Posts by Mark 85 12880 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
This isn't a problem with the LEA's. If you use a strong, unapproved encryption than obviously you are a criminal. A little porridge time for you then.
And the BS argument that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is tossed out, the glorious government officials should be the first to go naked without encryption.
"The pensioners seemed happy enough"
Huh? This is one who wouldn't have been.
Probably the ones from the old folks home who only get to go out once or twice a month on the bus and know that the drive will get pissed if they make him wait more than 10 minutes. . But in this case, they actually got to stand around and talk to other people. Hopefully, the bus driver was in line with them.
They seemed to have missed the simplest solution - just turn off Whois. It's mostly just used by copyright cartels to sue people anyway.
Exactly. How hard can it be to turn of the display of the fields that need to be hidden? For those that get access to the full Whois, turn the fields on for them when they log in.
I would think that if they had cut out a few trips to exotic locations for "fact finding" and "discussions" and then actually thought about it, that the problem would have been solved by now.
Microwaves? Does that mean it can also act as part of my instant microwave oven lunch?
If so, would it shorten the heating time? Would it work on food bigger than small stuffed mushroom? It might even allow you to fire up the microwave at home and heat the food at work via "entanglement". Enquiring minds and all that....
It's not about vendor/customer relations.. it's about share price and dividends. I suppose that once Win10 yearly billing comes in from non-commercial users, things will look even better to the money counters. Given the way Win10 has been going it sounds like "they're not customers, they're testers and will be paying for the privilege."
So both use the "governance by committee" method whereby lots of meetings but no actual decisions? I'm sure that if they handed the WHOIS issue over to a few competent programmers (not outsourced to some low bidding company/country) the solution could be implemented rather quickly. But that would require a <gasp> decision on ICANN's part.
Folks if you're going to do it then set your sights high or at the very least learn from professionals.
Old saying that if you might have to serve the time, make sure it's worth it. IOW, these guys (looking at the money they made) were very small fish in a very large ocean.
It's long past time that the judicial system recognised that psychopaths are incurable and should be executed.
I guess we need more prisons than as there's a lot of psychopaths running amok. They do seem to be everywhere... government, law enforcement, sales, marketing, etc.
Even rudimentary apps such as those from banks and newspapers are unavailable on Windows mobile... which kind of defeats the purpose of having a SMARTphone
But then, there's many of us who don't give a crap about apps. We just want a mobile phone to use as a phone, not some dinky, overpriced, portable computer.
Icon: Because it's not always about going with the flow in tech.
You're missing a trick... we include a lot of fuel with each of the sentinels. Then when they spot something on a collision course they ram it - which should alter the orbit sufficiently for it to miss. And if it's caught far enough out it'll only need a fairly small tap to make the difference.
We'll just have to make damn sure that the "nudge" pushes the incoming away from Earth and doesn't accidentally turn a near-miss (I hate that term) into a bullseye.
So a few weeks for logs? Fine. Do it. You may never need them beyond that. But if you do need to know what happend a couple of months ago?
You might if you're not keeping up with the logs. Look at the breeches that went on for months without being noticed.
Then again, if you're mining user data, etc.... all bets are off on how long it's kept. I'm looking at you Google and Facebook as prime examples.
Considering the inroads FB is making everywhere in the world, there might be some plan developing. Something way beyond "let's start a webpage that brings friends together"... I don't think it's "created by a failed state despot " but now that he sees the power he and FB have, he could be a wanna-be despot.
How would you know if they did_not_do_stuff? Sure, you may not see ads from them but what about other sites which they could be selling the info to? Personal info is a commodity like it or not.
And while were at it... various sources indicate that Zuck has given serious thought to running for political office... the big white one. Do you think if that's true that he'd give all that data that could be used in a campaign?
I'm just about to leave one job and they are offering me a pay rise. My thoughts are why am I not on this salary in the first place, so I wont be accepting it.
I learned back in the '70's to never, ever accept a counter offer from your employer no matter how good it is. They will use it as a wedge to treat you unmercifully and also put you at the top of the layoff list. I wasn't the one who accepted the counter offer, it was friend and within two years, he was not his old self but rather beaten down.
One needs to remember that they made their name doing "accounting" err... vote tabulation for various high visibility award programs, like the Oscars, etc. Their name is out there and well known. However, all the scandals haven't seemed to touch them in the public eye.
A lot has happened in 7 years. Maybe they need an updated policy in light of all current BS and then audit to that. Although after the dog and pony show with Congress, I guess all will be declared well by all parties and it'll be business as usual. SSDD or maybe SSDY*.
*SSDY = Same S**t Different Year
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