Refuse to allow Booz any new government contracts for their incompetence. (Won't happen)
Good call, then only the companies whose stupid actions haven't been caught yet will get all the contracts. You probably think this is an exceptional level of incompetence, but it is not. Enumerating unsecured, exposed and supposedly temporary dev systems is a very common and lucrative way to collect bug bounties.
I fail to see how this is truly pocket-sized. I have a "Vensmile Win10 Mini PC that isn't much bigger and is already on the market. This one still needs the dock to handle the I/O. I also have USB stick PC's that are powered by my TV USB port. Yes, Intel's is slightly faster, but the Vensmile one is fully capable of streaming HD video and of course, internet stuffs.
Yes, it's definitely pocketable: 95 x 55 x 5 mm. So: 5 mm thick and slightly longer than a credit card. I don't see how it matters because both seem like solutions in search of problems, but Intel's is much smaller than the one you linked (slightly less than one third the volume).
Of all the copycat software, why does Snapchat copying keep hitting the front page? Does it really matter? If the Snapchat version of Snapchat isn't compelling enough for people to prefer, why should people care?
This reminds me of those Domino's Pizza "Turnaround" ads from from 2010 (wherein the company basically admitted their pizza was terrible but that it was now much better). His premise is, "FireFox was terrible back when you switched to Chrome, but come back because we're almost as good now and Google is too powerful."
If you want people to use FireFox just because Google is too big, that's not enough. It needs to be clearly better than Chrome in meaningful ways.
I think there's a strong case for Nazi advocacy to be heavily restricted, and in many cases banned outright, and I think the opposing case is particularly weak in this instance.
Banning a bad idea is the surest way to perpetuate it.
The single greatest risk to peace, freedom, democracy and human life in the world today is
You can stop right there because whatever follows betrays your bias. What probably comes to most people's minds: Apathetic populace? Overly ambitious leaders? Totalitarian governments? Ecological disasters? Nope, you only care about
This is so true. As someone who has been on Slashdot and Reddit for the past 5-10 years (on Reddit close to when it started), it seems most discussions have become hyper-partisan and you are no longer sure if you are talking to someone who is interested in having a serious conversation about the topic or just wants to vent out his feelings often as facts! And yes, I cant say I am completely clean on this either.
Small well defined subreddits can be really nice communities. There is no Slashdot equivalent, and the mods here seem hell bent on pushing their social and political agendas through the feed.
Most of what you're saying amounts to, "I haven't had any problems, so there aren't any", whereas I've actually had problems with each of these areas, so I'm looking forward to seeing the possibility of some movement in the space.
I'm just looking forward to a human-readable and more concise feed. XML is great for things that should be complicated, and terrible things that should not.
Still: don't let all this geeky stuff detract from the elephant in the room: buying Facebook personal data in bulk and correlating it with past votes, then sending targeted fake news has done much more in the last big polls
The elephant in the room is that the opposing candidate was Hillary Clinton. The spite candidate prevailed in the primaries on both sides, except on the Republican side it was the voter's spite for their party, and on the Democratic side it was the party's spite for their voters.
I'm not sure if your question is serious or not. And no, Comcast, nor anyone else that I know of, has been blocking sites.
It doesn't matter because msmash is busy constructing a narrative. Expect many more stories bashing Comcast (and it's Comcast so it isn't hard to find critical stories, even if the connection to Net Neutrality is tenuous at best).
When I was younger I spent lots of time playing videogames. As I got older and more experienced as a software engineer I began to realize that playing video games (good ones) and developing software are actually the same activity. Except that the former rarely results in a lasting benefit, while the latter is easier to get paid to do.
So, to me, it is the functional equivalent of getting paid to play videogames all day. I can count on one hand the number of days I have not looked forward to going to work in the last few years. So, yes it is complex and has an ethical dimension, but is also lots of fun.
Nice analogy, and I agree, though good video games stay with me much as a good book, film, album, etc., does. I don't really care if they are "art," but they influence me.
"Ethically complex?" Seriously? What a stupid thing to call out.
Tell me what endeavor or occupation doesn't have potential ethical implications if you are not paying attention. Selling scrap metal is "ethically complex" if you don't pay attention to whom you are selling it.
As for fun, if solving problems is not fun to you, then writing code is not for you. If it were never fun there would be no such thing as programming games.
But who is the totalitarian government? China or the United States?
Compared to China's recent past, neither. I suspect it doesn't matter, though, as you're probably ignorant of most actual human rights issues in the world, and are narrowly focused on the excesses of the NSA, CIA, and FBI versus how much each government actually tries to control its citizens' public and private lives.
Being that the world is recovering for a wide spread ransom ware attack caused from an long time "unpatched flaw" used by the United States National Security Agency. It would make sense for a government such as China to try to protect its data with its own "security measures".
This is also ignorant. The security flaw would still be there, for someone else to discover, if the NSA had not discovered it. It would also still be there if they had not informed MS so that it would be patched in the March 2017 updates. And, while we're talking about how nice everyone is, even Russia, erm, I mean the "Shadow Brokers," knew better than to disclose it until MS patched it--though I suspect that was so they could also get a little bit of mileage out of it. Should the NSA hoard bugs? Debatable. Would millions of computers worldwide be patched right now if the NSA had not had the bug in the first place? No.
But guess what? Even if China has their own special version of Windows with their own crypto, it does NOT make them safe from future 0-days. When you have arbitrary code execution on a system, you have access to ANYTHING that system has access to. If the system can decrypt the data, then so can you.
Very bad choice using 1976 as the comparison date. For a better clue tou need to go back before 1971.
1976 was at the end of a notorious low-point in power thanks to the US auto manufacturers responding to new emissions regulations and the 1973 oil crisis:
Example of just Corvettes:
1969: least powerful (base): 300HP Most powerful (LS7) 460HP
1975: least powerful (base): 165Hp Most powerful (L82) 205HP
As long as you're also comparing efficiency, which TFA does, there's nothing wrong with using that year. On the whole, power increased dramatically and so has MPG.
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Refuse to allow Booz any new government contracts for their incompetence. (Won't happen)
Good call, then only the companies whose stupid actions haven't been caught yet will get all the contracts. You probably think this is an exceptional level of incompetence, but it is not. Enumerating unsecured, exposed and supposedly temporary dev systems is a very common and lucrative way to collect bug bounties.
I fail to see how this is truly pocket-sized. I have a "Vensmile Win10 Mini PC that isn't much bigger and is already on the market. This one still needs the dock to handle the I/O. I also have USB stick PC's that are powered by my TV USB port. Yes, Intel's is slightly faster, but the Vensmile one is fully capable of streaming HD video and of course, internet stuffs.
Yes, it's definitely pocketable: 95 x 55 x 5 mm. So: 5 mm thick and slightly longer than a credit card. I don't see how it matters because both seem like solutions in search of problems, but Intel's is much smaller than the one you linked (slightly less than one third the volume).
Of all the copycat software, why does Snapchat copying keep hitting the front page? Does it really matter? If the Snapchat version of Snapchat isn't compelling enough for people to prefer, why should people care?
This reminds me of those Domino's Pizza "Turnaround" ads from from 2010 (wherein the company basically admitted their pizza was terrible but that it was now much better). His premise is, "FireFox was terrible back when you switched to Chrome, but come back because we're almost as good now and Google is too powerful."
If you want people to use FireFox just because Google is too big, that's not enough. It needs to be clearly better than Chrome in meaningful ways.
If it's a SAMBA vuln, put the word "SAMBA" in your headline or, at the very least, in first line of the summary.
I think there's a strong case for Nazi advocacy to be heavily restricted, and in many cases banned outright, and I think the opposing case is particularly weak in this instance.
Banning a bad idea is the surest way to perpetuate it.
The single greatest risk to peace, freedom, democracy and human life in the world today is
You can stop right there because whatever follows betrays your bias. What probably comes to most people's minds: Apathetic populace? Overly ambitious leaders? Totalitarian governments? Ecological disasters? Nope, you only care about
corporations
Let's be honest though: there has never been a time in history when the CIA or FBI were particularly competent.
Competent compared to whom? Only their failures make headlines.
When history is written, Linus's inspiration will shine forth from the Pantheon of greats.
And those historians should take caution, lest they call his operating system "Linux" and are forevermore haunted by Stallman's ghost.
This is so true. As someone who has been on Slashdot and Reddit for the past 5-10 years (on Reddit close to when it started), it seems most discussions have become hyper-partisan and you are no longer sure if you are talking to someone who is interested in having a serious conversation about the topic or just wants to vent out his feelings often as facts! And yes, I cant say I am completely clean on this either.
Small well defined subreddits can be really nice communities. There is no Slashdot equivalent, and the mods here seem hell bent on pushing their social and political agendas through the feed.
Most of what you're saying amounts to, "I haven't had any problems, so there aren't any", whereas I've actually had problems with each of these areas, so I'm looking forward to seeing the possibility of some movement in the space.
I'm just looking forward to a human-readable and more concise feed. XML is great for things that should be complicated, and terrible things that should not.
Except JSON is hardly a new standard, and RSS feeds are so inconsistent with their XML it wasn't much of a standard, either.
Your mommy shoulda done learnt you that ad hominem attacks hurt, not help.
Still: don't let all this geeky stuff detract from the elephant in the room: buying Facebook personal data in bulk and correlating it with past votes, then sending targeted fake news has done much more in the last big polls
The elephant in the room is that the opposing candidate was Hillary Clinton. The spite candidate prevailed in the primaries on both sides, except on the Republican side it was the voter's spite for their party, and on the Democratic side it was the party's spite for their voters.
I'm not sure if your question is serious or not. And no, Comcast, nor anyone else that I know of, has been blocking sites.
It doesn't matter because msmash is busy constructing a narrative. Expect many more stories bashing Comcast (and it's Comcast so it isn't hard to find critical stories, even if the connection to Net Neutrality is tenuous at best).
If you want to beat the Net Neutrality drum, please post stories that are actually about Net Neutrality.
Music? Films? Electronics? That's kind of like saying Disney needs a hit.
When I was younger I spent lots of time playing videogames. As I got older and more experienced as a software engineer I began to realize that playing video games (good ones) and developing software are actually the same activity. Except that the former rarely results in a lasting benefit, while the latter is easier to get paid to do.
So, to me, it is the functional equivalent of getting paid to play videogames all day. I can count on one hand the number of days I have not looked forward to going to work in the last few years. So, yes it is complex and has an ethical dimension, but is also lots of fun.
Nice analogy, and I agree, though good video games stay with me much as a good book, film, album, etc., does. I don't really care if they are "art," but they influence me.
"Ethically complex?" Seriously? What a stupid thing to call out.
Tell me what endeavor or occupation doesn't have potential ethical implications if you are not paying attention. Selling scrap metal is "ethically complex" if you don't pay attention to whom you are selling it.
As for fun, if solving problems is not fun to you, then writing code is not for you. If it were never fun there would be no such thing as programming games.
But who is the totalitarian government? China or the United States?
Compared to China's recent past, neither. I suspect it doesn't matter, though, as you're probably ignorant of most actual human rights issues in the world, and are narrowly focused on the excesses of the NSA, CIA, and FBI versus how much each government actually tries to control its citizens' public and private lives.
Being that the world is recovering for a wide spread ransom ware attack caused from an long time "unpatched flaw" used by the United States National Security Agency. It would make sense for a government such as China to try to protect its data with its own "security measures".
This is also ignorant. The security flaw would still be there, for someone else to discover, if the NSA had not discovered it. It would also still be there if they had not informed MS so that it would be patched in the March 2017 updates. And, while we're talking about how nice everyone is, even Russia, erm, I mean the "Shadow Brokers," knew better than to disclose it until MS patched it--though I suspect that was so they could also get a little bit of mileage out of it. Should the NSA hoard bugs? Debatable. Would millions of computers worldwide be patched right now if the NSA had not had the bug in the first place? No.
But guess what? Even if China has their own special version of Windows with their own crypto, it does NOT make them safe from future 0-days. When you have arbitrary code execution on a system, you have access to ANYTHING that system has access to. If the system can decrypt the data, then so can you.
Is it a chip on my shoulder, or is it just somebody telling you like it is, bro?
Looks a lot like a chip from here.
How can the Supreme Court crack down on anything? Technically it interprets existing law based on cases brought before it.
Very bad choice using 1976 as the comparison date. For a better clue tou need to go back before 1971.
1976 was at the end of a notorious low-point in power thanks to the US auto manufacturers responding to new emissions regulations and the 1973 oil crisis:
Example of just Corvettes: 1969: least powerful (base): 300HP Most powerful (LS7) 460HP
1975: least powerful (base): 165Hp Most powerful (L82) 205HP
As long as you're also comparing efficiency, which TFA does, there's nothing wrong with using that year. On the whole, power increased dramatically and so has MPG.
Nvidia's CEO is not a tech pundit and they are way, way past VC money. He's just selling wares.
and to a party with video wins.
It is so abundantly clear you didn't read the summary, much less TFA. It looks like a back brace.