Yeah, let's put our ENTIRE history up for grabs, people can analyse our private lives and preferences, create ad campaigns, have NSA predict our movements, have governments predict our actions and political preferences and take steps to keep us in ignorance at best, or coerce us into submission at worst. Let's all create a world where our intellectual/psychological profiles can be used by marketing and politically interested parties, infiltrating our private lives as well as public lives to the point we are nothing more than cattle being moved around on the grazing fields. Are people truly so ignorant that we just give away everything about ourselves for the sake of convenience? Cell phone apps (with the data they extract, often without phone owner's knowledge) are bad enough. But this...Windows 10 of course contributes to this too (which we should all be shunning in favor of Linux (Linux Mint is the user friendly fave distro), but to upload your ENTIRE computer drive contents to a data mining company.... Wow, just...wow.
That doesn't make it harmless. You can still be poison someone with nicotine in certain doses (like any other drug) but nicotine was used in insecticides for awhile and tobacco farmers have had cases of nicotine poison. apparently the concentrations in the the raw vapor can require medical attention..
Quote a few actually. But certainly smoke from nicotine. Sensititivity to cigarette smokes are well document and recognized by the community. http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-...
You may want to do research before you tell other people how they should feel when around toxins, especially those heavily studied.
Why do people think that because the contents are vaporized it less harmful to themselves...or to others? are people truly that gullible? Having an allergy to these products, I would actually get horrible headaches from second-hand smoke of regular Cigarettes. With the E-cigarettes second hand smoke, I actually feel a sick feeling in my stomach and my head (for those who buy the line "the vapor is harmless", complete nonsense) that is a bit worse than the second hand smoke of regular cigarettes. The vapor clouds linger longer (which is worse for people like me). The idea that these things are less harmful than cigarettes is, to be polite, wishful thinking. I suspect that further research may reveal these e-cigarettes may in fact be worse long term. Certainly not (to paraphrase the Hitchhiker's Guide), "Mostly Harmless".
Like escalation always works right? I can just see the mini-wars getting started the cyber "gods" need to contain the skermishes. One thing about war that is universally true: it's the bystanders who are the first and generally biggest casualties.
They gotta blame somebody. Not that I always agree with rotten tomatoes, but 80% of the time I do. and if not Rotten Tomatoes, I look in local magazines ("Now" magazine is a popular free website/publication). Also Rotten Tomatoes is a metasite compiling results of other reviews so, the movie producers can blame movie reviewers in general. Of course that is the review's JOB. It feels little like Trump blaming the media for making him look bad with "fake news". (A lot of is is actually true..)
I would agree Hillary is tainted (and exposed). Sanders seems to have AMAZING energy. He is an 'independent' now. If there is a group behind him financially for another campaign I'm all up for that. Personally I think the the USA needs a 3rd significant party (we have 3 in Canada), to keep the other two honest.
Okay, having my face and/or fingerprint in a database is just creepy as heck. This nonsense would be used for tracking us on network cameras all over. Talk about invasion of privacy. This would virtually eliminate it. We already have face database being used by the police in New York as well as Vermont. This is invasion of privacy on a huge scale.
Fair enough. Stuff that like can come up in any media site and it's a LOT of work to audit every account for things like that. Wonder what the default fro Facebook will be after this.
It seems odd that she would continue with this unless she was preparing to fund another war chest. She was expecting to win 8 years ago, but Obama came out of nowhere with crowdfunding for his campaign. Then she made an "arrangement" (not technical illegal but undermining the democratic process so certainly unethical) with the DNC which got leaked proving the nomination was corrupt from the start, then she is saying "it wasn't my fault". Talk about sour grapes.
Well, it's a slippery slope legally, especially in Germany who has a better privacy record in recent history than the USA does. The court basically said, this "individual" has their right to privacy and the supercedes the parents. While this may be stretching, it is conceivable that a parent could do ethically/morally questionable actions, like, say Internet abuse using social media tools if parents get automatic rights to all their children's account. In a game as big as the Internet, error on the side of caution is probably the wisest course of action with all risks taken into account.
2. sharing unfiltered classified data to Russia which was been reported by experts to put sources that Russia is not friendly to at risk. again, MANY articles, but here is one: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
In addition to Trump trying to stop any investigation into his ties with Russia which even Republicans are starting to agree is getting concerning. What part of this is NOT pro-Russia?
Uh, he gave unfiltered classified info to the Russia putting intelligence sources at risk, resulting in other countries not trusting us. (See Isreal and UK). He also talked about reducing/removing sanctions on Russia for social/government practices not compatible with our core values (so we say) or even basic human rights standards. Did you perhaps miss this in the previous months. And of course Trump attempting to stop any investigation into his family ties with Russia which frankly has even top Republicans spooked. As to the tweet, I'm of course paraphrasing. The EXACT text of the veiled threat was "We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad for U.S. This will change".
This is hardly a surprise. Everyone in the business sector was banking on this. Trump basically is doing anything pro-buisness and pro-Russia at the expense of literally everything/everyone else. Any claims he has that security is a primary concern of his is complete whitewash. Germany called him out on lack of environmental concerns and he basically Twittered "the Germans should mind their own business..or else". Thing of it is, it's EVERYBODY'S business. The German Chancellor has said EU has said they cannot rely on the USA to play a leadership role and the EU will have to step up. Trump is alienating all our allies, and getting cozy with historically hostile foreign powers. This should be concerning to all of us.
Coders borrow, steal, modify and reuse code all the time. I understand that there is a definition of cheating, but if we are training people for coding in the real world there is a LOT of reuse and we often study these 'gems'. Even the older classes were basically regergatating someone else algorithms. The key perhaps is to give different questions to each student to get coding solutions. And that would be more real world training. Just using something someone used before especially code samples by itself is kind of thin. Ideally you credit code you borrow to create a solution. Of course many coders "forget" sometimes (even at a corporate level, Dlink I think was guilty of that)
Inform7 ( http://inform7.com/) , Twine (http://twinery.org/) Quest (http://textadventures.co.uk/quest/) , Adrift (http://www.adrift.co) and other text adventure programming engines may get a nice boost from this.
It installs services that are unnecessary on the Windows platform (feels like Windows 10). You try to uninstall the google updater it's a pain. I hate automatic updaters. I can remove it on Firefox.
There is also the Vivaldi Browser which users the chrome engine and gives you full control. (http://www.vivaldi.com) by the guys who made Opera. I find it very slick and runs on all my platforms (Linux, M$ Window$, MacOS) Always better to have choice.
Okay, this is foolish on SO many levels and proves either that the conservatives in the UK know knowing about security in general, or are just looking to increase it's grip on the public (and manipulate the public/elections with the data they will have unmitigated access to.
First, we already know may of these violent collaborations are done without encryption or even high tech in many cases. So that won't stop anything.
Second: It will be an open invitation for hackers worldwide to probe for the back doors in products they know will be required if this power hungry party gets it's way.
It will make everyone's information open to the hackers/groups with less than ideal motives and will protect no one. All it will do is allow the government to get more information on the innocent citizens, whom I suspect is what these laws are really about and terrorism is just an excuse to tighten the grip of a party whose power hunger will never be sated. In essence, make innocent public citizens more vulnerable to extortionists, manipulators and hackers both foreign AND domestic. Which in the end will make the country less secure.
Benjamin Franklin had incredible foresight. HIs words "Those who give up their civil liberties for a little extra security deserve neither" are proving so true today.
I do what I do because I enjoy doing it. there are many many challenges that I enjoy. Learning what others have done in the open source community, modifications, creating your own solution to an interesting problem (and publishing it the world for brownie points on your resume) or even contributing to a minor/major open source project. I see coding as being part architecture, part construction worker, part problem solver, and part interpreter (business requirements gathering is always lots of fun in case you think there is no contact with non-geek people). It also challenges the way we define things in business and even everyday life. You could even see coders are part philosopher when it comes to your class definitions and constants. Or how about part linguist as you try to make your code easy to read? Or part warrior if you are designing a secure application or are a security specialist (possibly hacker). If you love to pit your wits against hackers, security is where it's it (and well paid I might add). And it can be used in literally any industry where knowledge is applied (and why field isn't). I find it can be as fun or dreary as you choose.
One thing I will say, if you want more challenges/fun in coding, don't start with a fortune 500 company where you'll have more procedures/chains of command than you can shake a stick at because you'll be pigeon-holed there in your cubby unless you start in a senior position (and even then you've got corporate bureaucracy and you'll be forced to learn to speak "legalese"). Anyway that is my two cents (or $1 with inflation in San Fran these days). Like many fields, it often depends where you work.
There are many sci-fi works of fiction that came up with plausible ways to circumvent eye scanner passwords, this is hardly a shock. Everyone said fingerprints would enhance security , Well we could get past that with talcum and scotch tape. Voice print->voice recorders. Eyes->high scale image scanners/cameras. What's next? Brain scanners? I'M happy with rotating passwords of 16+ chars thanks.
that a foreign power as basically said windows 10 is a threat to their secrets for the first time in ms history and anyone who values confidentiality or privacy needs to ditch ms windows.
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Yeah, let's put our ENTIRE history up for grabs, people can analyse our private lives and preferences, create ad campaigns, have NSA predict our movements, have governments predict our actions and political preferences and take steps to keep us in ignorance at best, or coerce us into submission at worst. Let's all create a world where our intellectual/psychological profiles can be used by marketing and politically interested parties, infiltrating our private lives as well as public lives to the point we are nothing more than cattle being moved around on the grazing fields. Are people truly so ignorant that we just give away everything about ourselves for the sake of convenience? Cell phone apps (with the data they extract, often without phone owner's knowledge) are bad enough. But this...Windows 10 of course contributes to this too (which we should all be shunning in favor of Linux (Linux Mint is the user friendly fave distro), but to upload your ENTIRE computer drive contents to a data mining company.... Wow, just...wow.
That doesn't make it harmless. You can still be poison someone with nicotine in certain doses (like any other drug) but nicotine was used in insecticides for awhile and tobacco farmers have had cases of nicotine poison. apparently the concentrations in the the raw vapor can require medical attention..
http://www.toxipedia.org/displ...
Quote a few actually. But certainly smoke from nicotine. Sensititivity to cigarette smokes are well document and recognized by the community.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-... You may want to do research before you tell other people how they should feel when around toxins, especially those heavily studied.
Why do people think that because the contents are vaporized it less harmful to themselves...or to others? are people truly that gullible? Having an allergy to these products, I would actually get horrible headaches from second-hand smoke of regular Cigarettes. With the E-cigarettes second hand smoke, I actually feel a sick feeling in my stomach and my head (for those who buy the line "the vapor is harmless", complete nonsense) that is a bit worse than the second hand smoke of regular cigarettes. The vapor clouds linger longer (which is worse for people like me). The idea that these things are less harmful than cigarettes is, to be polite, wishful thinking. I suspect that further research may reveal these e-cigarettes may in fact be worse long term. Certainly not (to paraphrase the Hitchhiker's Guide), "Mostly Harmless".
Like escalation always works right? I can just see the mini-wars getting started the cyber "gods" need to contain the skermishes. One thing about war that is universally true: it's the bystanders who are the first and generally biggest casualties.
Is there anything he DOESN'T misunderstand (aside from repaying favors perhaps...)
They gotta blame somebody. Not that I always agree with rotten tomatoes, but 80% of the time I do. and if not Rotten Tomatoes, I look in local magazines ("Now" magazine is a popular free website/publication). Also Rotten Tomatoes is a metasite compiling results of other reviews so, the movie producers can blame movie reviewers in general. Of course that is the review's JOB. It feels little like Trump blaming the media for making him look bad with "fake news". (A lot of is is actually true..)
I would agree Hillary is tainted (and exposed). Sanders seems to have AMAZING energy. He is an 'independent' now. If there is a group behind him financially for another campaign I'm all up for that. Personally I think the the USA needs a 3rd significant party (we have 3 in Canada), to keep the other two honest.
Making me want to wear a hoodie...
Okay, having my face and/or fingerprint in a database is just creepy as heck. This nonsense would be used for tracking us on network cameras all over. Talk about invasion of privacy. This would virtually eliminate it. We already have face database being used by the police in New York as well as Vermont. This is invasion of privacy on a huge scale.
Fair enough. Stuff that like can come up in any media site and it's a LOT of work to audit every account for things like that. Wonder what the default fro Facebook will be after this.
It seems odd that she would continue with this unless she was preparing to fund another war chest. She was expecting to win 8 years ago, but Obama came out of nowhere with crowdfunding for his campaign. Then she made an "arrangement" (not technical illegal but undermining the democratic process so certainly unethical) with the DNC which got leaked proving the nomination was corrupt from the start, then she is saying "it wasn't my fault". Talk about sour grapes.
Well, it's a slippery slope legally, especially in Germany who has a better privacy record in recent history than the USA does. The court basically said, this "individual" has their right to privacy and the supercedes the parents. While this may be stretching, it is conceivable that a parent could do ethically/morally questionable actions, like, say Internet abuse using social media tools if parents get automatic rights to all their children's account. In a game as big as the Internet, error on the side of caution is probably the wisest course of action with all risks taken into account.
Incorrect: sorry but the has done SEVERAL things pro-Russia. I've listed them above but will list them here as well:
1. He wants to lift sanctions against Russia. There are many articles but here is one: http://www.newsweek.com/how-co...
2. sharing unfiltered classified data to Russia which was been reported by experts to put sources that Russia is not friendly to at risk. again, MANY articles, but here is one: https://www.washingtonpost.com... In addition to Trump trying to stop any investigation into his ties with Russia which even Republicans are starting to agree is getting concerning. What part of this is NOT pro-Russia?
Uh, he gave unfiltered classified info to the Russia putting intelligence sources at risk, resulting in other countries not trusting us. (See Isreal and UK). He also talked about reducing/removing sanctions on Russia for social/government practices not compatible with our core values (so we say) or even basic human rights standards. Did you perhaps miss this in the previous months. And of course Trump attempting to stop any investigation into his family ties with Russia which frankly has even top Republicans spooked. As to the tweet, I'm of course paraphrasing. The EXACT text of the veiled threat was "We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad for U.S. This will change".
This is hardly a surprise. Everyone in the business sector was banking on this. Trump basically is doing anything pro-buisness and pro-Russia at the expense of literally everything/everyone else. Any claims he has that security is a primary concern of his is complete whitewash. Germany called him out on lack of environmental concerns and he basically Twittered "the Germans should mind their own business..or else". Thing of it is, it's EVERYBODY'S business. The German Chancellor has said EU has said they cannot rely on the USA to play a leadership role and the EU will have to step up. Trump is alienating all our allies, and getting cozy with historically hostile foreign powers. This should be concerning to all of us.
Coders borrow, steal, modify and reuse code all the time. I understand that there is a definition of cheating, but if we are training people for coding in the real world there is a LOT of reuse and we often study these 'gems'. Even the older classes were basically regergatating someone else algorithms. The key perhaps is to give different questions to each student to get coding solutions. And that would be more real world training. Just using something someone used before especially code samples by itself is kind of thin. Ideally you credit code you borrow to create a solution. Of course many coders "forget" sometimes (even at a corporate level, Dlink I think was guilty of that)
Inform7 ( http://inform7.com/) , Twine (http://twinery.org/) Quest (http://textadventures.co.uk/quest/) , Adrift (http://www.adrift.co) and other text adventure programming engines may get a nice boost from this.
It installs services that are unnecessary on the Windows platform (feels like Windows 10). You try to uninstall the google updater it's a pain. I hate automatic updaters. I can remove it on Firefox.
There is also the Vivaldi Browser which users the chrome engine and gives you full control. (http://www.vivaldi.com) by the guys who made Opera. I find it very slick and runs on all my platforms (Linux, M$ Window$, MacOS) Always better to have choice.
Okay, this is foolish on SO many levels and proves either that the conservatives in the UK know knowing about security in general, or are just looking to increase it's grip on the public (and manipulate the public/elections with the data they will have unmitigated access to.
First, we already know may of these violent collaborations are done without encryption or even high tech in many cases. So that won't stop anything.
Second: It will be an open invitation for hackers worldwide to probe for the back doors in products they know will be required if this power hungry party gets it's way.
It will make everyone's information open to the hackers/groups with less than ideal motives and will protect no one. All it will do is allow the government to get more information on the innocent citizens, whom I suspect is what these laws are really about and terrorism is just an excuse to tighten the grip of a party whose power hunger will never be sated. In essence, make innocent public citizens more vulnerable to extortionists, manipulators and hackers both foreign AND domestic. Which in the end will make the country less secure.
Benjamin Franklin had incredible foresight. HIs words "Those who give up their civil liberties for a little extra security deserve neither" are proving so true today.
I do what I do because I enjoy doing it. there are many many challenges that I enjoy. Learning what others have done in the open source community, modifications, creating your own solution to an interesting problem (and publishing it the world for brownie points on your resume) or even contributing to a minor/major open source project. I see coding as being part architecture, part construction worker, part problem solver, and part interpreter (business requirements gathering is always lots of fun in case you think there is no contact with non-geek people). It also challenges the way we define things in business and even everyday life. You could even see coders are part philosopher when it comes to your class definitions and constants. Or how about part linguist as you try to make your code easy to read? Or part warrior if you are designing a secure application or are a security specialist (possibly hacker). If you love to pit your wits against hackers, security is where it's it (and well paid I might add). And it can be used in literally any industry where knowledge is applied (and why field isn't). I find it can be as fun or dreary as you choose.
One thing I will say, if you want more challenges/fun in coding, don't start with a fortune 500 company where you'll have more procedures/chains of command than you can shake a stick at because you'll be pigeon-holed there in your cubby unless you start in a senior position (and even then you've got corporate bureaucracy and you'll be forced to learn to speak "legalese"). Anyway that is my two cents (or $1 with inflation in San Fran these days). Like many fields, it often depends where you work.
collect your data with my dear....
There are many sci-fi works of fiction that came up with plausible ways to circumvent eye scanner passwords, this is hardly a shock. Everyone said fingerprints would enhance security , Well we could get past that with talcum and scotch tape. Voice print->voice recorders. Eyes->high scale image scanners/cameras. What's next? Brain scanners? I'M happy with rotating passwords of 16+ chars thanks.
that a foreign power as basically said windows 10 is a threat to their secrets for the first time in ms history and anyone who values confidentiality or privacy needs to ditch ms windows.
Sorry, "Clash of the Trojans" is a better title for this one.