Yes, it is their intended purpose to do so, reversibly, in women. However the effect they are seeing is irreversible, and in men. The danger here being that it won't be a "slight extra effect" but rather at some point a total effect - i.e. that all men will eventually become sterile due to too high intake of synthetic female hormones through the diet. Of course this could just be alarmist shit, as so much is, but like I said I've seen a few sources for it now, so it's starting to look like a legitimate problem.
Yeah, that sounds like what I'd like - except not with the ipad since I'm an android user.
But I never suggested roleplaying rulebooks be put in RTF: as I said that was aimed at books that doesn't require fancy formatting, such as regular books for instance which at a stretch requires emphasis and italics. PDF is still a good format for magazine type publications, technical manuals, rulebooks and such, where there is a large amount of pictures, tables and fancy formatting that needs to be preserved. I'm sure some other e-book formats could handle this as well however, but I haven't looked into it enough since it hasn't been relevant to me.
What bothers me is when I find an entire book in PDF that has NO formatting beyond linebreaks and indentations, maybe a header/footer. It's a perfect example of not using the best tool for the job.
A tablet might work better, but then I bought an e-ink device specifically for the battery life, which no tablet comes even close to matching. I could definitely see the use of a good pdf-reading tablet for technical manuals however... or for say roleplaying rulebooks. I'd still prefer it if people just started using simpler formats for things that are mostly text-based and doesn't require so much fancy formatting. A stunning amount of things I've found in PDF format only could have been just as well formatted in RTF. Not that this is a great option, but at least better than pdf with regards to being convertable.
In most cases that I've had issues with I believe it's not so much bad people but bad software. Users converting to PDF using various software just because PDF is as close to a "universal" format as you can come... supposedly. Hopefully this boom in ebook readers means other formats will take over that role.
I've been known to do the same at times, although I try not to... But say I've downloaded a series of books and one book in the middle has major formatting errors - well gee, there's half a day well spent.
Yeah exactly. I actually read quite a lot of them on my second screen while I'm compiling... It bugs me that pdf is such a popular format for things that doesn't benefit from it - like anything that is mostly just text.
Hmm, I've never encountered that problem that I can recall, not from epub. Perhaps I've just been lucky, perhaps I've fiddled around with the settings at some point.
In my experience PDFs convert badly, partly because many times they are badly made - the text might be encoded as images rather than text, or there might be security added so that you can't select text or such. Of course this depends on where you get your PDFs from, but as a generalization of the pdfs in the ebook scene it seems to hold accurate.
But like I said, this is a problem with PDFs, not with the kindle.
I actually don't know how most people put media on their kindles, but I use calibre. http://calibre-ebook.com/
It converts from epub to mobi without any issues as far as I've seen. The main achilles heel is pdf's as far as I'm concerned... sure, the kindle gladly displays them, but you can't change font size or anything but have to rather zoom in on parts of static pages, which is very annoying. Of course this isn't a problem with kindles, but rather typical of the PDF format.
From what I see here, the main problem was apple's security protocol, with amazon coming in a close second... All other things he could really have protected himself against... Using two factor authentication on google and so on. But you can't protect yourself from a company finding easily obtainable information good enough to just hand over control of your account with...
As far as I'm concerned Apple should be liable for damages in this case. They have acted as a gatekeeper, portrayed a sense of security, and then been blatantly lax in security.
What does the law say about a case where I hand over say my credit card information to a merchant and they act carelessly with it, thus allowing it to be intercepted by a criminal? Say I go to a restaurant and they take my card and then let it lay around on the counter for half an hour for anyone to see, scan, steal?
Of course that makes your password exactly as safe as if you had the password itself stored in a protected file, which would mean you'd theoretically never need your security question answers since you would never forget your password. Unless of course you lose the file, in which case... I really hope you keep those files in two different places.
Like I replied to the exact same statement by jodosh right above you:
"Well, that's possible, but it's a completely different thing than "Gmail" as the previous poster mentioned. It's also company level rather than personal level, which is an entirely different frame of reference. If your work account gets compromised or your workphone gets wiped, it's much less of an issue for you personally than if your personal account was at risk."
From what I've heard this (birth control hormones getting into nature) has already been linked to declining fertility rates in the civilized world. Note that this is hearsay, it might just be a "theory" so far, but I've heard of it from several sources so... It might be something to worry about.
If you value your fertility, that is. Some of us are more than happy never to add people to this clusterfuck we call earth.:)
Of course the idea is that most of this actually doesn't get pissed away... Otherwise we wouldn't have a reason to drink it in the first place.
Good to know though, my daily dose of painkillers brings me to three average cups of coffee, in addition to the zero I usually drink. The next time my doctor asks me if I drink coffee I'll have to consider my answer.
Which is also a good reminder that coffee is far from the only source of caffeine these days. Energy drinks, tea, painkillers, hell some kids even eat caffeine pills to help with studying.
Well, that's possible, but it's a completely different thing than "Gmail" as the previous poster mentioned. It's also company level rather than personal level, which is an entirely different frame of reference. If your work account gets compromised or your workphone gets wiped, it's much less of an issue for you personally than if your personal account was at risk.
No I find it much more amusing to just keep replying to your obvious trolling posts. Like I said, I'm not sure how I could repeat this in simpler terms, so I'm just not going to bother to pretend to take you seriously any longer. Taking a few words out of context would be a great idea for trolling, but it doesn't work so well when they don't actually support your argument.
It just makes it more obvious who is the anonymous coward around here.
Yes, that was indeed my point exactly. The woman is already in a care facility because she can't handle herself. To expect a password reset service to cater to her specific use-case is silly since it's obvious that she should not be in control of that part of her life either - it should be handled by the care facility.
I'm not sure how I could put this in simpler terms. Perhaps you could ask an adult nearby to walk you through it?
Since they referred to the person as "one of OUR residents" I thought it would be obvious that I used "your" to refer to the company rather than the individual, but I guess this wasn't clear enough for some people. I apologize profusely, I should have used clearer language to make sure people weren't needlessly confused by having to actually follow the conversation. I'll try to do better next time.
This is pretty dumb if you think about it. I mean, why is she a resident at your place? Because, perhaps, her mental functions are degrading to the part where it's no longer safe for her to live on her own? If not, then you know full well that even if she was healthy as a horse otherwise, a mind declining to the state you're talking about would soon have her in a care facility.
You can't let her live on her own at that stage because she'll forget she left the stove on and burn the house down... Yet you still think SHE needs to be the one to remember he passwords? The solution here is the exact same as for her physical security - a proxy, a caretaker. You, to be exact. You as the caregiver should be the one to remember her passwords for her, or keep the notes she has written them down on safe. This is part of what caregiving means, being their memory.
And that's totally unrelated from this entire discussion.
I'd say a modified version of it covers MOST scenarios. I mean they already use locationbased patterning to discover illicit use of your credit card... If you've made purchases in NY on a wednesday morning, it's unlikely you're suddenly trying to empty your accounts in Singapore a few hours later. These people have use-logs already, so it would be trivial to throw up an automated red flag if a password reset request comes from a strange place.
As for covering the rest of the cases, well... the red flag has been thrown up. Now the rep is alerted, and will be much more cautious in how the conversation proceeds. Questions can be asked about usage, about contents perhaps as far as privacy allows it, about many behavioural things... Is it a service they pay for? Get part of their credit card number for verification. You don't need all of it, so no security risk, just ask for the third group of four digits for instance. Or the exact name on the card. Or something. Or if you have their information, do a callback. Call them on an alternate number.
It's really not hard dealing with the "other 50%" as you frame it if a red flag has already been raised. The important thing is that social engineering is specifically designed so that no red flags should pop up. The moment one does the social engineer has an uphill battle against an alert and security-minded employee... of course ideally this should ALWAYS be the case, but there is no patch for human stupidity. A red flag system would deal with that.
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Yes, it is their intended purpose to do so, reversibly, in women. However the effect they are seeing is irreversible, and in men. The danger here being that it won't be a "slight extra effect" but rather at some point a total effect - i.e. that all men will eventually become sterile due to too high intake of synthetic female hormones through the diet. Of course this could just be alarmist shit, as so much is, but like I said I've seen a few sources for it now, so it's starting to look like a legitimate problem.
Yeah, that sounds like what I'd like - except not with the ipad since I'm an android user.
But I never suggested roleplaying rulebooks be put in RTF: as I said that was aimed at books that doesn't require fancy formatting, such as regular books for instance which at a stretch requires emphasis and italics. PDF is still a good format for magazine type publications, technical manuals, rulebooks and such, where there is a large amount of pictures, tables and fancy formatting that needs to be preserved. I'm sure some other e-book formats could handle this as well however, but I haven't looked into it enough since it hasn't been relevant to me.
What bothers me is when I find an entire book in PDF that has NO formatting beyond linebreaks and indentations, maybe a header/footer. It's a perfect example of not using the best tool for the job.
A tablet might work better, but then I bought an e-ink device specifically for the battery life, which no tablet comes even close to matching. I could definitely see the use of a good pdf-reading tablet for technical manuals however... or for say roleplaying rulebooks. I'd still prefer it if people just started using simpler formats for things that are mostly text-based and doesn't require so much fancy formatting. A stunning amount of things I've found in PDF format only could have been just as well formatted in RTF. Not that this is a great option, but at least better than pdf with regards to being convertable.
In most cases that I've had issues with I believe it's not so much bad people but bad software. Users converting to PDF using various software just because PDF is as close to a "universal" format as you can come... supposedly. Hopefully this boom in ebook readers means other formats will take over that role.
I've been known to do the same at times, although I try not to... But say I've downloaded a series of books and one book in the middle has major formatting errors - well gee, there's half a day well spent.
Yeah exactly. I actually read quite a lot of them on my second screen while I'm compiling... It bugs me that pdf is such a popular format for things that doesn't benefit from it - like anything that is mostly just text.
Hmm, I've never encountered that problem that I can recall, not from epub. Perhaps I've just been lucky, perhaps I've fiddled around with the settings at some point.
In my experience PDFs convert badly, partly because many times they are badly made - the text might be encoded as images rather than text, or there might be security added so that you can't select text or such. Of course this depends on where you get your PDFs from, but as a generalization of the pdfs in the ebook scene it seems to hold accurate.
But like I said, this is a problem with PDFs, not with the kindle.
I actually don't know how most people put media on their kindles, but I use calibre. http://calibre-ebook.com/
It converts from epub to mobi without any issues as far as I've seen. The main achilles heel is pdf's as far as I'm concerned... sure, the kindle gladly displays them, but you can't change font size or anything but have to rather zoom in on parts of static pages, which is very annoying. Of course this isn't a problem with kindles, but rather typical of the PDF format.
From what I see here, the main problem was apple's security protocol, with amazon coming in a close second... All other things he could really have protected himself against... Using two factor authentication on google and so on. But you can't protect yourself from a company finding easily obtainable information good enough to just hand over control of your account with...
As far as I'm concerned Apple should be liable for damages in this case. They have acted as a gatekeeper, portrayed a sense of security, and then been blatantly lax in security.
What does the law say about a case where I hand over say my credit card information to a merchant and they act carelessly with it, thus allowing it to be intercepted by a criminal? Say I go to a restaurant and they take my card and then let it lay around on the counter for half an hour for anyone to see, scan, steal?
Of course that makes your password exactly as safe as if you had the password itself stored in a protected file, which would mean you'd theoretically never need your security question answers since you would never forget your password. Unless of course you lose the file, in which case... I really hope you keep those files in two different places.
Like I replied to the exact same statement by jodosh right above you:
"Well, that's possible, but it's a completely different thing than "Gmail" as the previous poster mentioned. It's also company level rather than personal level, which is an entirely different frame of reference. If your work account gets compromised or your workphone gets wiped, it's much less of an issue for you personally than if your personal account was at risk."
I'm really wondering which of those words you think was numbers.
From what I've heard this (birth control hormones getting into nature) has already been linked to declining fertility rates in the civilized world. Note that this is hearsay, it might just be a "theory" so far, but I've heard of it from several sources so... It might be something to worry about.
If you value your fertility, that is. Some of us are more than happy never to add people to this clusterfuck we call earth. :)
Depends on how early in the day they run out of whiskey.
Of course the idea is that most of this actually doesn't get pissed away... Otherwise we wouldn't have a reason to drink it in the first place.
Good to know though, my daily dose of painkillers brings me to three average cups of coffee, in addition to the zero I usually drink. The next time my doctor asks me if I drink coffee I'll have to consider my answer.
Which is also a good reminder that coffee is far from the only source of caffeine these days. Energy drinks, tea, painkillers, hell some kids even eat caffeine pills to help with studying.
Well, that's possible, but it's a completely different thing than "Gmail" as the previous poster mentioned. It's also company level rather than personal level, which is an entirely different frame of reference. If your work account gets compromised or your workphone gets wiped, it's much less of an issue for you personally than if your personal account was at risk.
No I find it much more amusing to just keep replying to your obvious trolling posts. Like I said, I'm not sure how I could repeat this in simpler terms, so I'm just not going to bother to pretend to take you seriously any longer. Taking a few words out of context would be a great idea for trolling, but it doesn't work so well when they don't actually support your argument.
It just makes it more obvious who is the anonymous coward around here.
Yes, that was indeed my point exactly. The woman is already in a care facility because she can't handle herself. To expect a password reset service to cater to her specific use-case is silly since it's obvious that she should not be in control of that part of her life either - it should be handled by the care facility.
I'm not sure how I could put this in simpler terms. Perhaps you could ask an adult nearby to walk you through it?
Since they referred to the person as "one of OUR residents" I thought it would be obvious that I used "your" to refer to the company rather than the individual, but I guess this wasn't clear enough for some people. I apologize profusely, I should have used clearer language to make sure people weren't needlessly confused by having to actually follow the conversation. I'll try to do better next time.
How about we just make it illegal to treat people differently?
I think that would solve a lot more. You know, because everyone follows laws.
This is pretty dumb if you think about it. I mean, why is she a resident at your place? Because, perhaps, her mental functions are degrading to the part where it's no longer safe for her to live on her own? If not, then you know full well that even if she was healthy as a horse otherwise, a mind declining to the state you're talking about would soon have her in a care facility.
You can't let her live on her own at that stage because she'll forget she left the stove on and burn the house down... Yet you still think SHE needs to be the one to remember he passwords? The solution here is the exact same as for her physical security - a proxy, a caretaker. You, to be exact. You as the caregiver should be the one to remember her passwords for her, or keep the notes she has written them down on safe. This is part of what caregiving means, being their memory.
And that's totally unrelated from this entire discussion.
I'd say a modified version of it covers MOST scenarios. I mean they already use locationbased patterning to discover illicit use of your credit card... If you've made purchases in NY on a wednesday morning, it's unlikely you're suddenly trying to empty your accounts in Singapore a few hours later. These people have use-logs already, so it would be trivial to throw up an automated red flag if a password reset request comes from a strange place.
As for covering the rest of the cases, well... the red flag has been thrown up. Now the rep is alerted, and will be much more cautious in how the conversation proceeds. Questions can be asked about usage, about contents perhaps as far as privacy allows it, about many behavioural things... Is it a service they pay for? Get part of their credit card number for verification. You don't need all of it, so no security risk, just ask for the third group of four digits for instance. Or the exact name on the card. Or something. Or if you have their information, do a callback. Call them on an alternate number.
It's really not hard dealing with the "other 50%" as you frame it if a red flag has already been raised. The important thing is that social engineering is specifically designed so that no red flags should pop up. The moment one does the social engineer has an uphill battle against an alert and security-minded employee... of course ideally this should ALWAYS be the case, but there is no patch for human stupidity. A red flag system would deal with that.
You mean to use their card at the atm machine? Yeah totally agreed. Hate those guys.
Uhm... no? Gmail has no function in it to remotely wipe an android phone.