Because everyone automatically undercutting their competitors by a few cents over and over
I do consider cost, but if it's in the ballpark, I buy from the highest rated reseller that's closest to me (decreass shipping time). At no time do I buy from a low-rated seller.
A few cents (or dollars) doesn't impact my buying decisions in the Amazon Marketplace. One has to assume that all buyers always buy the lowest priced item to make this death-spiral hold up, which isn't so.
What legal means of acquiring wealth would you like them to stop?
Shucks, we can't even get them to stop printing fiat currency, which the Constitution prohibits. They always give it to their politically-connected friends first, before the price increases caused by the monetary inflation take effect.
Heck, low-interest loans from the Fed account for 77% of JP Morgan's profit last year. Can I get some of that? Of course not, that wouldn't be 'ethical'.
this also creates generation of new politicians who are very informed about moral/economical/legal issues of IPR regimes
Yes, with this much potential power, the campaign faucets should be full-on this election season.
To describe the problem non-euphemistically, the media corporations want to use threats of government force* to take more money from the people. The rest is just the byzantine edifice they hang it on. Realize this, and you'll see that the 'MAFIAA' is just the client du jour. By all means, play Whack-a-Mole, but expect to keep playing forever.
* there I go, using a euphemism myself. It's ultimately organized men with guns threatening to kill people if they don't obey.
Microsoft Security Essentials is free, no excuse (other than ignorance, which is the reality of the situation).
Microsoft ought to push it automatically to everybody when their security widget says there's no protection. Let another AV disable it and push it aside, but leaving a Windows system with no security is just irresponsible.
Running Windows without AV is like running unix with all filesystems mounted mode=777 and all daemons running as root (or worse). When there's a no-cost solution and the means to detect that it's needed is already in place... let's just say the FBI shouldn't be in this situation.
Come to think of it, this is DoJ vs. DoJ, which is kinda ironic.
If the USB device can present itself as the right item, it can potentially do more damage than "just" a drive or filesystem with malware on it.
I forget the exact mode of attack, but some will nudge the mouse a pixel or two every minute or so to prevent the screensaver from kicking on, and then after some period of user inactivity will begin doing the nefarious bits. I suppose it's easy to kick off a cmd shell from that point and script the attack.
I'd imagine the non-mouse/keyboard part of the "drive" is baited with good porn or addictive games to encourage its continued presence. Anyway, you can scan it all you want, the drive is clean.
Fair enough. If only the beancounters at the banks knew it existed. OK, seriously, though, maybe the banks will let their security people do their jobs now.
Abandoning desktop Firefox is just FUD, you're overreaching.
And three days ago I would have said, "Abandoning desktop Thunderbird is just FUD, you're overreaching".
What's your solution, or do you not even think there's a problem? Should Mozilla not even take on challenging tasks that might fail?
The problem is they take on challenging projects and then fail because they decide to fail (they decide the projects are not easy enough and give up). The question is only one of commitment, not capability.
Made an appointment for a full sleep study and paid cash. The cost is less than a used car, and the payback period would have been short. Put it on a credit card if there's no cash, payback period would be short (if you're right, but you were).
I seem to know lots of people who refuse to put any of their own money into healthcare because they have insurance form their employer or from the State and feel that if they can't get them to pay for it, somehow it's impossible. Healthcare practicitioners aren't infallable, so sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Take control of your own life, people.
I spent three days in a biomedical library working out a condition my daughter had, when the system's diagnosis (known ideopathic condition) was resistant to logical deconstruction and offered no treatment options (aside from 'throw steroids at it' which nearly poisoned her). Turned out to have been a nutritional deficiency, but that was only arrived at by asking repeatedly, "ok, what can cause that symptom", "how does this mechanism work", "how is that pathway signaled", etc. But it crossed neurology, endocrinology, and nutrition, and we never saw any docs with such cross-specialties. It helped that I did pre-med coursework but it's all eventually accessible to somebody with a firm grounding in the basic sciences.
We need more hackers in medicine (which is why it's awesome to see a neurologist here).
Manage your online passwords with LastPass and generate an OTP to put in a safe deposit box and give the key to your attorney.
Cut out the safe deposit box for one less level of trust-noone and lower cost. Add safe deposit boxes in a chain to drive everybody crazy and increase the difficulty of compromise.
What you would see is a whole lot of Acorn workers "volunteering" to count ballots
I'm pretty sure poll workers have to be registered voters in the district. If those people happened to be Acorn workers, I guess they would have a right to volunteer. If everybody else was apathetic, they'd have an advantage.
They keep finding more boxes of paper ballots until the selected candidate wins.
Also how do you know the box starts empty?
The whole process is open to independent observers (I've done this). When the box is locked, there's a seal placed upon it with the vote statistics. This data is available to independent observers.
I like your question, though - it makes me wonder if what people are really after is a system that can be trusted with no additional diligence on their part. I'll posit that the need for diligence in such a system is a feature, not a weakness.
I found it striking that in the case of the drone that was forced down in Iran (e.g.) the 'return to base' failsafe seemed to be completely dependent on electronic signals.
It would seem much harder to spoof the position of the sun, the Earth's magnetic field, the position of the stars, etc. I presume, perhaps naively, that the sensors and algorithms to do this wouldn't be all that expensive or complex. What's the challenge in getting computers to use traditional navigation techniques?
Slashdot Mirror
TFP gets it right. There are 'journalists' reporting that Lederman named it that.
Because everyone automatically undercutting their competitors by a few cents over and over
I do consider cost, but if it's in the ballpark, I buy from the highest rated reseller that's closest to me (decreass shipping time). At no time do I buy from a low-rated seller.
A few cents (or dollars) doesn't impact my buying decisions in the Amazon Marketplace. One has to assume that all buyers always buy the lowest priced item to make this death-spiral hold up, which isn't so.
What legal means of acquiring wealth would you like them to stop?
Shucks, we can't even get them to stop printing fiat currency, which the Constitution prohibits. They always give it to their politically-connected friends first, before the price increases caused by the monetary inflation take effect.
Heck, low-interest loans from the Fed account for 77% of JP Morgan's profit last year. Can I get some of that? Of course not, that wouldn't be 'ethical'.
And what exactly has government done about the richest .1% of the population taking the wealth of the rest of the country?
Concentrated the wealth to create more power for themselves and the oligarchs (reciprocally), exactly as Hamilton had designed it to do.
Marking 'works as intended' (faerie tales they tell children about it, notwithstanding).
Why not, it would make as much sense (except it doesn't serve a current political agenda).
If you want to read what actual anarchists think, try here.
Personally, I think it's a stupid term, but there are some who cling to it.
this also creates generation of new politicians who are very informed about moral/economical/legal issues of IPR regimes
Yes, with this much potential power, the campaign faucets should be full-on this election season.
To describe the problem non-euphemistically, the media corporations want to use threats of government force* to take more money from the people. The rest is just the byzantine edifice they hang it on. Realize this, and you'll see that the 'MAFIAA' is just the client du jour. By all means, play Whack-a-Mole, but expect to keep playing forever.
* there I go, using a euphemism myself. It's ultimately organized men with guns threatening to kill people if they don't obey.
Probably in an vnode.
Heh. Wherever the assets are, they're probably not in one place - scattered all over creation would be more likely.
"I'll renew my antivirus licence next day pay"
Microsoft Security Essentials is free, no excuse (other than ignorance, which is the reality of the situation).
Microsoft ought to push it automatically to everybody when their security widget says there's no protection. Let another AV disable it and push it aside, but leaving a Windows system with no security is just irresponsible.
Running Windows without AV is like running unix with all filesystems mounted mode=777 and all daemons running as root (or worse). When there's a no-cost solution and the means to detect that it's needed is already in place ... let's just say the FBI shouldn't be in this situation.
Come to think of it, this is DoJ vs. DoJ, which is kinda ironic.
All software is censored and taxed by the platform holder's App Store. Nothing else runs, without (illegal) hacking of the device.
Who's going to close down the open hardware industry, the government?
So, what was it that those sleep studies missed that [something] later picked up on?
Oh, nm, I found the cousin comment. Very interesting - I hope you got a journal article published for the sake of others in your condition.
I *did* spend money on private sleep specialists, and I did have sleep studies early on.
Ah, well then good for you. When you mentioned suing insurance companies, it didn't sound that way.
So, what was it that those sleep studies missed that [something] later picked up on?
Yes, but how many of them have a license to gill?
If the USB device can present itself as the right item, it can potentially do more damage than "just" a drive or filesystem with malware on it.
I forget the exact mode of attack, but some will nudge the mouse a pixel or two every minute or so to prevent the screensaver from kicking on, and then after some period of user inactivity will begin doing the nefarious bits. I suppose it's easy to kick off a cmd shell from that point and script the attack.
I'd imagine the non-mouse/keyboard part of the "drive" is baited with good porn or addictive games to encourage its continued presence. Anyway, you can scan it all you want, the drive is clean.
GCHQ
Fair enough. If only the beancounters at the banks knew it existed. OK, seriously, though, maybe the banks will let their security people do their jobs now.
Abandoning desktop Firefox is just FUD, you're overreaching.
And three days ago I would have said, "Abandoning desktop Thunderbird is just FUD, you're overreaching".
What's your solution, or do you not even think there's a problem? Should Mozilla not even take on challenging tasks that might fail?
The problem is they take on challenging projects and then fail because they decide to fail (they decide the projects are not easy enough and give up). The question is only one of commitment, not capability.
I don't sell ISOs, but do have morbid nasty love for them.
Where should somebody aspiring to this level of sickness start?
What should I have done differently?
Made an appointment for a full sleep study and paid cash. The cost is less than a used car, and the payback period would have been short. Put it on a credit card if there's no cash, payback period would be short (if you're right, but you were).
I seem to know lots of people who refuse to put any of their own money into healthcare because they have insurance form their employer or from the State and feel that if they can't get them to pay for it, somehow it's impossible. Healthcare practicitioners aren't infallable, so sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Take control of your own life, people.
I spent three days in a biomedical library working out a condition my daughter had, when the system's diagnosis (known ideopathic condition) was resistant to logical deconstruction and offered no treatment options (aside from 'throw steroids at it' which nearly poisoned her). Turned out to have been a nutritional deficiency, but that was only arrived at by asking repeatedly, "ok, what can cause that symptom", "how does this mechanism work", "how is that pathway signaled", etc. But it crossed neurology, endocrinology, and nutrition, and we never saw any docs with such cross-specialties. It helped that I did pre-med coursework but it's all eventually accessible to somebody with a firm grounding in the basic sciences.
We need more hackers in medicine (which is why it's awesome to see a neurologist here).
"You want both security and also download transactions to Quicken?"
If only technology existed where you could digitally sign a chain of trust between multiple business partners.
Oh, wait, this isn't 1977 - my bad.
Manage your online passwords with LastPass and generate an OTP to put in a safe deposit box and give the key to your attorney.
Cut out the safe deposit box for one less level of trust-noone and lower cost. Add safe deposit boxes in a chain to drive everybody crazy and increase the difficulty of compromise.
God, please don't fork it. Just contribute to it. The Thunderbird developers will happily help you!
yeah, because good patches never bitrot from non-acceptance.
I do credit the Eudora folks for successfully getting a bunch of good stuff into TB2 that nobody thought would ever get accepted, though.
I don't know a single person - literally not even one - who still uses local mail.
Ah, to be 13 again...
A few days ago I asked whether Mozilla could be counted on to remain committed to FirefoxOS, such that it would be a wise choice for anybody to adopt.
Just a few days later, Mozilla pulls resources off of their #2 application to assign them to the New Shiny.
If I had suggested that Mozilla couldn't even be counted on to remain committed to Thunderbird, you guys would have rightly laughed at the suggestion.
So, now I'm left wondering if Mozilla can be counted on to keep developing the desktop version of Firefox.
Somebody has dollar signs in their eyes over app-store percentages and emerging markets populations, don't they?
What you would see is a whole lot of Acorn workers "volunteering" to count ballots
I'm pretty sure poll workers have to be registered voters in the district. If those people happened to be Acorn workers, I guess they would have a right to volunteer. If everybody else was apathetic, they'd have an advantage.
They keep finding more boxes of paper ballots until the selected candidate wins.
Also how do you know the box starts empty?
The whole process is open to independent observers (I've done this). When the box is locked, there's a seal placed upon it with the vote statistics. This data is available to independent observers.
I like your question, though - it makes me wonder if what people are really after is a system that can be trusted with no additional diligence on their part. I'll posit that the need for diligence in such a system is a feature, not a weakness.
I found it striking that in the case of the drone that was forced down in Iran (e.g.) the 'return to base' failsafe seemed to be completely dependent on electronic signals.
It would seem much harder to spoof the position of the sun, the Earth's magnetic field, the position of the stars, etc. I presume, perhaps naively, that the sensors and algorithms to do this wouldn't be all that expensive or complex. What's the challenge in getting computers to use traditional navigation techniques?