Comment Re:Because almost no one upgrades? (Score 1) 218
You don’t solder SMD RAM? Kids coming up now days.
Comment Piracy is a market force as well (Score 3, Insightful) 123
Personally, I would have no ethical problem for anyone who paid for the content to just go ahead and pirate it. Sue me, I dare ya!
Comment Re:Maybe software shouldn't be patentable, eh? (Score 1) 25
It’s always easier (and better) to write the same code a second time. You cannot lay claim to the IP in someone’s noggin.
Comment Re:mcdonald corporate will not let the franchisees (Score 1) 80
This is what I wanted to see here. Thank you.
It’s a winding road but a good read of all kinds of shenanigans. Plenty of fun legal issues. Why Ronald has tolerated this problem for so long is a mystery. Just buy out Taylor’s contract and support your franchises!
Comment Re:Part I vs.Part II (Score 2) 28
Missed the opportunity to use “Brain Damage” instead
Comment Re:1984 put on hold (Score 1) 414
Now how many other State projects exist only to whip up support for other State-approved GroupThink?
Just mark government policy posts as ads, problem solved!
Comment Re:Reddit has fundamentally changed (Score 1) 36
A two-digit checks in! You lived through the rise and fall of
Tell me, what was different about
Comment Re:NSFW = no ads (Score 1) 101
Giddy up!
Submission + - Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees.
Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.
Also shared: crashes and road-rage incidents. One crash video in 2021 showed a Tesla driving at high speed in a residential area hitting a child riding a bike, according to another ex-employee. The child flew in one direction, the bike in another. The video spread around a Tesla office in San Mateo, California, via private one-on-one chats, “like wildfire,” the ex-employee said.
Other images were more mundane, such as pictures of dogs and funny road signs that employees made into memes by embellishing them with amusing captions or commentary, before posting them in private group chats. While some postings were only shared between two employees, others could be seen by scores of them, according to several ex-employees.
Tesla states in its online “Customer Privacy Notice” that its “camera recordings remain anonymous and are not linked to you or your vehicle.” But seven former employees told Reuters the computer program they used at work could show the location of recordings – which potentially could reveal where a Tesla owner lived.
One ex-employee also said that some recordings appeared to have been made when cars were parked and turned off. Several years ago, Tesla would receive video recordings from its vehicles even when they were off, if owners gave consent. It has since stopped doing so.
Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.
Also shared: crashes and road-rage incidents. One crash video in 2021 showed a Tesla driving at high speed in a residential area hitting a child riding a bike, according to another ex-employee. The child flew in one direction, the bike in another. The video spread around a Tesla office in San Mateo, California, via private one-on-one chats, “like wildfire,” the ex-employee said.
Other images were more mundane, such as pictures of dogs and funny road signs that employees made into memes by embellishing them with amusing captions or commentary, before posting them in private group chats. While some postings were only shared between two employees, others could be seen by scores of them, according to several ex-employees.
Tesla states in its online “Customer Privacy Notice” that its “camera recordings remain anonymous and are not linked to you or your vehicle.” But seven former employees told Reuters the computer program they used at work could show the location of recordings – which potentially could reveal where a Tesla owner lived.
One ex-employee also said that some recordings appeared to have been made when cars were parked and turned off. Several years ago, Tesla would receive video recordings from its vehicles even when they were off, if owners gave consent. It has since stopped doing so.
Comment Re:A single use, web enabled, api function (Score 4, Insightful) 288
Get the UNIX sysadmin, the Web dev, the firewall engineer, the DBA, the telecom tech, and the mainframe system programmer all in the same room.
Now ask, “What’s a ‘session’?”
Comment Re:Hello, welcome to the conversation... (Score 1) 51
Plus cops don’t go to this level of trouble, they just tap what someone else did, maybe try to entice a target at the user level. Can one even cop to criminal copyright if they just leech?
Comment Re:With a Single Missile.... (Score 1) 396
Better eat that pimento loaf before it goes bad. Be a shame to throw it out.
Comment I’m confused (Score 3, Insightful) 42
The US is charging a corporation criminally? They can’t put them in jail, all they have is money but apparently that’s enough!
No, folks, I’m sorry. You charge the officers of the company criminally.
Comment Re:Bug not keylogger (Score 1) 35
Having chips pulling double duty is one thing, like how the PC keyboard controller once also controlled access to protected mode (A20 gate).
This grows into all kinds of undefined functionality as all these components get consolidated into “chipset” chips. I’m certain the broader concern of chip-level vulnerability has already been with us for a long time.
Submission + - Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk (theintercept.com)
AmiMoJo writes: Elon Musk claims to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network’s new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform. Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitter’s complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations. As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a masked Proud Boy who attacked police officers. The account of video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, who reports on far-right protests in Southern California, has also been suspended.
Among the other prominent accounts suspended were the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist group that provides armed security for LGBTQ+ events in North Texas, and CrimethInc, an anarchist collective that has published and distributed anarchist and anti-authoritarian zines, books, posters, and podcasts since the mid-1990s.
All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “antifa.” In a public exchange on Twitter on Friday, Musk invited Ngo to report “Antifa accounts” that should be suspended directly to him.
Among the other prominent accounts suspended were the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist group that provides armed security for LGBTQ+ events in North Texas, and CrimethInc, an anarchist collective that has published and distributed anarchist and anti-authoritarian zines, books, posters, and podcasts since the mid-1990s.
All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “antifa.” In a public exchange on Twitter on Friday, Musk invited Ngo to report “Antifa accounts” that should be suspended directly to him.
