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Comment Veronica Mars had a similar episode (Score 1) 156

The teacher was all set to use his profits to buy a sailboat and sail away into retirement. Then she revealed
that the real-estate was photo-shopped garbage. And the teacher couldnt get out without selling the bad
investment to someone else.

The swindler flew away on a helicopter.

Comment Are companies going to subsidise the bandwidth? (Score 1) 127

While I agree that the goals to reduce commuting and living-density are good, it forces the employee to pay for something the company needs to run. So is MZ subsidizing the internet connections for this high-bandwidth VR experience for his employees?
Will employees have to get multi-homed connections to guarantee their presence at work since they now live too far away to drive? And if this is to be "the way people work", then will the monopolies be lifted at the local level to permit competition between carriers?
Otherwise one company controls whether or not people can work in a particular area. And that company may be your competitor.

Comment Seems like a physics problem to me (Score 1) 582

Maximum line of sight. Inclination, curve, drainage, presence of sidewalk, distance to intersection, distance to driveway, populaton of children, proximity to school, width, apparent width.

Then setup a traffic cone at various detail points in the road and measure the distance to the cone to make cars stop. You just need a cone, adjustable speed limit indicator, and a tape measure.

Comment The ad revenue system is not structured safely (Score 1) 406

The site does not choose the ads based on safety. The site sets aside space that is sold to different ad brokers who use brokers who have no idea what ads are going to be run. It is dangerous by design.

Until websites stop running content provided by other (anonymous) people, there ARE no safe ads. Its broken by design.

Comment No, we really do run adblock to defeat malware (Score 1) 406

Your claim that you never had a problem could end tonight, tomorrow, or the day after. Then what? Are you going to apologize to everyone for failing to understand the problem and telling them it was safe. Esp when professional security researchers are telling you its NOT safe?

The www is a infinite bag of untrusted/untrustworthy data that your your flawed browser sifts through. Its was already a disaster waiting to happen. The problem is, the disaster has become automated, financed, and profitable.

Comment Why cant the browser run as its own user id? (Score 1) 406

Can we enumerate the reasons why the the browser needs to run with the same user ID as the person that owns files?

I can think of one: access to local files for upload or download. But it seems like there could be a mechanism to hand off files to and from the browser that doesn't give it direct access. Some IPC mechanism or a filesystem-based dmz.

At this point, I really do not understand why the industry is not moving to make the browser an untrusted entity on the computer. Taking away its ability to access files, navigate the filesystem, or run programs.

Comment There needs to be a recovery password (Score 1) 108

They need to issue a recovery password for every account. This would be a serial number in case the account ever gets hijacked. It can only get you in to reset your password. It could be written down and stored in a safe or in a safety deposit box. And it cannot be changed. It would be displayed only one time by the website and never be visible again to anyone. So you click on the link, it says "record this" and you write it down and put it in a safe. And that link would never work again.

Yes yes, I know, you hate the idea.

Comment What if there is a bug? (Score 4, Interesting) 426

If the default is "on" , what if a bug in the code resets the setting or ignores the setting. Are there any indicators that this information is going out? Can there be any indicators? What is the amount of encrypted traffic going out from the system to microsoft? Any way to look at what is being sent at any point in time? Does it ever log what was sent? Can it?

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