... given that those who program this robotic surrogate parent will be the one's molding these children's minds, and therefore, will know a priori how the resultant adolescent and then adult will behave and preform.
I mean, after all, what else is the job of a search engine, a social network, or an ISP but to ensure that information is well regulated, vetted, controlled, licensed, checked, filtered, screened, sliced, diced, and pureed?
According to the original FTC complaint, an agency inquiry found that while D-Link PR material consistently claimed the highest security standards, little to nothing was done by the company to eliminate a number of "well-known and easily preventable security flaws" that potentially put millions of residential consumers at risk.
D-Link PR material consistently claimed the highest security standards.
Seems like they should have gone after them for fraud and false advertising, given the abysmal lack of security in the systems that were sold for the purpose of making networks secure.
Difficult to see that level of trust being achieved in this day of ad ridden smartphone aps that demand privelages far beyond what is needed (yet are so often granted because look! shiny virtual candy and puppies and magic swords and achievements and levels and you wouldn't want to consider those 2000 hours and $1200 you spent building your city a waste, would you?)
... I cannot think of a better way than imposing more regulation.
And if she thought that the 'net was a "nice" place in its early days, well, I suspect that she missed huge swaths of usenet...
With this said, she is right. The character of the 'net has changed. But her own response seems to be very midlife in and of itself: let's try to recapture a childhood that cannot be returned to.
Despite what people think, consumers are not their customer.
Technically, I am a customer. Due to other data breaches, I wound up on their credit monitoring plan. Therefore, a bill is being paid to them to provide me with credit alerts and such. This means that not only did they lose my data, but now, as a result, they are not providing the advertised services that are being paid for.
(Of course, I only go to their website and access this data via a secure desktop browser from a trusted network and never from my phone, but still.... )
With this said, your point is well made. They are an organization that collects massive amounts of PII data without the consent of those whose data is collected and stored. For them to call the 99.9% of the population that does not do business directly with them "customers" is, to say the least, a deceitful misnomer.
As soon as it becomes impossible for an organization to maintain complete control of the communications on it's own networks, connections to other networks, and data transfers to and from those external networks, you have given carte blance to those who would steal company secrets, data, and technology.
This is insane. Folks have cell phones that they don't have to put on corporate/company networks. Use that for personal.
There used to be no chemistry. Mixing chemicals skills were bundled into alchemy.
(PS: Snark aside, you're wrong. CS was bundled in with EE, or math, or even arts and sciences. But MIS was added later for the business majors for whom "math was hard.")
The thing about CS/CE is that it is one place where the product and the design are very close together; the distinction isn't so sharp - there's a lot of gray area.
Often the blueprint resembles (and becomes) the product; pseudo code and algorithms are directly translatable to code.
This is very different from the equations that determine materials strength becoming a bridge.
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... given that those who program this robotic surrogate parent will be the one's molding these children's minds, and therefore, will know a priori how the resultant adolescent and then adult will behave and preform.
I mean, after all, what else is the job of a search engine, a social network, or an ISP but to ensure that information is well regulated, vetted, controlled, licensed, checked, filtered, screened, sliced, diced, and pureed?
Maybe they're trying to make assistants to program the assistants.
Within a year, Cloudflare will have their own system distributed protection systems turned against them to DDOS their own servers.
From TFA:
According to the original FTC complaint, an agency inquiry found that while D-Link PR material consistently claimed the highest security standards, little to nothing was done by the company to eliminate a number of "well-known and easily preventable security flaws" that potentially put millions of residential consumers at risk.
D-Link PR material consistently claimed the highest security standards.
Seems like they should have gone after them for fraud and false advertising, given the abysmal lack of security in the systems that were sold for the purpose of making networks secure.
Difficult to see that level of trust being achieved in this day of ad ridden smartphone aps that demand privelages far beyond what is needed (yet are so often granted because look! shiny virtual candy and puppies and magic swords and achievements and levels and you wouldn't want to consider those 2000 hours and $1200 you spent building your city a waste, would you?)
... I cannot think of a better way than imposing more regulation.
And if she thought that the 'net was a "nice" place in its early days, well, I suspect that she missed huge swaths of usenet...
With this said, she is right. The character of the 'net has changed. But her own response seems to be very midlife in and of itself: let's try to recapture a childhood that cannot be returned to.
I bet they've already trademarked that shape / design.
For once, I approve of the broken trademark and patent systems.
At least this will prevent the spread of this... less than optimal design.
Norton should sue for patent infringement.
... for their disaster response site after their massive data breach?
Why, yes, yes, they did!
https://krebsonsecurity.com/20...
At what point do they declare the foot completely blown off and stop shooting?
Despite what people think, consumers are not their customer.
Technically, I am a customer. Due to other data breaches, I wound up on their credit monitoring plan. Therefore, a bill is being paid to them to provide me with credit alerts and such. This means that not only did they lose my data, but now, as a result, they are not providing the advertised services that are being paid for.
(Of course, I only go to their website and access this data via a secure desktop browser from a trusted network and never from my phone, but still.... )
With this said, your point is well made. They are an organization that collects massive amounts of PII data without the consent of those whose data is collected and stored. For them to call the 99.9% of the population that does not do business directly with them "customers" is, to say the least, a deceitful misnomer.
It comes pre-loaded with SuperDooperFish!
As soon as it becomes impossible for an organization to maintain complete control of the communications on it's own networks, connections to other networks, and data transfers to and from those external networks, you have given carte blance to those who would steal company secrets, data, and technology.
This is insane. Folks have cell phones that they don't have to put on corporate/company networks. Use that for personal.
... MP3 rip you!
And yet, the militaries and oil and mineral corporations are prepping for war for when the arctic ice cap melts and exposes the wealth underneath...
The ROI on Columbus' voyage was in time measured in centuries.
Trade schools don't teach the math and theory that can turn a practitioner into an expert.
Development/CS/programming is unique in that the design and implementation are so close to each other; the perfect design is, in fact, perfect code.
Language design.
File system design.
Assembly (yes, it still does matter).
Graph theory.
Algorithmic theory.
There used to be no chemistry. Mixing chemicals skills were bundled into alchemy.
(PS: Snark aside, you're wrong. CS was bundled in with EE, or math, or even arts and sciences. But MIS was added later for the business majors for whom "math was hard.")
Or math. Or compiler or OS theory. Or language theory. Or algorithmic theory. All of which makes for a far, far better coder.
The thing about CS/CE is that it is one place where the product and the design are very close together; the distinction isn't so sharp - there's a lot of gray area.
Often the blueprint resembles (and becomes) the product; pseudo code and algorithms are directly translatable to code.
This is very different from the equations that determine materials strength becoming a bridge.
Difference with your examples is that they don't organize them that way to save money; they do it because they think that is the way to do it.
Which is fine.
It is also a far cry from cutting bits out of the CS curriculum to add 2M to the pool so it can be sent over to the football team.
Horseshit. It all comes from the same well.
Education is the long term investment that always is obvious in it's payoffs, but very hard to put an exact numeric value to.
But - skip education a generation, and watch what happens.