The problem is that once a sufficiently large number of people use such a tool, Microsoft will circumvent it, and they have the leverage. They'll just encrypt information vital to the working of the OS (e.g. updates, activation data) together with telemetry.
As much as I hate to say it, this is an issue that requires a juridical, not a technical solution.
Well, I strongly prefer an UI like in Windows 7 and want to be in full control of updates. The last point is the most important, because various Windows 7 updates in the past would have destroyed my installation if I hadn't checked before (not) installing them. I'm especially worried about "accidental" problems with dual boot systems, which happened two times in the past.
Apart from that, yes, of course, an OS is good if you don't need to know or care what it is actually doing. It should mainly provide a link to the library programmer and the application programmer, not to the end user. If Windows 10 didn't force updates and had the ordinary look and feel you'd expect from a desktop OS, or allow me to configure it in that way, then I'd be happy using it. A good OS should give you the same desktop experience all the time, with only minimal changes where they make sense, not force you to learn new ways of performing the same tasks every 3-4 years.
These kind of "promises" by closed-source software security companies are rather worthless. If they want to, they'll have all your passwords, since they provide the software. Another question is whether they can be legally subpoenaed or forced by a national security letter to get your passwords by somehow modifying the way their software works. Probably not, but this may be a grey zone in the US.
But the real problem with closed-source software security solutions is that the company can do whatever they want and make their software as buggy as they wish (to save development cost, or out of incompetence), and you'll only ever know if somebody publishes an exploit. Which is what usually happens. Open source forces you to be way less sloppy, because there will always be some "annoying prick"(TM) who actually looks at your source code and points out its flaws.
I feel sorry for Harold T. Martin. He seems to be a hard working guy with a lax sense of operational security, not a criminal. Hard to see any connection to the Shadow Broker.
Well, of course, but as the OP said the same holds for all other licenses too. If you don't want to adhere to the licensing terms you cannot use the library. Duh, how surprising!
I feel that the viral licensing clauses in GPL v3 will ultimately hinder the further development of software.
I feel the exact opposite, but I understand why developers of proprietary software who would like to use library X only to find out with much cursing that X is GPL v3 might pretend to feel otherwise.
I don't know, I really wouldn't call Game Theory hard science. People can show you anything with GT by choosing the 'right' model, and even more so with EGT. Did you know that John von Neumann and others at RAND Corporation decidedly recommended a preemptive nuclear strike on Moscow, because they thought that a war was inevitable once Russia had nuclear weapons?
Man, I hate the chip market. I want to have an affordable 6 to 12 core chip with 5 to 6 GHz default clock rate, not this low-powered Internet of things crap. I hope AMD comes up with something soon that will make them have to take into account some competition again, or else we will be stuck with slow desktops forever.
Why can't we detect alien civilizations? One answer to this question is known as the filter theory, that sufficiently advanced civilizations voluntarily or involuntarily wipe themselves out. This does not require wiping out the whole species, only enough to fall back into the dark ages and make advanced civilizations cyclic. Like what Oswald Sprengler said in the first half of 20th Century.
It seems that Russia just made a big step towards confirming this thesis, because one thing is sure: If such rockets should ever be used accidentally or intentionally, a global nuclear holocaust is practically certain.
I'm not a Trump supporter at all. Neither am I a Clinton supporter. But I do support Wikileaks, have always done so in the past, and plan to do it in the future.
Sure, I do. Could be Russia to force him to release the whole 'insurance' dump automatically, which surely contains lots of painful material for the Democrats. Could also be an extremely lame attempt at silencing him at least until the last presidential debate is over. Less likely though, because it would be so stupid. Or Hillary is so sure of her win or so angry that she already prepares for Assange's prosecution, which requires that he is forced to dump the 'insurance' info first, so can later be arrested for the completely unedited publication. Could also be a secret deal of the US government with Ecuador, while not being aware of the insurance files. After all, you never know how stupid government officials are until it's leaked by Wikileaks, right? It could also be Assange on an ego trip to raise press coverage for his next release.
Or it could be incompetence of the ISP of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. We'll probably find out soon...
"goroutines" are old wine in new bottles, like everything else in Go. Yes, these come as green threads, fibers, coroutines, lightweight threads, etc., and all have in common that they somehow manually switch between instructions of different green threads without automatically using OS threads. Many Lisp and Scheme dialects, and, of course, Forth use them for many decades. They tend to come with a performance hit, though, and the GP is right that they are easily outperfomed by modern OS-level threads for a small number of concurrent tasks. If the Go team was able to avoid these performance penalties, kudos to them, and I'd like to know how they do it.
Generics can definitely be implemented as zero cost abstractions in a statically typed language. Modern Ada compilers do this, for example. (To be fair, Ada is said to have some tricky problems with the combination of strict typing and generics, but nobody said it was easy.)
Btw, it's clear to me that Wiki leaks itself is a Russian front.
You're totally overinterpreting this. Wikileaks is not a front to any state, they just publish almost anything sent to them without much editing, whether it comes from Russia or elsewhere. At the same time Julian Assange and Hillary Clinton are in a personal clinch. Hillary Clinton was and is the main driving force in favor of prosecuting him, because he almost ended her political career when he published mostly material from embassies. They thoroughly hate each other and its quite personal on both sides.
Not only that, I've checked the My Activity profile after logging in, and I can assure everyone that Google knows way more about me than what they display there. That's because they store information by IP addresses, whether you're logged in or not, and also link different devices / Google accounts / IP addresses to your account whenever they can.
My Activity does not "reveal how much it knows about you", it reveals just a few of the things Google knows about you.
Why? I've heard that many times but never heard a reason for it. Messing around with the registry is fun, it can also be easily backed up and copied, etc. What's the problem with it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a former Mac user and use GNU/Linux as my main OS, Windows 7 only for audio recording and gaming. I'm really not a fanboy, just wondering.
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The problem is that once a sufficiently large number of people use such a tool, Microsoft will circumvent it, and they have the leverage. They'll just encrypt information vital to the working of the OS (e.g. updates, activation data) together with telemetry.
As much as I hate to say it, this is an issue that requires a juridical, not a technical solution.
Well, I strongly prefer an UI like in Windows 7 and want to be in full control of updates. The last point is the most important, because various Windows 7 updates in the past would have destroyed my installation if I hadn't checked before (not) installing them. I'm especially worried about "accidental" problems with dual boot systems, which happened two times in the past.
Apart from that, yes, of course, an OS is good if you don't need to know or care what it is actually doing. It should mainly provide a link to the library programmer and the application programmer, not to the end user. If Windows 10 didn't force updates and had the ordinary look and feel you'd expect from a desktop OS, or allow me to configure it in that way, then I'd be happy using it. A good OS should give you the same desktop experience all the time, with only minimal changes where they make sense, not force you to learn new ways of performing the same tasks every 3-4 years.
People that matter don't need a phone at all, their secretary takes calls for them.
These kind of "promises" by closed-source software security companies are rather worthless. If they want to, they'll have all your passwords, since they provide the software. Another question is whether they can be legally subpoenaed or forced by a national security letter to get your passwords by somehow modifying the way their software works. Probably not, but this may be a grey zone in the US.
But the real problem with closed-source software security solutions is that the company can do whatever they want and make their software as buggy as they wish (to save development cost, or out of incompetence), and you'll only ever know if somebody publishes an exploit. Which is what usually happens. Open source forces you to be way less sloppy, because there will always be some "annoying prick"(TM) who actually looks at your source code and points out its flaws.
Yep, it seems that the Trump's team has got better than IT advisors than Clinton's. I wouldn't have thought so.
I feel sorry for Harold T. Martin. He seems to be a hard working guy with a lax sense of operational security, not a criminal. Hard to see any connection to the Shadow Broker.
Well, of course, but as the OP said the same holds for all other licenses too. If you don't want to adhere to the licensing terms you cannot use the library. Duh, how surprising!
But there is also LGPL...
I feel that the viral licensing clauses in GPL v3 will ultimately hinder the further development of software.
I feel the exact opposite, but I understand why developers of proprietary software who would like to use library X only to find out with much cursing that X is GPL v3 might pretend to feel otherwise.
Well, Vine probably didn't make money. But how do sites like Pornhub make money anyway? Just with ads?
I don't know, I really wouldn't call Game Theory hard science. People can show you anything with GT by choosing the 'right' model, and even more so with EGT. Did you know that John von Neumann and others at RAND Corporation decidedly recommended a preemptive nuclear strike on Moscow, because they thought that a war was inevitable once Russia had nuclear weapons?
Man, I hate the chip market. I want to have an affordable 6 to 12 core chip with 5 to 6 GHz default clock rate, not this low-powered Internet of things crap. I hope AMD comes up with something soon that will make them have to take into account some competition again, or else we will be stuck with slow desktops forever.
Why can't we detect alien civilizations? One answer to this question is known as the filter theory, that sufficiently advanced civilizations voluntarily or involuntarily wipe themselves out. This does not require wiping out the whole species, only enough to fall back into the dark ages and make advanced civilizations cyclic. Like what Oswald Sprengler said in the first half of 20th Century.
It seems that Russia just made a big step towards confirming this thesis, because one thing is sure: If such rockets should ever be used accidentally or intentionally, a global nuclear holocaust is practically certain.
I'm not a Trump supporter at all. Neither am I a Clinton supporter. But I do support Wikileaks, have always done so in the past, and plan to do it in the future.
I guess they have to do what the commander in chief tells them. Isn't that how military organizations are supposed to work?
Sure, I do. Could be Russia to force him to release the whole 'insurance' dump automatically, which surely contains lots of painful material for the Democrats. Could also be an extremely lame attempt at silencing him at least until the last presidential debate is over. Less likely though, because it would be so stupid. Or Hillary is so sure of her win or so angry that she already prepares for Assange's prosecution, which requires that he is forced to dump the 'insurance' info first, so can later be arrested for the completely unedited publication. Could also be a secret deal of the US government with Ecuador, while not being aware of the insurance files. After all, you never know how stupid government officials are until it's leaked by Wikileaks, right? It could also be Assange on an ego trip to raise press coverage for his next release.
Or it could be incompetence of the ISP of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. We'll probably find out soon...
"goroutines" are old wine in new bottles, like everything else in Go. Yes, these come as green threads, fibers, coroutines, lightweight threads, etc., and all have in common that they somehow manually switch between instructions of different green threads without automatically using OS threads. Many Lisp and Scheme dialects, and, of course, Forth use them for many decades. They tend to come with a performance hit, though, and the GP is right that they are easily outperfomed by modern OS-level threads for a small number of concurrent tasks. If the Go team was able to avoid these performance penalties, kudos to them, and I'd like to know how they do it.
Generics can definitely be implemented as zero cost abstractions in a statically typed language. Modern Ada compilers do this, for example. (To be fair, Ada is said to have some tricky problems with the combination of strict typing and generics, but nobody said it was easy.)
Btw, it's clear to me that Wiki leaks itself is a Russian front.
You're totally overinterpreting this. Wikileaks is not a front to any state, they just publish almost anything sent to them without much editing, whether it comes from Russia or elsewhere. At the same time Julian Assange and Hillary Clinton are in a personal clinch. Hillary Clinton was and is the main driving force in favor of prosecuting him, because he almost ended her political career when he published mostly material from embassies. They thoroughly hate each other and its quite personal on both sides.
However: "The security aspect of cyber is very, very though." -- Donald Trump, cyber expert
Not only that, I've checked the My Activity profile after logging in, and I can assure everyone that Google knows way more about me than what they display there. That's because they store information by IP addresses, whether you're logged in or not, and also link different devices / Google accounts / IP addresses to your account whenever they can.
My Activity does not "reveal how much it knows about you", it reveals just a few of the things Google knows about you.
Why? I've heard that many times but never heard a reason for it. Messing around with the registry is fun, it can also be easily backed up and copied, etc. What's the problem with it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a former Mac user and use GNU/Linux as my main OS, Windows 7 only for audio recording and gaming. I'm really not a fanboy, just wondering.
I would like to have one for audio processing, but I can't afford it. :-/
Nope, I was just posting random jibberish.
No, if your bloody paranoid you should definitely not use it. Tor is only for people who are ordinarily paranoid.
Definitely secure enough for my needs, and I don't know of any more secure system. (I2P? Freenet?)
I should mention that I'm not a globally persecuted terrorist, though.