Slashdot Mirror


User: Spamalope

Spamalope's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
469
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 469

  1. And your router, laser printer, ip cam, smart tv, steam link, nvidia shield, desktops those two connect to, ip thermostat, NAS and Voip box. Every single thing with an admin page in fact.

    Someone sarcastically mentioned the answer is 'cloud base admin pages' so you can be tracked - and sold an 'admin' service with a monthly fee and I'm afraid they're right... dammit.

  2. Re:Are North Korea using corn-based missiles? on The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    And in Iran. I suppose they may be talking because they've learned the project's cover is blown, though that's no reason they couldn't try for a little intel with your idea anyway even if the project is real (well - and actually works...).

  3. Re:Are North Korea using corn-based missiles? on The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The actual launch may be from South Korea, but it'd be destabilizing to advertise that.

    Here's hoping the weapon isn't another Bradly that only works on paper.

  4. Re:I see on Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin 'Ought to be Outlawed' (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "potential for circumvention,"

    Theft by fiat currency devaluation.
    When it happens to them, it's asset impairment/taking a haircut on the investment.
    When it's you, it's a good thing for the economy that we've reduced the value of your 401k. Expanding the money supply, quantitative easing, TARP - you should feel good about having your saving stolen. Why, anyone who seeks to protect their wealth is almost committing a crime - like 'circumvention', say.

  5. So the facebook app steals the info instead for your shadow profile. The fact that you're hiding is part of your FB psych profile. Creeper stalkers gonna stalk.

  6. Re:The major problem is security is impossible on The Brutal Fight To Mine Your Data and Sell It To Your Boss (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If I search for a specialty doctor or use mapping software to find the location of the DR's office on my phone, I HAVE NOT PUBLISHED MY MEDICAL CONDITION but the phone carrier and mapping company will collect and sell that information. I could have my credit rating reduced, or not be hired for that job I just applied for. That's a material violation of my privacy with real world impact.

  7. Re: IQ measures your ability to test for IQ on League of Legends Rank Predicts IQ, Study Finds (plos.org) · · Score: 1

    Also, there are a few confounding factors.

    Teamwork and selecting overlapping synergistic heros is crucial to game outcome.
    The matchmaker will pair you with poor players, and disagreeable players (who create constant dissent that destroys teamwork)

    Your ranking in games like this (Also Heros of Newearth) is strongly influenced by whether you play with a full picked team of 5 good players exclusively or if you play games with matchmaker assigned teammates since that's such a huge disadvantage.

  8. They want to have records that'll allow them to fire/lay off any employee without paying unemployment benefits.

  9. Re:I don't need a law. on Ask Slashdot: Can Smart TVs Insert Ads Into Your Movies? (gigaom.com) · · Score: 1

    How about this: TV ships with a drop dead date just after the short warranty expires (or any other time after that). On that date the TV shows a Win10 style mandatory update screen if it hasn't been updated yet. The purchase agreement says 'certain software updates may be required'. This update has a mandatory click through agreement which includes broad authorization for inserted advertising. The update is conditional on accepting the agreement, and the TV won't function without it.

    If this happens much later, the OEM may say the ads are to pay for extended support. (with language in purchase agreement indicating that 'support' extends for a limited time, but not that the TV stops afterwards)

    In any case, most users won't read the agreement (rightly thinking they've no choice in practice). If the TV very slowly ramps up the frequency of ads after a waiting period so the update isn't connected with the appearance of ads, what then for the consumer?

  10. Re:Translation on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you work that it's not constant demonizing anyone who didn't vote for Hillary? I really don't get people getting that invested in politicians from either party who always work for the investment bankers anyway.

  11. Re:questions on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to be critical but his points are valid huh?

  12. Re:Protected speech on Newspaper Obtains James Damore's Complaint Against Google (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They've got ideologues setting policy bases on post modernism. The memo recounts a fair bit of current research behavioral psychology as backed by peer reviewed double blind studies. Those studies reveal results that are counter to some of the tenets of post modernism. The ideologues demanded that he be fired based on a dishonest representation of the contents of the memo, the motives of the author and based on it being a heresy.

    Given that the memo was a communication eliciting discussion about the race and gender based employment practices as Google, and that the input was solicited by Google I find that Google is behaving dishonestly at the least. The vast majority of the negative coverage of the memo misrepresents what it says or asserts that the ideas expressed are discredited which is untrue. They do appear to be counter to the dominant political groupthink at Google however.

  13. Use for commentary is an affirmative defense for copyright infringement. De minimus and non-commercial use alter the rules as well.

    TLDR: CBS wants to lay off staff photographers then take the work of independents for free.

    Stack that against commercial for profit use of a professional photographers work in a way that renders it valueless to the owner. Man on the scene current events photography only has value while the even is written about, and can't be sold to more than one news outlet except in exceptional circumstances. (i.e. competing papers won't illustrate original reporting with the same photo, they'll only license story + photo from a newswire like AP, and that's still only 1 sale to the photographer)

    Adding CBS branding to the photo is slander of title. The only trick they missed was filing a copyright takedown with FB against the photographer for his own pictures.

    They offered to credit him? If that had any value whatsoever it'd be promoting the sale of the photos, when that very act from CBS ruined the sale-ability of that photo while advertising him as a source of free photographer work you don't have to pay for if he accepts that treatment.

  14. Re:Maintenance? We don't need no steeking maintena on America's F-35s Can't Fly 22% of the Time, Repair Facilities Six Years Behind Schedule (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds more like the Bradley fiasco.

  15. Re:Few people cares on Microwave Tech Could Produce 40TB Hard Drives In the Near Future (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    IT department of a regular business trying to backup a VMware install will care, as that's usually to a bulk storage box.

    Demand for increased storage will build, the question is how fast. People collecting 4k content can use up that space easily. 40T is speculated by 2025, which will be well into the 4k transition. 10gb ethernet is getting cheaper. If that hits consumer price levels, it'll be easier for average people to handle higher storage volumes. Faster video cards and high rez target game resolutions mean massively more texture size and 100GB+ games.

    Of course you'll get the density performance gains too.

    This is keeping the hard drive alive longer, allowing time for solid state pricing to improve for longer before it stops being viable to produce hard drives. A few others have made good points about how things like cheaper cloud storage does help average folks by reducing prices, or making cloud backup for products standard because it's cheap.

  16. Re:BUT POCKET IS STILL THERE! on Mozilla's 'Firefox Quantum' Browser Challenges Chrome In Speed (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So what turns off all the data collection that appears to be the point of it? Who is the data being sold/rented/made available to?

  17. Doesn't Cloudflare charge for bandwidth like other cloud providers? Wouldn't this really translate to 'I dare you to give me a big payday at my customer's expense' assuming that's the case?

  18. Re: Microwave weapons on Mystery of Sonic Weapon Attacks At US Embassy In Cuba Deepens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    You could use two or more beams from different directions in order to insure that the critical level only occurred where the beams met. A bit like they way radiation therapy is done.

  19. Re: comcast business forces you to rent there hard on AT&T Uverse Modems Found To Have Several Serious Security Vulnerabilities (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He means you must rent if you have a static IP. In my case they added a rental fee after the fact, told me I could buy a device then wouldn't activate it once I'd bought it.

  20. Re:Wait what? on VW Engineer Sentenced To 40-Month Prison Term In Diesel Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You get a memo requesting updates on your work, and a verbal follow up ordering the tampering. If you don't complete the tampering, you'll receive written reprimands for your work/meetings with HR followed by termination. The written record will show you failed to complete your job duties. The fact that they were either unreasonable or were never assigned won't be apparent in the written record.

    That's how it's done. How exactly do you plan to sue again? Have you forgotten that management entirely controls the 'facts' of the case?

  21. Re:Because they've abandoned their claimed princip on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it's not 2/3rds? You know, the number who didn't go vote for Hillary and prove themselves ideologically pure? Those Trotsky er... Bernie supporters are suspect too.

  22. Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed princ on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    In both cases the overwhelming majority of the claimed casualties were not killed by gubmint bullets, but by the results of economic policies.

    No! Mao and Stalin's apologists certainly tried to claim that. The truth about the Holodomor got out though. Stripping the entire Ukraine of food at gunpoint to start millions is not economic policy, it's mass murder! You have noticed there is conflict between Russia and the Ukraine now, right? You seem like a Holodomor denier, don't you?

    How about Mao's great leap forward? How many millions dead? When he invited public criticism and then exterminated any who spoke up? 50 million dead? What's your answer? everyone dies eventually Ah yes, compassion. And against hate speech. How... conveniently defined too.

    Stalin's gulag prison death camps? The Gulag Archipelago slightly more convincing than hand waving you know.

    Shrill hysteria like "Ideology X killed N people! Reeeeeee!" does nothing to advance our understanding of politics or economy.

    You are a denier. I bet you're a special kind, that believes in the Nazi holocaust but not Mao's or any of Stalin's. 'Bolshevik labeled authoritarianism is good' does seem to be trendy.

  23. Re:You know what else works? on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    >

    BTW, if anyone tells you their kid will die at the slightest contact with something peanut, they're lying. Nobody is that allergic to peanuts. It's all in their heads.

    You're a moron. A friend Julie is that allergic. Her husband ate peanuts in the morning, kissed her after midnight and put her in the emergency room. She's an MD and didn't know why she's that sensitive for many years, before she discovered she's got a form of leukemia that amplifies immune system response.

    I've got a mast cell problem that does something similar, but with yellow jacket stings. 'Regular' allergens just make me hurt as though I've got the worst case of flu body aches ever.

    That of course doesn't mean that school admins aren't creating solutions that allow them to be authoritarian because they like that vs that being the best course of action.

  24. Re:But what if... on Amazon Prime Is a Blessing and a Curse For Remote Towns (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    The maintenance and repair team for the automated system just might work better actually, you know, near that system.

    There will be no power grid, so a team to keep power running needs to be there.

  25. Re:he's an idiot on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yes, one with Babylon 5.