What the UK isn't doing is getting in your face with real-time analysis of your social infractions. This is sort of heading down the advertising road shown in Minority Report and other movies... they want you to know they know who you are, and what you do, and what you like to do...
Social credit system, anybody remember Black Mirror Season 3, ep 1? (I only remember because it was the first one I watched, and I only watched a handful before giving up on the series, but it was a good one.)
Depends on the market, my experience in the PalmOS apps market was the opposite. When people thought they had to pay, they would, just for the convenience, even when the user's manual explicitly said they didn't have to pay - who's got time to read that thing, right? When the promotional material made it clear up-front that payment was optional, sales dropped by 99%.
My "security" was a nag notice that showed up randomly once per every few hours of play saying something to the effect of "Thank you for supporting..." - as a thank you to the people who paid, and a guilt trip to those who have spent yet another few hours playing the game without paying. Doesn't matter, unless the form says "put your CC# here to continue" people usually don't bother.
I've sold "shareware" like this... with no locks, honor system for payments. Net sales when people know they can get it for free: approximately one unit per year. Net sales when the site it was on misrepresented it making it look like you had to pay in order to get it: approximately 10 units per month. No, I didn't retire off of the income, but it was very instructive that people have the money and are willing to spend the money when they have to, but those same people, given a free alternative, never seem to remember to send even a thank-you note afterwards. I actually got more feedback and positive comments from the people who paid $9 for the app (PalmOS days) than all of the freeloaders.
...problem with "devops" is that far too many people think developers handling ops is a sane choice...
Depends on the devs, depends on the ops. Just because someone has skills in one area does not disqualify them from being able to learn them in another. Check your people, check their attitudes, better to spin up a developer in admin skills with continuity in the organization instead of hiring a "certified high reliability sysop" from the outside and pitching out your existing staff.
Of course, if you run a revolving door shop in the first place, then, yeah, hire what you need and hope for the best. If you can retain talent for 3+ years on average, you'll be better off, even if some of them were hired outside their current job descriptions.
One additional point: the unbreakable encryption genie left the bottle decades ago - millions upon millions know how to "roll their own" even if only a handful will ever bother to do so. Those who feel they need it will either do it for themselves or find someone who can do it for them, using commodity tools.
It's not like explosives where you can track large purchases of certain chemicals, unbreakable encryption uses the same computers, same development tools, and same bits that fly across the internet for everything else - virtually indistinguishable from "legitimate, ordinary traffic."
The argument: "if strong encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will use strong encryption" carries a little water here, but it is far easier for outlaws to manufacture their own strong encryption than it is for them to make a decent handgun.
going for the triple negative, technically I think this means they will not be re-issued, but I'm sure that's not what the Blue footed Boobie (that's what they call Bobbies down under, heard it on the BBC once, must be true) intended.
I think that usually, there's some meds involved _before_ believing that the animals are talking back, at least in normal conversational form.
Now, if, by "talking" you mean that my cat standing at the kitchen door meowing and scratching the window means "get your ass out here and give me food NOW." Then, sure, they do that.
Since it's on GitHub, presumably as source, but even some binaries could be analyzed... That would be quite the feather in a White Hat (or Black one for that matter), exposing the NSA backdoor in a supposedly secure module. Plenty of people out there with too much time on their hands and an interest in exposing things like that.
If virtualization is too risky, maybe you need to consider total isolation: faraday cage and tinfoil hat. Anything you use to transfer files can be compromised and transfer malware.
If you're only concerned about mainstream exploits, then make your own custom file-shoveler solution: browse, etc. on a net exposed computer, download to an external hard drive, then switch the hard drive to the isolated PC and scan with whatever you trust before moving it into the "green zone." Drives aren't smart enough to execute malware, and presumably you're going to scan everything before you bring it in. Of course, one of the things you're going to have to update from the net on a regular basis is your updated virus pattern files from whoever it is that you trust to keep up to date on these things.
If you're really concerned that someone is specifically targeting you... you're screwed, there's no way to beat than other than to pay attention to everything, all the time, and even then the attacker has the upper hand.
That's a nice utopian vision you've got there... I can imagine several other possible outcomes, none of which seem better for the majority of the population.
Granted, the smelting plant itself may have moved from 1000 employees down to 14, but I seriously doubt that those 14 also mine the ore from the ground, operate the transport trucks and trains, manufacture and maintain the vehicles and road/railways, do the mine restoration work when the mine closes, personally deliver the finished product to the next step of the supply chain, etc.
My thoughts exactly, just because an overflowing in-box hinders productivity... who cares about that? An overflowing in-box in much less annoying than a constantly ringing phone.
We thought that CostCo - later Sams - was a "good thing" from about 2000 to about 2008, by 2009 we realized that we were spending $30, no $40, no it's $50 per year now for the "privilege" of shopping at this store-o-giant boxes maybe 5 or 6 times a year, getting stuff we don't necessarily want, at prices that aren't necessarily any better than the convenient grocery store down the street.
I like Amazon, too much in fact, but if they start making Prime the only way to shop there, I'll be buying a lot less from them.
I'm wondering if global thermonuclear war is actually a "natural" predecessor to evolution into a space-faring species? Are we preventing Gaia from seeding the stars by not irradiating the biosphere?
We can stop using fossil fuels like an alcoholic can stop using rum, like the morbidly obese can stop using doughnuts, like an addicted gambler can walk away from a bank of slot machines...
First, you need to cure the addiction to wealth and power in about 2% of the population, then you need to prevent the rest of us from developing it.
I personally believe it should be limited like any other electronic entertainment, like television, video games, and computers. But a law? No.
Gambling, prostitution, (paper) porn, alcohol, and any number of other "strongly motivating" forces in this world have been legally restricted "for the good of the nation." There is a significant segment of the population that simply can't deal with easy access to things that provide them a strong dopamine reward. Do cell phones fit this category? For some, yes.
Do we need a law? No more than we need laws for gambling, prostitution, cocaine, heroin, etc. Probably more mature and effective to provide education, counseling and easy access treatment programs, but that doesn't seem to be the American way.
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What the UK isn't doing is getting in your face with real-time analysis of your social infractions. This is sort of heading down the advertising road shown in Minority Report and other movies... they want you to know they know who you are, and what you do, and what you like to do...
Social credit system, anybody remember Black Mirror Season 3, ep 1? (I only remember because it was the first one I watched, and I only watched a handful before giving up on the series, but it was a good one.)
You are in the amoral majority.
Depends on the market, my experience in the PalmOS apps market was the opposite. When people thought they had to pay, they would, just for the convenience, even when the user's manual explicitly said they didn't have to pay - who's got time to read that thing, right? When the promotional material made it clear up-front that payment was optional, sales dropped by 99%.
My "security" was a nag notice that showed up randomly once per every few hours of play saying something to the effect of "Thank you for supporting..." - as a thank you to the people who paid, and a guilt trip to those who have spent yet another few hours playing the game without paying. Doesn't matter, unless the form says "put your CC# here to continue" people usually don't bother.
I've sold "shareware" like this... with no locks, honor system for payments. Net sales when people know they can get it for free: approximately one unit per year. Net sales when the site it was on misrepresented it making it look like you had to pay in order to get it: approximately 10 units per month. No, I didn't retire off of the income, but it was very instructive that people have the money and are willing to spend the money when they have to, but those same people, given a free alternative, never seem to remember to send even a thank-you note afterwards. I actually got more feedback and positive comments from the people who paid $9 for the app (PalmOS days) than all of the freeloaders.
...problem with "devops" is that far too many people think developers handling ops is a sane choice...
Depends on the devs, depends on the ops. Just because someone has skills in one area does not disqualify them from being able to learn them in another. Check your people, check their attitudes, better to spin up a developer in admin skills with continuity in the organization instead of hiring a "certified high reliability sysop" from the outside and pitching out your existing staff.
Of course, if you run a revolving door shop in the first place, then, yeah, hire what you need and hope for the best. If you can retain talent for 3+ years on average, you'll be better off, even if some of them were hired outside their current job descriptions.
I do wonder what part of the increasing time alone graph is due to old friends, partners, etc. dying off and not being replaced.
One additional point: the unbreakable encryption genie left the bottle decades ago - millions upon millions know how to "roll their own" even if only a handful will ever bother to do so. Those who feel they need it will either do it for themselves or find someone who can do it for them, using commodity tools.
It's not like explosives where you can track large purchases of certain chemicals, unbreakable encryption uses the same computers, same development tools, and same bits that fly across the internet for everything else - virtually indistinguishable from "legitimate, ordinary traffic."
The argument: "if strong encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will use strong encryption" carries a little water here, but it is far easier for outlaws to manufacture their own strong encryption than it is for them to make a decent handgun.
That does not mean they won't not be re-issued
going for the triple negative, technically I think this means they will not be re-issued, but I'm sure that's not what the Blue footed Boobie (that's what they call Bobbies down under, heard it on the BBC once, must be true) intended.
I think that usually, there's some meds involved _before_ believing that the animals are talking back, at least in normal conversational form.
Now, if, by "talking" you mean that my cat standing at the kitchen door meowing and scratching the window means "get your ass out here and give me food NOW." Then, sure, they do that.
Since it's on GitHub, presumably as source, but even some binaries could be analyzed... That would be quite the feather in a White Hat (or Black one for that matter), exposing the NSA backdoor in a supposedly secure module. Plenty of people out there with too much time on their hands and an interest in exposing things like that.
If virtualization is too risky, maybe you need to consider total isolation: faraday cage and tinfoil hat. Anything you use to transfer files can be compromised and transfer malware.
If you're only concerned about mainstream exploits, then make your own custom file-shoveler solution: browse, etc. on a net exposed computer, download to an external hard drive, then switch the hard drive to the isolated PC and scan with whatever you trust before moving it into the "green zone." Drives aren't smart enough to execute malware, and presumably you're going to scan everything before you bring it in. Of course, one of the things you're going to have to update from the net on a regular basis is your updated virus pattern files from whoever it is that you trust to keep up to date on these things.
If you're really concerned that someone is specifically targeting you... you're screwed, there's no way to beat than other than to pay attention to everything, all the time, and even then the attacker has the upper hand.
That's a nice utopian vision you've got there... I can imagine several other possible outcomes, none of which seem better for the majority of the population.
Granted, the smelting plant itself may have moved from 1000 employees down to 14, but I seriously doubt that those 14 also mine the ore from the ground, operate the transport trucks and trains, manufacture and maintain the vehicles and road/railways, do the mine restoration work when the mine closes, personally deliver the finished product to the next step of the supply chain, etc.
My thoughts exactly, just because an overflowing in-box hinders productivity... who cares about that? An overflowing in-box in much less annoying than a constantly ringing phone.
Do you have any concept of the profit margins in fashion?
See Carlin's bit about "loose fitting jeans." It's been going on for decades.
http://lybio.net/george-carlin...
We thought that CostCo - later Sams - was a "good thing" from about 2000 to about 2008, by 2009 we realized that we were spending $30, no $40, no it's $50 per year now for the "privilege" of shopping at this store-o-giant boxes maybe 5 or 6 times a year, getting stuff we don't necessarily want, at prices that aren't necessarily any better than the convenient grocery store down the street.
I like Amazon, too much in fact, but if they start making Prime the only way to shop there, I'll be buying a lot less from them.
All true, but if you don't get "retail therapy" other kinds can be even more costly.
This, from the company that brought you the one button mouse, that you can click three ways.
I'm wondering if global thermonuclear war is actually a "natural" predecessor to evolution into a space-faring species? Are we preventing Gaia from seeding the stars by not irradiating the biosphere?
We can stop using fossil fuels like an alcoholic can stop using rum, like the morbidly obese can stop using doughnuts, like an addicted gambler can walk away from a bank of slot machines...
First, you need to cure the addiction to wealth and power in about 2% of the population, then you need to prevent the rest of us from developing it.
it took about half a billion years for land-dwelling life to produce a sentient species
If your definition of sentience includes industrial scale exploitation of the environment, then, yes.
And that pond scum would have proven itself worthy of global domination.
We have proven ourselves capable of global domination, but are we worthy?
I personally believe it should be limited like any other electronic entertainment, like television, video games, and computers. But a law? No.
Gambling, prostitution, (paper) porn, alcohol, and any number of other "strongly motivating" forces in this world have been legally restricted "for the good of the nation." There is a significant segment of the population that simply can't deal with easy access to things that provide them a strong dopamine reward. Do cell phones fit this category? For some, yes.
Do we need a law? No more than we need laws for gambling, prostitution, cocaine, heroin, etc. Probably more mature and effective to provide education, counseling and easy access treatment programs, but that doesn't seem to be the American way.