From what I've read, this whole thing got started when an NSA contractor downloaded files to a personal computer that also had Kaspersky AV running. Kaspersky did its job and identified the malware the contractor was working on and sent the files away for analysis. There have been allegations that Kaspersky was scanning for files containing certain words, but I haven't seen any evidence of that put forward.
It might make sense for Federal computers not to run any software that hasn't been vetted, but what about the hardware the software is running on? Why do these agencies that don't trust Kaspersky trust their Chinese made computers and phones?
I live in a condo and I just pick my packages up from the area next to the mailboxes. Unfortunately there's no front desk to accept packages, but there's just no way would I opt for in-home delivery.
I have that deadbolt in my Amazon shopping cart and was going to order it for my condo after I get my new programmable thermostat installed.
Any issues I should know about? I have read the complaints about the low/high power mode and how high power eats batteries, but I've checked my door and the current deadbolt slides smoothly. The only problem I know I'm going to have is getting the cylinder re-keyed to match the current one (also a Schlage).
What do you do about restaurants that don't take reservations?
There's a burger place called Au Cheval in Chicago that has 90+ minute wait times every day and it's been open for almost 4 years. People are lined up outside an hour before it opens.
Hot Doug's is now closed, but the line was out the door, around the corner and down the block every day for lunch.
Journalism has taken a hit in perceived trust on all fronts by all consumers.
Growing up I was taught that you needed confirmation from three independent sources before you could publish a story. Now you have stories being printed based on unverified anonymous sources.
It's only printed once a week and typically contains content about the local churches and religious schools, but it does cover neighborhood news and events. The local alderman writes a column every couple of weeks.
Don't most small towns have their own newspapers? I grew up in a small midwest farm town and we had one.
Does it gather information whenever you look at Facebook, whether you post or not? Does it gather location information from your phone, even when the Facebook app isn't open?
Do you really have to ask? Of course the app is cyber stalking you!
If you have to use Facebook from your phone I would recommend using the website. It's still tracking you, but it won't be able to access the data on your phone. You should also consider turning off GPS. Do you really want someone to be able to easily determine your daily routines?
I hate sounding like a Luddite since I got into computers when I was a little kid, but technology has turned the Internet and our electronic devices into a pervasive surveillance system. The only way to resist is to not participate.
I hear talk about retraining workers and can't help but wonder if it's a realistic solution. The people I know that are really good at things, be it computers or music or martial arts, started doing it when they were young. How is an older, newly trained (inexperienced) worker going to compete with them?
When I was younger I thought being able to work from home was a great perk. Now that I'm 20 years older and work at a place where I can choose to WFH pretty much whenever I want, I realize it's not so great.
I have a lot of distractions at home and I'm single. It's very easy to start wandering around the house, doing laundry, cleaning up the kitchen, petting the cats, watching something on Netflix, etc. When I'm at the office there's a more limited number of things to distract myself with. If the environment starts getting too loud with people talking I just put on my noise-cancelling headphones and zone out.
It's also a lot easier to troubleshoot a problem someone is having when I can just walk over to their desk and watch what they're doing. I suppose video chat would work, but it's a lot more cumbersome. I work for a start-up, so there's a lot of ad-hoc conversations between the different groups and decisions are made quickly. Chat works pretty well, but it's definitely inferior to a face-to-face conversation.
I'm fortunate to live in a large city with a great public transportation system. My current commute involves a 20 minute walk to a train station followed by a 15 minute ride and a two block walk to the office. I watch all of the cars queued up to enter the expressways in the evening and just shake my head. I had a 90 minute commute many years ago and it was a killer. I'd get done with work and then be pissed off that it's going to take me another hour and a half to get home; and I didn't have to drive. There is just no way that I'd ever live somewhere where my only option for a commute was driving. I have family in Sarasota and they have to drive everywhere. No thank you!
Remember when cameras came with lens covers and devices had physical switches to turn things off? I'm waiting for one of the phone manufacturers to bring those features back. On the other hand I suppose it's a lot cheaper to just have the customer put a sticker over the camera than add a sliding cover to the phone. Unfortunately there's no good physical way to temporarily disable microphones and GPS, you are forced to trust the software.
Then, of course is the cost. People with homes, kids, spouses that spend money like water, aren't going to be able to afford ten of thousands of dollars.
A few years ago I considered going back to school for a Masters degree. It wasn't so much that I wanted the degree as I wanted to take a break from a job that was taking me nowhere. I attended an informational session and discovered that I would need to take something like 9 classes at a cost of $5,000 per class. Class size was 20 students, so we're collectively paying $100,000 so a professor can lecture at us for 10 weeks? The economics just don't make sense.
The most insulting part of it was that the majority of courses were re-hashes of what I studied as an undergraduate computer science student. I decided that a Masters degree just didn't make any sense and started looking for another job.
We have the technology to move away from 100-year-old energy sources, why not use it?
We already are moving to solar based power generation. Last year worldwide generation increased by 50% more than the prior year. Why interfere with the market when it's already moving in the direction we'd like it to?
"Globally there is now 305GW of solar power capacity, up from around 50GW in 2010 and virtually nothing at the turn of the millennium."
Even if they are really upset because they thought their boss unfairly evaluated their work, they may allege discrimination because they can't sue over anything else.
I've seen this happen first hand. We had a woman on our support team that was just plain incompetent. She was unable to understand how things worked, and would try to keep copious notes in the hopes that one of them would tell her what to do. Well, technical support doesn't work like that, you have to be able to actually use your brain and troubleshoot issues.
After several months of not being able to handle any of the tasks given to her, she was fired for performance reasons. Shortly after she was gone members of the team started to receive phone calls from her asking for various things. She tried to get recommendations from some people, from others she tried to get information like the number of men versus the number of women on different teams. It was quite transparent that she was fishing for information so she could file a discrimination lawsuit instead of just accepting she did a poor job.
It sounds like this was a problem employee that Tesla tried moving to several groups, but the employee kept being a problem. Eventually Tesla figured they had done enough and terminated the problem.
That's good advice for anything new. Diversify your investments and reap the rewards! Not every bet will pay off big, but if you make a thousand bets the odds that one of them will be a winner goes up.
I'm kicking myself for not making bi-weekly buys of say $250 over the past few years. I got in when BTC was trading around $250, so even $750 seemed like a high valuation back then and I didn't put more money in.
That being said, I'm pretty happy with my return. My holdings are now valued at more than six figures and I invested less than $10,000 initially. It's kicked the crap out of my other retirement holdings.
Neither do the paper bills you hold in your wallet. What makes Bitcoin really valuable is that you can transmit stored value outside of the traditional banking system.
You are also protected from having that value stolen by third parties. As an example, a court can pass a judgement and seize all of your bank accounts. Even with a valid judgement no one can take your Bitcoin without your private key.
The signatures are there so transactions can be audited after the fact. In theory when you dispute a transaction they can compare the signature on the transaction against your verified signature. Signatures aren't used to stop the fraudulent transaction from occurring in the first place.
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From what I've read, this whole thing got started when an NSA contractor downloaded files to a personal computer that also had Kaspersky AV running. Kaspersky did its job and identified the malware the contractor was working on and sent the files away for analysis. There have been allegations that Kaspersky was scanning for files containing certain words, but I haven't seen any evidence of that put forward.
It might make sense for Federal computers not to run any software that hasn't been vetted, but what about the hardware the software is running on? Why do these agencies that don't trust Kaspersky trust their Chinese made computers and phones?
Nowadays, they can either pay some people within Russia or run some bots to post on Facebook/Twitter/etc from "totally American" accounts.
Who cares about posts on social media? Those sites aren't reputable.
I live in a condo and I just pick my packages up from the area next to the mailboxes. Unfortunately there's no front desk to accept packages, but there's just no way would I opt for in-home delivery.
I have that deadbolt in my Amazon shopping cart and was going to order it for my condo after I get my new programmable thermostat installed.
Any issues I should know about? I have read the complaints about the low/high power mode and how high power eats batteries, but I've checked my door and the current deadbolt slides smoothly. The only problem I know I'm going to have is getting the cylinder re-keyed to match the current one (also a Schlage).
What do you do about restaurants that don't take reservations?
There's a burger place called Au Cheval in Chicago that has 90+ minute wait times every day and it's been open for almost 4 years. People are lined up outside an hour before it opens.
Hot Doug's is now closed, but the line was out the door, around the corner and down the block every day for lunch.
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Journalism has taken a hit in perceived trust on all fronts by all consumers.
Growing up I was taught that you needed confirmation from three independent sources before you could publish a story. Now you have stories being printed based on unverified anonymous sources.
I don't know about you, but my neighborhood has its own newspaper. I think it's fairly common in the larger cities.
It's only printed once a week and typically contains content about the local churches and religious schools, but it does cover neighborhood news and events. The local alderman writes a column every couple of weeks.
Don't most small towns have their own newspapers? I grew up in a small midwest farm town and we had one.
Does it gather information whenever you look at Facebook, whether you post or not? Does it gather location information from your phone, even when the Facebook app isn't open?
Do you really have to ask? Of course the app is cyber stalking you!
If you have to use Facebook from your phone I would recommend using the website. It's still tracking you, but it won't be able to access the data on your phone. You should also consider turning off GPS. Do you really want someone to be able to easily determine your daily routines?
I hate sounding like a Luddite since I got into computers when I was a little kid, but technology has turned the Internet and our electronic devices into a pervasive surveillance system. The only way to resist is to not participate.
I hear talk about retraining workers and can't help but wonder if it's a realistic solution. The people I know that are really good at things, be it computers or music or martial arts, started doing it when they were young. How is an older, newly trained (inexperienced) worker going to compete with them?
When I was younger I thought being able to work from home was a great perk. Now that I'm 20 years older and work at a place where I can choose to WFH pretty much whenever I want, I realize it's not so great.
I have a lot of distractions at home and I'm single. It's very easy to start wandering around the house, doing laundry, cleaning up the kitchen, petting the cats, watching something on Netflix, etc. When I'm at the office there's a more limited number of things to distract myself with. If the environment starts getting too loud with people talking I just put on my noise-cancelling headphones and zone out.
It's also a lot easier to troubleshoot a problem someone is having when I can just walk over to their desk and watch what they're doing. I suppose video chat would work, but it's a lot more cumbersome. I work for a start-up, so there's a lot of ad-hoc conversations between the different groups and decisions are made quickly. Chat works pretty well, but it's definitely inferior to a face-to-face conversation.
I'm fortunate to live in a large city with a great public transportation system. My current commute involves a 20 minute walk to a train station followed by a 15 minute ride and a two block walk to the office. I watch all of the cars queued up to enter the expressways in the evening and just shake my head. I had a 90 minute commute many years ago and it was a killer. I'd get done with work and then be pissed off that it's going to take me another hour and a half to get home; and I didn't have to drive. There is just no way that I'd ever live somewhere where my only option for a commute was driving. I have family in Sarasota and they have to drive everywhere. No thank you!
Remember when cameras came with lens covers and devices had physical switches to turn things off? I'm waiting for one of the phone manufacturers to bring those features back. On the other hand I suppose it's a lot cheaper to just have the customer put a sticker over the camera than add a sliding cover to the phone. Unfortunately there's no good physical way to temporarily disable microphones and GPS, you are forced to trust the software.
True, but some of us still own receivers that don't support HDMI, but do support Toslink and S/PDIF.
I run HDMI to my screen and then feed the audio out to my receiver using a Toslink connection.
Then, of course is the cost. People with homes, kids, spouses that spend money like water, aren't going to be able to afford ten of thousands of dollars.
A few years ago I considered going back to school for a Masters degree. It wasn't so much that I wanted the degree as I wanted to take a break from a job that was taking me nowhere. I attended an informational session and discovered that I would need to take something like 9 classes at a cost of $5,000 per class. Class size was 20 students, so we're collectively paying $100,000 so a professor can lecture at us for 10 weeks? The economics just don't make sense.
The most insulting part of it was that the majority of courses were re-hashes of what I studied as an undergraduate computer science student. I decided that a Masters degree just didn't make any sense and started looking for another job.
If you're any good, then you're working in industry. I learned that lesson as an undergrad.
We have the technology to move away from 100-year-old energy sources, why not use it?
We already are moving to solar based power generation. Last year worldwide generation increased by 50% more than the prior year. Why interfere with the market when it's already moving in the direction we'd like it to?
"Globally there is now 305GW of solar power capacity, up from around 50GW in 2010 and virtually nothing at the turn of the millennium."
Even if they are really upset because they thought their boss unfairly evaluated their work, they may allege discrimination because they can't sue over anything else.
I've seen this happen first hand. We had a woman on our support team that was just plain incompetent. She was unable to understand how things worked, and would try to keep copious notes in the hopes that one of them would tell her what to do. Well, technical support doesn't work like that, you have to be able to actually use your brain and troubleshoot issues.
After several months of not being able to handle any of the tasks given to her, she was fired for performance reasons. Shortly after she was gone members of the team started to receive phone calls from her asking for various things. She tried to get recommendations from some people, from others she tried to get information like the number of men versus the number of women on different teams. It was quite transparent that she was fishing for information so she could file a discrimination lawsuit instead of just accepting she did a poor job.
It sounds like this was a problem employee that Tesla tried moving to several groups, but the employee kept being a problem. Eventually Tesla figured they had done enough and terminated the problem.
The DeLorean would have sold a lot better if John had included a kilo of coke with each one.
students cannot have two computers talking to each other at all, unless they buy their own switch and do it locally.
You mean unless they run a NAT gateway and communicate which high numbered port to use for their service.
While you have the right to speak, the first amendment doesn't give you the right to speak anonymously.
The U.S. Constitution does not grant rights! Our rights come from the Creator (God). The Constitution just restricts what government can do.
You have a natural right to speak anonymously.
That's good advice for anything new. Diversify your investments and reap the rewards! Not every bet will pay off big, but if you make a thousand bets the odds that one of them will be a winner goes up.
I'm kicking myself for not making bi-weekly buys of say $250 over the past few years. I got in when BTC was trading around $250, so even $750 seemed like a high valuation back then and I didn't put more money in.
That being said, I'm pretty happy with my return. My holdings are now valued at more than six figures and I invested less than $10,000 initially. It's kicked the crap out of my other retirement holdings.
It has no intrinsic value
Neither do the paper bills you hold in your wallet. What makes Bitcoin really valuable is that you can transmit stored value outside of the traditional banking system.
You are also protected from having that value stolen by third parties. As an example, a court can pass a judgement and seize all of your bank accounts. Even with a valid judgement no one can take your Bitcoin without your private key.
The signatures are there so transactions can be audited after the fact. In theory when you dispute a transaction they can compare the signature on the transaction against your verified signature. Signatures aren't used to stop the fraudulent transaction from occurring in the first place.
It was opt-in! They're the ones that opted to use Google Maps. The outraged people could have simply switched to Yahoo's or Apple's service.