this is what happens when people who haven't had to work from "the ground up" get too much money, too much power, and too little humility/wisdom to see what is beyond their nose. California is becoming not only a tech power house, but a breeding round for perhaps the most amoral generation in the history of the United States of America. If he had said, "Let them it cake", I would have at least given him credit for being clever.
Hey, we're Canadians, we have a LITTLE British prudism in our blood.:D But, hey we see movies (see "Thinner" by Stephen King for example) where the lawyer's wife is giving him a blow job WHILE HE'S DRIVING. This stuff still goes on with or without robot cars. Would be a public safety benefit in this case. So I'm not even sure "more" sex in cars is even a logical conclusion. We are human, people with strong libido's are going to do this, in cars, out of cars, and on cars. (Hopefully not while moving...)
when things like this can go through with no public debate, can we call what we have in the USA a democracy any more? Sounds very Nazi/Gestapo like indeed:Group/agency just secretly arranges expandability of it's own powers with no oversight, no limits of scope, and no accountability. Sounds more like fasicism to me. At least China and Russia are open about it. We tell the world we are a democracy, and do the stuff we condemned the Germans, Chinese and Russians for years ago. When will the US public realize they have a government (let's just say 'ruling group', 'government' sounds too much like the public actually has any say) that really has no accountability to the public. (When we allowed the Patriot Act to be passed behind closed doors with any significant opposition, we gave permission to all of this following). And with the information they collect, they can intimidate/eliminate anyone who opposes their agenda, which is likely part of the point. (just like in Russia and China).
Combine this with Facebook's face recognition, and your home can watch everyone as effectively as the sensors in "Minority Report". Of course then the hacking community/government will tap into them the way many do with the cameras in smartphones or IoT appliances and then...well. The Chinese government would probably LOVE one of these in every home. (Many of their products, one infamous router in particular, are know for existing back doors...not closed even after discovery).
There is some truth in what you say here. And there are very valid points. If I had points I'd give you at least one. But for a admin perspective this has advantages. It might be interesting if the fonts you mentioned became more standardized on the web. I can see people (like me) trying this out. I tell people to avoid google docs in business (and office 360 even more so, did the math, $120/year, WAY more expensive than purchasing after 3 years, which if you have to upgrade/replace you have to explain yourself to MS to get your office application back. You get screwed either way. As for storage space, it's SO cheap now. My argument against all those cloud services is the data is not really yours once it's out there. Agreements are "interesting", especially if you are in a country other than the USA (good like with that) and the US government says any data in it's territory (or even an American OS (MS Windows) in a weird case in Ireland), they own the data. I like real programs too. Don't get me wrong. It would be cool to make more use of web (internal) services for managing users in business though. Version upgrades are always a minor pain to maintain.
I'm reading things like "no real benefit" but in terms of maintenance the benefit is HUGE. Yes we could all install libreoffice and dozens (or hundreds) of workstations but it's a PAIN to upgrade when new versions pass testing. This is much better from a computer/network administrator's point of view. I had been looking to in other solutions with a similar approach, but looks like it could be more straight forward. As for Office 360, do we REALLY want to be sending private data to MS. I prefer this. I already tell people to keep Windows 10 to keep their privacy, yet getting people off Google Docs was a bit of an effort. Possible this will help fix that.
We are always looking for groups that show what we miss in potentially countless hours of testing, or exposing our inside voluntary or non-voluntary arrangements with government agencies (Especially US and China), or exposing how much effort make (or lack thereof) into securing our products.
We want to show people we truly put the safety and security of our customers above profitability. The we know the stockholders will understand.
(and if you believe that there is a bridge in Brooklyn I can show you..)
This is a classic case of "let's do something illegal to deal with someone suspected of doing something illegal". Wouldn't it be ironic of someone targeted them with ransomware, which is what they are making anyway. If ISP's "went along", they would be an accomplice to blackmail.
It looks good on my initial check and i can't say what you are hearing. It is entirely possible that there is network congestion on the chosen account you are logging into or even the local ISP but I'm guessing you have taken that into account. Skype is becoming less and less of an option for those of us avoiding the biggest trojan in recentl Microsoft history, Their OS. LOL. And since there haven't been Skype update for linux for awhile it's entirely possible that change in their internal network could cut Linux users of the "latest" version for Linux off the network entirely. There is another product being assisted by Twilo but solid clients and networks for free use are tricky to find. Did you see anything on the Tox Project:
https://tox.chat/
Now, I'm seeing signs on Reddit that there may be government interference attempting to circumvent/crippple the project but for the moment it still seems to be going. It has fully encrypted video/audio/chat data so that look like a possibility.
Have you seen this:
http://ca.complex.com/pop-cult...
Sony had a bad rep for batteries a few years ago. You can only manufacture so many batteries before it becomes clear someone is cutting corners. You could say nobody "plans" for batteries to be bad, but seriously, when you have a bad track record like Sony did (and I'm not saying Toshiba is necessarily the same but...), you can only say "I didn't know" so many times before it becomes clear one is gambling with the customer's safety. It's easy to play games with other people's lives for profit when you at a distance. We have enough experience in ion-lithium battery manufacturing and management by now to minimize these numbers and it's been quiet for awhile. I could be wrong, but when I see spikes, it usually means someone changed something, usually for the worse.
https://jitsi.org/
It looks quite good. this may be a blessing. Microsoft recently put word out about "bots" guiding you on things like vacations, products and so forth. in other words, Microsoft, is using Skype to anayze your communications and push ads. Not that I'm surprised. MS has historically been friendly to Linux and only recently even remotely tried to show some level of cooperation. MS SQL Server for Linux was an interesting step, but of course they can pull the pug at any time, which given this news (okay, not news...I've been wondering about this for awhile). Of course Android is killing MS on tablets and phones. Anyway, we've been patient enough. Time to try something different. Plus, did we really want Microsoft's spyware (ahem, "enhanced features") running on our Linux workstations? This could be a blessing in disguise telling us to give up hopes on MS and embrace the superior software projects in our grasp and encourage our friends/family to do the same.
Nothing like a potentially exploding battery to add "life" to a LAN party. (okay, you'd bring semi-portable desktops, but still). How many companies are going to keep releasing bad batteries before we learn? I'm curious who they selected to manufacturer their batteries this round...
Don't really trust Canonical because they showed they were willing to sell out the public in a sneaky way with Amazon and desktop searches. Now these two are working together? Interesting...but..birds of a feather right. The dark side possibly corrupting an already slightly darkened corporation. I'd advise sticking to Linux Mint or ElementaryOS for user friendly distros anyway.
The fact Microsoft is willing to with a Linux distro maintainer suggests Windows 10 is not doing all that well in the light of mobile devices and tablets (where they failed to get any real traction). Plus many business sectors with confidential data put clients at risk the moment Windows 10 enters their environment.
How's this for an idea: run Windows 10 in a virtual environment using VirtualBox, and cut off all network access from Windows 10 (you can do this in VirtualBox easily, and maybe open up specific non-http/https ports for mmo) to keep your private data while getting your windows 10 gaming fix. (The only real reason for running Windows 10 these days is for gamers. You can do everything else in the standard consumer activities list in Linux or MacOS, and we are with Android and iOS anyway. (to Microsoft's detriment). Times seems to be changing.
DRM free my friend. Works for me. I have never installed steam and I never willl. gog.com appears to have all my gaming needs (when we get the odd break from life..) and I can find no funny business in their installers. . humblebundle is okay...as long as you avoid the steam crap (and especially the ubisoft drm. While humblebundle are mostly steam poster boys, they do sometimes have drm free bundles are truly a bargain (sometimes mixed with games that are steam only for which I consistently give $1..serves them right to mix poison with food). But gog.com appears to have remained pure and it's good to have choices.
This goes right up there dangerous ideas like Amazon using a Selfie as a password. Just steal your phone, and bonus...in addition to getting all the data from that phone (who encrypts there phone properly, I ask you...), you'll get their car as well. (Besides doesn't the government claim to having a potential way of bypassing the encryption they were trying to force Apple to break?).
Ummm..what about fibre optic cable. Toronto we've had fibre optic cable networks going up the last 2 years. In Tokyo, they've had a fibre optic cable network there for at least 4 years. the real issue for me is why use a dated technology when a superior one proven in the field exists? Gut feeling: it's a way of maximizing profits at the cost of speed/reliability.
This is what happens when systems are left on automatic pilot. I think the technical term is "oops". Fortunately there was yet another system (also left on automatic pilot), that gave people a clue. We all know old systems did things that were just plain stupid (clear text passwords?!?). We've all see and/or done it, but the real problem was there was no review of the system looking for such things. We keep forgetting that security (and reliability) is a process, NOT a technology. And with water treatment, periodic reviews of such system should be mandated by law.
Lawyers are hired to find holes that sound good. It's as much sales pitch as anything else. Lawmakers are there to convincingly sell an agenda. And if the law doesn't exist yet, they will find a way to politically sell a new one. 911 got used to shove a bunch a new policies like "The Patriot Act" (ironic isn't it) that undermined privacy unless cause can be show, that paved the way to where we are now when members of the FBI feel they can flippantly say "The constitution doesn't matter". But it's good to know that Apple has a solid legal foot to stand on, even if the DOJ/FBI tries to pull out the rug that foot is standing on.
It's amazing (and scary) the uses people are finding for U of R's research in AI. It is a little creepy being able to make fairly accurate guess as to one
state of sobriety (or lack thereoff). Then again, people who are tweating at odd hours are already more likely to fit the profile of being in a drunken state (. What is truly scary is combined with date storage, the ability to profile people. Imagine HR purchasing access to a database of info like this to prescreen applicants. Insurance companies will have a field day with this stuff. Think I'll keep my twitter account silent and my life private. (Facebook anyone)
Great, Between the FBI law enforcement hackers, the CIA hackers and the home grown hackers, we'll all be in crossfire between people looking lock cars down, people looking to have cars spy (cameras, microphones used for voice commands, etc) and people trying to protect themselves (or even us) from all these invasive "features" I'd rather ride a bicycle.Oh, crud..India just created a computer controlled bicycle didn't they. Can I even trust my footware anymore...
Well.. we've been letting the government bowl over basic civil liberties to the point where an FBI employee has been quoted as saying "The constitution doesn't matter". We let them do it since 9/11 and...are we safer: no. We said the new spying tactics would make us safer, and yet all we've done is ask for more saying we are NOT safe. Not only that, the government is demanding the ability to compromise at well systems that are made to secure our data and privacy, making us even LESS safe. We were complacent, we wanted to feel "safe" we allowed the federal government to do what ever it wanted in the name of "national security" and now may have "national insecurity". "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". Ben, I'm sorry, it appears we've failed to learn from your wisdom.
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this is what happens when people who haven't had to work from "the ground up" get too much money, too much power, and too little humility/wisdom to see what is beyond their nose. California is becoming not only a tech power house, but a breeding round for perhaps the most amoral generation in the history of the United States of America. If he had said, "Let them it cake", I would have at least given him credit for being clever.
Chicken! Hmm...
Hey, we're Canadians, we have a LITTLE British prudism in our blood. :D But, hey we see movies (see "Thinner" by Stephen King for example) where the lawyer's wife is giving him a blow job WHILE HE'S DRIVING. This stuff still goes on with or without robot cars. Would be a public safety benefit in this case. So I'm not even sure "more" sex in cars is even a logical conclusion. We are human, people with strong libido's are going to do this, in cars, out of cars, and on cars. (Hopefully not while moving...)
It rather cool to be anonymous. Wonder why he's coming out. And how do we know it's really him?
when things like this can go through with no public debate, can we call what we have in the USA a democracy any more? Sounds very Nazi/Gestapo like indeed:Group/agency just secretly arranges expandability of it's own powers with no oversight, no limits of scope, and no accountability. Sounds more like fasicism to me. At least China and Russia are open about it. We tell the world we are a democracy, and do the stuff we condemned the Germans, Chinese and Russians for years ago. When will the US public realize they have a government (let's just say 'ruling group', 'government' sounds too much like the public actually has any say) that really has no accountability to the public. (When we allowed the Patriot Act to be passed behind closed doors with any significant opposition, we gave permission to all of this following). And with the information they collect, they can intimidate/eliminate anyone who opposes their agenda, which is likely part of the point. (just like in Russia and China).
Combine this with Facebook's face recognition, and your home can watch everyone as effectively as the sensors in "Minority Report". Of course then the hacking community/government will tap into them the way many do with the cameras in smartphones or IoT appliances and then...well. The Chinese government would probably LOVE one of these in every home. (Many of their products, one infamous router in particular, are know for existing back doors...not closed even after discovery).
There is some truth in what you say here. And there are very valid points. If I had points I'd give you at least one. But for a admin perspective this has advantages. It might be interesting if the fonts you mentioned became more standardized on the web. I can see people (like me) trying this out. I tell people to avoid google docs in business (and office 360 even more so, did the math, $120/year, WAY more expensive than purchasing after 3 years, which if you have to upgrade/replace you have to explain yourself to MS to get your office application back. You get screwed either way. As for storage space, it's SO cheap now. My argument against all those cloud services is the data is not really yours once it's out there. Agreements are "interesting", especially if you are in a country other than the USA (good like with that) and the US government says any data in it's territory (or even an American OS (MS Windows) in a weird case in Ireland), they own the data. I like real programs too. Don't get me wrong. It would be cool to make more use of web (internal) services for managing users in business though. Version upgrades are always a minor pain to maintain.
I'm reading things like "no real benefit" but in terms of maintenance the benefit is HUGE. Yes we could all install libreoffice and dozens (or hundreds) of workstations but it's a PAIN to upgrade when new versions pass testing. This is much better from a computer/network administrator's point of view. I had been looking to in other solutions with a similar approach, but looks like it could be more straight forward. As for Office 360, do we REALLY want to be sending private data to MS. I prefer this. I already tell people to keep Windows 10 to keep their privacy, yet getting people off Google Docs was a bit of an effort. Possible this will help fix that.
We are always looking for groups that show what we miss in potentially countless hours of testing, or exposing our inside voluntary or non-voluntary arrangements with government agencies (Especially US and China), or exposing how much effort make (or lack thereof) into securing our products.
We want to show people we truly put the safety and security of our customers above profitability. The we know the stockholders will understand.
(and if you believe that there is a bridge in Brooklyn I can show you..)
This is a classic case of "let's do something illegal to deal with someone suspected of doing something illegal". Wouldn't it be ironic of someone targeted them with ransomware, which is what they are making anyway. If ISP's "went along", they would be an accomplice to blackmail.
It looks good on my initial check and i can't say what you are hearing. It is entirely possible that there is network congestion on the chosen account you are logging into or even the local ISP but I'm guessing you have taken that into account. Skype is becoming less and less of an option for those of us avoiding the biggest trojan in recentl Microsoft history, Their OS. LOL. And since there haven't been Skype update for linux for awhile it's entirely possible that change in their internal network could cut Linux users of the "latest" version for Linux off the network entirely. There is another product being assisted by Twilo but solid clients and networks for free use are tricky to find. Did you see anything on the Tox Project: https://tox.chat/ Now, I'm seeing signs on Reddit that there may be government interference attempting to circumvent/crippple the project but for the moment it still seems to be going. It has fully encrypted video/audio/chat data so that look like a possibility.
Have you seen this: http://ca.complex.com/pop-cult... Sony had a bad rep for batteries a few years ago. You can only manufacture so many batteries before it becomes clear someone is cutting corners. You could say nobody "plans" for batteries to be bad, but seriously, when you have a bad track record like Sony did (and I'm not saying Toshiba is necessarily the same but...), you can only say "I didn't know" so many times before it becomes clear one is gambling with the customer's safety. It's easy to play games with other people's lives for profit when you at a distance. We have enough experience in ion-lithium battery manufacturing and management by now to minimize these numbers and it's been quiet for awhile. I could be wrong, but when I see spikes, it usually means someone changed something, usually for the worse.
https://jitsi.org/ It looks quite good. this may be a blessing. Microsoft recently put word out about "bots" guiding you on things like vacations, products and so forth. in other words, Microsoft, is using Skype to anayze your communications and push ads. Not that I'm surprised. MS has historically been friendly to Linux and only recently even remotely tried to show some level of cooperation. MS SQL Server for Linux was an interesting step, but of course they can pull the pug at any time, which given this news (okay, not news...I've been wondering about this for awhile). Of course Android is killing MS on tablets and phones. Anyway, we've been patient enough. Time to try something different. Plus, did we really want Microsoft's spyware (ahem, "enhanced features") running on our Linux workstations? This could be a blessing in disguise telling us to give up hopes on MS and embrace the superior software projects in our grasp and encourage our friends/family to do the same.
Nothing like a potentially exploding battery to add "life" to a LAN party. (okay, you'd bring semi-portable desktops, but still). How many companies are going to keep releasing bad batteries before we learn? I'm curious who they selected to manufacturer their batteries this round...
Don't really trust Canonical because they showed they were willing to sell out the public in a sneaky way with Amazon and desktop searches. Now these two are working together? Interesting...but..birds of a feather right. The dark side possibly corrupting an already slightly darkened corporation. I'd advise sticking to Linux Mint or ElementaryOS for user friendly distros anyway.
The fact Microsoft is willing to with a Linux distro maintainer suggests Windows 10 is not doing all that well in the light of mobile devices and tablets (where they failed to get any real traction). Plus many business sectors with confidential data put clients at risk the moment Windows 10 enters their environment.
How's this for an idea: run Windows 10 in a virtual environment using VirtualBox, and cut off all network access from Windows 10 (you can do this in VirtualBox easily, and maybe open up specific non-http/https ports for mmo) to keep your private data while getting your windows 10 gaming fix. (The only real reason for running Windows 10 these days is for gamers. You can do everything else in the standard consumer activities list in Linux or MacOS, and we are with Android and iOS anyway. (to Microsoft's detriment). Times seems to be changing.
DRM free my friend. Works for me. I have never installed steam and I never willl. gog.com appears to have all my gaming needs (when we get the odd break from life..) and I can find no funny business in their installers. . humblebundle is okay...as long as you avoid the steam crap (and especially the ubisoft drm. While humblebundle are mostly steam poster boys, they do sometimes have drm free bundles are truly a bargain (sometimes mixed with games that are steam only for which I consistently give $1..serves them right to mix poison with food). But gog.com appears to have remained pure and it's good to have choices.
This goes right up there dangerous ideas like Amazon using a Selfie as a password. Just steal your phone, and bonus...in addition to getting all the data from that phone (who encrypts there phone properly, I ask you...), you'll get their car as well. (Besides doesn't the government claim to having a potential way of bypassing the encryption they were trying to force Apple to break?).
Ummm..what about fibre optic cable. Toronto we've had fibre optic cable networks going up the last 2 years. In Tokyo, they've had a fibre optic cable network there for at least 4 years. the real issue for me is why use a dated technology when a superior one proven in the field exists? Gut feeling: it's a way of maximizing profits at the cost of speed/reliability.
This is what happens when systems are left on automatic pilot. I think the technical term is "oops". Fortunately there was yet another system (also left on automatic pilot), that gave people a clue. We all know old systems did things that were just plain stupid (clear text passwords?!?). We've all see and/or done it, but the real problem was there was no review of the system looking for such things. We keep forgetting that security (and reliability) is a process, NOT a technology. And with water treatment, periodic reviews of such system should be mandated by law.
A back door for the email providers and easy access for FBI/CIA?
Lawyers are hired to find holes that sound good. It's as much sales pitch as anything else. Lawmakers are there to convincingly sell an agenda. And if the law doesn't exist yet, they will find a way to politically sell a new one. 911 got used to shove a bunch a new policies like "The Patriot Act" (ironic isn't it) that undermined privacy unless cause can be show, that paved the way to where we are now when members of the FBI feel they can flippantly say "The constitution doesn't matter". But it's good to know that Apple has a solid legal foot to stand on, even if the DOJ/FBI tries to pull out the rug that foot is standing on.
It's amazing (and scary) the uses people are finding for U of R's research in AI. It is a little creepy being able to make fairly accurate guess as to one state of sobriety (or lack thereoff). Then again, people who are tweating at odd hours are already more likely to fit the profile of being in a drunken state (. What is truly scary is combined with date storage, the ability to profile people. Imagine HR purchasing access to a database of info like this to prescreen applicants. Insurance companies will have a field day with this stuff. Think I'll keep my twitter account silent and my life private. (Facebook anyone)
Great, Between the FBI law enforcement hackers, the CIA hackers and the home grown hackers, we'll all be in crossfire between people looking lock cars down, people looking to have cars spy (cameras, microphones used for voice commands, etc) and people trying to protect themselves (or even us) from all these invasive "features" I'd rather ride a bicycle.Oh, crud..India just created a computer controlled bicycle didn't they. Can I even trust my footware anymore...
" next they'll be serving backdoors or start decrypting computers using Windows Update" - See Windows 10 .:D
Well.. we've been letting the government bowl over basic civil liberties to the point where an FBI employee has been quoted as saying "The constitution doesn't matter". We let them do it since 9/11 and...are we safer: no. We said the new spying tactics would make us safer, and yet all we've done is ask for more saying we are NOT safe. Not only that, the government is demanding the ability to compromise at well systems that are made to secure our data and privacy, making us even LESS safe. We were complacent, we wanted to feel "safe" we allowed the federal government to do what ever it wanted in the name of "national security" and now may have "national insecurity". "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". Ben, I'm sorry, it appears we've failed to learn from your wisdom.