Wow, that is a rough one.

@Dashrender said in Cyber Monday Deals Worth Noting:

@scottalanmiller said in Cyber Monday Deals Worth Noting:

Amazon Fire TV. Only so cool, but it's the best Minecraft PE machine that I've yet found.

Does it host it's own? or have to join someone else's?

It's normal Minecraft PE.

@stacksofplates said in San Francisco transit hacked:

What's scarier to me is, who trusts these systems after something like this? Sure, you got your data back, but who knows what else is now on the network that you won't find.

Who trusted it before? Obviously a pirate with admin privs was already on their network and without basic security knowledge. So this is really not that big of a deal after than before.

@travisdh1 said in Microsoft, at least they found and fixed the problem themselves this time.:

I mean, even I make sure that GPG is enabled. Guess this could be included in the "Burned by eschewing best practices" thread as well.

Are they DSS compliant? That's one of the big checks according to the STIGS. We even have to make local repos GPG check and encrypted.

@scottalanmiller said in HPE Laptop Compromises US Navy Sailor's Personal Data:

@DustinB3403 said in HPE Laptop Compromises US Navy Sailor's Personal Data:

If it doesn't effect the government overall why do I really care?

all hardware developers (and mainstream software) are culpable when it comes to this.

Why the military hasn't moved to Linux "globally" is insane.

I'm very lost as to what you are saying. What does the OS, hardware developers or anything else random have to do with the situation?

ancient-aliens.jpg

Wow... Just wow.

When do the though trucks rollout?

@travisdh1 said in Zorin OS 12 Released:

Man, that looks lots better than most desktops. Don't think it will draw me away from KDE yet tho.

Zorin is gorgeous. They've been doing a good job for a while. Very popular with people coming over from Windows.

I'm completely on board with your RANT.

You ask why Google didn't enforce this in past years - because they didn't care. The Nexus phones weren't available (as far as I know) from any specific carrier - and even if they were, they weren't being advertised with any exclusivity like the new Pixel is with Verizon). This is why I think this action is not really coming from Google, but instead is Verizon putting pressure on Google to uphold their TOS so Verizon can squeeze more customers.

Google also most likely has a financial incentive here as well. I'm sure Verizon paid them millions for the exclusivity, so Google doesn't want to give it back, or be seen as a acting in bad faith for future business partners.

Dell popularity in surprise spike south of the border.

@mlnews said in DuoLingo Bots Announced for iOS:

Romanian finally appeared!

In beta and only on the desktop.

@JaredBusch Sweet!

@IRJ said in Really AT&T?:

AT&T involved in surveillance? No way! They are just an upstanding company.

The government is even giving them a helping hand, how could it get any better?