A good GUI made people go from 'no IT literacy' to 'some IT literacy'. That is an improvement in IT literacy.
Do you think we'd have the same take-up rates of personal computers had Windows not been around?
No, it's like saying McDonalds revolutionised the food industry, which it did.
As much as it goes against your fundamental religion, Windows increased overall computer use, and thus increased the overall IT literacy of the average person.
Time to call their bluff. Unlike the mess in the middle east I think this problem could be taken care of quite quickly. A shock and awe campaign to neutralise the military infrastructure would see the regular army dismantled pretty quickly, then the South Koreans can go in take over and occupy permanently. This is the fight we should've had post 9/11, not that debacle we're still embroiled in.
The weakness is the same with all systems, a screwdriver jammed in the ear of the password holder is generally the quickest method to unlocking any encryption.
You can't, at least not at my bank. One time SMS codes are mandatory for transactions to new accounts and any security changes so it's pretty robust. The weakest link would be if you had the password, and my personal details and called up my bank pretending to be me and requested a change of cell phone number for SMS. But then this change gets sent to my email address and a letter to my house so I'd know about it. Unless you had all that too. Possible but about as hard as I realistically expect.
I often look at roads and wonder how much better the area would be without them. If you think of all the good areas you like to be in, there's a good chance they are nowhere near a road (or at least any sort of main road). Park? Beach? Mountain? Bush? No-one ever says stuck in traffic, or sitting on the side of a busy freeway. Why do we persist with this 1950's car based strategy in major cities when it clearly causes so many issues?
Before we devote another another joule of energy designing flying cars, can someone first explain how such a system would ever be feasible? Jetson fantasies aside, the entire concept is flawed from top to bottom. Regulations, safety, efficiency, cost, saftey, logistics and saftey. It can never work, why do people persist?
Telepresence can run on a few mbps, isn't "multi-gigabit" a tad overkill for such a task?
It seems theses problems are no longer technical, they are all motivational and/or political.
Surely there a Godwin type rule for anti-MS posts on Slashdot?
How much did the LSE crash cost? Those that held stock at the start of the day still had them at the end, no loss there, and the FTSE was up at the end of that day so a lot of people actually made money.
MS/Accenture/LSE lost face, some traders lost out on commissions, but the overall cost wouldn't come close to the Airbus debacle which costs $6B.
I could make some childish & snide reference to CATIA being a Unix app, but this is Slashdot and only stupid comments about MS seem to get mod points.
Always the legacy bullshit that holds back progress. If only we had a new country somewhere where progressive people could be free to be progressive...
"So any firewall on the machine is easy to disable."
So don't have your firewall on the same device
"Granted, you could use an external firewall"
Security 101.
"That is not an actual solution"
Yes it is.
"We definitely need to ramp up production on..."
Do we really? I think we need a bit less of everything. There's only so much stuff one planet can handle.
Solar isn't a stand-alone solution, it supplements your existing feed by feeding-in unused power back to the grid that you earn credits for on your bill. eg I use 15kwh/day, my solar generates 10kwh/day, my bill is for 5kwh/day. Even if I uses all my power at night, it is a net feed-in tariff. If I go away for a month over summer I actually earn money.
"good sum of salable data"? Really? I've spent a lot of time in SMBs and struggle to find anything worth selling. I've even been a disgruntled employee with full admin access and couldn't find anything to sell even if I wanted to. IMO the "security has no ROI" is far closer to reality than "good sum of salable data".
In US they have guns and they are completely safe too.
The problem aren't guns or lack of them, it is people. If you address that issue, the rest takes care of itself.
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Clearly this is a threat to national security? I'm not sure how or why, but I just know that somehow the government doesn't like this.
A good GUI made people go from 'no IT literacy' to 'some IT literacy'. That is an improvement in IT literacy. Do you think we'd have the same take-up rates of personal computers had Windows not been around?
No, it's like saying McDonalds revolutionised the food industry, which it did. As much as it goes against your fundamental religion, Windows increased overall computer use, and thus increased the overall IT literacy of the average person.
I thought they were only proposing one setting: "do what we tell you"
Time to call their bluff. Unlike the mess in the middle east I think this problem could be taken care of quite quickly. A shock and awe campaign to neutralise the military infrastructure would see the regular army dismantled pretty quickly, then the South Koreans can go in take over and occupy permanently. This is the fight we should've had post 9/11, not that debacle we're still embroiled in.
The weakness is the same with all systems, a screwdriver jammed in the ear of the password holder is generally the quickest method to unlocking any encryption.
Because most people use Windows. Suck it up Linux princess.
You can't, at least not at my bank. One time SMS codes are mandatory for transactions to new accounts and any security changes so it's pretty robust. The weakest link would be if you had the password, and my personal details and called up my bank pretending to be me and requested a change of cell phone number for SMS. But then this change gets sent to my email address and a letter to my house so I'd know about it. Unless you had all that too. Possible but about as hard as I realistically expect.
I often look at roads and wonder how much better the area would be without them. If you think of all the good areas you like to be in, there's a good chance they are nowhere near a road (or at least any sort of main road). Park? Beach? Mountain? Bush? No-one ever says stuck in traffic, or sitting on the side of a busy freeway. Why do we persist with this 1950's car based strategy in major cities when it clearly causes so many issues?
Hong Kong. It's cheap, efficient, clean, safe, and actually makes a profit.
Before we devote another another joule of energy designing flying cars, can someone first explain how such a system would ever be feasible? Jetson fantasies aside, the entire concept is flawed from top to bottom. Regulations, safety, efficiency, cost, saftey, logistics and saftey. It can never work, why do people persist?
Telepresence can run on a few mbps, isn't "multi-gigabit" a tad overkill for such a task? It seems theses problems are no longer technical, they are all motivational and/or political.
Burden of proof is on the claimant. Now go back to your Fox News....
Surely there a Godwin type rule for anti-MS posts on Slashdot? How much did the LSE crash cost? Those that held stock at the start of the day still had them at the end, no loss there, and the FTSE was up at the end of that day so a lot of people actually made money. MS/Accenture/LSE lost face, some traders lost out on commissions, but the overall cost wouldn't come close to the Airbus debacle which costs $6B. I could make some childish & snide reference to CATIA being a Unix app, but this is Slashdot and only stupid comments about MS seem to get mod points.
That's why we have vans, trolleys, bicycle couriers etc. A fully routable, packet switching distribution network.
Always the legacy bullshit that holds back progress. If only we had a new country somewhere where progressive people could be free to be progressive...
"Every network system I'm aware of relies on being able to duplicate packets at virtually no cost" Like a public transport network for instance?
Why is this a problem? If it can safely transport humans and it takes you where you need to go, why not?
"So any firewall on the machine is easy to disable." So don't have your firewall on the same device "Granted, you could use an external firewall" Security 101. "That is not an actual solution" Yes it is.
"We definitely need to ramp up production on..." Do we really? I think we need a bit less of everything. There's only so much stuff one planet can handle.
Solar isn't a stand-alone solution, it supplements your existing feed by feeding-in unused power back to the grid that you earn credits for on your bill. eg I use 15kwh/day, my solar generates 10kwh/day, my bill is for 5kwh/day. Even if I uses all my power at night, it is a net feed-in tariff. If I go away for a month over summer I actually earn money.
If it made sense it wouldn't make the headlines. Pie in the sky seems to be the prerequisite these days.
"good sum of salable data"? Really? I've spent a lot of time in SMBs and struggle to find anything worth selling. I've even been a disgruntled employee with full admin access and couldn't find anything to sell even if I wanted to. IMO the "security has no ROI" is far closer to reality than "good sum of salable data".
I predict the traffic will be really busy between 7am and 9am, and then again from 4pm to 6pm. Where do I pick up my prize?
In US they have guns and they are completely safe too. The problem aren't guns or lack of them, it is people. If you address that issue, the rest takes care of itself.