Re: Die Hard: Offshore
They already released that movie this year, and the sequel.
It's actually a series that's been going on for a couple of years.
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The alternative would be for the airports to set up a transmitter on the band(s) and jam the little buggers (i.e.: send out a "kill power" signal) so that any of these fly too close, they get shutdown and crash/land. There would be liability for damage to a/c on the ground etc. but that should hit the owner/flyer of the drone and not the airport.
A healthy understanding of our past (who we are, why we are who we are, how did we get where we're at and why) would probably help us to avoid some painful own goals, too.
Quite true and while many of us older types were schooled in history plus the "whys", the school systems here in the States are either doing away with it or burying via "condensation into sound bites". The kids have no clue. Once the past lessons are lost, we will be doomed to re-doing those same mistakes.
If you actually want to weaken Russian infosec - which is a principal mission of NSA, for one - surely you'd be more than happy to have them using Microsoft stuff?
May the reverse would be a better idea? Give it away to them and the 5-Eyes can have all the data they can slurp.
Well, in this case it might be worth the fun watching Qualcomm's stock tank for a day or so... Yeah, the smart stock market types will suck up Qualcomm's stock in a heartbeat if that should happen since they know it will recover in few days/weeks and they (the stock sellers) will make a nice chunk of change.
Basically, your up the creek without an oar. An "account" can mean you actually opened one to verify your info or they opened one in response to a enquiry. Same for us in the States. The badguys can own us and we'll never know unless we actually opened an account. That is until we go for a loan, credit card, bank account, etc.
I can see his point of view. Even the US Mail is not impervious to snooping. However, if encryption is backdoored, then not just those "authorized" can open it. There in is the conundrum. For some reason, he believes it's possible and I have to wonder who told him it is. Since he's a lawyer by trade, I doubt he has any clue technically of which he speaks.
Indeed it's damn close to real time. We did a road trip and whenever the wife used her phone for navigation info, etc. she got ads for specifically the places we were. Were they relevant? Nope.. hardware stores, department stores, etc. but very little on what she was looking for. She shrugged and said "oh well".. I was rather pissed about the whole sorry thing pulled. Then again, I have a dumb old Nokia for a cell phone so I don't get ads.
Facebook would be less than ideal for trawling because the majority of people (i.e. the vast majority of women, and some men) have their privacy locked down so their photos can only be seen by their friends, and can't be seen by the world at large (or Google's search engine)
Let's amend that to "allegedly" shall we. For all we know (and they wouldn't tell anyone anyway) they harvest the EXIF before posting to your page and then sell it. We already know they sell a pile of user data to various companies without letting you know to whom it's sold.
The bigger the company, the less transparent they become.
So it was politics, but as practiced by Nixon and his "southern strategy" (i.e., promoting racism).
But, but.. Nixon had a "secret plan" to end the war. Turned out the plan was just to pull out after he got re-elected. IMHO, as one those who went there, it would have been a better plan to have just pulled out early in his first term.
In any competent IT department, if a computer is returned for whatever reason (employee leaves, gets an upgrade, etc), the first thing the IT department should do is wipe the disk and re-install the OS.
Policy where I worked was "all computers from terminated employees will be held for 30 day prior to re-imaging and re-issue.". This was "just in case" there were legal issues or personal data which we helped get back to the employee. Usually, most folks were smart enough to email any personal data to their home. We did have our share of "legal issues" so this 30 day hold was wise. Holding the whole computer also helped with "chain of evidence" as an image wasn't considered "original".
it's the fact that people are too BLOODY STUPID. It's social media,
Actually it's both. Social media is the dumping ground for the bloody stupid. So let's step back and review our educational systems for not teaching critical thinking anymore... or, come to think of it, they don't even allow thinking on part of students. Given that this has been in action for awhile, the parents probably had the same education or were caught up in the transition to it. It's a death spiral to the bottom and we're well on our way.
Spot on. Single point of failure here. Was the guy not there? Was he being pushed by manglement to do something they considered more important? Or was he someone sitting in some outsource shop perhaps in India? This is a fail at so many levels from top level manglement all the way to the poor schmuck who'll take the blame.
Aren't those "natural causes" or at least my doctor thinks so. I'm 68 and two of the three you mentioned. But yes, he was way to young but aren't we all for the most part? I had an aunt dying at 99 and see was very active to the very end and she felt she was too young also as did the rest of the family.
I do feel for his family and friends.
Current population: 34,756. Looking to suck in Amazon and 50,000 jobs. Yes, it's near Atlanta so where are most of these employees gong to be living or hired from? Not Stonecrest.
But still, it's an interesting idea for them and I hope they can pull it off. The down side will be their little town will suddenly grow and have big town problems. Having lived in a town that suddenly grew due a factory being built, at some point the natives looked around and wondered what the hell happened? And not in a good way. I hope it turns out better for Stonecrest.
Things probably go back further then that. On your SS ID card it states: Not to be used for identification. So naturally what has every company basically wanted? You SSN of course. I'm thinking it's time for some massive class action suits to be brought against any company collecting SSN's.
Easy answer to the 3 billion question... many of us had throw away accounts there. I had 5 and lost all 5 so I created 5 new ones that so far haven't been "attacked" as far as I know. The first 5 had their passwords changed by the miscreants and luckily, all 5 were clear of any emails. I generally check them daily and delete any email since like I said... throwaways.
It's all just computers and data centers, even if it's very much software-defined and very resilient. If humans and computers are involved, something will eventually go wrong.
Just to simplify things: Murphy's Law applies to everything. Manglement seems to forget that.