Everything is moving to on-demand. 4K, 10bit HDR1000 displays at home put most cinemas to shame.
Why choose to go somewhere, sit with people playing with their phone and munching overpriced crap when you can watch it from the comfort of home with perhaps some mates?
How is the "movie theatre" better?
Cinema isnt dead, it's alive and well. Better than even in fact. It simply moved out of a theatre and into the home.
So there I was, listening to the new team that just bought the company I worked for. They spoke about how they convinced some pension fund manager to invest millions into the newly formed company. they bought another two in a shopping spree. "Strategic purchases to complement and complete our product portfolio and offering" -sounded good.
I was told that within a year (or two) this newly combined collection of hosting providers of different tiers will become a powerhouse. An industry leader, an international name. -promising news!
We were all told that the customer survey scores which are now in the 10-20% positive feedback range will become 40%-50% in a year and 60% and 70% in two which will be industry leading for the managed hosting industry.
(NPS 70 Average is a lofty target! - but let's stick with percentage for arguments sake)
Everyone was listening as the new exec, with his shiny new suit was giving his really enthusiastic speech. All the staff, managers etc all sat there, smiled politely and stayed quiet. He went on and on and showed us that graph with the green arrow that starts shallow but climbs rapidly, soaring towards the magical 100% mark.
Being a lowly entry level tech could not see how this can be achieved so quickly and I needed insight. I wanted to know more about this exciting new journey.
I raised my hand and was given permission to speak. I asked "Given that being the best or even in the top ten is a monumental challenge, what sort of changes or efficiencies are we going to make to reach that goal?"
The shiny suited exec looked at me in silence. I considered that he was formulating a detailed response and waited as did everyone else. After a few more seconds of silence his subordinate quickly stepped in with a helpful answer "You have to remember that efficiencies do not always translate to gains and gains is what we're after." - I stared at him, stunned. I realised at that moment that they had no plan, they had no idea and I was given an answer that provides very little in way of a meaningful detail because of it.
I asked my direct manager of the time, an introverted guy that would not associate with the rank and file, why there was no detail in the plan. He told me that he's sure that they would not invest millions without a detailed plan..which he was not aware of either. Of course this change also meant he was going to manage all of support across the companies...
A company wide skills survey shortly followed in which I was asked only questions about skills I did not possess. I was fired shortly after.
I've only had better employments in much more successful companies since.
Serious companies that host anything have Service License Agreements that can cover response times, escalations, downtime, systems affected, resolution times etc etc.
Even if this is not strictly covered in a contractual, legally binding SLA Amazon would do well to pony up something for the big boys.
Now, if you jump through all the SLAs, backups, insurance and DR/backups then you may find the impact was minuscule.
Of course if you host with AWS and wee affected you cry wolf, claim damages are in thousands of dollars a minute and that you lost faith, are dismayed and the reputational damage is possibly 10 times the financial one, which is of course very considerable.
And if it's genuinely the case that your company lost buckets of money over this without any hope of compensation then you;re doing it wrong for putting all your eggs in the same basket.
While some religions or forms of them existed before writing there was still a time when the imaginary concept of the flying spaghetti monster was too complex or useless to be thunk!
Humans spot risk, oddities in recognisable patterns and are far more likely to remember negative events because they are hard wired to do so.
As hunter-gatherers (you know, in the time before writing and the invention of religion) we'd either learn to spot danger and do what we can to avoid it or have decreased chances of survival...fast forward 100(?) thousands years or so and the information revolution gave us access to numerous sources of negativity and percieved risk. Once upon a time to find a heretic you had to travel! -now you can speak with a blasphemer in under 10 seconds just go to a forum or heck, skype them!
Some people are unable to detach, disassociate or become desensitised. Often the stress is not even about real threats just amplified mass fear of awful weather, cheating in their favourite sport, injustice of what they consider their basic rights etc.
Basically like all humans, people suffer from the human condition. Humans are irrational. They are more concerned with controlling borders than traffic accidents despite traffic being the proven killer. They are more worried about terrorists than the flu and yet one kils hundreds of times more. Humans are scared their children might develop diametrically opposed beliefs if they associate with certain other kids but turn a blind eye to the negative imapcts of their own beliefs because they seldom scrutinize it...the list goes on.
Americans are not crazy but they are being driven crazy by a political system that preys on fear. News network that compete to report the latest disaster. Corporations that research their insecurities about their body and sell them shit they do not need.
Actually this happens everywhere...somehow this more pronounced in the US for reasons I'll let others suggest.
It's well known that there is increased risk of hypogonadism...but the risk is far outweighed by the benefits.
When these studies eventually test men on TRT for how they FEEL, if they are stronger, more athletic, look leaner, got back to prime form/performance etc. You know the reasons that they got TRT to begin with!
Who the fuck cares if TRT may be bad for hair loss? -testosterone related hair loss happens to men that never bother with T boosters or treatment and in your 40s or 50s who cares about that compared to still listing or playing sports like you're 30?!
How can we tell by this if you're disgusted or if these are just facts? -speak up god damnit.
Hope aint a strategy son. Let's see if I can work something out for you.
Until we reduce the reelection rates in congress you can forget about it.
We have become so partisan in this country - which the ruling class just LOVES! - that we'll never see that happen.
My state keeps sending the same old people back. Every. Year, and why!? because it means voting for a Democrat, that's why!
...and guess what? that will never happen. In my state, all a knuckle dragging Republican needs to do is say "Pro-Life" and "Roe vs Wade has to go" and "Dem democrats gon'take ma guns!" and he's in regardless of how much of a baboon he is. To add insult ot injury, here (US of A), Democrats are socialists!! -can you friggin get your head around that train wreck?! because I cannot and I live here!
I mean forget privacy and the finer points of civil liberties cause that goes right over their tiny socialist heads. They go on about how those "Conservatives" have gamed the system against them; how their retirement plans are being gouged by financial firms' fees, how they are being gouged by their ISP and cable TV company, why the business up the road can dump just about anything it wants into the ground. It all just flies in one ear, through their vacatious heads and out the other end FFS!!.
Without a doubt, as long as they have their bibles, guns, football on ESPN and F-150, they're happier than the pigs on the McCully farm it dobn't even matter if you gonna have bacon soon. You can do anything you want to them politically as long as you aint black.
If you cannot tell by now the sheer contempt, derision and my disgust for the American electorate then you must be an ecomentalist or a redneck and fuck you and your fat mom.
Welp, now that you alienated 80% of Americans I hope life in exile without works out for ya fella. All the best.
There is a reason I chose to live at elevation in the colder north of England.
At 50 degrees (Fahrenheit right?!) I should be living in a tropical environment very soon. If sea level rises significantly land value will rise as well.
This simulation model really does sound fantastic...but for full disclosure, was my estate agent involved in the creation of this model?
I mean, not that it does not sound awesome but isnt a computer simulation a thing in which scientists make educated guesses as to parameters and then "reliably predict" an outcome?
Wouldn't it be cool to max-out all the factor multipliers and simulate what would happen? will the 'greenhouse effect' continue to spiral temperate out of control to +200c in less than 3 years?! -you know like when you change nuke yields in scortched Earth and it takes the entire map out with that radiation "effect".
That is exactly the point in complexity. It cannot know anything automatically. It needs to be configured correctly and as restrictive as possible. SPI may provide you with the insight you need as opposed to just allowing comms on port 80 from one point to another. The question is, what;s being communicated are there odd packet fragments? are there packets out of sequence? is there encrytpion when it's not expected? -these and much much more can all be clues.
While you system may be infected with a virus that then executes a crypto ransomware program the firewall can at least block comms. In such a situation you have a chance to save your system before everything is encrypted into oblivion.
One tool or program is simply insufficient for proper security.
Of course if you are just surfing websites and playing games this is all very over the top and unnecessary. Just the means to reinstall your system from scratch would be easier, simpler and possible faster. -a VM can be a realistic choice for frequent restorations (but not practical with new games)
NThe confusion here is your understand of what I meant. I find that other tools provide better virus protection to an AV.
While they are not advertised as AV products they simply supplement the need for an AV which is useless for 0day attacks - the other tools are superior.
A traditional AV can do very little for me. It can only scan for existing signatures.
Execution prevention can deal with multiple attack vectors. Even a kernel bug that allows priviledge escalation as an attack vector can still sometimes be stopped with execution prevention...because AV software became useless providers switched to a more encompassing security approach.
I find that SPI firewalls, execution prevention, careful permissions for limited users, NoScript and other tools are far superior to an AV.
Liberal OS policies and platforms are not ideal for anything you;d hate to lose. Often you would not know that something malicious is running.
With multiple layers of security on a system that does not change often you can have fine grain control of anything. An odd internet connection attempt, a never heard of before program attempting to run etc -that reasonable easy to catch.
AV vendors have been packaging (shoving) everything included as soon as they realised AVs are done. Unfortunately the desktop class products are often more trouble than they are worth.
That being said, I still advocate the complete security packages from AV vendors for users that know little being logging into facebook. They are clueless and could not manage a complex system a "security suite" type program is their best bet.
I disagree that this defines democracy. A difference of a single vote from millions would insufficient to make groups as large as tens of millions make a complete u-turn on their convictions.
Such a scenario is likely to lead to civil war or more realistically a recount of votes. Assuming the margin is not a clerical error or fraud it would simply be too weak a majority for anything meaningful.
The creation of new laws and generally actions of fundamental impact on the populace would typically require a large majority win.
A voting system for a democratic rule clearly has flaws but democracy in general strives for equality. What sort of equality is there in such a single vote win regarding a strongly held belief or conviction?
Are you suggesting that if 13 people voted to ban religion and 12 voted to keep freedom of belief that this would be acceptable? -my idea of democracy is not the dictatorship of the many.
Voting systems are flawed, democracy is not perfect but we cant make it better. I will never be in favour of altering another person's future in a profound manner based on such a slim margin.
Yes, in certain positions we must plan for eventualities that may be less desirable because of votes, market forces, natural disasters etc all I can hope for is that "things will work out" somehow.
You may however agree that if I presented a business plan to an investor based on hope I'd be laughed out of the room. So as this Brexit white paper did not exist at the time (and will be shallow as it lacked the necessary time to deepen) it's surprising we're all changing, reluctantly or not, based on wishful thinking.
The irony is that if the UK adopts an EU model very similar to Norway (despite vehement denial) it would have made the entire exercise pointless.
Businesses that build data centres (such as MS, Amazon, Equinix, Century link, IBM to name a few) have to plan 10-15 years ahead. At least. They cannot plan anything beyond contingencies #BecauseBrexit -accountants, lawyers and compliance specialists have been running around in fucking circles tripping over themselves in case there's a hard Brexit. -FACT.
It's because we do not and did not have facts to begin with that this was a stupid decision.
This is Brexit:
Step 1 - Leave the EU by any and all means (To secure borders, stop unwanted migration, get 350 million a week, develop rural communities, let the little person have his or her last remnants "we're British and better alone" empire hurrah)
Step 2 - ??? (Is it gonna work? can we afford it? IS THERE OR HAVE THERE EVER BEEN A GENUINE FUCKING PLAN??)
Step 3 - SUCCESS!!!
Ooo there's a fact in three easy to understand steps.
Then why did majority leave towns then ask if they will still get EU funding? -if it was SO CLEAR.
I jest. It was clear but some leavers had no clue. They still think 350 million is on its way as soon as Westminster slices the pie...you know, because historically they invested SO MUCH into those rural areas but I digress.
No. Unequivocally and absolutely not. You have no idea how I voted.
If I had 25 kids and 13 wanted to go live in France and 12 did not then we'd not go anywhere.
Most democracies would give need a large majority to force a minority. Say 60% of the votes, sometimes more. A clear and reasonably wide enough majority.
For such a critical decision I think, in fairness, two thirds of voters would need to decided to go one way or another. I could not in good conscious force practically the other half of people my choice or way of life.
But you see the idea of taking 12 unwilling kids to France is FAR BETTER. Why? because France is a known quantity. Leaving the EU is not.
Thank fuck parliament gets to vote if article 50 is triggered AND the final deal once decided. At lease we'll know if "France" is really some dictatorship banana republic.
If the UK chooses what seems to be an inevitable hard Brexit AND repels all EU laws that means that a lot of the standard business practices Microsoft streamlines across Europe will now have to have special considerations.
Depending on how idiotic Brexit becomes all multinational business will be forced to rethink their UK strategy.
The UK is not simply closing shop but it may, via Brexit, stop conducting business in the same way it previously had and in some cases that will be worse than closing shop for all the planning,consultation, time and headaches that will cause.
Here's just one simplistic hypothetical; if the UK decides for instance that your company must now employ at least 60% British people (or limit net migration from EU countries to force you into such a position because you cannot find the workforce locally) you might go out of business or have to lower your profit margin expectations which in turn will make you wish to close down.
The Brexit the UK seems to be heading towards is not the Brexit everyone wanted. It's now almost certainly going out of the single European market and ending free movement.
Like so many you did not think far enough along the path before you called BS and used words like "stupid".
Brexit is an unknown. Some people hope for the best believing it will be for the best but they do not know. 52% have put the other 48% in it for an unknown. -not even knowing the odds.
You wanna know what's stupid? -that 13 people can force 12 others into this mess. That's stupid.
(13 to 12 is the ratio people that wanted to leave against the ones wanted to remain)
WhatsApp is big money...and combined with the fact it's hard to prove that a vulnerability was intentional and thus a "back door" it's hard for Joe Average to tell who's right.
Don't worry about this stuff. Just keep using WhatsApp. It's just as secure as everything else, honest.
Telling people not to use WhatsApp is apparently "endangering people"...as it is a "crucial issue".
Summary; do not use Signal, ChatSecure, OTR or Telegram. Use WhatsApp, it's clearly safer #because_danger (??).
Personally I never thought WhatsApp was secure even after this (maybe backdoor-ed) end to end encryption - Consider many people use WhatsApp? it's the number one target IM. If it ever was secure it won't be so tomorrow.
As soon as I read the subject I thought this may be a stuxnet-like derivative. -which may turn out to be wrong...
The reality is that the hacking tools available are far scarier than we have yet found proof of if you believe the reactions of some agency leakers about Stuxnet. (how they address the notion as a minor part of a far more sophisticate project)
If it didn't happen already, electricity itself can be used as an attack vector to infiltrate systems. I don't mean shutting the power down I mean using the power connection as a medium to initiate malicious activity.
Assuming power lines are not yet an attack vector that's no consolation as it's practically not needed for most situations. Any core network or infrastructure that is even remotely associated with vulnerable common systems (windows, wifi, humans etc) are susceptible because they are in contact with the weakest link in the security chain. They can introduce code into secure systems in unintentional and unexpected ways.
What cyber warfare has introduced is essentially a global cold war type scenario. Ironically brought about by the same people seeking supremacy as they worked hard to weaken all defences just so they can have an edge.
In principle I agree, you do not absolutely need a better replacement for a good solution to be left unused....but you often do.
Freedom to do what you want is a basic instinct. Yes a lot of people that do not know better simply accept the status quo but give people credit. A PC often means people do not have to choose between doing one thing or another. Consoles can have better UI, more stability but hte PC gaming is "good enough" with faster load times, and often better graphics and mods. -music production can be done on a PC, is it the best? no but it's "good enough" etc etc. It's the PC that IS the "good enough" platform which is not being replaced by anything else "better".
Innovate or die right? -the PC has been at the leading edge of innovation. We used to have a a math co-processor, an ISA BUS, a 3D accelerator card...the PC of today is far, fare more advanced and has thousands more use cases.
A PC platform today has a choice of multiple operating systems and plenty of hardware configuration options with upgradability in mind. A high spec machine will run the best games better than a console. It has several choices for VR (supposedly the future of all things UI) It virtulisation options to run other OSs as VMs...heck it can even load facebook and MS office you can even do this on a laptop with a touch screen. You can see whatever movies you want on it, stream anything...the list goes on and on.
The PC isn't just "good" it's amazing. Nothing else today comes close to it.
As a platform the PC can be used for far more than most people will ever manage...you can always say "most people will never need that" but the fact we were once hunter gatherers, then farmers eventually industrialist city builders turned facebook users shows that we will eventually need those facilities...and look, we're all using computers today. -so there will always be a niche for a PC, be it mainstream or not.
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Is there a new play on old chap?
Everything is moving to on-demand. 4K, 10bit HDR1000 displays at home put most cinemas to shame.
Why choose to go somewhere, sit with people playing with their phone and munching overpriced crap when you can watch it from the comfort of home with perhaps some mates?
How is the "movie theatre" better?
Cinema isnt dead, it's alive and well. Better than even in fact. It simply moved out of a theatre and into the home.
So there I was, listening to the new team that just bought the company I worked for. They spoke about how they convinced some pension fund manager to invest millions into the newly formed company. they bought another two in a shopping spree. "Strategic purchases to complement and complete our product portfolio and offering" -sounded good.
I was told that within a year (or two) this newly combined collection of hosting providers of different tiers will become a powerhouse. An industry leader, an international name. -promising news!
We were all told that the customer survey scores which are now in the 10-20% positive feedback range will become 40%-50% in a year and 60% and 70% in two which will be industry leading for the managed hosting industry.
(NPS 70 Average is a lofty target! - but let's stick with percentage for arguments sake)
Everyone was listening as the new exec, with his shiny new suit was giving his really enthusiastic speech. All the staff, managers etc all sat there, smiled politely and stayed quiet. He went on and on and showed us that graph with the green arrow that starts shallow but climbs rapidly, soaring towards the magical 100% mark.
Being a lowly entry level tech could not see how this can be achieved so quickly and I needed insight. I wanted to know more about this exciting new journey.
I raised my hand and was given permission to speak. I asked "Given that being the best or even in the top ten is a monumental challenge, what sort of changes or efficiencies are we going to make to reach that goal?"
The shiny suited exec looked at me in silence. I considered that he was formulating a detailed response and waited as did everyone else. After a few more seconds of silence his subordinate quickly stepped in with a helpful answer "You have to remember that efficiencies do not always translate to gains and gains is what we're after." - I stared at him, stunned. I realised at that moment that they had no plan, they had no idea and I was given an answer that provides very little in way of a meaningful detail because of it.
I asked my direct manager of the time, an introverted guy that would not associate with the rank and file, why there was no detail in the plan. He told me that he's sure that they would not invest millions without a detailed plan..which he was not aware of either. Of course this change also meant he was going to manage all of support across the companies...
A company wide skills survey shortly followed in which I was asked only questions about skills I did not possess. I was fired shortly after.
I've only had better employments in much more successful companies since.
Please, anyone, care to explain why should we care?
In the next 20-50 years when quantum computing is commonplace, what mundane, regular Joe Schmo life things will this help with?
Serious companies that host anything have Service License Agreements that can cover response times, escalations, downtime, systems affected, resolution times etc etc.
Even if this is not strictly covered in a contractual, legally binding SLA Amazon would do well to pony up something for the big boys.
Now, if you jump through all the SLAs, backups, insurance and DR/backups then you may find the impact was minuscule.
Of course if you host with AWS and wee affected you cry wolf, claim damages are in thousands of dollars a minute and that you lost faith, are dismayed and the reputational damage is possibly 10 times the financial one, which is of course very considerable.
And if it's genuinely the case that your company lost buckets of money over this without any hope of compensation then you;re doing it wrong for putting all your eggs in the same basket.
While some religions or forms of them existed before writing there was still a time when the imaginary concept of the flying spaghetti monster was too complex or useless to be thunk!
Humans spot risk, oddities in recognisable patterns and are far more likely to remember negative events because they are hard wired to do so.
As hunter-gatherers (you know, in the time before writing and the invention of religion) we'd either learn to spot danger and do what we can to avoid it or have decreased chances of survival...fast forward 100(?) thousands years or so and the information revolution gave us access to numerous sources of negativity and percieved risk. Once upon a time to find a heretic you had to travel! -now you can speak with a blasphemer in under 10 seconds just go to a forum or heck, skype them!
Some people are unable to detach, disassociate or become desensitised. Often the stress is not even about real threats just amplified mass fear of awful weather, cheating in their favourite sport, injustice of what they consider their basic rights etc.
Basically like all humans, people suffer from the human condition. Humans are irrational. They are more concerned with controlling borders than traffic accidents despite traffic being the proven killer. They are more worried about terrorists than the flu and yet one kils hundreds of times more. Humans are scared their children might develop diametrically opposed beliefs if they associate with certain other kids but turn a blind eye to the negative imapcts of their own beliefs because they seldom scrutinize it...the list goes on.
Americans are not crazy but they are being driven crazy by a political system that preys on fear. News network that compete to report the latest disaster. Corporations that research their insecurities about their body and sell them shit they do not need.
Actually this happens everywhere...somehow this more pronounced in the US for reasons I'll let others suggest.
It's well known that there is increased risk of hypogonadism...but the risk is far outweighed by the benefits.
When these studies eventually test men on TRT for how they FEEL, if they are stronger, more athletic, look leaner, got back to prime form/performance etc. You know the reasons that they got TRT to begin with!
Who the fuck cares if TRT may be bad for hair loss? -testosterone related hair loss happens to men that never bother with T boosters or treatment and in your 40s or 50s who cares about that compared to still listing or playing sports like you're 30?!
Fake news. Trump said so.
This is a post truth world. Trump is bigger than facts. Proof? some dumb fuckers still support him cause he's gonna MAGA.
Trump is a waste of time.
How can we tell by this if you're disgusted or if these are just facts? -speak up god damnit.
Hope aint a strategy son. Let's see if I can work something out for you.
Until we reduce the reelection rates in congress you can forget about it.
We have become so partisan in this country - which the ruling class just LOVES! - that we'll never see that happen.
My state keeps sending the same old people back. Every. Year, and why!? because it means voting for a Democrat, that's why!
...and guess what? that will never happen. In my state, all a knuckle dragging Republican needs to do is say "Pro-Life" and "Roe vs Wade has to go" and "Dem democrats gon'take ma guns!" and he's in regardless of how much of a baboon he is. To add insult ot injury, here (US of A), Democrats are socialists!! -can you friggin get your head around that train wreck?! because I cannot and I live here!
I mean forget privacy and the finer points of civil liberties cause that goes right over their tiny socialist heads. They go on about how those "Conservatives" have gamed the system against them; how their retirement plans are being gouged by financial firms' fees, how they are being gouged by their ISP and cable TV company, why the business up the road can dump just about anything it wants into the ground. It all just flies in one ear, through their vacatious heads and out the other end FFS!!.
Without a doubt, as long as they have their bibles, guns, football on ESPN and F-150, they're happier than the pigs on the McCully farm it dobn't even matter if you gonna have bacon soon. You can do anything you want to them politically as long as you aint black.
If you cannot tell by now the sheer contempt, derision and my disgust for the American electorate then you must be an ecomentalist or a redneck and fuck you and your fat mom.
Welp, now that you alienated 80% of Americans I hope life in exile without works out for ya fella. All the best.
Sounds like an ideal doping model for the future. Single channel distribution margins will be AWESOME.
Don't hate the player, hate the middle men.
Probably part of the 2017 portfolio expansion.
I'm thinking it's like distributed RDM for DynamoDB instance...anyone?
I know I shouldn't care. Us mortals will not live to find out what happened...not even our children's children...but it's the principle damn it.
Stop playing tug-of-war with my galaxy! if you're not careful you'll push/pull/repulse/attract it off the side of the universe!
There is a reason I chose to live at elevation in the colder north of England.
At 50 degrees (Fahrenheit right?!) I should be living in a tropical environment very soon. If sea level rises significantly land value will rise as well.
This simulation model really does sound fantastic...but for full disclosure, was my estate agent involved in the creation of this model?
I mean, not that it does not sound awesome but isnt a computer simulation a thing in which scientists make educated guesses as to parameters and then "reliably predict" an outcome?
Wouldn't it be cool to max-out all the factor multipliers and simulate what would happen? will the 'greenhouse effect' continue to spiral temperate out of control to +200c in less than 3 years?! -you know like when you change nuke yields in scortched Earth and it takes the entire map out with that radiation "effect".
Cool jaw dropping simulations bro.
That is exactly the point in complexity. It cannot know anything automatically. It needs to be configured correctly and as restrictive as possible. SPI may provide you with the insight you need as opposed to just allowing comms on port 80 from one point to another. The question is, what;s being communicated are there odd packet fragments? are there packets out of sequence? is there encrytpion when it's not expected? -these and much much more can all be clues.
While you system may be infected with a virus that then executes a crypto ransomware program the firewall can at least block comms. In such a situation you have a chance to save your system before everything is encrypted into oblivion.
One tool or program is simply insufficient for proper security.
Of course if you are just surfing websites and playing games this is all very over the top and unnecessary. Just the means to reinstall your system from scratch would be easier, simpler and possible faster. -a VM can be a realistic choice for frequent restorations (but not practical with new games)
NThe confusion here is your understand of what I meant. I find that other tools provide better virus protection to an AV.
While they are not advertised as AV products they simply supplement the need for an AV which is useless for 0day attacks - the other tools are superior.
A traditional AV can do very little for me. It can only scan for existing signatures.
Execution prevention can deal with multiple attack vectors. Even a kernel bug that allows priviledge escalation as an attack vector can still sometimes be stopped with execution prevention...because AV software became useless providers switched to a more encompassing security approach.
I find that SPI firewalls, execution prevention, careful permissions for limited users, NoScript and other tools are far superior to an AV.
Liberal OS policies and platforms are not ideal for anything you;d hate to lose. Often you would not know that something malicious is running.
With multiple layers of security on a system that does not change often you can have fine grain control of anything. An odd internet connection attempt, a never heard of before program attempting to run etc -that reasonable easy to catch.
AV vendors have been packaging (shoving) everything included as soon as they realised AVs are done. Unfortunately the desktop class products are often more trouble than they are worth.
That being said, I still advocate the complete security packages from AV vendors for users that know little being logging into facebook. They are clueless and could not manage a complex system a "security suite" type program is their best bet.
I disagree that this defines democracy. A difference of a single vote from millions would insufficient to make groups as large as tens of millions make a complete u-turn on their convictions.
Such a scenario is likely to lead to civil war or more realistically a recount of votes. Assuming the margin is not a clerical error or fraud it would simply be too weak a majority for anything meaningful.
The creation of new laws and generally actions of fundamental impact on the populace would typically require a large majority win.
A voting system for a democratic rule clearly has flaws but democracy in general strives for equality. What sort of equality is there in such a single vote win regarding a strongly held belief or conviction?
Are you suggesting that if 13 people voted to ban religion and 12 voted to keep freedom of belief that this would be acceptable? -my idea of democracy is not the dictatorship of the many.
Voting systems are flawed, democracy is not perfect but we cant make it better. I will never be in favour of altering another person's future in a profound manner based on such a slim margin.
Yes, in certain positions we must plan for eventualities that may be less desirable because of votes, market forces, natural disasters etc all I can hope for is that "things will work out" somehow.
You may however agree that if I presented a business plan to an investor based on hope I'd be laughed out of the room. So as this Brexit white paper did not exist at the time (and will be shallow as it lacked the necessary time to deepen) it's surprising we're all changing, reluctantly or not, based on wishful thinking.
The irony is that if the UK adopts an EU model very similar to Norway (despite vehement denial) it would have made the entire exercise pointless.
This is exactly the problem. No facts.
Businesses that build data centres (such as MS, Amazon, Equinix, Century link, IBM to name a few) have to plan 10-15 years ahead. At least. They cannot plan anything beyond contingencies #BecauseBrexit -accountants, lawyers and compliance specialists have been running around in fucking circles tripping over themselves in case there's a hard Brexit. -FACT.
It's because we do not and did not have facts to begin with that this was a stupid decision.
This is Brexit:
Step 1 - Leave the EU by any and all means (To secure borders, stop unwanted migration, get 350 million a week, develop rural communities, let the little person have his or her last remnants "we're British and better alone" empire hurrah)
Step 2 - ??? (Is it gonna work? can we afford it? IS THERE OR HAVE THERE EVER BEEN A GENUINE FUCKING PLAN??)
Step 3 - SUCCESS!!!
Ooo there's a fact in three easy to understand steps.
Then why did majority leave towns then ask if they will still get EU funding? -if it was SO CLEAR.
I jest. It was clear but some leavers had no clue. They still think 350 million is on its way as soon as Westminster slices the pie...you know, because historically they invested SO MUCH into those rural areas but I digress.
No. Unequivocally and absolutely not. You have no idea how I voted.
If I had 25 kids and 13 wanted to go live in France and 12 did not then we'd not go anywhere.
Most democracies would give need a large majority to force a minority. Say 60% of the votes, sometimes more. A clear and reasonably wide enough majority.
For such a critical decision I think, in fairness, two thirds of voters would need to decided to go one way or another. I could not in good conscious force practically the other half of people my choice or way of life.
But you see the idea of taking 12 unwilling kids to France is FAR BETTER. Why? because France is a known quantity. Leaving the EU is not.
Thank fuck parliament gets to vote if article 50 is triggered AND the final deal once decided. At lease we'll know if "France" is really some dictatorship banana republic.
If the UK chooses what seems to be an inevitable hard Brexit AND repels all EU laws that means that a lot of the standard business practices Microsoft streamlines across Europe will now have to have special considerations.
Depending on how idiotic Brexit becomes all multinational business will be forced to rethink their UK strategy.
The UK is not simply closing shop but it may, via Brexit, stop conducting business in the same way it previously had and in some cases that will be worse than closing shop for all the planning
Here's just one simplistic hypothetical; if the UK decides for instance that your company must now employ at least 60% British people (or limit net migration from EU countries to force you into such a position because you cannot find the workforce locally) you might go out of business or have to lower your profit margin expectations which in turn will make you wish to close down.
The Brexit the UK seems to be heading towards is not the Brexit everyone wanted. It's now almost certainly going out of the single European market and ending free movement.
Like so many you did not think far enough along the path before you called BS and used words like "stupid".
Brexit is an unknown. Some people hope for the best believing it will be for the best but they do not know. 52% have put the other 48% in it for an unknown. -not even knowing the odds.
You wanna know what's stupid? -that 13 people can force 12 others into this mess. That's stupid.
(13 to 12 is the ratio people that wanted to leave against the ones wanted to remain)
WhatsApp is big money...and combined with the fact it's hard to prove that a vulnerability was intentional and thus a "back door" it's hard for Joe Average to tell who's right.
Don't worry about this stuff. Just keep using WhatsApp. It's just as secure as everything else, honest.
Telling people not to use WhatsApp is apparently "endangering people"...as it is a "crucial issue".
Summary; do not use Signal, ChatSecure, OTR or Telegram. Use WhatsApp, it's clearly safer #because_danger (??).
Personally I never thought WhatsApp was secure even after this (maybe backdoor-ed) end to end encryption - Consider many people use WhatsApp? it's the number one target IM. If it ever was secure it won't be so tomorrow.
Why believe the intelligence agencies now? -is this another vector for "leaks" and "very dishonest reporting" + "fake news"?
I'd say more but Trump is doing very well in digging himself into a hole without needed a shove.
As soon as I read the subject I thought this may be a stuxnet-like derivative. -which may turn out to be wrong...
The reality is that the hacking tools available are far scarier than we have yet found proof of if you believe the reactions of some agency leakers about Stuxnet. (how they address the notion as a minor part of a far more sophisticate project)
If it didn't happen already, electricity itself can be used as an attack vector to infiltrate systems. I don't mean shutting the power down I mean using the power connection as a medium to initiate malicious activity.
Assuming power lines are not yet an attack vector that's no consolation as it's practically not needed for most situations. Any core network or infrastructure that is even remotely associated with vulnerable common systems (windows, wifi, humans etc) are susceptible because they are in contact with the weakest link in the security chain. They can introduce code into secure systems in unintentional and unexpected ways.
What cyber warfare has introduced is essentially a global cold war type scenario. Ironically brought about by the same people seeking supremacy as they worked hard to weaken all defences just so they can have an edge.
Maybe I am...time will tell.
In principle I agree, you do not absolutely need a better replacement for a good solution to be left unused....but you often do.
Freedom to do what you want is a basic instinct. Yes a lot of people that do not know better simply accept the status quo but give people credit. A PC often means people do not have to choose between doing one thing or another. Consoles can have better UI, more stability but hte PC gaming is "good enough" with faster load times, and often better graphics and mods. -music production can be done on a PC, is it the best? no but it's "good enough" etc etc. It's the PC that IS the "good enough" platform which is not being replaced by anything else "better".
Innovate or die right? -the PC has been at the leading edge of innovation. We used to have a a math co-processor, an ISA BUS, a 3D accelerator card...the PC of today is far, fare more advanced and has thousands more use cases.
A PC platform today has a choice of multiple operating systems and plenty of hardware configuration options with upgradability in mind. A high spec machine will run the best games better than a console. It has several choices for VR (supposedly the future of all things UI) It virtulisation options to run other OSs as VMs...heck it can even load facebook and MS office you can even do this on a laptop with a touch screen. You can see whatever movies you want on it, stream anything...the list goes on and on.
The PC isn't just "good" it's amazing. Nothing else today comes close to it.
As a platform the PC can be used for far more than most people will ever manage...you can always say "most people will never need that" but the fact we were once hunter gatherers, then farmers eventually industrialist city builders turned facebook users shows that we will eventually need those facilities...and look, we're all using computers today. -so there will always be a niche for a PC, be it mainstream or not.