DNA will be eaten in short order. other than RNA or writing it on sand on a tidal flat, they could not have picked a less viable long term storage media.
I run OSX. I don't gloat about it because I know it's not magical. Statistically however, it has been a really long run of safety and it's likely the most sensible choice for the future. It's fair to confidently say that you are far safer using macs now and in the foreseable future. But some of that immunity comes from the fact that it's less big of a target.
Monocropping leads to viruses whether agricultural or operating systems. Not much more to be said than that other than to point out Intels are the ultimate monocrop and they have a gigantic backdoor called the Management Engine.
In the age of global terrorism, one can expect engineered viruses for agriculture and computers to only increase till something we can't get past comes along. then we'll act in hindsight.
A special Counsel is not the same as a special investigator. He does not have the power to investigate, just determine if there is evidence of wrong doing.
This sounds like the perfect example of the proper use of intellectual property. I'm not privy to whether Zenimax's case is bogus or not-- I'm taking the trial outcome at face value. But if Carmack signed IP agreements when he was a zenimax employee and then used those for personal gain he was the one perfroming unjust enrichment. The whole point of investing in IP is to hope to strike it rich. If some one takes your crown jewels the law needs to support that.
It doesn't matter that you might feel like information wants to be free. We don't live in that world. We live in the world where the creation of property rights creates liquidity and a market. In that world property rights mean money flows in to back the improvement of good ideas into products that are widely beneficial to society. Interestingly we also live in a world where we do appreciate the tradeoff that withholding IP is also bad and so we let those property rights expire as well. Free might sound nice but it means many good ideas will never be developed without capital.
Now it might well be this is a bogus court decision. That's a whole different question.
But I don't see this as a patent trolling. They invested to create those ideas.
Your biometric password can't be changed. Just because we don't know how to hack them now doesn't mean it won't be trivial in the future. finger print readers are wafer thin right now, whose to say a wafer thin electrode array can't drive one of these with some one eleses fingerprint. As for getting that finger print well, you will have it from any one of the biometric devices that the person gave it to.
It's just a passing phase in password land where biometric passwords are convenient but no ubiquitous enough and not standard enough that anyone wants to invest the time to hack them. But hack them they will once it becomes useful to do so. then you are struck with a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.
The perfect ransom ware for a linux machine would be one that keeps all the files but changes the OS to windows XP then locks the boot firmware till you pay.
A world where the only viable phone was an android and the only viable system running the defacto standard desktop app (MS Office) would suck. Apple provides a unique and viable competition. I don't think it would be possible today to start a new "apple". Though one has to give MS credit for finally innovating a bit with it's surface series.
One can't quite say the same about microsoft. If microsoft went away the hegemony of the Office app series would fade, probably for the better of everyone. Though there would be a period where there was a tower of babble in the bussiness and govt document exchange world as people moved on to a new standard. On the whole it probably would be good to chuck off the embrace and extend legacy and get back to stable standards in interchange formats. So in the long run it would turn out better.
Facebook is a giant empty shell. Nothing it provides is innovative. It just has the virtue of working in a space where a monopoly has an advantage. It would be instantly replaced and after a bitter battle someone else would replace its role.
Opera has had another browser format all along. On smartphone it's called Opera Coast. It's my favorite browser on the smart phone because it gets out of your way, and it also compresses the web pages when the pipe is slow. While I use Chrome or Safari or Firefox on desktops, the COast browser is truly optimized for the smart phone usage patterns, maximizing screen real estate, quick access to web sites, and reduced download times.
I as thinking the same thing. When this design leaked a few days ago in Bloomberg I thought "Ha what a fake. It's like something from the 80s or off George Jetsons desk set.
Surely one can find exceptions to the rule. Afterall the whole US is under a constitution. THe larger the community one calls a community the less restrictive the regulation or the more egregious the behaviour needs to be to warrant regulation.
Adding to my own post. I'm all in favor of community standards and even community laws that ban behaviours. Even libertarians should be in favor of not interferring with communities that want to regulate themselves. It's a free country. But banning something in someone elses community because you don't like it is something to fear.
ANyone ever read Ray Bradburys forward on why he wrote F451? He wrote it years later and it was included in some editions. He described something akin to creeping political correctness arguments put forth by narrow interest groups were going to strangle all expression because everything offends somebody. The solution the politicians favor is to ban things that offend. So soon books would be not only banned but people would go out of their way to try to make sure nobody could have access to offensive books. It would all be bread and circuses.
At the time I read that, San Francisco was going through a phase where the public libraries were Bolwderizing Mary Poppins so that the slang spoken by the Black maid was converted to a more respectable kings english. Original copies were pulled from the libraries.
I felt he had a point. It doesn't really matter if the book is offensive. Protecting people from offense is worse.
I fully agree that in general walled gardens are bad. But in specifics I disagree. With google, and even more with facebook, the purpose of the wall is sell access to the cattle inside. With apple, I feel like the purpose of the wall is to protect the sheep from predators. perhaps I'm deluding myself but I feel like I see signs that apple isn't selling me out as a product in every possible way. The result of course is that apple has to make a profit some other way. Charging more for their devices is one way, and Taking a cut on apps is another. And to do that they have to prevent other ways of selling apps. On the flip side, I do feel a lot safer installing apps on my iphones than I do on my androids. Most of my rationale for paying more for apple products rests on peace of mind and lack of complexity.
Thus my feeling is apple uses it's power paternalistically, and google is more of the chicken farmer approach where the chickens don't know they are going to be put in a pie.
I'm announcing a company whose service will be to hold the passwords to all your different and incompatible "universal" password holders. It' will be called single-sign-on-single-sign-on or SSOSSO
Big companies tend to have the budgets to oursource their solutions to companies like oracle. Many entrenched fortune 500 companies use Oracle's horrid software databases to manage their tiem and effort reporting, etc... Small companies with stronger needs to have a competitive edge go with other cheaper smaller scale back office solutions.
That's interesting. thanks. The price of OBI on amazon is now $50 and for an ooma $71. The annual fee is going to be the same but will vary where you live since in both cases you will have telecom and E911 fees that are identical.
I have a landline, well a voip phone. It costs be zero dollars per month for service because it's an OOMA. But I do pay about $5 a month for the telcom fees--- but that get's me 911 service. For me the key reason to have a land line is that there's a line associated with the physical location of the house that anyone, visitors, baby sitters or the family can use. Furthemore I don't like carrying my cell inside the house. I've got 4 hand sets so it rings all over the house. I find that a useful convenience. And for calls out of the country it's nice too. Lastly, I have had times when my cell phone is in the shop or lost. It's always there and never lost.
Chance are you won't get the next update. It might exist but maybe your carrier won't give it to you, especially if you use one of the more boutique carriers like freedompop.
and that's the way it is with all apple products. Never really anything to worry about. When I saw people with various brands of routers getting rooted because they never updated them I just smiled knowing that my apple router was trivial to update from my apple computer.
When my iphone needs a new battery it's so easy and convenient to go to the apple store. Maybe I could pay $20 more than having some street corner dude's 10 year old kid do it but time is money and my phone will be fixed on schedule. Androids you gotta find somebody with some experience with your model if you want a good outcome and chance are you get some crappy under specced chinese replacement battery.
Apple OS just worked. It's not to say Windows hasn't caught up. But for decades I never had to even worry about my computer not working right.
Most problems on an apple, to the extent they have them can be fixed with money. With androids and windows stuff it takes a lot of effort to figure out how to fix them. Time is money.
I get a chuckle about how many people brag about paying a couple hundered dollars less for the "SAME!!" specs as an apple. At my salary thats a few hours of time. If I have to dick with my computer for a few hours more to make it work right then that was no savings. Really who would buy an OS that doesn't come with a PDF viewer built in? But for years Windows machines lacked this. You had to pay for it, or role the dice if some installer from Wombat industiires wasn't a trojan, or compiled something from source. What a waste of a life.
With apple I am buying not just simplicity in my like but the certainty of simplicity. That's called peace of mind.
Slashdot Mirror
walled gardgens cannot be part of the beb by this definition.
It's a good definition precisely for that reason. These unlinkable pages break the web
Isn't that the Pied Piper logo? I liked pied pipers original door art work better than their final one.
DNA will be eaten in short order. other than RNA or writing it on sand on a tidal flat, they could not have picked a less viable long term storage media.
But 90% of douchebags run something other than OSX or Windows.
DOS?
I run OSX. I don't gloat about it because I know it's not magical. Statistically however, it has been a really long run of safety and it's likely the most sensible choice for the future. It's fair to confidently say that you are far safer using macs now and in the foreseable future. But some of that immunity comes from the fact that it's less big of a target.
Monocropping leads to viruses whether agricultural or operating systems. Not much more to be said than that other than to point out Intels are the ultimate monocrop and they have a gigantic backdoor called the Management Engine.
In the age of global terrorism, one can expect engineered viruses for agriculture and computers to only increase till something we can't get past comes along. then we'll act in hindsight.
A special Counsel is not the same as a special investigator. He does not have the power to investigate, just determine if there is evidence of wrong doing.
This sounds like the perfect example of the proper use of intellectual property. I'm not privy to whether Zenimax's case is bogus or not-- I'm taking the trial outcome at face value. But if Carmack signed IP agreements when he was a zenimax employee and then used those for personal gain he was the one perfroming unjust enrichment. The whole point of investing in IP is to hope to strike it rich. If some one takes your crown jewels the law needs to support that.
It doesn't matter that you might feel like information wants to be free. We don't live in that world. We live in the world where the creation of property rights creates liquidity and a market. In that world property rights mean money flows in to back the improvement of good ideas into products that are widely beneficial to society. Interestingly we also live in a world where we do appreciate the tradeoff that withholding IP is also bad and so we let those property rights expire as well. Free might sound nice but it means many good ideas will never be developed without capital.
Now it might well be this is a bogus court decision. That's a whole different question.
But I don't see this as a patent trolling. They invested to create those ideas.
Your biometric password can't be changed. Just because we don't know how to hack them now doesn't mean it won't be trivial in the future. finger print readers are wafer thin right now, whose to say a wafer thin electrode array can't drive one of these with some one eleses fingerprint. As for getting that finger print well, you will have it from any one of the biometric devices that the person gave it to.
It's just a passing phase in password land where biometric passwords are convenient but no ubiquitous enough and not standard enough that anyone wants to invest the time to hack them. But hack them they will once it becomes useful to do so. then you are struck with a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.
The perfect ransom ware for a linux machine would be one that keeps all the files but changes the OS to windows XP then locks the boot firmware till you pay.
A world where the only viable phone was an android and the only viable system running the defacto standard desktop app (MS Office) would suck. Apple provides a unique and viable competition. I don't think it would be possible today to start a new "apple". Though one has to give MS credit for finally innovating a bit with it's surface series.
One can't quite say the same about microsoft. If microsoft went away the hegemony of the Office app series would fade, probably for the better of everyone. Though there would be a period where there was a tower of babble in the bussiness and govt document exchange world as people moved on to a new standard. On the whole it probably would be good to chuck off the embrace and extend legacy and get back to stable standards in interchange formats. So in the long run it would turn out better.
Facebook is a giant empty shell. Nothing it provides is innovative. It just has the virtue of working in a space where a monopoly has an advantage. It would be instantly replaced and after a bitter battle someone else would replace its role.
Or more like Dick Tracy's intercom.
Opera has had another browser format all along. On smartphone it's called Opera Coast. It's my favorite browser on the smart phone because it gets out of your way, and it also compresses the web pages when the pipe is slow. While I use Chrome or Safari or Firefox on desktops, the COast browser is truly optimized for the smart phone usage patterns, maximizing screen real estate, quick access to web sites, and reduced download times.
I as thinking the same thing. When this design leaked a few days ago in Bloomberg I thought "Ha what a fake. It's like something from the 80s or off George Jetsons desk set.
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Surely one can find exceptions to the rule. Afterall the whole US is under a constitution. THe larger the community one calls a community the less restrictive the regulation or the more egregious the behaviour needs to be to warrant regulation.
You can only take it.
Fuck you
Adding to my own post. I'm all in favor of community standards and even community laws that ban behaviours. Even libertarians should be in favor of not interferring with communities that want to regulate themselves. It's a free country. But banning something in someone elses community because you don't like it is something to fear.
ANyone ever read Ray Bradburys forward on why he wrote F451? He wrote it years later and it was included in some editions. He described something akin to creeping political correctness arguments put forth by narrow interest groups were going to strangle all expression because everything offends somebody. The solution the politicians favor is to ban things that offend. So soon books would be not only banned but people would go out of their way to try to make sure nobody could have access to offensive books. It would all be bread and circuses.
At the time I read that, San Francisco was going through a phase where the public libraries were Bolwderizing Mary Poppins so that the slang spoken by the Black maid was converted to a more respectable kings english. Original copies were pulled from the libraries.
I felt he had a point. It doesn't really matter if the book is offensive. Protecting people from offense is worse.
I fully agree that in general walled gardens are bad. But in specifics I disagree. With google, and even more with facebook, the purpose of the wall is sell access to the cattle inside. With apple, I feel like the purpose of the wall is to protect the sheep from predators. perhaps I'm deluding myself but I feel like I see signs that apple isn't selling me out as a product in every possible way. The result of course is that apple has to make a profit some other way. Charging more for their devices is one way, and Taking a cut on apps is another. And to do that they have to prevent other ways of selling apps. On the flip side, I do feel a lot safer installing apps on my iphones than I do on my androids. Most of my rationale for paying more for apple products rests on peace of mind and lack of complexity.
Thus my feeling is apple uses it's power paternalistically, and google is more of the chicken farmer approach where the chickens don't know they are going to be put in a pie.
I'm announcing a company whose service will be to hold the passwords to all your different and incompatible "universal" password holders. It' will be called single-sign-on-single-sign-on or SSOSSO
Big companies tend to have the budgets to oursource their solutions to companies like oracle. Many entrenched fortune 500 companies use Oracle's horrid software databases to manage their tiem and effort reporting, etc... Small companies with stronger needs to have a competitive edge go with other cheaper smaller scale back office solutions.
That's interesting. thanks. The price of OBI on amazon is now $50 and for an ooma $71. The annual fee is going to be the same but will vary where you live since in both cases you will have telecom and E911 fees that are identical.
That's not only funny, it's so true!!
I have a landline, well a voip phone. It costs be zero dollars per month for service because it's an OOMA. But I do pay about $5 a month for the telcom fees--- but that get's me 911 service. For me the key reason to have a land line is that there's a line associated with the physical location of the house that anyone, visitors, baby sitters or the family can use. Furthemore I don't like carrying my cell inside the house. I've got 4 hand sets so it rings all over the house. I find that a useful convenience. And for calls out of the country it's nice too. Lastly, I have had times when my cell phone is in the shop or lost. It's always there and never lost.
Chance are you won't get the next update. It might exist but maybe your carrier won't give it to you, especially if you use one of the more boutique carriers like freedompop.
and that's the way it is with all apple products. Never really anything to worry about. When I saw people with various brands of routers getting rooted because they never updated them I just smiled knowing that my apple router was trivial to update from my apple computer.
When my iphone needs a new battery it's so easy and convenient to go to the apple store. Maybe I could pay $20 more than having some street corner dude's 10 year old kid do it but time is money and my phone will be fixed on schedule. Androids you gotta find somebody with some experience with your model if you want a good outcome and chance are you get some crappy under specced chinese replacement battery.
Apple OS just worked. It's not to say Windows hasn't caught up. But for decades I never had to even worry about my computer not working right.
Most problems on an apple, to the extent they have them can be fixed with money. With androids and windows stuff it takes a lot of effort to figure out how to fix them. Time is money.
I get a chuckle about how many people brag about paying a couple hundered dollars less for the "SAME!!" specs as an apple. At my salary thats a few hours of time. If I have to dick with my computer for a few hours more to make it work right then that was no savings. Really who would buy an OS that doesn't come with a PDF viewer built in? But for years Windows machines lacked this. You had to pay for it, or role the dice if some installer from Wombat industiires wasn't a trojan, or compiled something from source. What a waste of a life.
With apple I am buying not just simplicity in my like but the certainty of simplicity. That's called peace of mind.