I personally like the idea of whistleblowers getting a share of any fines levied so that it gives them incentive to report any issues that management swept under the rug.
The router market is probably one of the areas of technology that needs regulations and penalties the most. The total cost of having these insecure products on the marketplace far exceeds any benefit we get from cheap routers. These routers make it far too easy to gain access to personal data, launch DDoS attacks, replicate viruses and host criminal data with no trace which all hurt the internet as a whole. The only agency that seems to have any real authority over them is the FCC and they don't tend to deal with quality control of specific equipment, much less security. The CPSC is probably the most appropriate agency of existing ones to deal with it but, they don't seem to consider themselves in charge of equipment like this either.
Isn't about time for manufacturers to face civil and potentially criminal penalties, plus recalls, for shipping insecure and faulty electronic products like every other product industry? Until is is less expensive to ship a secure (understanding that nothing is perfectly secure) product than it is to pay fines, penalties and recalls, vendors will continue to ship faulty and insecure products. Right now they know that it will cost them little to nothing to deal with insecure and faulty products so they do so with impunity and we get stuck with the crappy products in the end with the only possible recourse being an expensive class-action lawsuit that will take years and net those affected very little in the end. The class-actions tend to be very hard to win as there's very little case precedent for the owners of insecure products. People don't want to be the ones first to risk millions in legal fees and lawyers to set the initial precedence.
They all have male voices as an option (though I'm not sure about Amazon). Just Siri is voiced by a female by default and in the advertisements, for the US.
The problem is not so much the default voice option but, the fact that these services don't have a general feedback/report issue function for the general population so it relies on the company techs to find and correct issues until something gets big enough that the media is contacting the companies. When the general workforce is 75% or so male, that directly means that any issue that affects just men are three times more likely to be detected and corrected than an issue that affects just women, with things the affect both being detected and corrected the most frequently. When executives ask the teams why a female specific topic wasn't corrected, the most likely, and most likely honest, answer is "it didn't come up." That just unintended consequences of having a non-diverse workforce rather than any maleficence.
All of this was irony and stupidity. The government agency that the gunman worked or had access to the phone as it belonged to the government agency and FBI stupidity lost them that access. Then they told Apple that they had to provide them the key to the phone. Apple correctly told them that no such thing exists as only the user (and in this case the employer, until they lost it) have the key. So then the FBI tried to make the case that they could force Apple to rewrite their software and then force update the phone to allow the phone to be unlocked without the key. A case that the FBI lost in parallel in a court case in New York shortly after on the same issue citing the same law they were trying to use in California. Seeing the wind blowing against them, the DOJ backed out with as much "dignity" they could muster. The court, not using the legalise, did not like the idea that the government could compel a company, who was under no criminal charges themselves on this, to provide product development and assistance to the government against their will to undermine their own products and services. The FBI deserved to have their asses handed to them in shame on this.
Umm... Not quite. You can put all the steel doors, armored windows and redundant locking systems you want on your house. You can even live full time in a vault if your that paranoid. This is the same as putting strong encryption on your phone. Both are perfectly legal and should remain so. Where your home security slips into illegal territory is when you convert it into a weapon with things like spring-loaded traps with a shotgun, poison gas or any other equipment to maim and kill. This would be the same as equipping your phone with a taser or other such device to release electrical charges when you fail to unlock the phone; which is also illegal. So your statement doesn't hold up as the legality of the defences of your house and phone are fairly equivalent.
The Gecko engine was never Mozilla's selling point. That part of Firefox was never better than ok and sometimes caused issues. Everything built around it was what made it worth it. Then they went overboard and started adding every bell and whistle that most people never wanted and slowed it down and caused issues for users. Now, they're working on cleaning it up. I wish them well as I would like to see a viable competitor to Chrome again.
This is not a case of criminals breaking into police equipment. This is a group telling police and the public that these systems are vulnerable so they can fix the problem and prevent criminals from doing this in the future.
Ok, you have two very different examples here that have little to nothing to do with one another.
The first one, pointing out errors about spelling or grammar on boards like this serves no purpose other than to stroke your own ego. There's a good 75%+ chance the person you replied to will never read it followed by 99%+ of the ones that do read it either being annoyed or not caring. So all you've done is cluttered the board with nonsense that no one but you cares about and on/. I will mod you Offtopic every time.
Trying to apply the same logic from forums to code projects has no basis in logic. Forums post are unsolicited advice/corrections that no one wants to see and serves no purpose. Code projects are a collaborative effort (I originally wrote error by mistake... still appropriate) where checking and correcting other people's code is an expected part of the process. Though not always appreciated by the other coder, the project, as a whole, is improved when you correct others mistakes. This can help prevent system crashes, security vulnerabilities and a whole host of other problems. This benefit does not apply to english and internet forums.
I have to say it: "How many assholes we have on this ship anyway?" [Majority of crew stands] "Yo!" "I knew it; I'm surrounded by assholes. Keep firing, assholes!"
For someone that lives by formulas and rules, it's a fucking nightmare. There was no one that could explain how english consistently worked because it doesn't. I didn't start getting anywhere with it until I finally got it through my head that the whole language was fucked, stopped caring and moved on. My last high school english teacher saved my ass here and showed me ways to make it work 90+% of the time and told me not to worry about the rest. I now know enough to make it work thanks to him.
Just proves that people are assholes. Not as much as cats, but, still assholes. I had to look the word up but, other than that, it's no big deal. Sadly, people suck.
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I personally like the idea of whistleblowers getting a share of any fines levied so that it gives them incentive to report any issues that management swept under the rug.
The router market is probably one of the areas of technology that needs regulations and penalties the most. The total cost of having these insecure products on the marketplace far exceeds any benefit we get from cheap routers. These routers make it far too easy to gain access to personal data, launch DDoS attacks, replicate viruses and host criminal data with no trace which all hurt the internet as a whole. The only agency that seems to have any real authority over them is the FCC and they don't tend to deal with quality control of specific equipment, much less security. The CPSC is probably the most appropriate agency of existing ones to deal with it but, they don't seem to consider themselves in charge of equipment like this either.
Isn't about time for manufacturers to face civil and potentially criminal penalties, plus recalls, for shipping insecure and faulty electronic products like every other product industry? Until is is less expensive to ship a secure (understanding that nothing is perfectly secure) product than it is to pay fines, penalties and recalls, vendors will continue to ship faulty and insecure products. Right now they know that it will cost them little to nothing to deal with insecure and faulty products so they do so with impunity and we get stuck with the crappy products in the end with the only possible recourse being an expensive class-action lawsuit that will take years and net those affected very little in the end. The class-actions tend to be very hard to win as there's very little case precedent for the owners of insecure products. People don't want to be the ones first to risk millions in legal fees and lawyers to set the initial precedence.
The British still own the world. They just loosened their grip a little.
They do. Most, if not all, of the services allow multiple voice choices. Female tends to be more common but, they have male voices as well.
As the old saying goes: "The only way to win is to not play."
They all have male voices as an option (though I'm not sure about Amazon). Just Siri is voiced by a female by default and in the advertisements, for the US.
Since when did Mattel start being outsourced to for Siri?
Yea, I think Patrick Stewart would be a good Siri voice.
I'd switch it to Christopher Walken for your alarm just for the fun of it. And maybe set it to whisper to you in your sleep for good measure.
*groan*
The problem is not so much the default voice option but, the fact that these services don't have a general feedback/report issue function for the general population so it relies on the company techs to find and correct issues until something gets big enough that the media is contacting the companies. When the general workforce is 75% or so male, that directly means that any issue that affects just men are three times more likely to be detected and corrected than an issue that affects just women, with things the affect both being detected and corrected the most frequently. When executives ask the teams why a female specific topic wasn't corrected, the most likely, and most likely honest, answer is "it didn't come up." That just unintended consequences of having a non-diverse workforce rather than any maleficence.
All I want is a car with a Nazi personality to bicker with on my drive to work.
Is that too much to ask?
So when you're arrested for a road rage incident, you can say with all honesty (and insanity) "the Nazis made me do it!"
All of this was irony and stupidity. The government agency that the gunman worked or had access to the phone as it belonged to the government agency and FBI stupidity lost them that access. Then they told Apple that they had to provide them the key to the phone. Apple correctly told them that no such thing exists as only the user (and in this case the employer, until they lost it) have the key. So then the FBI tried to make the case that they could force Apple to rewrite their software and then force update the phone to allow the phone to be unlocked without the key. A case that the FBI lost in parallel in a court case in New York shortly after on the same issue citing the same law they were trying to use in California. Seeing the wind blowing against them, the DOJ backed out with as much "dignity" they could muster. The court, not using the legalise, did not like the idea that the government could compel a company, who was under no criminal charges themselves on this, to provide product development and assistance to the government against their will to undermine their own products and services. The FBI deserved to have their asses handed to them in shame on this.
Umm... Not quite. You can put all the steel doors, armored windows and redundant locking systems you want on your house. You can even live full time in a vault if your that paranoid. This is the same as putting strong encryption on your phone. Both are perfectly legal and should remain so. Where your home security slips into illegal territory is when you convert it into a weapon with things like spring-loaded traps with a shotgun, poison gas or any other equipment to maim and kill. This would be the same as equipping your phone with a taser or other such device to release electrical charges when you fail to unlock the phone; which is also illegal. So your statement doesn't hold up as the legality of the defences of your house and phone are fairly equivalent.
No, by calling things that are not rape "rape" you are cheapening the word until it is meaningless and everyone just starts ignoring you.
The Gecko engine was never Mozilla's selling point. That part of Firefox was never better than ok and sometimes caused issues. Everything built around it was what made it worth it. Then they went overboard and started adding every bell and whistle that most people never wanted and slowed it down and caused issues for users. Now, they're working on cleaning it up. I wish them well as I would like to see a viable competitor to Chrome again.
This is not a case of criminals breaking into police equipment. This is a group telling police and the public that these systems are vulnerable so they can fix the problem and prevent criminals from doing this in the future.
Ok, you have two very different examples here that have little to nothing to do with one another.
The first one, pointing out errors about spelling or grammar on boards like this serves no purpose other than to stroke your own ego. There's a good 75%+ chance the person you replied to will never read it followed by 99%+ of the ones that do read it either being annoyed or not caring. So all you've done is cluttered the board with nonsense that no one but you cares about and on /. I will mod you Offtopic every time.
Trying to apply the same logic from forums to code projects has no basis in logic. Forums post are unsolicited advice/corrections that no one wants to see and serves no purpose. Code projects are a collaborative effort (I originally wrote error by mistake... still appropriate) where checking and correcting other people's code is an expected part of the process. Though not always appreciated by the other coder, the project, as a whole, is improved when you correct others mistakes. This can help prevent system crashes, security vulnerabilities and a whole host of other problems. This benefit does not apply to english and internet forums.
It's ok. You're an asshole too. We can be assholes together.
I have to say it: "How many assholes we have on this ship anyway?" [Majority of crew stands] "Yo!" "I knew it; I'm surrounded by assholes. Keep firing, assholes!"
I've known one. It's a really, really high bar.
For someone that lives by formulas and rules, it's a fucking nightmare. There was no one that could explain how english consistently worked because it doesn't. I didn't start getting anywhere with it until I finally got it through my head that the whole language was fucked, stopped caring and moved on. My last high school english teacher saved my ass here and showed me ways to make it work 90+% of the time and told me not to worry about the rest. I now know enough to make it work thanks to him.
Just proves that people are assholes. Not as much as cats, but, still assholes. I had to look the word up but, other than that, it's no big deal. Sadly, people suck.
Critiquing someone that requests it is a whole different scenario. That's usually trying to be helpful rather than trying to be an asshole.