The problem isn't what they are doing, but how they are implementing it. Is it a Man In the Middle Attack, or is it port forwarding?
The biggest problem with IT Security, is a lot of the hacks and tricks have valid uses as well, and normally when ever such a hack has been shown to cause a greater problem, an other tool in your toolbox is tossed out... Often without a good replacement.
These States, while often Reliably blue for voting for presidents, and senate, are actually not as liberal as they are portrayed, they have a strong conservative streak in them as well. I don't think this is mostly due to political leanings, because their are Conservative groups that would love to give Liberal California based Facebook a black eye too.
Unfortunately the political parties both of them, have strayed away from political ideas, and are centered around interest groups, who are good at bringing in the money for their reelection.
How are sports fans any different then other Nerd culture events? Strong opinions on things that do not affect them... Check Wear funny costumes... Check Trying to explain away or recon events that they didn't expect... Check Spend a lot of time, trying to play out different scenarios of their selected group... Check
Sports Fans are just as much Nerds as the rest of us.
The key rule for Science Fiction is that you should only break one law of physics. Star Trek kinda merged all the Science fiction tropes together, this wasn't that big of deal, until people started to put the Star Trek Universe connected into so sort of Canonical set of events.
Oddly enough until Deep Space 9, with its over reaching story arc. Star Trek didn't worry too much about canon. They would do a temporary solving of the problem at hand, then run off to a new place not worrying about the consequences of their actions, and never looking back. So sure they can travel in time in one episode, and the next episode say it is impossible, and if the writers were very clever, they would give a tech-tech explanation on why it doesn't work this time (something about quantum).
But with DS9, the remaining seasons of TNG, and Voyager, and Enterprise. Everything needed to start to fit together somehow. This which worked for DS9, hurt the other shows.
The Star Trek Franchise died years ago. Just no one realized it yet. I would say Insurrection Stopped it, and Nemesis failed the rebound. The JJ Trek, was the attempt to finish off the game.
With the dead franchise, CBS needed to keep its copyright, so they made Discovery out of their asses, as a hope there would be enough Star Trek fans, gullible enough to buy CBS all access.
So 12% of the states are investigating how well the privacy and usage of its constituents data is protected. Leaving 88% of the US States, not giving a hoot, about their population.
For that reason you should only be allowed to use debit cards. Credit Cards let you pay for things that you do not have money to pay for yet. People who are good with their money, would pay off their card in cash within 30 days to avoid interests. But people who try to egg the system, to get free cash, rarely are actually good with their money.
Out of all the phones I have owned for the past 20 years. Only one of them was due to a battery.
First one: (Candy bar phone) I broke the screen while accidentally hitting an edge on a pillar. Second one: Flip Phone this one had an insane charging connector (it has 64 connection (all tiny)), which got corroded (on the phone side) so it wouldn't charge, unless I scrape and clean up with rubbing alcohol, until it was warn out. Third phone: (Flip Phone) Ended up in the wash. Forth Phone: (popup phone) Worked fine, however I switched carriers and you couldn't move your phone to a new carrier then. Fifth Phone: (Slim Flip Phone) Gave to my wife, because she washed her old phone. Sixth Phone: (iPhone) This one still works, I gave it to my wife because phone #5 was useless for her work, and she needed a smart phone, then Seventh Phone (iPhone 4) The home button got worn out. Eighth Phone (iPhone 6) This one the battery warn out, and I was expecting a bigger upgrade then what I got, so I never pressed the issue. Now I am on my current phone (iPhone X) with no real issues so far.
But I don't see getting a new phone any time soon... I think the reason for me to switch off would be if my apps on my phone that I use for work are no longer supported.
The biggest thing I see for the slowdown, is that their arn't any real wow features on these devices. Now in terms of performance a high end phone can compete with an upper-mid range laptop. Gives these devices actually a lot more processing power then something with such a small screen can effectively use.
As long as the price is growing faster then your credit card interest, you are good. You keep on buying more currency and just charge back enough to bring your balance down, then you buy more. Free money.
However... If the price falls, you are in a lot of debt.
This is why using debt devices to buy investments are often highly regulated and often illegal.
Say that to the people who have for the first time needed to go to food pantries so they can eat for the week. It is a funny statement, just not timed correctly. In a month or so, it would be much more funny. Right now the joke is under "too soon".
I really don't see angry people rioting in the streets from this, just some nasty emails saying they were insensitive to the pain they just had. In a few weeks the paid would be gone, as they get there checks.
Well I think it is a lot like 9/11 jokes made in the early 2000's. Not necessarily extremely offensive, but poorly timed, as a lot of federal employees, are still feeling the pain from the current shutdown. If this was released in a few months (assuming no more shutdowns) I would guess the humor in the statement would be better received. We make jokes about death and dying all the time, but we don't do it in front of someone who just lost a loved one.
But I expect the retraction was less to prevent outrage, but the accidental political slant that could be implied in the message. The majority of the US population has blamed the President and the Republican party more for the shutdown then with the Democrats. So the GOP tried to keep the spin about it only being a partial shutdown, and it isn't as bad as we think (The democrats would do the same if they were to be blamed for it). However the way it was worded, it almost thinks that Ubisoft was endorsing the Republican position, which for marketing that would mean you might turn off half of the population in this era of tribal partisanship.
I think this is less outrage, but possible customers going yea ill skip this, because it is isn't for me.
Sure it is a big deal security lapse from Apple. So the received/found the problem, analysis the scope of it, stopped the service, sent out communication about the problem. Now they are applying a fix.
It seems like a responsible course of action.
I am sure people who hate Apple, because they were beaten up by a hipster a few years ago, will still fault Apple, and make them seem like a pile of idiots who cannot code themselves out of a paper bag. But these things happen, I am actually surprised it doesn't happen more often.
I am sure all you programmers out there who are smug that their code never got hacked. But is it really skill, or just being lucky, or your program isn't just that popular enough. It can often just be a bad day where your code has a security flaw in it, and coded so it would be difficult for the QC to find it. However within weeks of it being public it was was found as a problem. I myself never had my coded hacked, however this isn't a reason to pat myself on the back, or be smug and judgemental, as I have fixed things in my own code that could had been bad if I didn't catch it. And I never know what else I may have open.
I love the "We are not advancing technically because this new technology is just a slight improvement over the older technology" trope.
We read the history books that list advancements often in decades blocks, we feel that we are just not advancing as much as we use to.
Because it seems like the Electric Light, the Telephone, the Radio came out in the same year and was used by all, people just rushed out to buy all this stuff. And a massive team of people just started putting up telephone and power poles to give the infrastructure over night.
While it took nearly 50 years to get such services to the general public, and rural areas. While "Leave it to Beaver" was showing off the advancements in American Life in suburban areas. Areas just 25 miles away, people are still heating their homes with wood, and using lanterns for light, and using the outhouse because they don't have running water.
20 years ago, rural areas had no Cell Coverage, 10 years ago it had spotty coverage where you can probably keep a call. Today we have 4 out of 5 bars and it is good enough for high speed data transfer. Where I can travel 40 miles from my home to the city, with a VOIP connection on a conference call.
Sure we have the technology for wireless power transfer. Heck many new phones now have wireless charging in them anyways. Sure this fancier tin foil is based on old principals. however now get get power for its size. Progress.
We suffer genetic mutations all the time. Usually if such a genetic tinkering causes a problem the few cells that got messed up die out, and are replaced with better working cells, or if they go haywire, and start reproducing like mad, then we get cancer, which causes an awful lot of deaths.
Our genes also have a lot of useless stuff in it anyways. Evolution isn't Optimization. If the useless stuff doesn't kill us, then it gets passed to the next generation as useless stuff. So we may take some genes from bacteria and nothing will happen, because such changes doesn't effect anything useful
I like Nintendo. I have a Wii-U... However Nintendo has been lagging behind its competition for about 20 years. The Nintendo Game Cube was the last product that was roughly on-par technically with its competitors.
I had to wait for the Wii-U to support 1080p graphics, while the PlayStation and Xbox had supported it for years. Its 3d Graphical processing is behind even low end integrated PC graphics. Nintendo put all their R&D into 2dish graphics, which is great for the games that Nintendo likes to sell. Cartoon based games. But their lack of hardware, has caused a problem for non-nintendo game makers to make their games for the platform, as it not balances for the games they want to make.
I don't think the Raspberry Pi has enough power to properly emulated Wii games, let along Wii U or Switch games.
If you are happy with your Pi then you are fine with the old nostalgic games. There is no problem with that. However, there is no point on ranting about the new systems either.
When you are the market leader, sometime the boring decisions are the better one. There were a lot of companies that went out of business, because they stuck with the high growth CEO, where they rush to the top, and when they get there the CEO freaks out and tosses the baby out with the bathwater. Because things seem stagnate, because there isn't someone else ahead of them to beat. So they go into a new market to fight to the top. This often prevents putting resources into the companies core services, which causes them to die out.
I am not saying your post has no merit, because too careful management could prevent taking necessary risks and too much of the same old same old could cause them to go behind their competition.
In terms of rules and friendliness to corporations they are very different. A liberal America is still a conservative (Probably closer to middle of the road) Europe. Telling Facebook what to do from the DoJ or the SEC just isn't going to happen.
Buy High and sell low. Sounds good when you know the outcome. However when do you know if it is a just a fad, or a trend. sometimes a fad looks like a trend, and people buy too late.
R&D if done correctly will also run into dead ends. Science and Research doesn't always give you the outcome you want.
Putting capital in orthogonal market trends, we are back trying to figure if it is just a fad or a real trend.
Selling profitable divisions. This is a complex issue, if you want to grow your company, by selling off units who have lower margins of profit may allow you to put the rest of your resources into areas that can allow faster growth.
Getting Rid of key talent. Sometime key talent is that guy who is really good at the one thing. You are not planning on doing that one thing.
We can read case studies on how a company fails, then you can read a case study on how a company succeeds, and you find they did the same things.
Often the Best CEO for the companies are not actively involved in product design. (The Steve Jobs model is more the exception then the reality). The finance guys as CEO is often a better choice, because decisions will be based on numbers and less from Ego, or personal interest of the product at hand.
Too often the CEO of tech companies gets too involved in the technology, pushing bad decisions, because with the power granted to CEO, there will not be too many people who will say that is a dumb idea.
However as Chief Executive Officer, their role is to make sure the other Executives are doing their jobs, and a numbers guy can push a more quantifiable approach to show what is happening with each Executives branch of control.
So if the CFO says they should cancel a popular product that the COO doesn't. If he would look at the numbers, from a financial side, and also on a sales side he may be able to make a better decision. Then some other CEO's who just use their gut. This product while more expensive to make, allows for up sales to more profitable item. Or this item is only profitable because it is cheap to the customer, and they will make more money if they cancel that product, and put the resources into making something more profitable.
Well there is the public Idea of the Commander Data, or Hal 9000 type of AI. What modern AI is a computer used to solve complex problems, and be adaptable to come up with a unique solution. What has changed over the past few decades, is that computing power has gotten to a level that affordable computers can now perform these calculations. Modern AI is still kinda stupid, but it is more rigorous. Say given 50 years of crop data, with 50 years of weather data. Correlating, Simulating and Trending the data use to be too expensive, now it can be ran to show when it would be a good time to irrigate your crops and when to wait for rain, for your area. So either it will take a team of experts to try to figure this out over years. Or an AI that will just run for a few days and give you data that may be good enough.
The UN goal is to help facilitate peace. Scarcity causes conflict and wars. Because the Orphans, Homeless refugees are this way because of this. To help manage Scarcity we need to know who may have more and less of something, where the UN can help facilitate helping those with less of something to trade with countries you may have more.
While Water, Food, and Raw Materials are often big on the list, Intellectual Property and Technology are important as well. Knowing that the United States and China are leaders in such technology, a smaller country who may need such services may go to the UN to help them find a partner to work with them on getting such services. Where payments and negotiation needs to be taken place.
Now for some countries they really don't like China or the United States. However if given both they may choose one over the other.
That is why the UN is figuring out this stuff. Because if some unknown country who doesn't have access to modern AI research, say in crop management, and they are suffering from a food shortage, while their neighbors who have access to this technology and are doing better... Just may be enough to cause a war.
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The problem isn't what they are doing, but how they are implementing it.
Is it a Man In the Middle Attack, or is it port forwarding?
The biggest problem with IT Security, is a lot of the hacks and tricks have valid uses as well, and normally when ever such a hack has been shown to cause a greater problem, an other tool in your toolbox is tossed out... Often without a good replacement.
These States, while often Reliably blue for voting for presidents, and senate, are actually not as liberal as they are portrayed, they have a strong conservative streak in them as well. I don't think this is mostly due to political leanings, because their are Conservative groups that would love to give Liberal California based Facebook a black eye too.
Unfortunately the political parties both of them, have strayed away from political ideas, and are centered around interest groups, who are good at bringing in the money for their reelection.
How are sports fans any different then other Nerd culture events?
Strong opinions on things that do not affect them... Check
Wear funny costumes... Check
Trying to explain away or recon events that they didn't expect... Check
Spend a lot of time, trying to play out different scenarios of their selected group... Check
Sports Fans are just as much Nerds as the rest of us.
The key rule for Science Fiction is that you should only break one law of physics.
Star Trek kinda merged all the Science fiction tropes together, this wasn't that big of deal, until people started to put the Star Trek Universe connected into so sort of Canonical set of events.
Oddly enough until Deep Space 9, with its over reaching story arc. Star Trek didn't worry too much about canon. They would do a temporary solving of the problem at hand, then run off to a new place not worrying about the consequences of their actions, and never looking back. So sure they can travel in time in one episode, and the next episode say it is impossible, and if the writers were very clever, they would give a tech-tech explanation on why it doesn't work this time (something about quantum).
But with DS9, the remaining seasons of TNG, and Voyager, and Enterprise. Everything needed to start to fit together somehow. This which worked for DS9, hurt the other shows.
The Star Trek Franchise died years ago. Just no one realized it yet. I would say Insurrection Stopped it, and Nemesis failed the rebound.
The JJ Trek, was the attempt to finish off the game.
With the dead franchise, CBS needed to keep its copyright, so they made Discovery out of their asses, as a hope there would be enough Star Trek fans, gullible enough to buy CBS all access.
So 12% of the states are investigating how well the privacy and usage of its constituents data is protected.
Leaving 88% of the US States, not giving a hoot, about their population.
For that reason you should only be allowed to use debit cards.
Credit Cards let you pay for things that you do not have money to pay for yet. People who are good with their money, would pay off their card in cash within 30 days to avoid interests. But people who try to egg the system, to get free cash, rarely are actually good with their money.
Out of all the phones I have owned for the past 20 years.
Only one of them was due to a battery.
First one: (Candy bar phone) I broke the screen while accidentally hitting an edge on a pillar.
Second one: Flip Phone this one had an insane charging connector (it has 64 connection (all tiny)), which got corroded (on the phone side) so it wouldn't charge, unless I scrape and clean up with rubbing alcohol, until it was warn out.
Third phone: (Flip Phone) Ended up in the wash.
Forth Phone: (popup phone) Worked fine, however I switched carriers and you couldn't move your phone to a new carrier then.
Fifth Phone: (Slim Flip Phone) Gave to my wife, because she washed her old phone.
Sixth Phone: (iPhone) This one still works, I gave it to my wife because phone #5 was useless for her work, and she needed a smart phone, then
Seventh Phone (iPhone 4) The home button got worn out.
Eighth Phone (iPhone 6) This one the battery warn out, and I was expecting a bigger upgrade then what I got, so I never pressed the issue.
Now I am on my current phone (iPhone X) with no real issues so far.
But I don't see getting a new phone any time soon... I think the reason for me to switch off would be if my apps on my phone that I use for work are no longer supported.
The biggest thing I see for the slowdown, is that their arn't any real wow features on these devices. Now in terms of performance a high end phone can compete with an upper-mid range laptop. Gives these devices actually a lot more processing power then something with such a small screen can effectively use.
In what direction are they going?
As long as the price is growing faster then your credit card interest, you are good. You keep on buying more currency and just charge back enough to bring your balance down, then you buy more. Free money.
However... If the price falls, you are in a lot of debt.
This is why using debt devices to buy investments are often highly regulated and often illegal.
It is important for the population to understand how trade effects your personal life.
However banning VPN's goes against Internet Freedom.
Say that to the people who have for the first time needed to go to food pantries so they can eat for the week.
It is a funny statement, just not timed correctly. In a month or so, it would be much more funny. Right now the joke is under "too soon".
I really don't see angry people rioting in the streets from this, just some nasty emails saying they were insensitive to the pain they just had.
In a few weeks the paid would be gone, as they get there checks.
Well I think it is a lot like 9/11 jokes made in the early 2000's. Not necessarily extremely offensive, but poorly timed, as a lot of federal employees, are still feeling the pain from the current shutdown. If this was released in a few months (assuming no more shutdowns) I would guess the humor in the statement would be better received. We make jokes about death and dying all the time, but we don't do it in front of someone who just lost a loved one.
But I expect the retraction was less to prevent outrage, but the accidental political slant that could be implied in the message. The majority of the US population has blamed the President and the Republican party more for the shutdown then with the Democrats. So the GOP tried to keep the spin about it only being a partial shutdown, and it isn't as bad as we think (The democrats would do the same if they were to be blamed for it). However the way it was worded, it almost thinks that Ubisoft was endorsing the Republican position, which for marketing that would mean you might turn off half of the population in this era of tribal partisanship.
I think this is less outrage, but possible customers going yea ill skip this, because it is isn't for me.
Sure it is a big deal security lapse from Apple. So the received/found the problem, analysis the scope of it, stopped the service, sent out communication about the problem. Now they are applying a fix.
It seems like a responsible course of action.
I am sure people who hate Apple, because they were beaten up by a hipster a few years ago, will still fault Apple, and make them seem like a pile of idiots who cannot code themselves out of a paper bag. But these things happen, I am actually surprised it doesn't happen more often.
I am sure all you programmers out there who are smug that their code never got hacked. But is it really skill, or just being lucky, or your program isn't just that popular enough. It can often just be a bad day where your code has a security flaw in it, and coded so it would be difficult for the QC to find it. However within weeks of it being public it was was found as a problem. I myself never had my coded hacked, however this isn't a reason to pat myself on the back, or be smug and judgemental, as I have fixed things in my own code that could had been bad if I didn't catch it. And I never know what else I may have open.
I love the "We are not advancing technically because this new technology is just a slight improvement over the older technology" trope.
We read the history books that list advancements often in decades blocks, we feel that we are just not advancing as much as we use to.
Because it seems like the Electric Light, the Telephone, the Radio came out in the same year and was used by all, people just rushed out to buy all this stuff. And a massive team of people just started putting up telephone and power poles to give the infrastructure over night.
While it took nearly 50 years to get such services to the general public, and rural areas. While "Leave it to Beaver" was showing off the advancements in American Life in suburban areas. Areas just 25 miles away, people are still heating their homes with wood, and using lanterns for light, and using the outhouse because they don't have running water.
20 years ago, rural areas had no Cell Coverage, 10 years ago it had spotty coverage where you can probably keep a call. Today we have 4 out of 5 bars and it is good enough for high speed data transfer. Where I can travel 40 miles from my home to the city, with a VOIP connection on a conference call.
Sure we have the technology for wireless power transfer. Heck many new phones now have wireless charging in them anyways. Sure this fancier tin foil is based on old principals. however now get get power for its size. Progress.
We suffer genetic mutations all the time. Usually if such a genetic tinkering causes a problem the few cells that got messed up die out, and are replaced with better working cells, or if they go haywire, and start reproducing like mad, then we get cancer, which causes an awful lot of deaths.
Our genes also have a lot of useless stuff in it anyways. Evolution isn't Optimization. If the useless stuff doesn't kill us, then it gets passed to the next generation as useless stuff. So we may take some genes from bacteria and nothing will happen, because such changes doesn't effect anything useful
I like Nintendo. I have a Wii-U... However Nintendo has been lagging behind its competition for about 20 years.
The Nintendo Game Cube was the last product that was roughly on-par technically with its competitors.
I had to wait for the Wii-U to support 1080p graphics, while the PlayStation and Xbox had supported it for years.
Its 3d Graphical processing is behind even low end integrated PC graphics. Nintendo put all their R&D into 2dish graphics, which is great for the games that Nintendo likes to sell. Cartoon based games. But their lack of hardware, has caused a problem for non-nintendo game makers to make their games for the platform, as it not balances for the games they want to make.
I don't think the Raspberry Pi has enough power to properly emulated Wii games, let along Wii U or Switch games.
If you are happy with your Pi then you are fine with the old nostalgic games. There is no problem with that. However, there is no point on ranting about the new systems either.
When you are the market leader, sometime the boring decisions are the better one. There were a lot of companies that went out of business, because they stuck with the high growth CEO, where they rush to the top, and when they get there the CEO freaks out and tosses the baby out with the bathwater. Because things seem stagnate, because there isn't someone else ahead of them to beat. So they go into a new market to fight to the top. This often prevents putting resources into the companies core services, which causes them to die out.
I am not saying your post has no merit, because too careful management could prevent taking necessary risks and too much of the same old same old could cause them to go behind their competition.
DoJ is America, European Commission is European.
In terms of rules and friendliness to corporations they are very different. A liberal America is still a conservative (Probably closer to middle of the road) Europe. Telling Facebook what to do from the DoJ or the SEC just isn't going to happen.
Buy High and sell low. Sounds good when you know the outcome. However when do you know if it is a just a fad, or a trend. sometimes a fad looks like a trend, and people buy too late.
R&D if done correctly will also run into dead ends. Science and Research doesn't always give you the outcome you want.
Putting capital in orthogonal market trends, we are back trying to figure if it is just a fad or a real trend.
Selling profitable divisions. This is a complex issue, if you want to grow your company, by selling off units who have lower margins of profit may allow you to put the rest of your resources into areas that can allow faster growth.
Getting Rid of key talent. Sometime key talent is that guy who is really good at the one thing. You are not planning on doing that one thing.
We can read case studies on how a company fails, then you can read a case study on how a company succeeds, and you find they did the same things.
Often the Best CEO for the companies are not actively involved in product design. (The Steve Jobs model is more the exception then the reality).
The finance guys as CEO is often a better choice, because decisions will be based on numbers and less from Ego, or personal interest of the product at hand.
Too often the CEO of tech companies gets too involved in the technology, pushing bad decisions, because with the power granted to CEO, there will not be too many people who will say that is a dumb idea.
However as Chief Executive Officer, their role is to make sure the other Executives are doing their jobs, and a numbers guy can push a more quantifiable approach to show what is happening with each Executives branch of control.
So if the CFO says they should cancel a popular product that the COO doesn't. If he would look at the numbers, from a financial side, and also on a sales side he may be able to make a better decision. Then some other CEO's who just use their gut. This product while more expensive to make, allows for up sales to more profitable item. Or this item is only profitable because it is cheap to the customer, and they will make more money if they cancel that product, and put the resources into making something more profitable.
I said it was its goal. Not necessarily that they are good at it, or always succeed.
Well there is the public Idea of the Commander Data, or Hal 9000 type of AI. What modern AI is a computer used to solve complex problems, and be adaptable to come up with a unique solution.
What has changed over the past few decades, is that computing power has gotten to a level that affordable computers can now perform these calculations. Modern AI is still kinda stupid, but it is more rigorous.
Say given 50 years of crop data, with 50 years of weather data. Correlating, Simulating and Trending the data use to be too expensive, now it can be ran to show when it would be a good time to irrigate your crops and when to wait for rain, for your area. So either it will take a team of experts to try to figure this out over years. Or an AI that will just run for a few days and give you data that may be good enough.
The UN goal is to help facilitate peace. Scarcity causes conflict and wars. Because the Orphans, Homeless refugees are this way because of this.
To help manage Scarcity we need to know who may have more and less of something, where the UN can help facilitate helping those with less of something to trade with countries you may have more.
While Water, Food, and Raw Materials are often big on the list, Intellectual Property and Technology are important as well. Knowing that the United States and China are leaders in such technology, a smaller country who may need such services may go to the UN to help them find a partner to work with them on getting such services. Where payments and negotiation needs to be taken place.
Now for some countries they really don't like China or the United States. However if given both they may choose one over the other.
That is why the UN is figuring out this stuff. Because if some unknown country who doesn't have access to modern AI research, say in crop management, and they are suffering from a food shortage, while their neighbors who have access to this technology and are doing better... Just may be enough to cause a war.