Just as companies are under no obligation to pay, similarly this organization is under no obligation to take their billboard down ...
Posts by Mobster
71 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Aug 2020
San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source
Cisco's Smart Licensing Utility flaws suggest it's pretty dumb on security
Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer?
Supreme Court won't stop Biden leaning on social media giants to tackle disinfo
Re: Dissent is not the same as lies
The US government does not (and cannot) order social media to suspend accounts or delete posts. It can provide advisories. The platform owners (Meta, X, etc.) are free to oblige or (in case of being forced provide user information for example) challenge in court. The first amendment has no bearing here, as the platforms are privately owned and the government has not forced anyone to delete any posts or accounts.
Pakistan punishes tax dodgers with new measures to ensure telcos cut off their mobile phones
It is the poor who can barely afford cell phones who will bear the brunt - political party leaders have always featured in all leaks of the super-wealthy hiding their wealth (e.g. the Panama Papers leaks), as have most of the high ranking officials of the military - I do not expect any of them to have any of their multiple SIMs blocked.
Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry
Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills
White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain
Well, one big issue is why is there so much concentration of back-office health paperwork processing at one company? Whatever happened to capitalism and free markets? I think many (mostly politicians and lawyers who want to become politicians) prefer to obfuscate and confuse "markets" with "companies". In capitalism, it is _markets_ that are free, companies have to be regulated to ensure markets remain free. This collective confusion seems to have started with the Chicago school and a certain former actor who played at being president.
FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report
The rot started when corporate safeguards, so necessary for a free capital markets, were done away with in the name of "making it easier to do business". Getting rid of regulations, such as prohibiting stock buybacks etc, and tying executive payment to stock price (a very volatile metric) ushered in a school of corporate management sharks who destroyed business. Engineers and people of tenure got laid off, manufacturing got out-sourced, off-shored, and everything else to save a penny to improve the next quarterly earnings statement. This led to the demise of many (GE, Westinghouse, IBM, Ford, GMC, etc.). Boeing is but one of the rotten apples in a barrel-full.
AT&T's apology for Thursday's outage should stretch to a cup of coffee
'Scandal-plagued' data broker tracked visits to '600 Planned Parenthood locations'
Republican senators try to outlaw rules that restrict Wall Street’s use of AI
IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam's demands in aftermath of cyberattacks
Cisco delivers a powerup to its switches for small and medium biz
Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients
AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse
India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered
Very blatant subscription trap
There is a national chain of gyms in the US, the name of which is the same as that of a major city on the West Coast. They have a very nice web site, very nice and functional mobile app and make it a breeze to sign up for a subscription.
To cancel, one has to go to the app or web site, fill in forms, choose or decline to watch a video about cancelling, and finally reach a web page that shows all their particulars with a QR code - keep in mind this is all being shown on a page presented by _their_ web server. Then one is asked to print said web page, and mail it via the post. So, hooray India and perhaps the US can learn from this.
Man arrested in Northern Ireland police data leak as more incidents come to light
Re: I understand why but it's a bit of a bullshit charge
That is where the US does better in my opinion - prosecuting for having information that was not obtained illegally would be almost impossible in the US. I understand your bit about criminal organizations not handing out membership cards, but that is what the police are supposed to do, find out who are members of terrorist organizations, not just charge anyone with innocent information that could have been used by a terrorist organization.
Why securing East-West network traffic is so important – and how it can be done
Re: bad example
Can you show where the original posted states the intrusion at Target was via embedded computers? Also, a hypervisor is not necessary for SDN - while SDN might have been birthed due to widespread hypervisor use, it is by no means solely restricted to that. Even bare-metal networking kit can support SDN technologies.
China – which surveils everyone everywhere – floats facial recognition rules
Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart
Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud
Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services
National Enquirer's big Pecker tried to shaft me – and I wouldn't give him an inch, says Jeff Bezos after dick pic leak threat
UK lawmakers look to enforce blocking tools for legal but harmful content
Re: hyperbolic nonsense
I can give you an example, it is right there in your last bullet point. A school has more than one child, and usually there are many parents involved in a given school. Now imagine one, just one parent, going off and "taking legal action" because they, and they alone, feel that the bill was violated. Not likely to happen? Look at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/10/vicky-hartzler-nephew-same-sex-marriage-republican-tearful. At least in my quoted case the one lonely "but think of the children" moron was badly outvoted.
NOTHING trumps extra pizza on IT projects. Not even more people
My previous job was at a large financial institution. The execs got high on "digital transformation", took junkets to the US West Coast to "learn to be agile". Productivity ground to a halt around the tremendous increase in "agile" related ritual, and budgets going towards master of ceremonies of said rituals (no number of scrum masters or agile coaches can help you if you do not have enough people working ON the product). I left said company and joined one of the FAANGS. The company I joined was one of the ones the pointy haired bosses from the first company had traveled to to "learn how to be agile". Now my teams are much more consistently performant, and I have yet to poison my ears hearing the words "Agile", "Scrum", "scrum master".
Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move
Re: Bit klunky, but...
Well, he never told Musk it was too complicated, he explained the number Musk was looking for (RPC call count), and then provided Musk the reasons why the app was slow. CEOs thinking it is red flag when told by engineers at their company that things are too complicated for said CEO to understand should consider it a red flag, a red flag that the CEO is at the wrong place in the company.
UK forces Chinese-owned company to offload Newport Wafer Fab
Re: Amtrak
Why would _any_ government agency be making money? The job of a government is to provide services which private capital markets are not suitable for, precisely because private capital markets are in the business of making money. You have plans to require emergency services turn a profit?
Toyota dev left key to customer info on public GitHub page for five years
PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for 'misinformation' wasn't a great idea
The web's cruising at 13 million new and nefarious domain names a month
Here's how 5 mobile banking apps put 300,000 users' digital fingerprints at risk
Cloudflare tries to explain why it protects far-right forums that stalk and harass victims
UK blocks sale of chip design software company to China
Re: The footrest
I cannot say whether this is being done at the behest of the US, either wholly or in part. However, after the Tony Blair / Iraq saga complete with dossiers and whatnot, it is widely accepted that the UK is the USA's footrest. Perhaps stooge would suit better if you find footrest too strong a word.
GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments
Re: emoji
First amendment does indeed apply to interactions of the state with individuals. The key point here is that the state cannot compel an individual's code to be cause for sanction, as said code is considered a form of expression and the state is prohibited from retaliating against protected expression. As such, it calls into question whether the state even asked for said individuals to be sanctioned to begin with or if that was just GitHub trying to be "proactive" in some form or fashion. Laundering money is illegal, writing code to do so is not. Eventually GitHub will realize it.
Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites
Leaked Uber docs reveal frequent use of 'kill switch' to deactivate tech, thwart investigators
That something like the business Uber is in a good thing, and inevitable really, is more or less a given. The efficiencies gained (price reduction, driver freedom regarding hours etc.) were bound to happen.
That such a momentous occasion had to have criminals that ran Uber at the helm is what makes me sad. There was an opportunity here to create a revolution and become heroes, but Uber, like many others, became too greedy. The politicians, of course, acted like they always do, no surprise or sadness there.