That's not the problem. I learned a long time ago if you need to look up a math concept you go to Wolfram's site. The explanations there are clear and concise, but simpler than Wikipedia. It's not "dumbed down" on Wolfram's site, its that they're not using the article on general idea as an introduction to their pet theory, which is what seems to happen on Wikipedia. If you look up 1+1 it shouldn't be explained in terms of homomorphisms of k--star-modules or whatever the particular author is into, it should be explained as simply as possible.
That's a good comment. All I know is that the larger industrial world - I'm talking blue collar factories and shops - tends to be underserved by IT, to the point of it costing them big money... But there's so little overlap in the crowds, they don't know what tech can do for them, and devs don't know what they need. The money should be there if that gap is bridged.
Thinking and reading about what you're talking about, yeah I see pretty simple ways it could be doable now. Honestly, the easiest thing for companies who hold the data on site would be a piece of hardware, a data safe. It has inside it millions of private keys the world never knows in a table, and all its network functionality is to encrypt and decrypt data for storage using these, associate them with user password hash, and to re-encrypt using temporary tokens for each different session, and log. With physical access, you could specify parts of the encrypted storage schema used for analytics, and issue temp keys for that as well. But at the network level its a black box, literally a piece of hardware not even a computer, almost nothing to hack, its so simple and separate from everything else.
The identity monitoring services are pretty ascendant though, and they have access to more of our lives in terms of purchases than anything else. The trend unfortunately will probably be toward increased monitoring not better encryption.
How exactly does that work? In a cloud paradigm, where user login credentials can be treated as encryption key because company doesn't access data, it works. But in this paradigm, where company uses all this data for analytics and third party access, how is compromised data server kept separate from keys used to unencypt it's data all the time?
Love your comments on this. Capitalism succeeds over Soviet style command economies because its emergent, its crowdsourcing, you let the order emerge from chaos. But even that has rules ultimately, which science can discern and manipulate. That's what I see in China, Smith's visible hand and invisible hand together.
The key thing is, free markets are as good as the information in them, and science gets the best information in the world. BS is a weapon against the economy, and there's lots of it here.
That's sorely needed too. When you get into blue collar industries, you see all kinds of waste, including energy, that slashdot nerds or other engineers could easily fix at a profit for all. But there's this idea that it all has to come top down, so people stay in their niches, and the guys on top can't see the simple things from every day life. That's why really effective action against climate change, which is also makes long term financial sense, will best come from the bottom up: its a million small changes and actions for profit that all add up.
The issue with that downward trend - everyone on low wages - is that its only projected to continue. What should strike you when you see those charts of wealth inequality growing, is actually the rise INCOME EQUALITY for everyone who isnt rich: we're all headed toward the same low wages. The 'free market' is signalling we're all the same. Whether brilliant or dull, lazy or hard working, we're the same. Its a weird communist arrangement that should have alarm bells ringing.
Yeah, the cities mostly pay those wages anyway, due to cost of living. The people behind repealing this are in for a rude awakening if they get it. What's happening is businesses are streamlining, workers are specializing, and seeking second jobs if hours down. The macro scale picture is increased efficiency and innovation, more skilled laborers. Once this sets in, there's no hiring workers back at 7.25, because they can do $15 an hour work: extra work, and they are worth it, or they dropped out of workforce. This is better than giving everyone busy work for a wage they can't live on: now only half cant live. Its atill right policy.
That's kinda one of those 'woah' posts, not for the content of its narrative, but for the existence of the narrative. If this security firm was collaborating with law enforcement/intelligence, and trying to induce the arrest or investigation of protestors as a deterrent to protest, that's playing with fire: if the result of extensive investigations of these people by the world's best intel agencies was that they are Native Americans trying to protect their land not Russians, and furthermore they wasted lots of time and resources to discover that, and their work was only intended to intimidate people excercising constitutional rights, that's chutzpah, that's going to get some pushback.
Yeah that's what the world needs, brave crusaders out to make sure woman never get freaky and remain completely celibate with their partners. Thanks, hero. Buy yourself a cape.
The problem is infrastructure. Every single store you shop at has a loading dock in back for trucks, not rail. So why accept the time delays of putting intermodal trailers on train then back to truck when gas is so cheap.
That's the problem, the "driver is responsible" model is useless. Babysitting a self driving vehicle is no easier than just driving it. The untapped resource with self driving vehicles are the state and federal DOT's. With fairly cheap roadside infrastructure (including cameras, centimeter accurate local positioning systems, vehicle location recording and broadcast) and a certification process for what software must do to drive a car, responsibility for the whole system becomes distributed over companies AND state and federal governments, and incremental changes can be made publicly over time for safety. No CEO gets to be Tony Stark and single handedly take all the credit for the system, but also no one takes all the blame when things go wrong, and it can move forward openly with public input.
That's exactly right. Music sellers too could make so much more money if they let us put 50 cents or a quarter on certain songs, though that wouldn't buy it right away, after a period of time and statistic analysis of our purchases they could either call our bluff (we'd actually pay more) or sell it to us for that price. They would make so much more money that way at no cost, by identifying the songs that we would buy, just not for $1.29. This kind of thing should apply to all IP matters, including medicines. If the medicine cost is covering R&D rather than production, they should have it available to the third world at lower quality or whatever, (so it can't be resold to US) rather than just letting people die.
Yep. The AliBaba similarity is strong in this brand. Also, did this news just come out after the Jack Ma meeting with Trump? This is something to watch, how this moves foward.
That was a good post, spoken like a true scientist: The story of the horses.
And its valid. We are all horses in our ability to do certain tasks, and as those tasks get taken over by machines who do more for less than horses, you don't need horses any more. The issue isn't just those machines getting better at specifics, like plow pulling, the issue is they got better at general tasks, any work you needed done was better done with an engine. Those horses didn't move on to get better jobs, they were replaced. This can happen with people.
That's what people dont know, the fact that 50% of the world lives on less than $2 a day, and in India you can hire servants for that price in the boonies. The fantasy is that the US wages can keep dropping to compete with this, without things like real estate values crashing.
But what if we're jacked in for a good reason? It could be, you free yourself from the simulation, and you become aware of your decaying future body in painful stasis, waiting for your new vessel to be grown for your consciousness to be downloaded into it. That's when you realize how much you were enjoying your conscious escape / history lesson into the pivotal time of the early 21st century, living comparatively pain free.
The comment above about Elliot Anderson and E-Corp references the show 'Mr Robot', a hacker TV series where an Evil Corporation has its hands in hacker activities, to create crisis it can exploit. It rolls out a cryptocurrency called E-coin, leveraging the trust in bitcoin and recent hacker attacks against it to make it a popular safehaven currency. This principle works because the brain is implicitly Bayesian: it makes decisions off probabilities based on prior experiences. Those priors are adjusted after new experiences. Since Bitcoin built trust in the tech, people will trust new blockchain tech after bitcoin, even if its not as good. Not saying that's what these banks are doing, but if it is, that's how it works.
Do you really think its fair to blame US intelligence services for the backdoors? What you have to remember is they are authorized to basically do whatever they want. If they want a secure login to your phone, they can get it. If someone in the private sector developing software for phones makes that same secure login and then logs in to spy on customers, he can be found and convicted just on the basis that he had the password to get into his own backdoor. However If he "screws up" and makes a vulnerability "by mistake" anyone can exploit, who can tie it to him if "some hacker" happens to exploit that vulnerability to get in to spy on customers? It makes sense most of the backdoors are coming from this kind of corruption in the private sector, not the government.
That's exactly right. The issue is computer skills are the new math literacy. You need to integrate a function for some science? Do it in wolfram alpha, put it in a script you can use, and move on, and you can skip calc 2. But my Dad taught his whole life, and saw scores going down as computers came in to replace problems near the end. There's no substitute for rigorous thinking, once learned in math classes, the same rigor needs to be trained in CS, or the students just become dumb. There's no pain free path to mental or physical fitness.
Now web browsers need to work on improving security even more to avoid cross-site content and block suspicious sources even better. This is not only the ordinary cookies or injected ads that are to be considered but also "super-cookies" and cookies/caching of plugin data. Virtualization by default may also be useful - so that each program runs in its own sandbox.
A lot of the stuff isn't even hacking, its abuse of permissions. The other day I had a third party tracker request permissions to turn on my mic, and my understanding is if I said yes, the permission would remain across all sites with their tracker on Chrome. So they could listen to me across the Internet. Similar are browser extensions which request the power to read and change data on all pages.These need to come with clear privacy policies, and some kind of audit process to make sure it works.
The main thing to me is advertising has stopped being advertising: connecting people with products and services they might want - and started being about something else. Since when was "Mad Men" about a wiretap that listens to people in their homes?
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That's not the problem. I learned a long time ago if you need to look up a math concept you go to Wolfram's site. The explanations there are clear and concise, but simpler than Wikipedia. It's not "dumbed down" on Wolfram's site, its that they're not using the article on general idea as an introduction to their pet theory, which is what seems to happen on Wikipedia. If you look up 1+1 it shouldn't be explained in terms of homomorphisms of k--star-modules or whatever the particular author is into, it should be explained as simply as possible.
That's a good comment. All I know is that the larger industrial world - I'm talking blue collar factories and shops - tends to be underserved by IT, to the point of it costing them big money... But there's so little overlap in the crowds, they don't know what tech can do for them, and devs don't know what they need. The money should be there if that gap is bridged.
Thinking and reading about what you're talking about, yeah I see pretty simple ways it could be doable now. Honestly, the easiest thing for companies who hold the data on site would be a piece of hardware, a data safe. It has inside it millions of private keys the world never knows in a table, and all its network functionality is to encrypt and decrypt data for storage using these, associate them with user password hash, and to re-encrypt using temporary tokens for each different session, and log. With physical access, you could specify parts of the encrypted storage schema used for analytics, and issue temp keys for that as well. But at the network level its a black box, literally a piece of hardware not even a computer, almost nothing to hack, its so simple and separate from everything else.
The identity monitoring services are pretty ascendant though, and they have access to more of our lives in terms of purchases than anything else. The trend unfortunately will probably be toward increased monitoring not better encryption.
How exactly does that work? In a cloud paradigm, where user login credentials can be treated as encryption key because company doesn't access data, it works. But in this paradigm, where company uses all this data for analytics and third party access, how is compromised data server kept separate from keys used to unencypt it's data all the time?
MVC for java off IBM is a top grade choice for security. This is why you use cloud though, you can blame IBM at least till the flaw is isolated. ;)
Love your comments on this. Capitalism succeeds over Soviet style command economies because its emergent, its crowdsourcing, you let the order emerge from chaos. But even that has rules ultimately, which science can discern and manipulate. That's what I see in China, Smith's visible hand and invisible hand together.
The key thing is, free markets are as good as the information in them, and science gets the best information in the world. BS is a weapon against the economy, and there's lots of it here.
That's sorely needed too. When you get into blue collar industries, you see all kinds of waste, including energy, that slashdot nerds or other engineers could easily fix at a profit for all. But there's this idea that it all has to come top down, so people stay in their niches, and the guys on top can't see the simple things from every day life. That's why really effective action against climate change, which is also makes long term financial sense, will best come from the bottom up: its a million small changes and actions for profit that all add up.
The issue with that downward trend - everyone on low wages - is that its only projected to continue. What should strike you when you see those charts of wealth inequality growing, is actually the rise INCOME EQUALITY for everyone who isnt rich: we're all headed toward the same low wages. The 'free market' is signalling we're all the same. Whether brilliant or dull, lazy or hard working, we're the same. Its a weird communist arrangement that should have alarm bells ringing.
Yeah, the cities mostly pay those wages anyway, due to cost of living. The people behind repealing this are in for a rude awakening if they get it. What's happening is businesses are streamlining, workers are specializing, and seeking second jobs if hours down. The macro scale picture is increased efficiency and innovation, more skilled laborers. Once this sets in, there's no hiring workers back at 7.25, because they can do $15 an hour work: extra work, and they are worth it, or they dropped out of workforce. This is better than giving everyone busy work for a wage they can't live on: now only half cant live. Its atill right policy.
I think a lot of all businesses are sole proprietorships or partnerships. Incorporating is a legal process that takes some time and money.
That's kinda one of those 'woah' posts, not for the content of its narrative, but for the existence of the narrative. If this security firm was collaborating with law enforcement/intelligence, and trying to induce the arrest or investigation of protestors as a deterrent to protest, that's playing with fire: if the result of extensive investigations of these people by the world's best intel agencies was that they are Native Americans trying to protect their land not Russians, and furthermore they wasted lots of time and resources to discover that, and their work was only intended to intimidate people excercising constitutional rights, that's chutzpah, that's going to get some pushback.
Yeah that's what the world needs, brave crusaders out to make sure woman never get freaky and remain completely celibate with their partners. Thanks, hero. Buy yourself a cape.
The problem is infrastructure. Every single store you shop at has a loading dock in back for trucks, not rail. So why accept the time delays of putting intermodal trailers on train then back to truck when gas is so cheap.
That's the problem, the "driver is responsible" model is useless. Babysitting a self driving vehicle is no easier than just driving it. The untapped resource with self driving vehicles are the state and federal DOT's. With fairly cheap roadside infrastructure (including cameras, centimeter accurate local positioning systems, vehicle location recording and broadcast) and a certification process for what software must do to drive a car, responsibility for the whole system becomes distributed over companies AND state and federal governments, and incremental changes can be made publicly over time for safety. No CEO gets to be Tony Stark and single handedly take all the credit for the system, but also no one takes all the blame when things go wrong, and it can move forward openly with public input.
That's exactly right. Music sellers too could make so much more money if they let us put 50 cents or a quarter on certain songs, though that wouldn't buy it right away, after a period of time and statistic analysis of our purchases they could either call our bluff (we'd actually pay more) or sell it to us for that price. They would make so much more money that way at no cost, by identifying the songs that we would buy, just not for $1.29. This kind of thing should apply to all IP matters, including medicines. If the medicine cost is covering R&D rather than production, they should have it available to the third world at lower quality or whatever, (so it can't be resold to US) rather than just letting people die.
Yep. The AliBaba similarity is strong in this brand. Also, did this news just come out after the Jack Ma meeting with Trump? This is something to watch, how this moves foward.
That was a good post, spoken like a true scientist: The story of the horses.
And its valid. We are all horses in our ability to do certain tasks, and as those tasks get taken over by machines who do more for less than horses, you don't need horses any more. The issue isn't just those machines getting better at specifics, like plow pulling, the issue is they got better at general tasks, any work you needed done was better done with an engine. Those horses didn't move on to get better jobs, they were replaced. This can happen with people.
That's what people dont know, the fact that 50% of the world lives on less than $2 a day, and in India you can hire servants for that price in the boonies. The fantasy is that the US wages can keep dropping to compete with this, without things like real estate values crashing.
But what if we're jacked in for a good reason? It could be, you free yourself from the simulation, and you become aware of your decaying future body in painful stasis, waiting for your new vessel to be grown for your consciousness to be downloaded into it. That's when you realize how much you were enjoying your conscious escape / history lesson into the pivotal time of the early 21st century, living comparatively pain free.
The comment above about Elliot Anderson and E-Corp references the show 'Mr Robot', a hacker TV series where an Evil Corporation has its hands in hacker activities, to create crisis it can exploit. It rolls out a cryptocurrency called E-coin, leveraging the trust in bitcoin and recent hacker attacks against it to make it a popular safehaven currency. This principle works because the brain is implicitly Bayesian: it makes decisions off probabilities based on prior experiences. Those priors are adjusted after new experiences. Since Bitcoin built trust in the tech, people will trust new blockchain tech after bitcoin, even if its not as good. Not saying that's what these banks are doing, but if it is, that's how it works.
Do you really think its fair to blame US intelligence services for the backdoors? What you have to remember is they are authorized to basically do whatever they want. If they want a secure login to your phone, they can get it. If someone in the private sector developing software for phones makes that same secure login and then logs in to spy on customers, he can be found and convicted just on the basis that he had the password to get into his own backdoor. However If he "screws up" and makes a vulnerability "by mistake" anyone can exploit, who can tie it to him if "some hacker" happens to exploit that vulnerability to get in to spy on customers? It makes sense most of the backdoors are coming from this kind of corruption in the private sector, not the government.
I have a CS degree and I'm not working in the field.
That's a tough sell: 12 years experience as a master programmer? Come teach obnoxious kids for $45,000 a year!
That's exactly right. The issue is computer skills are the new math literacy. You need to integrate a function for some science? Do it in wolfram alpha, put it in a script you can use, and move on, and you can skip calc 2. But my Dad taught his whole life, and saw scores going down as computers came in to replace problems near the end. There's no substitute for rigorous thinking, once learned in math classes, the same rigor needs to be trained in CS, or the students just become dumb. There's no pain free path to mental or physical fitness.
Now web browsers need to work on improving security even more to avoid cross-site content and block suspicious sources even better. This is not only the ordinary cookies or injected ads that are to be considered but also "super-cookies" and cookies/caching of plugin data. Virtualization by default may also be useful - so that each program runs in its own sandbox.
A lot of the stuff isn't even hacking, its abuse of permissions. The other day I had a third party tracker request permissions to turn on my mic, and my understanding is if I said yes, the permission would remain across all sites with their tracker on Chrome. So they could listen to me across the Internet. Similar are browser extensions which request the power to read and change data on all pages.These need to come with clear privacy policies, and some kind of audit process to make sure it works.
The main thing to me is advertising has stopped being advertising: connecting people with products and services they might want - and started being about something else. Since when was "Mad Men" about a wiretap that listens to people in their homes?