Since Equifax has shown to be very incapable (of exactly the things they should be capable of), what does this say about all other companies in this business?
To illustrate, I am an ocean modeller (or climate modeller). Climate models are typically large and complex. But most of the time I am very aware of what problem I want to solve. Of course, there is a whole lot more in the code than the basic equations that you may and should have written down at some time before actually implementing your model, but you work on a small part of the code, a part that you understand thoroughly. Sometimes numerical and system design schemes go above my head, but luckily there is support for that at my institute. But you should know how the variables and code structures you work on apply to the real world (or the thing that you intend to describe).
Yes, more or less, but, from my experience in (open access) publishing
- 2000 $ is a bit much. Typically I publish a paper for around 1000 $. - One must be aware that paying a lot does not mean quality from the publisher: I once published in an Elsevier journal and they managed to completely mess up the typesetting (it was quite clearly the result of underpaid Indians who typed over the TeX source)! I payed 3500 $ for this.
Exactly, which is why knowledgeable users of Bitcoin do not claim anonymity as a feature of Bitcoin. Moreover, Bitcoin itself cannot claim anonymity, it simply has not the property of being anonymous. A red car has the property of being red; it cannot claim that it is blue or red.
Don't play this game. You are the one who will get played. They say docx is Office Open XML (OOXML), an open format (an ISO standard indeed, but let us set aside how that came about), but it isn't. Usually it isn't. You are thinking you are receiving or saving a publically documented format but it is actually that plus proprietary extensions such that you cannot interact normally with the rest of the world.
However, the way to achieve that is by lobbying governments to make it a requirement that all research they fund is published in open access journals (which is now largely the case).
It is not that simple (and, at least in my field of Earth sciences, open access is not very common).
In my opinion, sharing scientific papers without permission is civil disobedience (and is okay).
Now I have a PC with a bios that tries to do everything, starting a bootloader that tries to do everything, running a desktop manager that tries to do everything to launch a browser that tries to do everything, to visit a site that tries to do everything. This feels familiar. For all the meddling between the BIOS and web sites, I think that OpenBSD may solve this. Everything in OpenBSD is doing what it is supposed to do; or at least this is my experience, and it is in line with their principles.
The authors of the paper don't mention Moore's law. It is one individual who compares this with Moore's law: a journalist. This is just usual bad journalism, combined with typical jumping to conclusions by Slashdotters who never seem to read the paper referred to. Come on, be happy that at least some articles here refer to peer reviewed papers that are often of a much higher quality than most other material here, so why not read it!
all of them had little in the way of protection against reverse-engineering or the insertion of malware into apps.
Finding out the underlying working or source code of an application is not the actual security problem; provided of course that the program is audited, or, preferably, free software.
I can recommend the amusing and educational SF book Mr. Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow, where the main character experiences the effects of a reduced speed of light and an increased Planck's constant.
I agree. With the goal of feeding the global human population in the future (as stated in the article) we need to become much more efficient. Automation will happen, but its importance is very small compared to what we gain from stopping or reducing meat consumption.
I grew up on a dairy farm, I'm a vegetarian and a climatologist.
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upsetting many consumers who still rely heavily on wired headphones
Then don't buy it.
Coding is an experts-only game and it will remain that.
No, there is sadly a lot of bad software written, which suggests that coding is not an experts-only game (anymore).
Don't confuse idealism with reality.
Maybe, but now you get both advertising and mining.
corporate death penalty
I am sick of this term. It pretends that it is as controversial as killing people.
From Equifax' website:
Equifax is ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified by a reputable independent third party.
It is difficult to imagine now that ISO/IEC 27001 (information security management) means anything.
Who is this "reputable independent third party"?
Equifax is the only company deemed capable ...
Since Equifax has shown to be very incapable (of exactly the things they should be capable of), what does this say about all other companies in this business?
Exactly.
To illustrate, I am an ocean modeller (or climate modeller). Climate models are typically large and complex. But most of the time I am very aware of what problem I want to solve. Of course, there is a whole lot more in the code than the basic equations that you may and should have written down at some time before actually implementing your model, but you work on a small part of the code, a part that you understand thoroughly. Sometimes numerical and system design schemes go above my head, but luckily there is support for that at my institute. But you should know how the variables and code structures you work on apply to the real world (or the thing that you intend to describe).
700 mi/h = 1127 km/h
Yes, more or less, but, from my experience in (open access) publishing
- 2000 $ is a bit much. Typically I publish a paper for around 1000 $.
- One must be aware that paying a lot does not mean quality from the publisher: I once published in an Elsevier journal and they managed to completely mess up the typesetting (it was quite clearly the result of underpaid Indians who typed over the TeX source)! I payed 3500 $ for this.
Then I signed thecostofknowledge.com .
People are stupid.
Furthermore, Sarahah is not free software (which is claimed in the abstract).
Exactly, which is why knowledgeable users of Bitcoin do not claim anonymity as a feature of Bitcoin. Moreover, Bitcoin itself cannot claim anonymity, it simply has not the property of being anonymous. A red car has the property of being red; it cannot claim that it is blue or red.
Android is Linux. They want to put GNU/Linux on the smart phone. This is not new either. I find it quite uninteresting.
Don't play this game. You are the one who will get played. They say docx is Office Open XML (OOXML), an open format (an ISO standard indeed, but let us set aside how that came about), but it isn't. Usually it isn't. You are thinking you are receiving or saving a publically documented format but it is actually that plus proprietary extensions such that you cannot interact normally with the rest of the world.
This is great! Free the information!
However, the way to achieve that is by lobbying governments to make it a requirement that all research they fund is published in open access journals (which is now largely the case).
It is not that simple (and, at least in my field of Earth sciences, open access is not very common).
In my opinion, sharing scientific papers without permission is civil disobedience (and is okay).
This is terrible. Only free software should be used at schools.
Now I have a PC with a bios that tries to do everything, starting a bootloader that tries to do everything, running a desktop manager that tries to do everything to launch a browser that tries to do everything, to visit a site that tries to do everything.
This feels familiar. For all the meddling between the BIOS and web sites, I think that OpenBSD may solve this. Everything in OpenBSD is doing what it is supposed to do; or at least this is my experience, and it is in line with their principles.
Yes, some ATMs do run Windows. A very bad example: Around 2005 I saw an ATM (Rabobank) with an error revealing that it ran Windows 98.
What is so bad about this paper? Did you read it?
The authors of the paper don't mention Moore's law. It is one individual who compares this with Moore's law: a journalist. This is just usual bad journalism, combined with typical jumping to conclusions by Slashdotters who never seem to read the paper referred to. Come on, be happy that at least some articles here refer to peer reviewed papers that are often of a much higher quality than most other material here, so why not read it!
all of them had little in the way of protection against reverse-engineering or the insertion of malware into apps.
Finding out the underlying working or source code of an application is not the actual security problem; provided of course that the program is audited, or, preferably, free software.
Our personality may be shaped by how our brain works, [...]
Of course it is! By what else would it be "shaped"?
Except of course if you are very ugly, then you have a "good personality" because of that!
I can recommend the amusing and educational SF book Mr. Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow, where the main character experiences the effects of a reduced speed of light and an increased Planck's constant.
I agree. With the goal of feeding the global human population in the future (as stated in the article) we need to become much more efficient. Automation will happen, but its importance is very small compared to what we gain from stopping or reducing meat consumption.
I grew up on a dairy farm, I'm a vegetarian and a climatologist.
Huh? I still believe that the TPP and the like are bad ideas. Generally the posts here about TPP are still quite negative.
I'm sure that Hitler had some insightful remarks. Doesn't imply I disagree with it.