There are a few things that should be taken into account, specially regarding other, more physical medicine fields like the placebo and nocebo effects that could be triggered by the treatment or diagnosis, and the tendency on overmedicating that is having medicine now. Probably in overall is doing more damage than good right now as it is being used. As any tool, it should not be misused, only used where really is needed.
I learnt newer technologies more leaving companies than staying in them. Usually inertia make it hard to try new things, they takes time and risks, so the dynamic forces focusing in internal business knowledge and deeping down in the technology in use there (that may be new for you at the start, but with time it becomes old). Is not so much workers fault but company culture dynamics, is hard to learn something new while keep doing all day things as usual to keep all running, specially if that new thing implies changes on how you see things or approach problems.
To defeat inertia, usually company promoted inertia, is needed effort, maybe for those change resistant people to free them for a time of keeping all running and focusing just on learning something new, at their own rate. That time investment could be rewarded with people that both is good at the new technology and with internal business knowledge.
Until we reach something closer to an AI with self awareness, they should be treated as cars. If a robot injures someone, is fault of the one that made or programmed or ordered it. We will put guns in jail because they are the ones that ultimatelly killed? Or demonize drones taking out all the responsability to all the chain that ordered what they did?
And what about the difference between physical, humanoid or not, robots, vs computers? Like blaming excel for all the economic troubles of today instead of the people that used it in situations and ways that they shouldn't?
Some guy (Aaron something, I think) asked the same questioning and got jailed for 30 years. Don't try to understand how really is the system, it hates that.
Trusting in someone that could be forced by law to give your encrypted communications (after all they have the right to see all your mails), or modify packaged software to let them in is risky this days. You maybe could trust in the FBI as in a concept, an entity that won't be interested in your trade secrets, but there are people working for them, and people and corporations giving orders to them directly or indirectly that have no problem abusing the power they have.
Open source, widely tested encryption and secure channels are your best options.
Is difficult to measure users when you are usually measuring sales, not people actually using it. Indirect hints (like i.e. Steam or browsers stats) still have to play with the amount of people that follow one trend in one platform vs the amount on another platform (do linux users visit the same sites of the being measured ones? are more or less likely to use steam?), but if we focus in one trend (i.e. in w3counter stats, to have enough historical data) has increased usage over the last years, so, not just absolute numbers has increased, percents too. But yes, numbers are still too low if your intended target is desktop domination.
For something most of people that use it don't exactly buy it, is not unreasonable that is not shown in market share, where sales are taken into account, instead of actual use (and count as sales preloaded OSs in not sold/used yet devices, even if then will be installed over with something else).
And Ubuntu Touch will take a while till it have some actual sale, even if, when is stable enough, gets installed in a lot of existing devices. Only will appear in the map of the "market share" when some vendor actually preinstall it on devices, even if millons have it before that.
Now, if you want to call reality only to what is sold, is up to you, people is free to fool themselves.
Those servers somewhat (i.e. a vulnerable web app, weak ssh passwords, local privilege escalation on a shell got in in some way, or a combo of all of those) got rooted, and instead of modifying web pages (easier, but also easier to detect and fix), replacing the entire web server (easier to detect or to roll back) or changed the configuration of i.e. mod_rewrite modules (that with a configuration manager could had been detected/roll back to the original one). got some new modules replaced/added, modules that in particular had that functionality.
Is nothing particulary new in this, more than the malware authors not being just script kiddies and actually did some serious programming for it. Somewhat I hope that they give back to the community releasing the source, not the malware backdoor itself, but with a modified, non malware version with an useful use (i.e. something that dynamically blacklists IPs/useragents/languages for actions, receiving the input from another kind of system, like a honeywords service) if not available yet.
At least India is not the central hub that connects most of the regions of the world, nor the country that hosts most of the global sites. In US privacy legislation protects at best (anyway, diminishing) privacy of US citizens, but there is no protection of any kind for people from the rest of the world. They have free shot permission over them.
Maybe is related with the language theirs managers use. If you see the future you/company/whatever hacked as another company, not the current one where you would be wasting time and money now, because your language just shows them as different things, and just push those pesky tasks to the other company, the future one, that anyway will be the one hacked, not the actual one.
Is not trivial to escape from the trap we build around ourselves with our language.
People want to pay back in a way or another to the artists that do something they like, just not the corporation that is in the middle and keeps most of the benefits for itself and throws just a bone to the artist in by far most of the cases. And want freedom too, not the "you can hear/see/read this where i say, when i say, and how i say" corporate motto. Is a combo of DRM free and reaching the final artist.
The problem is, if proves to be successful, it will be exploited by others too, from corporations that will again keep the money for themselves, or by scammers.
I understand that China is a trading partner but in so many other spheres (human rights, pollution, animal cruelty, IP theft, etc etc ) they're a disgrace and yet they always seem to get a pass, unlike some other countries the US has gone to war with over nothing.
In most of those spheres US is not far behind, if not ahead. If a foreing country with big oil reserves was doing what US is doing with Guantanamo would had been invaded by now (and thats the "over nothing" they do war lately, don't confuse the excuse for the real motivation). And US came second in pollution recently, and that was partly because most US companies do their pollution elsewhere now. And please, lets not touch real IP theft.
If the US blocked all Chinese IP addresses, what would be the worst that could happen?
US would not be able to monitor social activity of all china citizens, nor manage their botnets inside china borders/firewalls. How you expect to gather intelligence with all the doors closed?
US is not doing espionage. What is does is closely watches everything that goes thru internet or any connected device. Calling that espionage is like calling the ocean a flood.
Lets ban all books because some of them could have questionable views on sexual orientation (or incite violence, or whatever is in your agenda). Basically that is the approach demonizing 3d printers because they can be used to print anything in plastic, including guns.
Unless they bring totally new to the table (i.e. no conventional bomb can do what an atomic bomb do, so is ok to restrict what can be used for energy or medicine just because that potential), is something with too much good potential to limit it. And no, printing guns to pass thru airport scans while letting people to pass a lot of potentially dangerous materials (at the very least, to buy inflammable drinks and matches at the very airport) is not bringing something radically new into the table.
That is the dynamic of the people that drive the revolutions, the ones on top usually wants power, not fairness, not justice, even if the ones below could believe that. Current ones (i.e. Syria) probably is targetted on putting a puppet friendlier with USA and/or Israel (probably the same is in the making in Venezuela in the same direction). Others throw away a government that could be bad or not to put someone that usually is worse (think in some of the african ones, where caring about neutral civilians is just deciding how deep will be buried).
When enough people have become impoverished, hungry and desesperate, nothing will change, any kind of organized movement will be detected months before they even meet with all the monitoring that is around.
By now the hole that everyone dig in is so deep that is almost no way to get out.
One reason to not go to postgres just yet is legacy code/apps/data that uses MySQL. If you put MariaDB instead of MySQL even the same binary data files should work, and you should get better performance and have room to do further improvements gradually (i.e. taking advantage of other storage engines) while all the rest keeps working.
If you will to start from zero in a new project/code, or have margin to reestructure everything that is db specific to Postgres, then could be a better option (or not, meatware also matters, and that includes programmers, admins and support with familiarity with one environment and not with the other).
You mean that there are people that don't consider most of xkcd a piece of art?
Anyway, of all the amazing, insightful, and informative things things that are in xkcd, probably the one that impressed me more recently was one in What-if, explaining whats the worst that could happen missusing pressure cookers, few days before Boston bombing. That it remains there is a big message.
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There are a few things that should be taken into account, specially regarding other, more physical medicine fields like the placebo and nocebo effects that could be triggered by the treatment or diagnosis, and the tendency on overmedicating that is having medicine now. Probably in overall is doing more damage than good right now as it is being used. As any tool, it should not be misused, only used where really is needed.
I knew i should bring back antigrav tech in the last trip to the future.
you will be able to print your own lego pieces
I learnt newer technologies more leaving companies than staying in them. Usually inertia make it hard to try new things, they takes time and risks, so the dynamic forces focusing in internal business knowledge and deeping down in the technology in use there (that may be new for you at the start, but with time it becomes old). Is not so much workers fault but company culture dynamics, is hard to learn something new while keep doing all day things as usual to keep all running, specially if that new thing implies changes on how you see things or approach problems.
To defeat inertia, usually company promoted inertia, is needed effort, maybe for those change resistant people to free them for a time of keeping all running and focusing just on learning something new, at their own rate. That time investment could be rewarded with people that both is good at the new technology and with internal business knowledge.
Until we reach something closer to an AI with self awareness, they should be treated as cars. If a robot injures someone, is fault of the one that made or programmed or ordered it. We will put guns in jail because they are the ones that ultimatelly killed? Or demonize drones taking out all the responsability to all the chain that ordered what they did?
And what about the difference between physical, humanoid or not, robots, vs computers? Like blaming excel for all the economic troubles of today instead of the people that used it in situations and ways that they shouldn't?
If Ballmer is behind this MS move, could he be sent to jail for 30 years for it? All american should be treatead equally under the law, after all.
Some guy (Aaron something, I think) asked the same questioning and got jailed for 30 years. Don't try to understand how really is the system, it hates that.
Trusting in someone that could be forced by law to give your encrypted communications (after all they have the right to see all your mails), or modify packaged software to let them in is risky this days. You maybe could trust in the FBI as in a concept, an entity that won't be interested in your trade secrets, but there are people working for them, and people and corporations giving orders to them directly or indirectly that have no problem abusing the power they have.
Open source, widely tested encryption and secure channels are your best options.
Is difficult to measure users when you are usually measuring sales, not people actually using it. Indirect hints (like i.e. Steam or browsers stats) still have to play with the amount of people that follow one trend in one platform vs the amount on another platform (do linux users visit the same sites of the being measured ones? are more or less likely to use steam?), but if we focus in one trend (i.e. in w3counter stats, to have enough historical data) has increased usage over the last years, so, not just absolute numbers has increased, percents too. But yes, numbers are still too low if your intended target is desktop domination.
For something most of people that use it don't exactly buy it, is not unreasonable that is not shown in market share, where sales are taken into account, instead of actual use (and count as sales preloaded OSs in not sold/used yet devices, even if then will be installed over with something else).
And Ubuntu Touch will take a while till it have some actual sale, even if, when is stable enough, gets installed in a lot of existing devices. Only will appear in the map of the "market share" when some vendor actually preinstall it on devices, even if millons have it before that.
Now, if you want to call reality only to what is sold, is up to you, people is free to fool themselves.
Those servers somewhat (i.e. a vulnerable web app, weak ssh passwords, local privilege escalation on a shell got in in some way, or a combo of all of those) got rooted, and instead of modifying web pages (easier, but also easier to detect and fix), replacing the entire web server (easier to detect or to roll back) or changed the configuration of i.e. mod_rewrite modules (that with a configuration manager could had been detected/roll back to the original one). got some new modules replaced/added, modules that in particular had that functionality.
Is nothing particulary new in this, more than the malware authors not being just script kiddies and actually did some serious programming for it. Somewhat I hope that they give back to the community releasing the source, not the malware backdoor itself, but with a modified, non malware version with an useful use (i.e. something that dynamically blacklists IPs/useragents/languages for actions, receiving the input from another kind of system, like a honeywords service) if not available yet.
Vote Peter or else government will keep thinking that with big power only comes big abuse of power.
At least India is not the central hub that connects most of the regions of the world, nor the country that hosts most of the global sites. In US privacy legislation protects at best (anyway, diminishing) privacy of US citizens, but there is no protection of any kind for people from the rest of the world. They have free shot permission over them.
Maybe is related with the language theirs managers use. If you see the future you/company/whatever hacked as another company, not the current one where you would be wasting time and money now, because your language just shows them as different things, and just push those pesky tasks to the other company, the future one, that anyway will be the one hacked, not the actual one.
Is not trivial to escape from the trap we build around ourselves with our language.
Will be the new normal to see Windows Blue Screen now.
People want to pay back in a way or another to the artists that do something they like, just not the corporation that is in the middle and keeps most of the benefits for itself and throws just a bone to the artist in by far most of the cases. And want freedom too, not the "you can hear/see/read this where i say, when i say, and how i say" corporate motto. Is a combo of DRM free and reaching the final artist.
The problem is, if proves to be successful, it will be exploited by others too, from corporations that will again keep the money for themselves, or by scammers.
I understand that China is a trading partner but in so many other spheres (human rights, pollution, animal cruelty, IP theft, etc etc ) they're a disgrace and yet they always seem to get a pass, unlike some other countries the US has gone to war with over nothing.
In most of those spheres US is not far behind, if not ahead. If a foreing country with big oil reserves was doing what US is doing with Guantanamo would had been invaded by now (and thats the "over nothing" they do war lately, don't confuse the excuse for the real motivation). And US came second in pollution recently, and that was partly because most US companies do their pollution elsewhere now. And please, lets not touch real IP theft.
If the US blocked all Chinese IP addresses, what would be the worst that could happen?
US would not be able to monitor social activity of all china citizens, nor manage their botnets inside china borders/firewalls. How you expect to gather intelligence with all the doors closed?
US is not doing espionage. What is does is closely watches everything that goes thru internet or any connected device. Calling that espionage is like calling the ocean a flood.
Responsibility takes weird turns when using Microsoft products.
Lets ban all books because some of them could have questionable views on sexual orientation (or incite violence, or whatever is in your agenda). Basically that is the approach demonizing 3d printers because they can be used to print anything in plastic, including guns.
Unless they bring totally new to the table (i.e. no conventional bomb can do what an atomic bomb do, so is ok to restrict what can be used for energy or medicine just because that potential), is something with too much good potential to limit it. And no, printing guns to pass thru airport scans while letting people to pass a lot of potentially dangerous materials (at the very least, to buy inflammable drinks and matches at the very airport) is not bringing something radically new into the table.
That is the dynamic of the people that drive the revolutions, the ones on top usually wants power, not fairness, not justice, even if the ones below could believe that. Current ones (i.e. Syria) probably is targetted on putting a puppet friendlier with USA and/or Israel (probably the same is in the making in Venezuela in the same direction). Others throw away a government that could be bad or not to put someone that usually is worse (think in some of the african ones, where caring about neutral civilians is just deciding how deep will be buried).
What "People" you are talking about? Lesters?
When enough people have become impoverished, hungry and desesperate, nothing will change, any kind of organized movement will be detected months before they even meet with all the monitoring that is around.
By now the hole that everyone dig in is so deep that is almost no way to get out.
Facebook,Twitter and Flickr seem to disagree with you.
One reason to not go to postgres just yet is legacy code/apps/data that uses MySQL. If you put MariaDB instead of MySQL even the same binary data files should work, and you should get better performance and have room to do further improvements gradually (i.e. taking advantage of other storage engines) while all the rest keeps working.
If you will to start from zero in a new project/code, or have margin to reestructure everything that is db specific to Postgres, then could be a better option (or not, meatware also matters, and that includes programmers, admins and support with familiarity with one environment and not with the other).
You mean that there are people that don't consider most of xkcd a piece of art?
Anyway, of all the amazing, insightful, and informative things things that are in xkcd, probably the one that impressed me more recently was one in What-if, explaining whats the worst that could happen missusing pressure cookers, few days before Boston bombing. That it remains there is a big message.