"You know, I think there are other objects besides our Sun and Moon out there..."
"Oh, what a load of shit. Everyone knows our world is flat, and we are the most important world. Even our Sun rotates around us."
Sometimes I wonder how many more times we'll find ourselves to be dead wrong when speaking about our solar system. From the dawn of time (brought to you by the Sun Chariot), we've certainly proven we have a rather ridiculous ability to not be right.
I'm sorry but if you are serious about security and long-term stability (decades) then Windows isn't the way. Sure, no OS is perfect but that doesn't means you should choose to drink raw sewage because filtered water isn't really pure water. Honestly, they should be using some minimal version of FreeBSD with an minimalistic or possibly text interface. Progress is good but only if you are heading in the right direction.
Consumers are a considerable part of the problem with insecurity, because they will prefer functionality over security every time.
Is it possible to make Microsoft OS secure? Sure. Remove the GUI, disable file sharing protocols, and reduce it to a powershell box.
Is it possible to make a smartphone secure? Sure. Disable all app installs and cloud sync, remove unnecessary apps, and secure with 8-digit PIN.
Will consumers find these products useful after securing them? No, not really. They want to have their cake and eat it too, which is exactly the kind of crap they would demand with any other OS, eventually turning it into a backwards-compatible-cloud-sync shitpile, which tends to describe exactly what we have today.
Self studied and then paid a modest amount for some classes to obtain my first IT Certification in 1999.
Used that to get a support position in 2000.
Continued working my way up the ladder in IT jobs for the next 17 years.
Now making a 6 figure income
At least half the people I work with have gone a similar route and the company I work for even has an apprenticeship program for paid work/study position for one year and then advance them into an actual position and they will even take people with no computer skills as long as they have the right personality and drive to succeed in IT.
Congrats on your personal success. Regarding your company's program, this is the way it should be for technical positions that demand a constant refresh of training and skills to keep up with technology.
An accountant who obtained training 20 years ago can still find value and use most of those skills today. That is not the case for those in IT, and more people outside of IT need to understand that instead of looking down upon the highly skilled IT professional who can still provide great value without being a ringknocker with a sheepskin under their belt.
OK, you are probably the only one I know who doesn't look at a car models safety record before buying a car.
Wrong. I have loved ones to protect, as do many others on the road.
Apart from Tesla shitty autonomous solutions aren't rushed to market.
The fact that you had to make an exception in your statement tends to prove my point.
The fact that lawmakers are now in a hurry tends to validate the speed at which Greed wants to get shit moving (quite literally).
The fact that the infamous "cloud" will be practically inescapable in future designs (if for no other reason than cloud is still fashionably cool) tends to showcase the potential for vulnerabilities.
Gonna be hard to accept the death of a loved one at the hands of IoT-grade code driven by Greed.
Yeah, so much better to be killed by someone playing on their iPhone while driving, or by someone speeding on icy roads because they wanted to be home a minute earlier.
Death is death; it's hard to accept, but at least in the examples you've provided, there is a very good chance justice will be served.
When autonomous networks get hacked by some anonymous person on the other side of the planet, there is no justice, which often brings decent closure to those who have suffered and lost.
Only during a gold rush. They don't last forever. Eventually you do run out of fools. For a while.
Unlike crytocurrency, gold is an actual finite resource on the planet, so the analogies aren't exactly fitting.
To prove my point, watch and see how [NextGenCoin] creates a new "rush" to mine.
The "rush" in this activity is also based around the valuation. The larger the investment by powerful people, the more cryptocurrency values will be artificially inflated and maintained.
(Yeah, I know, sounds a lot like other forms of traditional currency...)
It is inexcusable not to have the card broadcast its current credit to a disconnected machine. What possible circumstances would excuse this? And even if you have cards that can start a credit account, yhe machine would remember the card's number and transaction so the data could be updated when the machine was reconnected.
Regardless of how bad the system was designed, the truly inexcusable activity here was not reporting it.
The end result was abusing the shit out of the vulnerability to the tune of $3000+ worth of stolen goods.
The line between a consultant and a criminal is often defined by ethics.
Human driven cars kill about 3300 per day worldwide, and about 90 per day in America.
And if shitty autonomous solutions rushed to market that prioritize revenue over security "only" kills half that many, we should welcome that as some kind of twisted improvement?
Gonna be hard to accept the death of a loved one at the hands of IoT-grade code driven by Greed. It's time we strive for better than that, and not allow Greed to continue to dismantle quality or safety.
Which situation is preventable? Autonomous car driving into brick wall or grandpa having a seizure driving into a brick wall.
Standing over the grave of your loved ones because an unpredictable medical event happened to a human driver vs. standing over the grave of your loved ones because some CEO decided to be cheap as hell and not spend the money necessary to ensure bugs were worked out and the autonomous solution was secure before going to market.
Multiply the latter impact by 1,000 when a DDoS attack happens against an autonomous WAN.
Yeah, I'd say one of those is a hell of a lot more preventable than the other, and "good enough" is not what I fucking call an acceptable validation with this technology.
I still don't get it. Most applications I use are free, and even for some I don't see a need for an "App". Most of the time the mobile-aware (or responsive design) websites work just fine. Except the m.slashdot.org thing, I could probably write 10 bug reports just by thinking of it. Luckily, you can tell it to load the desktop site. For most stuff the mobile website is just fine. I even use Facebooks mobile site, because I ditched their app it after the split of their core app and messenger. Never looked back. Works wonderfully.
How do you make money on apps? The only thing I can see, is selling your App-writing skills to a big company, which then distributes it for free to the end-user.
There are several ways to make money for mobile apps and games...
There are also several ways to sell statistics based on bullshit too.
Look at a Nest webcam cloud service. A consumer pays $10/month for that, and can easily access it through a browser, but when a consumer uses the magical bean (a.k.a. "app") to access the service, it's counted as magical bean revenue.
I accept a multi-trillion dollar valuation about as well as the average Shark Tank investor.
Netflix offers an app. Is Netflix revenue based on app usage counted as "app" revenue, but not counted when a browser interface is used? How about Amazon? Nest? Your local grocery store app?
This entire valuation is utter bullshit. I could do the same thing and claim the Chrome browser market is now worth trillions because it happens to be a popular interface for people to buy things with and create revenue.
On a 50 floor building an elevator 4'x6' will have a shaft a little larger plus a 10' waiting area in front of it, so say 15x8 or 120 feet square x 50 floors gives 6000 square feet. Times $1000 per square foot for grade A office space and your elevator is now taking up $6 million dollars worth of floor space.
From TFS:
"The elevator can cost 3 to 5 times more than a regular elevator -- but can handle higher buildings than a conventional elevator."
Ever consider the millions wasted per year in business efficiency with a building full of employees who are forced to walk due to traditional designs?
The efficiency gains also include traditional vertical movement too, since maglev speeds are likely going to only be restricted by human capability. I for one, vote for an elevator ride from the 75th floor that includes a free-fall mode to simulate weightlessness for a few seconds, with careful deceleration. Would be one hell of an attraction to work there.
Maybe because there is no hallway to walk. With this kind of elevators, hallways full of doors can be a thing of the past - the elevator just drops you off at your destination.
Speaking of creative thinking, I can't wait to see the emergency-exit plan for insanely high buildings with no hallways or doors.
I mean after all, electricity, elevators, escalators; these are things that have never failed...
Did you see the video? The elevator's horizontal speed was around the same speed as walking. So why not just walk?
We live in a world where humans expend the additional effort to type text messages instead of simply speaking to each other in order to communicate, and yet are too lazy to get up and turn off a light switch, or open a browser to search for something, insisting that a voice-controlled in-home digital assistant needs to do that instead.
Law enforcement isn't going to do anything to help you about ransomware hitting your computer. For the victim, it's a waste of time.
Ever consider the possibility that the cybercrime division actually could help by guiding an unknowing victim to available solutions to recover data instead of them blindly assuming all is lost and prematurely formatting hard drives?
Let's not act like ransomware key recovery is some mythical event that's never happened before, or assume that every victim is aware of its existence.
So what this is telling me is that I need to install coilovers on my suitcase. This way I could adjust the dampening and spring rates to ensure the best response on uneven terrain. I could then even lower it if I wanted, but it's pretty slammed as it is.
Nice ride you got there. I'm gonna go with front and rear anti-sway bars for better handling, along with low-profile wheels.
And I'm gonna skip the coilovers and go straight with bluetooth bagged suspension(bags for bags). Use my phone app to slam it when rolling through baggage check.
Oh, and don't forget the axle-back wheel agitators, for that aggressive sound when cruising at low RPMs.
. They generally require pay advances and career progression to keep up with the cost of living increases and fund a retirement plan, as well as a reasonable work/life balance to sustain sanity and do other things like raise a family, or advance their education.
You have been living in a bubble. What you are proposing are foreign concepts to the lower half of the population in the wealth gap. Miners doubly so.
Miners have shortened lifespans and work long hours so everyone else can charge their cellphones and not even notice the cost.
Miners don't expect "career progression".
Miners don't expect to live long enough to retire.
Miners' "work/life balance" is to sacrifice life for work such that their family can live a middle class lifestyle they would otherwise never see. Their kids get education that the miners never had the opportunity to have.
How so many people call themselves intelligent or educated and bash miners while being ignorant of their position and sacrifices is disgusting.
I'm not sure why you chose miners specifically here, as there are many jobs today that fit the description of dead end.
People don't normally seek out a career that offers no advancement, along with a considerably shortened life span. People do what they can, based on their ability.
What is truly disgusting is every person not being offered an opportunity to educate themselves and advance their careers, but that also takes the strong assumption that every person is intelligent enough to do so. I'm not trying to bash anyone here, but not everyone is capable of being educated, which unfortunately tends to define advancement in our society.
My concepts may be foreign to a portion of the population, but unfortunately it doesn't make them any less relevant or necessary.
A human requires sleep every 12 - 18 hours. They also require days off for rest, and insurance to be paid to cover for such thing as illness.
My Mom is a housewife and never got any of those things. Most certainly never got any days off. So I don't know what exactly you mean by "a human requires", because my Mom managed it for 20 years straight.
I tend to find it hard to believe your mother never needed sleep. Rest is required to sustain the human body. That may only come in the form of sleep if your job does not offer the luxury of a day off. Illness happens to all humans, so this likely had an impact over a 20-year career as well. When almost every society recognizes retirement as an inevitable phase of life, it tends to define a goal in ones mind. If you wish to avoid premature death, maintaining physical and metal heath has been proven to be rather necessary for the majority of humans, so yes, it is a need.
You didn't even read what I said.
Here, let me quote myself for you:
Permanently is a very strong word.
So long as it's cheaper for them to automate the mining, the coal jobs are gone. Remove some human rights and a chunk of pay, and I'm sure automation will be the one looking for a job.
Speaking of not reading, you cannot remove the human need to sleep. You cannot remove the vulnerability that a human gets sick. You cannot remove the human need for a work/life balance.
Christ... You act like the world is a perfect place mate.
And you act like automation cannot perfectly replace a tediously repetitive human job and operate so efficiently that no human could compete, regardless of what rights you remove.It can. It has. And it will continue.
To clarify, when I speak of Greed, I speak of the the control and wealth the 0.001% have amassed...
To clarify, use words as they are defined in dictionaries.
Greed: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (such as money) than is needed.
What you're doing is pretending not to obfuscate.
My description of Greed fits the textbook definition quite clearly. The overwhelming majority of us can be humbled and find satisfaction with a reasonable amount of money, and not create a massive imbalance of wealth and power to the detriment of the entire human race.
Those addicted to Greed who cannot ever be satisfied are creating the largest impact.
Slashdot Mirror
We only just knocked the last "Planet Nine" theory and now we've got ANOTHER ONE?!
See: https://medium.com/starts-with...
(A excerpt from our not-so-distant past...)
"You know, I think there are other objects besides our Sun and Moon out there..."
"Oh, what a load of shit. Everyone knows our world is flat, and we are the most important world. Even our Sun rotates around us."
Sometimes I wonder how many more times we'll find ourselves to be dead wrong when speaking about our solar system. From the dawn of time (brought to you by the Sun Chariot), we've certainly proven we have a rather ridiculous ability to not be right.
I'm sorry but if you are serious about security and long-term stability (decades) then Windows isn't the way. Sure, no OS is perfect but that doesn't means you should choose to drink raw sewage because filtered water isn't really pure water. Honestly, they should be using some minimal version of FreeBSD with an minimalistic or possibly text interface. Progress is good but only if you are heading in the right direction.
Consumers are a considerable part of the problem with insecurity, because they will prefer functionality over security every time.
Is it possible to make Microsoft OS secure? Sure. Remove the GUI, disable file sharing protocols, and reduce it to a powershell box.
Is it possible to make a smartphone secure? Sure. Disable all app installs and cloud sync, remove unnecessary apps, and secure with 8-digit PIN.
Will consumers find these products useful after securing them? No, not really. They want to have their cake and eat it too, which is exactly the kind of crap they would demand with any other OS, eventually turning it into a backwards-compatible-cloud-sync shitpile, which tends to describe exactly what we have today.
Self studied and then paid a modest amount for some classes to obtain my first IT Certification in 1999. Used that to get a support position in 2000. Continued working my way up the ladder in IT jobs for the next 17 years. Now making a 6 figure income At least half the people I work with have gone a similar route and the company I work for even has an apprenticeship program for paid work/study position for one year and then advance them into an actual position and they will even take people with no computer skills as long as they have the right personality and drive to succeed in IT.
Congrats on your personal success. Regarding your company's program, this is the way it should be for technical positions that demand a constant refresh of training and skills to keep up with technology.
An accountant who obtained training 20 years ago can still find value and use most of those skills today. That is not the case for those in IT, and more people outside of IT need to understand that instead of looking down upon the highly skilled IT professional who can still provide great value without being a ringknocker with a sheepskin under their belt.
OK, you are probably the only one I know who doesn't look at a car models safety record before buying a car.
Wrong. I have loved ones to protect, as do many others on the road.
Apart from Tesla shitty autonomous solutions aren't rushed to market.
The fact that you had to make an exception in your statement tends to prove my point.
The fact that lawmakers are now in a hurry tends to validate the speed at which Greed wants to get shit moving (quite literally).
The fact that the infamous "cloud" will be practically inescapable in future designs (if for no other reason than cloud is still fashionably cool) tends to showcase the potential for vulnerabilities.
Above all, Greed always drive priority.
Gonna be hard to accept the death of a loved one at the hands of IoT-grade code driven by Greed.
Yeah, so much better to be killed by someone playing on their iPhone while driving, or by someone speeding on icy roads because they wanted to be home a minute earlier.
Death is death; it's hard to accept, but at least in the examples you've provided, there is a very good chance justice will be served.
When autonomous networks get hacked by some anonymous person on the other side of the planet, there is no justice, which often brings decent closure to those who have suffered and lost.
Only during a gold rush. They don't last forever. Eventually you do run out of fools. For a while.
Unlike crytocurrency, gold is an actual finite resource on the planet, so the analogies aren't exactly fitting.
To prove my point, watch and see how [NextGenCoin] creates a new "rush" to mine.
The "rush" in this activity is also based around the valuation. The larger the investment by powerful people, the more cryptocurrency values will be artificially inflated and maintained.
(Yeah, I know, sounds a lot like other forms of traditional currency...)
It is inexcusable not to have the card broadcast its current credit to a disconnected machine. What possible circumstances would excuse this? And even if you have cards that can start a credit account, yhe machine would remember the card's number and transaction so the data could be updated when the machine was reconnected.
Regardless of how bad the system was designed, the truly inexcusable activity here was not reporting it.
The end result was abusing the shit out of the vulnerability to the tune of $3000+ worth of stolen goods.
The line between a consultant and a criminal is often defined by ethics.
It couldn't have been that easy - these machines have MACHINE INTELLIGENCE.
A machine is only as smart as the human programming it, and is only as secure as the budget that funds it. Reference "IoT Security" for more detail.
AND they're bolted to the floor!
And hacking used to require this kind of effort. Now it seems all you have to lift is a network cable.
and people will die.
Human driven cars kill about 3300 per day worldwide, and about 90 per day in America.
And if shitty autonomous solutions rushed to market that prioritize revenue over security "only" kills half that many, we should welcome that as some kind of twisted improvement?
Gonna be hard to accept the death of a loved one at the hands of IoT-grade code driven by Greed. It's time we strive for better than that, and not allow Greed to continue to dismantle quality or safety.
Which situation is preventable? Autonomous car driving into brick wall or grandpa having a seizure driving into a brick wall.
Standing over the grave of your loved ones because an unpredictable medical event happened to a human driver vs. standing over the grave of your loved ones because some CEO decided to be cheap as hell and not spend the money necessary to ensure bugs were worked out and the autonomous solution was secure before going to market.
Multiply the latter impact by 1,000 when a DDoS attack happens against an autonomous WAN.
Yeah, I'd say one of those is a hell of a lot more preventable than the other, and "good enough" is not what I fucking call an acceptable validation with this technology.
I still don't get it. Most applications I use are free, and even for some I don't see a need for an "App". Most of the time the mobile-aware (or responsive design) websites work just fine. Except the m.slashdot.org thing, I could probably write 10 bug reports just by thinking of it. Luckily, you can tell it to load the desktop site. For most stuff the mobile website is just fine. I even use Facebooks mobile site, because I ditched their app it after the split of their core app and messenger. Never looked back. Works wonderfully.
How do you make money on apps? The only thing I can see, is selling your App-writing skills to a big company, which then distributes it for free to the end-user.
There are several ways to make money for mobile apps and games...
There are also several ways to sell statistics based on bullshit too.
Look at a Nest webcam cloud service. A consumer pays $10/month for that, and can easily access it through a browser, but when a consumer uses the magical bean (a.k.a. "app") to access the service, it's counted as magical bean revenue.
In summary, magical beans are worth trillions.
I accept a multi-trillion dollar valuation about as well as the average Shark Tank investor.
Netflix offers an app. Is Netflix revenue based on app usage counted as "app" revenue, but not counted when a browser interface is used? How about Amazon? Nest? Your local grocery store app?
This entire valuation is utter bullshit. I could do the same thing and claim the Chrome browser market is now worth trillions because it happens to be a popular interface for people to buy things with and create revenue.
On a 50 floor building an elevator 4'x6' will have a shaft a little larger plus a 10' waiting area in front of it, so say 15x8 or 120 feet square x 50 floors gives 6000 square feet. Times $1000 per square foot for grade A office space and your elevator is now taking up $6 million dollars worth of floor space.
From TFS:
"The elevator can cost 3 to 5 times more than a regular elevator -- but can handle higher buildings than a conventional elevator."
Ever consider the millions wasted per year in business efficiency with a building full of employees who are forced to walk due to traditional designs?
The efficiency gains also include traditional vertical movement too, since maglev speeds are likely going to only be restricted by human capability. I for one, vote for an elevator ride from the 75th floor that includes a free-fall mode to simulate weightlessness for a few seconds, with careful deceleration. Would be one hell of an attraction to work there.
I can't wait to see the emergency-exit plan for insanely high buildings with no hallways or doors.
Rocket-powered, parachute-equipped escape pods.
Never pass up a chance to rocket-power something.
Actually, I was thinking personal drones, but you may be on to something with rocket-powered drones...
So why not just walk?
You're not thinking creatively enough.
Maybe because there is no hallway to walk. With this kind of elevators, hallways full of doors can be a thing of the past - the elevator just drops you off at your destination.
Speaking of creative thinking, I can't wait to see the emergency-exit plan for insanely high buildings with no hallways or doors.
I mean after all, electricity, elevators, escalators; these are things that have never failed...
Did you see the video? The elevator's horizontal speed was around the same speed as walking. So why not just walk?
We live in a world where humans expend the additional effort to type text messages instead of simply speaking to each other in order to communicate, and yet are too lazy to get up and turn off a light switch, or open a browser to search for something, insisting that a voice-controlled in-home digital assistant needs to do that instead.
Logic knows no bounds.
Companies don't want outsiders to know that they have incompetent users working for them...
FTFY, since it's no secret who is responsible for infections 99.99% of the time.
Law enforcement isn't going to do anything to help you about ransomware hitting your computer. For the victim, it's a waste of time.
Ever consider the possibility that the cybercrime division actually could help by guiding an unknowing victim to available solutions to recover data instead of them blindly assuming all is lost and prematurely formatting hard drives?
Let's not act like ransomware key recovery is some mythical event that's never happened before, or assume that every victim is aware of its existence.
So what this is telling me is that I need to install coilovers on my suitcase. This way I could adjust the dampening and spring rates to ensure the best response on uneven terrain. I could then even lower it if I wanted, but it's pretty slammed as it is.
Nice ride you got there. I'm gonna go with front and rear anti-sway bars for better handling, along with low-profile wheels.
And I'm gonna skip the coilovers and go straight with bluetooth bagged suspension(bags for bags). Use my phone app to slam it when rolling through baggage check.
Oh, and don't forget the axle-back wheel agitators, for that aggressive sound when cruising at low RPMs.
Boom.
Mine has 11.
The Spinal Tap Signature Series no doubt.
. They generally require pay advances and career progression to keep up with the cost of living increases and fund a retirement plan, as well as a reasonable work/life balance to sustain sanity and do other things like raise a family, or advance their education.
You have been living in a bubble. What you are proposing are foreign concepts to the lower half of the population in the wealth gap. Miners doubly so.
Miners have shortened lifespans and work long hours so everyone else can charge their cellphones and not even notice the cost.
Miners don't expect "career progression". Miners don't expect to live long enough to retire. Miners' "work/life balance" is to sacrifice life for work such that their family can live a middle class lifestyle they would otherwise never see. Their kids get education that the miners never had the opportunity to have.
How so many people call themselves intelligent or educated and bash miners while being ignorant of their position and sacrifices is disgusting.
I'm not sure why you chose miners specifically here, as there are many jobs today that fit the description of dead end.
People don't normally seek out a career that offers no advancement, along with a considerably shortened life span. People do what they can, based on their ability.
What is truly disgusting is every person not being offered an opportunity to educate themselves and advance their careers, but that also takes the strong assumption that every person is intelligent enough to do so. I'm not trying to bash anyone here, but not everyone is capable of being educated, which unfortunately tends to define advancement in our society.
My concepts may be foreign to a portion of the population, but unfortunately it doesn't make them any less relevant or necessary.
A human requires sleep every 12 - 18 hours. They also require days off for rest, and insurance to be paid to cover for such thing as illness.
My Mom is a housewife and never got any of those things. Most certainly never got any days off. So I don't know what exactly you mean by "a human requires", because my Mom managed it for 20 years straight.
I tend to find it hard to believe your mother never needed sleep. Rest is required to sustain the human body. That may only come in the form of sleep if your job does not offer the luxury of a day off. Illness happens to all humans, so this likely had an impact over a 20-year career as well. When almost every society recognizes retirement as an inevitable phase of life, it tends to define a goal in ones mind. If you wish to avoid premature death, maintaining physical and metal heath has been proven to be rather necessary for the majority of humans, so yes, it is a need.
You didn't even read what I said. Here, let me quote myself for you:
Permanently is a very strong word. So long as it's cheaper for them to automate the mining, the coal jobs are gone. Remove some human rights and a chunk of pay, and I'm sure automation will be the one looking for a job.
Speaking of not reading, you cannot remove the human need to sleep. You cannot remove the vulnerability that a human gets sick. You cannot remove the human need for a work/life balance.
Christ... You act like the world is a perfect place mate.
And you act like automation cannot perfectly replace a tediously repetitive human job and operate so efficiently that no human could compete, regardless of what rights you remove. It can. It has. And it will continue.
As long as people keep buying tickets, the formula will be followed.
Tends to say a lot about people...
To clarify, use words as they are defined in dictionaries.
Greed: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (such as money) than is needed.
What you're doing is pretending not to obfuscate.
My description of Greed fits the textbook definition quite clearly. The overwhelming majority of us can be humbled and find satisfaction with a reasonable amount of money, and not create a massive imbalance of wealth and power to the detriment of the entire human race.
Those addicted to Greed who cannot ever be satisfied are creating the largest impact.
Solve for Greed.