiling the investigation. Unfortunately, that will make it very difficult to reinstall Hillary as our true leader.
But Not Impossible.
Hate to be the one to point it out, but Ms. Clinton is not in government at all. The line of succession for POTUS does not include Ms. Clinton. The best we can hope for should Trump resign or be impeached is President Pence. The worst is of course if Pence is caught up as well, and then we'll have President Ryan.
None of those prospects sound any better than Trump, and in fact, could be worse, Pence and Ryan know what the fuck they're doing, while Trump doesn't. Trump's ignorance is kind of a boon right now.
No amount of impeachments or resignations will put the next POTUS in the hands of the voters, not until 2020. Our system doesn't work like that. And Clinton? Not even in the picture, sorry.
I'm pretty sure that's what they're referring to, is probably porn type material with what normally are children's characters, or story-lines with lewdness added.
And while I'm the type of person who thinks if something someone else enjoys isn't hurting anything, then fine. But I think some of this type of material is banned in some countries, and perhaps this is why, because potential for accidental exposure for children. There's some insane shit out there that you just can't unsee once you've seen it. And I'm saying that as an adult. I can't hardly imagine the sorts of nightmares or other psychological harm some material could do to a child.
So the content-type crossover is definitely there, and the filtering needs work, or YouTube needs work on overall permitted videos. I dunno, it's a complicated problem because there's an audience for that type of content, and that's not wrong, but keeping it out of reach of children, yeah, it's just not so easy. Mostly cuz, well, a pretty large part of the internet's usage is pornographic in nature. Some say the pornographic stuff is what got the internet really rolling in the mid 90's. So it's kinda hard to filter out ALL of it, cuz it's frickin everywhere.
If the employee did this after employment ended, we would have a problem. But you see, this employee was granted access to Twitter's systems freely by his/her supervisors. While the act was pretty childish and silly, it fails to meet the requirements of being a criminal act. Let it go, move on, geeze. No quantifiable damage was caused.
I've been popping unopened copies of Windows 7 into machines and upgrading them seamlessly to Windows 10 (usually within 24 hours of original install) for the last year without needing any "assistive technology" tricks. Has anyone actually run into any "you must pay to upgrade" or other barriers since the "free for all" Windows 7 allegedly ended?
It's true, for a good long while after their free upgrade officially ended, Win7 keys were still activating Win10 without issue. But that's stopped, a few months ago, now you get a message that you no longer qualify for a free upgrade. That ship sailed, I'm afraid.
Where is your 'adoption rate' now, Miscreant-o-soft?
Come on, how many end-users actually buy a copy of Windows? Microsoft has never made money off end-users. It's the big OEMs that buy bulk licenses to distribute Windows with new PC, that's where M$'s cash comes from. Probably other places too, but definitely not end-user sales of Windows licenses.
It is wise to do it then revert back to 7 at least so your motherboard keys are saved in Microsoft's servers.
This is wise advise, do this. Just get your machine 'registered' so Win10 license is stuck to it forever, then install whatever, can always go back, no cd keys ever needed.
If I turn on assistive tech in my win 7 install, and go to DL win 10, I'll be able to install it and it will work?
Na, it's an 'on your honor' type offer. Just go to the correct webpage to get it. You're supposed to be a person needing assistive technologies, but there's no verification.
..in the kitchen. Look, the organization of a bridge crew and the controls of a naval ship are archaic, a vestige of a passed age when all those controls were mechanical.
You don't need all those damn people on the bridge anymore. Even Star Trek has it all wrong, you just don't need that many people with the ways we can control everything via a computer workstation. Having all these people just introduces delays in ship's response time to the Captain's orders, and human error.
So there you go, DoD, there's your solution, get rid of most of the bridge crew, streamline the Captain's control center so (s)he can properly control all the ship's systems. Better response time, less error, less people, all wins.
Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas. I already foresee an accident involving this stuff that causes a huge release of methane. Plus, isn't this just more of the same? Burning fossil fuels? Turn the nukes back on, build out solar/wind/whatever else then phase out the nukes.
I'm waiting for there to be the inevitable latency issues with the BT audio which makes using it in a game setting impossible. Not that there are any games on mobile worthy of 120hz play. Its all funbux cashgrabs and gacha games.
It's already like that. Playing SNES emulator with car bluetooth, its super creepy cuz the sounds are off just that little bit to mess with you.
Mining more will hurt the price to those who already have bitcoin. Since most of those users are in the darker side of the economy, with ties to criminal networks, this presents a solution to the problem. Just have the mafia and drug lords hunt down these miners.
While I definitely agree with you on this point, I don't believe Bitcoin itself is involved in this scheme. This scheme really wouldn't work too great for Bitcoin at this point, anyway. That ship sailed long ago, there's not a lot of Bitcoin left to 'mine.' To even have a chance of acquiring one of those remaining ones, I'm afraid even the power of millions of idle smartphones isn't going to help. You need a datacenter at this point. The mining-browser-hijack TFA referred to was Monero I believe.
But what a pointless waste of effort, yeah. Definitely going to dilute that particular crypto-currency. Wouldn't it be cool if someone doing this sort of nefarious thing did it for a good cause, like folding@home or some other community distributed computing project other that silly crypto-currencies?
We live in some strange times, where thieves are trying to steal CPU cycles from our devices. Just wow, who would've ever thought this would ever be a thing?
On another note, I think I might have stumbled across a site doing this and it's pretty annoying, browser goes very slow.
...Be sure it's not just for smartphones. Throw PC and laptop users a bone too, make it so we could use a webcam on our PC/laptop to 'see' the object for usage in 2FA. OK? Good idea.
Instantly made me think of Inception and the concept of a totem. So it's some personal trinket.
In the absence of anything else good, I do like it. It's something you create (hopefully?), so I love that it has that aspect, so it should be as unique as you decide to be.
It still has the disadvantage of being something someone else can take from you, or you can lose, but as one part of 2FA, having it taken shouldn't be much of an issue. Loss of the item really depends on how difficult it would be to replace.
It is somewhat annoying that difficulty to replace the item directly correlates to it's usefulness as a unique totem. Optimally, your totem should be something you make yourself, and could recreate with relative ease, with minimal tools. Maybe everyone should take up enough wood carving to make their own unique little carvings. I think that'd actually be kinda neat.
As I've pointed out in other related topics, treating people calling you and telling you about a problem YOU created. Geezeus, the guy is trying to help. And you treat him like a criminal... not cool. This is why criminals get the sploits. This crap right here is a huge part of the problem.
And the criminal justice system following lockstep to prosecute someone trying to be helpful... well... when you get that bill for a few grand on a newly minted credit card in your name.. you know who to thank now.
I'm really getting tired of this whole atmosphere of the public is your beta testers. I'm not your beta tester and I don't want to be.
It's frickin everywhere, games, apps, websites, we're all guinea-pigs for this garbage and I'm sick of it. Get some QA ffs. Stop treating the public as your freebie beta testers. We're fucking sick of it. I am at least.
I don't like the hardware answer to this problem. It's fraught with issues. The biggest one, which I encountered personally, is what happens when your device is irrecoverably lost. Or in my case, my phone number was lost. I could not get the same phone number, I had to get a new one, and it made fixing sites I had doing 2FA via SMS to my phone number a real bitch to recover. Took many emails and a sob story to get 2FA stripped from my account so I could get back in.
This is a serious problem. If Google stuck to their guns and refused to dissociate my unrecoverable phone number from my account, I'd be shit out of luck. Google should have stuck to their guns, but they didn't and I recovered my account.
What happens when this happens and the sites you've lost access to aren't going to be helpful? You're screwed. This is why hardware devices are a non-solution. They create more problems than they solve.
I don't have a solution, but I know this, the solution has to be something that has all the features of a password:
1. You make it.
2. You store it in your mind.
3. You can change it at any time.
Any solution that doesn't have those three features is non-starter. It must have those features or it's worthless, to me at least.
Alas, as of this moment, the one place you can put something that NO ONE else can get it is in your mind. This is the ultimate safe.
This is why passwords remain the preferred authentication method. Because it feels secure, your mind is the only place the key exists. As soon as you move that key out of a person's mind and into a device, or biometric, it's no longer in the best safe in the world. Your mind. It's a very important semantic. People feel passwords are safe because they're stored in the best safe. Your mind.
Until we come up with another way to store the key in your mind, password will reign king of authentication. Period.
Personally I don't really like biometrics, or 'devices' to store your passwords for these exact reasons. Parts of my body can be taken from me by force. My 'device' can be lost, stolen, or damaged, locking me out of everything. The mind is insurmountable security. Yes, you can beat someone over the head to try to convince them to spill the beans, but even that can be resisted by a determined person.
The password is still the best security device we have. It can't be lost, stolen or damaged. No one can 'steal' it from you (though it can be guessed by persistent actors, but so could any other authentication method. Just takes time and effort.) It's no going anywhere until a suitable replacement is created.
And that suitable replacement doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon, because nothing feels like a password. It's yours, you made it, and you can change it. You can't change your fingerprint or retina scan.
This is not an acceptable 'reward' for the painstaking effort of analysis of any particular application for security flaws.
If you want to crowd source your QA, you're going to need to pay a much heftier bounty. I'm thinking 5 or 6 digits to make it worth someone's effort. And also, I think criminals will be paying a lot more than your piddly $1000 for juicy exploits. And as long as criminals pay more than you do, guess who's getting the sploits?
I personally think the entire concept of bounties and crowd sourcing your QA is utter stupidity and pretty frickin lazy and irresponsible. Hire a real QA department, pay some salaries for people to hunt this crap down, rather than paying one lucky fuck while every one else trying to find sploits gets zero. Total bullshit. Get a QA department.
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Exactly.
They try to make everyone think it is easy to impeach a president. Obviously, the Russians do not want to be found out because that would blow their cover. Putin is throwing everything he has at foiling the investigation. Unfortunately, that will make it very difficult to reinstall Hillary as our true leader.
But Not Impossible.
Hate to be the one to point it out, but Ms. Clinton is not in government at all. The line of succession for POTUS does not include Ms. Clinton. The best we can hope for should Trump resign or be impeached is President Pence. The worst is of course if Pence is caught up as well, and then we'll have President Ryan.
None of those prospects sound any better than Trump, and in fact, could be worse, Pence and Ryan know what the fuck they're doing, while Trump doesn't. Trump's ignorance is kind of a boon right now.
No amount of impeachments or resignations will put the next POTUS in the hands of the voters, not until 2020. Our system doesn't work like that. And Clinton? Not even in the picture, sorry.
Can I program my mail system to automatically forward spam?
Many humans are not self-aware
Excuse me?
He's got a point, have you seen some of the stupidity in this world? Anything self-aware wouldn't be this stupid.
Time for a game of whack-a-website!
I'm pretty sure that's what they're referring to, is probably porn type material with what normally are children's characters, or story-lines with lewdness added.
And while I'm the type of person who thinks if something someone else enjoys isn't hurting anything, then fine. But I think some of this type of material is banned in some countries, and perhaps this is why, because potential for accidental exposure for children. There's some insane shit out there that you just can't unsee once you've seen it. And I'm saying that as an adult. I can't hardly imagine the sorts of nightmares or other psychological harm some material could do to a child.
So the content-type crossover is definitely there, and the filtering needs work, or YouTube needs work on overall permitted videos. I dunno, it's a complicated problem because there's an audience for that type of content, and that's not wrong, but keeping it out of reach of children, yeah, it's just not so easy. Mostly cuz, well, a pretty large part of the internet's usage is pornographic in nature. Some say the pornographic stuff is what got the internet really rolling in the mid 90's. So it's kinda hard to filter out ALL of it, cuz it's frickin everywhere.
If the employee did this after employment ended, we would have a problem. But you see, this employee was granted access to Twitter's systems freely by his/her supervisors. While the act was pretty childish and silly, it fails to meet the requirements of being a criminal act. Let it go, move on, geeze. No quantifiable damage was caused.
I've been popping unopened copies of Windows 7 into machines and upgrading them seamlessly to Windows 10 (usually within 24 hours of original install) for the last year without needing any "assistive technology" tricks. Has anyone actually run into any "you must pay to upgrade" or other barriers since the "free for all" Windows 7 allegedly ended?
It's true, for a good long while after their free upgrade officially ended, Win7 keys were still activating Win10 without issue. But that's stopped, a few months ago, now you get a message that you no longer qualify for a free upgrade. That ship sailed, I'm afraid.
Watch their sales numbers plummet. :-)
Where is your 'adoption rate' now, Miscreant-o-soft?
Come on, how many end-users actually buy a copy of Windows? Microsoft has never made money off end-users. It's the big OEMs that buy bulk licenses to distribute Windows with new PC, that's where M$'s cash comes from. Probably other places too, but definitely not end-user sales of Windows licenses.
It is wise to do it then revert back to 7 at least so your motherboard keys are saved in Microsoft's servers.
This is wise advise, do this. Just get your machine 'registered' so Win10 license is stuck to it forever, then install whatever, can always go back, no cd keys ever needed.
If I turn on assistive tech in my win 7 install, and go to DL win 10, I'll be able to install it and it will work?
Na, it's an 'on your honor' type offer. Just go to the correct webpage to get it. You're supposed to be a person needing assistive technologies, but there's no verification.
..in the kitchen. Look, the organization of a bridge crew and the controls of a naval ship are archaic, a vestige of a passed age when all those controls were mechanical.
You don't need all those damn people on the bridge anymore. Even Star Trek has it all wrong, you just don't need that many people with the ways we can control everything via a computer workstation. Having all these people just introduces delays in ship's response time to the Captain's orders, and human error.
So there you go, DoD, there's your solution, get rid of most of the bridge crew, streamline the Captain's control center so (s)he can properly control all the ship's systems. Better response time, less error, less people, all wins.
Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas. I already foresee an accident involving this stuff that causes a huge release of methane. Plus, isn't this just more of the same? Burning fossil fuels? Turn the nukes back on, build out solar/wind/whatever else then phase out the nukes.
I'm waiting for there to be the inevitable latency issues with the BT audio which makes using it in a game setting impossible. Not that there are any games on mobile worthy of 120hz play. Its all funbux cashgrabs and gacha games.
It's already like that. Playing SNES emulator with car bluetooth, its super creepy cuz the sounds are off just that little bit to mess with you.
And you know, I never use my jack, but damnit, I want it there for when I DO NEED it. No jack no sale. kthxbye.
Mining more will hurt the price to those who already have bitcoin. Since most of those users are in the darker side of the economy, with ties to criminal networks, this presents a solution to the problem. Just have the mafia and drug lords hunt down these miners.
While I definitely agree with you on this point, I don't believe Bitcoin itself is involved in this scheme. This scheme really wouldn't work too great for Bitcoin at this point, anyway. That ship sailed long ago, there's not a lot of Bitcoin left to 'mine.' To even have a chance of acquiring one of those remaining ones, I'm afraid even the power of millions of idle smartphones isn't going to help. You need a datacenter at this point. The mining-browser-hijack TFA referred to was Monero I believe.
But what a pointless waste of effort, yeah. Definitely going to dilute that particular crypto-currency. Wouldn't it be cool if someone doing this sort of nefarious thing did it for a good cause, like folding@home or some other community distributed computing project other that silly crypto-currencies?
We live in some strange times, where thieves are trying to steal CPU cycles from our devices. Just wow, who would've ever thought this would ever be a thing?
On another note, I think I might have stumbled across a site doing this and it's pretty annoying, browser goes very slow.
...Be sure it's not just for smartphones. Throw PC and laptop users a bone too, make it so we could use a webcam on our PC/laptop to 'see' the object for usage in 2FA. OK? Good idea.
Instantly made me think of Inception and the concept of a totem. So it's some personal trinket.
In the absence of anything else good, I do like it. It's something you create (hopefully?), so I love that it has that aspect, so it should be as unique as you decide to be.
It still has the disadvantage of being something someone else can take from you, or you can lose, but as one part of 2FA, having it taken shouldn't be much of an issue. Loss of the item really depends on how difficult it would be to replace.
It is somewhat annoying that difficulty to replace the item directly correlates to it's usefulness as a unique totem. Optimally, your totem should be something you make yourself, and could recreate with relative ease, with minimal tools. Maybe everyone should take up enough wood carving to make their own unique little carvings. I think that'd actually be kinda neat.
credit cards and drivers licenses come to mind :)
Just your wallet itself might be good enough.
Another day, another chip out of the rules and regulations that make us civil and decent to each other.
Nothing good can come of this, which is the hallmark the Trump administration: Just how badly can we fuck this country up in 4 years?
As I've pointed out in other related topics, treating people calling you and telling you about a problem YOU created. Geezeus, the guy is trying to help. And you treat him like a criminal... not cool. This is why criminals get the sploits. This crap right here is a huge part of the problem.
And the criminal justice system following lockstep to prosecute someone trying to be helpful... well... when you get that bill for a few grand on a newly minted credit card in your name.. you know who to thank now.
I'm really getting tired of this whole atmosphere of the public is your beta testers. I'm not your beta tester and I don't want to be.
It's frickin everywhere, games, apps, websites, we're all guinea-pigs for this garbage and I'm sick of it. Get some QA ffs. Stop treating the public as your freebie beta testers. We're fucking sick of it. I am at least.
I don't like the hardware answer to this problem. It's fraught with issues. The biggest one, which I encountered personally, is what happens when your device is irrecoverably lost. Or in my case, my phone number was lost. I could not get the same phone number, I had to get a new one, and it made fixing sites I had doing 2FA via SMS to my phone number a real bitch to recover. Took many emails and a sob story to get 2FA stripped from my account so I could get back in.
This is a serious problem. If Google stuck to their guns and refused to dissociate my unrecoverable phone number from my account, I'd be shit out of luck. Google should have stuck to their guns, but they didn't and I recovered my account.
What happens when this happens and the sites you've lost access to aren't going to be helpful? You're screwed. This is why hardware devices are a non-solution. They create more problems than they solve.
I don't have a solution, but I know this, the solution has to be something that has all the features of a password:
1. You make it.
2. You store it in your mind.
3. You can change it at any time.
Any solution that doesn't have those three features is non-starter. It must have those features or it's worthless, to me at least.
Alas, as of this moment, the one place you can put something that NO ONE else can get it is in your mind. This is the ultimate safe.
This is why passwords remain the preferred authentication method. Because it feels secure, your mind is the only place the key exists. As soon as you move that key out of a person's mind and into a device, or biometric, it's no longer in the best safe in the world. Your mind. It's a very important semantic. People feel passwords are safe because they're stored in the best safe. Your mind.
Until we come up with another way to store the key in your mind, password will reign king of authentication. Period.
Personally I don't really like biometrics, or 'devices' to store your passwords for these exact reasons. Parts of my body can be taken from me by force. My 'device' can be lost, stolen, or damaged, locking me out of everything. The mind is insurmountable security. Yes, you can beat someone over the head to try to convince them to spill the beans, but even that can be resisted by a determined person.
The password is still the best security device we have. It can't be lost, stolen or damaged. No one can 'steal' it from you (though it can be guessed by persistent actors, but so could any other authentication method. Just takes time and effort.) It's no going anywhere until a suitable replacement is created.
And that suitable replacement doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon, because nothing feels like a password. It's yours, you made it, and you can change it. You can't change your fingerprint or retina scan.
This is not an acceptable 'reward' for the painstaking effort of analysis of any particular application for security flaws.
If you want to crowd source your QA, you're going to need to pay a much heftier bounty. I'm thinking 5 or 6 digits to make it worth someone's effort. And also, I think criminals will be paying a lot more than your piddly $1000 for juicy exploits. And as long as criminals pay more than you do, guess who's getting the sploits?
I personally think the entire concept of bounties and crowd sourcing your QA is utter stupidity and pretty frickin lazy and irresponsible. Hire a real QA department, pay some salaries for people to hunt this crap down, rather than paying one lucky fuck while every one else trying to find sploits gets zero. Total bullshit. Get a QA department.