Posts by Mark 85 12884 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
I like that idea. As a former Marine, I'm proud of them. As a human being, I'm proud of them.
As for the "moralizing"... don't you know the guys at the top always pull that crap? They've been doing it for so long it's become legendary. Presidents, generals, admirals, CongressCritters, etc. ad infinitum ad nauseam. Come to think of it, all countries have this same problem.
The big companies probably will tread lightly due to the potential for damaging litigation and publicity. I would hope they have firewall logs, email logs, etc. to back up any mis-conduct. But, chances are, it won't be any higher up's that would be tagged...
The military may not be so thorough, although I would hope they would be. However, examples will have to be made. I'm not sure how it works now, but an enlisted type would suffer more than an officer since the officer would just get a bad fitness report which is a career killer.
But given the scruples of AM and they're lack of vetting unless a CC was used, it's possible that many of these accounts are bogus or that the military person has served their enlistment and are out.
More than anything else, this points out how porous most company's (and the government's) firewalls are. While it's impossible to be bullet-proof, one would think that the dating sites would be blocked from both web access and corporate email. Yeah... an employee can use webmail, but corporate email addy's aren't normally usable from them.
Footnote: Where I am, FB used to be blocked including email from them to a corporate account. But that's been opened up for awhile. The big dating sites are, however, still blocked, as well as game sites, and at least one certain auction house as employees were spending a lot time running auctions during working hours.
that Imation's time has come and that it's headed for the corporate graveyard anyway but.... maybe not? There's something about when the investor sharks attacks... seems like they want to make sure it dies but gives them profit. OTOH, I've seen some companies turn around and come back stronger. Apple is good example of this. They should have been eaten alive decades ago but they came back. I do despise these so-called "activists" for destroying all that they behold,..
there's the SONY hack that had a lot of insider info in the dumps. So, if SONY wasn't an insider attack, why would they think this hack is an insider? It's pure speculation, and the security guys says it is speculation. That they would keep the web-facing separate apparently wasn't done by SONY or the invaders somehow got access to the internal crap. So what's next.. blame the Norks?
I do wonder if many of these so-called "hacks" aren't inside jobs even it's just passing on a password or two. You can always find someone who's just pissed about something the company did that they might be tempted.
That means that Spotify should not be allowed to change its T&Cs without user consent. No banishment should be possible if users refuse, Spotify should continue to provide the service that users initially signed up for.
Not just Spotify but everyone else. Seems like all the players are doing this including the OS types.
I cannot wait for someone to hack the shit out of all the data miners and spread it on the net, or just abuse the fools who give up everything because its 'Free'.
As we all know (or should know), it's not "if" a site gets hacked and the data released into the wild, but "when". I believe you'll have your wish. The problem is that the 'Net is a target-rich environment and it may be awhile before they (Spotify) get their hack.
The Chinese stocks have been rather wonky for last month or so. Plus devaluing their currency seems to be the trigger here. No one knows what's really going on there.... Is there something crumbling in the China markets, industries, etc. or is the government manipulating things for some advantage?
And yes, the European countries are figuring into this also but again.. is there Chinese influence or is the problems in Greece spreading?
It could just be something "simple" like a market correction is long overdue... not sure on that one, though and neither are the market pundits.
You're probably right. But the government has the right to not allow itself to be sued and has used it as not to expose things. Since these are former officials, I'm not sure if that rule can be applied although for the time period involved, they were part of the government.
Any way that you look at this whole surveillance mess, it's a power play on someone's part.
is probably nothing to the panic going on in the C-suites. There's probably some behind the scenes stuff going on at the places with "work addys" used also... possibly a bunch employees who have just <cough>resigned<cough>. This is taking pot-stirring and shit disturbing to a new height... or maybe it's a new low depending on viewpoint.
One must follow the money in this. Where I live, there's three "local" firms producing juice. Big Tobacco and Big Pharma aren't involved and thus, deprived of income. There's much over tax revenues by the state not being collected. So health really has nothing to do with it. Then we get into the anti-smoker do-gooders who shrilly scream about the heath problems and how we're not "thinking of the children".... Boils down to politics, power, and money.
The down side of this is that there's not many tanks left and the current method is for the space truck to deliver the water and the tank to the ISS. The empty is put back in the space truck and whole mess burns up in the atmosphere. The only ones that live to see another mission are ones returned by a Dragon.
Someone really needs to pull their head out of their ass and think of the long-term like what happens when there's no more tanks left to send up there.
Police: "Oh.. we were checking the online activity of a suspect".
Government official: "I was researching this for some upcoming legislation."
C-Suit type: "I was exploring the potential for market share and returing shareholder value".
Fast thinking guy down the street: "I was looking to see if XXXXX is really the sleaze we think he is."
Joe.... "I was horny?"
As entertaining as it might be to read who's been brought out. and I'm sure the press will do it, it'll be damn sad when someone was signed up either as a practical joke or by some old enemy hoping to fill their email box. I've worked with few practical jokers like that... and made a few enemies along the way who would.
Several police agencies – including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation – have launched investigations into the attack.
I'm sure they are launching investigations with full resources as there's probably more than one well-placed politician on the list. I would, however, hope that some LEA takes a hard look at their business. This seems fishy that they're trying to act as if nothing has happened. No mention of the normal buzzphrases about how important your privacy is nor any statement about ID theft protection like anyone else who's been compromised.
Sorry, but if you believe that parents should not be responsible for their children's well-being then you deserve whatever they turn out to be. It's not the schools, the governments, the internet, or anyone else's responsibility. It's the parents job. When a kid grows up and turns out well, it's usually the parents. When the kid doesn't, it's also the parent. Outsiders can only influence so much.
Hard to say, really. I think we'll just have to wait and see how this plays out. Might be bigger things going on than what's being said.
When the early reports were coming out and mentioning that the company bosses were "detained", any mention of "re-education" or punishment was downvoted. Yet, it now would appear that the bosses are (to use an old movie phrase) singing like canaries. I wonder if it's under duress or the promise of reduced charges and/or punishment?
I can understand the research aspect but there are ethics.. It's living and therefore does it think or exist in a blackness since there's no sensory inputs. However, DARPA taking an interest just doesn't seem to bode well... I hate to say it but with them interested, I'd destroy the brain and all my papers related to the research. Same if the Chinese, Russians, or any government agency for that matter took an interest in it.
I daresay a lot of corporates will join you in that sentiment. Part of MS's market (a large part) is based on being able to create and use programs/apps that aren't "official". I foresee many corporates heading to Linux if this walled garden is fully implemented. And if there's a Win version that allows non-walled apps to be used, then there's a chunk of the home market that will want that version.
Planes and trains both pretty much run themselves nowadays, but the drivers and pilots are still qualified to hell and back in case of trouble - not that it often helps when they take manual control.
What is seems just based on a sense from various "disasters in the offing", is that when going to back up mode (live pilot/driver) if the meatbag has pre-computer experience the outcome has a better chance of being positive. It'll be the same way once driverless become the norm. The meatbag won't have the experience to take control in an emergency.
erm... Correct I don't have one. But to me it would be for the driving pleasure.. the engine sounds, etc. and not the status. My reasoning for not letting the pimply faced kid park it for me (or take it for a joyride) is one of not wanting to have to fix whatever they break. I have had high-performance cars in the past, and no one, absolutely no one was ever allowed to drive it but me. Picky I am.
Once upon a time, you had, as part of the patent process, submit a model of the item. Then the rule changed you had to do a search for prior art. Somewhere, by heavy lobbying, this rule got tossed probably on the excuse that the "little guy" couldn't afford the search but this also saved the big guys a lot of dollars.
Government is not our friend and today, it would appear that it's not Apple's friend either.
I do have to think that a tachometer hooked up to Jobs would be a max right about now....
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