First thing that comes to mind is RSS. Built a killer infrastructure for apps to use, then killed it, killing apps and nuking unwary folks' subscriptions.
Now this. Let's make security better... ok, it's better? Let's pretend it'll stay that way without further attention and reduce or remove its visibility.
Having heard hundreds of stories from a mental health professional who works with the homeless in a "transitional housing" facility... the real problem doesn't seem to be lack of federal social programs for homelessness.
There are a significant number of clients with "successful exits," meaning the client finds permanent housing, subsidized or otherwise.
The sticky part is the ones who are unable or unwilling to work on actually getting permanent housing. In a lot of cases it seems to be mental health or substance abuse issues that keep them from succeeding at stuff like keeping a job or not smoking meth.
I'm about as socially liberal as you'll find, but having the window I have into that world I really, really, really think that throwing money at it addresses only a symptom -no income- as opposed to the fundamental problems from which long-term no income situations arise.
I don't have firm numbers around it, but anecdotally psychosis, PTSD, and drug addiction seem to be the main reasons for unsuccessful exits. So if you want to fix homelessness, let's see better social programs to address these underlying causes.
A few years ago I sold a car part online. Shipped it off and a couple weeks later I got an stressed-out email from the buyer asking where his purchase was.
Checked tracking... it had gotten to a FedEx facility in Ohio and within a few days of my shipping it and was never seen or heard from again.
FedEx made me wait (what seemed like forever to the buyer) so they could investigate before they'd pay the insurance claim on a lost package.
Waited, waited, waited. Finally they got back to me saying it had been delivered in July. Trouble is, I shipped my package in August (and the date I generated the label and all the tracking before it disappeared indicated this).
It was a shockingly long and tedious argument with their agent saying it was delivered and me trying to figure out whether they used a souped up Delorean or a Tardis or what to deliver it a month before I shipped it.
In the end they finally paid out the insurance claim on the lost package, but they made the experience so completely terrible that I've never shipped with FedEx since.
I've been a vegetarian for 11 years and ride an electric bicycle to work (and for any errand that's within it's range/capacity).:-)
Being veg-based is inconvenient at times, but the electric bike is absolutely no hardship. Without exception everyone I've let ride one of my bikes has come back sporting a huge grin, and nearly everyone has said that they plan to get one.
I was just coming here to say "what about trees?".
Happy to see that some motivated folks have alread had the idea. Going to look into Cool earth with an eye toward maybe adding them to the groups I regularly donate to (currently EFF, ACLU, and Foregen).
We reached peak smartphone with the iphone 5. Past that, it's more crap we don't need (eye candy, tendrils of the surveillance state, ever more pixels).
Alexa devices and Homepod are just a commercialized version of what geeks were doing 15 years ago, minus privacy and autonomy and self-sufficiency.
The interesting stuff, imho, is happening outside of obvious IT stuff and more where it intersects with other niches. Electric cars, sure. But electric bikes, too. Drones. Blockchain.
If phones were about serving their owners or make the world better they would use their location-awareness to mute their ringers in offices and movie theaters and waiting rooms and turn off their creepy "Hey siri" crap in bedrooms. There'd be undefeatable-via-software LEDs to indicate when cameras were being used, we'd have exact control over what apps got what data and to whom they could send it. And they'd have user-replaceable batteries.
Didn't read TFA, but do these researchers understand what motivates people to participate?
Speaking as an established professional in a highly technical field -and as someone whose career has been further as much by hobbies and personal interests as certifications and professional experience- hackathons are in fact insanely fun, an invaluable social outlet that helps form lasting friendships and establish professional contacts, and a great way to build teamwork skills, learn new things, and challenge your abilities.
Sure, it's a challenge to build an app in a weekend (Rails Rumble), but it's fun. If that's your idea of fun.
I wonder how these researchers would describe gyms (establishments which trick you into paying money to do meaningless physical labor?), marathons, and online dating?
Can I get an iphone that's more durable and has a removable battery?
I'm willing to accept it being double the weight and thickness; I bet with the extra structure they can also improve its durability and let me keep my damned headphone jack.
I get it. They got some terminology wrong and some folks are stuck on it.
Happens all the time in wide-audience articles about technical or medical or scientific matters.
We're not their target audience, and we're likely to seize up over the imprecision in it. But if you try to get past the semantic problems and see what they're trying to convey... they're making a good point that even us nerds can benefit from thinking about.
There is always risk in letting other people make decisions for you.
Everyone with responsibility can screw up. I've literally had a wheel fall off my car due to a mechanic using a shoddy parts to repair a much more minor issue. I've gotten food poisoning from bad food handling/preparation practices at a restaurant.
Lawmakers often have conflicts of interests. Software companies are more beholden to the dollar and their shareholders than they are to their customers and society in general. News media gets by on advertising dollars.
It's up to each of us to decide what to delegate to other people. If you want to trust software, use open source that you've vetted yourself, or write it yourself from scratch.
Let me turn your comment into a question and put it to everyone: What would a data security model look like for decentralized apps based on ubiquitous encrypted serverless storage? Specifically, how would you revoke access from an app you no longer use? Or one you no longer trust? Or one which you know to have compromised your data? How would you undo changes made by a rogue app?
These questions are where software and computing and networking are actually interesting.
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Do you have a problem with their sending your queue items out of order?
I did.
They'd basically never send me the titles at the top of my queue, and they'd send discs of seasons out of order. It became pretty unusable.
Liet Kynes would be proud.
MS was infamous for Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
First thing that comes to mind is RSS. Built a killer infrastructure for apps to use, then killed it, killing apps and nuking unwary folks' subscriptions.
Now this. Let's make security better... ok, it's better? Let's pretend it'll stay that way without further attention and reduce or remove its visibility.
popcorn.
Having heard hundreds of stories from a mental health professional who works with the homeless in a "transitional housing" facility... the real problem doesn't seem to be lack of federal social programs for homelessness.
There are a significant number of clients with "successful exits," meaning the client finds permanent housing, subsidized or otherwise.
The sticky part is the ones who are unable or unwilling to work on actually getting permanent housing. In a lot of cases it seems to be mental health or substance abuse issues that keep them from succeeding at stuff like keeping a job or not smoking meth.
I'm about as socially liberal as you'll find, but having the window I have into that world I really, really, really think that throwing money at it addresses only a symptom -no income- as opposed to the fundamental problems from which long-term no income situations arise.
I don't have firm numbers around it, but anecdotally psychosis, PTSD, and drug addiction seem to be the main reasons for unsuccessful exits. So if you want to fix homelessness, let's see better social programs to address these underlying causes.
How about this instead: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01...
There are *millions* of web-based games? Millions?
Do you like being taken to prison?
Because this is how you get taken to prison.
Ah, trust problems and FedEx....
A few years ago I sold a car part online. Shipped it off and a couple weeks later I got an stressed-out email from the buyer asking where his purchase was.
Checked tracking... it had gotten to a FedEx facility in Ohio and within a few days of my shipping it and was never seen or heard from again.
FedEx made me wait (what seemed like forever to the buyer) so they could investigate before they'd pay the insurance claim on a lost package.
Waited, waited, waited. Finally they got back to me saying it had been delivered in July. Trouble is, I shipped my package in August (and the date I generated the label and all the tracking before it disappeared indicated this).
It was a shockingly long and tedious argument with their agent saying it was delivered and me trying to figure out whether they used a souped up Delorean or a Tardis or what to deliver it a month before I shipped it.
In the end they finally paid out the insurance claim on the lost package, but they made the experience so completely terrible that I've never shipped with FedEx since.
What?
Which companies are these? And are they hiring?
Everywhere I look it seems like I only see shops that are drinking the kubernetes Kool Aid.
I've been a vegetarian for 11 years and ride an electric bicycle to work (and for any errand that's within it's range/capacity). :-)
Being veg-based is inconvenient at times, but the electric bike is absolutely no hardship. Without exception everyone I've let ride one of my bikes has come back sporting a huge grin, and nearly everyone has said that they plan to get one.
Electric bikes are the future.
I was just coming here to say "what about trees?".
Happy to see that some motivated folks have alread had the idea. Going to look into Cool earth with an eye toward maybe adding them to the groups I regularly donate to (currently EFF, ACLU, and Foregen).
And when will it be availble?
Agreed. This trilogy is the best Science Fiction that I've read in decades.
I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do with a tv version.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Extinguish might be hard, but they've almost certainly got actual teams of smart people whose only job is to figure that out.
At the very least they'll be able to sow discord and fragment communities.
We reached peak smartphone with the iphone 5. Past that, it's more crap we don't need (eye candy, tendrils of the surveillance state, ever more pixels).
Alexa devices and Homepod are just a commercialized version of what geeks were doing 15 years ago, minus privacy and autonomy and self-sufficiency.
The interesting stuff, imho, is happening outside of obvious IT stuff and more where it intersects with other niches. Electric cars, sure. But electric bikes, too. Drones. Blockchain.
If phones were about serving their owners or make the world better they would use their location-awareness to mute their ringers in offices and movie theaters and waiting rooms and turn off their creepy "Hey siri" crap in bedrooms. There'd be undefeatable-via-software LEDs to indicate when cameras were being used, we'd have exact control over what apps got what data and to whom they could send it. And they'd have user-replaceable batteries.
Didn't read TFA, but do these researchers understand what motivates people to participate?
Speaking as an established professional in a highly technical field -and as someone whose career has been further as much by hobbies and personal interests as certifications and professional experience- hackathons are in fact insanely fun, an invaluable social outlet that helps form lasting friendships and establish professional contacts, and a great way to build teamwork skills, learn new things, and challenge your abilities.
Sure, it's a challenge to build an app in a weekend (Rails Rumble), but it's fun. If that's your idea of fun.
I wonder how these researchers would describe gyms (establishments which trick you into paying money to do meaningless physical labor?), marathons, and online dating?
Sadly, android's pro-advertising security model is not satisfactory. :-(
It's a shame that Apple can't cater to different niches with better differentiation than cheap/mainstream/uber-expensive.
I'm interested to see whether my new Gemini (modern Psion notebook with 4g) with Linux can do adequate smartphone duties.
Can I get an iphone that's more durable and has a removable battery?
I'm willing to accept it being double the weight and thickness; I bet with the extra structure they can also improve its durability and let me keep my damned headphone jack.
I, for one, welcome our life-altering image overlords.
In a cellar, where the lights and stairs had gone out
There were two recent vulnerability announcements.
Meltdown (which affects only Intel)
Spectre (which affects Intel, AMD, ARM, and probably more)
Intel has done a *great* job of making it sound like they're one and the same, and everyone's affected.
Meltdown is fixable.
Spectre isn't fully fixable yet, afaik.
On a related note, think about what Spectre really means for your public cloud workloads...
I get it. They got some terminology wrong and some folks are stuck on it.
Happens all the time in wide-audience articles about technical or medical or scientific matters.
We're not their target audience, and we're likely to seize up over the imprecision in it. But if you try to get past the semantic problems and see what they're trying to convey... they're making a good point that even us nerds can benefit from thinking about.
There is always risk in letting other people make decisions for you.
Everyone with responsibility can screw up. I've literally had a wheel fall off my car due to a mechanic using a shoddy parts to repair a much more minor issue. I've gotten food poisoning from bad food handling/preparation practices at a restaurant.
Lawmakers often have conflicts of interests. Software companies are more beholden to the dollar and their shareholders than they are to their customers and society in general. News media gets by on advertising dollars.
It's up to each of us to decide what to delegate to other people. If you want to trust software, use open source that you've vetted yourself, or write it yourself from scratch.
Let me turn your comment into a question and put it to everyone:
What would a data security model look like for decentralized apps based on ubiquitous encrypted serverless storage? Specifically, how would you revoke access from an app you no longer use? Or one you no longer trust? Or one which you know to have compromised your data? How would you undo changes made by a rogue app?
These questions are where software and computing and networking are actually interesting.
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