You are absolutely right - but even on/., many people seem to have forgotten the misery that Gates brought upon mankind, both out of (sometimes illegal) greedy business practices and out of pure negligence.
Bill believing crypto-currencies to be "anonymous" is just one more proof of him being detached from reality. Crypto-currencies are as transparent as could be - and people will be convicted for crimes they committed decades ago, due to the block-chains preserving the evidence forever.
"New technolgy" becomes broadly available ("Videotape" in the case of "Eyes Wide Shut", smartphone with so-so camera in the case of "Unsane"), and somebody feels compelled to make an artsy movie with it - that looks like shit.
Even if there are enough gullible investors to make the ICO a success for the bankrupt regime of Maduro: Foreign agencies that will not miss the opportunity to steal whatever crypto-currencies are accumulated. Given that Venezuela has no computer hardware they could trust not to be back-doored, this is just too easy not to be done.
I am sure this was as much a "bug" as it was just "bugs" in Googles street view car software to collect WLAN SSIDs, like the "bugs" in car manufacturers motor control software deafeating environmental emission tests.
... pristine rendered graphics at high frame-rates to your TV, with game enthusiasts pixel-peeping every new release for the slightest differences in image quality. And then some corporations tell you they will provide alike streamed over your meager Internet line.
The truth with all streaming video services is that they use such heavily lossy compressions my eyes hurt from looking at the artefacts.
I like my gaming hardware local, offline, and connected to my 4k TV at 18 GBit/s (via HDMI).
where Bill explains how to evade paying taxes by transferring money to a foundation where it is still totally controlled by you and your next of kin, and then have that foundation invest that money in companies you hold shares of, at the same time getting kissed your ass by the media who now praise you as being a "philanthropist"...
... devices. I have yet to miss anything, F-Droid has more "Apps" than I would ever want to install. My smartphone is still a phone, it is not a gaming console. Everything regarding communication or navigation is covered by the applications on F-Droid. Never felt a tickle to create a "google account" or to install anything from that "play store", which has a correct and telling name.
... of course not openly, but through a maze of sub-sub-sub-sub-contractors ultimately handling the "cloud" hardware the NHS information will reside on.
And I am sure they will keep that data safe, and well back-up-ed, given how valuable it might become when tinkering with the next election or blackmailing the next politician.
It's not like manned submarines are immune to getting lost and into possibly the wrong hands - but unmanned drones will be even more likely to lose contact, getting lost and later found by someone who sells them to those willing to put some effort into hacking the fuse.
Sounds like a new generation of "ransomware" will emerge - like "transfer us $$$$$$$$$ or we'll detonate the flotsam we just got hold of"...
Thanks for this information, never heard about he "Galaxy Rugby" before. Actually looks not bad, apart from the ancient Android (does it run Lineage?). But: It does not seem to be sold anywhere in Europe. If someone knows a reseller in the EU, please tell me.
Samsung might build some fast chips and nifty sensors into its devices, but I have not bought one since they got...
- too big, I want a phone, not a tablet
- too brittle, the phone has to survice falling down, and I sure don't need a "frameless" display made for breaking
- no more user replaceable battery - I refuse to buy any such device, and still run happily a many years old phone that now has its 3rd generation of battieries in use
Wake me up when phone makers build something better, again.
As someone who worked in an Intel Validation group for SOCs until mid-2014 or so I can tell you, yes, you will see more CPU bugs from Intel than you have in the past from the post-FDIV-bug era until recently.
Why?
Let me set the scene: It’s late in 2013. Intel is frantic about losing the mobile CPU wars to ARM. Meetings with all the validation groups. Head honcho in charge of Validation says something to the effect of: “We need to move faster. Validation at Intel is taking much longer than it does for our competition. We need to do whatever we can to reduce those times we can’t live forever in the shadow of the early 90’s FDIV bug, we need to move on. Our competition is moving much faster than we are” - I’m paraphrasing. Many of the engineers in the room could remember the FDIV bug and the ensuing problems caused for Intel 20 years prior. Many of us were aghast that someone highly placed would suggest we needed to cut corners in validation - that wasn’t explicitly said, of course, but that was the implicit message. That meeting there in late 2013 signaled a sea change at Intel to many of us who were there. And it didn’t seem like it was going to be a good kind of sea change. Some of us chose to get out while the getting was good. As someone who worked in an Intel Validation group for SOCs until mid-2014 or so I can tell you, yes, you will see more CPU bugs from Intel than you have in the past from the post-FDIV-bug era until recently.
It's basically the same fuck-up as in the software industry: Profits and "time-to-market" prioritized over security.
If you think that the parliamentarian Mrs. Storch was the only victim already censored via the "Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz", you are under-informed. Multiple postings from comedians and satire magazines were equally silenced using the new censorship tool - read on e.g. here: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt...
And even if only Mrs. Storch had been censored, it clearly shows that this is a tool of censorship, and nothing else. I hope the Bundesverfassungsgericht will stop that nonsense sooner or later.
... as it took only one day of the new censorship tool "Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz" until the first Tweets with government-critical content were deleted based on it (under the allegation they would be hate speech, the new one-fits-all word to criminalize public dissent).
Just look at the sad situation regarding 4k content: The vast majority of even high-budget movies is still produced with 2k digital intermediates, and fake-4k is "derived" from this via mere upscaling.
And amongst the very few productions that actually use 4k digital intermediates, many of them reach that kind of resolution in only a few scenes, when there is outdoor daylight and the picture is not mostly blurred by the "artistic over-use" of unnaturally shallow depth of field (aka "bokeh").
I for one would not expect any sizeable amount of 8k productions that would earn that label anytime soon. Chances are, even if the recording hardware allows for 8k resolution, 8k movies will be even more "fake-8k" than 4k ones are fake already.
... to the really relevant container isolation features that were implemented in the Linux kernel.
Seriously, I could not care less how many fancy user front-ends are being built in order to use these container isolation features, they aren't rocket science.
I am more concerned about the one big still missing container isolation feature: Writes of meta-data to filesystems cannot be accounted to any control group, and so one evil software hammering a file system with meta-data operations from within a container can still bring the host (and its other guests) to its knees.
It's not that there aren't people who want to work in the sex industry - there absolutely are. However, as studies repeatedly bear out, the number who want to is far below the demand
If there is more demand than is on offer, prices rise, and the job becomes appealing to a larger group of people. What you describe is what happenes when instead of paying adequate wages, people from poorer countries are imported to dump prices. That is not different with prostitution than with any other job.
most people who work in the sex industry don't want to be there
Most people who work in any industry (except for a very few glamorous professions) would rather like are less
strenuous and higher payed job. Again, not in any way specific to prostitution.
abusive trafficking is an inevitable consequence of this situation.
No. Abusive trafficking is
happening for a lot of reasons and for many kinds of work - just look into gastronomy and construction
sites, where you can find the same "slave like" working conditions with workers "paying off debts" to those who
trafficked them into the country.
Abusive trafficking is the inevitable consequence of lacking prosecution of those who traffick and those who do not
adhere to existing labor laws.
Regarding the absurd "asymmetric" anti-prostitution laws in Sweden: If there was any honesty in those who want to
criminalize prostitution, they would apply the same logic to many other professions: So eating in a restaurant where
a trafficked worker cooked your meal would be illegal. Being helped by some trafficked nurse would be criminalized.
Having your garden shack built by a company who brings trafficked workers to your site would make you a
criminal.
Once you think of this, you might realize that the Swedish law is not at all against trafficking, it is against sex
services being on offer in general, for irrational reasons.
Living in the "first world", I can assure you my toes do not require any extra protection. There is not so much hazardous waste, rabid dogs or grenade splinters in the streets, here.
... because obviously, if maximizing the efficiency of human work in terms of how many products/services are created
is the defined goal, it makes absolutely no sense to have a multitude of competing companies spend lots of effort
and material into developing/producing/advertising the same kind of product/service.
The only catch to this, just as with human car drivers: Not compatible with homo sapiens, which evolution shaped over
millions of years to behave competetive and give a shit about some "greater good" for mandkind as a whole.
Cryptocurrencies do not make "untraceable money drops" more easy - on the contrary, if you transfer such money from some legitimate account to that of a criminal, every future use of that money is recorded in detail in the "distributed ledger", ready to be used for investigation now or in 30 years.
So unless your goal as a criminal is to some day die with $$$$ in some unused Bitcoin account, you have exactly the same problem of money laundering as with every other currency. Any non-criminal merchant, whether it is an sports car seller or a pizza delivery, will not have any reason to help you with hiding your association with some Bitcoin account number.
So all police needs to do is to follow back the chain of transactions from the first such legitimate merchant back to the first legal entity who would not want to reveal the source of the money, and jail them, either for money laundering, or for the theft of the money.
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You are absolutely right - but even on /., many people seem to have forgotten the misery that Gates brought upon mankind, both out of (sometimes illegal) greedy business practices and out of pure negligence.
Bill believing crypto-currencies to be "anonymous" is just one more proof of him being detached from reality. Crypto-currencies are as transparent as could be - and people will be convicted for crimes they committed decades ago, due to the block-chains preserving the evidence forever.
Yes, and gold. And diamonds. Some stones are called "blood diamonds" for good reason.
"New technolgy" becomes broadly available ("Videotape" in the case of "Eyes Wide Shut", smartphone with so-so camera in the case of "Unsane"), and somebody feels compelled to make an artsy movie with it - that looks like shit.
Boooooring!
Even if there are enough gullible investors to make the ICO a success for the bankrupt regime of Maduro: Foreign agencies that will not miss the opportunity to steal whatever crypto-currencies are accumulated. Given that Venezuela has no computer hardware they could trust not to be back-doored, this is just too easy not to be done.
I am sure this was as much a "bug" as it was just "bugs" in Googles street view car software to collect WLAN SSIDs, like the "bugs" in car manufacturers motor control software deafeating environmental emission tests.
... pristine rendered graphics at high frame-rates to your TV, with game enthusiasts pixel-peeping every new release for the slightest differences in image quality. And then some corporations tell you they will provide alike streamed over your meager Internet line.
The truth with all streaming video services is that they use such heavily lossy compressions my eyes hurt from looking at the artefacts.
I like my gaming hardware local, offline, and connected to my 4k TV at 18 GBit/s (via HDMI).
... as entertainment, even if it was the only option.
where Bill explains how to evade paying taxes by transferring money to a foundation where it is still totally controlled by you and your next of kin, and then have that foundation invest that money in companies you hold shares of, at the same time getting kissed your ass by the media who now praise you as being a "philanthropist"...
... devices. I have yet to miss anything, F-Droid has more "Apps" than I would ever want to install. My smartphone is still a phone, it is not a gaming console. Everything regarding communication or navigation is covered by the applications on F-Droid. Never felt a tickle to create a "google account" or to install anything from that "play store", which has a correct and telling name.
... of course not openly, but through a maze of sub-sub-sub-sub-contractors ultimately handling the "cloud" hardware the NHS information will reside on.
And I am sure they will keep that data safe, and well back-up-ed, given how valuable it might become when tinkering with the next election or blackmailing the next politician.
It's not like manned submarines are immune to getting lost and into possibly the wrong hands - but unmanned drones will be even more likely to lose contact, getting lost and later found by someone who sells them to those willing to put some effort into hacking the fuse. Sounds like a new generation of "ransomware" will emerge - like "transfer us $$$$$$$$$ or we'll detonate the flotsam we just got hold of"...
Thanks for this information, never heard about he "Galaxy Rugby" before. Actually looks not bad, apart from the ancient Android (does it run Lineage?). But: It does not seem to be sold anywhere in Europe. If someone knows a reseller in the EU, please tell me.
Samsung might build some fast chips and nifty sensors into its devices, but I have not bought one since they got...
- too big, I want a phone, not a tablet
- too brittle, the phone has to survice falling down, and I sure don't need a "frameless" display made for breaking
- no more user replaceable battery - I refuse to buy any such device, and still run happily a many years old phone that now has its 3rd generation of battieries in use
Wake me up when phone makers build something better, again.
... where availability is compromised by some attacker flooding your flash storage with spurious data :-)
As someone who worked in an Intel Validation group for SOCs until mid-2014 or so I can tell you, yes, you will see more CPU bugs from Intel than you have in the past from the post-FDIV-bug era until recently. Why? Let me set the scene: It’s late in 2013. Intel is frantic about losing the mobile CPU wars to ARM. Meetings with all the validation groups. Head honcho in charge of Validation says something to the effect of: “We need to move faster. Validation at Intel is taking much longer than it does for our competition. We need to do whatever we can to reduce those times we can’t live forever in the shadow of the early 90’s FDIV bug, we need to move on. Our competition is moving much faster than we are” - I’m paraphrasing. Many of the engineers in the room could remember the FDIV bug and the ensuing problems caused for Intel 20 years prior. Many of us were aghast that someone highly placed would suggest we needed to cut corners in validation - that wasn’t explicitly said, of course, but that was the implicit message. That meeting there in late 2013 signaled a sea change at Intel to many of us who were there. And it didn’t seem like it was going to be a good kind of sea change. Some of us chose to get out while the getting was good. As someone who worked in an Intel Validation group for SOCs until mid-2014 or so I can tell you, yes, you will see more CPU bugs from Intel than you have in the past from the post-FDIV-bug era until recently.
It's basically the same fuck-up as in the software industry: Profits and "time-to-market" prioritized over security.
If you think that the parliamentarian Mrs. Storch was the only victim already censored via the "Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz", you are under-informed. Multiple postings from comedians and satire magazines were equally silenced using the new censorship tool - read on e.g. here: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt...
And even if only Mrs. Storch had been censored, it clearly shows that this is a tool of censorship, and nothing else. I hope the Bundesverfassungsgericht will stop that nonsense sooner or later.
... as it took only one day of the new censorship tool "Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz" until the first Tweets with government-critical content were deleted based on it (under the allegation they would be hate speech, the new one-fits-all word to criminalize public dissent).
... just like recently enacted elsewhere in the world, just a little more effective.
Just look at the sad situation regarding 4k content: The vast majority of even high-budget movies is still produced with 2k digital intermediates, and fake-4k is "derived" from this via mere upscaling.
And amongst the very few productions that actually use 4k digital intermediates, many of them reach that kind of resolution in only a few scenes, when there is outdoor daylight and the picture is not mostly blurred by the "artistic over-use" of unnaturally shallow depth of field (aka "bokeh").
I for one would not expect any sizeable amount of 8k productions that would earn that label anytime soon. Chances are, even if the recording hardware allows for 8k resolution, 8k movies will be even more "fake-8k" than 4k ones are fake already.
... to the really relevant container isolation features that were implemented in the Linux kernel.
Seriously, I could not care less how many fancy user front-ends are being built in order to use these container isolation features, they aren't rocket science.
I am more concerned about the one big still missing container isolation feature: Writes of meta-data to filesystems cannot be accounted to any control group, and so one evil software hammering a file system with meta-data operations from within a container can still bring the host (and its other guests) to its knees.
It's not that there aren't people who want to work in the sex industry - there absolutely are. However, as studies repeatedly bear out, the number who want to is far below the demand
If there is more demand than is on offer, prices rise, and the job becomes appealing to a larger group of people. What you describe is what happenes when instead of paying adequate wages, people from poorer countries are imported to dump prices. That is not different with prostitution than with any other job.
most people who work in the sex industry don't want to be there
Most people who work in any industry (except for a very few glamorous professions) would rather like are less strenuous and higher payed job. Again, not in any way specific to prostitution.
abusive trafficking is an inevitable consequence of this situation.
No. Abusive trafficking is happening for a lot of reasons and for many kinds of work - just look into gastronomy and construction sites, where you can find the same "slave like" working conditions with workers "paying off debts" to those who trafficked them into the country.
Abusive trafficking is the inevitable consequence of lacking prosecution of those who traffick and those who do not adhere to existing labor laws.
Regarding the absurd "asymmetric" anti-prostitution laws in Sweden: If there was any honesty in those who want to criminalize prostitution, they would apply the same logic to many other professions: So eating in a restaurant where a trafficked worker cooked your meal would be illegal. Being helped by some trafficked nurse would be criminalized. Having your garden shack built by a company who brings trafficked workers to your site would make you a criminal.
Once you think of this, you might realize that the Swedish law is not at all against trafficking, it is against sex services being on offer in general, for irrational reasons.
Living in the "first world", I can assure you my toes do not require any extra protection. There is not so much hazardous waste, rabid dogs or grenade splinters in the streets, here.
... because obviously, if maximizing the efficiency of human work in terms of how many products/services are created is the defined goal, it makes absolutely no sense to have a multitude of competing companies spend lots of effort and material into developing/producing/advertising the same kind of product/service.
The only catch to this, just as with human car drivers: Not compatible with homo sapiens, which evolution shaped over millions of years to behave competetive and give a shit about some "greater good" for mandkind as a whole.
Cryptocurrencies do not make "untraceable money drops" more easy - on the contrary, if you transfer such money from some legitimate account to that of a criminal, every future use of that money is recorded in detail in the "distributed ledger", ready to be used for investigation now or in 30 years.
So unless your goal as a criminal is to some day die with $$$$ in some unused Bitcoin account, you have exactly the same problem of money laundering as with every other currency. Any non-criminal merchant, whether it is an sports car seller or a pizza delivery, will not have any reason to help you with hiding your association with some Bitcoin account number.
So all police needs to do is to follow back the chain of transactions from the first such legitimate merchant back to the first legal entity who would not want to reveal the source of the money, and jail them, either for money laundering, or for the theft of the money.
Nope, caffeine can be synthesized.