Bamfarooni - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Will be abandoned in 3 or 4 years (Score 2) 9

by Bamfarooni on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:41PM (#61978883) Attached to: Google Wants To Save the Planet With Satellite Images

Except... it's been running since 2010.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticl...

Comment Re:So if I ... (Score 1) 429

by Bamfarooni on Monday August 30, 2021 @06:49AM (#61743751) Attached to: Should Google Cut Salaries For Its Remote Workers?

Don't be ridiculous. There's no such thing.

Comment Still available elsewhere (Score 2) 63

by Bamfarooni on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:21AM (#58039734) Attached to: The Mystery Tracks Being 'Forced' on Spotify Users

For the curious, the songs/artists are still available in other places like deezer: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deezer.com%2Fus%2Falbu...

Comment Re: not engage in coordinated activity to mislead. (Score 0) 151

by Bamfarooni on Saturday December 16, 2017 @07:05PM (#55752915) Attached to: Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin

You guys bitch when Google doesn't do anything about the fake news and political hacking, and then bitch more about when they do. I'm beginning to think you just like bitching about things.

Comment Re:An unpopular opinion (Score 1) 279

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @06:53PM (#55607033) Attached to: Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed

You mean like NYC having the lowest violent crime rate of any major city in the US? (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amny.com%2Fopinion%2Fhomicide-rate-still-at-historic-lows-in-new-york-1.11210870). Yeah, that'd be horrible if they managed to do that everywhere.

Comment Re:An unpopular opinion (Score 1) 279

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @06:46PM (#55606985) Attached to: Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed

Well, for starters, I used this website (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Ffederal-register%2Felectoral-college%2Fallocation.html), which explicitly states:

"Every state is allocated a number of votes equal to the number of senators and representatives in its U.S. Congressional delegation—two votes for its senators in the U.S. Senate plus a number of votes equal to the number of its members in the U. S. House of Representatives."

However, since the number of house representatives per state is determined by the census, I can see how you might get confused.

Comment Re:An unpopular opinion (Score 1) 279

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:59PM (#55606573) Attached to: Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed

Actually, the electoral college is exactly like Congress. Each state gets 1 vote for each member of Congress. So I'm not sure I follow your argument that's somehow different.

Comment Re:An unpopular opinion (Score 1) 279

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:42PM (#55606413) Attached to: Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed

What about the electoral college do you like? I don't see any redeeming features.

Comment Re:I don't see shorelines changing at all. (Score 2) 85

by Bamfarooni on Thursday December 01, 2016 @03:45PM (#53403567) Attached to: Google Earth's Timelapses Offer a 32-Year Look At Earth's Changing Surface

Look harder?

Comment I'm speechless. (Score 4, Funny) 294

by Bamfarooni on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:20AM (#53030263) Attached to: Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad

I'm speechless. Is that patentable?

Comment It's the body scanners (Score 5, Informative) 382

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:09PM (#51812055) Attached to: TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines

I fly a lot, and routinely notice that the body scanners take about 5x as long as the metal detectors (and probably cause cancer). I regularly watch the TSA agents clear their backed-up lines by opening the metal detector for 30 seconds, sending 10 people through, and then closing it again (making the value of the scanner clearly questionable).

Comment China would be so proud! (Score 2) 251

by Bamfarooni on Thursday January 21, 2016 @07:10PM (#51347259) Attached to: California Bill Would Require Phone Crypto Backdoors

China would be so proud!

Comment China would be so proud. (Score 5, Insightful) 353

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:13PM (#51294865) Attached to: NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand

China would be so proud.

Comment China would be so proud! (Score 4, Insightful) 152

by Bamfarooni on Thursday December 31, 2015 @05:56AM (#51214593) Attached to: Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying

China would be so proud!

Submission + - Insurer denies healthcare breach claim citing lack of minimum required practices (securityledger.com)

Submitted by chicksdaddy on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @01:11PM

chicksdaddy writes: In what may become a trend, an insurance company is denying a claim from a California healthcare provider following the leak of data on more than 32,000 patients. The insurer, Columbia Casualty, charges that Cottage Health System did an inadequate job of protecting patient data.

In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in California, Columbia alleges that the breach occurred because Cottage and a third party vendor, INSYNC Computer Solution, Inc. failed to follow “minimum required practices,” as spelled out in the policy. Among other things, Cottage “stored medical records on a system that was fully accessible to the internet but failed to install encryption or take other security measures to protect patient information from becoming available to anyone who ‘surfed’ the Internet,” the complaint alleges.

Disputes like this may become more common, as insurers anxious to get into a cyber insurance market that's growing by about 40% annually use liberally written exclusions to hedge against 'known unknowns' like lax IT practices, pre-existing conditions (like compromises) and so on. (http://www.itworld.com/article/2839393/cyber-insurance-only-fools-rush-in.html)

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