There's no point in trying to patch Spectre. Patching Meltdown I get, but Spectre such a pain, it will take hardware fulfilling its side of the process isolation agreement\understanding.
On what grounds should a game cheater get thrown into jail... are they stealing your money or something?
You used you're money to pay for an experience, and the cheaters are now changing the expected experience. Also, cheaters may give the game a bad rap, which will reduce sales. So it would be altering the contents of the sale after the sale, and lost profits for the provider.
no one will lose their job. In other words, there will be no accountability or consequences, and the same serially incompetent bozos will remain in charge.
There can be accountability besides firings. Being excluded from promotion decisions could be one of them.
The move away from mag stripes to chip in the US wasn't due to stolen cards, it was due to insecure card readers. True, patches had been released for the card readers that the merchants hadn't deployed, but still. Instead of another round of cat and mouse they finally decided to take the plunge and start deploying chip readers. A chip with no pin is more secure than a mag stripe with no pin, because now there's less of an attack area with the card reader.
So stolen card remains an equal issue, but hacked card reader is less of an issue.
A pin would also be useful for situations where family members are using your card and you want them to stop. This is currently happening with my wifes family, and I asked why her mom just doesn't change her pin. My wife said the reason is that there's no way her mom would remember a new pin. That is the reason why my brother-in-law is able to buy all the stuff he does. He borrows his mom's card, and mom isn't going to change the pin.
Bob is a member of the Anti-Jelly Bean Party. He is winning elections and voting the way the party wants. What incentive would they have to stop him?
That's ideal right? Because remember, Bob isn't winning elections. The people aren't voting for parties or candidates, they're voting on issues. So there's no point in having political ads about people; all of the political ads will have to be about the merits of the issues. So if the Anti-Jelly Bean party keeps registering that they're anti jelly bean on the ballot, and they keep winning, they're probably going to pick Bob to be their candidate every time because he keeps correctly voting on the issues the way the party wants. Should he start back sliding, the party will pick a different candidate the next time they win an election.
The party prevents it. The members of the party care about the platform of the party, and care out keeping their candidates on that platform. If a politician flipped on a jelly bean type of issue, the party won't let that candidate run for them again. With lots of little parties (because any party can win), the general public will be completely ignorant of primaries. The party won't consider a backsliding politician for the next primary.
I would like for this averaging system to work at every level, including Presidential. That would require every state to change to an averaging system. Whereas for every position besides President, could be converted over to any voting system state by state.
Even if people want them, it doesn't mean that they exist. All there can be is as fast the network can handle and traffic that gets needlessly throttled because they didn't pay an extortion fee. We just want to network to pass all traffic as fast as it can handle it. Is that so bad?
Use an algorithm to create congressional districts with census data so each district has approx. the same amount of possible voters and the smallest circumference. No more rigging to create safe districts for either party with ridiculous borders.
You sir are a traitor to the foundations of whatever country you are a citizen of. Turn yourself in to the authorities for re-education.
You vote for people who know how to make informed decisions, and you trust them when they get into office because they have access to way more information and resources than you do.
If only that were true. I guess it's a good sign that most people take voting as seriously as voting for high school student body - it doesn't seem like either party is going to screw up a good life - but its still sad. After a debate when most of the conversation is about the candidates hair or outfit, I get really depressed about the outcome of the elections.
Because the party consists of people who actually care about the platform. So the party says "Hey candidate, you're not following the platform. You're not going to be our next candidate. Given that we know what the average voter in our district wants it'll be our candidate that wins." If a politician is found not following his parties platform, that politician isn't going to find a party that wants them.
Also still subject to abuse from the appeal to single-issue voters.
Given that there can be as many parties as there are combinations of all voting choices I don't see how that's a problem. If there are twenty parties registered, and ten of them have registered correctly for THE issue, then it'll be the other issues which determine which of those ten parties win.
The FCC ruled that no states can create laws to enforce Net Neutrality. While it would be nice to have a head on attack work, I fear that it may not. So instead the states should make life difficult for ISP found violating New Neutrality. Say a law like "If the ISP is caught violating Net Neutrality, that ISP is banned from advertising" or something like that.
I don't believe candidate/party X will do what they claim
I guess that does leave a hole where a party is regularly reserving the opposite vote of what they want, but I would think doing so would confuse the members of the party, and would be a self correcting situation.
Instead of voting for a candidate, have the electorate vote on a number of issues (combination of recent past issues and issues on the docket). Then take the average, and the candidate of the political party that is closest to the average, wins. Parties can do whatever they want to determine candidates.
Down side is that for those who already feel like voting is like busy homework, this will add to the load.
So how bad a threat is this if just decide to forgo the patch and run naked? I don't run crapwear or download drivers from whatever source has them. All my games come from steam and almost all my other software comes from companies that I've been doing business with for years.
Given that javascript can be used to exploit this you shouldn't run any programs which execute javascript on the computer. As for what good readonly access to the kernel memory gives you, the answer is your credentials. So a MitM attack to the ad stream that your "trusted" website is using, can steal your credentials.
And then we have to turn it off on every machine to gain better performance. Pretending that your hardware runs faster than what it does, doesn't make it run faster.
I remember how the first people using the internet talked about how great it was in spreading good information, and how this was going to elevate society. The first generation of people using the internet had to work at it, to get it to work. As a result there was a quality there. It's understandable that they saw this being the future state for the internet as well; and didn't see that the average person is going to be wanting to consume echo chamber, low quality noise.
The Last Jedi apparently died in Return of the Jedi.
I was watching Return of the Jedi with my six year old last night, and something that stuck out to me was when Yoda declared Luke the last Jedi. So if you take the phrase "the last Jedi" as a title then the movie title The Last Jedi works as a way to say "Luke Skywalkers Movie."
and it would've been an idiotic decision on their part to be slavishly beholden to decades of EU stories.
Really? I realize that the EU stories were getting to the point of where the actors were currently aging too, but they still could have kept a lot of EU, declared the last few years of EU as non-cannon, and have kept most of it. I think that would have been a wonderful decision because then hardcore fans would have loved it all the more.
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he absent-mindly repeats the dance-steps of that dance he saw and liked...and ends up accidentally bumping into the button that turns the alarm off
Best non-car analogy ever.
There's no point in trying to patch Spectre. Patching Meltdown I get, but Spectre such a pain, it will take hardware fulfilling its side of the process isolation agreement\understanding.
I just listen word of mouth of friends that have seen a movie
Perhaps most people don't have friends?
On what grounds should a game cheater get thrown into jail... are they stealing your money or something?
You used you're money to pay for an experience, and the cheaters are now changing the expected experience. Also, cheaters may give the game a bad rap, which will reduce sales. So it would be altering the contents of the sale after the sale, and lost profits for the provider.
no one will lose their job. In other words, there will be no accountability or consequences, and the same serially incompetent bozos will remain in charge.
There can be accountability besides firings. Being excluded from promotion decisions could be one of them.
a card would be useless
The move away from mag stripes to chip in the US wasn't due to stolen cards, it was due to insecure card readers. True, patches had been released for the card readers that the merchants hadn't deployed, but still. Instead of another round of cat and mouse they finally decided to take the plunge and start deploying chip readers. A chip with no pin is more secure than a mag stripe with no pin, because now there's less of an attack area with the card reader.
So stolen card remains an equal issue, but hacked card reader is less of an issue.
A pin would also be useful for situations where family members are using your card and you want them to stop. This is currently happening with my wifes family, and I asked why her mom just doesn't change her pin. My wife said the reason is that there's no way her mom would remember a new pin. That is the reason why my brother-in-law is able to buy all the stuff he does. He borrows his mom's card, and mom isn't going to change the pin.
Bob is a member of the Anti-Jelly Bean Party. He is winning elections and voting the way the party wants. What incentive would they have to stop him?
That's ideal right? Because remember, Bob isn't winning elections. The people aren't voting for parties or candidates, they're voting on issues. So there's no point in having political ads about people; all of the political ads will have to be about the merits of the issues. So if the Anti-Jelly Bean party keeps registering that they're anti jelly bean on the ballot, and they keep winning, they're probably going to pick Bob to be their candidate every time because he keeps correctly voting on the issues the way the party wants. Should he start back sliding, the party will pick a different candidate the next time they win an election.
How does your system prevent this?
The party prevents it. The members of the party care about the platform of the party, and care out keeping their candidates on that platform. If a politician flipped on a jelly bean type of issue, the party won't let that candidate run for them again. With lots of little parties (because any party can win), the general public will be completely ignorant of primaries. The party won't consider a backsliding politician for the next primary.
especially at the presidential level
I would like for this averaging system to work at every level, including Presidential. That would require every state to change to an averaging system. Whereas for every position besides President, could be converted over to any voting system state by state.
Speed lanes are a good idea and what people want
Even if people want them, it doesn't mean that they exist. All there can be is as fast the network can handle and traffic that gets needlessly throttled because they didn't pay an extortion fee. We just want to network to pass all traffic as fast as it can handle it. Is that so bad?
Also, Interstate Commerce Clause.
Advertising in your state doesn't go across states. In your state and the commerce clause, doesn't apply.
states should always have the ability to kick companies like Comcast and AT&T out completely.
I say keep increasing fines until they leave. That way the states can pay off more debt.
Use an algorithm to create congressional districts with census data so each district has approx. the same amount of possible voters and the smallest circumference. No more rigging to create safe districts for either party with ridiculous borders.
You sir are a traitor to the foundations of whatever country you are a citizen of. Turn yourself in to the authorities for re-education.
You vote for people who know how to make informed decisions, and you trust them when they get into office because they have access to way more information and resources than you do.
If only that were true. I guess it's a good sign that most people take voting as seriously as voting for high school student body - it doesn't seem like either party is going to screw up a good life - but its still sad. After a debate when most of the conversation is about the candidates hair or outfit, I get really depressed about the outcome of the elections.
I don't see how the accountability would work.
Because the party consists of people who actually care about the platform. So the party says "Hey candidate, you're not following the platform. You're not going to be our next candidate. Given that we know what the average voter in our district wants it'll be our candidate that wins." If a politician is found not following his parties platform, that politician isn't going to find a party that wants them.
Also still subject to abuse from the appeal to single-issue voters.
Given that there can be as many parties as there are combinations of all voting choices I don't see how that's a problem. If there are twenty parties registered, and ten of them have registered correctly for THE issue, then it'll be the other issues which determine which of those ten parties win.
The FCC ruled that no states can create laws to enforce Net Neutrality. While it would be nice to have a head on attack work, I fear that it may not. So instead the states should make life difficult for ISP found violating New Neutrality. Say a law like "If the ISP is caught violating Net Neutrality, that ISP is banned from advertising" or something like that.
I don't believe candidate/party X will do what they claim
I guess that does leave a hole where a party is regularly reserving the opposite vote of what they want, but I would think doing so would confuse the members of the party, and would be a self correcting situation.
Instead of voting for a candidate, have the electorate vote on a number of issues (combination of recent past issues and issues on the docket). Then take the average, and the candidate of the political party that is closest to the average, wins. Parties can do whatever they want to determine candidates.
Down side is that for those who already feel like voting is like busy homework, this will add to the load.
So how bad a threat is this if just decide to forgo the patch and run naked? I don't run crapwear or download drivers from whatever source has them. All my games come from steam and almost all my other software comes from companies that I've been doing business with for years.
Given that javascript can be used to exploit this you shouldn't run any programs which execute javascript on the computer. As for what good readonly access to the kernel memory gives you, the answer is your credentials. So a MitM attack to the ad stream that your "trusted" website is using, can steal your credentials.
I don't see a problem when it comes to beta sites
Does Google have sites which aren't in beta?
And then we have to turn it off on every machine to gain better performance. Pretending that your hardware runs faster than what it does, doesn't make it run faster.
Sorry for the lack of imagination, but if the user space process can only read kernel memory, and can't write to it, how could one make use of this?
I remember how the first people using the internet talked about how great it was in spreading good information, and how this was going to elevate society. The first generation of people using the internet had to work at it, to get it to work. As a result there was a quality there. It's understandable that they saw this being the future state for the internet as well; and didn't see that the average person is going to be wanting to consume echo chamber, low quality noise.
The Last Jedi apparently died in Return of the Jedi.
I was watching Return of the Jedi with my six year old last night, and something that stuck out to me was when Yoda declared Luke the last Jedi. So if you take the phrase "the last Jedi" as a title then the movie title The Last Jedi works as a way to say "Luke Skywalkers Movie."
and it would've been an idiotic decision on their part to be slavishly beholden to decades of EU stories.
Really? I realize that the EU stories were getting to the point of where the actors were currently aging too, but they still could have kept a lot of EU, declared the last few years of EU as non-cannon, and have kept most of it. I think that would have been a wonderful decision because then hardcore fans would have loved it all the more.