"Violence will be the preferred method of the masses so the wealthy should start planning on UBI if they don't want themselves and their progeny oiling our guillotines."
I have heard that some of this sort of thinking that got the New Deal passed.
There have been some suggestions that Southpark is making fun of anyone who bought an echo. And maybe they are, Southpark will make fun of anything. But I think the real weak link here is Amazon, or anyone who puts out a such a device with such an easy exploit path. XKCD already had a comic about messing with these ( https://xkcd.com/1807/ ). Clearly these need to have an option to rename the personality anything you choose, like your wireless network. Not that people wouldn't leave it at the default, but then you could at least call the user out for being lazy.
I have been wondering about the viability of windows in a VM for games. Do you have any favorite web articles or info sources on this topic? Mostly I figured it would be tough for a gaming VM to use performance video hardware through the virtualization.
We already know that Facebook wants to know what you "like". Why wait for you to explicitly tell it?
You know the skeezy line... "There's something I could say to make you sleep with me... Let's just pretend I've already said it!"
Instead it'll be the skeezy corporation "There's something I could say to make you pay me... and... ah, there it is!" *dynamic advertising* Then... *YOU EMPTIES WALLET*
A number of organizations want to deliver groceries. But delivery isn't free. Especially for produce and frozen products! My understanding is that groceries is typically a real low-margin proposition anyway, and that's leaving the last mile to the customer. Except for Whole Foods. It's high price, which I expect means high margin -- a good place to hide delivery costs. AND everyone who shops there has demonstrated the willingness to pay high prices for groceries if you can find the reason that trips their trigger.
So the company announcement says that the malware stole data from magnetic strip reads.
"The malware searched for track data (which sometimes has cardholder name in addition to card number, expiration date, and internal verification code) read from the magnetic stripe of a payment card as it was being routed through the POS device."
I didn't see anything specifically state that chip-based interactions were immune. What percentage of payments were strip vs. chip based?
Is Chipotle on the chip, or are their readers still strip based? My cards have chips these days, but I usually don't watch to see who uses which scan technology. Chip tech is supposed to combat this sort of thing, isn't it?
"Probably that musk wants to have intercourse with his mother and kill his father. Isn't that pretty much the sum total of Freud? (cocaine, it's a helluva drug)"
Here's what "cliques" made me think of: high school.
Cliques form - and people get mean to each other - when individuals become saturated with friends. You only have enough energy / empathy / extroversion to maintain friendship with a certain number of people. If you have more people swirling around you than that, then you start to push some away.
That's what the internet is. It's too many people. Immerse yourself in it too deeply and you'll exceed your capacity for friendly interaction, and start rejecting people.
Facebook playing videos with audio on by default - reaction 1: oh, this is terrible! reaction 2: wait, I only unmute my computer for specific media consumption. This probably won't be a big deal. reaction 3: wait, wait. I'll probably listening to music, and then think "oh, I'll surf FB while checking out this album" and then give myself a heart attack when my mom or someone's dog or something starts coming out of my speakers.
Reagan cut taxes and _increased_ gov't spending. The result (unsurprisingly) was a boom economy, and growth in the national debt. IJS.
Wikipedia:
"Reagan significantly increased public expenditures, primarily the Department of Defense, which rose (in constant 2000 dollars) from $267.1 billion in 1980 (4.9% of GDP and 22.7% of public expenditure) to $393.1 billion in 1988 (5.8% of GDP and 27.3% of public expenditure)"
Look. These "Smart Babies" are dangerous. Regular babies will cry all night and keep their parents up, but when you combine this lack of diurnal schedule with the cunning intelligence of "Smart Babies" you'll have infants crawling out of bed, hatching plots in the middle of the night! Looking for the cookie jar, wandering outside, making off with the silver! Stealing the breath of the family cat!
Smart babies must be monitored! Won't somebody think of the babies?!
You miss the point of Uber (and Lyft and other ride sharing servies). The point being that they know where you are and sell that for money. TFA has a picture (before their "hey turn off your add blocker" screen comes up) showing the value of location based adds in 2014, and projected in 2019. Guess which one is higher? Remember when Uber went through their data and figured out who went home with someone else after they hit the bar and published a thing on the web about it? Wouldn't it be great if they could mine that sort of info about you without you even having to be actually using their app? Yeah, Uber thinks so too.
Uber doesn't care to rip you off over your ride 'cause that's not even where the real money is.
Slashdot Mirror
So, one guy from FB stalks someone -- fire him!
But when a company (advertisement) stalks me across the internet -- that's business!
"Violence will be the preferred method of the masses so the wealthy should start planning on UBI if they don't want themselves and their progeny oiling our guillotines."
I have heard that some of this sort of thinking that got the New Deal passed.
But it won't be the amazon guy who does it. It'll be the guy who gets a hold of the hack for the amazon service.
I've had a package stolen from my porch, but I'd be much more likely to install amazon key on a discreet cabinet on my porch than in my house.
Having noticed the trend in comment #'s over time, I guessed that it meant that the old audience has mostly moved on.
There have been some suggestions that Southpark is making fun of anyone who bought an echo. And maybe they are, Southpark will make fun of anything. But I think the real weak link here is Amazon, or anyone who puts out a such a device with such an easy exploit path. XKCD already had a comic about messing with these ( https://xkcd.com/1807/ ). Clearly these need to have an option to rename the personality anything you choose, like your wireless network. Not that people wouldn't leave it at the default, but then you could at least call the user out for being lazy.
Oh, wait.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/am...
Sorry. Carry on.
thx! Will investigate...
I have been wondering about the viability of windows in a VM for games. Do you have any favorite web articles or info sources on this topic? Mostly I figured it would be tough for a gaming VM to use performance video hardware through the virtualization.
Yeah, like most corporations.
We already know that Facebook wants to know what you "like". Why wait for you to explicitly tell it?
You know the skeezy line ... "There's something I could say to make you sleep with me... Let's just pretend I've already said it!"
Instead it'll be the skeezy corporation "There's something I could say to make you pay me... and... ah, there it is!" *dynamic advertising*
Then... *YOU EMPTIES WALLET*
A number of organizations want to deliver groceries. But delivery isn't free. Especially for produce and frozen products! My understanding is that groceries is typically a real low-margin proposition anyway, and that's leaving the last mile to the customer. Except for Whole Foods. It's high price, which I expect means high margin -- a good place to hide delivery costs. AND everyone who shops there has demonstrated the willingness to pay high prices for groceries if you can find the reason that trips their trigger.
It was an insightful acquisition.
I wondered if this would be the case. Since chip tech exists, you'd only target malware at people who weren't using it...
So the company announcement says that the malware stole data from magnetic strip reads.
"The malware searched for track data (which sometimes has cardholder name in addition to card number, expiration date, and internal verification code) read from the magnetic stripe of a payment card as it was being routed through the POS device."
I didn't see anything specifically state that chip-based interactions were immune. What percentage of payments were strip vs. chip based?
Is Chipotle on the chip, or are their readers still strip based? My cards have chips these days, but I usually don't watch to see who uses which scan technology. Chip tech is supposed to combat this sort of thing, isn't it?
How'd that work out?
Uh, "Transform and Modernize", or "Transfer and Monetize"?
"Probably that musk wants to have intercourse with his mother and kill his father.
Isn't that pretty much the sum total of Freud? (cocaine, it's a helluva drug)"
Hmmm ...says something about Freud as well...
Here's what "cliques" made me think of: high school.
Cliques form - and people get mean to each other - when individuals become saturated with friends. You only have enough energy / empathy / extroversion to maintain friendship with a certain number of people. If you have more people swirling around you than that, then you start to push some away.
That's what the internet is. It's too many people. Immerse yourself in it too deeply and you'll exceed your capacity for friendly interaction, and start rejecting people.
Some social situations are this way as well.
Just an idea.
"All you need is a quick google search on HFT and Flash crash. The one in 2010 was attributed to HFT bots."
It is for this reason that I propose a random small amount of time (say, 30 sec to 2 min?) be added to all trades.
There sure won't be any issues with this!
"...app installation only from the windows store..."
"Disabled by default, then enabled by default, then mandatory, then not able to be worked around. Give it time."
Keep your win7 install disk, ppl.
"I still have to wonder how sound their business model is."
Business model now have sound by default!
Facebook playing videos with audio on by default -
reaction 1: oh, this is terrible!
reaction 2: wait, I only unmute my computer for specific media consumption. This probably won't be a big deal.
reaction 3: wait, wait. I'll probably listening to music, and then think "oh, I'll surf FB while checking out this album" and then give myself a heart attack when my mom or someone's dog or something starts coming out of my speakers.
Reagan cut taxes and _increased_ gov't spending. The result (unsurprisingly) was a boom economy, and growth in the national debt. IJS.
Wikipedia:
"Reagan significantly increased public expenditures, primarily the Department of Defense, which rose (in constant 2000 dollars) from $267.1 billion in 1980 (4.9% of GDP and 22.7% of public expenditure) to $393.1 billion in 1988 (5.8% of GDP and 27.3% of public expenditure)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Look. These "Smart Babies" are dangerous. Regular babies will cry all night and keep their parents up, but when you combine this lack of diurnal schedule with the cunning intelligence of "Smart Babies" you'll have infants crawling out of bed, hatching plots in the middle of the night! Looking for the cookie jar, wandering outside, making off with the silver! Stealing the breath of the family cat!
Smart babies must be monitored! Won't somebody think of the babies?!
You miss the point of Uber (and Lyft and other ride sharing servies). The point being that they know where you are and sell that for money. TFA has a picture (before their "hey turn off your add blocker" screen comes up) showing the value of location based adds in 2014, and projected in 2019. Guess which one is higher? Remember when Uber went through their data and figured out who went home with someone else after they hit the bar and published a thing on the web about it? Wouldn't it be great if they could mine that sort of info about you without you even having to be actually using their app? Yeah, Uber thinks so too.
Uber doesn't care to rip you off over your ride 'cause that's not even where the real money is.
The easier it is to scan you, the more often you will be scanned.