The cloud service does, if you have SLA like you should.
But what comes to the article, I don't think it's just because everyone hates the deal with other departments. Some departments are nicer to deal with and some not. If you see what IT people say and do and how even we talk here on slashdot it might not be a surprise that we are not very pleasant people to deal with. It's something we as geeks should definitely try to improve. The common mindset seems to be "how could this idiot not know this??", while it's not their job to know it. We are there to help the other people to do their job too, after all.
Alternatively, the person that uses 1234 to secure this app (whatever it does) may not care about security *for that data* but could have a more secure PIN for the handset.
Admittedly, I'm giving human nature more credit than it has historically earned, but the developer is making quite a stretch with his inference that his results are a fair analogy for what Apple would see if they dropped similarly evil code in the next iOS update. Do I care if you can guess the PIN to my iPhone? Yep. Do I care if you then also guess my "Big Brother" pin? Maybe.... but you've already got my iPhone, so most of the damage is already done, assuming you're evil.
Final point - the developer also assumes that all users of his app also have a lock-screen PIN enabled on their iPhone. As per Anonymous Coward @08:09PM, this isn't always the case.
Yeah no shit. For my computer and logins I save everything neatly in KeePass, different passwords to every site I use. But I don't really care about my phone. It's paid upfront, so you can't do damage with it. For the pin code I just use my birthdate. Yes, that's right. It's easy to remember so that I don't lock the phone if I happen to forget the pin number. I also want it to be quickly entered when I start my phone. And this is even more true for something like screen-locked pin code. If I lose my phone, I'm more pissed at the fact that I lost hardware and can't use it. I don't really have anything on the phone, nothing that I consider valuable anyway. So I might aswell make my life easier and use an easy pin.
The summary says these are just pages, but they're actually applications and games. Those do cost a lot more to create. It also seems like with his saying "those are just facebook fan pages" he doesn't really understand how much behind the scenes work such things actually need. Yeah, some lovely video of cute cat on YouTube might go viral, but theres a small change of that with something like promoting a country's tourism. Companies also spend lots of money for marketing and those Facebook pages can be highly valuable resources to them. This being slashdot I'm sure I get responses like "if it's good enough people will come", but that just doesn't work with everything and even then you still need to make sure people know about it. There is a lot of work done behind the scenes on such things.
The $600,000 might be a little bit high, but it definitely isn't ridiculous compared to how much it can improve a country's tourism. South East Asian countries are highly dependent on tourism. There are many things I feel my country wastes money on, but this seems like a good deal. It definitely isn't waste, as it brings tourist to country and therefore jobs, money and wealth. My country spends cash on a lot more stupid things than that.
Most people I talked about this after the drop just said they're not really interested about it and said they don't care because they haven't "bought" bitcoin with real money and that they could always just sell their GPU's later. In my opinion that just shows people don't understand what's going on. The money you lose is very real. If you mainly use US dollars, but had some cash in lets say chinese yuan and it would lose 30% of its value, that's a real loss. If your Bitcoins lose 30% of their value, that's a very real loss too. It's money you had, but do not have anymore, just because someone was gaming the system.
There's one interesting thing about Bitcoin that I think most geeks haven't either understood or havent thinked about. Both stock and forex markets are secured against all kinds of foul play. Doing a pump and dump scheme or various other schemes isn't easy. With Forex the sheer amount of transactions and money changing hands makes it impossible and the law protects against such schemes with stocks. If stock markets flunctuate much they also close down automatically. Bitcoin doesn't offer any protection against this. Anyone with the know-how and cash can come in to play with the market. This makes Bitcoin seriously vulnerable to losing huge amounts of money. Last friday we saw probably the first such scheme taking place. Someone slowly build up the value of Bitcoin and on an instant cashed out lots of money. That lowered the overall value of Bitcoin significantly, which made others join it and sell it. Whoever was playing Bitcoin market probably was thinking he had now got Bitcoin to the most high value possible and decided to cash out. Many people lost significant amount of money.
This all works wonderfully for the people who have the financial understanding of markets and such schemes. Geeks generally do not. All they see is this program that they can use to make money with their hardware. They forget that all the traditional pump and dump schemes and others still apply. Actually not only do they apply, they're safe to pull of with Bitcoin because it's legal, the market is really vulnerable to it and most people using it do not understand what is happening. Those who trade stocks or forex generally have even some understanding of how the market works. Bitcoin users generally do not, as they're just normal users.
Software patents is the only thing Apple has. Nokia, on the other hand, has a wide array of real patents too. They did a lot of work in the 90's to get GSM and mobile phone technology to where it is now.
Before someone comes in putting down all the IDE's and tools for web designing and suggests Notepad, let me just say this - no, notepad is not replacement for a good, solid IDE.
Personally I've lost interested to Minecraft long time ago. It was fun back then, but meh now. But I tried Terraria with a friend and it's a similar game, but more stuff to do and some point in it. It's worth a look.
If you feel you're not being paid enough, ask for a raise. If you don't get it and you're still unhappy, then change workplace. It's not that hard. And this is even from a part-time employee...
Yeah, nothing new with that. The same thing always happens with Facebook and even more so with slashdot. There's huge outcry on slashdot always when the interface changes. Then it goes over and like now, everything is good.
Half of what you posted as "not allowed" should stay that way, such as sharing knowledge of how to make a bomb. Though, you do have a point on some of those.
But that's the point. Many Chinese citizen also think that their government needs to control those who want to hurt it - kind of like the whole terrorism thing here in the west. Something that doesn't hurt anyone else, like smoking pot, playing some poker on the internet or watching obscene porn should be allowed, but in the US there are people who don't want to allow it for others either. The issue is the same, just the specific matters differ, as US and China values different things.
Both do however value national security and if there would be a possibility on the same kind of uprise (remember China has over one billion population too) and other people would start to fear it, you'd be sure US government would do exactly the same thing. But in addition to China, US is already trying to control other more minor things, and not only within US borders, but on the whole Internet and world (see the recent domain seizures, or arrests of foreign internet money sites).
United States's 200 million Internet users have taken to internets in a big way. But these internets, founded on the promise of free expression, have an uneasy existence under an authoritarian regime that punishes certain kinds of expression. This comment tells the story of the series of tubes, the hot social networking phenomenon that has taken over the world in the past few years. Citizens have used the internets to protest, to rebel and to share knowledge — but the US government is getting more sophisticated in its handling of these online grumblings.
Not allowed is, for example:
- Online gambling
- "Obscene" or violent porn, even if only acted
- Ordering cheaper medical drugs from other countries
- Ordering pot or drugs
- Sharing knowledge if it's copyrighted
- Sharing entertainment if it's copyrighted
- Revealing wrongdoing within US government (Wikileaks)
- Posting knowledge of how to make bombs or certain other technical information
- Implementing your application or website in a certain way if it's software patented
- Anything else that hurts the business of Big Money Intangible Industries (Pharma, RIAA, MPAA, BSA)
Even google.us redirects me to google.es, which is pretty annoying.
Just click the Go to Google English link on front page. The automatic redirection makes sense for most users because they want local language content to come up higher in the search.
I'm starting to like Russia. It's also understandable why US tried to fight for copyrights so much - that's basically the only thing they produce now. Rest of the world produces actual products. US can try to attack rest of the world all it can, it only makes other countries see it faster - when rest of world start supporting free licenses and free copyright, US collapses really, really bad.
Slashdot Mirror
The cloud service does, if you have SLA like you should.
But what comes to the article, I don't think it's just because everyone hates the deal with other departments. Some departments are nicer to deal with and some not. If you see what IT people say and do and how even we talk here on slashdot it might not be a surprise that we are not very pleasant people to deal with. It's something we as geeks should definitely try to improve. The common mindset seems to be "how could this idiot not know this??", while it's not their job to know it. We are there to help the other people to do their job too, after all.
No worries! Police has to investigate a robbery of $500,000.. oh wait, anonymous payments were good now?
While we're at it, lets outlaw hammers and cars too. They also can be used for illegal activities or even to kill someone.
Alternatively, the person that uses 1234 to secure this app (whatever it does) may not care about security *for that data* but could have a more secure PIN for the handset.
Admittedly, I'm giving human nature more credit than it has historically earned, but the developer is making quite a stretch with his inference that his results are a fair analogy for what Apple would see if they dropped similarly evil code in the next iOS update. Do I care if you can guess the PIN to my iPhone? Yep. Do I care if you then also guess my "Big Brother" pin? Maybe.... but you've already got my iPhone, so most of the damage is already done, assuming you're evil.
Final point - the developer also assumes that all users of his app also have a lock-screen PIN enabled on their iPhone. As per Anonymous Coward @08:09PM, this isn't always the case.
Yeah no shit. For my computer and logins I save everything neatly in KeePass, different passwords to every site I use. But I don't really care about my phone. It's paid upfront, so you can't do damage with it. For the pin code I just use my birthdate. Yes, that's right. It's easy to remember so that I don't lock the phone if I happen to forget the pin number. I also want it to be quickly entered when I start my phone. And this is even more true for something like screen-locked pin code. If I lose my phone, I'm more pissed at the fact that I lost hardware and can't use it. I don't really have anything on the phone, nothing that I consider valuable anyway. So I might aswell make my life easier and use an easy pin.
The summary says these are just pages, but they're actually applications and games. Those do cost a lot more to create. It also seems like with his saying "those are just facebook fan pages" he doesn't really understand how much behind the scenes work such things actually need. Yeah, some lovely video of cute cat on YouTube might go viral, but theres a small change of that with something like promoting a country's tourism. Companies also spend lots of money for marketing and those Facebook pages can be highly valuable resources to them. This being slashdot I'm sure I get responses like "if it's good enough people will come", but that just doesn't work with everything and even then you still need to make sure people know about it. There is a lot of work done behind the scenes on such things.
The $600,000 might be a little bit high, but it definitely isn't ridiculous compared to how much it can improve a country's tourism. South East Asian countries are highly dependent on tourism. There are many things I feel my country wastes money on, but this seems like a good deal. It definitely isn't waste, as it brings tourist to country and therefore jobs, money and wealth. My country spends cash on a lot more stupid things than that.
Most people I talked about this after the drop just said they're not really interested about it and said they don't care because they haven't "bought" bitcoin with real money and that they could always just sell their GPU's later. In my opinion that just shows people don't understand what's going on. The money you lose is very real. If you mainly use US dollars, but had some cash in lets say chinese yuan and it would lose 30% of its value, that's a real loss. If your Bitcoins lose 30% of their value, that's a very real loss too. It's money you had, but do not have anymore, just because someone was gaming the system.
There's one interesting thing about Bitcoin that I think most geeks haven't either understood or havent thinked about. Both stock and forex markets are secured against all kinds of foul play. Doing a pump and dump scheme or various other schemes isn't easy. With Forex the sheer amount of transactions and money changing hands makes it impossible and the law protects against such schemes with stocks. If stock markets flunctuate much they also close down automatically. Bitcoin doesn't offer any protection against this. Anyone with the know-how and cash can come in to play with the market. This makes Bitcoin seriously vulnerable to losing huge amounts of money. Last friday we saw probably the first such scheme taking place. Someone slowly build up the value of Bitcoin and on an instant cashed out lots of money. That lowered the overall value of Bitcoin significantly, which made others join it and sell it. Whoever was playing Bitcoin market probably was thinking he had now got Bitcoin to the most high value possible and decided to cash out. Many people lost significant amount of money.
This all works wonderfully for the people who have the financial understanding of markets and such schemes. Geeks generally do not. All they see is this program that they can use to make money with their hardware. They forget that all the traditional pump and dump schemes and others still apply. Actually not only do they apply, they're safe to pull of with Bitcoin because it's legal, the market is really vulnerable to it and most people using it do not understand what is happening. Those who trade stocks or forex generally have even some understanding of how the market works. Bitcoin users generally do not, as they're just normal users.
Software patents is the only thing Apple has. Nokia, on the other hand, has a wide array of real patents too. They did a lot of work in the 90's to get GSM and mobile phone technology to where it is now.
Before someone comes in putting down all the IDE's and tools for web designing and suggests Notepad, let me just say this - no, notepad is not replacement for a good, solid IDE.
Personally I've lost interested to Minecraft long time ago. It was fun back then, but meh now. But I tried Terraria with a friend and it's a similar game, but more stuff to do and some point in it. It's worth a look.
This is dupe from last week. Just for Joel to get some visitors to his ad ridden .info site...
If you feel you're not being paid enough, ask for a raise. If you don't get it and you're still unhappy, then change workplace. It's not that hard. And this is even from a part-time employee...
Yeah, nothing new with that. The same thing always happens with Facebook and even more so with slashdot. There's huge outcry on slashdot always when the interface changes. Then it goes over and like now, everything is good.
Half of what you posted as "not allowed" should stay that way, such as sharing knowledge of how to make a bomb. Though, you do have a point on some of those.
But that's the point. Many Chinese citizen also think that their government needs to control those who want to hurt it - kind of like the whole terrorism thing here in the west. Something that doesn't hurt anyone else, like smoking pot, playing some poker on the internet or watching obscene porn should be allowed, but in the US there are people who don't want to allow it for others either. The issue is the same, just the specific matters differ, as US and China values different things.
Both do however value national security and if there would be a possibility on the same kind of uprise (remember China has over one billion population too) and other people would start to fear it, you'd be sure US government would do exactly the same thing. But in addition to China, US is already trying to control other more minor things, and not only within US borders, but on the whole Internet and world (see the recent domain seizures, or arrests of foreign internet money sites).
United States's 200 million Internet users have taken to internets in a big way. But these internets, founded on the promise of free expression, have an uneasy existence under an authoritarian regime that punishes certain kinds of expression. This comment tells the story of the series of tubes, the hot social networking phenomenon that has taken over the world in the past few years. Citizens have used the internets to protest, to rebel and to share knowledge — but the US government is getting more sophisticated in its handling of these online grumblings.
Not allowed is, for example:
- Online gambling
- "Obscene" or violent porn, even if only acted
- Ordering cheaper medical drugs from other countries
- Ordering pot or drugs
- Sharing knowledge if it's copyrighted
- Sharing entertainment if it's copyrighted
- Revealing wrongdoing within US government (Wikileaks)
- Posting knowledge of how to make bombs or certain other technical information
- Implementing your application or website in a certain way if it's software patented
- Anything else that hurts the business of Big Money Intangible Industries (Pharma, RIAA, MPAA, BSA)
When I'm in spain I can only get to google.es.
Even google.us redirects me to google.es, which is pretty annoying.
Just click the Go to Google English link on front page. The automatic redirection makes sense for most users because they want local language content to come up higher in the search.
I'm starting to like Russia. It's also understandable why US tried to fight for copyrights so much - that's basically the only thing they produce now. Rest of the world produces actual products. US can try to attack rest of the world all it can, it only makes other countries see it faster - when rest of world start supporting free licenses and free copyright, US collapses really, really bad.