The problem with government software is that it is usually designed to do things only the government handles:
Collect taxes
Plan road projects
Route mail
etc.
This really isn't a problem if you look at it from a state level. If they start sharing systems, even partially, that could save us a lot of tax money.
I watched lots of perfectly good websites get utterly trashed *years* ago to make them more "mobile friendly".
Now that tablet sales are stagnant, I can't wait for them to find some new destructive trend to chase.
Like, someone invents an ass-browser, so all those websites will be redone again, with a brown palette, and turd-shaped buttons to make them "ass-friendly".
Fuckers. Small government my ass, they're just sellouts.
You know, I hate the whole either-you're-R-or-D thing and I hate being called one or the other, but whenever some obviously corrupt shit is happening, there's never any question as to which party is on the wrong side. Every. Time.
The linked article itself is not even using black fonts.
They are using #333333 which is a dark grey.
While I agree with the main premise of the article, pure black on white hurts my eyes - there's nothing wrong with tempering text with #333.
From what I understand, it's mostly the thinness of the fonts, and this goes with what I already knew - look at a Commodore 64 screenshot, with the light-blue on blue text. "Terrible" contrast in comparison, and yet it's (at least I found it) very easy on the eyes, and very easy to read.
Countless websites on the internet totally break if you block google IPs.
I was evaluating game development platforms and couldn't install Unity because it required a connection to Google analytics, which is one of the many things I block at the hosts level.
That's right. I couldn't get passed the install without an active connection to Google analytics.
I concluded Unity wasn't as serious development platform.
So instead of terrorists blowing up the Kremlin, and maybe killing a couple dozen high-ranking officals, the terrorists will be re-directed to Moscow's airport, where they can blow up hundreds of people. Good plan.
Wow, your spacial reasoning isn't very good, is it?
The design of the Note 7 is copyrighted, just as any other product. To reproduce a likeness of a piece of "art" without permission is infringing (just ask the US Post Office). How accurate was it? Could it be identified as a Note 7? If so, then it's a by right thing - it IS infringing.
Now, Hitman Niko can absolutely pursue this in court by re-publishing on a non-common carrier platform and having Samsung sue him. He may then, and only then, proffer his defense that the use falls under one of the Fair Use sections of copyright law. If the judge/jury concludes, based on the evidence, that it meets the test of fair use, then he will win the case. But he can't claim Fair Use as a right, only as a positive defense to an infringement claim. Copyright law is a bitch.
By that argument absolutely every manufactured object in the game that has a recognizable brand is infringing.
You are an idiot and I'd mod you a Troll if I had points today.
Moore's law is not what is dying. What is dying is people's desire for "faster", at least on the personal front.
[citation needed]
You give your own anecdote, I'll give you mine - I don't buy new hardware as often because the new stuff is nearly the same speed as it was 5 years ago.
If they go back to giving us the huge speed increases we used to see, I'll start buying hardware every 2 years again.
I am typing this on a 4 year old MacBook air. [...] It runs anything I want to do fine because most of the heavy lifting nowadays is up in the cloud
What heavy lifting? What are you talking about? Guess you don't care about privacy.
Also - you're using a Mac. Guess you do a lot of "coding" on that Mac of yours, huh.
It's not the language, it's the programmers and the rush to produce easy code. Speed and simplicity trumps security and efficient coding these days.
I can't stand hearing aphorisms that people think must be true because they sound good.
Give a lumberjack a toothbrush and tell him to cut down a forest, and tell him "a poor craftsman blames his tools".
You may say that's not like software development, it's exactly like that.
Over and over again I see great developers succeed not because of, but in spite of the shitty tools they have to use, and the dysfunctional organizational structures they have to work in.
Because websites still use JavaScript for client side stuff. Typescript makes this job easier and oddly use JavaScript like a byte code in Java where it compiles to JavaScript so it works in every browser or mobile app
Um, yeah, DuoCode transcompiles C# to JavaScript.
Maybe you should have clicked the link before posting.
He's talking about recursive manufacturing, and honestly I'm surprised we haven't developed it already. Its power will utterly dominate our civilization's future, we have the tech to start development right now, and... we don't even have a Wikipedia page on it yet?
When we develop true RM, going to the Moon will be a footnote.
You know, murder is a crime because you rob someone of the remaining time they might have had on this planet. Robo callers steal the equivalent of lifetimes every single day and our useless FTC seems utterly incapable of doing a damned thing about it.
Oh I hear you. Some of the editors here deserve looong prison sentences.
What needs to be done is to pass a law which requires such personalized data collection to be anonymized, so that it can't specifically be tied back to an individual
I think one of the major problems we face with tech these days is, it's surprisingly hard to truly anonymize any data unless you aggregate.
I have to say that I'm against life extension research. My one comfort, when some bad person gets the firmest of grips on a suffering country, is that the bad person will die, and someone else with different views will take over. Imagine Stalin remaining in power till 1978 (he'd be only a hundred) instead of dying in 1953. Or Mao Zedong in power till 2045. Does anyone think the world will be better off? I don't like what President Erdogan's doing to Turkey. I honestly take some comfort in the fact he was born in 1954, and he's unlikely to be on the scene in ten years' time.
-Gareth
Generational turnover relieves some problems, but not the ones caused by institutions.
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The problem with government software is that it is usually designed to do things only the government handles: Collect taxes Plan road projects Route mail etc.
This really isn't a problem if you look at it from a state level. If they start sharing systems, even partially, that could save us a lot of tax money.
I watched lots of perfectly good websites get utterly trashed *years* ago to make them more "mobile friendly".
Now that tablet sales are stagnant, I can't wait for them to find some new destructive trend to chase.
Like, someone invents an ass-browser, so all those websites will be redone again, with a brown palette, and turd-shaped buttons to make them "ass-friendly".
Include a note, but don't call yourself an editor.
Fuckers. Small government my ass, they're just sellouts.
You know, I hate the whole either-you're-R-or-D thing and I hate being called one or the other, but whenever some obviously corrupt shit is happening, there's never any question as to which party is on the wrong side. Every. Time.
The linked article itself is not even using black fonts.
They are using #333333 which is a dark grey.
While I agree with the main premise of the article, pure black on white hurts my eyes - there's nothing wrong with tempering text with #333.
From what I understand, it's mostly the thinness of the fonts, and this goes with what I already knew - look at a Commodore 64 screenshot, with the light-blue on blue text. "Terrible" contrast in comparison, and yet it's (at least I found it) very easy on the eyes, and very easy to read.
[...] the unsecured data had been posted on a website by a contractor who maintains and develops the Red Cross website.
Sorry, but could someone please explain to me how is it even possible to do that accidentally?
Countless websites on the internet totally break if you block google IPs.
I was evaluating game development platforms and couldn't install Unity because it required a connection to Google analytics, which is one of the many things I block at the hosts level.
That's right. I couldn't get passed the install without an active connection to Google analytics.
I concluded Unity wasn't as serious development platform.
So instead of terrorists blowing up the Kremlin, and maybe killing a couple dozen high-ranking officals, the terrorists will be re-directed to Moscow's airport, where they can blow up hundreds of people. Good plan.
Wow, your spacial reasoning isn't very good, is it?
The design of the Note 7 is copyrighted, just as any other product. To reproduce a likeness of a piece of "art" without permission is infringing (just ask the US Post Office). How accurate was it? Could it be identified as a Note 7? If so, then it's a by right thing - it IS infringing.
Now, Hitman Niko can absolutely pursue this in court by re-publishing on a non-common carrier platform and having Samsung sue him. He may then, and only then, proffer his defense that the use falls under one of the Fair Use sections of copyright law. If the judge/jury concludes, based on the evidence, that it meets the test of fair use, then he will win the case. But he can't claim Fair Use as a right, only as a positive defense to an infringement claim. Copyright law is a bitch.
By that argument absolutely every manufactured object in the game that has a recognizable brand is infringing.
You are an idiot and I'd mod you a Troll if I had points today.
Moore's law is not what is dying. What is dying is people's desire for "faster", at least on the personal front.
[citation needed]
You give your own anecdote, I'll give you mine - I don't buy new hardware as often because the new stuff is nearly the same speed as it was 5 years ago.
If they go back to giving us the huge speed increases we used to see, I'll start buying hardware every 2 years again.
I am typing this on a 4 year old MacBook air. [...] It runs anything I want to do fine because most of the heavy lifting nowadays is up in the cloud
What heavy lifting? What are you talking about? Guess you don't care about privacy.
Also - you're using a Mac. Guess you do a lot of "coding" on that Mac of yours, huh.
It's not the language, it's the programmers and the rush to produce easy code. Speed and simplicity trumps security and efficient coding these days.
I can't stand hearing aphorisms that people think must be true because they sound good.
Give a lumberjack a toothbrush and tell him to cut down a forest, and tell him "a poor craftsman blames his tools".
You may say that's not like software development, it's exactly like that.
Over and over again I see great developers succeed not because of, but in spite of the shitty tools they have to use, and the dysfunctional organizational structures they have to work in.
Because websites still use JavaScript for client side stuff. Typescript makes this job easier and oddly use JavaScript like a byte code in Java where it compiles to JavaScript so it works in every browser or mobile app
Um, yeah, DuoCode transcompiles C# to JavaScript.
Maybe you should have clicked the link before posting.
DuoCode?
I've been much happier keeping everything in C#.
the world is awash in weapons that we produce.
This looks like a move protect profits more than anything else.
He's talking about recursive manufacturing, and honestly I'm surprised we haven't developed it already. Its power will utterly dominate our civilization's future, we have the tech to start development right now, and... we don't even have a Wikipedia page on it yet?
When we develop true RM, going to the Moon will be a footnote.
I presume you mean "grammar failure".
No, I don't.
You know, murder is a crime because you rob someone of the remaining time they might have had on this planet. Robo callers steal the equivalent of lifetimes every single day and our useless FTC seems utterly incapable of doing a damned thing about it.
Oh I hear you. Some of the editors here deserve looong prison sentences.
What needs to be done is to pass a law which requires such personalized data collection to be anonymized, so that it can't specifically be tied back to an individual
I think one of the major problems we face with tech these days is, it's surprisingly hard to truly anonymize any data unless you aggregate.
You should be embarrassed to be on Slashdot and not know that. The fact that your not should be even more embarrassing.
I'd be much more embarrassed to have a total grammar fail in my comment.
I haven't been living under a rock all my life. I travel. I'm not blind. I wasn't raised by wolves.
I've never seen or heard of these things before reading this article.
they'd give me control over what I see from my friends. As in, everything, please, unless I say otherwise.
I don't need your clickbait algorithm.
if they don't tell you the bitrate.
I've had the privilege to develop on one, and I can say that the technology just isn't there yet. Not even close.
The dev tools are also half-assed and unstable.
Sit on your money for now, even if you have it to burn.
Scientist 1: (stares at patient on floor)
Scientist 1: Well that didn't work.
Scientist 2: *sniff* You smell something?
I have to say that I'm against life extension research. My one comfort, when some bad person gets the firmest of grips on a suffering country, is that the bad person will die, and someone else with different views will take over. Imagine Stalin remaining in power till 1978 (he'd be only a hundred) instead of dying in 1953. Or Mao Zedong in power till 2045. Does anyone think the world will be better off? I don't like what President Erdogan's doing to Turkey. I honestly take some comfort in the fact he was born in 1954, and he's unlikely to be on the scene in ten years' time.
-Gareth
Generational turnover relieves some problems, but not the ones caused by institutions.