The difference maybe being that the peacock hen does not require the peacock after mating anymore, so him being able to waste all that energy on having that impressive feathers (and her choosing this trait) makes sense, since she would not benefit at all from him being able to sustain himself and possibly her.
It's kinda different in a species where both, male and female, are kinda expected to provide for the offspring. And behold, you will not find this kind of behaviour in any species where this is the case. Aside of humans, that is.
Producers don't care if you're happy with the product. Only that you buy it.
By now they have learned that the average person has the long term memory of a goldfish. They buy junk, they find out it doesn't work, they curse the manufacturer, then go and buy the same junk from the same manufacturer because it's the cheapest one.
Sorry, but I'm in the dancing pig business (or rather, dealing with the fallout of people clicking on them). They do. Boy, they do.
People don't learn. You can tell them all you want, they don't learn. And to throw insult after injury, you wouldn't believe how often you hear "how should I have known?", when they come in the second time with exactly the same fuckup after you told them specifically when it happened to them the first time.
Another aspect is that people don't think that washing machines, fridges and TVs could have anything to do with computers. Computers are those things with a keyboard and a screen.
In today's parlance that means hosting a LAN party and yelling that someone is handing out free iPhone 8s in the parking lot while making sure every lan cable is laid out in a pattern to create tripwires?
Wasn't he also the guy who had an old spinning wheel instead of a weaving machine because he said with the spinning wheel he is the master while with a machine that you might not even own, you cannot be sure just who is the master and who is the slave?
Producers of products ultimately aim to please their customers
If you got more material like this you could have a standup routine going by next weekend.
Producers of products ultimately aim to make a profit. Pleasing the customer is a necessary evil, at best. If that's not necessary because the customer is stupid enough to fall for "ohh shiny!", "ohh shiny!" is all he'll get. Because it's simply cheaper than security.
Well, care to tell me where I can buy secure shit?
Just recently we had someone ask for suggestions for a 4k TV that does NOT try its best to connect to the internet and send all kinds of information to its master while at the same time allowing streaming from a LAN connected media source.
As far as I know, nobody could point to such a thing.
The problem is that you can live in the best possible neighborhood and still have the slums next door on the internet. There is no "better neighborhood" on the internet that you could move to, because everyone, literally everyone, is living next door.
You can of course choose to live in a gated community. But again, as the internet is a thoroughly bidirectional system, this also means that you live in a prison.
Choose freedom and responsibility or prison and a warden that decides who may visit you and where you may go. You cannot have both, so choose wisely.
For this to really have any measurable impact, it would not only have to happen to a LOT of people, if not to everyone who ever bought an insecure IoT gadget. Why? Experience.
For ages we have banking trojans, and still people click every bullshit. We've had encryption trojans for a while now too, and still people neither make backups nor do they up their security. Both things still work as planned. Because it doesn't happen to enough people. And as long as it's not just happening to someone who happens to be the friend of an aunt of an acquaintance of a coworker's wife but to YOU or at least someone in your family, you won't care. Yes, it's something that happens to someone. But not to you.
And it must hurt them, and they must not be able to brush it off on someone else. Banking trojans cause millions in damage every year, but banks foot the bill because it would cost them a LOT more if people returned to doing their banking business offline. So people don't care and needn't care, someone else is paying for their stupidity.
No. It has to hurt, and they have to be left alone with the damage. Then, and only then, we'll see some changes.
But as we all know, those changes will be the idiots demanding stricter laws (as if that would change anything), not starting to take some responsibility for their own lives.
Here you find a pretty good summary of the phenomenon. In a nutshell, given the choice between "ohhh shiny!" and security, the vast majority will go for the former without even considering the latter. People don't know and I have the creeping suspicion that they don't want to know what security implications their actions have.
In most countries, contracts where you get loaded additional bullshit onto it after the sale are void. And that's basically what an EULA is. The sale happens before you get even informed what the EULA consists of, let alone agree to it.
And no, the click-through bullshit is not a substitute.
Well, let's say he got back what he dished out throughout his life, with a little bit of interest.
No, not one singular thing he did would warrant this. Not the embezzlement, not the throwing of any of his business partners under the bus and to the sharks, not the swindling of people out of their hard earned money, not a single incident would warrant this.
In total, though? If anything, this whole mess makes me believe in Karma.
Slashdot Mirror
Worse. Cucked by Uranus.
That's why you should try to keep chemists away from astronomy meetings.
The difference maybe being that the peacock hen does not require the peacock after mating anymore, so him being able to waste all that energy on having that impressive feathers (and her choosing this trait) makes sense, since she would not benefit at all from him being able to sustain himself and possibly her.
It's kinda different in a species where both, male and female, are kinda expected to provide for the offspring. And behold, you will not find this kind of behaviour in any species where this is the case. Aside of humans, that is.
Producers don't care if you're happy with the product. Only that you buy it.
By now they have learned that the average person has the long term memory of a goldfish. They buy junk, they find out it doesn't work, they curse the manufacturer, then go and buy the same junk from the same manufacturer because it's the cheapest one.
People are stupid. Producers have caught on.
Sorry, but I'm in the dancing pig business (or rather, dealing with the fallout of people clicking on them). They do. Boy, they do.
People don't learn. You can tell them all you want, they don't learn. And to throw insult after injury, you wouldn't believe how often you hear "how should I have known?", when they come in the second time with exactly the same fuckup after you told them specifically when it happened to them the first time.
Another aspect is that people don't think that washing machines, fridges and TVs could have anything to do with computers. Computers are those things with a keyboard and a screen.
You can fix stupid. But it requires the debugging tools from Smith & Wesson.
Hi Mr. President, didn't know you frequent /.
What driving?
(transporter user)
In today's parlance that means hosting a LAN party and yelling that someone is handing out free iPhone 8s in the parking lot while making sure every lan cable is laid out in a pattern to create tripwires?
This is true if, say, 25% of the kickstarters you fund succeed and you get the product for 20% of its retail price.
Is that the case? No? Didn't think so.
Wasn't he also the guy who had an old spinning wheel instead of a weaving machine because he said with the spinning wheel he is the master while with a machine that you might not even own, you cannot be sure just who is the master and who is the slave?
Talk about a prophet!
Producers of products ultimately aim to please their customers
If you got more material like this you could have a standup routine going by next weekend.
Producers of products ultimately aim to make a profit. Pleasing the customer is a necessary evil, at best. If that's not necessary because the customer is stupid enough to fall for "ohh shiny!", "ohh shiny!" is all he'll get. Because it's simply cheaper than security.
Well, care to tell me where I can buy secure shit?
Just recently we had someone ask for suggestions for a 4k TV that does NOT try its best to connect to the internet and send all kinds of information to its master while at the same time allowing streaming from a LAN connected media source.
As far as I know, nobody could point to such a thing.
And software is also the only product where you get away with something like this.
The problem is that you can live in the best possible neighborhood and still have the slums next door on the internet. There is no "better neighborhood" on the internet that you could move to, because everyone, literally everyone, is living next door.
You can of course choose to live in a gated community. But again, as the internet is a thoroughly bidirectional system, this also means that you live in a prison.
Choose freedom and responsibility or prison and a warden that decides who may visit you and where you may go. You cannot have both, so choose wisely.
For this to really have any measurable impact, it would not only have to happen to a LOT of people, if not to everyone who ever bought an insecure IoT gadget. Why? Experience.
For ages we have banking trojans, and still people click every bullshit. We've had encryption trojans for a while now too, and still people neither make backups nor do they up their security. Both things still work as planned. Because it doesn't happen to enough people. And as long as it's not just happening to someone who happens to be the friend of an aunt of an acquaintance of a coworker's wife but to YOU or at least someone in your family, you won't care. Yes, it's something that happens to someone. But not to you.
And it must hurt them, and they must not be able to brush it off on someone else. Banking trojans cause millions in damage every year, but banks foot the bill because it would cost them a LOT more if people returned to doing their banking business offline. So people don't care and needn't care, someone else is paying for their stupidity.
No. It has to hurt, and they have to be left alone with the damage. Then, and only then, we'll see some changes.
But as we all know, those changes will be the idiots demanding stricter laws (as if that would change anything), not starting to take some responsibility for their own lives.
The alternative is that corporations can use their bargaining position to make you waive your rights. Especially if they have a monopoly position.
The alternative is that you get a person's life ruined by making one mistake in his life.
Hey, it even beats 50 shades of grey!
Only worse.
Here you find a pretty good summary of the phenomenon. In a nutshell, given the choice between "ohhh shiny!" and security, the vast majority will go for the former without even considering the latter. People don't know and I have the creeping suspicion that they don't want to know what security implications their actions have.
In most countries, contracts where you get loaded additional bullshit onto it after the sale are void. And that's basically what an EULA is. The sale happens before you get even informed what the EULA consists of, let alone agree to it.
And no, the click-through bullshit is not a substitute.
How are coupons non-transferable. Here, take my coupon book. Presto, transfer complete!
You just reinvented the coupon.
But I guess calling it a cryptocurrency is better for PR.
The solution isn't to find loopholes in copyright but to change copyright.
Well, let's say he got back what he dished out throughout his life, with a little bit of interest.
No, not one singular thing he did would warrant this. Not the embezzlement, not the throwing of any of his business partners under the bus and to the sharks, not the swindling of people out of their hard earned money, not a single incident would warrant this.
In total, though? If anything, this whole mess makes me believe in Karma.