They made consistently horrible security design decisions in all versions of Windows until at least Vista when they started to take security seriously.
Exactly. You can't solve hunger with cheaper food, except perhaps in the case of getting more bang for your buck when making a charitable food donation.
In a capitalist system it just leads to higher profit margins or lower wages.
Exactly. Say there's a classified site that you can only load once per minute due to bandwidth restrictions (being a human). I post "Bicycle for sale $500" and another guy posts "wanted: bicycle, $600 or less."
But there are some guys who can reload the page faster because they've bought a very expensive premium service from the classified site. Not a very fair site is it?
One of them sees the two ads, buys my bicycle, and posts "Bicycle for sale $599" before any non-premium members can see what's going on.
Who did that help except for the guy with the premium service? I didn't make more. The guy who wanted a bike just got screwed out of $99.
This would be really hard to do. Similar things have happened by accident, at least within a single stock exchange, and the trades are simply rolled back.
The big difference is that racing doesn't skim money by acting as a middleman on other people's gas purchases. If HFT were taking place in a safe, closed environment as a sport it would be a vast improvement.
So thank goodness their moneyed overlords are willing to lend some of the cash made on the backs of such creative people, so that the creative insightful people can do more work and give the lion's share back to the moneyed overlords. It's a good thing we have a dynastic class of people controlling all the capital.
Seems like something that would only look like a mistake to an Apple user who probably wants something more "elegant" like swipe-to-unlock. For the reason specified, it was a good decision (to use a low-level command to prevent password-stealing dupe login screens). I just think it's odd that they took login security so seriously and then fucked up so badly on all other parts of the OS.
Nope if you watch this video, you can see it being claimed by about a hundred Pakistani fishermen simultaneously, which killed my excitement for a new country instantly:-(
Presumably the last one with his hand on the island gets to keep it.
Ubuntu jumped the shark around Lucid/Maverick. Indeed it was a horrible way to squander the unprecedented popularity of Linux that arose in the wake of the Vista disaster.
Oh bonus fun tidbit: My mom didn't want me to watch Darkwing Duck because she thought he was a vampire. I tried to persuade her that he wasn't, but didn't succeed -_-
Try to put more than 3 seconds of effort into scrutinizing what media your kids consume, folks. That works both ways.
An early memory of mine was the recurring situation of me watching a Wile E. Coyote cartoon, on a little faux-wood-sided TV with a BetaMax player on top, and at least once per show, my mom interrupting so that she had my full attention and asking me in a very serious tone of voice, "[GameboyRMH], is this real or make-believe?" and I'd sigh, do my little Picard Facepalm and answer "make-believe..." with an attitude that would be best expressed with the grown-up words "Jesus H. Christ, she must really think I'm a total fucking moron."
Either that or it's a job where you're given nothing to do until the next big leak comes out, then you become the sacrificial lamb and they hire a replacement, rinse and repeat.
This is why the ruling class love killbots so much. A workable enforcement android will bring about the Oppression Singularity. No longer will they have to contend with "idealistic" cops and soldiers who don't blindly follow orders, whatever they may be, or worse yet leak their dirty laundry. No longer will they have to worry about who will "go soft" when the order comes in to fight their own people or take out a target of questionable status. No "untrustworthy" humans between the sociopaths and the rifles of their soldiers and no chance of them turning on their masters.
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Witch! It's 13.5 minas to the hogshead!*
*I spent way too much time working that out.
They made consistently horrible security design decisions in all versions of Windows until at least Vista when they started to take security seriously.
If you blend a chicken the feathers end up looking like fur.
Yeah if it was 10% you could bet your ass there would be industrial-scale bug farming going on, and it wouldn't be that easy to hide.
Exactly. You can't solve hunger with cheaper food, except perhaps in the case of getting more bang for your buck when making a charitable food donation.
In a capitalist system it just leads to higher profit margins or lower wages.
Most of the Java apps I use are unsigned.
Here's what I see happening: Lots of people hanging onto old Java versions, creating an even bigger security disaster.
This still doesn't enable FTL communications. The through-planet neutrino network suggested in that article is more likely.
Exactly. Say there's a classified site that you can only load once per minute due to bandwidth restrictions (being a human). I post "Bicycle for sale $500" and another guy posts "wanted: bicycle, $600 or less."
But there are some guys who can reload the page faster because they've bought a very expensive premium service from the classified site. Not a very fair site is it?
One of them sees the two ads, buys my bicycle, and posts "Bicycle for sale $599" before any non-premium members can see what's going on.
Who did that help except for the guy with the premium service? I didn't make more. The guy who wanted a bike just got screwed out of $99.
This would be really hard to do. Similar things have happened by accident, at least within a single stock exchange, and the trades are simply rolled back.
The big difference is that racing doesn't skim money by acting as a middleman on other people's gas purchases. If HFT were taking place in a safe, closed environment as a sport it would be a vast improvement.
So thank goodness their moneyed overlords are willing to lend some of the cash made on the backs of such creative people, so that the creative insightful people can do more work and give the lion's share back to the moneyed overlords. It's a good thing we have a dynastic class of people controlling all the capital.
Seems like something that would only look like a mistake to an Apple user who probably wants something more "elegant" like swipe-to-unlock. For the reason specified, it was a good decision (to use a low-level command to prevent password-stealing dupe login screens). I just think it's odd that they took login security so seriously and then fucked up so badly on all other parts of the OS.
Great article, mod parent Interesting.
That was my first thought, this is full-on fascism. Full two-way power sharing between the corporations and the government.
He's gone mad with power. In fact he's theoretically the most powerful man alive. He can spy on Rupert Murdoch's communications.
Nope if you watch this video, you can see it being claimed by about a hundred Pakistani fishermen simultaneously, which killed my excitement for a new country instantly :-(
Presumably the last one with his hand on the island gets to keep it.
Ubuntu jumped the shark around Lucid/Maverick. Indeed it was a horrible way to squander the unprecedented popularity of Linux that arose in the wake of the Vista disaster.
Mint's where it's at now.
Oh bonus fun tidbit: My mom didn't want me to watch Darkwing Duck because she thought he was a vampire. I tried to persuade her that he wasn't, but didn't succeed -_-
Try to put more than 3 seconds of effort into scrutinizing what media your kids consume, folks. That works both ways.
An early memory of mine was the recurring situation of me watching a Wile E. Coyote cartoon, on a little faux-wood-sided TV with a BetaMax player on top, and at least once per show, my mom interrupting so that she had my full attention and asking me in a very serious tone of voice, "[GameboyRMH], is this real or make-believe?" and I'd sigh, do my little Picard Facepalm and answer "make-believe..." with an attitude that would be best expressed with the grown-up words "Jesus H. Christ, she must really think I'm a total fucking moron."
I couldn't have been more than 3 years old.
Also few countries make it easy for just anyone to stay indefinitely.
It might be worth setting up lightning rod power stations if there were a way to store it.
Either that or it's a job where you're given nothing to do until the next big leak comes out, then you become the sacrificial lamb and they hire a replacement, rinse and repeat.
This is why the ruling class love killbots so much. A workable enforcement android will bring about the Oppression Singularity. No longer will they have to contend with "idealistic" cops and soldiers who don't blindly follow orders, whatever they may be, or worse yet leak their dirty laundry. No longer will they have to worry about who will "go soft" when the order comes in to fight their own people or take out a target of questionable status. No "untrustworthy" humans between the sociopaths and the rifles of their soldiers and no chance of them turning on their masters.
Electrohobo B-)
Almost as cool as Electro Gypsy.
You just have to shoot a poker chip through there to unclog your personal internet.