You might also have mentioned the rich getting richer due to massive capital handouts to them via money printing, which simultaneously taxes poorer people through inflation (poor people all over the world since the US dollar is used as an international currency). Loose credit helps the big, already rich players for the most part, since they have the most access to it. I can't get a mortgage for near zero percent but the huge bank can borrow at that right right off the printing press.
For most of the three years that Ruiu has been wrestling with badBIOS
And Don Goodin comments:
no one has independently corroborated Ruiu's findings
After three years no one has corroborated? Seems likely Dragos has slipped a cog or two. Take a couple of the machines, send them to a colleague. 'Are you seeing what I see?' Not at all difficult.
You are being sarcastic, but isn't it pretty much taken for granted that we will all become wandering self sufficient nomads powered by nanoassemblers and fusion reactors in place of lungs and intestines? Space-adapted of course since we will eventually disassemble the Earth for raw materials.
I am surprised you don't mention predicting the Kennedy assassination. Ah wait that was 'psychic' Jeanne Dixon, who milked that cherry picked prediction for the next few decades. But seriously, there is little here to determine how specific these predictions were, or how many bad predictions there were. I could make millions of predictions, then wait five years and fish out the ones that happened to be correct and claim some great ability to foresee the future.
but critics say it will cause untold headaches for developers, admins and less-technical end-users.
Is this less or more headaches than the constant barrage of malware leveraging Java? Aside from exploits, the fake security scan authors seem to love using Java as well.
Well, you *can* trust anyone. But should you? Usually we use past behavior as a judge of whether it is likely the person is being deceptive, especially where proof is impossible or too expensive. Sadly, past behavior is no guarantee of future behavior. Anyone can be compromised. So we make a guess and balance cost of verification against cost of deception. After all, I can't prove the Africa exists. But I am choosing to trust that it does.
It's about as far from what this asshole is doing as you can get
On what do you base this statement? The articles linked in the summaries have nothing to indicate that any of the stuff you mention is, or is not, being done.
There's nothing in the linked articles to suggest that these "lock-ins" are any different than what many other companies do, especially start-ups, when there is a crucial problem at hand. (To me this 'necessity' sometimes indicates poor management and planning, other times perhaps it's needed). I notice that the first Google result I found isn't mentioned in the summary. It clarifies a bit what the lockdown means, apparently doesn't mean no one is allowed to leave the office or other such nonsense. The link to the Bangladeshi factory story appears to be an absurd comparison.
yes, that is my point. It is perfectly clear when taken at a single point in time. It is not clear at all if you are dealing with a series of individuals over a (evolutionarily significant) length of time. Say, for example, that individuals can interbreed with any ancestor or descendant at +/- 50 generations. Outside of that range, genetic drift is too severe to permit interbreeding. So an individual at -30 gens can breed with one at generation 0, and can also breed with one at -70 generations. But the individual at 0 gens cannot breed with one at -70 generations. So where is the idea of a 'species' as you define it in this scenario? This is why they have so much trouble attributing fossils to this homo species or that, they are trying to shoehorn a concept that only works at a single point in time to samples taken potentially millions of years apart.
You are correct, I think I should have clarified by saying that the point on the timeline where a new species is formed is entirely arbitrary, and an individual at that point is wholly compatible with some number of generations to either side.
A nice example of the problems with using a point in time technique like taxonomy and applying it to an extended period of time. There's no single point where one species transforms into another, this is a very slow process. Any given sample, depending on where it is on the timeline, could belong to two different species. All the homo this and homo that is pretty much a waste of time, or so it seems to me.
Humans decide how the systems will react. Humans must, by definition, use human psychology to make these decisions. A risk averse designer will make a risk averse algorithm.
Humans design the systems and algorithms. Under certain circumstances, market makers will "panic" and take positions that are not attractive to anyone. So while technically still active in the market, as required by contract with the exchange, the buys and sells offered won't be accepted by anyone. Human psychology decides when to panic and when to stay active.
I use Windows 7, and I haven't used the Start Menu in years. I find it much easier to simply type enough of what I want (after hitting the 'start' button) to bring it up, then arrow down to it. I am told, though cannot confirm from experience, that Win 8 works the same way, just type into Metro and there it is. For example, I can type {Windows button, "Add or r"} to get to Add/Remove Programs. {Windows, "Fire"} brings up Firefox, and so on. Honestly, I think the 'Start Menu' is hideous and clunky. So, opinions vary on this point.
regulatory efforts to prevent a Fukushima-like incident in the United States have ceased
As usual when we read a panicked outburst like this in the summary, we know it isn't true. For instance, TFA says ""We are going to make sure that we continue our oversight of the plants because the resident inspectors will be on duty, and we are prepared to respond to an emergency on short notice," then goes on to mention that additional help will be recalled if there is in incident. In other words, the same thing that happens if there is an incident at midnight on a Saturday.
The problem is the same thing we see with all large bureaucracies. What if the teacher has a mistaken or prejudiced opinion? In the old world, the student might have a bad day/year but things move on and in a few years no one remembers. In this brave new world, the student is stigmatized forever. Good luck getting crappy teacher inputs removed from this benevolent "greater good" tracking system. We already see teachers overreaching themselves getting kids put on powerful drugs like Ritalin. Imagine all the crap with bad entries to the 'do not fly' list, good luck getting your name off of that. But now you can't get a job, or credit, or a date, because your 3d grade teacher didn't like you.
Come on. I've been on plenty of flights where I couldn't hear an announcement no matter what was in my ear. Some of these planes seem to have installed PA systems salvaged from old subway cars. Couple that with ambient cabin noise and you've got a confident "what the heck did he say?"
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You might also have mentioned the rich getting richer due to massive capital handouts to them via money printing, which simultaneously taxes poorer people through inflation (poor people all over the world since the US dollar is used as an international currency). Loose credit helps the big, already rich players for the most part, since they have the most access to it. I can't get a mortgage for near zero percent but the huge bank can borrow at that right right off the printing press.
For most of the three years that Ruiu has been wrestling with badBIOS
And Don Goodin comments:
no one has independently corroborated Ruiu's findings
After three years no one has corroborated? Seems likely Dragos has slipped a cog or two. Take a couple of the machines, send them to a colleague. 'Are you seeing what I see?' Not at all difficult.
Software needs an Edward Deming
You are being sarcastic, but isn't it pretty much taken for granted that we will all become wandering self sufficient nomads powered by nanoassemblers and fusion reactors in place of lungs and intestines? Space-adapted of course since we will eventually disassemble the Earth for raw materials.
Music is not an industry
I think this deserves repeating.
I am surprised you don't mention predicting the Kennedy assassination. Ah wait that was 'psychic' Jeanne Dixon, who milked that cherry picked prediction for the next few decades. But seriously, there is little here to determine how specific these predictions were, or how many bad predictions there were. I could make millions of predictions, then wait five years and fish out the ones that happened to be correct and claim some great ability to foresee the future.
Most people playing the card can't even define what "racism" means, beyond "something I don't like"
but critics say it will cause untold headaches for developers, admins and less-technical end-users.
Is this less or more headaches than the constant barrage of malware leveraging Java? Aside from exploits, the fake security scan authors seem to love using Java as well.
Well, you *can* trust anyone. But should you? Usually we use past behavior as a judge of whether it is likely the person is being deceptive, especially where proof is impossible or too expensive. Sadly, past behavior is no guarantee of future behavior. Anyone can be compromised. So we make a guess and balance cost of verification against cost of deception. After all, I can't prove the Africa exists. But I am choosing to trust that it does.
It's about as far from what this asshole is doing as you can get
On what do you base this statement? The articles linked in the summaries have nothing to indicate that any of the stuff you mention is, or is not, being done.
There's nothing in the linked articles to suggest that these "lock-ins" are any different than what many other companies do, especially start-ups, when there is a crucial problem at hand. (To me this 'necessity' sometimes indicates poor management and planning, other times perhaps it's needed). I notice that the first Google result I found isn't mentioned in the summary. It clarifies a bit what the lockdown means, apparently doesn't mean no one is allowed to leave the office or other such nonsense. The link to the Bangladeshi factory story appears to be an absurd comparison.
Kudos for these terrific examples of the idea I was trying to communicate!
yes, that is my point. It is perfectly clear when taken at a single point in time. It is not clear at all if you are dealing with a series of individuals over a (evolutionarily significant) length of time. Say, for example, that individuals can interbreed with any ancestor or descendant at +/- 50 generations. Outside of that range, genetic drift is too severe to permit interbreeding. So an individual at -30 gens can breed with one at generation 0, and can also breed with one at -70 generations. But the individual at 0 gens cannot breed with one at -70 generations. So where is the idea of a 'species' as you define it in this scenario? This is why they have so much trouble attributing fossils to this homo species or that, they are trying to shoehorn a concept that only works at a single point in time to samples taken potentially millions of years apart.
You are correct, I think I should have clarified by saying that the point on the timeline where a new species is formed is entirely arbitrary, and an individual at that point is wholly compatible with some number of generations to either side.
A nice example of the problems with using a point in time technique like taxonomy and applying it to an extended period of time. There's no single point where one species transforms into another, this is a very slow process. Any given sample, depending on where it is on the timeline, could belong to two different species. All the homo this and homo that is pretty much a waste of time, or so it seems to me.
Humans decide how the systems will react. Humans must, by definition, use human psychology to make these decisions. A risk averse designer will make a risk averse algorithm.
Humans design the systems and algorithms. Under certain circumstances, market makers will "panic" and take positions that are not attractive to anyone. So while technically still active in the market, as required by contract with the exchange, the buys and sells offered won't be accepted by anyone. Human psychology decides when to panic and when to stay active.
Well, 350k of those worked this last week after the Pentagon decided everyone was essential. So cut your estimate by a fifth.
A Start button without a Start Menu is useless.
I use Windows 7, and I haven't used the Start Menu in years. I find it much easier to simply type enough of what I want (after hitting the 'start' button) to bring it up, then arrow down to it. I am told, though cannot confirm from experience, that Win 8 works the same way, just type into Metro and there it is. For example, I can type {Windows button, "Add or r"} to get to Add/Remove Programs. {Windows, "Fire"} brings up Firefox, and so on. Honestly, I think the 'Start Menu' is hideous and clunky. So, opinions vary on this point.
Hotels might provide these shells on request, customers would just need to bring the core smart phone.
Millions? Less than one million perhaps.
regulatory efforts to prevent a Fukushima-like incident in the United States have ceased
As usual when we read a panicked outburst like this in the summary, we know it isn't true. For instance, TFA says ""We are going to make sure that we continue our oversight of the plants because the resident inspectors will be on duty, and we are prepared to respond to an emergency on short notice," then goes on to mention that additional help will be recalled if there is in incident. In other words, the same thing that happens if there is an incident at midnight on a Saturday.
Where did they find adults in modern day America? Ooops got to run before someone cuts me off in the line at Walmart....
The problem is the same thing we see with all large bureaucracies. What if the teacher has a mistaken or prejudiced opinion? In the old world, the student might have a bad day/year but things move on and in a few years no one remembers. In this brave new world, the student is stigmatized forever. Good luck getting crappy teacher inputs removed from this benevolent "greater good" tracking system. We already see teachers overreaching themselves getting kids put on powerful drugs like Ritalin. Imagine all the crap with bad entries to the 'do not fly' list, good luck getting your name off of that. But now you can't get a job, or credit, or a date, because your 3d grade teacher didn't like you.
Come on. I've been on plenty of flights where I couldn't hear an announcement no matter what was in my ear. Some of these planes seem to have installed PA systems salvaged from old subway cars. Couple that with ambient cabin noise and you've got a confident "what the heck did he say?"