Not quite sure which side of the alleged ideological fence you would place logic, rhetoric, and critical thought, though. Seems the edges of both ends of that continuum are horribly short on those.
I can't find a PDF copy or free access to the full text of the publication so I can't speak to its quality, but with quotes like "romance of digital innovation by appealing to the hackers' aspiration to be multi-dimensional agents of change" I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same kind of flowery shit that Sokal made fun of over two decades ago.
What's even funnier is that I don't think that "labor control" (understood as forcing more labor out of someone in a short period of time) is as important as the desire for 'intellectual farming', wherein hackers spew out original ideas, processes, and code, and corporations (and/or sponsors) immediately take possession of that freshly brewed intellectual property, immediately locking it down as theirs.
On that point, I agree (I mess with CG as a fun little hobby.)
This will likely cross into privacy territory, though (for a non-child-based instance, making a visually perfect CG-based revenge porn, starring your ex, and splattering it online.) After all, everyone has (I think?) a right to their own persona and likeness. If the 'characters' don't look like anyone in particular, then it's going to be interesting, as you've said.
Of course - but unless you're advocating for the decriminalization of child porn, I fail to see where our thoughts or words conflict. As for that bit of it (the porn), it shouldn't be impossible to de-porn a blockchain if these files are where TFA says they are, and if TFA is sufficient accurate. The only issue will be in keeping the integrity and trust of the blockchain itself (or at least its perception) intact after doing so.
(...and who the hell was dumb enough to leave such a facility in place anyway?)
Actual child porn, and the possession thereof, has always (at least for the past few decades) been illegal, because it is legally akin to aiding and abetting the act which produced it (doubly so if you straight-up paid for the stuff.) I fail to see where this particular prohibition somehow leads us to a police state.
You* can dream about sexually abusing children all you want - nobody is disputing that. You can even scribble pictures of whatever you like in that regard - the rest of the planet generally has no legitimate reason to care (unless you're being evaluated as a potential babysitter, youth leader/coach, or suchlike). It's your brain; do whatever you want with it. As long as you're not harming anyone else in the process (or actively supporting such harm to others), do whatever you want in the privacy of your own home. The article itself doesn't;t even come close to disputing what I just typed.
Now passing around photographic pictures of sexual abuse, when such material is prima facie evidence of a no-shit crime? That's going to rightfully fall under the attention of law enforcement.
Best course of action is for someone to come up with a means of excising the bad crap without violating the integrity (or trust) of the blockchain's more important parts. I wish y'all luck on that one.
* This word means "You" in the royal sense, not "you" as in the gent with UID 166417
Most are not "Fake News" in the Trumpian sense, as in they're not completely fabricated.
However, many (if not the majority) of what one sees today has a nasty habit of taking some facts, emphasizing other (convenient) ones, completely ignoring still other (inconvenient) ones, then subtly weaving a narrative into what is being 'reported'. Then the 'story' gets spiced with enough drama to grab eyeballs (thus advertising dollars).
This is to provide ammunition of opinion-making fellow travelers of a given ideology, to provide 'confirmation' to the existing audience base, and to garner influence (and thus power) along the way. Cable/Sat television news is chock full of it - CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, RT, you-name-it. The Papers are a lost cause in most cases these days, and the Web is even worse. Toss in some satire sites that are too-damned-close-to-reality (enough that it takes a fairly sharp mind to recognize that it's actually satire), and you have the mess we see today.
It's gotten to the point where the only news orgs really worth watching/reading for news on events at large, are the ones which stick to mostly business-oriented content (such as CNBC, WSJ, Fox Business, and suchlike). Why? Because ideological BS tends to be secondary there, and they know that their audience (business folk) don't have much time, adoration, or tolerance for pap or propaganda. For politics, there's always C-SPAN, where you more often than not get it raw and unfiltered (and it's up to you to summarize it all, however you please.)
I agree though - this isn't an OSS=bad issue at all. Dick move by the researchers aside, this is still a net benefit (many eyes still making bugs shallow, etc.)
Overall, I'd rather find out (even under crap circumstances like this) in public, then to have script kiddies exploiting it like crazy in private.
I'm kind of wondering that myself. They're (somewhat fortunately) quite vague with describing the flaws... A couple of them *appear* to be remote-exploit flaws (almost couldn't give a flying fuck about local privilege escalations, save for specific circumstances I won't detail here, though you'd pretty much be able to find parallel circumstnaces in your own workworld.)
Then again, it's hard to tell at first glance. One one hand I'm glad they didn't bother with exploit POC/demonstrations, but on the other, the amdflaws site and whitepaper is (at least this morning) hellishly short on details that one could use to properly assess the actual threat(s).
1) You get your gas pumped for you in Oregon because someone thought it would be a great (protectionist) idea to make it a LAW to not allow folks to pump their own gas in most circumstances. It sucks waiting for someone to amble out and pump your gas for you on your commute (and if it's someone new to the job, well, that car wash you did the day before just went to hell...)
2) A lot of us drive slow as hell up here. Kinda sucks, but fortunately I only have to commute about once a week, so for me at least, it's tolerable.
If they were just moving it in-situ, they'd pick a city and gang up on it. For awhile I thought Austin, TX would be the New Silly Valley, but nope... companies are (at least form what I've seen) moving to New York, Oregon, Washington, Texas, lot of other places...
The days of needing to be in one physical spot are, well, over. All you need is decent Internet infrastructure these days. The same is coming true for startups as it is coming true for tech workers.
I see this as a good thing, and would love to see it accelerate a bit - now all that flirting I get from SV companies won't require me to knee-jerk a "...hell no, I ain't moving to that shithole!" just to do interesting and exciting things in technology.
The only real danger I see form the overarching evolution would be an increase in outsourcing (because if you follow it to its logical conclusion, a remote worker in India or wherever can be just as competitive as one in Utah or Ohio.)
1) Rural kids still use them all the time for chores and general things here and there. Knife usage, safety, and care *used* to be part of Cub Scout and Boy Scout lore.
2) when they get dull. a sharp knife is far safer than a dull one. If you use knives to do more than spread butter on toast, you'd learn this awful quickly.
In most cases, they do. Sat works anywhere with a clear view of the Southern sky. 4G works in most areas. DSL is astoundingly common out here (doubly so with the miniature DSLAMs).
You're right - it crashed hard. Certs have also become so worthless in tech that you rarely bother seeing a requirement for one nowadays. The only certs I see with any visibility (and possible worth in any industry) are the hilarious HR SHRM certifications and the occasional PMP (...and why that isn't dead by now I'll never guess.)
That said, I figure this could be a trial by Google to see if it has any worth at all, to maybe resurrect the viability (and more importantly, money-making potential) for a certification that they control.
Agreed. Taxing a corporation or consulting firm $250k/yr per H1-B (on top of salary, recruiter fees, and whatever they paid to import said H1-Bs) would rinse out actual need (versus undercutting the job market) *very* quickly, and reduce the purple squirrel job descriptions to boot.
This is Google creating a cert to claim someone knows basic entry-level stuff in hopes other companies will bother recognizing it in some sort of fashion.
This is actually a valid opinion. I can see it starting as a trial balloon of sorts, to see if taking over a cert (therefore taking over mindshare) is worthwhile for the big "G".
Then again, $30k/yr in much of the Midwest can get you a nice house and a somewhat decent living. $30k/yr in any west-coast metro area (Portland, Seattle, SanFran, LA) might get you a spot to pitch a tent on Skid Row.
Depends on location. If the job is in Silly Valley, $60k is likely a minimum (not 100% sure, but given cost-of-living, $60k is pretty much poverty wages in the San Francisco Bay area.)
...since when are rural voters "stuck with one ISP"?
I have a choice of DSL, two Satellite Internet providers, three 4G ISPs (two of whom are reachable from my property), and one dedicated point-to-point wireless ISP (Coho.net). speeds range from 4G speeds to 25 mbps.
So, kindly do not place us hicks into a bucket that doesn't fit. Thanks in advance.
Kinda dumb anyway, though; for awhile about a decade ago, laptops regularly came out with SIM chips; for some odd reason, nobody really used that feature (because damn, Verizon is *expensive* just to get a dedicated data line for your 'puter, doubly so nowadays when you can (well, mostly) turn your phone into a wifi hotspot.)
(the top-end tablets still have this feature, albeit an optional one. Rare to see it being used, though, at least in personal experience.)
Sometimes I wonder if they're in it to promote progress, or just looking for a new massive tax writeoff.
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So is history, come to think of it.
Not quite sure which side of the alleged ideological fence you would place logic, rhetoric, and critical thought, though. Seems the edges of both ends of that continuum are horribly short on those.
I can't find a PDF copy or free access to the full text of the publication so I can't speak to its quality, but with quotes like "romance of digital innovation by appealing to the hackers' aspiration to be multi-dimensional agents of change" I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same kind of flowery shit that Sokal made fun of over two decades ago.
What's even funnier is that I don't think that "labor control" (understood as forcing more labor out of someone in a short period of time) is as important as the desire for 'intellectual farming', wherein hackers spew out original ideas, processes, and code, and corporations (and/or sponsors) immediately take possession of that freshly brewed intellectual property, immediately locking it down as theirs.
On that point, I agree (I mess with CG as a fun little hobby.)
This will likely cross into privacy territory, though (for a non-child-based instance, making a visually perfect CG-based revenge porn, starring your ex, and splattering it online.) After all, everyone has (I think?) a right to their own persona and likeness. If the 'characters' don't look like anyone in particular, then it's going to be interesting, as you've said.
Of course - but unless you're advocating for the decriminalization of child porn, I fail to see where our thoughts or words conflict. As for that bit of it (the porn), it shouldn't be impossible to de-porn a blockchain if these files are where TFA says they are, and if TFA is sufficient accurate. The only issue will be in keeping the integrity and trust of the blockchain itself (or at least its perception) intact after doing so.
(...and who the hell was dumb enough to leave such a facility in place anyway?)
Actual child porn, and the possession thereof, has always (at least for the past few decades) been illegal, because it is legally akin to aiding and abetting the act which produced it (doubly so if you straight-up paid for the stuff.) I fail to see where this particular prohibition somehow leads us to a police state.
You* can dream about sexually abusing children all you want - nobody is disputing that. You can even scribble pictures of whatever you like in that regard - the rest of the planet generally has no legitimate reason to care (unless you're being evaluated as a potential babysitter, youth leader/coach, or suchlike). It's your brain; do whatever you want with it. As long as you're not harming anyone else in the process (or actively supporting such harm to others), do whatever you want in the privacy of your own home. The article itself doesn't;t even come close to disputing what I just typed.
Now passing around photographic pictures of sexual abuse, when such material is prima facie evidence of a no-shit crime? That's going to rightfully fall under the attention of law enforcement.
Best course of action is for someone to come up with a means of excising the bad crap without violating the integrity (or trust) of the blockchain's more important parts. I wish y'all luck on that one.
* This word means "You" in the royal sense, not "you" as in the gent with UID 166417
Yes and no.
Most are not "Fake News" in the Trumpian sense, as in they're not completely fabricated.
However, many (if not the majority) of what one sees today has a nasty habit of taking some facts, emphasizing other (convenient) ones, completely ignoring still other (inconvenient) ones, then subtly weaving a narrative into what is being 'reported'. Then the 'story' gets spiced with enough drama to grab eyeballs (thus advertising dollars).
This is to provide ammunition of opinion-making fellow travelers of a given ideology, to provide 'confirmation' to the existing audience base, and to garner influence (and thus power) along the way. Cable/Sat television news is chock full of it - CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, RT, you-name-it. The Papers are a lost cause in most cases these days, and the Web is even worse. Toss in some satire sites that are too-damned-close-to-reality (enough that it takes a fairly sharp mind to recognize that it's actually satire), and you have the mess we see today.
It's gotten to the point where the only news orgs really worth watching/reading for news on events at large, are the ones which stick to mostly business-oriented content (such as CNBC, WSJ, Fox Business, and suchlike). Why? Because ideological BS tends to be secondary there, and they know that their audience (business folk) don't have much time, adoration, or tolerance for pap or propaganda. For politics, there's always C-SPAN, where you more often than not get it raw and unfiltered (and it's up to you to summarize it all, however you please.)
Actually, I think something else entirely will happen.
Got popcorn?
Devil's Advocate: the disclosure(s) is (are) vague as hell on exploit details, let alone demonstrations or proof-of-concepts, so there is that.
All said though, still a dick move by CTS-Labs.
Get back under the bed, you... !
I agree though - this isn't an OSS=bad issue at all. Dick move by the researchers aside, this is still a net benefit (many eyes still making bugs shallow, etc.)
Overall, I'd rather find out (even under crap circumstances like this) in public, then to have script kiddies exploiting it like crazy in private.
I'm kind of wondering that myself. They're (somewhat fortunately) quite vague with describing the flaws... A couple of them *appear* to be remote-exploit flaws (almost couldn't give a flying fuck about local privilege escalations, save for specific circumstances I won't detail here, though you'd pretty much be able to find parallel circumstnaces in your own workworld.)
Then again, it's hard to tell at first glance. One one hand I'm glad they didn't bother with exploit POC/demonstrations, but on the other, the amdflaws site and whitepaper is (at least this morning) hellishly short on details that one could use to properly assess the actual threat(s).
...I mean funny of them to do what they want with their money :).
Whose money? Uber is only borrowing it (albeit with a vague promise to pay it back with unspecified amounts of interest, but...)
FYI...
1) You get your gas pumped for you in Oregon because someone thought it would be a great (protectionist) idea to make it a LAW to not allow folks to pump their own gas in most circumstances. It sucks waiting for someone to amble out and pump your gas for you on your commute (and if it's someone new to the job, well, that car wash you did the day before just went to hell...)
2) A lot of us drive slow as hell up here. Kinda sucks, but fortunately I only have to commute about once a week, so for me at least, it's tolerable.
3) Oregon is full. Move to Washington. ;)
If they were just moving it in-situ, they'd pick a city and gang up on it. For awhile I thought Austin, TX would be the New Silly Valley, but nope... companies are (at least form what I've seen) moving to New York, Oregon, Washington, Texas, lot of other places...
The days of needing to be in one physical spot are, well, over. All you need is decent Internet infrastructure these days. The same is coming true for startups as it is coming true for tech workers.
I see this as a good thing, and would love to see it accelerate a bit - now all that flirting I get from SV companies won't require me to knee-jerk a "...hell no, I ain't moving to that shithole!" just to do interesting and exciting things in technology.
The only real danger I see form the overarching evolution would be an increase in outsourcing (because if you follow it to its logical conclusion, a remote worker in India or wherever can be just as competitive as one in Utah or Ohio.)
Solved 30 years ago? try 2017...
1) Rural kids still use them all the time for chores and general things here and there. Knife usage, safety, and care *used* to be part of Cub Scout and Boy Scout lore.
2) when they get dull. a sharp knife is far safer than a dull one. If you use knives to do more than spread butter on toast, you'd learn this awful quickly.
1) Can't fix PEBCAK
2) See #1.
In most cases, they do. Sat works anywhere with a clear view of the Southern sky. 4G works in most areas. DSL is astoundingly common out here (doubly so with the miniature DSLAMs).
It may not be gigabit, but honestly, it works just fine for most purposes.
But that's cool - you do you. ;)
You're right - it crashed hard. Certs have also become so worthless in tech that you rarely bother seeing a requirement for one nowadays. The only certs I see with any visibility (and possible worth in any industry) are the hilarious HR SHRM certifications and the occasional PMP (...and why that isn't dead by now I'll never guess.)
That said, I figure this could be a trial by Google to see if it has any worth at all, to maybe resurrect the viability (and more importantly, money-making potential) for a certification that they control.
Agreed. Taxing a corporation or consulting firm $250k/yr per H1-B (on top of salary, recruiter fees, and whatever they paid to import said H1-Bs) would rinse out actual need (versus undercutting the job market) *very* quickly, and reduce the purple squirrel job descriptions to boot.
This is Google creating a cert to claim someone knows basic entry-level stuff in hopes other companies will bother recognizing it in some sort of fashion.
This is actually a valid opinion. I can see it starting as a trial balloon of sorts, to see if taking over a cert (therefore taking over mindshare) is worthwhile for the big "G".
Then again, $30k/yr in much of the Midwest can get you a nice house and a somewhat decent living. $30k/yr in any west-coast metro area (Portland, Seattle, SanFran, LA) might get you a spot to pitch a tent on Skid Row.
Depends on location. If the job is in Silly Valley, $60k is likely a minimum (not 100% sure, but given cost-of-living, $60k is pretty much poverty wages in the San Francisco Bay area.)
...since when are rural voters "stuck with one ISP"?
I have a choice of DSL, two Satellite Internet providers, three 4G ISPs (two of whom are reachable from my property), and one dedicated point-to-point wireless ISP (Coho.net). speeds range from 4G speeds to 25 mbps.
So, kindly do not place us hicks into a bucket that doesn't fit. Thanks in advance.
Kinda dumb anyway, though; for awhile about a decade ago, laptops regularly came out with SIM chips; for some odd reason, nobody really used that feature (because damn, Verizon is *expensive* just to get a dedicated data line for your 'puter, doubly so nowadays when you can (well, mostly) turn your phone into a wifi hotspot.)
(the top-end tablets still have this feature, albeit an optional one. Rare to see it being used, though, at least in personal experience.)
Sometimes I wonder if they're in it to promote progress, or just looking for a new massive tax writeoff.