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Comment Re:What a stupid metric (Score 1) 142

I have a friend who had an old Samsung Flip and a new Flip. Samsung promised up and down they fixed the screen cracking issue. Of course, the new one cracked in even less time(1 year) than the first (1.5 years). When you try to get a warranty repair they blame you for the damage, and want to charge $400 to repair it. Basically they want you buying or paying hundreds of dollars to repair the phone every year. It's a scam

Comment Re:2024 is coming (Score 1) 83

Let me guess, 100% onsite office work with no free parking in a perpetually congested area of town? Sure there's no shortage of openings as people are constantly leaving/suiciding for a better options. If you're remote and looking for a raise your current employer will never give you, you're probably out of luck. I've already moved to a lower cost country to make it work, I'll be damned if I step foot in another highrise.

Comment Re:I never understood cheating (Score 2) 108

Cheating becomes a serious problem when the cheater choses a medical profession such as a Doctor, Pharmacist etc.

I really wouldn't care if they cheated on a entry-level History, Art, or other loser-oriented topic people would only take seriously because they don't want to learn much of anything new beyond what they learned in high school. The result of getting caught is the same, however, which doesn't really make sense. A doctor without an education in ancient world history is like a fish missing its bicycle

Comment Re:You could just run it through two engines (Score 2) 69

It's nothing new. I figured out all the various essay sharing websites in middle school, and I did not write a single paper in high school or college. That's 20 years ago with no ChatGPT, but with cheat detection software. It was basically an IQ test, idjits who turned in other people's work unaltered were obviously caught.

Now that ChatGPT is a thing I might even consider going back to school, now that it's much easier to automate away the uninteresting, irritating non-engineering fluff.

Comment Re: member the good old days (Score 1) 132

why are these exchanges

Simply put, to rob their customers...notice every exchange "got hacked", clearly inside jobs. Now that the price of crypto is crashing, there is pressure on exchange operators to "cash out", aka seal the deal on robbing their customers as planned, and convert it to a real currency before it all becomes worthless. So we'll be seeing these "issues" a lot.

Comment Re: Counterpoint (Score 1) 147

Yeah getting interrupted constantly by idiots in the hallway is such a plus. More like, "we don't want to pay for a decent staff, so we need to trap you in a room with special needs people we bought at a discount so you can baby them into productivity". Sorry, not doing that anymore. I'll sooner abandon my career than go back to the office/adult daycare

Submission + - Documents link Huawei to China's surveillance programs (washingtonpost.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: A review by The Washington Post of more than 100 Huawei PowerPoint presentations, many marked “confidential,” suggests that the company has had a broader role in tracking China’s populace than it has acknowledged.

These marketing presentations, posted to a public-facing Huawei website before the company removed them late last year, show Huawei pitching how its technologies can help government authorities identify individuals by voice, monitor political individuals of interest, manage ideological reeducation and labor schedules for prisoners, and help retailers track shoppers using facial recognition.

The slides also detail how Huawei equipment was used in China’s far west Xinjiang region.

The Xinjiang government’s sweeping campaign against Uyghurs has drawn international denunciation, and Huawei has faced questions for years about whether its equipment was used in the crackdown. A Huawei executive resigned in response to a Washington Post report in 2020 about a “Uyghur alarm” the company tested that could send an alert to police when it identified a member of the ethnic minority native to the region.

Submission + - USPS Built and Secretly Tested a Mobile Voting System Before 2020 (washingtonpost.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Postal Service pursued a project to build and secretly test a blockchain-based mobile phone voting system before the 2020 election, experimenting with a technology that the government’s own cybersecurity agency says can’t be trusted to securely handle ballots. The system was never deployed in a live election and was abandoned in 2019, Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer said. That was after cybersecurity researchers at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs conducted a test of the system during a mock election and found numerous ways that it was vulnerable to hacking.

The project appears to have been conducted without the involvement of federal agencies more closely focused on elections, which were then scrambling to make voting more secure in the wake of Russian interference in the 2016 contest. Those efforts focused primarily on using paper ballot so the voter could verify their vote was recorded accurately and there would be a paper trail for auditors — something missing from any mobile phone or Internet-based system. The project appears to have been conducted without the involvement of federal agencies more closely focused on elections, which were then scrambling to make voting more secure in the wake of Russian interference in the 2016 contest. Those efforts focused primarily on using paper ballot so the voter could verify their vote was recorded accurately and there would be a paper trail for auditors — something missing from any mobile phone or Internet-based system.

The Postal Service system allowed people to cast votes on an Internet-connected mobile app similar to how they might add items to an online shopping cart or fill out an online survey. The votes were designed to be anonymous and to be recorded in multiple digital locations simultaneously. The idea is that each of those digital records would act as a check to verify the accuracy of the other records. This is essentially the same method that cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin use to ensure transactions are accurately recorded. But the system didn’t protect against the numerous ways hackers might fake or corrupt votes, the University of Colorado researchers said. Those include impersonating voters, attacking the blockchain system itself so votes can’t be trusted, flooding the system with information so it becomes too overwhelmed to function, and using techniques that undermine voters’ privacy and the secrecy of the ballot. The researchers were able to successfully perform all those hacks during a mock election held on campus.

Comment Re: Returned to office in September ... (Score 1) 127

No more suffering because the moron next to you and his snot-nosed crotchgoblin caught yet another episode of the endless daycare plague, and they won't call in sick because they're too laser-focused on showing up to stick their nose up the boss' ass, so they bring it to work and spread it. These are the types that want to go back. F u c k them, they can die in a fire

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