Examples of Symantec's Reputation at Slashdot to reinforce your point:
"Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets' "
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...;
"Symantec Antivirus Products Vulnerable To Horrid Overflow Bug"
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...;
"Antivirus Software Is 'Increasingly Useless' and May Make Your Computer Less Safe"
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...;
Adding a cherry on top, that at the time (1st quater of 2014) Symantec's senior vice president Brian Dye said anti-virus is dead. http://www.techtimes.com/artic....
Congratulations to the mother, the other mother, the dad, Zhang and his team! Avoiding disorders with prophylactic genetic techniques heralds a brave new world of making a better person. This is the greatest science story of the year. It changes everything - it can change our fate as a species.
Techies Improving the World? You mean like the Farmbot (an open source agriculture robot) or the X Prize's Tricorder (a non-invasive health diagnostics package)? For more ideas - make products that address Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Except for the Intimate Relationships thing - Japan is already way ahead on sexbot technology.
Snowden told us about the NSA's worldwide surveillance; that they compromised Cisco routers, Chancellor Merkel's phone, and anything else feeding from the teat of global telecommunications. This is not just about individual privacy. The stakes are much higher - free enterprise and arguably humanity itself. If Obama can pardon the likes of Jonathan Pollard, Snowden certainly deserves more than just a pardon. He deserves the Medal of Freedom. Hell, I'd vote him.
While I agree with Comey about taping over the camera lens, it's not enough bandage. Neither is encryption, nor the game of changing seats over the FBI's tactics. And breaking into an iPhone is such a small example of the real problem. The Internet, which to my mind includes all the things feeding from it, is Orwellian by design. To steal a phrase, it is âoethe most massive, sophisticated and skillfully executed bugging operation in history.â The only solution is to figure out what's wrong, then tear it down and rebuild it from the ground up.
Secure against what? Don't they know that the lion's share of the really dangerously sophisticated hacks and digital weaponry originate from The Government? I am disturbed by the fruit company's harmful attitude to society. We are in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good. It doesn't matter how much it might hurt society, they're not going to help. I think BlackBerry like any company, should have a basic civil responsibility. If the world is in danger, we should help it out.
The tablet has some pretty tight bounds, but working within those bounds can make a pretty powerful muscle in its own right. I bought my tablet for about a c note a gazillion years ago, and after playing with it a while, let it collect dust. Then I used it for a TV remote, and for playing podcasts on my 3+ hour commute. Now it has Guitar Tuna, Kodi, a flavor of Python and I somehow got Touch Vim to spell check! It's pretty sweet with a full size Bluetooth keyboard. I even watch internet TV on it. Now, it doesn't do everything - it's stuck on Android 4.4, so no editing files to the external storage, does not have a full featured LibreOffice or other such muscles, and I've given up on mirroring to a larger screen. But when I install VNC, it becomes the on-the-road front end to my other computers. And if that works well, it might inspire me sign up for an AWS/Digital Ocean VC. Imagine using a tablet to control all that muscle! I'm impressed with that tablet more than ever, and plan on getting another. Eventually.
Thanks! I really like the idea of a taxi conspiracy – I wasn't even going there. I was thinking about an emergent system made by insurance companies, lawyers, legislatures and the judiciary - without any intention necessary; and contrasting the liability of the individual in such a system with statistical probabilities of fault. I meant no disrespect to the licensed taxi drivers who do the hard work and offer great service. But as long as you're there, I just vacationed in New York, to say goodbye to Letterman. Guess what? NYC has lawful non-medallion taxis. The medallion system has the unintended consequence of creating a market for unlicensed cabs. Licensed cabs generally stay either in the central business district or the airport. Further, a Gypsy fare is known in advance, whereas the meters of licensed cabs can skyrocket in a traffic jam. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation)
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BTW, The trouble with teleportation is why Enoch stayed at Simak's Way Station as long as he did.
The war against ride sharing companies like Uber and Lyft expose more than the flaws of governance. We let a properly licensed driver have passengers, statically certain accidents will happen. No insurance, license, training or law will overcome this. Human ability and reason do not live up to the standards which the law imposes, whether Uber is involved or not.
In a world filled with self-driving vehicles designed for “greater good”, there would be much fewer accidents, traffic jams or delays. Even now, autonomous driving vehicles can drive better than most of us most the time. As the technology improves, it will become obvious that we are the problem.
This problem is anticipated in law and commerce. Insurance, license, penalties, restraint and detention web together to form a superstructure of constraint, regulating most and benefiting an elite. The law is brandished against Uber and Lyft not because a legal hack is safer than the gypsy, but because they disrupt the pecking order and the money flow.
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Examples of Symantec's Reputation at Slashdot to reinforce your point: "Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets' " https://it.slashdot.org/story/...; "Symantec Antivirus Products Vulnerable To Horrid Overflow Bug" https://it.slashdot.org/story/...; "Antivirus Software Is 'Increasingly Useless' and May Make Your Computer Less Safe" https://it.slashdot.org/story/...; Adding a cherry on top, that at the time (1st quater of 2014) Symantec's senior vice president Brian Dye said anti-virus is dead. http://www.techtimes.com/artic....
There is hope that NSA surveillance data will eventually be indecipherable. Thanks Vince.
Congratulations to the mother, the other mother, the dad, Zhang and his team! Avoiding disorders with prophylactic genetic techniques heralds a brave new world of making a better person. This is the greatest science story of the year. It changes everything - it can change our fate as a species.
Jeff Bezos was in Seattle at the time...
Ham Radio is true geek. Even the FCC is scared of them. Nuff said.
Techies Improving the World? You mean like the Farmbot (an open source agriculture robot) or the X Prize's Tricorder (a non-invasive health diagnostics package)? For more ideas - make products that address Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Except for the Intimate Relationships thing - Japan is already way ahead on sexbot technology.
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Snowden told us about the NSA's worldwide surveillance; that they compromised Cisco routers, Chancellor Merkel's phone, and anything else feeding from the teat of global telecommunications. This is not just about individual privacy. The stakes are much higher - free enterprise and arguably humanity itself. If Obama can pardon the likes of Jonathan Pollard, Snowden certainly deserves more than just a pardon. He deserves the Medal of Freedom. Hell, I'd vote him.
While I agree with Comey about taping over the camera lens, it's not enough bandage. Neither is encryption, nor the game of changing seats over the FBI's tactics. And breaking into an iPhone is such a small example of the real problem. The Internet, which to my mind includes all the things feeding from it, is Orwellian by design. To steal a phrase, it is âoethe most massive, sophisticated and skillfully executed bugging operation in history.â The only solution is to figure out what's wrong, then tear it down and rebuild it from the ground up.
With plagiarist's apologies to the staff writers for BlackBerry's CEO, John Chen.
Secure against what? Don't they know that the lion's share of the really dangerously sophisticated hacks and digital weaponry originate from The Government? I am disturbed by the fruit company's harmful attitude to society. We are in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good. It doesn't matter how much it might hurt society, they're not going to help. I think BlackBerry like any company, should have a basic civil responsibility. If the world is in danger, we should help it out.
The tablet has some pretty tight bounds, but working within those bounds can make a pretty powerful muscle in its own right. I bought my tablet for about a c note a gazillion years ago, and after playing with it a while, let it collect dust. Then I used it for a TV remote, and for playing podcasts on my 3+ hour commute. Now it has Guitar Tuna, Kodi, a flavor of Python and I somehow got Touch Vim to spell check! It's pretty sweet with a full size Bluetooth keyboard. I even watch internet TV on it. Now, it doesn't do everything - it's stuck on Android 4.4, so no editing files to the external storage, does not have a full featured LibreOffice or other such muscles, and I've given up on mirroring to a larger screen. But when I install VNC, it becomes the on-the-road front end to my other computers. And if that works well, it might inspire me sign up for an AWS/Digital Ocean VC. Imagine using a tablet to control all that muscle! I'm impressed with that tablet more than ever, and plan on getting another. Eventually.
Thanks! I really like the idea of a taxi conspiracy – I wasn't even going there. I was thinking about an emergent system made by insurance companies, lawyers, legislatures and the judiciary - without any intention necessary; and contrasting the liability of the individual in such a system with statistical probabilities of fault. I meant no disrespect to the licensed taxi drivers who do the hard work and offer great service. But as long as you're there, I just vacationed in New York, to say goodbye to Letterman. Guess what? NYC has lawful non-medallion taxis. The medallion system has the unintended consequence of creating a market for unlicensed cabs. Licensed cabs generally stay either in the central business district or the airport. Further, a Gypsy fare is known in advance, whereas the meters of licensed cabs can skyrocket in a traffic jam. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation) --- BTW, The trouble with teleportation is why Enoch stayed at Simak's Way Station as long as he did.
The war against ride sharing companies like Uber and Lyft expose more than the flaws of governance. We let a properly licensed driver have passengers, statically certain accidents will happen. No insurance, license, training or law will overcome this. Human ability and reason do not live up to the standards which the law imposes, whether Uber is involved or not. In a world filled with self-driving vehicles designed for “greater good”, there would be much fewer accidents, traffic jams or delays. Even now, autonomous driving vehicles can drive better than most of us most the time. As the technology improves, it will become obvious that we are the problem. This problem is anticipated in law and commerce. Insurance, license, penalties, restraint and detention web together to form a superstructure of constraint, regulating most and benefiting an elite. The law is brandished against Uber and Lyft not because a legal hack is safer than the gypsy, but because they disrupt the pecking order and the money flow.