"Personal responsibility" is a stupid, Machiavellian term used to wash away guilt or sympathy.
You only get one chance at life. For him, that's *it* now. Making some lecture about how it's his fault personal responsibility rah rah individualism isn't going to get him another chance. So stuff your childish philosophy up your ass and realise that we all do silly things and we all could die at any point from a combination of actions, inactions and bad luck.
So, what you're saying is that government needs to employ more scientists and engineers, because if it were to fire all its competent employees and outsource to the private sector, it would end up looking incompetent, and then that would be used as an excuse to further reduce the size of government?
The brand name is UltraFire, for Stallman's sake! I mean, fuck, at least they're honest with their advertising, but you might as well call a boiler COrelease and a pram CotDeath!
Eh, you could easily write a plugin which doesn't allow any Javascript to access its private data. It might involve platform+browser-specific implementations, but doing things right isn't always easy.
"I don't know all the software, firmware and hardware functionality perfectly, therefore I throw my arms in the air and give up."
Security is often as much about trust as anything. It is important to expose, more than anything else, something which could suggest a breach of trust.
His assertion that MEGA can get your key is what is a bit more surprising. But if you read it, he's simply saying it's conceptually possible that MEGA could use a script on their site to grab your key and send it to them.
And you think this isn't serious? Every vulnerability is "conceptually possible" until it's implemented. NSA/FBI/local bobby want to see what you've been using Mega for? Slip in a one time bit of Javascript to a page delivered by Mega, and it's all theirs for the reading.
Perhaps you don't even understand what Mega has been promising up to now.
but most people realize that the guy is a self-aggrandizing scam artist and charlatan
This. The man is just the flip side of the copyright cartel, and they're both about the same thing: getting rich by leeching off the hard work and creativity of others.
Cue a hundred Defenders of the Faith claiming that this is well-engineered incompetence, not malice, and that a hole as wide as Uranus is actually not serious.
The 23rd curse of the Libertarian is to reduce everything to some meaningless effiiciency calculation which ignores any inconvenient factors. It's the kind of thing you do as a dorky 15 year old (or college freshman if you're remedial), but mostttttt people grow out of by college.
I am not sure. It's like saying, "I lack intelligence - how do I get a good job?" The answer is that you are less likely to, unless you can exploit excellent financial or social capital to make up for it. If you're exceptional at preliminary entrance tests for any job, you'll probably have notice taken of you, for example. Or write software which is really *clever*, even if you have no idea what would actually be *popular*.
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Lots of people act dumb and don't die.
"Personal responsibility" is a stupid, Machiavellian term used to wash away guilt or sympathy.
You only get one chance at life. For him, that's *it* now. Making some lecture about how it's his fault personal responsibility rah rah individualism isn't going to get him another chance. So stuff your childish philosophy up your ass and realise that we all do silly things and we all could die at any point from a combination of actions, inactions and bad luck.
They're not "incorrectly" using an "SI prefix" - they're overloading the meaning of a prefix.
Sometimes things have more than one meaning. Welcome to human communication!
I'm not sure that housing humans in a 19th century workhouse is "ingenuity".
Customers have large untapped desires...
The trick is to be able to see these untapped reserves and map a path towards it.
I miss geeks. Now everyone's an MBA.
So, what you're saying is that government needs to employ more scientists and engineers, because if it were to fire all its competent employees and outsource to the private sector, it would end up looking incompetent, and then that would be used as an excuse to further reduce the size of government?
extremely dangerous
The brand name is UltraFire, for Stallman's sake! I mean, fuck, at least they're honest with their advertising, but you might as well call a boiler COrelease and a pram CotDeath!
There is only one way to have a significant say in what any company does: owning it.
To think you have any influence in a company which might show you the door in 10 minutes is just part of the silly modern promise of worker freedom.
If you want business freedom, own your own company, or join a co-operative.
Do you have any idea what you are actually talking about?
One thing that we can be sure of is that I know how to use the subjunctive mood, while you've probably not even heard of it.
Eh, you could easily write a plugin which doesn't allow any Javascript to access its private data. It might involve platform+browser-specific implementations, but doing things right isn't always easy.
By using a proper browser plugin rather than a crappy Javascript implementation, perhaps?
Yes, it is all about trust: companies ask you to trust them, then their reputation is built or broken. Evidence for either is welcome.
"I don't know all the software, firmware and hardware functionality perfectly, therefore I throw my arms in the air and give up."
Security is often as much about trust as anything. It is important to expose, more than anything else, something which could suggest a breach of trust.
His assertion that MEGA can get your key is what is a bit more surprising. But if you read it, he's simply saying it's conceptually possible that MEGA could use a script on their site to grab your key and send it to them.
And you think this isn't serious? Every vulnerability is "conceptually possible" until it's implemented. NSA/FBI/local bobby want to see what you've been using Mega for? Slip in a one time bit of Javascript to a page delivered by Mega, and it's all theirs for the reading.
Perhaps you don't even understand what Mega has been promising up to now.
Only if you define "someone with access to my computer" to include "anyone who runs a web server I visit".
but most people realize that the guy is a self-aggrandizing scam artist and charlatan
This. The man is just the flip side of the copyright cartel, and they're both about the same thing: getting rich by leeching off the hard work and creativity of others.
Cue a hundred Defenders of the Faith claiming that this is well-engineered incompetence, not malice, and that a hole as wide as Uranus is actually not serious.
Lots of clever people also do irrelevant (and sometimes outright dumb) things.
...on the masturbation?
Your lactophilia is getting in the way of your point. Or two points, in your case. Please rephrase.
The 23rd curse of the Libertarian is to reduce everything to some meaningless effiiciency calculation which ignores any inconvenient factors. It's the kind of thing you do as a dorky 15 year old (or college freshman if you're remedial), but mostttttt people grow out of by college.
Psychology 101: never reward someone for not doing bad; only for doing good.
In this case, all he did was refuse to be so grossly overpaid.
In before 1000 Libertarians explaining that nobody works unless they're paid money, because nothing is important except accumulation of material tat.
I am not sure. It's like saying, "I lack intelligence - how do I get a good job?" The answer is that you are less likely to, unless you can exploit excellent financial or social capital to make up for it. If you're exceptional at preliminary entrance tests for any job, you'll probably have notice taken of you, for example. Or write software which is really *clever*, even if you have no idea what would actually be *popular*.
Ancient Greek, then post-Enlightenment. Rome had a few relevant ingredients.
Ball-throwers usually have to be smart too: they just get their tuition paid.
You got me on the vi users, though.
Explain to me how the free market would have solved this problem.
I'm honestly curious - and want to be amused.
Studied in England.
In a small prep school: quite good, but awful mathematics teacher (shame as that was what I liked).
In a £30k/year (current) moderately well-known private school: meh.
Final year in a state school: maths teacher really on the ball.
tl;dr No type of school will guarantee you anything, except maybe nicer meals and smaller class sizes. Good and bad teachers are everywhere.