> It's been more than 15 years since the first 64bit OSes... What was Mozilla waiting for?
With 32-bit Firefox, there was a sane upper limit on how much memory the program could use with a 32-bit address space. With a 64-bit Firefox, there is no sane upper limit on memory that Firefox can consume. Think Godzilla or other giant monsters tearing through a modern city meme.
Mozilla was protecting us all!
Firefox could now consume as much memory as . . .
. . . as . . . as . . . Java 64-bit with -Xms=64000m -Xmx=128000m
No, thanks. No way. Can he find some conversion therapy place that still practices electroshock therapy? While Pence still believes gays can be electrocuted into becoming straight (unless he has announced otherwise and I missed it), the most likely place to find this still practiced would be to look up Michele Bachmann's gay conversion therapy.
Don't you mean ". . . they go somewhere LESS tolerant" ?
If you treat them bad, they would go somewhere else. But to a place less tolerant of others, so that they don't get treated so badly. Or do I misunderstand your argument? Not that I necessarily agree with it.
Why would startups be unable to afford the risk? If a startup makes a new $500 cloud toaster, I have the same expectation of it not burning my house down while I'm gone than if I bought a $12 toaster at Target from a name brand.
Due to a shortage of experienced people needed to fill those entry level security jobs that require no experience, the law will allow outsourcing these security jobs.
Make the manufacturer (not seller) of an IoT device liable for any actual damages that are caused by their IoT device getting hacked.
That's it. No government standards. No registration. No certification. No mandated testing facilities. (But the market could create certifications and testing facilities on its own.)
What this would do is change the perverse incentives that currently exist to the correct incentives. Suddenly manufacturers would be all about security! It would be Job #1. Manufacturers might standardize and cooperate on secure Linux distributions upon which they base their products. They might cooperate to improve everyone's security.
Suddenly manufacturers might consider whether they should have an update mechanism (or not).
Manufacturers might consider whether certain things should even be connected to the cloud at all!. Do we really need a cloud connected toy teddy bear?
Oh, yes. The retail price of some IoT devices might increase due to the manufacturer's cost of security measures. But that is as it should be. Right now the perverse incentive puts the costs on innocent parties that get DDOS'ed (or worse) by hacked IoT devices. This would fix that.
It's been a long time since Apple was (primarily) about technology. Apple is about fashion. Form over function. Appearance. Show. Illusion.
Apple has great technology. But unlike in the 80's and 90's, technology comes second (or lower) at the Apple of today. I remember when Apple was a great company. When BYTE magazine wrote that the history of the microcomputer industry was an effort to keep up with Apple, it was true, back when Apple was a truly great company.
Open plan space for developers to work? No surprise. Quite a difference from the day when Apple would do whatever it took to make developers productive.
It's okay for private citizens to own firearms. As long as there is no possibility that they can ever fire them. Smart guns seem like a better slippery slope.
I don't want magic bullets. (no matter what your balls are doing) What I want is individually authorized bullets. Say with an RFID tag in each bullet. That way the gun can read which bullet is in the chamber. The gun can connect to the cloud. Meanwhile in some immense database somewhere, a record is found and updated to indicate that particular bullet is now in the chamber, and to check whether that bullet is authorized to fire. (Suppose it was stolen ammunition?) Further m2m connections are established. Once the secretary general of the UN signs off, the gun is authorized and you can fire.
If people are honest, do they need someone to keep them honest?
If I see a wallet on the seat of a car with an unlocked door, or even an open car window, I am not going to steal it.
If I found a wallet, say on the sidewalk, I would make an effort to try to locate the owner.
Surely I am not the only one. There must be others.
The real question is: what if the wallet had, say, $100,000 in it. I think I might just leave it where I found it. But the real test comes if I ever find myself in that situation.
The next step after smart guns is Cloud Connected guns.
The government could keep track of how much ammunition is used. This would provide valuable statistics for the department of the census bureaucracy.
Instead of requiring a fingerprint or gadget to authorize your gun to fire, you could authorize it to fire using an app on your smartphone. "hold on, just a sec, Mr. burglar, while I authorize my gun to activate . . . where did I put my phone . .."
The government could revoke the firing of weapons that have been stolen. The government could also revoke the ability to fire any weapon to certain individuals. Especially crazy people. And crazy could have a technical definition, such as "the desire to own or use a firearm".
I have a theory about why guys would be averse to skirts. It's the same reason guys want women to wear them. It makes groping and feeling up easier. Just sayin' That theory is enough to override any other advantages there may be to wearing one tube of cloth instead of two tubes of cloth.
Smoking is a culprit as well. Smoking affects both the color and taste of semen. Uh, so I am told. So it might affect sperm count and motility as well.
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Maybe Intel didn't want to be associated with an orange F00F clown?
> It's been more than 15 years since the first 64bit OSes... What was Mozilla waiting for?
With 32-bit Firefox, there was a sane upper limit on how much memory the program could use with a 32-bit address space. With a 64-bit Firefox, there is no sane upper limit on memory that Firefox can consume. Think Godzilla or other giant monsters tearing through a modern city meme.
Mozilla was protecting us all!
Firefox could now consume as much memory as . . .
. . . as . . . as . . . Java 64-bit with -Xms=64000m -Xmx=128000m
> Also, Fuck Milo.
No, thanks. No way. Can he find some conversion therapy place that still practices electroshock therapy? While Pence still believes gays can be electrocuted into becoming straight (unless he has announced otherwise and I missed it), the most likely place to find this still practiced would be to look up Michele Bachmann's gay conversion therapy.
Don't you mean ". . . they go somewhere LESS tolerant" ?
If you treat them bad, they would go somewhere else. But to a place less tolerant of others, so that they don't get treated so badly. Or do I misunderstand your argument? Not that I necessarily agree with it.
Mod down for use of the words "quite often".
Do these companies really think it is that to make males happy? Specifically white males in this particular instance.
Give them a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. Enough money to live and have sufficient disposable income to be happy.
Nobody is obligated to host their hate speech. Extend that to the hosting of the domain name registration.
Can't they simply look for a company that embraces hate speech and do business with them?
If not, maybe they should reconsider.
Safety considerations are strongly suggested while handling meat pistols. You wouldn't want one to go off unexpectedly.
Just tell the TSA dude . . . yes, that's hard; and it might go off, but it's not a bomb.
Various sharpened short and long blade weapons.
This is exactly why it would provide a huge incentive for manufacturers to cooperate on security.
Why would startups be unable to afford the risk? If a startup makes a new $500 cloud toaster, I have the same expectation of it not burning my house down while I'm gone than if I bought a $12 toaster at Target from a name brand.
They may be liable. But it would cost more time and trouble to pursue it than it is worth -- unless you had huge damages.
Due to a shortage of experienced people needed to fill those entry level security jobs that require no experience, the law will allow outsourcing these security jobs.
. . . for the last thirty five years since it was connected to CompuServe.
I have suggested this plan before.
Make the manufacturer (not seller) of an IoT device liable for any actual damages that are caused by their IoT device getting hacked.
That's it. No government standards. No registration. No certification. No mandated testing facilities. (But the market could create certifications and testing facilities on its own.)
What this would do is change the perverse incentives that currently exist to the correct incentives. Suddenly manufacturers would be all about security! It would be Job #1. Manufacturers might standardize and cooperate on secure Linux distributions upon which they base their products. They might cooperate to improve everyone's security.
Suddenly manufacturers might consider whether they should have an update mechanism (or not).
Manufacturers might consider whether certain things should even be connected to the cloud at all!. Do we really need a cloud connected toy teddy bear?
Oh, yes. The retail price of some IoT devices might increase due to the manufacturer's cost of security measures. But that is as it should be. Right now the perverse incentive puts the costs on innocent parties that get DDOS'ed (or worse) by hacked IoT devices. This would fix that.
It's been a long time since Apple was (primarily) about technology. Apple is about fashion. Form over function. Appearance. Show. Illusion.
Apple has great technology. But unlike in the 80's and 90's, technology comes second (or lower) at the Apple of today. I remember when Apple was a great company. When BYTE magazine wrote that the history of the microcomputer industry was an effort to keep up with Apple, it was true, back when Apple was a truly great company.
Open plan space for developers to work? No surprise. Quite a difference from the day when Apple would do whatever it took to make developers productive.
I don't have any guns. I don't intend to have any guns. But I can recognize the potential endpoint of smart guns.
It's okay for private citizens to own firearms. As long as there is no possibility that they can ever fire them. Smart guns seem like a better slippery slope.
I don't want magic bullets. (no matter what your balls are doing) What I want is individually authorized bullets. Say with an RFID tag in each bullet. That way the gun can read which bullet is in the chamber. The gun can connect to the cloud. Meanwhile in some immense database somewhere, a record is found and updated to indicate that particular bullet is now in the chamber, and to check whether that bullet is authorized to fire. (Suppose it was stolen ammunition?) Further m2m connections are established. Once the secretary general of the UN signs off, the gun is authorized and you can fire.
Think of the children!
If people are honest, do they need someone to keep them honest?
If I see a wallet on the seat of a car with an unlocked door, or even an open car window, I am not going to steal it.
If I found a wallet, say on the sidewalk, I would make an effort to try to locate the owner.
Surely I am not the only one. There must be others.
The real question is: what if the wallet had, say, $100,000 in it. I think I might just leave it where I found it. But the real test comes if I ever find myself in that situation.
The next step after smart guns is Cloud Connected guns.
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The government could keep track of how much ammunition is used. This would provide valuable statistics for the department of the census bureaucracy.
Instead of requiring a fingerprint or gadget to authorize your gun to fire, you could authorize it to fire using an app on your smartphone. "hold on, just a sec, Mr. burglar, while I authorize my gun to activate . . . where did I put my phone . .
The government could revoke the firing of weapons that have been stolen. The government could also revoke the ability to fire any weapon to certain individuals. Especially crazy people. And crazy could have a technical definition, such as "the desire to own or use a firearm".
It's all for your protection.
Think of the children!
Masturbating affects one's ability to spell correctfully.
I have a theory about why guys would be averse to skirts. It's the same reason guys want women to wear them. It makes groping and feeling up easier. Just sayin' That theory is enough to override any other advantages there may be to wearing one tube of cloth instead of two tubes of cloth.
It is not just Obesity.
Smoking is a culprit as well. Smoking affects both the color and taste of semen. Uh, so I am told. So it might affect sperm count and motility as well.