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deathhandon The Horror of Microsoft Teams

Please educate us on your compliance requirements that allows you to 'throw the baby out with the bath water'

deathhandon The Horror of Microsoft Teams

This is an issue with SAML pass through and should be fixed soon.

Not a Microsoft developer or even read the road map before posting this comment. Ouook, Zoom, etc already do this and it would be foolish of M$ not to fix this soon.

deathhandon A simulation of the insurance industry: The problem of risk model homogeneity

And if climate change continues the course... does not bode well current society. Doomsday scenarios are always painted with grand events. With this homogeneity a mid size event could cause a economic domino effect.

deathhandon YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

If you could figure out the order of construction of the parts in the toaster that could be considered intellectual property/trade secret.

deathhandon My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames

The convergence of aesthetics and capitalism.

Ultimately their products are priced/made too cheaply for the reliability that is expected. Increasing cost wouldn't sit well with the stock market however so it's a bit of a catch 22.

deathhandon When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet

spread information to others

So only consume - not produce?

deathhandon WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that knows everything about me

In case anyone doesn't know about Parallel construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

deathhandon Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem

My burning question is what is a "relatively rare maintenance event type"?

deathhandon After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed

There will always be a crackdown. This is how entrenched power works. It happened with India and immolation and the Boston Tea party. Standing up for yourself means someone will always try to knock you down.

Ramifications of the Boston Tea Party: https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-aftermath

India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Sati_Regulation,_1829

deathhandon WeWork Files for IPO

Gyms can do it. Is hot desking a bench that much different?

deathhandon Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future

You are correct. I think the reason why is the article puts the 'why' very deeply inside and that reason is central planning. Xi will soon be God-emperor for life and China will continue to enjoy the benefits of an authoritative structure. Not to derail but while this is an article about cities it is disingenuous not to talk about contractors,zoning laws,city council, nimby, etc which the cities you have quoted have had to suffer. Shanghai does not have to face these challenges as one man can just say 'no'.

deathhandon Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash

Multiple 'if' statements and then backup modules loaded with more 'ifs'

deathhandon PagerDuty pops nearly 60% in debut as tech IPO market heats up

I think its most likely due to high usage of the service & income of those who use the service. Devops can make bank, and devops need this SAAS.

deathhandon Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash

Why do we give aid to space fairing nations? Couldn't the aid be better spent on our own space program?

deathhandon EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content

I am sorry but thanks to our love of social media being a 'platform of all' they are able to dictate what is a 'credible/trusted source'

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/trusted-sources/

This is a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.

deathhandon Google+ cannot be used with customer or brand accounts anymore

Content that is created is valuable to someone, somewhere.

This is probably my favorite Google Plus post:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9FEWJo...

deathhandon South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake

Would this be the first nation to denounce fracking?

deathhandon What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance

To add a current day example:

Jay-Z and Beyonce's child has their Instagram professionally done: https://www.instagram.com/blueivy.carter/?hl=en

deathhandon Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

Trusting something is inherently different then being provided information.

Lets say I pump a state's aquifers dry to bottle water and there is a scandal about it. If I remove that information from the common information repository about my company is that ok?

deathhandon Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

That you know of. Who knows how many sock puppet accounts they may have.

Heck it could even be an additional fee 'well for an extra 10k I will create a new personality that isn't tied to anything'

deathhandon Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

If people are this open and brazen about it then ultimately we have passed the point of usefulness. This can be seen in social media vote farms where you pay for exposure. Once they start appearing en masse then it is the death knell of the platform.

This also has a chilling effect on free speech and what an individual is allowed to know about an organization, person, company etc. As any 'trusted' source of information is now spoiled.

The way we get ahead of this is do what the internet forefathers wanted to do to any problem... re-route. There are wiki clones and methinks their popularity will only grow now.

This should be the chief concern for Jimmy Whales and the Wikimedia foundation if they actually cared about providing 'an encyclopedia for all' because they are no longer providing a platform for learning but rather just another corporate blog.

deathhandon Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets

That's a really cool service. Thanks for sharing.

deathhandon Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets

Fame does not equal trust. While there may not be any security through obsecurity it is a barrier. As for being a trusted CEO at a certain point its about who you know and who knows you. Do you think the NSA employees all have social media profiles?

deathhandon Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

Stumbleupon was a good resource for this.

deathhandon A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech

It is always an arms race.

India now allows the government to decrypt personal data:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/india-authorizes-10-agencies-t...

If anything it should tell us that Crypto works(for us whose math skills may not be up to the task) and there are not as many backdoors as technologies in the past.

deathhandon Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline

They fixed that(somewhat):

https://www.att.com/devicehowto/tutorial.html#!/stepbystep/i...

deathhandon China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft

That is not entirely true.

21Vianet is the only Microsoft cloud provider allowed by the CCP. They are not Microsoft in anyway, shape, or form. In fact if you are a subscriber of their services there is a lag in updates.(presumably so the CCP can review first)

deathhandon China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft

And Microsoft/Azure as well?

http://www.21vianet.com/

deathhandon The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted

As we have seen however intellectual property theft and knowledge transfers can even the game very quickly. IP scales infinitely while the meat space is governed by physics.

deathhandon Samsung opens its Bixby assistant to developers

I think this is the most sane answer. Yes we do not want 'smart TVs' and we should vote with our wallet... But when all else fails why not 'hack'[1] it?

[1]https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hack