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Bolton (and by proxy his boss) are killing off the cybersecurity advisor position and yet the State Department is setting up one. It will be interesting to see of other departments follow the State Department's lead. If so, there will be a multi-tailed monster created without a head to coordinate things. How exactly will eliminating one position while creating a whole new set of sub departments "draining the swamp"?
It could even ask you bread related philosophical questions in order to stimulate the individual over breakfast. It's a great idea. I'll make a fortune. All I need now is a name for it...
Well, Bob is already taken by some old software. How about Tony the Toaster or for the up scale market Anthony the Toaster?
Too late. The cat is out of the box as he brought it up. Apparently it was more "rhetorical" than actual or maybe it was actual. The catch is, others will pick this up and try to pass it.
Just curious, is there a penalty if one takes one's phone, cancels the contract and tosses their phone in the river/tip/dump? I'd be very much inclined to do that.
Let's face it, fines for these kinds of things are eyewash for the masses. The laws should be changed and penalties should increase and minimum sentences in years or even decades. Make the penalty high enough and the problem will drop. However, there are those who always thing that a) they're smarter than the law and b) the law doesn't apply to them.
I'm not sure I get this... he was found to be carrying illegal items onto an airliner... so a search of his phone (in his lawyer's eyes) wasn't appropriate? I would think that a full body search along with ALL carried items would be appropriate. And then applying for a warrant to search property (home, car, etc.) would then be needed.
I don't think it's the individual ads per se. Looking at this "random" sample and others, they all appear to be from supposedly right-leaning organizations. More of statements supporting the right than Clinton.
The screams of "fake news" maybe should be "fake ads". Hell, I view suspiciously those who scream "fake news" except for one or two outlets and that includes the guy at the top. One has to think through and look at the argument, the information offered (real or fake) and then the source. All sources should be suspect as they all have their agendas.
Old saying applies... "it's hard to find the chocolate in all the crap in a cesspool". It's getting worse but it's what we need to do be informed.
Typical bureaucratic and elected officials' stupidity and/or nannyism. It's not just Canada as down here below the border we have a lot of stupid laws like that. Too many to list in fact.
It's either some special interest such as "think of the children", monetary interest for much of this, or, it's just some elected drone who wants to be seen as "doing something" come election time. It runs amok in the whole governmental food chain from locals to the national. Not sure what we can do about it except maybe bulldoze all government and start over.
Q1 - The special encryption keys needed to access the high accuracy features (to guide missiles for instance) are only available to EU members.
Do you actually have the missiles/warheads to use this? Just curious as I thought other than sub launched missiles (US controlled I believe), you guys don't have any ICBM's.
At this point in time, if he's on the committee, he should know. Or was he just there to sail in, wave his phone around, get in the news, and sail out?
But he's an elected official. This behavior seems pretty universal to me. Just revisit the Zuck's little visits to the US Congress. He baffled them with BS, said nothing really, and they just proceeded with more inane questions. I think the term is "show boating".
"It's called planning."
Planning!!! I unclog my nose in the general direction of your "planning". So 20th Century.
Luckily we have a thrusting, up-to-date government, freed from hideously-outdated Waterfall dogmas, making glorious progress towards an Agile Brexit.
Agile? So they have their stand up meetings and then go get something done? Can you send some of those folks versed in this to train our Congress here in the States to do this?
Not just the industry but civilization. Everyone takes everything too seriously, however humor isn't universal so some will be offended. To those... if it offends you, don't look. If one is of religious ilk, then "if thy eye offends thee, pluck it out".
A pox on political correctness....
The system will only work on freeways in the United States and Canada – and will be specifically geo-fenced to make sure it won't work outside of them\
So, driver hits the highway, turns on autopilot, takes nap. Car gets to exit with snoozing driver... and then turns it self off because of the geo-fencing. Or does it ignore the exit, pull over and shut down? I'd hope that it just doesn't keep going.
What exactly does using windows 10 and google actually cost me.
What does any of this cost you? Your privacy and dignity? You're selling yourself (and all your juicy info) cheap. FB might be worth it for your business and I get it. But minimizing as many data leaks/slurps as possible is or should be the goal.
How pissed off will you be when, not if, some group of crims gets your data, say a bank account access, because one of the slurpers had it was careless? Catch is, they probably already have the info with the major credit reporter slurp not too long ago. Just too much info and that will take them awhile to get to every one's accounts.
The point is retailers / oem's should unbundle themselves from Windows and sell OS-free laptops.
In an ideal world, spot on. The reality is MS did dark and dirty things way back when like "exclusive contracts" where all PC's made by a manufacturer had to be sold with Windows or they lost to right to sell any PCs with windows. There were a lot of strong arm tactics in use in the early days that pretty much killed off the competition. Programs.. the release of incomplete API's with hidden functions killed off Wordperfect. There were others also, like Borland that got caught in the MS mis-information era.
This is true everywhere and not just the UK.
Two big problems are consultants and off-shore doing the work. Consultants will tell you what you want to hear. They seldom ask penetrating questions about the needs of the users for the system nor do the ones specing the system have a clue other than "modern and does everything. Then the work is off-shored to people who are the lowest bidder and haven't a clue. When delivered, the system fails since it doesn't do the things expected but not ever brought up during the spec process.
The way this works reminds of an old marketing guy I knew who thought that equipment should have a "Wonderful" control. It only rotates in one direction to "increase the wonderful" and wouldn't rotate the other way to reduce the "wonderful".
I think what is really a pisser is that all the patches are bundled so it's all or nothing. With MS's history of patch problems lately, this makes the decisions on what to install (all or nothing) really problematical. So I guess tomorrow, it will be walk into the lab, fire up a sacrificial PC, install the bundled patch and find a hardcore user out on the floor to test it for us. Lately, we've started deploying to one user after we spend a few days looking for the obvious. Then 2 or 3 more the following day and continue for a week before passing it to the whole company. It beats the hell out of suddenly having to re-image our PC's when a faulty patch bricks the machine. It's only happened once so we learned our lesson.
Before they bundled this stuff, we could deploy small groups of patches (each bundle being different) and see what was breaking us. Not any more.
I daresay that this is stuff of science fiction. With Uber involved, maybe it ought to stay in that realm. Seriously, the idea of a helicopter without a human pilot just seems like trouble. Especially airports and then dealing with the updrafts from tall buildings, etc. in a city. Having piloted some many years ago and understanding their unique flight envelopes the idea of full auto pilotless terrifies me.
Rule of thumb says "people in power want to stay in power". The corollary is "Absolute power corrupts absolutely". Both apply here and also places like Battistelli's domain amongst others. Even FB has it's power center.
So, we'll keep seeing these in government and corporations. There's probably a lot more we just haven't heard about... yet.
There's the same problem with credit agencies like the Equifax hack. A large target that was breeched and now we're all in peril. It'll depend on the degree of watchfulness we have to have over our finances, etc. and the cleverness of the miscreants who use it. Laws are fine, implementation is tough. I hope the GDPR helps close some backdoors, etc. to the miscreants and if sites holding less data means less hacks and attacks, then that will be good.
Not to remind everyone of that famous saying about exchanging liberty for safety, but that's exactly where we have ended up.
There's some question about this... was the liberty given up willingly or subversively? And what is the safety we get in return? I see our liberties being stripped but no real "safety" in return. The only ones that benefit are those in power, be it government, advertisers, data hawkers... the Zucks of the world.
Some say we have choices but the reality is that those days may be long gone. FB sucks up even non-members info whenever possible. Google, et al, do the same. It's very possible that the genie can't go back in the bottle as he/she has gorged themselves to point that they're too large, too secretive to return to it.
I do believe that Equifax should a) send letter to everyone who's data was taken along with a check for say... $100. That alone (just the letters) would cost them a small fortune. b) When they're done with the letters, nuke the whole damn company (make sure to get board and officers) from space. They don't deserve to exist.
Looks like all the officials who made the "let's hang him" statements from the Premier on down out to be fined. Nothing like issuing "he's guilty, guilty, guilty" statements before the investigation is complete. Seems the officials' CYA attempts didn't pan out...
At least the cops were honest and thorough.
Once once the sun starts this process, we'll have about 135 hours to get the ultimate suntan before becoming a ball of flame ourselves then. Not that any of us will still be around when it happens in about 6 billion years but good to know anyway.
Icon: The one with the SPF 1000 sunscreen in the pocket.
The group hopes that the techniques could be used by manufacturers to test and weed out the older chips that, in an industrial control device, would cause the entire unit to go down should they fail. In the process,
Won't this go against the manufacturer's needs to sell product will cutting costs? If the boxen fails, they'll sell another one.
Somehow, I just don't believe for a minute that the data has been wiped from them. All they did was fire some workerbees and then rename the company in reality. Same crew up top running the place. They probably haven't even turned off the servers.
Data=money. Since most don't know what or how much data they have, there's little incentive for them to destroy it.
No. Just no. Did the researchers think about what will happen if say SiteA is breeched? I read what they said but supposedly most sites only keep a hashed version of the password, yet we see email addies and passwords being dumped on Hunt's site all the time. So obviously passwords aren't as secure as these guys think they are.
There's two Googles.... one the search engine, the other the ad slinger. I'm thinking this is for the ad slinger. There's a long tradition (early days of radio and even newspapers) where the stations seemed to be politically aligned to certain parties and/or candidates and would not accept ads for those candidates they disagreed with. That started changing in the '70s as I recall.
Note that almost all newspapers in the US were not considered politically neutral. There was one that actually was acknowledge by both sides (The Christian Science Monitor) that was neutral and tried to present both sides to an issue.
also note..... When it comes to serious laser pointers ( 2000mW and up handheld ) , the leading global brands are.... US companies...
And they are made..... where? Yeah, China and sold all over the world. It may not even be the Chinese but a bunch of locals "playing" with them.
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