Yeah and we are focused on fixing all the issues that have caused projects to move.
And that's the good part, the alternative is that it just permanently stays the way it was. If Whiplash (and friends) are willing to work to make it better, I'm willing to keep an open mind about it, and you should too.
When North America gets rid of its 5000 nuclear warheads it will have the moral right to squeal at North Korea. As it stands NK should be applauded for its technological advances. Same goes to Iran.
The difference is, the US has no interest in expanding their territory. France and the UK dislike NK too, and both of them have nuclear arsenals, yet you haven't mentioned them yet. North Korea would be very happy to nuke the world if they thought they could, and the only thing that prevents that is that they're still a very small country with very powerful neighbors.
I wonder how much this sort of tracking app encroaches on the medical device domain. It could be that Nintendo just didn't want to get a cease and desist letter from the FDA.
Sleep studies appear to be one of the next big things in the medical business. Lots of sleep disorder labs are popping up and pushing their services through primary care physicians. My physician is pushing this stuff, even though I don't suffer from any symptoms that indicate sleep problems. There are big bucks to be made, paid physicians conferences in hot vacation spots and finders fees for referrals. So I'm certain that if some tech company comes up with an app and/or cheap hardware to screen for this, many people might feel threatened.
It could also be for privacy reasons. Many people who are adults buy Nintendo consoles, definitely, but their primary market tends to be kids/adolescents, and that's who they market towards. They may have had a lawyer examine privacy laws for children and maybe something would have prohibited tracking the info by kid or something like that. Obviously, collecting sleep data is of no use if you don't know who it belongs to, so they may have decided to cancel the project because it wouldn't have been useful. Or perhaps, they decided that since the extra equipment would only have been used for this, it wouldn't be worth raising the price to bundle it. Or even, they may simply have found it difficult to tie it into a game, and then dropped it when it didn't fit what their company's goal was.
I thought it was a brilliant improvisation, much more accurate how the whole relationship works. Maybe then our general population will finally care if we call them backholes, eh?
Asian languages never translate well. For some reason Russian translation works great. With current technology why is machine translation so poor? You can't tell me with services like Siri and Cortana that we can't have better translations.
Because asian languages don't map well to English to begin with. Japanese at least uses far fewer words with very many potential meanings, and it's great for humans since we know the context. But if I told you to turn "cloud go here strength west", you'd struggle quite a bit to not add extra detail the author never said and still make a fluid sentence. Magnify by that a hundred fold because a machine doesn't even have basic intuition, and I'm actually suprised by how it sort results in somewhst readahle sentences, sometimes.
That being said, I'm surprised by the poor quality of German. English and German are even in the same family linguistically speaking... Germany's not a very sexy language, but still, I'd have figured it might be an easy lower hanging fruit. I guess maybe we are at the limits technologically speaking then, here's hoping in 10 years we're further along.
Then, when a project becomes more widely used, there will be domain experts looking at the sources
How long did it take for Heartbleed to become public?
It took 2 years. It took Microsoft 20 to uncover this little gem. Furthermore, Microsoft's products have always had many, many times the amount of security flaws than the open source equivalents had. By your reasoning, private companies are far worse, then.
Or maybe, we can accept that the world of software is complex. That we are not perfect. That we are mere mortals, not gods. That maybe, once every now and then, we all make a mistake that just so happens to be so perfectly subtle that we don't notice it for a really long time. By all means, if you never ever make a mistake, feel free to go ahead and show us all how flawed we are.
I really am not interested in using a kernel whose primary claim to fame is "we crash a lot, but when we do you don't need to reboot to recover!". Seems to me that's kind of missing the point. Why did your driver crash to start with? Try coding things better so that unexpected states do not cause the system to lock or crash and you will not need to worry about it. It's kind of like they're trying to sell canoes made out of cardboard, but throwing in unlimited duct tape at no extra charge.
Because you inevitably will experience that driver crash, and the reason can often be quite difficult to find, especially in today's environments. Trying to issue a bug fix for every little problem is like playing whack-a-mole, and all these bug fixes start to conflict with each other at some point, and then eventually somenody throws the whole hairball out in its entirety and makes a new one. The real programmer's way of solving this is to simply make the problems impossible to begin with, and while micro kernels can't quite eliminate every possible problem with crashing drivers, they can mitigate whole kernel panics into mildly inconvenient pauses. And that is very powerful indeed...
To be clear, microkernels do have some disadvantages, but for mission critical and embedded devices, they would be a fantastic option. Unfortunatly, while it has proven itself very well with an excellent track record, QNX is the only true microkernel system out there, and it's not open source (or free, for that matter).
Google had no need for Postini. Google's own spam filtering in Gmail is pretty good. Probably as best as spam filtering could be, under the circumstances. So that's one elephant in the room.
The other elephant in the room is Microsoft, with Hotmail, or Office 365, or whatever it's called these days. I don't have any firsthand exposure to that service, but from what I hear its built-in spam filtering is also fairly good.
Big email providers like that have no need to use an external, third party spam filtering service, since they have the technology, and the scale, to implement it in house. Organizations that outsource their email service to these elephants get spam filtering as part of their service and, again, have little need for a third party service.
About the only likely market for third party spam filtering services would be small to mid-range ISPs or organizations that want to run their E-mail in house. They wouldn't typically have the in-house technology to implement spam filtering, and would rely on a third party. Seems like a fairly small market to me, and with E-mail generally on a slow, steady decline there doesn't seem to be a lot of market opportunities here, for third party spam filtering services.
No, email in general is as strong as ever. The reason why it's not profitable is precisely there, however: it's mostly small ISPs who would buy this, and I don't think anybody would use their email service to begin with. The vast majority of us use either Gmail or Outlook, or a small number will self host our own personal email servers. It's a little shakier among smaller, paid email services such as Proton Mail(Privacy comes at a price, but I've heard their free version is still pretty decent), but my guess is these people also make enough to run their own spam filtering, so you're correct in saying the market's too small. Email as a whole is still a very popular medium, however, and I wouldn't go so far to say it's on a decline...
Perhaps someone may enlighten me here, but if I recall correctly, Tor doesn't actually hide the fact that you're using it, only what you're using it for, yes? Does Tails have some kind of extra protection to obscure even that??
Okay, you are probably as confused about this story as I was, as the title is nonsense and the names look like line noise. So basically, here's the summary the story didn't provide:
So basically, we have this guy. Martin Shkreli. On its own, that name probably means nothing: but you've heard of him before. He's a pharmaceutical exec, and he recieved widespread attention when his company bought a daraprim, an anti-parasitic drug. He raised the price from $13.50 to $750: Mmmhmm, he's that man, and he's the subject of the article. So then, we have a rapper here: Mr. Ghostface Killah... Also known as Dennis Coles. Our Mr. Shkreli bought a one of a kind album from this rapper. The very esteemed Mr. Killah called this horrible person out for the son of a bitch he is, and in response, Shkreli made a video threatening to destroy the album unless he recieves "a heart felt written apology expressing the sorrow and sadness" the rapper simply must be feeling right now to insult such an honorable and upstanding citizen.
And seriously, our rich jackass really is a bastard. Condeming people to die is a horrible thing to do, and controlling samples so no new drug can be authorized is a gross abuse of an admittedly flawed system. This man should go burn in hell. Bernie Sanders refused to take his campaign donation (he gave the money away to a healthcare clinic rather than accept it), and Mrs. Clinton made it one of her goals to deal wiith this asshole if she's elected. Even Donald Trump himself doesn't like Shkreli, and these two are perfect fits for each other.
I am sorry, but if it was fixed in few days, it was not found in few days. This bug existed for many versions of OpenSSL before being finally discovered. That's not quite true to say it was discovered in days.
Microsoft had a flaw in Windows that lasted for almost 20 years before being fixed, and they also had one that took 17 years to fix, and another one that took 15 years to fix. There are many, many more with shorter lifespans but are just as severe in terms of how much they compromise. Heartbleed was in use for 2, being introduced in March 2012 and fixed April 2014.
My point here is that open source software has a better track record for security, and you don't seem to be really disputing that.
since it is much harder to hide nefarious features inside code that can be publicly inspected
Not THAT crap again.
Heartbleed should put that right to bed.
I don't understand your point here. It was found and then fixed in a few days, and the patches were widely released to anyone willing to update. The system worked exactly like it was supposed to: the fact that a single critical bug garned that much attention should give you an idea of how uncommon it is.
In contrast, Adobe Reader has had not one, not two, but 26 different cripplingly severe vulnerabilities in the last six months alone, and that's only because I got tired of counting after #26. How many people patch Adobe Reader? Would you like to compare Libreoffice to Microsoft Word, FreeBSD to Windows, or Internet Explorer to Firefox? Maybe Apache to IIS, or perhaps OpenJDK to Sun java? Amarok to Itunes? Our very own Adobe Reader to Okular or Evince?
Open source software does indeed have a demonstrably better security record than closed source software, that is undeniable. Further more, even if it didn't, it wouldn't matter because the statement was that it was easier to discover vulnerabilities in open wource software. And he's right. What do you rather do: read source code, or dissassemble a binary?
suggests the President is counting on the kindness of tech titans to help make things happen.
Is the government seriously incapable of putting together a computer science curriculum???
And, unfortunately because of long historic discrimination in the areas of gender, we can't be assured of that.
He has the daughters of a president. They will be well into the upper 5% or 1%, will have connections any other person could only dream of, and are almost guaranteed an easy life into doing whatever it is they want to do. You are saying these ladies are worse off than a boy from a smalltown like Stillwater, Pennsylvania, who will earn maybe $50,000 per year as a construction worker? Seriously?
There is indeed something widely missing from American public schools, and that we should certainly be adding. It's called logic. To my knowledge, most American public schools don't even teach it at all, and even most higher level schools skip right over. THAT'S what all this effort should be directed at, and it pains me every single time I hear a story about computer science in school and not that.
Why hire humans when a computer can do the job? Sure, there would be some false positives, but that's where humans can discern the difference.
Why don't you go ahead and prototype the kind of AI required for this? Show us all how easy it is.
Exactly. False positives is the least of your worries, getting even a remotely accurate scanner would require resources far beyond what we have today, and it'd still never be nearly decent. Humans aren't a good judge either, because what's extremist for one person is not for another. There is no easy solution to this, no matter how much you wish to believe there is.
Something I intentionally left out of my last post, that I hoped you pounce on, is the freedom of speech though. Twitter is a platform for discussion, much like writing a letter or email is: if I advocated we moderate letters, you wouldn't be angry? Extremist speech still falls under free speech, much like neo nazi speech does in the US. I'm surprised by how quickly everybody here is to throw that out: after all the examples proven in humanity's history, after all the rhetoric about how horrible China's great firewall and censoring policy is, this is how the United States' citizens react? By simply censoring what they say?
Don't get me wrong, terrorists are horrible people and we will all be better off when they burn in Islam's version of hell, but I am remarkably surprised at how easy freedom of speech goes out the window when it concerns foreigners. We know what we say and how we live is a better way to live than what the terrorists say, so why are people like you so jumpy about it? Are you afraid of their propaganda? Is the crap they spew going to cross the ocean and kill you?
Bad comparisons IMO. There's two measures you can look at to see if a company has responsibility for the bad uses of its product: if the product is used frequently for nefarious purposes (meaning: is there really a problem?), and how feasible it is for the company to keep its product out of the hands of evil-doers.
First, with hardware and grocery stores, those supplies have other, non-nefarious purposes which they are used for 99.99999% of the time. It's extremely rare that people buy supplies at those places to build bombs. The last time I think I heard about someone building actual bombs from supplies from grocery and hardware stores, it involved an assassin android sent from the future to 1984.
For Swith & Wesson, while guns certainly are designed to be efficient killing machines, and they are used for bad things too often (unlike home-made pipe bombs), the gun companies, through their dealers (who they're required to sell through by federal law), DO take steps to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands: they use federal instant background checks, again mandated by federal law and using a federally-run system, to make sure that blacklisted people can't buy a gun. As far as I'm concerned, the gunmakers have had this problem solved for them by the government itself taking on that responsibility; if the government doesn't think its own background check is sufficient, then the government needs to improve its own checking system.
In the case of Twitter, it appears that there has been a BIG problem with terrorist groups using them for propaganda, and that they've done little to nothing about it even though everyone knew about it. That to me shows that they are certainly culpable in a civil suit. By comparison, would terrorist videos uploaded to YouTube stay up there very long, or their accounts be allowed to persist? I don't think so.
Arguably, news networks have done the same thing, for giving those horrid bastards so much news coverage (Unlike many nowadays, I have no problem with muslims or people from the middle east, just those who support Daesh). There are over 500 million tweets per day; are you suggesting Twitter hire a 10th of the US population to read and moderate Twitter, and aside of the absurdity of this, that they're will be no abuse?
I'm sure they do the best they can, but at the end of the day, there is no machine that can moderate human disscussion to even a so-so degree. This lady isn't going to be able to change or influence anything, no amount of money is going to be able to change the fact a computer cannot help with problems that cannot be solved by a turing machine. And I bet you she knows it; she's simply trying to squeeze money out of her husband's death, an act that I find despicable.
The information presented here is, indeed, grossly miseading. There is no such thing as an employer's right to monitor private communications in the EU; on the contrary, at leastmin some European countries, like, say, Germany, illegitimately monitoring an employee's private communocation may actually land someone in jail.
Before everybody gets in a big huff, this applies only to devices the employer owns and lets employees use, not personal devices employees bring to work. The title here is slanted and a little misleading...
Land of the free my ass. It's a nation of lunatics ruled by fear.
The law was stupid, there's no doubt about that, but every country in the world has some stupid rules. The reason why most people in the US don't care isn't because they agree with it, but simply that it doesn't affect them - when your school is 30 miles away, you have to take a car or a bus, and so it wouldn't really appear in their daily life.
While the US certainly does some crazy things, and the policy towards children is absolutely ridiculous, every country has one area that is crazy. You should be able to do better than an impulsive xenophobic response, Mr. Anon, and might I point out, I'm also surprised by how well modded up this was - as good as Slashdot's system is, it's obviously not infallible, because this irrational and stupid comment provides absolutely no insight at all. If I said the UK was a nation of lunatics ruled by fear, you'd have my ass for saying that, even though it's just as idiotic a statement as this.
We got rid of the penny here in Canada. It was no big deal. I've hardly noticed the difference.
Nobody in the entire conversation on this page seems to know this, but parts of America territory have gotten rid of the penny. Just come on out to Japan sometime. It works out very well indeed, and while the penny may be traditional, it does not make sense to keep manufacturing when inflation has reduced its price to below zero.
In other news, more drones droning about drones, and we had two drones droning about drones today at that. (Though actually, the first story was pretty important and I'm glad to see there's more awarness in recent years)
As even the summary says, modelers have been meeting in basketball courts and abandoned parking lots for a long time now. I had a friend who was an enthusiast actually, and so I've been to a couple. Of course people fly their drones alongside their model planes in here: not only do you have a safe wind-free environment, but you also have easy lighting for evening hours and heating/cooling (during the winter this becomes quite handy). There's nothing new about this: people have been doing this for years now, long before the term became popular, and long before the FFA issued any sort of regulation. I honestly don't see the news factor here, unless you're looking for the FAQ section of The Beginner's Guide to Drones.
I understand the practical reasons why peoppe object, as smart guns nowadays still have a long way to go before being as reliable as what we have now. But why do people object to the principle behind it? Does anyone here really intend on shooting at the police or the military, and do they think they would even stand a chance against a trained marine or FBI agent? They don't care about a criminal who is invading their house shooting them with their own gun, or their children blowing off their heads with it? Shooting ranges and collectables aren't even affected by them, so that's the three most popular uses of them gone right there. I don't even understand the objection to the principle of a gun with a smart lock, much less the extremely violent protests (ripping down displays, burning stores, and issuing death threats) that have come as a response to it.
Will a petition do the trick? The quality-of-life for everyone on the planet would improve by an order of magnitude if we could EOL Microsoft entirely and move on to a FOS OS that doesn't go through your underwear drawer at night when you're sleeping.
Sure, just point us all towards an actual functioning FOS OS, that has official support for a wide variety of applications, has official certifications so that we can use the in high risk environments, has a continuing commitment towards backwards compatibility, and is willing to implement any features the client demands, when they demand.
If you think that's too arduous on you, then you see precisely why that solution has never worked, and never will work. If you champion developers who code what they want and do what they want, then they will never be able to fill out the sorts of things that you would need an OS for beyond basic usage. On the flipside, you would make all these developers working for free complete slaves to the users and severely stifle the projects.
For better or worse, Microsoft's business model is a very important thing for the market to have; they deal with all the crap and requirements because no one else is willing to do so. I am very happy with the way things are at the moment; we have both groups, and all of the users (us) are free to pick whichever one we want depending on what we need and what we want. Ultimately, the best outcome is putting choice in the user's hand, is it not?
That humans today are still terrible at predicting the future?
This one's a given. People overestimate what happens in 50 years, but underestimate what happens in 2. Personally, I would be quite interested to see what 2018 will be like, though I suppose in 24 months I'll find out. After all, just three years ago, we didn't even know about PRISM...
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Yeah and we are focused on fixing all the issues that have caused projects to move.
And that's the good part, the alternative is that it just permanently stays the way it was. If Whiplash (and friends) are willing to work to make it better, I'm willing to keep an open mind about it, and you should too.
When North America gets rid of its 5000 nuclear warheads it will have the moral right to squeal at North Korea. As it stands NK should be applauded for its technological advances. Same goes to Iran.
The difference is, the US has no interest in expanding their territory. France and the UK dislike NK too, and both of them have nuclear arsenals, yet you haven't mentioned them yet. North Korea would be very happy to nuke the world if they thought they could, and the only thing that prevents that is that they're still a very small country with very powerful neighbors.
I wonder how much this sort of tracking app encroaches on the medical device domain. It could be that Nintendo just didn't want to get a cease and desist letter from the FDA.
Sleep studies appear to be one of the next big things in the medical business. Lots of sleep disorder labs are popping up and pushing their services through primary care physicians. My physician is pushing this stuff, even though I don't suffer from any symptoms that indicate sleep problems. There are big bucks to be made, paid physicians conferences in hot vacation spots and finders fees for referrals. So I'm certain that if some tech company comes up with an app and/or cheap hardware to screen for this, many people might feel threatened.
It could also be for privacy reasons. Many people who are adults buy Nintendo consoles, definitely, but their primary market tends to be kids/adolescents, and that's who they market towards. They may have had a lawyer examine privacy laws for children and maybe something would have prohibited tracking the info by kid or something like that. Obviously, collecting sleep data is of no use if you don't know who it belongs to, so they may have decided to cancel the project because it wouldn't have been useful. Or perhaps, they decided that since the extra equipment would only have been used for this, it wouldn't be worth raising the price to bundle it. Or even, they may simply have found it difficult to tie it into a game, and then dropped it when it didn't fit what their company's goal was.
Backhole?
Are you kidding me? Are the editors even trying?
I thought it was a brilliant improvisation, much more accurate how the whole relationship works. Maybe then our general population will finally care if we call them backholes, eh?
Asian languages never translate well. For some reason Russian translation works great. With current technology why is machine translation so poor? You can't tell me with services like Siri and Cortana that we can't have better translations.
Because asian languages don't map well to English to begin with. Japanese at least uses far fewer words with very many potential meanings, and it's great for humans since we know the context. But if I told you to turn "cloud go here strength west", you'd struggle quite a bit to not add extra detail the author never said and still make a fluid sentence. Magnify by that a hundred fold because a machine doesn't even have basic intuition, and I'm actually suprised by how it sort results in somewhst readahle sentences, sometimes.
That being said, I'm surprised by the poor quality of German. English and German are even in the same family linguistically speaking... Germany's not a very sexy language, but still, I'd have figured it might be an easy lower hanging fruit. I guess maybe we are at the limits technologically speaking then, here's hoping in 10 years we're further along.
Then, when a project becomes more widely used, there will be domain experts looking at the sources
How long did it take for Heartbleed to become public?
It took 2 years. It took Microsoft 20 to uncover this little gem. Furthermore, Microsoft's products have always had many, many times the amount of security flaws than the open source equivalents had. By your reasoning, private companies are far worse, then.
Or maybe, we can accept that the world of software is complex. That we are not perfect. That we are mere mortals, not gods. That maybe, once every now and then, we all make a mistake that just so happens to be so perfectly subtle that we don't notice it for a really long time. By all means, if you never ever make a mistake, feel free to go ahead and show us all how flawed we are.
I really am not interested in using a kernel whose primary claim to fame is "we crash a lot, but when we do you don't need to reboot to recover!". Seems to me that's kind of missing the point. Why did your driver crash to start with? Try coding things better so that unexpected states do not cause the system to lock or crash and you will not need to worry about it. It's kind of like they're trying to sell canoes made out of cardboard, but throwing in unlimited duct tape at no extra charge.
Because you inevitably will experience that driver crash, and the reason can often be quite difficult to find, especially in today's environments. Trying to issue a bug fix for every little problem is like playing whack-a-mole, and all these bug fixes start to conflict with each other at some point, and then eventually somenody throws the whole hairball out in its entirety and makes a new one. The real programmer's way of solving this is to simply make the problems impossible to begin with, and while micro kernels can't quite eliminate every possible problem with crashing drivers, they can mitigate whole kernel panics into mildly inconvenient pauses. And that is very powerful indeed...
To be clear, microkernels do have some disadvantages, but for mission critical and embedded devices, they would be a fantastic option. Unfortunatly, while it has proven itself very well with an excellent track record, QNX is the only true microkernel system out there, and it's not open source (or free, for that matter).
Google had no need for Postini. Google's own spam filtering in Gmail is pretty good. Probably as best as spam filtering could be, under the circumstances. So that's one elephant in the room.
The other elephant in the room is Microsoft, with Hotmail, or Office 365, or whatever it's called these days. I don't have any firsthand exposure to that service, but from what I hear its built-in spam filtering is also fairly good.
Big email providers like that have no need to use an external, third party spam filtering service, since they have the technology, and the scale, to implement it in house. Organizations that outsource their email service to these elephants get spam filtering as part of their service and, again, have little need for a third party service.
About the only likely market for third party spam filtering services would be small to mid-range ISPs or organizations that want to run their E-mail in house. They wouldn't typically have the in-house technology to implement spam filtering, and would rely on a third party. Seems like a fairly small market to me, and with E-mail generally on a slow, steady decline there doesn't seem to be a lot of market opportunities here, for third party spam filtering services.
No, email in general is as strong as ever. The reason why it's not profitable is precisely there, however: it's mostly small ISPs who would buy this, and I don't think anybody would use their email service to begin with. The vast majority of us use either Gmail or Outlook, or a small number will self host our own personal email servers. It's a little shakier among smaller, paid email services such as Proton Mail(Privacy comes at a price, but I've heard their free version is still pretty decent), but my guess is these people also make enough to run their own spam filtering, so you're correct in saying the market's too small. Email as a whole is still a very popular medium, however, and I wouldn't go so far to say it's on a decline...
circumventing censorship without a trace
Perhaps someone may enlighten me here, but if I recall correctly, Tor doesn't actually hide the fact that you're using it, only what you're using it for, yes? Does Tails have some kind of extra protection to obscure even that??
Okay, you are probably as confused about this story as I was, as the title is nonsense and the names look like line noise. So basically, here's the summary the story didn't provide:
So basically, we have this guy. Martin Shkreli. On its own, that name probably means nothing: but you've heard of him before. He's a pharmaceutical exec, and he recieved widespread attention when his company bought a daraprim, an anti-parasitic drug. He raised the price from $13.50 to $750: Mmmhmm, he's that man, and he's the subject of the article. So then, we have a rapper here: Mr. Ghostface Killah... Also known as Dennis Coles. Our Mr. Shkreli bought a one of a kind album from this rapper. The very esteemed Mr. Killah called this horrible person out for the son of a bitch he is, and in response, Shkreli made a video threatening to destroy the album unless he recieves "a heart felt written apology expressing the sorrow and sadness" the rapper simply must be feeling right now to insult such an honorable and upstanding citizen.
And seriously, our rich jackass really is a bastard. Condeming people to die is a horrible thing to do, and controlling samples so no new drug can be authorized is a gross abuse of an admittedly flawed system. This man should go burn in hell. Bernie Sanders refused to take his campaign donation (he gave the money away to a healthcare clinic rather than accept it), and Mrs. Clinton made it one of her goals to deal wiith this asshole if she's elected. Even Donald Trump himself doesn't like Shkreli, and these two are perfect fits for each other.
I am sorry, but if it was fixed in few days, it was not found in few days. This bug existed for many versions of OpenSSL before being finally discovered. That's not quite true to say it was discovered in days.
Microsoft had a flaw in Windows that lasted for almost 20 years before being fixed, and they also had one that took 17 years to fix, and another one that took 15 years to fix. There are many, many more with shorter lifespans but are just as severe in terms of how much they compromise. Heartbleed was in use for 2, being introduced in March 2012 and fixed April 2014.
My point here is that open source software has a better track record for security, and you don't seem to be really disputing that.
since it is much harder to hide nefarious features inside code that can be publicly inspected
Not THAT crap again.
Heartbleed should put that right to bed.
I don't understand your point here. It was found and then fixed in a few days, and the patches were widely released to anyone willing to update. The system worked exactly like it was supposed to: the fact that a single critical bug garned that much attention should give you an idea of how uncommon it is.
In contrast, Adobe Reader has had not one, not two, but 26 different cripplingly severe vulnerabilities in the last six months alone, and that's only because I got tired of counting after #26. How many people patch Adobe Reader? Would you like to compare Libreoffice to Microsoft Word, FreeBSD to Windows, or Internet Explorer to Firefox? Maybe Apache to IIS, or perhaps OpenJDK to Sun java? Amarok to Itunes? Our very own Adobe Reader to Okular or Evince?
Open source software does indeed have a demonstrably better security record than closed source software, that is undeniable. Further more, even if it didn't, it wouldn't matter because the statement was that it was easier to discover vulnerabilities in open wource software. And he's right. What do you rather do: read source code, or dissassemble a binary?
suggests the President is counting on the kindness of tech titans to help make things happen.
Is the government seriously incapable of putting together a computer science curriculum???
And, unfortunately because of long historic discrimination in the areas of gender, we can't be assured of that.
He has the daughters of a president. They will be well into the upper 5% or 1%, will have connections any other person could only dream of, and are almost guaranteed an easy life into doing whatever it is they want to do. You are saying these ladies are worse off than a boy from a smalltown like Stillwater, Pennsylvania, who will earn maybe $50,000 per year as a construction worker? Seriously?
There is indeed something widely missing from American public schools, and that we should certainly be adding. It's called logic. To my knowledge, most American public schools don't even teach it at all, and even most higher level schools skip right over. THAT'S what all this effort should be directed at, and it pains me every single time I hear a story about computer science in school and not that.
Why hire humans when a computer can do the job? Sure, there would be some false positives, but that's where humans can discern the difference.
Why don't you go ahead and prototype the kind of AI required for this? Show us all how easy it is.
Exactly. False positives is the least of your worries, getting even a remotely accurate scanner would require resources far beyond what we have today, and it'd still never be nearly decent. Humans aren't a good judge either, because what's extremist for one person is not for another. There is no easy solution to this, no matter how much you wish to believe there is.
Something I intentionally left out of my last post, that I hoped you pounce on, is the freedom of speech though. Twitter is a platform for discussion, much like writing a letter or email is: if I advocated we moderate letters, you wouldn't be angry? Extremist speech still falls under free speech, much like neo nazi speech does in the US. I'm surprised by how quickly everybody here is to throw that out: after all the examples proven in humanity's history, after all the rhetoric about how horrible China's great firewall and censoring policy is, this is how the United States' citizens react? By simply censoring what they say?
Don't get me wrong, terrorists are horrible people and we will all be better off when they burn in Islam's version of hell, but I am remarkably surprised at how easy freedom of speech goes out the window when it concerns foreigners. We know what we say and how we live is a better way to live than what the terrorists say, so why are people like you so jumpy about it? Are you afraid of their propaganda? Is the crap they spew going to cross the ocean and kill you?
Bad comparisons IMO. There's two measures you can look at to see if a company has responsibility for the bad uses of its product: if the product is used frequently for nefarious purposes (meaning: is there really a problem?), and how feasible it is for the company to keep its product out of the hands of evil-doers.
First, with hardware and grocery stores, those supplies have other, non-nefarious purposes which they are used for 99.99999% of the time. It's extremely rare that people buy supplies at those places to build bombs. The last time I think I heard about someone building actual bombs from supplies from grocery and hardware stores, it involved an assassin android sent from the future to 1984.
For Swith & Wesson, while guns certainly are designed to be efficient killing machines, and they are used for bad things too often (unlike home-made pipe bombs), the gun companies, through their dealers (who they're required to sell through by federal law), DO take steps to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands: they use federal instant background checks, again mandated by federal law and using a federally-run system, to make sure that blacklisted people can't buy a gun. As far as I'm concerned, the gunmakers have had this problem solved for them by the government itself taking on that responsibility; if the government doesn't think its own background check is sufficient, then the government needs to improve its own checking system.
In the case of Twitter, it appears that there has been a BIG problem with terrorist groups using them for propaganda, and that they've done little to nothing about it even though everyone knew about it. That to me shows that they are certainly culpable in a civil suit. By comparison, would terrorist videos uploaded to YouTube stay up there very long, or their accounts be allowed to persist? I don't think so.
Arguably, news networks have done the same thing, for giving those horrid bastards so much news coverage (Unlike many nowadays, I have no problem with muslims or people from the middle east, just those who support Daesh). There are over 500 million tweets per day; are you suggesting Twitter hire a 10th of the US population to read and moderate Twitter, and aside of the absurdity of this, that they're will be no abuse?
I'm sure they do the best they can, but at the end of the day, there is no machine that can moderate human disscussion to even a so-so degree. This lady isn't going to be able to change or influence anything, no amount of money is going to be able to change the fact a computer cannot help with problems that cannot be solved by a turing machine. And I bet you she knows it; she's simply trying to squeeze money out of her husband's death, an act that I find despicable.
The information presented here is, indeed, grossly miseading. There is no such thing as an employer's right to monitor private communications in the EU; on the contrary, at leastmin some European countries, like, say, Germany, illegitimately monitoring an employee's private communocation may actually land someone in jail.
We do, but not on company equipment: The upper court of Berlin and Brandenburg ruled on that, and so did the one in Hamm.
Before everybody gets in a big huff, this applies only to devices the employer owns and lets employees use, not personal devices employees bring to work. The title here is slanted and a little misleading...
Land of the free my ass. It's a nation of lunatics ruled by fear.
The law was stupid, there's no doubt about that, but every country in the world has some stupid rules. The reason why most people in the US don't care isn't because they agree with it, but simply that it doesn't affect them - when your school is 30 miles away, you have to take a car or a bus, and so it wouldn't really appear in their daily life.
While the US certainly does some crazy things, and the policy towards children is absolutely ridiculous, every country has one area that is crazy. You should be able to do better than an impulsive xenophobic response, Mr. Anon, and might I point out, I'm also surprised by how well modded up this was - as good as Slashdot's system is, it's obviously not infallible, because this irrational and stupid comment provides absolutely no insight at all. If I said the UK was a nation of lunatics ruled by fear, you'd have my ass for saying that, even though it's just as idiotic a statement as this.
We got rid of the penny here in Canada. It was no big deal. I've hardly noticed the difference.
Nobody in the entire conversation on this page seems to know this, but parts of America territory have gotten rid of the penny. Just come on out to Japan sometime. It works out very well indeed, and while the penny may be traditional, it does not make sense to keep manufacturing when inflation has reduced its price to below zero.
In other news, more drones droning about drones, and we had two drones droning about drones today at that. (Though actually, the first story was pretty important and I'm glad to see there's more awarness in recent years)
As even the summary says, modelers have been meeting in basketball courts and abandoned parking lots for a long time now. I had a friend who was an enthusiast actually, and so I've been to a couple. Of course people fly their drones alongside their model planes in here: not only do you have a safe wind-free environment, but you also have easy lighting for evening hours and heating/cooling (during the winter this becomes quite handy). There's nothing new about this: people have been doing this for years now, long before the term became popular, and long before the FFA issued any sort of regulation. I honestly don't see the news factor here, unless you're looking for the FAQ section of The Beginner's Guide to Drones.
I understand the practical reasons why peoppe object, as smart guns nowadays still have a long way to go before being as reliable as what we have now. But why do people object to the principle behind it? Does anyone here really intend on shooting at the police or the military, and do they think they would even stand a chance against a trained marine or FBI agent? They don't care about a criminal who is invading their house shooting them with their own gun, or their children blowing off their heads with it? Shooting ranges and collectables aren't even affected by them, so that's the three most popular uses of them gone right there. I don't even understand the objection to the principle of a gun with a smart lock, much less the extremely violent protests (ripping down displays, burning stores, and issuing death threats) that have come as a response to it.
Will a petition do the trick? The quality-of-life for everyone on the planet would improve by an order of magnitude if we could EOL Microsoft entirely and move on to a FOS OS that doesn't go through your underwear drawer at night when you're sleeping.
Sure, just point us all towards an actual functioning FOS OS, that has official support for a wide variety of applications, has official certifications so that we can use the in high risk environments, has a continuing commitment towards backwards compatibility, and is willing to implement any features the client demands, when they demand.
If you think that's too arduous on you, then you see precisely why that solution has never worked, and never will work. If you champion developers who code what they want and do what they want, then they will never be able to fill out the sorts of things that you would need an OS for beyond basic usage. On the flipside, you would make all these developers working for free complete slaves to the users and severely stifle the projects.
For better or worse, Microsoft's business model is a very important thing for the market to have; they deal with all the crap and requirements because no one else is willing to do so. I am very happy with the way things are at the moment; we have both groups, and all of the users (us) are free to pick whichever one we want depending on what we need and what we want. Ultimately, the best outcome is putting choice in the user's hand, is it not?
In other words, something like this?
That humans today are still terrible at predicting the future?
This one's a given. People overestimate what happens in 50 years, but underestimate what happens in 2. Personally, I would be quite interested to see what 2018 will be like, though I suppose in 24 months I'll find out. After all, just three years ago, we didn't even know about PRISM...
The RIKEN collaboration team in Japan have fulfilled the criteria for element Z=113 and will be invited to propose a permanent name and symbol
A radioactive super-heavy element from Japan?: Godzillium.
Now we'll actually enjoy watching those elementary school radiation movies!