If encryption is turned on by default for normal users, there must be a way for the provider to recover the data. People lose their passwords all the time, and don't want to lose all their data if that happens. For these people, disk encryption is just a way to prevent regular laptop thieves from accessing their data, not to protect them from the NSA and criminals who can hack Microsoft. They don't want end-to-end encryption. If you need high level security even against Microsoft, then don't use your MS account, or better yet, don't use Windows.
People manipulate us all the time in the content itself in a manner more insidious than ads. So ad blockers don't keep people from manipulating us either. They simply allow us to access the content we actually want without obstruction. If things like overlays or flashing banners didn't exist, ad blockers wouldn't have been so popular. Some sites are literally unusable without an ad blocker (ex: overlay with the close button outside the screen), how webmasters think it is a good idea goes beyond me. Not only they hurt themselves, effectively driving out all non-adblock-users but they also hurt all other sites which have a more reasonable policy. Because once the adblocker is installed, it is here to stay. It is also bad for unconditional ad blockers because instead of webmasters just dealing with them like they did years ago, they now implement countermeasures.
In the 80s they probably would have standardized the round coaxial connector for charging, which wouldn't have been that bad, even with today's phones. We still use the century old jack connector for audio and no one seems to complain.
Also, one has to talk about software updates for self driving cars. Almost every hardware stops getting software updates by their manufacturer at some point. You can't have cars with EOLed firmware driving on the streets.
Cars with EOLed firmware will not be allowed on the street, you will have to buy a new car. Yay for planned obsolescence.
This is a user error in a sense that the server is perfectly configured and the user agent (the browser) asked for a resource that it isn't allowed to access. A 5xx means that something is not working as intended on the server (software bug, network problem, unsupported feature,...). The distinction is a purely technical one between a http client and a http server. Not between a human user and provider.
It is the same reason why you get a 404 when your browser follows a dead link. At a human level, the provider is at fault, however at the http level the client is at fault for asking something that doesn't exist.
Sure, it had a higher signal to noise ratio. But in absolute terms, it also had much less signal. And the lower SNR of today is compensated by better search technology. For me, it's a win.
And now that you are talking about Wikipedia, it certainly has great content. However, I don't like the direction it is taking with its donation campaigns as they look a lot like ads. They use overlays, interstitials, large banners. If you read the details, they clearly try to get as much money from you as possible using marketing techniques. I know they need money to run the servers but they managed to do it for years without this.
Where is this "good content"? I can't find it and, frankly speaking, would have no problem if all ad-sponsored business would disappear from the web tomorrow, including this site.
"Good content" in this case is content you enjoy, including things that you are too ashamed to admit you enjoy. Even "the top 10 fart jokes you already know" is good content if you enjoyed reading it. Entertainment is seriously underrated.
Tax money is your money too. So less tax for companies means more tax for you. And I'd rather have more expensive iPhones than higher taxes, because if I don't buy iPhones, why should I pay more taxes so that others can get cheaper iPhones. Actually who pay the taxes doesn't matter much, however big companies doing tax avoidance are unfair. Smaller, local companies still get to pay full tax, effectively paying for others trickery.
It is also the same problem with automated law enforcement such as speed traps and red-light cameras. Normally, cops are supposed to use some judgment before handing tickets, machines don't. A typical example is that you are supposed to make way for emergency vehicles, which sometimes involves breaking the usual rules. For example, if you cross a red light just enough to make way for an ambulance, a human cop won't ticket you as you did what you had to. A camera doesn't care. And it starts becoming a problem as less and less people make way for emergency vehicles if it may involve getting auto-ticketed.
the amount of actual new or interesting science. We're definitely on the far end of the logistic curve with regards to how much stuff we can find out.
That's what they said in the 1800s about physics : they said it was a solved problem, with only two small details to settle : aether and blackbody radiation. These "small details" ended up completely changing our understanding of the universe, leading respectively to general relativity and quantum mechanics.
That's a variation on the classic imagefap troll. Imagefap is a large porn site, and searching for "lolita" will result in a message telling you that you might get investigated for child porn. It is just to scare you away, and also a way to remind people that pedophilia is not welcomed. This resulted in trolls tricking people into getting to that page with shortened URLs or misleading instructions.
I dread to think what could happen to some of the information about those kids and who might use it to target youngsters if he's sold it.
Like what? Targeted advertising? If you are thinking about things like child rape, I don't know what a criminal could do with this data that he couldn't do much more effectively by logging into Facebook or just hanging around your local school. Some retarded parents just love to put all details about their kids life online, which has the effect of boring to death everyone except people you absolutely don't want to be interested. Anyways, child abuse online is a vastly overblown problem, used by governments to justify intrusive measures. In reality, the worst offenders are parents, followed by familiar people (family, friends, nannies, teachers, caretakers,...).
When we are talking money that represents a significant fraction of the country's GDP, it starts losing its usual meaning. It's not like you can just have a $200 "zero-carbon" bill every month for 10 years and bam, no more carbon emissions. Whether or not it is doeable, it is not something we can simply tag with a dollar amount.
There is a thing called Avgas 91/96 UL (unleaded) but it is uncommon compared to Avgas 100 LL ("low"-lead), and probably incompatible with many engines. Rotax engines (very common on ultralight aircraft) can use it, but because of the low availability of unleaded avgas they often run on automotive fuel (mogas) or 100LL instead.
This has been explained by Phillips : - From now on, only "Friends of Hue" certified products can be added to the network. - Already connected uncertified products shouldn't stop working, but Phillips makes no guarantees. - They still follow the ZigBee standard. You can still use their light bulbs and any others with another controller. - In theory, the "Friends of Hue" certification is open to third parties.
Because sometimes, they tell the truth. Think about it in logic terms : always lying is the same as always telling the truth once you reverse the statements. You can only deceive effectively if you mix truths and lies. In fact I really believe that what the government says is almost always true, almost. It's difficult to lie well as you have to create a consistent story around it and find ways to effectifely prevent leaks. In other words, lies are costly, so before yelling "lie!", it may be a good idea to think about the cost/benefit ratio.
Typical political speech tactics are much easier and often just as effective as flat out lies.
Usually, after 3 failed attempts, the card becomes unusable. You also typically don't choose your PIN, the bank picks a random number and mail it to you in a special envelope, separately from the card itself.
So that's really a 0.03% chance of getting it right. Not that bad considering that you also have to steal the card in the first place, use it before it is declared stolen and rendered unusable, and don't get caught by other safety measures.
If your password is "esa", "469" or "123", even the best salt/hash. Script kiddies could crack these in seconds, and that's if you use really strong crypto. With a reasonable hash/salt scheme and advanced attackers, you can get down to microseconds.
I'm quite sure a simple Bayes filter like those used to detect spam would work very well. While discussion about hate speech and hate speech have some keywords in common, there are some words that are much more common in discussion, like the phrase "hate speech" itself. Like spam filters, external data could be used such as from where the message is sent, user feedback, etc... Human moderators can then deal with the edge cases.
The problem is : we human don't even agree on what hate speech is.
Tablets are already dying off, the iPad sales plateau is proof of that. Why tablets are dying is a more interesting question.
Tablets aren't dying. Tablet sales are falling off because the people willing to buy one now have one. Tablets will stick around for the foreseeable future.
Agreed. Much like PC's / Laptops.
But it seems like manufacturers didn't repeat the same "mistakes". Desktop PCs are fully upgradable and repairable. A bit less for laptops but that's still better than most tablets. Additionally, the software and hardware are independent provided you have the right drivers. As a result, you only need to change your PC when your hardware really is outdated. Something that doesn't happen much nowadays. With tablets they do everything in their power to make you change it every two years : sealed batteries, discontinued software updates, locked system...
Still, Perl is unmatched for throwaway scripts. Python has disappointed me. It looks cleaner, it has a faster learning curve but in the end, when things become more complex, I tend to run in the same problems with both languages, mostly related to weak typing. It feels like of a schizophrenic language, offering a clean (but inconvenient) syntax on a messy (but convenient) core. Java is the complete opposite of Perl. So much that I don't understand how one can use it to solve Perl problems unless that's all you have. It is extremely verbose when you need to do small things, it is weak where Perl is strong (string manipulation....)... It is, however, better suited for larger projects. The fact that it is a static language helps. On thing I sometimes do is that I start with Perl, and when I notice that it will be more than a throwaway script or that performance is lacking, I switch to C or C++ (but you can use Java if you prefer). Done in the early phases, a rewrite isn't costly.
90% of my driving is not especially enjoyable. Being stuck in traffic or driving for hours at constant speed on straight lines while still needing to maintain attention is not my idea of fun. And the remaining 10% are not pure bliss either. The public road is not a toy, and if you "enjoy" it too much, cops will remind you about the rules, or worse.
And if I am on the track, there is no way I want any VR stuff. If I pay good money for the real deal, this is not to get some glorified video game.
From my understanding, a hologram is like a 2D array in a programming language. array2D[x,y] is typically translated into something like array1D[x + ROW_SIZE * y], which work the same as long as x never exceed ROW_SIZE. To test if the universe works the same way is just a matter of knowing if there is a finite ROW_SIZE constant, which translates into fuzziness in the physical world. Using a computer analogy doesn't mean we live in a computer simulation, it is just a way to appeal to the minds of programmers. A computer-simulated universe is a much stronger hypotheses than a holographic universe. A simulated universe running on a finite computer would make it zero-dimentional, or 1D if you include time.
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If encryption is turned on by default for normal users, there must be a way for the provider to recover the data.
People lose their passwords all the time, and don't want to lose all their data if that happens. For these people, disk encryption is just a way to prevent regular laptop thieves from accessing their data, not to protect them from the NSA and criminals who can hack Microsoft. They don't want end-to-end encryption.
If you need high level security even against Microsoft, then don't use your MS account, or better yet, don't use Windows.
https://xkcd.com/1174/
People manipulate us all the time in the content itself in a manner more insidious than ads. So ad blockers don't keep people from manipulating us either.
They simply allow us to access the content we actually want without obstruction. If things like overlays or flashing banners didn't exist, ad blockers wouldn't have been so popular.
Some sites are literally unusable without an ad blocker (ex: overlay with the close button outside the screen), how webmasters think it is a good idea goes beyond me. Not only they hurt themselves, effectively driving out all non-adblock-users but they also hurt all other sites which have a more reasonable policy. Because once the adblocker is installed, it is here to stay. It is also bad for unconditional ad blockers because instead of webmasters just dealing with them like they did years ago, they now implement countermeasures.
In the 80s they probably would have standardized the round coaxial connector for charging, which wouldn't have been that bad, even with today's phones.
We still use the century old jack connector for audio and no one seems to complain.
Also, one has to talk about software updates for self driving cars. Almost every hardware stops getting software updates by their manufacturer at some point. You can't have cars with EOLed firmware driving on the streets.
Cars with EOLed firmware will not be allowed on the street, you will have to buy a new car. Yay for planned obsolescence.
This is a user error in a sense that the server is perfectly configured and the user agent (the browser) asked for a resource that it isn't allowed to access.
A 5xx means that something is not working as intended on the server (software bug, network problem, unsupported feature,...).
The distinction is a purely technical one between a http client and a http server. Not between a human user and provider.
It is the same reason why you get a 404 when your browser follows a dead link. At a human level, the provider is at fault, however at the http level the client is at fault for asking something that doesn't exist.
That's until advertisers discovers that a hardcoded IP address is all that's needed to bypass a hosts file.
Sure, it had a higher signal to noise ratio.
But in absolute terms, it also had much less signal. And the lower SNR of today is compensated by better search technology. For me, it's a win.
And now that you are talking about Wikipedia, it certainly has great content. However, I don't like the direction it is taking with its donation campaigns as they look a lot like ads. They use overlays, interstitials, large banners. If you read the details, they clearly try to get as much money from you as possible using marketing techniques. I know they need money to run the servers but they managed to do it for years without this.
Where is this "good content"? I can't find it and, frankly speaking, would have no problem if all ad-sponsored business would disappear from the web tomorrow, including this site.
"Good content" in this case is content you enjoy, including things that you are too ashamed to admit you enjoy. Even "the top 10 fart jokes you already know" is good content if you enjoyed reading it.
Entertainment is seriously underrated.
Tax money is your money too. So less tax for companies means more tax for you. And I'd rather have more expensive iPhones than higher taxes, because if I don't buy iPhones, why should I pay more taxes so that others can get cheaper iPhones.
Actually who pay the taxes doesn't matter much, however big companies doing tax avoidance are unfair. Smaller, local companies still get to pay full tax, effectively paying for others trickery.
It is also the same problem with automated law enforcement such as speed traps and red-light cameras.
Normally, cops are supposed to use some judgment before handing tickets, machines don't. A typical example is that you are supposed to make way for emergency vehicles, which sometimes involves breaking the usual rules. For example, if you cross a red light just enough to make way for an ambulance, a human cop won't ticket you as you did what you had to. A camera doesn't care. And it starts becoming a problem as less and less people make way for emergency vehicles if it may involve getting auto-ticketed.
the amount of actual new or interesting science. We're definitely on the far end of the logistic curve with regards to how much stuff we can find out.
That's what they said in the 1800s about physics : they said it was a solved problem, with only two small details to settle : aether and blackbody radiation. These "small details" ended up completely changing our understanding of the universe, leading respectively to general relativity and quantum mechanics.
That's a variation on the classic imagefap troll.
Imagefap is a large porn site, and searching for "lolita" will result in a message telling you that you might get investigated for child porn. It is just to scare you away, and also a way to remind people that pedophilia is not welcomed.
This resulted in trolls tricking people into getting to that page with shortened URLs or misleading instructions.
I dread to think what could happen to some of the information about those kids and who might use it to target youngsters if he's sold it.
Like what? Targeted advertising? ...).
If you are thinking about things like child rape, I don't know what a criminal could do with this data that he couldn't do much more effectively by logging into Facebook or just hanging around your local school. Some retarded parents just love to put all details about their kids life online, which has the effect of boring to death everyone except people you absolutely don't want to be interested.
Anyways, child abuse online is a vastly overblown problem, used by governments to justify intrusive measures. In reality, the worst offenders are parents, followed by familiar people (family, friends, nannies, teachers, caretakers,
When we are talking money that represents a significant fraction of the country's GDP, it starts losing its usual meaning. It's not like you can just have a $200 "zero-carbon" bill every month for 10 years and bam, no more carbon emissions.
Whether or not it is doeable, it is not something we can simply tag with a dollar amount.
There is a thing called Avgas 91/96 UL (unleaded) but it is uncommon compared to Avgas 100 LL ("low"-lead), and probably incompatible with many engines.
Rotax engines (very common on ultralight aircraft) can use it, but because of the low availability of unleaded avgas they often run on automotive fuel (mogas) or 100LL instead.
This has been explained by Phillips :
- From now on, only "Friends of Hue" certified products can be added to the network.
- Already connected uncertified products shouldn't stop working, but Phillips makes no guarantees.
- They still follow the ZigBee standard. You can still use their light bulbs and any others with another controller.
- In theory, the "Friends of Hue" certification is open to third parties.
Because sometimes, they tell the truth.
Think about it in logic terms : always lying is the same as always telling the truth once you reverse the statements. You can only deceive effectively if you mix truths and lies.
In fact I really believe that what the government says is almost always true, almost. It's difficult to lie well as you have to create a consistent story around it and find ways to effectifely prevent leaks. In other words, lies are costly, so before yelling "lie!", it may be a good idea to think about the cost/benefit ratio.
Typical political speech tactics are much easier and often just as effective as flat out lies.
Usually, after 3 failed attempts, the card becomes unusable.
You also typically don't choose your PIN, the bank picks a random number and mail it to you in a special envelope, separately from the card itself.
So that's really a 0.03% chance of getting it right. Not that bad considering that you also have to steal the card in the first place, use it before it is declared stolen and rendered unusable, and don't get caught by other safety measures.
If your password is "esa", "469" or "123", even the best salt/hash. Script kiddies could crack these in seconds, and that's if you use really strong crypto. With a reasonable hash/salt scheme and advanced attackers, you can get down to microseconds.
I'm quite sure a simple Bayes filter like those used to detect spam would work very well. While discussion about hate speech and hate speech have some keywords in common, there are some words that are much more common in discussion, like the phrase "hate speech" itself.
Like spam filters, external data could be used such as from where the message is sent, user feedback, etc...
Human moderators can then deal with the edge cases.
The problem is : we human don't even agree on what hate speech is.
Tablets are already dying off, the iPad sales plateau is proof of that.
Why tablets are dying is a more interesting question.
Tablets aren't dying. Tablet sales are falling off because the people willing to buy one now have one. Tablets will stick around for the foreseeable future.
Agreed. Much like PC's / Laptops.
But it seems like manufacturers didn't repeat the same "mistakes".
Desktop PCs are fully upgradable and repairable. A bit less for laptops but that's still better than most tablets. Additionally, the software and hardware are independent provided you have the right drivers. As a result, you only need to change your PC when your hardware really is outdated. Something that doesn't happen much nowadays. With tablets they do everything in their power to make you change it every two years : sealed batteries, discontinued software updates, locked system...
Still, Perl is unmatched for throwaway scripts.
Python has disappointed me. It looks cleaner, it has a faster learning curve but in the end, when things become more complex, I tend to run in the same problems with both languages, mostly related to weak typing. It feels like of a schizophrenic language, offering a clean (but inconvenient) syntax on a messy (but convenient) core.
Java is the complete opposite of Perl. So much that I don't understand how one can use it to solve Perl problems unless that's all you have. It is extremely verbose when you need to do small things, it is weak where Perl is strong (string manipulation....)... It is, however, better suited for larger projects. The fact that it is a static language helps.
On thing I sometimes do is that I start with Perl, and when I notice that it will be more than a throwaway script or that performance is lacking, I switch to C or C++ (but you can use Java if you prefer). Done in the early phases, a rewrite isn't costly.
90% of my driving is not especially enjoyable. Being stuck in traffic or driving for hours at constant speed on straight lines while still needing to maintain attention is not my idea of fun.
And the remaining 10% are not pure bliss either. The public road is not a toy, and if you "enjoy" it too much, cops will remind you about the rules, or worse.
And if I am on the track, there is no way I want any VR stuff. If I pay good money for the real deal, this is not to get some glorified video game.
From my understanding, a hologram is like a 2D array in a programming language.
array2D[x,y] is typically translated into something like array1D[x + ROW_SIZE * y], which work the same as long as x never exceed ROW_SIZE. To test if the universe works the same way is just a matter of knowing if there is a finite ROW_SIZE constant, which translates into fuzziness in the physical world.
Using a computer analogy doesn't mean we live in a computer simulation, it is just a way to appeal to the minds of programmers. A computer-simulated universe is a much stronger hypotheses than a holographic universe. A simulated universe running on a finite computer would make it zero-dimentional, or 1D if you include time.