With all those robots taking over our jobs, why should we have to do any jobs in the first place? Shouldn't ongoing automation give us more free time instead?
It is a quite fundamental question no-one seems to ask. Why do we have such thing as employment? Is it to produce things for other people to use (which robots can do for us), or is it for other reasons entirely?
Jobs and employment for a way of distributing money - and with it, the goods and services produced by those people. Now robots may come in and can take care of some or most of that production.
What's the problem with that for gmail and other web mail services? In order to present the e-mail in a web page to the user, they have to be able to decrypt it, it's not like that can be done so easily at the user's end in the browser (how to deal with keys etc, when the user switches computers?).
Why storing it in encrypted form? It only has to be encrypted while in transmission to be secure.
You receive an e-mail, your client automatically decrypts it (of course at some point in time you unlocked the key with a password or so), and then stores it in your local storage unencrypted. You may of course in turn encrypt your hard disk if you want. Same for sent e-mail: the moment you press Send, the client encrypts the mail before delivering it to the SMTP server, and at the same time stores an unencrypted copy in your Sent folder.
Let alone understanding the differences between key types, and why some are better than others. (like why you shouldn't trust the RSA algo.)
The end user has no need for understanding that. They even shouldn't need to care.
The only way we'll ever see e-mail encryption if it's as transparent as WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption or https transfers. The moment you have to bother the user with manual key management there's an issue. If the user has to choose what key to use, it's a disaster. He shouldn't have to know why to trust or not to trust RSA or other key algorithms. That's for the application writer to figure out, and only offer suitable protocols to begin with. Then why ask the user about different protocols? The developers know more about that, and I trust them to be better suited to make an appropriate choice than me who knows little to nothing about encryption.
I don't know what algorithm WhatsApp uses to encrypt my messages. I can read it, receiver can read it, no-one in between can read it. I'm good. Of course I have to trust WhatsApp to do it properly - I know there are really smart people all the time trying to break these things, and I have yet to hear about this having been broken even partly. That is enough for me as simple end user to get the feeling they've done it well. It's probably breakable, but it's for sure not easy, and they don't bother me with keyrings, secret/public keys, algorithms and other things that I know almost nothing about.
I like computers, have a strong interest in the subject, and I'm sure I know a lot more about all this than the average person. So if e-mail encryption is hard enough to make me not even bother, a lot has to be done to make it usable for the average Joe.
That particular skin colour is probably (part of) the problem.
Many Muslim terrorists appear to be originally from Middle East or northern Africa (or at least from such descent). Most people from those regions are actually not that dark tinted, a far cry from those further south (around the Sahara - very dark skin tones), lighter than typical Indian skin tones. Though I've encountered much lighter coloured Indians as well, skin tones quite similar to those of the Middle East.
I suspect nowadays that light colour is perceived as the "wrong" colour. Just like black skins are associated with criminals, lightly tinted skins may become associated with terrorism, and all the prejudices with it.
Sadly, based on policy, the person responsible for allowing a data leak to happen could now face considerable punishment.
So now it's getting interesting. NASA forbids him to reveal the PIN code (and let's assume there's a law in place that underpins this).
The border inspection requires him to unlock it (and for the sake of the argument, let's just assume they have the legal right to do so - I'm sure the immigration official told the guy so, and being an authority figure, the scientist has or at least should have no reason to doubt this).
The result of this is that one law requires something another law forbids. Talking about being caught between a rock and a hard place!
I believe he did the smart thing, and probably the best when it comes to making a stand.
Under protest unlock the phone, get it done, then report the incident to his employer (as breach of security - employer being NASA has a bit more standing) and report to the press (allowing for public outrage to ensue).
This way he has a fair chance of getting a lot of attention for the case - and it appears it worked, at least the story made it onto/.. If instead he had been held in jail at the border, it may have been a lot harder to get the story out quickly. Now the end result is the same (the story is out & hopefully NASA is enraged over the breach of security, more so than had he stayed in jail and they had gotten him out a week later without the phone having been unlocked), without him having to suffer unduly.
That, and his name. Very dangerous combination, darkened skin (not black) and middle-eastern sounding name. Must be terrorist. Works at JPL so even has access to rockets.
You think the page designers make the decisions to add the advertising & tracking pixels? No.
Those decisions are made by the people who pay them. Some of us cranks sit in meetings and point out the drawbacks to their incestuous, ignorant greed, but again, we don't have the final decision.
Yet those developers don't seem to be able to come up with alternative ideas to "monetise" that web site - a necessary evil, as otherwise no-one is going to pay their salaries.
Too late. I for one wouldn't notice. Not switching off my ad blocker to see if it's manageable without (and that's before taking into account the risks of drive-by attacks and so).
With Firefox and Chrome having over 2/3 of the browser market between them, your bank will have not much of a choice. Sooner or later nothing supports Java anymore and their plugin is simply obsolete.
Thanks for this. A much better reason for disabling those older versions than the reasons given in TFS.
Whether it's a good enough reason, is a point for discussion, but disabling an older version just because the newer one has new features, is a bad one. Improved security (which I would expect to be a key feature), or security as such, isn't even mentioned!
Snap warns in its IPO filing that its expenses are also increasing rapidly, and could outpace revenue growth for a long time. The number of Snapchat employees for one, more than tripled to 1,859 in 2016.
What are all those people doing for what is basically a communications app?
Of course it is. On the other hand, only Internet companies can give themselves huge valuations and get listed on the stock exchange after years of significant losses, while still running losses as big as their turnover. No other type of company can even survive that long without making profit, or even without any serious roadmap on how to become profitable.
Even people with green cards, who had been welcomed to the country before, were suddenly arrested at the border and put in detention. Without warning. Without reason. I can not think of any other country in the world that treats people with valid residency permits with such contempt.
Wonder how that's going to work out for all those travellers to/from the US, for which so much personal information is to be provided before they're even boarding their plane. It took some serious compromising and weakening of EU privacy rules to break that deadlock before.
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With all those robots taking over our jobs, why should we have to do any jobs in the first place? Shouldn't ongoing automation give us more free time instead?
It is a quite fundamental question no-one seems to ask. Why do we have such thing as employment? Is it to produce things for other people to use (which robots can do for us), or is it for other reasons entirely?
Jobs and employment for a way of distributing money - and with it, the goods and services produced by those people. Now robots may come in and can take care of some or most of that production.
I'm afraid your new POTUS isn't any better than that - he's even doing his work on the golf course!
Be denied entry... and then? Send him back to his home country? Oh wait, that'd be the country he's just been refused entry to...
What's the problem with that for gmail and other web mail services? In order to present the e-mail in a web page to the user, they have to be able to decrypt it, it's not like that can be done so easily at the user's end in the browser (how to deal with keys etc, when the user switches computers?).
Why storing it in encrypted form? It only has to be encrypted while in transmission to be secure.
You receive an e-mail, your client automatically decrypts it (of course at some point in time you unlocked the key with a password or so), and then stores it in your local storage unencrypted. You may of course in turn encrypt your hard disk if you want. Same for sent e-mail: the moment you press Send, the client encrypts the mail before delivering it to the SMTP server, and at the same time stores an unencrypted copy in your Sent folder.
Let alone understanding the differences between key types, and why some are better than others. (like why you shouldn't trust the RSA algo.)
The end user has no need for understanding that. They even shouldn't need to care.
The only way we'll ever see e-mail encryption if it's as transparent as WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption or https transfers. The moment you have to bother the user with manual key management there's an issue. If the user has to choose what key to use, it's a disaster. He shouldn't have to know why to trust or not to trust RSA or other key algorithms. That's for the application writer to figure out, and only offer suitable protocols to begin with. Then why ask the user about different protocols? The developers know more about that, and I trust them to be better suited to make an appropriate choice than me who knows little to nothing about encryption.
I don't know what algorithm WhatsApp uses to encrypt my messages. I can read it, receiver can read it, no-one in between can read it. I'm good. Of course I have to trust WhatsApp to do it properly - I know there are really smart people all the time trying to break these things, and I have yet to hear about this having been broken even partly. That is enough for me as simple end user to get the feeling they've done it well. It's probably breakable, but it's for sure not easy, and they don't bother me with keyrings, secret/public keys, algorithms and other things that I know almost nothing about.
I like computers, have a strong interest in the subject, and I'm sure I know a lot more about all this than the average person. So if e-mail encryption is hard enough to make me not even bother, a lot has to be done to make it usable for the average Joe.
LOL very well said.
So what Trump claims about the big media not reporting about important events is true. Never thought anything he said would turn out to be true.
That particular skin colour is probably (part of) the problem.
Many Muslim terrorists appear to be originally from Middle East or northern Africa (or at least from such descent). Most people from those regions are actually not that dark tinted, a far cry from those further south (around the Sahara - very dark skin tones), lighter than typical Indian skin tones. Though I've encountered much lighter coloured Indians as well, skin tones quite similar to those of the Middle East.
I suspect nowadays that light colour is perceived as the "wrong" colour. Just like black skins are associated with criminals, lightly tinted skins may become associated with terrorism, and all the prejudices with it.
Sadly, based on policy, the person responsible for allowing a data leak to happen could now face considerable punishment.
So now it's getting interesting. NASA forbids him to reveal the PIN code (and let's assume there's a law in place that underpins this).
The border inspection requires him to unlock it (and for the sake of the argument, let's just assume they have the legal right to do so - I'm sure the immigration official told the guy so, and being an authority figure, the scientist has or at least should have no reason to doubt this).
The result of this is that one law requires something another law forbids. Talking about being caught between a rock and a hard place!
I believe he did the smart thing, and probably the best when it comes to making a stand.
Under protest unlock the phone, get it done, then report the incident to his employer (as breach of security - employer being NASA has a bit more standing) and report to the press (allowing for public outrage to ensue).
This way he has a fair chance of getting a lot of attention for the case - and it appears it worked, at least the story made it onto /.. If instead he had been held in jail at the border, it may have been a lot harder to get the story out quickly. Now the end result is the same (the story is out & hopefully NASA is enraged over the breach of security, more so than had he stayed in jail and they had gotten him out a week later without the phone having been unlocked), without him having to suffer unduly.
That, and his name. Very dangerous combination, darkened skin (not black) and middle-eastern sounding name. Must be terrorist. Works at JPL so even has access to rockets.
... and sit in jail himself waiting for the results?
You think the page designers make the decisions to add the advertising & tracking pixels? No.
Those decisions are made by the people who pay them. Some of us cranks sit in meetings and point out the drawbacks to their incestuous, ignorant greed, but again, we don't have the final decision.
Yet those developers don't seem to be able to come up with alternative ideas to "monetise" that web site - a necessary evil, as otherwise no-one is going to pay their salaries.
Too late. I for one wouldn't notice. Not switching off my ad blocker to see if it's manageable without (and that's before taking into account the risks of drive-by attacks and so).
MS has always been noted for its ability of turning bugs into features.
It seems the Mozilla foundation has now found a way of turning features into bugs.
Not sure which version I prefer.
With Firefox and Chrome having over 2/3 of the browser market between them, your bank will have not much of a choice. Sooner or later nothing supports Java anymore and their plugin is simply obsolete.
Thanks for this. A much better reason for disabling those older versions than the reasons given in TFS.
Whether it's a good enough reason, is a point for discussion, but disabling an older version just because the newer one has new features, is a bad one. Improved security (which I would expect to be a key feature), or security as such, isn't even mentioned!
Snap warns in its IPO filing that its expenses are also increasing rapidly, and could outpace revenue growth for a long time. The number of Snapchat employees for one, more than tripled to 1,859 in 2016.
What are all those people doing for what is basically a communications app?
Of course it is. On the other hand, only Internet companies can give themselves huge valuations and get listed on the stock exchange after years of significant losses, while still running losses as big as their turnover. No other type of company can even survive that long without making profit, or even without any serious roadmap on how to become profitable.
Even people with green cards, who had been welcomed to the country before, were suddenly arrested at the border and put in detention. Without warning. Without reason. I can not think of any other country in the world that treats people with valid residency permits with such contempt.
Wonder how that's going to work out for all those travellers to/from the US, for which so much personal information is to be provided before they're even boarding their plane. It took some serious compromising and weakening of EU privacy rules to break that deadlock before.
Wernher von Braun
Blurring the lines between "refugee" and "abductee" with this example.
Sucks to be that company, but on the upside the criminals also apparently got nothing out of it.
6,600 bug fixes shouldn't be something you're proud of.
With that many bugs that were in the software in the first place, who knows how many are still left?!