Not that long ago Google was posting tasks on the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsource job platform that asked people to visit a Twitch user account page which was provided to the worker.
They wanted to know if that twitch user had a link to a YouTube page.... they wanted to know if there was an email address..... they wanted to know if the user had had some sort monetization link on youtube.. and if there were email/twitter contacts.
I wonder if this has anything to do with that.
were they just judging how much overlap there is between the communities?
were they seeking out 'popular' people to contact them?
The best solution I could think of was if a password manager like KeePass would support managed multi-user credentials. That is, each individual has their own KeePass keychain with their own personal passswords, but an administrative user can insert a special hook for a shared password. So the user could use their KeePass passphrase to login to the shared Twitter account, but they wouldn't actually know the Twitter password and it wouldn't be stored on their keychain. Any time they needed to login, their KeePass would authenticate itself with the admin KeePass, which would log them into Twitter for them. When the person quits or is fired, the admin can just revoke that person's access to the admin KeePass keychain. No need to change the password and email the new password to everyone (thus creating a potential security breach) because the person who left is a potential security breach.
LastPass supports this on their "Premium" and "Enterprise" accounts.
You can add sites to a folder which the administrator can control and that administrator can decide if the user will be able to 'see' the password or leave it hidden to all users.
Users will need their own unique password (and potentially Two Factor auth) to access the 'hidden' Twitter password account.
We commanded a shutdown, which terminated the current communication window, and the loss of signal occurred at the predicted time. Fifty minutes later, we commanded a beep at 7.8125 bps to alert us if the shutdown command did not work, and much to our disappointment, the beep was received!
really a fun read...im guessing theyll be doing a lot of similar stuff
Whenever these kinds of stories come up I really wonder what they mean by "cloud computing"
do they mean "virtualized computing" like the virtual compute stuff on Amazon EC2/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud ?
or do they mean "Cloud" in the sense that people refer to Dropbox as 'the cloud' or any other server storage/service thing?
Certainly if they are referring to the latter.. this kind of spending is mostly a waste, we know how to make server farms at datacenters...
if it's the former, what good is a mere 10million going to do when the big names in the industry, microsoft,google,amazon, ibm..and others... are spending way more researhing and developing it?
With the uncertainty of what I should use going in to the future and feeling like the ones that were set aside in RFC2606 didnt exactly apply (or were misleading) I broke down and gave all my internal hosts a world resolvable unique name.
it certainly makes for longer hosts... but at least I won't have to worry about this problem they made.
For internal non-routeable IPs I now use:
server.lan.example.com
and for stuff exposed to the net via world routable ip4 or ip6 i use
server.wan.example.com
I liked it before, using.wan and.lan TLDs..but who knows when some asshole is gonna get the rights to use those..
like firefox with its about:config the settings discussed in TFA have been in chromes chrome://flags for a least 6 months..
its the flags page and you can mess with options such as...: Enable New Profile Management System Enable New Avatar Menu Enable Google Profile Name and icon
It is now the default, apparently.. in Canary.. (the alpha build) but this has been an option for a while now in the regular Chrome builds...... I used it for about a week and wasn't all that fond of it due to it wanting my password.. but maybe it was some option I had enabled that caused that.
While some might run away in horror at the mention of the name AOL Reader, which has been around for a while now.. is pretty great.
It was recently updated and the ad bar was removed, the software is much quicker and with the fact it is not an independent business project like Feedly, or Inoreader.. there is no upselling!
I tried feedly, it was pushing the upsell too hard and the product didn't feel very useful in its 'free' state... ( https://feedly.com/ )
I tried Inoreader and its free product was much better than the feedly one, but its interface felt slow and clunky compared to what I wanted ( http://www.inoreader.com/ )
I tried DIGG Reader but it was so minimal and featureless that I barely went a week of using it before moving on ( http://digg.com/reader )
I also used TinyTinyRSS locally for a good 6 months and while it is quite good, and the only data I'm revealing to others is that i fetched their feed..maintaining the thing is something of a pain that never comes up with other places. ( http://tt-rss.org/redmine/proj... )
As of right now I am back to using AOL Reader as my main RSS feed reader... It is fast, the design is good enough for me.. no upselling...the feature set is just enough to allow me to do what I did on google reader, and not overload.. and they seem to be actively working on making it better ( https://reader.aol.com/ )
PCworld doesn't honor my unsubscribes as well,... Wellsfargo doesn't Honor my unsubscribes. I have tried numerous times to use the unsubscribe links, taken screen shots of the successful unsubscribes. What do I do now?... Oh and Comcast spectator refuses to honor my unsubscribes too. All proven with screen shots Any advice??
The advice is, and I presume you're in America, that you should complain to the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, this is exactly what they want you to do.
from the www.consumer.ftc.gov website:
If you try to unsubscribe from an email list and your request is not honored, file a complaint with the FTC.
everyone should follow through with these complaints when businesses do not comply with the law.
I love it when I can simply unsubscribe to things and it works, I do it maybe once a year when the sites I sign up to end up cluttering things and 9 times out of 10, it does its job.. there is not a way to reward those who do it right (save emailing them), but we can get the word to those responsible for monitoring this that some are doing it wrong.
Time Warner Cable is no longer affiliated with the Time Warner which makes content.
Originally controlled by Time Warner (the film and television production company and cable channel operator), that company spun out the cable operations in March 2009 as part of a larger restructuring. Since then, Time Warner Cable has been an entirely independent company, merely continuing to use the Time Warner brand under license from its former parent
as much as i hate them....... that is one thing you cannot blame them for....... comcast on the other hand.....
123456 probably most used password
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Whenever this happens I will now think of the Adobe password breach... 130million accounts.
roughly 10% of those had "123456" as their password..
you can see the other top 99 herE: http://stricture-group.com/fil.....probably a good time to reconsider the re-use of passwords.. use a password vault....
I'm not remotely interested in Chrome, but I want to see what's in store for Firefox about 2 releases from now.
this is clearly a joke....but if you actually want to see whats in store for firefox 'about 2 releases from now' just start using the firefox Nightly branch:
Send your opinions and desires about the issue of net neutrality to the FCC now using the following link: https://www.fcc.gov/comments
attach your comments to the Proceeding # 14-28, which is at the top of the list, it is entitled "Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet"
Leave a few paragraphs, tell them what you want.
You might not get what you want, but at least you'll have given them a hint of public opinion. Be nice.
again the link is https://www.fcc.gov/comments proceeding #14-28.. make it happen. it only takes a minute or two.. as long as it took you to comment here on slashdot.
This is why I keep my full 1992 set of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia handy. Just incase I need to look up Anthrax, or Bomb or Detonator.
I can do it safely, without anyone knowing.
Or, one could go to the public library and look at the stuff in the Reference section, one cannot even check those books out!..Or, just go to the regular stacks and read the books on-site, bring tracing paper for the diagrams.. oh man, there is a whole world of information outside of the internet! and the NSA subpenas
For those interested in the kind of stuff that people do.. here is the top 100 list of passswords from the 130million that Adobe lost last year: http://stricture-group.com/fil...
The thing that amuses me (or terrifies) is that nearly 2million of the people had "123456" as their password..
nearly another million had one of these: "123456789" "12345678" "1234567", and "1234567890"...345,000~ chose "password" as their password (good going adobe.. why is that even allowed?)
i like the people who chose "photoshop" as their password...
going through that list you can just see peoples minds working. it is crazy to see what people do.
While it's not the best idea to keep all your eggs in one basket, Lastpass (a firefox, chrome, opera addon, plus a standalone app) is an OK way to store this kind of data.
It is all encrypted/decrypted locally.and then uploaded to the DREADED cloud!...the lastpass folks never have access to your data.. so theres nothing to 'steal'..
While primarily a place to keep your passwords it does have a handy feature for what they call Secure Notes, with premade forms to filling out all of your personal private info, allowing pictures/scans to be added.
and... while that might be creepy for uploading to Facebook..... with lastpass they cannot decrypt the data, because they dont have your password and cant change it if you 'forgot' it..... because it was all encrypted before even being sent to them...including your password..
then you export a copy of the encrypted database, upload it all over the place in various email accounts, put it in safe deposit boxes on DVDs and flash drives..all stored with a copy of the standalone app that will show you the data, so even if the internet explodes too, youll be good to go!
For many people still using an RSS Reader on the web.. and whom loved Google Reader.. AOL Reader is the only reason to have an AOL email account. (with a simple greasemonkey script to hide the ad bar).. It is a well featured, well done product. And I will have to change my (strong, unique) password now, which is a slight bummer.
But this news brings up another issue. The main competitor in the RSS world now is Feedly, but with them deciding to forgo the risk/expense of an authentication system altogether and only allowing OAuth logins via Twitter/Facebook/Google/Microsoft..with no login system of their own, many people are just uncomfortable giving the Feedly people access to their contacts list and other personal info that they get when using their service.. The info they get access to can be seen in screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/jsXfT
Perhaps Feedly (and others) have a bright idea there, avoiding rolling their own auth and letting the inevitable data breach land on the hands of the likes of twitter and Microsoft instead of Feedly itself.... That certainly may have been a good idea for Adobe, who lost 1.2 million accounts.
Even 2% makes me a little worried about the product that is pretty great in AOL Reader.. and I am gonna probably fire up the locally run Tiny Tiny RSS reader this weekend to make sure I have a backup.
as mentioned on torrentfreak, some shops use bittorrent for updating servers, for example, twitter and facebook:
According to Tom Cook of Facebookâ(TM)s systems engineering group, the daily code updates for Facebook used to cause a lot of trouble until they discovered BitTorrent.
âoeBitTorrent is fantastic for this, itâ(TM)s really great,â Cook said. âoeItâ(TM)s âsuperduperâ(TM) fast and it allows us to alleviate a lot of scaling concerns weâ(TM)ve had in the pastâ
source: http://torrentfreak.com/facebo.......while they MAY be looking for p2p stuff for spreading video around... it is also possible job applicants would just be doing stuff behind the scenes, like theyve been doing elsewhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Not that long ago Google was posting tasks on the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsource job platform that asked people to visit a Twitch user account page which was provided to the worker.
They wanted to know if that twitch user had a link to a YouTube page.... they wanted to know if there was an email address..... they wanted to know if the user had had some sort monetization link on youtube.. and if there were email/twitter contacts.
I wonder if this has anything to do with that.
were they just judging how much overlap there is between the communities?
were they seeking out 'popular' people to contact them?
The best solution I could think of was if a password manager like KeePass would support managed multi-user credentials. That is, each individual has their own KeePass keychain with their own personal passswords, but an administrative user can insert a special hook for a shared password. So the user could use their KeePass passphrase to login to the shared Twitter account, but they wouldn't actually know the Twitter password and it wouldn't be stored on their keychain. Any time they needed to login, their KeePass would authenticate itself with the admin KeePass, which would log them into Twitter for them. When the person quits or is fired, the admin can just revoke that person's access to the admin KeePass keychain. No need to change the password and email the new password to everyone (thus creating a potential security breach) because the person who left is a potential security breach.
LastPass supports this on their "Premium" and "Enterprise" accounts.
You can add sites to a folder which the administrator can control and that administrator can decide if the user will be able to 'see' the password or leave it hidden to all users.
Users will need their own unique password (and potentially Two Factor auth) to access the 'hidden' Twitter password account.
https://enterprise.lastpass.co... enterprise
https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/... 'premium'
they had to do this type of thing on spirit shortly after it arrived on mars..
read more here: http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/ds...
or the PDF linked therin here http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/ds...
its got all sorts of awesome details.
We commanded a shutdown, which terminated the
current communication window, and the loss of signal occurred at the predicted time. Fifty minutes later, we commanded a beep at 7.8125 bps to alert us if the shutdown command did not work, and much to our disappointment, the beep was received!
really a fun read. ..im guessing theyll be doing a lot of similar stuff
for those wary to look.....
it isnt quite as graphic as the beheading of Nick Berg that you may have seen... they do not show the entire act of beheading.
the content is interesting, and well worth a look if you want to understand this conflict a bit more.
They gave him one long ago, right here, on slashdot!
maybe they can celebrate a whole new section soon.
bennett.slashdot.org
it will be great. as beloved as idle.slashdot.org !!
Whenever these kinds of stories come up I really wonder what they mean by "cloud computing"
do they mean "virtualized computing" like the virtual compute stuff on Amazon EC2/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud ?
or do they mean "Cloud" in the sense that people refer to Dropbox as 'the cloud' or any other server storage/service thing?
Certainly if they are referring to the latter.. this kind of spending is mostly a waste, we know how to make server farms at datacenters...
if it's the former, what good is a mere 10million going to do when the big names in the industry, microsoft,google,amazon, ibm ..and others... are spending way more researhing and developing it?
With the uncertainty of what I should use going in to the future and feeling like the ones that were set aside in RFC2606 didnt exactly apply (or were misleading) I broke down and gave all my internal hosts a world resolvable unique name.
it certainly makes for longer hosts... but at least I won't have to worry about this problem they made.
For internal non-routeable IPs I now use:
server.lan.example.com
and for stuff exposed to the net via world routable ip4 or ip6 i use
server.wan.example.com
I liked it before, using .wan and .lan TLDs ..but who knows when some asshole is gonna get the rights to use those..
life goes on!
like firefox with its about:config the settings discussed in TFA have been in chromes chrome://flags for a least 6 months..
its the flags page and you can mess with options such as...:
Enable New Profile Management System
Enable New Avatar Menu
Enable Google Profile Name and icon
It is now the default, apparently.. in Canary.. (the alpha build) but this has been an option for a while now in the regular Chrome builds...... I used it for about a week and wasn't all that fond of it due to it wanting my password.. but maybe it was some option I had enabled that caused that.
fuck whoever decided that having a .systems TLD was a good idea.
it just aint right i tells ya.
While some might run away in horror at the mention of the name AOL Reader, which has been around for a while now.. is pretty great.
It was recently updated and the ad bar was removed, the software is much quicker and with the fact it is not an independent business project like Feedly, or Inoreader.. there is no upselling!
I tried feedly, it was pushing the upsell too hard and the product didn't feel very useful in its 'free' state... ( https://feedly.com/ )
I tried Inoreader and its free product was much better than the feedly one, but its interface felt slow and clunky compared to what I wanted ( http://www.inoreader.com/ )
I tried DIGG Reader but it was so minimal and featureless that I barely went a week of using it before moving on ( http://digg.com/reader )
I also used TinyTinyRSS locally for a good 6 months and while it is quite good, and the only data I'm revealing to others is that i fetched their feed..maintaining the thing is something of a pain that never comes up with other places. ( http://tt-rss.org/redmine/proj... )
As of right now I am back to using AOL Reader as my main RSS feed reader... It is fast, the design is good enough for me.. no upselling ...the feature set is just enough to allow me to do what I did on google reader, and not overload.. and they seem to be actively working on making it better ( https://reader.aol.com/ )
Hell, at least with Gitmo being a military base he could always claim he's Commander-in-Chief. But noooo, he's ignoring that
actually, no, he isn't ignoring it. in one of his first acts as president he signed an executive order to close gitmo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
he did this January 22 2009
PCworld doesn't honor my unsubscribes as well, ... Wellsfargo doesn't Honor my unsubscribes. I have tried numerous times to use the unsubscribe links, taken screen shots of the successful unsubscribes. What do I do now? ... Oh and Comcast spectator refuses to honor my unsubscribes too. All proven with screen shots Any advice??
The advice is, and I presume you're in America, that you should complain to the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, this is exactly what they want you to do.
from the www.consumer.ftc.gov website:
If you try to unsubscribe from an email list and your request is not honored, file a complaint with the FTC.
that line is linked to the following website where one can file your complaint: https://www.ftccomplaintassist...
everyone should follow through with these complaints when businesses do not comply with the law.
I love it when I can simply unsubscribe to things and it works, I do it maybe once a year when the sites I sign up to end up cluttering things and 9 times out of 10, it does its job.. there is not a way to reward those who do it right (save emailing them), but we can get the word to those responsible for monitoring this that some are doing it wrong.
Time Warner Cable is no longer affiliated with the Time Warner which makes content.
Originally controlled by Time Warner (the film and television production company and cable channel operator), that company spun out the cable operations in March 2009 as part of a larger restructuring. Since then, Time Warner Cable has been an entirely independent company, merely continuing to use the Time Warner brand under license from its former parent
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
as much as i hate them....... that is one thing you cannot blame them for....... comcast on the other hand.....
Whenever this happens I will now think of the Adobe password breach ... 130million accounts.
roughly 10% of those had "123456" as their password..
you can see the other top 99 herE: http://stricture-group.com/fil... ..probably a good time to reconsider the re-use of passwords.. use a password vault....
I'm not remotely interested in Chrome, but I want to see what's in store for Firefox about 2 releases from now.
this is clearly a joke....but if you actually want to see whats in store for firefox 'about 2 releases from now' just start using the firefox Nightly branch:
https://nightly.mozilla.org/
they recently implemented a new http cache http://www.janbambas.cz/new-fi...
they moved the preferences into the webpage area instead of in a popup window http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2...
in windows theyve implemented OMTC https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platf...
and they have been continuing work on their one thread/process per tab project.. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Elect...
Firefox is now, as of the earlier this month release, using the same GUI that Thunderbird has used since 2012.
Send your opinions and desires about the issue of net neutrality to the FCC now using the following link: https://www.fcc.gov/comments
attach your comments to the Proceeding # 14-28, which is at the top of the list, it is entitled "Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet"
Leave a few paragraphs, tell them what you want.
You might not get what you want, but at least you'll have given them a hint of public opinion. Be nice.
again the link is https://www.fcc.gov/comments proceeding #14-28 .. make it happen. it only takes a minute or two.. as long as it took you to comment here on slashdot.
they are asking for comments, give them some.
This is why I keep my full 1992 set of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia handy. Just incase I need to look up Anthrax, or Bomb or Detonator.
I can do it safely, without anyone knowing.
Or, one could go to the public library and look at the stuff in the Reference section, one cannot even check those books out! ..Or, just go to the regular stacks and read the books on-site, bring tracing paper for the diagrams.. oh man, there is a whole world of information outside of the internet! and the NSA subpenas
when did being interested in user logs and usage info become "tracking" (which is, these days, almost universally considered bad)?
For those interested in the kind of stuff that people do.. here is the top 100 list of passswords from the 130million that Adobe lost last year: http://stricture-group.com/fil...
The thing that amuses me (or terrifies) is that nearly 2million of the people had "123456" as their password..
nearly another million had one of these: "123456789" "12345678" "1234567", and "1234567890" ...345,000~ chose "password" as their password (good going adobe.. why is that even allowed?)
i like the people who chose "photoshop" as their password. ..
going through that list you can just see peoples minds working. it is crazy to see what people do.
I lost my writin hand in the gas explosion you insensitive clod!
While it's not the best idea to keep all your eggs in one basket, Lastpass (a firefox, chrome, opera addon, plus a standalone app) is an OK way to store this kind of data.
It is all encrypted/decrypted locally .and then uploaded to the DREADED cloud! ...the lastpass folks never have access to your data.. so theres nothing to 'steal'..
While primarily a place to keep your passwords it does have a handy feature for what they call Secure Notes, with premade forms to filling out all of your personal private info, allowing pictures/scans to be added.
and... while that might be creepy for uploading to Facebook..... with lastpass they cannot decrypt the data, because they dont have your password and cant change it if you 'forgot' it..... because it was all encrypted before even being sent to them...including your password..
then you export a copy of the encrypted database, upload it all over the place in various email accounts, put it in safe deposit boxes on DVDs and flash drives..all stored with a copy of the standalone app that will show you the data, so even if the internet explodes too, youll be good to go!
For many people still using an RSS Reader on the web.. and whom loved Google Reader.. AOL Reader is the only reason to have an AOL email account. (with a simple greasemonkey script to hide the ad bar).. It is a well featured, well done product. And I will have to change my (strong, unique) password now, which is a slight bummer.
But this news brings up another issue. The main competitor in the RSS world now is Feedly, but with them deciding to forgo the risk/expense of an authentication system altogether and only allowing OAuth logins via Twitter/Facebook/Google/Microsoft ..with no login system of their own, many people are just uncomfortable giving the Feedly people access to their contacts list and other personal info that they get when using their service.. The info they get access to can be seen in screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/jsXfT
Perhaps Feedly (and others) have a bright idea there, avoiding rolling their own auth and letting the inevitable data breach land on the hands of the likes of twitter and Microsoft instead of Feedly itself.. .. That certainly may have been a good idea for Adobe, who lost 1.2 million accounts.
Even 2% makes me a little worried about the product that is pretty great in AOL Reader.. and I am gonna probably fire up the locally run Tiny Tiny RSS reader this weekend to make sure I have a backup.
oh fer fucks sake, slashdot mangled that to all hell.
what year is this again?
as mentioned on torrentfreak, some shops use bittorrent for updating servers, for example, twitter and facebook:
According to Tom Cook of Facebookâ(TM)s systems engineering group, the daily code updates for Facebook used to cause a lot of trouble until they discovered BitTorrent.
âoeBitTorrent is fantastic for this, itâ(TM)s really great,â Cook said. âoeItâ(TM)s âsuperduperâ(TM) fast and it allows us to alleviate a lot of scaling concerns weâ(TM)ve had in the pastâ
source: http://torrentfreak.com/facebo... ....while they MAY be looking for p2p stuff for spreading video around... it is also possible job applicants would just be doing stuff behind the scenes, like theyve been doing elsewhere.