So if we stop using numbers, and use fingerprints or retinas instead, that's supposed to be more secure... but how do we communicate the biometric patterns over the wire to prove our identities? We encode the patterns as numbers. And the other party must have a record of those encoded numbers to compare with to see if there's a match.
We're still using social security numbers, we're just using very pretty numbers. And numbers that can't be revoked when (not if) there's another breach.
Many algorithms are utterly convinced I live in the city Toronto. So much so, they will not show me information outside of Toronto nor give me the option of telling them where I actually live.
Now what if such an algorithm was utterly convinced I'm homosexual, or heterosexual, and people using that algorithm denied me information because of it?
> statistics indicate human behavior is the major cause of most auto crashes
Ah, but is OTHER humans that are the cause of accidents, not me. That's why it's better if OTHER humans use self-driving cars, but I'm better off in control because I'm better than OTHER humans.
This reminds me of Rat Park https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... : the rats had all the heroin they could stuff down their throats, but they had better things to do, so meh.
In the real world, getting paid is what matters. Getting shit done is a way to get paid, a slow and difficult way to get paid, but demonstrably not the only way to get paid.
That's the joke. We used to use SGML-dialect "HTML", we came up with two flavours of XML, and the solution proposed it to come up with yet another one-right-to-rule-them-all standard.
Did we ever use rfc822 in the past? That seems like a no-brainer since it pre-dates all of these, and it is less awkward than all of these.
Ubiquity. You could deploy a superiour file format, or you could deploy a file format that customers could actually use. Part of the rarity of.ogg players was an absence of integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, which kept ogg off of small ("embedded") electronics for many years.
At more than one place I've worked, our higher-ups have told us to cc them on just about everything. I keep thinking I only need to pester them if we need their guidance or their resources, but I'm told over and over that management wants to have full awareness, and it's a mistake if I don't include them by cc. So it's not that I don't trust my co-workers, it's that my bosses want to be aware of all our interactions and I get in trouble for being discrete.
I already get spam -- and even phishing -- email from domain names that have proper DKIM and SPF records. Sometimes it's though easy cheap email services or mailing list services like emalia.be or wecall101.fr , sometimes is from hosts and domain names that were purchased just to blast out email, and 48 hours later I get the same advertisements from a fresh new domain names change with fresh new valid DMARC records.
Is it possible to use Windows 10 without the taskbar? When I had to use company-issued windows workstations, I'd get slowed down by the explorer.exe crashes that would demolish not just the file manager but also the desktop shell, so I replaced the shell with something else like Litestep or Blackbox (bb4win or bblean). I think the registry key to change was SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell ?
Isn't the point of the "Dark Web" is that it is obfuscated? You can count all the things you know about, but how can you count the things you don't know about?
I never got on the LiveJournal bus, and I noticed that the people I hung out with were talking about things I didn't know about, and talking about events that I wasn't invited to because it was only mentioned on LiveJournal.
Now with Facebook -- which is broken for me -- I see friends less and less often because they talk to each other through Facebook, and organize get-togethers solely through Facebook. They don't even use email, nevermind telephone calls anymore. And since I can't use Facebook, I'm left out.
It feels like I'm isolated because I'm not using (or able to use) social media enough to keep-up with my peers.
I'd really like to have a custom ROM so I can get better control over my palmtop computer, and better diagnostics for the crashes. But the custom ROMs that are available all have this in common: they don't have access to the "phone" part of my smartphone. This would be like putting a custom engine into a car so long as I can't use it on public streets. So no, the device manufacturer has made certain I won't be using a custom ROM in my Android smartphone.
This will waste time for me in two ways: in a small way, the flickering display of suggestions will distract me and instil doubt from the answer I already know I'm typing; in a large way, I expect it will act like autocorrect does in wordprocessors and webforms, and I will have to erase what was filled in (maybe a more than once) to get it to be what I intended to type.
That introduces a new attack, where I can knock a legit actor offline by falsely reporting. Just like the MPAA/RIAA you've cited, who managed to get legitimate videos removed from YouTube, and innocent customers ejected from ISPs.
Dyn did do it correctly -- domain names had four DNS servers, two machines at each of two widely distant facilities. I don't think you grasp the volume of traffic that was involved; it was literally record-breaking, and future events will be bigger if we don't change the way we change the internet and internet-using devices. Adding more DNS servers at more facilities is an arms race the good guys are going to lose.
`If I were a student, I'd be terrified. I didn't cheat, but I could still be accused of cheating for having a solution "too similar" to some other solution. Saying I've waived my right to defend myself against accusation because I didn't admit to something I didn't do would drive me crazy. I'd have to lie about cheating just to avoid the more severe punishment, despite not actually doing the behaviour the administration wishes to discourage.
The fear of punishment that's unconnected to misbehaviour will drive lab rats into neurotic self-harm, and students are pretty similar to lab rats.
The story has antigravity, faster-than-light travel, force-shield projectors you can wear as a belt buckle and you're okay with the unrealistic physics, but you dismiss the entire series because you don't like the abstractly-defined maths in the first book?
If you thought Asimov was unaware of chaos theory, then you haven't read past the first book, and you also don't know the author's other works.
"All employees are required to register with Google Fit. Employees who are not healthy are inefficient, and their salary will be adjusted accordingly to the value they are withholding from this company by being insufficiently healthy."
Just like when employers demand the social networking data of every employee, sometimes even requiring Facebook passwords.
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We're still using social security numbers, we're just using very pretty numbers. And numbers that can't be revoked when (not if) there's another breach.
Now what if such an algorithm was utterly convinced I'm homosexual, or heterosexual, and people using that algorithm denied me information because of it?
Isn't that what these bootcamps are promising?
> statistics indicate human behavior is the major cause of most auto crashes
Ah, but is OTHER humans that are the cause of accidents, not me. That's why it's better if OTHER humans use self-driving cars, but I'm better off in control because I'm better than OTHER humans.
Sounds like the Paperclip Maximizer problem to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Gotta get that reader engagement, at any cost.
This reminds me of Rat Park https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... : the rats had all the heroin they could stuff down their throats, but they had better things to do, so meh.
In the real world, getting paid is what matters. Getting shit done is a way to get paid, a slow and difficult way to get paid, but demonstrably not the only way to get paid.
We used to do that ON PURPOSE. It's wasn't mechanical failure, it was an undocumented feature. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargo...
Did we ever use rfc822 in the past? That seems like a no-brainer since it pre-dates all of these, and it is less awkward than all of these.
Ubiquity. You could deploy a superiour file format, or you could deploy a file format that customers could actually use. Part of the rarity of .ogg players was an absence of integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, which kept ogg off of small ("embedded") electronics for many years.
At more than one place I've worked, our higher-ups have told us to cc them on just about everything. I keep thinking I only need to pester them if we need their guidance or their resources, but I'm told over and over that management wants to have full awareness, and it's a mistake if I don't include them by cc. So it's not that I don't trust my co-workers, it's that my bosses want to be aware of all our interactions and I get in trouble for being discrete.
More paperwork isn't the solution.
Is it possible to use Windows 10 without the taskbar? When I had to use company-issued windows workstations, I'd get slowed down by the explorer.exe crashes that would demolish not just the file manager but also the desktop shell, so I replaced the shell with something else like Litestep or Blackbox (bb4win or bblean). I think the registry key to change was SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell ?
Isn't the point of the "Dark Web" is that it is obfuscated? You can count all the things you know about, but how can you count the things you don't know about?
I never got on the LiveJournal bus, and I noticed that the people I hung out with were talking about things I didn't know about, and talking about events that I wasn't invited to because it was only mentioned on LiveJournal. Now with Facebook -- which is broken for me -- I see friends less and less often because they talk to each other through Facebook, and organize get-togethers solely through Facebook. They don't even use email, nevermind telephone calls anymore. And since I can't use Facebook, I'm left out.
It feels like I'm isolated because I'm not using (or able to use) social media enough to keep-up with my peers.
"The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget" "We store new memories in these networks."
To forget is to store new memories?
Won't we still use "the fossil fuel industry" to fill the batteries before use? Batteries store power, they don't produce power.
I'd really like to have a custom ROM so I can get better control over my palmtop computer, and better diagnostics for the crashes. But the custom ROMs that are available all have this in common: they don't have access to the "phone" part of my smartphone. This would be like putting a custom engine into a car so long as I can't use it on public streets. So no, the device manufacturer has made certain I won't be using a custom ROM in my Android smartphone.
This will waste time for me in two ways: in a small way, the flickering display of suggestions will distract me and instil doubt from the answer I already know I'm typing; in a large way, I expect it will act like autocorrect does in wordprocessors and webforms, and I will have to erase what was filled in (maybe a more than once) to get it to be what I intended to type.
That introduces a new attack, where I can knock a legit actor offline by falsely reporting. Just like the MPAA/RIAA you've cited, who managed to get legitimate videos removed from YouTube, and innocent customers ejected from ISPs.
Dyn did do it correctly -- domain names had four DNS servers, two machines at each of two widely distant facilities. I don't think you grasp the volume of traffic that was involved; it was literally record-breaking, and future events will be bigger if we don't change the way we change the internet and internet-using devices. Adding more DNS servers at more facilities is an arms race the good guys are going to lose.
Verizon later conceded that they had transferred his account despite having neither requested nor being given the 4-digit PIN they had on record
So it's not the phone, it's the company that didn't abide by their own policies.
`If I were a student, I'd be terrified. I didn't cheat, but I could still be accused of cheating for having a solution "too similar" to some other solution. Saying I've waived my right to defend myself against accusation because I didn't admit to something I didn't do would drive me crazy. I'd have to lie about cheating just to avoid the more severe punishment, despite not actually doing the behaviour the administration wishes to discourage.
The fear of punishment that's unconnected to misbehaviour will drive lab rats into neurotic self-harm, and students are pretty similar to lab rats.
The story has antigravity, faster-than-light travel, force-shield projectors you can wear as a belt buckle and you're okay with the unrealistic physics, but you dismiss the entire series because you don't like the abstractly-defined maths in the first book?
If you thought Asimov was unaware of chaos theory, then you haven't read past the first book, and you also don't know the author's other works.
"All employees are required to register with Google Fit. Employees who are not healthy are inefficient, and their salary will be adjusted accordingly to the value they are withholding from this company by being insufficiently healthy."
Just like when employers demand the social networking data of every employee, sometimes even requiring Facebook passwords.