I agree. The CEO of a software companies needs to know how software works. The CEO of an airplane company needs to understand how airplane work. It doesn't need to be a guru-lvel of understanding but it needs to be more than superficial. It must be enough to have an enlightened opinion on technical questions.
The boss of Boeing needs to know if it makes sense to invest in electrical planes, to understand the weight constraints of batteries, the trends and how it can impact the airplane industry in 20 years.
The boss of Microsoft must understand how software works, to understand what are the costs and advantage to port to ARM, the necessity of having a specialized version for embedded software vs having a completely different product, deciding if tablet are more like a big smartphone, a small laptop or a totally new platform, etc...
My experience with accompanying users out of MS land is that they expect some change. They just want it to be painless. They know that things will be a bit different, that they need to learn a few things to make it work well.
My suggestion is Ubuntu, possibly using gnome classic, depending on users' tastes.
For all the rest, there is SSL, Tor and GPG. Use them if you are a political activist or a journalist talking to them. It is important. There has been a recent clash in France between Telecomix and AFP when an interview was published, explaining that the journalist has interviewed an opponent through skype.
I scared a group of doctors telling them "I guess that you have some facebook friends who are former patients. I am sure that the list of your friends that are not health professionals is worth something to insurance companies."
"but they would not! It would be illegal!"
"In your country it is (we were in Japan) but which jurisdiction is Facebook operating in? Are you sure it is illegal there? Do you even know how Facebook makes its profits?"
When I had this discussion I was already thinking I should just surrender, stop clinging to privacy, just stop caring, put my emails on gmail, my personal files in the cloud and vamos...
But one doctor there said that she was very happy that an IT professional gave them these advices and pointed the issues they were not suspecting.
I wonder if we won't see, in the next years, a facebook scandal that will reveal to the world the kind of things that us geeks keep shouting to everyone. Most people are simply not aware of how much they are screwed.
Solving a societal problem by the death of people who are causing the problem is contrary to what our society is about.
This is the less trollish and flamebait answer I can find. If our social model does not allow for older people who want to live to survive longer, it is a sign that we must change our social model. I agree that higher longevity will cause troubles, but these are solvable problems. If we didn't accept to change our societies to improve them, we would still have slaves, routine torture of prisoners, death penalty (sorry if you live in US) and no labor laws.
I know that my grandfather would have happily given all his belongings to get a few more years with his new friends, so surely, there is a solution.
Do you realize that you could tax everyone with actual income over $250K at 100% and it would not come close to covering the entitlements provided by the government.
What's your source ?
According to this chart : http://xkcd.com/980/ (from a source that may make it look like a joke but that I think is more trustworthy than a lot of sources down here), it wouldn't, indeed, but it would come quite close.
What happened to doing science to find the truth and hold judgement until some good proofs are provided. "Finding faults" sounds like "I want this opinion to be false so let's find faults and claim we can dismiss it entirely.".
Fraking requires the injection at high pressure of a chemical mix that is kept an industrial secret. I don't think that the claims that this mix ends up in aquifers used for tap water has been debunked.
So there, at least, we have a problem. There are some crazy ecologists out there making crazy claims. On any safe or unsafe industrial activity you can find bogus ecologist claim. Proving these bogus says nothing about the harmlessness of the activity. It would be like saying that disproving that the NASA had knowledge of alien technology disproves the lunar landing.
People, do SCIENCE ! Look for truth and change your opinion based on facts.
Do you not know that jailbreaking is perfectly legal?
And do you know that it is perfectly legal for a carrier to deny service to a jailbroken device ? What woudl you say if ISPs mandated the use of Windows to connect to internet ?
How large would be a library of all the songs lyrics out there ? I would guess a few GB top. That means that in the 10-80 range of length, you have a research space of 10^9 * 70. That is 36 bits of entropy, roughly the same as an alphanumeric (lower/upper case) password of 6 characters.
Unless we find a better "business model" because using the F1 model for drugs-enhanced Olympics would be unethical. Forbid any mention of any company during the event, for instance. Make it the way Pierre de Coubertin envisioned it : an international effort geared toward excellence, not toward profit or spectacle.
It is very possible that the x86 architecture will die out in favor of ARM systems. If so, saying "well, ARM systems are locked, that's ok, I have x86" will be the grave oversight that will make open computing technically hard to begin with, then to be considered like a vreach of contract and then like a crime.
I don't want to be considered like the consumers that jailbroke their iPhones because I installed a linux on my main computer.
Of course they are. Otherwise, the head of the European Central Bank would not be the former director of Goldman Sachs for the section that lend money to the European country, during the period when Greece cooked their books.
This move is colloquially known as "naming Bin Laden head of the CIA."
No. Fuck that. I am tired of baby steps. I won't buy a new car just for this kind of equipment. Give me a full automated car, you'll have a selling point, but a copilot that only works in case of crash is not a selling point for me, and I suspect I am not alone.
The thing is, the technical challenges are all solved since 2009. And even since the 1990, we knew how to build a car (or more interestingly : trucks) that can follow autonomously a human-piloted car/truck. This technology never caught up because the law makers never made the appropriate changes.
So fuck baby steps : make something which usefulness is obvious and that would force politicians to understand that now is the time to allow these things spread and improve.
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I agree. The CEO of a software companies needs to know how software works. The CEO of an airplane company needs to understand how airplane work. It doesn't need to be a guru-lvel of understanding but it needs to be more than superficial. It must be enough to have an enlightened opinion on technical questions.
The boss of Boeing needs to know if it makes sense to invest in electrical planes, to understand the weight constraints of batteries, the trends and how it can impact the airplane industry in 20 years.
The boss of Microsoft must understand how software works, to understand what are the costs and advantage to port to ARM, the necessity of having a specialized version for embedded software vs having a completely different product, deciding if tablet are more like a big smartphone, a small laptop or a totally new platform, etc...
My experience with accompanying users out of MS land is that they expect some change. They just want it to be painless. They know that things will be a bit different, that they need to learn a few things to make it work well.
My suggestion is Ubuntu, possibly using gnome classic, depending on users' tastes.
They'll be tricked once, then learn.
How exactly would NASA solve the malaria pandemic ?
For all the rest, there is SSL, Tor and GPG. Use them if you are a political activist or a journalist talking to them. It is important. There has been a recent clash in France between Telecomix and AFP when an interview was published, explaining that the journalist has interviewed an opponent through skype.
Here in France nuclear power plants are built by a public company. And most people feel safer that way.
I scared a group of doctors telling them "I guess that you have some facebook friends who are former patients. I am sure that the list of your friends that are not health professionals is worth something to insurance companies."
"but they would not! It would be illegal!"
"In your country it is (we were in Japan) but which jurisdiction is Facebook operating in? Are you sure it is illegal there? Do you even know how Facebook makes its profits?"
When I had this discussion I was already thinking I should just surrender, stop clinging to privacy, just stop caring, put my emails on gmail, my personal files in the cloud and vamos...
But one doctor there said that she was very happy that an IT professional gave them these advices and pointed the issues they were not suspecting.
I wonder if we won't see, in the next years, a facebook scandal that will reveal to the world the kind of things that us geeks keep shouting to everyone. Most people are simply not aware of how much they are screwed.
Onity sells fake security. They are the ones who should be sued by their thousands of clients. If you sell security, you have to be good at it.
Where should I sign ?
Solving a societal problem by the death of people who are causing the problem is contrary to what our society is about.
This is the less trollish and flamebait answer I can find. If our social model does not allow for older people who want to live to survive longer, it is a sign that we must change our social model. I agree that higher longevity will cause troubles, but these are solvable problems. If we didn't accept to change our societies to improve them, we would still have slaves, routine torture of prisoners, death penalty (sorry if you live in US) and no labor laws.
I know that my grandfather would have happily given all his belongings to get a few more years with his new friends, so surely, there is a solution.
Do you realize that you could tax everyone with actual income over $250K at 100% and it would not come close to covering the entitlements provided by the government.
What's your source ? According to this chart : http://xkcd.com/980/ (from a source that may make it look like a joke but that I think is more trustworthy than a lot of sources down here), it wouldn't, indeed, but it would come quite close.
What happened to doing science to find the truth and hold judgement until some good proofs are provided. "Finding faults" sounds like "I want this opinion to be false so let's find faults and claim we can dismiss it entirely.".
Fraking requires the injection at high pressure of a chemical mix that is kept an industrial secret. I don't think that the claims that this mix ends up in aquifers used for tap water has been debunked.
So there, at least, we have a problem. There are some crazy ecologists out there making crazy claims. On any safe or unsafe industrial activity you can find bogus ecologist claim. Proving these bogus says nothing about the harmlessness of the activity. It would be like saying that disproving that the NASA had knowledge of alien technology disproves the lunar landing.
People, do SCIENCE ! Look for truth and change your opinion based on facts.
You are talking about America. In most countries, what Americans call "lobbying" is called "corruption" ans is illegal.
Do you not know that jailbreaking is perfectly legal?
And do you know that it is perfectly legal for a carrier to deny service to a jailbroken device ? What woudl you say if ISPs mandated the use of Windows to connect to internet ?
How large would be a library of all the songs lyrics out there ? I would guess a few GB top. That means that in the 10-80 range of length, you have a research space of 10^9 * 70. That is 36 bits of entropy, roughly the same as an alphanumeric (lower/upper case) password of 6 characters.
From France, I wish you a happy revolution.
The search space is incredibly small. You better add one or two unrelated words to that if you want to have a chance.
My signature is my exact opinion on this situation.
Unless we find a better "business model" because using the F1 model for drugs-enhanced Olympics would be unethical. Forbid any mention of any company during the event, for instance. Make it the way Pierre de Coubertin envisioned it : an international effort geared toward excellence, not toward profit or spectacle.
It is very possible that the x86 architecture will die out in favor of ARM systems. If so, saying "well, ARM systems are locked, that's ok, I have x86" will be the grave oversight that will make open computing technically hard to begin with, then to be considered like a vreach of contract and then like a crime.
I don't want to be considered like the consumers that jailbroke their iPhones because I installed a linux on my main computer.
But maybe you are not the target...
Of course they are. Otherwise, the head of the European Central Bank would not be the former director of Goldman Sachs for the section that lend money to the European country, during the period when Greece cooked their books.
This move is colloquially known as "naming Bin Laden head of the CIA."
No. Fuck that. I am tired of baby steps. I won't buy a new car just for this kind of equipment. Give me a full automated car, you'll have a selling point, but a copilot that only works in case of crash is not a selling point for me, and I suspect I am not alone.
The thing is, the technical challenges are all solved since 2009. And even since the 1990, we knew how to build a car (or more interestingly : trucks) that can follow autonomously a human-piloted car/truck. This technology never caught up because the law makers never made the appropriate changes.
So fuck baby steps : make something which usefulness is obvious and that would force politicians to understand that now is the time to allow these things spread and improve.
Because, you know, phones are just a square of plastic with all the same parts inside...
All the content inside is available, expressly authorized to reuse, and basically open sourced. If someone doesn't like the wikipedia layout s/he can fork it or just add a layer on top of it. I prersonally do like it like it is. I even wish sometimes there would be an even simpler layout.