An employer looking for cheaper hires, imagine that! it would be like, say, an american screening through gas stations to get the cheaper gas. This is unbelievable.
Now, these are foreign people paying their taxes in america and giving their talent to american companies. I'd say the america as a whole is much better off with these people in activity on its soil than in their original country (or in any other).
I agree that the fact that all major players are on board is a plus. That said, this is something we will sadly not be able to target for at least 6 years IMO. The most notable issue being the release cycle of Internet Explorer. If they decide to support their old platforms well, things could go faster. But the fact that we're still stuck with support for IE8 (or were until recently) is due to the fact that it's the newest IE for Windows XP, nothing else.
The problem is that it gives a false sens of security. Your favorite bank can now fire those two last skilled people and get 10 more dumb indians (note: not all indians are dumb) to piss off shitty code. Just run their "CodePhage magic" and you still have a software full of holes (but a little less than if you didn't run it.)
The problem is just that now that you have fired those two people that knew what they were talking about, you're just clueless about what is going on.
A citation for climate alarmists? Come on now, do I also need to show you a citation for the fact that the earth is sphere-shaped and revolving around the sun?
By allowing authors to benefit from their work for 70 years you do not motivate them to create more material. Hence, less material leads to stiffed creativity.
I kept forgetting my cell phone so I decided to stop wearing a wrist watch and started to use the phone to keep track of time. Between chencking the time, receiving e-mails, SMS'es and phone calls, browsing the net, playing games or reading e-books when I'm bored it's been years since I left the house without me noticing I had forgotten the damn cellphone within a few minutes.
If your smartwatch has a feature that makes it beep when it's too far from your phone, you will never forget it again and you can resume wearing a watch.
Agreed. I use an alternative to all this: all my data is backed up on a small eeePC in my attic and send sent to a friend of mine through SSH. I have 1TB of data storage at his place, and I offer in return 1TB of data storage in my place for him to do the same.
Sensitive stuff is encrypted so I don't care if he can see all my files. The bulk of it is pictures/personal movies in terms of size. encfs works wonders for low sensitive data, the rest can go through TrueCrypt/keepass2 encryption or even PGP.
And it costs me zero (minus the 1TB I have reserved for him).
Google figured out that the carriers were a barrier so they went around them.
Google didn't, Apple did. Not one iPhone ever sold has ever been touched by a carrier before getting into the hands of the final user, where the vast majority of Android devices get crapped by carriers before they get sold.
Apple said: Carriers are crap, let's protect all of our phones (and thus users) from them. Google said: Carriers are crap, we're going to provide users that care with phones that are untouched by them.
As always, Apple forced their views on everyone while Google offered a choice. I think Apple was right on this one.
There is another catch to it: I will not pay a fee to all websites I visit in order to avoid ads. Not even talking about the money spent, there is just no practical way for me to micro-pay for every site I go to... Even though I think it would be a nice way to avoid ads while still giving something to the sites I visit. After all, they provide value..
In other words: it doesn't scale until there is a way to expand the model to the internet. As such, I will still have AdBlock installed for all the other sites I visit. So even if I don't pay for YouTube, I won't see any ads anyways, making the YouTube subscription of little value.
Reference needed. There is no country on earth where police, fire, health and education systems costs 30% of the GDP. Governments want that to do all sort of stuff most members of the population don't want. This is why people try to evade taxes. Because they're spent 90% on bullshit. If my country was asking for 3% of the GDP and that was it, nobody in their right mind would try to evade taxes because they would be fair: (almost) insignificant for the people and providing quality services.
Unfortunately, this is almost not true in every country. All governments are huge ballooned administration that forever wants to gobble more money to do more bullshit, most of the time orders of magnitudes less efficiently than private companies could.
Browser have shifted from document viewers to application platform quite a while ago now. I was mocking the OP because he seemed to imply that browser ARE document viewers when they're clearly more than that. Very clearly.
By the way, GMail doesn't suck. Nor does outlook365. Nor does amazon or any other e-commerce platform. Clearly they're not catalogs of online documents, so the shift might have been apparent and browsers are pretty good at it.
Also, in the wake of the NSA revelations by Snowden, I don't think anyone has any doubt that there are holes and zero-days in pretty much every stack of every OS out there. USB, Network, Browsers, Encryption libs, everywhere. Browsers are just at the top of the stack, so they get picked on more often.
developers want something that works everywhere, and.NET is the best of the only, crappy, solutions we have available.
Man, thnks for the laugh!. It's funny because, in a deep sense, you're right. If there ever was a competition among the "only crappy solutions we have available", I'm sure.NET will win hands down.
This from someone that writes.NET code for a living.
Java is also a strong contender over here. I'd even argue that for headless apps (CLI or deamons) it does a better job.
You seem to forget Vista in there buddy. Also, this is the first time this is happening, so let's not get carried away.. I'll wait to see how all this rolls out.
The problem is that you need to upgrade your OS (and therefore need to pay) to get a good upgrade of your browser. No other browser vendor enforce this. THIS is why people are stuck with old versions of IE.
If you've got a keylogger (or any king of process) running locally, no amount of encryption is going to save you. That's how they got some of the ISIS members, by just running a TOR node and sending infected page to everyone that got out through their node. As a result they infected ISIS members using TOR along with everyone else on the TOR network vulnerable to their infection.
Knowing they're inside the firmware of your HDDs, I think they're aware of this.
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petrol and a match. A bomb. A truck driving through a crowd.
Can't easily carry any of those in your pocket though.
An employer looking for cheaper hires, imagine that! it would be like, say, an american screening through gas stations to get the cheaper gas. This is unbelievable.
Now, these are foreign people paying their taxes in america and giving their talent to american companies. I'd say the america as a whole is much better off with these people in activity on its soil than in their original country (or in any other).
My two cents of course.
I agree that the fact that all major players are on board is a plus. That said, this is something we will sadly not be able to target for at least 6 years IMO. The most notable issue being the release cycle of Internet Explorer. If they decide to support their old platforms well, things could go faster. But the fact that we're still stuck with support for IE8 (or were until recently) is due to the fact that it's the newest IE for Windows XP, nothing else.
The problem is that it gives a false sens of security. Your favorite bank can now fire those two last skilled people and get 10 more dumb indians (note: not all indians are dumb) to piss off shitty code. Just run their "CodePhage magic" and you still have a software full of holes (but a little less than if you didn't run it.)
The problem is just that now that you have fired those two people that knew what they were talking about, you're just clueless about what is going on.
He must have been holding it wrong.
That's funny. Google play has Taylor Swift, Adele, and the Beatles all available, and at the same price as Wiz Khalifa.
So does the iTunes store.
I call bullshit. I just went to AOL to duplicate your claimed experience and cannot create an account without providing a cell number.
I just did.
Olive oil isn't bad in this corner of the earth either.
A citation for climate alarmists? Come on now, do I also need to show you a citation for the fact that the earth is sphere-shaped and revolving around the sun?
By allowing authors to benefit from their work for 70 years you do not motivate them to create more material. Hence, less material leads to stiffed creativity.
I kept forgetting my cell phone so I decided to stop wearing a wrist watch and started to use the phone to keep track of time. Between chencking the time, receiving e-mails, SMS'es and phone calls, browsing the net, playing games or reading e-books when I'm bored it's been years since I left the house without me noticing I had forgotten the damn cellphone within a few minutes.
If your smartwatch has a feature that makes it beep when it's too far from your phone, you will never forget it again and you can resume wearing a watch.
a safe, opposed to a lockbox, would keep the contents from burning if the house burns down
Yes, but if a burglar comes in, the safe is probably the first thing he'll get...
Agreed. I use an alternative to all this: all my data is backed up on a small eeePC in my attic and send sent to a friend of mine through SSH. I have 1TB of data storage at his place, and I offer in return 1TB of data storage in my place for him to do the same.
Sensitive stuff is encrypted so I don't care if he can see all my files. The bulk of it is pictures/personal movies in terms of size. encfs works wonders for low sensitive data, the rest can go through TrueCrypt/keepass2 encryption or even PGP.
And it costs me zero (minus the 1TB I have reserved for him).
You would need 400,000 pounds of clay per Gigabyte.
So ? Buy a bigger house if you don't have enough room.
Google figured out that the carriers were a barrier so they went around them.
Google didn't, Apple did. Not one iPhone ever sold has ever been touched by a carrier before getting into the hands of the final user, where the vast majority of Android devices get crapped by carriers before they get sold.
Apple said: Carriers are crap, let's protect all of our phones (and thus users) from them.
Google said: Carriers are crap, we're going to provide users that care with phones that are untouched by them.
As always, Apple forced their views on everyone while Google offered a choice. I think Apple was right on this one.
My youtube ad blocker works perfectly. I never see advertisements while watching youtube.
I'd happily pay for the ad blocker. I won't pay google for the joy of them not spamming me.
So you don't recognize YouTube brings any value to you? Shouldn't they be able to decide how to monetize it? After all, it's their website.
As for the spamming part, I don't see as spamming if you actually willfully go there al by yourself.
There is another catch to it: I will not pay a fee to all websites I visit in order to avoid ads. Not even talking about the money spent, there is just no practical way for me to micro-pay for every site I go to... Even though I think it would be a nice way to avoid ads while still giving something to the sites I visit. After all, they provide value..
In other words: it doesn't scale until there is a way to expand the model to the internet. As such, I will still have AdBlock installed for all the other sites I visit. So even if I don't pay for YouTube, I won't see any ads anyways, making the YouTube subscription of little value.
Reference needed. There is no country on earth where police, fire, health and education systems costs 30% of the GDP. Governments want that to do all sort of stuff most members of the population don't want. This is why people try to evade taxes. Because they're spent 90% on bullshit. If my country was asking for 3% of the GDP and that was it, nobody in their right mind would try to evade taxes because they would be fair: (almost) insignificant for the people and providing quality services.
Unfortunately, this is almost not true in every country. All governments are huge ballooned administration that forever wants to gobble more money to do more bullshit, most of the time orders of magnitudes less efficiently than private companies could.
Browser have shifted from document viewers to application platform quite a while ago now. I was mocking the OP because he seemed to imply that browser ARE document viewers when they're clearly more than that. Very clearly.
By the way, GMail doesn't suck. Nor does outlook365. Nor does amazon or any other e-commerce platform. Clearly they're not catalogs of online documents, so the shift might have been apparent and browsers are pretty good at it.
Also, in the wake of the NSA revelations by Snowden, I don't think anyone has any doubt that there are holes and zero-days in pretty much every stack of every OS out there. USB, Network, Browsers, Encryption libs, everywhere. Browsers are just at the top of the stack, so they get picked on more often.
developers want something that works everywhere, and .NET is the best of the only, crappy, solutions we have available.
Man, thnks for the laugh!. It's funny because, in a deep sense, you're right. If there ever was a competition among the "only crappy solutions we have available", I'm sure .NET will win hands down.
This from someone that writes .NET code for a living.
Java is also a strong contender over here. I'd even argue that for headless apps (CLI or deamons) it does a better job.
Well, the idea of using a web browser (which is a document viewer) to run applications is shitty in the first place.
Welcome to the eighties where browsers are document viewers.
You seem to forget Vista in there buddy. Also, this is the first time this is happening, so let's not get carried away.. I'll wait to see how all this rolls out.
The problem is that you need to upgrade your OS (and therefore need to pay) to get a good upgrade of your browser. No other browser vendor enforce this. THIS is why people are stuck with old versions of IE.
AND IT SUCKS.
(Was I yelling right there?)
Not quite exactly what I was talking about, but close: http://www.pcworld.com/article...
If you've got a keylogger (or any king of process) running locally, no amount of encryption is going to save you. That's how they got some of the ISIS members, by just running a TOR node and sending infected page to everyone that got out through their node. As a result they infected ISIS members using TOR along with everyone else on the TOR network vulnerable to their infection.
Knowing they're inside the firmware of your HDDs, I think they're aware of this.