Yes, it is a threat - if a device can be connected to, it's exposed to compromise.
I want my fridge to keep my milk, meet and liquor cold. I do not want it to tell me anything, ever. I do not want it to engage with me, to use my bandwidth, to report back to LG on my shopping habits, to fill out a grocery list, or do ANYTHING except serve as a platform to chill the things I desire chilled.
Bad enough that pacemakers are getting hacked and hospital networks are getting shut down - I have zero interest in furthering this stupid fucking push to make everything available for someone else to exploit.
However, I scrolled down to see who did the last clickbait stupid question headline and....it was EditorDave. So now I hope my OP makes him feel guilty.
If the fuckwit who wrote this shitpost can't be bothered to do enough research into either the topic or have the journalistic integrity to posit a theory, and instead needs to shitpost a question...
If you can't confront them, or talk to them, or talk to your boss, or go through channels and you're effectively deadlocked in the status quo...
1. You probably don't understand your workplace very well. 2. You should leave. 3. Punch him in the dick on your way out. Or now. Or in the parking lot. Or follow him home and punch him in the dick there. But the most important thing you can do is to connect your knuckles to his pecker.
Fuck 3D. When they were showing 3D in theaters, I preferred 2D. Even if they had made 3D cheaper than 2D, I'd still prefer 2D.
1. I wear glasses. 2. Wearing 3D glasses over glasses is fucking retarded. 3. Having to swivel my head back and forth to see the screen is retarded. 4. Paying a premium to watch something in 3D is retarded. 5. Reasons: Retarded.
China isn't doing it because they're environmentally conscious, they're doing it because that's where the MONEY is. They're miles ahead of the US in solar, decades ahead in nuclear adoption - having taken the renaissance that we failed to do, catching up in wind....and in 10-20 years when they have a stranglehold on the world's supply of generation supply and are seen as the world's "energy country" like the U.S. is now a "services country"...
Well, hindsight is 20/20, and a new brand of politicians in the pockets of XYZ will blame the old brand of politicians for being in the pockets of oil companies struggling to retain dominance.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I just wanted to thank Rei and wierd_w for some topical, intelligent hilarity.
Seems like most of the comments on slashdot these days are made by dumb people, are not topical to the thread they're posted in, and usually have to do with Trump or Clinton.
It's good to see some engineers getting lippy with each other over things like the definition of glass. That's why I come to slashdot - to find people smarter than me arguing about interesting things.
A lot of us voted for him - despite despising him - simply because he's not a treasonous criminal, whereas voting for Hilary was literally agreeing to abandon the laws of our country.
To be clear, if the democrats had chosen a different candidate...Condoleezza Rice, or Bernie Sanders, or a laboratory monkey that could make hand gestures, or a genetically modified mouse, I would have voted against Trump. I'd also have voted for an orange, a pear, a candy bar, or if the democrats had championed an interesting piece of art as their presidential candidate. Probably even a duck. Definitely a rabbit.
But I'm not a criminal, I don't support anarchy, thuggery, or a caste system, so I couldn't vote for Hilary without violating my moral compass. Don't get me wrong - Trump is a serious douchepickle. He may do terrible things - but like millions of other Americans, I fall into the camp of, "He can't be worse."
Are you serious? After all the other shit that BeauHD posts - to the point that intelligent readers see "posted by BeauHD" and assume a load of crap that most likely has a left-wing conspiratorial slant to it (to align with her mad social media ravings about the evils of republicans)......and you draw the line at the Sun attempting to report something non-partisan about a maybe scientific thing?
Since the election coverage, I haven't been able to see CNN as anything other than an alt-left version of Breighbart (or whatever that alt-right site is).
While American lawmakers may think that only Aussies can get killed by Stingrays, it's only a matter of time until the DoJ's rampant use of them leads to more unnecessary casualties.
If you can't understand the radical difference between these two (commonly referred to as apples and oranges); wherein one situation is a group of people being terminated from employment via imported replacements, and the other situation being a group of people offered poor wages for employment, then you don't deserve to be part of the conversation.
If you want to draw a parallel, it would be to a non-existent situation in which taxi companies are making drivers train their replacements - who in turn work for much less, then laying off or terminating their employment. There's a near parallel to the automation of drivers coming in the future, but not yet.
None of which applies to your awful comprehension, the reason you're not intellectually capable of participating in this conversation in a meaningful way - and the subsequent response you've garnered from me, written for the sole purpose of ensuring that logical fallacies are pointed out wherever they are purported to be wisdom.
Under a multi-category scheme updated in October last year, the highest incentive for so-called "Outstanding Talent" — a designation open for foreigners from 24 countries, including the United States, if the individual won a Nobel Prize in economics or physics — is an outright lump sum allowance of close to $1 million or 10 years free housing in a 2,200-square-foot apartment.
A lower category, an "Overseas Talent" who starts a business in the city, can receive a subsidy of up to $150,000.
I'd like a link to that source. I can't imagine a scenario where someone doesn't find the means to break glass and escape vehicle. I get that not everyone carries a safety knife with a glass breaker / seat belt cutter, but...being locked in a hot car and dying as an adult? Unless it has bulletproof windows...you're going to be able to ball your shirt around your elbow and shatter it.
I'm suspicious of every article I see posted by BeauHD these days regardless of content, almost to the point of avoiding reading anything he posts - simply because of his tailored anti-Trump agenda, including his legendary twitter account posts that would have him twitter banned for hate speech if twitter uniformly applied their anti-hate rhetoric across political lines.
I only posted this because I just realized that I've been avoiding a good chunk of slashdot to avoid this garbage.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, it is a threat - if a device can be connected to, it's exposed to compromise.
I want my fridge to keep my milk, meet and liquor cold. I do not want it to tell me anything, ever. I do not want it to engage with me, to use my bandwidth, to report back to LG on my shopping habits, to fill out a grocery list, or do ANYTHING except serve as a platform to chill the things I desire chilled.
Bad enough that pacemakers are getting hacked and hospital networks are getting shut down - I have zero interest in furthering this stupid fucking push to make everything available for someone else to exploit.
Love open source.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/be...
Is Redhat aspiring to be the new Microsoft?
However, I scrolled down to see who did the last clickbait stupid question headline and....it was EditorDave. So now I hope my OP makes him feel guilty.
I've been around longer than EditorDave.
The recent rash of clickbait on Slashdot made me expect this headline to be, "Could a Federal Judge's Decision End Patent Trolling?"
Thanks for not being a shitposting assclown. May your peers follow your example.
No.
If the fuckwit who wrote this shitpost can't be bothered to do enough research into either the topic or have the journalistic integrity to posit a theory, and instead needs to shitpost a question...
Then as always, the answer to the headline is no.
If you can't confront them, or talk to them, or talk to your boss, or go through channels and you're effectively deadlocked in the status quo...
1. You probably don't understand your workplace very well.
2. You should leave.
3. Punch him in the dick on your way out. Or now. Or in the parking lot. Or follow him home and punch him in the dick there. But the most important thing you can do is to connect your knuckles to his pecker.
If I had a mod point, I'd have modded you down. When I make a conservative point, it gets modded down.
Like you said,l this is a technology-based and focused site. Leave politics at the door please. Save that for your fake news of choice platform.
Think think of it this way:
Choose the lesser of two evils.
or think of it this way:
Choose the unknown over the terrible.
Fuck 3D. When they were showing 3D in theaters, I preferred 2D. Even if they had made 3D cheaper than 2D, I'd still prefer 2D.
1. I wear glasses.
2. Wearing 3D glasses over glasses is fucking retarded.
3. Having to swivel my head back and forth to see the screen is retarded.
4. Paying a premium to watch something in 3D is retarded.
5. Reasons: Retarded.
China isn't doing it because they're environmentally conscious, they're doing it because that's where the MONEY is. They're miles ahead of the US in solar, decades ahead in nuclear adoption - having taken the renaissance that we failed to do, catching up in wind....and in 10-20 years when they have a stranglehold on the world's supply of generation supply and are seen as the world's "energy country" like the U.S. is now a "services country" ...
Well, hindsight is 20/20, and a new brand of politicians in the pockets of XYZ will blame the old brand of politicians for being in the pockets of oil companies struggling to retain dominance.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Insert obligatory xkc...wait a minute...South Park is actually appropriate here.
Give us some of that internet money! http://southpark.cc.com/clips/...
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1732/
I just wanted to thank Rei and wierd_w for some topical, intelligent hilarity.
Seems like most of the comments on slashdot these days are made by dumb people, are not topical to the thread they're posted in, and usually have to do with Trump or Clinton.
It's good to see some engineers getting lippy with each other over things like the definition of glass. That's why I come to slashdot - to find people smarter than me arguing about interesting things.
A lot of us voted for him - despite despising him - simply because he's not a treasonous criminal, whereas voting for Hilary was literally agreeing to abandon the laws of our country.
To be clear, if the democrats had chosen a different candidate...Condoleezza Rice, or Bernie Sanders, or a laboratory monkey that could make hand gestures, or a genetically modified mouse, I would have voted against Trump. I'd also have voted for an orange, a pear, a candy bar, or if the democrats had championed an interesting piece of art as their presidential candidate. Probably even a duck. Definitely a rabbit.
But I'm not a criminal, I don't support anarchy, thuggery, or a caste system, so I couldn't vote for Hilary without violating my moral compass. Don't get me wrong - Trump is a serious douchepickle. He may do terrible things - but like millions of other Americans, I fall into the camp of, "He can't be worse."
Are you serious? After all the other shit that BeauHD posts - to the point that intelligent readers see "posted by BeauHD" and assume a load of crap that most likely has a left-wing conspiratorial slant to it (to align with her mad social media ravings about the evils of republicans) ... ...and you draw the line at the Sun attempting to report something non-partisan about a maybe scientific thing?
And precisely what reality TV show do YOU think is/was unscripted?
Since the election coverage, I haven't been able to see CNN as anything other than an alt-left version of Breighbart (or whatever that alt-right site is).
I can't believe that we haven't already outlawed Stingrays, or worked on Stingray genocide.
Stingrays took the great Steve Irwin from us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While American lawmakers may think that only Aussies can get killed by Stingrays, it's only a matter of time until the DoJ's rampant use of them leads to more unnecessary casualties.
Valued at $0.0003 per Yahoo user?
They're over-optimistic.
If you can't understand the radical difference between these two (commonly referred to as apples and oranges); wherein one situation is a group of people being terminated from employment via imported replacements, and the other situation being a group of people offered poor wages for employment, then you don't deserve to be part of the conversation.
If you want to draw a parallel, it would be to a non-existent situation in which taxi companies are making drivers train their replacements - who in turn work for much less, then laying off or terminating their employment. There's a near parallel to the automation of drivers coming in the future, but not yet.
None of which applies to your awful comprehension, the reason you're not intellectually capable of participating in this conversation in a meaningful way - and the subsequent response you've garnered from me, written for the sole purpose of ensuring that logical fallacies are pointed out wherever they are purported to be wisdom.
From the article:
Under a multi-category scheme updated in October last year, the highest incentive for so-called "Outstanding Talent" — a designation open for foreigners from 24 countries, including the United States, if the individual won a Nobel Prize in economics or physics — is an outright lump sum allowance of close to $1 million or 10 years free housing in a 2,200-square-foot apartment.
A lower category, an "Overseas Talent" who starts a business in the city, can receive a subsidy of up to $150,000.
You're forgetting the child terrorists. And the childish terrorists. And the terrifying children. And the terrorists' children.
I'd like a link to that source. I can't imagine a scenario where someone doesn't find the means to break glass and escape vehicle. I get that not everyone carries a safety knife with a glass breaker / seat belt cutter, but...being locked in a hot car and dying as an adult? Unless it has bulletproof windows...you're going to be able to ball your shirt around your elbow and shatter it.
I'm suspicious of every article I see posted by BeauHD these days regardless of content, almost to the point of avoiding reading anything he posts - simply because of his tailored anti-Trump agenda, including his legendary twitter account posts that would have him twitter banned for hate speech if twitter uniformly applied their anti-hate rhetoric across political lines.
I only posted this because I just realized that I've been avoiding a good chunk of slashdot to avoid this garbage.
And now I'm sad.