Seriously, anonymous coward, you need to take it down about 10 notches. We survived before net neutrality and we'll survive if the two-year-old rules are removed. There is such a thing called "competition" that drives the market, and I fully expect some providers to undercut others. This isn't the end of the world or far, far worse -- according to the rhetoric out there -- the Internet.
If you rotate humans from five nation space agencies in and out of a bunch of sealed tubes over nearly 20 years, germs happen. Who knew? I thought that only happened on airplanes/s.
Are we sure President Trump knows about this deal? I find it hard to believe he'd sign off on not exploiting a natural resource... any natural resources to the fullest of its extent.
What it felt like sitting atop the rocket, ready to launch?
John Glenn's answer has always stick with me: “I felt about as good as anybody would, sitting in a capsule on top of a rocket that were both built by the lowest bidder.”
Equifax is a company that collects sensitive financial information without permission from consumers and shares it with financial services companies. It's cybersecurity should be the physical equivalent of Ft. Knox. This multi-billion company has no excuse for allowing such a flagrant breach of its data.
Watched the first episode, definitely not worth my time signing up for the streaming service. Don't really care if it ever does come to a network. I didn't think it was very good.
Isn't that the same organization that in 2005 was found to have suppressed a study it commissioned by Harvard University which contradicted its position on mercury controls, which were later exposed as not following the Clean Air Act?
And, in 2007, California sued for its refusal to allow it and 16 other states to raise fuel economy standards for new cars.
And, in 2008, the Union of Concerned Scientists said that more than half of the nearly 1,600 EPA staff scientists who responded online to a detailed questionnaire reported they had experienced incidents of political interference in their work.
Not saying the EPA is corrupt, but their word isn't gospel either.
Not to rain on your narrative, but the vast majority of deaths from guns are suicides (60.5%), not mass murders or single homicides. During the ten years from 2003 to 2012, the most recent year for which data are available, 313,045 persons died from firearm-related injuries in the United States. In 2012, 64% of gun deaths were suicides. Over the past 30 years, suicide has exceeded homicide even when firearm homicide rates were at their highest, and it was also the case for most of the twentieth century.
This is not to take away from the fact that in the U.S. deaths and injury from firearms far outnumber those of other developed nations, or that guns are used in nearly 70% of all homicides in the U.S., but statistics need context to be accurately understood.
We should just legalize other things that tend to affect the poor far greater than the rich, like drugs. Cause, you know, the poor are exactly the same as the rich; they have all the same educational and career opportunities and social privileges as the middle and upper-class... they just have less money./s
Government sanctioned gambling -- the ultimate tax on the poor, who have such high hopes that by throwing what little money they have at high-risk lotteries, casinos and now online gambling, they can someday see all their financial troubles vanish in the blink of an eye.
The great thing about lotteries and casinos is that the government can capture significant revenue from the poor and lower middle class without having to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for stuff like, you know, schools and roads.
It's an awesome scheme to keep the wealthy in good standing while sucking the last ounce of blood like a vampire from those who can least afford to lose a drop.
You people act as though Equifax is made of money that they can lavishly spend it on securing the highly sensitive financial data of consumers who never gave the company authority to collect and share it in the first place. Equifax only made $3.1 billion last year; they have a lot of wealthy shareholders and executives whose lifestyles depend on a high revenue to profit ratio.
Sure, Equifax was the subject of more than 57,000 consumer complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from October 2012 to September 17, 2017 with most complaints relating to incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or misattributed information held by the company, but that could happen to anyone./s
I think PR and all Caribbean Islands prone to hurricane strikes need to rethink infrastructure, from burying electrical lines in conduits to requiring all habitable structures to be made of reinforced concrete. And, while I think one of solar power's greatest potential is for providing electricity to more remote areas of the world -- such as islands -- I have to wonder how well rooftop solar panels or large solar farms would stand up to category 4 and 5 hurricanes.
I believe the solution Musk is proposing would also include large lithium-ion batteries, which when damaged can short and ignite the highly reactive lithium. Another possibility is that the battery can heat to the point of thermal runaway, where the contents exert pressure on the battery, potentially producing an explosion.
So, it's a grand gesture by Musk, but not one without its own set of potential issues.
Most people have purchased solar through power purchase agreements that are typically 15 to 20 years long. At the end of that time, they can either buy the cheaper solar panels themselves or resign another PPL. Typically, the solar provider charges a set price -- today $500 -- to remove old panels. So, no. Consumers won't get sticker shock in 20 years. In fact, solar panels are becoming more efficient, so in 20 years, you'll need fewer panels to produce the same energy and they'll be cheaper to manufacture.
I've had solar panels for two years now. I pay nothing in the spring, summer and fall months for electricity and far less in the winter than I ever did in the past. There no moving parts. The panels have a 25-year life span. The only thing left for me to do is buy a lithium-ion rechargeable battery for my home so I can have power when the sun goes down or it's really, really cloudy.
It's kind of a no-brainer.
You did see that I mentioned Telsa (SolarCity) solar panels... yes? I read the article and I doubt there are a lot of solar panels hanging around PR right now. Not really a fast fix to the populations needs, huh?
FTP: "Thus, MarketWatch reports, Equifax 'admitted that the security hole that attackers used was known in March, about two months before the company believes the breach began.' And even then, Equifax didn't notice (and remove the affected web applications) until July 30."
I'll be interested to see how Equifax is punished for their lack of security in allowing the sensitive data -- not even given willingly to them -- of 143 million Americans to be stolen. Our laws in this country give slaps on the wrist to these financial services companies because they believe they're too big to fail and should be treated with kid gloves.
Even today, all mandatory data breach notification regulations are at the state level. Our do-nothing U.S. Congress has yet to require companies to report data breaches at a national level. It's simply mind blowing how we allow this to continue.
Rotten Tomatoes seems to get it wrong -- at least from the professional reviewer's standpoint. The audience rating is something entirely different, though. That said, I've also had to question that as well over the past year or so.
Is the problem with mass corporate collection of sensitive consumer data that there are insufficient laws to either require opt-in or at least opt-out standards, and then once that data has been collected that there are no statutes surrounding how that data is secured?
I'm simply dumfounded that a $3 billion company like Equifax could allow their data security to be so lax, and at the same time it feels as if somehow they'll walk away with a slap in the wrist with a fine that amounts to the money it would cost them to provide a month's worth of corporate executive lunches.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how these corporate data collectors already are or could be pressured in the future to use industry standards or best practices to secure consumer data and what laws govern their punishment when they fail to implement those standards, which results in a data breach?
So you offered criticism but no solution. Other than sanctions, how do you pressure a rogue that threatens other nations with annihilation into complying with nuclear weapons sanctions?
BTW, sanctions or no sanctions, it's not like the Iranian people -- the overwhelming majority of whom are poor -- aren't going to suffer at the hands of the powerful./p?
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Seriously, anonymous coward, you need to take it down about 10 notches. We survived before net neutrality and we'll survive if the two-year-old rules are removed. There is such a thing called "competition" that drives the market, and I fully expect some providers to undercut others. This isn't the end of the world or far, far worse -- according to the rhetoric out there -- the Internet.
If you rotate humans from five nation space agencies in and out of a bunch of sealed tubes over nearly 20 years, germs happen. Who knew? I thought that only happened on airplanes /s.
Are we sure President Trump knows about this deal? I find it hard to believe he'd sign off on not exploiting a natural resource... any natural resources to the fullest of its extent.
let's hope the quality remains. That's often not the case.
What it felt like sitting atop the rocket, ready to launch?
John Glenn's answer has always stick with me: “I felt about as good as anybody would, sitting in a capsule on top of a rocket that were both built by the lowest bidder.”
Especially considering this century is only 17 years old.
Equifax is a company that collects sensitive financial information without permission from consumers and shares it with financial services companies. It's cybersecurity should be the physical equivalent of Ft. Knox. This multi-billion company has no excuse for allowing such a flagrant breach of its data.
Watched the first episode, definitely not worth my time signing up for the streaming service. Don't really care if it ever does come to a network. I didn't think it was very good.
Isn't that the same organization that in 2005 was found to have suppressed a study it commissioned by Harvard University which contradicted its position on mercury controls, which were later exposed as not following the Clean Air Act?
And, in 2007, California sued for its refusal to allow it and 16 other states to raise fuel economy standards for new cars.
And, in 2008, the Union of Concerned Scientists said that more than half of the nearly 1,600 EPA staff scientists who responded online to a detailed questionnaire reported they had experienced incidents of political interference in their work.
Not saying the EPA is corrupt, but their word isn't gospel either.
Not to rain on your narrative, but the vast majority of deaths from guns are suicides (60.5%), not mass murders or single homicides. During the ten years from 2003 to 2012, the most recent year for which data are available, 313,045 persons died from firearm-related injuries in the United States. In 2012, 64% of gun deaths were suicides. Over the past 30 years, suicide has exceeded homicide even when firearm homicide rates were at their highest, and it was also the case for most of the twentieth century.
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122535
This is not to take away from the fact that in the U.S. deaths and injury from firearms far outnumber those of other developed nations, or that guns are used in nearly 70% of all homicides in the U.S., but statistics need context to be accurately understood.
You're right. Why didn't I think of that?
We should just legalize other things that tend to affect the poor far greater than the rich, like drugs. Cause, you know, the poor are exactly the same as the rich; they have all the same educational and career opportunities and social privileges as the middle and upper-class... they just have less money. /s
Government sanctioned gambling -- the ultimate tax on the poor, who have such high hopes that by throwing what little money they have at high-risk lotteries, casinos and now online gambling, they can someday see all their financial troubles vanish in the blink of an eye.
The great thing about lotteries and casinos is that the government can capture significant revenue from the poor and lower middle class without having to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for stuff like, you know, schools and roads.
It's an awesome scheme to keep the wealthy in good standing while sucking the last ounce of blood like a vampire from those who can least afford to lose a drop.
You people act as though Equifax is made of money that they can lavishly spend it on securing the highly sensitive financial data of consumers who never gave the company authority to collect and share it in the first place. Equifax only made $3.1 billion last year; they have a lot of wealthy shareholders and executives whose lifestyles depend on a high revenue to profit ratio.
Sure, Equifax was the subject of more than 57,000 consumer complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from October 2012 to September 17, 2017 with most complaints relating to incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or misattributed information held by the company, but that could happen to anyone. /s
I think PR and all Caribbean Islands prone to hurricane strikes need to rethink infrastructure, from burying electrical lines in conduits to requiring all habitable structures to be made of reinforced concrete. And, while I think one of solar power's greatest potential is for providing electricity to more remote areas of the world -- such as islands -- I have to wonder how well rooftop solar panels or large solar farms would stand up to category 4 and 5 hurricanes.
I believe the solution Musk is proposing would also include large lithium-ion batteries, which when damaged can short and ignite the highly reactive lithium. Another possibility is that the battery can heat to the point of thermal runaway, where the contents exert pressure on the battery, potentially producing an explosion.
So, it's a grand gesture by Musk, but not one without its own set of potential issues.
Most people have purchased solar through power purchase agreements that are typically 15 to 20 years long. At the end of that time, they can either buy the cheaper solar panels themselves or resign another PPL. Typically, the solar provider charges a set price -- today $500 -- to remove old panels. So, no. Consumers won't get sticker shock in 20 years. In fact, solar panels are becoming more efficient, so in 20 years, you'll need fewer panels to produce the same energy and they'll be cheaper to manufacture.
I've had solar panels for two years now. I pay nothing in the spring, summer and fall months for electricity and far less in the winter than I ever did in the past. There no moving parts. The panels have a 25-year life span. The only thing left for me to do is buy a lithium-ion rechargeable battery for my home so I can have power when the sun goes down or it's really, really cloudy. It's kind of a no-brainer.
You did see that I mentioned Telsa (SolarCity) solar panels... yes? I read the article and I doubt there are a lot of solar panels hanging around PR right now. Not really a fast fix to the populations needs, huh?
Don't you need to charge batteries? Where exactly are residents without power get the electricity to charge the batteries?
On the other hand, it is a great marketing scheme. Powerwall batteries + SolarCity roof panels = good business.
But on the bright side, there will be no injuries.
FTP: "Thus, MarketWatch reports, Equifax 'admitted that the security hole that attackers used was known in March, about two months before the company believes the breach began.' And even then, Equifax didn't notice (and remove the affected web applications) until July 30."
I'll be interested to see how Equifax is punished for their lack of security in allowing the sensitive data -- not even given willingly to them -- of 143 million Americans to be stolen. Our laws in this country give slaps on the wrist to these financial services companies because they believe they're too big to fail and should be treated with kid gloves.
Even today, all mandatory data breach notification regulations are at the state level. Our do-nothing U.S. Congress has yet to require companies to report data breaches at a national level. It's simply mind blowing how we allow this to continue.
Rotten Tomatoes seems to get it wrong -- at least from the professional reviewer's standpoint. The audience rating is something entirely different, though. That said, I've also had to question that as well over the past year or so.
Is the problem with mass corporate collection of sensitive consumer data that there are insufficient laws to either require opt-in or at least opt-out standards, and then once that data has been collected that there are no statutes surrounding how that data is secured?
I'm simply dumfounded that a $3 billion company like Equifax could allow their data security to be so lax, and at the same time it feels as if somehow they'll walk away with a slap in the wrist with a fine that amounts to the money it would cost them to provide a month's worth of corporate executive lunches.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how these corporate data collectors already are or could be pressured in the future to use industry standards or best practices to secure consumer data and what laws govern their punishment when they fail to implement those standards, which results in a data breach?
When it comes to service, Comcast is at the bottom of the heap. I had them years ago, and I'd never go back.
"Short of invading... there's no way we can stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons."
The U.S. and Israeli military now has these things called "bombs" and "missiles" that can blow things up without requiring an invasion.
You should read Military Times
So you offered criticism but no solution. Other than sanctions, how do you pressure a rogue that threatens other nations with annihilation into complying with nuclear weapons sanctions?
BTW, sanctions or no sanctions, it's not like the Iranian people -- the overwhelming majority of whom are poor -- aren't going to suffer at the hands of the powerful./p?