New Hampshire (Vermont's zero-state-income tax next door neighbor), heartily appreciates this program to encourage VT companies to hire NH employees (still close enough to come in a few times a month for team-building) and to encourage current employees of VT companies who only live in-state because they need to be in the office every day to consider moving a bit East for an instant pay raise.
The companies we really should be criticizing are the ones who have many undiscovered backdoors and hardcoded accounts because they've been able to avoid doing internal audits.
No need to delete, it's easier to just log in once a year (in incognito browser mode), like a few controversy-immune "First robin of spring" posts, and then log out. Same as for Facebook.
I first signed up for twitter back around 2008, mostly to follow a few local bands and get the nightly specials at my favorite local restaurant, The Weary Traveler.
Around the time of the presidential election I gave up on posting anything of substance on twitter, and I've slowly stopped using it entirely over the past six months or so. Seemed like all the "top tweets" were always on one side of the political spectrum, and everybody on both sides has been getting more thin-skinned, blocking anybody who doesn't agree with them 100% on every issue.
But the biggest reason I've dropped out is that my primary account is connected to my real name, and during a big "social media" push by my employer (encouraging everybody to follow the company from their personal account) my direct manager decided to "follow" me about a year ago; He uses his twitter account to post all about his personal political beliefs, and now I'm reluctant to even "like" anything the least bit divergent from the left-wing party line.
And that restaurant? The Weary Traveler switched over to Instagram years ago.
Maybe the right to "full refund, no questions asked" could also be revoked when your score drops below a certain level. Once you reach that level there's a requirement to show the bugs, exchange for a different model, pay a restocking fee, whatever...
This already exists (and was covered by Slashdot earlier this year), in private agreements and some store's "Return Policies", not codified into the law. Google "The Retail Equation", a private scoring service used by Best Buy, Home Depot, J.C. Penney, Sephora, Victoria's Secret, etc.
To me, the scary part isn't scoring citizens with a secretive formula (that's also how the FICO and other credit/renter/etc scores work). The scary part is when the government is backing up the scoring and can remove what we think of as basic rights (travel, property ownership) when you fail to maintain a good score.
Why did she hold onto one single card for so long and keep topping it up?
You'd think somebody who was truly paranoid would have multiple cards, and routinely discard older cards and acquire new cards through unorthodox means. For example, if you hang out at the airport outside the "tap off" exit from the train, you can find a lot of tourists who are flying out and just want to discard their old transit card. Or put just enough to "tap on" (there's usually a minimum balance to enter the train station) on your old cards, and then find homeless people who have a near-zero-value card and trade with them-- they get into the station, you get a new anonymous card with some random travel history on it.
That's how all the "tap out" systems I've known work -- if you don't have a readable card at the exit point, you pay the highest possible fare, but it's not like they are going to hold you prisoner in the train station for lack of a transit card.
AC searches are searches. Domestic searches can be no less aware of security issues given the past US domestic security issues.
Why would any nation leave the "domestic" side of their security wide open? Why would anyone allow domestic travel to be less secure?
No, searches are not searches
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) searches aren't about securing the plane or airport, they are about the Federal government controlling what enters the country. Traditionally, Customs is limited to searches when crossing the border, though they've managed to redefine "border" to anywhere within 100 miles of any national border.
Not looking at what kind of pirated software a citizen has on her laptop when taking a domestic flight from San Francisco to Dallas does not make the country any less secure.
I average about one domestic flight a week, but never out of SFO (where the ACLU complaint originates from), and have never had TSA "search" an electronic device, usually carrying a smartphone, an e-reader/tablet, and a full-size laptop
Once or twice TSA has asked to do the "swab" explosives test on a laptop, but that's the extent of their interest in my electronics. I'm not saying the ACLU is overreacting to the TSA announcement of "enhanced scrutiny" for small electronics at the X-Ray belt, but you'd think that if TSA was doing CBP-like examinations of the contents of digital storage, there'd be some reports from travelers about it.
The articles referenced by the ACLU are in regards to ehanced X-Ray scanning as well as the usual "swab for explosives residue", I see no articles anywhere online talking about TSA wanting to review files stored on a laptop hard drive.
AC just stop taking phones and laptops loaded up with sensitive business and personal information to areas where a search is expected and legal..
A search of the digital contents of an phone or laptop storage is neither expected, nor legal, when traveling purely domestically from one US airport to another.
I take day trips from a US airport to another US airport (e.g. ORD->LGA) for work, usually flying in early in the morning, attending meetings (at which I need both laptop and phone and the data within), then flying back the same day. I believe my employer would support me if I refused to unlock my encrypted device for it to be searched, and as the device belongs to my employer, they'd be the ones filing a suit if TSA or CBP confiscated the device in order to perform a search.
As my flights for work are always purely domestic travel, such a search is not expected, and probably not legal.
Data on electronic devices can show a persons support of and funding for a banned group. That they travelled to a nation to support and funded a banned group. Photographs, faith based and political support for groups of interest to the USA. Funds for and meetings with people and groups of interest to the USA. GPS, images that show the device owner when questioned was in a nation they failed to mention when asked about.
The article states " This lawsuit comes after a number of reports came in pertaining to the searches of electronic devices of passengers traveling domestically.... TSA does, however, have public policies pertaining to the search and seizure of electronic devices at the border and during international trips."
The complaint seems to conflate TSA and CBP searches, and alleges TSA is searching the contents of electronic devices held by domestic travelers flying through SFO, but provides no evidence to support this claim.
While Shane Gaskill (the guy who gave out "his" address in the chat), is morally responsible, barring any evidence that he had a gripe with the people at that address it is a real stretch to suggest he could face criminal charges for his role in the events.
OTOH, Gaskill is a resident of Wichita. Did he have a reason to choose that particular "fake" address in Wichita?
The question I'd like to hear Google CEO Sundar Pichai answer is "If you learned today the identity of the person who leaked James Damore's internal message, would you fire him (or her)?
You can always just never configure the "smart" features, never connect the TV to the Internet at all if you don't want to use the "smart" features. Current TVs all can function as a regular display just fine, even those super-spy Vizio TVs that had software to software in the read pixel data from a segment of the screen could be used offline.
If you want to worry about targeted advertising injection, look at your local cable provider and their set-top box. That's a much more likely source of leakage about your viewing habits and a place for ad injection/substitution without you noticing.
The US Supreme Court has long held that Commercial Speech (speech that proposes an economic transaction) has reduced 1st amendment protection, particularly when said speech is false, misleading or coercive.
Free speech isn't absolute, the concept is more about freedom from prior restraint than freedom from all possible consequences.
The apology was for the choice to capture the historical "Reboot" key sequence and re-purpose it for logon. This was particularly annoying when we still had a mix of OSes in the workplace, and people got into the habit of walking up to any unknown "PC" and the first thing they do is give the 3-finger salute, rebooting the computer if it was running something other than the latest Microsoft product.
Almost as big a sin against computing as the 1994 introduction of the "Windows Key".
Work will set you free. Which is only true of traditional chores. Ain't no Amish on SSRIs.
Lack of SSRI prescriptions may be more about culture, genetics, and a tradition of avoiding commercial health insurance than anything to do with "traditional chores".
Recent studies have found that Amish mental illness is greatly under-diagnosed, and the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County have a lower incidence of mental illness than the general population, but a much higher incidence of bipolar disorder, Bipolar disorder is treatable, however social attitudes within the community and a general distrust of the medication-based management of psychiatric diseases mean that Amish won't take SSRIs no matter how much they need them.
Smart devices usually don't work without an internet connection and without registering on manufacturer's website. Then they will collect all your usage data.
Also this makes you dependent on the manufacturer for the rest of the life time of the device.
That is not necessarily true. Yes, cheap smart devices are tethered to their cloud service provider. Zigbee, Insteon, UPB and Z-Wave devices don't even require a TCP/IP network, much less Internet connectivity. You just have to be a smart consumer.
Don't forget that they'll stop working when the manufacturer goes bust and their 'cloud' server goes away. Or when Amazon's 'cloud' goes down again. Or when the manufacturer stops supporting them and shuts down the 'cloud' server that controls them.
Most residential Insteon deployments use controllers which are not cloud based, and all Insteon devices support local linking (e.g. you can associate a light switch to a motion detector simply by pressing a button on one, then the other -- no app required, no cloud service involved.
It is possible to deploy Z-Wave without relying on cloud services, you just need to choose your controller carefully. You can also purchase a local programmable controller which speaks multiple protocols, so you can use local REST calls to control Insteon/Z-Wave/Zigbee/etc.
Or they could just as easily cut the power to the house. Who here actually remembers to put their home alarms on a UPS?
Higher end home alarms (systems which are installed by a technician, and monitored by a central station) include a hefty lead-acid backup battery good for at least half a day, and often with immediate reporting to both the panel and monitoring station when the alarm switches to battery power, and also when battery charge runs low.
I'd rather have them publish a list of requirements and acceptable characters than find out when I hit 'submit' that certain characters are not acceptable as part of a password, or have a form that accepts 16+ characters then tells me my password is too long.
Worse than that are the systems which silently truncate at a set length, or at the first unacceptable special character. Or which truncate at password creation, and handle logins with a different parser...
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Tenants of rent stabilized apartments are allowed to sublet their apartment, but this incurs a 10% surchage, so there's an incentive to sublet without notification.
New Hampshire (Vermont's zero-state-income tax next door neighbor), heartily appreciates this program to encourage VT companies to hire NH employees (still close enough to come in a few times a month for team-building) and to encourage current employees of VT companies who only live in-state because they need to be in the office every day to consider moving a bit East for an instant pay raise.
WTF WTF WTF WTF.
Unfair criticism? You've got to be shitting me.
The companies we really should be criticizing are the ones who have many undiscovered backdoors and hardcoded accounts because they've been able to avoid doing internal audits.
No need to delete, it's easier to just log in once a year (in incognito browser mode), like a few controversy-immune "First robin of spring" posts, and then log out. Same as for Facebook.
I first signed up for twitter back around 2008, mostly to follow a few local bands and get the nightly specials at my favorite local restaurant, The Weary Traveler.
Around the time of the presidential election I gave up on posting anything of substance on twitter, and I've slowly stopped using it entirely over the past six months or so. Seemed like all the "top tweets" were always on one side of the political spectrum, and everybody on both sides has been getting more thin-skinned, blocking anybody who doesn't agree with them 100% on every issue.
But the biggest reason I've dropped out is that my primary account is connected to my real name, and during a big "social media" push by my employer (encouraging everybody to follow the company from their personal account) my direct manager decided to "follow" me about a year ago; He uses his twitter account to post all about his personal political beliefs, and now I'm reluctant to even "like" anything the least bit divergent from the left-wing party line.
And that restaurant? The Weary Traveler switched over to Instagram years ago.
Maybe the right to "full refund, no questions asked" could also be revoked when your score drops below a certain level. Once you reach that level there's a requirement to show the bugs, exchange for a different model, pay a restocking fee, whatever...
This already exists (and was covered by Slashdot earlier this year), in private agreements and some store's "Return Policies", not codified into the law. Google "The Retail Equation", a private scoring service used by Best Buy, Home Depot, J.C. Penney, Sephora, Victoria's Secret, etc.
To me, the scary part isn't scoring citizens with a secretive formula (that's also how the FICO and other credit/renter/etc scores work). The scary part is when the government is backing up the scoring and can remove what we think of as basic rights (travel, property ownership) when you fail to maintain a good score.
Why did she hold onto one single card for so long and keep topping it up?
You'd think somebody who was truly paranoid would have multiple cards, and routinely discard older cards and acquire new cards through unorthodox means. For example, if you hang out at the airport outside the "tap off" exit from the train, you can find a lot of tourists who are flying out and just want to discard their old transit card. Or put just enough to "tap on" (there's usually a minimum balance to enter the train station) on your old cards, and then find homeless people who have a near-zero-value card and trade with them-- they get into the station, you get a new anonymous card with some random travel history on it.
That's how all the "tap out" systems I've known work -- if you don't have a readable card at the exit point, you pay the highest possible fare, but it's not like they are going to hold you prisoner in the train station for lack of a transit card.
AC searches are searches. Domestic searches can be no less aware of security issues given the past US domestic security issues. Why would any nation leave the "domestic" side of their security wide open? Why would anyone allow domestic travel to be less secure?
No, searches are not searches
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) searches aren't about securing the plane or airport, they are about the Federal government controlling what enters the country. Traditionally, Customs is limited to searches when crossing the border, though they've managed to redefine "border" to anywhere within 100 miles of any national border.
Not looking at what kind of pirated software a citizen has on her laptop when taking a domestic flight from San Francisco to Dallas does not make the country any less secure.
I average about one domestic flight a week, but never out of SFO (where the ACLU complaint originates from), and have never had TSA "search" an electronic device, usually carrying a smartphone, an e-reader/tablet, and a full-size laptop
Once or twice TSA has asked to do the "swab" explosives test on a laptop, but that's the extent of their interest in my electronics. I'm not saying the ACLU is overreacting to the TSA announcement of "enhanced scrutiny" for small electronics at the X-Ray belt, but you'd think that if TSA was doing CBP-like examinations of the contents of digital storage, there'd be some reports from travelers about it.
The articles referenced by the ACLU are in regards to ehanced X-Ray scanning as well as the usual "swab for explosives residue", I see no articles anywhere online talking about TSA wanting to review files stored on a laptop hard drive.
AC just stop taking phones and laptops loaded up with sensitive business and personal information to areas where a search is expected and legal..
A search of the digital contents of an phone or laptop storage is neither expected, nor legal, when traveling purely domestically from one US airport to another.
I take day trips from a US airport to another US airport (e.g. ORD->LGA) for work, usually flying in early in the morning, attending meetings (at which I need both laptop and phone and the data within), then flying back the same day. I believe my employer would support me if I refused to unlock my encrypted device for it to be searched, and as the device belongs to my employer, they'd be the ones filing a suit if TSA or CBP confiscated the device in order to perform a search.
As my flights for work are always purely domestic travel, such a search is not expected, and probably not legal.
Data on electronic devices can show a persons support of and funding for a banned group. That they travelled to a nation to support and funded a banned group. Photographs, faith based and political support for groups of interest to the USA. Funds for and meetings with people and groups of interest to the USA. GPS, images that show the device owner when questioned was in a nation they failed to mention when asked about.
While these are within the scope of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) search, all of the above are outside the allowed activities of the TSA.
The article states " This lawsuit comes after a number of reports came in pertaining to the searches of electronic devices of passengers traveling domestically.... TSA does, however, have public policies pertaining to the search and seizure of electronic devices at the border and during international trips."
The complaint seems to conflate TSA and CBP searches, and alleges TSA is searching the contents of electronic devices held by domestic travelers flying through SFO, but provides no evidence to support this claim.
While Shane Gaskill (the guy who gave out "his" address in the chat), is morally responsible, barring any evidence that he had a gripe with the people at that address it is a real stretch to suggest he could face criminal charges for his role in the events.
OTOH, Gaskill is a resident of Wichita. Did he have a reason to choose that particular "fake" address in Wichita?
The question I'd like to hear Google CEO Sundar Pichai answer is "If you learned today the identity of the person who leaked James Damore's internal message, would you fire him (or her)?
When did Tumblr ban porn?
Requiring a login and removing pages from search results is one step shy of shadowbanning.
More recently, Tumblr has been abruptly terminating NSFW accounts, no notice, no explanation.
You can always just never configure the "smart" features, never connect the TV to the Internet at all if you don't want to use the "smart" features. Current TVs all can function as a regular display just fine, even those super-spy Vizio TVs that had software to software in the read pixel data from a segment of the screen could be used offline.
If you want to worry about targeted advertising injection, look at your local cable provider and their set-top box. That's a much more likely source of leakage about your viewing habits and a place for ad injection/substitution without you noticing.
The US Supreme Court has long held that Commercial Speech (speech that proposes an economic transaction) has reduced 1st amendment protection, particularly when said speech is false, misleading or coercive.
Free speech isn't absolute, the concept is more about freedom from prior restraint than freedom from all possible consequences.
The apology was for the choice to capture the historical "Reboot" key sequence and re-purpose it for logon. This was particularly annoying when we still had a mix of OSes in the workplace, and people got into the habit of walking up to any unknown "PC" and the first thing they do is give the 3-finger salute, rebooting the computer if it was running something other than the latest Microsoft product.
Almost as big a sin against computing as the 1994 introduction of the "Windows Key".
I'm wondering how the plaintiffs found out that the company decided to discontinue the line two years before the 2014 End-Of-Life announcement?
Work will set you free. Which is only true of traditional chores. Ain't no Amish on SSRIs.
Lack of SSRI prescriptions may be more about culture, genetics, and a tradition of avoiding commercial health insurance than anything to do with "traditional chores".
Recent studies have found that Amish mental illness is greatly under-diagnosed, and the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County have a lower incidence of mental illness than the general population, but a much higher incidence of bipolar disorder, Bipolar disorder is treatable, however social attitudes within the community and a general distrust of the medication-based management of psychiatric diseases mean that Amish won't take SSRIs no matter how much they need them.
Smart devices usually don't work without an internet connection and without registering on manufacturer's website. Then they will collect all your usage data.
Also this makes you dependent on the manufacturer for the rest of the life time of the device.
That is not necessarily true. Yes, cheap smart devices are tethered to their cloud service provider. Zigbee, Insteon, UPB and Z-Wave devices don't even require a TCP/IP network, much less Internet connectivity. You just have to be a smart consumer.
Don't forget that they'll stop working when the manufacturer goes bust and their 'cloud' server goes away. Or when Amazon's 'cloud' goes down again. Or when the manufacturer stops supporting them and shuts down the 'cloud' server that controls them.
Most residential Insteon deployments use controllers which are not cloud based, and all Insteon devices support local linking (e.g. you can associate a light switch to a motion detector simply by pressing a button on one, then the other -- no app required, no cloud service involved.
It is possible to deploy Z-Wave without relying on cloud services, you just need to choose your controller carefully. You can also purchase a local programmable controller which speaks multiple protocols, so you can use local REST calls to control Insteon/Z-Wave/Zigbee/etc.
Or they could just as easily cut the power to the house. Who here actually remembers to put their home alarms on a UPS?
Higher end home alarms (systems which are installed by a technician, and monitored by a central station) include a hefty lead-acid backup battery good for at least half a day, and often with immediate reporting to both the panel and monitoring station when the alarm switches to battery power, and also when battery charge runs low.
Worse than that are the systems which silently truncate at a set length, or at the first unacceptable special character. Or which truncate at password creation, and handle logins with a different parser...
Sergey Aleynikov wasn't the first, nor the last.