I am glad we care about the entrepreneurs, but why focus only on that person? What about the employees of the business that are impacted? They do not deserve to exist in the author view?
I guess the standard answer to your question is "improving our knowledge of the Universe", though in this particular case, I am not sure finding the Higgs helped us making any progress
Well, at least, money spent here went into real economy, and it created activity for many people. Engineering problems that had to be solved while building the LHC, perhaps some of them are now useful in other projects.
Of course it would have even been better if the project was an ecological investment, helping us to reduce our ecological footprint while retaining the same living standard. But at least this kind of activity is better than working on financial products.
Bitcoin is not different from ordinary currencies, after all: the more money you have, the more money you can create.
With USD or EUR, banks create money through loans. With BTC the mechanism is different, but the result is the same. Now we just have to wait for banks to join the BTC fest.
The cost to the EU economy is equivalent to the bloc's annual budget.
What is this number? It is supposed to compare to 120 bn EUR of corruption, but the sum of EU member states budgets is much much higher. Is it the budget of the EU itself?
Recent Firefox versions supported TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2, by setting security.tls.version.max=2 in about:config. It is nice to have it by default now, but the missing bit was GCM ciphers support. They are important because CBC ciphers are more and more under attack (BEAST was CBC-specific). Do they implement GCM now?
at which point central banks control the BTC money supply, so why bother?
In that world, someone running bitcoin running software needs to be illegal, but that law preventing uncontrolled money creation would be impossible to enforce.
This is the biggest problem with crypto currencies IMO: money creation policy should be a political question, not a technical one.
UI designers must learn to stop changing user interface on each release. Some people try to use computers to do work, and anything that changes is a pain for them.
Once again, car analogy may be insightful: do we ever saw a car maker replacing the UI on all its model, for instance replacing the wheel by a joystick or a touch interface?
Slashdot Mirror
TFA says
it will spell trouble for entrepreneurs
I am glad we care about the entrepreneurs, but why focus only on that person? What about the employees of the business that are impacted? They do not deserve to exist in the author view?
This is for data you store at third parties. Status of government-operated spyware on your machine is not cleared.
A simple shell script runs only resident binaries, and it can already do a lot of harm. It can even escalate using local exploits.
How can whitelisting help here?
And the BBC article is from 2010.
BBC article on human presence in Britain one million years ago. With a nice map showing that Britain was not an island at that time.
If we endorse that point of view, government will now claim in court that we cannot have expectation of privacy when we used Internet.
I guess the standard answer to your question is "improving our knowledge of the Universe", though in this particular case, I am not sure finding the Higgs helped us making any progress
Well, at least, money spent here went into real economy, and it created activity for many people. Engineering problems that had to be solved while building the LHC, perhaps some of them are now useful in other projects.
Of course it would have even been better if the project was an ecological investment, helping us to reduce our ecological footprint while retaining the same living standard. But at least this kind of activity is better than working on financial products.
Um, you means the CERNS has a conatus on its own?
What is their goal? LHC was to find the Higgs boson. Now they have it (though I am not sure it has any consequence), what is the next goal?
Where does the money comes from? It is an NSF partnership: is it just a NSF grant managed by Mozilla?
big pharma [...] is the number one creator of upper-class-only drugs
Fixed that for you.
I would even say it as "big pharma [...] is the number one creator of profitable drugs "
Look at statins. They are inefficient at reducing death, and have many adverse effects. The goal of this drug is not health, it is profit.
I get it. Electron can crash into the kernel, but probability of its presence there for lower energy levels is low, hence it almost never happens.
Bitcoin is not different from ordinary currencies, after all: the more money you have, the more money you can create.
With USD or EUR, banks create money through loans. With BTC the mechanism is different, but the result is the same. Now we just have to wait for banks to join the BTC fest.
TFA says:
[the] force that stops an electron spiraling into a nucleus
It suddently strikes me that I never wondered about it: what prevents the electron from crashing into the nucleus?
TFA says:
The cost to the EU economy is equivalent to the bloc's annual budget.
What is this number? It is supposed to compare to 120 bn EUR of corruption, but the sum of EU member states budgets is much much higher. Is it the budget of the EU itself?
At least I know what happens on servers I manage.
Here is an Apache setup which blocks no modern client, and achieve 97% of AES256 with PFS enabled at mine:
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
SSLHonorCipherOrder On
SSLCipherSuite ECDH@STRENGTH:DH@STRENGTH:HIGH:!RC4:!MD5:!DES:!aNULL:!eNULL
Recent Firefox versions supported TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2, by setting security.tls.version.max=2 in about:config. It is nice to have it by default now, but the missing bit was GCM ciphers support. They are important because CBC ciphers are more and more under attack (BEAST was CBC-specific). Do they implement GCM now?
What a smart way of killing productivity! Make work environment a surveillance hell, and top performers will flee as soon as possible.
pipeline is safe for the environment
If oil lobbyist money was spent in research, perhaps we would already have an environment-friendly oil alternative deployed.
What happens when (not if) someone figures out how to counterfeit [a crypto currency]?
It may be already the case, who knows?
at which point central banks control the BTC money supply, so why bother?
In that world, someone running bitcoin running software needs to be illegal, but that law preventing uncontrolled money creation would be impossible to enforce.
This is the biggest problem with crypto currencies IMO: money creation policy should be a political question, not a technical one.
Perhaps we should start posting fake profiles with random data to make the thing unusable?
UI designers must learn to stop changing user interface on each release. Some people try to use computers to do work, and anything that changes is a pain for them.
Once again, car analogy may be insightful: do we ever saw a car maker replacing the UI on all its model, for instance replacing the wheel by a joystick or a touch interface?
it's what democracy is about!
What made you believe EU was a democracy? European parliament cannot even propose a directive!
Smell of money in the afternoon: I wonder why conclusion we can have on the person that decided afternoon should scent money.