honest question: how does this help general society? the way i see it, if people are so pissed off all the time that you can't tell if you are about to fubar things then you have no business being in any position of authority.
they should prepare for disproportionate punishment because poking the 800 pound gorilla never ends well. i mean, they probably would get less time if they just murdered someone.
Owner: New phone who d-OH GOD IT'S ON FIRE! Friend: Frank? I told you not to sleep with that floozy but nooOOOooo. Well now you got the herp. Owner: IT'S MELTING MY FLESH! Friend: Welcome to the club, buddy.
The information believed stolen by this contractor — who like Mr. Snowden worked for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, which is responsible for building and operating many of the agency’s most sensitive cyberoperations — appears to be different in nature from Mr. Snowden’s theft.
All we really know is that this guy got busted before he could act. It saddens me to write this but the FBI giving their word about the matter doesn't mean it's the truth because Comey has destroyed the FBI's credibility.:(
Publicly traded companies like these are required by law to do what is best for it's shareholders. Since they are not bound by law to tell the truth, they could simply be lying because not lying could hurt them financially.
“The probability of unauthorized access to the OneTouch Ping system is extremely low It would require technical expertise, sophisticated equipment and proximity to the pump, as the OneTouch Ping system is not connected to the internet or to any external network.”
- technical expertise - yes
- sophisticated equipment - a $15 dongle to do SDR
- proximity to the pump - come within 20 feet of of the pump and you can hack it. anything internet connected that can communicate at 900 MHz could potentially hack the device
if someone was targeting you (especially a nation-state) and wanted to kill you, this would be a great way of doing it.
We've put cameras everywhere. People now routinely carry them in their pockets. We have not photographed Bigfoot. We have no video of aliens. The existence of the Loch Ness monster is not a proven fact.
Yeah, it's scared me and my buddies to much that we've become shut-ins and our alien friends took their prankster probing over to the next inhabited world.
Remember how Microsoft was pushing Windows 10 updates to your computers? That surely made a lot of people furious.
of course... but what does that have to do with the macOS update that you can choose to ignore? surely you aren't baiting me or conflating clearly different approaches to a situation, right?
you know what does make a lot of people furious, bullshit summaries that try to bait people, exactly like this summary.
Battery size is the old MHz (GHz) game that CPU manufacturers (mostly) used to play. It's more about system optimization and total component draw vs that battery installed.
That's funny, they don't even mention the battery capacities of each phone until you click through to the detailed blog post, just how long each phone lasts with it's battery. So what's your complaint exactly?
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) is an alternative interface to SATA, PATA, IDE, SCSI that connects via PCI-express. The biggest advantages are that it's much faster and utilizes a common bus, PCIe. The reason this is good is because it means that any existing device with a PCIe bus but no SATA bus have a means of permanent storage that doesn't have to be added to the motherboard. For anyone interested in a libre software/firmware computer, that means one less major component with it's own software stack. Less components and one less cable means less things can fail in your computer resulting more reliable systems. If you're worried about software support, don't be, it's been around for quite a while and is supported by all the major and many minor Operating Systems.
The problem with space junk is less about getting to it and more about getting to it safely. Everything in orbit is travelling a minimum of 17,000 mph. Have you seen what happens when car into a wall at only a 100 mph difference? Think two flimsy satellites colliding with a 400 mph difference. There will be hypersonic shards of metal everywhere.
Outages are a clear example of why streaming services are bad. If Netflix downloaded entire episodes, seasons or series when you watched them, it would be different because you could have a substantial amount of content stored locally. Unfortunately, Netflix will not do this and the very DRM happy entertainment industry will not allow this. With their original content, they could enable local caching but they have chosen to not. Streaming is a bad model.
All the people that were telling you that this init system called Systemd was overly complex, unaudited and insecure had warned you that this was coming. All the "Troll -1" modding on people that posted such warning here did not prevent the inevitable.
I don't care about Oracle because they are a self-defaming company. I do care about which language that projects are written in and Java is not a winner.
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The obvious solution is to move to using a fiber optic cable... which is actually what is used for all the absurdly large displays.
honest question: how does this help general society? the way i see it, if people are so pissed off all the time that you can't tell if you are about to fubar things then you have no business being in any position of authority.
they should prepare for disproportionate punishment because poking the 800 pound gorilla never ends well. i mean, they probably would get less time if they just murdered someone.
Do you want Skynet?! Because this is how you get Skynet!
Owner: New phone who d-OH GOD IT'S ON FIRE!
Friend: Frank? I told you not to sleep with that floozy but nooOOOooo. Well now you got the herp.
Owner: IT'S MELTING MY FLESH!
Friend: Welcome to the club, buddy.
The information believed stolen by this contractor — who like Mr. Snowden worked for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, which is responsible for building and operating many of the agency’s most sensitive cyberoperations — appears to be different in nature from Mr. Snowden’s theft.
All we really know is that this guy got busted before he could act. It saddens me to write this but the FBI giving their word about the matter doesn't mean it's the truth because Comey has destroyed the FBI's credibility. :(
We narrowly interpret every government request for user data to minimize disclosure
translation: we give them exactly what they ask for, so if they ask for everything, we give it to them.
"I'm convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket,"
Informing people that you are deluded isn't the best idea. ;)
Publicly traded companies like these are required by law to do what is best for it's shareholders. Since they are not bound by law to tell the truth, they could simply be lying because not lying could hurt them financially.
that's nice but when it's hacked to deliver the wrong amount?
“The probability of unauthorized access to the OneTouch Ping system is extremely low It would require technical expertise, sophisticated equipment and proximity to the pump, as the OneTouch Ping system is not connected to the internet or to any external network.”
if someone was targeting you (especially a nation-state) and wanted to kill you, this would be a great way of doing it.
Well for one, it doesn't have a backdoor for the Chinese government.
We've put cameras everywhere. People now routinely carry them in their pockets. We have not photographed Bigfoot. We have no video of aliens. The existence of the Loch Ness monster is not a proven fact.
Yeah, it's scared me and my buddies to much that we've become shut-ins and our alien friends took their prankster probing over to the next inhabited world.
Thanks a lot,
Mr. Foot
Remember how Microsoft was pushing Windows 10 updates to your computers? That surely made a lot of people furious.
of course... but what does that have to do with the macOS update that you can choose to ignore? surely you aren't baiting me or conflating clearly different approaches to a situation, right?
you know what does make a lot of people furious, bullshit summaries that try to bait people, exactly like this summary.
Upon the release of Linux 6.4, Time magazine will officially declare it to be "Year of the Linux Desktop"... in memoriam of Linus. :(
RIP Linus 20XX: that badger was too fast for anyone to dodge.
Why is he still in the Ecuadorian Embassy? Didn't the whole investigation get scrapped?
Battery size is the old MHz (GHz) game that CPU manufacturers (mostly) used to play. It's more about system optimization and total component draw vs that battery installed.
That's funny, they don't even mention the battery capacities of each phone until you click through to the detailed blog post, just how long each phone lasts with it's battery. So what's your complaint exactly?
So is it time for people to start bricking every unsecured IoT device or what?
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) is an alternative interface to SATA, PATA, IDE, SCSI that connects via PCI-express. The biggest advantages are that it's much faster and utilizes a common bus, PCIe. The reason this is good is because it means that any existing device with a PCIe bus but no SATA bus have a means of permanent storage that doesn't have to be added to the motherboard. For anyone interested in a libre software/firmware computer, that means one less major component with it's own software stack. Less components and one less cable means less things can fail in your computer resulting more reliable systems. If you're worried about software support, don't be, it's been around for quite a while and is supported by all the major and many minor Operating Systems.
tl;dr: NVMe is FTW in all ways. SATA is old FAIL.
The problem with space junk is less about getting to it and more about getting to it safely. Everything in orbit is travelling a minimum of 17,000 mph. Have you seen what happens when car into a wall at only a 100 mph difference? Think two flimsy satellites colliding with a 400 mph difference. There will be hypersonic shards of metal everywhere.
Outages are a clear example of why streaming services are bad. If Netflix downloaded entire episodes, seasons or series when you watched them, it would be different because you could have a substantial amount of content stored locally. Unfortunately, Netflix will not do this and the very DRM happy entertainment industry will not allow this. With their original content, they could enable local caching but they have chosen to not. Streaming is a bad model.
All the people that were telling you that this init system called Systemd was overly complex, unaudited and insecure had warned you that this was coming. All the "Troll -1" modding on people that posted such warning here did not prevent the inevitable.
Not convinced? Here's a graph of the number of issues opened/closed since systemd moved to github last year.
I don't care about Oracle because they are a self-defaming company. I do care about which language that projects are written in and Java is not a winner.
Are you enjoying being a perpetual beta tester?
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Oh no, my glass house! What have you monsters done?!
Oracle is just a misstep or two away from fully ruining Java. You couldn't ask for a better enemy.