volcan

blah64 said:

volcan said:

AppleInsider said:
It's unknown what might been done with data if the latest redirect was deliberate, since much or all of it would've been protected by encryption that has yet to be defeated, at least according to public knowledge. An attacker could conceivably have figured out decryption, attempted to crack it, or may be storing the data for future attacks.

Network Solutions SSL certificates were apparently compromised this week. I received an urgent message on Tuesday that I had to reinstall a new certificate by today or else my SSL would be decommissioned tomorrow, the 15th of December even though it doesn't technically expire until 2019. I submitted the new request right away. Not sure what caused the problem but it could be related to Russian hacking.

I sincerely hope you did some careful vetting of the info before you acted.  That reads like a hoax would sound, right?  Not that it isn't real, but you'd want to verify through more than one means, i.e. viewing their site not just from your own network, but a VPN or maybe Tor to confirm the problem.

Just took a quick peek at NetSol's site and didn't see anything, but they're such a godawful company I'm sure they wouldn't make their screwups easy to find.  Used them for many horrible years, starting in the very earliest days, thankfully finally 100% netsol-free for the past 5 years or so.  Good luck.

Not to worry. I even called then.  They would only say it was a coding issue but the warning was definitely from them not a phishing scam.

bells said:

Here is the thing. These companies didn’t develop the Internet. The government did using tax payer dollars. So the public should absolutely have a say in what happens with the internet. 

Further, these same companies spend tons of dollars so that they don’t have to compete fairly. For instance, laws attacking municipalities from creating internet services or passing laws that only allow one ISP provider.

The US government created the Internet to the extent that they standardized a routing protocol, IP addresses, and domain name system that were actually invented by mostly private universities. Furthermore the government didn't build out the infrastructure. The carriers installed the cables, dug the ditches, leased space on utility poles, built data centers, etc at their own expense. All the government does is charge them taxes. And also there are no laws attacking municipalities. Those are contractual agreements such that a single ISP won the bid from the city to install the infrastructure. The city agrees to protect them from competition for a given number of years so they can recoup their investment and also earn a profit. The arrangement doesn't give consumers any choice but the fees the cable company charges are regulated by the same contract. Without that arrangement you wouldn't have cable at all.

lukei said:

volcan said:

rob53 said:

Is it still a UK company? If so, will Apple use non-US funds to buy it? If so, then not a bad deal for $400M when compared to the ridiculous amounts being paid for other companies.

It is estimated there are 97 million released recorded songs. So about $4 per song. I don't know how much the licensing fees for the music is though.

Shazam does not own any music content at all. It has a technology for identifying music and video content. 

I didn't mean to imply that they own any music. Obviously they don't stream any music. They have licensed the rights to digitize the wave forms so they can add them to their database to facilitate identification. They partner with music labels worldwide, however  I suspect that comes with ongoing licensing fees.

dysamoria said:

Bad news for software. He should not have influence over software.

I think I remember that he was in charge of the UI design not the actual software functionality. Personally, I am not a big fan of tiny, thin gray fonts on a slightly different shade of gray background. Too hard to read, especially outdoors in sunlight. It might be pleasing to his design sensibilities but it is not very practical in my opinion.

kimberly said:
As a moderator, consider posts with racist comments like the example below (final sentence).

That is not racist. It is like saying the Canadians spend all their time making boysenberry pies. Probably not true but it has nothing to do with race.