Feeling in their own skin what they are doing to others (via their "representatives") is a good first step. That antivirus could not detect that kind of things because government orders adds a bit of spice. But anyway, they won't know how widespread this will become, whoever could warn them will be considered an enemy of the state, and prosecuted no matter where in the world they are.
That was just the payload, that with the appropiate sources could vary. Bricking your laptop could be the less harmful thing it could do, you will still be free and have money in the bank to buy another.
Actions like this? Or like this? There are a lot of kinds of monitoring, some more intrusive than others, but the abuse of it is always ready to happen.
If only the watchers are the only that watches themselves (or that countrol what and who does it) then is a bad answer for that question. When everyone can see what the "watchers" (police, politicians, etc) do, in real time, with no editing, clipping, etc, then things will get a bit fair. But that won't happen soon.
Would be a bad thing? If MS stop forcing manufacturers to include windows with most things with a keyboard, and they start pushing i.e. something functional enough but free like i.e. Ubuntu and Libreoffice, and maybe more software (and drivers) vendors make linux version of their products, Microsoft won't be making as much profit are doing now, but still will be able to sell a lot. Will be enough for them to survive? Will be up to them to adapt to the new reality.
Most is in the web now, the desktop if well keeps being relevant, what runs on it not that much.If they focus in the cloud, enterprise software, and services, they should survive.
Making the competition paying them 1b dollars, or limit their distribution, over patents should count. And trolling with patents won't make you a patent troll, after all?
Apple will get into deep waters if this happens to them at the same time as being sued for price fixing ebooks. This kind of abuses should be targetted by the law, after all.
In normal mass media you can see who you have behind, or at least have a hint, like i.e. Fox News or CNN, that could have ties with government put things in their light. In social media you get "normal" people, or at least what you think that they are, and naturally don't think in conspiration, if a lot of people agree in something, your gregary instinct will make you follow their point of view. And you see what "expresive" people do, what they say or what they vote so you see it. They give relevance to things, with their likes, +1, slashdot moderation, etc. Have enough coordinated fake profiles and you can drive public opinion, at least in zones where a particular social network is prevalent.
That means every society. Mass media is tied to mass manipulation too. No country is safe from it, sometimes is their government that does it, sometimes the private sector (from advertising agencies to big corporations), and sometimes foreign government agencies. Why waste soldiers if you can make people from the target country do the dirty work for you? Look what keeps happening in most middle east countries for a practical example.
And if you think the US people is safe from that kind of manipulation, or that only follow what is good for them, remember Boston.
That journalists find and publish it is something that went right. The worst that could happen (or is happening actually) is that noone makes public their findings, or they are forbidden/punished by law if they try to see or warn if there any "weak" point. And of course, the people behind the election, both politicians and company.
You got it wrong. IPv4 is the one doomed because is used far beyond the scale it was meant for. Probably big part of the blame should go to the industry behind, that still now is making hardware that only supports ipv4, or doing mass installations using that kind of hardware (afaik Uruguay is doing a countrywide fiber optic installation, and what is being installed in every home right now don't support ipv6)
If they are for a space station, then should be named replicators (even if they will be version 0.01). You can't build the right future without using the appropiate names for things.
I suppose i should had said "kindle for desktop and kindle for web". The web reader works well in linux browsers (or any device with a capable enough web browser), and sync with all the others too.
The "base" unit, i.e. the meter, is arbitrary. What is not arbitrary are the proportions between different escales on the same dimension. Just power of ten converts between different ways to measure lenght, as opposed as the extra arbitrary requirements that are conversion between inches, feets, miles, yards, and so on. And it scales to other dimensions too, like volume (1 lt=a cube of 10 cubic cm), weight (1kg=the weight 1 lt of water at 0C, etc), and more, not extra arbitraty measures like gallon, pint, acres, ounces or pounds. Take 1 arbitraty unit, and some very universal element (water) and you have enough to know how much is a lot of units. But for imperials most of those are arbitrary (and by now, the "right" definition of most of them is be done relative to metric).
In the other hand, taking your ebook reader is a bit more comfortable that carrying a heavy book (or several), no need connection, and could pass a month between charges.
Provides just more than that. Syncs reading all across tablets, e-readers, cellphones, and desktops. You can even put your own (or purchased elsewhere), DRM free book, send to kindle, and read in whatever device you have, in all of them if you want. That is a killer feature in a world where you can use a lot of different device, for different environments, to access your books. A service like that is needed, from Amazon or other players, but what matter is the broad reach across devices.
That books are DRM free is somewhat orthogonal with that. You must own what you purchase, DRM, in the other hand, is turning it into renting in practical terms.
Scientific units are basically metric, those are the intellible units, not the arbitrary cultural ones that are used just for 3 or 4 countries in all the world. And putting the distance in lunar distances (or, maybe, Earth diameters that are around 12000km) puts in the right perspective how far they will be and how little we should worry about them, at least this pass (should you worry about a collision if a grain of sand passes 1km away from you at the closest point?)
The main reason is that laws will keep moving to outlaw all companies behind it at all cost. The ones that control the law don't want anything looking like a currency outside their control.
I would put good sliding keyboard as the 5th pillar. Considering getting back to the N900 just because the real good keyboard it had. Hope Jolla will have a keyboard other half for their upcoming phone.
The problem must be solved as soon as possible, but as could take a bit of time to find the exact problem and test the solution, better to give a few days. Anyway, once the cause is clear, warning users (without disclosing the extent of the problem at the point of making more people exploiting it) so they can take measures to mitigate it should be prioritary. And putting an standard time limit of a week before full disclosure avoid companies to sit on vulnerabilities without doing anything about them for months, or worse, suing under DMCA or similar whoever try to warn about the problem.
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Feeling in their own skin what they are doing to others (via their "representatives") is a good first step. That antivirus could not detect that kind of things because government orders adds a bit of spice. But anyway, they won't know how widespread this will become, whoever could warn them will be considered an enemy of the state, and prosecuted no matter where in the world they are.
That was just the payload, that with the appropiate sources could vary. Bricking your laptop could be the less harmful thing it could do, you will still be free and have money in the bank to buy another.
Actions like this? Or like this? There are a lot of kinds of monitoring, some more intrusive than others, but the abuse of it is always ready to happen.
If only the watchers are the only that watches themselves (or that countrol what and who does it) then is a bad answer for that question. When everyone can see what the "watchers" (police, politicians, etc) do, in real time, with no editing, clipping, etc, then things will get a bit fair. But that won't happen soon.
Asl the government, that is sentencing to death the last one that showed that they had something to hide.
Would be a bad thing? If MS stop forcing manufacturers to include windows with most things with a keyboard, and they start pushing i.e. something functional enough but free like i.e. Ubuntu and Libreoffice, and maybe more software (and drivers) vendors make linux version of their products, Microsoft won't be making as much profit are doing now, but still will be able to sell a lot. Will be enough for them to survive? Will be up to them to adapt to the new reality.
Most is in the web now, the desktop if well keeps being relevant, what runs on it not that much.If they focus in the cloud, enterprise software, and services, they should survive.
Making the competition paying them 1b dollars, or limit their distribution, over patents should count. And trolling with patents won't make you a patent troll, after all?
Apple will get into deep waters if this happens to them at the same time as being sued for price fixing ebooks. This kind of abuses should be targetted by the law, after all.
Taxpayers don't make the laws. But the ones that get profit from those patents do. Is not what they will have to expend, but what they stop to win.
Survivorship bias is around to make very probable you starve to death or lose most of your money as they almost did.
In normal mass media you can see who you have behind, or at least have a hint, like i.e. Fox News or CNN, that could have ties with government put things in their light. In social media you get "normal" people, or at least what you think that they are, and naturally don't think in conspiration, if a lot of people agree in something, your gregary instinct will make you follow their point of view. And you see what "expresive" people do, what they say or what they vote so you see it. They give relevance to things, with their likes, +1, slashdot moderation, etc. Have enough coordinated fake profiles and you can drive public opinion, at least in zones where a particular social network is prevalent.
That means every society. Mass media is tied to mass manipulation too. No country is safe from it, sometimes is their government that does it, sometimes the private sector (from advertising agencies to big corporations), and sometimes foreign government agencies. Why waste soldiers if you can make people from the target country do the dirty work for you? Look what keeps happening in most middle east countries for a practical example.
And if you think the US people is safe from that kind of manipulation, or that only follow what is good for them, remember Boston.
That journalists find and publish it is something that went right. The worst that could happen (or is happening actually) is that noone makes public their findings, or they are forbidden/punished by law if they try to see or warn if there any "weak" point. And of course, the people behind the election, both politicians and company.
You got it wrong. IPv4 is the one doomed because is used far beyond the scale it was meant for. Probably big part of the blame should go to the industry behind, that still now is making hardware that only supports ipv4, or doing mass installations using that kind of hardware (afaik Uruguay is doing a countrywide fiber optic installation, and what is being installed in every home right now don't support ipv6)
If they are for a space station, then should be named replicators (even if they will be version 0.01). You can't build the right future without using the appropiate names for things.
I suppose i should had said "kindle for desktop and kindle for web". The web reader works well in linux browsers (or any device with a capable enough web browser), and sync with all the others too.
The "base" unit, i.e. the meter, is arbitrary. What is not arbitrary are the proportions between different escales on the same dimension. Just power of ten converts between different ways to measure lenght, as opposed as the extra arbitrary requirements that are conversion between inches, feets, miles, yards, and so on. And it scales to other dimensions too, like volume (1 lt=a cube of 10 cubic cm), weight (1kg=the weight 1 lt of water at 0C, etc), and more, not extra arbitraty measures like gallon, pint, acres, ounces or pounds. Take 1 arbitraty unit, and some very universal element (water) and you have enough to know how much is a lot of units. But for imperials most of those are arbitrary (and by now, the "right" definition of most of them is be done relative to metric).
In the other hand, taking your ebook reader is a bit more comfortable that carrying a heavy book (or several), no need connection, and could pass a month between charges.
Provides just more than that. Syncs reading all across tablets, e-readers, cellphones, and desktops. You can even put your own (or purchased elsewhere), DRM free book, send to kindle, and read in whatever device you have, in all of them if you want. That is a killer feature in a world where you can use a lot of different device, for different environments, to access your books. A service like that is needed, from Amazon or other players, but what matter is the broad reach across devices.
That books are DRM free is somewhat orthogonal with that. You must own what you purchase, DRM, in the other hand, is turning it into renting in practical terms.
Scientific units are basically metric, those are the intellible units, not the arbitrary cultural ones that are used just for 3 or 4 countries in all the world. And putting the distance in lunar distances (or, maybe, Earth diameters that are around 12000km) puts in the right perspective how far they will be and how little we should worry about them, at least this pass (should you worry about a collision if a grain of sand passes 1km away from you at the closest point?)
The main reason is that laws will keep moving to outlaw all companies behind it at all cost. The ones that control the law don't want anything looking like a currency outside their control.
I would put good sliding keyboard as the 5th pillar. Considering getting back to the N900 just because the real good keyboard it had. Hope Jolla will have a keyboard other half for their upcoming phone.
people do. So, who will be put in jail if some of those droids kill someone? Or this is just a way to legalize kiliing with impunity?
Wonder how much people will think that it is a necesary security measure until someone that they care about gets killed.
The problem must be solved as soon as possible, but as could take a bit of time to find the exact problem and test the solution, better to give a few days. Anyway, once the cause is clear, warning users (without disclosing the extent of the problem at the point of making more people exploiting it) so they can take measures to mitigate it should be prioritary. And putting an standard time limit of a week before full disclosure avoid companies to sit on vulnerabilities without doing anything about them for months, or worse, suing under DMCA or similar whoever try to warn about the problem.
The best way to use Windows without windows is not to use Windows.