This is going to be applied to people who speak out against feminism, BLM, etc. They will make unpopular opinions disappear in the name of terrorism.
Dunno. Private companies do have one big check on their behavior - competition. If Google decided to turn the SJW dial to '11' one day and stomped out all references to anything not personally approved by Ms. Sarkeesian, folks would start gravitating over to Bing, using it instead. If Bing joined Google in this act, DuckDuckGo (or some as-yet-unknown competitor) would pick up the slack.
Capitalism has a lot of problems, but rampant censorship ain't one of them.
So now all a "Blackhat SEO" company has to do is spam ISIS content all over competitor websites to delist them from Google.
Pretty sure that's a tall order. What are you going to do, load down the comments section of $competitor_site with pro-isis propaganda? Pretty sure that, it being the only place you can spam any part of it, it won't get too far - at least not with moderators and CMS censorship software already in place.
As sibling said, you can do that already, right now, with offers to, say, sell drugs and/or kiddie pr0n... yet for some odd reason it doesn't seem to happen.
Now one thing that can happen as a result would be for the baddies to implement steganography, then post the encoded images to imgbin or tumblr for pickup by the intended reader(s)...
True, but they can screw up just as quickly on the dark web...
Meanwhile, Google can do a whole hell of a lot about that *right now* - Google can de-index their sites, then urge Bing, Yahoo, etc to do the same thing. For at least 98% of the Internet using population, that act alone pretty much wipes them off of any public consciousness. Toss in Facebook, Twitter, and etc actively looking for the same, and it bumps to at least 99%.
There's even a bonus - since its only private companies doing this, there's no First Amendment issues arising from it.
Lousy time to run out of mod points... this was damned good.
I would add though that it's never one factor that makes a company grow, die, or stay steady-state. R&D is one of the most important, but believe it or not, so is marketing, product design, and the state of competition.
We can continue using Palm as an example... the combination of stuff that killed it? Well...
1) As you said, R&D was stifled and stymied, even by its own management.
2) The larger market moved, and gained speed as it did. PDAs were being eclipsed for the same reason pagers were; phones began gaining features that obviated both of them (SMS killed the pager, while Blackberry slowly killed off the PDA. the iPhone was simply the coup d' gras.) To Palm's credit, PalmOS was one of the most-licensed OSes in the North American smartphone market pre-iPhone, but they failed to capitalize on it early/fast enough.
3) competition kept multiplying with no reprieve, with new competitors arriving that were backed by much larger corporations: BlackBerryOS, WinCE/WinMobile, Symbian, iOS, Android, etc etc etc. PalmOS
4) management dithered way too much, and leadership became rather dysfunctional and inward-looking (according to folks who worked there, anyway)
5) investments were grossly misspent, leaving Palm cash-poor at critical junctures.
6) Marketing was AWOL... the Palm brand was incredibly stale by the time smartphones became a thing outside of CxOs and salesmen. While PalmOS did very, very well in North America, its market share was barely above statistical noise in Europe and Asia.
There are a lot of other, smaller factors, but the idea stands - it's more than one thing that determines the fate of a company and its technology, eh?:)
In what cases is it "tailored to squeeze every ounce of power out of it's hardware"?
...an any case where the admin/owner decides to take a trip through make config , in extreme cases literally tear out unused bits of kernel from source (then recompile), or on a lesser scale, tweak up/etc/sysctl.
Now, if you mean tailoring from the OEM? That's most often found in Linux-based appliances, where the source itself is often hacked on to remove stuff the appliance would never use.
To be fair? Yeah you can twiddle with Windows Registry settings and turn off/disable excess services (I'd done both back in the day to wring out every last fps in Unreal Tournament), but you cannot literally pare out excess/unused crap in any part of the Windows microkernel itself. (I remember WinCE having something similar to that ability back in the day, but I doubt it's still there, especially for, say, Windows 10).
He is not actually going to build that wall on the Mexican border, and whatnot.
I suspect that he has no idea at all what this whole 'checks and balances' thing actually does.
That said, yeah, he's pandering his ass off, just like Sanders and Clinton (and numerous others) are happily doing as I type this. There will be no border wall, no free college/healthcare, no auditing of the Fed (sadly), no tax reforms (in *either* direction)... none of that shit.
Of course, the angry redneck and the stupid sophomore both have one thing in common: You can't tell either one of them a damned thing right now which refutes their little dreams.
Agreed - it did something rare: It outlined the difference between a widget built only for the sake of it being built, and that same widget built to be best-of-breed.
Put some love into the potential product, and as long as you're competent at it, quality is certain to be higher.
This is why Apple has been raking in megabucks on their laptops and phones for how many years now? Their products hold up under heavy punishment and hardly degrade over time, if at all. A 10-year-old MacBook or 6-year-old iPhone is still expected to work just fine under the last software update it supports. I've 2004-era G5 PowerMac running 10.5... and it still ran perfectly in 2014 when I gave it away. Apple supports these things for an obscenely long time.
Meanwhile, OEMs are cranking out near-disposable laptops and phones that barely last a year under any kind of heavy usage (e.g. CG rendering or rough environments). Hell, in many (if not most) cases, these items aren't even supported for drivers/updates/hdwe-specific-patches after a year or so, if at all.
Mind, there are exceptions to the latter (I still have an LG G2 that runs perfectly fine and snappy), but they are few and far between.
Apple makes their Mac Pros in the US, and yes it'll cost $3500 for a base model instead of $2000 (or so) that the old base model PowerMacs used to cost. That said, the base model Mac Pros are far beefier (even on a relative scale) than the old PowerMacs were (example: you get two high-end GPU cards now instead of the one mid-grade one that came with the base model PowerMac), so once all of that is factored out, the cost really isn't that much higher.
You *could* put in an equivalent of an IFF box in civilian drones, but much like a MAC addy in network cards, it will probably be spoofed at first opportunity by someone wanting to use their drone for less-than-moral purposes. See also IMEI number mods in stolen phones as a real-world example.
Take what's happening in Europe right now. We see an influx of young men, many of them clearly with violence and rape on their minds (as we've seen in Cologne, Paris, and other cities), entering Europe illegally. Yet despite this being a form of an invasion by hostile foreign invaders, we never see it described as such in the media. Instead, they try to sugarcoat the reality by using terms like "migrants" or "refugees", because not doing so would result in these media outlets getting attacked by the "social justice" crowd.
Oversimplify much?
...I'm curious: what part of "many of them" did you not comprehend? I emphasized it for you just in case.
We see it happening in America, too. Lately there have been a small number of cases of black youth violently attacking police officers, typically after being confronted for some crime these youth had committed, and then the police officers do the only reasonable thing and defend themselves using their guns. Not wanting to be falsely accused of being "racist" by the "social justice" supporters
Generalize much? After a career in emergency services that spanned three decades, I probably have more respect and sympathy for law enforcement than most, and I will be the first to say that pointing a gun, even a convincing replica, at a cop is a good way to get yourself shot. Race has nothing to do with that.
True indeed - but if a white kid got shot for being stupid in front of a cop, what are the odds that it would be splashed across the media, insinuating in myriad ways that the cops are skinheads at heart (even the darker-skinned cops, apparently)? Nevermind, I can answer that already: Slim-to-None. Also, if your assertion that "Race has nothing to do with that" were true, then explain the presence of BlackLivesMatter.
Wow, dude... way to miss what the original poster was saying. Doubly so for proving AC's post to not only be correct, but somewhat prescient.
Here's an idea - next time, instead of hauling out the invective and claiming a "complete inability to grasp even the most subtle nuance" ** , maybe you can present your views in a rational manner, perhaps without so much bile and anger?
** you do realize that "grasp even most subtle nuance" would mean that only those completely involved in said issue 24/7/365 would actually grasp said nuances, right? Maybe you meant "basic" instead of "subtle" (unless you don't know what the word subtle actually means... which in turn would kind of destroy a lot of credibility.)
'Social justice' is one of the more recent ones, with gaming being one of the more recent online targets (from anita sarkeesian to DIGRA).
The sad part is, "Social Justice" was originally a term coined by the Catholic Church during the mid-1970s to describe improving the lives of the poor... by means of religious charity and education in the Third World. Had approximately nothing to do with political ideology per se. They even ran television commercials at the time (which also included the phrase "No Justice, No Peace.")
That leads to another question: Is it really a "dream job" under those conditions? Sure, you get one hell of a resumé boost, but it doesn't appear that there's all that much dream to the job otherwise.
It's one thing to search for a savant at trivia and mathematics all at once. I get that; software requires a little of both (and more) at times.
The problems arise when we get down to the practical level. Drop everything and join us *now*! may be a great test to see how exploitable a candidate is to corporate whim, but it's a lousy way to get top-shelf employees. Another problem I'd noticed is that there isn't much testing for people who have good strategic/long-cycle thinking (and not just for code maintainability reasons.) They really should fix these things.
...and yeah, after 3 weeks of no decision being made? Screw it - I got bills to pay and a career to pursue, so instead I'm taking the not-as-prestigious-but-still-well-paying offer that comes along in the interim. As a bonus, skipping out on Google HR's chronic indecision habit means that I don't have to move to California.;)
“Its exploitation requires two non-default options: a ProxyCommand, and either ForwardAgent (-A) or ForwardX11 (-X),” Qualys said. “This buffer overflow is therefore unlikely to have any real-world impact.”
99.9% of all *nix servers on the planet with SSH on them do not use either option. Good that they patched it, but otherwise, I don't think I'm going to be in a massive hurry to do a crash-patching this weekend.
...who needs a laser? Just make sure the thing is big enough to obliterate The Enemy(tm), but small enough to not significantly wipe out Earth's ecosystem.
The tiny stuff could be nuked easily enough, but the really big stuff would just create a lot of really big (and now somewhat radioactive) rubble to carpet-bomb whatever place gets the impact.
Most non-destructive solutions require enough forewarning to slowly nudge the rock out of Earth's way.
I suspect that the only real long-term solution would be to put people off-earth in permanent colonies, enough to repopulate if need be. Then again, that carries its own potential problems as well.
Are you kidding? With the right tabloid/media outlet, $100 is chump change compared to the cashing-in you can get from the likes of CNN or the National Enquirer (depending on what and whom you get video/images of)...
This, right here... hell, even as a politician he could go out of his way to shame and ridicule the dolt who decided that youtube/facebook hits are more important to him than discretion and dignity. Now *that* would have a lot more impact.
Sorry, dude - As long as it ain't false+defamatory or a false incitement to panic, the First Amendment says that bystanders can pretty much say whatever they want about whatever they see in public - whenever they want, even while it's still happening.
One would of course hope that bystanders would have enough decency to show at least a basic discretion about it, but if they don't the problem is with the bystanders, not the laws. Maybe try and gently promote a cultural shift that would give the desired outcome, but using the law as a cudgel to enforce discretion in such a public instance is the wrong way to go.
Microsoft is tired of supporting old ass insecure software. They can't rely on people who won't run patches, so they are going the Apple route.
1) it's not Microsoft's decision to make on behalf of the public
2) OSX allows you to turn that behavior off and choose for yourself when to check for updates. I have a small AppleScript that checks for updates and downloads them on my behalf at 3am, when satellite Internet won't count it against bandwidth.
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This is going to be applied to people who speak out against feminism, BLM, etc. They will make unpopular opinions disappear in the name of terrorism.
Dunno. Private companies do have one big check on their behavior - competition. If Google decided to turn the SJW dial to '11' one day and stomped out all references to anything not personally approved by Ms. Sarkeesian, folks would start gravitating over to Bing, using it instead. If Bing joined Google in this act, DuckDuckGo (or some as-yet-unknown competitor) would pick up the slack.
Capitalism has a lot of problems, but rampant censorship ain't one of them.
So now all a "Blackhat SEO" company has to do is spam ISIS content all over competitor websites to delist them from Google.
Pretty sure that's a tall order. What are you going to do, load down the comments section of $competitor_site with pro-isis propaganda? Pretty sure that, it being the only place you can spam any part of it, it won't get too far - at least not with moderators and CMS censorship software already in place.
As sibling said, you can do that already, right now, with offers to, say, sell drugs and/or kiddie pr0n... yet for some odd reason it doesn't seem to happen.
Now one thing that can happen as a result would be for the baddies to implement steganography, then post the encoded images to imgbin or tumblr for pickup by the intended reader(s)...
If private companies are the only ones doing the censoring, then politicians don't get a mechanism to abuse. ;)
True, but they can screw up just as quickly on the dark web...
Meanwhile, Google can do a whole hell of a lot about that *right now* - Google can de-index their sites, then urge Bing, Yahoo, etc to do the same thing. For at least 98% of the Internet using population, that act alone pretty much wipes them off of any public consciousness. Toss in Facebook, Twitter, and etc actively looking for the same, and it bumps to at least 99%.
There's even a bonus - since its only private companies doing this, there's no First Amendment issues arising from it.
Lousy time to run out of mod points... this was damned good.
I would add though that it's never one factor that makes a company grow, die, or stay steady-state. R&D is one of the most important, but believe it or not, so is marketing, product design, and the state of competition.
We can continue using Palm as an example... the combination of stuff that killed it? Well...
1) As you said, R&D was stifled and stymied, even by its own management.
2) The larger market moved, and gained speed as it did. PDAs were being eclipsed for the same reason pagers were; phones began gaining features that obviated both of them (SMS killed the pager, while Blackberry slowly killed off the PDA. the iPhone was simply the coup d' gras.) To Palm's credit, PalmOS was one of the most-licensed OSes in the North American smartphone market pre-iPhone, but they failed to capitalize on it early/fast enough.
3) competition kept multiplying with no reprieve, with new competitors arriving that were backed by much larger corporations: BlackBerryOS, WinCE/WinMobile, Symbian, iOS, Android, etc etc etc. PalmOS
4) management dithered way too much, and leadership became rather dysfunctional and inward-looking (according to folks who worked there, anyway)
5) investments were grossly misspent, leaving Palm cash-poor at critical junctures.
6) Marketing was AWOL... the Palm brand was incredibly stale by the time smartphones became a thing outside of CxOs and salesmen. While PalmOS did very, very well in North America, its market share was barely above statistical noise in Europe and Asia.
There are a lot of other, smaller factors, but the idea stands - it's more than one thing that determines the fate of a company and its technology, eh? :)
In what cases is it "tailored to squeeze every ounce of power out of it's hardware"?
...an any case where the admin/owner decides to take a trip through make config , in extreme cases literally tear out unused bits of kernel from source (then recompile), or on a lesser scale, tweak up /etc/sysctl.
Now, if you mean tailoring from the OEM? That's most often found in Linux-based appliances, where the source itself is often hacked on to remove stuff the appliance would never use.
To be fair? Yeah you can twiddle with Windows Registry settings and turn off/disable excess services (I'd done both back in the day to wring out every last fps in Unreal Tournament), but you cannot literally pare out excess/unused crap in any part of the Windows microkernel itself. (I remember WinCE having something similar to that ability back in the day, but I doubt it's still there, especially for, say, Windows 10).
Prolly counting the spam-trap and inactive email accounts that folks have 'ginned up since it opened...
He is not actually going to build that wall on the Mexican border, and whatnot.
I suspect that he has no idea at all what this whole 'checks and balances' thing actually does.
That said, yeah, he's pandering his ass off, just like Sanders and Clinton (and numerous others) are happily doing as I type this. There will be no border wall, no free college/healthcare, no auditing of the Fed (sadly), no tax reforms (in *either* direction)... none of that shit.
Of course, the angry redneck and the stupid sophomore both have one thing in common: You can't tell either one of them a damned thing right now which refutes their little dreams.
Agreed - it did something rare: It outlined the difference between a widget built only for the sake of it being built, and that same widget built to be best-of-breed.
Put some love into the potential product, and as long as you're competent at it, quality is certain to be higher.
This is why Apple has been raking in megabucks on their laptops and phones for how many years now? Their products hold up under heavy punishment and hardly degrade over time, if at all. A 10-year-old MacBook or 6-year-old iPhone is still expected to work just fine under the last software update it supports. I've 2004-era G5 PowerMac running 10.5... and it still ran perfectly in 2014 when I gave it away. Apple supports these things for an obscenely long time.
Meanwhile, OEMs are cranking out near-disposable laptops and phones that barely last a year under any kind of heavy usage (e.g. CG rendering or rough environments). Hell, in many (if not most) cases, these items aren't even supported for drivers/updates/hdwe-specific-patches after a year or so, if at all.
Mind, there are exceptions to the latter (I still have an LG G2 that runs perfectly fine and snappy), but they are few and far between.
Not necessarily.
Apple makes their Mac Pros in the US, and yes it'll cost $3500 for a base model instead of $2000 (or so) that the old base model PowerMacs used to cost. That said, the base model Mac Pros are far beefier (even on a relative scale) than the old PowerMacs were (example: you get two high-end GPU cards now instead of the one mid-grade one that came with the base model PowerMac), so once all of that is factored out, the cost really isn't that much higher.
There are a great many human values that an economic system could promote. Capitalism got none of them.
Problem is, in practice, neither does any other system we've tried in human history.
You *could* put in an equivalent of an IFF box in civilian drones, but much like a MAC addy in network cards, it will probably be spoofed at first opportunity by someone wanting to use their drone for less-than-moral purposes. See also IMEI number mods in stolen phones as a real-world example.
Take what's happening in Europe right now. We see an influx of young men, many of them clearly with violence and rape on their minds (as we've seen in Cologne, Paris, and other cities), entering Europe illegally. Yet despite this being a form of an invasion by hostile foreign invaders, we never see it described as such in the media. Instead, they try to sugarcoat the reality by using terms like "migrants" or "refugees", because not doing so would result in these media outlets getting attacked by the "social justice" crowd.
Oversimplify much?
...I'm curious: what part of "many of them" did you not comprehend? I emphasized it for you just in case.
We see it happening in America, too. Lately there have been a small number of cases of black youth violently attacking police officers, typically after being confronted for some crime these youth had committed, and then the police officers do the only reasonable thing and defend themselves using their guns. Not wanting to be falsely accused of being "racist" by the "social justice" supporters
Generalize much? After a career in emergency services that spanned three decades, I probably have more respect and sympathy for law enforcement than most, and I will be the first to say that pointing a gun, even a convincing replica, at a cop is a good way to get yourself shot. Race has nothing to do with that.
True indeed - but if a white kid got shot for being stupid in front of a cop, what are the odds that it would be splashed across the media, insinuating in myriad ways that the cops are skinheads at heart (even the darker-skinned cops, apparently)? Nevermind, I can answer that already: Slim-to-None. Also, if your assertion that "Race has nothing to do with that" were true, then explain the presence of BlackLivesMatter.
Wow, dude... way to miss what the original poster was saying. Doubly so for proving AC's post to not only be correct, but somewhat prescient.
Here's an idea - next time, instead of hauling out the invective and claiming a "complete inability to grasp even the most subtle nuance" ** , maybe you can present your views in a rational manner, perhaps without so much bile and anger?
** you do realize that "grasp even most subtle nuance" would mean that only those completely involved in said issue 24/7/365 would actually grasp said nuances, right? Maybe you meant "basic" instead of "subtle" (unless you don't know what the word subtle actually means... which in turn would kind of destroy a lot of credibility.)
'Social justice' is one of the more recent ones, with gaming being one of the more recent online targets (from anita sarkeesian to DIGRA).
The sad part is, "Social Justice" was originally a term coined by the Catholic Church during the mid-1970s to describe improving the lives of the poor... by means of religious charity and education in the Third World. Had approximately nothing to do with political ideology per se. They even ran television commercials at the time (which also included the phrase "No Justice, No Peace.")
That leads to another question: Is it really a "dream job" under those conditions? Sure, you get one hell of a resumé boost, but it doesn't appear that there's all that much dream to the job otherwise.
This, right here.
It's one thing to search for a savant at trivia and mathematics all at once. I get that; software requires a little of both (and more) at times.
The problems arise when we get down to the practical level. Drop everything and join us *now*! may be a great test to see how exploitable a candidate is to corporate whim, but it's a lousy way to get top-shelf employees. Another problem I'd noticed is that there isn't much testing for people who have good strategic/long-cycle thinking (and not just for code maintainability reasons.) They really should fix these things.
99.9% of all *nix servers on the planet with SSH on them do not use either option. Good that they patched it, but otherwise, I don't think I'm going to be in a massive hurry to do a crash-patching this weekend.
...who needs a laser? Just make sure the thing is big enough to obliterate The Enemy(tm), but small enough to not significantly wipe out Earth's ecosystem.
Cool - but with what?
The tiny stuff could be nuked easily enough, but the really big stuff would just create a lot of really big (and now somewhat radioactive) rubble to carpet-bomb whatever place gets the impact.
Most non-destructive solutions require enough forewarning to slowly nudge the rock out of Earth's way.
I suspect that the only real long-term solution would be to put people off-earth in permanent colonies, enough to repopulate if need be. Then again, that carries its own potential problems as well.
Are you kidding? With the right tabloid/media outlet, $100 is chump change compared to the cashing-in you can get from the likes of CNN or the National Enquirer (depending on what and whom you get video/images of)...
I do wonder why no one has called for a background check and a 3-day waiting period before purchasing video/still camera-enabled equipment...
(mind, that was not a serious sentence.)
This, right here... hell, even as a politician he could go out of his way to shame and ridicule the dolt who decided that youtube/facebook hits are more important to him than discretion and dignity. Now *that* would have a lot more impact.
Sorry, dude - As long as it ain't false+defamatory or a false incitement to panic, the First Amendment says that bystanders can pretty much say whatever they want about whatever they see in public - whenever they want, even while it's still happening.
One would of course hope that bystanders would have enough decency to show at least a basic discretion about it, but if they don't the problem is with the bystanders, not the laws. Maybe try and gently promote a cultural shift that would give the desired outcome, but using the law as a cudgel to enforce discretion in such a public instance is the wrong way to go.
Microsoft is tired of supporting old ass insecure software. They can't rely on people who won't run patches, so they are going the Apple route.
1) it's not Microsoft's decision to make on behalf of the public
2) OSX allows you to turn that behavior off and choose for yourself when to check for updates. I have a small AppleScript that checks for updates and downloads them on my behalf at 3am, when satellite Internet won't count it against bandwidth.