So... like a big net? Or... if they are all propeller based, why not some sticky nasty gunk that you can spray all over them? Block the optics, add mass and hopefully cook the motors. Or better yet...a big sticky net.
I don't know man... I'm having the opposite feeling about "Your idea is crap". Sometimes your idea IS crap, and it should be totally acceptable for someone to tell you that if they can back up why your idea is crap. I'd put a whole lot more effort into making people less butthurtable and less into worrying about everyone's butthurtiness.
If you are a poor, chances are you have a whole lot more in common with a poor person of different gender/skin/location than you do with a rich person that looks just like you. You'll probably think like, act like and relate to them. If you have a rainbow of workers coming from all corners of the earth and they all were raised more or less upper middle class and went to school to train for that specific job, guess what, you have diversity for shit. Everyone in that group is more or less going to be conditioned to think the same way, which doesn't work so well if you are doing actual problem solving. If you want some diversity in programming, then quit making it sound like some club with a secret language and decoder ring. You can do programming without liking programmers.
In light of the recent hacks, don't these guys realize that backdoors aren't just for who they were made for?
Who gets to actually encrypt their communications then - the military, banks, infrastructure? What about just general big business.. how about politicians? Basically the rest of us peasants should just walk around naked on the internet?
Because they were essentially a hobbyist store. That worked for them in the 80s.
Then they tried to be an all around electronics store, which turned off some hobbyists - and some of them, at least where grew up, started their own small hobby stores. Then they tried to be a cell phone place, which felt a lot like fail. They did have some random cool stuff that you couldn't find elsewhere, but those days are gone, both in that they don't have neat gadgets and that you'd find a better price online.
Now with the internet, you don't need to deal with a hobby store. Maybe you find a good specialty one run by a sage that knows everything about something, but if you just needs parts and directions you can find what you need on the internet. If they would have stuck with being really good to hobbyists and used the internet properly maybe they'd be alright. I spent entirely too much money on weird hobby stuff on Amazon. If Radioshack had built up their online presence and maybe put together some kind of forum for making stuff that money would have gone to them.
Exactly. i don't think you need to follow their share price to figure out that a store that sells random crap and never seems to have anyone working there might not be doing so well. The only time I would go to RadioShack was to buy a few bucks worth of electrical components, overpriced garbage electrical components - which I just get from Amazon now. They should take whatever money they have and keep a few stores preserved in time. Lock the doors and only let people in on Halloween.
The idea of teaching proper internet practices is a great idea. Teach people how to recognize phishing e-mails/sites and the like. Teach people how to use account names and password properly. Teach people the scams.
but... teaching TOR at this point seems silly. It's been compromised. It's a bad lesson.
Maybe "textbooks" are an inferior way to learn? What's the point of having students just read stuff of a tablet - the learning should be interactive. This is what current textbook makers are worried about, and the ones that survive will embrace it. Even, what... 10 years ago we had a fantastic formal logic textbook that came with a CD that you more or less used for everything. It had all the lessons, tests, problems and even an online companion to submit your work. If they had something in the kin of codeacademy for physics/chemistry/math/grammer I think that would be a no brainer - I don't know this would work with history or heavy memorization disciplines.
I'd at least like to have the option as a customer on choosing if I want to pay for a licensed service or not. Honestly, if I needed a cab in south africa I would want the thing practically coated in certifications and licenses, but for locals I don't see why they should have the option of an unlicensed ride sharing service. There's a lot of professions that are illegal to practice without a license that are silly if there is some requirement to disclose that you are unlicensed - like say barbers.
Also FYI - It's a horrible movie. it's mostly dialogue between two characters you are a little curious about but really don't care for one way or another.
Google glass isn't supposed to really be a consumer device anytime in the near future. They are pricing it in that range, and making it available to the public so that outside forces do the innovating. Some hobbyist will have some great that idea that gets a bunch of units sold into one industry, maybe something for surgeons/welders/touring companies/pilots... who knows. Anywhere where either our eyes or access to information could be enhanced in a significant way.
I'd put a significant amount of weight on management. A lot of the tech boom failures were because of shortsightedness and piss poor management. IP isn't the same as actual property. If you have physical assets it's pretty hard for everything you have to instantly be worthless, not so much with ideas. Ideas require continuous maintenance, expensive maintenance. If you don't do that maintenance and you are essentially an IP based company then you are letting your foundation rot.
Look at Facebook. If they would have taken their paycheck and quit innovating the service would be dead by now, but they actually keep reinvesting into "improving" the service.
I don't really follow twitter, but I don't see it lasting for all that long without some serious changes. Right now it's got inertia because of publicity, but it's only a trending startup away from being abandoned. (Sidenote- I like the idea of twitter, I think it's the first babystep to a hivemind.)
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So... like a big net? Or... if they are all propeller based, why not some sticky nasty gunk that you can spray all over them? Block the optics, add mass and hopefully cook the motors. Or better yet...a big sticky net.
I don't know man... I'm having the opposite feeling about "Your idea is crap". Sometimes your idea IS crap, and it should be totally acceptable for someone to tell you that if they can back up why your idea is crap. I'd put a whole lot more effort into making people less butthurtable and less into worrying about everyone's butthurtiness.
If you are a poor, chances are you have a whole lot more in common with a poor person of different gender/skin/location than you do with a rich person that looks just like you. You'll probably think like, act like and relate to them. If you have a rainbow of workers coming from all corners of the earth and they all were raised more or less upper middle class and went to school to train for that specific job, guess what, you have diversity for shit. Everyone in that group is more or less going to be conditioned to think the same way, which doesn't work so well if you are doing actual problem solving. If you want some diversity in programming, then quit making it sound like some club with a secret language and decoder ring. You can do programming without liking programmers.
So we should expect no knock raids if we close our blinds?
In light of the recent hacks, don't these guys realize that backdoors aren't just for who they were made for? Who gets to actually encrypt their communications then - the military, banks, infrastructure? What about just general big business.. how about politicians? Basically the rest of us peasants should just walk around naked on the internet?
That's not the conversation. The market caters towards the high end cards, and if you have software that doesn't support them then that's a problem.
So you can play a 7 year old game on a 4 year old card? That's not saying much.
Informative or Insightful just aren't sufficient. There needs to be a "Spot On" modpoint for comments like this.
There's binders full of unemployed female programmers. BINDERS OF THEM
Because they were essentially a hobbyist store. That worked for them in the 80s. Then they tried to be an all around electronics store, which turned off some hobbyists - and some of them, at least where grew up, started their own small hobby stores. Then they tried to be a cell phone place, which felt a lot like fail. They did have some random cool stuff that you couldn't find elsewhere, but those days are gone, both in that they don't have neat gadgets and that you'd find a better price online. Now with the internet, you don't need to deal with a hobby store. Maybe you find a good specialty one run by a sage that knows everything about something, but if you just needs parts and directions you can find what you need on the internet. If they would have stuck with being really good to hobbyists and used the internet properly maybe they'd be alright. I spent entirely too much money on weird hobby stuff on Amazon. If Radioshack had built up their online presence and maybe put together some kind of forum for making stuff that money would have gone to them.
Exactly. i don't think you need to follow their share price to figure out that a store that sells random crap and never seems to have anyone working there might not be doing so well. The only time I would go to RadioShack was to buy a few bucks worth of electrical components, overpriced garbage electrical components - which I just get from Amazon now. They should take whatever money they have and keep a few stores preserved in time. Lock the doors and only let people in on Halloween.
Disabling Flash makes this site a whole lot better.
The idea of teaching proper internet practices is a great idea. Teach people how to recognize phishing e-mails/sites and the like. Teach people how to use account names and password properly. Teach people the scams. but... teaching TOR at this point seems silly. It's been compromised. It's a bad lesson.
You used the word "harm", which I read as ham. You put ham in my head. Prepare to die.
Maybe "textbooks" are an inferior way to learn? What's the point of having students just read stuff of a tablet - the learning should be interactive. This is what current textbook makers are worried about, and the ones that survive will embrace it. Even, what... 10 years ago we had a fantastic formal logic textbook that came with a CD that you more or less used for everything. It had all the lessons, tests, problems and even an online companion to submit your work. If they had something in the kin of codeacademy for physics/chemistry/math/grammer I think that would be a no brainer - I don't know this would work with history or heavy memorization disciplines.
NUH UH!
I'd at least like to have the option as a customer on choosing if I want to pay for a licensed service or not. Honestly, if I needed a cab in south africa I would want the thing practically coated in certifications and licenses, but for locals I don't see why they should have the option of an unlicensed ride sharing service. There's a lot of professions that are illegal to practice without a license that are silly if there is some requirement to disclose that you are unlicensed - like say barbers.
Also FYI - It's a horrible movie. it's mostly dialogue between two characters you are a little curious about but really don't care for one way or another.
Klaatu barada nikto?
Yo mama's so fat her wave function collapses into multiple eigenstates.
Thank you Canadian fact bot!
Google glass isn't supposed to really be a consumer device anytime in the near future. They are pricing it in that range, and making it available to the public so that outside forces do the innovating. Some hobbyist will have some great that idea that gets a bunch of units sold into one industry, maybe something for surgeons/welders/touring companies/pilots... who knows. Anywhere where either our eyes or access to information could be enhanced in a significant way.
Are these hacks happening more often or is it a mixture of actually catching the breaches now and more reporting on the breaches?
I'd put a significant amount of weight on management. A lot of the tech boom failures were because of shortsightedness and piss poor management. IP isn't the same as actual property. If you have physical assets it's pretty hard for everything you have to instantly be worthless, not so much with ideas. Ideas require continuous maintenance, expensive maintenance. If you don't do that maintenance and you are essentially an IP based company then you are letting your foundation rot. Look at Facebook. If they would have taken their paycheck and quit innovating the service would be dead by now, but they actually keep reinvesting into "improving" the service. I don't really follow twitter, but I don't see it lasting for all that long without some serious changes. Right now it's got inertia because of publicity, but it's only a trending startup away from being abandoned. (Sidenote- I like the idea of twitter, I think it's the first babystep to a hivemind.)
Sounds like an awesome way to get caught and shutdown. Keep at it boys.