Btw I'm glad England is super duper safe with their strict gun control laws. They're working great to protect the public with all these chemical attacks, bombings, and stabbings.
While I'd prefer easier access to firearms I'd just like to point out that annually about the same number of people in the UK are murdered (using chemicals, bombings, stabbings and firearms) as in Chicago.
Just Chicago. Population 2.7 million (less however many more were murdered today) has the same number of murders as the UK (population 65 million, plus however many more fucking immigrants turned up today).
So whether it's the gun control laws or not, something is indeed working great to protect the public, yes.
Suspect you'll have problems with Dukes, Counts and Princes too then.
The fact you've heard of robber barons, and Baron Von Nastiness shows you're familiar with it as a title and descriptor though, which was exactly my point.
Some suggestion that her charity work was influential; it will have helped but that doesn't get you a peerage, that gets you an MBE, OBE or upwards from there.
It's not mentioned that it's a title because even Americans have heard of the title 'Baron'.
Not just one shill. Just because you haven't heard of the site doesn't mean that it's a bad site, or indeed a small one.
Lastminute.com, LateRooms.com and Expedia were the clear market leaders in the online travel market for around a decade. It's shifted a bit since, but even though I greatly dislike Martha Lane Fox it's easy to acknowledge that she built a very successful business - and got out of it at a good time.
registered users here who, in my opinion, routinely post idiotic shit.
Having my posts against my pseudonym makes it easier for people that dislike my idiotic shit to use the Slashdot 'foe' system to auto-mod me out of their sight. I'm fine with that.
Slashdot knowing that my posts are from me means that the site can send me emails when people reply to my posts. That lets me continue a conversation.
There are nothing but drawbacks to having an account here. There are no benefits that I can see.
Slashdot should also go back to how it used to be and get rid of the need for an account when submitting stories.
Well, I've highlighted a couple of benefits. I'm with you on the story submissions though, a story either stands on its own or it doesn't. Much the same as an AC comment.
credit companies do not exist to help us, the consumers, manage or validate our good credit. They exist to help lending companies avoid bad lending scenarios
Turn that around though. A 'bad lending scenario' is one in which a consumer takes on debt that they can't afford, ending up in financial difficulties.
That's not helping the consumer.
Some people may be denied access to credit that they can afford but broadly the system benefits people that can't make good financial decisions by protecting them (and the institutions from which they're trying to borrow) from their own poor judgement.
submitting corrections, cleaning up errors... these are all revenue negative activities that drain resources from selling the data.
Without these the data being sold is less accurate and less valuable. Banks wont pay for a credit check if they can't trust the results.
they will lobby and dodge and make every effort to avoid those scenarios as much as humanly possible
Not very well in the UK, they're all now regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Anybody that's worked in the finance industry in the UK knows that the FCA are very big on consumer protections, and treating customer (and consumers) fairly.
That means that the credit agencies in the UK must demonstrate that they're running the business properly, securing data and avoiding consumer detriment.
The ICO are a bunch of muppets that hate holding businesses to account. The FCA are a professional bunch that see it as necessary. The US have comparable bodies, they just need the legislation to give them oversight of the credit industry. Focus there, not on demonising the credit agencies.
Her job was not to monitor the fucking website to spot a breach.
You don't know the constraints under which she was working, whether she'd been demanding since March for this to be fixed, the budget available to her team or the other priorities they had to address.
Stop thinking this is such a simplistic trivial exercise.
She may have been shit at her job, I don't know. I also know that you don't fucking know, so stop throwing around baseless accusations.
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But all that aside, to which school would you recommend I send my donkey?
Really? No clue at all? I find that very unlikely. I also don't see any fucking evidence.
How is someone like that going to ask the tough questions, spot mistakes that have been made, judge when something is really important and needs addressing vs. just sounds bad, select the best course of action to take when presented with choices, make judgements about which of her staff are competent etc.?
Based on the average infosec person I encounter, a fuck of a lot better than they could.
The same way that anybody would do these things. Domain knowledge and technical skill are not the same thing. Leadership and management are a fucking mile away still.
Perhaps you should learn some of this shit before trying to judge whether other people have the skill needed to do their job.
Although even there, I'm not sure I would advocate genocide. Really I just want them to stop being such cunts, and if they can do that without needing to kill them then it's a win.
What the fuck are ISIS if they're not a religious group? They're pretty fucking hot on demanding everybody obeys their religious mores, and they espouse religion as their motivating factors.
Calling IS a "religious group" is like calling the Nazis an "ethnic affinity group", and you are dishonest and/or just plain stupid to suggest otherwise.
The Nazis weren't an ethnic affinity group though. If they were, then why wouldn't you call them one?
That means at any fucking time I can tell Slashdot via DMCA to stop spreading my posts and they have to comply because it is a legal fucking order.
No, they don't. Because you've given them a license to use those posts.
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Take your ignorant and ill-educated ass the fuck back to school.
. She needs solid enough fundamentals that she can effectively communicate with engineers and not get wild ideas up her ass that seem stupid to everyone except her.
Do you know her? Just that I don't, so I wouldn't assume she has communication issues or wild ideas - if anything her background suggests the opposite.
No, I'm not known by the company I keep. As it happens, I don't keep company with actual Nazis either.
So how about you fucking evaluate things in the first place instead of name calling.
Not all people who hate Israelis are anti-Semites.
Not all people giving Israel shit for their treatment of Palestine hate Israel either. But this is the internet so I shouldn't expect intelligent evaluation of a complex situation from you.
Well fuck you for calling me a racist. Strange that I'm giving shit to people based on their actions and not their race, and you're treating that as a race based attack. Says a lot more about you than me.
As for the so called left, have you seen the torrent of anti-white hatred coming from them of late? Racist as fuck, since you ask.
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Btw I'm glad England is super duper safe with their strict gun control laws. They're working great to protect the public with all these chemical attacks, bombings, and stabbings.
While I'd prefer easier access to firearms I'd just like to point out that annually about the same number of people in the UK are murdered (using chemicals, bombings, stabbings and firearms) as in Chicago.
Just Chicago. Population 2.7 million (less however many more were murdered today) has the same number of murders as the UK (population 65 million, plus however many more fucking immigrants turned up today).
So whether it's the gun control laws or not, something is indeed working great to protect the public, yes.
Suspect you'll have problems with Dukes, Counts and Princes too then.
The fact you've heard of robber barons, and Baron Von Nastiness shows you're familiar with it as a title and descriptor though, which was exactly my point.
Welcome to a small insight into other cultures.
Well, it is believed by many to be a Kremlin front.
They're all stupid fuckwits, but they still believe it.
Less 'rich', more 'successful business woman'.
Some suggestion that her charity work was influential; it will have helped but that doesn't get you a peerage, that gets you an MBE, OBE or upwards from there.
It's not mentioned that it's a title because even Americans have heard of the title 'Baron'.
Not just one shill. Just because you haven't heard of the site doesn't mean that it's a bad site, or indeed a small one.
Lastminute.com, LateRooms.com and Expedia were the clear market leaders in the online travel market for around a decade. It's shifted a bit since, but even though I greatly dislike Martha Lane Fox it's easy to acknowledge that she built a very successful business - and got out of it at a good time.
As your password, or your name?
registered users here who, in my opinion, routinely post idiotic shit.
Having my posts against my pseudonym makes it easier for people that dislike my idiotic shit to use the Slashdot 'foe' system to auto-mod me out of their sight. I'm fine with that.
Slashdot knowing that my posts are from me means that the site can send me emails when people reply to my posts. That lets me continue a conversation.
There are nothing but drawbacks to having an account here. There are no benefits that I can see.
Slashdot should also go back to how it used to be and get rid of the need for an account when submitting stories.
Well, I've highlighted a couple of benefits. I'm with you on the story submissions though, a story either stands on its own or it doesn't. Much the same as an AC comment.
credit companies do not exist to help us, the consumers, manage or validate our good credit. They exist to help lending companies avoid bad lending scenarios
Turn that around though. A 'bad lending scenario' is one in which a consumer takes on debt that they can't afford, ending up in financial difficulties.
That's not helping the consumer.
Some people may be denied access to credit that they can afford but broadly the system benefits people that can't make good financial decisions by protecting them (and the institutions from which they're trying to borrow) from their own poor judgement.
submitting corrections, cleaning up errors... these are all revenue negative activities that drain resources from selling the data.
Without these the data being sold is less accurate and less valuable. Banks wont pay for a credit check if they can't trust the results.
they will lobby and dodge and make every effort to avoid those scenarios as much as humanly possible
Not very well in the UK, they're all now regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Anybody that's worked in the finance industry in the UK knows that the FCA are very big on consumer protections, and treating customer (and consumers) fairly.
That means that the credit agencies in the UK must demonstrate that they're running the business properly, securing data and avoiding consumer detriment.
The ICO are a bunch of muppets that hate holding businesses to account. The FCA are a professional bunch that see it as necessary. The US have comparable bodies, they just need the legislation to give them oversight of the credit industry. Focus there, not on demonising the credit agencies.
The lesson here is: Don't use a credit card for short term business funding.
I mean, really? That's fucking ludicrous.
these companies prey on people through the use of 'credit' systems
How, exactly?
Seriously, I'm properly curious here. How do they prey on people?
Yeah, I aspire to have a porch large enough to sit on, in a climate warm enough to want to. I'm well up for that label.
Her job was not to monitor the fucking website to spot a breach.
You don't know the constraints under which she was working, whether she'd been demanding since March for this to be fixed, the budget available to her team or the other priorities they had to address.
Stop thinking this is such a simplistic trivial exercise.
She may have been shit at her job, I don't know. I also know that you don't fucking know, so stop throwing around baseless accusations.
A contract can include permission to replicate copyrighted materials.
The DMCA provides a mechanism to inform a service provider of copyright infringements.
As there is no copyright infringement by Slashdot in publishing your comments the DMCA does not apply.
But all that aside, to which school would you recommend I send my donkey?
someone who has no clue about the job
Really? No clue at all? I find that very unlikely. I also don't see any fucking evidence.
How is someone like that going to ask the tough questions, spot mistakes that have been made, judge when something is really important and needs addressing vs. just sounds bad, select the best course of action to take when presented with choices, make judgements about which of her staff are competent etc.?
Based on the average infosec person I encounter, a fuck of a lot better than they could.
The same way that anybody would do these things. Domain knowledge and technical skill are not the same thing. Leadership and management are a fucking mile away still.
Perhaps you should learn some of this shit before trying to judge whether other people have the skill needed to do their job.
A black kid in the class was in tears the rest of the day after overhearing me say it.
Well which fuckwit taught him to get so upset about it?
It's just a fucking word.
No. I'd remove "religious group" from article 6.
Although even there, I'm not sure I would advocate genocide. Really I just want them to stop being such cunts, and if they can do that without needing to kill them then it's a win.
What the fuck are ISIS if they're not a religious group? They're pretty fucking hot on demanding everybody obeys their religious mores, and they espouse religion as their motivating factors.
Calling IS a "religious group" is like calling the Nazis an "ethnic affinity group", and you are dishonest and/or just plain stupid to suggest otherwise.
The Nazis weren't an ethnic affinity group though. If they were, then why wouldn't you call them one?
So why do so many black people use the word?
Seems to me all this fuss is racism against someone for using a word while white.
That means at any fucking time I can tell Slashdot via DMCA to stop spreading my posts and they have to comply because it is a legal fucking order.
No, they don't. Because you've given them a license to use those posts.
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Take your ignorant and ill-educated ass the fuck back to school.
oops.
. She needs solid enough fundamentals that she can effectively communicate with engineers and not get wild ideas up her ass that seem stupid to everyone except her.
Do you know her? Just that I don't, so I wouldn't assume she has communication issues or wild ideas - if anything her background suggests the opposite.
But hey, talk shit, it's only Slashdot.
her degree is not in any technical/scientific field at all
Which fucking part of her job was technical or scientific?
She's a manager. She does people, process, evangelism and hires people to do the techie shit.
She may have technical skills too, but that's not the fucking job, so her degree's level of technology is entirely fucking irrelevant.
Well, you are. What the fuck about a computer science degree teaches you absolutely fucking anything about information security?
Here's a hint: Less than fuck all.
Shit, if she did her degree 20 years ago anything she learned would be horrifically out of date anyway.
Computer science degrees are fine and lovely, but stop pretending they qualify you for anything. They don't.
I disagree. The degree is totally irrelevant.
Of course, you shouldn't be able to get the degree without some experience in the process
A degree is not vocational training. Stop fucking acting like it is.
No, I'm not known by the company I keep. As it happens, I don't keep company with actual Nazis either.
So how about you fucking evaluate things in the first place instead of name calling.
Not all people who hate Israelis are anti-Semites.
Not all people giving Israel shit for their treatment of Palestine hate Israel either. But this is the internet so I shouldn't expect intelligent evaluation of a complex situation from you.
Well fuck you for calling me a racist. Strange that I'm giving shit to people based on their actions and not their race, and you're treating that as a race based attack. Says a lot more about you than me.
As for the so called left, have you seen the torrent of anti-white hatred coming from them of late? Racist as fuck, since you ask.