Isn't beta-decay a process that produces exponentially less energy over time? Like, after 100 years, it'll still produce half the voltage (or amperage) out. After 200, 25%. But after 25 years it'll only produce 70.7% of the output, which may not be enough. Or it could be more than enough at 200 years.
Adobe has no incentive to fix Flash player issues, since it was something it had to give away
Flash Player was given away. Flash (the developer software) was highly profitable software. Econ 102 says you give away things that make more people buy your highly profitable goods.
d say things are better off now, simply because we're not relying on a single company to update their plugin.
Adobe opened up Flash Player precisely because they didn't make money off it/didn't want to maintain it. IIRC, there was even a GNU implementation. I know Mozilla had an inhouse one. Yeah, it had issues, but I'm not so sure that it was that much worse than the general tech of the day. Fortunately, all software seems to be more secure now. (Even Windows!)
And super tracking used flash extensively
The supercookie used everything, pretty much by definition.
I grant that Flash ignored the cookie policy of the browser. But it had things like "don't allow cookies from third party domains" before it was a glimmer in the browser's eye (do all browsers even have that yet?) I found their settings easier (among other things, turning off all cookies broke practically no sites.) But you are right that even superior settings, if different from what people expect, can be pretty bad.
On the contrary, timing attacks are a problem in the specification. "Do X as fast as possible" is the default. "Do X in constant time" is an exception. It's a fundamental flaw in the spec.
Ultimately, specifications need to anticipate attacks and include mitigations.
there's no need to revert to older technology because some people are stupid.
On the contrary. If there are enough people who cannot understand how to use a technology, it should be held up. You can fix that by educating them, not by getting them to agree to disclaimers and then blaming them.
Some people will obviously misuse technology. But if the number misusing is high enough, there is either a problem with the technology, or how it is being marketed/explained to people.
because having Flash everywhere worked so well for us all.
Yes it fucking did. Flash/HTML4/CSS2 was strictly superior tech stack to HTML5/CSS3/JS. It handled cross-domain security better. It handled browser isolation better. It was a better programming language. It had fewer super-tracking features.
I will give you that Flash pushed people towards XML and JS pushed people towards JSON.
No, this is an exploit of a fundamental issue with CSS. By breaking with the standards, Chrome and FireFox are avoiding the issue.
It's similar to how no browser fully implements the JS spec. Because it has some (very edge case) stupid behavior. But that's okay, because the unimplemented parts will never come up anyhow.
YouTube is currently (and apparently successfully), trying to compete with FaceBook (among teens). Just like FB, that means YouTube needs to provide a constant stream of content, more often is better than longer. How else are people going to comment on something that just happened now?
Sometimes politicians are followers. Othertimes they're leaders. Yeah, they're unlikely to fly in the face of 60% disapproval, but 52%?
US Society is backwards because there has been a propaganda campaign since the 80's or 90's, convincing people that if it wasn't for that horrible government in their way, they'd all be millionaires.
e above $10k in the German study is total production costs, not just labour. That includes depreciation.
True it also assumes all those costs are spread over 10k/cars/week, not 5k/cars/week. So, those should probably be doubled today to $20k/car production costs.
What makes you think this is about the employees? This is about the guys who own coal mines/nuclear power plants, and are sad at the declining value of their assets.
Then there's a small number of 'swing' voters.
Thing is those voters vote on their 'gut'. They don't rationally weigh options and policies. They vote for the candidate that makes them feel the best.
I disagree on that. I mean, obviously, swing voters are those who don't vote based on wedge issues. So if that's the "policies" you mean, then I'm totally offbase. But most swing voters seems to like some policies from each party. Or care about really obscure ones that are sometimes supported by one party over the other.
I suppose if you could make it cheaper to run a safe plant than an unsafe one, but that tech isn't even on the horizon.
It's not missing tech. It's missing liability laws. Make the CEO and stockholders personally liable for all the damages from a meltdown, and safety will be the number one priority before the ink on the new law is dry
It should be noted that even if one uses a non-copyleft base to build off of, generally you end up given back a lot of code anyway.
Very true. But the GP was talking about the difficulty of interacting with proprietary code (and even APIs!) from GPL code. But yeah, if you contribute back, other people help maintain it. So anything that's not worth the upkeep cost of keeping a secret should be contributed back.
They're already like the 3rd most valuable company. I can understand why they might want to follow the lead of the two beating them (Google/MS) into the world of ads. But they don't seem to recognize that their selling point, and the reason people pay a premium, is for privacy/lack of ads. Hell, Android apps are monetized by ads, Apple apps are monetized by charges.
Microsoft has good build tools. They have build chains that build onto iOS and Android (mostly to try to tempt people into also building for Windows Phone).
What do you do when your source code reveals an API to some licensed module which is not itself open source and you are under NDA not to reveal its details? I am sure Telsa's work involves a lot of that.
Use BSD/MIT open source to build off of? I mean, I get it's hard. But building off open-source software is building off a valuable asset. I don't get to build on land and say "well, getting the deed was too hard."
This kind of "lack of IP" (similar to their opened patents) is what makes it look more like a pyramid scheme and less of a business. A pyramid scheme that may, in addition to enriching Elon, make electric cars more viable, but a still scheme.
I also trust my government more than I trust my Browser Developer/Global advertising conglomerate
I trust my government with it, but not their subcontractor/3rd party library suppliers.
Independent customer feedback was overwhelming positive (95%+ over millions of customers) for the new electronic process, so you'll excuse me if I take that
While I think finding data from users is good, I'm not sure of the point you're making. I read that as 95% of people like the new process. Unless people had just performed the old process, they're likely unable to really make a comparison to the old process, even if explicitly asked for. The old process could have also enjoyed a 95% approval rate.
why have 800 separate forms when one app does it all?
Paper forms (printed on demand) or web pages are available at the library (or POD at many government offices). Not every has/wants a smartphone and a data plan. Further, I'm saying "one website, possibly with PDFs" not "800 paper forms on file"
your tax dollars being spent on highly inefficient paper based bureaucracy?
I don't really care. Data entry from a paper form is pretty cheap, OCR scanners exist, or a web form that didn't require specialized software could be built.
95%+ positive feedback from millions of customers. You know sometimes, just sometimes you don't need to guess at this.
My point was the infrequency of needing more than 1 or 2 forms. Your data point is irrelevant. Of course, if you have access to the survey, you probably know how many forms they would need on average.
The app grabs the Device ID for auditing and that's it.
Why on earth should it need the Device ID? Auditing is a pretty nebulous term. Are you afraid I might... fill out too many forms?
You may call me paranoid, but the Device ID of my phone doesn't seem like the government's business.
ou don't need to because he also has an app that validates it on the spot without him touching your phone.
That's good. I'm still pretty convinced that he's going to reach out and grab my phone (even if it never goes back to his cop car). You know, cause if he tries to angle it so he can read it, are you going to pull your hand back?
Electronic trails should also be generated when he looks up a piece of plastic.
I get other people like apps, but I still just don't get. I like a small plastic card that doesn't require charging. I like websites accessed via HTTPS. I like the ability to not have every app reading the same Device ID (a permission that you don't get to deny) so that they can treat my phone as a supercookie++.
That inaction is exactly what I was saying. Being "from the government, and here to help" is normally a good thing. The problem is normally not enough help from the government.
I'm not sure if you intended this or not, but that's exactly the point I was making. "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help" is something said not often enough, not too often.
A specific example of government incompetence literally killing people is the FDA and the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s.
Which was recognized as a problem shortly thereafter and people were allowed to try experimental medicine when they had fatal diseases. (The recent "Right To Try" bill is a modification to the program.) That is to say, mistakes were made. It certainly seems outweighed by the existence of vaccines and high-quality medicine, for instance, that were enabled by the FDA.
I guess we all forget about the Snowden revelations, but they spy on us more than any corporation
Your cell provider not only knows where you are, but sells that data for profit. Never forget the biggest (only) Snowden revelations were about the government spying on you... by hacking corporations and taking the data they were collecting on you.
use that data for far more nefarious purposes
Umm... citation needed.
... yet you expect us to trust them to protect our privacy
The government is made of different agencies that do different things. I don't trust the NSA to secure my privacy, but I also don't trust the FCC to produce monetary policy or the Fed to wage war.
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Isn't beta-decay a process that produces exponentially less energy over time? Like, after 100 years, it'll still produce half the voltage (or amperage) out. After 200, 25%. But after 25 years it'll only produce 70.7% of the output, which may not be enough. Or it could be more than enough at 200 years.
Flash Player was given away. Flash (the developer software) was highly profitable software. Econ 102 says you give away things that make more people buy your highly profitable goods.
Adobe opened up Flash Player precisely because they didn't make money off it/didn't want to maintain it. IIRC, there was even a GNU implementation. I know Mozilla had an inhouse one. Yeah, it had issues, but I'm not so sure that it was that much worse than the general tech of the day. Fortunately, all software seems to be more secure now. (Even Windows!)
The supercookie used everything, pretty much by definition.
I grant that Flash ignored the cookie policy of the browser. But it had things like "don't allow cookies from third party domains" before it was a glimmer in the browser's eye (do all browsers even have that yet?) I found their settings easier (among other things, turning off all cookies broke practically no sites.) But you are right that even superior settings, if different from what people expect, can be pretty bad.
On the contrary, timing attacks are a problem in the specification. "Do X as fast as possible" is the default. "Do X in constant time" is an exception. It's a fundamental flaw in the spec.
Ultimately, specifications need to anticipate attacks and include mitigations.
Yeah, cause autopilot's advanced features are part and parcel with "You took your hands off the wheel."
Autopilot may have saved people, but that example from the summary wasn't a good example of it.
On the contrary. If there are enough people who cannot understand how to use a technology, it should be held up. You can fix that by educating them, not by getting them to agree to disclaimers and then blaming them.
Some people will obviously misuse technology. But if the number misusing is high enough, there is either a problem with the technology, or how it is being marketed/explained to people.
Yes it fucking did. Flash/HTML4/CSS2 was strictly superior tech stack to HTML5/CSS3/JS. It handled cross-domain security better. It handled browser isolation better. It was a better programming language. It had fewer super-tracking features.
I will give you that Flash pushed people towards XML and JS pushed people towards JSON.
You mean, let's go back to HTML4/CSS2/[No JS, because why]. If people want GoogleDocs let it be a fucking native plugin.
No, this is an exploit of a fundamental issue with CSS. By breaking with the standards, Chrome and FireFox are avoiding the issue.
It's similar to how no browser fully implements the JS spec. Because it has some (very edge case) stupid behavior. But that's okay, because the unimplemented parts will never come up anyhow.
YouTube is currently (and apparently successfully), trying to compete with FaceBook (among teens). Just like FB, that means YouTube needs to provide a constant stream of content, more often is better than longer. How else are people going to comment on something that just happened now?
Sometimes politicians are followers. Othertimes they're leaders. Yeah, they're unlikely to fly in the face of 60% disapproval, but 52%?
US Society is backwards because there has been a propaganda campaign since the 80's or 90's, convincing people that if it wasn't for that horrible government in their way, they'd all be millionaires.
True it also assumes all those costs are spread over 10k/cars/week, not 5k/cars/week. So, those should probably be doubled today to $20k/car production costs.
According to the last investor call, Tesla claims their depreciation of the factory (at 5k cars/week) is $2,000/car.
What makes you think this is about the employees? This is about the guys who own coal mines/nuclear power plants, and are sad at the declining value of their assets.
I disagree on that. I mean, obviously, swing voters are those who don't vote based on wedge issues. So if that's the "policies" you mean, then I'm totally offbase. But most swing voters seems to like some policies from each party. Or care about really obscure ones that are sometimes supported by one party over the other.
It's not missing tech. It's missing liability laws. Make the CEO and stockholders personally liable for all the damages from a meltdown, and safety will be the number one priority before the ink on the new law is dry
I'm pretty lost. She would have succeeded at what? Getting the video down? I'm fine with the long version if it makes logical sense..
Very true. But the GP was talking about the difficulty of interacting with proprietary code (and even APIs!) from GPL code. But yeah, if you contribute back, other people help maintain it. So anything that's not worth the upkeep cost of keeping a secret should be contributed back.
They're already like the 3rd most valuable company. I can understand why they might want to follow the lead of the two beating them (Google/MS) into the world of ads. But they don't seem to recognize that their selling point, and the reason people pay a premium, is for privacy/lack of ads. Hell, Android apps are monetized by ads, Apple apps are monetized by charges.
Microsoft has good build tools. They have build chains that build onto iOS and Android (mostly to try to tempt people into also building for Windows Phone).
Use BSD/MIT open source to build off of? I mean, I get it's hard. But building off open-source software is building off a valuable asset. I don't get to build on land and say "well, getting the deed was too hard."
This kind of "lack of IP" (similar to their opened patents) is what makes it look more like a pyramid scheme and less of a business. A pyramid scheme that may, in addition to enriching Elon, make electric cars more viable, but a still scheme.
I trust my government with it, but not their subcontractor/3rd party library suppliers.
While I think finding data from users is good, I'm not sure of the point you're making. I read that as 95% of people like the new process. Unless people had just performed the old process, they're likely unable to really make a comparison to the old process, even if explicitly asked for. The old process could have also enjoyed a 95% approval rate.
Paper forms (printed on demand) or web pages are available at the library (or POD at many government offices). Not every has/wants a smartphone and a data plan. Further, I'm saying "one website, possibly with PDFs" not "800 paper forms on file"
I don't really care. Data entry from a paper form is pretty cheap, OCR scanners exist, or a web form that didn't require specialized software could be built.
My point was the infrequency of needing more than 1 or 2 forms. Your data point is irrelevant. Of course, if you have access to the survey, you probably know how many forms they would need on average.
Why on earth should it need the Device ID? Auditing is a pretty nebulous term. Are you afraid I might... fill out too many forms?
You may call me paranoid, but the Device ID of my phone doesn't seem like the government's business.
That's good. I'm still pretty convinced that he's going to reach out and grab my phone (even if it never goes back to his cop car). You know, cause if he tries to angle it so he can read it, are you going to pull your hand back?
Electronic trails should also be generated when he looks up a piece of plastic.
I get other people like apps, but I still just don't get. I like a small plastic card that doesn't require charging. I like websites accessed via HTTPS. I like the ability to not have every app reading the same Device ID (a permission that you don't get to deny) so that they can treat my phone as a supercookie++.
That inaction is exactly what I was saying. Being "from the government, and here to help" is normally a good thing. The problem is normally not enough help from the government.
I'm not sure if you intended this or not, but that's exactly the point I was making. "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help" is something said not often enough, not too often.
Which was recognized as a problem shortly thereafter and people were allowed to try experimental medicine when they had fatal diseases. (The recent "Right To Try" bill is a modification to the program.) That is to say, mistakes were made. It certainly seems outweighed by the existence of vaccines and high-quality medicine, for instance, that were enabled by the FDA.
Your cell provider not only knows where you are, but sells that data for profit. Never forget the biggest (only) Snowden revelations were about the government spying on you... by hacking corporations and taking the data they were collecting on you.
Umm... citation needed.
The government is made of different agencies that do different things. I don't trust the NSA to secure my privacy, but I also don't trust the FCC to produce monetary policy or the Fed to wage war.