More and more people are saying no by taking the simplest path of not using it. But if you want mass adoption, it will need to be simpler. Explaining how cookies and referers work to my mom isn't going to help. One of my favorite security analogies is the car security system. It's a single red button on the key fob. Press it, the system beeps, and I am good to go. So simple, it gets used extensively. Online security is light years away from a red button. Instead there is a morass of advice involving hovering, double checking, "special characters", installing multiple tools which may or may not work reliably, plus a huge runbook of things to do when site X doesn't let you submit your mortgage payment. It is amazing that personal tools like ad blockers get used as much as they are.
I had a moment of fun fitting this news into Bruce Shneier's notion of electronic feudalism. As serfs on the Google plantation, we look to Google to protect us from various raiding barbarians. We pay for this protection by allowing ourselves to be farmed by the Google ad machine.
You may be right, though I would not agree that a logistical service isn't in Amazon's core competency. Special handling might be an issue though. How is morphine, etc. delivered? Probably not in a truck with one delivery driver. I worked at a hospital some years ago, and I would absolutely believe 'longstanding relationships' would take precedence over considerations like cost. Many hospitals are 'not for profit' entities (not quite the same a non profit), and a cost or service advantage would not necessarily be decisive factors in those decisions. We had non-IT buying all sorts of awful technology due to 'long standing relationships' then handing it to us to make it work.
My prescription drugs arrive via the same X% unreliable carriers who deliver my Amazon orders (with the exception of Amazon's own fulfillment of course). I've missed a shipment once, they just sent it again. No big deal since the replenish is ordered a month before the last shipment runs out. There can't be very many cases of "must have now or die" prescriptions that aren't replenished well before the previous supply runs out.
It will be technically true, they will instead assist "researchers" or "academics" who will then covertly share everything with the government. If discovered $COMPANY will turn off the access, which will then be set up under a different "researcher".
Around four-in-ten Americans (41%) have been personally subjected to at least one type of online harassment – which this report defines as offensive name-calling online
Whenever you see some statistic like "40 percent of Americans have experienced some form of harassment online" you know they have jiggered the definition to inflate the numbers. By the report's definition, probably everyone on/. is a "victim".
The memo is nothing, only the internet lynch mob would make anything of it. It was the equivalent of a hammer company executive saying "We make hammers so people can put in nails. Some people might hit people or animals over the head with our hammers, or use them to smash car windows. But we believe enabling people to put in nails is a valuable mission."
Quackery is indeed a real thing. However, I don't see the FDA playing much of a role in that, their testing revolves around safety not efficacy. For example, phenylephrine is approved and sold as a decongestant, yet is no more effective than placebo. Quite safe, though.
Under-invest is subjective, just like under- or over-fund. If the company chooses to invest one cent in IT, that is exactly the correct amount. Assuming they made that decision with a correct understanding of the consequences. "under" fund or invest can only exist with a defined objective. We might ask "is IT underfunded if companies want to acheive X or Y?" but to ask generically if something is underfunded is a nonsensical question.
The new DNS isn't "attracting" anything. All the traffic to 1.1.1.1 was already there, that's why they put the DNS host on that address. They wanted to experiment with exposing it to tons of crap traffic.
My concern with cashless is that it enables a lot of totalitarian control without all the cost and bother of prisons and arrests. Just look at where China is going with their 'social credit' system. I read an SF novel once where a convicted criminal wasn't jailed or even arrested, but a consortium of big businesses just refused to do business with him. So he couldn't pay to use any services like taxis, even elevators. Had to walk down a thousand flights of stairs or something. Just look at China, only two payment systems, WeChat and Alipay, are around. And more and more places only accept these and will not take cash. Now what if you made some online post criticizing the government (or in the US, any statement disliked by the Internet lynch mob du jour). Bang, you are banned from these services and now can't even buy a cup of coffee anywhere. But there are no human rights abuses right? You are still free to move about and such. But you are effectively in exile.
The price of inter-operability is the introduction of attack surface, back doors, and other vulnerabilities. Perhaps Apple is shooting for the stronger security crowd. I think that is a factor, along with what you said. Hey, why not do both right?
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I don't know why some people complain there won't be any jobs in the future. There will be plenty of work assembling robot assembly robots.
Hm well stated, I withdraw my objections.
I'm always willing to give Google the middle finger.
More and more people are saying no by taking the simplest path of not using it. But if you want mass adoption, it will need to be simpler. Explaining how cookies and referers work to my mom isn't going to help. One of my favorite security analogies is the car security system. It's a single red button on the key fob. Press it, the system beeps, and I am good to go. So simple, it gets used extensively. Online security is light years away from a red button. Instead there is a morass of advice involving hovering, double checking, "special characters", installing multiple tools which may or may not work reliably, plus a huge runbook of things to do when site X doesn't let you submit your mortgage payment. It is amazing that personal tools like ad blockers get used as much as they are.
Since revenue can be viewed as an improvement, this is a glorious catchall. Much like the job description equivalent "other duties as assigned."
I had a moment of fun fitting this news into Bruce Shneier's notion of electronic feudalism. As serfs on the Google plantation, we look to Google to protect us from various raiding barbarians. We pay for this protection by allowing ourselves to be farmed by the Google ad machine.
You may be right, though I would not agree that a logistical service isn't in Amazon's core competency. Special handling might be an issue though. How is morphine, etc. delivered? Probably not in a truck with one delivery driver. I worked at a hospital some years ago, and I would absolutely believe 'longstanding relationships' would take precedence over considerations like cost. Many hospitals are 'not for profit' entities (not quite the same a non profit), and a cost or service advantage would not necessarily be decisive factors in those decisions. We had non-IT buying all sorts of awful technology due to 'long standing relationships' then handing it to us to make it work.
My prescription drugs arrive via the same X% unreliable carriers who deliver my Amazon orders (with the exception of Amazon's own fulfillment of course). I've missed a shipment once, they just sent it again. No big deal since the replenish is ordered a month before the last shipment runs out. There can't be very many cases of "must have now or die" prescriptions that aren't replenished well before the previous supply runs out.
It will be technically true, they will instead assist "researchers" or "academics" who will then covertly share everything with the government. If discovered $COMPANY will turn off the access, which will then be set up under a different "researcher".
he was a very prolific writer, but quality took a back seat at times. I recommend his collection of dirty limericks.
When will I get the ability to send numbers not in my contacts straight to voicemail? Why do I still have to look for an app to do this?
Around four-in-ten Americans (41%) have been personally subjected to at least one type of online harassment – which this report defines as offensive name-calling online
Whenever you see some statistic like "40 percent of Americans have experienced some form of harassment online" you know they have jiggered the definition to inflate the numbers. By the report's definition, probably everyone on /. is a "victim".
The memo is nothing, only the internet lynch mob would make anything of it. It was the equivalent of a hammer company executive saying "We make hammers so people can put in nails. Some people might hit people or animals over the head with our hammers, or use them to smash car windows. But we believe enabling people to put in nails is a valuable mission."
Windows Mail is unusable
Yet, the author has apparently been using it for long enough to catalog all of its flaws.
which means Windows 10 doesn't come with an email client. That's incredibly sad.
It also doesn't come with a text editor or web browser, cry me a river.
Quackery is indeed a real thing. However, I don't see the FDA playing much of a role in that, their testing revolves around safety not efficacy. For example, phenylephrine is approved and sold as a decongestant, yet is no more effective than placebo. Quite safe, though.
Probably this African nation should have invested in some diversity.
Under-invest is subjective, just like under- or over-fund. If the company chooses to invest one cent in IT, that is exactly the correct amount. Assuming they made that decision with a correct understanding of the consequences. "under" fund or invest can only exist with a defined objective. We might ask "is IT underfunded if companies want to acheive X or Y?" but to ask generically if something is underfunded is a nonsensical question.
He probably got the idea from a previous Marvel editor who had his ashes made into a comic book.
"underpants on the outside" is impossible, by definition those would be overpants
Touché, although at best that's a strange attractor.
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The notch is popular, based on how many are adopting it. Not the phone.
The new DNS isn't "attracting" anything. All the traffic to 1.1.1.1 was already there, that's why they put the DNS host on that address. They wanted to experiment with exposing it to tons of crap traffic.
My concern with cashless is that it enables a lot of totalitarian control without all the cost and bother of prisons and arrests. Just look at where China is going with their 'social credit' system. I read an SF novel once where a convicted criminal wasn't jailed or even arrested, but a consortium of big businesses just refused to do business with him. So he couldn't pay to use any services like taxis, even elevators. Had to walk down a thousand flights of stairs or something. Just look at China, only two payment systems, WeChat and Alipay, are around. And more and more places only accept these and will not take cash. Now what if you made some online post criticizing the government (or in the US, any statement disliked by the Internet lynch mob du jour). Bang, you are banned from these services and now can't even buy a cup of coffee anywhere. But there are no human rights abuses right? You are still free to move about and such. But you are effectively in exile.
The price of inter-operability is the introduction of attack surface, back doors, and other vulnerabilities. Perhaps Apple is shooting for the stronger security crowd. I think that is a factor, along with what you said. Hey, why not do both right?