... but not too far in the future, AI in some hospital will decide which children will live or die, and people will shrug and consider this perfectly normal.
The difference is the management of a USA company can chose to challenge the USA government and the worst that could happen is they would be forced to do it.
And yet Microsoft and Cisco did not even try to challenge anything but gladly helped their fellow spies.
Also the USA government is PR risk adverse.
They did spy on their "friends", including prominent politicians like chancellor Merkel, and didn't give a fuck about the negative repercussions. Even went to the extent to clearly state they did not intend to sign any "no-spy" agreement, ever - and that with what are supposed to be "allies".
The allegations against Huawei are just that: Allegations - while at the same time we know for sure that the US did tamper with network equipment to spy on companies in other nations.
And this is different how to the espionage collaboration of US companies with the US government? To the customers of Microsoft, Cisco and alike it does not make any difference if there are theoretical possibilities that a US company could try to challenge a "national security letter", in practice they are just as servile to their government as are Chinese companies to theirs.
By coming together in one place like this, all it takes is one person with measles to decimate them.
While deaths or severe complications from measles are easily avoidable by vaccination, most people contracting measles do not suffer any severe complications. So no, they are most probably not concerned of being decimated when they come together.
Apart from that, there are even lots of anti-vaxxers that practice the dangerous habit of "voluntarily" exposing their children to certain infections, because they are under the believe that this somehow helps their immune system to develop. (The weird misconception of them being that a vaccination would "train" the immune system just as well, with lower risk of complications.)
... of those who contract measles, and their insurance fees should reflect that added risk.
Only by making the costs or either decision transparent, you can address both the unfounded and the founded fears of vaccinations risks versus non-vaccinations risks.
While the benefit of the measles vaccination seems obvious to most, actual scandals surrounding other vaccinations have cast shadows of doubt on just every vaccination, especially for those who do not differentiate.
Do people seriously expect malware authors to tout: "Hey look, we just used Spectre successfully and extracted a thousand private keys from software that ran on the same physical cloud servers than our malware!"...?
The thing with Spectre and Meltdown is that there is no need to alter the software on the (virtual) CPU cores the victim uses.
As you can see, only 3 days into the future the predicted temperatures vary by 4C and the predicted precipitation (tab labeled "Niederschlag")looks almost randomly different between the models.
Personally I have found the exact GPS location based astronomy apps which provide cloud cover information, including a breakdown of the type and height of clouds, precipitation type, precipitation chance, possible max precipitation level, as well as wind speed, direction, relative humidity, and temperature all with an accuracy of +/-minutes to be "stunningly accurate".
Are you saying astronomers secretly produce better forecasts than meteorologists? Then let us know their secret.
I do not doubt that significant progress has been made in modeling weather and predicting some aspects of future weather. But so far this only changed weather forecasts from being "mostly random, not better than just predicting that tomorrow's weather will be just the same as today's weather" into the current "we can state some trend that is reasonably likely to be correct for the next few days". I can still read weather forecasts from yesterday evening in the news that say "0% probability of precipitation today for the city I live in", while I see rain falling outside the window.
"Stunningly accurate" would be a whole different thing, like the forecast being able to tell me "rain will start to fall at my location from 10:34h to 11:27h tomorrow" - and that they very much still cannot.
I'm with you, and I usually have not anything positive to say about Microsoft, but I have to state that the Xbox One X does work quite well "offline". I own one that is just not connected to the Internet. I buy or lend games on discs, play them, then re-sell or return them. Which is actually much cheaper than buying games "online".
Sure, many games try to lure you in the online-trap by touting what great adventures would lie ahead if playing online, but I could not care less.
Of course it cannot help against a person typing in a domain name manually for the very first time and misspelling the name at that time. But seriously, that is a rare scenario. The much more common fraudster approach is to lure people into following links to intentionally misspelled domain names, and there PKP helps a lot, because the browser can signal you whether you are on a page that you previously pinned the key for, and you will be warned if a page asks you for credentials that you did never visit before.
Plus PKP can defend you against other types of scams, where the real domain name is used, but a fake DNS server or even a man-in-the-middle proxy that tries to break you end-to-end encryption.
It is unbelievable how many people just don't realize what they lose when they depend on one particular company for their communication. I would have thought that the 100+ years of telephony service experience has taught the people that lesson, but no, they make the same mistake time and again. And it's not like there is no alternative - NNTP and IRC have been available for decades.
This much better solution was Public Key Pinning. Works great, but is of course not loved by the advertisement industry who wants you to watch content from constantly changing crappy domains.
If this story is true, then (regardless of its actual usefulness for the purpose) it would be a new, unique kind of event.
So far, whenever we heard state agencies tampering with IT, it was for the worst of intentions, insecuring devices by planting back-doors into them.
I'm afraid that even if the Japanese approach was actually true to its intentions, the next state announcing something like this will only do so as a cover-up for the next round of surveillance intrusion.
Facebook shared even photos and chat dialogues explicitly not intended for publication with other companies like Amazon, Microsoft etc. - only fools believe Facebook does not make use of their data just as they please.
And don't forget to mention that about 200 people less per day would die in the US if people just stopped eating opioids and other drugs for no good reason.
No tracking and profiling by data greedy corporations, no transaction fees, no "oops our card reader just malfunctions", and most importantly: I can give and take cash to/from whoever I want, without some corporation deciding if that person or me are deemed worthy their services.
So MongoDB Inc. says they want to have money from companies that host sell the service of of hosting their database for others, and those companies say "thanks, but no thanks, we'll rather use a different database, then".
That's a very simple decision both parties have the right to take, and it's all good now.
I remember when the company I work for had to decide whether to use RHEL or another Linux distribution, and since we deemed RHEL way too expensive for the little added value they offer, we went on to use CentOS (on thousands of machines). That was a similar situation where seller and potential buyer concluded their respective valuations were just too different for a deal.
If carnivores would stop eating herbivores, the additional alive herbivores would procreate, and their increasing number would eat more plants. That effect is quite visible for example in European forests, where in absence of larger carnivores the herbivores are decimating some plants (like young trees) almost into extinction, would humans not substitute the role of the larger carnivores by hunting. Carnivores are the plants' best friends.
QKD is only as secure as your believe that the physical model "Quantum Mechanics as of today" describes reality completely. And that we already know not to be the case (as quantum mechanics do not even include the omnipresent phenomenon "gravity"). Nobody can say if a more precise model of reality will open up ways to intercept single photon transmissions without leaving traces.
QKD also solves no problems as conventional cryptography works very well (and its potential failure is not quite the number one threat to data security).
... and for some years, amazing progress was made, just remember the Motorola v3688 or the tiny Nokia phones.
Then something weird happened, and suddenly phone become bigger and heavier, battery life shorter and charging went from a 3-second battery swap into a many-hours-long procedure.
The phones of today are really quite the opposite of what I would have expected the future to promise.
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... but not too far in the future, AI in some hospital will decide which children will live or die, and people will shrug and consider this perfectly normal.
The difference is the management of a USA company can chose to challenge the USA government and the worst that could happen is they would be forced to do it.
And yet Microsoft and Cisco did not even try to challenge anything but gladly helped their fellow spies.
Also the USA government is PR risk adverse.
They did spy on their "friends", including prominent politicians like chancellor Merkel, and didn't give a fuck about the negative repercussions. Even went to the extent to clearly state they did not intend to sign any "no-spy" agreement, ever - and that with what are supposed to be "allies".
The allegations against Huawei are just that: Allegations - while at the same time we know for sure that the US did tamper with network equipment to spy on companies in other nations.
And this is different how to the espionage collaboration of US companies with the US government? To the customers of Microsoft, Cisco and alike it does not make any difference if there are theoretical possibilities that a US company could try to challenge a "national security letter", in practice they are just as servile to their government as are Chinese companies to theirs.
By coming together in one place like this, all it takes is one person with measles to decimate them.
While deaths or severe complications from measles are easily avoidable by vaccination, most people contracting measles do not suffer any severe complications. So no, they are most probably not concerned of being decimated when they come together.
Apart from that, there are even lots of anti-vaxxers that practice the dangerous habit of "voluntarily" exposing their children to certain infections, because they are under the believe that this somehow helps their immune system to develop. (The weird misconception of them being that a vaccination would "train" the immune system just as well, with lower risk of complications.)
This has been subject to lots of prior considerations - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
... of those who contract measles, and their insurance fees should reflect that added risk.
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Only by making the costs or either decision transparent, you can address both the unfounded and the founded fears of vaccinations risks versus non-vaccinations risks.
While the benefit of the measles vaccination seems obvious to most, actual scandals surrounding other vaccinations have cast shadows of doubt on just every vaccination, especially for those who do not differentiate.
One tragic contemporary example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Do people seriously expect malware authors to tout: "Hey look, we just used Spectre successfully and extracted a thousand private keys from software that ran on the same physical cloud servers than our malware!"...?
The thing with Spectre and Meltdown is that there is no need to alter the software on the (virtual) CPU cores the victim uses.
... all from serious national institutes in Europe, for the next days in Berlin: https://kachelmannwetter.com/d...
As you can see, only 3 days into the future the predicted temperatures vary by 4C and the predicted precipitation (tab labeled "Niederschlag")looks almost randomly different between the models.
This is all but "stunningly accurate".
Personally I have found the exact GPS location based astronomy apps which provide cloud cover information, including a breakdown of the type and height of clouds, precipitation type, precipitation chance, possible max precipitation level, as well as wind speed, direction, relative humidity, and temperature all with an accuracy of +/-minutes to be "stunningly accurate".
Are you saying astronomers secretly produce better forecasts than meteorologists? Then let us know their secret.
I do not doubt that significant progress has been made in modeling weather and predicting some aspects of future weather. But so far this only changed weather forecasts from being "mostly random, not better than just predicting that tomorrow's weather will be just the same as today's weather" into the current "we can state some trend that is reasonably likely to be correct for the next few days". I can still read weather forecasts from yesterday evening in the news that say "0% probability of precipitation today for the city I live in", while I see rain falling outside the window.
"Stunningly accurate" would be a whole different thing, like the forecast being able to tell me "rain will start to fall at my location from 10:34h to 11:27h tomorrow" - and that they very much still cannot.
I'm with you, and I usually have not anything positive to say about Microsoft, but I have to state that the Xbox One X does work quite well "offline". I own one that is just not connected to the Internet. I buy or lend games on discs, play them, then re-sell or return them. Which is actually much cheaper than buying games "online".
Sure, many games try to lure you in the online-trap by touting what great adventures would lie ahead if playing online, but I could not care less.
Of course it cannot help against a person typing in a domain name manually for the very first time and misspelling the name at that time. But seriously, that is a rare scenario. The much more common fraudster approach is to lure people into following links to intentionally misspelled domain names, and there PKP helps a lot, because the browser can signal you whether you are on a page that you previously pinned the key for, and you will be warned if a page asks you for credentials that you did never visit before.
Plus PKP can defend you against other types of scams, where the real domain name is used, but a fake DNS server or even a man-in-the-middle proxy that tries to break you end-to-end encryption.
It is unbelievable how many people just don't realize what they lose when they depend on one particular company for their communication. I would have thought that the 100+ years of telephony service experience has taught the people that lesson, but no, they make the same mistake time and again. And it's not like there is no alternative - NNTP and IRC have been available for decades.
This much better solution was Public Key Pinning. Works great, but is of course not loved by the advertisement industry who wants you to watch content from constantly changing crappy domains.
If this story is true, then (regardless of its actual usefulness for the purpose) it would be a new, unique kind of event. So far, whenever we heard state agencies tampering with IT, it was for the worst of intentions, insecuring devices by planting back-doors into them.
I'm afraid that even if the Japanese approach was actually true to its intentions, the next state announcing something like this will only do so as a cover-up for the next round of surveillance intrusion.
Facebook shared even photos and chat dialogues explicitly not intended for publication with other companies like Amazon, Microsoft etc. - only fools believe Facebook does not make use of their data just as they please.
And don't forget to mention that about 200 people less per day would die in the US if people just stopped eating opioids and other drugs for no good reason.
... to make this possible: Microsoft Office365 outage hits users across Europe.
Only if they are autonomously steered by Apps in the Cloud using Blockchains on Quantum Computers as their AI.
No tracking and profiling by data greedy corporations, no transaction fees, no "oops our card reader just malfunctions", and most importantly: I can give and take cash to/from whoever I want, without some corporation deciding if that person or me are deemed worthy their services.
So MongoDB Inc. says they want to have money from companies that host sell the service of of hosting their database for others, and those companies say "thanks, but no thanks, we'll rather use a different database, then".
That's a very simple decision both parties have the right to take, and it's all good now.
I remember when the company I work for had to decide whether to use RHEL or another Linux distribution, and since we deemed RHEL way too expensive for the little added value they offer, we went on to use CentOS (on thousands of machines). That was a similar situation where seller and potential buyer concluded their respective valuations were just too different for a deal.
If carnivores would stop eating herbivores, the additional alive herbivores would procreate, and their increasing number would eat more plants. That effect is quite visible for example in European forests, where in absence of larger carnivores the herbivores are decimating some plants (like young trees) almost into extinction, would humans not substitute the role of the larger carnivores by hunting. Carnivores are the plants' best friends.
QKD is only as secure as your believe that the physical model "Quantum Mechanics as of today" describes reality completely. And that we already know not to be the case (as quantum mechanics do not even include the omnipresent phenomenon "gravity"). Nobody can say if a more precise model of reality will open up ways to intercept single photon transmissions without leaving traces.
QKD also solves no problems as conventional cryptography works very well (and its potential failure is not quite the number one threat to data security).
... and yet they are unable to stop the brutal massacres that follow when those herbivores mutilate and maul them alive. Shame on you, Vegans!
... and for some years, amazing progress was made, just remember the Motorola v3688 or the tiny Nokia phones. Then something weird happened, and suddenly phone become bigger and heavier, battery life shorter and charging went from a 3-second battery swap into a many-hours-long procedure. The phones of today are really quite the opposite of what I would have expected the future to promise.