Well, if memory serves, the head of the NSA stated publicly the other day that encryption is the new normal and that we should stop fighting it. If the head of the NSA is publicly stating that, then what's to say the FBI doesn't have a similar mindset...
What's to say he couldn't? A pfSense router has monitoring tools built in to track performance. You could easily wrote a minutely cron job to poll the last few values and fire off an email/tweet/whatever to the provider and all that would be needed is a little shell scripting.
Personally, I don't think they can do it. After all, bandwidth is so precious that we have to try and throw out Net Neutrality and we have to throttle back abusers of the network, and to charge extremely high overage fees for people who exceed the very, very small data amounts we allow on the network. God forbid your kid visits Youtube! Yeah, I seriously doubt that Verizon has the network capacity to handle 5G... Unless someone is lying...
At some point we must realize that it is no longer worth arguing over. When we've reached a point that the generally accepted references available to validate the facts of the argument are no longer valid (please by all means, take that up with Dictionary.com). Then we've lost the ability to communicate. If you're dissatisfied with the use of 'ironic', or that 'for all intensive purposes' makes your skin crawl, then I pray that this weekend will be a joyful time for you. I pray that you'll enjoy some activity that will pull you away from Slashdot and allow yourself to have the ability to enjoy what you enjoy the most. Peace be to you and your family.
Clearly you haven't worked for the Government. My favorite was the mainframes built in the '60's that we were trying to retrofit into more modern day laptops using an emulator card.
No, I meant 'ironic'. Apparently yesterday was my day to feed trolls. (sigh). Ironic: adjective. 3. coincidental; unexpected: While I correctly used the phrase in the manner in which I learned it, it was ironic or unexpected and coincidental that the phraseology was incorrect as spoken in other dialects and regions.
I had to use VPN's to watch my properly paid for Netflix account while I was stationed overseas on a US Military Base. For all intensive purposes, I was on US soil (meeting geographic requirements), using a US leased commercial provider and was a US serviceman using a US form of payment. How much more US can I be besides being on the mainland? Yet, my access was blocked. One VPN later and my viewing was restored. Sometimes we need VPN's to make it all work.
You mean we shouldn't store our passwords on the computer using a password storage program? Say it isn't so. Well, at least my sticky note method is much better.
Ok, that was funny as hell (mod up parent please). But in all reality, the fact that DPRK launches a supposed Hydrodgen Bomb and we're talking loud speakers seems that the "oppressive thieves" rhetoric seems a bit misplaced. Just saying.
Technically they were honest. They said that the video feeds were "optimized for viewing on mobile devices". Mobile devices usually have much smaller displays than systems at home, and likewise people are accustomed to slower connections on their mobile devices (LTE isn't THAT old after all). So by throttling back the speed, you force services (like Netflix, Youtube, etc) which automatically downshift into lighter bandwidth feeds to switch to an "optimized" feed. Makes perfect sense. Sneaky? I didn't read it that way. But hey, some folks want 4K video on their iphone while sitting on the subway. To each his own.
What sets this case apart is that the accused IRS employee, Nakeisha Hall, was tasked specifically with helping people who had been affected by some kind of tax-related identity theft or fraud.
While way at the bottom of the comment list and likely not to be read much less modded, I had to ponder this one. Replacing lawyers with AI... Having worked in an area to reign in control of out of control laws in the past, I can tell you one thing I know about lawyers. They make the laws. You can try and make a law, but I promise you, they will re-write it, or they'll case law it to oblivion. Anyone under any other misconception is a fool. So that being said, is it a good idea to replace lawyers with AI? Hell, it would be a lot cheaper. And in truth, it's rare that an outcome would differ from the socially acceptable rubber stamped outcomes that already exist, so probably. But what's the reality of the situation? If you have a headache and you ask a friend what you should do. They can give you (filling the blank headache medicine) and your on your way. You can read up on course material for nearly any topic out there on the Internet, hell, even set up an clinic to teach under privileged folks through non-profit. You can even buy guns (in some countries). But if you so as recommend a specific attorney, or help someone find case law in a law library, you better watch out. In most states (if not all) that can be a felony. You're practicing law. Another angle, you forget to pay your electric bill for 120 days, they cut off your lights. You decide to not pay your credit card bill and it knocks down your credit score. You skip out on a lawyer? And you're in court for years with jail time, forfeiture of pay, confiscation of property and much more ass pain.... Lawyers write the laws. Food for thought.
Honestly, who cares? 1.5mpbs for free streaming video is a long way away from what other providers provide. If the quality is knocked a bit and keeps me from paying up to $15 a gig of data, I'm fine with that. Besides, with 10gig of data per line versus the competitors 4 gigs shared across all the lines, T-mobile is doing just fine. I'm good with SD quality on my ipad.... for free.
Oh, I agree. Not all hybrids are the same. My favorite was a GMC Denali, which in hybrid form saved 2 MPG over it's conventional equivalent. Yep, 2 MPG, statistically insignificant. However, my hybrid has more than paid for itself in gas savings over my previous car. I don't get the famed 50+ mpg, but even at 45, with 180K+ miles on it, I've paid for about three of them in the gas that was saved. So it pays to shop around.
Oh, what could POSSIBLY go wrong with this from a hacking perspective? You thought Ashley Madison was bad, wait until this gets hacked and all that data stolen from the health providers gets merged. So what does an obese person have in their refrigerator after all? And where's the fat shaming website to boot? (Why do companies come up with these ideas?)
Personally, I was thinking that if Lyft partners with GM, then GM needs to seriously revamp their MPG and quality standards. Cost of ownership of the vehicle comes directly out of the profit margins for the drivers. So it's not surprising in the least that Uber and Lyft drivers tend to fancy lower cost vehicles like hybrids and such. Sure Uber has an XL services that charges more for larger vehicles in some markets, but focusing on a nice GMC pickup truck that's going to break in a few years isn't the most idea for driving in a ride share company.
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Well, if memory serves, the head of the NSA stated publicly the other day that encryption is the new normal and that we should stop fighting it. If the head of the NSA is publicly stating that, then what's to say the FBI doesn't have a similar mindset...
Declaring peace on the horrid typo... that should be write not wrote.
What's to say he couldn't? A pfSense router has monitoring tools built in to track performance. You could easily wrote a minutely cron job to poll the last few values and fire off an email/tweet/whatever to the provider and all that would be needed is a little shell scripting.
Just a note, DBAN doesn't work on SSD's. But a hammer will make short work of them...
Why is it that all the security product manufacturers seem to have hard coded passwords in their products?
Personally, I don't think they can do it. After all, bandwidth is so precious that we have to try and throw out Net Neutrality and we have to throttle back abusers of the network, and to charge extremely high overage fees for people who exceed the very, very small data amounts we allow on the network. God forbid your kid visits Youtube! Yeah, I seriously doubt that Verizon has the network capacity to handle 5G ... Unless someone is lying...
At some point we must realize that it is no longer worth arguing over. When we've reached a point that the generally accepted references available to validate the facts of the argument are no longer valid (please by all means, take that up with Dictionary.com). Then we've lost the ability to communicate. If you're dissatisfied with the use of 'ironic', or that 'for all intensive purposes' makes your skin crawl, then I pray that this weekend will be a joyful time for you. I pray that you'll enjoy some activity that will pull you away from Slashdot and allow yourself to have the ability to enjoy what you enjoy the most. Peace be to you and your family.
Clearly you haven't worked for the Government. My favorite was the mainframes built in the '60's that we were trying to retrofit into more modern day laptops using an emulator card.
(In Mortal Kombat voice:) Let Zero Day's begin.... FIGHT! (/end sarcasm)
No, I meant 'ironic'. Apparently yesterday was my day to feed trolls. (sigh). Ironic: adjective. 3. coincidental; unexpected: While I correctly used the phrase in the manner in which I learned it, it was ironic or unexpected and coincidental that the phraseology was incorrect as spoken in other dialects and regions.
Depends on the local Status of Forces Agreement in the particular area.
Ironic, I always heard it the other way, oh well, no one is perfect.
I had to use VPN's to watch my properly paid for Netflix account while I was stationed overseas on a US Military Base. For all intensive purposes, I was on US soil (meeting geographic requirements), using a US leased commercial provider and was a US serviceman using a US form of payment. How much more US can I be besides being on the mainland? Yet, my access was blocked. One VPN later and my viewing was restored. Sometimes we need VPN's to make it all work.
You mean we shouldn't store our passwords on the computer using a password storage program? Say it isn't so. Well, at least my sticky note method is much better.
Um, no we don't.
Ok, that was funny as hell (mod up parent please). But in all reality, the fact that DPRK launches a supposed Hydrodgen Bomb and we're talking loud speakers seems that the "oppressive thieves" rhetoric seems a bit misplaced. Just saying.
Technically they were honest. They said that the video feeds were "optimized for viewing on mobile devices". Mobile devices usually have much smaller displays than systems at home, and likewise people are accustomed to slower connections on their mobile devices (LTE isn't THAT old after all). So by throttling back the speed, you force services (like Netflix, Youtube, etc) which automatically downshift into lighter bandwidth feeds to switch to an "optimized" feed. Makes perfect sense. Sneaky? I didn't read it that way. But hey, some folks want 4K video on their iphone while sitting on the subway. To each his own.
Just the dumb ones?
What sets this case apart is that the accused IRS employee, Nakeisha Hall, was tasked specifically with helping people who had been affected by some kind of tax-related identity theft or fraud.
Awesome! So who watches the watchers?
While way at the bottom of the comment list and likely not to be read much less modded, I had to ponder this one. Replacing lawyers with AI... Having worked in an area to reign in control of out of control laws in the past, I can tell you one thing I know about lawyers. They make the laws. You can try and make a law, but I promise you, they will re-write it, or they'll case law it to oblivion. Anyone under any other misconception is a fool. So that being said, is it a good idea to replace lawyers with AI? Hell, it would be a lot cheaper. And in truth, it's rare that an outcome would differ from the socially acceptable rubber stamped outcomes that already exist, so probably. But what's the reality of the situation? If you have a headache and you ask a friend what you should do. They can give you (filling the blank headache medicine) and your on your way. You can read up on course material for nearly any topic out there on the Internet, hell, even set up an clinic to teach under privileged folks through non-profit. You can even buy guns (in some countries). But if you so as recommend a specific attorney, or help someone find case law in a law library, you better watch out. In most states (if not all) that can be a felony. You're practicing law. Another angle, you forget to pay your electric bill for 120 days, they cut off your lights. You decide to not pay your credit card bill and it knocks down your credit score. You skip out on a lawyer? And you're in court for years with jail time, forfeiture of pay, confiscation of property and much more ass pain. ... Lawyers write the laws. Food for thought.
It said to never hire J J Abrams.
Honestly, who cares? 1.5mpbs for free streaming video is a long way away from what other providers provide. If the quality is knocked a bit and keeps me from paying up to $15 a gig of data, I'm fine with that. Besides, with 10gig of data per line versus the competitors 4 gigs shared across all the lines, T-mobile is doing just fine. I'm good with SD quality on my ipad. ... for free.
Oh, I agree. Not all hybrids are the same. My favorite was a GMC Denali, which in hybrid form saved 2 MPG over it's conventional equivalent. Yep, 2 MPG, statistically insignificant. However, my hybrid has more than paid for itself in gas savings over my previous car. I don't get the famed 50+ mpg, but even at 45, with 180K+ miles on it, I've paid for about three of them in the gas that was saved. So it pays to shop around.
Oh, what could POSSIBLY go wrong with this from a hacking perspective? You thought Ashley Madison was bad, wait until this gets hacked and all that data stolen from the health providers gets merged. So what does an obese person have in their refrigerator after all? And where's the fat shaming website to boot? (Why do companies come up with these ideas?)
Personally, I was thinking that if Lyft partners with GM, then GM needs to seriously revamp their MPG and quality standards. Cost of ownership of the vehicle comes directly out of the profit margins for the drivers. So it's not surprising in the least that Uber and Lyft drivers tend to fancy lower cost vehicles like hybrids and such. Sure Uber has an XL services that charges more for larger vehicles in some markets, but focusing on a nice GMC pickup truck that's going to break in a few years isn't the most idea for driving in a ride share company.