IT security is about tradeoffs. The idea of 100% security while possible, it impractical. Your argument about Blackphone is the fact they are not supportive of the OSS mind set, So you judging the quality of the technology based on what type of license it has.
Ok a flaw was found, and they put in a fix for it, what else do you expect from them?
There is an art to programming. However I am more of a visual person I tend to compare it to painting. Where I use Mathematics, Logic, and understanding of the Systems engineering to replace brushes, paint, and understanding of the textures of the material.
When you teach someone to code, (especially from a non-coder) it is like showing them how to hold a pencil, and write some letters, and words. It will take experience and working with real coders to learn the finer arts to programming. It isn't about knowing how to do the actions... But how to put yourself in the mindset to create.
Historic Storm! Here Ye Here Ye. Run the shops and get your Toilet Paper in Bulk. Be Prepared to live like a caveman for year!
What I would like to have seen. Estimated snow fall ranges. Average expected snow fall to get Standard Deviation of your estimate. Confidence interval.
We get a lot of this talk during the political season. So the general public does seem to have at least a rudimentary understanding of such statistics. Why can't we get this for things like weather. Other than trying to make us panic about every freaking thing.
How does your kernel preference affect the quality of the user interface? Actually Most Unix designs over exaggerate the problem I have stated. I want to run a program that does this. Well I/usr/bin or/usr/sbin/ or/usr/local/bin or/usr/local/sbin I sure hope the command lets me know what the heck the program does.
MWM, FVWM, CDW (the classic interfaces) tended to give you what you can have the rest was via command line in Xterm. Windows 8 UI stole the Ubuntu method in a lot of ways as well.
You are dealing with these issues, it is that you got use to them and don't realize how bad off you are.
Well if you live in a City. And you happen to be in a place where you cannot stay for shelter. Then you will need to be able to get to a place of shelter, your home, a hotel... If Cabs, Busses and public transportation isn't meeting demand, then you may need a personal driver go get you to the proper place of shelter.
Econ 101 yes. However during cases of emergencies, demand may not be rational, as the value of their currency is less than the value they are trying to protect. If you are freezing to death and the only thing that can save your life would be using that check in your pocket for a million dollars, you would burn that check, in order to save your life.
In short during an emergency people need to focus on the short term and not the long term. So Supply vs Demand breaks down, as the value of money, is only as valuable as everyone agrees it is. However during an emergency, its value drops to the practical value of the paper,coin, plastic.
That is why there are anti-gouging laws. Because it isn't an aggregate rational supply and demand, but a mad rush for services. Now for Uber and other services, Being their computers are not programmed to think in terms of an irrational market, they will just assume there is a perfectly rational demand jump so the prices will rise. The long term effect would be customers being felt ripped off will avoid such services in the future.
So you insult the guy who used science to invent stuff that is practical and has in general enhanced our lives.
While you fully support a guy who had difficulty making a device that can be used.
Now don't get me wrong, I look up to Tesla as the better scientist. But Edison had the vision to use science to solve problems. Yes He made money from it. But I wouldn't say he is a sell out, he started inventing stuff as a way to make money.
I don't care what they call it. But I just want the ability to drill down to find my feature. The Windows 8 Interface, and Office 2007+ Ribbons with its tiles, kills the drill down idea, and gives you a big set of data cluttered in your face.
I am all for a spot for shortcuts and links, where you can put the most used features right at your beck and call. But being the case I use 20% of the features 80% of the time, means I much rather have most of the stuff shoved away from my site, until I need them, and I can use common sense to find out where they are.
So can the other guys. Including the bad guys who we are encrypting to protect our data from. While there is a slew of people who fears big brother. But for the most part we do are best to block petty criminal. Who can take our data, spread it across the crimeosphere, for profit. While we become a victim, with a reducing credit score, and losing decades of good will you accumulated in your life. To think the US is the only source that can do this, is actually quite hubristic. There are other countries with large data centers, there are companies with the power to do so as well. If you wait 2 or 3 years then the power will be able for the average person to crack.
But let just say Google had a hole where the bad guys got in and were able to use fraction of it power to crack weak encryption they could get a lot of damage done before they found out.
Strong encryption isn't about stopping the feds, it is about stopping the petty crook.
California, seems to be reactive in terms of policy. It will try hundreds of policies many of them fail or have no impact. But the few that do work they will tout how progressive they are.
Still I want to cross the state border with my nice juicy apple.
For most cases the language is rather minimal on the impact. The quality of the compiler and supporting libraries give performance. The IDE usually offers the ease and speed of development.
Sure some languages make some things easer then others, or makes it easier for the compiler or interpreter efficient.
But for the most part with language preference it is just about chest thumping to try to show who is the alpha geek.
Like they dumped CE As well NT for the PowerPC and NT for the Alpha.
In short Windows isn't successful unless it is compatible with the decades of legacy stuff.
The reason why we are not all on 64bit windows is because we still may have some 16bit windows 3.1 apps that we cannot replace.
When Microsoft dominated they pushed developers towards non-cross platform development... So now they are forced to deal with back-assward compatibility.
The issue with a lot of these companies, they operate on the borders of legal and illegal. Like the guy selling Sorney, Magnetbox and the genuine Penaphonics.
Um yea... I didn't see Microsoft file as a Not for Profit organization yet.
Right now Microsoft is just making sure existing customers don't jump ship, or worry about upgrading now, because the next OS will be out soon.
The (Desktop/Laptop) PC is no longer the sexy device (The area where Microsoft is king). However it is a big market and you don't want them to go off your platform soon, as they are your main bread and butter. The (Tablet/Phones) Mobile Devices are the new trend however Microsoft is managing a far third place. With Google and Apple really giving them good competition. Right now for those who betted on Microsoft Mobile devices and many of them actually really do like their device, Microsoft needs to make sure they have a reason to stay.
Yes a USB Flash Drive is more complex than a Cartridge, being that it is going threw a Universal Bus and is Read/Write (However Zelda use to be able to save data). But compared to other forms of storage after cartridges downfall after the Nintendo 64. The USB Flash brings up many of the core Ideas of the Cartridge. A device that has no moving parts that is made to be constantly inserted and removed.
The Ford Model T is also very quite different than a Ford Mustang. But still they are classified as cars.
The problem falls the fact that someones internet connection was cut.
Back in the old days before the late 1990's when such technology such as Internet Access, Cell Phones, Using a Computer. Where domain of the geeks. Today everyone is using it, however a lot of the old school geeks didn't get the memo.
If back in school if I were to walk around with a PDA and/or a Cell phone, Laptop of a Pager. I would been labeled even more of an outcast. Today having such technology is trendy.
Well the person who you think is using "Right to Free Speech" to Vandalize someone's infrastructure that they too use to deploy free speech. So who is censoring who?
Free Speech doesn't mean every freaking action you do, because you want to send a message falls under free speech.
In that case those gangsters who shoot down those other gangsters to explain that this is their territory are in the right as well.
I am a big fan of Cross Platform Application Development. However these are for applications that do not really take the advantage of the platform. Having made web apps for Blackberry then for iPhone and Android... things such as different screen dimensions, different input methods, additional features also come into play.
Even the fact that each System has a different sets of interface standards, that can come in to make your app look good or crappy
I think microsoft plan of isolating Linux from IE failed. Offering it to Linux may give it a few more years of life from it. As people will use IE for Linux to stick with those corporate intranets, that have been made in Front Page, or Visual Studio.
In the 1990's tech was big. So we hired any sap who had vague credentials to do the work. 100k a year to work in front page and call yourself a web developer. A bunch of hacks who worked in VB only and called themselves programmers. Creating an infrastructure where Systems Crashes were common and massive security holes.
2003 the tech bubble burst. Luckily a lot of the dead wood left, but then they went into real estate, where they rode that bubble, until it popped, due to inadequate work, and rushing for the fast buck.
What the employers need are high quality workers who care about their work. However there is a gap. Cheap H1B labor who are so cheap that you can just get your quality up by throwing more men in it, then there is the skilled person. Who will work up and go to bigger and better things. Because a small companies cannot afford a star performer. But there isn't a good gap of dependable workers. Perhaps pushing for a 2 year program may fill that gap. Or it may just bring up the get rich quick group of people back in the 1990's
Now nearly any story posting an opinion will get voted false. As there will be people disagreeing with each others facts.
Any articles about religion. Will be marked false from the atheists. Any articles against religion. Will be marked false from all the religious. The Right will mark false everything that is left leaning. The Left will mark false everything that is right leaning.
Now granted it will be much more peaceful without a lot of this stupid bickering as most peoples opinions are worthless in the grand scheme of things. However once in a while a truly new piece of information may come out to inspire further investigation, and shouldn't be shut down so quickly because it doesn't immediately fit our world view.
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IT security is about tradeoffs.
The idea of 100% security while possible, it impractical.
Your argument about Blackphone is the fact they are not supportive of the OSS mind set, So you judging the quality of the technology based on what type of license it has.
Ok a flaw was found, and they put in a fix for it, what else do you expect from them?
There is an art to programming. However I am more of a visual person I tend to compare it to painting. Where I use Mathematics, Logic, and understanding of the Systems engineering to replace brushes, paint, and understanding of the textures of the material.
When you teach someone to code, (especially from a non-coder) it is like showing them how to hold a pencil, and write some letters, and words. It will take experience and working with real coders to learn the finer arts to programming.
It isn't about knowing how to do the actions... But how to put yourself in the mindset to create.
Historic Storm!
Here Ye Here Ye. Run the shops and get your Toilet Paper in Bulk. Be Prepared to live like a caveman for year!
What I would like to have seen.
Estimated snow fall ranges.
Average expected snow fall to get
Standard Deviation of your estimate.
Confidence interval.
We get a lot of this talk during the political season. So the general public does seem to have at least a rudimentary understanding of such statistics. Why can't we get this for things like weather. Other than trying to make us panic about every freaking thing.
I want News, not sensationalism .
How does your kernel preference affect the quality of the user interface? /usr/bin or /usr/sbin/ or /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin I sure hope the command lets me know what the heck the program does.
Actually Most Unix designs over exaggerate the problem I have stated.
I want to run a program that does this.
Well I
MWM, FVWM, CDW (the classic interfaces) tended to give you what you can have the rest was via command line in Xterm.
Windows 8 UI stole the Ubuntu method in a lot of ways as well.
You are dealing with these issues, it is that you got use to them and don't realize how bad off you are.
Well if you live in a City. And you happen to be in a place where you cannot stay for shelter. Then you will need to be able to get to a place of shelter, your home, a hotel... If Cabs, Busses and public transportation isn't meeting demand, then you may need a personal driver go get you to the proper place of shelter.
Econ 101 yes. However during cases of emergencies, demand may not be rational, as the value of their currency is less than the value they are trying to protect.
If you are freezing to death and the only thing that can save your life would be using that check in your pocket for a million dollars, you would burn that check, in order to save your life.
In short during an emergency people need to focus on the short term and not the long term. So Supply vs Demand breaks down, as the value of money, is only as valuable as everyone agrees it is. However during an emergency, its value drops to the practical value of the paper,coin, plastic.
That is why there are anti-gouging laws. Because it isn't an aggregate rational supply and demand, but a mad rush for services.
Now for Uber and other services, Being their computers are not programmed to think in terms of an irrational market, they will just assume there is a perfectly rational demand jump so the prices will rise. The long term effect would be customers being felt ripped off will avoid such services in the future.
So you were impressed with Scaled Composites marketing video?
Did you rush out to buy a Power Glove after watching the Wizard?
So you insult the guy who used science to invent stuff that is practical and has in general enhanced our lives.
While you fully support a guy who had difficulty making a device that can be used.
Now don't get me wrong, I look up to Tesla as the better scientist. But Edison had the vision to use science to solve problems. Yes He made money from it. But I wouldn't say he is a sell out, he started inventing stuff as a way to make money.
I don't care what they call it. But I just want the ability to drill down to find my feature.
The Windows 8 Interface, and Office 2007+ Ribbons with its tiles, kills the drill down idea, and gives you a big set of data cluttered in your face.
I am all for a spot for shortcuts and links, where you can put the most used features right at your beck and call. But being the case I use 20% of the features 80% of the time, means I much rather have most of the stuff shoved away from my site, until I need them, and I can use common sense to find out where they are.
So can the other guys.
Including the bad guys who we are encrypting to protect our data from.
While there is a slew of people who fears big brother. But for the most part we do are best to block petty criminal. Who can take our data, spread it across the crimeosphere, for profit. While we become a victim, with a reducing credit score, and losing decades of good will you accumulated in your life.
To think the US is the only source that can do this, is actually quite hubristic. There are other countries with large data centers, there are companies with the power to do so as well. If you wait 2 or 3 years then the power will be able for the average person to crack.
But let just say Google had a hole where the bad guys got in and were able to use fraction of it power to crack weak encryption they could get a lot of damage done before they found out.
Strong encryption isn't about stopping the feds, it is about stopping the petty crook.
California, seems to be reactive in terms of policy.
It will try hundreds of policies many of them fail or have no impact. But the few that do work they will tout how progressive they are.
Still I want to cross the state border with my nice juicy apple.
For most cases the language is rather minimal on the impact.
The quality of the compiler and supporting libraries give performance. The IDE usually offers the ease and speed of development.
Sure some languages make some things easer then others, or makes it easier for the compiler or interpreter efficient.
But for the most part with language preference it is just about chest thumping to try to show who is the alpha geek.
Like they dumped CE
As well NT for the PowerPC and NT for the Alpha.
In short Windows isn't successful unless it is compatible with the decades of legacy stuff.
The reason why we are not all on 64bit windows is because we still may have some 16bit windows 3.1 apps that we cannot replace.
When Microsoft dominated they pushed developers towards non-cross platform development... So now they are forced to deal with back-assward compatibility.
The issue with a lot of these companies, they operate on the borders of legal and illegal. Like the guy selling Sorney, Magnetbox and the genuine Penaphonics.
Um yea...
I didn't see Microsoft file as a Not for Profit organization yet.
Right now Microsoft is just making sure existing customers don't jump ship, or worry about upgrading now, because the next OS will be out soon.
The (Desktop/Laptop) PC is no longer the sexy device (The area where Microsoft is king). However it is a big market and you don't want them to go off your platform soon, as they are your main bread and butter.
The (Tablet/Phones) Mobile Devices are the new trend however Microsoft is managing a far third place. With Google and Apple really giving them good competition. Right now for those who betted on Microsoft Mobile devices and many of them actually really do like their device, Microsoft needs to make sure they have a reason to stay.
Yes a USB Flash Drive is more complex than a Cartridge, being that it is going threw a Universal Bus and is Read/Write (However Zelda use to be able to save data).
But compared to other forms of storage after cartridges downfall after the Nintendo 64. The USB Flash brings up many of the core Ideas of the Cartridge. A device that has no moving parts that is made to be constantly inserted and removed.
The Ford Model T is also very quite different than a Ford Mustang. But still they are classified as cars.
The problem falls the fact that someones internet connection was cut.
Back in the old days before the late 1990's when such technology such as Internet Access, Cell Phones, Using a Computer. Where domain of the geeks. Today everyone is using it, however a lot of the old school geeks didn't get the memo.
If back in school if I were to walk around with a PDA and/or a Cell phone, Laptop of a Pager. I would been labeled even more of an outcast. Today having such technology is trendy.
Well the person who you think is using "Right to Free Speech" to Vandalize someone's infrastructure that they too use to deploy free speech. So who is censoring who?
Free Speech doesn't mean every freaking action you do, because you want to send a message falls under free speech.
In that case those gangsters who shoot down those other gangsters to explain that this is their territory are in the right as well.
I am a big fan of Cross Platform Application Development.
However these are for applications that do not really take the advantage of the platform.
Having made web apps for Blackberry then for iPhone and Android... things such as different screen dimensions, different input methods, additional features also come into play.
Even the fact that each System has a different sets of interface standards, that can come in to make your app look good or crappy
USB Flash Drives are Cartridges reborn.
I always figured that they just need an LED light to shine if they are recording or now. Not perfect but at least they know.
I remember IE 4 for Unix. They had IE 5 for Mac.
I think microsoft plan of isolating Linux from IE failed. Offering it to Linux may give it a few more years of life from it. As people will use IE for Linux to stick with those corporate intranets, that have been made in Front Page, or Visual Studio.
In the 1990's tech was big. So we hired any sap who had vague credentials to do the work. 100k a year to work in front page and call yourself a web developer. A bunch of hacks who worked in VB only and called themselves programmers. Creating an infrastructure where Systems Crashes were common and massive security holes.
2003 the tech bubble burst. Luckily a lot of the dead wood left, but then they went into real estate, where they rode that bubble, until it popped, due to inadequate work, and rushing for the fast buck.
What the employers need are high quality workers who care about their work. However there is a gap. Cheap H1B labor who are so cheap that you can just get your quality up by throwing more men in it, then there is the skilled person. Who will work up and go to bigger and better things. Because a small companies cannot afford a star performer.
But there isn't a good gap of dependable workers. Perhaps pushing for a 2 year program may fill that gap. Or it may just bring up the get rich quick group of people back in the 1990's
Now nearly any story posting an opinion will get voted false. As there will be people disagreeing with each others facts.
Any articles about religion. Will be marked false from the atheists.
Any articles against religion. Will be marked false from all the religious.
The Right will mark false everything that is left leaning.
The Left will mark false everything that is right leaning.
Now granted it will be much more peaceful without a lot of this stupid bickering as most peoples opinions are worthless in the grand scheme of things. However once in a while a truly new piece of information may come out to inspire further investigation, and shouldn't be shut down so quickly because it doesn't immediately fit our world view.
Give me a H
Give me an I
Give me a P
Give me an A
Give me an A
What does that spell HIPAA
What does that mean! The government should fine itself!
I think if the government needs to fine itself, they should refund the money back to the tax payers for services failed to render.