They'd rather chase short term profits and let the Government bail them out every 10 years because they know we need their factories in case we need to ramp up for war.
This is often cited as the reason that the US Gov't never lets them fail, and they can get away with running a terrible business indefinitely. However, I often wonder how valid of a reason this really is. Given what's involved in manufacture of modern military hardware, how realistic is it to repurpose a GM factory? Would it actually take less time/effort than simply helping the various defense contractors to stand up entirely new facilities?
Especially since "OMG! 'Screen time' is bad for the children!" is just the modern version of "OMG! Television is bad for the children!", which is probably the yester-year version of a similar freakout.
Achem... Stop confusing terminology... AdobeRGB and sRGB coverage are the "color gamut" spec. While its valid to ask why these aren't promoted in TV specs, "dynamic range" is a completely different spec item.
Back in reality for a moment, it actually makes a lot of business sense to use E2E encryption. If you don't you are going to get bombarded with requests from law enforcement, which cost money to process. Not to mention the reputation damage.
I wish this point got called out a little more often. It is very much a strong motive for E2E, which becomes more obvious if you put yourself in the position of operating a global messaging service.
The other motive is simply preventing mass surveillance (i.e. the thing Snowden called out). Of course these two are kinda complementary.
So what does this announcement mean? Pick one: a) That whatsapp will turn off end to end encryption for Australian customers? b) Whatsapp will cease operations in Australia because e-to-e contravenes Australian law? c) The encryption scheme is already broken and we just don't realize it?
d) There will be a lot of noise between public officials with no knowledge of how the tech actually works, and this will all just blow over... (possibly with a situation like that fiasco in Brazil, depending on how much noise they make)
That would make it worse. People would leave 1 seat gaps between them and the next person, and then when families and couples come along later they would have to ask them to move or be split up.
Particularly for families with children being together is quite important, and benefits the other passengers as well.
This is exactly what happens with Southwest, and why I pretty much avoid flying on that airline when not traveling by myself. Just trying to sit next to my wife (before children) was enough of a hassle, if we weren't lucky enough to get on-board first.
Apparently this article is long enough to actually address all the points everyone here is bringing up as a counter-argument.
Of course its also pushing Rust, which nearly all these articles do.
While I personally have no real opinions or experience with Rust, I don't yet see it being used very much. It mostly seems to be used for novel standalone utilities, which are not parts of larger projects.
So when Russia does their next big exercise, should we deploy the GLONASS jammers in return?
I really do hope we're able to deal with a lack of GPS. Everything has become so dependent on it, and this general assumption that we have unchallenged space superiority. Probably because we've gotten way to accustomed to fighting Iraqis and Afghans who really cannot even pretend to challenge us technologically.
There is very little "old" technology that doesn't continue to drive new technology. Syntax might change but concepts don't. You'd be surprised how old the math is for doing 3D graphics.
When I was in college, I was surprised at how often we read academic papers from the 50's and 60's. The theory and underpinnings really don't change as often as you'd think. Problems like this happen when a class tries to teach "the latest and greatest thing," rather than the fundamentals.
Luckily that was still the time you where a wizzkid if you could start up a computer.
Back then, I remember many people taking it as a point of social pride that they "didn't even know how to turn the computer on." Because this ignorance made them better than us geeks.
25 years ago... multi-chip module good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER2
Seems like IBM had trouble actually fitting an entire POWER CPU on a single die back then. So they started with the CPU being a whole card of individually packaged chips, then later moved onto a multi-chip module. Makes me wonder if anyone else did the MCM thing, since I haven't seen non-IBM old computers taking that approach.
If I'm making coffee at home, I nearly always drink it black. I also make sure to use enough grounds, often grind the beans fresh, and use good filtered water.
If I'm drinking coffee while out-and-about, there's a very chance that they don't use enough grounds or filtered water. In this case, I always add cream and sugar to help make it taste better. (Or its simply kept way too hot to be drinkable unless I cool it down with cream or let it sit for a while.)
The configuration minimalism of some other desktop environments drives people to fork them over minor disagreements.
This minimalism is why I don't find modern Gnome usable without installing a bunch of tweak tools and add-ons that I shouldn't even need. Seriously, the cruisade to minimal'ize the Gnome environment has made it far more featureless than Windows or macOS to the point that it pisses me off.
What's a shame here is that Fedora has actually done a much better job at packaging a polished and functional KDE desktop than Ubuntu ever did. That's part of the reason that I've stuck with Fedora on my home desktop, after getting fed up with OpenSUSE many years ago.
One thing that would really help, is if the "social interaction" could be tied to the content itself... And not the site someone first notices the content on. Of course this would require some level of protocol/backend cooperation between all these sites, which we know will never happen.
(Only underdogs seem to want to play well with others, as the dominant players rarely have any incentive to bother.)
The last time I looked around at the various options (many years ago, I'll admit), it was somewhat unclear where exactly I should post my photos. At the time, it kinda felt like:
SmugMug - If I want an aesthetically pleasing gallery, that's organized and easy to browse. But no social features.
Flickr - If I want public social interaction on my photos, with gallery organization as an afterthought
Facebook - If I want my friends to actually know I took any photos at all, because they'll never notice them if posted elsewhere. Oh, and social interaction from said friends.
My own gallery site - Similar to SmugMug, but not as pretty
Today, I really don't know where to post anything. Most of it just winds up on FB, because that's the only place anyone will notice it.
I think Adobe's "Creative Cloud" already offers some form of this. (Though not sure about the "client side encrypt" part.)
Unfortunately, free-but-encumbered is always going to be orders of magnitude more popular than anything that users have to pay for, regardless of how little may be charged for it.
Many years ago, when I bought an Apple laptop, I ordered my extra RAM stick separately from Crucial. (way back when you could still do this) Much to my surprise, the "much cheaper" RAM I got was the SAME brand and part number as what Apple was shipping the machine with!
This is par for the course when a stock is heavily shorted. All good news must be followed by damning news, so that the stock price follows a rollercoaster pattern. I've seen it happen to other companies before, almost as if the shorters are actively trying (via the power of the press) to induce failure in the company (regardless of how the actual business is doing at any given moment).
And when it was signed into law under Obama, I think I remember the Republican-leaning part of the population being equally outraged at it.
This "we must be outraged *just* because Trump was named in describing the thing" feels just as bad as "we must be outraged *just* because Obama was named in describing the thing" from a few years ago. The only thing that's changed is who is being outraged.
(Sure, this administration may be saying/doing a lot of things there's a real non-partisan reason to be outraged at, but this isn't one of them.)
The main thing that really bothers me about The Last Jedi, is that all the hate and trolling has managed to pretty much taint any and all actual criticism of the movie. You're now no longer allowed to be critical of anything in the film, without being labeled a misogynist, part of the "toxic masculinity", or whatever the trigger words are these days. Heck, I've even heard that some characters were written in such a way that you'd automatically labeled "part of the problem" if you don't like them.
Do I think the movie had issues? Of course I do. Are there characters I didn't like? Yes. Did I at least somewhat enjoy watching it? Also yes.
But do I think it was a terrible pile of garbage that everyone involved should be ashamed of and harassed endlessly over? Absolutely not.
But I now somehow feel awkward and uncomfortable actually expressing any criticism.
I remember the day I cracked open the box for Ultima VI (in particular) - and in all it's glory were a cloth map of Britannia, two (count 'em) manuals (spellbook and general adventuring guide), and an "authentic replic Orb of the Moons moonstone"
Today this seems to have been replaced with one of two (mutually-exclusive?) options: 1) An in-game reference that's hopefully convenient to use, but might not be. 2) A completely unofficial 3rd party wiki site, that's very inconvenient to use (unless you have a secondary laptop/device next to your gaming machine).
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They'd rather chase short term profits and let the Government bail them out every 10 years because they know we need their factories in case we need to ramp up for war.
This is often cited as the reason that the US Gov't never lets them fail, and they can get away with running a terrible business indefinitely. However, I often wonder how valid of a reason this really is. Given what's involved in manufacture of modern military hardware, how realistic is it to repurpose a GM factory? Would it actually take less time/effort than simply helping the various defense contractors to stand up entirely new facilities?
Especially since "OMG! 'Screen time' is bad for the children!" is just the modern version of "OMG! Television is bad for the children!", which is probably the yester-year version of a similar freakout.
Achem... Stop confusing terminology... AdobeRGB and sRGB coverage are the "color gamut" spec. While its valid to ask why these aren't promoted in TV specs, "dynamic range" is a completely different spec item.
Back in reality for a moment, it actually makes a lot of business sense to use E2E encryption. If you don't you are going to get bombarded with requests from law enforcement, which cost money to process. Not to mention the reputation damage.
I wish this point got called out a little more often. It is very much a strong motive for E2E, which becomes more obvious if you put yourself in the position of operating a global messaging service.
The other motive is simply preventing mass surveillance (i.e. the thing Snowden called out). Of course these two are kinda complementary.
So what does this announcement mean? Pick one:
a) That whatsapp will turn off end to end encryption for Australian customers?
b) Whatsapp will cease operations in Australia because e-to-e contravenes Australian law?
c) The encryption scheme is already broken and we just don't realize it?
d) There will be a lot of noise between public officials with no knowledge of how the tech actually works, and this will all just blow over... (possibly with a situation like that fiasco in Brazil, depending on how much noise they make)
That would make it worse. People would leave 1 seat gaps between them and the next person, and then when families and couples come along later they would have to ask them to move or be split up.
Particularly for families with children being together is quite important, and benefits the other passengers as well.
This is exactly what happens with Southwest, and why I pretty much avoid flying on that airline when not traveling by myself. Just trying to sit next to my wife (before children) was enough of a hassle, if we weren't lucky enough to get on-board first.
I know its supposed to be used for that. I also know that its proponents are screaming at everyone to find every opportunity to use it for that.
What I haven't yet noticed, is actually seeing a meaningful swath of said core libraries actually get rewritten in Rust.
Apparently this article is long enough to actually address all the points everyone here is bringing up as a counter-argument.
Of course its also pushing Rust, which nearly all these articles do.
While I personally have no real opinions or experience with Rust, I don't yet see it being used very much. It mostly seems to be used for novel standalone utilities, which are not parts of larger projects.
So when Russia does their next big exercise, should we deploy the GLONASS jammers in return?
I really do hope we're able to deal with a lack of GPS. Everything has become so dependent on it, and this general assumption that we have unchallenged space superiority. Probably because we've gotten way to accustomed to fighting Iraqis and Afghans who really cannot even pretend to challenge us technologically.
There is very little "old" technology that doesn't continue to drive new technology. Syntax might change but concepts don't. You'd be surprised how old the math is for doing 3D graphics.
When I was in college, I was surprised at how often we read academic papers from the 50's and 60's. The theory and underpinnings really don't change as often as you'd think. Problems like this happen when a class tries to teach "the latest and greatest thing," rather than the fundamentals.
Luckily that was still the time you where a wizzkid if you could start up a computer.
Back then, I remember many people taking it as a point of social pride that they "didn't even know how to turn the computer on." Because this ignorance made them better than us geeks.
Now, they're all on Facebook.
25 years ago... multi-chip module good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER2
Seems like IBM had trouble actually fitting an entire POWER CPU on a single die back then. So they started with the CPU being a whole card of individually packaged chips, then later moved onto a multi-chip module. Makes me wonder if anyone else did the MCM thing, since I haven't seen non-IBM old computers taking that approach.
If I'm making coffee at home, I nearly always drink it black. I also make sure to use enough grounds, often grind the beans fresh, and use good filtered water.
If I'm drinking coffee while out-and-about, there's a very chance that they don't use enough grounds or filtered water. In this case, I always add cream and sugar to help make it taste better. (Or its simply kept way too hot to be drinkable unless I cool it down with cream or let it sit for a while.)
The configuration minimalism of some other desktop environments drives people to fork them over minor disagreements.
This minimalism is why I don't find modern Gnome usable without installing a bunch of tweak tools and add-ons that I shouldn't even need. Seriously, the cruisade to minimal'ize the Gnome environment has made it far more featureless than Windows or macOS to the point that it pisses me off.
What's a shame here is that Fedora has actually done a much better job at packaging a polished and functional KDE desktop than Ubuntu ever did. That's part of the reason that I've stuck with Fedora on my home desktop, after getting fed up with OpenSUSE many years ago.
One thing that would really help, is if the "social interaction" could be tied to the content itself... And not the site someone first notices the content on.
Of course this would require some level of protocol/backend cooperation between all these sites, which we know will never happen.
(Only underdogs seem to want to play well with others, as the dominant players rarely have any incentive to bother.)
The last time I looked around at the various options (many years ago, I'll admit), it was somewhat unclear where exactly I should post my photos. At the time, it kinda felt like:
SmugMug - If I want an aesthetically pleasing gallery, that's organized and easy to browse. But no social features.
Flickr - If I want public social interaction on my photos, with gallery organization as an afterthought
Facebook - If I want my friends to actually know I took any photos at all, because they'll never notice them if posted elsewhere. Oh, and social interaction from said friends.
My own gallery site - Similar to SmugMug, but not as pretty
Today, I really don't know where to post anything. Most of it just winds up on FB, because that's the only place anyone will notice it.
2. ???
You pay for the service?
I think Adobe's "Creative Cloud" already offers some form of this. (Though not sure about the "client side encrypt" part.)
Unfortunately, free-but-encumbered is always going to be orders of magnitude more popular than anything that users have to pay for, regardless of how little may be charged for it.
Many years ago, when I bought an Apple laptop, I ordered my extra RAM stick separately from Crucial. (way back when you could still do this)
Much to my surprise, the "much cheaper" RAM I got was the SAME brand and part number as what Apple was shipping the machine with!
> Twitter allows multiple terrorist organizations to operate on there.
Not the least of which is the leadership of the United States...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/world/middleeast/trump-threatens-iran-twitter.html
A political leader making inflammatory (and often empty) threats is not terrorism.
This is par for the course when a stock is heavily shorted. All good news must be followed by damning news, so that the stock price follows a rollercoaster pattern. I've seen it happen to other companies before, almost as if the shorters are actively trying (via the power of the press) to induce failure in the company (regardless of how the actual business is doing at any given moment).
And when it was signed into law under Obama, I think I remember the Republican-leaning part of the population being equally outraged at it.
This "we must be outraged *just* because Trump was named in describing the thing" feels just as bad as "we must be outraged *just* because Obama was named in describing the thing" from a few years ago. The only thing that's changed is who is being outraged.
(Sure, this administration may be saying/doing a lot of things there's a real non-partisan reason to be outraged at, but this isn't one of them.)
Back when you could trust a presidents message to be something based on the countries best interests.
Unless it was to children on their first day of school, and you lived in a red state.
The main thing that really bothers me about The Last Jedi, is that all the hate and trolling has managed to pretty much taint any and all actual criticism of the movie. You're now no longer allowed to be critical of anything in the film, without being labeled a misogynist, part of the "toxic masculinity", or whatever the trigger words are these days. Heck, I've even heard that some characters were written in such a way that you'd automatically labeled "part of the problem" if you don't like them.
Do I think the movie had issues? Of course I do. Are there characters I didn't like? Yes. Did I at least somewhat enjoy watching it? Also yes.
But do I think it was a terrible pile of garbage that everyone involved should be ashamed of and harassed endlessly over? Absolutely not.
But I now somehow feel awkward and uncomfortable actually expressing any criticism.
I remember the day I cracked open the box for Ultima VI (in particular) - and in all it's glory were a cloth map of Britannia, two (count 'em) manuals (spellbook and general adventuring guide), and an "authentic replic Orb of the Moons moonstone"
Today this seems to have been replaced with one of two (mutually-exclusive?) options:
1) An in-game reference that's hopefully convenient to use, but might not be.
2) A completely unofficial 3rd party wiki site, that's very inconvenient to use (unless you have a secondary laptop/device next to your gaming machine).