And that's the last time anyone buys cyber insurance from Zurich. What's the point of cyber insurance that doesn't cover ransom wear? Just a useless waste of money.
Readit Newsretrogradeorbit commented on Singapore Weighs Fate of Its Brutalist Buildings nytimes.com/2019/01/27/wo... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Next time you are in Singapore, go check out the Park View building. Make sure to explore the statues outside and go into the ground floor and be amazed.
retrogradeorbit commented on Don’t trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users theguardian.com/media/201... · Posted by u/rwmj
the issue at hand is how they determine reliability and where they draw the line at acceptable vs unacceptable. I'd argue the left-leaning equivalent of the Daily Mail would be BuzzFeed, complete with regularly posting skewed or outright false information (see this example from a couple of days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/business/media/buzzfeed-n...). If they want to be consistent you could argue they should place the same warning on BuzzFeed. But then how much falsity constitutes "unreliable"? And how do we warn about places people go for news that aren't news organisations, like twitter or facebook? There's loads of nonsense on those too and plenty of people rely on them as sources.
Everyone is all for things like this when it's their side beating down people they don't like. But then when it is used to attack something they agree with they all suddenly get outraged. Very few these days seem to like ideas like freedom of speech or a "market place of ideas". Seems every one needs a nanny as long as the nanny is one of our guys.
retrogradeorbit commented on Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles wsj.com/articles/a-gift-f... · Posted by u/tlrobinson
That's a very apt quote. The way I look at things like this is: Do recording studios go to the same lengths? After all, if the effect is real, and the studio didn't do something to mitigate it, then it's going to be on the track regardless of what you do in playback at home. Much more so, even, because of the gain stages involved when recording a microphone signal.
(Spoiler alert: Recording studios do not install their own power poles. What they do, though, is install isolated ground circuits.)
Indeed they do. Some high end studios install balanced power. Which is more involved than just a power pole.
retrogradeorbit commented on MailChimp deleted my account with no warning blog.rongarret.info/2018/... · Posted by u/lisper
We've had a similar experience. We use them for both marketing mass emails and for ingesting support ticket emails (I believe that's through Mandrill). Someone sent a marketing email they didn't like (they said another one of their customers complained about it, or something; literally one complaint) and so they silently shut off our incoming email. We noticed it when one of our customers called to ask why we hadn't replied to one of their support tickets. They didn't bother to tell us.
It's a big bag of "do not recommend".
(As for how we manage to use them for incoming email; emails go to a gsuite inbox, which forwards them to MC/Mandrill, when then calls a webhook to actually process the email further. Yes, we could do way better with our own SMTP server that cuts them out. I think this architecture was chosen to have a failsafe in the event that our services all go down.)
That's what a secondary MX is for.
retrogradeorbit commented on MailChimp deleted my account with no warning blog.rongarret.info/2018/... · Posted by u/lisper
> and own SMTP server
Good luck with that.
The s stands for simple.
Kinda terroristic and criminal governments, often enough. And when you consider the lives saved by having hospitals or food safety regulations or whatever, criminals and terrorists are doing nothing positive at all, so these "statistics" seem kinda off.
The threat is in not dealing with politics before it deals with you, and a good way to do that is seeing "the government" of a democratic nation as something totally separate from a citizen in that nation... instead of getting engaged because it's so messed up, to disengage further because it's so messed up.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. That's it. Never stop believing!
fear mongering "government is out to get us" vs fear mongering "the terrorists are out to get us".
none are true, but fear sells nonetheless.
Statistically speaking (tally up the dead for example) the biggest threat people face in their lives is not from any terrorist or criminal, but from their own government.
retrogradeorbit commented on Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies techcrunch.com/2018/12/07... · Posted by u/toufiqbarhamov
That might be the most literal interpretation of "selling pickaxes during a gold rush" I've ever seen. The analogy is absolutely fine.
No. Bitmain is selling the pickaxes. Coinbase is the tent where the gold miners take their nuggets to sell.
Please provide proof when making claims like this. Infowars/Alex Jones doesn't count, they were universally blacklisted.