Warnings. Its a gimmick in social engineering, really. If we ignore our own security ever, then we can't blame the software for selling us short. It's more of a marketing gimmick and liability issue for the software vendors. They can't possibly save us from ourselves. They can manage to let us fool ourselves if that's our preferred frame of mind. Honestly, we always knew we are not in control, but like a fatal car crash, we just figured it only happened to somebody else. Welcome to denial, its all the rave - everybody is doing it.
Now close that gaping orifice and don't look so surprised that all computers running all software can actually be hacked by hackers that guess your password.
So now that we have discovered that the software manipulates the data in their cars, we are supposed to be surprised that they did this in all of their cars? How stupid are we to pretend that only some software cheats, while other software does not because the superior engine design in other models doesn't need to cheat to meet emission standards. So it turns out they lied about the superior engines too! Oh horrors! You mean there is no superior engineering that enables engines built in Germany to out perform the laws of physics, as well as every other car that already lies about mileage, emissions, and performance? What is world coming to? Its the German's fault we have all of this air pollution because all of this time we were burning gas just to sit in gridlock, we had been told that the fuel exhaust that comes out of a VW's ass doesn't stink. Not only did they lie to us, they are the reason why we burn so much gas. We almost evolved into a fat legless mammal with great driving ability in gridlock, but now we have fallen into the pits of diesel hell, where high performance German engines get the same shitty results from burning gas as the other German cars, Norwegian cars, and even French cars, but not as good as the Japanese or Korean cars, but way way way better than any American car because we're busy being great again. Those fuckers! They've ruined civilization with miles of highways and hundreds of millions of cars that just belch out toxic fumes all day so that we can sit in traffic! We would have all bought Tesla's if it wasn't for that lying cheating software that made numbers come up on a smog report that nobody really understands when they are accurate. How could they deceive an entire planet of people that had no intention of burning fuel that pollutes the air. WE COULD HAVE HAD TESLAS! But noooooooo its all VW's fault for fooling us with software that just makes shit up and lies to every American man woman and child at NASCAR. Damn savages!
Oh yeah, I forgot, they "destroy" the drugs so nobody takes them. It would be wrong to auction them off and keep the proceeds. Then they would be dealers. Its much better that we take their word for it when they take away all of the stuff that belongs to bad guys and sell it, except for the drugs which we never see again because they don't sell it at a public auction. You can be sure if you never see it again that it was destroyed since you can always believe the good guys. Why would they lie? Only bad guys lie. They lie about all of the stuff they have because they are criminals, and that's why the good guys just take it away from them and always tell the truth. It's really great how America is so good at winning wars on drugs and crime and terrorists and poverty and human trafficking and bitcoins with coke residue on them. And its really nice of them to destroy all of the evidence before it escapes and sells itself to the next idiot they bust for dealing. Thank goodness they have put an end to crime and addiction in America. Finally we are great again. We figured out how to make crime pay the good guys: we just take it from criminals after they earn it breaking the law. That's a perfect solution, no wonder we have such great results.
Namely, they always shovel out heaps of number two whenever something goes terribly wrong. Their response policy is ALWAYS to tell LIES. Its POLICY to SPIN ALL NEGATIVE PRESS ATTENTION AT ALL TIMES. The truth will only make it worse because they know they are prone to major fuck ups and they have lots of enemies. They just don't want any of their cheap, stupid, or dishonest screw ups to look like they are willing and able to constantly screw up service for their customers since it is a calculated risk they willingly commit, and will commit again, because its worth being unreliable if it saves them the very high cost of total reliability and service. Delta didn't get to number two by acting like the best. They got there with compromised performance where is counts the most: the customers ruined travel plans. What's a random act of system breakdown worth ? Its very valuable because it buys them time to actually go off line, and get some very serious technical work done in a few hours that might otherwise take weeks, and great resources and planning , in order to implement in parallel to smooth daily operations. When an event like a power failure in Atlanta is blamed for there problem, then are we to believe it is reasonable to design there entire airline system to fail every time that event occurs? Is that how it goes with every other airline that experiences power failures? Not if they plan and provide contingencies for all known possible, albeit improbable, events. This jerks KNEW that this would be EXACTLY what happens IF a power outage occurs in Atlanta at 2AM on a SUNDAY. They probably can mitigate the collapse if its during business hours, while all hands are on deck, but there is no way that they are going to PAY THE WADS OF CASH it costs to have a hair trigger response team on standby 24/7 in case of an off hour power outage. Nor will they pay the heaps for backup power systems capable to manages seamless power supply for their fat power sucking energy wasting corporate consumption of all available amps in every facility and overclocked full throttled server farm and network that is required. The could have told us 10 years ago that this is what will happen under these exact circumstances. That's how it was designed because its a great cost savings to gamble that the power failure wont happen, but if it does, they can handle it with the resources available to them during normal operations, which is where it counts most. They make a calculation that its worth the cost savings not to worry about 24/7 contingency response because it involves a huge labor cost. They are not going to piss away profits just to be sure a customer is never inconvenienced. Fuck the customer and their frequent fickle flying. If you buy #2 you better be ready to eat some #2. That's what you get for burning a thousand hours of jet fuel in an hour because its half the price of buying a tank of gas and driving all day to travel the same distance. Lets face it, you can just go fuck off until greyhound or amtrack is a better alternative. The fact is that they really don't need to worry about it, because it costs less to piss off customers, which is always, than it does to be certain that there customers are always happy, which is never. As long as they are number 2 in the duopoly, then we can just eat shit when the gap occurs. There are a lot of gaps in there design and implementation. They have no intention of filling them all. You just better hope you get lucky and don't need to travel when the dice crap out. But lets be honest, a power failure in summer in Atlanta is an event that you can COUNT ON happening. So clearly, this is how the system is designed to function in this exact situation. What makes you think that kind of design concept is an accident or unforeseen when clearly its a calculated risk. They mitigate bad luck with bullshit to deny other future failures are guaranteed in the likely event of unusual dice. Its inevitable, but its hard to predict when exactly they will screw over the customer next exactly, but you can be sure it will happen again. They will act as surprised as the customer when happens, and everyone can go on with their pretense, and deny any fault because we allow fate to decide when we win or lose the bet.
They maintain they did nothing wrong. That means that their lack of ethics remains fully at play in every other business decision. Even if they did nothing wrong, is that really good enough? Google does no evil, Facebook does no wrong, does any corporate monolith proactively do any good as a top priority?
....... It's always the same excuse... "A computer error"
Because they meant what they said. Had you not noticed the overcharge, nor called, then the computer was working correctly. Its a game of customer against algorithm, and you won that point. But this game is like pong and really gets tedious for people. So that's why they do it. And we hate them even more.
Corporations are not people, therefore crime is not criminal, and nobody goes to jail. They can steal with impunity, and when they pay their fines, that's just the kickback to the folks who grant them their monopoly. Lobbyists bought and paid for this contractual arrangement while we were voting for shills.
Also, I just gotta say, your tagline had me rolling on the floor. I am definitely putting it on my list of the truly hilarious. Perhaps, I'm twisted, but that's a real laugh.
I don't carry a wallet, not doing so cured my back pains when I was much younger
You're absolutely right about the wallet and back pain. Its a no brainer once you think about the fact we were not designed to sit on a tilt or else we would have started out tilted. But it took me years and years to discover the obvious. Now my back problems are all gone.
As for the solution to these issues of cyber fraud, we just have to figure out what obvious thing that we are overlooking. And when we do, and stop it, it will be a problem solved.
Maybe the PCI should just start listening to security professionals and do away with these things?
And why wouldn't they? Because they figured that when the technology did fail that they could pawn the losses off onto somebody else. As long as we pass laws that make it impossible for these losses to ever be passed off onto the victims (i.e. the customers and the merchants) and be sure that there is swift and effective remedy for any fraud, then the banks and credit cards will make damn sure they listen to security experts in the future.
Our problem is not a deficiency in technology and know how, its a deficiency in our society in properly punishing criminals and not victims. In the old days, when a bank got robbed it never cost an account holder a dime. We need to be vigilant in maintaining this standard for all financial transaction crime. It only costs the banks. Suddenly, the problem will be solved efficiently...and not until then.
Right you are. Make 'em pay. Hit them so hard they never, ever think its worth the risk of getting caught again. Mega-corps of this magnitude need to be hit in magnitudes greater so that they never fudge again. They only commit these crimes when its profitable. We just make sure it never is, and suddenly it stops, or they just go out of business. Simple.
Nobody is interested in paying human beings period. Not unless they absolutely have to and not for one minute longer than is absolutely necessary in order to be profitable. In general, the younger the cheaper, so under 30 is a better deal. And then they don't complain when they get dumped when they hit 30. This fact has more to do with the greed of venture capital than the good of any human resource or engineering considerations. But yes, your are not incorrect, in a great portion of the current job market, it looks that way..
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In other news, vaginas provide more pain relief for men.
Sinsemilla is a female marijuana with big soft yummy sticky sexual organs. It wants male relief.
It fucks you up and munches you out.
Now what I am supposed to do with all the porn?
Warnings. Its a gimmick in social engineering, really. If we ignore our own security ever, then we can't blame the software for selling us short. It's more of a marketing gimmick and liability issue for the software vendors. They can't possibly save us from ourselves. They can manage to let us fool ourselves if that's our preferred frame of mind. Honestly, we always knew we are not in control, but like a fatal car crash, we just figured it only happened to somebody else. Welcome to denial, its all the rave - everybody is doing it.
Actually, these are mutually compatible myths.
Right. Why should we believe that the wireless hack is new if the car it opens "since" 1995 is not...
It is more likely that if a key exists to open doors for twenty years that it is not new. Its probably twenty years old.
The only thing new here is the clue to the clueless.
You're right, Its word salad on a cereal box.
Its like reading the ingredients of Lucky Charms while eating Captain Crunch - totally Gertrude Stein.
I've been having flash backs....
That's why we call them ORACLE
Now close that gaping orifice and don't look so surprised that all computers running all software can actually be hacked by hackers that guess your password.
So now that we have discovered that the software manipulates the data in their cars, we are supposed to be surprised that they did this in all of their cars? How stupid are we to pretend that only some software cheats, while other software does not because the superior engine design in other models doesn't need to cheat to meet emission standards. So it turns out they lied about the superior engines too! Oh horrors! You mean there is no superior engineering that enables engines built in Germany to out perform the laws of physics, as well as every other car that already lies about mileage, emissions, and performance? What is world coming to? Its the German's fault we have all of this air pollution because all of this time we were burning gas just to sit in gridlock, we had been told that the fuel exhaust that comes out of a VW's ass doesn't stink. Not only did they lie to us, they are the reason why we burn so much gas. We almost evolved into a fat legless mammal with great driving ability in gridlock, but now we have fallen into the pits of diesel hell, where high performance German engines get the same shitty results from burning gas as the other German cars, Norwegian cars, and even French cars, but not as good as the Japanese or Korean cars, but way way way better than any American car because we're busy being great again. Those fuckers! They've ruined civilization with miles of highways and hundreds of millions of cars that just belch out toxic fumes all day so that we can sit in traffic! We would have all bought Tesla's if it wasn't for that lying cheating software that made numbers come up on a smog report that nobody really understands when they are accurate. How could they deceive an entire planet of people that had no intention of burning fuel that pollutes the air. WE COULD HAVE HAD TESLAS! But noooooooo its all VW's fault for fooling us with software that just makes shit up and lies to every American man woman and child at NASCAR. Damn savages!
Oh yeah, I forgot, they "destroy" the drugs so nobody takes them. It would be wrong to auction them off and keep the proceeds. Then they would be dealers. Its much better that we take their word for it when they take away all of the stuff that belongs to bad guys and sell it, except for the drugs which we never see again because they don't sell it at a public auction. You can be sure if you never see it again that it was destroyed since you can always believe the good guys. Why would they lie? Only bad guys lie. They lie about all of the stuff they have because they are criminals, and that's why the good guys just take it away from them and always tell the truth. It's really great how America is so good at winning wars on drugs and crime and terrorists and poverty and human trafficking and bitcoins with coke residue on them. And its really nice of them to destroy all of the evidence before it escapes and sells itself to the next idiot they bust for dealing. Thank goodness they have put an end to crime and addiction in America. Finally we are great again. We figured out how to make crime pay the good guys: we just take it from criminals after they earn it breaking the law. That's a perfect solution, no wonder we have such great results.
Namely, they always shovel out heaps of number two whenever something goes terribly wrong. Their response policy is ALWAYS to tell LIES. Its POLICY to SPIN ALL NEGATIVE PRESS ATTENTION AT ALL TIMES. The truth will only make it worse because they know they are prone to major fuck ups and they have lots of enemies. They just don't want any of their cheap, stupid, or dishonest screw ups to look like they are willing and able to constantly screw up service for their customers since it is a calculated risk they willingly commit, and will commit again, because its worth being unreliable if it saves them the very high cost of total reliability and service. Delta didn't get to number two by acting like the best. They got there with compromised performance where is counts the most: the customers ruined travel plans. What's a random act of system breakdown worth ? Its very valuable because it buys them time to actually go off line, and get some very serious technical work done in a few hours that might otherwise take weeks, and great resources and planning , in order to implement in parallel to smooth daily operations. When an event like a power failure in Atlanta is blamed for there problem, then are we to believe it is reasonable to design there entire airline system to fail every time that event occurs? Is that how it goes with every other airline that experiences power failures? Not if they plan and provide contingencies for all known possible, albeit improbable, events. This jerks KNEW that this would be EXACTLY what happens IF a power outage occurs in Atlanta at 2AM on a SUNDAY. They probably can mitigate the collapse if its during business hours, while all hands are on deck, but there is no way that they are going to PAY THE WADS OF CASH it costs to have a hair trigger response team on standby 24/7 in case of an off hour power outage. Nor will they pay the heaps for backup power systems capable to manages seamless power supply for their fat power sucking energy wasting corporate consumption of all available amps in every facility and overclocked full throttled server farm and network that is required. The could have told us 10 years ago that this is what will happen under these exact circumstances. That's how it was designed because its a great cost savings to gamble that the power failure wont happen, but if it does, they can handle it with the resources available to them during normal operations, which is where it counts most. They make a calculation that its worth the cost savings not to worry about 24/7 contingency response because it involves a huge labor cost. They are not going to piss away profits just to be sure a customer is never inconvenienced. Fuck the customer and their frequent fickle flying. If you buy #2 you better be ready to eat some #2. That's what you get for burning a thousand hours of jet fuel in an hour because its half the price of buying a tank of gas and driving all day to travel the same distance. Lets face it, you can just go fuck off until greyhound or amtrack is a better alternative. The fact is that they really don't need to worry about it, because it costs less to piss off customers, which is always, than it does to be certain that there customers are always happy, which is never. As long as they are number 2 in the duopoly, then we can just eat shit when the gap occurs. There are a lot of gaps in there design and implementation. They have no intention of filling them all. You just better hope you get lucky and don't need to travel when the dice crap out. But lets be honest, a power failure in summer in Atlanta is an event that you can COUNT ON happening. So clearly, this is how the system is designed to function in this exact situation. What makes you think that kind of design concept is an accident or unforeseen when clearly its a calculated risk. They mitigate bad luck with bullshit to deny other future failures are guaranteed in the likely event of unusual dice. Its inevitable, but its hard to predict when exactly they will screw over the customer next exactly, but you can be sure it will happen again. They will act as surprised as the customer when happens, and everyone can go on with their pretense, and deny any fault because we allow fate to decide when we win or lose the bet.
Hey, looka that!
Dark matter turns out to be a lot of dim matter. Thanks for shining a light on this subject.
Dark Galaxies Matter, you insensitive clod!
It will be the first twenty four hour solar power plant since the place already glows in the dark.
They maintain they did nothing wrong. That means that their lack of ethics remains fully at play in every other business decision. Even if they did nothing wrong, is that really good enough? Google does no evil, Facebook does no wrong, does any corporate monolith proactively do any good as a top priority?
Clearly, the City has accomplished its goal: ....since Uber and Lyft left Austin, 7.5% more people have been arrested for drunk driving.
As other Texan public servants have boasted, "Mission Accomplished."
....... It's always the same excuse... "A computer error"
Because they meant what they said. Had you not noticed the overcharge, nor called, then the computer was working correctly. Its a game of customer against algorithm, and you won that point. But this game is like pong and really gets tedious for people. So that's why they do it. And we hate them even more.
That's quality and commitment we can count on!
Mitch McDeere: There's two hundred fifty acts of documented mail fraud there. That's racketeering!
You forgot the copyright violation...oh wait... never mind.
Corporations are not people, therefore crime is not criminal, and nobody goes to jail. They can steal with impunity, and when they pay their fines, that's just the kickback to the folks who grant them their monopoly. Lobbyists bought and paid for this contractual arrangement while we were voting for shills.
Welcome to the pig fest.
They were driving a diesel Volkswagen to the job so it seems to be par for the course....
Also, I just gotta say, your tagline had me rolling on the floor. I am definitely putting it on my list of the truly hilarious. Perhaps, I'm twisted, but that's a real laugh.
I don't carry a wallet, not doing so cured my back pains when I was much younger
You're absolutely right about the wallet and back pain. Its a no brainer once you think about the fact we were not designed to sit on a tilt or else we would have started out tilted. But it took me years and years to discover the obvious. Now my back problems are all gone.
As for the solution to these issues of cyber fraud, we just have to figure out what obvious thing that we are overlooking. And when we do, and stop it, it will be a problem solved.
Maybe the PCI should just start listening to security professionals and do away with these things?
And why wouldn't they? Because they figured that when the technology did fail that they could pawn the losses off onto somebody else. As long as we pass laws that make it impossible for these losses to ever be passed off onto the victims (i.e. the customers and the merchants) and be sure that there is swift and effective remedy for any fraud, then the banks and credit cards will make damn sure they listen to security experts in the future.
Our problem is not a deficiency in technology and know how, its a deficiency in our society in properly punishing criminals and not victims. In the old days, when a bank got robbed it never cost an account holder a dime. We need to be vigilant in maintaining this standard for all financial transaction crime. It only costs the banks. Suddenly, the problem will be solved efficiently...and not until then.
Double standards shouldn't apply just because a party is wealthy.
What? No double standards? Sign me up ! Which galaxy and star date is this place?
Right you are. Make 'em pay. Hit them so hard they never, ever think its worth the risk of getting caught again. Mega-corps of this magnitude need to be hit in magnitudes greater so that they never fudge again. They only commit these crimes when its profitable. We just make sure it never is, and suddenly it stops, or they just go out of business. Simple.
As the old saying goes, "a fool and his money are soon parted".
I knew there was a reason why I felt foolish...
Nobody is interested in paying human beings period. Not unless they absolutely have to and not for one minute longer than is absolutely necessary in order to be profitable. In general, the younger the cheaper, so under 30 is a better deal. And then they don't complain when they get dumped when they hit 30. This fact has more to do with the greed of venture capital than the good of any human resource or engineering considerations. But yes, your are not incorrect, in a great portion of the current job market, it looks that way..