In other news today...
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
"Microsoft engineer wants Mozilla to .. stop making a browser that few use, and.. become a research organization. "
You first.
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The Placer County Deputy Sheriffs’ Assn. even nudged Tyler to apply for a job at the Sheriff’s Office in a Facebook post. The association said it recommends that citizens keep away from an active law enforcement scene but said it was grateful for Tyler’s actions.
“In this case the citizen made a decision to come to the aid of the Deputy that had just been violently assaulted and for that we are extremely grateful!” the association said. “There is no doubt that Placer County is a safer place because of him.”
Tyler could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday about whether he planned to accept Best Buy’s offer to return to work.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
It can't be corruption if all your "friends" are forcing you to do it.
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It's not even possible to stop the corruption like that *snap*. Russia is a big country, you see. Suppose they decide, in Moscow, first thing in the morning "That's it! No more bribes from now on!". But in Vladivostok it's afternoon! We've already begun.
-- Some stand-up comedy that I can't find; it's Russian anyway.
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Meanwhile, just down the road..
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Get off my lawn, 2019 version
https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/29/irobot-terra-lawn-mower-roomba/
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iPhones are more secure
The tool has limits — it doesn’t work on Android devices and doesn’t intercept phone calls. But it was unusually potent because, unlike many exploits, Karma did not require a target to click on a link sent to an iPhone, they said.
Thanks, Apple
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Fiona Onasanya becomes first sitting MP to be jailed in almost 30 years
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@HardwareGeek Next step, taxing it as legal income? Oh, and a business expense.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
http s://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-vladimir-putin-corruption-bribery-decriminalised-unavoidable-exceptional-circumstances-a8752791.html
I seem to remember that American law was changed some years back for American businessmen in other countries. American businesses were complaining that they were at a serious disadvantage in some countries where bribery was routine and expected, and so American law was changed to reflect this.
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@TimeBandit I think I alone got 26.3 billion robocalls last year.
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We’re getting so many unwanted robocalls, many of us are refusing to answer the phone.
If the calling number isn't in my phone's contact list (or, in some cases, such as the one designated "Fast talking recruiter I can't understand," even if it is), I don't answer.
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FFS Facebook. Can we go a week without hearing about how desperate you are to find my trap porn collection.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Can we go a week without hearing about how desperate you are
You want them to become better at hiding it?
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@mott555
I'm always surprised when I get that one cold call per year
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@mott555
I'm always surprised when I get that one cold call per yearYou want a lot more? I can start referring people to you...
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
I'm always surprised when I get that one cold call per year
You only get a call from Canada once a year?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Can we go a week without hearing about how desperate you are
You want them to become better at hiding it?
I expect a greater degree of competency from people who are meant to be cleverer than me. Although this would explain why there are suddenly 101 vpn services for about £20 a year. Sell everyone the illusion of privacy while slurping up all their private data and selling it to Facebook sneaky peaky like. All while charging them for it.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I expect a greater degree of competency from people who are meant to be cleverer than me.
I will refrain from making a public judgement on whether or not they are cleverer than you. However, I will note that cleverness does not imply honesty or integrity. I'd quite rather that people who lack honesty and integrity also be deficient in cleverness, but unfortunately reality doesn't work that way.
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Because everything is better when connected to the cloud
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I expect a greater degree of competency from people who are meant to be cleverer than me.
I will refrain from making a public judgement on whether or not they are cleverer than you.
I'm not Blakeyrat. I can take a slagging
Is he still alive?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I expect a greater degree of competency from people who are meant to be cleverer than me.
I will refrain from making a public judgement on whether or not they are cleverer than you.
I'm not Blakeyrat. I can take a slagging
Is he still alive?Someone is using his account.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/user/blakeyrat
JOINED 19 MAY 2014, 18:04 LAST ONLINE 13 MINUTES AGO
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@TimeBandit
Oh, but that page looks lovely when Twat and ads are blocked. Clean and to the point... which does not extend past the headline.
https://i.imgur.com/8xgDsFC.jpg
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@Applied-Mediocrity Mine has a little more... Twitter links, more text. Still lots of white space. FF+AdblockPlus.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Microsoft: We suck at making a rendering engine, so we gave up, and you should too
Convicted monopolist and inventor of embrace-extend-extinguish bows to its new champion.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Well, that would be almost reasonable if it decriminalized citizens for paying bribes when they just cannot avoid it because of Russian corruption problems.
Of course, that’s not what it does, it decriminalizes the exact opposite.
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Man bites dog!
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@boomzilla
FloridaVirginia man!
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@boomzilla What sort of intoxicant(s) was/were involved? Without having read TFA yet, I'm going to guess meth.
Edit: Only marijuana? That behavior seems like he was on something stronger.
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@HardwareGeek TFA says marijuana.
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@boomzilla Yeah, that's all he was charged with, anyway.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
a couple weeks
Food poisoning is faster than that. Hours? Yes. Weeks? No.
Um, yeah. Fixed.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Get off my lawn, 2019 version
https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/29/irobot-terra-lawn-mower-roomba/
Fuck! If only I had gone to market!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzJisXNV_Zh3VHpqY0NpMk9MQWs/view?usp=sharing
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@Tsaukpaetra Interesting chart on slide 8.
"Promotional Strategy & Budget" matches my attitude perfectly.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Interesting chart on slide 8.
Heh, NFC why it says Frost. Or Days. Actually...
opens the doc fully, with the written portion
Um... Yeah, No fuckin clue what that chart is for.
I'm wondering where the actual final is, it definitely doesn't look like the final draft I expected now that I'm looking at it.
@kazitor said in In other news today...:
"Promotional Strategy & Budget" matches my attitude perfectly.
"Word of mouth will be good enough for our clientele."
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Man bites dog!
What part of the body is 'manassas'? Man-ass-as.. .what?
Anyway.
... yeah, lets not have DM's onebox which is nothing like the real headline, and doesn't quite give the full effect...
Can't wait for the sequels - Part Two: The Second Half, and Part Three: Extra Time.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Get off my lawn, 2019 version
https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/29/irobot-terra-lawn-mower-roomba/
That would have been really nice to have back when I had to keep some 20 - 30 acres mowed semi-regularly.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla What sort of intoxicant(s) was/were involved? Without having read TFA yet, I'm going to guess meth.
Edit: Only marijuana? That behavior seems like he was on something stronger.
PCP used to be called "butt nekkid", because it sometimes inspired this kind of behavior.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Get off my lawn, 2019 version
https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/29/irobot-terra-lawn-mower-roomba/
That would have been really nice to have back when I had to keep some 20 - 30 acres mowed semi-regularly.
I remember they had lawnmowers similar to roombas maybe 10 years ago.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla What sort of intoxicant(s) was/were involved? Without having read TFA yet, I'm going to guess meth.
Edit: Only marijuana? That behavior seems like he was on something stronger.
PCP used to be called "butt nekkid", because it sometimes inspired this kind of behavior.
Yeah, my guess would be that the marijuana was laced with something like that, but TFA didn't mention it. The smoking was reported by a witness and the story didn't have results of a drug test or anything so we'll probably never know.
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@TimeBandit
I am of mind that SMS - definitely, never has - but even OTP-based app authentification, is not proper 2FA. It may be by the popular definition that simply requires something else, but these two things - online banking and the second authentication method - are connected (or possible to be connected) together using the internets, so they may not sufficiently distinct factors.
It may not be even necessary to wiretap. Consider a rogue app that can access and delete phone messages (easy social engineering) or parse screenbuffer contents (a bit harder technically). It is prevented by having a physical item as the "something you have" that is in no way possible to connect to the internets. Only then the factors can be separate enough.
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@Applied-Mediocrity do you work for RSA?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
I am of mind that SMS - definitely, never has - but even OTP-based app authentification, is not proper 2FA.
I tried a phone app that set up 2FA once. First it emailed me an activation link to prove I controlled that email address. Then it texted me a code to prove I controlled that phone number. And I was able to do all of this from the very phone that they apparently weren't sure I controlled. Seems kind of pointless.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
authentification
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla What sort of intoxicant(s) was/were involved? Without having read TFA yet, I'm going to guess meth.
Edit: Only marijuana? That behavior seems like he was on something stronger.
He was really hungry
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@Gribnit
Eh, I'm being called out exactly like this every time I am raging about this.
No, but I'm Bruce Schneier in disguise and it's about time for the regularly scheduled squid posting@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
authentification
That wasn't me! I was haxored!
Of course, it all falls down to security (imagined or otherwise) vs convenience and the fact that the current 2FA is probably the best you can do. From almost the first day it was offered I'm using 2FA app (SmartID) for my banking needs (and logging in to utility and state services, too). What somewhat worries me is that it's been getting updates at least monthly. I hope it's not security flaws they're fixing all the time. Or maybe it's better that they are?
There's another curiosity offered by the other popular bank (SEB; some of you might have heard of it). They're offering something called Digipass Nano - a device put over the SIM card. It then works as a SIM application. As such it actually does wiretap all your communications in order to capture the authentication request and prompt for the PIN code to confirm stuff.