If someone takes you to a hotel and renders you unconscious I think you've got more important "assets" they're going to be after.
Ah.. the variation of "Hit me, kick me, beat me. Make me write bad checks" perhaps?
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In the States, it's already here. The newer of the two cars we owns uses OneStar to report to the insurance company once a week so that we get a "good driver" discount and a "low mileage" discount. It also works inversely for "high mileage" and "bad driver". Since it's an "opt-in" plan, the bad drivers usually don't apply. However, at some point, I'm sure it will be mandatory.
The black box is still there even if you don't opt in. Have an accident and watch how fast the insurance company (or police) grab it.
Not. That means that only the first 1000 individuals (assuming they get awarded the "up to" amount will get paid for their troubles? Or if all 40 million were file a claim, they would each get a nice shiny 25-cent piece? Crikey.
The sad/stupid thing is that if you shop at Target, they're pitching the Red Card at you... every frikkin' time.
I'm wondering if there's a common entrance point. The Blues are an association and do trade information relating to claims etc. by people not in their home state due to vacations and business. Both cases had long times between the bad guys entering and then IT finding out they were there.
I also wonder if some of this isn't an inside job as the Blues seem to be very heavy into contractors doing IT work.
There's a bit of a problem coming up though with autonomous cars... The current thinking by commenters and possibly even the engineers is that one gets in, sits behind the wheel, gets comfortable and assumes a driving position while the car does all the work. Just in case the driver needs to take over... right? Complacency will soon wipe that idea out as more and more drivers decide to text, read a book, play with the kids or spouse, eat, or whatever. Having a steering wheel could become the hazard.
This is the difference between cars and airplanes. Pilots still have be in the cockpit and monitoring. They're not supposed to be wandering about and doing other things.. yeah.. there's been reports such as the one where the plane flew right past the destination airport.
My guess is that after an initial break-in, the controls will have to be removed from the car and allow it to be fully autonomous. Driver skills will deteriorate after a period of non-use and I'm wondering about having someone suddenly grabbing control of the car when their ability has deteriorated. Seems to be it has to be an all or nothing on autonomy.
By default, China will win this one. For now. They put up the fence and have been re-enforcing it. If it's profit you seek (as a provider) you play by their rules or not at all. I believe it comes down to some basic ethics on the part of the corporates. Proift? or "doing the right thing"?
OTOH, name one country that doesn't want to practice some control over their sovereignty? There seems to be a Catch-22 everywhere these days with regard to freedoms.
I wish Datawind well, but India is a tough market as many companies have found out. Whether it's cultural, economic, or even just basic services (water, electricity)... it's a tough sell by any stretch.
For example:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8da786b8-37e7-11e3-8668-00144feab7de.html#axzz3UlTkZ28H
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/10/03/cheap-razor-made-after-watches-indians-shave/NSQpOGAotpEfarkNmxIfcK/story.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2443191/Gillette-spent-fortune-Indian-razor-forgetting-countrys-running-water.html
There's been others that have tried and got hit hard.
These payment systems are kept in a secured environment that is separate from other parts of the Facebook network and that receive additional monitoring and control. A team of anti-fraud specialists monitor for suspicious purchase activity to help keep accounts safe.
Yes... I believe him. After all the data selling, scams going on in FB, and his personal belief in the users... Yeah.....
Since there's no BS icon... a pirate flag will have to do.
I guess being in the States I don't get it. You have an agency or association that someone (ultimately the taxpayer or consumers) paying for this "watchdog". They get one complaint... one.... and rise up show the world they did something. I've seen worse outfits at Wal-Mart for crying out loud. I'm offended but I also know enough to look the other way and ignore it.
I'll wander off scratching my head and wondering what all turmoil is about.
While I agree with your points, there's this: http://www.bairdmaritime.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14499:kawasaki-plans-worlds-first-liquid-hydrogen-tanker&catid=65:tankers&Itemid=56
Old news but apparently someone's betting on the fuel cell auto.
It isn't the job of a government agency to make law's, they are only to enforce law's created by congress and yet your blatant ignorance in this puff piece attempting to make congress look like the problem means you are not only stupid but your stupidity is the main reason these tyrants have the balls to do as they wish.
Correct. The agency can't make laws, only Congress can.
However, given the way the laws have been passed over the last 200 years, agencies are given the power to "regulate". A good example is the FTC. They don't pass laws, they regulate so that Congress doesn't have to pass a law for everything. The FCC regulates also. By your definition, Congress would have the final say on spectrum usage. They don't. They granted that power to the agency. Same for communications.
The current band of tyrants right now is in Congress. Both parties, scheming and back-stabbing for power.
Overreach.... that's coming from the Republicans and guess why? The lobbyist money is talking here.
If the government should become about allowing and then protecting concentrations of power, this benefits the few. At which point, the question really becomes why the many should allow it to continue.
Simple really... for the many to take control will involve gunfire, bombs, and many refugees headed north and south. Many will complain but given the way this country is being run and where we're headed with "surveillance", few will try. The government has too much power and those yahoos in Congress seem to be re-writing the rules as they go. Take a good look at the "letter" the Repubs sent to Iran. That has all the smell of a palace coup. If the people rise up, I do believe it'll a massive civil war. There's just too much power at stake for those with it to give up quietly or to say "Ah yes, the voters have spoken. I'll go quietly."
If China, with its enormous and growing domestic market, establishes itself as a DRAM, NAND and disk drive exporter, damaging US businesses, then US ideas about the sacrosanct nature of free trade might get revisited.
Right-wing politicians in the future might start to sound the alarm about DRAM dumping by Beijing. They might even complain about the US selling off its family silicon.
They probably won't say diddly squat as long as their backers can be investors in China's tech. If the Chinese toss out the investors, they yes.. the pols will start screaming. If there weren't US investors making profit, this sort of thing would have been declared illegal and Lenovo, for example, wouldn't have been allowed to buy the IBM PC division.
And there's the unspoken about issue that's been raised in the past. Illegal immigrants use fake SS numbers (usually good numbers that have compromised). Since the illegals won't file their taxes, the government rakes in millions each year that would, if the ID's were real, be paid back in refunds.
The reason for not automatically deleting is sound although I've come across one person who SS said was dead...with a straight face... as they sat across the desk from the SS person.
IF the warnings were ignored, what else is there to do? Seems that too often, the corporate mind feels that these things are BS. For him to do this was a warning shot. If it had been the bad guys, how long do you think it would have been before MS took action and how much damage would have been done?
Here in Oregon in the States, it's been decreed that if you have a valid driver's license, you are a voter. Registration is now automatic. Voting is via a mail-in ballot. Is it a good idea? Hell if I know, but that's what they did this week... automatic voter registration.
Hmm... this from the company that shafts their developers regularly? I'm wondering if this particular bit of PR is reality? or the result of some apathetic developer who gamed their system? I guess corporate management gets no blame for cutbacks or not wanting to spend the dosh to update things regularly?
Meh.....
Some people have a conscience and can sleep knowing that they have either made the world a better place, or have helped someone. So yes, the good guys deserve more but I suspect to them this isn't about money.
I won't go into miscreants since they are lower on the food chain than pond scum.
Indeed they are. We "outsourced" all our mainframe developers and admins to, you guessed it...IBM. There was much said in the way of promises and they kept them for about 6 months. Then suddenly, that area of the building started getting empty... a year later there was only 2 guys left... an admin and a developer because somehow, they got the keys to the kingdom and were kept to "coach" the outsourced tech. They didn't even outsource from the US pool.. certain subcontinent types were brought in and rotated out on a monthly basis. No continuity of development or anything else. It's still pretty pathetic over in that area as by contract, we're not allowed to bring in more than "a few" permenant staff. I suspect that once this contract is over, IBM will be out the door.
Sadly, this is very true. Marketing hype, etc. these days seems to trump sound engineering and minimal footprint. Bigger, more bells and whistles, etc. isn't better usually. But the marketing and sales droids love it. In the defense industry world, this is called "gold plating". Take something that works well and add stuff to raise the price (profit). Car companies (charge extra for radio, heater, windshield wipers, etc.) got in early on this and the philosophy has spread.
You make two assumptions.... 1) that the website or host is NOT taking a kickback from the scammers. 2) That they'll care enough to spend some time doing a redirection of their own.
The other way is to not allow shortened links in posts but I'm not sure how that can be done when everyone and his brother can post.
Therein is the problem... "proper control". I have 3 PC's and the scariest update method is the one: "PCs on the Internet”. I have to wonder what MS thinks the intelligence is of the average user as not all PC's are under corporate control for updates, where they come from, etc. And is there anything to prevent a hack/hijack from changing that setting to "PCs on the Internet”? Given MS history of having a totally secure OS, I'm doubtful.