spaghettiwestern @ spaghettiwestern @sh.itjust.works

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Can you imagine the wall to wall coverage had it been Biden who called his wife by the wrong name? It would go on for weeks.

Because it's Trump they'll be nary a peep about this from the "liberal" media.

Edit: Confirmed this morning - not a word about Trump's demented rambling on the front pages of CNN, NBC, NYT or WA Post. The GQP front-runner's inability to string a coherent sentence together or remember his wife's name should be front page news. If Biden tripped over a mic stand it would be.

I am in the process of adding a couple security cameras and have been amazed that the majority of consumer brands essentially claim ownership of their customer's video content. They block access outside of their apps, charge for access and control of that video, and then fail to secure the video content they've claimed. It's another case of buying not equal owning.

Wyse, Eufy, Ring and Next have all had breaches of various kinds. Wyse took three years to fix major vulnerabilities. TP-Link has been sued by the FTC for failing to address router and camera flaws. Ring repeatedly provided video to law enforcement without a warrant. Even Roomba vacuum's video footage has been leaked by the company entrusted with it.

It is clearly much more profitable to ignore breaches and vulnerabilities than to prevent them.

Allowing any video to exit your home network and be stored by a corporation is just asking for trouble.

Typical NYT BS when it comes to Palm Springs.

Palm Springs is a man-made oasis in the middle of a desert. A true "return to nature" means barren desert - no palm trees, no water, just sand and spotty low shrub. There are thousands of acres of just that in most of the Coachella Valley around Palm Springs and the land is desolate. The picture the NYT chose of the Prescott Preserve looking green, wet and inviting was taking during an unusually wet rainy season and that picture is not at all representative of the the natural state of the land in this desert.

The left side of the attached picture is similar to what the Palm Springs golf course used to look like. The hundreds of acres of barren landscape on the right and in the distance is the "ecological life raft" the NYT refers to. This is neither needed or welcome in the middle of a small town surrounded by thousands of acres of desert.

Doesn’t mean their systems are not up to date...

IMO we will never know. Every company has a vested interest in hiding the cause of a breach if it makes them look bad.

Health Net does this BS all the time. Even care that has been previously approved and paid for is regularly denied if needed again because "It's not a covered service." It would literally take hours on the phone to convince Health Net's customer service that they needed to pay a claim, and even then there was no guarantee that they would actually pay it. Three 60 minute calls to get a bill paid were not unusual.

One time Health Net refused to pay for care they had previously approved in writing. Monthly calls were ignored for 8 months until the medical center sent the bill to collections.

Increasing profits because your company refuses to pay for contracted & covered care should be illegal.

At least Anydesk didn't take Teamviewer's approach and deny the breach for 3 years while blaming their customers for the problem, but it's time to rethink using these remote access apps.

In the past year for personal use I've moved to VNC and Nomachine server apps that are inaccessible from the Internet without first activating a Wireguard tunnel. The tunnel ports don't even appear to be open when scanned. Hopefully this setup offers more security than relying on a company to make sure their systems are up to date.

Did it not meet your standards? Why have you never contributed a single post to News?

We live in a society with nearly no accountability for corporations. It is so unusual that movies are made when it happens, (Erin Brockovich) and even then, those responsible for murder walk away unscathed. From what I can find no one at PGE was ever charged with a crime.

I was just notified that my private medical information was hacked for the 3rd time in 2 years, but the corporations who have allowed that to happen face zero repercussions. Any issues are mine to deal with.

Equifax's settlement for losing their (unwilling) client's data was laughable and the company responded to every contact with a sales pitch pushing additional products at additional cost. People are still dealing with the identity theft issues from Equifax's breach.

Ford only had to provide $300-$500 vouchers for building Explorers that were prone to roll over and those vouchers could only be redeemed if used for the purchase of another Ford.

CVS's computers were deliberate set up to force automatic refills. The option would turn itself on no matter often it was disabled, and even if it was off, staff were told to automatically refill prescriptions if a renewal was on file. I regularly received prescriptions I did not order and had to change pharmacies because there was no other way to get them to stop. It took a full decade for California to finally take action against the company. I imagine most other states still let CVS do as they please.

IMO There will be no significant corporate accountability in any of our lifetimes. We'd need to move to the E.U for that.

Once I had someone I'd never seen before loudly accuse me of stealing from him in a nearby store. I was working and unable to do much about it, and it was one of the most miserable, humiliating experiences I've ever had. Every single executive involved in this scheme needs to be repeatedly and randomly accused of being a thief in a public place so they see how they like it.

I hope the poor people humiliated by Rite Aid's "pilot program" sued the company's pants off.

Rite Aid was a shitty company 20 years ago. Gotta give them credit for consistency.

The one useful feature I've missed is a high temperature warning for my refrigerator, so since they fixed the app it may be time for another try. Thanks for checking that out.

Lol - that's possible. I spend time in Mexico and Canada so I keep the exchange rates on my dashboard. Easier than looking them up every time.

I could set my the thermostat higher on cloudy days in the winter or more usefully, increase the setting when our cell phones are in the house and decrease it when we're away. One guy put a vibration sensor on his nightstand and tapping on the stand turns on his bedroom light. There are way too many possibilities, useful and not.

My Home Assistant software and smart devices all are controlled locally and cloud access isn't used but there are other, much more important reasons to avoid running it.

You should avoid it because Home Assistant is an addictive monster. It starts as a hobby and then the next thing you know you're putting temperature sensors in your refrigerator and setting different brightness levels for your bathroom lights depending on the time of day.

Seriously though, the software gives an amazingly useful single dashboard for things you might use everyday including lighting, HVAC, alarm systems, weather, currency exchange rates, and entertainment systems. I use it every day.

The article conveniently leaves out that 19 states allow marriages between first cousins and additional states allow those marriages under certain conditions according to Wikipedia. It also is legal in most countries.

Thinking back, I seem to remember that in order to receive notifications the app had to be running in the background while phone location was turned on, giving LG precise location tracking all the time. Is that no longer the case?

I deleted the app and disconnected my LG appliances from wifi over a year ago. Maybe they fixed the issue.

The 1% pay their taxes.

Really?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/irs-has-already-collected-more-than-500-million-in-back-taxes-from-delinquent-millionaires/ar-AA1mRSsD

If you're thinking about buying, be aware they removed the audio jack.

LG's app is an absolute privacy nightmare too. That app must be used if you want access to any smart appliance features and it requires precise location permissions 100% of the time. Even then, the app features are mediocre, it doesn't work very well and often doesn't notify of a finished wash load until long after it's completed.

Why anyone would want to allow their washing machine manufacturer to continuously track their exact location in exchange for some crappy, poorly implemented features is beyond me.

True. We must all make sacrifices so Amazon's profits can grow. Maybe their marketing department should call the increase a "Mandatory Donation for the Good of the World" to help us keep things in perspective.