Everyone thinks they can hide in teh crowd. Well is someone is determined to hack YOU then they will hack you. If you have something valuable hacking attempts WILL BE MADE! Many will involve social engineering and stuff like that, they will be targeted at YOU.
Everyone likes to brag about what they are doing and to be nice to people. The best security is social in nature: clam the fuck up about what you are working on, isolate yourself from others who are trained to know the meaning of what you are doing. That's the best security - it leaves you free of determined attempts and leaves only the random attempts at hacking which can be dealt with by techniques mentioned in the article link.
Immediately, in the world of code creation, social structures will take over the world of knowledge. Creation credit will be assigned as is politically expedient, because there will be no way to profit from it it will become a sort of "karma" akin to Slashdot karma or what have you.
Knowledge will be unregulated, and its overall value will go down financially. This will open the way for innovation, but innovation is likely to be lost in the crowd of malicious creations and intellectual wanking/spam.
Freedom of speech is worthless if people can't access crucial information. 9/11 is a clear example of a time when the internet was central to news distribution.
If the US government were to provide resources and capacity for crucial websites at times of need, it could also indirectly influence what they say. A win/win situation.
can be said about any craft or art pursued by human beings. The real question is, why will this book sell? Because coders, like other craftspeople, will take a schematic quick way to solve the problem over the tediousness and attention to detail and painstaking slow work that any quality craft requires.
This is also why stuff like Extreme Programming and other strategies become popular. There are many ways to quality - all of them are task specific and slow. There is no magic pill.
They'd better make sure that the people recieving these brains intend to use them... for standardized research you had better implement a self-improvement program including Go, reading, crosswords for these folks.
Most people would waste a brain extension. Any expansion in intellectual power must be preceded by an expansion in social capacity for learning.
Okay, that's fine. You can post the Linux distro installed in GWB's mucus if you like, but self-congratulatory "X uses linux" posts are useless. Analysis is required - does this use of Linux in Motorola phones make it less likely that it will be used widely as a desktop? I think Linux is rapidly becoming viewed as an appliance engine.
A good friend says that it's time now to learn to live in a total surveillance state. That means keeping stuff like this below the radar, not celebrating it on/. and practically inviting harassment by officials for the site owners.
And they are stupid to send the site to slashdot or consent to the story.
The surveillance regime is real, but they can't follow up every spurious lead. Just the easier ones. Don't make it easy on them!
It's not clear from the reviee what these dittoes are. If they are clones, it's rather unfeasible - one cannot project your will onto another person except via intensive effort.
If they are androids, that's far more likely. I fully expect that in the far future people will be able to willfully control constructed apparatus at a level of sophistication that makes them essentially a double for the original person.
Slashdotters must not automatically consider this a good thing.
Who says that every such order will be to the benefit of Windows and the user?
Let's just say that all the Linuxophiles' gripes about windows were made moot and the software became what it could be - a truly universal effective program intelligible to most humans.
This happened because of the courts forcing it to do so.
Alternative OSes would not prosper in such an environment. Indeed, they would be dropped as everyone but diehard iconoclasts switched to new, improved Windows.
At this level of dependence, people would be as vulnerable to a bad decision by the courts as they would be to a bad decision by bill gates.
I hate to break it to you, but on a social scale there is such a thing.
There are two advantages for selling licensed, supervised mod-chips (in any computer, not just gaming systems); intellectual property holders can make some money off their use and profit in the long run.
Secondly, the scope of mod-chips can be designed to preclude uses such as interference with transmission, eavesdropping, hacking, etc.
get your facts straight about space construction...
In space, all the craft needs to deal with is the occasional decresing chance of a cosmic or solar ray, or perhaps a micrometeorite. Earth's changing climactic conditions and microbes are far more destructive to technology than is space!
The space stuff is actually far too fragile to work on Earth, and is designed from a payload perspective to be light, not Earth-durable.
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I don't want any of this stuff. It's mostly in the cool gadget category. If Slashdot wanted, it could be a force for quality in the basics of hardware construction, design, and performance -- a Consumer Report of computing, as it were.
It will never be a cultural leader in computing. Others with cash take that mantle. The former, however, is needed.
Folks like us are sitting around while these networks are tapped, controlled, redirected and shaped by hostile government forces.
If the sum of knowledge is available in a smart mob, then this knowledge is also available to any hostile individual that taps into the mob network. The information's quality is only as good as its most trustworthy member.
Seriously folks, these could be useful; self-threshing grain for instance, or self-planting seeds? Just drag out wind powered self guiding farm tools some day.
They don't need to be made of bamboo. They can be made of light metal and have computers in them.
If you want to have your security reporters in cahoots with the corporations that have the holes, go right ahead. This opens the door to massive corruption if insecure firms pay off security reporters. Or, the government could stop a report permanently if it's deemed a security risk. Only the threat of disclosure is the enforcement for fixing these security breaches.
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Everyone likes to brag about what they are doing and to be nice to people. The best security is social in nature: clam the fuck up about what you are working on, isolate yourself from others who are trained to know the meaning of what you are doing. That's the best security - it leaves you free of determined attempts and leaves only the random attempts at hacking which can be dealt with by techniques mentioned in the article link.
The cult of Linux strikes again, in that case. Paying for advance release of this is a scam.
Knowledge will be unregulated, and its overall value will go down financially. This will open the way for innovation, but innovation is likely to be lost in the crowd of malicious creations and intellectual wanking/spam.
If the US government were to provide resources and capacity for crucial websites at times of need, it could also indirectly influence what they say. A win/win situation.
Jesus Christ! well this is the first time I've learned something useful from /.
This is also why stuff like Extreme Programming and other strategies become popular. There are many ways to quality - all of them are task specific and slow. There is no magic pill.
Most people would waste a brain extension. Any expansion in intellectual power must be preceded by an expansion in social capacity for learning.
And they are stupid to send the site to slashdot or consent to the story.
The surveillance regime is real, but they can't follow up every spurious lead. Just the easier ones. Don't make it easy on them!
If they are androids, that's far more likely. I fully expect that in the far future people will be able to willfully control constructed apparatus at a level of sophistication that makes them essentially a double for the original person.
Who says that every such order will be to the benefit of Windows and the user?
Let's just say that all the Linuxophiles' gripes about windows were made moot and the software became what it could be - a truly universal effective program intelligible to most humans.
This happened because of the courts forcing it to do so.
Alternative OSes would not prosper in such an environment. Indeed, they would be dropped as everyone but diehard iconoclasts switched to new, improved Windows.
At this level of dependence, people would be as vulnerable to a bad decision by the courts as they would be to a bad decision by bill gates.
There are two advantages for selling licensed, supervised mod-chips (in any computer, not just gaming systems); intellectual property holders can make some money off their use and profit in the long run.
Secondly, the scope of mod-chips can be designed to preclude uses such as interference with transmission, eavesdropping, hacking, etc.
In space, all the craft needs to deal with is the occasional decresing chance of a cosmic or solar ray, or perhaps a micrometeorite. Earth's changing climactic conditions and microbes are far more destructive to technology than is space!
The space stuff is actually far too fragile to work on Earth, and is designed from a payload perspective to be light, not Earth-durable.
It will never be a cultural leader in computing. Others with cash take that mantle. The former, however, is needed.
If the sum of knowledge is available in a smart mob, then this knowledge is also available to any hostile individual that taps into the mob network. The information's quality is only as good as its most trustworthy member.
Seriously folks, these could be useful; self-threshing grain for instance, or self-planting seeds? Just drag out wind powered self guiding farm tools some day.
They don't need to be made of bamboo. They can be made of light metal and have computers in them.
Wind power is about lots mpre than windmills.