Comment Why wasn't this done before? (Score 1) 85
Perhaps some network guru can explain: Why wasn't this exploited long ago?
Perhaps some network guru can explain: Why wasn't this exploited long ago?
Maybe he's just earning a few bucks:
I'm waiting for the day political organizations engage in astroturfing with concerted efforts to silence critics of political positions they don't like by swamping it with sheer numbers to generate a false consensus.
How do you know it's not happening? Or are you being sarcastic?
Wouldn't you be surprised if many companies did not do it? Large companies? Politicians? Governments?
How many comments on Slashdot are astroturf?
spells out exactly what is being offered and why
Who, outside a very small circle in the Executive Branch, could tell us this? Was this article written by Susan Rice?
RedState, Fox, etc. have lied to me consistently. I don't think it's close-minded to learn from that and disregard them. I think the Huffington Post or Daily Kos are prone to exaggeration and don't rely them either, but there's less outright lying and deceit.
Fracking was invented in about 1900
Radio was invented around then too, but the technology and its applications have changed a lot since then. The modern fracking techniques were developed by government funded research in the 80s and given for free to industry. Just look it up; it's easy to learn about.
(Thanks. If you could post a source besides a random PDF (which many people on
Well the IRS still has the mother lode, the best target.
Agreed, but the IRS's data isn't designed to be available on the public Internet. That doesn't mean it's perfectly secure, but it takes more than a password to access.
OTOH, if the NSA can't protect it's data from rogue insiders
Another thought: Attackers have even softer targets than tax vendors' servers: Consider malware which installs on user computers, looks for connections with tax vendor servers, and captures the data. (Maybe it's simpler to break into a secured server than millions of end-user computers, however.)
For attackers trying to collect personal information -- for identity theft, for dirt, for spying -- can you imagine a better target than servers holding everyone's tax returns?
Remember, security needs to make an attack more costly than the data is worth to the attacker. What responsibility / liability do vendors have regarding security for these servers? A breach may not cost them very much.
I file using paper.
Not a month goes by
* Without someone finding salmonella in a piece of chicken
* Without someone finding a defect in a new GM car
* Without someone's computer crashing
* Without someone finding a spelling error in a Slashdot post
Out of 420,000 apps, does finding malware every month really signify something? Or is 1% a high rate?
Tinfoil hat time! So in 40 years, these will be required by insurers to screen for pre-existing conditions!?!!? No historical data on early-stage developmental physiology, no 95% subsidy off government single-payer coverage cost...
What about using it to screen people for jobs and other things. I'm sure physiological conditions can be inferred, even if not accurately (kind of like a credit score -- or as part of your credit score).
Also, why does it make you paranoid to want to have a private life? Think about that: It's bizarre that the discussion has been framed this way. People have desired privacy since the beginning of time; it's natural.
yeah, it is not like coal, oil, nukes, hydro, trains, planes, space crafts, cars/roads, electrification, telephony, etc ever got a hand out from a gov, esp. the American federal or state govs.
You forgot natural gas, the US government funded the development of fracking, I just read about cotton, where the government developed anti-wrinkle technology that reputedly saved the industry from new synthetic competitors around 1950.
Also, didn't we give the financial industry a couple of bucks the other day? Health care? Every defense-related industry?
Solar has a good chance of being a very large industry in the future. Germany continues to advance, giving themselves an opportunity to be the world leaders in the industry -- the place where the skills, infrastructure, funding, supporting know-how (legal, financial, etc.) are all concentrated, like Silicon Valley for IT.
Meanwhile the "conservatives" in the US continue to obstruct progress here for political reasons, as part of their universal anti-liberal crusade. By loudly denying any idea that at any point was associated with liberals (including climate change and alternative energy), they will somehow change the facts and make conservatives "right".
1) it's consistent across android platforms.
2) if the customer can't read a whole 7 lines of large font before clicking agree or disagree then they are probably to stupid to even feed themselves.
3) no they don't, Android phones are fully functional without any tie to a Google account and without sharing location data.
1) That feature may be, but other tracking functions, by Google and other vendors, are not explicit.
2) Can't or don't, it doesn't happen. Plus, they don't understand what it means.
3) Many services, apps, etc. are unavailable without tracking.
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